Chapter 42 (1/2)

Translated by Mianbao

Edited by RED

At this moment, Li Yunzi waved her hand, giving the Flying Birds Battalion in the air the order to kill!

Hundreds of Pseudodragon Birds dove down suddenly, every one of the soldiers exuding a bloodthirsty air, echoing the sentiments with their ferocious Pseudodragon Birds!

Swooping down to kill was much better than crushing an army with iron cavalry. It was like harvesting wheat. Large swaths of crimson red blood spattered everywhere, and countless rebels fell in the lake of blood!

“Charge, charge! We have no path of retreat!” Some people among the rebel army continued shouting, waving their banners.

Blood gushed endlessly ahead of them, tragic screams rising continuously. Even so, the people still charged in the direction of the sword boundary. They charged to the now shallow sunken lake, dashing madly toward Glory Valley City!

The black figures were like geese, rising and falling. Every time they swooped down from the skies, they’d take away the lives of the rebels they passed. The charging rebels had no chance of arriving at the Glory Valley City’s walls before they died tragically to swords.

A river of blood flowed, seeping into the fields bit by bit, slowly converging in the valley’s stream. Endless corpses rolled into the stream, washed by bloody water. Even at night, with poor visibility, it was a shocking sight!

The deputy with long eyebrows was riding on a Winged Dragon.

The Winged Dragon beat its wings powerfully, blowing the rebels into the air; the deputy’s long blade danced about extremely quickly, accurately slaughtering every one of them!

In just a short while, the long-eyebrow deputy had butchered dozens of people.

Sent into a frenzy from the killing, the deputy shouted angrily. Seeing a group of rebels trying to run for their lives, he immediately chased after them on the Winged Dragon.

Raising his long blade, just as the deputy was about to cut down all these people, a sword blur streaked past, knocking his long blade flying away. Even the Winged Dragon was shocked by the sudden sword blur and it beat its wings in panic, nearly falling to the ground.

“Anyone who backs away from the sword boundary are my citizens!” Li Yunzi’s voice rang from above.

The long-eyebrowed deputy went blank for a moment. Although he felt a little annoyed and puzzled, he didn’t dare chase them beyond the sword boundary.

The Flying Birds Battalion possessed incomparable combat strength. The thousands of rebels were no match for them at all. Basically everyone who went past the sword boundary was slaughtered.

Corpses now filled the sunken lake. The fields were similarly strewn with remains. Li Yunzi looked over this coldly, unmoved by any of this. As long as the rebels crossed the sword boundary, she’d give the order to kill them!

“Retreat, we’ll live if we retreat!”

“Don’t kill me, I don’t want to die…”

Li Yunzi’s words weren’t just directed to the long-eyebrowed deputy. The struggling rebels in the bloody lake also heard her. When an absolute difference in power was presented to them, no one wouldn’t cherish their dear lives. They started retreating, running back…

Indeed, once they retreated out beyond the sword boundary, the Flying Birds Battalion no longer gave chase. The rebels were in shock, like they had just lingered in front of the gates to hell and gotten away.

On the battlefield, people would indeed disregard everything when their blood got to their heads. However, when they saw people around them dying one after another, their fear and desire to live shocked them back to normal.

“Zhang Tuo,” Li Yunzi spoke up once more, calling the name of one of the rebel army chiefs.

Among the rebel army, an extremely haggard-looking chief showed a complicated expression.

He looked up at Li Yunzi, who was as dazzling as the sun and the moon, not knowing whether he should respond.

“Tell them to put their weapons down, and I’ll let them survive the winter. If they insist on being rebels, they’ll definitely not live past tonight!” Li Yunzi declared.

“I trust in the crown princess’s character, but how do I account to my brothers who braved life and death with me? You’re representing the Ancestral Dragon City State, and are no longer our city lord. Behind me are tens of thousands of my compatriots. They have no food, and not a piece of clothing. If the crown princess really has pity on us Wutu citizens, please give us a way to live. Even if we starve to death, or freeze to death, we’ll never intrude upon any cities under the crown princess’s administration!” the rebel chief known as Zhang Tuo said, his eyes filled with desolation.

“This is the way to live I’m offering you,” Li Yunzi said, extending her left hand out.

Suddenly, she grabbed her sword with her left hand and sliced heavily, cutting her palm open!

Fresh red blood flowed out, along the silver silk sword and the gaps between Li Yunzi’s fingers.

“What kind of a promise is this?” Zhang Tuo said loudly.

The blood was sticky, hanging down from a big drop, becoming a stand of red silk, and slid to the ground.

Li Yunzi faced her palm down, allowing her blood to keep flowing…

“I’ve prepared food and clothing. They’re already on the way, enough for you to survive the winter.”

“With my blood as judge, if the supplies don’t arrive before my blood dries, my, Li Yunzi’s, life is yours!”

The head chief of the rebel army, Zhang Tuo, was stunned, unable to answer her for a long time.