Eternal Army Blocks the Road Beneath Clear Wind Mountain

After bidding farewell to the refugees, Lin Changqing mounted his horse and hurried toward Green Mountain Village.

It was getting late. He had to get back early, lest his father and the others in the village worry.

After all, everyone was still waiting for his news.

But when Lin Changqing passed Clear Wind Mountain, he suddenly tugged the reins and came to an abrupt halt.

Someone was blocking the road ahead.

Not horse bandits, but a cavalry unit.

There were a hundred of them in total, clad in war armor, murderous aura boiling around them. They were clearly elite veterans who had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

They stood in Lin Changqing's path.

The leading commander narrowed his eyes at Lin Changqing, who had stopped several hundred meters away. His expression immediately turned cold as he barked, "Is the one before us Lin Changqing...?"

Lin Changqing's pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints.

So they had indeed come for him.

His brows furrowed slightly, but he did not deny it. He said coldly, "Who are you, and why are you blocking Mr. Lin's path?"

"Then you are Lin Changqing."

Killing Intent visibly surfaced in the commander's eyes as he said coldly, "I heard that with one man and one saber, you slaughtered Qingfeng Stockade.

I have long heard your great name like thunder in my ears. Today, I specially brought men here to witness Mr. Lin's abilities..."

"Qingfeng Stockade, hmph... So you are the Eternal Army..."

Lin Changqing gave a Cold Snort. His mind was quick; he immediately understood the reason, and his gaze turned slightly cold as Cold Killing Intent rose in his eyes.

Xu Maotian, the chief of Qingfeng Stockade, had been a White Lotus Cultist. After Lin Changqing thought it over carefully and combined it with some of the information he had gathered recently, he understood that Xu Maotian had likely been an Eternal Bandit as well.

He had been a pawn planted by the White Lotus Cult in Fengle County. The entire Qingfeng Stockade had been preparation for the Eternal Army's future assault on Fengle County.

Now this man had brought people to block him at the foot of Clear Wind Mountain.

Clearly, Lin Changqing's destruction of Qingfeng Stockade had ruined their plans, so they had come to take revenge.

"You truly are clever. That's right, I am Eternal Army Captain Lu Haitian."

The commander was not particularly surprised that Lin Changqing had exposed their identity in one breath. He did not hide it and admitted it openly.

With a Cold Smile across his face, he looked at Lin Changqing and said, "I investigated you. I have to admit, you are indeed talented.

But of all things, you should never have destroyed Qingfeng Stockade.

Do you know what that means?"

"It means your arrangements in Fengle County have developed a flaw." Lin Changqing's expression did not change as he gave a cold laugh.

"You really are clever, to have guessed all that."

Lu Haitian's pupils contracted slightly, shock appearing on his face. Then the Killing Intent in his eyes intensified as he gritted his teeth and growled, "Kid, being too clever is not a good thing.

You'll die a miserable death..."

As he spoke, he suddenly drew his saber and roared, "All troops, heed my command! Form up and charge!"

Rumble...

This man acted with decisive brutality, giving Lin Changqing no chance to prepare as he launched the charge at once.

Under Lu Haitian's command, the hundred cavalrymen formed a battle formation.

Like a razor-sharp dagger, they charged straight at Lin Changqing.

For a moment, dust billowed into the air.

Their murderous aura rolled like a fierce tiger roaring at the heavens. The Qi and Blood and murderous aura of a hundred men merged together under the battle formation's impetus.

Their momentum instantly climbed to its peak.

With the charge of a hundred men, it crashed down upon Lin Changqing like a tidal wave.

If the Eternal Army all possesses such strength, how could they be mere rabble or scattered stragglers? No wonder the Imperial Court was defeated...

Lin Changqing's pupils narrowed as he thought to himself.

His mind grew solemn, and the Jingzhe Saber had already left its sheath.

These hundred-plus cavalrymen were anything but simple. Every one of them possessed abundant Qi and Blood and had clearly cultivated martial arts. More than ten of them had even entered the grades.

And Lu Haitian, their leader, possessed an aura far stronger than Xu Maotian's.

He was likely at the peak of Fifth Grade. With the battle formation's enhancement, his strength was no trifling matter. An ordinary Fifth Grade Flesh Body Realm martial artist would probably be finished after a single charge.

Even against a Fourth Grade martial artist, they could put up a fight.

"Unfortunately, you ran into Little Master."

Lin Changqing gave a Cold Snort. The next moment, he sank his Qi into his Dantian and slapped the saddle with his left hand. His entire body soared into the air like a Great Peng Spreading Wings.

He leaped from the horse's back straight into the sky, then let out a thunderous roar: "GET LOST..."

That single shout of "get lost" was like a tiger roaring through the Mountain Forest, like an Exploding Bear's bellow, as though it shattered the very air.

It exploded with a terrifying sound of breaking air.

What was more, Lin Changqing's furious roar contained Spiritual Power.

With that single shout, it exploded directly in the minds of Lu Haitian and the others like a clap of thunder, forcibly hypnotizing them all.

Though it lasted only an instant.

That instant was enough.

Lin Changqing had already crossed several hundred meters and arrived before Lu Haitian and the others.

Clang...

With a sweep of the Jingzhe Saber, dazzling blade light flashed.

The Five Elements Saber that Cuts Iron erupted, its first strike slashing straight at Lu Haitian.

This man was the soul of the hundred-man battle formation. So long as he was killed, the battle formation would naturally crumble without being attacked. And without Lu Haitian, the hundred-odd cavalrymen would be nothing but living targets.

Lin Changqing could deal with them however he pleased.

As the blade light flashed, Lu Haitian broke out in a cold sweat, but his consciousness had returned. He had no time to think and instinctively dodged, tumbling from his horse.

Yet he narrowly avoided the saber strike Lin Changqing had aimed at his head.

However, Lin Changqing's strike had been too fast, and Lu Haitian had just been forcibly hypnotized for an instant by Lin Changqing's Spiritual Power through that roar.

With his mind dazed, he had relied on his rich combat instincts to evade the fatal blow by reflex.

But Lin Changqing's saber still struck him.

It severed one of his arms cleanly.

"Ah..."

A piercing scream rang out as a severed arm flew into the sky. Lin Changqing's killing intent did not diminish. He swept his long saber sideways and continued slashing toward Lu Haitian.

Strike while you're sick, take your life.

He intended to finish Lu Haitian first, then deal with the other cavalrymen.

But!

In that fleeting instant, the other cavalrymen had already charged over. Left with no choice, Lin Changqing changed the course of his attack. The Jingzhe Saber turned in his hand and swept out horizontally.

A streak of blade light flashed, and the cavalryman at the very front was split directly in two.

He had been cut in half at the waist by Lin Changqing.

Then Lin Changqing stepped forward, his body like a spirit deer as he weaved through the hundred-odd cavalrymen. The Jingzhe Saber moved in his hand, every slash drawing blood.

For a time, severed limbs flew everywhere.

Using Deer Fist from the Five Elements Technique in tandem with the Five Elements Saber that Cuts Iron, Lin Changqing was like a man entering an empty realm.

By his own strength alone, he had carved straight through the battle formation formed by over a hundred cavalrymen.

In a single encounter, no fewer than thirty cavalrymen fell into pools of blood. Not one could withstand a single strike from him, and he killed until everyone's hearts turned cold.