The Great Bandit of Journey to the West

Chapter 73 Gatling Bodhisattva

As the sun sets in the west, layers of clouds drift across the sky, dyed a fiery red by the setting sun, spreading out southwards.

To the south, where the fiery clouds meet, a lotus-shaped golden auspicious cloud hangs over the two altars, creating a very strange and unique landscape with the two distinct colors of the cloud.

On the altar, more than 800 monks and Taoist priests who had been performing rituals all day looked exhausted, and their expressions had become somewhat numb.

Seeing that it was almost time, Li Jing prepared to have the evening drum sounded so that they could come down and rest.

Just then, a chilling gust of wind rose from the ground, and a dark cloud rode the wind in from the horizon, instantly covering the fiery clouds and auspicious clouds of merit on the horizon.

With a resounding clang of hooves, two groups of ghostly soldiers burst forth from the dark clouds and charged toward the altar.

Li Jing's expression turned solemn, and he instantly raised his military flag. The Demon-Suppressing Army, which had been waiting in ambush, charged out from the side and split into two groups to intercept him.

In the first clash between the two armies, the soldiers of the Demon-Suppressing Army emitted a burst of golden light, which halted their charge.

The golden light shattered in the next instant, and the eight hundred monks clashed with the fully armed ghost soldiers in close combat, resulting in a chaotic battle.

Li Jing sighed helplessly, changed to a black command flag, and ordered Sun En and the Changsheng Army to attack from behind, flanking the Yin soldiers.

He had only been in charge of these two armies for a single day, and getting them to understand the command flags and obey orders was already the limit.

Fortunately, these two armies were disciplined and obeyed orders. If it had been the palace guards, they would probably be in complete chaos by now.

He quickly found the weakness of the Yin soldiers, and commanded a hundred immortal soldiers to tear apart the enemy's formation, dividing them into three parts, and besieging the leaders Gao Huan and Hou Jing.

Hou Jing, relying on his own bravery, cut his way through the encirclement and quickly broke free. Looking at his men in complete chaos, he stared fiercely at Li Jing, who was directing operations from the rooftop.

"kill!"

Hou Jing spurred his warhorse, gripped his spear, and transformed into a streak of black light as he charged toward Li Jing.

Just as the spear tip was about to pierce Li Jing, a burly figure suddenly appeared in front of him, clenched his fist and punched Hou Jing and his horse to the ground.

Hou Jing rolled in the air and stood up again, looking at the fierce general who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere with a shocked expression.

Hou Jing had roamed the battlefield for decades, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of lives, yet he had never seen a brave and fierce person!

Who are you?

"Liu Yu!"

Liu Yu swung his broadsword, and a streak of blood-red light instantly ripped through the sky.

Hou Jing ducked and dodged with a shiver down his spine, but he still couldn't avoid it in time and had his arm cut off. He screamed and turned to leave, not giving Liu Yu a chance to strike a second time.

"withdraw!"

At a single command, Hou Jing and Gao Huan, who had initially launched a feint attack, instantly collapsed, abandoning their remaining troops and fleeing in a frantic, desperate escape.

Li Jing immediately shouted, "Don't pursue a desperate enemy!"

Liu Yu disobeyed his orders and chased after Hou Jing and his men, chasing after an army of over a thousand men by himself, cutting down anyone he caught up with his sword!

The absurd scene left Li Jing speechless: "..."

So it seems there's no danger in chasing after them?

Soon, Liu Yu led the Longevity Army and the Peace Demon Army into the horizon. Only then did he realize that something was wrong.

"A diversionary tactic!"

Before the words had even finished, the black fog on the horizon dissipated, and Tuoba Tao appeared from the clouds with ten thousand battle-hardened Xianbei cavalry.

With a wave of his right hand, he ordered three thousand well-equipped cavalrymen to charge toward the altar.

"Namo Amitabha Buddha, the Greatly Compassionate Gatling Gun Bodhisattva!"

Jiang Feng, his face contorted with rage, appeared directly in front of the three thousand cavalrymen, a Gatling gun in hand, and pulled the trigger toward the surging tide of riders.

"Da da da—"

The Gatling gun, blazing with blue flames, unleashed a barrage of fire, felling the charging cavalry one by one, turning them into thick black smoke that dissipated into the sky with a gust of cold wind.

When the three thousand cavalry charged in front of Jiang Feng, only three terrified lone knights remained. Jiang Feng swung his Gatling gun with both hands and smashed them to pieces!

Upon seeing Jiang Feng single-handedly annihilate his three thousand ghost soldiers, Tuoba Tao flew into a rage and shouted, "Erzhu Rong, go and kill Jiang Feng!"

Erzhu Rong looked bewildered and pointed to himself with his index finger: "Me? I'm going to kill Jiang Feng all by myself?"

Tuoba Tao glanced at the lone Erzhu Rong beside him and asked in surprise, "Where are Gao Cheng and your ghost soldiers?"

Upon hearing this, Erzhu Rong grinned and cursed, "That beast went to the palace to capture Empress Dugu, and even tricked me into sending my soldiers away before he left!"

Tuoba Tao: "@#￥%￥#@……"

I knew these bastards would ruin things!

Tuoba Tao gritted his teeth and said, "I'll give you a thousand cavalry to flank him from behind!"

Erzhu Rong immediately felt emboldened: "Leave it to me! Tonight I'll give you Jiang Feng's heart and liver to drink with!"

Soon, Tuoba Tao ordered two thousand cavalry to deplete Jiang Feng's magic power from the front, while Erzhu Rong led a thousand Yin soldiers to flank from the rear.

"Da da da..."

The Gatling gun emitted blue flames again, and the reunited cavalry disappeared at a visible speed. Jiang Feng's face also turned pale rapidly due to excessive consumption of mana.

On the other side, Erzhu Rong led a thousand cavalrymen in an arc, and they were about to catch up with Jiang Feng.

Jizang and Wang Yuanzhi revealed themselves and solemnly began to cast their spells.

"The salvation of sentient beings is immeasurable; all phenomena are empty!"

As Jizang chanted incantations, countless golden Sanskrit characters appeared, condensing into a huge sphere of Buddha's light, which instantly enveloped hundreds of Yin soldiers.

At the same time, Wang Yuanzhi, holding a yellow talisman and standing on the Seven Stars, summoned thirty-six guardian heavenly soldiers, who then fought against the Yin soldiers led by Erzhu Rong.

At this moment, the two thousand Yin soldiers responsible for consuming Jiang Feng's magical power had all died.

Tuoba Tao looked at Jiang Feng, who was panting heavily, and said coldly, "You went to great lengths to try to help my ghost soldiers pass on, but in the end you still died by my hand."

"Now, if you commit suicide to atone for your sins and then surrender to me, I will appoint you as a Great General of the Underworld Soldiers!"

Jiang Feng looked up at Tuoba Tao standing atop the clouds and asked, "Which of the Tuoba Xianbei are you?"

"Tuoba Tao".

Jiang Feng responded with an "oh," and asked curiously, "You already ascended the throne and enjoyed all the riches and honors in your previous life, so why did you still linger in the mortal realm?"

A savage glint flashed in Tuoba Tao's eyes as he gritted his teeth and said, "I, Tuoba Tao, a great ruler of my generation, fought in the south and the north, and almost unified the world, but in the end I died a pathetic death at the hands of eunuchs."

I pleaded my case in the underworld, but they said it was my fate!

This damned God has been so unfair to me!

Even in death, I will unite the realms of Yin and Yang, establish an eternal dynasty, and overturn this predetermined fate!

Jiang Feng sighed, "Alas, all of you want to be emperor. Once you're emperor, you don't think about making the people live a good life; you only think about your own immortality and the eternal continuation of your dynasty. When will this ever end..."

"You won't listen to me anyway, so fine, today I'll take pity on you and show you what the truth really is—"

As he spoke, Jiang Feng took out two magical artifacts he had just crafted yesterday, one named "Fatty" and the other "Little Boy"...