Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1475: Chapter 1422: Target—Zhou Yu!

Guan Yu coldly watched this scene unfold. He had long anticipated that Zhou Yu would cause trouble, as in the past, Zhou Yu’s interference often prevented Guan Yu from fully showcasing his combat strength. However, this time it wasn’t just Zhou Yu causing trouble!

”Ding!” Sun Ce launched an attack first, and Guan Yu, almost reflexively, blocked Sun Ce’s long spear. As the school sabre bearers emerged from the central camp formation, they abruptly halted their scattered pursuit and naturally merged into one, just as Guo Jia and Guan Yu had previously instructed in such situations.

This is precisely why the first formation had to be the school sabre bearers because no other soldiers possessed such calm and composed disposition.

For this reason, Guan Yu’s focus wasn’t on the soldiers he led. His cold and proud eyes gleamed fiercely, only thinking of how to deal with Sun Ce. Though Sun Ce had entered an extraordinary state once more after Zhou Yu’s appearance, it still couldn’t change how easily Guan Yu was suppressing Sun Ce.

To be honest, if not for Sun Ce’s monarch talent imbuing him with the power to subdue and suppress others, he, with strength only a hair’s breadth from Yann Liang, would have long fallen under Guan Yu’s blade.

Guan Yu was on the battlefield of the Yuan Liu’s war, having slain Yann Liang and eradicated Wen Chou. He became the second elite master after Xiang Yu to take the step on the Divine Path. If not for his body and inner qi limitations, he could have rivaled Lyu Bu.

Indeed, if it weren’t for the foundational issues due to the Divine Stone, Guan Yu might now be the strongest military general in the world. His attainments in the path of the ”Divine” are only slightly inferior to Lyu Bu. But Lyu Bu had unleashed the powers of the Divine Stone Core after taking that step, compensating for the original insufficiencies in ”Essence and Qi”.

This is why, even though having taken that step, Guan Yu couldn’t demonstrate the overwhelming power like Lyu Bu, who crushed all contenders. After all, what the ”Divine” could do was merely amplify the potential of the body and inner qi.

In today’s world, Guan Yu and Dian Wei have both taken the final step beyond the barrier of essence, qi, and spirit, entering a new level. But unfortunately, neither Guan Yu nor Dian Wei, despite their extraordinary talent, have obtained the Divine Stone Core, ultimately leaving them slightly inferior in other aspects.

Dian Wei, lacking sufficient inner qi, cannot utilize his body, already comparable to King Xiang, fully. It’s known that if Dian Wei’s body could continuously generate inner qi to the ultimate out-of-body state, he could smash mountains and sever peaks like King Xiang.

Similarly, if Guan Yu had Zhao Yun’s foundation, and neither side used special tactics, even if Guan Yu couldn’t cut down Lyu Bu, Lyu Bu might still meet defeat. Sadly, even though Guan Yu has an ultimate inner qi manifestation too, his physical quality has set his limitations.

This is why, although both had taken that step, neither can, like Lyu Bu, dominate all dissension. Even those audacious ones like Ma Chao and Sun Ce only see them as the strongest within the realm of ultimate inner qi manifestation, still daring to challenge and think of defeating them.

In fact, how to say? Guan Yu and Dian Wei believe that in today’s realm, except for Zhao Yun getting serious, no small maneuvers by others could reckon with both of them. Certainly, if Huang Zhong could recover, he might also withstand, but it would take Huang Zhong at least five years to recover.

Although he didn’t directly elevate his son’s inner qi manifestation, it did damage the foundation. Forcibly elevating one’s strength without consuming potential... even when Tong Yuan refined inner qi to endless vitality on the verge of breakthrough for Zhao Yun, Zhang Xiu and others, it left him bedridden for quite a long time.

Let alone Huang Zhong forcibly elevating even Huang Xu’s physical quality; being able to recover in five years, Huang Zhong would no longer fear the title of the strongest beneath Lyu Bu. However, that’s in the past. Now, although Huang Zhong remains in the top tier owing mainly to experience, his overall qualities have declined compared to before...

After Zhou Yu’s army emerged from the central camp, Guan Yu unleashed his Legion Talent. Sun Ce did the same, but unlike before, this time Sun Ce’s golden light did not shatter Guan Yu’s Azure Radiance.

Previously, when their Legion Talents clashed, Sun Ce’s would always erode some of Guan Yu’s, but this time, Guan Yu’s Legion Talent completely withstood Sun Ce’s.

Seeing this, Guan Yu gained more confidence, lifting his Green Dragon Crescent Blade. As Sun Ce activated his Legion Talent, the Curly-Haired Red Hare beneath him, in perfect sync, burst forth at maximum speed, the man and horse combining into a gleaming azure and red light, slashing toward Sun Ce.

”Ding!” Sun Ce instinctively thrust his spear towards the azure light, but at the moment of the strike, a great terror suddenly surged within him. As he thrust the spear, he abruptly leaped back, entirely neglecting the Precious Steed beneath him.

”Puchi!” With first a low twang and then a dull slicing sound, Sun Ce leaped back and landed nimbly on the ground, gazing solemnly at Guan Yu. His hand gripped the great spear, its spearhead sliced into a smooth mirrored surface, while the precious steed Ma Chao gave him, forged to qi refining to gang, was cleaved in two.

Guan Yu looked solemnly at Sun Ce. His previous strike aimed to kill Sun Ce, a move that had felled Yann Liang before. Though it was only for a brief moment, the move from which Yann Liang never broke free had somehow failed against Sun Ce.