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Chapter 1148 - Chapter 1148 Chapter 442 The Divine Might of the An Clan

Chapter 1148: Chapter 442: The Divine Might of the An Clan Chapter 1148: Chapter 442: The Divine Might of the An Clan In the eight major taboos of employing troops, the greatest harm comes from having no weak points. The saying, ‘besiege with a weak point’, means never to provoke the enemy into a do-or-die determination.

Therefore, since ancient times, when sieging a city, it was advised to surround on three sides and leave one open. Under such circumstances, it’s possible to make the enemy commander waver between breaking through or fighting to the death, while also causing the soldiers’ morale to scatter. After all, if there’s a way out, who would choose to fight to the death?

More importantly, leaving a weak point is not the same as neglecting it, but instead, it involves setting up an ambush at the critical points through which the enemy must escape, causing them to fall into an ambush during their hasty breakout.

This is especially true for an enemy steadfastly defending a castle. Once they abandon the fort and flee, one can avoid the difficulties of storming the castle and thoroughly annihilate the enemy forces on an open battlefield. Compared to pursuing a fleeing enemy, the difficulty and cost of fighting an enemy who has chosen to stand their ground and fight to the death are much lower.

Yet as soon as Xiang Ange appeared, he raised a great formation, and colorful screens enveloped the entire inner city. In doing so, he provoked the ferocity of these powerful beings.

The warriors of the Wind Department from Wang Chan’s patrol rushed into the formation only to encounter fierce resistance, and for a moment, without regaining composure, they were suppressed.

An Yuanxi was instantly furious and just as he was about to take action himself, the Taiyi Eight Treasures Cloud Platform gracefully rose up, and Master Ji of the Yun Family, with an expressionless face, passed over the crowd and confronted the Wind Department’s commander directly.

“To be of the Human Race and a descendant of the sages, yet you collude with demons and heretics, you’ve lost all face of our ancestor Yun Zu!”

The Feather God glanced at the cloud platform beneath Yun Ji’s feet and admonished indifferently, “For the sake of Yun Zu, reveal the locations of these heretical sects, and you may redeem your faults and be spared of your crimes.”

“How truly grateful I should be for Feather God’s leniency!”

Barely squeezing a few words through clenched teeth, Yun Ji poured torrential Spiritual Power into the lotus platform under his feet. Eight ferocious beasts, cast from the Spiritual Energy of the cloud platform, turned into cloud beasts and filled the entire sky.

“You wish to fight me?”

An Yuanxi cast a glance at the cloud-formed beasts dominating the sky and spoke lightly, “Do you know what the consequences will be?”

“Spare me your hypocritical, nauseating tone,” Yun Ji snarled fiercely. “Consequences? The Yun Clan has accumulated goodwill for thousands of years, and this is what it has come to. If not for what Wang Chan has done, would we even be discussing consequences?”

“Thousands of years of goodwill?” An Yuanxi’s face remained cold. “The Yun Clan’s goodwill means possessing rare items for trade and allying with heretics? If you’ve come to such a pass, what is there to regret? Blame your own weakness.”

“Well said, very well said!”

Yun Ji laughed manically, “But now, who is the weak one?”

“Laughed enough?”

An Yuanxi spoke indifferently, “A frog in a well knows nothing of the vast world, thinking that with the support of these heretics, the Yun Clan can make a comeback? How naive!”

Brilliant silver light shone from Wang Chan’s patrol robes, with the connecting divine patterns indicating the use of the Undying Battle Body. Unlike the Han Family, who used it for body forging, the silver glow didn’t re-enter the body to empower it but instead formed small silver shields that revolved around An Yuanxi.

Seeing An Yuanxi preparing to act, Yun Ji immediately commanded the eight cloud platform beasts to pounce, but whether it was Spirit Arts or physical collisions, all were repelled by the small silver shields, and even the Cloud Tiger’s fierce leap was shaken almost to pieces by these shields.

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After that, divine thunder shattered the sky, fierce winds transformed into mists, divine flames burst forth, and mysterious ice restrained movement; a single onslaught eradicated all eight Cloud Beasts and, while shaking Yun Ji back, also revealed An Yuanxi’s appearance at that moment.

Silver mini-shields surrounded him on all sides, and from his shoulder blades, four pairs of Divine Wings each of a different element sprouted, making the Feather God resemble a deity from the heavens.

The An Clan’s God Changing Technique involved visualizing the true essence of eight spirits. The completion of each spirit allowed for the birth of new wings. Normally, individuals of the An Clan in the Fierce Realm would comprehend one or two extremes, developing four wings. However, the reason An Yuanxi was known as the Feather God was that at the time of unity of spirit and intent, he perceived the true essence of wind and thunder, birthing four wings upon entering the Fierce Realm. Ten years later, he grasped the true essence of ice and fire, forging an additional four wings.

Whenever he faced an enemy, a simple shake of his Divine Wings would unleash extremely powerful Spirit Arts, with might that stood at the pinnacle of the second qualitative change in Spiritual Power–and that was a total of four such attacks. Coupled with the protection of the undying divine shield, the might of Feather God An Yuanxi was formidable enough to stand against grandmasters; even the arrogant and invincible Wang Chan would show the utmost respect when seeing him.

Yun Ji was considered a prodigy as well, breaking into the Fierce Realm and forging the Taiyi Eight Treasures Cloud Platform by his thirties, but in the end, he was no match for the might of the Feather God. In just a single clash, his prided Spirit Arts were shattered, leaving him with a face full of defeat.

And An Yuanxi, who had annihilated the eight Cloud Beasts with one strike, regarded it as a trifling matter and indifferently said to Yun Ji, “In warfare, the essence is not quantity but quality. The Yun Family is just too greedy, wanting everything but ending up grasping nothing–just like you are now. If you had concentrated all the effort used to create the eight treasures into strengthening a single soul beast, it would not have been so easily broken in an instant.”

“I don’t need you to lecture me!”

Having long been a sore spot for Yun Ji, how could he tolerate such disdain from An Yuanxi? Red-eyed, the eldest son of the Yun Family disregarded his turbulent qi and blood, squeezed out Spiritual Power from his dantian into the Cloud Platform, and once again summoned the eight Cloud Beasts, attacking the Feather God.

But the cruelest part of life is right here; no matter how intense your will to win may be, victory and defeat do not shift according to one’s will.

It was just like how An Yuanxi, who had just instantly shattered the eight treasures, faced Yun Ji’s desperate strike with little effort.

A gentle flutter of the four pairs of Divine Wings, and eight streams of Divine Light of ice, fire, wind, and thunder roared forth, instantly erasing the eight Cloud Beasts. Once his Wings shook again, An Yuanxi crossed the sky filled with rumbling Spiritual Light and, with one hand, captured Yun Ji atop the Cloud Platform, nonchalantly saying, “As I have said, the fall of the Yun Family is simply due to weakness, just like now!”

Lifted by the neck, Yun Ji struggled furiously, but all his punches and kicks were blocked by the four mini silver shields, while the arm of the Feather God was as unmovable as if forged from iron.

“I’ll say it again, divulge the whereabouts of these heretics to me, and, in contemplation of our ancestors’ mutual effort to drive away the demon beasts, I might spare you a path to live,”

An Yuanxi uttered impassively, “This is your luck and your chance. If it were the others who encountered you, they wouldn’t be so easy to talk to.”

Yun Ji, his face red from the exertion, patted the hand of the Feather God as if asking him to loosen his grip to speak.

With a smile, An Yuanxi relaxed his clenched fingers, and Yun Ji, now free, landed on the Cloud Platform, raised his head and spat out a pure cloud sword, aiming straight for the Feather God’s brow.

“Ding!”

The undying divine shield blocked the attack at the critical moment in front of An Yuanxi’s forehead.

“I thought you would be more aware of the times than I had imagined,”

As the silver shield moved aside again, An Yuanxi reappeared, expressionless, “It seems the stupidity of the Yun Family truly does run in the bloodline!”

No longer interested in reasoning, the Feather God intended to plunge Yun Ji into despair. His Divine Wings vibrated once more, and two beams of Divine Light instantly surged toward his opponent, targeting his arms for severance.

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