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"No...impossible!"
"What kind of magic is this?!"
The Jin soldiers began to panic.
What happened next terrified them even more:
Several burly ogre mercenaries belonging to the Jin army, carrying heavy bronze hand cannons, opened fire fiercely on Lu Junyi at extremely close range!
boom! boom! boom!
The solid lead bullets, as big as bowls, whistled through the air and slammed into Lu Junyi's chest and back! The close-range power of this weapon was enough to turn a heavily armored knight and his horse into mincemeat!
however--
When the lead bullet hit the target, it produced a dull thud, like the sound of a giant bell being struck!
Lu Junyi's Samadhi True Fire suddenly blazed, and the lead bullet that was powerful enough to pierce the city wall was instantly deformed and flattened like a clay ball hitting an anvil, and then fell to the ground powerlessly!
Lu Junyi only paused slightly, his blood and qi surging slightly, without even a scratch! That terrifying defense formed by the fusion of Samadhi True Fire and Qilin scales had reached an unbelievable level! It was even more outrageous than Xu Ning's treasure armor!
"A monster!!"
"It can't even be penetrated by a hand cannon?!"
The ogres stared at their still-smoking hand cannons, their large, bell-shaped eyes filled with fear and bewilderment, their worldviews utterly shattered.
Every Jin soldier who witnessed this scene, from ordinary civilians to seasoned generals, gasped in shock, a chill running through them. They finally understood that this enemy could not be judged by ordinary standards!
With his absolutely invincible demeanor, Lu Junyi planted the seeds of fear in the hearts of the Jin army, clearing away the initial psychological barrier to his solo breakthrough. Like a burning, humanoid catastrophe, he relentlessly advanced through the Jin army's ranks, heading straight for the wolf banner!
At this moment, Lu Junyi launched his charge from the very edge of the massive Jin army's battle formation. This meant that he had to fight his way through the entire thickness of the formation from the outermost edge of the sea of people to reach the core!
This was an almost impossible task! The Jin army's battle formation stretched for miles, layer upon layer, like a steel jungle. Even if an ordinary fierce general could break through half a mile, he would have long been exhausted by the endless encirclement and be overwhelmed.
However, Lu Junyi's performance completely overturned their understanding of "force" and "endurance"!
She possessed immense strength and, in a struggle with a frost giant named Mengan, actually gained the upper hand, killing him in three moves.
Even when charged by a primitive mammoth, he was able to hold it down with one hand, then break off the mammoth's tusk with his bare hands and kill it with his own.
She is exceptionally agile. Even when surrounded, all open attacks and sneak attacks can be predicted. Almost all her attacks are preemptive. No one can launch a close-combat offensive before she attacks.
What's most terrifying is that Lu Junyi charged all the way from the edge of the formation to this point, slashing and killing hundreds of people, yet his Samadhi True Fire still burned fiercely around him, his breath was long and steady, his eyes were sharp, and his movements were without the slightest distortion or sluggishness! It was as if he possessed an inexhaustible source of power within him, and killing was not a drain on him, but rather a form of catharsis and tempering!
In this way, amidst the vast sea of Jin soldiers, he carved out a burning path of death paved with corpses and molten armor! Wherever he went, he left not a brief gap, but utter silence and destruction!
The Jin soldiers went from initially fighting bravely to later dodging in terror, and finally to complete collapse. They watched the figure, like a tireless god of slaughter, draw ever closer, and watched their comrades fall like weeds, finally losing all will to fight.
"Devil! He is the devil!"
"Get out of the way! He's charging at us!"
"It's unstoppable! It's impossible to stop it!"
Panic spread like a plague, and many Jin soldiers even began to avoid his advance, preferring to be punished by military law rather than risk their lives.
With unstoppable momentum and unwavering strength, Lu Junyi pierced through the tens of thousands of Jin army formations step by step, layer by layer, and pointed his burning dragon spear firmly at Wanyan Aguda's banner!
Chapter 457: Aguda's Election by the Gods
Seeing Lu Junyi's ferocity, Wanyan Aguda's Frost Giant Guards all showed expressions of anger—the battle formation personally led by the Great Jin Emperor had been broken through by a southerner? He had even reached His Majesty's doorstep? What a disgrace! One after another, the heavily armored giants, each ten meters tall, picked up giant weapons fifteen meters long and were about to intercept Lu Junyi, but were stopped by Aguda.
The Frost Giant King's face was filled with boundless excitement, his mouth practically splitting open to his ears.
For so many years, only when I raised an army did I repeatedly encounter perilous situations. After the Battle of Hubudagang, I became invincible, never facing such an opponent!
"Who goes there! State your name!!!"
Wanyan Aguda pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward with a fierce air. He was clad in a heavy, pale, bone-white armor shimmering with frost and cold light, and in his hand he gripped a fifteen-meter-long frost-bladed axe. The handle was formed from the spine of an old white dragon, and the blade was enormous and exaggerated, like a snow-capped peak. A dragon-headed helmet completely covered his face, the brim revealing a gaping maw and menacing teeth. Above the helmet, instead of ordinary plumes, was an extremely large and extravagantly luxurious golden crown, engraved with ancient shamanic runes and star trails, symbolizing that he was the divinely appointed ruler of the North!
Most striking were the five large flags diagonally inserted behind Aguda, in five colors: red, blue, green, purple, and gold, radiating a terrifying aura that shook heaven and earth!
"Lu Junyi, the Jade Kirin of Hebei!!!"
Lu Junyi roared, pushing the Samadhi True Fire to an unprecedented peak! The flames on the spear tip no longer swirled and flowed, but transformed into a world-burning tsunami that swept across the heavens and earth!
However, just as the world-burning fire was about to engulf Wanyan Aguda, the dark blue banner behind him seemed to come alive, roaring and dancing in the wind. An invisible and intangible, yet extremely cold, dark blue halo pulsed out from Wanyan Aguda and spread silently and instantly, covering every inch of space within a radius of three hundred meters!
The moment the halo swept over Lu Junyi, it was as if an invisible, cold giant hand had brutally extinguished the source of all spiritual energy. The Samadhi True Fire tsunami, which was originally roaring and surging and powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas, was completely extinguished without a sound the moment the halo passed by!
Not only that, the indestructible Samadhi True Fire aura surrounding Lu Junyi instantly dissipated, and the Dragon Pattern Steel Spear returned to its cold metallic color, with no trace of fire power remaining. The surging internal energy within him also instantly became heavy and stagnant, extremely difficult to circulate, as if it were trapped in an invisible quagmire!
This area has been transformed into an absolute magic-suppressing zone! All magic, psionic energy, and even profound internal energy are suppressed, frozen, and nullified. The deafening sounds of battle on the battlefield seem to have vanished instantly, leaving only a suffocating, utterly silent chill!
[Windless Hell]: Within a radius of 300 meters, neither side can cast any external psionic spells.
For the first time, Lu Junyi's face showed an expression of disbelief and horror. Her most relied-upon awakened power, the Samadhi True Fire, had vanished in the blink of an eye? This looked like a magic-suppressing field, but its size was terrifyingly large.
Frost giants are a race known for their strength and size, while Wanyan Aguda possesses a massive anti-magic field that renders all spells ineffective. Is the only option to fight these Frost giants by brute force? Pure hand-to-hand combat? Isn't that suicide?
"Prepare to die, Lu Junyi!"
Seeing that Lu Junyi's Samadhi True Fire had been destroyed, Wanyan Aguda let out a roar that seemed to tear apart the battlefield. The muscles in his arms bulged and the veins bulged. The fifteen-meter-long giant axe spun three times above his head like a windmill, whistling and tearing through the air. When it reached its maximum speed, it slashed down with suffocating wind pressure!
That was no longer a chopping motion, but rather the collapse of a pillar of heaven and the crumbling of a mountain. Before the axe blade even arrived, the terrifying air pressure had already pressed the earth into a spiderweb-like pattern of cracks.
Lu Junyi's three-meter-tall frame appeared like a mantis beneath a chariot or an ant beneath a mountain in this destructive storm. All who witnessed it were terrified, feeling that there was absolutely no chance of survival under this attack!
Even more terrifyingly, the blood-red banner on Wanyan Aguda's back also came to life, giving him an extremely powerful and terrifying boost!
【Ruthless Slaughter】: Strength +8, Attack +8, Damage +8, Physical Armor +8.
"clang!!!"
However, when Wanyan Aguda unleashed his axe strike, a shockwave exploded outwards like a meteorite impact, with visible shockwaves scattering wildly. Aguda's sinister smile froze instantly. His wrists throbbed with pain, his arm bones creaking, and the recoil traveled through the axe handle, forcing him to take a step back. This axe strike hadn't landed on Lu Junyi's body; it had clearly struck Mount Buzhou!
Wanyan Aguda's pupils suddenly contracted. Lu Junyi's feet shattered beneath her feet, yet her figure remained as unyielding as a demon god. She held her spear horizontally to the sky, her body of mortal iron having definitively blocked this earth-shattering axe blow! Sparks flew as spear and axe clashed, like a thunderclap!
At this moment, Wanyan Aguda was horrified. Even among the Frost Giants, his strength was exceptional. An ordinary person's strength was 10, and an ordinary Frost Giant's strength was 30. But Wanyan Aguda's strength, after being multiplied, reached a staggering 44! This was an incredibly frightening number. To put it in perspective, even the most terrifying Ancient Dragons only had a strength of slightly over 40; his strength was even more exaggerated than some of the weakest Ancient White Dragons.
However, Lu Junyi's Qilin power was equally terrifying. The Windless Hell could only restrain the outward-released Samadhi True Fire, but it couldn't restrain the Qilin power that amplified him. After all, Wanyan Aguda's power was also amplified, and he couldn't possibly suppress his own amplification as well.
Lu Junyi originally possessed a peak mortal strength of 20. After reaching level 12, her strength astonishingly reached 26. The Qilin buff increased her strength by 12, and the family's inherited jade belt added another 6, bringing her strength to a staggering 44! Within Liangshan, she was second only to the monster Lu Zhisheng, on par with Chao Gai and Guan Sheng. She was in no way inferior to Wanyan Aguda!
Not only that, her abilities include +12 Strength, +12 Agility, +12 Constitution, and +12 Charisma. She also has +12 Physical Defense, +12 Magic Resistance, and +12 All Damage Reduction, plus the Samadhi True Fire buff. Currently, only the Samadhi True Fire is ineffective; the other buffs still make her terrifyingly superhuman!
Chapter 457: The Jade Kirin is Unparalleled
If you can't win in terms of strength, then go for speed! As soon as Wanyan Aguda had this thought, the pink Nightmare Beast on the banner seemed to come alive. The totem twisted and wriggled, emitting an ominous, mind-altering glow. Wanyan Aguda's body, which was originally incredibly heavy due to the giant axe and heavy armor, became as light as a ghost at this moment, turning into a sweet, fragrant breeze and disappearing from the spot.
【Mad Elegance】: Agility +6, Initiative +6, Reaction +6, Movement Speed +66%.
Lu Junyi felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end, a chilling killing intent piercing her like poisonous needles! She didn't even have time to fully turn around; relying solely on her honed combat instincts, she swung her spear backward in a defensive move, Su Qin's Back Sword. Immediately, she heard a loud bang and felt a shockwave. Wanyan Aguda's Frost Giant Axe had appeared out of thin air behind her, slamming into the shaft of his hastily parried spear! Although the force was somewhat weakened by the high-speed movement, it still caused Lu Junyi's blood to surge, and she staggered forward a step!
Lu Junyi remained calm and composed. Wanyan Aguda was fast, but Lu Junyi was even faster! He transformed into a raging storm of flames, vanished from his spot, and suddenly appeared behind Wanyan Aguda, forcing him to turn around and defend as well!
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
In the blink of an eye, the two men's spears and giant axes clashed three times. Wanyan Aguda's figure continuously transformed into streaks of twisted pink light, launching surprise attacks from all directions and from all sorts of incredible angles. His giant axe slashed, swept, and thrust, each attack accompanied by a sonic boom that ripped through eardrums!
Lu Junyi, on the other hand, was like a terrifying crimson aura. He didn't use his eyes to locate his opponent, but relied entirely on listening to the wind and sensing the killing intent. His spear would thrust, sweep, parry, or smash, always appearing precisely in the trajectory of the giant axe's attack to intercept it accurately.
The two weapons clashed wildly at a frequency that was impossible to see with the naked eye, the dense sounds of the collisions forming a continuous, extremely ear-piercing storm of metal! Sparks were no longer just flying off, but rather formed a dazzling ring of fire around them, like a continuously erupting volcano!
This has surpassed the common understanding of "combat"! These are two monsters who have honed their physical abilities and combat skills to an inhuman level, engaging in a deadly clash dozens of times per second in an almost artistic yet extremely lethal manner!
The frost giant guards standing to the side were dumbfounded by the scene. A three-meter-tall human and a ten-meter-tall frost giant were almost out of sight. Even Aguda's imperial guards could not catch a glimpse of the two figures with their own eyes. They could only hear a series of extremely dense metallic explosions!
Lu Junyi's arms were bulging with muscles like dragons, veins popping out, and the dragon-patterned steel spear in his hand transformed into streaks of silver lightning tearing through the darkness! The spear moved like a dragon, striking, thrusting, parrying, sweeping, cracking, and smashing! Each strike precisely hit the most vulnerable points on the giant axe's surface, handle, and even the side of the blade. Aguda, equally skilled, perfectly intercepted every attack from Lu Junyi and launched a counterattack spanning ten miles!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The sound of clashing weapons was no longer the crisp clang of metal, but a continuous, deafening rumble of thunder! Each impact unleashed a visible circular shockwave, ripping up and shattering the surrounding ground layer by layer! Sparks no longer flew, but scattered everywhere like fireworks!
Their arms had become a blur of afterimages, moving at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow! All that could be seen was a storm of silver spear light and a torrent of black axe blades colliding, squeezing, and tearing each other apart! Occasionally, a gust of axe wind would sweep by and cut a distant arrow tower in half; a streak of spear light would plow a bottomless ravine into the ground!
After fifty rounds of fighting, Lu Junyi feigned an opening. Wanyan Aguda's axe strike missed its mark, crashing heavily to the ground. The recoil caused a slight numbness in his arm. Lu Junyi seized this fleeting moment, his spear tip darting out like a venomous dragon, instantly striking the joint of Wanyan Aguda's shoulder armor. The blow shattered the armor, sending blood spurting!
But Wanyan Aguda only grunted, the dark green flag behind him fluttering in the wind, the muscles at his wound site writhing wildly, the bleeding stopping instantly, and the wound even beginning to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye! He swung his axe backhand, forcing Lu Junyi back, as if he himself was not the one who was injured!
Lu Junyi hadn't expected his opponent to have such a strong recovery ability. He was a little too slow to dodge and was hit hard on the shoulder by the axe blade. However, the dragon spear skillfully parried away some of the force. The remaining monstrous strength was not enough to break through the double defense of the Qilin scales and the gilded dragon armor. This left Wanyan Aguda feeling very helpless, as if the enemy in front of him was not a mortal body, but a piece of pure gold pagoda that would not bleed or get hurt.
Both were blinded by rage. Wanyan Aguda roared like thunder, his giant axe swirling like a destructive storm, each strike aimed at smashing his opponent into a bloody pulp! Lu Junyi roared like a dragon, his spear transforming into an indomitable thunderbolt, each thrust aimed directly at his opponent's vitals. They fought with their own firepower, relying on their ridiculously high parrying and defense skills, risking their lives for each other!
Wanyan Aguda realized with despair that he would also find it difficult to break through Lu Junyi's terrifying defense.
However, the wounds inflicted by Lu Junyi would be instantly healed by Aguda. The two fought fiercely and ruthlessly, causing the earth to crack and the sky to collapse wherever they went. The Jurchens fled in panic, not daring to linger at all!
However, this is, after all, the core of the Jin army's formation. Lin Chong is good at charging but lacks defense. Xu Ning has incredible defense, but his damage output is a weakness. Guan Sheng is good at both offense and defense, but his endurance is poor. Dong Ping also has a fatal weakness: he needs to catch his breath and rest between two beam charges, which makes him vulnerable to being overwhelmed by a hail of arrows.
None of them could break through the core Jin army formation that stretched for dozens of miles and reach Wanyan Aguda; only Lu Junyi was able to do so.
At this moment, Lu Junyi had fought a hundred rounds, but found that Wanyan Aguda was not tired at all and did not show any signs of fatigue. In a short period of time, he could not even gain the upper hand, let alone defeat him.
Meanwhile, powerful generals like Wanyan Zongwang were also approaching. Continuing the battle would be disadvantageous to him. With no other option, Lu Junyi turned and left after three rounds of fighting. Wanyan Aguda was also intimidated by Lu Junyi's terrifying combat power and dared not pursue her, watching helplessly as she left gracefully.