Footsteps struck the ground, unleashing the power of sinews and bones in unison.
Like a wild bull or ferocious tiger.
The walls were directly breached by the young man!
Li Guanyi, like an enraged wild bull, forcefully broke through three main houses of the compounds, spear in the right hand, left hand pressing down Shaking Light’s hood, protecting the girl in his embrace. There seemed to be guards in front, the youth burst out laughing, "Make way for me!"
The long spear in his hand thrust forward violently!
[Mountain Shattering]!
The faces of a dozen Second Layer Heaven guards changed color.
All their weapons were broken!
Then the young man suddenly swept them away, a tremendous force flinging them all into the air.
Li Guanyi gripped the long spear in his right hand and suddenly spun, the [Wave-Rolling] Jin Qi sending them all flying away, crashing into rockeries, walls, and wood. Their bones were broken, no longer possessing the strength to fight. Shaking Light was cradled in his arms, the girl’s face expressionless, she said:
"Second Layer Heaven?"
The youth laughed heartily, "Yes, Second Layer Heaven!"
With one hand, he flung the spear, which flew straight into a wall.
Carrying the silver-haired girl.
He leapt into the air, stepping on the shaft of the spear.
The spear shaft bent and then rebounded, Li Guanyi leaped directly onto the high wall.
With a wave of his left hand, he had just grabbed a rope to pull in the spear, his arm jerked forcefully, and the spear flew straight into his hand. He ran like a madman, thinking to himself how very disheveled he was.
Fortunately, Shaking Light was still with him.
Calm and unrestrained."
A hundred miles outside of Zhenbei City.
The scouts dispatched by Yue Qianfeng returned. The scout in his thirties knelt on one knee, his face ashen, and said, "Something is amiss. Today, I infiltrated the city, found the Ghost Market, and spent a considerable sum to gather intelligence."
"The City Lord Mansion is a trap left by Yuwen Lie!"
"Moreover, there is a Qilin Hunting Conference within the city, all for Li Guanyi!"
The other officers’s complexions slightly changed, "That is to say, the City Lord Mansion is a net of heaven and earth prepared for Li Guanyi; and Yuwen Lie has left so many schemes, surely aimed at the internal forces of Zhenbei City."
"He wants to leave his own trump cards and secret doors inside this Heroic Pass of the world!"
"Thus, when he marches against Chen Country, he will face much less resistance."
"So... at this moment, Li Guanyi could not convey intelligence and information to us..." The cavalry captain hesitated, bowing his head, "Unless he has backed down, it is that, he might already be stuck in the mire, in peril of his own safety."
The rest of the officers were silent, believing the latter to be true.
The fifth-ranked general in the world, four Grandmasters, private soldiers of the City Lord Mansion, Martial Artists of the Martial World.
It was like a Dragon Pond and Tiger Cave.
Yan Xuanji, Ling Pingyang and others changed their complexion.
Only Yue Qianfeng remained calm, asking, "How much longer until the time we agreed upon?"
Yue Qianfeng stood up, dressed in dark heavy armor, blending with the night like a majestic mountain, and said, "Tell the brothers to mount up, arm themselves, ready the Formation, and we will directly sweep through this Heroic City from the front."
"Guan Yi has his own things to do."
"How can we place everything upon his shoulders?"
"I believe that even if he is trapped within the City Lord Mansion and Yuwen Lie’s scheme, he has not given up. Now it’s time for us to do our part, gentlemen."
He raised the weapon in his hand, his expression calm and solemn, and declared:
Spear after spear was raised high into the night.
This eight-thousand-strong Heavy Cavalry, the weakest among them, was of the Second Layer Heaven martial realm.
Every hundred men had a Colonel of the Third Layer Heaven.
Every five hundred men had a Commander of the Fourth Layer Heaven.
Cavalry Generals of a thousand men each were all of the Fifth Layer Heaven.
Five on the Divine General List.
This eight thousand were truly officer-level Heavy Cavalry. Any one of them could within a year lead a squad of a hundred cavalrymen. And now, with a fatal resolve, they rose and mounted up.
The war horses neighed like dragons roaring.
To charge directly past the front of Heroic City would bring at least twenty percent casualties.
These young officers of the Yue Family Army, from junior officers to middle-level commanders, might all perish in this desperate charge, yet they showed no fear, for the man who had brought them together was right behind them.
Upholding the jade dragon in service of their lord to the death.
Yue Qianfeng stood at the forefront, urging his Green-eyed Lion Beast, as the Yue Family Army began to march rapidly. Under the veil of night, every man’s heart was still, void of the fear that should accompany an impending do-or-die charge.
By the last thirty miles, their speed had reached the level of a charge.
The towering Zhenbei City appeared in sight. To cross it, one had to go from the very narrow area in front of Zhenbei City’s gates, the region where the city’s defensive mechanisms were situated. A Dharma Form of the Red Dragon ascended around Yue Qianfeng.
He could sense changes in the military formation.
[Yue Family Army, Star Formation, ineffective]
[Yue Family Army, Military School Charge Formation, weakened]
[Compass Trait·Peeling]
[Yue Family Army Formation·Gale Arrow Dodging Formation, ineffective]
[Yue Family Army Formation·Cavalry Charging Formation, ineffective]
All Heavy Cavalry felt it, that invigorating thrill of charging typically experienced was weakened. Yue Qianfeng’s forehead bulged with veins; he inwardly cursed the name of the legendary Great Grandmaster of the Yin Yang Family, but even with weakened formations, the spirit of the Yue Family Army surged all the more fiercely.