This was a soul-stirring duel!
It was not because the martial arts of the two duelists were so high. After all, in the barbaric world, a demon warrior merely entered the hall of the martial path.
In Suo Mo’s foreign army, there were around ten demon warriors.
Its soul-stirring nature lay in the reversal and the surprise!
Everyone had thought the pretty boy Lanling would be no match at all, would be dismembered and eaten.
Yet, Lanling not only won, but won with such dominance.
Without using any techniques, he hacked the Wild Horse tribe’s berserker to death with sword blows, one after another.
Even in the end, he failed to break through this berserker’s steel scale defence. He merely used power to shatter his bones, to pulverise his internal organs, to smash his entire person into a meat patty.
This fit the barbarians’ understanding and worship of power far too well.
Pure power crushing, without techniques, without even speed.
Including Chief Konstantin, he could hardly conceal the surprise in his heart.
According to his understanding, this Lanling was merely a seventh-level warrior. This was the data Suo Mo reported when appointing Lanling as deputy centurion. Clearly, Suo Mo would not lie on this point.
And Konstantin possessed powerful spiritual force. But when he sensed a person, he could basically judge that person’s cultivation from the energy aura they emitted.
So according to his judgement, Suo Mo had not lied.
Lanling was a seventh-level warrior. But how could he defeat a demon warrior level berserker?
And moreover using power, crushing the enemy to death alive?
This was far too baffling. Could it be that demon descendants were truly so heaven-defying? He, Konstantin, was also a member of the demon descendants!
At this time, everyone was looking at Konstantin.
“Hahaha…” Konstantin laughed loudly and said: “Well done, warrior of my Chimera tribe. For this battle, I will credit you with thirteen head counts of merit.”
In a pre-battle duel, the victor counted as ten head counts of merit. And since the opponent was a demon warrior, three more head counts were added, so it counted as thirteen head counts of merit.
“Many thanks, Chief!” Lanling said.
Then, amidst the cheers of his foreign army brothers, he returned to the formation!
As he passed by every foreign army brother, they all raised their fists and punched him on the shoulder.
In the barbaric world, this was an extremely intimate gesture, representing brotherhood.
In this battle, Lanling won the hearts of the vast majority of the foreign army.
The cavalry unit’s centurion Lei Tong stepped forward, fiercely shoulder-bumping Lanling, then wrapping his arm around his back, forcefully striking his back once and saying: “Good brother, after this battle ends, I will go and petition Lord Suo Mo. You become the centurion, and I will be your deputy.”
This was the kind of man the foreign army had.
When they looked down on you, they would not hide it. They would directly show it.
And when you earned their respect, they would view official positions as worthless grass, giving their position to you.
Lanling laughed loudly and said: “Brother Lei, perhaps after some time, I will be going to snatch the squadron leader’s position. So you had better keep this centurion position for yourself.”
“Haha, alright.” Lei Tong said: “Tonight I will go and kneel before Lord Suo Mo. I actually harboured doubts about him. I truly deserve ten thousand deaths. I hope the old man does not blame me.”
And at this time, the person feeling the most uncomfortable in his heart was, without a doubt, Du Yan.
He did not feel that Lanling’s victory was so remarkable. He merely felt that Lanling was extremely cunning.
He was deliberately concealing his strength. For the past dozen or so days, he had deliberately followed Dina in weighted training, precisely to make people look down on him, then create an opportunity to amaze everyone with a single brilliant feat.
Instantly, he felt even more loathing toward Lanling.
At this time, he stepped forward and extended his hand toward Lanling, saying: “Lanling, my younger brother, what deep scheming you have. However, this bit of strength is nothing worth hiding!”
In Du Yan’s view, Lanling’s so-called playing the pig to eat the tiger was a joke.
He had seen clearly just now. Killing that demon warrior level berserker was already Lanling’s limit. That was to say, merely the level of a three or four star demon warrior. The gap between him and Du Yan was like heaven and earth. He could never catch up in this lifetime.
With merely this level of skill, yet still concealing his strength, how laughable. This was like on Earth, a person with only a middle school education level telling people, actually I only just graduated primary school. Truly laughable and pitiful.
Lanling smiled and said: “Rest assured, my cultivation is even worse than you imagine.”
Then, he did not extend his hand to shake.
He did not mind letting all the foreign army brothers see that he and Du Yan were at odds.
Du Yan’s face twitched. He stared at Lanling with contempt, not even bothering with disdain.
Lanling had won such a small victory, yet his tail was already raised high. Truly a shallow and ignorant good-for-nothing.
“The great battle has only just begun. I hope you establish more merits, harvest more heads.” Du Yan said coldly: “Lest adoptive father still has to tighten his belt to provide for your daughter.”
Then, Du Yan turned and left.
Seeing Lanling and Du Yan so openly opposed, the brothers of the foreign army again found themselves in a difficult position.
That battle just now, Lanling had dissolved the barrier between them, filling them with goodwill toward him.
But Du Yan had been in the foreign army for over ten years. In these ten years, how many enemies had he killed, how many merits had he established, how many miracles had he created.
So in terms of weight, Lanling was still far from comparable to Du Yan.
And with the two of them opposed, it meant the brothers of the foreign army had to choose sides. Truly a headache-inducing matter.
“Rest assured, in terms of military merit, I will definitely not disappoint you.” Lanling said: “Du Yan, how about we have a competition?”
Du Yan narrowed his eyes, glancing at Lanling and saying: “You compete with me? Sorry, you do not yet have the qualifications. You do not even have the qualifications to compare with one of my fingers. Please do not sully me.”
His arrogant appearance was truly extremely detestable.
Lanling said: “In this great battle, how about we compete over who harvests more heads?”
Du Yan said: “Lanling, do not try to drag me down to your level to elevate your own worth. You are not worthy. I am unwilling to compete with a frog at the bottom of a well, a fool. I am not even willing to stand in the same place as you.”
He truly had a venomous tongue. Every sentence was filled with extreme sarcasm toward Lanling.
Lanling said: “Whether you accept it or not, I have already declared war on you.”
Du Yan said: “A fool holding a wooden stick charging at a great mountain, is that called declaring war on the mountain? An idiot inserting his lower body into the ground, is that called raping the entire earth? Do you ask whether the mountain agrees? Do you ask whether the earth agrees? I will still say the same thing. Whatever clownish behaviour you want to do, go ahead. But do not drag me into it!”
This person’s venomous tongue was truly formidable. It could truly make one’s stomach explode with anger.
Yet Lanling did not care in the slightest. In truth, his intention was indeed despicable. Just as Du Yan said, his martial arts were far inferior to Du Yan’s, yet he forcibly dragged Lanling to the same level as himself for comparison.
That’s right, he wanted to forcibly compete with Du Yan.
And he wanted all the foreign army brothers to remember this competition, to see who between him and Du Yan harvested more heads.
If he lost to Du Yan? That did not matter at all. Was that not perfectly normal?
And in the unlikely event that Lanling won against Du Yan, or was even not far behind, then in the hearts of the foreign army brothers, his status and weight would once again rise.
“Du Yan, if I win, I do not need you to do anything else. I only need you to kneel before adoptive father in front of all the foreign army brothers and apologise, saying you were wrong.” Lanling said loudly, letting everyone in the entire foreign army hear it clearly.
The scheming Lanling, again forcibly刷 impression points.
Du Yan clearly saw through Lanling’s malicious intentions. Whether he was willing or not, he was being dragged by Lanling into the battlefield to compete with him.
Instantly, Du Yan gritted his teeth and said: “If you lose, I have only one requirement. Stay far away from Dina. Use your lecherous eyes less to sully her. Do not approach within three chi of her.”
“Alright, it is a deal.” Lanling said: “If I win, you kneel before adoptive father and apologise. If I lose, I stay far away from Dina.”
Lanling said loudly.
This wager again faintly made all the foreign army brothers feel that Lanling was far more magnanimous.
He was fighting for his uncle Suo Mo’s dignity.
And Du Yan, he was actually doing it for a woman, clearly falling into inferiority.
Suo Mo had decided to give Dina to Lanling in marriage. Hearing the two men’s wager, he was inclined to stop it.
But he ultimately did not speak, because this wager was initiated by Lanling.
After that battle just now, Suo Mo looked at Lanling with new eyes.
Not only in martial arts, but more so in his will and wisdom. Clearly Lanling was not a child. He was once the ruler of a nation. Whatever he did, he had his reasons.
As an elder, Suo Mo should protect him, but he could not make every decision for him.
Lanling picked up a wooden stick from the ground and snapped it in two, signifying the establishment of the agreement.
Originally, he should have snapped a sword, but the foreign army was too poor. Such waste would not look good.
“It is a deal.” Du Yan’s face was ice-cold. He drew a sword from a soldier beside him and directly snapped it!
With this, Du Yan’s image in the hearts of the foreign army brothers faintly slipped a little more.
Lanling still knew to cherish the brothers’ weapons, only snapping a wooden stick. Yet Du Yan actually casually drew a sword and snapped it. That was a weapon the foreign army relied upon for survival.
With this, there was now one brother without a sword. How was he supposed to go into battle?
In the end, under Lanling’s coercion, a wager was formally established.
Lanling and Du Yan would compete in merit. In this battle, they would see who harvested more heads.
And this wager would be deeply engraved in the hearts of all the foreign army brothers.
And if Lanling won, his prestige and weight would once again rise sharply.
Relying on these methods, Lanling would rapidly rise, finally standing shoulder to shoulder with Du Yan, even surpassing him.
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In the duel just now, the Wild Horse tribe’s representative was defeated and died, losing all face.
If the strength between both sides was vastly different, losing would be nothing. But偏偏 everyone had thought Lanling was weak and pathetic, while that berserker of the Wild Horse tribe was far more powerful.
Yet the result was the berserker died a miserable death, and Lanling won a great victory.
The weaker side winning, this was not a good omen. It could be an omen of defeat in the great battle.
The barbaric world was extremely superstitious. So the defeat in this duel made the Wild Horse tribe chief feel extremely displeased!
He wanted to salvage this situation. He wanted to win a duel, otherwise it was too inauspicious for the war situation.
Instantly, the Wild Horse tribe chief said loudly: “Konstantin, you won the first duel by luck. Then do you dare come for a second round? Let us spill blood once more, and spill it bigger this time.”
Konstantin laughed loudly and said: “Alright, how do you want to spill it?”
The Wild Horse tribe said: “In the second duel, each of our sides selects one hundred cavalry, separated by a thousand metres, to charge and kill each other. How about it?”
This was also a unique dueling method of the barbaric tribes, extremely savage and bloody.
Two lines were drawn on the ground, marking out a rectangular area, three thousand metres long and thirty metres wide.
The two cavalry units were respectively at both ends of this area. When the bell rang, they began charging at each other.
Charge straight along the line to the end. No retreating, no going out of bounds. Always forward, madly slaughtering, until all the enemies were killed.
As long as one warhorse retreated, or went out of bounds, it counted as a loss!
And the losing side, both men and horses, all beheaded!
The Wild Horse tribe chief proposing this kind of duel was also rather malicious.
Because everyone knew, this kind of duel tested cavalry and warhorse quality the most. Who did not know that the Wild Horse tribe’s cavalry was the best? Otherwise, how could they be called the Wild Horse tribe?
Many cavalry of this tribe had spent almost half their lives on horseback, completely taming their warhorses to be incomparably obedient.
And the mounts of the Wild Horse tribe, the vast majority were wild horses captured from outside and tamed. Once their bloodlust was aroused, they feared no death, charging madly, never retreating.
This was also the Wild Horse tribe’s secret technique, never passed on to outsiders.
And the warhorses of other tribes, once fear arose, were very likely to flee, even throwing the cavalry off their backs.
In past great battles, whenever the Wild Horse tribe called out a cavalry charge duel, they had never lost. Their opponents either conceded defeat, or suffered a crushing defeat.
The cavalry charge duel was the Wild Horse tribe’s trump card. For many years past, not a single defeat!
Sure enough, after the Wild Horse tribe chief proposed this dueling method, Konstantin’s expression changed.
The barbaric world had this one bad point. Face was bigger than heaven!
One could lose, one could die, but one absolutely could not cower!
Not daring to accept the challenge was more shameful than losing!
But everyone knew that the cavalry charge duel was the Wild Horse tribe’s killer move. Using it meant certain victory. On the Chimera tribe’s side, any cavalry sent out would certainly lose, certainly die.
The entire Chimera tribe only had two thousand cavalry. Losing a hundred for no reason was also rather painful.
But one could not show cowardice in battle. Too disgraceful!
“Hahahaha…” the Wild Horse tribe chief laughed loudly and said: “Brother Konstantin, do you not dare to accept the challenge? Then do not waste time. Obediently lead your troops home, and go service your pretty wife. Her backside is round and plump. Riding her would surely be ecstasy. Do not waste time here. Give the Fallen Horse Mountain Range to me.”
What Konstantin loathed most was others speaking of his second wife, even verbally taking advantage.
All the surrounding tribes knew he had married an unparalleled beauty, and all coveted her. Every time they would make lewd remarks.
Konstantin was a very strange person, deep in scheming, yet unable to withstand provocation.
Instantly, he prepared to accept the challenge. At worst, a hundred cavalry would die. That was still better than showing cowardice in battle.
Konstantin’s gaze turned toward his side’s cavalry leaders. Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to meet his gaze.
Because this kind of duel was too much of a trap. It was not something that having a formidable leader could solve. As long as one warhorse retreated or went out of bounds, it counted as a loss.
So, no matter how formidable a leader was sent out, it was useless. He could not control the hundred warhorses behind him.
This was the Wild Horse tribe’s absolute strong point. No one could compare.
Not a single person in the entire Chimera tribe’s cavalry camp dared to accept the challenge.
Finally, Konstantin’s gaze fell upon Lanling!
This child was not simple. He could very likely threaten Du Yan’s position. Just now he had wanted to kill Lanling by another’s hand, but had not succeeded.
Then using this opportunity to kill him now was not too late.
Since a hundred cavalry definitely had to be sacrificed, then sacrifice the weakest unit. Moreover, the foreign army was estranged from him at heart. Losing a hundred cavalry was not painful.
“Pretty boy, you are getting off cheap. I have found a hundred men to be buried with you.” Konstantin thought coldly.
Seeing Chief Konstantin’s gaze, Lanling knew he was about to be called upon again.
Clearly, the opportunity for him to create another miracle had arrived!
However, he would not wait for Konstantin to actively select him. How passive that would be.
Instantly, Lanling stepped forward and said loudly: “Chief, I am willing to lead a hundred cavalry into battle! But I have one condition!”
Konstantin was stunned. He had not expected Lanling to voluntarily go into battle. Was this not seeking death?
Everyone was also greatly shocked. Was Lanling crazy? He actually voluntarily went into battle?
“What condition?” Chief Konstantin asked.
Lanling smiled and said: “This trip of mine, I basically have no chance of survival. In the unlikely event that I win, I want a reward.”
“What reward?” Konstantin said.
Lanling’s gaze turned toward Nini An’s captivating round backside, and he said loudly: “Chief, your daughter Miss Nini An is so beautiful, with a fiery figure and a round, pert backside. I am immensely covetous. In the unlikely event that I win the duel and return, I hope to be able to feel her round, pert backside!”
The moment these words were spoken, everyone burst into cheers!
In the human kingdoms, proposing such a condition would be complete suicide.
But in the barbaric world, everyone was very direct. The more crude and bold, the more one could win people’s hearts!