"Live as a hero, and die as a hero … Sister Li, the first two lines of your poem are not bad, but I don't agree with the last two.
"If it were me, I would have definitely boarded a ship and fled back to where I came from. A man shouldn't care about one or two failures. He should be mentally strong. Du Muzhi's poem was quite right. Victory and defeat are unpredictable, and a man should endure humiliation. There are so many talents in the River East that it's possible for them to make a comeback! "
Not far from Fishing City, in another stronghold that was also close to the river, a slightly sloppy voice rang out.
"Duke Pei … Don't you think that's a bit … Well, it's easy for you to say that. Kill someone? Versailles! "
A hint of surprise appeared on Chu Yin's face as she stared at a middle-aged man who was dressed in a loose black robe with golden trimmings next to her with her long eyelashes.
"No, I didn't. Don't talk nonsense. I was just expressing my feelings. How could it be a prawn and a pig's heart? I didn't choose Versailles to show off!
"Brother Liu, I really think that if my brother Xiang Ji had chosen to return to the River East, I wouldn't have had a 100% chance of conquering the world in the end!"
The middle-aged man in the black and gold robe looked as if he had been wronged.
"…"
Chu Yin was rendered speechless.
You're a dignified founding emperor. Do you really not care about your own image?
That's right. There weren't many people in history who were called "Duke Pei". Since the founding emperor had set a limit, it was only natural that one person was given the title.
It was Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty!
As a famous rogue emperor in history, Liu Bang chose to be summoned by Dragon City before he became the emperor or even before he started a rebellion.
Because of that, he wasn't as majestic as one might imagine. Instead, he was much more "down-to-earth" than the other heroes.
Some of the heroes of Dragon City would take the initiative to get in touch with the players and learn modern culture, such as Zhou Yu.
However, Zhou Yu had selectively learned from the players. He mainly learned modern knowledge and culture, and he even assumed his own identity during the learning process. He was like a college student interning on a construction site. While he was a fast learner, he didn't know the details very well.
Liu Bang, on the other hand, became one with the Players in a short time.
From the way he blurted out modern words and even knew how to use memes, it was hard to imagine that he was actually an ancient person.
And the fact that he was able to do this was indeed due to his character. After all, when Xiang Yu killed his father, he shouted that he would leave a bowl for his brother. In terms of shamelessness, it could be said that no one in the history of emperors could compare to him.
"Sister Chuyin, you're too boring. 'Brother Insect' suits my taste better."
Seeing that Chu Ying didn't reply for a long time, as if she couldn't match his brainwaves, Liu Bang started talking to himself again.
"It's Chu Yin!"
Chu Yin finally could not help but correct him.
"Besides, do you really think the Overlord down there can't hear you?"
In front of the settlement named "Hong Men" where the two of them were at, there was a large group of cavalrymen that looked like dark clouds. Every cavalryman was wearing black armor and holding a black shield. They were riding tall warhorses that were covered in a layer of black scales, had protruding horns, and had vertical pupils!
[Flood Horse]
[Level: Extraordinary Rank-5]
[Rarity: Elite]
[Description: It contains the bloodline of the Transcendent Flood Dragon and can walk in midair.]
At the center of the 8,000 cavalrymen was a tall and mighty general who was more than 1.9 meters tall. He was dressed in a black dragon-scaled battle robe, and he was riding on an even taller black dragon-headed warhorse. There was a pair of overlapping purple pupils in his eye sockets.
It was Xiang Yu, Liu Bang's sworn brother, a Legendary hero, and the famous Overlord of Western Chu in history.
[Xiang Yu]
[Level: Transcendent Rank-6]
[Rarity: Legendary]
[Description: Ji's surname is Xiang, and his given name is Yu. He is known as the Overlord of Western Chu. He is the representative of the Military Force, one of the four forces of the Military school. People say that he is the most valiant man in history!]
"Xiang Yu!"
"The Overlord!"
It was different from the previous livestreams.
This time, people on Earth could choose any hero or a certain settlement to watch the livestream. Of all the heroes, Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu, was one of the top three.
After all, he was one of the most valiant generals in the history of China.
"I wonder if Concubine Yu is in Dragon City."
"Hongmen, Liu Bang, and Xiang Yu aren't going to fight each other, are they?"
"I don't think so. Look, your army is facing the outside, which means that they're cooperating!"
"Come on, my king! Liu Bang is being sarcastic. Come on, slap his face!"
In particular, the fact that Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were in the same settlement made those who knew China's history even more excited.
"Who do you think is stronger, Xiang Yu or Lu Bu?"
"Even an idiot knows that Xiang Yu is stronger. Lu Bu is only Quasi Legendary, and his settlement was destroyed by aliens a month ago. How can he be compared to the Overlord?"
"Yes, Xiang Yu is definitely stronger. According to the experts, both Xiang Yu and Lu Bu have Korean blood, but Xiang Yu's bloodline is purer!"
"I'm dying of laughter. The Thief Nation wants to steal people again. I'm afraid you're worried that your last stronghold of the King of the World Sect would be destroyed!"
Even Korea and Sakura, which were part of Chidragon, were curious about Xiang Yu's combat ability. They even argued on the forum.
"If you ask me, Xiang Yu should be able to fight an alien on his own."
"It won't be that easy. Look at the aliens coming at us. They're not simple!"
Rumble! The earth was shaking as if there was a magnitude 8 earthquake. A few extremely tall black shadows were approaching the Hongmen settlement!
It was an alien race known as the "Mountain Giants". They could control the earth and the mountains, and their size was directly related to their strength.
The approaching shadows were almost four hundred meters tall, and human beings looked like ants in front of them. Their detection showed that they were all Transcendent Rank-5 and had a Perfect rating!
The only good thing was that there weren't many of them, only four.
No, there were more than four.
Those Mountain Giants were also covered in armor and weapons made of fire. There was even another head made of fire on their heads. They were Transcendent aliens named Fire Lords, elemental creatures that could divide their bodies at will.
Not just human beings, but so did the aliens.
When the strength of the two aliens overlapped, the four Mountain Giants' combat ability reached Transcendent Rank-6.
The Fiery Mountain Giant Monarch, which was fused, rolled on the ground like an enormous wheel and approached the Hongmen settlement.
Wherever it passed, the ground that was several kilometers wide was melted into magma, and the trees and grasses were all burnt. It was as if a river of magma had been created!
Needless to say, they only needed to roll over. They didn't even need to control the earth or the mountains to destroy the Hongmen settlement, which had a population of more than a hundred thousand.
Xiang Yu, on the other hand, stood in formation outside of the settlement with his soldiers.
Obviously, there was only one possibility, which was to stop the enemy outside of the national gate!
No, to stop the enemy on the other side of the river!
"Soldiers of the river, follow me across the river!"
Looking at the four Fiery Mountain Giant Monarchs that were rolling over, Xiang Yu did not retreat into the settlement.
Not only did Xiangyu not retreat to the foothold, but he leaped off his horse and walked forward. With every step he took, his body, which was covered in black dragon scale armor, grew a little larger. At first, he was about two meters tall, then five meters, then ten meters … By the time he stepped into the water, he was already more than a hundred meters tall.
"Fight!"
Hearing Xiang Yu's order, the soldiers of the river shouted at the same time.
"Hoooooo!"
The eight thousand Flood Horses under him roared at the same time and started running with their limbs that were covered in black scales.
They ran faster and faster until they reached the river in the blink of an eye. Then, they charged into the river without stopping at all. The river was extremely huge. The deepest part was more than ten meters, and the width was more than a thousand meters.
When the eight thousand soldiers charged into the river, they were all swallowed by the surging water. They did not even raise any waves!
No, there were waves!
After the last soldier jumped into the water, the water began to churn violently. About a few seconds later, a roaring black dragon rose from the water, its whole body shrouded in more than a million tons of water, and soared into the sky!
No, it was not a Flood Dragon either.
It was a Black Dragon Battle Formation formed by a thousand soldiers on Flood Horses. Also, there was not one Flood Dragon, but eight black Flood Dragons surrounded by a tremendous amount of water.
Controlling water was a natural feature of the Dragon Blood creatures. After the eight black Flood Dragons, which carried more than eight million tons of water, flew to the sky, they surrounded Xiang Yu, who was already three hundred meters tall, and formed the intimidating Black Dragon River Armor.
"Hiss!"
Finally, the Dark Majestic Horse that Xiang Yu was riding let out a neigh as well.
It transformed into a black dragon that was covered in metal scales at first. Then, it shrank into a black spear that was more than three hundred meters long and fell into the hands of the enormous Tyrant!
Surrounded by eight black Flood Dragons and holding the Black Dragon Spear, the Tyrant of Western Chu was very close to Transcendent Rank-7!
"Die!"
The enormous black Tyrant Dragon Spear slashed forward vertically.
It smashed into the body of the first Mountain Giant that had rolled to the river.
Boom!
The latter's high-speed rolling body came to an abrupt stop. A "canyon" that was dozens of meters deep appeared at the spot where he was cut.
The enormous Mountain Giant sank more than fifty meters into the ground, and the flames and magma on its body spread out for several kilometers like a minor volcanic eruption.
Boom!
The Black Dragon Spear prodded the second Mountain Giant that charged at him and knocked it into the sky.
When it fell to the ground, even the settlement several kilometers away shook hard, and hundreds of houses collapsed.
Boom!
The enormous Tyrant of Western Chu swept the spear with both hands and knocked the third Mountain Giant more than ten kilometers away. It even collapsed half of a mountain!
"That's so impressive!"
"Is it really possible for a human being to do that?"
The brief confrontation made the hearts of the spectators on Earth pound violently.
After all, it was a battle that was almost at Transcendent Rank-7, and it was as powerful as the gods in the legends!
"But those Mountain Giants aren't weak either."
"That's right. Although they were knocked away, they didn't seem to be seriously wounded!"
"You have to know that many aliens who are not strong in combat can even be killed by some ordinary Legendary heroes in seconds," Lin Li said.
In terms of combat ability, Xiang Yu was definitely one of the top heroes on Earth.
However, even though he had advantages in terms of his own level and strength, he couldn't kill the Fiery Mountain Giant Lords quickly, which suggested that the Mountain Giants had extraordinary combat ability.
It was mainly because the Mountain Giants were so enormous that any one of them weighed more than ten million tons.
Also, the rocks that made up their vitality were extremely hard, and their physical defense was as good as that of the Kappa.
They didn't even have the weakness of the Kappa's mental power.
It was because the Fiery Monarchs attached to them, as elemental creatures, were also mental energy. They even had the Transcendent power to transform all kinds of Transcendent energy into fuel for themselves!
Because of that, as the two parties fought …
Although a lot of the Mountain Giants fell apart under Xiang Yu's attack, the flames that covered them grew more and more intense, transforming an area of more than ten square kilometers into an ocean of fire.
They even surrounded the Overlord of Western Chu, who was as large as them, like the Fiery Mountain and the Eight Trigrams Furnace in Journey to the West.
"Roar … Roar … Roar …"
However, the eight dragons on the Black Dragon River Armor made of the eight thousand soldiers were roaring and waving their claws too. While blocking the attacks of the eight Transcendent aliens for Xiang Yu, they absorbed water from the river behind them and fought against the flames.
They seemed to have sensed that their attacks wouldn't work on Xiang Yu.
After being knocked away by Xiang Yu again, the four Mountain Giants looked at each other and pressed their arms to the ground.
"Rumble!"
The yellow light that represented the power of Earth rose, and a lot of earth was rolled up by the Transcendent power. Together with the Mountain Giants' enormous and hard bodies, they formed a cage of earth and stone two kilometers in diameter, trapping the Overlord of Western Chu who was entangled by eight black dragons.
"Roar!"
Then, the four Fiery Lords suddenly roared.
They turned into a lot of fiery elements and flew away from the Mountain Giants into the sky, where they condensed into four enormous ghost faces that were hundreds of meters tall. They blew flames out of their mouths and charged at the Hongmen settlement that had a hundred thousand human beings!
"You're asking to be killed!"
The Hegemon-King of Western Chu roared angrily in the huge Hill Cage.
Boom!
Immediately, the weather changed.
At the same time, the stone cage made of the four Transcendent Mountain Giants was broken.
An overbearing pressure like a Category 20 hurricane swept out in all directions like an explosion. The boiling lava and flames that had already covered an area of ten miles were all extinguished. The four giant flaming ghost faces in the sky seemed to have been bombarded by missiles, instantly collapsing. They turned into balls of flames, swaying like candles in the wind.
It was Xiang Yu's innate ability, the Overlord, that he had the strength to pick up mountains and his aura to conquer the world.
As one of the best generals in the history of Chidragon, Xiang Yu's talent ability, Overlord, granted him immunity to all debuffs, and he couldn't be repelled. He could also receive "infinite" buffs in terms of constitution and strength.
However, there was a limitation, which was that the power that a person could enhance Xiang Yu was affected by how much they respected the Overlord of Western Chu.
Take Liu Bang as an example. Even though Liu Bang was a Legendary hero, he couldn't have enhanced Xiang Yu too much.
After all, Emperor Gaozu of Han couldn't "admire" Xiang Yu too much.
Ji Ye, on the other hand, could enhance Xiang Yu a lot.
Although Ji Ye did not "revere" the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, he was still very powerful. Even a small part of his power was still impressive.
However, even Ji Ye's enhancement couldn't compare to the eight thousand soldiers of the River East Village.
Because the eight thousand disciples had absolute trust in Xiang Yu, they had channeled all their energy into the eight black dragons.
Unlike Liu Bang, Xiang Yu chose to be summoned after he failed in the Battle of Haixia, which meant that he didn't arrive in Dragon City until he died.
At this point in time, the 8,000 River East soldiers that he started out with had all died in battle because of his failure!
Even though they had died once, or at least knew that they would die if they followed Xiang Yu, the eight thousand soldiers still chose to come to Dragon City with Xiang Yu and face the stronger alien races without flinching. That was enough to prove the charisma of the Overlord of Western Chu.
It was worth mentioning that, just like the Yue Army, the eight thousand soldiers had a Legendary feature named "Burning Boats". The feature was that their combat ability was affected by their will and determination.
When their commander was the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, there was no doubt that the degree of this characteristic was directly raised to the maximum.
"The warriors mourn after a hundred battles, and the central plains will never recover from their defeat. Although the soldiers of the river are still here, are they willing to come back with their king? "
"It seems that we already have an answer to that question."
In the headquarters of Dragon City, which was protected by the Transcendent Rank-7 settlement core, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, there was a certain office in the building that the players called the Administration Center.
A middle-aged man who was wearing the robe of a civil official stared at the 3D projection of the Hongmen settlement created by SkyNet and mumbled.
"Chief Wang, several settlements might not be able to resist the aliens. The strategy department has decided to transfer the residents to the Mechanism City of Mohism, the Mountain of Mind and Heart, and the Dragon Cave through the hyperspace portals. Please follow up with Chief Fang and Chief Zhang."
Suddenly, the 3D projection changed.
Su Nongying was holding a golden register in her hand. Her face hadn't changed at all, but she looked much more mature than before. She even had the majesty of a superior.
"Okay!"
His surname was Wang, and the poem he just read was enough to prove his identity.
Wang Anshi was the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, a thinker, a reformer, a poet, and one of the eight great scholars of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Undoubtedly, in terms of political and literary achievements, he was one of the most outstanding heroes of Chidragon in the past thousands of years.
As for Chief Di and Chief Zhang …
They were exactly the two people who lived in Wang Anshi's office. The signs on the door read "Fang Xuanling" and "Zhang Juzheng".
Fang Xuanling was a famous minister, politician, and historian in the early Tang Dynasty. Together with Du Ruhui, he was known as "Fang Mou Du Duan" and one of the 24 heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion.
Zhang Juzheng was a politician, reformer, and prime minister of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty. He assisted Zhu Yijun in implementing the new policy.
As a matter of fact, even though all the settlements were in a state of battle, Dragon City was still running smoothly because of the contributions of the heroes that were hung on the door plates of the government center. Wang Anshi, Di Renjie, Xiao He, Lu Buwei, Xun Yu, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui …
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