Chapter 1031: Gao Xianzhis Great Generals Heart! (2/2)
”Put it down.” Gao Xianzhi lightly rapped on his desk.
After the guard left, Gao Xianzhi took up the tea cup and was just about to take a sip when his gaze flitted past two thin sheets of paper, which made him remember something.
”It's that technique Wang Chong recommended to me.”
At Gao Xianzhi's level of cultivation, it was extremely difficult to make any progress. Almost on instinct, Gao Xianzhi had not believed that this thing could be of any help to him. But in the end, Gao Xianzhi could not bear to deny Wang Chong's good intentions.
”I should still take a look.”
Gao Xianzhi shook his head and smiled. He casually took up those two sheets of paper and gave them a glance, but this single glance was like a sharp jab, causing his entire body to tremble and all his fatigue to vanish.
”How could there be something like this?”
Gao Xianzhi stared at a line of words on one of the papers.
'When heart and mind are one, Sword Qi melts into the void.'
This short sentence was exactly the same as one of the mantras in Gao Xianzhi's Six Ultimate Majesties God Technique. Gao Xianzhi sat straight up on his chair and continued to read, his expression growing more diligent and solemn the more he read. After reading the last word, Gao Xianzhi gave a long sigh of wonder and slowly raised his head, but he remained speechless for some time.
The hall was quiet, but Gao Xianzhi's mind at this moment was raging with torrential waves.
The technique that Wang Chong had given him was actually quite similar to the technique Gao Xianzhi cultivated, but its power… was much stronger than Gao Xianzhi's technique. It was almost like it was an upgraded version! Gao Xianzhi had never encountered a situation like this before.
The two were different in various ways, but deep down, they inevitably shared the same root!
”I already did thorough research on this line of techniques, and I was sure that there were no offshoots. Could it be that I was wrong? The Six Ultimate Majesties God Technique that I cultivate is actually only a derivative of some ancient technique, and there's an even stronger technique above it?”
Gao Xianzhi held the two sheets of paper as he muttered to himself.
The room was quiet, but enormous streams of energy surged around Gao Xianzhi. Lowering his head, Gao Xianzhi read the two sheets of paper several more times, eventually memorizing all their contents. After some time…
Bang!
An invisible force seemed to pull the two large doors of the reception hall open, and all the tables and chairs in the room were pushed out. Gao Xianzhi sat on the ground, a vast energy rising from his body. And the Stellar Energy within his body was slowly beginning to flow in a direction it had never gone before.
……
”Congratulations to user! For obtaining the Great General's Heart (Gratitude) and obtaining Gao Xianzhi's good opinion, you have subtly altered the course of this battle and have been rewarded 100 points of Destiny Energy!”
At this very moment, on the northern training ground of Talas, Wang Chong received a message from the Stone of Destiny. The voice caused Wang Chong to suddenly turn his head, whereupon he noticed a pure energy rising into the air from the direction of the reception hall of the Lord of Talas. At this sight, a faint smile appeared on his face.
Everything was on the right track!
In that apocalyptic age, many supreme experts had worked together to take Gao Xianzhi's Six Ultimate Majesties God Technique and create one of the supreme Great General techniques, the Eight Ultimate Sunderings Art. Now, more than twenty years before it had actually been completed, it had returned to Gao Xianzhi's hands. This subtle shift in history had been facilitated solely by Wang Chong. Yet another step had been taken off the original path.
The Eight Ultimate Sunderings Art had very strict cultivation requirements. One needed to have reached the Great General level, and one needed to cultivate it undisturbed and without pause for an entire month. This was the reason Wang Chong had not given Gao Xianzhi the Eight Ultimate Sunderings Art at the very beginning.
Wang Chong turned his head to a nearby Qixi messenger.
”Inform Cheng Qianli to dispatch men to ensure that no one gets within one hundred zhang of the Lord of Talas's residence.”
”Yes, Milord!”
……
Time slowly passed. While Talas was a hive of activity where everyone was preparing for battle, more than sixty li away, the Western Turkic camp was fraught with tension.
Rumble!
Thunder rumbled and dark clouds seethed above the Turkic camp, with even more clouds being gathered in from the surroundings. Where the thunderclouds were most unsettled, a blue stream of energy soared into the sky, a dazzling landmark between the heavens and the earth.
Beneath this blue pillar of energy, floating in the air, was a muscular and tyrannical figure. He was equipped in a full suit of armor, and a black cape on his back snapped in the wind. His entire body exuded a despotic and scornful aura.
Shamask, Chekun Benba, and the other Turkic generals tightly guarded the area around Duwu Sili, and farther away, the thousands upon thousands of Turkic cavalry were a tide of steel that flowed around Duwu Sili, apparently adhering to some sort of law or rule. They roared as they galloped, their eyes shining with a fervent light.