749 Confidence Making One Not Alone (1/2)

Etiquette literally meant to figure out the order.

Second Brother valued Etiquette, so he knew the order. He followed rules strictly, but that wouldn't influence him on learning new things. Tens of thousands of sword marks fell from the sky and into the earth around him. The sword marks weaved an airtight cage. His eyes were looking out of the Cage and his sight fell on Ye Hongyu and the Divine Robe of Judgement she was in. He had read her hidden intentions.

All of this was according to the West-Hill Palace's plans.

And to be specific, all of this was in the calculation of Ye Hongyu, because no matter whether Jun Mo was prideful or calm, he would always want to pull out his sword and defeat Ye Hongyu, the most powerful one here.

So she succeeded in delaying the time before Jun Mo pulled out his sword.

Moments later tens of thousands of sword marks had turned into the Cage Array, and it was too late for Jun Mo to change the way he moved.

Her first strike was already the tens of thousands of swords marks, and she never had the intention to converge them in one. She deliberately met the mental state of her opponent, and she realized her own plan. Her start of the fight was nearly perfect.

She dropped her pride and dignity as the Great Divine Priest of West-Hill, and she traded the advantage at a risk of failure. It would cost the powerful Second Brother some time to get out of the Cage Array.

The ground started to shake, and the clopping sound was thundering from outside the sword shield. It could be vaguely seen that numerous cavalries were rushing out of the Coalition Army camp and they were overwhelming.

The cavalries of the Coalition Army flowed to the mouth of the Verdant Canyon like a tidal wave.

That was the fiercest strike from the West-Hill Coalition Army since the war of the Verdant Canyon started. Since Second Brother was now trapped in the Cage, could the sound of the zither and flute be as powerful still?

Under the shelter at the mouth of the Verdant Canyon, Beigong Weiyang and Ximen Buhuo were playing the Chinese zither and blowing the vertical bamboo flute peacefully. Their hands pressed the strings and held the flute gently even though they could hear the clop of hooves getting closer and closer.

Beigong Weiyang's fingertips flickered, and then a faint note left the string and shot away like an arrow.

Ximen Buhuo inclined his body and a dim note came out of the flute like water.

At this moment, a hoarse voice rang out on the field.

The voice came to the field all of a sudden. It crossed the field and reached the mouth of the Verdant Canyon as if it had been ordered.

In the Military camp in the south of the field, the voile on the divine chariot swayed.

A hoarse voice came out of the divine chariot. The voice was full of the aura of solemnity and sacredness, making people feel awe-stricken.

”If you're going to start a journey in the wilderness, you'll deal with all things you have to get over with...”

More than ten powerful priests in red sat cross-legged around the chariot, concentrating on the voice in the divine chariot, and they prayed again and again. Their voices echoed.

In the chariot, the Great Divine Priest of Revelation looked at the scripture before him expressionlessly. Then he continued, ”The seeds on the field are food Haotian gifted us; the echoes in the canyon is the instruction Haotian sent us by wind; now you shall march into the depraved land; and you, the believers of Haotian, shall do as Haotian orders.”

Ten more priests in red repeated the verse again and again.

The Great Divine Priest of Revelation then said, ”For all those who try to perturb you with the sound and all those who try to instruct you for Haotian, they are all sinners, and they shall be punished by the fury of Haotian along with the other sinners.”

The chanting of the priests in red outside the chariot grew more and more unified and cold.

”...shall be punished by Haotian's fury.”

A few notes just came out of the zither, and a short piece of melody just flowed out of the flute before they were interrupted by the hoarse voice ringing in the Verdant Canyon magically.

All the disciples of the Academy were well-read. And it took just a few words for them to figure out that this were the Verses of Punishing the Sinners from the Old Oath of Alliance from the West-Hill Scripture. The expression on Fourth Brother's face changed dramatically. Then he raised the Sandbox in his hand, and prepared to blow sand to interrupt the chanting.

However, the revelation of Haotian didn't come tangibly, nor did the sound of the preaching of the West-Hill Palace. It came as nothing but the hoarse voice which no one was able to interrupt.

Beigong Weiyang suddenly paled, and fear emerged in his eyes. Both of his arms trembled uncontrollably, and the strings on the Chinese zither broke from the middle.

Ximen Buhuo was not as powerful as Beigong, so he felt even more pain. He moaned and blood came out of his lips. The blood flowed into the bamboo flute and dripped down from an end. Ximen Buhuo then fell onto the ground.

The Coalition Army, which was running on the field and charged towards the Verdant Canyon, had also heard the solemn revelation, but they were rarely influenced, and instead, they became even more violent and fearless.

The cavalry formed a tide that seemed to have encountered a hurricane. The tide accelerated, heading straight for the Verdant Canyon!

The revelation echoed over the field, and that was when the Second Brother was sure that this was a trick of the Great Divine Priest of Revelation.

The battle for the Verdant Canyon had been going for long, but the two bigwigs of the West-Hill Palace had not made their move yet. Now all of a sudden, they attacked together!

Second Brother looked even more serious.

While he was prideful and powerful enough, he didn't have the confidence to face the two Great Divine Priests alone. Furthermore, the battle here at the Verdant Canyon today was more than a fight among the bigwigs; it was a battle between armies.

He raised the iron sword in his hand and waved it at the Cage Array weaved by tens of thousands of sword marks.

Every time the iron sword cut down, tens or even hundreds of sword lights would break and disappear. Given some time, he could easily break out of the Cage, and defeat Ye Hongyu.

But now the cavalries had arrived and the sound of the zither and flute had ceased. If he kept concentrating on the Cage, those younger sisters and brothers of his would definitely be crushed by the cavalries.

He couldn't allow that to happen.

He couldn't afford to waste more time in the Cage, not even a short moment, he had to break out of the array immediately.

However, as powerful as he was, it was impossible for him to break out of the Cage in an instant. It was impossible for the iron sword in his hand to cut through the sword shield immediately, no matter how tough the sword was.

So he withdrew the iron sword.

And he stopped trying to cut through the Cage Array with the iron sword.