High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 31 - 30: Dividing the Realm Over a Cup of Wine

Chapter 31: Chapter 30: Dividing the Realm Over a Cup of Wine

"Crack..."

Huo Hengxuan raised the giant halberd with one hand, and beneath his newly reborn feet, the city wall had already cracked into web-like fissures.

The immense force was like a mountain pressing down, and the stone bricks on the wall couldn’t withstand it, crumbling from the center outwards and forming a huge pit.

From afar, the entire city wall appeared to collapse, with only two figures confronting each other with the giant halberd.

But even so, the cultivators and soldiers below who were engaged in a bloody battle saw this and instantly felt their blood boil, their eyes turned crimson, and they let out earth-shaking roars.

Huo Hengxuan’s voice rang out across the battlefield.

They were so overwhelmed with excitement, the battle briefly turned around, forcing the Black Armor Army lines back by three yards.

General Huo is not dead; the God of Slaughter of Liang Kingdom is not defeated!

He still stands there!

Just like that day at the city gate, he stood alone with a sword and forced the enemy army to retreat.

As long as he was there, he made people believe—Huo Hengxuan would not die, and the Liang Kingdom would not fall!

Huo Hengxuan stood in the center of this pit, looking up at Li Hongling with a mocking smile on his aged and emaciated face.

His hands and feet had all been reborn, differing significantly from his original skin, delicate and fair, with veins protruding, exceedingly youthful.

In fact, this was how his body should be, as a Grandmaster.

Huo Hengxuan’s aged appearance was deliberately maintained for his authority in the military.

When he didn’t deliberately restrain it, his vitality naturally showed, making the newly reborn organs exhibit this abnormal difference.

Li Hongling’s scarlet eyes were fixed on him.

There was incredible shock in her gaze, but it wasn’t because of Huo Hengxuan’s escape from the restriction:

"Although I haven’t reached the Grandmaster Realm, I know that the Grandmaster Realm is said to have an ’indestructible body,’ but in reality, it’s merely that the body’s vitality peaks to an extreme, creating such an anomaly."

"Even if briefly beheaded or having the heart pierced, it can heal instantly."

"But the premise is the head isn’t destroyed, and the heart is intact, immediately reattached to the body, thus restoring."

"But I’ve never heard of anyone being able to create something from nothing, to regenerate out of thin air."

Li Hongling said solemnly:

"This isn’t an ability that should exist in the Grandmaster Realm."

"Ha."

Huo Hengxuan let out a cold laugh and with a sudden flick of his other hand, the two corpse-like Black Armor Guards were thrown far away, crashing into the distant battlefield like cannonballs.

Crashing down a swath of ruined walls...

He clasped both hands together, intending to seize the giant halberd in his grip, which Li Hongling quickly realized.

"Ha!"

She let out a fierce shout, channeling her energy, spinning the halberd in her hand and then striking forward.

Martial Saint’s ultimate technique, Tyrant Storm!

"Boom——"

The spinning gust howled like a raging storm, sweeping everything with the most tyrannical and fierce force, and within a moment, the surrounding walls collapsed a few more yards, dust exploding and blowing in all directions.

It was actually like a small sandstorm!

The momentum of strength continued downward, cracking the walls, causing the bricks of the foundation below to break as well.

From a high altitude overlooking, we would see a large pit with a diameter of several hundred yards centered around the wall!

The pit was shallow, not deep, but within the range, all birds and beasts died instantly.

In one strike, thousands of mountain birds and beasts perished, what a magnificent spectacle!

General Fei Feng Li Hongling, ranked thirteenth in the Conglang evaluation, with a comment of "tyranny in excess, lacking magnanimity, heir to Martial Saint’s legacy, only obtaining the vestige."

The meaning of the words was plainly that Li Hongling only obtained the vestige, but was unworthy of inheriting the Martial Saint’s title.

Because of this, her cultivation was clearly higher than the two ahead, yet she ranked only thirteenth.

But this strike was enough to lift her into the top ten!

With the genius strength, rivaling the prodigies!

However, this move was still inadequate in Huo Hengxuan’s eyes.

Only a third of the form was there, without the majestic charm of Mu Zhao’s tyrant wind.

Due to the rotational force resembling a gear-wheel, Huo Hengxuan couldn’t clamp it with both hands, and could only block the edge of the halberd with his palm.

He sank his qi into his Dantian, tensed all his muscles like iron wires, veins popped out on his forehead, and with a shout, the golden light flickering on his body became more brilliant, his vitality surged.

Huo Hengxuan originally planned to halt the halberd mid-way and counterattack.

For him, it was an extremely easy task.

But... at this critical moment.

He suddenly felt his vitality stagnate, and the burgeoning spiritual qi abruptly backfired.

"Bang!"

Huo Hengxuan’s face turned pale, and he was pushed back, plowing through and carving off a layer of the city wall, finally crashing into the corner tower behind him, creating a person-shaped pit.

The corner tower teetered on the brink of collapse.

Huo Hengxuan also realized something was amiss.

The restriction wasn’t completely broken!

The Unsealing Golden Needle positions were all set, except for one missing.

It was this single omission that sealed one of his major meridians, preventing spiritual qi from fully circulating, effectively halving his cultivation!

In the past, Huo Hengxuan had absolute confidence that even with halved cultivation, he could easily handle a Half-Step Grandmaster in the Moon Embrace Realm.

But at this moment, Huo Hengxuan had been tormented for eight days, his vitality was weakened.

He immediately realized who had done the trick.

The old man remained expressionless and silent.

Seeing this, Li Hongling laughed wildly: "Huo Hengxuan, even if your divine power is unmatched, what’s the use of being able to regenerate your feet?"

"The first time, you lost to human hearts, the second time, you’ll lose just the same!"

"What’s the use of defending a city? You can’t defend this nation!"

Saying this, her halberd stabbed again, like a frenzied dragon.

"Boom!"

The corner tower collapsed, and the entire wall crumbled.

Li Hongling’s halberd struck Huo Hengxuan down to the ground.

In mid-air, Huo Hengxuan grabbed the halberd, lifting his gaze, without the tragic grief of betrayal Li Hongling expected.

Instead, he showed a smile of absolute calm and serenity that shouldn’t appear on his face.

His eyes went beyond Li Hongling, looking at the night sky filled with stars.

"You’re wrong, I was never about defending the city or the nation, never." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"I was just... delaying time."

Before landing, Huo Hengxuan suddenly vanished, reappearing behind Li Hongling.

His entire skin had blood vessels wriggling, bursting, and spraying a mist of blood.

His expression was contorted with pain.

Forcefully breaking the meridian!

This was tantamount to severing his meridian, with no chance of survival!

"Your Majesty... once shared half a cup of wine with me."

Huo Hengxuan, drenched in blood, his gaze calm, blood flowing continuously from his face like tears of blood, right hand forming a sword finger.

Behind him, a ten-thousand-foot-long sword materialized out of the void, suspended high above.

"He said, ’Hengxuan, today, I will divide the world with this cup of wine, betting the fate of the nation on a shadow.’"

"I asked him, ’What can I do for you?’"

"He said, ’You must let that shadow... escape.’"

Li Hongling’s heart spirit was terrified, cowed by the grand Sword Will, she turned pale and produced a Life-Saving Divine Marvelous Spiritual Treasure.

But she heard her Personal Guard Qing Cuo rushing over, saying:

"General, the Celestial Prison has fallen, and Lady Liang and the Musician have already escaped!"

...

Wei Su, in the throes of joy, was ready to first give this daring musician a lesson.

His hand had been rendered useless, so why not pluck out that sharp tongue...

As he thought of this, he saw the one-armed Chen Kuang pressing his other hand on the qin.

Wei Su almost laughed; this guy must have been frightened silly!

He had seen earlier that this guy had supposedly used a sound-based cultivation technique.

But the qin in his hand, the strings had long been switched underhandedly; how could an empty qin frame produce sound?

Let alone kill!

But when he looked at Chen Kuang, the musician bizarrely smiled at him: "Who told you... that without strings, you can’t kill?"

Dragon’s Gums itself is a sword.

The killer is the will, not the sound.