Battle on Chang'an Avenue

"Alive... it's alive."

Dopey Soton shook his large head, carefully examining his surroundings. Seeing the crowd still watching the spectacle, he wobbled to his feet, a look of disbelief on his face. "Giving... so much food?"

"Ouch... gotta rest, gotta rest. Ugh, I'm exhausted." Looking at the surrounding crowd, he hadn't fully recovered from his resurrection. Weakly, he plopped down on the ground, giggling incessantly.

Hearing Soton speak of people as food, Jiang Ming recalled that Soton could devour hundreds of people in one sitting. He felt a surge of anger. Although Soton had always lived in the Nile River Basin and hadn't eaten any Hua Xia people, it reminded Jiang Ming of the Five Barbarians Uprising, when Han Chinese were seen as "Two-Legged Sheep," almost completely wiped out, nearly exterminated.

As a human, especially a Han Chinese, a Hua Xia person, one should do what is right. Jiang Ming was a bit of a radical in his past life, believing that "those who are not of our race must have different intentions." In fact, a martial artist who had cultivated to his level could control his emotions and not be influenced by external things.

Jiang Ming understood that Soton was a beast, livestock, not human. It didn't have human morals or thoughts, only following the laws of nature, just like in the Xianxia World, the Human Race and the Demon Race were the same, no right or wrong, just racial opposition, the laws of nature. But Jiang Ming just couldn't stand it. He wasn't walking the Supreme Emotionless Path, he couldn't achieve "Heaven and Earth are impartial, treating all things as straw dogs."

In his view, no matter what level of cultivation one reached, if there were no emotions, what was the point of cultivating? He wouldn't pursue that kind of path. Like the Drunken Sword Immortal and Dugu Sword Saint in Chinese Paladin 1, Jiang Ming was very displeased with Dugu Sword Saint. He could have stopped everything, but he had to talk about great love, the Dao, and so on. Wasn't small love still love? Didn't great love include small love? If you can't even protect small love, how can you talk about loving the world? Nonsense.

Having been in the Super God World for so many years, he already considered it his second home. He couldn't tolerate the disregard for the lives of Hua Xia people, treating them like weeds. He couldn't stand seeing Hua Xia people as food, like chives, cut one crop after another.

"The Crocodile God Soton's location has been tracked."

At this moment, mechanical sounds appeared in the sky.

But as if hearing someone calling his name, Soton was immediately puzzled. "Who's calling me? Which... fairy sister?"

"I need a rest, a rest." Hearing no response from the crowd, Soton stared intently, thinking: So much food, and food that won't run away. In his memory, this kind of food needed to be caught by himself. Unlike now, when they saw him, they didn't even run.

"Whoosh..."

A laser suddenly shot towards Soton's crocodile head, instantly knocking him to the ground.

The crowd on Chang'an Avenue, seeing this situation, couldn't help but understand what was happening. For a time, screams began to erupt as they fled.

"Buzz...buzz...buzz"

The sound of aircrafts kept coming from afar. Mechanical humanoid creatures were standing on the aircrafts, constantly attacking the street where Soton was.

"Whoosh...whoosh...whoosh."

Streaks of laser light flashed, hitting the street. Some hit the crowd, and those hit died on the spot. Some hit cars, causing them to explode directly. Some shot into the ground, splashing up bursts of smoke and gravel.

Shouts, screams, explosions, intertwined, as if the end of the world had arrived, a scene of wailing.

Seeing this, Jiang Ming gradually couldn't control the anger in his heart. He asked himself, although he had killed many people, he couldn't be considered a Hong Qigong-like figure from Legend of the Condor Heroes, with clear grudges, only killing bad people and villains in his life. But he had never been so cruelly indiscriminate. He had his own bottom line, a human's bottom line.

Accompanied by bursts of wailing, Jiang Ming was a little lost. He didn't know when he had become so cold-blooded, starting to become indifferent, hanging high above, with his own interests as the main priority, ignoring anything that didn't endanger him. Jiang Ming could clearly stop the tragedy in front of him with a wave of his hand, but he was watching it happen, doing nothing. The tragically dead on the field were all Hua Xia people, compatriots, all innocent people, not heinous villains.

Martial Dao, Martial Dao, what is "Martial," what is "Dao." Jiang Ming still remembered a sentence, "Stopping war is Martial," stopping the killing of war is Martial, and constantly practicing it is "Dao."

Cultivating Martial Arts is also cultivating the Dao. Simply increasing strength cannot make oneself stronger. Only a strong heart is truly strong. The experience of multiple worlds, blindly pursuing power, cowering, afraid of being killed, worried about being discovered, was this still his original intention of cultivating Martial Arts, the original intention of coming to this world?

You must know that this is "Hua Xia," China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of clothing, so it is called Hua.

At this moment, Jiang Ming, who had seen his heart and nature, finally woke up. He understood, fortunately he woke up, otherwise one day he would become a slave, a puppet, under the power.

"You hit me, huh... you sister!"

After being hit by the laser, Soton was still alive and kicking, showing that laser weapons could not cause him any harm. After nimbly climbing up from the crowd, he found that his weapon was not by his side, and quickly picked up a discarded motorcycle and threw it at the Taotie.

Unfortunately, it didn't hit any Taotie aircraft.

Seeing this, the Taotie wanted to quickly complete the capture mission, lest there be complications.

At this moment, a Taotie pilot rapidly approached Soton in a flying vehicle.

Having made a decision after the previous incident, Jiang Ming no longer concealed his strength. He used the Unrestrained Ascension Step to quickly reach behind Soton, then Riding the Wind, resembling a celestial being descending to earth. Step by step, he walked into the air, unleashing the full power of his Three Divine Fingers - Jade Severing and Gold Dividing. A finger force shot out at extreme speed towards the oncoming Taotie.

"With a bang,"

The Taotie's body exploded directly, turning into foam. Jiang Ming, who had caused all of this, turned his head and looked at the remaining two Taotie in the air, his tone extremely cold: "You... are you not taking Hua Xia seriously? How dare you cause trouble in my territory?"

The scene came to an abrupt halt with this explosion. The two Taotie did not expect this situation to occur, that there would be resistance. Even the fool Soton steadied his body, which was preparing to jump, and was shocked: "This steamed bun is so powerful."

"Attack him, fire!" one of the Taotie issued the order. Seeing this, the other Taotie also prepared to encircle and kill Jiang Ming.

Jiang Ming looked at the approaching Taotie and said coldly, "You are seeking death." Jiang Ming simply didn't want to waste time, so he casually shot two Three Divine Fingers finger forces towards the Taotie. Accompanied by another series of explosions, the Taotie's mechanical body exploded directly after being hit, seemingly witnessing the extraordinary nature of the young man who had just acted casually.

Jiang Ming walked down from the air, looking at Soton with a cold tone: "What about you? Are you going to come with me willingly? Or do I have to beat you into submission... and then you come with me?"