Chapter 365 - - 363 Immortal Body_1

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“True warriors face certain death and advance regardless; only then can one be considered truly valiant. Gao Ming, why have you never awakened any skills? It’s because you have never truly placed yourself in danger. You hesitate and worry, proclaim bravery with your lips, but your heart is preoccupied with gain and loss. How can such behavior be worthy of the word ‘bravery’?”

“If you don’t change, you will never awaken any skills. What use do I have for you when you are good for nothing? My team doesn’t feed the useless. The more useful you are, the greater your chance of survival. Furthermore, when I truly decide to kill you, you’ll have the strength to fight back instead of dying as worthlessly as you would now, easily crushed by a single finger.”

“Gao Ming, life is about perseverance. Your presence on the Alien Battlefield proves you’re an exceptional individual. Do you really want to live an unremarkable life and die in obscurity without having tried to achieve anything?”

“Gao Ming, if I wanted you dead, I would’ve killed you long ago. Charge, fight, for yourself, for your courage, for your planet…”

“A true warrior dares to confront the bleakness of life, to face the gushing blood head-on. What skill is there in huddling with your own people? To survive in a team from another planet and secure resources for one’s own, that is the mark of a true hero.”

“A true warrior dares to charge alone into an army of thousands, fearless. When you regard life and death with indifference, you can truly master your fate, the heavens and the earth, and embrace all things. Then, reaching the Grandmaster Realm will be effortless; stepping into the Grandmaster Realm, you will gain renown throughout the world, and I will need you even more…”

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Before the expedition.

Duge’s exhortation pierced Gao Ming’s heart like a series of knives.

He knew well that Duge simply wanted him to join the suicide squad. But he didn’t have a choice, there’s a difference between dying now and later.

Moreover.

Gao Ming thought Duge made a lot of sense. If he continued to be consumed with worry about gains and losses, he would never enhance his attributes and would truly become useless.

If not now, when would he show his bravery?

Give it a try, and there’s a glimmer of hope.

When Xiang Li and Ge Zong joined Duge, their attributes were not as high as his, but now they are also renowned.

Duge was right; once he became useless, he would truly have no way out.

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“Brothers, follow me in the charge! Today, we make our mark in history, Earth Ferocious Army, let our glory shine for all eternity…”

With eyes blazing, Gao Ming spurred himself on. His eyes red, he spurred his horse forward with a lance in hand, with determination, and with the nobility of a valiant sacrifice, he led the charge, stirring up a billowing cloud of dust as he headed straight for Lin Qing’s military formation.

On his flanks were the Earth Alien Army and Earth Tease Army disguised as ordinary soldiers, tasked with striking unexpectedly to disrupt Lin Qing’s formation.

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“Truly valiant indeed!”

From within the ranks behind, Cao Lin, disguised as a common soldier, looked at Gao Ming’s retreating figure with unmistakable admiration. He had fought his way up from the bottom and held the greatest esteem for warriors like Gao Ming who led from the front.

“Yes, a true hero. I hope he can withstand the onslaught of Lin Qing’s arrow rain,” Duge said impassively as he watched the battlefield, feeling a trace of helplessness in his heart.

He knew that compassion had no place in commanding troops, but on the battlefield, he found it impossible to watch ordinary soldiers being used as cannon fodder.

That was also why Duge had always insisted on leading from the front, even when fighting against Cao Lin. He charged ahead without hesitation, not wanting ordinary people to get caught in the struggle with Alien Warriors and lose their lives for nothing!

The Alien Warriors are innocent, and so are these ordinary soldiers.

But this time, he truly had no other option…

Perhaps one day, on the Alien Battlefield, he would become as heartless as iron.

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“Gao Ming?”

Hiding behind the large army atop an archery tower, Shen Yu watched the dense ranks of soldiers guarding him, then glanced at the Earth Ferocious Army charging toward them, a smile crossing his lips.

Leng Shi and others going into hiding was proof enough of their wariness toward him.

That was enough for him!

What he liked the most was his opponents delivering themselves one by one. They were all just XP bags.

Today would be his ascension to fame.

They would never understand how fast and accurate his arrows were…

With deadly precision, it was almost as if he was deploying heat-seeking missiles on a cold weapons battlefield.

“Jiayi archers, loose the first volley,” Shen Yu ordered as Gao Ming entered range.

The signal flag waved.

The Jiayi formation’s five thousand archers, bows already drawn and ready, released their bowstrings simultaneously.

The arrows flew like a swarm of locusts, scattered in the air but converging into a dense mass as they flew. Due to the different timings and strengths with which the bowstrings were released, the five thousand arrows wouldn’t hit Gao Ming all at once.

But it was this very asynchrony that made them hardest to defend against.

Gao Ming saw the arrows flying towards him and took evasive action, but the arrows seemed to have eyes, following his every turn to the left or right.

Having no other choice,

Gao Ming could only swing his long spear, attempting to deflect the incoming arrows. But after spending so much time hesitating and seeing his attributes continually drop, his skill level hadn’t increased. How could he possibly block five thousand arrows?

In the blink of an eye, he was turned into a porcupine, from head to toe, pierced entirely by five thousand arrows, with no chance for even his strong recovery ability to keep up.

Gao Ming felt pain all over his body, then darkness enveloped his vision, and he fell headlong from his horse.

The commander had fallen.

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The Earth Ferocious Army’s offensive came to an abrupt halt.

The soldiers of the Earth Ferocious Army were ordinary warriors. They didn’t know of Shen Yu’s Divine Skills and were utterly shocked to see arrows that pursued a single person, hesitating and not advancing…

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Dead?

Duge sighed inwardly and asked, “General Cao, are you confident?”

Cao Lin shook his head, his expression grim, “I can cleave through concentrated arrows with a single slash, but against this skyful of arrow rain, even if I go forward, I would surely die.”

“It seems only I can go up and slay him,” Duge said. Behind him was a crystal-clear orb of water. After his spiritual power had increased, he could control and carry more and more water.

In the water, his recovery ability was the strongest. After the arrows entered the water, he might be able to control ice blades to shatter them.

Shen Yu’s unfailingly lethal power was too great.

It must be taken care of.

“Brother Du, let me do it!” Gao Ming suddenly said, “The Sword Domain should be able to crush all incoming arrows…”

That would require Shen Yu to conjure it up!

Duge snorted internally but before he could speak, he heard an uproar.

He looked up.

In the span of these few sentences.

Wu Chang, who had been shot into a porcupine, staggered to his feet again, yanking the arrows from his face, the holes in his honeycomb-like head rapidly healing.

His features re-emerged.

He laughed wildly, “Brothers, charge with me, I’ll block the arrows, I’ll take the wounds, glory and achievements await us today!”

After the shout.

Wu Chang, without mounting a horse, cut off the troublesome arrows on his leg, and strode towards Lin Qing’s army again, his pace no slower than riding a horse.

As he ran.

Arrowheads were continuously squeezed from his muscles, clinking as they dropped to the ground.

His armor and clothing had been shredded by five thousand arrows earlier; after a few steps, the fragments fluttered in the wind. In the autumn breeze, there was only a muscular old man, laughing maniacally as he charged forward, brandishing a long knife, naked.

But at this point, no one was ridiculing Wu Chang.

Everyone had seen how he stood back up after being shot into a porcupine.

At that moment, Wu Chang, in the eyes of everyone on the opposing side, was a devil crawling out of hell. Who cared if a devil was clothed or not?

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“An immortal body?”

Shen Yu watched Wu Chang rise again, his eyes wide and his facial muscles twitching uncontrollably. What the heck, if Wu Chang’s advanced skill was an immortal body, then what’s the point of playing at all!

“General Shen, do we keep shooting?” Dou Xiu, who was guarding Shen Yu, involuntarily swallowed his saliva and asked dryly.

At that moment, his heart was churning with torrents. One Heavenly Demon was more bizarre than another. This really wasn’t human work at all. If someone actually came to kill Shen Yu later, he might have to save his own life first.

“Shoot.” Shen Yu’s face was ferocious, almost insane, “I don’t believe in an immortal body. Turn him into mush, and I refuse to believe he can resurrect. Jiayi, Jiaer, Yiyi, Yier, volley fire from four squads!”

The flag was waved.

Four squads of archers, twenty thousand arrows, flew one after another into the sky.

The first volley of five thousand arrows pinned Wu Chang to the ground; the second volley kept falling relentlessly on the human-shaped arrow pile. Then came the third and fourth volleys…

In the blink of an eye.

There was no sign of flesh and blood on the ground anymore, only a densely packed human-shaped arrow target remained.

The actions of the Earth Ferocious Army once again paused, as they unspokenly turned their gaze towards their head commander.

“Turned into mush, can he still live?” Cao Lin swallowed hard, asking subconsciously.

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Duge didn’t speak; he just stared intently at the mound of arrows on the ground, once again hoping in his heart that Wu Chang would come back to life.

Bravery, such a paramount keyword, shouldn’t let his newly awakened skill end up like this.

Perhaps hearing Duge’s silent plea, the arrows stuck in the ground slowly arched upwards, then scattered to the side.

Among the pile of arrows.

Wu Chang, covered in holes, stood up again, his wounds closing in the blink of an eye. He let out a fierce shout and moved once more, “Kill!”

“Kill!”

The Earth Ferocious Army, as if invigorated, echoed with deafening cries, unhesitatingly following their leader, charging towards Lin Qing’s formation, their morale higher than ever before.

In contrast stood the dumbstruck soldiers of Lin Qing’s army.

Wu Chang was charging with only a few thousand men, completely disproportionate to the tens of thousands of soldiers opposite him.

But at that time, whether they were cavalry or infantry, those tens of thousands of soldiers shrank back at the sight of Wu Chang, their faces showing fear, and many even had the impulse to turn and run away.

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