158 Lambs to the slaughter. (1/2)
Li Yang plummeted down to the ground after pushing himself off of the top of the wall, crashing into the ground with a loud rumbling sound as the earth cracked beneath him. His arrival could be considered rather noisy, but he still remained practically unnoticed thanks to the thunderous noises of the chaotic battle unfolding in front of him.
Li Yang dusted off his robe and casually headed for the battlefield, his pupils flickering around as he took in the scenes of the battle, observing the Deathcloud Warriors and how they fought. They were humanoid in shape but they actually fought like savage beasts, lashing out with their wispy hands and even trying to bite anyone that got close to them. They completely ignored all the attacks that were launched at them, not even making any attempts at dodging as they were torn apart.
They had indeed acquired a consciousness of their own, but for these Deatcloud Warriors, it was definitely no more than the faintest consciousness possible, just barely enough to follow their instincts. These were probably the scouts and stragglers they had been told about by the chubby man, the solider and general-level ones would definitely be smarter than this.
Li Yang ducked down for a quick second when he was only a few tens of meters away from the battlefield, a spear surrounded by a cloud of sharp dust flying over him and crashing into the ground a short distance away. He turned his head and sent a slight glare to one of the soldiers standing atop the wall, his sharp gaze causing the armored woman to tremble slightly.
But he didn't take any further action against her, only placing his finger in front of his lips and giving a slight shake of his head before turning around and continuing to head towards the battle. His robes didn't belong to any of the three factions and his gait was far too casual for the situation, it was inevitable that he would attract some attention now that he didn't have Fang Ying and Zhao Feng to obscure him like earlier.
He finished walking the last few tens of and properly entered the battlefield, which was practically like entering a completely different world. The thunderous sounds got louder, the smell of blood and death hung heavy in the air, and attacks were flashing by all over the place. From the looks of it, the people taking part in this battle had actually set up a formation at the very edge of the battlefield as they charged forward, it was probably done to avoid any stray attacks flying towards the wall while they were battling.
Li Yang bent backward just as he entered the battlefield, a halberd with a circle at the tip instead of an axe-head just barely missing his throat. Li Yang flicked his finger, a bolt of lightning flashing out and temporarily paralyzing the woman from the Earth Rendering Empire that had just attacked him.
Li Yang stepped past the paralyzed woman and headed for the Deathcloud Warriors up ahead, a guess forming in his mind. Since he had already been attacked twice in such quick succession, he was starting to guess that it wasn't just because of the fact that he looked so casual or the fact that he didn't wear the robes of one of the three great sects, there was a chance that strong Deathcloud Warriors were incredibly close to human's in appearance. It was just a guess of his, but Li Yang had always held his sharp intuition in high regard so he was confident that his guess was close to the truth.
Li Yang stepped past several groups of soldiers and dodged a few more attacks, not bothering much with those that attacked him right now. At worst he only paralyzed them or blew them away with a quick punch, clearing a path directly to the incoming cloud of death. In this situation, it didn't take long for a Deathcloud Warrior to break free from the chaotic battle and rush directly at him.
Li Yang glanced at the Deathcloud Warrior, leaning back and dodging a swipe of its barely formed claws as he studied it from a closer perspective. It had a head but no features, the wispy smoke that made up its body simply splitting open when it wanted to bite at the being in front of it. The arms and legs were constantly changing in size and number, it was almost as if the Deathcloud Warrior wasn't quite sure which shape it wanted to take on yet.
The Deathcloud Warrior continued to unleash a frenzied barrage of attacks at him, Li Yang dodging them one by one as he tilted his head. The Deathcloud Warrior in front of him radiated an utterly terrifying aura that was a mixture of the laws of life and death, but the actual strength it managed to produce was only at around the middle stage of the Ascending Heaven realm.
But the confusion he felt at it quickly cleared up, the aura it was radiating was likely a result of the sheer height that the laws of life and death that created this being had reached. This spoke more about how terrifying the man who unleashed these two laws was rather than how terrifying these Deathcloud Warriors were. Of course, should there be a Deathcloud Warrior that could perfectly use these two laws that formed it then it would be a completely different story, that would be an entity that Li Yang would avoid like the plague. After he cleared up the confusion, Li Yang's right hand stretched out as fast as lightning.