Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“The Winged General!”
“It’s General Li!”
“I didn’t expect that it would be him…”
The poems passed down through the ages were chanted one after another, and the entire Dragon City heard them.
They contained a lot of famous allusions and terms, such as Mount Yin, the shooting of the tiger, the Winged General…
Needless to say, everyone now realized who the Transcendent hero would be. It was Li Guang the Winged General, who lived in the same time period as Wei Qing and Huo Qubing.
“Li Guang the Winged General? As in ‘Feng Tang was born under a lucky star, whereas Li Guang was talented but unrecognized?”
“That’s right. As a general who has served three emperors, dozens of his subordinates were made lords, but not him. He even ended up killing himself. It was quite a sad story.”
Many more players knew Li Guang than Li Chunfeng.
After all, Li Guang was one of the most famous generals in history.
“But I heard that Li Guang wasn’t made a lord because he wasn’t capable enough. It wasn’t all due to bad luck.”
“That’s right. I read from somewhere that in Emperor Wu’s time, Li Guang was far less talented than Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, but the Li clan of the Longxi was made famous by the government of the Tang Dynasty.”
When there were so many players, gossip was unavoidable.
How capable was Li Guang the Winged General?
Was he a famous general that was deemed “unmatched” and had intimidated the Hun people to the point that they didn’t dare to cross the border for years?
Or was he just a mediocre veteran who had suffered a major defeat in several battles and was never made a lord in his lifetime?
Or was he a philistine who got lost in an important battle against Hun in his old age, delayed the military plan, and killed himself in shame?
“A mediocre general?
“‘If only the Winged General of Han were around to fight the township of Basilisk, the barbarians and their horses would never have dared to cross the Mountains of Yin’. ‘Do you not see how miserable a soldier’s life is on the battlefield? Long live the spirit of General Li of Han, who is held venerable by all to this day’. People have written such poems for him. How is it possible that he had nothing but empty fame?”
Guo Wei snorted as he listened to other players.
Many people would rather believe the beautified version of the great generals.
In their minds, the generals had to be invincible, could outsmart all enemies, and were even handsome and with beautiful true loves.
But the truth was, all veterans who had lived their lives fighting wars would suffer from defeat.
During Li Guang’s life, he had participated in almost all battles between the Han Dynasty and the Hun people. There were over 70 of them, and he couldn’t possibly win every single one.
Although the Han cavalry was brave and powerful, the Hun people weren’t that easy to defeat either.
People had questioned Li Guang’s ability mainly because he wasn’t made a lord in his lifetime and had even lost during a battle. As a result, he took his own life in shame when Wei Qing held him responsible.
Most people didn’t know that Li Guang had enough merits to be made lord several times, but for various reasons, the merits were “offset”.
The time when he lost was because Wei Qing, the senior general, removed him from the vanguard and made his troop the right army. They were to make a detour to outflank the enemy, but they were thousands of miles away out of the frontiers and without an accurate map or a guide who knew the area well.
Because of that, Li Guang, who was already in his 60s, lost his last chance to be made a lord. When Wei Qing sent an official to take him to the general’s camp to be interrogated, he didn’t want to face the humiliation, so he killed himself, taking all the blame.
The fact that the Land of Inheritance had deemed Li Guang Transcendent and Perfect meant that Li Guang was worth the title of a “famous general in history”.
Unlike most generals, apart from his military talents, Li Guang also had personal martial arts capability to match his fame.
The Li clan of Longxi was known for their archery skills. The story of Li Guang shooting a tiger was no less famous than “painting eyes for a dragon”. According to Historical Records, Li Guang had killed tigers with arrows many times, and he had even been injured by a tiger in the process.
Such historical records were much more realistic than mythological stories like “painting eyes for a dragon”.
Apart from tigers, Li Guang had shot more Hun soldiers than one could count.
On one occasion, he ran into a Hun army and was captured. Not only did he escape alone by riding a horse, but he had also shot over 100 Hun riders who chased after him. Because of that, he was given the name the Winged General.
Hum!
Li Guang had finished taking his physical form on the altar.
He opened his eyes. Although his face was blurry, the eyes under the gray brows had a fierce look in them.
Immediately, the old general took out an ordinary-looking wooden arrow, set it on his black bow, and aimed at the yaksha king.
Whoosh!
Confined by the dragons, the yaksha king couldn’t leave the altar area. It had been causing great damage to the ground.
After Li Guang took shape, he switched his target.
He turned into a streak of golden light and charged at Li Guang, the sharp edge of his wings ripping through the air.
“Roar!”
However, when Li Guang aimed the arrow at him, the yaksha king that had been charging at top speed suddenly halted. He seemed to have sensed something and stopped.
He made a short cry and crossed the golden wings in front of him like two shields.
Hum!
Almost at the same time, Li Guang released the arrow.
It was an ordinary arrow, but the moment it left the bow, it was covered with a red glow.
Meanwhile, the Transcendent hero exerted great energy, reminding one of a god descending to earth.
“Hoooo!”
The arrow moved across the air like a streak of light.
Even with the yaksha king’s speed, he wouldn’t have time to dodge.
But he didn’t choose to dodge either. Instead, he activated all his power, and his wings shone resplendently.
He looked like a sun rising above the altar.
Clang!
After the arrow collided with the “sun”, the impact wasn’t as everyone had imagined. Nothing splintered or splashed. The arrow only made a crisp clashing sound before it pierced through the yaksha king’s wings and hit him in the head.
Although the golden wings couldn’t withstand the claws of the Black Flood Dragon, its defense ability was in fact at that top end among Transcendent Rank-1 beings, for he was able to injure Li Yuanba’s golden body with one strike of his wings.
However, the Transcendent-level wings had just been punctured by Li Guang’s ordinary arrow.
After piercing the wings, the arrow even hit the yaksha in the throat before coming out from the other side, covered with green blood.
“Is that a talent skill?”
Some core players realized that.
A hero’s talent skill was usually related to their famous deeds.
For instance, Zhao Yun’s Power of Dragon Valiance came from his multiple entrances of Changbanpo, Zhou Yu’s ability to control fire with music came from the battle of Chibi, and Li Yuanba’s endless strength came from his records of killing over a million enemies with his hammers in the battlefield.
Needless to say, Li Guang’s talent came from the story of shooting an arrow into a tiger-shaped stone.
During a hunting trip, Li Guang saw a stone in the grass. He mistook it for a tiger and shot it with an arrow. The entire arrow was buried in the hard stone.
“So, General Li Guang’s talent is that his arrows can destroy everything. That’s similar to Wu Song’s skill.”
Ji Ye had a general idea of what Li Guang’s talent skill was.
Of course, as a Transcendent historical figure, Li Guang’s talent skill had to be more powerful than Wu Song’s.
Because Wu Song’s talent skill needed time to warm up, and the sudden surge of power only worked on the first strike on the same target.
But Li Guang could give the all-conquering attribute to all the arrows with his shot.
Such a talent was very formidable when it belonged to a Transcendent warrior that was famous for archery.
