Just as Zhang Dalong vomited blood and retreated in defeat, Ding Hao had already taken his place in the nick of time, raising his saber to attack Man Potian once more!
As the Primordial Barbarian Bloodline unfolded, Man Potian's barbarian blood power continued to be neutralized by him. Ding Hao once again suppressed Man Potian with overwhelming force, slashing him until he vomited blood again and again!
"Damn!"
"I must have been too unlucky the last two times! Every single time, by sheer coincidence, I got hit by the power Man Potian had been building up for ages!"
Watching Ding Hao suppress Man Potian before his eyes once again!
Zhang Dalong stared wide-eyed in disbelief. He could clearly sense that Ding Hao was absolutely not stronger than him. If Ding Hao could overpower Man Potian so forcefully, then Zhang Dalong definitely could too!
As long as he was more careful of Man Potian's sudden bursts of power, it would be fine!
"Get lost!"
"This old barbarian's life must belong to me, Zhang Dalong!"
Thus, Zhang Dalong dragged his saber and rushed toward Ding Hao to snatch the fight!
Ding Hao did not contend with him and stepped aside once more, letting Zhang Dalong face Man Potian!
The result was a bang. Man Potian's barbarian blood power erupted again, blasting Zhang Dalong away once more and sending blood spraying through the air!
"Fuck!"
Zhang Dalong cursed without end.
He didn't understand!
He just didn't understand!!
Still unable to understand, Zhang Dalong endured his injuries and charged in twice more.
Yet every time, Man Potian heavily blasted him away. In contrast, Ding Hao always managed to steadily suppress Man Potian!
"Something's wrong!"
At last, Zhang Dalong became wary.
After failing time and again, he completely understood that it was not because Man Potian was weak. Rather, Ding Hao possessed a method that countered Man Potian.
He himself could not do that, which was why Man Potian had sent him flying time after time!
"Damn it!"
At this moment, Man Potian on the other side had clearly noticed the issue as well!
Immense frustration surged within him. He could die on the battlefield, but he absolutely could not die so miserably at the hands of someone at the True Martial Third Layer.
Moreover, at a glance, the Northern Barbarian Army's formation had already collapsed across the entire line. There was no longer any hope of holding back the Divine Phoenix Army!
"Retreat!"
"Retreat to the Royal Court!"
Thus, Man Potian seized the chance to grab a warhorse and fled on horseback!
"Where do you think you're going!"
Ding Hao shouted coldly, leaping onto an ownerless warhorse as well. He viciously kicked its belly and hurried after Man Potian!
Unwilling to accept this, Zhang Dalong also mounted a warhorse and gave chase.
Elsewhere, seeing their army's commander flee on horseback, the Northern Barbarian Army began to rout as well, while the Divine Phoenix Army launched a relentless pursuit...
In an instant, the original encounter battle transformed into a pursuit battle!
The defeated Northern Barbarian Army, led by their commander Man Potian, fled ahead, while Ding Hao, Zhang Dalong, and the other Divine Phoenix Army soldiers pursued from behind!
During the flight and pursuit, Northern Barbarian soldiers constantly left corpses behind. Across more than a hundred miles of road, the ground was nearly paved with barbarian corpses!
After half a day of chase and flight, a majestic city finally appeared ahead.
This city was none other than Royal Court City, the center of power for the northern barbarians, equivalent to the imperial capital of Great Zhou!
At this moment.
The Northern Barbarian Army had been reduced to only a few hundred riders led by Man Potian.
Moreover, as arrows whistled through the air, those hundred riders continued to dwindle!
"Open the gates!"
"Open the city gates, quickly!"
Though they were still a thousand meters away, Man Potian and the others shouted toward Royal Court City. Every face was filled with extreme urgency and terror!
Less than a hundred meters behind them, a troop of Great Zhou cavalry was pursuing them relentlessly, with Ding Hao and Zhang Dalong at the very front!
Because the horses ahead, ridden by Man Potian and the others, had all been struck by arrows to varying degrees, the distance between them and Ding Hao's group behind was rapidly shrinking!
At this pace, they would be able to completely intercept Man Potian and the others before they escaped into Northern Barbarian Royal Court City!
"This won't do!"
"If I, Zhang Dalong, can't have it, then you, Ding Hao, can forget about getting it!"
Seeing this, Zhang Dalong's mind immediately began to stir!
He no longer had any intention of personally killing Man Potian. He knew perfectly well that he was no match for Man Potian at all!
But Ding Hao was different!
Once they intercepted Man Potian, Ding Hao would definitely be able to kill him!
Thus.
Just as only a dozen or so meters remained before they caught up to Man Potian.
Neighhh!!
Zhang Dalong suddenly yanked the reins, viciously driving his warhorse into Ding Hao's horse beside him. At the same time, he shouted in feigned panic, "Not good! This general's horse has been spooked!"
"Fuck!"
This sudden turn of events made Ding Hao's heart sink at once.
He understood that the horse being spooked was merely an excuse. Zhang Dalong had set his heart on preventing him from claiming the final merit of slaying the general!
But today, he refused to let Zhang Dalong have his way!
"Wind Treading Steps!"
"Wind True Meaning!"
"Get up for me!!"
At the critical moment, Ding Hao decisively abandoned his horse. He stomped fiercely off its back with both feet, and as the two warhorses crashed together and tumbled to the ground, his entire body soared up like a hawk!
For an ordinary True Martial Realm cultivator, even if they leaped high into the air, they would fall straight down within seconds.
But at this very moment, Ding Hao used the perfected Wind Treading Steps and Wind True Meaning to forcibly shatter that fixed understanding!
It was as though he were walking upon the wind itself. Holding the Mysterious Iron Saber, he took more than a dozen steps through midair toward the front!
In an instant, he crossed the final distance and arrived directly above Man Potian's head.
"Ah!"
"What!"
"How is that possible!"
At this moment, whether Zhang Dalong and the other Divine Phoenix Army soldiers or Man Potian and his men, all of them had their pupils shrink sharply, their faces drained of color in horror!
Walking through the void!!
That was an ability only Grandmaster Realm experts could display, yet Ding Hao at the True Martial Third Layer had forcibly used it!
It was simply heaven-defying!
"Death row prisoner Ding Hao of the Great Zhou Divine Phoenix Army!"
"Today, amidst ten thousand armies—Slay the General!!"
Ding Hao's voice rang out from the air like divine thunder.
Yet faster than his shout were his plunging body and the Mysterious Iron Saber in his hand, which came crashing down in the Heaven Collapsing Style of the Three Talents Saber Technique!
From afar, a blaze of dazzling saber radiance poured down!
Like Mount Tai pressing down from above, like an iceberg avalanche, the terrifying saber edge carried the sharp roar of bursting wind and the might to collapse the heavens!
"Ah!"
Feeling this, Man Potian's aged eyes bulged wide. An icy chill of death shot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head!
Relying on the reaction speed of the Grandmaster Realm, he raised his Black Gold Hammer at the first instant, intending to block and defend!
But unfortunately, the Primordial Barbarian Bloodline within him was restrained, and the power he could unleash at this moment remained exceedingly weak!
"No!"
In the end, amid Man Potian's unwilling and grief-stricken roar, the Mysterious Iron Saber in Ding Hao's hand cleaved down without obstruction!
From the Black Gold Hammer, to the crown of his head, to his burly body, and finally even the warhorse beneath him, all were split in two by this single strike!
Blood sprayed across the sky, leaving countless people utterly horrified!!
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