Honghuang: Creation of the Green Lotus, the beginning of the Three Pure Ones

Chapter 280 Zhang Kui kills the general, Bai Ze offers advice

Zhang Liang arrived before the two armies and said to Zhang Kui, "I, the Marquis, have a compassionate heart and do not wish to kill anyone today. You may return to where you came from."

"If you dare to take even a single step towards my Mozhou City, I will kill you today. It will be too late to regret then."

Zhang Liang's voice was neither hurried nor slow, and his tone was extremely calm. It made people feel that life and death were not affected by him at all.

This inevitably made Zhang Kui instantly furious. He waved the long-handled steel knife in his hand and rushed towards Zhang Liang's chariot.

Zhang Liang couldn't help but shook his head, not taking Zhang Kui seriously from the beginning to the end. Little did he know that the next moment, Zhang Liang was completely shocked.

Because before he could finish showing off, Zhang Kui had already come close to him, and the long-handled steel knife in his hand was aimed at his throat.

Zhang Liang was taken aback by the sudden change. If he wasn't a demon at the Xuanxian realm, he would have been cut in two by this blow.

Even so, Zhang Liang was in a panic and used the ebony staff in his hand to block Zhang Kui's fatal blow.

Afterwards, Zhang Liang did not dare to be careless anymore. He jumped up from the chariot, waving the ebony stick in his hand, and rushed towards Zhang Kui.

The ebony staff in Zhang Liang's hand glowed with a faint black light, and the vines wrapped around the staff seemed to come alive, with a faint green light flowing. He swung the staff down in the air, and a sound of breaking air was heard.

Zhang Kui remained calm upon seeing this, and met the blow with his long-handled steel sword. The two weapons collided, making a deafening sound of metal clashing.

The one-horned black smoke beast under Zhang Kui was shocked and retreated several steps, and Zhang Liang was forced to somersault in the air by the recoil force.

"What a monster! He has some skills!" Zhang Kui shouted, and the momentum of his knife changed, covering all the vital points on Zhang Liang's body.

Zhang Liang sneered and suddenly thrust his ebony staff into the ground. The ground instantly cracked, and five dark green vines, as thick as a child's arm, burst out of the earth and coiled around Zhang Kui like living creatures.

At this critical moment, Gao Lanying, who had been standing quietly at the back, suddenly took action.

She raised her hands, and forty-nine sun needles turned into golden light and shot out, accurately nailing into the joints of the five vines.

The vines were suddenly struck by lightning, twitching violently and shrinking back into the ground.

This inevitably surprised Zhang Liang. After all, he was a vine monster at the Xuanxian realm. If the vines were attacked, they would naturally turn against him.

Fortunately, he reacted in time and didn't suffer too much damage. However, his underestimation of the enemy had long since disappeared.

Zhang Kui seized the opportunity and charged forward with the One-Horned Black Smoke Beast. With smoke billowing from its hooves, the beast moved at lightning speed, reaching Zhang Liang in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Liang hastily raised his staff to meet the attack, but Zhang Kui chopped the ebony staff apart with his sword. The remaining force of the sword continued to cut the stick in half!

Zhang Liang let out a shrill scream, and his body turned into a ball of black mist and dissipated, leaving only a broken vine in its place.

The next moment, Zhang Liang unexpectedly appeared in front of Gao Lanying, and the ebony staff in his hand smashed down directly on Gao Lanying's head.

Gao Lanying raised her Sun and Moon Sabers and blocked Zhang Liang's ebony staff. At the same time, she retreated backwards.

Immediately afterwards, Gao Lanying raised the Sun God Needle and flew it directly towards Zhang Liang's face.

Zhang Liang could only feel a golden light flashing before his eyes, and he could no longer see clearly. This made Zhang Liang cry out inwardly that something was wrong, and he immediately disappeared into the ground.

Zhang Kui naturally observed this scene, and a disdainful smile appeared on his lips. Then, Zhang Kui leaped off the unicorn black smoke beast and disappeared from the ground.

Meanwhile, Zhang Liang had already secretly come towards Emperor Xin and his companions who were observing the enemy's formation, intending to capture the leader first and thus turn the tide of the battle.

Although Zhang Liang received the order to feign defeat and abandon the city, he was already furious at this moment. Even if he had to abandon Mozhou City, he still wanted to teach Emperor Xin a lesson.

The next moment, dozens of vines emerged from the ground and swept towards the Shang army camp like giant pythons.

Upon seeing this, Emperor Xin immediately ordered: "The entire army retreats, and archers prepare their rockets!"

The well-trained Shang army quickly changed its formation, with shield bearers forming a defensive line in the front and archers lighting rockets in the back.

With Emperor Xin's order, fire rain poured down from the sky. The vines caught fire and turned into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye.

The vine monster let out a heart-wrenching scream and tried to escape underground, but unexpectedly, Zhang Kui was already waiting for him underground.

"Monster, die!" Zhang Kui took the opportunity to jump up, infused all his magic power into the steel knife in his hand, and cut Zhang Liang into two halves with one blow.

Then he picked up Zhang Liang's body, jumped up from the ground, and threw it heavily in front of the two armies.

In a moment, Zhang Liang's body had transformed into a pitch-black vine, the very same thousand-year-old vine that had been his true form.

"No wonder you dared to betray the Great Shang Dynasty. It turns out you are from the demon tribe." Zhang Kui spat and said coldly.

At the same time, the defenders in Mozhou City saw their commander was killed and his true form revealed. They finally realized that their commander was a demon and no longer had the slightest desire to fight.

Gao Lanying seized this opportunity and commanded his troops to charge into the city gate. Under the fierce attack of the Shang army, the city quickly fell, and Mozhou City changed hands.

With just one battle, they easily captured Mozhou City and even killed the vine monster that was pretending to be the Marquis of Mozhou.

This inevitably made Emperor Xin very happy, and he immediately rewarded Zhang Kui and Gao Lanying and their spouses. He also ordered the army to rest for a day in Mozhou City.

The next morning, Emperor Xin left a general to guard Mozhou City and continued to lead the army towards Yunzhou City.

The news of Zhang Liang's death soon reached Yuan Futong, who flew into a rage and cursed Zhang Liang as a loser.

At this time, Bai Ze spoke up, "It seems that the generals under that tyrant emperor are extraordinary. Even Zhang Liang, a master of earth-moving techniques, fell victim to his ruthless tactics. The generals of the next few cities may not be his match."

"To minimize losses, Your Majesty, it would be better for you to issue the order directly. Leave the remaining eleven cities to that tyrant king. Have him march to the city of Beihai and engage you in a decisive battle."

Yuan Futong naturally knew that the defenders of those eleven cities could not stop Emperor Xin at all, and if they tried to stop him by force, they would only lose soldiers and generals.

He simply nodded to Bai Ze, and then ordered the commanders of the eleven cities to take away all the food and grass in the city that could be taken away, and burn the ones that could not be taken away on the spot.

Even the food in the homes of the people in the city was forcibly taken away by them, just to cause trouble for Emperor Xin.

As the emperor, Emperor Xin could not bear to see the people in the city starve to death. He would have to distribute the military rations to the people, which would have led to the rapid consumption of Emperor Xin's food and grass.

Emperor Xin soon discovered this as well. The joy of regaining the lost territory vanished in an instant.

(End of this chapter)