Chapter 1694: Coming to Seek the Sword

The moment they saw these two lines of crooked characters, both Sun Bumian and Jiang Xiaohua were stunned.

If it had been two lines of beautiful calligraphy, they might not have been able to determine who had thrown this halberd... But with writing this ugly, combined with the ancient killing intent contained within it, the person behind it was already obvious!

"Is it Spade?" Jiang Xiaohua said with pleasant surprise.

From the start of the war until now, the two of them had been waiting for Jian Changsheng to appear. Although there had been no news from him since he went to the Ancient Armory of the Military Path, they believed that Jian Changsheng must have received Chen Ling's telepathic message... and that he would definitely come.

At a time when this siege had reached its absolute limit, Jian Changsheng finally gave everyone a glimmer of hope...

Although he himself had not appeared,

the characters on this rusted, broken halberd pointed out a clear path for Sun Bumian and the others, who were trapped in a dead end.

The Ancient Armory of the Military Path!

Sun Bumian didn't know what was in the Ancient Armory of the Military Path, didn't know why Spade wanted them to go there, and didn't know how to kill the Calamity-Dread once they arrived... But the moment they saw those two lines of text, Jiang Xiaohua and Sun Bumian chose to believe without hesitation!

Since Spade said so, he must have his reasons.

Things had reached this point;

they had no other choice.

"Plum Blossom! Is there a way to lure it away?" Sun Bumian's voice rang out from within the Waking Lion.

Jiang Xiaohua looked at the rampaging Calamity-Dread beneath him. After a moment of hesitation, a flash of determination crossed his eyes. Circles of bandages unraveled from his body, winding around the base of the lantern like snakes...

Then, he leaped forward violently, rushing in front of the Calamity-Dread like a cannonball, grabbing the other end of the bandages with both hands and pulling with all his might, like a shoulder throw!

嗡——!!!

The most fragile lantern was yanked violently by Jiang Xiaohua. The Calamity-Dread's attention shifted abruptly to him. For a moment, it forgot about its wounds and the excruciating pain in its stomach, opening its abyss-like giant mouth to bite at Jiang Xiaohua!

But to everyone's surprise, Jiang Xiaohua reacted extremely quickly. Various witchcraft tools were spat out from his mouth, and he dodged forward at incredible speed. Not only could he ignore the curse contamination on the Calamity-Dread, but the aura of the Witch God Path radiating from his body actually triggered the Ancient Armory of the Witch Path in the Calamity-Dread's stomach, causing it immense discomfort.

With Jiang Xiaohua going to such lengths, his threat level in the Calamity-Dread's mind had surpassed that of the Waking Lion. Furthermore, for some reason, the Calamity-Dread sensed the Witch Path aura on him and felt an urgent, overwhelming urge to devour him...

Using himself as bait, Jiang Xiaohua forcibly dragged the Calamity-Dread out of the ice sheet and toward the depths of the Forbidden Sea!

Seeing this, Sun Bumian’s massive Waking Lion body picked up Bai Ye and soared through the air, following closely behind.

"Can he really lure the Calamity-Dread to the Ancient Armory of the Military Path?" Bai Ye pressed the brim of his baseball cap with one hand, his silver snake earrings fluttering messily in the gale. "Although the Ancient Armory of the Military Path is in the Forbidden Sea... once we enter the Forbidden Sea, that's the Calamity-Dread's territory."

"I believe in him." Sun Bumian's voice sounded from within the Waking Lion. "If we really run into trouble, don't we still have the two of us?"

Bai Ye looked solemnly at the massive black shadow being dragged into the frozen sea, along with the dust-like white-haired figure, and nodded slightly.

……

The Ancient Armory of the Military Path.

A black leather jacket fluttered in the bloody, cold wind.

A figure standing atop a mountain of corpses and weapons took a deep look in a certain direction, then leaped down from the peak!

The wind howled, and Jian Changsheng’s messy wolf-tail hairstyle danced wildly. Beneath his long, unkempt hair, a pair of sharp and resolute eyes flashed with cold light...

"Are you sure about this?" Bai Qi's voice echoed in his mind. "Although you are already an Eighth-Order, you are still too weak to break into that place... Even I cannot protect you."

"Isn't it you who said that this is the only way to kill the Calamity-Dread?" Jian Changsheng said slowly.

"Today, no matter what... I will pull out that sword!"

Jian Changsheng's voice revealed an unprecedented madness. His figure was still falling, and in this cold, dim Ancient Armory of the Military Path, the silhouette of a giant sword piercing the heavens was clearly reflected in his pupils...

The massive sword tip pointed straight at the firmament, and ancient killing intent filled every corner of the surrounding sea. This sword was the本体 (main body) of the Ancient Armory of the Military Path... Jian Changsheng still remembered the shock he felt the first time he came here and saw the full scope of the Ancient Armory.

And now, he was closer to this sword than ever before.

"No one can pull out the Ancient Armory of the Military Path, not even a Demigod of the Military God Path... No matter how good you are at fighting or how much strength you have, it's useless." Bai Qi's voice sounded again.

"I know." Jian Changsheng paused for a moment. "But I want to try."

咚——!!

Jian Changsheng’s figure, like a meteorite, crashed heavily onto the land ravaged by killing intent.

Countless hundred-thousand-man pits were scattered behind Jian Changsheng. He seemed to have fought his way through all the ancient battlefields of the Ancient Armory of the Military Path to reach the true core area... Before him, a sword hilt, standing like a mountain upon the earth, was emitting a suffocating, terrifying pressure.

Jian Changsheng took a deep breath, placed one hand on the sword hilt lying across his waist, and walked slowly toward the foot of the giant sword that pierced the heavens...

嗡——!!!

The moment he stepped into the forbidden zone of the Military Path, more than a dozen surges of ancient killing intent, like monstrous waves, rolled and crashed from the foot of the giant sword!!

One by one, awe-inspiring phantoms of killing intent were outlined upon the earth. They wore armor from different eras and held various weapons, all looking toward the figure that had stepped into the forbidden zone... In an instant, the terrifying aura of more than a dozen Military God Path Demigods seemed ready to crush the world!

Every one of them had proven their path through slaughter, representing the limits of the "Military Path" of their respective eras. Even a single glance from them was enough to make all living things tremble...

They were the Demigod ghosts preserved by the Ancient Armory of the Military Path, the guardians of the depths of this ancient treasury.

Under the onslaught of the killing intent from more than a dozen Military God Path Demigods, Jian Changsheng, who had just stepped into the forbidden zone, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and nearly collapsed to the ground.

At the end of the day, he was only an Eighth-Order of the Military God Path, and not even the leader of the Military God Path of this era...

He simply did not have the qualifications to step in here.

The killing intent impact from these dozen-plus Military God Path Demigods was a warning, telling Jian Changsheng to leave this place immediately; otherwise, if he took another step forward, they would tear him to pieces.

But even when targeted by the combined efforts of more than a dozen Military God Path Demigods, Jian Changsheng did not leave. He lowered his head, as if carrying a mountain on his shoulders, and struggled with determination to straighten his body again...

The leather-clad figure held the sword hilt with one hand, standing amidst the surging killing intent, and took a deep breath... shouting loudly:

"Military God Path [Asura] Jian Changsheng..."

"Has come to seek the sword!!!"