Chapter 1000: Like A Dragon

There were few things in the world that were not of the Five Phases. To an ordinary person, this would’ve presented a problem. However, it was the opposite for Ye Qing since his Profound Yellow Mother Qi was not of the Five Phases. It took him no effort to capture the two fishes at all.

The instant the fishes left the water, the water in the pond including the mouth of the spring immediately began drying up and disappearing at a visible rate.

Before Ye Qing could react, Feng Qingyou said in a hurry, “Swallow the two fishes now.”

Ye Qing did not hesitate. He opened his mouth and swallowed both fishes at the same time. As soon as they entered his mouth, the gold fish swam down into his stomach, and the purple fish up into his headspace.

The next moment, Ye Qing felt like he was basking in the spring wind. His body felt soothed, and his mind felt easy in a way he hadn’t felt since he was injured. His mental injuries were disappearing at an extraordinary rate as well.

“Phew...”

Ye Qing could not help but let out a sigh of relief. He had a feeling that his mental injuries would recover in a couple of hours at most. Not only that, he was certain that his cultivation would increase by leaps and bounds.

“I leave what happens next to you, Joyless.”

Ye Qing was still brimming with excitement when Feng Qingyou’s light voice entered his ears. “Remember, hold on for as long as possible.”

“What do you mean?” Ye Qing turned around, but to his surprise, Feng Qingyou was gone.

“Where did she go?”

Ye Qing raised his eyebrows a little. At the same time, a bad feeling began welling inside his heart.

“Who dares to steal the Sky Mending Spring?”

Before his voice even faded, a loud boom suddenly stole his attention. The entrance to the Sky Mending Palace had been blasted open violently.

The next moment, countless soldiers flooded into the room and charged toward Ye Qing.

Ye Qing blanched and threw a punch at the incoming soldiers. The thunderous strike instantly bowled over the squad of soldiers, killing or injuring them.

Having dealt with the soldiers, Ye Qing then rammed the wall next to him—it was like it was made of paper—and broke out of the palace.

“Loose!”

The instant he escaped into the open, arrows rained at him from every direction. In the air, Ye Qing swung and slapped his sleeve like he was dividing a river in half. He sent the skyful of arrows back where they came from.

To the soldiers’ credit, they were all veterans of war. As soon as the row of archers had shot their arrows, the infantry at the back immediately stepped forward and raised a shield wall. However, they underestimated just how potent Ye Qing’s simple-looking retaliation was. He had injected his force into all of the arrows and made them dozens of times stronger than before.

The shields forged from refined steel immediately broke into many pieces like rotten wood. The arrow rain penetrated hundreds of soldiers in an instant and dealt massive damage to the troops.

“Drake Subjugation Formation, rise!”

However, even more soldiers replaced their fallen comrades in a swift but orderly manner. They all unsheathed their sabers in unison and dragged the blade across the ground.

At that moment, the sabers’ light shone even brighter than the moon and colder than the stars. A white drake brimming with killing intent appeared above the soldiers’ heads.

“Kill!”

The next moment, the soldiers all performed an uppercut. The white drake in the air also let out a roar and charged straight toward Ye Qing.

Ye Qing’s response to the attack was to punch downward. The descending white drake exploded into smithereen long before it reached him.

“Tiger Roar Formation, kill!”

Despite Ye Qing crushing their powerful attack in one punch, the soldiers remained perfectly calm and disciplined. This time, they raised their sabers high above their heads before performing a downward cut at the same time.

The sabers’ light illuminated the sky like moonlight. A white tiger carrying a long saber in its mouth could be seen running with the wind.

A white tiger symbolizes violence, and a long saber symbolizes murder. To combine the two was to resolve oneself to reap so many lives that the body count numbered over millions, and the blood ran for thousands and thousands of kilometers.

Every time the white tiger took a step, a saber would ring in the air. It left behind many blade marks that sundered heaven and earth.

Ye Qing looked stern. If before the white drake was as strong as a Trueman’s strike, then this white tiger with a saber in its mouth was as equal to a Great Trueman.

Not daring to treat it lightly, Ye Qing sucked in a deep breath and ran toward the white tiger, his fist dragging next to his waist.

His footsteps felt like gong strikes. Every time he took a step, the ground would shake, and the air would reverberate once.

His fist felt as heavy as mountains. Every time he traversed three meters of space, his back would bend a little more.

The white tiger roared, its overwhelming saber qi seemingly capable of ending immortality and plunging the world into desolation.

A man ran, his footsteps shaking heaven and earth like a mallet, and his fist so heavy it was as if he was planning to knock on the door that was the world itself.

When the duo were ten meters away from each other, the white tiger opened its mouth and swallowed the saber. Then, it pounced toward Ye Qing. Its roars resounded throughout the eight directions, and its saber split even profound yellow in half.

Ye Qing raised his fist like he was lifting a mountain. Then, he punched upward.

It was a punch that could give the sky a new face.

Boooooooooooom!

The punch shattered the white tiger and dispelled the overflowing saber intent. However, Ye Qing himself was sent flying into a palace, the saber intent surrounding slicing and dicing the building into fine powder.

The building was still in the middle of collapsing when a silhouette emerged and charged toward the military formation.

“Black Tortoise Formation, defend!”

The soldiers’ reactions were swift and immediate. The second Ye Qing dashed out of the rubble, they immediately crossed their sabers in front of their chests and changed their formation once more. Their vigor immediately transformed into a tidal wave, and from the bottom of the tidal wave rose a gigantic tortoise as big as the sky itself. A profound snake sitting on its back, both snake and tortoise hissed and conjured yin and yang energy out of thin air. The two energies enveloped around them like a protective cocoon and caused Ye Qing to slow down like he was wading through a swamp when he was ten meters away from them.

If the Drake Subjugation Formation and Tiger Roar Formation were offensive formations, then the Black Tortoise Formation was the complete opposite. It was a purely defensive military formation.

Move like thunder, spread like fire, stand like a mountain, and guard like the sea. There was no doubt in Ye Qing’s mind that the platoon of soldiers in front of him were elites. Although their individual strength was weaker compared to the Nether End Army stationed at the Eastern Sea, their collective strength definitely rivaled their comrades after they formed an army formation. They were at least several times stronger than the Hengshan Army he had fought back in Tian Yong.

Generally speaking, there were two ways to deal with a military formation. One, you avoided them completely and did not engage them. Two, you disrupted their formation so that it could not unleash its full strength. Otherwise, one man could rarely fight thousands and thousands of people alone.

This was why a military formation was so scary. The claim that a hundred soldiers could kill a Spirit Master, a thousand soldiers could kill a Trueman, and ten thousand could challenge a Sage was never an empty boast.

Sometimes, there was only so much one could do.

That was why Ye Qing could not afford to be careless even considering how powerful he had become.

Besides, he wasn’t just dealing with these soldiers. He could feel many murderous eyes watching from the shadows and waiting for him to give them an opening to land a fatal blow. How could he afford to be careless like this?

So, Ye Qing pushed forward. Inhaling and exhaling in one smooth motion, his profound yellow energy transformed into dragons that circled around his arms and turned his skin dark yellow. His eyes shone as if a sun or moon was behind them, and the earth beat rhythmically yet soundlessly beneath his feet.

“Fall! Over!”

Ye Qing’s fist turned into a palm. His wrist flipped, turned, and pushed at the military formation like he was trying to push over a mountain.

Boom!

The ground beneath Ye Qing’s crumbled inch by inch from the exertion, but it worked. What was a well-formed military formation was bowled over, and the Black Tortoise in the sky was flipped upside down.

While the military formation was in chaos, Ye Qing dashed toward the center like an unstoppable force, sending a dozen or so soldiers flying through the air. They were dead long before they hit the ground.

At the same time, Ye Qing swung his arms around like he was swinging spears and smashing the many sabers falling in his direction to smithereens, and breaking the wielders’ bones into bits.

At the same time, Ye Qing stomped the ground and caused it to ripple and shake like autumn waves, causing the countless soldiers running toward Ye Qing to lose their footing and fall face on the ground. Some even threw up blood and took grievous injuries from it.

Ye Qing fought like a tiger in a sheep’s den. His arms, legs, and even shoulder were deadly weapons that injured at the slightest brush, and killed upon solid contact. The army of thousands instantly fell into disarray.

Every soldier was a dragon if their military formation was well-formed. Otherwise, they were but worms before a champion.

That was why hundreds of people were killed or injured in just the blink of an eye.