From bone collectors to the supreme ruler of humanity

Chapter 47 Who shall I explain this to?

Wang Tiezhu was the first to speak, "If the chieftain says it's possible, then it's possible."

"letter."

Old Zhou and Zhang Dabiao nodded in agreement.

Xiong Kuo didn't say anything, but he nodded subconsciously.

For over ten days and nights, Lin Yan never broke his promise whenever he said he could stop it.

"Then let's do it the other way around today."

Lin Yan drew Zhao Yuanlang's hundred-refined steel sword. "The barbarians think we can only cower on the cliff and wait to die. We'll meet them at the top of the cliff, let them come up, and fight on the platform."

Sun Dayong's eyes widened: "Let the barbarians come up? Boss Lin—"

"Let them up. If we hold the slope, they'll eventually grind them down. Letting them up will only limit our numbers." Lin Yan looked at Sun Dayong. "You're on the left flank, Xiong Kuo on the right, and I'll lead the men to the front. When the barbarians come up, we'll surround and kill them from three sides."

After making the arrangements, Lin Yan led his men down the cliff.

As dawn broke, the barbarian smashed through the last few obstacles on the slope.

Gu Li personally led the team, followed by a dense horde of barbarian soldiers, who poured into the platform from the cliff entrance, a dark mass of at least three or four hundred people.

Gu Li's nine-ringed sword was still stained with blood from yesterday.

The knife tip pointed at Lin Yan, a smile playing on his lips: "You turtle that's been hiding for so many days, finally dared to come out?"

"We have to give General Guli an explanation."

Lin Yan said.

"Explain?"

Li laughed out loud, "What can you possibly explain?"

Lin Yan remained silent.

He gripped the hilt of the knife tightly and slashed out with a single blow.

Gu Li parried with his sword.

The two swords clashed, sparks flying.

Lin Yan took a half step back, while Gu Li remained motionless, though the smile on his face faded slightly.

"True Qi?" He stared at Lin Yan. "You've broken through?"

Lin Yan didn't answer, and then stabbed again.

The third strike, the fourth strike, one strike after another—the swordsmanship was still the same nine moves from the military manual, but each strike was wrapped in a thin layer of true energy, making the force of the strikes several times greater than yesterday.

Gu Li blocked seven or eight blows before finally starting to retreat.

It wasn't that he couldn't block it, but Lin Yan's footwork was too tricky, and every strike was timed to the angle where he was least able to exert force.

"Good lad."

Gu Li wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "I really underestimated you. It's a pity that there are different levels in the True Qi Realm. You're just starting out, and your foundation might not even be stable. Just fighting desperately won't help."

Lin Yan held the knife horizontally in front of him. "Try it."

Barbarian soldiers surged onto the platform from three sides. Xiong Kuo, on the left flank, wielded his thick-backed sword and felled two of them, while Sun Dayong, on the right flank, led his men to block the gap in the attack.

The bodies of the barbarians and the young men guarding the cliff were mixed together, and for a moment it was impossible to tell who was who.

Gu Li roared, his whole body suddenly swelled up, his skin glowed with a dark red blood light, the blood vessels in his eyes bulged out, and his footsteps thudded on the stone surface as he charged towards Lin Yan.

Lin Yan slid to the side, the blade grazing Gu Li's ribs and slicing off a piece of armor, but Gu Li ignored the blow and swung his nine-ringed sword horizontally, the blade whistling through the air as it came down. Lin Yan parried the blow with his own sword.

when!

The blade vibrated and hummed. Lin Yan felt a heat in his hand and was swept away by brute force, his back hitting the stone wall before he came to a stop.

"Berserk mode!"

Lu Laonian shouted from a hidden opening at the top of the cliff, "He's using Berserk!"

Lin Yan knew, of course. He had personally witnessed the scout captain's berserk state, but Gu Li's berserk state was a whole level stronger than that of the scout captain.

His speed didn't decrease, his strength increased by more than 30%, and he was very clear-headed; he wasn't the type to go berserk and slash wildly.

Lin Yan propped himself up from the stone wall and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Xiong Kuo, move the left flank back ten paces and let the barbarians crowd together."

Xiong Kuo responded and led his men back ten steps, whereupon the barbarian soldiers surged forward and formed a dense crowd.

Taking advantage of the situation, Chen the carpenter pushed over two round logs that were propped up on the edge of the platform.

The log rolled into the barbarian soldiers and crushed a large number of them.

Gu Li ignored the others and focused only on Lin Yan.

One slash after another came crashing down, but Lin Yan used his agile footwork to dodge around the edge of the platform. Each dodge was risky, but he never managed to get hit by Gu Li.

He retaliated with less than three strikes. Because Gu Li's berserk state could be maintained for a long time, Lin Yan was waiting for the berserk state to subside.

Gu Li slashed seven or eight more times with great force, and the momentum of his sword began to show an extremely slight stagnation.

Right now.

Lin Yan simultaneously activated the power generation method of the Swimming Body Palm and the berserk reversal of blood and qi.

The second level of "Wandering Body Palm" describes stacking energy, which involves pouring all the surging true energy in the dantian into the right arm. The first layer is stacked on the shoulder, the second on the elbow, and the third on the wrist. When the three layers are stacked together, the veins on the entire right arm bulge out.

He charged towards Gu Li's blade.

As Gu Li swung his sword down, Lin Yan dodged the blade and, in the instant he struck Gu Li in the chest with his palm.

This palm strike looked ordinary, but three layers of force were stacked in the palm, striking Gu Li's chest with a muffled thud, followed by a second muffled thud, and then a third thud.

click!

The sternum is cracked.

Gu Li's berserk state was immediately shattered, and his massive body flew backward, crashing to the ground and sliding more than ten feet away. His nine-ringed sword flew out of his hand and landed to the side.

He tried to stand up, but the sharp pain in his chest made him kneel down again.

Lin Yan held a knife to Gu Li's neck. "You lost."

Gu Li's eyes were still red, but the berserk state had subsided. He stared at Lin Yan, coughing up blood: "What kind of palm technique was that? How could you go berserk—"

"I learned it," Lin Yan said calmly.

Gu Li stared at him for a moment, then grinned and said, "You son of a bitch—"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yan punched him in the temple.

Gu Li's head lolled to the side and he fainted.

With Guli captured, the barbarian soldiers on the cliff were leaderless and completely thrown into chaos.

They were overwhelmed from three sides by Xiong Kuo and Sun Dayong, and slaughtered like vegetables.

When the barbarian camp below the cliff saw their commander captured, they sounded their horns loudly, causing a commotion for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, but ultimately they did not launch another attack.

Lin Yan had Gu Li tied up and locked in the stone cave, then had Lao Meng set his bones and apply medicine. Then they began tallying the casualties.

Sun Dayong suffered another knife wound on his arm, while Xiong Kuo was slashed in the left shoulder so deep that the bone was visible, and he was gritting his teeth as Lao Meng stitched him up.

More than forty able-bodied men died, and many more were seriously injured.

Of the more than thirty veterans, twenty-one are still alive.

"Have the barbarians retreated?" someone asked.

Lin Yan walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down for a moment, then shook his head. "They're breaking camp, and the smoke from their cooking fires has dissipated. They probably won't come back, but we still need to be careful."

The news of breaking camp lifted the spirits of everyone on the cliff.

But Lin Yan did not relax and still insisted that Sun Dayong keep watch for the first half of the night, while he would keep watch for the second half.

Around midnight, the sound of horses' hooves came from the distant mountain path, coming from the south, not from the direction of the barbarians.

Lin Yan stood up.

The sound of horses' hooves grew closer, and the torchlight stretched into a line on the mountain road. Behind the cavalry were infantrymen, and behind the infantrymen were supply wagons, which still bore the banner of the Great Yan.

Leading the group was a female general riding a green horse; the firelight illuminated her face, revealing her to be Ye Qingxue.

Lin Yan walked down the cliff.

Ye Qingxue reined in her horse at the top of the slope, dismounted, and looked him up and down.

"Are they all still alive?"

"To live."

Ye Qingxue nodded, then turned to her deputy and said, "Order to set up camp on the spot and mop up the remaining enemy." She then turned back to Lin Yan and asked, "How long have you been holding out?"

"Counting today, it's the fifteenth day."