Chapter 480



480 Prologue of the great battle

If it was possible, Lu Qing hoped that he would be able to break through to the dongxu stage before he could fight.

This way, he would have the greatest confidence.

It was also because of this mentality that the Qin state’s actions, which were almost stepping on Great Yan’s bottom line, were still tolerated. Over the years, the Yan Kingdom had continuously strengthened its support to Jin, Liang, and Chu. The trade of various materials had never stopped, and had instead been further strengthened. Even the brocade guard, which had been expanding its manpower, sent a considerable part of its forces to Jin, where the war was the fiercest. They directly participated in the secret Battlefront to fight against Qin.

However, the Qin people were still constantly strengthening the strength of their border military operations.

Moreover, through the investigation of the state of Qin’s combat preparations, it revealed a similar situation. They were almost ready to start a full-scale war.

Of course, it was the same for the Yan Kingdom.

Looking at it rationally, the battle between Yan and Qin could not be delayed for too long.

However, he still tried to delay as much as he could. After all, the place that was being used as a battlefield was not his home.

However, there was a bottom line to this ‘delay’.

A small-scale war was still acceptable for the time being. The intensity of the attack was not high, and the scale of the Army was not large. There were no Dharma adepts or cultivators of a higher level.

Once the scale of the battle expanded, the Yan Kingdom would definitely interfere.

In fact, the Yan Kingdom’s Army was already ready.

The Yan Kingdom had clearly announced this bottom line to the world:

One, any of the Three Kingdoms, Jin, Liang, and Chu, will lose a state.

Two, the Qin State must dispatch its official military group or all the detected Qin State cultivators that have invaded the three states ‘territory. The number of Qin State cultivators must exceed ten thousand.

Third, the Dharma form of the state of Qin would appear on the battlefield.

As long as any of these three bottom lines were crossed, the Yan Kingdom would directly participate in the war.

At the same time, in the past ten to twenty years, the three central countries had gradually leaned towards the Yan Kingdom.

Of course, this was due to the reality.

At the very least, the Yan Kingdom had never given them any military pressure in the East. Even if it was the Chu country, where both sides had been at war and in conflict, it would still be the same.

In fact, under the increasing pressure from the Qin State, the Yan state was still providing them with support.

Of course, they knew the reason for this. The Yan Kingdom did not have any good intentions, but what choice did they have? Unless they were willing to become a vassal state of the Qin State like the Shu state, they could only brace themselves and bear it.

In the beginning, they were actually very cautious of each other. They were worried that the Yan Kingdom would stab them in the East at the same time and divide them up with the Qin Kingdom. However, under such circumstances, this worry had basically been put aside.

It wasn’t that he felt that the Yan Kingdom was reliable, but that he really had no other choice. The envoys from the three countries, especially those from Jin, who had been invaded badly, kept moving around the Yan capital, hoping to persuade the Emperor of Yan, Lu chaoxi, to send his Army to the war as soon as possible. If it was not for the fact that he did not have a way to get in touch with Lu Qing, they would have long annoyed Lu Qing to death.

However, everyone knew that there wasn’t much time left before the real battle. It was only a matter of time before the Qin country stepped on the Yan country’s bottom line and would cross it.

But when the moment came, it still seemed very sudden.

The state of Qin had suddenly made their move, and this move was like a Thunderbolt!

In an instant, the five Dharma adepts gathered together and led a small but elite army of about 7000 to 8000 soldiers to cut into Dajin at a high speed.

In just two days, the great Jin had suffered a devastating blow.

There were originally only two Dharma-level cultivators in the country of Jin, and one of them had been lost in this battle.

The dead one had already sensed that something was wrong when the state of Qin had just made their move. Then, he had immediately started to run away.

This was, of course, the right choice. Even if he stayed, he wouldn’t be able to resist the attack of the five Dharma laksana of Qin State with the help of Jin’s Army and the defense of the spiritual vein. Rather than fighting to the death here, it was better to keep a useful body.

However, even though he was running rather quickly, he still could not escape. They were first entangled, then surrounded and killed on the spot.

At the same time, Jin’s Army of 30000 cultivators, which was deployed at the front line to fight against Qin, was completely annihilated in this war.

This war had caused great damage to Dajin.

They would not lose their ability to resist just because of this. Jin was one of the stronger immortal empires among the original nine. In the past few years, the situation wasn’t very peaceful. Of course, they had been preparing for the war well and had tried their best to tap the war potential of the entire country. If the war continued, it would not be a problem for them to gather an Army of hundreds of thousands of cultivators.

However, the number of high-level cultivators was limited, and there was no way to squeeze out too many in a short period of time.

The death of a Dharma plane expert was a huge loss.

Moreover, the fact that Qin State had gathered so many Dharma adepts on the battlefield was an extremely dangerous signal in itself, which also brought great shock to Jin state.

After the news was sent back, Jin country urgently mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized and gave up all the territories on the periphery. Those who could retreat were recalled to the Jin capital for defense. Those who couldn’t retreat were ordered to gather at the high-level spiritual veins and fight as hard as they could to delay the advance of the Qin Army. They had to gather more defensive forces to buy time.

Of course, the high-level officials of Dajin knew very well that it was impossible for them to win this war by themselves.

They had never had such naive thoughts.

The diplomatic Ambassador of Dajin had been working hard in various places.

The country of Liang and the country of Chu also reacted quickly.

Their relationship with Jin country was truly one of mutual hostility. They had realized this a few decades ago and had signed an Alliance. In the past few decades, their relationship had grown closer and closer.

However, it would be difficult for them to quickly send reinforcements to Dajin.

The Chu State was far away while the Liang State was closer. However, the Western border of the Liang State was also completely connected to the Qin State. If they sent too many forces to support Jin, they might be able to greatly relieve the pressure on Jin. However, who could guarantee that it was not a feint by Qin?

If they mobilized too many forces to support the Jin Kingdom, the Liang Kingdom’s internal defense would fall into a state of emptiness. Then, the Qin Kingdom would gather its forces and launch a large-scale invasion again. The Liang Kingdom wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

In reality, there were at least 100000 Qin soldiers gathered at the Western border of the country of Liang. They were also led by high-level Dharma cultivators. Even though they didn’t know exactly how many Dharma adepts the great Qin had arranged, the country of Liang only had three, and they didn’t dare to withdraw too many.

In this case, Dajin could only rely on one party: Yan country.

Great Yan would never sit by and watch Great Jin perish.

Jin was located to the West of Yan. The North barren forest separated the two countries. Moreover, the current North barren forest was no longer the desolate land where the demon race lived in the past. After the demon race in the North barren forest was swept clean, Jin and Yan had entered the area to develop it. Although the area of this region was so large that humans had not been able to fully develop it even after hundreds of years, Jin and Yan were still considered to be neighbors.

In this case, if Jin lost its defense and lost the ability to resist, the Army of Qin could invade Yan without any worries. At that time, the Feiyun Prefecture, Jin Prefecture, Xue Prefecture, and Ji Prefecture would all be exposed to great Qin’s Army.

This was definitely unacceptable.

If he was being invaded, he might as well take the initiative to attack. After all, using other people’s land as a battlefield was much better than using one’s own country as a battlefield.

However, the Yan Kingdom was more or less prepared for this.

Although the Qin moved very quickly and their attacks were like thunder and fire, the great Jin was a big country with a large area. Moreover, it was not without the ability to resist. As long as he could delay for a little more time, he should be able to delay until the Yan Kingdom’s Army arrived.

The first batch of Yan Kingdom’s Army that was sent out was not too many.

After all, the Qin country’s assault troops were also not many in number. The most terrifying part of the Qin country’s attack was the five Dharma adepts.

And this time, Great Yan had also sent four Dharma adepts to assist them.

Wei Yun, Lu mingchao, Zheng Yu, and LAN nuo Xing.

Zheng Yu was originally the Wei country’s Marquis Xuanwu. His attitude was a little different from the former great general of Wei State, Xia Cang. Xia Cang was a loyal subject of the Wei royal family. After the Wei royal family was demoted to the royal family and lost almost all political power, although Xia Cang did not continue to oppose the Lu family, he was basically in a state of retirement and did not care about the world.

The Lu family had basically let him be. Although he couldn’t order them around, at least he didn’t cause trouble. Moreover, he would occasionally deal with some time fragments left behind from the ancient times when he had nothing to do. To Lu Qing, they were still of some use.

However, Marquis Xuanwu Zhengyu was different. Although he was conflicted for a period of time, he was eventually persuaded to fight for the Yan Kingdom.

This time, the four Dharma laksanas would lead 5000 carefully selected soldiers of Yan to the West to help Jin. It should not be a big problem. After all, there were a total of five people in Dajin, including the surviving Dharma plane expert. In terms of top combat strength, the two sides were almost on par.

Furthermore, there was another weapon of mass destruction in the Yan Kingdom’s Army-the ‘Condor’ Air Fortress!

Lu chaoxi had seen the underwater warship created by bo wan at the bottom of the sea. The aerial version that he had been thinking about had finally been created.

This time, he had gathered almost all of the most outstanding array Masters and artifact refiners from the original four great immortal nations, Yan Qi, Wu Wei. After spending so many years, under the circumstances of having ready-made technology as a blueprint, and through improved means, he had finally created an Air Fortress that could fly in the sky.

This kind of aerial battleship was extremely powerful. There were six to seven nascent soul cultivators guarding the place. In terms of defense, they could take a full-force attack from a Dharma cultivator. Its own attack power was enough to cause serious damage to a Dharma adept.

Of course, even though they could both attack and defend at the Dharma plane level, this did not mean that a Sky Fortress could fight against a true Dharma plane cultivator.

The power of a Dharma idol was not just about attacking and defending. Although the attack power of the sky Fortress could threaten a Dharma adept, a true Dharma adept would not be able to take a direct hit from the sky Fortress without any interference. They could rely on their more flexible postures to deal with this kind of warship in the air. Even if the defensive power of the battleship in the air was very strong and could block several full-force attacks from the Dharma plane cultivators, it could be dismantled with some time.

They could even give up on their transcendence bodies and try to enter the interior of the battleship in the air as ordinary people.

It would take a lot of effort to dismantle such an Air Fortress, but it wasn’t too difficult to go in and kill all the people controlling the battleship.

However, this didn’t mean that this kind of aerial battleship was useless.

The greater value of these items lay in their ability to cooperate with one’s own Dharma power in battle. This way, they could truly pose a great threat to the enemy’s Dharma power.

In addition, on a regular battlefield where there were no Dharma adepts, he was simply a god-like existence. Normal cultivator legions couldn’t defend against the cannons, and they couldn’t counter-attack the battleships in the sky with normal methods.

In short, Great Yan’s plan seemed to be more reliable.

With the help of this Army, at the very least, they could help the Jin people defend their capital. There would not be any problems. In fact, a wave of counterattacks might even cause the people of Qin to suffer.

If they could deal a heavy blow to the invading elite troops of Qin State, it would definitely be very valuable. In particular, if they could capture and destroy one or two Dharma laksanas of the Qin State in this battle, it would have a very good positive impact on the future all-out war between the two sides.

However, even though it was wishful thinking, danger came very quickly.

The entire reinforcement team had just left the North barren forest and headed west for a short while before they were ambushed.