Sever heaven, sever earth, sever man; sever intent, sever momentum, sever heart; sever the very root of the Dao path.
As these seven gates descended, Great Xia's foremost killing array arose!
This was the Seven Severances Seven Kills Array, the Dao-attainment killing array of Great Xia's True Lord Tai Hua!
On the night of the third day of the first month, the sky-piercing killing array rose over Ford Mountain. Its terrifying power shook Huiming Prefecture!
Great Xia's splendid Huafu Thirteen Peaks would forever be one peak fewer from this day onward.
Great Xia's prodigy Tai Yin had fallen in battle!
On Lunar New Year's Eve of Divine Martial Year Thirty-Three in the Xia calendar, Tai Yin crushed Bao Bozhao at Wuyang City and slaughtered thirty thousand Qi Army soldiers.
On the third day of the first month of Divine Martial Year Thirty-Three, Tai Yin ambushed Xie Baoshu and Ouyang Yong at Ford Mountain. In this battle, all ten thousand Xia soldiers perished. Beneath the Seven Severances Seven Kills Array, Ouyang Yong, State Chancellor of Rong Kingdom, bore the brunt of the assault and died on the spot! Xie Baoshu used a military formation to withstand it. Of the more than thirty thousand Qi soldiers, nearly all died; only three hundred and seven survived. The dead left not even bones behind, while every survivor was wounded! Commander Xie Baoshu remained unconscious.
Of course, even if he never woke for the rest of his life, he would not escape postwar accountability...
The sounds of slaughter receded once more.
The third time today?
At times, Xi Mengfu would dazedly feel that he was still living aboard that little boat from his childhood.
Listening to the ebb and flow of the tides, he passed through one dream after another amid days that