“Boss, help me!”
Li Dao, who was focusing on killing enemies and destroying arrows, suddenly heard a familiar voice.
He turned around and saw Shen San carrying Xu Hu, running toward his location.
Behind them, a figure was chasing after them, getting closer and closer.
“Still trying to run? Die!”
Although Shen San was skilled in lightness kung fu, he was still not enough to outrun a half-step innate expert. Soon, they were caught up.
Lie Xin immediately raised his long staff and swung it toward the two.
Bang!
Just as it seemed the two would be struck, a long sword blocked the blow.
“Boss!”
Seeing the person who came, Shen San’s face lit up with joy.
“Help?”
Lie Xin saw someone block his blow and his face turned grim.
One after another, there was always someone getting in his way.
His killing intent grew stronger, and he decisively raised his long staff to strike again.
“Flame Staff Technique!”
With a swing of his staff, flames suddenly erupted, engulfing the staff as it rushed toward Li Dao.
“Boss, be careful!”
Shen San was startled when he saw this.
But the next second, someone kicked him, sending both him and Xu Hu flying.
Facing the attack, Li Dao raised his sword to block.
Seeing this, Lie Xin’s eyes gleamed with a hint of cunning.
When the iron staff and the dark iron sword collided, the flames on the staff shot out and rushed toward Li Dao’s face.
Li Dao’s pupils contracted, and he raised his hand to shield his face.
“Haha, my flame true qi isn’t so easy to block!”
Lie Xin laughed confidently.
As the flames gradually dissipated, Li Dao’s figure slowly became visible.
Once Lie Xin clearly saw Li Dao, the smile on his face gradually froze.
“How is this possible!”
Lie Xin looked at Li Dao, whose skin was only slightly reddened on his arm, with an expression of disbelief.
This fire wasn’t ordinary— it was a flame ignited by part of the innate true qi. Even though it could only last for a moment, its lethality was immense. Generally, anyone who touched it would be burned to a crisp, but it only caused Li Dao’s skin to turn slightly red.
Li Dao looked at his arm, feeling a slight burning sensation, but it wasn’t severe.
It seemed that after his skin underwent a transformation, it had some other properties he hadn’t discovered yet.
Seizing the opportunity while the opponent was distracted, he decisively swung his sword toward Lie Xin’s face.
But as expected of a half-step innate, Lie Xin quickly regained his composure and blocked Li Dao’s strike.
However, even a half-step innate expert had to step back a few paces under the force of Li Dao’s terrifying power.
“You…”
Lie Xin no longer had the confidence he had before, and his gaze became cautious.
Li Dao didn’t give his opponent time to hesitate. He raised his sword and attacked again.
For him, time was attributes, and wasting it was unacceptable.
Lie Xin saw this and didn’t hesitate either, raising his staff to retaliate.
For a moment, the two clashed fiercely.
“Nameless Blade!”
“Flame Staff Technique!”
The dark iron sword and the iron staff collided, sending sparks and flames flying.
However, when facing Lie Xin’s fiery attacks, Li Dao only occasionally blocked the flames that were burning toward his face. For the rest, he ignored them. After all, they couldn’t burn through his transformed skin.
But, at the same time, he also couldn’t do much to his opponent at the moment.
“I can’t keep going like this.”
Li Dao thought to himself quietly.
After all, if things continued to stalemate, whether he won or lost, it would still be a disadvantage for him.
So he silently thought, “Panel.”
[Master: Li Dao]
[Physique: 22.70]
[Available Attributes: 8.36]
As his physique grew stronger, Li Dao’s killing speed became faster, especially in large-scale battles like this, where he felt like a fish in water.
Soon enough, he had accumulated a considerable amount of attribute points.
With a thought, he allocated all his attributes into physique.
The next second, his panel changed.
[Master: Li Dao]
[Physique: 31.06]
[Available Attributes: 0]
After adding the points, a surge of power flooded through Li Dao’s body.
His speed of attacking with his sword grew faster and faster, and each strike became heavier and more powerful.
If anyone felt the obvious difference in Li Dao’s sudden surge of power, it would be the half-step innate expert, Lie Xin, who was currently engaged with him.
As time passed, Lie Xin’s expression changed from one of seriousness to surprise, and finally, to one of disbelief.
He had never seen anyone’s strength increase during a battle, with their speed and power growing as the fight continued.
At first, he could keep up with Li Dao’s pace, but soon he found himself unable to keep up.
With a ripping sound!
Suddenly, Lie Xin felt a pain in his chest and realized he hadn’t blocked the attack, resulting in a slash right across his chest.
Seeing this, Li Dao’s killing intent grew even more intense, and he mercilessly pursued the attack.
“I—!”
Lie Xin still wanted to say something, but his words were interrupted by an unexpected attack.
Li Dao continued to swing his sword while quickly observing Lie Xin’s movements.
After a period of exchanging blows, he began to break down his opponent’s actions and, thanks to his extraordinary mental acuity—thirty times that of a normal person—he quickly analyzed the opponent’s staff technique and identified a pattern.
Once he figured out the pattern, it meant he could spot the flaws in the staff technique.
Finally, the moment Lie Xin raised his staff, Li Dao noticed a flaw and quickly made a decision in his mind.
When Lie Xin swung his staff at him, this time, Li Dao didn’t raise his sword to block. Instead, he raised his right hand and grabbed the staff directly.
To Lie Xin, this was a direct path to death.
Bang!
With a dull thud, Lie Xin’s fire-covered iron staff slammed into Li Dao’s palm.
But the expected outcome did not occur. With a look of disbelief on Lie Xin’s face, Li Dao’s hand firmly grasped the staff, even as the flames burned.
“Nameless Blade!”
At that moment, Lie Xin saw Li Dao’s long sword rushing toward him.
This was bad!
A warning bell rang in Lie Xin’s mind, and he instinctively raised his staff to block.
But then he realized that his staff had already been grabbed by Li Dao.
With a whoosh!
Li Dao’s dark iron sword swiftly pierced through Lie Xin’s neck.
Although a half-step innate expert was strong enough to crush ordinary people like ants, their physical bodies weren’t much stronger than an ordinary person’s.
To summarize: if you’re killed, you die.
Compared to that, Li Dao felt his “horizontal training” system was far more reliable.
First, stack armor when fighting—preserving one’s life was more important.
The long sword withdrew, and fresh blood spurted from Lie Xin’s neck.
He pointed at Li Dao with one hand, his pupils filled with agony.
As a proud half-step innate expert, with the potential to become a true innate warrior, he died quietly at the hands of a mere soldier. This was an immense humiliation for him.
“Alright, if you’re going to die, just die already. Isn’t it tiring to hold on like this?”
Seeing that Lie Xin refused to fall, Li Dao mercifully patted his shoulder.
With a thud!
Lie Xin fell into the pool of blood, his eyes wide open, his last breath escaping, unable to close his eyes even in death.
The system prompt sounded at that moment.
[One enemy killed, gained attributes: 3.14]
It could be said that, being a skilled opponent who almost caused him harm, Lie Xin gave a substantial amount of attributes.
Though it looked like a lot, Li Dao knew that most of these attributes were likely from the so-called true qi.
If the attributes were based on the physical body alone, the amount would probably have been much lower.
After thinking this through, Li Dao glanced at his left hand.
Because he had grabbed that staff so forcefully, although his skin had undergone a transformation and had extreme resistance, there was still a layer of burn on it.
Because the battle between Li Dao and Lie Xin was only second to the fight between Wei Yun and the two innate warriors, many people were drawn to their confrontation during the chaotic battle between the three sides.
When they saw Lie Xin’s death and Li Dao’s complete victory, the members of the Fire Tribe and the Tamu Tribe showed expressions of disbelief.
On the other hand, the soldiers of Da Qian were completely different. They could hardly contain their excitement.
“Hahaha, 9527, I knew following you would definitely work!”
Captain Liu, who had been closely watching the situation, was shocked by Li Dao’s strength as he saw the half-step innate Lie Xin fall, but he couldn’t help but burst into loud laughter.
Looking at the bewildered Northman soldiers around him, he shouted, “Men, kill them all!”
“Kill!”
The Da Qian soldiers, energized as if they had been injected with adrenaline, charged forward in a frenzy.
Seeing this scene, Li Dao’s face darkened. They were having fun with their killing, but what about him?
Without hesitation, he raised his blade and charged back into the crowd.
As they now understood Li Dao’s strength, the result was that wherever Li Dao went, the soldiers of the Tamu and Fire Tribes started fleeing in all directions. After all, no one wanted to be casually struck down like an ant by someone walking past.
This scene was quickly noticed by Ta Shan and Wei Yun, who were fighting nearby.
“What! Lie Xin is dead!”
Upon hearing some of the tribe members mention Lie Xin’s death, Ta Shan’s eyes were filled with disbelief.
Lie Xin was a half-step innate warrior, not some weakling. How could he have died so easily?
On the other side, Wei Yun was overjoyed to hear that the half-step innate warrior had fallen. He also realized who had helped him eliminate this formidable threat and felt relieved that he hadn’t given up earlier.
“Ta Shan, let’s see what you’ll say now.”
Wei Yun, who was now full of joy, was no longer under the same pressure as before. Even his sword strikes felt much smoother.
“You deserve to die!”
Ta Shan was seething with rage.
Especially as he saw his own soldiers being forced back under the attack of the Da Qian troops, the flames of fury in his heart grew even hotter.
Unable to hold it in, he cursed, “Lie Xin, you worthless fool!”
However, no matter how much he cursed, it did nothing to change the current state of the battle.
As time passed, the morale of the Da Qian side grew stronger, and a large number of arrows were destroyed under the command of Captain Liu and others.
On the other hand, the soldiers of the Tamu Tribe and Fire Tribe had mostly given up on protecting their arrows. If it weren’t for Ta Shan still leading them, they might have started running away long ago.
Finally, after a while, the last of the arrows on the last cart were destroyed.
Seeing this, Captain Liu took out the whistle from around his neck and blew it.
Wei Yun, not far away, heard the whistle and smiled with joy, understanding that it signaled the completion of the mission.
After getting rid of Ta Shan with one strike, he too blew the whistle.
On the other side, hearing the whistle, Captain Liu immediately ordered, “Everyone, mission accomplished, prepare to retreat.”
“Yes!”
The Da Qian soldiers responded one after another.
Since the mission had already been completed, there was no need to continue fighting. If they kept going and forced the Northman tribes into despair, it would be the perfect time for a counterattack, and that would only increase Da Qian’s casualties.
Li Dao killed another Northman soldier who failed to evade his strike. Hearing Captain Liu’s order, he was reluctant but stopped the killing.
He understood the principle of military orders, and he also knew that continuing would not benefit their side.
Since Da Qian already held the advantage, the retreat went smoothly. The soldiers of the Tamu and Fire Tribes were more than willing for Da Qian’s troops to leave, so there was no obstruction to their retreat.
Seeing the Da Qian troops withdrawing, Wei Yun knew that he no longer had to delay.
After one last strike, he swiftly moved away from the enraged Ta Shan.
“Don’t run from me!”
Ta Shan, now in a state of fury, immediately chased after him.
Especially after seeing the retreating Da Qian soldiers, his rage intensified.
But it was already too late. Under Wei Yun’s cover, the Da Qian troops had already put some distance between them.
Faced with an innate warrior like Wei Yun, who was determined to leave, there was no way Ta Shan could stop them.
In the end, all that was left for Ta Shan was a field of devastation.
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