Gongsun Feixue held a smile and said, "Fellow brothers, please go ahead."
"I won’t disturb you any longer."
Ye Buyi and Zhou Liuying felt a bit puzzled in their hearts.
With a shove of his shoulder to Ye Buyi, Zhou Liuying said, "Hey, Old Ye, what’s the situation? Are these Martial World folks this honorable and straightforward?"
Ye Buyi said, "Call me Colonel."
Rolling his eyes, Zhou Liuying said, "General Gong Zhenyong has been kicked out of the Imperial Guard and sent to the frontier to clash with the Regent King. How come you’re still like following General Gong, sticking to your official title, eh?"
Ye Buyi did not answer. On the day of the Great Sacrifice, General Gong Zhenyong, as a member of the Imperial Guard, ultimately suffered the consequences and was stripped of all his ranks, banished to the Western Regions to become a mere frontier guard, fighting against the Regent King.
It was heard that the cultivation that had been quiet for four or five years while he was an Imperial Guard in Jiangzhou City suddenly broke through. Within more than a year of bloodshed, fierce battles, and even a major fight against the main force of the Regent King.
After a big battle, he broke through to the level of the Five-layered Heaven, becoming a main force war general, leading eighteen thousand armored soldiers. Gong Zhenyong specialized in the coordinated combat style of heavy infantry and war chariots, and the soldiers under his command were specially trained as battle halberd armored troops.
Fighting against the Regent King’s light cavalry gave the latter’s war generals a headache.
The true nature of a famous general could only be honed on the battlefield.
Inside the Imperial Palace, wearing splendid armor and holding axes and battle halberds only as ceremonial items is but a pathetic death for men with passionate blood in their hearts and a desire to serve their country and family.
Zhou Liuying laughed heartily, "However, I always feel that General Gong Zhenyong, fighting on the frontier and defending our country’s borders, is having a more exhilarating and free time than being an Imperial Guard in Jiangzhou City."
"We men, lying between heaven and earth, ought to die for our country, wrapped in horse leather. How can we act as mere dogs for the powerful and royal family within Jiangzhou City?"
"Alright, Liu Ying, hush now. We’re about to meet."
Zhou Liuying became solemn. The two donned their armor and followed the steps upwards, and below the central pavilion, they saw a person sitting there, wearing a plain and whitened Taoist robe, hair bundled with a wooden pin, with a pine pattern ancient sword at his waist, looking distinguished.
Zhou Liuying and Ye Buyi’s bodies stiffened suddenly.
Ye Buyi said, "Li Guanyi..."
It was but a moment of distraction.
As if in that moment, they were no longer war generals immersed in the army, not the heroes who could lead troops to gallop through this chaotic world, but rather the high-spirited youths riding freely through the streets of Jiangzhou City.
But in the next instant, Zhou Liuying murmured, "Boss... not good!"
The color drained from Zhou Liuying’s face.
A Dragon Roar resounded violently, and Ye Buyi, whose strength was nearly on par with Yuwen Hua during the Grand Sacrifice, erupted. His right fist wrapped in Dragon Roar, filled with murderous intent, he lunged at Li Guanyi.
Even on the day when they sworn to part ways, the fellowship of the world’s heroes was real.
The parting was just as real!
When they met again, there was no need to dwell on old sentiments. To fight was the answer.
A man, standing between heaven and earth, carries his own pride and friendship, but also his own integrity and loyalty to the country. As enemies to each other, to fight is the answer, and it would only be splendid if after death, before a stele, one could share a cup of coarse wine!
Ye Buyi was upon Li Guanyi in an instant. His right hand, like the fangs of a Red Dragon, lunged for Li Guanyi’s throat while at the same time, his right foot lifted and kicked laterally at the young man’s abdomen. Li Guanyi, knowing Ye Buyi’s nature, dodged to the side.
Ye Buyi’s fist bombarded the pavilion in the mountains, the Dragon Roar unending.
This pavilion was directly toppled by Ye Buyi’s punch!
The destructive nature of a high-level martial artist, akin to a human-shaped tyrannosaur, was revealed as Ye Buyi drew the Night Rider Cavalry’s renowned narrow Crossed Saber, ready to exhibit the Night Rider Cavalry’s combat skill, and charged at Li Guanyi, all without uttering a single word.
Zhou Liuying lunged forward, gripping Ye Buyi’s arms tightly, restraining him with all his might. Ye Buyi understood everything in that moment, saying:
"Indeed, only you, Jiangnan’s Qilin, could deal with that wastrel Qi Junsong!" Knowing he couldn’t kill the Taoist before him, especially with Zhou Liuying desperately holding him back, aware of Ye Buyi’s fierce nature, Ye Buyi planted his knife deeply into the ground, then cursed:
"Qi Junsong, what a waste! You caused the death of our Great Chen’s good soldiers!"
Zhou Liuying held onto Ye Buyi tightly, beads of cold sweat emerging on his forehead, said:
"Calm down, calm down!"
"This is our first meeting with Guan Yi in a long while; it’s not a battlefield, so let’s not get so heated."
"Those thousand soldiers of Chen Country, I did not harm their lives."
Ye Buyi never doubted Li Guanyi, and said, "Thank you!"
"And your Qilin Army?"
Li Guanyi laughed at himself as he replied, "As you said, they’re just a bunch of wine bags and rice bags. I alone am enough, what need have I for an army?"
In conversation with a good friend, even if that friend was an enemy, Li Guanyi was no longer restrained. In his speech, one could still glimpse the brashness of his younger years. With Ye Buyi’s personality, he could only approve with a "Good!"
As the word left his lips and knowing that their stances were different, he cursed:
Li Guanyi said, "Indeed a waste, but it’s a pity for those Chen Army soldiers."
"You came today, and I originally intended to share a cup of wine with you, but unfortunately, it seems that will not be possible. Bring him out!" Li Guanyi said, and the Gongsun Family disciples brought someone in.
The man was dressed in fine clothes, well-groomed, middle-aged, and possessed robust Inner Qi. Even though Elixir Pills were used to suppress his Inner Qi, and ropes made of a mixture of steel wire, rhinoceros tendon, and tiger tendon bound his meridians, preventing him from exploding into action.