338: Chapter 338 Bloodbath at the Temple

Seeing the Zhenbei Army preparing for a full mobilization, Holy Maiden Tuya hurriedly said, "General Lin! Khan Jilun only wishes to meet with you alone!!"

Lin Xiao laughed heartily. "What the hell is he? He dares to make demands of me!?"

"Things that couldn't be won on the battlefield, he wants to obtain through negotiations? Has his brain been kicked by a donkey!?"

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"And that Grand Shaman of yours—who gave him the nerve to claim he can protect Jilun's life!?"

"If the heavens have eyes, how could they protect a despicable beast who killed his wife and sacrificed his son!?"

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, he unsheathed his black blade and held it high!

"I, Lin Xiao, say: 'In life, one should be a hero among men; in death, one should be a champion among ghosts'!"

"A rat like Jilun is not worthy of being my opponent!!"

"Brothers! Charge with me and raze that broken temple to the ground!!"

"Those who block the Zhenbei Iron Cavalry shall be executed without mercy!!"

The soldiers of the Zhenbei Army had long been impatient. Hearing that they were going to capture Khan Jilun, who had caused Great Gan so much suffering, their blood boiled with excitement!

"Brothers! If we die in battle, our names will go down in history! If we live, we bring glory to our ancestors!! Charge!!—"

"Follow General Lin! Kill!—"

Never mind the three hundred years of Great Gan's reign; counting all the past dynasties of the Central Plains, when had an army ever fought its way to the Wudugan Temple!

If they didn't charge now, were they supposed to wait until their next life!?

Even if they didn't manage to take a single head and were just bystanders along for the ride, it would be enough to brag about for a lifetime!

For a moment, the soldiers unsheathed their blades and roared to the heavens, their shouts like a mountain's collapse or a sea's surge!

Even the warhorses seemed to feel the passion, their neighing cutting through the sky over the grasslands!

Listening to Lin Xiao's two lines of stirring, proud poetry, the eyes of Zhao Caiwei and Mu Wanying shimmered with light!

They were truly fortunate to be female generals accompanying their husband on this expedition to the Northern Desert!

Otherwise, wouldn't they have missed the birth of these immortal lines, and missed the sight of their husband's back, as majestic as a divine mountain!?

Princess Meng Xi, listening from behind, felt her hands tremble so much she could barely hold the reins.

If she were a woman of the Central Plains, she would probably fall in love with such a man regardless of everything...

Holy Maiden Tuya stared with her star-like eyes, looking at Lin Xiao with a complex gaze.

This was actually the second time she had seen Lin Xiao.

The last time was when she followed her foster father, Marshal Suhe, to attack Baishui City.

Her senior brother, General Tumen, had died at Lin Xiao's hands.

After returning to the Northern Desert Royal Court, she had constantly thought of killing Lin Xiao to avenge General Tumen.

To that end, she practiced diligently and, several months ago, officially became the Holy Maiden of Shamanism.

During these past few months, almost every piece of news she heard from the Central Plains was about Lin Xiao...

Without realizing it, she found that she didn't actually hate this man; instead, she felt a special kind of emotion.

"General Lin! If you lead a great army there and desecrate the temple, you will face divine retribution!!"

As if possessed, Holy Maiden Tuya cried out loudly.

But Lin Xiao only glanced back and ignored her.

At this moment, Lin Xiao had only one thought—to finish the task once and for all!!

Even if this Grand Shaman had laid a dragon's pool or a tiger's den, he was going to take down this temple!!

The army's iron hooves were like rolling thunder, scattering the followers of Shamanism and heading straight for the massive circular stone building that was the Wudugan Temple.

With Lin Xiao in the lead and Mu Wanying and Zhao Caiwei on the flanks, the cavalry charged at full speed like a majestic eagle, unstoppable!

Meanwhile, inside the temple.

Inside a massive hall, dozens of beams of light fell from the sides of the domed ceiling.

Khan Jilun sat in the center of the hall and opened his eyes.

"Grand Shaman, they are here."

Standing on an altar, the Grand Shaman wore a shamanic robe stitched from crow feathers and snow-wolf skin.

He wore a mask crafted from a human skull, revealing a pair of deep eyes shot through with blood.

In his hand, he held a staff wrapped in blood-colored vines, covered with the skulls of various people who had died young.

"As the Khan expected, Lin Xiao refused to come in alone to negotiate with you."

Jilun grinned. "Although I have never met him, he loves to show off his prowess; he is an extremely conceited person."

"With such a person, the more you tell him to do something, the more he will refuse."

"So... to make him bring his army here, one only needs to do the opposite."

The Grand Shaman nodded. "Looking at Lin Xiao's record, there is a high probability he is already in the Great Grandmaster realm; otherwise, he wouldn't have survived until now."

"If he had come to the meeting alone, the Return to Heaven Curse could at most severely wound him, but it would be difficult to kill him."

"However... now that so many living people are surging in, even if Lin Xiao were in the Earth Immortal realm, I would be certain of dealing with him!"

While speaking, the Grand Shaman leaned on his staff, and blood began to flow down from the palm of his hand.

As the blood entered the altar, the ancient patterns beneath it began to flicker with an eerie, seductive blood-light.

Looking closely, with the altar as the center, there were actually blood-filled grooves all around that had already been soaked with a large amount of blood!

Dozens of corpses, dressed in finery but having died miserable deaths, were piled near the altar.

The blood flowing from them was all mixed within.

Khan Jilun looked at those who were once his kin, a hint of sadness appearing in his eyes.

"Rest assured, this King will kill Lin Xiao and avenge you..."

As he spoke, the sound of iron hooves outside was already extremely close.

Lin Xiao charged at the very front, maintaining high alertness at all times.

While he didn't fear any schemes or plots, the women beside him and the soldiers under him did not have the Indestructible Diamond Body for protection.

Therefore, when Lin Xiao felt a strange ripple rising within the temple, permeating with a sinister aura, his heart couldn't help but sink!

Ever since encountering the Drug-Man Art, he highly suspected whether this Northern Barbarian Shamanism also possessed some special secret technique passed down from the Heavenly Palace.

But for now, there was no way to check carefully.

Because outside the temple, over a thousand guards holding heavy shields and long spears were clearly a hurdle that had to be crossed.

"Warriors!! Block these Central Plains dogs!! Protect the great Golden Tent Khan!!"

The leader was a bearded giant wearing wolf-head golden armor, looking fierce and malevolent.

[Erden, 41 years old, Royal Court Guard Captain, Northern Barbarian's Number One Strongman, Aptitude: Earth Grade]

Lin Xiao didn't bother looking further and took the lead, charging at the very front.

"Great Mercy Hand!"

With ten-tenths of his power, he directly blasted a palm forward!

Dozens of Northern Barbarian guards holding heavy shields were blasted apart, both men and shields!

Erden didn't even have time to throw the spear in his hand before he was directly killed!

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Lin Xiao wasn't very excited, because the battle had only just begun.

The Zhenbei Army on both flanks were now full of boiling blood, charging fearlessly toward the enemy's shield formation!

One must know, in the past, it was always the Northern Barbarian cavalry charging the Central Plains infantry's forest of spears and shield formations, but now, the situation was reversed!

In such a life-and-death clash, even if the Zhenbei Army was well-equipped and well-trained, hundreds of cavalry horses were immediately injured.

Accompanied by bursts of killing shouts, the two armies began a close-quarters melee outside the temple!

Lin Xiao couldn't easily use the Great Mercy Hand for area-of-effect damage anymore.

For those with high martial arts like Mu Wanying and Zhao Caiwei, it wasn't a big problem, but some ordinary Zhenbei Army soldiers fell into pools of blood the moment they engaged...

Fresh blood soaked the black and foul-smelling soil outside the temple.

In the midst of the chaotic battle, Lin Xiao suddenly discovered that the main body of this circular fortress-like temple had been emitting a foul stench, brought about by rotting protein and blood!

And what felt most eerie to him was...

Inside the temple, the sinister and bizarre aura was rapidly skyrocketing!