Chapter 1725 — The Peerless Imperial Preceptor of Jingping
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Yet though this divine weapon's qi and blood were strong, they could not match his true body; as one waned and the other waxed, the signs of his defeat had already appeared. "If I am beaten to death by the Cyan Emperor, will Heavenly Venerable Mu revive me?
" He felt some dread in his heart. If he had not won the least merit, would Shen Mu still save him?
"Why has that fellow Jiang Baigui not sent out his troops yet? " His heart grew more fearful, and his divine abilities gradually fell into disorder.
On the coastline of Jingping, Jiang Baigui stood upon a small boat, gazing far off at the battle on the sea, and gave no order to send out the army. "He is not being beaten hard enough; he must be beaten harder still.
" Jiang Baigui, Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, was calculating the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon's injuries. His calculations differed from Shen Mu's; Shen Mu's were more like deduction, whereas Jiang Baigui's turned every aspect of the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon into data — how much magic power the Eastern Emperor had left, what proportion of his divine abilities remained, how much of his qi and blood was left, what proportion his will to fight occupied, and so on — and summing them all together produced an accurate number.
The number of how long the Eastern Emperor had left before death.
And now, in his eyes, that number was shrinking without cease.
"If I send out my troops, the Cyan Emperor will certainly abandon the Eastern Emperor and flee back to the Eastern Heaven camp; but if the bait is great enough, then he will hesitate a moment, and try to kill the Eastern Emperor before my army arrives.
" The eyes of Jiang Baigui, Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, flickered; the number of how long the Eastern Emperor had left before death was still shrinking, and he said silently in his heart: "And what I must do in sending out my troops is to reach his side before he kills the Eastern Emperor, and take him captive!
Therefore the distance between the two sides must also be prepared.
" He was still waiting. The wounds on the Eastern Emperor's body grew ever heavier, yet he still held stubbornly against the Cyan Emperor, fighting to the death without retreating, awaiting his troops. In Jiang Baigui's eyes numbers leapt and danced; suddenly the numbers in his eyes halted, and the little boat beneath his feet shot forth like an arrow loosed from the string! At the same moment, in the Jingping camp, gate after gate of the great camps opened wide, and countless Jingping gods and demons trod the sea's surface, forming formations and charging forward with a roar!
In the sky, ten thousand sails moved as one, banners fluttering, and ship after ship of tower vessels and great warships raised the fire of their alchemical furnaces to the utmost!
And at the same instant, beneath the sea there were also great ships sailing under the water, and below the surface the Kun race and other god races were also on the march, and on the sea floor there were gods and demons treading the ocean bed, striving forward!
Jiang Baigui drove his wisdom to its utmost, directing at once the formations of the armies in the sky, on the sea's surface, in the sea, and on the sea floor, charging toward the enemy camp! In the sea, upon a strange ship with glazed portholes, the Earth Virtue Primordial Lady Gongsun Yan stood beneath a porthole, hands clasped behind her back, gazing upward.
Seeing this, the Cyan Emperor's heart tightened, but looking at the Eastern Emperor's wretched state, he hesitated somewhat. Then he made up his mind abruptly: "I can kill Azure Dragon before the Jingping army arrives! " At the prow of the little boat, Jiang Baigui stood with hands behind his back; the boat went faster and faster, charging at the very front of the Jingping army.
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Six, five, four, three!