Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety – The Guard Camp Steps Onto the Stage (2/2)

This master of Golden Crow City was really talented!

The eyes of the large male became even hotter.

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[Hardship Guard] was an extreme mo skill. It wasn’t possible to cultivate unless one had perseverance. If they could tolerate pain, the progress was far faster than any other mo skill. When that King first obtained [Hardship Abyss], he had felt it wasn’t bad, but thought that it didn’t progress quickly enough. He didn’t have the patience to slowly nurture his personal guards so he had made the appropriate changes to the skill and made the newly formed [Hardship Guard]. It became a quick mo skill, but the pain involved naturally multiplied.

To the King, he had countless people. Even if the elimination rate was astounding, he didn’t care at all.

He probably would never have thought that this mo skill would one day be given to a group of xiu slaves. These xiu slave had gone through many hands. Those that could survive were those with resilience. Also, Pu Yao naturally didn’t have any kind of emotions like pity. To prove the value of Sky Yao, he had furiously urged them on.

Today was the first time the Guard Camp showed themselves.

What did this weird troop want to do?

Just as everyone was puzzled, they saw the organized ranks suddenly spread out. Each troop was like a stream of water, suddenly turning to ten smaller flows. With thirty six of them to a platoon, they quickly sprinted among the mountain.

Their speed was very fast, the heavy armor on their body seemed to not affect them at all. What was most praiseworthy was that even at such fast speeds, the shape of the troop was not affected at all.

At the top of Golden Crow City, Zuo Mo made a small sound of surprise.

After working with formations for so long, he was abnormally sensitive to formations. With one glance, he recognized the platoon of thirty six people were maintaining a kind of battle formation.

His mind moving, he opened his ling eyes.

Above each little troop, black energy shifted like dozens of black serpents swimming around, brimming with killing intent.

Zuo Mo instantly jumped in fright.

What battle formation was this?

The killing intent in this formation was so heavy that Zuo Mo had never seen anything comparable. Even the killing intent of Gongsun Cha’s Vermillion Bird Camp was far less than the Guard Camp’s present battle formation.

As expected, Pu Yao still had a trick up his sleeve!

Zuo Mo rubbed his chin as he thought.

Sweat continued to flow down Shu Long’s head as he heard the daren inside the necklace bellow.

“What have you trained? Ah! This is only the thirty six person Little Mo Kill, you’ve only gotten to this. Then that one thousand people Great Mo Kill, can you even train … …”

Pu Yao didn’t have any of the composure that he had in front of Zuo Mo. His shouts were like thunder and made Shu Long’s heart tremble. He was clearly very dissatisfied.

Shu Long’s orders quickly passed to every little team. Everyone’s heart shook. Already full of desire for battle, they raised themselves to one hundred and twenty percent of their usual attentiveness.

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The killing intent of each platoon became even more tangible. At this time, even the xiuzhe who didn’t have ling eyes could see the extraordinary aspects.

“Such keen killing intent!” For the first time, the middle-aged person had a shocked expression. His expression was grave as he said, “This formation has the heaviest killing intent that this subordinate has seen in life! I wonder who could create such a vicious formation!”

“Any formation that can kill people is a good formation!” The large malewas very liberal with this point. He stared attentively at the constant movements of the black armor camp guards.

The killing intent was tangible. There were black snakes that seemed to be flipping above the heads of each platoon and inspired fear when looked upon.

The people that had been mocking Zuo Mo before were gaping now as their hearts beat rapidly. Even though they had not seen this black-armor guard troop’s attack, but just this shocking killing intent was enough to rob many of their courage.

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“As powerful as expected!” Zuo Mo, who possessed the Ling Eye, could see more clearly than the others. Once they were touched, the killing intent that had turned to black serpents would instantly coil around the enemy. Each platoon was like a wild beast that devoured people. Inside the killing formation, the pupils of each camp guard had turned bloody red, and exuded a terrifying presence. If it wasn’t that they cultivated [Hardship Guard], and had indefatigable personalities, they would have broken under such dense killing intent.

Zuo Mo couldn’t help but be curious what it would be like if this battle formation encountered an enemy. He really wanted to go ask Pu Yao, but if he went to ask at this time, that guy’s nostrils would face the sky.

He ended the thought. Suddenly, he finally responded. “Didn’t I tell them to go strip the talismans? What are they rehearsing for?”

Upon second thought, when he looked at the ground full of corpses and scattered talismans, Zuo Mo instantly was furious. It definitely was Pu Yao that was the culprit.

So much jingshi … …

Just as he was going to swear, he suddenly saw out of the corner of his eye dozens of sword lights flew in from the horizon.

Translator Ramblings:Question and Answer

Q: One person commented on the use of Moon Chime Sound Storm after everyone was depleted and not as the first line of defense since the sound storm attack is more powerful. So it was a waste for the sound storm to be used on a few hundred people and not the whole bunch and it may have been rash.

A: I do agree that it does seem quite rash but I don’t think it was wasted. It could be that Zuo Mo was rash and inefficient so he had it attack a few hundred people. But there are possibly trade-offs in using the sound storm that I think affects how to use these two attacks.

First, we don’t know the range of the sound storm but hard lightning works very well as a long-range attack. The sound might weaken over distance so that could have been a concern. It is a mid-range or less attack. The formation also requires Lil’ Pagoda’s power to control and is a one-use technique as Lil’ Pagoda is exhausted by the end of it. That means it should only be used when it will be most effective. Hard lightning can be produced as long as the people have the power so it can be used with less care.

Getting the enemy to go through a rain of lightning, and then at the end, setting offsomething totally unexpected is a relatively better tactic than setting off something at the beginning that puts them on their guard and then using something weaker as the enemy approaches unless it was for intimidation.The sound storm might also be less effective the more people it attacks at once. In that case, attacking a few thousand people would result in less effects on each person which might be negligible.

The moon storm is one of Zuo Mo’s attacks and while it is effective here, there are more in his arsenal so how he uses them depends on what he has left in the future chapters.

Any thoughts?