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Chapter 171: Thunderbolt Fire Shakes the Heavens and Earth
At this moment, Thunderbolt Qin Ming fell between the Southern Stronghold and the Seven Mountains Main City. She was like an erupting volcano, surrounded by fel lava and demonic flames, and engulfed by splashing earth waves and towering black smoke, standing like a nightmare on Liangshan's territory! She became the first enemy in history to break through the natural barrier of the Water Margin and enter Liangshan.
With each step, the solid ground rippled like a soft body of water, creating waves of fiery passion.
With a swing of the giant club, destructive magma tore through the sky like a meteor shower, splashing in all directions and turning vast swathes of Liangshan land into apocalyptic ruins ravaged by magma! Evil green magma and demonic flames soared into the sky, even dyeing the entire sky a terrifying evil green.
"Woo——"
At this moment, horns blared and alarms sounded throughout Liangshan. It was thanks to Lin Chong's training of the Liangshan troops according to the requirements of the Imperial Guards that everyone was able to react immediately to Qin Ming's invasion and take precautions.
"Brother! I'm new to this stronghold and haven't accomplished anything yet, but I'm willing to be the first to charge in!"
Liu Tang was extremely excited. He had just joined Liangshan and was worried about how to make a name for himself, and now someone had directly joined? Great! He would use Liu Tang's head as a stepping stone for his advancement!
Liu Hong nodded in agreement, and then immediately mobilized his troops to hunt down Qin Ming!
After receiving permission, Liu Tang trembled with excitement. His fiery red hair transformed into blazing hellfire, enveloping his entire body and his broadsword, forming a battle armor and broadsword enveloped in hellfire. Like a blazing meteor, he charged into battle against Qin Ming with boundless fury!
Seeing the fierce approach of the opponent, Qin Ming didn't say a word. He jogged, ran, and sped away, like a wicked green meteor of destruction, colliding fiercely with Liu Tang, who had turned into a crimson fiery meteor!
"boom!!!"
The moment the two world-destroying meteors collided, the sky was torn apart by the shockwave, creating ripples like waves on the surface of water. However, what made up each ripple was not water, but green and red flames of destruction!
Qin Ming wielded his ten-meter-long, war elephant-sized obsidian mace, which was constantly erupting with fel magma. Taking advantage of its length and the force of his charge, he struck first, shattering Liu Tang's Crimson Flame Breastplate in one blow! It felt as if Liu Tang had crashed into a flying mountain!
The impact force of tons of molten lava directly shattered the hellfire defense! The hellfire that erupted from Liu Tang's right arm had just solidified into a vortex of resistance when it was eroded by the surging waves of evil green lava on the surface of the spiked club, creating countless honeycomb-like holes. Drops of high-temperature molten lava began to melt and incinerate Liu Tang's flesh after burning through the armor of flames!
"Roar!!!"
Liu Tang screamed like a wounded beast, charging forward with his spiked club still in his hand. He swung his broadsword upwards and slashed hard at Qin Ming's wrist. The sound of steel colliding with obsidian was terrifying, like a mountain being forged in a bronze furnace. Qin Ming's body was continuously covered and melted by the molten lava, turning into extremely hard obsidian that ordinary attacks could not penetrate.
The size difference between the two was also terrifying. The height of this hellfire was no shorter than the thunder general summoned by Wen Da. Qin Ming took the opportunity to swing his left hand and slap Liu Tang to the ground like swatting a fly. Then he swung the obsidian spiked club, spun it three times above his head, turning the entire sky into a burning hellish picture. After the spiked club accelerated to its limit, he used both hands to smash it hard against the fallen Liu Tang!
"The first one!!!"
The moment the obsidian mace's hammerhead kissed the rock strata, the entire plain first arched upwards by tens of centimeters in a bizarre manner, as if the entire hard earth had been burned alive into a soft liquid by the evil green magma, churning and writhing in the stomach of some giant creature. Then, three hundred evil green fire pillars shot into the sky from the broken cracks in the ground! Inside each fire pillar, there surged rocks and magma that had been burned alive.
The shockwave generated by the impact spread outwards like a supernova explosion, instantly tearing apart the surface and blasting away the land, forming a terrifying crater filled with molten lava and demonic flames centered on the point of impact!
At this moment, Liu Tang stared wide-eyed, still in shock, at the spiked club hanging above his head and at the molten lava dripping down, gradually turning the crater into a pool of molten lava. He was dumbfounded.
"Run! What are you standing there for?!"
Chao Gai roared in anger—and at the last moment, this Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King stood in front of Liu Tang's chest like a god, raising his hands high a thirteen-section Demon-Suppressing Steel Whip, and withstood Qin Ming's full-force smash!
"You are Chao Gai, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King? It is said that when you were a child, you could carry a stone pagoda that was eight or nine meters high, and you could walk as fast as the wind. You could even carry it from one village to another. You were said to have superhuman strength. Seeing you today, I can see that your reputation is well-deserved."
Thunderbolt Qin Ming marveled at Chao Gai's unparalleled power. Since pure brute force couldn't break through her defenses, he would use pure fel magma! Her jagged obsidian jaw suddenly split open 180 degrees, and a piercing scream erupted from deep within her throat like a volcanic eruption. In an instant, fel-green magma surged forth from the gaps in her stalactite-shaped fangs, overwhelming everything with its overwhelming force! It transformed into a monstrous wave of magma and flames!
The lava surge resembled a thousand struggling hands, and whenever the lava wave hit the rocks, a skull-shaped wave of fire several meters high shot into the sky. The nearby forests carbonized into glassy thorns the moment they came into contact with the lava waves, and the last breath of the burning leaf fibers turned into screaming green sparks all over the sky.
Chao Gai's hearing was torn apart by two death frequencies: the outer layer was the rumbling resonance of fire waves crashing against the mountain wall, and the inner layer was the sizzling and corroding sound of molten lava enveloping the flesh of living things. Her skin felt not only the burning heat, but also thousands of bone needles covered in acid piercing her spine at the same time. Sulfur crystals in the air stuck to her eyelashes and burned, turning every blink into the torture of branding her eyelids with hot irons!
"Sister, run!"
Liu Tang was also terrified by Qin Ming. She activated her Hellfire Defense once more, her red hair transforming into a raging torrent of hellfire that crashed against the churning fel magma. The emerald green magma and crimson flames intertwined, but only held out for three seconds before the entire Hellfire was completely engulfed and submerged by the magma. Liu Tang screamed in agony. Seeing the dire situation, Chao Gai could only grab Liu Tang and pull her away to retreat!
"Don't even think about leaving!!!"
Qin Ming's enormous fiery body walked through the molten lava lake, wielding a giant spiked club, and once again brought down a devastating barrage. But this time, even more Liangshan soldiers had arrived. Two golden streaks flashed across the sky, and with a flash of lightning, Liu Hong, holding Chao Gai in his left hand and Liu Tang in his right, instantly flew into the sky, saving both of them at the same time.
Lin Chong arrived at the battlefield as if in a nightmare, sweeping his eighteen-foot spear across the battlefield. He peeled off a layer of obsidian from the head of Hellfire, and countless pieces of molten evil energy sprayed out from the center like blood.
Chapter 172: Female Police Officer Infiltrates in Disguise (Bonus Chapter for 2650 Monthly Tickets)
"who!!!"
Qin Ming was taken aback; Lin Chong's charging speed was simply too fast! So fast that she didn't even have time to react before the spear sliced off one-eighth of her head, forcing her to abandon the pursuit of Chao Gai and Liu Tang. Instead, she swung her left fist and smashed it against her own head!
With a deafening roar, her punch slammed into her own head, creating a cataclysmic explosion. Rock fragments flew, molten lava erupted, and the only flaw was that it missed Lin Chong. The demon prince, like a whirlwind, hurtled down her obsidian body. The sonic boom from the thrusting spear emitted terrifying metallic hissing, the spear tip completing seven spiral thrusts in a fraction of a second. It pierced seven transparent holes in Qin Ming's left knee; the high-frequency vibrating spear had actually pulverized the volcanic rock!
"Roar!!!"
Qin Ming, in pain, swung his obsidian mace and brought it down with tremendous force, unleashing another devastating attack. The hard ground rippled like a soft sea surface under the mace's destructive blow, creating massive craters. The shockwave from the explosion, carrying fel fire, even reached tens of meters into the sky!
Lin Chong leaped into the air, dodging the initial impact. Her elegant and slender body flashed, turned, leaped, and shifted, twisting and turning in the air with alluring movements in various incredible ways. Not only did she dodge the splashing molten lava, but she even launched a second downward charge!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!!!"
The Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix unleashed its deadly attack amidst the gushing lava: the first three spears precisely ripped away the sulfur crystals from Hellfire's left knee, while the latter three spears transformed into a ring of iron curtains, shredding its obsidian body. As the countless spear shadows swept past, the entire spear, due to the ultra-high-speed friction, transformed into an intensely hot, white-colored surface, and the trajectory of the spear shaft even blasted the splashing lava in all directions!
At that moment, Liu Hong, Gongsun Sheng, Yang Zhi, Suo Chao, Li Cunxiao, Lü Fang, Guo Sheng, and other generals rushed over and ganged up on Qin Ming! The enemy has already landed on Liangshan, so why bother with one-on-one duels? Attack them all at once!
"call out!!!"
Suddenly, a chilling death shriek echoed across the sky! The instant the steel-tipped arrow pierced the thin mist, the wooden shaft had already carved a terrifying crimson line a hundred miles away. The eight hundred miles of surging waves of Liangshan resembled a mirror, reflecting a silver arrow soaring through the heavens, swift as a shooting star and lightning fast!
Every mile the arrow's fletching swept across the water, it created a frost-white mist several meters high. When the arrow pierced the seventh layer of morning mist, the residual kinetic energy of the fletching tore a vacuum trench in the mist that lasted for ten breaths.
The reflection of the Liangshan cliffs twisted into a vortex on the curved surface of the arrowhead, the pine shaft cracking under the sonic boom. At the moment of impact, the arrowhead suddenly spun 720 times, all the accumulated kinetic energy transforming into terrifying penetrating force, spinning as it pierced Gongsun Sheng's right shoulder! Forced to abandon her magic attacks on Qin Ming, she could only forcibly activate a triple force field barrier, transforming it into three divine power shields in mid-air.
Even so, the arrow from several miles away shattered two layers of protective shields constructed with psionic energy, greatly reducing its power. It became stuck on the last force field barrier, unable to break through further. The intense tremor caused the arrow shaft to tremble and shake wildly.
Where did the arrow come from?
Gongsun Sheng was somewhat puzzled and confused.
"It looks like it was shot from the other side of the lake!"
Even Yang Zhi, who has the best eyesight, was surprised.
"How is that possible? It's so far away, I can't even see what's on the other side!"
Lu Fang was greatly surprised and looked towards the opposite bank, but he could not see anything. Just then, seven more silver feathered arrows whistled through the mist, streaked across the sky, crossed the water, and descended upon Liangshan! This kind of long-range sniping attack made the Liangshan people suspicious and confused, not knowing what had happened, and unable to surround Qin Ming.
Even Lin Chong, who was focused on fighting Qin Ming, could only swing his eighteen-foot spear to intercept the arrows flying from dozens of miles away. As a result, he was a step slower than Qin Ming and was forced to retreat when Thunderbolt swung his wolf-tooth club and stirred up the sea of lava!
"Qin Ming! Don't be impulsive! Who the hell told you to turn into hellfire and fly over there?! Come back! Come back now!!!"
At that moment, the sound of gongs rang out from the opposite bank of the marsh. The unknown man fired rapidly again, silver arrows traversing the eight-hundred-mile marshland and falling beneath the seven peaks of Liangshan, using the rain of arrows to cover Qin Ming's retreat.
Qin Ming snorted coldly and stopped arguing. After Hua Rong shot back the group of enemies, her enormous hellfire legs curled up and burst with sulfur cracks. The ground she trampled instantly burned into a boiling lava lake! Using the recoil, she soared into the sky, battling the clouds, like an evil green lava meteor streaking across the sky. She left and landed on the other side of the lake. Only her attributes remained in Liu Hong's eyes.
Qin Ming (The Devil)
Level 12 (Level 12 Barbarian (Lion Totem))
Life 300, Psychic 0
力量28+12、敏捷20、体质28+12
Intelligence 8, Perception 8, Charisma 16
[Demon Messenger - Hellfire]: Transforms into Hellfire, Strength +12, Constitution +12, all attacks deal +12 points of Felfire damage, and deal 12 points of Felfire damage to all surrounding targets each turn. When hit by a physical attack, reflects 12 points of Felfire damage (based on character level), Physical Defense +36, Physical Damage Reduction +36 (based on three times character level).
Hmm—she's not as versatile as Lu Junyi. Her magic resistance is zero, but her physical defense is ridiculously high. With that level of physical defense, damage reduction, and lava reflection, she can almost always defeat any opponent who relies on physical attacks. Even Lin Chong could only suppress her.
"This man is Qin Ming, the commander of the Qingzhou Commandery. He's incredibly powerful!"
Lin Chong repeatedly praised Qin Ming's domineering nature. The others also echoed his praise.
"But this doesn't make sense. What good would it do her to cause trouble here? If it weren't for such a sharpshooter in the enemy camp, this kid would definitely have been beaten to death by us. Has she lost her mind and flown over here all by herself?!"
Gongsun Sheng didn't quite understand why Qin Ming had come, and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Maybe he really is out of his mind? He has the ability to fly over without taking a ship, which he should have saved for a crucial moment to catch us off guard. Why reveal his abilities at the very beginning?!"
Lin Chong looked at the opponent's 8 points in intelligence and the fact that after activating Berserk, the intelligence would decrease while only strength and physique would increase, a barbarian class, and had no doubts.
Although Liu Hong was puzzled, he really didn't know what Qin Ming meant for the time being, and he couldn't figure it out. He just ordered the soldiers to strengthen their defenses and be more vigilant.
However, what the Liangshan soldiers didn't know was that Qin Ming was just a decoy. While she suddenly landed at Liangshan Marsh, causing great chaos and attracting attention, six beautiful and sexy female investigators... no, female Six Doors agents, dressed in black tight-fitting clothes, had already used their unique abilities to secretly infiltrate Liangshan and gather intelligence.
Chapter 173: A Secret War Wages Spreading Simultaneously on Three Fronts
The imperial court mobilized 100,000 troops to invade the border, but the army only camped outside the marshland.
Thunderbolt Qin Ming died unexpectedly, but he only invaded once and never invaded again.
Liu Hong immediately activated the intelligence agency headed by Zhu Gui to gather information and investigate the enemy's situation. They discovered that the reason was simple—they had no boats. Therefore, the imperial court was indeed helpless against Liangshan. The Imperial Guard Commander Sun could only lead more than 10,000 troops, which were said to be a force of 100,000, to anchor on the south bank of the marsh closest to the seven peaks of Liangshan, gazing at the apricot-yellow flag that proclaimed "Acting on Behalf of Heaven."
Then, they quickly summoned all the merchant ships from nearby lakes and rivers, all the fishing boats from all the fishing villages, and brought along all the shipwrights and laborers—come quickly and work for us!
"My lord, no!"
Zhu Tong's beard trembled with nervousness. As a native of Yuncheng, she knew how formidable Liangshan's popular support was in this area.
"I suggest that nearby prefectures and counties mobilize ships, and not requisition ships locally! Especially fishing boats belonging to fishermen! My lord, you have no idea how terrifying the collusion between Liangshan and the peasants in this area is!"
"It doesn't matter."
Sun waved her hand dismissively, completely ignoring Zhu Tong's words, and even looked at her with contempt.
"Isn't that because you leaders are all incompetent? You can't defeat the local bandits, forcing the people to live at the mercy of Liangshan, forcing them to cooperate with the robbers. But now it's different. I've brought the Imperial Guards here! And with the assistance of Zhang Shuye, the prefect of Jizhou, and Qin Ming, the commander of the Qingzhou Commandery, wherever my army goes, the people will wholeheartedly welcome us, abandoning darkness for light, and will surely greet our royal army with food and drink. How could we possibly still get entangled with the doomed Liangshan bandits?!"
"Besides, it's too troublesome to mobilize ships from other states and counties. Wouldn't it be better to requisition local ships?"
Zhu Tong was rendered speechless by the Imperial Guard Commander from Tokyo and could only leave dejectedly—as expected, her worst fears had come true.
The local people, however, didn't care about officials or soldiers or royal troops. In their simple minds, they only knew one thing: they had been livestock and slaves for their entire lives under the control of these corrupt officials and local tyrants.
But the Great Sage of Liangshan Marsh is willing to let us be human! Now these corrupt officials have returned, how can I let them succeed?
That very night, a large number of fishermen secretly left the port under cover of darkness and came to Liangshanbo, where they reported all the intelligence they knew. In just one night, Liu Hong marked all the ports and gathering places of the government troops on the map of Jizhou. Sun You's underwear was almost seen by the local people, who reported it to Liu Hong.
At the same time, Liu Hong generously conveyed a message to the fishermen and boatmen: "Fellow villagers, don't be afraid! Just mark all the enemy's information for us! From today onwards, Liangshan will reimburse you for all civilian boats damaged in the war! I, the Great Sage of Chaos, will also bear all losses incurred during the days when fishing is impossible due to boat damage! As long as my brothers and sisters stand on my side and fight off the government troops with me, I will absolutely not treat my brothers and sisters unfairly!"
Not only that, Liu Hong immediately took out some silver and rewarded all the people who reported, which motivated everyone to gather intelligence and inform Liangshan.
Liu Hong immediately relayed the intelligence to the three Ruan sisters: "See these points on the map? They are the places where the government troops stockpiled ships. Go there and destroy them all."
"Yes, brother!!!"
The three Ruan sisters swayed their alluring waists and swayed their intoxicatingly pert buttocks as they left. At their command, the three hundred mermaids of Shijie Village mobilized en masse—this group was the prototype of the Liangshan navy, consisting of three commanderies and three hundred mermaids, with the three Ruan sisters serving as the naval commanders of the three commanderies.
Merfolk are a very peculiar creature, possessing the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish or snake, adorned with gills, fins, and other physical features. They can swim in water and crawl on land using their snake-like and fish-like tails.
They generally have only one pair of arms, but some strong individuals have two or even three pairs.
The three Nguyen sisters all have three pairs of arms.
In an instant, the night raid began. Ruan Xiao'er darted through the water like an elegant and sexy dark green shadow, quickly approaching the shipyard where the soldiers were gathered. Behind her were hordes of bloodthirsty merfolk. Each of them picked up a steel nail the size of a dagger in their left hand and hammered it into the keel at the bottom of the shipyard. Then, they swung hammers in their right hands and smashed the steel nails! They chipped the keels of the ships in half, almost destroying the durability of each ship.
If a ship with such a keel that is almost broken were to be fully loaded with soldiers and head towards Liangshan Marsh, it would likely sink halfway there.
Meanwhile, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi were also taking action against the other four ports where the soldiers were stationed. The three sisters, along with three hundred merfolk, wreaked havoc on all the ships where the Song army had gathered in just one night, and then returned to their mountain stronghold laughing.
"Brother! My mission is complete! Beyond this marshland lies the formidable Liangshan Mountain! If they dare to invade, I will surely deliver a crushing defeat!"
Ruan Xiaoer laughed heartily, picked up a pot of wine, shoved it into his lips, and drank it down in a frenzy.
"That's right, that's right, we've destroyed the keel structure of all the ships!"
Ruan Xiaowu also swayed her sexy waist as she walked from afar. She was a little tired and slumped in her seat, picking up two chicken legs with her slender hands and starting to gnaw on them.
"If these soldiers come to land on the beach in these boats, they'll all be fish food! The fish south of the marshland will be incredibly plump and delicious next year!"
Ruan Xiaoqi laughed heartily, swaying her incredibly slender waist as she came to the side of her two older sisters, and cheerfully reported to Liu Hong.
"My three sisters have done a great service! Alright, let's wait for the Song army to come to our door and die!"
Liu Hong was also full of confidence. The natural barrier of the 800-li waterway was his greatest asset in fighting against the Song army!
However, a few days later, the amphibious landing by the government troops did not progress. Instead, Sun changed his behavior again and began to ask nearby Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Dongping Prefecture and Dingtao for ships and naval forces. The government troops simply abandoned the ships that had been destroyed by the three Ruan brothers and even dragged them ashore to dismantle them and build temporary camps, as if they had seen through the three Ruan brothers' plan all along.
For a moment, the entire Liangshan was filled with doubt, not understanding how the soldiers had seen through their plan. Only Lin Chong frowned slightly, immediately realizing that something was wrong. He quietly leaned close to Liu Hong's ear and spoke.
"We have a traitor among us, or something even worse: female constables from the Six Doors have infiltrated Liangshan. I know them a little; if it were an enemy of Liangshan's caliber, they wouldn't have sent just one constable; it's very likely that all six of them came!"
From now on, do not speak to anyone whose identity is uncertain. The Six Doors have six schools and six famous constables, one of whom is Calitus, who can freely change his body and appearance.
Chapter 174: The Six Great Female Constables Gather at Liangshan
Liu Hong's mind went blank. There were supposedly 100,000 government troops pressing in from the outside, and female police officers from the Six Doors had infiltrated from the inside. The pressure was immense.
"My sister holds a position within the imperial court; do you know their capabilities? If these six have already infiltrated Liangshan, do you have any way to deal with them?"
"These six doors represent the six assassination methods of the Assassin's Court. They are:"
[Kalitus] can change his appearance and body shape at will.