Be Passive In The High Martial World

Chapter 30: Dividing the World with a Cup of Wine

"Ka..."

Huo Hengxuan raised his giant halberd with one hand, and beneath his newly regenerated feet, the city wall had already cracked open like a spiderweb.

The immense force was like a mountain pressing down, and the bricks on the city wall couldn't bear it. They collapsed and cracked from the center, forming a huge pit.

From a distance, the entire city wall collapsed, and only two figures could be seen facing each other with their giant halberds.

But even so, the cultivators and soldiers who were still fighting below couldn't help but feel their blood boil and their eyes turn red, letting out earth-shattering roars.

Huo Hengxuan's voice echoed throughout the battlefield.

They were so excited that they couldn't contain themselves, and even the course of the battle momentarily reversed, forcing the Black Armor Army to retreat three zhang.

General Huo hadn't died, and the Liang Kingdom's God of Slaughter hadn't been crippled!

He was still standing there!

Just like that day at the city gate, with just his sword, he stood tall and forced the enemy to retreat.

As long as he was there, people would believe that as long as Huo Hengxuan was alive, the Liang Kingdom would not perish!

Huo Hengxuan stood in the center of the pit, looking up at Li Hongling with a mocking smile on his old and withered face.

His hands and feet had all been regenerated, and they were vastly different from his original skin, delicate and fair, with prominent veins, incredibly youthful.

In fact, this was the state his body should be in as a Grandmaster.

Huo Hengxuan's appearance of aging was just something he deliberately did to maintain his authority in the army.

When he didn't deliberately control it, his blood and qi naturally manifested, revealing this unusual difference in his newly formed organs.

Li Hongling stared at him with crimson eyes.

In her eyes, there was an inexplicable horror, but it wasn't because she was terrified of Huo Hengxuan breaking free from the restraints.

"Although I haven't become a Grandmaster, I know that the Grandmaster Realm is known for its 'indestructible body.' But in reality, it's just a phenomenon that occurs when the physical body is extremely vigorous and active."

"Even if the head is briefly cut off and the heart is pierced, it can heal completely in a very short time."

"But the prerequisite for achieving this is that the head is intact and the heart is in place, so it can be immediately reattached to the body and restored."

"But I have never heard of someone being able to create something out of nothing and regenerate out of thin air."

Li Hongling said in a deep voice.

"This is not an ability that the Grandmaster Realm should have."

"Hmph."

Huo Hengxuan sneered, and with a fierce swing of his other hand, he threw the two dead Black Armor guards' bodies far away, crashing onto the battlefield like projectiles.

With a loud rumble, they knocked down a pile of rubble...

He clasped the giant halberd together in his palms, and Li Hongling immediately realized that he wanted to take the weapon.

"Drink!"

She shouted violently, pouring her strength into it, and forcefully spun the giant halberd in her hand before striking forward.

The Martial Saint's supreme skill, the Overbearing Gale!

"Boom!"

The spinning gust of wind howled like a violent storm, sweeping everything away with the most domineering and fierce power. In an instant, the city wall collapsed several zhang, and dust exploded, blowing in all directions.

It was like a small sandstorm!

The force of the power didn't stop there, it transmitted downwards, causing the city wall to crack completely, and even the foundation bricks below shattered one after another.

If viewed from above, it would be discovered that a large pit with a diameter of several hundred zhang had appeared with the city wall as the center!

The pit was shallow, not deep, but all the birds and beasts within its range instantly died.

With one strike, thousands of birds and beasts perished. What a magnificent sight!

General Li Hongling, ranked thirteenth in the Canglang Rankings, was described as "overbearing but lacking in demeanor, inheritor of the Martial Saint's mantle, only worthy of the mantle."

The meaning behind these words was that Li Hongling only inherited the mantle, but was not worthy of the title of Martial Saint.

That was why her cultivation level was clearly higher than the previous two, but she was only ranked thirteenth.

But with this strike, she was enough to enter the top ten!

With her talent, she could stand shoulder to shoulder with the geniuses!

However, in Huo Hengxuan's eyes, this move still didn't meet the standard.

It only had three points of form and meaning, but lacked the domineering and majestic aura of Mu Zha's Overbearing Gale.

Because the rotation of the giant halberd was like a gear, Huo Hengxuan couldn't clamp it with his palms, so he could only use the edge of the halberd to forcefully block the attack.

His qi sank into his dantian, his muscles tightened like iron wires, blue veins bulged on his forehead, and with a loud shout, the faint golden light that flickered on his body became even more dazzling as his blood surged.

Huo Hengxuan had originally planned to stop the giant halberd halfway and counterattack.

For him, this was an extremely easy task.

But... right at this critical moment.

He suddenly felt a stagnation in his qi and blood, and the surging spiritual energy in his body suddenly rebounded.

"Boom!"

Huo Hengxuan's face turned pale, and his whole body was pushed back, plowing through all the way, shaving off a layer of the city wall, and finally crashing into the corner tower behind him, creating a human-shaped pit.

The corner tower shook and seemed about to collapse.

Huo Hengxuan also realized that something was wrong.

The restriction was not completely lifted!

Those unsealing golden needles were all in their proper places, except for one.

It was this missing part that blocked one of his major meridians, preventing the complete circulation of spiritual energy in his body. His cultivation was equivalent to losing half of it!

In the past, Huo Hengxuan would have had absolute confidence. Even with only half of his cultivation, he would have more than enough to deal with a half-step Grandmaster in the Embracing Moon Realm.

But at this moment, Huo Hengxuan had been tortured for a full eight days, and his qi and blood were weakened.

He immediately realized who had tampered with it.

The old man had no expression on his face and remained silent.

Li Hongling saw this and burst into laughter. "Huo Hengxuan, even if your Divine Ability is unparalleled and you can regenerate your feet, so what?"

"The first time, you lost to human emotions, and the second time, you will lose as well!"

"You can defend a city, but can you defend a country?"

After saying this, Li Hongling thrust her long halberd again, like a raging dragon.

"Boom!"

The corner tower collapsed, and the entire wall collapsed.

Li Hongling knocked Huo Hengxuan down to the ground with her halberd.

In mid-air, Huo Hengxuan grabbed the halberd, raised his gaze, and there was no trace of the betrayed sadness that Li Hongling had expected on his face.

On the contrary, he revealed a smile that should never have appeared on his face, a smile of relief and tranquility.

His eyes looked beyond Li Hongling, towards the night sky filled with starlight.

"You're wrong, I never wanted to defend a city or a country. Never."

"I was just... buying time."

Before landing, Huo Hengxuan suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Li Hongling.

The blood vessels all over his body squirmed, burst, and sprayed out a mist of blood.

His expression was distorted with pain.

Forcing the meridians to rupture!

This was basically equivalent to severing his own meridians, with no chance of survival!

"Before His Majesty passed away... he once shared half a cup of wine with me."

Huo Hengxuan, covered in blood, had a calm gaze. Blood continued to flow from his face, like tears of blood, as he pointed his right hand like a sword.

Behind him, a towering sword measuring ten thousand feet appeared in the void, suspended in mid-air.

"He said, Hengxuan, today, I will use this cup of wine to determine the fate of the entire kingdom, gambling on a shadow."

"I asked him, what can I do for you?"

"He said, you must let that shadow... escape."

Li Hongling's mind trembled in fear, overwhelmed by the immense Sword Intent. She took out a life-saving Spiritual Treasure.

But then she heard her subordinate, Qingcuo, rushing over and saying, "General, the prison has been breached. Liang Kingdom Queen and the musician have already escaped!"

...

Wei Su was overjoyed and decided to teach a lesson to the musician who dared to play tricks and provoke him.

Since his hand was already useless, he might as well pull out all the musician's sharp teeth...

He was thinking this when he saw Chen Kuang, who had lost an arm, pressing his other hand on the qin.

Wei Su almost burst out laughing. This guy must have been scared silly!

He had already noticed that this musician was using a technique of sound killing.

But the strings on his qin had long been replaced by him, so how could the empty qin frame produce any sound?

Let alone kill someone!

But when he looked at Chen Kuang, the musician gave him a strange smile and said, "Who told you... that without strings, you can't kill?"

The gums themselves were a sword.

It is the intention that kills, not the sound.

(End of this chapter)