Yama Rising

Chapter 434: The Definitive War (6)

“You’re courting death!!” With a furious shout, the green veil of the residence suddenly drifted up. Clatter, clatter… Moments later, countless sources of Yin energy suddenly rushed out from behind the residence, blotting out the sky with their presence altogether!

There were at least 50,000 Yin soldiers in all!

These were all… humanoid puppets.

Dead silence.

It’s all worth it now. Lord Qin, do you see this? The Yang Clan would never betray your expectations of us. We’re willing to give up our lives for Hell’s glory! Dear sisters… do you see this? The Infernal Judge and the army of mannequins are moving together. The situation with Qufu’s forces… isn’t as good as it seems as well!

Lord Qin, I hope you’re ready. Qufu’s already digging deep into their reserves. I hope you’re ready to deliver the final blow to crush them completely!

Shk, shk, shk!!!

It was the battle between hidden trump cards of both forces.

Sss!!! Like falling stars, the humanoid puppets promptly descended upon the rising flames of the crossbow bolts below. The two meteor showers collided in an instant!

Dong… A grand bell rang from the sixth floor of the six-storey tall building within the inner city.

Lai Junchen stood in front of the door, holding the railing tightly with flickering flames in his eyes as he carefully surveyed the situation at the three sides of the city walls that could be seen from his vantage point.

Occasionally, they would see shockwaves of Yin energy rippling out from the city walls in the distance. And it was only through the reflections of the glistening shockwaves that one could even catch a glimpse of the 200,000 humanoid paper effigies hidden below, resting on a scarlet platform like inanimate wooden sculptures.

But that wasn’t the case.

The reflection of the mirror revealed the entire image of Qufu’s Shanhai Pass. In fact, there were even rolling clouds and brilliant golden beams of light that poured out of the surface of the mirror. However, it hardly exuded any traces of immortal energy at all. Rather, the energy it exuded was undoubtedly Yin energy of the densest and purest quality.

Back at the door. Lai Junchen’s expressions made it clear that his heart was hardly relieved by the current situation. In fact, it was apparent that his worst fears were all coming true.

This was also exactly why they had been able to consolidate their forces so swiftly as soon as they discovered the death of the Lord of Darkriver.

By Hell’s Dictum, all rabble shall disperse. The mere mention of these words were more than sufficient to cause them both to break out in cold sweat.

He subconsciously tightened his grip around the railings, digging his dark, grisly claws deep into the metal and grated against it with a harsh sound. His heart was filled with great apprehension and anxiety right now.

He was afraid.

That said, he had allowed the Lord of Huayin to take 30,000 of these with him.

The weight of Hell’s advance might be great, but it still wasn’t heavy enough to cause his mind to snap with tension. That said, the appearance of an Infernal Judge might just tip him over the scale.

Knock, knock! Just then, he was jolted back to reality by a loud rap on the door leading up to the sixth floor. Several voices trembled with great anxiety from the other side of the door, “Lord--...” “Get lost!!”

One was a tall, thin, man with traces of countless grisly knife wounds all over his body. The other was a headless woman. Both exuded Yin energy that were clearly in the realms of an Infernal Judge.

“Mr Lai.” The headless woman’s diaphragm bulged as she shrieked, “Do you even know what you’re doing right now?!”

“What do I mean?!” The tall thin man’s voice was as loud as thunder. He smacked the railing loudly, causing a piece of it to fall off the building. His expressions contorted in a twisted manner as he gnashed his teeth at Lai Junchen, “Bloody hell… are you even aware that the soldiers perishing right now are all our own forces?!”

Ssssssiiiikk!! Before she finished speaking, her entire body abruptly split from the middle, revealing layers upon layers of teeth from within, “What the hell are you doing?! Do you think that we wouldn’t dare make a move against you?!”

Idiots!!

The two feudal lords before him were truly incensed.

To their minds, this was simply a situation of mismanagement of troops. There were far more disposable skeletal puppets that could have been deployed, and yet Lai Junchen still chose to deploy the Yin soldiers instead. How could they stomach such a terrible decision?

His voice promptly drifted off, because a pale bone spike and a scarlet tongue had promptly lashed straight towards his forehead.

Had Yang Yanzhao been here, he would have been able to affirm what Lai Junchen had done. Unfortunately, the two Infernal Judges were evil ghosts of the modern era, and they weren’t able to dissociate themselves from their immediate benefits to look at the bigger picture. All they could see was the fact that they had lost a multitude of Yin soldiers that they had painstakingly nurtured. They were too focused on the small matters before them that they had completely lost sight of the more important ones.

“Then trade your soldiers for ours.” The tall thin man sneered as he stared right back at Lai Junchen, “If Hell could do it, they would already have deployed soldiers in the inner city with those spell arrays of theirs. But they did not. They clearly cannot do such a thing! Mr Lai, we all know full well from the history books how cowardly you are, so you can stop pretending now. You’re just an old man who managed to scrape by on pure cowardice for a thousand years until you finally became a Hellguard-class Yin spirit.”

What in the…

Both of the other Infernal Judges also soon followed suit.

This was a sound that had similarly rocked the entire Shanhai Pass when it was first established as well. The twelve zodiac beasts placed at the head of Shanhai Pass could be considered one of Hell’s millennial masterpieces. And the sound was one that accompanied the ultimate attack of each of these twelve zodiac beasts.

No. There are still hundreds of thousands of Qufu’s soldiers alive right now. We’ve got more than enough to slowly whittle down Hell’s forces until they all perish. So… why would the ultimate attack mode of these Mechanical Beasts be activated?

Buzz… The Ugly Bull’s eyes lit up. Moments later… a ten-meter-sized black orb suddenly appeared right in front of its mouth.

Buzz… BUZZ!!! The entire western walls were now trembling profusely. Hell’s forces and Qufu’s forces had once again broken away from their melee and turned to stare at the terrifying sight. Even Oda Nobutada couldn’t help but gasp in horror. Those who were situated closest to the Mechanical Beast could most clearly sense its might. Even the impregnable walls of the Shanhai Pass were starting to show signs of cracks from the terrifying tremors.

This was the name of the ultimate attack of the Ugly Bull Mechanical Beast.

The black orb was slowly growing larger! Twenty meters… thirty meters… and then, after a dozen or so seconds, it finally grew to become a fifty meters large black orb!

It was almost as though the surroundings had lost all measure of weight.

Have we… finally come to the end…?

The world is my oyster… yet I cannot enjoy a single moment of it…

It was a stifling silence that forebode death.

Nobody even thought about escape at this moment. After all, it was a warrior’s pride and glory to live and die by the battlefield.

And then, he shut his eyes.

The heavens and earth shook.

To their horror, the black orb of Yin energy… was actually fired straight at the Lord of Huayin and the throng of skeletal puppets arrayed behind him!

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1. From what I gather, these skeletal puppets are the same as the humanoid puppets referred to above.