Chapter 689: Fighting Against the Heavens (3)

"Regimental Commander Zhang! You are making the brothers march to their deaths for nothing!" Qin Ming was so anxious he was jumping up and down.

"Marching to their deaths? That is also the destiny of us Daxia soldiers!"

Regimental Commander Zhang turned around, pointing at the endless black abyss in the distance, and roared with bloodshot eyes: "If some terrifying exotic beast really crawls out of that damned cave, as military soldiers of Daxia, we ought to charge at the very frontline! Even if we have to use our Physical Body to fill the gap, we must block them here!"

"Take a look behind us!" Regimental Commander Zhang grabbed Qin Ming by the shoulder and pulled him toward the direction facing the city. "This place is only a few dozen kilometers away from Donghai City! Just a few dozen kilometers, Brother Qin!"

Regimental Commander Zhang's voice trembled slightly, but more of it was absolute resolve: "In Donghai City, there are tens of millions of unarmed commoners! There are our parents, our wives, and our children! If we leave today, what will happen to them?! Who will stop these monsters?!"

"We cannot retreat no matter what! Not a single step!"

Regimental Commander Zhang pulled out the longsword at his waist, turned around, and roared at the thousands of panicked soldiers behind him: "Where is the military Soul of Daxia?!"

"Fight to the death without retreat! Fight to the death without retreat!"

Thousands of mud-covered soldiers roared in unison, their voices shaking the nine heavens. That fearless, iron-blooded Evil Qi actually managed to forcefully dilute a bit of the oppression in the sky.

After hearing this, Qin Ming's lips moved slightly, his full belly of dissuading words stuck in his throat, and ultimately transformed into a sigh.

Looking at this group of Daxia soldiers with firm gazes before him, an indescribable sense of respect rose in his heart, and he gave a wry smile, no longer trying to dissuade them.

Right at that moment.

"Thump… thump… thump…"

An extremely muffled sound faintly echoed from the depths of the collapsed cave.

Following closely was an extremely desolate and ancient horn sound.

"Woo——"

Accompanied by the horn, dense battle cries surged out as if from Hell and Yellow Springs, making one's hair stand on end.

"Entire army, form up! Prepare for battle!" Regimental Commander Zhang widened his eyes and roared the order.

All the soldiers quickly pulled the bolts and loaded their weapons, various heavy firepower were re-erected, and the pitch-black gun muzzles tightly locked onto the entrance of the abyss.

Afterward, in everyone's tensed gazes, pale bone palms grabbed onto the edge of the abyss.

One by one, skeleton warriors holding rusted swords and sabers, with dim blue ghost fires dancing in their eye sockets, stepped with stiff yet orderly paces and slowly crawled out from the depths of the cave.

They exuded a thick Death Qi and a decaying stench, their numbers instantly reaching several hundreds, and they were still gushing out endlessly.

"Fire——!"

Regimental Commander Zhang had just raised his hand, not yet having time to fully roar out these two words.

In the sky, a sudden change abruptly occurred!

"Rumble——!!!"

The strange purple lightning that had originally been rolling within the dark clouds was stimulated and suddenly struck down without warning!

That was a purple lightning storm as dense as a downpour!

The purple thunder carrying an irresistible Law of destruction blasted onto those skeleton warriors who had just stepped foot onto this land!

"Sizzle——Bang!"

There was not the slightest room for resistance.

Those skeleton warriors struck by the purple thunder didn't even let out a single scream; their hard bones were directly melted by the violent energy upon contacting the thunder, ultimately turning into fine dust fluttering across the sky.

A gust of wind blew past, leaving behind nothing at all.

This time, the dim blue ghost fires in the skeletons' eye sockets were completely wiped out, completely devoid of the possibility of infinite resurrection like before inside the ruins!

Everyone maintained their defensive postures, dumbfounded.

"This… what is going on here?" A company commander stutteringly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Thunder killed them?"

Qin Ming was also full of disbelief. He widened his eyes as he looked at the bone powder all over the ground, his brain operating at high speed.

Could these purple lightning bolts actually actively attack the skeleton warriors crawling out from underground?

And the precision was so high, completely without harming the surrounding Daxia soldiers in the slightest!

This was definitely not some natural phenomenon!

"Could the purple lightning in the sky be controlled by someone in secret?"

Who is it?

Could it be the Master?

Before they had time to think much more, the vibration of the abyss intensified once again.

"Click click click…"

The teeth-aching sound of bone friction surged like a tsunami.

More and more skeletons crazily crawled out from underground like a breached tide!

Taking a glance, it was a dense sea of bones, numbering as many as several thousands!

And right in the center of that army of thousands of skeletons, a massive Skeleton Warlord clad in battered dark golden armor throughout its body, riding a huge skeleton warhorse burning with ghost fire, took the lead and stepped out ahead of the crowd!

That Skeleton Warlord wielded a three-meter-long blood-red saber, its arrogance reaching the extreme.

He raised the longsword in his hand high, looked up to the sky, and let out an extremely arrogant, earth-shaking Soul roar.

"My King is born!"

"All realms submit!"

"Mere ants, who can stop me?!"

This sound transcended time and space, carrying supreme coercion, shaking the distant Daxia soldiers so that they all covered their ears, their faces showing expressions of pain.

However.

The next second.

"Rumble——!!!!!!"

In the cloud layer, a huge purple lightning pillar more than ten times thicker than before, carrying the terrifying heavenly might of destroying heaven and earth, descended from the sky and unerringly, straightly blasted onto the head of that Skeleton Warlord who was still striking a pose!

"Crack!"

There was not even a tenth of a second of stalemate.

That towering Aura and peerless Skeleton Warlord, along with the skeleton warhorse beneath him, didn't even have time to utter a single last word before evaporating under the divine punishment of this purple thunder!

Not even bone scum was left behind, completely being split into the finest powder!

Following closely, the purple lightning net across the sky wildly spread and exploded among the skeleton army.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The thousands of skeleton warriors behind him who had just crawled out of the abyss and were preparing to go on a killing spree met the same fate.

Dense purple lightning locked onto every target. Wherever it passed, all skeletons turned into powder, vanishing into ashes without a shred of ability to resist.

Everything happened too fast, so fast that it even gave people an absurd sense of comedy.

Thousands of skeletons were collectively instantly killed, subsequently producing an extremely violent Law energy fluctuation.

"Retreat! Quick, hit the deck!"

Regimental Commander Zhang roared at the top of his lungs.

The violent energy wave formed a storm, almost directly blowing away the Daxia soldiers on the high ground in the distance.

Everyone had no choice but to scurry away in panic, tightly pressing against the ground to barely steady their footing.

When everything calmed down and the storm ceased.

Outside the entrance of the abyss, tranquility was restored once again, leaving only a thick layer of white bone ash all over the ground.

Regimental Commander Zhang slowly climbed up from the ground, patting off the dust on his military cap. With lingering fear, he raised his head, his gaze tightly locking onto the strange purple lightning still rolling in the sky that hadn't descended upon them by even a fraction.

He swallowed a huge mouthful of saliva, his eyes filled with awe and shock towards the unknown.

"What terrifying power…"

Regimental Commander Zhang turned his head, looking at Qin Ming who also had a dazed expression, and muttered to himself: "Vice Guild Leader Qin, whose work on earth is this?"