Chapter 1703: Chapter 568: The Undefeated War God

At this moment, within the black gate, Chu Xisheng was deeply regretful, watching as Shen Jingli’s fair leg retreated again.

This caused the anticipation in his eyes to gradually fade away.

Chu Xisheng unwillingly clicked his tongue, releasing his hands from his waist where he was holding onto his blade, and thought that these powerful divine entities were indeed not easy to deal with, none of them were pushovers.

Lu Luanti relaxed slightly, letting out a long breath of relief.

She never lacked battle courage, daring to fight even if the opponent was a god.

In the previous battle at Cang Province, Lu Luanti had already faced off against the strongest Upper God, the Seven Killings Star Lord.

However, this time the situation was different. Shen Jingli had a complete divine body, uninjured and with full strength.

This made Lu Luanti’s divine thought feel an extraordinary pressure.

An ordinary Third Grade martial cultivator might have had their spirit crushed at the mere sight of Shen Jingli’s leg.

Lu Luanti then turned her head to look behind her.

This was a dark and gloomy space, within a vast black cave, where thousands upon thousands of humanoid armored soldiers were neatly lined up, forming a massive and orderly military formation.

They varied in height and appearance but all wore black heavy armor, with their skin glimmering with a metallic sheen.

Lu Luanti speculated that these were likely the ’Divine Martial Armors’ from more than seven thousand years ago, who followed the Martial Fierce Heavenly King in driving the Night Wolf Giant Spirit out of the Divine Continent.

This could be confirmed beyond doubt from the style of these black armors and the intricate, powerful, and exquisitely beautiful runes inscribed on them.

The original name of ’Divine Martial Armor’ was ’Iron Slave Armor’, originally designed by the Night Wolf Tribe for the Human Clan’s slave army.

In the past, nearly all skilled craftsmen of the northern Human Clan in the Divine Continent fell into the hands of the Night Wolf Tribe.

At that time, the Night Wolf Giant Spirit had already conquered everything north of the Shenxiu River and the Tianhuai River, yet faced fierce resistance from the northern Human Clan.

The military strength of the Night Wolf Giant Spirit was stretched thin; to maintain rule and prepare enough military force to cross the river and conquer the Southern Dynasty, they formed a five hundred thousand-strong Human Clan slave army, forcibly commanding the craftsmen under their control to create a total of eight hundred seventy thousand sets of ’Iron Slave Armor’.

A portion of these were captured by the Martial Fierce Heavenly King and, after slight modification, became the standard armor of the ’Divine Martial Armors’.

Legend has it, at the height of the Martial Fierce Heavenly King’s power, he led no more than three hundred twenty thousand Divine Martial Armors. They followed the Martial Fierce Heavenly King on the battlefield, invincible, slaying over ten million Giant Spirits, nearly halving the population of the Night Wolf Tribe and various Giant Spirit tribes.

Lu Luanti hovered in the air, her sight continuously extending to the rear rows of this massive military formation.

Her gaze was complex: "Each row consists of fourteen hundred people, a total of one hundred fifty rows, at least two hundred ten thousand armored soldiers, with many war chariots and four-legged flying dragons at the rear formation. It seems the rumors were true: Martial Fierce Heavenly King’s ’Divine Martial Armors’ were not defeated by All Gods, but disappeared after the battle."

This was originally the most absurd rumor regarding the Martial Fierce Heavenly King’s defeat.

If more than two hundred thousand invincible ’Divine Martial Armors’ had not been defeated, how could they have disappeared without reason?

Lu Luanti had not expected this most absurd rumor to be true.

She looked at these black metallic warriors before her, feeling both awe and admiration, regret and resentment, overwhelming her heart with distress: "So, there was no such thing as the Lie King’s Treasure; all their belongings were used on themselves. These two hundred ten thousand people, they turned themselves into golden iron bodies."

Lu Luanti’s magic prowess had reached the level of a grandmaster.

She knew how these metallic warriors were forged.

They had to stand inside a large array, letting molten metal seep into their skin and four limbs and hundred bones, waiting for the golden iron body to replace flesh and blood.

During this process, they must endure without making violent movements, or they would completely melt.

From imagination and speculation alone, Lu Luanti knew how excruciating this would be, a pain even greater than skinning and dismemberment.

Yet these metal-bodied warriors before her numbered twenty one hundred thousand!

A full two hundred ten thousand people endured this extreme pain, completing the transformation into metallic bodies.

Lu Luanti looked at them, feeling a rushing aura of desperate heroism, nearly suffocating her.

Chu Xisheng, too, looked down at the military formation below that resembled the terracotta warriors with a complex expression.

"Our Human Clan relied on strong bows and crossbows to combat the Giant Spirits. However, the Shenwu Dynasty lacked craftsmen, and arrow production was always unsatisfactory. Under the pressure of the gods, the Southern Dynasty no longer provided Martial Fierce Heavenly King with arrows.

Before that great battle, the Shenwu Dynasty’s arrow reserves amounted to only a million, insufficient for battle. They had to use this method, turning themselves into golden iron bodies to gain the power to resist the Giant Spirits. Besides—"

Chu Xisheng flew through the air, heading towards the rear of this massive military formation: "The conversion to metallic bodies wasn’t limited to these armored soldiers."

As he finished speaking, he had arrived at the rear rows of the military formation, in front of the three four-legged flying dragons.

These were three fully matured four-legged flying dragons; their bodies were exceptionally robust compared to other four-legged flying dragons, covered entirely in solid black scales, probably a result of bloodline mutation and return to ancestor, exhibiting extraordinary power.

Amazing enough, these flying dragons’ flesh was also metalized.

Their bodies lay prone on the ground, eyes shut, in a state of slumber, and each had someone seated on their back.