Chapter 726: Fumeng Lingchas Warning III (1/2)
Chapter 726: Fumeng Lingcha's Warning (III)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
One could easily imagine just how thick the baleful air around Fumeng Lingcha was. This was an aura tempered through countless battles, obtained through endless killing, through stepping over mountains of bones. No normal person could stand against it.
But Wang Chong was at most seventeen, yet he dared to meet his gaze without the slightest fear. Fumeng Lingcha had never encountered such a situation before.
No matter what, this was something no seventeen-year-old youth could have.
If this boy isn't removed, he'll definitely be a big problem for me!
Fumeng Lingcha's eyes chilled, and his killing intent flared up. Wang Chong's display had not only failed to engender any admiration, it had made Fumeng Lingcha even more intent on killing him.
The more outstanding and formidable this youngest son of the Wang Clan was, the more Fumeng Lingcha feared him, wanted to kill him.
At just seventeen, he had already been capable of stirring massive waves. A single memorial from him had been enough to throw hundreds of thousands of Hu into extremely passive positions. If he were allowed to mature, wouldn't the Hu commanders be pushed into the periphery, eventually forced out of all the higher levels of the army?
”Brat, listen to my words: it is the hard that are easy to break!” Fumeng Lingcha suddenly said. ”Your edge is shining too brightly!”
Buzz!
The moment Fumeng Lingcha spoke, the atmosphere instantly became a hundred times more solemn. On the walls of the City of Steel, the more than one hundred thousand workmen and guards paled.
”Fumeng Lingcha is acting too brazenly! He's clearly trying to bully Wang Chong!”
On the wall, Bai Siling was fuming, but these words had barely left her mouth when a slender and soft hand grabbed her arm.
”Siling, don't say another word!”
Bai Siling turned in shock and saw that Zhao Yatong was looking forward, a look of unprecedented gravity on her face.
Bai Siling's face froze in confusion, but then she quickly sensed something and turned grim as well. She pursed her lips and said no more.
The City of Steel was so quiet that it was possible to hear a pin drop. Other than Wang Chong and Fumeng Lingcha, everyone was as quiet as a cicada in winter, not even daring to breathe too loudly, much less make a comment.
One of these was the Young Marquis of the Great Tang, the Son of Heaven's disciple, while the other was a lord of the Great Tang's western border, an extremely respected and influential Imperial Great General.
Everyone present could only look up to their lofty positions in fear and awe.
”Might I ask what Lord Protector-General means?”
Wang Chong's eyes half-closed, and his expression was much colder. Since Fumeng Lingcha had come with such an aggressive and threatening air, there was no need for him to be polite.
”You are a smart man. You didn't think that I had so quickly forgotten about the Regional Commanders incident, no? If I were you, I would immediately withdraw from Wushang and end this City of Steel!”
Fumeng Lingcha's gaze was frigid, his expression brooking no objections.
No matter how brightly Wang Chong's edge shone, no matter how welcomed he was in the capital, he would always be a young boy before Fumeng Lingcha.
In terms of seniority, there was a gap of ten thousand li between him and Wang Chong, and an even greater one when it came to age.
Thus, Fumeng Lingcha had never even thought about being polite to him.
”That is impossible!!”
Before Fumeng Lingcha could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Wang Chong's even more determined voice. It suddenly felt like the temperature had plunged, and the troops both parties had brought with them began to feel a numbness in their skulls, a tension that made their bodies tremble.
No one had imagined that these two major personages of the empire would be so hostile on their first meeting. When people at this level grew angry, anyone would pale in fear.
”Lord Protector-General, do you know what you are saying? Wushang is my territory, and it does not seem like I need Milord's permission to build a city on my own territory, much less Milord's concern!” Wang Chong coldly said.
The two were already at odds during the Regional Commanders incident, and Wang Chong had long expected that Fumeng Lingcha would not rest on his laurels as Wang Chong built his city in Wushang. But Wang Chong had never expected that he would come so early and with such ferocity.
”Brat, you are being too insolent!”
There was a gust of wind as Fumeng Lingcha suddenly urged his mount forward. At the same time, he began to exude a majestic energy. At this moment, he seemed as vast as a mountain, and his energy continued to rise, causing the air in a radius of several dozen zhang to grow hazy.
This powerful pressure was utterly stifling.
Neigh!
Even Cheng Sanyuan and Su Shixuan found it hard to resist Fumeng Lingcha's pressure, and their mounts were strenuously backing away.
”Milord!!”
The two paled in fright.
Warhorses in the army had all gone through intense training so that they would not retreat, even in the face of a sea of blood or mountain of blades. But the pressure of Fumeng Lingcha's baleful aura was so thick that not even warhorses could endure it.