Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
There was another settlement not far away to the west of Guobei County.
The wall of the settlement was founded on a steep mountain and almost thirty meters high. It also had a river outside of the wall on three sides. The core of the settlement was a deity who was fishing with a pole!
Its name was the Fishing City.
This place played a very important role in the history of Chidragon. It was known as “where the Whip of God was broken” in the west.
When the Southern Song Dynasty was in peril, Fishing City endured the attacks of the Mongolians, known as the Whip of God, for 36 years on its own!
After the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and when the Mongolians promised that they wouldn’t slaughter the city, Wang Li, commander of the defenders, finally abandoned the city and surrendered.
After opening the city gate and surrendering, all thirty generals in the city killed themselves.
They were truly loyal and devoted!
However, on this day, the city was not one of the human beings, but it belonged to the Metal Men, a species that was eliminated during the Ten-Species Competition!
Of course, just like the Soul race, those Transcendent Metal Men were much stronger than the old ones.
At this moment, across the river on the east side of Fishing City, the Metal Men had created a fully metal military base with their power of providence. The silver liquid metal kept spreading and transforming any matter in its way into metal.
Undoubtedly, it was a Transcendent technology that was as sophisticated as Teleportation and involved substance conversion!
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
Inside a metal base that kept stretching out to Dragon City’s defense line, silver cannons in futuristic styles were rising. There were also structures that resembled towers with balls of light assembling on the top. Different models of aircraft had been boosted to the sky by electromagnetic power.
Obviously, when the astonishing number of weapons were fully charged, it would be an unimaginably powerful attack.
“The Metal Men invaded the territory of Dragon City, just like the barbarians of Jin invaded the Great Song…”
On the city wall that was as high as a cliff, a middle-aged general, who wore golden armor and a purple cloak, was holding a silver sword and carrying an iron bow as well as a golden quiver.
He looked down at the Metal Men’s buildings that kept expanding and whispered with lightning flashing in his eyes.
“Commander, Beiwei, Tabai, Youyi, Podi, and all the other units are set. They’re waiting for your order.”
A young general, who wasn’t old but had calluses all over his hands that were holding a pair of golden hammers, walked to the commander and reported loudly.
Beiwei, Tabai, Youyi, Podi… They were all the units in the Yue Army, a legendary troop in ancient times.
The middle-aged commander was undoubtedly…
Yes, Yue Fei!
“Yue Wumu1, the Patriot!”
The viewers on Earth who watched the live stream realized who he was and became excited.
He was definitely a celebrity in history. Even though he was kicked out of the textbooks for certain things he did, people didn’t respect him any less.
[Yue Fei]
[Level: Transcendent Rank-6]
[Rarity: Legendary]
[Description: A famous general, militarist, strategist, national hero, calligrapher, and poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and one of the four generals that facilitated the re-rise of Song!]
The young general who held a pair of hammers was obviously Yue Yun, known as one of the best hammer wielders in relevant ballads.
Yue Fei commanded his troops strictly.
Yue Yun addressed him with his title even though he was Yue Yun’s father.
“Everybody, this battle concerns Dragon City’s foundation in Dragon City and the continuity of humankind.”
Yue Fei nodded.
He then turned around and looked at his left and right.
All thousand soldiers of the Yue Army, who were organized and all above Extraordinary Elite, seemed unstoppable.
“Let’s regard the Metal Men as the invaders of Jin and crush them!”
Drawing a golden arrow and aiming it at the Metal Men’s base, Yue Fei declared passionately.
The eight thousand soldiers of the Yue Army drew their weapons at the same time and pointed them at the Metal Men before they roared aloud at the same time.
On Earth, more than a million people were roaring along with them unconsciously.
The Metal Men’s base, which had expanded to the riverside, seemed to have detected the threat and launched an attack.
On the ground, futuristic cannons were activated, and a lot of missiles that looked like long spears flew towards Fishing City with electric currents behind them.
All kinds of aircraft were boosted to the sky electromagnetically, and machine guns, cannonballs, and other flying weapons strafed the soldiers on the city crazily!
“Dispel the invaders and restore our country!”
Faced with the barrage of the Metal Men, the eight thousand soldiers of the Yue Army roared at the same time. A stream of energy rose from each of them and gathered into eight enormous generals that carried different weapons. Every one of the generals had a vibe equal to Transcendent Rank-5!
Then, without dodging at all, they blocked the remote attacks with the power of the formations.
The Yue Army had eight formations, each containing a thousand soldiers. All of the soldiers were above Extraordinary Elite and commanded by a Transcendent hero.
Yue Yun, Zhang Xian, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing… The famous generals and the seasoned soldiers, though not large in number, managed to defend the east side of the Fishing City.
They remained indestructible even though the Metal Men’s barrage was fierce!
It was because the Yue Army was enshrouded in three layers of Transcendent power.
The first layer was “Motherland Commitment”, from Yue Fei, a Legendary hero. It could improve the morale of a troop to the peak when it was fighting for a human settlement.
The second layer was “It’s Easier to Crush a Mountain than to Defeat the Yue Army.”
That was the Yue Army’s own feature as a Legendary unit. It allowed the soldiers to strengthen each other, which meant that they could hardly be held back no matter how powerful those blasts were.
On the other side, every attack from the soldiers was more powerful than a regular battle formation.
In addition, the eight thousand soldiers had a third buff, which was the famous poem that Yue Fei wrote. It gave them the status of “Infuriated” under the rules of the Land of Inheritance. The soldiers would be further strengthened depending on their level of anger.
To the eight thousand Yue soldiers, the Metal Men already equaled the Jin invaders they knew. Recalling the century of humiliation that they suffered in the Southern Song Dynasty, they unleashed their highest combat ability!
While the eight thousand Yue soldiers resisted the enemies, Yue Fei coldly took off the golden bow that he had been carrying and laid the golden arrow in his hand on the string.
Then, he stretched the bow until it was like a full moon.
Clang!
He released his hand, and the golden arrow rumbled out and glowed more and more brilliantly until it transformed into a gigantic Gold-Winged Eagle that lunged towards the Metal Men’s camp.
Yue Fei’s courtesy name was Pengju. It was said that he was a reincarnation of the Gold-Winged Eagle just like Zhang Fei.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
Facing the Gold-Winged Eagle that was coming like a huge cloud, the tower-like defense structures in the Metal Men’s camp instantly reacted by launching beams of light towards it. The parts that the light hit quickly disassembled and disappeared.
Obviously, that was some sort of Transcendent technology.
However, the Gold-Winged Eagle was so enormous, and it kept expanding during its flight, that it had broken into the enemy base before the beams of light fully dissolved it. Its wings destroyed a dozen of the Metal Men’s “lightning towers”.
In the end, it flew into the Silver Liquid Pool and then exploded.
“Whoosh!”
Every feather on the Gold-Winged Eagle turned into a golden arrow and riddled the central area of the Metal Men with holes, causing crazy destruction.
More than twenty Metal Men failed to dodge in time and died.
“So awesome!”
“Is Yue Fei so strong?”
“Indeed. Why do I feel that he is an even better archer than Li Guang, the Flying General who killed the Transcendent Rank-5 ghost king in another settlement?”
Many people on Earth were surprised and even astonished.
Most natives of Chidragon didn’t know that Yue Fei wasn’t just a commander. He was one of the strongest warriors in history too.
According to historical records, he was naturally endowed with enormous physical strength and could shoot arrows with both hands. He fought a huge enemy army with a hundred riders many times. Same as Guan Yu, he was one of the few generals who charged at the enemy alone to decapitate the enemy commander. He was praised as the most courageous warrior.
In addition, Yue Fei was also one of the generals with great artistic taste. He had written several most famous poems.
With a commander that had such comprehensive abilities, and since there were plenty of heroes in the Yue Army, including tough generals such as Yang Zaixing, the eight thousand soldiers resisted a hundred Transcendent Metal Men and were even preparing to counterattack.
However, unlike the case in Guobei County, the Metal Men weren’t the only party that was attacking Fishing City. There were aliens in the other three directions too.
On the west side of Fishing City, which was the only side that wasn’t protected by a moat, short green Transcendent creatures that resembled treants in western tales had appeared!
Those treants weren’t attacking in person. They were simply casting spells and covering the plants around them in green light.
Splash!
Enshrouded in the green light, the plants stretched out to each other and absorbed the mud and rocks on the ground, turning into enormous guards that attacked the west side of the city.
“Stop them!”
On the city wall, the defenders counterattacked with all sorts of weapons they had prepared.
There were stones that were weightless at the beginning but would grow heavier as they were accelerated, the incendiary bullets that could leave a trace of fire, and the demon seeds that could absorb the vitality of the living creatures nearby…
All weapons were adopted, but they could hardly stop the treant guards from pressing forward, mostly because the treant guards were essentially war machines and weren’t scared of death at all, which meant that they wouldn’t flinch at all.
Although there were ten thousand soldiers on the west side of Fishing City, more than the number of the Yue Army, they were clearly not as good as the Yue Army in terms of level and strength. In addition, as human beings, they couldn’t be as fearless as the treant guardians. As a result, the front line was pushed back nonstop.
“Drunk, I examine my sword under the lamp and recall my life in the military camps…”
All of a sudden, another poem echoed, and a hero who wore armor and held a sword appeared on the west side of the city wall.
He had a slim face, curled eyebrows, and eyes that looked like stars!
[Xin Qiji]
[Level: Transcendent Rank-5]
[Rarity: Legendary]
[Description: A general, writer, and bold poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, known as the Dragon Poet.]
Undoubtedly, Xin Qiji was as much of a talent, who was talented at literature and martial arts, as Yue Fei was.
Most people only knew him as one of the greatest poets, but they didn’t know how he was born in the north of the country that Jin had already swallowed, gathered two thousand men to rise against Jin when he was only 21, and even captured a traitor named Zhang Anguo alive in the enemy camp that had tens of thousands of soldiers with only fifty men, to bring him back to the Southern Song for a trial.
He spent his entire life resisting the invaders and trying to reclaim the splendor of the nation, but he failed to achieve his goal even after he became old!
On the battlefield, the famous poem that he wrote was echoing.
On the city wall on the west side of Fishing City, ripples appeared in the air and one soldier appeared after another. After swallowing plenty of beef, they grabbed their weapons.
Then, they expressionlessly charged at the treant guards that had already reached the city wall. Those soldiers were the elite ones who followed Xin Qiji into the enemy camp. They were also fearless of death, and their combat ability was Extraordinary Rank-9 too!
They were just as good as the treant guards that were crafted with sorcery. While they couldn’t turn things around, they prevented the enemies from climbing on the city wall.
After the battle became steady, Xin Qiji started to recite a different poem.
“Roar!”
A ferocious tiger appeared on the city wall and opened its mouth, absorbing everything in a radius of a thousand meters down below and almost causing a tornado. Not only were the treant guards imbalanced, but even a dozen treants were caught unprepared and swallowed too.
It was true that the Legendary heroes were not necessarily stronger than the Commanders.
However, the case would be different if the hero had reached Transcendent Rank-5.
Then, it was the battlefield in the south. The aliens in this direction were quite bizarre. From the surging river, tentacles that resembled the octopus’ and with purple eyes embedded on them emerged.
Those tentacles didn’t launch any attack. They simply craned from the river and stared at the defenders in Fishing City with their big eyes.
“Ah!”
“What’s this?”
The soldiers who were stared at soon had weird changes.
Some of them had tentacles creeping up and strangling themselves from their backs, and some of them had split eyeballs that filled up their original eye sockets.
“Monsters!”
“Don’t kill me!”
More people held their heads and screamed with blood flowing from their eye sockets, ears, and nostrils.
Then, their heads exploded, and their brains and blood formed new tentacles and eyes that wriggled and looked around.
“Watch out! It’s Cthulhu!”
“Damn it, we’re in trouble!”
The creature named Cthulhu was similar to its namesake in web novels and was best at mental attacks.
Even if the defenders of Dragon City were all equipped with mental protection devices developed by the science division and the Daoist Camp, they could hardly resist such Transcendent attacks. Some soldiers even couldn’t hold it anymore and jumped off from the city wall that was dozens of meters tall. Their heads exploded, and undeveloped eyes and tentacles grew out of their blood!
Suddenly, another poem echoed, and this time, a person who was dressed as a scholar showed up.
He was Wen Tianxiang, a politician and writer at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was a national hero, and the poem he read was named Song of Righteousness, which was a famous poem too.
Thanks to the enhancement of the Song of Righteousness, the Southern Song soldiers had unprecedented morale, and the mental attacks of the Cthulhu were weakened when they were protected by the vibe of righteousness.
“Use the Rumbling Thunder!”
“Kill those monsters!”
Then, the iron city wall was opened, revealing a lot of black holes.
Whoosh!
A lot of black balls flew out of the holes and fell into the river down below. They exploded into countless red scorching pieces upon touching the water. Those pieces dashed back and forth in the river and cut apart the Cthulhu’s tentacles.
Instantly, a weird fragrance that was a mixture of roast squids and roast eyeballs spread out on the river.
The weapon named Rumbling Thunder was designed to deal with creatures that lived in the water. It ensured the safety in the north with Wen Tianxiang’s help.
Even though the Southern Song Dynasty was in peril, it truly had a lot of great talents.
For example, in the north of Fishing City at this moment.
“Hey, hey, hey…”
When the Cthulhu was blocked in the south, the river in the south, which was stirred by the Rumbling Thunder, had reactions too.
The river was rising, and alien creatures that were only one meter tall and covered in a layer of green-and-black scales appeared.
They were creatures named kappas, which had infinite physical strength and could hardly be restrained as long as there was water.
Boom, boom, boom…
Unlike the Cthulhu, the kappas didn’t dodge the Rumbling Thunder at all when it was launched from the city wall.
It was because the Rumbling Thunder only raised some sparks on their bodies and couldn’t destroy their black scales. Some of the kappas seized the Rumbling Thunder and let it explode in their eyes.
Some even filled it into their mouths and spat out the hot fluids of iron after the explosion, as if they were having sugar beans.
“Oh my goodness, they’re so sturdy!”
“Isn’t kappa a mythological creature from Jaipan?”
“No, technically speaking, the concept derived from Chidragon too.”
A lot of observers on Earth changed their expressions.
Eating bombs alive was truly a shocking scene for ordinary people. More importantly, how could Dragon City cope with such sturdy Transcendent creatures!
Suddenly, a fourth poem echoed. This time, it was sung by an old, coughing man.
As the poem spread out, the environment on the city wall changed, and there was a heavy snowfall!
When the snowflakes fell on the river, they quickly spread out. In only several seconds, the river around Fishing City was frozen with a thick layer of ice. The floating kappa, too, were caught unprepared and frozen.
Of course, considering their physical strength, they weren’t really restricted in the ice at all.
However, when the ice, snow, and coldness spread out, they condensed into hundreds of illusionary soldiers who were armored and riding horses on the frozen river!
“This poem sounds so familiar, but I can’t remember who wrote it.”
“It’s Lu You!”
Lu You, whose courtesy name was Wuguan, was a patriotic poet, writer, and historian in the Southern Song Dynasty!
A horse neighed.
After that, hundreds of riders moved forward on the ice and raised their long spears, stabbing at the kappa, which could only break free from the ice by jumping to the sky.
In the blink of an eye, the two parties hit each other.
Out of the audience’s expectation, the kappas weren’t shattered or broken because they were weakened by the ice.
The hundred iron riders, on the other hand, collapsed like most during the collision.
“Well… Has he failed?”
“Is it not really as powerful as it looks at all?”
The viewers who observed the battle were rather shocked.
“Wait, he didn’t fail. The souls of the kappa have been destroyed!”
“The iron riders are not a physical attack but a mental one!”
“This is exactly the courage of a poet!”
The players who observed the battle opened their eyes widely and noticed something wrong.
As stated earlier, the Transcendent level didn’t mean invincibility in every aspect.
The kappas had unparalleled physical strength, but they had great restrictions too. They could hardly carry out their strength when they were frozen, and their souls weren’t hard enough.
Under the mental attack of the iron riders, they were the aliens that died fastest on this battlefield.
“Awesome!”
“He held them back!”
“That’s what the heroes of Chidragon do!”
When several Legendary heroes of the Southern Song Dynasty took action one after another, the situation on the battlefield turned around, and the viewers who watched this battle became excited too.
Those who knew their history better were even more thrilled.
The Southern Song Dynasty was undoubtedly the most self-contradictory dynasty in ancient times.
It had made unparalleled achievements in terms of culture and technology that no other dynasties had ever achieved, yet it was regarded as a weak dynasty.
The taxes were heavy, there were financial difficulties, and the life of the people was hard. The emperor didn’t have any ambition, failed most battles against Jin, and signed a lot of humiliating treaties. After the fall of Jin, the Mongolian troops came again and destroyed the dynasty in the end!
However, in the last battle at Yanshan, the spirit of the Chidragon was best shown.
The emperor, the prime minister, the important officials, and a hundred thousand civilians sacrificed themselves for their country. They were as poignant as Tian Heng and his eight hundred warriors!
This Fishing City was as impressive as the Protectorate General to Pacify the West in the Tang Dynasty.
“Die!”
“We would rather die before we surrender our country!”
“Kill those aliens!”
On the battlefield, the soldiers from the Southern Song Dynasty charged and roared with bloodshot eyes. They had been berated as cowards, but they showed unseen courage towards aliens in all directions!
In addition, the extreme hatred towards aliens didn’t only come from male warriors but also from the seemingly weak scholars and women.
Lu You killed one-third of the kappas with his poem, and the surviving kappas were greatly weakened because of the frozen river. They didn’t fight back immediately. Instead, they shook off the ice on their bodies before they ran across the river, hoping to escape first.
“He was a hero when alive, and he is still a hero after he dies.”
Exactly at this moment, a gentle yet determined female voice came.
“We still remember Xiang Yu, who refused to pass the river.”
Her voice was filled with a deluding power. The kappas, which were running to the other side of the river, were slowed down as if they were hamstrung by something. They could hardly go away.
She was Li Qingzhao, arguably the most talented woman in history and a representative of graceful poems. She wrote graceful poems almost her entire life, but this one was ten times more majestic than what most men wrote!
Following that, one poem after another echoed on the city wall, and all sorts of attacks were launched towards the aliens.
The ministers, the generals, and the poets, as Legendary and Transcendent heroes from the Southern Song Dynasty, unleashed all of their combat abilities. Their overlapping supernatural powers turned this Fishing City into an insurmountable fortress, which was similar to the real event in history.
