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While Mu Xuan was still in high spirits, the personal guards had once again clashed against the snake formation. This time, the personal guards were at a disadvantage. However, Lu Xin had already seen the changes in the personal guards from afar.

After the collision, the personal guards quickly reacted and changed their formation. Then, they charged towards the long snake formation once more.

Fortunately, the leader of the formation was decisive enough, so he quickly dodged and avoided the attack, losing dozens of people.

Even so, Lu Yan, who had been paying attention to the situation, was taken aback.

He had thought that Mu Xuan would fight evenly with him, but he hadn't expected that Mu Xuan's actions would have no end in sight. No one could figure it out.

Who would have thought that after the initial formation, there would be a hidden formation?

Even though he was losing face right now, Lu Yan still showed a brilliant smile and signaled the leader of the Serpent Formation to act as he saw fit. In short, he absolutely couldn't let Mu Xuan win, even if it was just a small battle.

Lu Yan glanced at the leader of the snake formation. Although it was a small movement, Mu Xuan saw it. He knew that Lu Yan definitely didn't have any good intentions. He was just very confident in his own arrangements and felt relieved about it.

As long as he could obtain victory in this battle, he would have perfect success in supporting Liu Zixuan of the Southern City.

Mu Xuan could sense that there were still many people in the dark around, paying attention to his battle between Lu Yan and the other guards. Some of them even had the intention to take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the situation.

However, Mu Xuan believed that all his plans would be in vain. He didn't know how wonderful their faces would be when the time came.

This wasn't the time to be thinking about such things, so Mu Xuan once again focused on the fight between the personal guards and the Serpentine Formation.

In the absence of a real leader, the personal guards, as well as the personal troops of Lu Yan, all displayed their formidable strength. They showed that even without a leader, they could still hold out for a period of time, possessing a great deal of autonomy.

Only an army with a great amount of autonomy would be considered a truly powerful army. Otherwise, just by relying on the commander alone, it could only mean that this army was not cohesive.

The forces that had paid attention to this scene were all secretly shocked. Not to mention Liu Zixuan's imperial guards, even these two teams that had been fighting for a long time were able to quickly accept the array and lay it out, displaying most of its power. This was already amazing.

But the most surprising thing was that these two teams were able to display their normal fighting strength without being commanded. This was something that was hard to come by.

As long as they had enough time, they believed that Mu Xuan and Lu Yan would have a formidable team in their hands. No matter how many people there were, this team would be a huge threat to their enemies.

Therefore, some of the forces that had a grudge with Mu Xuan, especially Immortal Ancient Mountain, were cheering for Lu Yan in their hearts, hoping that he would be able to defeat Mu Xuan, while the forces that had a grudge with Lu Yan were cheering for Mu Xuan, hoping that Mu Xuan would defeat Lu Yan to vent their anger.

However, there was also a consensus that they must set up a team to rival Mu Xuan's personal guards and Lu Yan's personal army when they returned.

As for establishing a team that could compete with Liu Zixuan's imperial guards, they didn't think much of it, because they knew very well that if they wanted to establish a team that would always be like Liu Zixuan's imperial guards, they didn't know how much they would have to pay! Not worth it.

People who were hiding in secret and harboring different thoughts were also worried, not letting go of every detail of the battle between the personal guards and the personal guards. For example, the military could use formations to increase their combat effectiveness.

Those people were actually impressed by Mu Xuan. Although he seemed to be out of the way, he gave them a lot of surprises. They could get a lot of inspiration from him.

At this time, the leader of the Serpentes Formation, after receiving the hint from Lu Yan, didn't hesitate anymore and directly led his personal army, ruthlessly rushing towards the transformed personal guards.

One of them had the advantage in numbers while the other had the advantage in quality. In general, they were on par with each other, but the army had the absolute advantage in numbers. Mu Xuan's personal guards could only resist; they had always been arguing in a gentle manner.

Although there was no commander, there would always be a leader in the team, just like the one assigned by Lu Yan. In the army, there were also people like this, changing formations time and time again, but they were unable to defeat the other party.

When they fought head on, it was obvious that the personal guards weren't a match for the personal guards. Soon, there were many casualties. Mu Xuan felt heartache when he realized that he had spent a lot of resources and effort to cultivate it! However, he had suffered heavy losses again and again today. It would be a lie to not feel sorry for him.

They had also signaled with their eyes for the personal guards to admit defeat, but who would voluntarily admit that they were inferior to others? Not to mention the personal guards whom Mu Xuan had placed his hopes on.

Therefore, the leader and the warriors chose to ignore Mu Xuan's look to concede. They rushed towards their own troops even more fiercely.

Whether it was the personal guards or the personal guards, their ferocity had been fully unleashed. How could Mu Xuan stop them?

The warriors knew that if they showed any signs of retreat, the enemies would definitely chase them down and their losses would become even worse. Therefore, they didn't listen to Mu Xuan's suggestion and directly ignored his suggestion.

Very soon, the warriors of the pro-army were not afraid, and so was Lu Yan. These warriors of the pro-army were only allowed to come out because he did not know how long he had begged his father for, and if there really was too many casualties, then he would have to go back and take his punishment. This kind of loss was definitely not something he could bear.

During the entire beast tide period, he had been counting on his own army! This was also the reason why he was the leader of the faction he had formed.

Looking at Mu Xuan's personal guards and Lu Yan's personal army slowly losing all their momentum, both of them started to clash head on with each other. Not to mention Mu Xuan and Lu Yan, even Li Kan and the others who were in control of the personal guards felt their hearts ache for Lu Xin.

This was his trump card; it was not something those filthy soldiers could compare to. There could not be any more casualties. If he still did not care about his own life, he would definitely suffer some serious injuries.

Chen Gong finally could not help but open his mouth: "Little Prince Lu Yan, look, if this continued, there won't be any end to this collision. I think it's better to stop. I believe that the consequences of such a collision are not something that either of us can accept."

Although Lu Yan agreed wholeheartedly, he didn't want to show any face. He turned his gaze to Mu Xuan to see how Mu Xuan would decide. After all, Cheng Gong had spoken first on the surface, which meant Mu Xuan was scared first.

Seeing that many eyes were staring at him, Mu Xuan knew that once he said it out loud, he would tell everyone that he had lost. But if he didn't say it, if Lu Yan kept wasting his time, that kind of loss wouldn't be acceptable to him.

When Liu Zixuan saw the fight between the guards, his heart ached even more. He knew how difficult it was to nurture a team like the guards or the guards.

Therefore, when Mu Xuan was hesitating, he said, "Let me be the peacemaker. You all stop at the same time. What do you think?"

Even though they didn't want to, if things continued like this, they would be the ones to suffer the real loss. They were the ones feeling heartache, so Mu Xuan and Lu Yan both unwillingly nodded their heads.

Although it would be embarrassing to call for an end to the battle, the army was the most important right now.

Seeing that Mu Xuan and Lu Yan had agreed, Liu Zixuan heaved a sigh of relief. He was truly afraid that Mu Xuan or Lu Yan would act impulsively and refuse to agree for the sake of face.

"Fine, I'll count to three. All of you, give the order together!"

Seeing that both sides had agreed and they had already arranged a team, Liu Zixuan didn't hesitate anymore and shouted, "One, two, three, stop!"

"Stop!"

"Stop!"

Two loud yells woke up all of the people on both sides who had fallen into madness. When they came to their senses and saw that both sides had suffered heavy losses, they realized that they had all lost control of themselves.

Both sides stopped attacking. Mu Xuan and Lu Yan came to a tacit understanding and did not take the opportunity to attack. They understood that no matter who attacked now, both sides would suffer losses and the person hiding in the dark would have an opportunity.

On Mu Xuan's side, there were 1200 people, and there were still some fighting strength, less than 500 people. On the other hand, these 500 people were extremely exhausted, and they had lost more than 100 people. The remaining people no longer had the strength to fight.

As for Lu Yan's side, because the personal guards held the advantage in numbers, he did not manage to take advantage of them. Because of that, he did not manage to gain the advantage in numbers, and had lost close to a hundred people, and did not have the ability to continue fighting, which was also close to five hundred. These five hundred people also did not have the opportunity to enter the battlefield in the future.

It was obvious that he had put the blame on Mu Xuan. If it hadn't been for Mu Xuan, this so-called personal guard of the Tianhui manor wouldn't have such combat strength.

However, he was rational. He knew that Mu Xuan was fully prepared and that he wouldn't be able to take advantage of the situation. He could only suppress his anger and wait for the right moment.

As for this victory, he had given up on trying to weaken his reputation and fulfill Mu Xuan's goal. He wanted Mu Xuan to pay the price, a price that was like blood, to repay his loss.

With Lu Yan's attitude, wasn't Mu Xuan the same as well?

Lu Yan hadn't brought anyone from the four cities of East, West, and North to stop them from reuniting with Heavenly Return City, so why would he personally bring someone to assist them? If he hadn't come out himself, why would he have brought his personal guards? If he hadn't brought his personal guards, why would such a huge loss have occurred?

Moreover, this time, he found out about everything that the Lu Kingdom had done over the years just to destroy the Song Dynasty and implicate so many people into this mess. How could he calculate the debt?

But now, he didn't have the ability to find trouble with the Lu Kingdom, but the little prince of the Lu Kingdom, Lu Yan, Mu Xuan, would not let this matter go easily. He had to take a portion of the interest from him, or else how could he face the people who died in vain?

With similar thoughts in mind, Mu Xuan and Lu Yan recovered from the heartache and returned to the battle that they had yet to finish.