Chapter 1708 — Mountains Layered, Rivers Doubled, the Silver River Pours Down

" Yue Tingge exhaled a breath of foul air and lifted his head to watch the Heavenly Court's ravening host come pouncing down from Shangcang.

Suddenly he clenched his teeth. "No matter what, we must hold out, hold out until word of a great victory arrives!

" North of the Yuan World, the ice plains of Kan, Shuofang City.

Here it was bitterly cold, a world of ice and snow; the divine cities of Kan were cities of ice, one and all. Wei Suifeng stood in the frozen wind of Shuofang City, gazing across the distance, where he saw the Black Emperor of the Northern Heaven, Nian Guanhe, leading forty army marquises and the allied forces of the Demon Ancestor, Mahakala. So many demons and gods were there that they blanketed the ice plains.

Behind Wei Suifeng stood the Feather Forest Army that had followed him in those years, and beyond the Feather Forest Army the garrison of Kan, wearing no armor, clad only in thick greatcoats that stuffed their bodies out roundly. On their backs they carried the Northern Emperor divine weapons of the Dark Warrior Great Emperor, the Five Thunder Gourds, and beyond that the treasure houses of the city were piled full of the Five Thunder Gourds, White Tiger divine weapons, Vermilion Bird war chariots, Azure Dragon sabers, and the like that Jingping had forged, all made in imitation of the Four Emperors' divine weapons.

Wei Suifeng rubbed his hands, scraped the ice from his eyebrows, and laughed. "This battle will be hard. Forty army marquises of the Northern Heaven, plus that old fellow Mahakala—they could flatten me by sheer weight.

The infuriating thing is that the Dark Warrior and the Northern Emperor still dare not descend in person to fight it out with the Heavenly Court! That pair of husband and wife are far too cautious! " Doo—doo— A clarion call of horns sounded, and the Heavenly Court's forty army marquises split into separate columns, skirted Shuofang City, and advanced upon the other divine cities of Kan! "Bad!

This is luring the snake from its hole!

Nian Guanhe, that old fox, sees that Shuofang's defenses are the strongest, and so he attacks the other divine cities to force me to come out and fight him in a decisive battle! " Wei Suifeng gritted his teeth, raised his battle flag, and the officers and men of the Feather Forest Army stirred their magic power as one.

The vast ice sheet of Kan split wide, and one after another magnificent warship broke through the ice. Wei Suifeng led his host out from the city, shouting, "Present the divine weapons!

" The Feather Forest Army and the garrison of Shuofang City charged behind him, and one by one the Five Thunder Gourds shot into the sky, their gourd mouths yawning wide, and the five great cloud thunders blotted out the sun. Upon the ice plains, thunder fell like rain.

Yet the forty army marquises' dividing their forces to attack the other divine cities was only a ruse to draw out the enemy.

The moment Wei Suifeng charged out of Shuofang City, the demon host led by Mahakala and the forty army marquises swept around to envelop him. Wei Suifeng answered the battle with composure, yet he knew that in this fight the Jingping soldiers of Kan alone could not hold out for long.

The support of the Northern Emperor Dark Warrior was essential. And what would make the Northern Emperor Dark Warrior and his wife resolve to act must be a victory unprecedented in all history!

That victory was the key to changing the course of the war! The East Sea.

Banners streamed upon the ships, and Jiang Baigui sat in command before the mighty pass of Jiangling in the East Sea, gazing far off to where the host of the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven had appeared upon the horizon of the sea.

Jingping had already mustered as many gods and demons as it could, yet set against the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven's army of gods and demons, the whole strength of Jingping amounted to only one tenth of the Azure Emperor's host!

This time the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven had brought sixty army marquises of the Eastern Heaven—Tianjiang, Dongxian, Xixian, Tianfu, Qiguan, Cheqi, Zhenche—all of them the Heavenly Court's mightiest marquis hosts of gods and demons! The Azure Emperor did not rush to give battle; instead, at the first moment he pitched camp and built ramparts, advancing step by step, inching ever closer, showing not the slightest eagerness to seek battle.

"The Azure Emperor's generalship leaks not a drop. " Jiang Baigui, the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, gazed far off at the bearing of the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven's god-and-demon host and said mildly, "Worthy indeed of being the tree of enlightenment of the Imperial Heavenly Venerate.

But it is a pity the Azure Emperor lacks wisdom. Give him thirty army marquises, as Emperor Haotian did, and I cannot defeat him.

Give him sixty, and he cannot control them, and he cannot defeat me! His talent does not match his station—that is the road to his ruin!

" Jiang Baigui waved his command flag and led his troops out from the city.

"Now we shall see whether my teacher wins merit first, or I do! " At that very moment, a divine being suddenly burst out from the teleportation portal of Jiangling, his face wild with excitement, crying out in a loud voice, "Victory! Wuyou Township has smashed the Heavenly River Fleet—a complete and glorious victory! " Jiang Baigui's eye twitched.

He said in a low voice, "Teacher, you are still one move ahead.

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Troops, advance—" The Jingping host of gods and demons at Jiangling surged toward the East Sea, each army dividing into formations of endless complexity, infinite in their transformations; the Jingping army shifted its formations even as it charged.

From the smallest five-man squad, the ten-man file, the twenty-man lance, the hundred-man company, the five-hundred-man brigade, the two-thousand-five-hundred-man division, five divisions to an army—every formation shifted without cease, from the smallest to the greatest, all within Jiang Baigui's control! His mastery of formations was meticulous beyond compare, surpassing even Yan Yunxi!

His control had reached the utmost pinnacle! "What a pity the Azure Emperor is too cautious. Otherwise this first great victory would surely have been mine!

" Word of the great victory at Wuyou Township traveled through one teleportation portal after another to the Southern Wilderness and the South Sea, to the Western Land, to Kan, and from there the tidings were sent across the Spirit-Energy Transmigration Bridges to the Western Pole Heaven, the Northern Pole Heaven, and all the other heavens and worlds beyond counting!

The Heavenly Court had come in menacing force to chastise the Yuan World.

In a single battle in the heartland of the Yuan World, the Heavenly River Fleet had been crushed by Wuyou Township; Wen Tiange had shattered the Heavenly River Fleet, Zhu Shaoping had fled with the broken remnants of his army, the Lady Taiyin had been wounded and had gone far away, and the host of the Five Chariots had been annihilated to the last man!

In that one battle, countless ships of the Heavenly River Fleet had been captured, the Heavenly Court's great treasures seized, its losses grievous, its captives without number! The waters of the Heavenly River had been dyed scarlet! The news spread of itself, shaking all the heavens!

In the Western Land, upon the battlefield, Yue Tingge stood amid a sea of blood, his face covered in blood, yet he lifted his head and laughed aloud, heh heh. "Wen Tiange, First Heavenly Master of the Kaihuang era, though he was once my defeated foe, he won this battle beautifully! " Behold, golden light filled the sky, and the radiance of the Spirit-Energy Transmigration Bridge grew immeasurably thick, as countless goddesses of the White Tiger god clan of the Western Pole Heaven, armored from head to toe, descended through the Spirit-Energy Transmigration Bridge!