Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2694 Turning the Enemy to a Surrender
Chunyu Ye's sword strike transformed into a giant wave of sword energy, surging towards the ordinary soldiers fighting below the city. The sword light concealed countless sword shadows, like the scythe of death, slicing towards every living being below the city.

His move is indiscriminate, and any cultivator whose cultivation level is below the Heavenly Rank will be cut in half at the waist.

"You are crazy!"

Ji Jiashu cried out in despair, Chunyu Ye's indiscriminate attack was simply trampling on the face of Heaven.

A Heavenly Realm cultivator can kill an ordinary soldier as easily as stepping on an insect. If Heavenly Realm cultivators could attack ordinary people at will, the battlefield would inevitably be awash in blood.

Chunyu Ye's move was utterly shameless and will surely be punished by heaven.

Just as Ying Baoyue called out Li Ji's name, a cyan sword light rose from below the city wall like a fan, like a thick new Great Wall blocking Chunyu Ye's sword light.

boom!
With a loud bang, the Western Rong soldiers and Former Qin soldiers who were fighting below the city all turned around, broke out in a cold sweat, and those with lower cultivation levels even wet their pants.

Countless sword shadows were shattered and blocked above their heads, but the killing intent still swept over them.

Chunyu Ye's sword strike was delivered without reservation, and was by no means a mere bluff.

He really wanted to kill everyone.

Li Ji stood beneath the city wall, gripping the giant sword, staring intently at Chunyu Ye, who was half-human and half-ghost in mid-air.

Half of his face was covered with hideous, centipede-like black veins, and one of his eyes was swallowed by black mud.

The black veins throbbed, and Chunyu Ye's hand holding the knife twitched, as if it were beyond his control.

Li Ji frowned, and just as he raised his sword again, a faint male voice suddenly came from the void.

"That's enough, come back."

Chunyu Ye's convulsions stopped, and with a sudden flap of his wings, his figure disappeared into the horizon.

"Damn it, those bastards from the Chunyu family!"

Helian Bo, whose face was covered in blood while fighting Li Meiniang, saw Chunyu Ye disappear out of the corner of his eye and wished he could devour him alive.

The next moment, a cold blade pressed against his neck.

“The outcome is decided,” Li Meiniang kicked him in the leg, and the big man fell to the ground with a thud. The next moment, he struggled to get up, completely ignoring the long sword pressed against his neck, like a wild boar struggling in a pool of blood.

Li Meiniang frowned, just about to give him a quick death, when she suddenly heard Ying Baoyue's voice.

"That's enough, Mei Niang. Keeping him alive is still useful."

"Bah! I don't need your pretense, just kill me if you dare!" Helian Bo cursed as he got up from the ground, struggling to crash into Li Meiniang's sword, but his body was suddenly frozen in place.

A girl clad in silver armor suddenly appeared before him.

She wasn't even as tall as Li Meiniang, but Helian Bo was frozen in place as if he had been struck by an acupuncture point.

The girl didn't make a move, nor did she hold her sword against him. She simply stared at him quietly, and the extreme pressure she exerted made Helian Bo unable to move.

“Zhao…”

Helian Bo's stiff tongue could only utter one word.

“It’s me,” Ying Baoyue said, looking at him. “You can call me that if you want.”

“I am Ying Baoyue, and also Lin Baoyue.”

She was also Princess Zhaoyang, who struck fear into the hearts of all the Western Rong soldiers on the border.

"Long time no see. The last time I saw you, you were just a young boy behind your uncle."

Helian Bo was stunned. "You recognize me?" Or rather, she actually remembered him?
“I recognize you; after all, you are a member of the Helian family,” Ying Baoyue said calmly. “How is your uncle now?”

“He’s dead,” Helianbo grinned. “He died seven years ago from an old wound he sustained on the battlefield.”

"Is that so?" Ying Baoyue paused for a moment. "So you're now in charge of the Helian family's main branch?"

Juyong Pass was not a good place. The fact that the Helian clan, originally the first noble family under the Chunyu family of the Western Rong, was sent to this city as cannon fodder is enough to show the decline of the Helian clan.

"Otherwise what? My father is such a good-for-nothing, he only knows how to lick the royal family's boots, he can't even lift a knife," Helian Bo laughed. "Come on, kill me. It's not a loss for the head of the Helian family to die on the battlefield, and at the hands of Princess Zhaoyang!"

Ying Baoyue stared at him intently for a moment, "If you die, the bloodline of our clan will be almost wiped out. All the other men in the clan will definitely be sent to the front lines to die."

Helian Bo's temple twitched.

“As the head of the family, the ability to choose sides is more important than showing off on the battlefield,” Ying Baoyue stared at his emerald eyes. Although both were emerald, his eyes were lighter in color than Chunyu Ye’s, and he looked more like a bear than a wolf.

"What do you want to say?" Helian Bo struggled to raise his head, sneering, "You want me to surrender to the Central Plains people?"

“No,” Ying Baoyue laughed, “Even if I chopped you into mincemeat, you wouldn’t, would you?”

"I don't understand. The Western Rong people already have a White Wolf King, so why do they still pledge allegiance to that beast who killed his father? Wouldn't it be better to choose a wise ruler?"

"You mean that bastard Zhao Guang?"

Helian Bo spat, "He's a bastard, does he even deserve to be called one?!"

Li Ji, standing beside Ying Baoyue, frowned, his murderous aura suddenly intensifying. Helian Bo's face paled, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Aji, don't be impulsive," Ying Baoyue stepped in front of him, suppressing the oppressive aura emanating from him.

“Even if he has the blood of the Central Plains people, he is still the son of the Western Rong princess,” Ying Baoyue said calmly. “According to your Western Rong’s custom of following the mother’s lineage, he can become the White Wolf King.”

“He has chosen his own lineage, and now he is surnamed Chunyu. I believe he can bring light to the Western Rong people.”

"Bah! Bringing light to the Western Rong people?" Helian Bo laughed. "They're more like dogs to the Central Plains people!"

"Who doesn't know that little bastard was originally a prince from the Central Plains? Just because he changed his surname, does that mean he can become a Western Rong?"

"Do you think we don't know that bastard knows you and is one of your lackeys?"

"Rather than pledging allegiance to a White Wolf King who might betray his own kind at any moment, I'd rather perish with you all!"

Sure enough.

Ying Baoyue took a deep breath. This was the reason why most of the Western Rong nobles were unwilling to pledge allegiance to Zhao Guang.

In the eyes of the Western Rong nobles, Zhao Guang was of illegitimate birth and had connections with the rulers of the six states in the Central Plains, making him a puppet of the Central Plains people.

“If the bloodline of the Central Plains people is a sin, then the Western Rong national teacher you have been serving is also a Central Plains person,” Ying Baoyue stared into Helian Bo’s eyes, “and the Guihua Jun who just led you is also a mixed blood of a Western Rong princess and a Central Plains person.”

“His bloodline is no different from Zhao Guang’s.”

Helian Bo, who was cursing loudly, froze, his eyes wide open.

"What, you still don't know?" Ying Baoyue smiled. "Yun Zhongjun's original name was Jin Yun. His father was a general of the Great Qin Dynasty, and he was a Qin person."

“You Western Rong nobles have been working for the Central Plains people for a long time.”

"Didn't Chunyu Ye attack you before he fled?"

"Neither he nor his father cared about the lives or deaths of the Western Rong people."

Ying Baoyue's eyes gleamed with amusement. "If I pledge allegiance to Chunyu Ye and Yun Zhongjun, will I be safe from betrayal?"