As Liang Xuan gazed at the violently approaching purple sun, he felt an overwhelming sense of pressure. Because they were not too far apart, the swelling of the purple sun made Liang Xuan feel as if a real sun was crashing towards him.

Liang Xuan dared not be careless. He focused all his attention, and the vast innate spiritual qi surged out from within his body. He lifted his long spear, and the ice lotuses surrounding him instantly condensed into a massive ice lotus, several meters large, to block in front of him.

"Go."

The long spear in Liang Xuan's hand flashed with a cold light and then fiercely thrust towards Chen Mo. The ice lotus blocking in front of him bloomed immediately, the direction of the flower stamen facing Chen Mo, and then the ice lotus shattered open, ice petals like meteor showers shooting out violently.

Each ice petal carried an extremely cold temperature, and at the moment of violent shooting, the path through the city wall underneath transformed into an icy path, seemingly overshadowing the heat brought by the purple sun.

However, this was ultimately just a fleeting moment; in the blink of an eye, the icy path was melted, and the ice petals shooting towards Chen Mo were all devoured by the purple sun, not even causing a splash.

Finally, under Liang Xuan's horrified gaze, the purple sun also swelled to an extreme, then exploded with a roar, gushing energy engulfing Liang Xuan.

Chen Mo pulled back to avoid being affected by his own divine power.

After all, when he initially broke through to third grade, experimenting with divine powers for the first time, Chen Mo suffered a small setback from this.

"Boom..."

As expected, in an instant, a heat wave swept out in every direction, crashing and flying off the parapets.

Even though the scene was cleared in advance, neither side held back, and the aftermath spread far and wide, sweeping over both Chen Army soldiers and Huai Army soldiers, all knocked to the ground, and those unfortunate enough were thrown off the walls and fell down.

Such high walls, falling down naturally led to little chance of survival.

The immense commotion caused a brief pause from both sides of the soldiers engaged in battle, as they cast their gaze over. As the dust settled, the spot where Chen Mo and Liang Xuan had fought became a huge opening.

Simply put, it was like a "口" turned into an irregularly edged "凹".

Above this opening, a charred black corpse lay silently on top, from the exterior there's no way to discern who it was, no sign of life.

But considering the previous situation, this charred corpse could only be Liang Xuan...

"General..."

Liang Xuan's personal soldiers saw this scene, and shouted in shock, then hurriedly rushed over to inspect.

But Chen Mo merely looked with a hint of calm, sighed, and then shouted, "The treacherous Liang Xuan is dead, those who surrender will not be killed, those who stubbornly resist will be punished without mercy."

"Those who surrender will not be killed, those who stubbornly resist will be punished without mercy!"

"Those who surrender will not be killed, those who stubbornly resist will be punished without mercy."

"..."

Chen Army soldiers witnessed this scene, and they were exceedingly elated and excited because they already saw victory, morale surged again.

Conversely, Huai Army soldiers suddenly appeared dispirited at this moment.

"The general is dead, he killed the general. Together, let's kill him, avenge the general." The leading personal soldier grasping the charred corpse shouted in anguish, angrily pointing at Chen Mo.

A group of Liang Xuan's personal soldiers rushed to surround and attack.

Chen Mo withdrew and then swiftly grabbed ahold of a round shield.

Moments ago when using divine powers, the innate spiritual qi within was exhausted. Despite the blazing sun above, during the recovery period, Chen Mo didn't possess the protective innate spiritual qi, so he had to defend against stray arrows.

And there were others to deal with this group of Liang Xuan's personal soldiers.

Chen Mo's next task was to open the city gates and let the army in.

Even without using innate spiritual qi, just relying on physical power, this group of small soldiers couldn't resist. He led a portion of the Xianzhen Guard Soldiers on the city walls and fought down the stairs.

The Huai Army soldiers guarding the gates instantly swarmed to attack Chen Mo's men.

"Kill." Chen Mo shouted.

He seemed like a human-shaped fierce beast, charging into the enemy troops, listening in all directions, sensed arrows incoming, directly held up the round shield to resist, then fought his way out like chopping melons and cabbages.

"Break it for me."

Chen Mo chopped down the crossbar inside the urn city, breaking through the inner door, and then the thousand-pound gate was revealed.

Chen Mo slashed at it.

Not slashing the thousand-pound gate itself, but the iron chain controlling the rise and fall of the gate.

Ding ding—

After two crisp sounds, the iron chain broke with a snap, and Chen Mo grabbed the broken chain, giving it a fierce pull, making his right arm muscles bunch up immediately.

"Crack crack..." That was the sound of the mechanism moving. The heavy thousand-pound gate was lifted by Chen Mo.

Thousand-pound gate was just its name; it weighed much more than a thousand pounds.

As the thousand-pound gate was lifted, the Wu Army and Divine Martial Guard outside the city appeared in front of Chen Mo.

The outer gate and middle gate had already been smashed open by siege vehicles.

Seeing Chen Mo, their faces lit up with excitement.

"The city is breached..."

"Charge—"

The army surged in.

Not far outside the city, the Brave Cavalry Guard, commanded by Shao Jinneng and Xu Mu, was constantly keeping an eye on the situation ahead.

Upon hearing the city was breached, Shao Jinneng, who had been barely restraining himself, roared out loud, "Sons of the Brave Cavalry Guard, the gate is broken. Our chance to take the stage has arrived, charge."

...

Defeat came like a mountain collapsing.

With the breach of the city gate, Chen Army flooded in on a large scale, and the Huai Army soldiers, lacking a main commander, could no longer resist, crumbling into disarray, some fled towards the rear gate, while others surrendered.

The city became chaotic, with the cries and shouts echoing throughout.

Chen Mo allowed them to surrender but forbade them from escaping.

These men were not a rabble. Even as a defeated force, once regrouped, they could form a capable company, which would only cause trouble later.

Chen Mo ordered pursuit.

Beyond Wuguan lies a vast plain, making escape impossible before the Brave Cavalry Guard.

...

Liu Ji could never have imagined returning to Wuguan in such a manner.

This impressively majestic pass was not only conquered by Chen Mo but also saw the killing of the guardian Liang Xuan.

Liu Ji anticipated that the events of today, once spread, would surely shock the world. Some might even lose sleep over it.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Liu Ji saw the Chen Army methodically repairing the defenses and was taken aback: "Marquis, having captured Wuguan, should we not capitalize on the victory and seize Huai State?"

"The events here cannot be concealed; I believe Prince Huai will soon send reinforcements. If we don't hold Wuguan and proceed directly, when Prince Huai's reinforcements arrive and reclaim Wuguan, we would be trapped."

This Wuguan, Chen Mo intended to defend well.

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