Chapter 1859: Chapter 1709: Three Military Spirit Legions in Chaotic Battle (Part 2)

The tactics and equestrian skills that the Northern Huns Guards pride themselves on are meaningless in such high-speed collisions. Even hundreds of Qi Refining to Gang soldiers cannot demonstrate their significance in this dense spear formation clash. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry’s overwhelming attack is sufficient to harm the Inner Qi Manifestation; it doesn’t matter what level the opposing soldiers are, they will all be pierced to death!

"Pah!" After another charge, Hua Xiong spat out a mouthful of blood and sneered at the opposing Northern Huns Guards, "I indeed underestimated myself; my legion can at least take down eight hundred Qi Refining to Gang!"

"Charge!" Hua Xiong roared as he launched a counterattack against the Northern Huns Guards. With just one charge, he had already taken out one hundred leading Qi Refining to Gang of the Northern Huns Guards.

However, one troubling aspect for Hua Xiong was that the slain Qi Refining to Gang would emit faint golden light that then fell onto other Northern Huns Guards. Though this didn’t instantly elevate other soldiers to Qi Refining to Gang, some indeed achieved this level.

Both military spirit legions were now drenched in blood, neither the Northern Huns Guards nor the Xiliang Iron Cavalry showed any fear. This time, the vanguards, which had been held in check, seized the opportunity of the Northern Huns counterattack, flanking the Northern Huns Guards from one side, easily killing all Hun main force obstructing their path.

At the moment when the Northern Huns Guards collided with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the vanguards mercilessly thrust towards the center of the Northern Huns Guards, seemingly intending to cleave them in half at once.

The Northern Huns Guards, always wary of a vanguard sneak attack, immediately split their forces to intercept the vanguards upon seeing them move, undaunted, capable of sustaining their ultimate moves.

"General Gao, I’m taking action!" As the Northern Huns Guards separated half their forces to block the vanguard, Hua Xiong immediately shouted to Gao Shun.

Though Hua Xiong’s military spirit legion lacks an ultimate move, this doesn’t mean his legion is weak. On the contrary, Hua Xiong’s military spirit legion is terrifyingly strong; his moves all require burning the military spirit, and the amount burned directly determines combat strength.

"Brothers, prepare yourselves, attack only, no defense!" Hua Xiong roared, pulling the reins fiercely as his warhorse reared up before charging first towards the Northern Huns Guards.

Long spear raised high, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry’s overwhelming attack can kill any opponent unable to escape. Though the military spirit legion has the characteristic of resisting death, for the three military spirit legions in this melee, any dismounted but not yet dead soldier will face death in the next instant.

"Order Zang Ba and Li Yan to advance, prepare to intercept the Northern Huns’ elite main force!" Seeing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and vanguards pin down the Northern Huns Guards, Zhou Yu immediately issued the order, these two legions easily capable of hindering cavalry.

The most crucial task for the Han Army now is to hold back other Northern Huns elites, preventing the Northern Huns Guards from limitless reinforcement.

Hua Xiong’s charge did not successfully complete a collision this time; instead, deep in the Northern Huns Guards center, Hua Xiong roared, unleashing his military spirit ability.

Initially requiring a speed over 60% charge level for the defense and attack to exponentially increase, Hua Xiong, by massively burning military spirit, lowered this requirement directly to 20%, instantly countering the Northern Huns Guards to death!

The Northern Huns Guards’ ability is called inheritance. One kind inherits the power of previous Northern Huns Guards, where each dying Northern Huns Guard leaves an inscription in the military spirit, allowing future generations to inherit after activating the power of the military spirit.

Another kind inherits the power of fallen heroic spirits from one’s side, though generally one cannot bear more than one inscription.

Through hundreds of years, the Northern Huns Guards accumulated merely two hundred Qi Refining to Gang personnel. Given the recent decades’ recovery of Heaven and Earth Essence, even centuries ago, Qi Refining to Gang were top-notch experts.

Yet, the individual strength of the Northern Huns Guards is not weak; a few can ascend to Qi Refining to Gang level by integrating the power of stronger fallen soldiers or generals from the battlefield, coupled with original inscriptions to nearly three hundred Qi Refining to Gang, along with a host of enhanced military spirit soldiers.

In fact, the Northern Huns Guards’ move is quite potent, yet alone does not yield seven or eight hundred Qi Refining to Gang.

The ability to produce this many Qi Refining to Gang results from Chouhun not sparing any expense, investing military spirit power exponentially, no longer randomly selecting blessings for the Northern Huns Guards but drawing heroic spirits from strong to weak for support.

This move explains why the Northern Huns Guards erupted with hundreds of Qi Refining to Gang, though such a move severely depletes military spirit power. However, the Northern Huns’ hundred-year accumulation is no trifling matter, frantically burning military spirit, they directly produced seven or eight hundred Qi Refining to Gang.

Unfortunately, the attributes of the Northern Huns Guardians are completely countered by Hua Xiong’s Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Regarding military spirit attributes, Hua Xiong’s Xiliang Iron Cavalry clearly belongs to the combat military spirit, while Northern Huns Guards likely to heritage military spirit.

The biggest difference lies in Northern Huns Guards focusing more on strengthening the entire nation rather than combat.

Because all Northern Huns Guards’ moves do not surpass human limits, they stem from experiences and techniques accumulated over generations, these are inheritable, teachable.

In essence, the correct use of Northern Huns Guards is not in the battlefield but the military, since these techniques can be learned by soldiers with effort, forming a military spirit legion capable of producing super elite troops on a large scale.

Unfortunately, the term military spirit leads everyone to consider it as combat-oriented ultimate legion, neglecting other uses. Although Northern Huns Guards stand at the top of all elites, their combat power source derives not from bending reality but techniques.

This means, apart from the characteristic of resisting death, all acclaimed tactics are actually trainable, though the prospect seems slim, it remains factual.

This also implies Northern Huns Guards’ power is straightforward without any additional elements, even becoming Qi Refining to Gang stays fixed at this level.

Though this level is quite powerful, contrasted with vanguards’ limitless military spirit burning, if Qi Refining to Gang is not sufficient, then Inner Qi Manifestation, if still insufficient, it’s Breakthrough level, as long as the military spirit suffices, burning enough for all members to achieve Inner Qi Manifestation is not impossible.

Of course, this is a fanciful claim, but the potential undeniably exists. Vanguards’ ultimate move is routinely outputting military spirit to forcibly promote a rank, while Qi Refining to Gang boosts to Inner Qi Manifestation demands substantial military spirit but achievable, as Gao Shun’s military spirit burning has already reached Breakthrough level.

Similarly, Hua Xiong’s military spirit burning continuously lowers ability activation threshold, if the military spirit suffices, adjusting the 60% charge speed prerequisite to zero, or more exaggeratedly, converting mere movement into exponential growth is conceivable.

Though burning to such extent demands astronomical military spirit power, the potential within Xiliang Iron Cavalry cannot be denied.

Thus, as Hua Xiong burns military spirit, reducing activation conditions to 20% charge speed, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry’s offensive and defensive capabilities almost explode, discarding defense altogether, ignoring all Northern Huns Guards’ attacks, directly enduring their spear thrust.

The Northern Huns Guards, who had already surrounded the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, rallied all advantageous forces in hopes to obliterate them, hadn’t imagined such a scenario. All gathered Northern Huns Guards suffered fatal attacks in an unresponsive instant.

In a mere six breaths, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry pierced all Qi Refining to Gang before them, the cost being Hua Xiong’s entire military spirit burnt out, leaving only basic attributes.