novelraw Chapter 120
Chapter 120
Chapter 120 – The War Ignites
The northern sky grew heavy.
Dark clouds gathered like a tide, pressing low upon the land as if heralding the coming of calamity.
Along the border of Anxi Prefecture, countless banners fluttered violently in the cold wind.
The army had already assembled.
Black-armored troops stood in formation like an iron wall, their killing intent rising and intertwining into a suffocating pressure that spread across the plains.
At the forefront—
Yue Fei stood with hands behind his back.
His black robe fluttered, his gaze fixed toward the distant horizon where the land met the sky.
There, a faint tremor could be felt.
Boom… boom… boom…
The rhythm was slow at first, but it grew clearer with every passing moment.
It was the sound of—
An army.
A vast army.
Soon, the scouts returned.
“Report—!”
A cavalry scout dismounted swiftly, kneeling on one knee.
“Your Highness! General Yue! The Jin army has crossed the northern ridge. Their vanguard numbers no less than one hundred thousand, led by three Golden Body Realm generals!”
A murmur rippled through the ranks.
But Yue Fei’s expression remained unchanged.
“Only three Golden Body?” he said calmly.
The scout hesitated.
“…There is more.”
At those words, even the surrounding generals grew serious.
“Their central army… has yet to appear. But according to intelligence—”
“Their Profound Core Realm expert is personally leading it.”
Silence.
Absolute silence fell across the command tent.
Even the air seemed to freeze.
Then—
Yue Fei smiled faintly.
Not fear.
But anticipation.
“Good.”
A single word.
Yet it carried boundless confidence.
At that moment, Jiang Zhaoming stepped forward.
He had arrived silently, yet his presence instantly became the center of everything.
“The vanguard is merely a test,” Jiang Zhaoming said calmly. “Their true killing move lies behind.”
Yue Fei nodded.
“Then we shall crush their test… and force their blade to reveal itself.”
Jiang Zhaoming’s gaze turned cold.
“Exactly.”
He raised his hand slightly.
Behind him, the six generals—Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Aruba, and the commanders of the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry—stood in a line.
Each of them radiated terrifying auras, their power now vastly superior to before.
“Today,” Jiang Zhaoming said slowly, “we let the world see—”
“The strength of Anxi.”
The order was given.
“Advance!”
Boom—!
The ground shook violently.
Tens of thousands of troops surged forward like a black flood, their momentum unstoppable.
Soon—
The two armies collided.
The battlefield erupted instantly.
Steel clashed against steel.
Blood splattered across the sky.
Golden Body Realm experts rose into the air, their attacks tearing through entire formations with devastating force.
But—
Before the Jin generals could fully display their might—
A figure stepped forward.
Yue Fei.
He did not rush.
He simply raised his hand.
And pointed.
“Break.”
A single word fell.
The heavens trembled.
Behind him, the phantom of the Lichuan Divine Spear appeared once more—
But this time—
It was no longer an illusion.
It was real.
A terrifying spear intent condensed into substance, piercing through the void itself.
The three Jin generals didn’t even have time to react.
“Impossible—?!”
Their expressions froze.
In the next instant—
Boom!!!
The sky shattered.
Their bodies were obliterated in a single strike.
Instant kill.
No resistance.
No struggle.
The battlefield fell into stunned silence for a brief moment.
Then—
The morale of the Jin army collapsed instantly.
“Monster…!”
“What kind of power is that?!”
“He’s—Profound Core Realm!!!”
Panic spread like wildfire.
But Yue Fei did not pursue.
Instead, he slowly lifted his gaze—
Toward the distant horizon.
There—
A terrifying aura finally descended.
The clouds split apart.
A figure stepped out from the void, standing high above the battlefield like a god overlooking mortals.
His presence alone caused the heavens to dim.
The true commander of this war had arrived.
The Profound Core expert of Great Jin.
He looked down at Yue Fei, his eyes narrowing.
“…So Great Zhou also has one.”
Yue Fei met his gaze directly.
The killing intent between the two surged instantly, colliding invisibly in the air.
Jiang Zhaoming, watching from afar, murmured softly:
“The real battle… begins now.”