novelraw Chapter 93 : Breaking into the Qiemo King’s City
Chapter 93 : Breaking into the Qiemo King’s City
Chapter 93: Breaking into the Qiemo King’s City
In the midst of a relatively vast oasis within the Gobi, there stood a city built from massive yellowish-brown boulders.
This was the royal city of the Qiemo Rebel King.
The vitality of the oasis formed a stark contrast against the deathly silence of the surrounding desert. The city walls were tall and thick, their battlements bristling with defenses.
Faint silhouettes of patrolling soldiers could be seen upon the ramparts, along with mounted defensive weapons.
Clearly, the rebels had already received news of the Anxi Army’s approach and had greatly reinforced their city defenses.
Yue Fei hovered in the sky, gazing calmly down at the city below.
He raised his right hand, and the Gryphon formation behind him immediately shifted in midair, changing from a dense assault formation into a looser combat array.
The army’s altitude rose slightly, moving beyond the effective range of the thick crossbow bolts mounted on the walls.
「Pass the order: Longbowmen, three volleys of cover fire! Target, the wall guards and defensive emplacements!」
Yue Fei’s voice carried clearly into the ears of every squad leader.
At his command, the aerial longbow cavalry in the rear ranks of the Gryphon formation acted at once.
Their feet locked firmly into the stirrups, their bodies steady as rock upon their swift-flying Gryphons, they drew back the strings of their specially crafted, reinforced longbows.
These longbows had far greater range and penetration than ordinary foot bows.
A dense chorus of bowstrings thrummed as thousands of gleaming, armor-piercing steel arrows rained down like a sudden storm.
With shrill whistles, the arrows poured toward the walls below.
Chaos instantly engulfed the ramparts.
Rebel soldiers screamed, raising their shields and scrambling for cover.
Yet the arrow rain, falling from nearly vertical angles, covered an enormous area and pierced with terrifying power.
Shields were punctured; soldiers behind the battlements were riddled like hedgehogs. The exposed operators of ballistae and catapults fell in droves, blood and screams echoing as steel clashed.
The wails of the dying and the clash of metal shattered the city’s false calm.
After three volleys, the resistance on the walls was clearly suppressed—ruins and corpses everywhere.
「Fire-gunners, advance! Suppress the remnants on the wall and clear the ascent routes!」 Yue Fei ordered again.
The aerial gunners, equipped with improved Fire Lances, urged their Gryphons into a dive from the skies, leveling off at a lower altitude closer to the city walls.
Their movements were smooth and practiced—one hand on the reins, the other on the weapon.
「Bang! Bang! Bang!」
A series of sharp detonations resounded as white smoke spread across the air.
Lead bullets, like Death’s scythe, reaped the lives of the remaining rebel soldiers and officers who attempted to counterattack.
Though the Fire Lance was less stable than a longbow and often misfired at long range, its sheer power was immense—at close range, the hit was fatal or crippling, crushing the defenders’ morale completely.
Seeing the defenders thoroughly suppressed, Yue Fei’s eyes flashed coldly.
He did not order a full assault. Instead, his figure vanished from midair—
—and the next instant, he descended like a meteor, crashing into the plaza at the heart of the Qiemo King’s City.
The stone-paved ground shattered instantly, dust and smoke erupting into the air.
「Protect His Majesty！」
From the high platform of the royal palace, the Qiemo Rebel King screamed in terror.
Beside him, the city’s Myriad Phenomena Realm general, Hu Yanzhuo, clad in heavy armor, reacted first.
With a furious roar, he forced down his fear. Dark-red qi flared around him like an enraged Vajra.
He swung his massive mountain-splitting axe, its terrifying might carrying the power to cleave stone and earth, hacking downward toward the dust cloud.
The axe edge tore through the air with a piercing shriek.
Within the smoke, a flash of cold light appeared.
Yue Fei’s figure emerged like a phantom through the haze. Facing that titanic axe, his expression remained calm and frosty.
The Liquan Divine Spear showed no flourish—only speed.
Speed that surpassed Hu Yanzhuo’s perception.
The spearhead ignored the arc of the descending axe, striking later yet landing first.
It pierced precisely at the weakest point of Hu Yanzhuo’s power flow—under his armpit, where his protective qi was least stable.
「Pfft!」
A sound like tearing silk echoed.
The spear light, infused with Yue Fei’s late Golden Body Realm power, tore through Hu Yanzhuo’s armor and qi defense with ease.
Violent energy flooded in, shattering his meridians and pulverizing his organs.
Hu Yanzhuo’s great axe froze mid-swing. His eyes bulged, strength draining away like the ebbing tide.
Yue Fei flicked his wrist; the spear withdrew, trailing a spray of blood.
Hu Yanzhuo’s massive body crashed to the ground, utterly lifeless.
From Yue Fei’s landing to Hu Yanzhuo’s death—barely a single breath had passed.
「Gen—General！」
The rebel king and his guards stared in horror.
The Qiemo Rebel King, who had just been about to aid Hu Yanzhuo, was struck dumb as his champion fell within an instant.
Even worse—Yue Fei’s cold gaze now fixed upon the pale-faced king atop the platform.
He took one step forward, space folding beneath his stride, ignoring the dozens of elite guards and two Divine Power Realm masters that tried to block him.
The Liquan Divine Spear became a silver dragon of death—
where its shadow swept, all perished.
The two Divine Power experts saw a flash of silver before blood blossomed at their throats; they fell without even a grunt.
The rest of the guards were flung aside like wheat before a storm—dead or crippled.
In Yue Fei’s advance, his spear carved a crimson path through flesh and blood.
The rebel king, terrified beyond reason, turned to flee deeper into the palace.
But Yue Fei would give him no chance.
「Traitor—receive your punishment！」
His icy voice resounded like Death’s decree.
Yue Fei’s figure flickered—appearing behind the fleeing king.
The Liquan Divine Spear, whistling through the void, pierced straight toward the king’s back.
The protective jade talisman the king wore flared with blinding light, forming a resilient barrier around him.
「Pop！」
The spear tip struck the shield, producing a crisp crack—and the king’s most prized defense shattered.
The spear’s momentum did not falter—it passed through as if through nothing.
「Pfft！」
The long spear thrust clean through the rebel king’s chest.
His body froze; he looked down at the bloodstained spear tip protruding from his chest, eyes filled with boundless fear and despair.
He opened his mouth—blood gushed out—and collapsed limply before the throne.
Yue Fei flicked his wrist, withdrawing the spear and shaking off the blood.
The rebel king’s body fell lifeless to the floor.
「Useless. All that cultivation, yet no courage even to resist.」
From breaking into the city to slaying Hu Yanzhuo, to killing the rebel king—
the entire process flowed without pause, so swift that the eye could scarcely follow.
As Yue Fei stood atop the palace dais, spear in hand, with the corpses of the rebel king and Hu Yanzhuo at his feet, the entire city fell into a deathly silence.
The remaining rebel soldiers stared up at that godlike figure on the platform.
Then, at the fallen corpses of their king and general—their will to resist crumbled completely.
「T-The king is dead———the general’s dead too！」
「Run!」
「Surrender! We surrender！」
Cries for mercy, screams, and the clatter of falling weapons resounded one after another.
The Qiemo Rebel Faction, once a dominant local power— under Yue Fei’s overwhelming personal might, its core collapsed in an instant, disintegrating completely.
Yue Fei stood tall, spear in hand, sweeping his gaze across the chaotic royal city. His voice echoed in every corner:
「Lay down your weapons—those who kneel shall live! Resist, and perish without mercy！」
His cold voice carried an undeniable authority, sweeping like an icy gale, freezing all thought of defiance.