Mythical Three Kingdoms

The only troops capable of using the Ten-Stone Strong Bow under the suppression of Cloud Qi were the ultimate Elite Troops of Danyang, which, during the Hun Empire’s prime, fought five thousand against eighty thousand elite Hun cavalry and forced the Chanyu to personally intervene before finally fading from history.

”These are the Elite of Danyang, annihilate them!” the voice of the Uloran Clan’s furious roar seemed to echo across the entire battlefield. The power of those Ten-Stone Strong Bows, comparable to Bed Crossbows, was such that even the Military Spirit Legion could not withstand it at this distance.

The pitch-black arrows, driven by the Ten-Stone Strong Bows, did not need tail feathers for stabilization; they could shoot clean through a warhorse, creating a transparent hole the size of a bowl, and any object in their path would be pierced through by a single arrow.

Under such a powerful volley of arrows, even someone like Dian Wei could not take several hits and survive. Therefore, even the Military Spirit Legion had no choice but to dodge.

Unfortunately, while the Northern Huns Guards were strong, they were not strong enough to easily evade such lethal shots from the Ten-Stone Strong Bows without any preparation. In just five breaths, over a hundred members of the Northern Huns Military Spirit Legion, even with danger perception, were forcibly wiped out by the Elite Troops of Danyang.

Moreover, considering the situation, if the Northern Huns Military Spirit Legion didn’t have a way to counteract, relying on this kind of method where opposite forces clash and rely on near-immortal resilience and instant-kill attacks, then in at most one quarter hour, the one-thousand-men strong Northern Huns Guards would be completely wiped out here.

”How ruthless, is this your plan?” Chen Xi watched with eyes aglow at the Elite Troops of Danyang. He had never known the Danyang Troops could be so ferocious that they could firmly suppress even the Military Spirit Legion; it was simply unbelievably strong.

”Keep watching, don’t speak,” Zhou Yu said coldly. In truth, he was equally astonished. He never imagined that under the activation of three Legion Talents, the Elite Troops of Danyang would be so formidable, capable of using those sniper Ten-Stone Strong Bows even in a Cloud Qi suppressed environment.

Yet this situation only lasted a few breaths. As Northern Huns Guards who had once suffered greatly under the ultimate state of the Elite Troops of Danyang, how could they not reflect on the defeat brought by that battle? Hundreds of years had passed, how could they have not achieved deep understanding?

”Attack the other members of their phalanx!” roared the Uloran Clan, and it was this roar that completely halted the ultimate state of the Elite Troops of Danyang. It also reminded the Northern Huns Guards completely woke them up.

No matter how strong the Elite Troops of Danyang were, they had not reached the level of the Military Spirit. Their ultimate state was merely their Elite Talent taking a different path; the Elite Talent of Danyang Troops had been defined four hundred years ago, characterized by increased Organizational Power and Leadership.

However, when Organizational Power and Leadership reach a certain extreme, Danyang Troops would enter the ultimate state, meaning that a single Danyang soldier is an individual, and a group of Danyang soldiers is also a single entity. In other words, in the ultimate state, Danyang soldiers shared their strength.

This is why Danyang soldiers could draw the sniper Ten-Stone Strong Bows under Cloud Qi suppression with ordinary human quality, why they could easily withstand the charge of elite cavalry with mortal bodies, and it is also the reason why a Danyang Pawn’s direct thrust made the Uloran Clan, who didn’t exert force, feel heat in their wrist.

Because the ultimate state of Danyang soldiers appeared as one person fighting but every action harnessed the strength of their comrades around them. If one person’s strength wasn’t enough to draw the Ten-Stone Strong Bow, then ten people would do it together.

This was a key reason why during the peak of over three hundred years ago, the first encounter with the Elite Troops of Danyang in their ultimate state was a significant blow to the Northern Huns. At that time, the Northern Huns had no understanding of how to counter the near-unsolvable attack and defense of the Danyang Troops’ ultimate state.

Under Cloud Qi, even Five Layers of Lamellar Armour would be pierced by a single arrow from a Ten-Stone Strong Bow. Similarly, the power of a spear or sword from ten people working together without reservation was not something anyone suppressed by Cloud Qi, with Inner Qi Manifestation, could withstand.

Unlike the Kushans who bestowed Inner Qi upon their leaders, the ultimate state of the Danyang Troops was the ultimate state for each of them.

This is what makes Danyang Troops the most terrifying. Although that time they were defeated, it was a disgrace for the Hun Empire at its peak, as eighty thousand elite cavalry and the Chanyu’s Imperial Guards together couldn’t completely destroy a five-thousand-man infantry, almost getting counter-killed.

This was an enormous humiliation. Naturally, the Huns invested tremendous effort to study this aspect, but unfortunately, Wei Huo’s era arose, Zhao Xuan rose up, and the Western Han reached its peak, leading to the defeat of the Huns. The outcome of the Hun people’s nationwide efforts eventually became the art of dragon slaying.

However, they did not expect that hundreds of years later, upon returning to the East, they would encounter once again the Danyang elite who almost humiliated them, and with the same methods as before.

”For this battle, we must redeem our prior shame!” roared the Uloran Clan, and all the Northern Huns Guards roared in reply. Each failure of the Northern Huns Guards and every new member inherited the legacy of revenge from generation to generation.

The Battle of Junji Mountain was a shame for the flourishing Huns Empire; at its peak, the Hun Empire was comparable to the Han Empire, and yet eighty thousand elite cavalry and the Chanyu’s Imperial Guards together faced five thousand infantry and performed so disgracefully, disgracing themselves thoroughly.

Having suddenly realized the ultimate state of the Elite Troops of Danyang, the Uloran Clan’s eyes turned blood-red. The dragon-slaying techniques practiced countless times finally had a use. They never expected that this world would have a second Elite Troops of Danyang reaching this height and still inheriting the once elite talent.

”Die!” Depending on the countless rehearsals of generations of Hun Guards, the Northern Huns Guard Cavalry, under the silver moon’s radiance and strange swaying, twisted out several Phantom Shadows.

As the warhorses charged, long spears directly thrust at the Danyang elite, and as the sharp wind sounded toward the Danyang elite, their soldiers raised their spears to block, but penetrated through the opponent’s long spear. In the next instant, the spear pierced through another soldier’s neck, continuing to stab at the soldier who had previously wielded the spear.

With the dragon-slaying techniques rehearsed countless times, they performed flawlessly at this moment, combining riding skills, leverage techniques, experience, and a semi-precognitive perception, to form an ultimate killing move against the Danyang Troops, finally showing its effectiveness.

At this moment, it seemed as if the Danyang elite had rehearsed countless times with the Northern Huns Guards. Countless soldiers, after harnessing the collective strength, were easily speared by the Northern Huns Guards, whether by leveraging another’s force or by simply avoiding and stabbing the Danyang soldier whose strength was taken by others.

Relying on the minute reflex arc disparity born from the difference in levels, the Northern Huns Guards executed the dragon-slaying techniques ingrained into their very bones, slashing through the frontline Danyang elite and successfully charging into their main formation.

Utilizing the visual retention-induced deflection, they easily directed the powerful arrows fired from the Ten-Stone Strong Bows into the main formation of the Danyang Troops, and in the next moment, bloodshed descended.