The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Chapter 780 A Single-Minded Scurry

It was past midnight, the moon was bright and the stars were twinkling, as if it were daytime.

The sky was calm and peaceful, but on the ground, a fierce battle between the living and the dead was raging!

The heroes surrounded the mountain, blocked the way, and forced Ji Mucheng to show himself and behead her.

Ji Mucheng spent most of his life traveling between various parts of Zhongzhou and even foreign states such as Oirat and Poisonous India, studying the secret arts of the living dead and inciting foreign states to hate Zhongzhou, all he wanted was to restore his homeland.

Although he knew that times had changed and the road to restoring the country was extremely difficult, Ji Mucheng had gone all the way without hesitation. Even if he could not achieve his goal in the end, if he could cause chaos and unrest in the Central Plains and make most of the people of the Central Plains experience again the pain of national turmoil, family destruction, loss of relatives and friends, and displacement that they had experienced twenty years ago, then his life would not have been in vain!
Since the outbreak of the war, all the changes have been within Ji Mucheng's plans.

After successfully overwhelming and weakening the southwestern part of Zhongzhou with his army of undead, Ji Mucheng felt a sense of accomplishment, but it is undeniable that he had expended a great deal of mental and physical energy.

The Poisonous Zhu people are not good at fighting, and their cruel and vicious witchcraft is not easy to use on the battlefield. Their greatest advantage is that they do not lack people.

The living Poisonous Zhu people are of mediocre combat strength and die quickly. However, as a dead army, they can chase and kill the Central Plains army. With a large Poisonous Zhu population as a trump card, Ji Mucheng is almost invincible.

However, for Ji Mucheng, both Duzhu and Luoyue were more like puppets. In terms of resources, by combining the strength of the two states and uniting with the Oirat, Goryeo, and Japan, they could barely contend with Zhongzhou.

However, in the actual battles on the southwestern front, it was basically Ji Mucheng who was fighting against the entire southwestern part of Zhongzhou and a large part of the Zhongzhou martial arts world by himself!
This mental exertion may not be immediately apparent.

Over the course of nearly a year, numerous victories boosted morale and alleviated some of the mental fatigue.

Now, the accumulated fatigue has led to frequent errors in Ji Mucheng's judgment and decision-making.

It was one of his miscalculations that the powerful martial arts masters of Zhongzhou would come out of the country and come to Mount Buding to block his gate.

Unexpectedly, the powerful forces split into multiple groups and ventured into the mountains, causing chaos and preventing him from taking full control of all aspects of the situation. This was his second miscalculation.

These two oversights alone have put Himeki in a completely passive position.

Currently, they are indeed in dire straits, but not yet in a hopeless situation, so Ji Mucheng will not give in easily.

So they went with the flow, letting the chaotic mountain fall into disarray, searching for a way out.

Ji Mucheng was confident that no one knew the strategic location better than him, having spent nearly two years surveying it. He was also certain that no outsider had ventured into the mountains to investigate since today.

Although these people from Zhongzhou were quick-witted, they acted on the spot, and their split-up approach only dispersed their forces.

He could break through the natural road at the southeast corner of the mountain range and then leave.

On his way to break through, the first martial arts master from Zhongzhou that Ji Mucheng encountered was neither a complete stranger nor a familiar face.

—Sword Demon Yue Jingyun!

The infamy of the Fourteen Villains of Zhongzhou spread far and wide, coinciding with the rise to fame of the Four Great Swordsmen of Zhongzhou. However, only a few scenes of their battles circulated among the common people. Since neither of them had taken the other's life, they did not rely on the other's name to further enhance their fame.

In the decades leading up to the invasion of Zhongzhou, Ji Mucheng had never directly fought Yue Jingyun, but he had heard many stories about him.

Unfortunately, Ji Mucheng rarely showed interest in other people's past, and only has vague memories of it left.

All that is known is that Li Lingyun, the previous leader of Fengmingxuan, and Yue Jingyun were sworn brothers. The former died of a family ailment before he passed away, and entrusted the latter to take care of the gang before he died.

Yue Jingyun never married and had few relatives or friends, so he treated Fengmingxuan as his own son and had a deep bond with him.

This is Ji Mucheng's general understanding of the unstoppable, madman-like person ahead.

However, when it comes to martial arts, Ji Mucheng has an extremely clear and specific understanding of the Sword Demon!
The Heavenly Overlord Sword Dao is extremely domineering and ruthless. It is unwise to confront it head-on. Instead, one should use entangling, dragging, and restraining tactics to wear down its sharpness.

Ji Mucheng walked steadily through the menacing horde of corpse soldiers, two strands of silver hair fluttering in front of his forehead, his delicate eyebrows raised, and the thick scroll of immortal favor he carried swaying back and forth.

It should have been very conspicuous, but for some reason it blended in seamlessly, as if it were nothing more than a walking corpse.

Without Ji Mucheng raising his hand or looking up, seemingly just thinking about it, the horde of corpse soldiers rushing towards Yue Jingyun had quietly changed their siege tactics.

Five men form a group, and nine groups surround it.

When the sword demon attacked, the three soldiers in front retreated one zhang (approximately 3.3 meters) each time.

Six or five flanking and rear sides will seize the opportunity to get close and harass.

If the Sword Demon unleashes his Heavenly Tyrant Sword Qi in a multi-target attack, then retreat three and a half zhang (approximately 10 meters) to defend. In this way, even if the corpse soldiers cannot withstand a single blow from Yue Jingyun's sword, their numbers will be greatly reduced.

Any reduction can be easily made up for.

They were always able to keep him surrounded by a horde of corpses.

There won't be much improvement in the short term, but it can last for a while. The Sword Demon will gradually become stagnant and exhausted due to repeated repetitions, and his fighting spirit will gradually subside...

By the time the Sword Demon regained his senses, it was too late to regain his full strength and face Ji Mucheng.

It must be said that Ji Mucheng's strategy of using the "boiling frog" tactic to entangle the Sword Demon while simultaneously "fishing in troubled waters" among the horde of corpse soldiers was quite effective.

Yue Jingyun was trapped in an endless horde of zombie soldiers, as if he had just escaped one quicksand pit made up of zombie soldiers only to step into a new quicksand pit.

Ah Liang, Ah Mei, and thirteen others were also strongly resisted by the horde of undead soldiers organized by Duo Mingze's three undead warriors. At times, the east wind prevailed over the west wind, and at other times, the west wind prevailed over the east wind. Neither side was able to cross that critical point and defeat the other in one fell swoop.

Gongsun Yu was the only pawn that Ji Mucheng could not deliberately target.

It wasn't until Ji Mucheng had traveled more than thirty zhang that Gongsun Yu finally realized what was happening and chased after him from inside the valley!

"Hime, Mu, Cheng!"

Gongsun Yu calmed himself and drank it down!
Not skilled in light footwork, he used four light sword shadows that gathered and scattered to conceal his figure, passing through layers of corpse soldiers like a shuttle, and chasing after Ji Mucheng from behind!

Ji Mucheng was determined to escape and had no intention of looking back.

With his pace unchanged and his thoughts racing, one after another, the corpse soldiers received the imperial edict.

First, they stiffened up, then lowered themselves to all fours, like hunting dogs, avoiding Gongsun Yu's gaze, and following the scent from all directions toward where he came from.

When they are about 30 or 40 feet away, they bend down and pounce on their prey!
Seeing that things were not going well, Gongsun Yu, in order to prevent Ji Mucheng from getting out of his sight, stopped holding back his inner strength and releasing his sword to ensure that it would take the enemy's head.

Instead, he unleashed his full power, his sword sweeping across the land!
The faster the corpse soldiers rushed forward, the cleaner and more swiftly the corpses were severed by the sword energy!

The more corpse soldiers rushed in, the faster they piled up around Gongsun Yu, forming mounds, hills, and mountains of corpses!
In the blink of an eye, Gongsun Yu stepped over the mound of corpses, crossed the hill of corpses, and climbed the mountain of corpses.

The eerie man, dressed in thick, earth-gray clothes, carrying a shroud as tall as a person, and with long hair reaching his waist, could no longer be found in sight!

Gongsun Yu, who was cutting through the hundreds of zombie soldiers with ease, suddenly frowned, his forehead beaded with sweat. He was torn between fighting his way out to find Ji Mucheng and helping his allies kill the zombie soldiers before joining forces to find the enemy.

Fortunately, Gongsun Yu didn't have to worry for too long. He strode forward with a powerful stride and brought his sword from the west, pointing out the enemy's direction to the young master from the aristocratic family.

"You scoundrel, don't run! I, Long, will deal with you!"

Long Duoduo was dressed in flowing white robes, with multiple golden dragon phantoms seemingly coiling and swirling around her.

The sword in his hand seemed to be just a few simple flicks and thrusts, but the fierce sword energy was actually a series of powerful slashes aimed at Ji Mucheng's location!
Bang!Bang!Bang!
Ji Mucheng seemed too lazy to pay attention to Long Duoduo.

Amidst the horde of undead soldiers, earth and rocks tumbled and rolled, erecting a stone wall half a zhang long and wide, lifting up two stones over ten zhang long, and sending three enormous spheres, each large enough for an ordinary person to barely encircle, flying into the air...

Yi Yi received the sword energy bombardment from Long Duoduo!

"Humph!"

Long Duoduo snorted softly, pointing his nose.

Although they were indignant that the fourteen villains were so cowardly and timid, they were also troubled by his ability to manipulate the earth and rocks without making a sound.

However, if Himeki continues to flee, the pursuer will only become more determined!

It will be completely finished within 10 chapters.

The more I read, the more I understand why other authors sometimes abandon their works or leave them unfinished.

My abilities are still too lacking, so the closer I get to the end, the less I can take care of everything. Every time I open the writer's assistant, it's a struggle to squeeze out even a little bit of writing. I sit in front of the computer for two or three hours and only write a hundred or two hundred words. I still feel like I haven't written anything. It's normal for my writing to be terrible.

Let's try our best to finish the last few chapters...