Legend of the Great Sage

hildren, kill them with me!”

The Ma family’s guards, coupled with the clansmen they had temporarily recalled to protect the city, amounted to ten thousand.
They let out a furious roar together and surged over like a flood.

Even great swordsmen like the two protectors could not help but be shaken.
Regular conflicts of the jianghu would only involve a hundred people at most, and the majority of them were small battles of threes and fives.
Since when had they ever witnessed something like this?

Boom! With a heavy footstep, they discovered in a daze that Li Qingshan had already charged into the ranks of the enemies.
Only then did they follow after him in a hurry.

Li Qingshan charged at the front, wielding the flag pole like a dragon.
The two protectors remained by his side, cutting through everything around them.
The other martial arts practitioners followed behind them, plunging into the ranks of the enemy army like a sharp blade.
They sent figures flying and limbs dancing.

Even with their army that was ten thousand strong, there were only around a dozen people that could actually approach the three of them.
They had not undergone any military training, so their teamwork was a complete mess.
They did not have any room to maneuver about in either, so they struggled to even unleash their martial arts properly.

With his golden blade in hand, the old man had charged forward several times, only to pull back again, afraid that he would die immediately from the combined attacks of the three if he approached them right now.
All he could do was raise a clamour and cut down a few guards that retreated in fright.
Blood ran down their weapons.

Li Qingshan was already doused in blood.
Borrowing the strength of the earth, not only did he feel no exhaustion, but he even became bolder the more he fought, fighting so relentlessly that he basically did not even try to catch his breath.
With the metal pole that weighed one or two hundred kilograms in hand, he only needed a casual swing to cause tremendous damage, pushing the advantage of his strength to the limit.
On top of that, he relied heavily on his custom-made armour that had been further thickened and reinforced, or who knew how many blows he would have endured already.

He did not take a single step back, stepping over the corpses and paving a path of blood straight towards the old man.

The two protectors experienced tremendous pressure.
No matter how ingenious their swordsmanship was, they struggled to unleash it properly in such a large battle.
With every single moment, there would be several blades swinging over in their direction.
All they could do was push their true qi to the limit and make their moves as simple as possible, swinging their swords without any regard.
They completely tossed aside those concepts they cared about before, like their bearing as a supreme master and their principle of killing in a single stroke.

However, this led to a tremendous exhaustion of true qi.
In a short while, they had used up almost half of their sword qi.
If they ran out, they would be at the whim of others.
There was no one around that could stop them if they tried to escape, but glancing at Li Qingshan up ahead, perhaps this was the exact moment to comprehend the truths of the path of the sword, so they threw themselves into slaughter.

The path of the sword was also a path of slaughter!

With a whinny, Gu Yanying rode at the front, leading the army into the city.
The army formation pushed forward layer by layer like a meat grinder, mincing the flesh of both sides of the battle and constantly pushing forwards.
A long snake actually faded into existence in the air, twisting its body as it meandered about.
It was the Military Formation of the Coiled Snake.

The enemy began to panic, all raising their heads and retreating.

The old man in embroidered robes cut down another dozen people and roared, “Don’t be afraid! It’s only an illusion! If anyone even takes a step back, you’ll be a traitor of the Ma family!”

He felt extremely puzzled as well.
Apart from the hundred or so people, the enemy clearly consisted of crude men who did not know martial arts, so how did they produce such might by simply gathering together? They were basically unstoppable as they crushed their way forwards.
However, he did understand something.
If this continued, defeat would be guaranteed.

Looking over the surging sea of people, he saw Gu Yanying on the white horse and gave an order to the group of masters from the Ma family around him.
“Kill the one on the white horse!”

Over a dozen innate realm masters leapt up, stepping over the sea of people with their movement techniques and going straight for Gu Yanying.

Under the silver hawk mask, Gu Yanying smiled.
Sure enough, the army qi was most condensed during a battle.
The snake did not possess any lethal power, but it did make her stronger.
She had dressed in such a conspicuous manner exactly for this moment too.

Abruptly, Li Qingshan swung the flag, producing a clearing in the crowd.
He called out, “Protectors, now is the time!”

Two streaks of light shot through the air.
The two protectors rose up on their swords, slashing towards the old man in embroidered robes.

Gu Yanying swung her metal fan, and the dozen or so innate realm masters all fell into the sea of people like dumplings, hacked to death by the random swings and trampled to a pulp.

The old man suddenly widened his eyes.
“How is this possible? What did she do?”

Before he could even think much about it, he had to raise his golden blade to receive the swords.
He was waiting for the enemy army to exhaust themselves.
He still had large groups of guards at his disposal, as they were nowhere close to losing the upper hand.

“Go!”

Li Qingshan raised the flag high into the air and poured all of his strength into it, tossing it out!

The flag whistled through the air and pierced the old man’s chest, lifting him up and nailing him against the stone walls.