Chapter 51: Self-Exposure_1
Duan Yonghui’s escape accelerated the Holy Fire Sect’s army’s defeat, and morale plummeted. Many soldiers, yearning for life, threw down their weapons and knelt to surrender. Seeing the tide of battle turning, those unwilling to surrender gradually withdrew from the battlefield and fled. Of course, every faction had its staunch loyalists. Faced with the prospect of defeat, they fought desperately, trying to turn the tide. These fighters inflicted significant casualties upon the Qin Dynasty’s soldiers but were soon exterminated.
Looking out over the battlefield, a domain of a hundred li, millions of Holy Fire Sect soldiers knelt on the ground, their faces as pale as paper, their eyes filled with bewilderment. Although their surrender preserved their lives for the moment, what about tomorrow? Would the Qin Empire truly pardon them? They remembered thirty years ago, when Bai Qi had slaughtered millions of soldiers, stacking their bodies into a mound known as Death Bone Mountain. This memory made many Holy Fire Sect soldiers tremble more violently with unease.
With the ground battle concluded, the aerial combat continued. Under the combined assault of the Qin Emperor and Zhao Yun, the six venerable elders of the Holy Fire Sect were losing ground, covered in wounds, utterly defeated.
"Emperor Qin, let’s cease fire here and now! I swear to Heaven, I will never step foot into the Qin Empire in my life!" one of the venerable elders from the Holy Fire Sect yelled out during a lull in the battle, his body trembling from surging spiritual energy, barely keeping himself from vomiting blood. The aura he radiated still appeared mighty and unyielding.
But was it really? Continuous battles had already exhausted him. The spiritual energy within his Dantian was more than half depleted. If the intense combat continued, his death was certain.
"Kill!" The Qin Emperor showed a hint of contempt and didn’t deign to reply. He launched an even more ferocious attack, intending to use the fresh blood of the Holy Fire Sect elders to show the surrounding domains that the Qin Empire was not to be trifled with. Those who dared to violate the majesty of Qin would be killed!
PFFT!
After several more rounds of battle, the weakest among the Holy Fire Sect’s elders, the Seventh Elder, was gravely injured, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his aura diminished.
"Emperor Qin, are you really determined to fight until both fish and net are broken?" the Grand Elder of the Holy Fire Sect shouted, murderous intent surging in his heart as a mad idea surfaced.