Published: March 7, 2025
CHAPTER 408: Burying Them Alive
Then, the galloping horses were jolted into the air, their hooves leaving the ground as the earth trembled violently, the mountains shook intensely, and the trees on the hills simultaneously shivered fiercely!
Golden South Opens and Yu Chenglong were both knocked off their horses, falling to the ground with pale faces!
The force of this tremor was several times greater than the previous two.
Then came another muffled explosion: “Boom!”
The army was thrown into chaos.
“Not good, not good! The big rocks are coming again!”
“Everyone, run! The mountain is collapsing!”
“This is bad…”
“Mom... Mom…”
“Heaven, I still have an eighty-year-old mother at home... Let me survive this…”
“Damn it, will that btch at home cheat on me after I die?”
“Curse his ancestors, I just captured a young beauty before coming here and haven’t had the chance to enjoy her yet…”
Amidst the cries and complaints, the entire troop became a complete mess. Some bold souls had already broken away from the ranks, running desperately forward. Everyone knew that as long as they could break free from this place, they would be safe.
Suddenly, some people dashed out; others desperately tried to retreat, but there were people packed everywhere—where could they retreat to?
“Damn it! Don’t push!”
“Get back!”
“Anyway, I'm dead for sure, and you’re still pushing…”
“Brothers, charge…”
In the chaos, no one even noticed that their commanders, Golden South Opens and Yu Chenglong, were still lying on the ground as they trampled over them, frantically rushing forward…
But amidst this confusion, another enormous “Boom!” drowned out all other sounds and movements. The mountains shook, and the booming sounds grew denser and more powerful, as rocks began to rain down from the cliffs and precipices surrounding the valley…
Boom, boom, boom, boom…
The booming sounds merged into a dense line, getting closer and closer…
Finally, in the terrified eyes of everyone, a mountain actually fell from the sky, crashing down towards them!
Boom!
With a thunderous sound as if the sky had collapsed, the mountain smashed into the wall of Slant Valley; everyone within dozens of meters fell silent, collapsing at once, blood oozing from their seven orifices.
Then that mountain rolled forward like an elephant trampling through a wheat field, crashing down the Slant Valley, leaving a path of shattered bodies and limbs in its wake, unstoppable as it advanced!
Golden South Opens and Yu Chenglong, these two defiant tiger generals, didn’t even have the chance to scream before they were crushed beneath the giant rock, turning into two piles of bloody mush.
As two of Great Zhao's top ten tiger generals, they had not achieved any military exploits on the battlefield, yet they died in such a humiliating manner beneath a boulder; this was indeed lamentable.
Moreover, they were killed during a retreat, within an army of a million that they led; this made it even more absurd. In later years, when people wrote about this part of history, they found it impossible to describe, thus they wrote: “General Golden South Opens and General Yu Chenglong led a million troops northward, all the way cruelly, the people suffering. Heaven was enraged, struck by lightning, dead!”
They simply turned these two into victims of divine wrath.
The giant rock naturally continued its unstoppable advance, while at that moment, the entire Slant Valley was completely inundated by the subsequent “rock avalanche,” even the previously unaffected front half of the valley was also buried by the falling boulders.
The tremendous force pouring down from the mountains—what power was this?
Amidst this colossal noise, even the cries of the doomed could hardly be heard. The entire Slant Valley was mostly submerged by the rock avalanche, dust, stones, and dirt falling, burying the valley!
The first mountain that fell had charged forward for thirty miles! It finally crashed at a bend, shaking several times before coming to a halt with a thunderous noise, crushing dozens more.