Tyrant Sky Martial Soul

Chapter 1037: Chapter 1037: Loyalty and Duty to the Nation

”Wait a minute! According to past rules, the one who captures the Battle Flag must improvise a battle song to motivate the warriors to slay the enemy on the battlefield! How could General Lu have forgotten this?”

”Commander-in-Chief, this matter was not communicated to them beforehand, and bringing it up now seems a bit improper. The clans of the Mysterious World value martial prowess over literary skills—this is rather difficult for them.”

Lu Chenlong furrowed his brows.

He knew that Si Kong Zun was intentionally nitpicking.

Ling Xiao was also somewhat speechless. Since childhood, he had practiced Martial Arts; the characters he learned were all related to martial techniques, and he had never studied music, chess, calligraphy, or painting. He was completely ignorant in these areas.

If he really had to compose a battle song, that would indeed be difficult.

This Si Kong Zun was really ruthless.

”Ling Xiao, are you going to give up? If you give up, you won’t obtain the position of Centurion, nor the special privilege of acting according to the situation. Are you sure?”

Si Kong Zun completely ignored Lu Chenlong and looked towards Ling Xiao, asking loudly.

This was clearly deliberate.

If Ling Xiao chose to give up, his previous efforts would be in vain.

But if he did not give up, what then? Was he to cobble together a battle song just to make do?

Not only would that be ineffective, but it could also be embarrassing.

For a moment, Ling Xiao found himself in a dilemma.

”Alas, Ling Xiao is good in every way, it’s just a pity he lacks literary grace.”

Feng Yanran also sighed, ”Although this matter is indeed Si Kong Zun making things difficult for him, if he truly can’t do it, then it’s just bad luck.”

Jia Yun let out a cold laugh, a smirk forming on his previously gloomy face.

Seeing this guy’s smug smile, Ling Xiao did not want to give up.

As he racked his brains, he suddenly touched upon something.

That thing had always been hidden in his Soul Sea, like a water balloon, encompassing countless memories and knowledge.

But whose memories these originated from, he had no idea.

Perhaps they were some memories of the King of People?

Or something gained from a heritage?

Ling Xiao himself was becoming confused.

But upon touching the water balloon, it burst abruptly, and its contents instantly filled his entire mind.

In that moment, all sorts of bizarre things appeared in his Soul Sea, most of which he had never seen before.

He had not even conceived of them.

At this moment, he didn’t have the time to worry about those things—he was more focused on the extensive knowledge and memories about battle songs and poetry.

”This is incredible, any of these things should be enough to pass, right?”

The worried look on Ling Xiao’s face suddenly turned into excitement.

”Commander Si Kong, you said that if I can improvise a battle song, I can obtain the position of Centurion and the special privilege, right?”

He suddenly turned to ask Si Kong Zun.

”That’s correct!”

Si Kong Zun was somewhat surprised. Just moments ago, Ling Xiao had been filled with concern, but now he seemed to have an epiphany; he appeared less tense.

”Alright, I’ll sing it for you all to hear!”

Ling Xiao said with a smile.

”You’re sure you mean sing, not recite?”

Si Kong Zun asked.

Singing was much harder than reciting.

After all, recitation only required words, but singing demanded a melody—that was a whole different level of difficulty.

”Yes, sing. Everyone listen up!”

Ling Xiao had absolute confidence that when his battle song was sung, it would resonate with the warriors here.

Because when that battle song appeared in his Soul Sea, his entire being suddenly filled with excitement.

What was more surprising was that when the battle song merged with his Soul Power, it produced a special effect, adding another ability to his ”Soul Judgment”: Holy King!

The first ability was Heaven Burning, incinerating everything, which was clearly a wide-ranging Elemental Attack;

The second was God Tomb, which precisely speaking, could communicate with the Undead, belonging to a summoning type of practical method with Soul Power;

The third was Immortal Pot, which should be the ability to materialize Soul Power, absorbing any object’s soul and then converting it into one’s own Soul Power;

The fourth ability is that of the Holy King; this, to be accurate, should be considered an auxiliary power. The war hymn is only one part of it, mainly it can enhance one’s own and others’ strength or defensive power, etc. Different war hymns should also have different effects.

The awakening of this power was truly an unexpected blessing for Ling Xiao.

He took a deep breath, and his powerful singing voice instantly filled the entire military camp.

”Beacon fires rise, looking north from the rivers and mountains.

Dragons ascend, horses whinny long, Sword Qi cold as frost.

Heart like the ocean, vast and boundless.

Who can stand against the ages’ sprawl and throes!

Hatred to madness, the long blade leads the way.

How many loyal souls buried in foreign soil, comrades in arms.

Why fear a hundred deaths for home and country.

Holding back sighs, speechless, eyes brimmed with bloody tears.

The horse’s hooves head south, people gaze northward.

People gaze northward, where grass is green and yellow, dust flies up.

I wish to guard this land and reclaim our frontiers!

Majestic God Phoenix shall make all directions...

Come to pay homage!”

Silence!

A deathly silence!

Even the martial artists of Phoenix God College fell into a complete hush.

After a long time, those soldiers actually shed tears of excitement!

So touching!

And so thrilling!

Because in this song, these soldiers saw themselves, heard themselves, thought of themselves!

Listening makes the blood boil, tears fill the chest.

What a war hymn this is, the feeling is simply indescribable.

It’s not just a change in emotions; even the blood in the soldiers’ bodies seemed to boil, and a red glow emerged on each of them.

That was the physical manifestation of their combat will!

They could feel that their bodies were full of strength, and they really wanted to go to the battlefield right now to vent!

”What a crappy war hymn, horribly unpleasant to listen to!”

A jarring voice rang out, it was none other than that guy Jia Yun.

However, his words only caused countless pairs of eyes to turn toward him, and they were eyes filled with rage.

”What do you want to do?”

Even though Jia Yun was the junior leader of the Righteous Qi Alliance, even though he usually had a lot of guts, being stared down by tens of thousands of eyes, all wishing him dead, made him tremble all over.

If these people really wanted to kill him, the Righteous Qi Alliance would probably be of no use.

”What’s the name of this war hymn?”

Lu Chenlong asked excitedly.

He could hardly imagine that such a battlefield-colored war hymn came from the mouth of a young man who was only sixteen years old.

And that soaring singing voice completely rendered the tragic and heroic feeling of the battlefield.

Listening to it made even an old man like him unavoidably agitated.

”Loyalty and Duty to the Nation!”

Ling Xiao blurted out.

Of course, this wasn’t a name he had given, but the original name of the song.

”What a ’Loyalty and Duty to the Nation’! Good!”

Lu Chenlong’s eyes shimmered with brilliance as he repeated the word ”good” twice.

”Who would have thought, Ling Xiao, not only are your Martial Arts exceptional, but your literary and musical talent is so extraordinary too, why had it never been discovered before.”

Feng Qingyan was also immensely excited.

Ling Xiao’s performance had significantly exceeded his expectations.