One man guards the gate, but ten thousand men cannot open it. Soldiers are swarming on the battlefield, and the moon is frosty and cold.
The sound of iron drums and waves is still vibrating at the top of the city, and the blood on the gold knife in the box is still wet.
"..."
"Bang! Bang bang bang bang!!"
"Hey!"
"ah!!"
"Enemy attack!!"
"Third grade! It's third grade!!"
"Boom!"
"..."
Horse neighing, screams, wails, exclamations... When three hundred long knives turned into meteors and smashed into the formation of Zhenshan Camp's vanguard cavalry, the scene was...
In an instant, it fell into chaos.
But it was a well-trained army after all, so after a brief panic, someone immediately found the initiator of the sneak attack on them.
"General! The person blocking the road is Wei Changtian!"
"No other enemy troops have been found yet!"
Somewhere behind, a scout loudly reported the emergency situation to a man who looked like a general.
And this person is none other than the commander of Zhenshan Camp, Liu Guang.
"What?! Wei Changtian?!"
Liu Guang's eyes suddenly widened, and Liu Guang's face was filled with surprise.
He was not surprised that someone dared to block the road, but he was surprised that the person blocking the road turned out to be Wei Changtian.
As a third-level martial artist, Liu Guang could clearly feel the "power" contained in the vast sword light in the distance.
So...when did Wei Changtian break through to the third level?!
As important figures in the Shuzhou War, the situation of Wei Changtian, Liang Zhen, and even Chu Xianping is basic information that must be investigated clearly.
But according to the latest intelligence, Wei Changtian was clearly only at level 5 when he fought with the shopkeeper of Longmen Inn in Dafeng, and even if he broke through later, he would only be at level 4 at most.
But what's blocking their way now is a real third-grade warrior!
From fifth grade to third grade, jump to two major realms in less than two months?!
And he has also crossed the threshold of the upper third level that is enough to block 99% of people who practice?
This is simply the greatest absurdity in the world!
"Have you ever seen it clearly?!"
With a loud shout, Liu Guang subconsciously thought that the scout had mistakenly recognized the person.
However, the scout in black armor was extremely confident.
"Return to the General! You see clearly!"
"It is indeed Wei Changtian!"
"..."
It is indeed Wei Changtian...how is that possible?
Liu Guang's pupils suddenly shrank, and his hands tightly clenched the reins.
You must know that even a top-level talented martial artist with full access to the sixty-four meridians will need several years of hard work to cross the threshold of "reaching the third level".
For example, Wei Xianzhi and Qin Caizhen spent six and eight years respectively from the late fourth grade to the third grade.
For someone like Liu Guang, who was slightly less talented, it took him more than ten years to finally take this step.
So, why was Wei Changtian able to reach the third rank within two months?
Could it be that he had been deliberately hiding his strength before?
But what's the point of doing this?
Liu Guang tightly reined in the frightened horse, and countless questions flashed through his mind.
But the next moment, he put these questions behind him and just issued a series of orders from the perspective of a general.
"Don't panic!"
"Immediately investigate the dense forests on both sides! See if there are any enemy ambush!"
"The vanguard cavalry does not need to pay attention to Wei Changtian, bypass him and continue to pursue the rebels!"
"General Huang!"
"The end is here!"
"You lead your infantry and form a formation to capture this traitor!"
"If he resists desperately, then kill him!"
"Yes! I will obey your orders!"
"..."
After shouting a few words in a deep voice, Liu Guang's response can be said to be very reasonable.
Wei Changtian suddenly appeared here, obviously to delay them from intercepting the Shu army that was breaking out of the encirclement.
Therefore, the cavalry that runs the fastest and rushes at the front does not need to struggle. The correct thing to do is to continue to pursue forward.
Of course, official rules are so wide, so Wei Changtian will definitely have to kill some cavalry.
But it doesn't matter. Even if he is allowed to kill, how many can he kill?
What's more, the infantry from the rear will arrive soon, and Wei Changtian will never be able to escape even if he has only three heads and six arms.
Yes, the upper three grades are indeed crushing against the lower three grades.
But when the number of the latter reaches an absolute advantage, even if the king of heaven comes, he will not be able to defeat them.
Moreover, the army will specially practice the formations of the third level of encirclement and killing, to deal with such masters who enter the army formation alone...
In Liu Guang's view, if Wei Changtian did not escape now, there would be no chance of escape when a large number of infantry arrived.
Of course, this young master has a special status, so it would be best if he could be captured alive.
However, if Wei Changtian would rather die than surrender, Liu Guang would not mind using his head to claim credit from Ning Yongnian.
"snort!"
Looking up at the vast mass of cavalry ahead who had readjusted their formation and attempted to bypass Wei Changtian and move forward, Liu Guang snorted coldly, guessing that Wei Changtian might just run away.
However, the next moment, the tiny figure made a completely opposite move.
I saw that hundreds of light points that had originally gathered into a galaxy and collided wantonly in the military formation suddenly dispersed, turning from a "galactic river" into a "starry sky", covering the official road from one side to the other.
Countless cavalrymen plunged into the "starry sky" before they had time to react, and then fell down one after another. No one could rush out.
Dust was mixed with gravel, and horses' neighing was mixed with howls.
There are more and more cavalry who are "only in but not out". At this time, if you look down from above, this "starry sky" is like a dividing line.
One side was filled with blood and chaos, while the other side was strangely calm and empty.
Seeing this scene, Liu Guang's eyes widened suddenly, and he instantly understood what Wei Changtian was going to do.
Not only did the latter not think about escaping, but he did not even intend to let anyone, not even the cavalry, break through his defenses alive.
This line of defense is his alone.
...
...
"boom!!"
In front of him, another maroon war horse fell to the ground.
The huge inertia caused its body to draw a long trace on the ground, and then it stopped abruptly in front of a person.
After just glancing at the struggling horse at his feet, Wei Changtian raised his head expressionlessly, still staring at the endless surge of yellow armor in front of him without moving his body.
All around him, the stars in the "starry sky" moved like stars, forming a large net that had strangled hundreds of people.
And if you look carefully, the "stars" are actually long knives with shining golden light.
At the fourth level, Wei Changtian's upper limit of using the "Ten Thousand Blades Guide" to control weapons at the same time is about sixty.
Now, that number has increased fivefold.
Three hundred fine steel long knives were enough to cover the entire official road horizontally, and more vividly demonstrated the huge gap between the third and fourth grades.
That's right.
Less than a month had passed since he broke through to the fourth level, and Wei Changtian did not hesitate to use the True Dragon forehead scale worth 5,000 points to forcibly raise his level to the third level.
Although it is indeed difficult to go from the fourth level to the third level, this dragon scale has saved Wei Changtian several years of effort.
But if we take a longer-term view, such an approach is actually "killing the goose that takes the egg."
After all, with Wei Changtian's talent for all sixty-four meridians and the golden finger of "catching demons", as long as he doesn't die, it can be said that he will reach the second level in this life.
And by that time, the True Dragon Forehead Scale can help him break through to the first level in one fell swoop.
From the fourth grade to the third grade, from the second grade to the first grade.
The difficulty between the two is undoubtedly one of heaven and earth, and the value that dragon scales can exert is also completely different.
But Wei Changtian still did it.
Because at the fourth level, there was no way he could stop Zhenshan Camp. Only by breaking through to the upper third level would he have a chance...even if he had to use the Qing Jue Jade Pendant to escape later.
5000 points of true dragon forehead scales, 500 points of pure jade pendant, plus the risk of death...
The reason why Wei Changtian was willing to pay so much for delaying Zhenshan Camp was actually only a small part of the factor in helping the Shu army successfully break out of the encirclement.
As for the real reason, he had already told Xu Suisui.
...
Regarding the question of what Xu Suisui's system was, Wei Changtian had never stopped speculating before tonight.
Why did she have to come all the way to find him?
Why did she not have any accidents along the way even though she clearly couldn't practice?
Why did she reject Shen Ran on her behalf, but instead she accepted Shen Ran as a student?
Why does she, an ordinary person, have to come to Guanghan to watch the fun?
Why could she "anticipate" Zhenshan Camp's sudden appearance?
Why would she refuse to tell her what her system is even to death...
All these questions once made Wei Changtian anxious, and he also speculated on countless possibilities.
But when Xu Suisui said, "It's better you don't know," Wei Changtian realized that the truth was ten thousand times more ridiculous than his most exaggerated guess.
It even gave him the illusion that he was in a dream.
"..."
"Wei Changtian, you haven't told me why you know everything about me."
"I think it's better for you not to know."
"..."
This is what Wei Changtian said in his first and last conversation with Xiao Feng on the top of Yanyun Mountain a year ago.
But now the identities have been changed, when he becomes the one asking the questions and Xu Suisui becomes the one answering the questions, the truth could not be more obvious.
It turns out that Xu Suisui's system is actually exactly the same as his original system, with the goal of changing the plot of the "original work".
However, for Xu Suisui, the "original work" she traveled through was not "The Peak of Martial Arts".
But another novel... about myself.
In this novel, Xiao Feng is just a supporting character who has not lived more than three months, and he is the "protagonist" throughout the entire novel.
Under the writing of fate, he killed Liu Yuanshan, killed Xiao Feng, witnessed the "Yuanzhou City Massacre", and then one day helped Ning Yuke ascend the throne...
In fact, even the matter of "electrocuting time travel" by myself was just a decision made by an unknown author of an online article in another world with a slap on the forehead.
Electric shock? Fall? Car accident? Drowning?
Or was he killed by a flowerpot falling from the sky?
As far as the author is concerned, he only needs to use his not very smart brain to make up a random reason that does not even have to be consistent with common sense.
And just for such a reason, I lost everything I had and was thrown into this strange world...
Thinking about it this way, everything becomes a little ridiculous.
When the fate you thought you could fight turns out to be playing tricks on you from a higher dimension of the universe... Wei Changtian didn't know why Xiao Feng could still be so free and easy at that time.
Maybe he didn't believe in himself at all, and only regarded it as his own comfort to a dying man.
Or maybe he knew he was going to die, so he no longer cared about fate.
Or maybe Xiao Feng is a person who is easily relieved.
But no matter what, Wei Changtian himself couldn't look at all this like Xiao Feng did.
Therefore, he must use his own power to change his destiny.
Even though Xu Suisui had reminded him——
It might be better if it doesn't change.
The meaning of this sentence is actually not difficult to understand.
Xu Suisui has read the original work and knows that even if the Shu army is wiped out, the future of his "protagonist" will still be "bright", and he is expected to eventually reach the first level like Xiao Feng in "The Peak of Martial Arts"
, conquer the world, and have many wives and concubines.
But this is not what Wei Changtian wants.
In other words, even if he would die today because of delaying Zhenshan Camp, he would not be willing to act out a happy ending according to the "script".
Because in Wei Changtian's view, only the unknown path forward is meaningful.
No matter where it leads.
...
...
"Swish! Swish, swish, swish!!"
"boom!!"
The battle with one against ten thousand continues.
Seeing that Wei Changtian refused to give in, Liu Guang had already ordered the cavalry to stop seeking death, and instead sent thousands of infantry into battle, trying to use their numerical superiority to surround and kill the former.
Compared with the beginning, Wei Changtian's condition was already extremely bad.
Of the three hundred long knives surrounding him, only a hundred were left, but it was not because the two hundred were broken, but because Wei Changtian's current situation could only manage to this extent.
I have already taken the "Tian Yuan Pill" sold in the system that can instantly restore all states. Who would have thought that this thing has a "cooling time" and you are not allowed to take a second pill within an hour.
From standing still and motionless, to starting to move around.
Wei Changtian's figure kept flickering, and his breathing became heavier.
He didn't know how many people he had killed, he only knew that the delay was not enough.
411,412,413,414......
I kept counting silently in my heart, and every second seemed to become extremely long.
He persisted for more than 400 seconds under the siege of tens of thousands of people. Even though Wei Changtian is now at the third level, this is already an exaggerated figure.
Because during these four hundred seconds, he never stopped and relaxed for a moment.
It's not like Wei Changtian never thought of "capturing the thief first, capture the king" as he did in Yuanzhou City, and killed Liu Guang to frighten the enemy.
But the latter was very smart and knew that he had the ability to kill the second grade, but he never even showed his face.
"Ding! Ding dong!"
There were several crisp sounds that no one noticed amidst the chaotic roar, and several long knives fell from mid-air.
From "Galaxy" to "Starry Sky", to today's "Sparse".
As the number of long knives Wei Changtian could control gradually decreased, deep or shallow wounds gradually appeared on his body.
These wounds were not fatal, or it could be said that the ordinary soldiers around him did not have the ability to kill Wei Changtian with one move.
But this does not mean that Wei Changtian will not be "exhausted to death".
498,499,500......
The number counted silently finally reached five hundred, which was considered to have completed half of the goal Wei Changtian had set before.
Wei Changtian didn't know whether a thousand seconds or about a quarter of an hour would be enough for the Shu army to break through. He just felt that it would be better to stick to a goal.
But now, he feels like he is a little too "confident".
"boom!!"
A red light exploded, and immediately a figure flew out.
This was a move made by a fourth-level deputy general, and it was also the first time that Wei Changtian was knocked away in such an embarrassing manner.
"cough!"
Coughing out a mouthful of blood from the corner of his mouth, Wei Changtian knew very well that he was almost at his limit and could be beaten to death at any time.
Without hesitation, he called up the system mall and bought a Qingjue jade pendant.
Holding the dark green ancient jade in his palm, Wei Changtian felt confident.
Then the next step is to continue fighting until the "last minute".
"Uh-huh!!!"
The remaining dozens of long knives suddenly gathered together from all directions and turned into a golden dragon again.
Then, without any pause, Wei Changtian, who had just landed, swung his sword and led the long dragon towards the fourth-grade deputy general.
"Boom boom boom!!"
It smashed the shield wall and drowned countless arrows. The golden light of the dragon's head was also a little weaker, and it was not even as loud as the move made by the fourth-level lieutenant again.
Wei Changtian narrowed his eyes slightly, knowing that this attack might not have any effect, so he wanted to change his direction and kill a few more ordinary soldiers.
However, at this moment, the bright moon above his head suddenly dimmed for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, there seemed to be a sword falling from the dark moon.