At this moment, the giants, whose numbers were fewer than those of the orc legion, were gradually pushing back the defensive line at a visible speed.
The orc army did not retreat because of the giants' terror; they continued to charge forward fearlessly... but it was no use!
The raging wind was always at the forefront. Sometimes it would leap dozens of meters high and land, crushing two beast soldiers to death, like a giant humanoid cannonball.
Later, the giants followed suit, hopping and leaping through the air like grasshoppers, and when they landed, a large number of beast soldiers would die.
The last game played like this was Super Mario stomping on mushrooms and turtles.
The Qing soldiers behind the defensive line were stunned. They rushed out of the line and joined the giants in the counterattack, but they found that they couldn't keep up with the giants' speed of advancing.
Li Changqing sighed, "The times are changing too fast."
A year ago, the battles between conglomerates were still small-scale wars. Advancing each other's front lines by seventy kilometers was considered quite impressive. The so-called blitzkrieg was nothing more than a surprise attack of three hundred kilometers in a single day.
However, in the era that belonged to Qing Chen and others, the real blitzkrieg became a situation where one second they were eating hot pot, and the next second they were crossing more than two thousand kilometers through the Key Gate to kill the entire Kashima family.
A year ago, it would have taken a lot of money for any faction to train a force of gene warriors with an average grade B.
However, during the parent-teacher conference era, more than 40,000 A-level cultivators were promoted in a single day.
Now that the giants have joined the war, their terrifying advance is even baffling to the orcish legions.
Human civilization always undergoes a rapid transformation after several hundred years of stable transition, thanks to a small group of people. For example, scientists during the Industrial Revolution transformed horse-drawn carriages into high-speed trains and airplanes in just over a hundred years.
For example, Qing Chen and others are making this world infinitely closer to the legendary mythological world!
However, at that moment, a giant leaped into the air, only to find that an old man in a black robe was waiting for him to land where he was about to land.
The other party has already taken out a golden longsword from his sleeve!
The giant tried his best to change his posture in the air, but the angle at which the golden longsword slashed was too tricky, and it actually severed the giant's head.
The enormous head rolled on the ground, and the old monster, the Fate Master, retreated expressionlessly back into the orc army.
At the same time, another old monster, the Fate Master, appeared from another direction and slew a giant with his axe!
Before the giants could react, the old monster, the Fate Master, reappeared in another place, wielding a golden longsword, and killed another giant!
The giants' onslaught paused briefly for the first time, simply because the two old monsters' attacks were too unpredictable and impossible to defend against!
Moreover, even though the giants are now cultivating, they have not been cultivating for long enough to break through to the level of demigods.
If you were to encounter these two old monsters one-on-one, you would surely die!
Moreover, there were several A-rank Jesters in this group, waiting for an opportunity to kill.
Although they are not as fast or strong as the giants, they are extremely fast at harvesting giants, and they always manage to appear in the most insidious places!
But the giant tide only paused briefly before continuing its frenzied counterattack. The orc legions could fight to the death, and so could they!
Among the giants, the giant prophet cried out: "Silence!"
(Giants, we have wandered the Forbidden Forest for two hundred years, and now the time for revenge has finally come. Do not fear death, for our souls will cross the Forbidden Sea, fly over the bustling cities of humankind, and return to the silent Blackleaf Plain, to our homeland!)
As soon as the prophet finished speaking, the giants went berserk again, and more than three hundred giants charged at the front!
Even more outrageous is that these three hundred-plus giants can actually generate electricity!
In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky. A series of lightning bolts fell into the orc army, engulfing an A-rank Jhin and electrocuting him instantly!
Li Shu exclaimed in shock, "This is..."
Li Changqing explained, "Qingchen passed on the Pantheon Thunder Technique he found to the giants, and the giants then selected the three hundred most talented giants to cultivate it."
The giant is not only incredibly strong, but he can also strike lightning with a flick of his wrist. Are you scared yet?
Li Shu watched from afar, and he swore that this was the first time he had ever seen fear in the eyes of the orc legion. These orc soldiers, who were clearly controlled by forbidden objects, were filled with fear!
Li Changqing sighed: "But the difference between the number of giants and the orc legion is still too great. Have you noticed that the orc legion is shrinking its formation? The people controlling them don't intend to continue to fight the giants head-on. Instead, they want to exhaust the giants' strength so that the old monster Jester can rely on the orc legion to launch a sneak attack."
Old Wan nodded: "There are only 10,000 giants in total, and now some have died. Even if the old monster, the Fate Master, only steals two or three at a time, he can gradually devour the giant race."
"What do we do now?" Li Shu said, "We'll lead the Qing clan's troops to flank them and help them break through the orc army's lines faster... Wait, there are people on the mountains on both sides of the orc army!"
Li Changqing looked up and saw a short-haired girl standing on the mountain peak to his left.
On the right side of the mountain peak, a kind-hearted young man stands symmetrically.
The girl had a blood-stained bandage on her shoulder, while the boy had his left leg bandaged, the location of which was unknown.
Li Shu said, "It's Chen Zhuoqu and Hu Jingyi! They're Qing Chen's two apprentices!"
Upon hearing that he was Qing Chen's disciple, Lin Changqing took another look and asked, "Why are you all injured? They seem to be quite badly hurt?"
Old Wan said, "I heard they went to challenge the Life and Death Trial. They were probably injured during the trial, which should affect their combat. If they force themselves to fight while injured, they will probably be killed on the battlefield by the old monster, the Fate Master."
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Chen Zhuoqu and Hu Jingyi, as if they had planned it, took a breath at the same time on the mountaintop, and the clouds in the sky rolled backward.
A whale sucks up the heavens and earth!
The next second, the two of them simultaneously leaned down and exhaled a cloud of vapor towards the orc legion below!
The two tiny figures exhaled clouds that stretched for thousands of meters, as if celestial beings had created a snowstorm!
The clouds swept through the forest on the mountain, sweeping away all the withered yellow leaves from the branches and turning them into countless autumn leaf knives!
The autumn leaf blades sliced through the orc legion, scraping away the flesh, skin, and internal organs of each orc soldier, leaving only a skeleton.
The more than 10,000 beast soldiers were like 10,000 dandelions; with just a breath, their flesh and blood were blown away!
At this point, Chen Zhuoqu and Hu Jingyi had completed eight life-or-death trials, completing them at a speed almost identical to that of the founder, Ren He. But most importantly, they possessed breathing techniques.
Originally, completing seven life-or-death challenges would make one a demigod, but Chen Zhuoqu knew that being just an ordinary demigod knight would not be enough, so she dared to complete the eighth life-or-death challenge, wingsuit flying.
Although the challenge of facing a life-or-death situation left her severely injured, with her right shoulder almost completely immobile.
Qing Zhun once told Qing Chen that everything gained will be lost, and everything has a price.
What he didn't say was that all efforts in the world will be rewarded!
Completing another life-or-death challenge allowed the two of them to surpass the process of Qing Chen condensing cloud energy ahead of time, thus possessing knight cloud energy ahead of schedule!
Even if it's not as terrifying as Li Shutong's, it's enough for now!
This gust of wind revealed the two old monsters, the jesters, who were hiding in the orc legion, waiting for an opportunity to kill. Their black robes were torn to shreds, revealing their withered and hunched bodies.
The two realized something was wrong and immediately flew backward.
However, before they could retreat back to the main force of the orc legion behind them, they saw Wang Xiaojiu dragging a huge guillotine down the mountain!
"Run? I've wanted to kill you all for a long time!"
Chapter 995, The Final Journey (Part 7)
The seven old monsters who were masters of fate in the golden coffin were once one of the biggest hidden dangers in the Eastern Continent, which is why Qing Chen and Xiao San fought to storm the palace of the masters of fate.
That was the accumulated heritage of the Virtuoso Roosevelt family over hundreds of years. When they first obtained the poisoned cup, they swore an oath that the Virtuoso demigod would seal himself away when he had only one month left to live, awaiting the family's summons.
If a family faces a major upheaval, its descendants can awaken them with a cup of poison.
If we examine this family from an objective perspective, their prosperity over a thousand years is no accident. This group of fortune tellers not only possess a godlike perspective, but each individual also has an unwavering belief in continuing the family line.
Whether it was the Fate Master who voluntarily entered the Forbidden Forest to await death, the old monster who sealed himself away, or the Fate Master who voluntarily became the Wolf King, they all became the cornerstones of this vast family.
However, in this war, the Eastern Continent will inevitably have to risk everything.
The Fate Master is using a family to fight against an entire continent with a disorganized group.
Now, the first old monster has sacrificed his own life to seal Jinguji Maki's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons with amber.
The second old monster was killed by Li Ke at the A1 defense line.
Two A3 defense lines have appeared, while three others remain missing.
But no matter where they appear, they must be killed immediately.
Two bald Virtuosos, covered in fine bloodstains, were frantically trying to return to the orcish army's camp for cover.
Although they did not die in the clouds, the knife wounds on their bodies gradually reopened, and blood gushed down their bodies, turning them into two blood gourds.
As the two fled, they gradually reunited.
Wang Xiaojiu dragged the guillotine along at breakneck speed, the long blade of the guillotine slicing through the soil behind her.
The mud that splashed to both sides looked like waves being cut through the ocean by a nuclear-powered icebreaker.
Even if it's a layer of ice that has never melted for thousands of years, we must cut it open.
This guillotine doesn't actually look like a human weapon; its 3.2-meter-long blade is more like a weapon that a giant would readily use.
When she reached the two old monsters behind her: "Die!"
As the massive guillotine swung out, the slender, frail body wielding a weapon taller and longer than itself looked like a violent freak.
The giant behind her, seeing this, exclaimed in amazement, "Wow!"
But the two old monsters were prepared. They turned around at the same time. They knew the trajectory of the guillotine falling, so they fought back together, close to the blade!
Wang Xiaojiu immediately retreated, and the powerful guillotine came to an abrupt halt in mid-air, flying backward with her.
The two old monsters retreated after their counterattack failed, but as soon as they retreated, Wang Xiaojiu chased after them again. He would even use his speed advantage as a knight demigod to block the two old monsters' path and prevent them from returning to the orc legion's camp.
This knight demigod's tactics were incredibly cunning; he clung to his opponent like a piece of chewing gum.
From the beginning, Wang Xiaojiu didn't think she could kill two demigods of the Fate Master, so she either had to exhaust them or wait for her comrades to arrive and gang up on them.
Qing Chen once said that there are only two ways to kill a Fate Master: either you are fast enough that even if the opponent sees your attack a second in advance, they still cannot dodge it.
Either you have a large enough area of effect, like Chen Zhuoqu and Hu Jingyi, covering an area of nearly two kilometers, the two old monsters would certainly see the signs of the cloud, but they simply couldn't escape!
Now Wang Xiaojiu has come up with a third and fourth way to kill the Virtuoso: relying on the knight's physical advantage to exhaust the opponent to death, or engaging in a group fight!
At this moment, Chen Zhuoqu and Hu Jingyi exchanged a glance and jumped off the mountain without hesitation.
Chen Zhuoqu had difficulty moving one shoulder and arm, while Hu Jingyi was running with a limp. They had indeed suffered serious injuries in the life-or-death situation of wingsuit flying, but they had no reason to back down at this point.
From the very beginning, Qing Chen protected them very well. Whenever the students of the Traveler were sheltered from the wind and rain on Whale Island, it was Qing Chen, Zheng Yuandong, and others who bought them time.
While everyone else was fighting, they were traveling the world completing life-or-death trials.
While others were risking their lives, they were traveling the world to overcome life-or-death challenges.
Qing Chen has already made enough efforts and paid a heavy price to buy them time to grow, which is why they chose to risk their lives to complete the life-or-death challenges in a short period of time.