Martial Arts Crossover: My master tricked Huang Rong into becoming my wife!

"put!"

Duan Lie's rough roar exploded on the command platform of the Zhenyuan, tearing the sea breeze to shreds with its fury.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sickening thud of bowstrings snapping back was like rumbling thunder. On the Zhenyuan and the dozens of heavy warships flanking it, three-story-high crossbows unleashed their power simultaneously. Hundreds of heavy steel crossbows, each as thick as a child's arm and over ten feet long, tore through the salty, damp air of the Guixu Sea with ear-piercing sonic booms. Each bolt was strapped with a canister of incendiary fuel the size of a human head.

The dark shadows, like a torrential rain of death, slammed down on the bronze fortress ten miles away that emitted a dark red glow.

"Boom—!"

The series of explosions caused the surrounding seawater to boil violently. The flaming oil ignited the moment it came into contact with the bronze city wall, and crimson flames shot into the sky, turning the lifeless fortress into a scene of hellish carnage.

However, just as the flames were about to engulf the city walls, the dense star-shaped patterns carved on the bronze walls suddenly came to life. Those dark red lines writhed wildly like human blood vessels, spewing out large swathes of viscous black death energy. The death energy and the flames clashed violently in mid-air, hissing and crackling, actually suppressing the intense heat of the burning oil.

The heavy steel crossbows pierced the bronze city wall, leaving only shallow white marks, before falling helplessly into the mudflats below, which were covered with blood and bones.

"Lord, there's something strange about this city wall!" Duan Lie's face was ashen, his hands gripping the wooden railing of the command platform tightly, the veins on the back of his hands bulging. Since its formation, the Zhenyuan Navy's tactic of using eight-ox crossbows with potent fire oil had been invincible, yet today they hadn't even managed to scrape off a piece of the enemy's city wall.

Chen Yanzhou sat upright in the grand chair in the center of the command platform, toying with a wine cup as white as jade in his hand. He didn't even raise his eyelids, but simply said, "The meteorite iron from the starry sky is mixed with city bricks forged by the ancient Frost Mother, and is also covered with a defensive array that absorbs blood and qi. Your ordinary iron naturally cannot penetrate it."

"Then... this subordinate will immediately order the soldiers to form a suicide squad, take small boats to the shore, and fill the gaps with human lives!" Duan Lie gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with determination.

"Get lost." Chen Yanzhou glanced at Duan Lie, his tone leaving no room for argument. "The lives of my Tian Ce Mansion soldiers are extremely precious. You think I'm blind to trade them with these inhuman beasts?"

After saying that, Chen Yanzhou turned his head slightly and looked at his daughter who was jumping up and down anxiously on the deck.

Xiao Nianrong was riding on Wangcai's broad back, clutching the rope she used as a whip, with most of her body leaning out of the ship's side. Looking at the bronze city walls shrouded in black mist in the distance, she wasn't afraid at all; instead, she was excitedly shouting.

"Daddy! Why didn't the firecracker go off! Those dark things are so annoying, they put out the fire!" The little girl turned around and complained to Chen Yanzhou angrily. The innate Dao pattern between his eyebrows was rhythmically flashing with a golden-red interwoven light due to his emotional excitement.

Chen Yanzhou tilted his head back and drank the wine in his cup in one gulp, then casually tossed the cup into the sea. A indulgent smile curved his lips: "Since you hate them, go and tear them down. But remember, you're not allowed to touch those bones under the city wall. If you get your clothes dirty, your mother will make you copy the Tao Te Ching again."

"Yay!"

Hearing her father's approval, Xiao Nianrong cheered and grabbed Wangcai's mane tightly with her two little hands, shouting in her childish voice, "Big Black, charge! Go smash the turtle shell!"

"Awooo—"

Wangcai let out a deafening wolf howl. With a powerful push off the hard ironwood deck of the Zhenyuan, its massive body shot into the air like a black meteor from the warship, which was dozens of feet high.

In mid-air, Wangcai's extraterrestrial bloodline erupted completely. Its already calf-sized body swelled rapidly in a few breaths, transforming into a colossal wolf over three zhang long, its body wreathed in dark, ghostly flames. Each time its powerful limbs stomped through the air, a visible white shockwave was created. Carrying Xiao Nianrong, it soared through the air, heading straight for the Bronze Fortress.

"This... Lord, the young master is only three years old!" Duan Lie stared at the tiny figure riding a giant wolf across the sea, his jaw nearly dropping to the ground.

Huang Rong walked slowly to Chen Yanzhou's side, lightly tapping the deck with her emerald green dog-beating stick. She glared at her husband with annoyance: "You just spoil her. That's a fortress reinforced by a star formation. Aren't you afraid she'll suffer?"

"Suffer a loss?" Chen Yanzhou sneered, his gaze as deep as an abyss. "In this world, my daughter, Chen Yanzhou's daughter, was born to crush others. Anyone who dares to make her suffer a loss, I will exterminate their entire family, even their souls will be burned as lanterns."

As they were talking, Wangcai, carrying Xiao Nianrong, had already approached the Bronze Fortress to within a hundred feet.

The defenders on the fortress walls finally made their move. Accompanied by a sickening creaking of mechanisms, countless black metal tubes rose from behind the crenellations of the bronze walls. The tubes were aimed at the man and dog in mid-air, spraying out countless stench-filled, ghostly blue poison needles.

"Little ancestor, watch out for hidden weapons!" Lu Xiaofeng, who was following closely behind, was startled. He spread his arms like a roc spreading its wings, and was about to use his lightness skill to intercept them.

Chu Liuxiang grabbed his sleeve and shook his head: "Don't rush, look carefully."

Little Nianrong, suspended in mid-air, made no attempt to dodge. She released her grip on the wolf's fur and stood up directly on Wangcai's back. Facing the overwhelming rain of poisonous needles, she took a deep breath, her small chest heaving, and then exhaled sharply forward.

"call--!"

There are no fancy moves, only the purest and most domineering rule-based crushing.

She exhaled a mouthful of innate true fire from her dantian, which instantly transformed into a golden sea of ​​fire stretching for tens of feet. This flame was pure and intense, so fierce that it seemed capable of burning away even the laws of heaven and earth.

Those star-shaped poison needles, which could easily pierce even the protective aura of a grandmaster, were instantly vaporized into nothingness the moment they came into contact with the golden sea of ​​fire, without even having time to make a hissing sound.

The sea of ​​fire continued its relentless advance, like a giant golden beast with its jaws wide open, crashing violently into the bronze city wall that stood tens of feet high.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

The star array patterns, which had previously been impervious to even the Eight-Ox Crossbow and the Fierce Fire Oil, emitted a mournful scream, much like a dying creature, under the scorching heat of the innate true fire. The dark red array patterns cracked and melted at a visible speed. Immediately afterward, the bronze city wall, imbued with the essence of ten thousand years of cold mother energy, began to turn red and soften over large areas, finally melting and collapsing like a candle.

"Boom!"

With a deafening roar, a massive breach, over twenty zhang wide, was burned into the seemingly impregnable fortress's front. Molten copper cascaded down like a waterfall, landing on the white bone-strewn beach below, sending up clouds of ashes and a pungent, acrid smell.

Behind the breach, the interior of the fortress was finally revealed to everyone.

Inside the fortress was a vast circular plaza. In the center of the plaza stood a black stone pillar that pierced the sky, its top adorned with a blood-red eyeball. Around the plaza, thousands of Japanese warriors stood in dense formation.

These people could no longer be called "human." Their warrior armor was tattered, and from the gaps in the armor grew twisted tentacles and grayish-brown compound eyes. Some people's arms had been transformed into sharp bone blades, while others' lower bodies had turned into spider-like legs. They exuded a dense aura of death, and their eyes were bloodshot, like demons crawling out of hell.

"Ugly freaks! You big dumb dog, bite them to death!" Xiao Nianrong pointed at the mutated ronin below, wrinkling her little nose in disgust.

Wangcai let out a brutal roar, its massive body crashing into the enemy ranks at the breach like a mountain. It didn't need to use any martial arts techniques; its three-zhang-long, powerful body, modified by chaotic true energy, alone stirred up a blood and flesh storm within the enemy ranks.

With a powerful tail sweep, the thick wolf tail lashed out like a steel whip, snapping more than a dozen mutated warriors in half at the waist. It opened its blood-red maw, biting half of a mutated general's body, and with a violent flick, tore him into countless pieces of flesh.

Xiao Nianrong stood atop Wangcai's head, resembling a miniature version of the God of Fire. She continuously conjured golden fireballs with her small hands, hurling them like sandbags at the densest part of the crowd.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

With each fireball that exploded, the mutated monsters within a radius of several feet would instantly turn to ashes. The innate true fire had an extremely terrifying restraining effect on these star creatures filled with death energy and evil power.

"Brother Lu, what are we waiting for? We can't let a little kid steal all the limelight." Chu Liuxiang closed his folding fan and his figure, like a wisp of smoke, passed through the melted gap in the city wall and landed in the enemy ranks.

He moved with graceful ease, weaving through the hideous monsters as if strolling in a garden. Each flick of his folding fan struck a monster's vital point with pinpoint accuracy. While he couldn't inflict widespread damage like Xiao Nianrong, his efficiency was remarkably high.

Lu Xiaofeng laughed loudly, his two fingers joined together, the force of his Lingxi Finger fluctuating wildly. He charged straight into the heart of the enemy lines like a tiger descending a mountain.

"Snap!"

Lu Xiaofeng's two fingers shot out with lightning speed, firmly clamping down on a bone blade slashed by a mutated ninja. The bone blade was coated with deadly poison, yet it couldn't penetrate Lu Xiaofeng's fingertips, which were covered in true qi. He exerted force with his wrist, snapping the bone blade, which was harder than refined steel, in two. With a backhand flick of his finger, he struck the ninja's forehead, causing his head to explode like a watermelon.

Just as three people and a dog were wreaking havoc in the fortress square ahead.

"Thump...thump...thump..."

Suddenly, a deep, muffled sound, like the beating of a giant heart, emanated from within the black stone pillar. This sound was extremely penetrating, piercing through the defenses of true energy and exploding deep within everyone's eardrums.

Lu Xiaofeng felt a sudden tightness in his chest, and his internal energy briefly stagnated. He was almost struck by the tentacles of a mutated monster beside him.

"Retreat! There's something strange about that pillar!" Chu Liuxiang's expression changed, and he waved his folding fan to unleash a gust of wind, forcing back the surrounding enemies as he shouted a warning.

As the heartbeats grew more rapid, the enormous blood-red eyeball atop the stone pillar suddenly stopped rotating. Its bloodshot pupils contracted sharply, fixing their gaze on Xiao Nianrong, who was wreaking havoc below.

"Buzz—!"

A dark red beam of light, almost tangible, shot out from the blood-red eyeball, instantly enveloping the square within a radius of a hundred feet.

This red light contained no physical attack, yet it possessed a binding power that transcended the laws of the universe. Wherever the red light passed, space seemed to freeze completely.

Lu Xiaofeng and Chu Liuxiang felt as if their bodies were sinking into a bottomless swamp, their limbs and bones were being suppressed by an invisible force, and even moving a finger became extremely difficult.

Wangcai, bearing the brunt of the attack, let out an angry growl and struggled desperately, but was firmly pinned to the spot. The dark, ghostly flames burning on its body began to dim gradually under the suppression of the red light.

Xiao Nianrong was just about to throw a large fireball when the red light extinguished it instantly. She discovered that she could only move her eyes; she couldn't even lift her arms.

The little girl had never suffered such injustice before. Her lips immediately trembled, her eyes filled with tears, and she cried out at the top of her lungs, "Daddy! Big Eyes is bullying me! I can't move!"

This cry, filled with grievance and anger, was clearly heard on the Zhenyuan ship on the sea.

Chen Yanzhou, who had been sitting languidly on the command platform, suddenly stopped moving.

The next instant, the sea surface within a ten-mile radius of the Zhenyuan ship sank three feet without warning.

An indescribable, terrifying killing intent erupted from Chen Yanzhou's body, almost tangible. The clouds in the sky were completely shredded by this killing intent at that moment, and the originally bright sunlight instantly dimmed, as if all the light in the world had been swallowed up by this gaunt figure.

Duan Lie staggered back several steps and collapsed onto the command platform, panting heavily, feeling his very soul tremble.

"How dare you bully my daughter, Chen Yanzhou?"

Chen Yanzhou's voice was very soft, yet it traveled across ten miles of sea, booming like thunder from the heavens above the Bronze Fortress.

Everyone only felt a blur before their eyes, and Chen Yanzhou had already disappeared from the command platform.

When he reappeared, he had traversed ten miles of space and stood in mid-air directly above the fortress square. His black and gold robes fluttered in the gale, and his full head of silver hair danced wildly, making him look like an unparalleled god of war awakened from the primordial era.

"That charlatan."

Chen Yanzhou looked down at the enormous blood-red eyeball and slowly raised his right hand. Without activating any fancy sword techniques or using any exquisite palm techniques, he simply and calmly slapped the dark red pillar of light that enveloped the entire area below.

"Snapped!"

A crisp popping sound.

The red light of rules, which could instantly imprison even top masters like Lu Xiaofeng and Chu Liuxiang, shattered like fragile glass under Chen Yanzhou's casual slap.

The crimson light that filled the sky dissipated into specks of light.

Lu Xiaofeng let out a long breath, rubbed his sore wrists, and said with a wry smile, "Damn it, in front of this person, this so-called Starry Sky Law is simply a joke."

With her restraints lifted, Xiao Nianrong immediately stopped crying and started laughing, waving her little fists and shouting to the sky, "Daddy's the best! Smash that big eyeball!"

Just then, the black stone pillar suddenly trembled violently. Layers of rock on the surface of the pillar peeled away, revealing a metal body covered with star crystals beneath.

"Who... dares to desecrate Lord Orochi's glory...?"

A hoarse, grating sound, like two pieces of rusty iron rubbing against each other, emanated from inside the stone pillar.

Immediately afterwards, a large metal door cracked open near the ground of the stone pillar. A colossal figure, over ten feet tall and clad in heavy star meteorite armor, slowly emerged, wielding a massive katana over ten feet long.

This person had no head, or rather, his head was the enormous, fanged demonic face on his chest. Embedded in the center of the demonic face's forehead was a top-grade star crystal core, larger than an infant's fist.

"It's Amaterasu! The greatest warrior of Japan back then, a confidant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi!" Chu Liuxiang, with his vast knowledge, immediately recognized the monster's origin, his expression changing drastically. "He didn't die! He even sacrificed himself to the Starry Sky Crystal Core, transforming into this half-human, half-formation monster!"

The headless demon general took a step forward, causing the entire fortress to tremble. The demonic face on his chest opened its blood-red maw, spewing out a thick aura of death: "I am the guardian of the floating island, Tokugawa Blood Armor. You lowly people of the Divine Land, how dare you destroy the guiding array… Die!"

He abruptly raised the massive katana in his hand, its dark red array patterns flashing wildly, instantly sucking away the surrounding air and creating a huge vacuum vortex. A terrifying crimson blade beam, tens of meters long, tore through the void, carrying an aura of annihilation, and slashed straight at Chen Yanzhou in mid-air.

The power of this strike has long surpassed the realm of the Celestial Realm. Even if dozens of Grandmasters joined forces, they would be instantly cleaved into a bloody mist.

Faced with this earth-shattering attack, Chen Yanzhou didn't even raise a hand. He simply hovered silently in mid-air, coldly staring at Tokugawa Blood Armor below with the gaze one would give a dead man.

"Who do you think you are, to dare yell at me like that?"

Chen Yanzhou parted his thin lips slightly.

Words are law.

The terrifying, blood-red blade of light, tens of feet long, seemed to have struck an insurmountable wall of rules when it was still ten feet away from Chen Yanzhou's face.

"Click click click..."

The blade emitted a cracking sound as it shattered under the strain, and then, to Tokugawa's incredulous gaze, it disintegrated into countless tiny red specks of light.

"This is impossible! This is the divine punishment power bestowed by Lord Orochi!" The demon face on his chest let out a shrill scream.

"Noisy."

A hint of impatience flashed in Chen Yanzhou's eyes. He made a claw-like motion with his right hand and gently sucked at the Tokugawa Blood Armor below.

Driven by the Chaos True Qi, the "Dragon-Capturing Skill" has long since evolved into a supreme divine technique for controlling space.

The massive body of Tokugawa Blood Armor, standing twelve feet tall and weighing several thousand kilograms, was lifted off the ground without any resistance, like a duck being grabbed by the neck, and instantly sucked in front of Chen Yanzhou.

Chen Yanzhou's long, slender, and fair fingers gripped tightly at the throat of the demon face on Tokugawa Blood Armor's chest.

"In my territory, I am divine punishment."

Chen Yanzhou's voice was icy cold. Chaotic true energy surged from his fingertips like a raging dragon into Tokugawa Blood Armor's body.

Those seemingly indestructible star-studded iron armors were torn apart like paper under the crushing force of the chaotic true energy. The mutated meridians and bones within Tokugawa's blood armor were instantly crushed into pure dust.

"Soul Search".

Chen Yanzhou's eyes shone brightly with golden light, and his immense divine sense forcibly tore through the defense of the starry crystal core in Tokugawa Blood Armor's sea of ​​consciousness, roughly flipping through his memories.

A moment later, the golden light in Chen Yanzhou's eyes faded, replaced by a chilling ferocity.

"So that's how it is... This blood-red eyeball isn't a defensive formation at all. It's... a star coordinate transmitter."

Chen Yanzhou suddenly clenched his five fingers.

"Bang!"

The massive body of Tokugawa, clad in blood armor, along with the top-grade star crystal core on his chest, exploded in mid-air into a cloud of crimson smoke. No trace of his remains remained.

After doing all this, Chen Yanzhou didn't pause. He reached back and drew the simple, unadorned, nameless ancient sword from his waist.

On the sword's blade, chaotic three-colored sword intent flowed, radiating a terrifying sharpness capable of eclipsing the heavens and earth.

"Since you like guiding people so much, I'll give you a big gift."

Chen Yanzhou gripped his sword with both hands, and his figure suddenly rose a hundred feet into the air until he was level with the blood-red eyeball at the top of the black stone pillar.

"Breaking the path!"

A sword strike was unleashed.

The world seemed to have lost all sound. Only a golden-blue sword aura, reaching to the heavens and earth, carrying the supreme domineering power to cleave through the chaos of the universe, slashed fiercely at the enormous blood-red eyeball.

There was no explosion, no roar.

That indestructible, blood-red eyeball, imbued with the will of the starry sky's ruler, was neatly split in two like tofu being cut open by this sword.

Thick, black liquid gushed out, and the entire bronze fortress began to shake violently and collapse.

"Daddy is so handsome!" Little Nianrong clapped her hands and cheered loudly from below.

Chen Yanzhou sheathed his sword and slowly floated down to Huang Rong's side. He then picked up his daughter, who rushed towards him, and pinched her dusty little face.

"Yanzhou, what did the soul search reveal?" Huang Rong keenly sensed the seriousness hidden in her husband's eyes.

Chen Yanzhou turned around and looked at the black stone pillar that was sinking into the seabed, his voice low and deep.

"This floating island fortress is just a decoy. The real guiding array was activated three days ago. The coordinates have already been sent out."

Chen Yanzhou raised his head, his gaze passing through the sky above the Guixu Sea, as if he could see the endless depths of the starry sky.

"A true interstellar expedition fleet... is crossing boundaries and heading towards the Divine Land."

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