The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 421 At a Disadvantage

The Step-by-step Lotus was a sword method for a group attack. Even when Li Ye faced the cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm, it played its due power with the help of the Dragon Qi that had integrated with the power of the Great Tao.

However, because they were in the Sky Immortal Realm, they could respond accordingly at the critical moment. Therefore, two of the seven people were dead and five were injured. The gap between the two realms was big.

At this point, the cultivators of the demon clan led by Li Ye were fighting the cultivators of the religion of God.

The cultivators of both sides were fighting and flying in the air, and all kinds of techniques were shining brightly. The night sky was full of beautiful scenery, like in heaven. Especially, Red Boy’s True-fire of Samadhi was also a technique for range attack. If the cultivators of the religion of God were burned by it, it would be difficult to deal with, so it caused a lot of trouble and damage to them.

Yelv Abaoji was also fighting the cultivators of the demon clan. Compared with Li Ye, his movement technique was not very flexible, and he needed to spend a long time to launch the techniques, but he was powerful.

Two cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm and four cultivators in the Ground Immortal Realm were surrounding Yelv Abaoji. While fighting the cultivators of the demon clan, they were protecting him so that he could launch unbridled and powerful attacks.

The highest cultivation of the cultivators of the demon clan was in the Sky Immortal Realm. Li Ye’s fighting ability was already one of the best among them. Yelv Abaoji showed the same fighting ability as him and caused a lot of trouble for the cultivators of the demon clan.

When the cultivators of the demon clan attacked him in knots, they were soon defeated by him and fell from the sky one after another.

Yelv Abaoji always used the same technique, the inferno technique which was the most familiar to the cultivators in the Central Plains. However, half of the fireball he condensed was red, and the other half was black. It had a diameter of 100 feet, and it was as powerful as a full blow of a cultivator in the Sky Immortal Realm.

If the cultivators of the demon clan, who were in the Ground Immortal Realm, were hit by a fireball, they would fall to the ground with serious injuries. The cultivators in Sky Immortal Realm had to try their best to resist it, and sometimes, they had to work together to eliminate the lethality brought by the inferno technique. Fortunately, Yelv Abaoji needed to spend a long time to launch the inferno technique so that the cultivators of the demon clan would not be defeated quickly.

“Li Ye, neither of us can leave until we have a winner today. Let’s have a good fight. Haha!” Yelv Abaoji looked very excited. He was in a state of hyperactivity. While fighting, he still had the energy to laugh and challenge Li Ye.

Li Ye killed a cultivator of the religion of God, who was in the Ground Immortal Realm. Hearing this, he sneered. “Shut up!” Then, he attacked the next cultivator in the Sky Immortal Realm.

The total number of the cultivators of the demon clan was about the same as that of the cultivators of the religion of God, but they only had half as many cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm as the religion of God. Relying on Li Ye and Red Boy’s True-fire of Samadhi, they barely stabilized the situation.

Moreover, after Li Ye launched the cultivation methods from Purple Clouds from the East in succession and caused a lot of damage to the cultivators of the religion of God, he consumed a lot of Spiritual Qi. As a Yang Spiritual Master, although Li Ye relied on various methods and had the fighting ability of the Sky Immortal Realm, the Spiritual Qi in his Ocean of Qi was still in the realm of the Yang Spiritual Master. In terms of persistence, he couldn’t compare with the cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm or in the Ground Immortal Realm.

in addition, although his sword method was powerful, it actually had very few variations. As the battle went on, the cultivators of the religion of God would be on the alert for that.

They dispatched several cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm to besiege Li Ye with a group of cultivators in the Ground Immortal Realm. They only defended but not to attack. They wanted to trap Li Ye until he died. Therefore, Li Ye couldn’t expand the result of the battle quickly, and he had to fight hard.

The deficiency of the realm was Li Ye’s fatal weakness. He could give his opponent a surprise blow in a one-on-one battle or in a quick fight, but once he was stuck into the seesaw battle in the group battle, he would have little advantage.

So the situation of Li Ye and the cultivators of the demon clan was not so good. And this was also the reason why Yelv Abaoji dared to challenge them arrogantly.

Li Ye frowned slightly.

Li Ye once fought Yelv Abaoji when he chased Li Keyong in Hedong, but in fact, he knew little about the cultivators of the religion of God. He didn’t know what their background was and how many cultivators in the Immortal Realm of them were in the human world.

Li Ye knew that Yelv Abaoji was the hope for the future of the entire Qidan. After all, Yelv Abaoji would establish the Qidan Empire in the future, and he was the founder of the Liao Dynasty.

In other words, Yelv Abaoji came, well prepared, and it was very likely that he had brought the cultivators of the religion of God as many as possible.

Although Li Ye didn’t fight much against Yelv Abaoji, he had some understanding of his temperament. This guy seemed active, but he was very meticulous and pragmatic. It could be seen from his decisive abandonment of Li Keyong and his escape on that day.

At present, Li Ye almost unified the north of the Tang Empire. Yelv Abaoji appeared at the border and wanted to ally with Liu Shouguang at this time, so he would definitely bring all cultivators without reservation. The cultivators of the religion of God in front of Li Ye were likely to be the main force of the religion of God and the force that could be mobilized flexibly at this time.

Li Ye thought, “If I can kill all the cultivators of the religion of God in front of me, then Qidan and the cultivators of the religion of God can’t invade the south in a short time. As long as this is settled, I can focus on dealing with Zhu Wen and all the feudal princes inside the territory. After I sweep Jiuzhou, the divine land and become powerful enough, it will be easier to deal with Qidan and the religion of God. At least, I don’t need to fight these two sides at the same time.”

As a visitor to the earth, Li Ye knew how harmful Qidan was.

During the Five Dynasties, taking the opportunity to help Shi Jingtang, Qidan sent troops to plunder the Central Plains, leaving the Central Plains desolate. Countless people were killed or injured, and Qidan also occupied 16 prefectures of Youyun.

Moreover, after the Northern Song Dynasty united the Central Plains, Emperor Taizong of Song attacked the north with all the power of the country several times but failed every time. Not only did he fail to recapture 16 prefectures of Youyun, but he also lost the elites of the country. As a result, the Northern Song Dynasty could only be suppressed by Qidan.

In this world, heaven and earth were one, and the immortal and the mortal were connected. The failure of the battle in the human world also meant the failure of the battle in the immortal territory. In other words, the power of the religion of God had been suppressing the Immortal Court in the end!

If Li Ye inflicted heavy losses on Qidan before Qidan unified the Mobei grassland and the religion of God developed to its peak, then he would delay the development of the religion of God and create particularly favorable conditions for the army of the Tang Empire to attack the north in the future!

Thinking of this, Li Ye looked serious.

However, it was not so easy to defeat the cultivators of the religion of God at present.

The third group of the cultivators of the demon clan, who came to support Li Ye, was now resisting He Jingcheng’s troops in Qing Prefecture and had no time to come to the north, so Li Ye only had half power of the cultivators with him. It was indeed very difficult to defeat the religion of God that had sent out all its main forces.

Red Boy came to Li Ye’s side with the Long-flames Sharp Spear. While helping Li Ye, he shouted, “There are too many of them in the Sky Immortal Realm. We can only maintain a draw. We can’t afford to continue to fight them. Moreover, there are also many of them in the Ground Immortal Realm. It’s very difficult for us to win this battle!”

Red Boy’s True-fire of Samadhi was indeed powerful. It burned two cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm to the death and injured many cultivators in the Ground Immortal Realm. But it also meant a great loss of Spiritual Qi for him.

The cultivators of the other side were getting more and more scattered later.

That year when Red Boy fought the monkey, it was a one-on-one battle. When Red Boy used the True-fire of Samadhi, the monkey could only run around, and Red Boy just consumed a little of his Spiritual Qi. But now the cultivators of the religion of God were dodging everywhere, and they had too many people. Since he had to take care of the cultivators of the demon clan, he seemed incompetent

What Red Boy meant was that where there was life, there was hope. Since they couldn’t win this battle, they should retreat first. It wouldn’t be too late to defeat the other side when they gathered all the power of the demon clan later.

Li Ye didn’t agree with this plan. There were things that he couldn’t tell Red Boy because Red Boy didn’t necessarily care about it. He thought, “If we retreat now, Qidan will help Liu Shouguang to control Youzhou. With their strength, it won’t be difficult for them to help the Lulong Army to invade Yiwu and Chengde in the south in the future, and it’s also possible that Hedong will be in danger. If this happens, he won’t have time and the strength to fight Zhu Wen.”

Moreover, as things stood, Li Ye felt that the Immortal Court didn’t show its true power.

It was not worth the candle for the immortals to come down to the human world through Kunlun. The immortal territory was at war now, so the Immortal Court couldn’t dispatch too many people and Great Powers. The immortals under Taoist Dust’s command were helping him to restrain the Immortal Emperor in the Immortal Court. However, all these problems still could be solved.

Besides, the immortals under Taoist Dust’s command were only small forces. The Immortal Emperor was still in charge of the main force of the Immortal Court, and he wouldn’t allow them to develop.

So Li Ye thought, “The Immortal Court doesn’t take any action after He Jingcheng and the others came down to the human world, so it’s very likely that they are preparing a big move, which can immediately kill me and thoroughly determine the world’s situation.”

“These cultivators of the religion of God must be beaten back today!” Li Ye said firmly to Red Boy, frowning. While fighting, he was observing the fighting methods of the religion of God to find a way to break the situation.

Red Boy was anxious. He was not steady, and he was always impetuous. “We have suffered serious casualties, and most of us have little fighting abilities left. If we don’t retreat now, I’m afraid that we will be completely destroyed!”

Li Ye didn’t say anything and didn’t respond.

As he attacked left and right, he beat back the cultivators of the religion of God, who were trying to surround him and squeeze his fighting space. His sharp eyes swept across the entire battlefield from time to time.

On this battlefield, the cultivators of the demon clan and the cultivators of the religion of God were fighting hand-to-hand. More than 200 people in the Spiritual Master Realm and in the Immortal Realm were fighting each other in a radius of 5 kilometers. The Spiritual Qi was flowing to a wider boundary. It looked chaotic.

However, in Li Ye’s eyes, this was not in all chaos!

He was not only a cultivator but also the Commissioner of Pinglu. Decided by his position, he had the ability to govern civil and political affairs and fight on the battlefield, in addition to his personal fighting ability. Since he wanted to sweep the world, every ability was indispensable.

On the battlefield, he was good at observing the situation, ascertaining the enemy’s strength, thinking about the enemy’s tactics, and predicting the trend of the situation. In this way, he could seize the fleeting opportunity to let the Pinglu Army win the battle.

This ability, or in other words, this habit, was already deep in his mind.

Because of the outstanding military quality, he commanded the Pinglu Army to win many big battles, including suppressing Huang Chao and capturing Hedong.

Now, Li Ye was observing the fighting methods of the cultivators of the religion of God in this way. Soon, he found some clues. His eyes brightened. While fighting, he was observing the other side’s fighting methods carefully to verify his guessing.

Red Boy was as anxious as a cat on hot bricks. He explained the predicament of the cultivators of the demon clan, but Li Ye seemed unmoved. While controlling the True-fire of Samadhi to burn the surrounding cultivators of the religion of God who was trying to get close to him, he was watching the battle situation of the cultivators of the demon clan with anxiety.

What Red Boy saw shocked him. Several acquaintances were wounded one after another by the attack of the cultivators of the religion of God, and some of them even fell straight to the ground.

When Yang Tingge, who was in the Sky Immortal Realm, attacked Yelv Abaoji, he was slowed down by the guard next to Yelv Abaoji with the blade. The fireball thrown by Yelv Abaoji hit him at the next moment. Even though he launched the magic tool for defense, he vomited blood and flew backward.

Zuo Che’er, who was in the Ground Immortal Realm, attacked two cultivators of the religion of God with his companion.

Not long after the two sides fought, a master in the Sky Immortal Realm flew over from behind. As he waved his hand, the black gases formed a long whip and whipped Zuo Che’er’s companion. He was beaten to a mass of bruises and fell to the ground directly.

Without the help of his companion, Zuo Che’er was pressed on the chest by the cultivator of the religion of God, who was in the Ground Immortal Realm. While he vomited blood, he was heading down the barren mountain

Red Boy was furious. The fire clouds formed by the True-fire of Samadhi suddenly expanded by 30% and surrounded several cultivators of the religion of God, who were in the Ground Immortal Realm. They cried, screamed, and fled in panic. Red Boy’s face turned pale. Obviously, he consumed a lot of Spiritual Qi.

He shouted at Li Ye, “Li Ye! If we continue to fight like this, we will all die here today!”

But at this time, Li Ye said, “Follow me closely. I have a way to defeat the enemy!”