novelinnhs Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119: Then I Want You to Kill Them With Your Own Hands
Boom!!
A terrifying pressure suddenly crashed down from the sky.
It slammed heavily onto the headscarfed officer.
The ground beneath his feet caved in with a roar, and his legs were driven deep into the rock.
But at that very moment, a violent force erupted from his body.
His muscles stood out like carved stone, each line sharply defined. Veins coiled over him like little snakes, and his face twisted from the strain.
Forcing himself against that crushing pressure, he looked up.
Only then did he see that the man in midair was raising a silver cudgel with both hands and bringing it smashing down onto his head.
The headscarfed officer instantly threw both arms up to block!
A giant elephant phantom suddenly appeared.
Li Mu’s descending cudgel struck both of his forearms and drove the headscarfed officer’s legs several more inches into the ground.
With a crack, the giant elephant phantom shattered.
But the headscarfed officer did not suffer a fatal wound.
At once, he roared in fury.
He had already sensed it. Li Mu was not of the Profound Rank at all. At most, he only carried the aura of Sixth or Seventh Grade cultivation.
And yet his strength had forced him into such a miserable state!
How could he not be enraged?
A violent aura burst from the headscarfed officer’s body and forcibly knocked Li Mu back several meters.
He ripped both legs out of the ground and charged straight at Li Mu!
With every step he took, both his body and the giant elephant phantom around him grew larger.
After only four or five steps, his body had swelled to twice its original size.
The surrounding earth shook violently. Even the barracks not far away were rocked until they nearly toppled over.
As for the elephant phantom around him, it had grown to dozens of meters tall.
Its vast pressure made the air hum and tremble, while the stone underfoot cracked apart inch by inch!
When he closed the distance, the headscarfed officer lifted one foot and stomped down toward Li Mu!
The giant foot of the elephant phantom descended like Mount Tai collapsing overhead.
Li Mu was locked in place by that terrifying pressure, making it nearly impossible to dodge.
He could only draw a Safe-Haven Method in place, sweep up the cloak behind him, and activate Bronze Head and Iron Arms!
One hundred times defense!
In an instant, Li Mu’s body became as hard as gold and stone.
The headscarfed officer felt that not only had that stomp failed to crush Li Mu to death, but the foot of the elephant phantom itself had cracked beneath the impact.
When the shattered rock and dust cleared, Li Mu was half-buried in the ground, yet his clothes had only been scuffed.
Li Mu pulled out the gourd and took a savage gulp!
His crimson eyes fixed on the headscarfed officer.
“You’re dead.”
“You court death!!” Although the headscarfed officer was shocked, Li Mu’s provocation threw him back into a rage. He suddenly brought both hands smashing down toward Li Mu.
The upper body of the giant elephant phantom reared up high, then crashed downward!
If those two palms came down on a lump of raw iron, it would be smashed apart on the spot!
But Li Mu vanished from where he stood with a soft pop before the strike landed.
The hands smashed into empty air.
The headscarfed officer immediately cried out inwardly that things were bad!
A fierce gust sounded beside his ear.
He threw up an arm to block at once!
Li Mu did indeed appear there, but he did not attack. Instead, with another pop, he transformed again.
In the very same spot, there were suddenly three identical Li Mus.
The headscarfed officer was horrified!
What kind of bizarre spell was this? Clones?
But the crucial point was that the energy he sensed from all three clones was exactly the same!
He could not tell which one was the real body!
The three clones launched a furious assault on the headscarfed officer from three different angles.
Roaring in fury, the headscarfed officer refused to believe it and began attacking the three clones wildly.
But the defense of his arms gradually fell into disorder.
Then suddenly—
just as he stretched out his hands and locked one of the clones in a crushing embrace, intending to snap it in half—an enraged voice rang out from behind him.
“Freeze!”
The headscarfed officer instantly felt his body lock in place!
And Li Mu’s cudgel descended perfectly onto the man’s head.
The headscarfed officer’s mind exploded with alarm.
Only then did he finally understand.
He was a Profound Rank expert, after all, and Li Mu had found it difficult to break through the defense of his arms.
Yet Li Mu had summoned clones only to lure him into making a move—
and expose the weak point of his head!!
Unfortunately, he understood too late!
Safe-Haven Method with 15% True Qi intensity, two hundred years of Iron-Cleaving Form, two hundred years of Flowing Cloud Fleeting Shadow, Wine-Borrowed Might (his mother’s liquor), and the B-Grade talent Agile Brute Force.
The headscarfed officer had only one thought.
That strike was truly a skull-cracker.
With a resounding bang, a thick curry stench burst out in every direction.
[Victory! Triumph Points +1980]
[Obtained S-Grade Destiny Spirit Crystal · Divine Elephant Brute Force]
Sixth Grade killing a Profound Rank Second Grade!
This was the strongest creature Li Mu had ever killed across realms.
There had been some difficulty, but as long as one had enough divine abilities and found the right method, the difficulty was not all that great.
Without pausing for even a moment, Li Mu rushed over to support Mute Man.
That black-robed man seemed to be around Profound Rank Fourth Grade. He was terrifyingly strong and possessed several extremely strange methods.
After doing a few bizarre ritual movements, his body had become extraordinarily tough!
But under the pincer attack of Mute Man and Li Mu, he soon fell into a disadvantage.
Li Mu waited for the cooldown of Immobilization Art.
Then Mute Man landed a brutal blow on him.
And when Qin Zhanye arrived as the third reinforcement, the black-robed shaman actually cast a spell and turned invisible to flee!
But after only moving a short distance while invisible, just as he was about to hide himself again and escape farther away, Li Mu saw through him in a single glance with Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze!
He led Mute Man and Qin Zhanye in pursuit once more.
Forced out again, the black-robed shaman became entangled in battle.
Very soon, Qin Zhanye’s Wind-Subduing Saber took his head off with a single slash!
Although Li Mu had not landed the finishing blow, and therefore failed to gain the Triumph Points from the black-robed shaman, he still obtained the Destiny Spirit Crystal.
[Obtained S-Grade Destiny Spirit Crystal · Black Ancient Shaman]
And ever since Li Mu unlocked the “Mastery of All Arts” enhancement of Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze, observing the battles of others allowed him to absorb the strengths of their techniques!
Whether it was Mute Man’s heavy mace or Qin Zhanye’s Wind-Subduing Saber, Li Mu absorbed a great deal of practical combat technique from both of them.
After killing the black-robed shaman, more than half of Li Mu’s True Qi had already been consumed.
The three of them quickly returned to the top of the hill.
By then, the low-grade battlefield had also entered its final cleanup stage.
This battle could only be described with one word: tragic!
The corpses of enormous giant elephants and human remains lay everywhere!
In particular, those temporary iron barracks had their entire lower halves stained red with blood.
Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of the corpses belonged to the Divine Elephant Nation.
But Li Mu had already seen, while circling high above in the sky, the bodies of Zhao Meiting and the other fallen soldiers.
Their corpses had been piled together in one place. It was a shocking sight.
At that moment, Li Mu clenched his teeth and cast one glance at those remains before striding quickly back toward the low-grade battlefield.
He intended to wipe out the last of the Divine Elephant Nation soldiers.
Instead, he found that many Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers were escorting surrendered Divine Elephant Nation soldiers toward one of the temporary barracks.
Every Abyss-Suppressing Army soldier present wore an expression of furious hatred.
But the surviving Divine Elephant Nation soldiers looked as though they had escaped death.
Li Mu’s brows immediately drew together.
He shouted sharply, “Who told you to take prisoners!?”
One of the Abyss-Suppressing Army soldiers swallowed nervously and pointed toward Xu Wanlin, who was not far away directing everyone to gather the prisoners.
Xu Wanlin had also heard Li Mu’s shout by then and quickly walked over.
“Who gave you permission to take prisoners?”
Li Mu demanded coldly.
Xu Wanlin frowned at once, clearly displeased with Li Mu’s tone.
“According to the Never-Setting Moon Treaty, that is how it should be handled. Why would I need permission?”
Xu Wanlin had come to Pearl Military District under orders from Bloodsea Military District, and he had also brought several trusted subordinates with him.
Now those subordinates gathered around him as well, looking at Li Mu with dissatisfaction.
But Li Mu said in an icy voice, “The Never-Setting Moon Treaty? When these Divine Elephant Nation bastards slaughtered our people, did they once think about obeying any damned treaty at all??”
The mention of the Never-Setting Moon Treaty only made Li Mu’s anger burn even hotter.
That so-called Never-Setting Moon Treaty had been created in the early days of the Abyss’s invasion of the world.
It had been led by the Never-Setting Moon Empire.
It was a war treaty supposedly meant to unite all nations against a common enemy, but in reality, many of its provisions greatly favored the nations of Europe.
And Huaxia had never once nodded and agreed to obey that damned treaty!
It was only because of the situation at the time. So many nations had already agreed.
Huaxia had been too overwhelmed to take care of itself and had no wish to stir up universal hostility, so it had not openly opposed it either.
Then the other nations started spreading the story that Huaxia had tacitly consented, trying to force that claim into reality.
So many years had passed.
Huaxia had not offended other nations. It had kept its head down and developed itself, already taking firm root.
And now the Divine Elephant Nation had become the first to strike against them.
When Xu Wanlin heard Li Mu cursing, he also clenched his teeth and held back his anger.
The reason he wanted to keep prisoners was for his own merit.
If they simply killed this many Divine Elephant Nation soldiers, then the credit would be divided among all of them.
But if he personally advocated taking prisoners and handing them over to the higher-ups, then no matter how the higher-ups dealt with them afterward, the credit for “considering the greater picture” would definitely fall on him alone.
Li Mu immediately looked at one of the soldiers escorting the Divine Elephant Nation captives and asked, “How many of them surrendered?”
“More than two hundred, less than three hundred!” the soldier replied.
Not far away, Ma Jun suddenly clenched his fists hard.
The Divine Elephant Nation had only brought six or seven hundred men in total, and nearly half of them had actually survived!
“Kill them all!”
Li Mu waved his hand and gave the order.
All the escorting soldiers froze for a moment, then broke into delight and prepared to act.
But Xu Wanlin shouted fiercely, “I’d like to see who dares!! I came to Pearl Military District under orders from Bloodsea Military District Headquarters. Let me see who dares disobey!”
He glared at Li Mu with a completely fearless expression.
All the soldiers felt their hearts sink.
The Divine Elephant Nation soldiers being escorted past, tied up and herded into the temporary barracks, all let out huge sighs of relief.
At the same time, every one of them felt a surge of secret satisfaction.
They had butchered so many Huaxia soldiers and had given them no chance at all.
Yet the moment their own Profound Rank fighters died, they had surrendered immediately, and Xu Wanlin had actually agreed to take them as prisoners!
That was simply wonderful!
Standing in front of the temporary barracks, Ma Jun was nearly grinding his teeth to pieces.
As he fled, the images of Mid Wolf Guard Lü and Zhao Meiting dying beneath the blades of the Divine Elephant Nation had been seared into his mind. His eyes were red with desperation.
Xu Wanlin had raised the banner of Bloodsea Military District’s transfer order. It was obvious he dared speak this way only because he had someone backing him.
But Li Mu was so furious that he laughed instead. He lifted a hand and pointed at Xu Wanlin.
“I am giving you an order right now!”
“Kill the prisoners.”
“And I want you to do it with your own hands!”