Blowing Leaves into Knives!

"The heads of the Du Tang Three Fiends?"

At these words, the burly man and the soldiers all focused their gazes.

"He... killed the Du Tang Three Fiends?"

The burly man's expression turned serious. Their objective was to capture the Du Tang Three Fiends, and they knew those three were highly skilled martial artists, all super first-rate, and difficult to deal with. But according to what Tang Jie was saying, the Du Tang Three Fiends were already dead?

"The blood at the entrance just now... should be theirs. It seems the Du Tang Three Fiends came here to take Tang Jie's head to get their bounties rescinded, but they ended up dying by Tang Jie's hand instead."

The burly man wasn't stupid. He quickly figured out the reason the Du Tang Three Fiends were at Great Green Mountain: they had discovered Tang Jie's whereabouts and intended to capture him to have their own bounties removed.

But the result was obvious: the Du Tang Three Fiends were all dead, killed by this seemingly harmless young man standing before him!

The burly man himself was also a super first-rate martial artist and knew how formidable the Du Tang Three Fiends were. That was why he needed over a hundred elite soldiers accompanying him to have a chance at dealing with them.

"Is it not possible?" Tang Jie asked with a frown.

If the Du Tang Three Fiends could use his head to get their wanted status removed, couldn't he do the same with their heads?

Coming back to his senses, the burly man shook his head. "Of course not. You are a level one wanted criminal. Unless you bring the head of a wanted criminal one level higher than yourself, there's no possibility of getting your bounty removed. The Du Tang Three Fiends were only level two wanted criminals."

Hearing this, Tang Jie was a bit speechless. So there was such a rule? For a wanted criminal to have their bounty removed, they had to bring the head of a more highly wanted criminal? This was essentially using evil to combat evil!

"Tang Jie, surrender quickly! I can still put in a good word for you and ask that you don't make another mistake!"

The burly man shouted, ordering Tang Jie to surrender.

The eyes of the other soldiers gleamed. Most of them had heard of the name "Bull Demon King Tang Jie" and found it hard to believe that anyone could actually abduct a prisoner from within the encirclement of hundreds of elite soldiers!

Tang Jie shook his head. "You are no match for me."

After speaking, under the gaze of over a hundred people, Tang Jie plucked a handful of leaves from the branch of a small tree about a person's height nearby.

"What is he trying to do?"

The burly man and the others watched Tang Jie's actions in confusion, not understanding the purpose of his actions.

"Golden Body Art!"

The Golden Bell Gang Qi within Tang Jie's body propelled the Boyhood Art, temporarily raising his cultivation to the level of the Golden Body Art. Instantly, golden light erupted from his body, and a powerful aura permeated the air!

"Ah! My eyes!"

The soldiers, caught off guard, were blinded by the flash. Some even staggered backward, their eyes feeling as if they were being pricked by needles, and cried out in pain.

"Whoosh!"

Tang Jie took a deep breath, opened his palm holding the leaves, and exhaled a breath of gang qi!

"Chichichichi!"

A chilling event occurred. Under the infusion of Tang Jie's gang qi, those leaves began to glow with golden light. What were once fragile leaves now seemed to transform into countless flying knives, propelled by the gang qi!

"Pfft pfft pfft pfft!"

Amidst a series of tearing sounds, the soldiers witnessed a horrifying scene: leaf after leaf crossed a distance of more than ten meters and embedded themselves into trees that were half a person's embrace in thickness, ten meters away. The fragile leaves tore through the tough tree trunks, slicing into them and leaving unfathomably deep cracks!

"Good!"

Tang Tianhao, seeing this, couldn't help but shout in approval as a martial artist.

"This level of power, I don't even have a tenth of it!" Du Jue was also secretly shocked by the profoundness of Tang Jie's power, finding it rarely seen in the world.

"What... is this?"

The burly man and the other soldiers stared dumbfounded at the unfathomably deep cracks on the tree trunks, half a person's embrace in thickness. Was this some kind of immortal technique?

Let alone fragile leaves, even if ordinary people used metal flying knives, the result of throwing them with full force at a large tree would only be the flying knives getting stuck in the tree.

Much less for Tang Jie to blow them out in one go, with fragile leaves piercing into the tree trunk like flying knives. This was simply an immortal technique!

Tang Jie's entire body turned pure gold, and the gang qi emanating from his body caused the surrounding air to distort. He stood there as if he were a hundred-zhang-tall mountain, exuding an oppressive aura that forced the burly man and the others opposite him to take a step back.

As for the burly man, cold sweat streamed down his forehead: "This Bull Demon King... is far more terrifying than the legends say. The reason he could escape from the encirclement of hundreds of elite soldiers and still get away unscathed is his strength!"

The burly man, as a super first-rate martial artist, was considered extremely powerful among martial artists. Yet, upon seeing Tang Jie before him, he profoundly understood the meaning of "there's always someone better." Compared to Tang Jie, he was merely an infant!

While the burly man was shocked, he also felt a hint of joy. Even a martial artist could achieve such a level of power!

Hoo!

The golden light on Tang Jie's body gradually retracted. He glanced at the burly man and said calmly, "I don't wish to kill anyone today. The heads of the Du Tang Three Fiends buried in this soil are a gift to you. If you insist on pursuing this, your fate will be like... this tree!"

"Chii!"

Tang Jie casually unleashed a palm strike. A tree about two meters away, with a trunk as thick as a bowl, was silently snapped in half. The upper section of the trunk crashed to the ground, its broken surface as smooth as a mirror, as if cut by a precious blade.

Some first or second-rate martial artists could achieve this, but they would need to use weapons. Tang Jie, however, did it with his bare palm, severing the tree with a palm strike from nearly a zhang away. This was truly miraculous!

"Gulp!"

The soldiers swallowed hard, their eyes filled with terror, their limbs trembling slightly. This Tang Jie was even more terrifying than some immortal cultivators!

"Let's go," Tang Jie said to Tang Tianhao and Du Jue beside him.

"Mm."

Du Jue and Tang Tianhao both nodded slightly, feeling very satisfied with Tang Jie's handling of the situation. These soldiers weren't bad people, and resolving the matter without taking any lives was undoubtedly the best outcome.

Tang Jie and the other two walked out of the woods. The soldiers gripped their weapons tightly, but not a single one dared to make a move, even as Tang Jie and the others passed right in front of them.

The trio emerged from the soldiers' encirclement without anyone daring to obstruct them. Once their backs disappeared from view, the soldiers felt the tension in their bodies instantly release. Some almost collapsed to the ground, their legs weak.

"Terrifying! Absolutely terrifying!"

"The Bull Demon King is even more fearsome than the legends say. No wonder he could escape after the prison break!"

The soldiers began to discuss amongst themselves, feeling as though they had narrowly escaped death.

The burly man said with a grim expression, "Dig open the ground."

"Yes, sir!"

A group of soldiers immediately began digging where Tang Jie and the others had buried the bodies.

"It really is the Du Tang Three Fiends!"

Before long, the soldiers let out a cry of surprise, having discovered the Du Tang Three Fiends buried in the same pit.

However, the Du Tang Three Fiends were in a terrible state. Two of the bodies were mutilated, severed apart, while only Du Meng's body, who had committed suicide, was preserved the most intact.

The burly man's expression was somewhat complex. He had obtained the heads of the three targets of this mission without a single soldier losing their life, yet he couldn't bring himself to feel happy about it.

Finished writing at 10 o'clock, my back hurts. Please vote with recommendation tickets o(╥﹏╥)o