Chapter 531: The World Trembles, Ascending to the Pinnacle! (Part 2)
More than a dozen Yang Transformation True Masters were killed in half, bleeding in front of Liangzhou City.
This battle of Liangzhou City could be considered temporarily concluded, but it was not completely over. Wei Jinfeng was finally counterattacked, suffering serious injuries.
Yet he seemed unaware, still leading his troops in the charge.
Merging into the battle formation.
Quickly pushing towards the vicinity of Sword Sect Pass, and it continued.
Slaughtering all the way, leaving corpses in his wake.
The ground was stained red with blood.
In the end, Wei Jinfeng, with less than 150,000 Beiliang troops and Jianghu martial artists, forcibly pushed the front line onto the grassland within a few days, advancing 800 miles deep, finally concluding this war.
More than half of the 300,000 Beiliang army was lost, with nearly 100,000 prefecture army and newly recruited soldiers also heavily damaged, and the aiding Jianghu martial artists were mostly killed.
Even two Yang Transformation True Masters fell.
The main generals of the four major camps of the Beiliang army suffered great casualties; the commanders of the Water Character Camp and Wind Camp both fell, their Primordial Spirits destroyed.
The other two were also seriously injured.
The losses could not be understated.
Of course, comparatively, the losses on the side of the Northern Barbarians were even greater.
The Barbarian God's Dharma Body was forced, losing the accumulated national fortune of many years; three Yang Transformation True Monarchs, the Divine General Wanyan Shu fell, and another Barbarian True Monarch had his body severed.
Even the Great Khan Wanyan Tianba barely survived while heavily wounded.
The 700,000 Northern Barbarian iron cavalry that came in with momentum suffered losses of more than half, leaving a field of corpses, with less than 300,000 elite cavalry retreating to the grassland.
Such losses directly led two King's Departments elite forces to be wiped out, numerous small tribes were utterly extinguished.
They wouldn't dare to venture south to the Central Plains for at least twenty years!
Wei Jinfeng, dragging his weary body, arranged everything, ensuring all the wounded were treated on the spot, while the remaining compensation issues were being urgently calculated.
He was not a heartless person; for the three top sects of Liangzhou, two Yang Transformations fell, which meant for some people, they were like fish on a chopping block, at the mercy of others.
Don't overestimate some people's character; they genuinely dared to bully others on their power.
To prevent this problem, Wei Jinfeng directly announced in Liangzhou to protect the three major sects for fifty years, threatening to flatten anyone who dared to exploit the situation, even if it were the Heavenly King himself, with the Beiliang iron cavalry!
As for the remaining loose cultivators and Jianghu martial artists from small sects who fell, he ordered that no one be allowed to bully them by virtue of power for thirty years.
As for the Wudang Mountain side, Wei Jinfeng even opened the treasury, letting them choose whatever they wished.
But it was tactfully declined by Song Yingqiao, saying that Wudang Mountain was also part of Liangzhou, and helping was only natural; Wei Jinfeng already bled a lot, so they naturally wouldn't ask for anything more.
In terms of background, Wei Jinfeng still paled in comparison to Wudang Mountain.
By the time Wei Jinfeng returned to Liangzhou City, it had been nearly ten days since the final battle, and the ground before Liangzhou City had already been voluntarily cleaned by the people of Liangzhou.
Yet, there was still a bloody aura penetrating the sky.
However, no one felt disgust, only a weight in their hearts.
Countless civilians voluntarily set up plaques for those Beiliang soldiers who had no family at home, inviting them back home and paying tribute to them daily.
And the influence of this battle also spread across the entire Central Plains as the battle concluded.
For a time, the world was shaken!
Seventy thousand Northern Barbarian iron cavalry.
Royal Court Barbarian God.
Sixth Realm Immortal.
More than half were killed or wounded.
Pursuing the routed soldiers for three thousand miles!
The Beiliang army lost more than half, and Wei Jinfeng severed his own path.
All of these events left people in endless shock.
And the feats Chen Yuan accomplished in Liangzhou, the words he spoke before Liangzhou City, were revered by countless people as famous sayings.
"All men must die, whether as light as a feather or as heavy as a mountain."
"In the vast land of the Central Plains, how could we allow you barbarians to invade?"
"We martial artists do not fear death."
"There is no worthiness, only the belief in one's heart...."
These words of Chen Yuan moved countless people to tears, with admiration for him reaching its peak.
Besides these words, he also spoke of things such as.
"Life and death are akin, liver and gall unravel, a promise as heavy as a thousand gold."
"Ambitious exploits turn into jest, no victory surpasses a mortal's drunken strife."
Various poetic phrases also became widely spread.
Especially in the North of the Central Plains, in the states of You and Liang, his prestige reached its pinnacle.
And as such prestige soared, Chen Yuan's life and death also became the concern of countless people; for Liangzhou, he willingly faced death, wielding the Wudang Mountain's True Martial Sword, suffering backlash.
Now his life hangs by a thread.
This matter, too, has been spread.
Countless people in Liangzhou prayed for Chen Yuan daily, hoping he would survive.
And while people were in admiration of Chen Yuan's military achievements.
The powerful foes he slew during the conflict with the Northern Barbarians also earned him boundless respect.
Slashing the Dharma Body of the Sixth Realm Barbarian God, executing the True Monarch with a single sword.
Though these feats relied on the power of the True Martial Sword, they were enough to leave people in awe.
Even disregarding these events, Chen Yuan's accomplishment of killing the Northern Barbarians' Yang Transformation True Masters at Sword Sect Pass was solid without any falsehood.
These were deeds performed in front of more than a hundred thousand Beiliang troops.
Leading eighteen cavalry, executing a night raid on the Northern Barbarians' provision camp, killing the Yang Transformation general, and setting seventy percent of the Northern Barbarians' provisions ablaze.
Each of these deeds, which one was not an earth-shattering affair?
You must know, Chen Yuan now is still at Core Realm Cultivation!!!
After several days of ferment, the Ascending Immortal Tower, after careful consideration, directly placed Chen Yuan, whose life or death is currently unknown, at the top of the Fengyun List!
And compared to previous instances where many were dissatisfied, this time, the vast majority were convinced both in heart and speech.