YM778.TV Chapter 198 - Day One · Military Counselor
Chapter 198 Day One · Military Counselor
Swords were drawn and bows were bent!
The air in the venue completely froze.
Gu Hanshan slowly wiped the blood on the corner of his mouth, sitting on his seat with a cold face.
He didn’t expect that Li Tianlan would hit him in an occasion like this. Getting hurt didn’t matter to him, but getting humiliated did. After today, everyone in this room would remember that the Young Master of Kunlun City lost to Li Tianlan. That sword strike was bright and dazzling, but it brought shadow to his title of young Heavenly Son.
He still hadn’t recovered from his injury, or Li Tianlan took him by surprise, these could be the real reasons. But in the Dark World, where everyone worshiped victory, there was no use finding the objective reasons. Nobody would believe it, and there was no difference if they did.
If you lost, you lost.
Gu Hanshan twitched the corner of his mouth. The killing intent raging in his eyes flashed then disappeared. He kept his mouth shut, not saying a word.
Li Tianlan was still standing in the air, and the darkness around him spread around faster and faster. The airflows kept twisting around him, as if they wanted to fill up the whole venue.
This was indescribable pride and arrogance. He didn’t care about anything or anyone.
It was just like what he said.
Who the hell did they think they were?
The whole venue went silent for a moment.
Then a furious roar suddenly rang out in the venue.
“Asshole, who the hell do you think you are?!”
They were actually two different voices, but their tone and pitch were exactly the same. The two voices mixed together, making it sound like it was a roar from one person.
The roar with strong killing intent in it echoed in the venue, and the remaining sound of the roar was still floating in the air. Two rays of sword light had appeared in front of Li Tianlan at the same time.
Tribulation in black clothes moved his body. It seemed that he wanted to get up but held back the desire to fight.
The hot temperature dropped down instantly. All of a sudden, the whole venue became an ice and frost kingdom.
The sword light flew around, and the darkness around Li Tianlan was constantly compressed. The ice-cold sword aura almost completely swallowed his body. In his sight, two human figures appeared in front of him.
Two exactly same faces.
Two exactly same swords.
Ice Crystal, Ice Frost.
The two swords hadn’t been combined as one, but when used at the same time, the two kinds of sword intent of the same source mixed together. This sword strike still had the power that surpassed the peak of the Thunder-shocking Realm.
There were only the tips of two swords in Li Tianlan’s pupils now.
The tips of the swords pierced through the air with pale, cold and creepy sword aura and rushed right to his heart!
A faint cry of surprise rang out in the venue.
The determined killing intent instantly filled up the whole room.
For Li Tianlan, that sword strike was absolutely a unique skill.
Not just because the people who initiated this hit were the famous Ice Crystal and Ice Frost from Kunlun City, but also because this sword strike was almost like a sneak attack.
At the moment the pale, cold sword aura flashed, the sword tips of Ice Crystal and Ice Frost had reached Li Tianlan’s chest.
The speed of this sword strike was indescribable, and somehow it even surpassed the level of the Thunder-shocking realm. The sword strike that could be called a master hit would cost something even if was from Ice Crystal and Ice Frost.
To kill Li Tianlan, Kunlun city almost didn’t care about their status and reputation anymore.
The sword light was like a shooting star.
But it felt like time passed by in slow motion.
The darkness around Li Tianlan was chased away by the sword light. The scene in front of him became extremely clear. At this moment, Li Tianlan could see clearly a huge amount of pale, cold sword aura was condensing around him. He could even clearly see the natural patterns on the blades as well as the gloomy and ferocious eyes behind the swords.
The two swords thrust in at the same time.
The cold and creepy sword light lit up inside the venue. The sword light was like ice and snow, and the sword intent was like a severe winter.
In front of the two rays of sword light that were dazzling and cold like the winter sun, Li Tianlan felt a sense of extermination and also saw a slim and strong hand.
In the bright, pale and cold sword light, the appearance of this hand was abrupt and yet natural.
This was a very clean and tidy hand, with a clear outline. It wasn’t big, but every knuckle was powerful. In the sword light that covered everything, that hand directly reached in. In just a second, the sword intent around became a mess.
The palm closed slowly in the ice cold sword intent.
Li Tianlan could almost feel clearly that the sword intent around was completely crushed by this hand. The air around the hand was twisting at high speed and finally ended up into a transparent vortex.
In the extremely silent space, the vortex suddenly rotated at a crazy speed. The Ice Crystal Sword and the Ice Frost Sword that had gotten close to Li Tianlan started to vibrate violently.
The situation lasted less than three seconds. Along with the dull snort of Ice Crystal and Ice Frost, in the sound of the gold and iron crashing together, the two swords suddenly lost all control and stuck together closely. Then they fell on the hand that appeared out of nowhere.
The sword intent of the two swords completely shattered. Suddenly, a cold airflow appeared in the venue, and the air was twisted into a ring of obvious air wave. The air wave spread around the whole venue like a tide with the strong force. The whole venue became a mess.
Countless seats were crushed into pieces under the attack of the air wave. Some people in the middle of the venue even stood up to fight against this sudden and abrupt force. While some Zhongzhou State elites near the door didn’t even have the chance to fight. Their whole bodies were blown up in the air along with the pieces of the crushed seats by the majestic power.
And the bodies of Ice Frost and Ice Crystal were also blown away for more than ten meters, then fell on the empty seats in the venue, kicking up a big cloud of smoke and dust.
Li Tianlan had already landed on the ground.
A black figure walked past him at the moment he landed on the ground and stopped at the small empty spot in the middle of the venue.
It was a figure covered in a black cloak, thin, mysterious and creepy.
It was a seemingly lonely figure, but the moment Li Tianlan saw him, he felt like he was looking at an ocean.
Deep, surging, turbulent, fathomless!
“Saint?!”
Wang Shengxiao, who seemed like he didn’t pay attention to Li Tianlan but actually watched everything happen in the venue, frowned and talked to himself in a soft voice.
“No.”
Firmament, who sat next to him, slowly shook his head. The moment just now seemed very long, but in fact, it happened just in a fraction of a second.
But in that moment of fighting, it was enough for Firmament to feel this person’s irresistible power.
That was pure strength and techniques, instead of sword intent.
“This is Military Counselor.”
Firmament said with a serious face.
Military Counselor, one of the Super Masters of Samsara that ranked below Saint, was also the most mysterious Super Master in Samsara.
Today was the first time that Military Counselor showed his power. Before this, a lot of people were guessing whether Military Counselor was an ordinary person with no power. Some even suspected that Qin Weibai was Military Counselor.
But by his performance just now, this Super Master of Samsara had proven how powerful he actually was.
Judging by strength, he was even the super superior that was no less powerful than the first Super Master, Saint.
“May I ask who are you?”
From Ice Crystal and Ice Frost’s sneak attack to the appearance of the man in a black robe, everything happened in a second. When Ice Crystal and Ice Frost landed on the ground, the crowd finally realized something.
Next to Gu Hanshan, Gu Zhendong, who had been silent all along, suddenly took a step forward. He asked while staring at the man in a black robe who suddenly appeared.
Gu Zhendong had a huge body, thick eyebrows, and big eyes. He was the kind of fighter that looked brave and strong. But in fact, for the Dark World and the Special Warfare System of Zhongzhou State, this was a relatively strange name. In Kunlun City in recent years, Gu Xingyun and Gu Qianchuan, the two superiors of the Invincible Realm, were able to deal with any situation. Below the two, there were some superiors of the Thunder-shocking Realm that came to Kunlun City in recent years. In this case, apart from the few blood relatives of Kunlun City that were living outside, the rest of them seldom showed up; Gu Zhendong was one of them.
But not showing up didn’t mean weakness. From some perspectives, people like Gu Zhendong were the real core and the foundation of Kunlun City. For all the superpowers in the Dark World, an unknown opponent was the scariest.
“I’m Military Counselor.”
The man in the cloak said calmly. His voice was clear and elegant, which somehow showed a sense of coldness and wisdom.
“Military Counselor?”
Gu Zhendong frowned, then repeated. “Military Counselor from Samsara?”
“Not just Military Counselor from Samsara, also the Military Counselor of this operation.”
Military Counselor said in a cold tone.
Gu Zhendong stayed silent and didn’t talk for a while. He seldom left the mountain when he was in Kunlun City, but his authority was extremely high. Before today’s meeting, some superpowers already knew about the content of this meeting.
Now Gongsun Qi, the Azure Dragon of Zhongzhou State, was the leader of nearly two thousand Zhongzhou State elites in Changdao. Gongsun Qi held the leadership, but Military Counselor had the command authority. Zhongzhou State thought very highly of this conflict that involved the whole Dark World. Ye Dongsheng, the God of Army, was in charge of the rear area, and Military Counselor came to the frontline. A very important part of today’s meeting was that Military Counselor in Changdao could successfully link up with the God of Army in Zhongzhou State. Furthermore, they should make a combat plan according to the current situation and emphasize the Military Counselor’s command authority.
The final battle was about force and also about wisdom.
And Zhongzhou State newly established the Snowdance Corps. It cost Gu Qianchuan something to be the first Commander. Giving in the dominance of East Island was one of the terms Samsara mentioned when it cooperated with Zhongzhou State back then.
In other words, Military Counselor, who had the command authority, actually had the same status as Gongsun Qi, at least in East Island. But from the perspective of this final battle, the people from Kunlun City were considered the subordinates of Military Counselor.
Gu Zhendong felt upset inside but didn’t want to lose his momentum. He glared at Military Counselor, let out a cold laugh, and said, “So what that you are Military Counselor? You have the command authority in this final battle, but you don’t have the power to intervene in our internal affairs.”
He pointed at Li Tianlan and said coldly, “This man, you want to take his side?”
Everyone noticed the fact that Samsara wanted to cut Li Tianlan off. They didn’t know what was Samsara up to next, but Military Counselor just saved Li Tianlan once. Anyway, this was against Samsara’s current plan.
Military Counselor denied as expected. He said in a calm tone, “I don’t take anyone’s side. However, your dogs were in my way. Was I wrong to kick them away?”
Dogs!
He called the famous Ice Crystal and Ice Frost from Kunlun City dogs. This seemed to be the first time that they were called that ever since they got famous.
Even when they lost to Nirvana Sword Master Wei Kunlun from Mount Shu, nobody dared to humiliate them like that.
Gu Zhendong’s face looked cold.
Ice Crystal and Ice Frost, who just got up from the mess, suddenly got furious.
The three of them took a look at one another and rushed to Military Counselor almost at the same time without hesitation.
“Kill him!”
Gu Zhendong screamed furiously, and a bolt of dim blue lightning with a bit of strange purple color instantly appeared in front of him. In a second, the air in front of him surged back, and only that purple lightning swelled up instantly.
Gu Zhendong took a step forward. The extremely bright lightning flew around instantly and reached Military Counselor in the blink of an eye, as if it pierced through the void.
Military Counselor’s figure seemed to blur out a bit on the ground. It looked like he moved, but also looked like he didn’t. That lightning passed through him and flew to his back.
Gu Zhendong didn’t have any expression on his face.
And behind him, Ice Crystal and Ice Frost had already rushed in and tried their best...
Something was wrong!
Military Counselor’s eyebrows suddenly jumped. In such a subtle moment, he found out that even Ice Crystal and Ice Frost looked extremely determined, but their movement didn’t look like an attack. It was a defense move!
Defense against what?!
Almost out of instinct, Military Counselor’s heart shook, then he said subconsciously, “Be careful!”
Just after he said that, the purple lightning that passed through Military Counselor suddenly turned its direction.
The purple light instantly lit up the whole venue. In the blurry light, Gu Zhendong’s purple lightning had blown up into a light screen. In the light screen, the killing intent was surging, and infinite sword intent suddenly rushed to cover Li Tianlan up!
Still Li Tianlan!
Gu Zhendong had no expression on his face, but there was determination in his eyes.
From Kunlun City’s perspective, they had to kill Li Tianlan no matter what. Whatever occasion they were in, wherever they were, once they had the chance, they had to do it without hesitation.
Today their series of behaviors were cheap and dirty, but as long as they killed Li Tianlan, who would remember how they killed him as time passed by?
But Li Tianlan just had to die!
Right now, his existence would be turned into a weapon by some people with bad intentions, let alone how big a threat he would be to Kunlun City in the future.
There were too many secrets behind Li Kuangtu’s incident back then, and they were hidden by Kunlun City in these years. Those secrets could be forever hidden in the past as time went by, but the appearance of Li Tianlan reminded people of this again.
Just thinking about this, the whole Kunlun City felt scared.
Not scared of Li Tianlan’s potential, but the series of unknown variables in it.
As long as he had the chance to kill Li Tianlan, Gu Zhendong would do it without hesitation.
Compared to that, the humiliation Ice Crystal and Ice Frost got was nothing.
“Swish!”
At the same time as the purple light exploded, an extremely sharp sound rang out in the venue.
A thick cloud of darkness covered up Li Tianlan, and countless rays of purple light kept rushed to the black curtain around Li Tianlan. The black curtain shook violently, then suddenly contracted.
In front of Gu Zhendong’s gloomy face, the black curtain wrapped up the purple light and flew in the air. It was so fast that before people lifted up their heads, the black curtain had already broken through the ceiling and flew out of the venue.
In the loud booming sound, a hole with a diameter of ten meters appeared on the ceiling after the explosion. The sunlight shone in through the hole and blended in with the lights inside perfectly in the flying smoke and dust.
Tribulation already stood next to Li Tianlan. Under the mask, no one could see the expression of this Lord of Shadow. But there was this kind of raging killing intent in his deep, raspy voice. “Tianlan is the Young Governor of Sigh City. Gu Zhendong, you kill him as you want to, did you really think no one in Sigh City can fight you?!”
The continuous four transparent shadows had circled around Gu Zhendong instantly. Tribulation let down his arms, and two arm sabers stuck out from his sleeves.
“Tianlan is a brother to me, Li Baitian. Gu Zhendong, before you kill him, have you thought about all the enemies you will make in Mount Shu?!”
On the other side of the venue, Li Baitian took out his long sword abruptly.
This sword wasn’t Great Void Sword. But as he pulled out the sword from the sheath, Li Baitian gave off the majestic sword intent that could break through the high sky!
Next to him, Yin and Yang Sword Master Han Chongyang of Mount Shu sat still, and all of the swordsmen of Mount Shu around him also sat still, but the sword intent in them gathered on Li Baitian at the same time.
At this moment, Li Baitian lifted up the long sword, and the bright sword tip was shaking. The amazing sword aura strode across the distance of more than ten meters and pointed at Gu Zhendong’s throat.
“Tianlan is a brother to me, Ning Qiancheng. Gu Zhendong, before you kill him, have you thought about all the enemies you will make in the Eastern Theater of Operations?”
Ning Qiancheng slowly stood up in the front seat of the Eastern Theater of Operations area, and his tone was cold.
The Eastern Theater of Operations sent all their elites this time. There were only two superiors of the Thunder-shocking Realm, but a group of more than a hundred superiors of the Fire-flaming Realm was a force that nobody dared to ignore.
When this force fully gathered together, no superior of the Half-step Invincible Realm dared to mess with them.
“Tianlan is my fiancé. Gu Zhendong, before you kill him, have you thought about all the enemies you will make in the Dongcheng Clan?”
Dongcheng Yueshen and Thunder God almost stood up at the same time.
Sigh City, Mount Shu, the Eastern Theater of Operations, the Dongcheng Clan...
Suddenly it was messy and noisy in the whole venue. The sound of discussions echoed in every corner.
Now, Samsara with an unknown attitude joined in, too.
No matter it was inside or outside Zhongzhou State, once this force united together, it could absolutely fight against Kunlun City.
They just needed Li Tianlan to grow up.
No wonder Kunlun City was so desperate, and even would use such cheap and dirty methods.
The discussions continued, getting louder and messier.
Gu Zhendong, who initiated a sneak attack but failed, took a cold look at Tribulation next to Li Tianlan, then looked at Wang Shengxiao.
The power that stood with Li Tianlan was pretty obvious. If he really grew up, then Kunlun City wouldn’t be the only one that suffered, the Wang family of Beihai would have a hard time, too. Right now, the Wang family of Beihai should stand out and say something.
Wang Shengxiao felt confused and took a look at Gu Zhendong. Suddenly, he laughed and said, “Why are you looking at me? Have you thought about all the enemies you will make in the Wang family of Beihai?”
“...”
Gu Zhendong was so angry that he almost spat out blood. He turned around abruptly, but before he could say anything, a noise louder than the discussions rang out in the conference room.
Everyone froze, and then lifted up their heads subconsciously.
In the middle of the venue, right above Military Counselor, there was a big screen hanging, which had been turned on some time ago. The volume was very loud, and the voice of the East Island host on the screen echoed clearly in every corner of the venue.
And the translator in the conference instantly translated the host’s Japanese into Chinese and echoed in the whole venue.
All the discussions slowly faded away.
People’s faces started to change, from confused in the beginning to surprised, to serious. Finally, everyone looked grave.
At 10 o’clock in the morning today.
East Island Military convened a press conference, in which the Military Spokesperson stated that in the next seven days, there would be a large anti-terrorist military maneuver in Changdao, right now relevant departments were evacuating the masses, and partial areas of Changdao would be turned into the maneuver zone...
It was silent in the venue. Only the voices of the host and the translator echoed.
Evacuated the masses and had a maneuver.
This reason sounded farfetched, but it was a reason after all. And most importantly, this was Changdao, the place with the least people in the whole East Island. And where they hid themselves had even fewer people living there. If East Island turned this area into a “maneuver zone”, then they only had to evacuate one or two hundred people; it would be easy.
Apparently, East Island had started to prepare the battlefield.
“Seven days...”
The image on the screen suddenly froze.
Gongsun Qi’s figure appeared at the door of the venue. He looked at the mess in the room, then looked at the scary big hole in the ceiling. This Azure Dragon of Zhongzhou State let out a small laugh, then walked into the venue.
His voice sounded soft, calm, and even smiling. “Today is the first day. East Island is preparing the battlefield, and the other dark power groups are also preparing, but our Zhongzhou State, well...”
He walked over to Military Counselor then stopped, took a glance around, and asked with a smile, “What is our Zhongzhou State doing?”
It was quiet in the venue.
Gu Zhendong, who didn’t want to give up, hesitated, then sat down slowly.
Even Tribulation dragged Li Tianlan and sat on their seats.
Gongsun Qi was considered the person who was the closest to the Invincible Realm in the Dark World. He was even the first one who entered the Half-step Invincible Realm. No matter whether people believed in this title, he was the supreme leader right now in the battle of Changdao. People needed to pay him the rightful respect.
Tribulation patted on Li Tianlan’s shoulder, turned around and took a cold look at Gu Zhendong.
Gu Zhendong looked directly into Tribulation’s eyes without fear, and his eyes looked complicated.
The fight with Tribulation just now was short, but he had acutely noticed that there was something wrong with Tribulation.
Tribulation, who used his full strength, seemed really powerful, but also extremely weak.
His state was very confusing to others, like a step to heaven and another step to hell, and Tribulation was standing on a wire between heaven and hell, struggling between glory and extermination. Other people felt scared for him, let alone how he felt about it.
This state...
Tribulation seemed to be injured?!
“I’m the nominal leader, but I don’t think I can lead everyone. As for your grievances, I can’t get involved in them. But in front of the big battle, I, Gongsun Qi, ask everyone here, to focus on the state affairs. Maybe some grievances can be solved after the final battle.”
Gongsun Qi made a military salute and turned around for 360 degrees, then he put down his arm and continued to say with a smile, “I wonder if you respect me enough to do it?”
No one answered.
The whole venue was silent.
Gongsun Qi nodded. “I take this as a yes then.”
He shook the thick pile of documents in his hands and continued to say, “Let me introduce the meeting today, Military Counselor the Super Master of Samsara will dock with God of Army Ye Dongsheng, and they will make the following combat plan. What I have here are some bits of intelligence, including East Island and the superiors that all the Martial Arts power groups sent to East Island. Of course, the intelligence won’t be all-around, but something is better than nothing. Here on behalf of Zhongzhou State, I thank Samsara Palace for providing the intelligence. If everyone doesn’t have any question, then let’s begin. We don’t have much time and have to hurry up.”
The screen in the venue switched images.
Ye Dongsheng, the God of Army of Zhongzhou State, who was wearing the rank of marshal and military uniform, appeared on the screen.
Through the screen, he noticed the destroyed seats in the venue and froze for a second. But he didn’t say much, just looked away and laid his eyes on Military Counselor next to Gongsun Qi.
“Your Excellency Military Counselor, looking forward to your support and consideration.”
He said calmly, lifted his arm, and gave a salute.
“Same to you.”
Military Counselor bowed down slightly, and his movement was calm and bland.
Military Counselor and the God of Army.
The moment the two people linked up together, the dullest people in the venue would realize the pressure and coldness of the final battle.
This was a meeting that meant to be long.
Li Tianlan had calmed the agitation in his heart, listening carefully. As time passed by, he seldom spoke for Sigh City, just took notes in most of the time.
The burning sun became the setting sun.
The color bright like fire in the sky slowly faded away.
The remaining part of the sun hung on the sky, but the bright moon already rose up.
After the storm, it was the first dusk in East Island.
The sky finally got dark.
When the sky got dark, the morning sunlight was about to come.
The night passed in the meeting, and it was about to be dawn.
Where there was night, there was morning.