Xu Jie's Crisis

Clutching the blood-soaked rope in his hand, Xu Jie gradually calmed down.

He raised his head and swept his gaze over the dozens of surviving mercenaries around him, all severed at the waist, then walked toward them expressionlessly.

You like hanging people up, do you?

Very well!

Xu Jie strode over and stepped on the back of the nearest waist-severed mercenary.

Using sheer brute force, he drove the end of the rope through the man's chest, strung him onto it, and dragged him toward the next person.

As Xu Jie walked on, the man behind him left a trail of crimson flesh and blood across the ground, his screams growing ever more shrill.

Xu Jie turned a deaf ear to it. Using the same method, he threaded every surviving mercenary onto the rope and walked all the way out of the village.

These mercenaries had not fled toward Jincheng City. Instead, they had gone farther out beyond the defensive line?

Outside the village.

Following the faint traces they had left behind, Xu Jie identified the direction in which the fleeing mercenaries had gone and could not help frowning.

An ambush?

Heh heh!

Even better!

A double blessing at the gate!

He wanted to see exactly who was backing this mercenary corps!

Xu Jie tightened his grip and dragged a string of bloody gourds as he raced forward at full speed, leaving behind a road of flesh and blood.

As for the villagers who had just witnessed him killing people, Xu Jie did not care in the slightest.

They were only ordinary people. So what if they had seen it?

As long as he slaughtered every member of the mercenary corps, who could testify that he had killed martial artists?

There was no signal in the wilderness, much less satellites, and Xu Jie had wiped away his fingerprints.

When there was no evidence and no witnesses, even if the military knew perfectly well that he was the killer, what could they do?

Only after Xu Jie left the village did Chu Mingyue slowly emerge from the darkness.

She looked gravely at the dirt road blackened by blood and at the frightened gazes watching her from the shadows, then let out a faint sigh.

Xu Jie had truly gone mad!

He had actually dared to massacre so many Guard Army soldiers. What else would he not dare to do?

Xu Jie's audacity that defied heaven shook Chu Mingyue to her core.

Yet despite that, a subtle emotion quietly fermented within her heart.

She had always possessed a rebellious nature. Otherwise, she would not have left her Lineage and come to the borderland city of Jincheng City.

Xu Jie's lawless way of doing things left Chu Mingyue's heart in utter turmoil.

Subconsciously, Chu Mingyue began clearing the scene and cleaning up after Xu Jie.

She crushed every phone beneath her foot to prevent even the slightest evidence from being left behind, almost completely dealing with the loose ends Xu Jie had failed to handle.

You stinking Xu Jie, in the end you still need me to clean up after you. You'd better be grateful!

And you even dared to snap at me...

After finishing everything, Chu Mingyue thought of Xu Jie chasing the fleeing mercenaries alone, and anxiety immediately seized her heart.

Just as she was about to leave and chase after Xu Jie, a large hand suddenly grabbed her pant leg.

Chu Mingyue turned her head and saw that the mercenary who had been at death's door not long ago was staring at her as though returning to life in a final flash.

"Heh heh... Xu Jie... is dead for sure... We were only... the ones truly meant to kill Xu Jie... weren't us... it was a commander... He's finished... urgh!"

After saying those words, the mercenary died on the spot. Chu Mingyue, meanwhile, turned pale with shock, her beautiful face shifting uncertainly.

A commander was lying in ambush for Xu Jie?

A commander in the Guard Army possessed, at the very least, cultivation at the Pulse-Opening Peak Stage. Even Chu Mingyue would need to spend some effort to deal with one.

After all, the Guard Army consisted of elite martial artists who had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Every person capable of becoming a commander had real skills. They were not trash like a mercenary corps.

I have to catch up to Xu Jie, quickly!

Chu Mingyue panicked. She ran at full speed, rushed out of the village, and chased in the direction Xu Jie had gone.

"Aah!"

Another scream came from behind.

The vice leader of the mercenary corps, drenched in sweat, knew that it was another mercenary who could no longer run, killed by the devil chasing behind them.

He had no time to mourn. Other than fleeing with all his might and luring Xu Jie to the designated location, there was no path to survival.

Xu Jie was too strong!

He was nothing like what the Guard Army commander had told their mercenary corps—a mere student in the Blood Moving Realm.

Their leader, a mid-tier Rank Two martial artist, had not even been able to withstand a single move from Xu Jie.

Even the other vice leader, a low-tier Rank Two martial artist, had been sliced in half at the waist by Xu Jie's blade!

Xu Jie even killed ordinary mercenaries in the same Blood Moving Realm as effortlessly as crushing ants.

With such terrifying strength, that Guard Army commander had actually told them Xu Jie could be handled with a casual squeeze?

Damn it, they had been played!

The fleeing vice leader was filled with regret. He did not dare slow down in the slightest, terrified that the devil behind him would catch up.

Behind those mercenaries, Xu Jie dragged a string of corpses and followed leisurely at the rear.

Like an experienced hunter, he pursued his prey without haste, always maintaining a certain distance.

He neither caught up nor let them go!

Xu Jie had no intention of catching up immediately and killing the remaining mercenaries as easily as chopping melons and slicing vegetables.

He wanted to torment them slowly—give them hope first, let them flee for their lives with everything they had.

Only when they could run no farther would he step forward and slaughter them, adding another corpse to his rope.

Gradually, mercenaries began collapsing from exhaustion. Xu Jie walked over and unhurriedly severed the pleading mercenaries at the waist.

Then he cruelly threaded them through the rope, ignored their pleas and screams, and continued hunting down the remaining enemies.

This was getting more and more interesting!

Xu Jie seemed to enjoy the feeling of hunting prey and slowly tormenting his enemies.

The corners of his lips lifted slightly, the smile on his face becoming increasingly obvious, while the madness in his eyes was ready to burst forth.

Xu Jie did not know exactly how far he had chased them. All he knew was that the sky was gradually turning pale with the white of a fish belly.

Among the fleeing mercenaries, only the vice leader remained. Everyone else now hung from the rope in Xu Jie's hand.

From afar, the mercenary corps' vice leader, too exhausted to run any farther, saw the ambush site the Guard Army commander had told him about. It was roughly three kilometers away.

He could not run anymore...

He truly could not run anymore!

The vice leader's eyes were filled with a yearning to live, as well as a trace of sorrow.

They had kicked an iron plate!

Unfortunately, cold and ruthless Xu Jie would not give his enemies even the slightest chance to survive.

In an instant, he arrived behind the vice leader and swung his blade indifferently, cutting the man in half at the waist.

Splat!

Blood sprayed everywhere!

The final member of the mercenary corps fell into Xu Jie's hands with a scream.

Xu Jie tilted his head, glanced at the vice leader screaming and rolling on the ground, then raised his head to examine the surrounding terrain.

Mm, that tree was not bad!

He crouched down expressionlessly, as though he did not regard the still-living vice leader as a person at all.

He was as cold as the clerks in butcher shops from his previous life when handling meat hanging from iron hooks.

Skillfully threading the rope through the vice leader's chest, Xu Jie stood and walked toward a large tree not far away.

He was going to hang this group's corpses from the tree!

Didn't they like hanging people up?

Xu Jie would satisfy them!