"Princess Zhao, let me ask you...how old are you?"
Xi Heng snorted lightly, and as he swung his sword, he said the word "nineteen" in a generous manner.
However, if her mental age is taken into account, she is probably about twenty-five.
"When did you achieve the transformation power?"
The other party was very curious and even gave a sad and miserable smile.
He probably doesn't laugh often, so when he laughs now he looks like a ghost.
Xi Heng wanted more and more to chop off this strange man's head.
However, she was still merciful and wanted to let this person die with peace of mind, so she simply answered with a few words.
"Only one year? One year..." The madman suddenly began to sigh:
"I, Zuo Shen, started practicing martial arts at the age of twelve, and achieved great success in my bright energy at the age of thirteen. I also achieved great success in my dark energy at the age of fifteen. Now, if you think about it, it has been eight years since I achieved the transformation energy..."
"But you have only been in the state of transformation for a year, and you have already reached the realm of heaven and man. I have never stopped pursuing the way of swords, but I have not yet touched the edge of the realm of heaven and man."
He believed himself to be the most talented person in the world, but after fighting with swords, he finally realized that there are always people better than him.
“However, even with such a huge gap between us, I will definitely kill you—” Zuo Shen immediately raised his eyes and turned his head, holding the broken knife with both hands and raised it to his shoulder again.
"You are not qualified to kill me." Xi Heng replied calmly.
This straightforward and simple sentence aroused the other party's immense anger and madness.
That ferocious smile froze immediately, his facial muscles tensed due to his clenched teeth, his eyes widened and glared at him, with a hint of hatred in his murderous intent.
"I will kill you!" He growled like a wild beast.
At the same time, the heavy armored cavalry behind this man also rushed forward as if they had received an order suddenly.
Seeing this, the soldiers under Xi Heng also began to charge.
The shouts of the two armies shook the sky, and the sound of horses' hooves resonated like an earthquake.
Before the two armies collided, the enemy general stepped on the ground to make it dent, and in an instant he transformed into a figure that was invisible to mortals, and swooped down like an eagle preying on its prey.
That broken blade was the eagle's giant claw. Just stretching it forward would make people feel a strong sense of threat.
But in Xi Heng's eyes, it was nothing special.
She raised her sword to deflect the blade and was about to fight back, but she saw the other party suddenly turn around and move in another direction at an extremely fast speed.
In a flash, it stabbed straight from the side.
Xi Heng half-closed his eyes and also used light skills to dodge.
The next moment, she saw the enemy's figure quickly move, and in the blink of an eye, he stabbed her from behind again -
In terms of lightness and physical skills alone, this person is indeed a bit faster than her.
The light skills that Xi Heng is using now are the ones he learned from Senior Sister Hong Miao at the Hongxian Sword Academy. There are no special footwork or internal force to stimulate it. He relies purely on his body's internal energy to increase his speed to the extreme.
The opponent's movements were unpredictable. On the surface it seemed that he was going to step to the left, but he could move forward like a spacewalk, and actually move backwards while clearly moving forward.
Xi Heng miscalculated several attack angles, and the sword failed to completely block the broken blade, causing a thin line of energy in his body to be cut.
At the same time, the cavalry of both sides had already engaged in battle, and they both made room for the two Hua Jin warriors as if by telepathy.
The cavalry only shuttled back and forth on both sides, hacking and killing each other, making a lot of noise in the battle.
Xi Heng stood in place, but attacks came from all directions. He spun around and swung his sword to receive the attacks continuously. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his swordsmanship and he found a flaw that was enough to kill the enemy.
She threw the sword forward, and the opponent neither blocked nor dodged, but just went straight down - the sharp tip of the sword pierced through the neck.
The next moment, the broken sword held by the enemy was about to fall on her waist.
"The sword of sacrifice?" Xi Heng fixed his gaze.
This sword contains almost all of the enemy's strength, and can easily break through his protective energy.
Xi Heng slightly raised his left hand and pinched his fingers, creating a protective barrier that consumed nearly a thousand spiritual energies and stood in front of him.
The enemy's sword got stuck, and she turned the sword and pulled it hard, slashing the long sword that had pierced his neck, cutting off half of his neck.
When the sword's heart takes effect, the enemy's mind is damaged, making it difficult for him to transform his energy and stop the bleeding.
As the sharp blade was pulled down, the head, with only half of the neck connected to the body, swayed and blood spurted out like a fountain.
Up to this moment, the enemy's consciousness had become fragmented, and his energy was in disarray.
But the broken sword was still exerting force forward at this moment.
Xi Heng looked down and heard a sound like glass shattering.
The shield formed by thousands of spiritual energies was broken by just one sword.
A broken sword cannot bear the extremely powerful energy and will break into pieces while breaking through obstacles.
In the end, only the handle of the knife was left, which hit the protective energy.
But even so, the hilt of the knife could draw a white mark in the air, and the energy of the sword was violently shaken by the attack and was almost torn apart.
Xi Heng circulated the Qi and blood in his Dantian, and consumed a large amount of his energy, and finally managed to block the sword.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the sword handle finally stop and the thin figure in front of her fell backwards to the ground.
"If it weren't for the shield of Blazing Spirit Heavenly Law, I might have been seriously injured... It's really hard to deal with a guy who would use a life-threatening move."
She now understood firsthand how those warriors felt when they faced her life-threatening sword.
Probably just call the person crazy in your heart, and then try your best to escape or resist.
Xi Heng stepped forward and approached the enemy who had fallen to the ground and was bleeding, with a dazed look in his eyes, as if he was already dead.
The sword blade was held in reverse with both hands and pressed straight down.
Without the obstruction of the Hua Jin, the sharp blade pierced through the center of the eyebrows and penetrated the head very smoothly.
The bursting power stirred inside the enemy's skull until his entire brain cavity fell into chaos, and then his body relaxed.
This person was difficult to deal with. After fighting with him for so many moves and being hit by several sword attacks, half of her internal energy had been consumed.
She squatted down and began to search for corpses in the only open area in the entire battlefield.
Broken sword, scabbard, clothes...
This man was only wearing light and tight clothes, and there was no miscellaneous items such as brocade bags or money bags hanging around his waist. It seemed that he had nothing else except martial arts and a sword.
Xi Heng only found a hard object on the other person's chest.
It was this thing that blocked her Yueyin sword just now.
She originally thought it was a hard breastplate made by some unknown means, but when she took it out, she saw that it was actually a dark scale the size of a palm.
"Hmm?" Xi Heng looked around, then scratched and knocked with the sword.
Even after being hit with the power of transformation, the surface of the scales still did not show any cracks and was extremely hard.
“Although the Beiyan Mengguo army does not have magic, they have something like this that can block the full-strength attack of a Huajin warrior, which is far superior to that of ordinary warriors…”
"Has this indestructible scale been passed down from ancient times? Or are there still one or two powerful beasts in this world that Yan Mengren stripped off from that thing?" She made a casual guess and put it away.
"It would be better to interrogate the prisoners after the battle."
If the prisoners captured now do not know the origin of this item, you can ask them later when they reach the level of Hua Jin.
Xi Heng nodded slightly, stood up again, and glanced at the chaotic battle scene around him.
The cavalry of both sides charged at each other, and now they were almost mixed together. It was no longer possible to use large-scale moves to kill hundreds directly, otherwise a large number of friendly troops would be accidentally injured.
But it doesn’t matter.
She can also kill them one by one -
……
In this battle, the cavalry charged and both armies suffered brutal killing.
The Great Zhao Army had Xi Hengyu roaming around to provide support, so the situation was not bad, but the casualties were several times more severe than in the previous attack on the camp.
In any case, the number of heavy cavalry under her command was smaller than that of Yan Meng, and their equipment was difficult to compete with. Even though the morale was stronger due to the superiority of her own generals, the cavalry could not exert military power when colliding with each other, so they failed to create a large gap in casualties between the two sides.
It was not until Xi Heng joined the battlefield here, turned into a blood shadow and attacked and killed everywhere, killing nearly a hundred people in just two or three minutes, that the Great Zhao Army gained an advantage.
Wherever the sword passes, even if the enemy is wearing heavy armor, his head will be cut off in the flash of fire from the collision of metal and iron, and the enemy will fall to the ground.
The gap between casualties on both sides widened, until half of the enemy cavalry fell to the ground and finally retreated and fled.
Xi Heng did not order her soldiers to pursue closely this time. Not only was it difficult to catch up with the cavalry, but also her internal energy had been almost used up when she had just launched a surprise attack and killed the enemy cavalry.
When fighting against infantry, the enemies will mostly gather together in arrays. As long as the number of people is dense enough and the moves are released perfectly enough, it is not impossible to kill thousands of them in one blow.
However, the cavalry became extremely scattered after the charge and battle. Just using light skills to raise the sword and strike to break the armor would consume a certain amount of energy.
Even if her transformation power was perfect, she could only kill five or six hundred people.
Now, after killing three hundred people, I no longer have enough strength.
Xi Heng watched the enemy's rout from afar, then turned around and looked around. He saw that in addition to the enemy's corpses, there were also many friendly soldiers who died on the battlefield.
It is inevitable to encounter elite enemy troops.
She didn't take it seriously, and just ordered her soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield, pile up the enemy's bodies, identify the friendly bodies, and order the orderly in the distant camp to bring tools to bury them on the spot.
After a moment, the casualties were roughly tabulated.
More than a thousand of the enemy died in the battle, but we also lost six hundred.
Xi Heng recited a mantra for the dead friendly soldiers that she had read in the Taoist mantra scriptures. Regardless of whether the mantra was useful or not, when she, a royal princess with magical powers, recited it, it naturally had a significant comforting effect on the hearts of other soldiers.
With each victory, her soldiers' respect for her grew deeper and deeper.
At this point, it is unparalleled.
Many people even secretly believed that the princess was a goddess from heaven who had descended to earth and would definitely save the Great Zhao.
Afterwards, Xi Heng ordered his deputy general to lead the troops back to the camp to rest, while he himself stayed on the battlefield and continued to work, burning the enemy's corpses into spirit stones.
Speaking of which, the elite cavalry of Yan Mengguo did have better flesh and blood quality than ordinary people. Although there were only more than a thousand corpses, most of which were badly damaged and had lost too much blood, they could still fill almost three spirit stones.
The recent constant fighting behind enemy lines had increased her reserves of spirit stones to twenty.
After taking back the spirit stone and glancing at the enemy's flesh and blood that had become extremely emaciated in the raging fire, Xi Heng led his troops back.
After a day of simple rest and recovery of her Qi, she led the cavalry almost without stopping to the location of another enemy camp.
But when we got there, all we could see was an empty flat ground.
In the clearing, there were only torn cloth, extinguished campfires and standing torches, replaced broken wheels, and small pieces of food and grass scattered on the ground...
Obviously, the camp had already moved its position as quickly as possible before she arrived.
“……”Xi Heng held his forehead with his hand.
In order not to miss the opportunity, she followed the traces of the retreating troops, but after running for an hour, she still could not see any traces become clear.
The enemy camp probably dismantled their tents and fled overnight after hearing the news of the defeat of their elite troops. Now a whole day has passed and no one knows where they have gone.
She had no choice but to go back and look for other enemy camps or food routes.
But after running around for a while, I still didn't see any people.
It seems that the enemy has completely abandoned this large area around Xingzhou City.
"After the elite soldiers were defeated, they gave up and ignored me?" Xi Heng held his forehead with his hand.
The enemy didn't want to fight her and just avoided her. She really had no way to deal with it in the short term.
"Yan Meng has not gathered any more troops to attack us. Perhaps he has shifted his strategic focus to the south. He will deal with my army only after he has concentrated his forces to capture a city..."
But now, Xi Heng no longer has any information about the enemy camp and supply routes.
If they want to continue the invasion as before, they will have to send troops to scout everywhere, which will take a lot of time.
Now we don’t know where the enemy army is. If we rush directly into the territory occupied by another Yan Meng without doing reconnaissance first, we might be surrounded by the army.
Now the army she led had achieved enough merits. First, they destroyed several enemy camps along the food supply route, then rescued more than a thousand friendly prisoners, and finally killed a local warrior in battle and defeated the elite cavalry.
Since there is nothing to do in the short term, let's make safe plans and return to the south first.
She then ordered: "Return to camp."
Three days later, the camp was dismantled and the 7,000-strong army returned to the south along the original route to support Kezhou and Qiming.
