So, far in the rear of the alien army, no one noticed.
Not to mention that everyone’s mind was already firmly fixed on the battle ahead, eyes wide, not daring to breathe. Every one of them felt their palms growing cool and clammy, clutching a cold sweat in both hands!
Who would be brainless enough to pay attention to any movement within their own encampment?
Thus, this dark shadow, utilizing the cover of rock formations, foliage, and countless bodies, appeared to move quite slowly, but a careful observer would notice that his speed was actually astonishingly swift. One moment he was pausing near an alien warrior, the next he had already covered dozens of zhang away from that warrior.
The dark shadow drew ever closer to the small knoll where Inuukai Goshō was stationed.
General Inuukai was still focused, concentrating all his energy, watching the development of the battle situation from afar. He was meticulously analyzing what adjustments he needed to make next to completely suppress the enemy’s offensive, so that he could utterly annihilate them.
If he hadn't personally led his troops against such a terrifying squad that utterly defied conventional reason, and if he knew someone was worrying about how to contain an attack when facing only three hundred men with a force of fifty thousand, he would surely have laughed until his teeth fell out, deeming the commander of that force an utter fool, an idiot, a complete moron!
But now, all he felt was powerlessness—a profound, heartfelt impotence!
He couldn't help but turn his head to look back at the dark expanse behind him.
Chuangshang Beidao, having confirmed that the enemy would not fall for the feint, had already returned silently to the rear echelon.
Therefore, this battle had become a probing engagement.
Fifty thousand troops were deployed to test the enemy's true strength!
If they succeeded in this single battle, it would naturally be cause for universal joy; even if the battle failed, they could still discern the enemy's overall strength and combat capabilities! And most importantly, every single alien was confident that even if they failed to breach the enemy defenses, their own force would not suffer excessively exaggerated casualties!
At the very least, it wouldn't be like that fool Kamikawa Pòkù, who lost nearly twenty million troops in less than three hours of fighting!
This time, they had an organized, disciplined army with extremely stringent military conduct!
This was certainly not the rabble from last time!
General Inuukai Goshō had firmly believed this point until now, brimming with confidence!
But now, the merciless reality had utterly shattered his illusion.
Not exaggerated?!
The battle wasn't even over, and the casualty figures were already beyond exaggerated!
They had reached an unsustainable level!
Then, when he looked back again, General Inuukai felt a sharp pain in his heart.
He had witnessed with his own eyes dozens of Kuangdao Shinobi, after a period of stealth, instantly activating the aliens’ most mysterious and lethally effective hidden assassination technique, vanishing completely into the air. And in the direction they disappeared, over a hundred figures, led by a man clad entirely in snow-white robes, were attacking fiercely.
General Inuukai, filled with infinite anticipation, hoped that those dozens of Kuangdao Shinobi would succeed in one decisive blow and take down all one hundred-plus opponents! If that happened, this enemy unit could basically be declared finished!
But, in the blink of an eye, he remotely saw the leading white-robed figure reveal a hint of a sneer—yes, a sneer—then suddenly let out a heaven-shaking roar: "That's enough! Kill!"
What did "That's enough, kill" mean?
Just as General Inuukai was pondering this question, he witnessed a scene that tore his heart and soul to shreds!
Was this the answer?!
Those hundred-plus detestable executioners suddenly flung the ragged long blades in their hands at the same time, trailing fervent blade radiance, as if countless bolts of lightning had suddenly erupted in the night sky!
And every lightning strike was aimed precisely at the empty space before them! These blades attacked in three waves—high, middle, and low—completely engulfing the fifty-zhang radius in front of them! They transformed that area into a zone of death!
A string of heart-wrenching screams suddenly echoed from the void. The thirty or forty Youming Ghost Ninjas and twenty or thirty Kuangdao Shinobi who had just rushed forward simultaneously let out deathly, piercing shrieks. Their bodies suddenly materialized in the air, each bearing more than a dozen penetrating wounds, and many simply fell down with dull thuds, broken into seven or eight pieces like tattered sacks.
It was as neat and orderly as dumplings dropping into boiling water!
"Divine Sun!" General Inuukai Goshō violently yanked at his hair, pulling with such force that he nearly ripped off his scalp. His eyes were filled with pain and disbelief!
What was happening?
How on earth did they detect the precise locations of the Kuangdao Shinobi using the hidden assassination technique? How could they execute such a targeted counter-assault!?
This was something that should fundamentally be impossible, yet it was happening live right before General Inuukai’s eyes!
How could he know that the two leaders of the Cankian Soul Devourers were both Saint Venerables! Especially Feng Juan Yun, whose nature compelled him to maintain an absolute, icy calm at all times! Even amidst the great battle, his eyes saw everything and his ears heard everything.
Under his command, seven or eight Youming Ghost Ninjas and Kuangdao Shinobi had already perished. And Feng Juan Yun, based on the few enemies who died by his hand, had calculated the aliens' points of concealment, the time from departure to concealment, and the time from concealment to arrival next to the enemy, with an accuracy of eight or nine parts out of ten!
He had long noticed the group of experts under the alien general's command, and he had predicted that at a critical juncture, these people would certainly strike—a move meant to turn the tide!
Feng Juan Yun had waited for this moment! So, when those figures started moving to attack them, he realized a great gift was about to land in his lap.
Thus, he had already instructed everyone to prepare at that moment.
A single command was issued, and indeed, an unprecedented harvest was reaped! All the hidden enemies were annihilated in a single exchange!
This was truly the lowest-cost battle ever fought!
But General Inuukai knew none of this inside story. Seeing so many masters wiped out in one face-off, without even injuring a single hair on the enemy’s head, General Inuukai felt he was on the verge of collapse!
And so, General Inuukai instantly collapsed!
It wasn't that General Inuukai was particularly fragile; rather, someone was lending him a hand!
In the instant General Inuukai was in extreme shock, he suddenly felt a strange ripple in the air before him, and an alien warrior abruptly materialized in front of him. Judging by its appearance, it looked like nothing more than a small child.
General Inuukai was momentarily confused: Do I have such small soldiers in my army?
But the next moment, his eyes widened: because the child's two bodies suddenly split down the middle.
Apparently... seemingly, they transformed into two continental humans, two continental children!
General Inuukai's eyes bulged instantly; but it was already too late for him to react in any way!
He felt a chill strike his heart, and a narrow, slender sword accurately pierced the vital point of his heart!
On the other side, an equally slender sword accurately pierced the heart on the other side as well!
Inuukai Goshō only managed to let out one last scream. Until this moment, he still couldn't believe that the enemy could successfully assassinate him while surrounded by fifty thousand troops!
The next instant, both swords were simultaneously drawn from his body. With what seemed like a casual wave, General Inuukai’s two heads flew off their two necks!
The heads were already airborne, but General Inuukai was still engaged in his final thoughts.
Why do I always feel that the movements of these two are so awkward, so unnatural?
Just before his consciousness faded completely, General Inuukai felt a sudden wave of relief, because he finally realized what felt wrong: neither of these assassins used their right hands to launch their fatal thrusts—all the attacks, from beginning to end, came from their left hands.
A single, sure kill!
A guaranteed kill!
Even General Inuukai, a Jōnin of the Kuangdao Shinobi, had absolutely no time to react!
No wonder I felt something was off, no wonder it felt so awkward—I was killed by two left-handers. What a coincidence in this world, two left-handers just happened to meet up to kill me... Ah, right, they don't have right hands at all...
General Inuukai’s consciousness vanished completely...
It was only at this moment that the officers beside him sensed the drastic change and let out screams, only to feel a chill cross their throats, and then all thought ceased. These two figures, who looked at most like thirteen or fourteen-year-old children, maintained cold expressions even after their success, their eyes unblinking as they sliced through the seventeen or eighteen officers on the knoll, along with their personal guards, as easily as cutting melons and vegetables. Then, the two flashed away—one to the left, one to the right—in lightning speed, eliminating the twelve standard-bearers and the twelve buglers simultaneously!
The alien temporary headquarters finally descended into complete chaos.
But by the time experts rushed over to provide support, only a pile of corpses remained in that location. Those two small figures had already vanished like ghosts!
Staring at the ground littered with bodies, everyone stood there, dumbfounded!
What kind of assassins were these? They managed to calmly assassinate an army commander within the encirclement of fifty thousand troops, amidst the deafening clamor of the battlefield, then wiped out the entire command staff of generals, and actually had the leisure to kill the twelve buglers and twelve standard-bearers at the command center!
Only then did they depart silently, as if with a mere turn of their bodies, they had utterly vanished without a trace.
They were human beings. Among the completely two-headed, conjoined Divine Sun race members, how could they move in and out with such impunity without being discovered?
Could these two assassins also know the hidden assassination techniques of our Divine Sun race?
This... this is truly... Divine Sun!
After recovering their wits, all the surrounding soldiers looked back at the corpses enclosed within their tight perimeter, and cold sweat broke out across their bodies in torrents.
These generals, the weakest among them being Youming Ghost Ninjas, were all killed off by these two assassins without even a chance to go into stealth!
An extreme dread instantly flooded every heart. Every one of them felt a cold sensation along their necks, as if those two lethal, slender swords were currently hovering and lingering there... Tian Can, Di Que!
These two super-assassins, personally trained by Jun Moxie, revealed their peerless sharpness for the first time in this battle, amidst the siege and counter-attack of thousands of troops!
No one knew that this battle was also the debut of these two young assassins! Their very first real assassination!
One battle chilled the enemy's spirit, one battle astonished ghosts and gods!
Recommendation for a friend’s mature urban novel, "The Strongest Teacher"—Ah, this is a poisonous flower. Well, I am actually a pure person, and I have never understood what that flower means, nor do I know why the special bloom is poisonous. I don't know if she smeared it on something or ate something...
Aunt Poison’s writing style is very sharp. Everyone should go read it; you definitely won't be disappointed. (To be continued)