“What Top Ten Generals. We all are just dead old fellows. If we were really so awesome, there wouldn’t be just me left alone from the ten of us. They had all gone. I really have had enough of living all alone for all these years. They are all enjoying being enshrined, worshipped and offered incense to in Military Soul Hall everyday, but here I am using this weary old body and fighting to my last breath. Even that fellow Yue Hai also threw in the towel and gave up. What do I even persevere for living in this hell everyday? Would letting people call me one of the Top Ten Generals, stop the pain of the wounds on my body? I can’t even drink even a cup of wine. There is simply no meaning in living like this. I might as well go to the nether world to gather together with those old fellows… ” The old fellow’s name made Yue Yang a little distracted. This name of General Dao Feng, even he, being the guy who had travelled dimensions and had arrived at this place for not long ago, had heard of it.
General Dao Feng was one of the Top Ten Generals of Da Xia Empire and was also the last living one.
This old general’s age was unknown. It was said that he was already over two hundred years old and had the longest experience in the army. He had entered the army at eighteen years old to train and was promoted to General at forty. Then he had continuously fought till now and achieved many meritorious deeds and contributions for society. His legend was so long that even a few books could not finish covering it.
Originally with his achievements and capabilities, he was more than up to the task to became the Empire’s Grand Marshal of the entire Military Forces.
(Shiro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_marshal)
But the strange thing was that he had rejected the promotion to become the Grand Marshal ten times and insisted on just being a General. The reason behind this was was unknown to everybody. Only Jun Wu You the Da Xia Emperor and Elder Yue Hai, who had strongly recommended him for promotion to Grand Marshal, knew why. This General Dao Feng practically had the existence of a living fossil in Da Xia Empire and was also a fortunate general at the same time. He had escaped from desperate situations alive countless of times. He had fought a thousand battles in his life and had never experienced a total defeat. Even in the nastiest of environments and under a crushing defeat, he would still be able to preserve the maximum strength of his subordinate Dao Feng Legion.
Dao Feng Legion was personally set up, organised and trained by him and can be said to be one of the Three Great Legions of Da Xia Empire.
It was hard to imagine, that such a legendary person would actually reject treatment, leaving the opportunity of living for his subordinates and soldiers, and lie on the Square himself waiting for death ……
“Why? Isn’t it better to live? Without you around, who is going to lead your soldiers into battle? Do you really feel assured in handing over Dao Feng Legion to others?” Yue Yang discovered that he really had the innate gift of being a gossipy paparazzi.
“I am about to die, what do I care?” The old fellow was very open-minded.
“What if you can continue living?” Yue Yang paused, asking.
“Actually I am sick of living. If I want to live, I can still live now… But who in the world will not die in the end? To live till two hundred years old and still be stuck fighting wars, is too much of a shitty life for me. I am a soldier, an old soldier, I should die with glory on the battlefield. I don’t want to die on a comfortable bed… This war, even though the Demon Abyss finished off about three thousand of my subordinates, but I had also not lost entirely. I killed off about thirty thousand of their soldiers and also slaughtered two of their Demon Generals. So now even if I die, it doesn’t matter anymore. If I waited till I am so old that I can’t even carry my sword, then got myself killed off by a greenhorn, that is what I call pathetic.” The old fellow struggled to sit. First gazing into the distance, then his gazed travelled to look at Yue Yang. “Young fellow, I understand your thoughts. Don’t you just want to beat me unconscious and then secretly heal me? This trick is useless on me… Leave. For an old soldier to die in glory is the best final destination for me.”
Yue Yang who had Level 3 [Divine Vision] could see the truth.
This old man, this famous General Dao Feng, other than being poisoned, he also had even more severe injuries.
Originally, he already had an aged body. With the addition of the multiple injuries and scars from the battle, his strong body had become extremely weak. Yet he had also received a fatal blow by the enemy. All of his internal organs were suffering from serious injuries and poison. For him, even if the poison was completely purged, his body could probably not last for more than a month.
This was probably the real reason why the old fellow rejected the medicinal treatment.
After knowing the tru