Chapter 1726 — The Sage King of Jiangguo
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
" the Eastern Emperor asked, forcing down the pain. The pill master smiled slightly, and the Eastern Emperor felt at once ashamed of his own unworthiness. "A pill master of Yincan Village, known as the Jade-Faced Poison King. Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, this dragon's wounds are no longer serious; my disciples can manage them.
Other battlefields have need of me. " The Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, Jiang Baigui, dared not be remiss, and bowed: "Take care, martial uncle.
" The pill master drifted away. "This man is one of Heavenly Venerable Mu's nine masters.
" Jiang Baigui turned his gaze toward the Eastern Heaven's camps and said to the Eastern Emperor: "Therefore I call him martial uncle.
Eastern Emperor, do you know why, for all my schemes, I do not let you die? " The Eastern Emperor endured the agony and said: "The ancestral land of the Eastern Pole Heaven, the Myriad Dragon Nest. And, in the camps of the Eastern Heaven, the divine dragons of my Eastern Pole Heaven!
" Jiang Baigui laughed: "The ancient gods who live to this day are none of them too foolish.
Duke of Weiguo, make the Cyan Emperor's wounds a little graver!
" In the Eastern Heaven's camps the sixty army marquises gathered together.
The leaders of the several armies, Tianjiang, Dongxian, Xixian, Tianfu, Qiguan, Cheqi, Zhenche, and the rest, were mostly ancient gods and demigods, named for the stars and constellations of the Eastern Heaven and holding enfeoffed marquisates, each of them mighty beyond measure. The marquises were in a great flurry, deliberating how to rescue the Cyan Emperor, when of a sudden four ancient gods among the Dongxian stars rose and cried sternly: "The Cyan Emperor is our commanding general, who loves his soldiers as his own children.
He is ringed about by enemies; how can we not rescue him? If you will not go, we will!
" With that the four ancient gods mustered their armies, made ready every kind of divine weapon and heavy treasure, and charged out of the city. The other marquises, who had long harbored some grievance over the Cyan Emperor's unwillingness to give battle, did not stop them.
Jiang Baigui saw the gates of the Eastern Heaven's camps thrown wide and four armies charging, and said unhurriedly: "The Cyan Emperor loves his soldiers as his children and treats the men beneath his banner exceedingly well; general and soldiers are deep in feeling. With him trapped, his soldiers will surely defy his orders and come to save him at the risk of their lives. " The Eastern Emperor endured his pain and said: "Jingping's armies are too few; it will be hard to cut down all the Eastern Heaven's host of gods and demons.
" Jiang Baigui's face was calm. Watching the four Dongxian hosts of gods and demons charge toward them, he said: "Jingping's forces are indeed too few. Though I am Jingping's supreme wisdom, to destroy the Eastern Heaven would cost, I fear, grievous losses; therefore I must exert my full strength. Send out the troops, meet them in battle.
Encircle but do not annihilate!
" At his command a Jingping army burst out from the sky at once, tower ships and great vessels meeting the four Dongxian hosts of gods and demons. At the same moment, beneath the sea where the four Dongxian hosts stood, the waves surged, and one after another undersea warships broke the surface. Two armies, one above and one below, raised their formation diagrams and set their formations turning, trapping the four marquises, and in a moment there were flashes of blade and sword, and blood and flesh flying.
Jiang Baigui's eyes brimmed with divine light; in an instant he judged the shifts in the four Dongxian marquises' formations and ceaselessly adjusted the dispositions of Jingping's two armies.