Chapter 323 Eternal Night (Part 7)
Honestly, the ghost general who was killed by Han Xin and Ji Bu was killed unjustly. He never expected that this Chu general, who was not strong in battle and whose heart was smashed, could still move, and move so fast and with such force!
Even the ghost general who pierced Han Xin was stunned, "Immortal? That idiot!"
Bang!
Han Xin instantly grabbed the hands of the stunned ghost general, "You're finished too."
"No! Save me..." Before the ghost general could finish speaking, his head flew into the sky.
With his hands free, Ji Bu killed Han Xin with a single sword strike, and at the same time stuffed a healing pill into Han Xin's mouth. Then, he saw the two pairs of fangs in Han Xin's mouth.
"Han Xin! How could you..."
Han Xin smiled bitterly, "If you get bitten, you'll turn into a monster. That ghost general said he'd make my life a living hell."
"It's alright! The Overlord will definitely find a way to save you!" Ji Bu said, then turned back to fight the remaining four and a half ghost generals.
"Leave the injured one to me!" Han Xin was full of energy again, and his strength had even improved slightly under the nourishment of the healing medicine.
He now possesses the strength of a beginner-level domineering vampire combined with that of a commoner-level vampire, making him roughly equivalent to an ordinary ghost general, but at least he is immortal.
"You?" The ghost general, whose head was missing a part, was in a splitting headache, but he was not afraid of a low-level vampire.
Since Ji Bu can't really help him now except with suicide attacks, he might as well kill Han Xin. After all, Han Xin is a general in the Chu army, and it wouldn't be bad to earn some military merits.
But after he left, none of the remaining four ghost generals were willing to sacrifice themselves as cannon fodder, and the situation returned to the previous state of fighting each other independently.
The high-ranking official sighed inwardly, realizing that he couldn't kill Ji Bu. He could only hope that the Chu reinforcements wouldn't be such a tough nut to crack.
Just then, a force of several hundred men stormed onto the city wall. These men were all wearing special-style armor and looked quite extraordinary.
The four ghost generals dared not be careless and flew into the sky. Looking at the other wounded ghost general, his head had been removed!
Xiang Zhuang examined the head of the ghost general closely. "It really is a monster. Huh? You've become a monster too?"
Han Xin clasped his hands in a bow and said, "Reporting to Prince Xiang, I was accidentally bitten by a monster, which is why I look like this, but I also gained the ability to be immortal."
"Oh, I see." Xiang Zhuang said, then looked at the four ghost generals in the sky, "Which of you dares to fight me?"
The four ghost generals exchanged glances. This person could kill a ghost general so easily, even an injured one. His strength should not be underestimated.
"Who are you?" The high-ranking official decided it was best to hold off on the fight for now.
"Come down, and I'll tell you." Xiang Zhuang beckoned.
The high-ranking official's forehead veins throbbed. "Hmph! Whatever, I don't think you're Xiang Yu either."
"Don't dare to come down? Then I'll go kill those who can't fly. Don't blame me for bullying the weak!" Xiang Zhuang said, then drew his sword and charged at several Xiongnu blood clansmen who had just climbed onto the city wall. The sword flashed and their heads flew up, hitting the ghost general in the air.
At this moment, Zhongli Mei, Xiang Sheng, and others also joined the battle. The Yanmen City defense, which was originally on the verge of collapse, suddenly gained such a powerful force and was immediately stabilized.
Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Sheng are both experts who are skilled in using domineering aura to protect themselves. The other Divine Martial Guards have also mastered the explosive power of the King Realm's domineering aura. Although Zhongli Mei has not yet mastered domineering aura protection, he has already touched the threshold of domineering aura protection and may break through at any time.
"Bullying the weak? Do you think we can't do that?" the high-ranking official said viciously.
Then, the four ghost generals very tacitly avoided the area where Xiang Zhuang and Ji Bu were located, and did not touch Zhongli Mei either. Anyway, the city wall was so long that it didn't matter where they opened a breach.
If we can't beat these two tough guys, killing the other Chu soldiers shouldn't be too difficult.
Indeed, this is the case. Ordinary warriors in the Divine Martial Guard can only withstand three moves from a Ghost General of Earl level if they do not dodge. The first move will break their weapon, the second will damage their armor, and the third will result in injury or death.
However, the Divine Martial Guards were numerous, with each team consisting of ten people. They did the same work as Ji Bu, putting out fires everywhere and rushing to wherever there was a crisis.
Even if the Count Ghost General were to instantly kill ten Divine Martial Guards, it wouldn't be easy. He would only manage to pierce one person's armor before the others attacked. He could try to kill one person, but only if he was injured.
Perhaps it's not just injuries; once the wings are pierced by weapons like halberds, one can't fly and could easily lose their life.
After all, aside from being immortal and able to fly, the Earl Ghost General isn't necessarily much stronger than the Divine Martial Guard with the domineering aura of the King Realm. His flight speed using his fleshy wings isn't much faster either, and his domineering explosive power can keep up with his movement.
If he were to face a master like Ji Bu, who possesses an aura of dominance that protects him, the Earl Ghost General would have no recourse but to eke out a living in the sky.
However, on a battlefield where hundreds of thousands of people are fighting at the same time, the strong can only play a leading and rescue role. The real decision-making power is still determined by the large number of soldiers.
To the Chu army, they were just newly recruited Chu soldiers defending the city, while the Xiongnu were commoner and slave-level vampire warriors.
The Xiongnu initially held a complete advantage, but after the arrival of the Divine Martial Guard, they effectively stabilized the city's defenses, and the Chu army's casualties decreased rapidly.
With the situation improving for the Chu army, the Xiongnu found themselves in an awkward position.
Maodun's face was terribly grim. "Has Xiang Yu arrived?"
"Reporting to the Great Chanyu, it is not Xiang Yu, but the elite Divine Martial Guard of Chu, and there must be five of Chu's Tiger Generals among them," Zhongyuan Tong replied, replacing Liu Fei's original position.
"The Five Tiger Generals of Chu? As strong as Ji Bu?" Maodun frowned. He had just seen that only four of the nine ghost generals in the sky remained.
“That’s not necessarily true. Zhongli Mei, who killed Gu A before, was also one of the Five Tiger Generals, but his strength was somewhat inferior to Ji Bu’s,” Zhongyuan Tong replied cautiously.
"Oh, I see. Well then, it's about time. Teba Xiong, go and kill the five tiger generals of the Chu army and make them despair." Maodun waved his hand.
"Your subordinate obeys!" Tebahanxiong clasped his hands in response, then slowly floated up. "Hundred Ghost Generals, follow me to annihilate this city!"
"Yes!" the hundred newly born ghost generals responded in unison, including barons and viscounts.
It's not difficult to achieve a hundred demon generals like Maodun with effort, and secondary evolution is also achievable if desired, but it's far too difficult to achieve something like the Tebahan Bear, which sheds its fleshy wings and can directly hover and fly.
This means that after being promoted to Earl, Tebahan Bear underwent two more evolutions, becoming a powerful vampire of Duke level!
"Tremble, mortals!" Teba the Bear was smug; he even had the illusion that he was more powerful than Maodun.
At that very moment, on the northern city wall of Yanmen.
He had just ambushed a high-ranking official of the Divine Martial Guard, but suddenly lost his precious head.
"Just hiding from Xiang Zhuang and Ji Bu is enough?" Xiang Sheng scoffed, drawing his sword and heading straight for his next target!
Chapter 324 Eternal Night (Part 8)
Snap! Rumble...
Lightning flashed and thunder roared in the void, dark clouds gathered, and black blizzards struck from time to time.
Xiang Yu was riding his black horse at high speed through the green alternate dimension. The wind and snow outside did not affect them at all, and they seemed very comfortable. But in reality, they would not be home for a while, and they were very anxious.
Hao Jiu was also at a loss, feeling equally upset. He could only use this time to organize the main gains from the new final dimension mission, which would at least alleviate the tense atmosphere and his depressed mood.
The Elf Goddess system provides modules beyond just the Enforcer module and the card system; there is also a system stealth module, specifically designed to counter the system radar.
In addition, Hao Jiu obtained five law enforcement throwing knife modules from the Elf Goddess and the Ferocious Beast System. Combined with his original six, he now has a total of eleven throwing knives, ten more than an ordinary law enforcement officer!
After acquiring the Law Enforcer identity module, the power of the Law Enforcement Throwing Knife is greatly enhanced. When formed into a knife array, it becomes exceptionally powerful, almost to the point of instantly killing items.
Of course, it doesn't matter if Hao Jiu can't kill instantly. He can use the dimensional lock to lock the dimension first, so that the opponent can't waste energy by buying things.
In addition to two dimensional locks worth millions, the items harvested included practical items such as weakness removal, time travel, and healing potions.
There are also many good things in the friend's storage ring. After unlocking, you can open it directly with energy. However, they are all refining materials, cultivation techniques, medicinal herbs, magic weapons, immortal spirit stones, etc. from the cultivation world. There is also half of the corpse of some kind of monster, which is suspected to be dragon food.
With these cultivation resources, Xiang Yu, Yu Ji, and the others could start cultivating immortality. They didn't expect to reach the Foundation Establishment or Core Formation stage; reaching the third level of Qi Refining would allow them to use simple spells, and they would have enough mana to use their storage rings.
The fact that there were actually a bunch of other storage rings inside the friend's storage ring suggests that they were probably all his previous spoils of war.
However, most of them were empty, with only two special ones that couldn't be opened. They had a lock-like restriction on them, so I guess the friend request feature wasn't working either.
Hao Jiu plans to buy a powerful barrier-breaking module once he has enough energy. Then no barrier will be able to stop him, and he can loot freely.
These gains would normally have been enough to keep Hao Jiu grinning foolishly, but now...
"God of Wine, we'll surely be able to return to the Chu-Han plane after we pass through this thundercloud, right?" Xiang Yu asked with a gloomy expression.
"I guess so..." Hao Jiu said without much confidence, as this trip home had been full of unexpected events.
Previously, when he and Xiang Yu used the time-space portal, they only needed two steps to travel from the main plane of the Chu-Han Contention to the branch plane.
However, this new final dimension is quite far from the Chu-Han dimension, so traveling through time and space will take some time.
This wouldn't have been a big deal, it would just have taken a little longer, but as they approached the exit of the Chu-Han plane, a black wind suddenly swept through.
The power of this wind was comparable to the legendary banana leaf fan. Caught off guard, Xiang Yu and his horse Wuzhui were almost blown back to the new final dimension.
Because it was Hao Jiu's first time traveling so far, he was a little confused. There was even spacetime turbulence inside the spacetime tunnel?
But upon closer inspection, something seemed off. The purpose of a spacetime tunnel should be to avoid spacetime turbulence, and the black wind just now didn't seem like spacetime turbulence at all. It was more like a protective array, which was very likely man-made.
Therefore, Hao Jiu judged that something big might have happened in the Chu-Han world.
Xiang Yu immediately contacted Yu Ji through the Shadow System, but the reply he received was all static and he couldn't hear it at all. It seems that Yu Ji couldn't hear what Xiang Yu was saying either.
Hao Jiu suspected that an unknown system had gone to the Chu-Han plane and then used a prop similar to a plane-locking device, except that its effect was different from the plane lock he had. This one could interfere with communication.
Upon hearing this, Xiang Yu became extremely anxious. He had been wondering why the Xiongnu would suddenly attack the Chu state out of the blue; it was probably because they had obtained the system.
If that's the case, the Great Chu Empire is in grave danger, and Yu Ji and Xiang Yu's closest relatives and friends are also in grave danger!
Xiang Yu mounted his black horse and charged at full speed toward the end of the time tunnel. This time, they were fully prepared and fought back with all their might the moment the black wind struck.
As a result, it was blown away again, as if it were impossible for human beings to pass through.
Xiang Yu proposed returning to the new final plane and then using a time-space travel device to directly teleport to the Chu-Han plane.
However, after analyzing the situation, Hao Jiu felt that it might be a wasted trip. If the plane was truly blocked, teleportation would not be possible.
Therefore, Hao Jiu suggested trying the alternate dimension created by the Door-Door Fruit's power.
As it turned out, they were able to enter the alternate dimension, and the black wind could no longer reach them. However, a new problem arose: the black wind and thunderclouds seemed to stretch endlessly, as if there was no end in sight.
Xiang Yu rode his black horse at full speed through the alternate dimension, having long lost track of time. Turning back was out of the question, so he could only keep charging forward.
"Holy crap! All my healing potions are sold out!" Hao Jiu thought he was pretty cocky with 500 healing potions in stock, but when he opened the vending machine, it was completely empty...
Logically speaking, selling out should be a cause for celebration, as it would have generated a lot of energy. However, when Hao Jiu checked the transaction records, he found that 500 healing pills had only sold for 50 energy points!
That's like selling each one for 0.1 energy! What a loss!
Of all the shadow systems, only Yu Ji's system shop has this price, which means that Yu Ji bought all five hundred healing pills.
"Damn it! If only I could contact the fragments of those Emperor's Swords!" Xiang Yu was extremely anxious. Yu Ji's large-scale purchase of healing medicine must mean that things were not going well on the other side.
They had made arrangements before they left. Even if all the vassal states joined forces with the Xiongnu to attack Chu, they would not pose the slightest threat.
Therefore, it has been confirmed that there is a system stirring up trouble in the Chu-Han world, otherwise why would there be so many healing medicines?
Unfortunately, the divided soul and the original body can only communicate with each other after they have been merged. Xiang Yu had previously left all the divided souls in the Emperor's Sword to cultivate, and he still carried the only merged divided soul with him.