The Peerless Emperor-Chapter 1279 - 1280: Despair, Ashen-Faced (Fifth Update)
Yang Huanwen met his end with deep unwillingness.
As the scarlet-golden lightning closed in on him, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness amidst his grief and anger.
He couldn’t avenge the minister, and the strength of Lin Qian’s side was beyond his imagination.
Moreover, the words and actions of his opponent made him realize one thing.
The good days of these civilizations from other Chaos Universes might be over.
Although Lin Qian’s Huaxia Empire seemed weak for now, unable to compare.
Seeing a part can often, he could already perceive the full extent of Huaxia Empire’s potential from what he saw before his demise.
"In the end, I still died, and the future has nothing to do with me."
Just as Yang Huanwen’s soul was about to be extinguished, he thought this, losing consciousness and finally perishing.
In mid-air, the minister’s remnant soul couldn’t speak, but it had its own will.
Seeing Yang Huanwen die, a fury rose in his chest, yet there was nothing he could do.
What could he do? Now he was just a remnant soul, only able to watch the current situation unfold helplessly.
He had thought earlier that his sacrifice could create a never-again opportunity to kill Lin Qian.
Who could have imagined that Lin Qian’s side could turn the tables with so many people.
The saying "strength in numbers" seemed so laughably ironic now.
As a remnant soul overlooking the current war, he could clearly see that the battle below was inherently unfair.
Although the Huaxia Empire’s realm seemed a level weaker, their explosive battle power was inconceivably strong.
He could already tell that they had become research subjects for the other side.
Though he didn’t understand the array above his remnant soul, he could tell from the way Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Sect Master looked at the battle below like observing lab mice.
He even felt that his remnant soul hadn’t dissipated because it was bound by the array.
Why would the enemy kindly preserve his remnant soul?
Clearly, they were studying it, keeping it bound for research.
The minister’s remnant soul felt bitter; he was powerless to resist, even unable to disperse his own remnant soul.
He could only watch helplessly as his clan was toyed with.
The battling Eight-eyed Divine Race and Four-Eyed Spirit Clan didn’t notice the array above them, absorbed in the fight.
To them, the battle tempo was very fast and tense.
The enemy was pressing harder, forcing them to draw out their potential and reveal their trump cards.
After revealing their trump cards, they found that the Huaxia Empire could still counter their confident strategies, making them fight even harder.
In their struggle, they always saw hope for victory, igniting a survival instinct within them.
Unfortunately, they didn’t know that Han Xin was observing everything, watching the foreign troops reveal more as he planned.
Above, Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Sect Master, with their Daoist disciples, deduced and analyzed their fighting methods, based on the fluctuations and flow of soul energy, to discern the cultivation technique path.
As Entering Dao Realm cultivators, they would also carefully analyze and extract the Dao intent from their own techniques when acting.
This information was computed and organized, then passed to Lin Qian.
Lin Qian glanced over it, and then passed it to the Heavenly Art Department for analysis and interpretation.
The Huaxia Empire gained much previously unknown information from these alien beings, focusing on detail more meticulously.
Even after the battles outside, the Huaxia Empire’s scouts were closely observing the fighting, constantly gathering intelligence.
"Ah!" The leading Eight-eyed Divine Race and the Entering Dao Realm Seventh Level Four-Eyed Spirit Clan made a desperate strike and self-detonated their Soul Devices, yet they were completely blocked by Xu Meng and the Divine Shield Army charging forward.
The explosion shockwaves dissipated, revealing the Divine Shield Army within, their large shields unscathed, and their expressions slightly grave.
Clearly, they hadn’t anticipated these moves from the Eight-eyed Divine Race and Four-Eyed Spirit Clan.
Yet their defense was stone solid despite the attacks.
The leading Eight-eyed Divine Race showed a look of despair as the hope they had gained in battle disappeared.
Now, as he calmed down, looking at the surrounding Huaxia Empire, he swallowed and understood.
From start to finish, the Huaxia Empire never saw them as real opponents.
Earlier formidable Yang Huanguang also saw the current situation clearly.
Each of them was exhausted, injured, and at the end of their strength.
In contrast, the leading Huaxia Empire forces were unscathed.
Their army had only lost about a thousand people.
In the past, facing this slaughter, losing a thousand Enlightenment Realm beings was nothing, even if it was a hundred thousand, they wouldn’t struggle, just consuming some soul energy.
But now, they had only killed about a thousand with great effort.
They didn’t know that those thousand losses were because Lin Qian needed to analyze their cultivation technique, requiring them to not fight seriously, and incur inevitable losses.
To truly eliminate them, losses could have been kept around a hundred.
After all, the Huaxia Empire’s peak battle force had sixteen members, a few more than theirs.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Suddenly, applause came from ahead, and everyone looked up to see Lin Qian walking towards them, stepping through the void, the guards forming neat and tight ranks on both sides.
"Your Majesty!" The surrounding people saluted Lin Qian.
When he arrived before them, Lin Qian showed gratitude: "I must thank you all; without your cooperation, we couldn’t have fully analyzed your cultivation techniques. Thank you for your hard work."
Lin Qian’s words left everyone stunned, then they came to their senses, looking up at the array above with ashen faces.
