Crimson Blazing Sun!

"Little White, take him down!" Seeing that Tang Jie refused to surrender, the white-clothed maiden hesitated no longer and gave the order.

"Roar!"

The Snow Shadow Wolf had long been unable to restrain its urge to attack. Upon receiving the command, it pounced at Tang Jie without hesitation!

Its two-meter-tall body was larger than that of a full-grown tiger, and it moved so swiftly it trailed an afterimage. The savage, baleful aura rushing head-on was enough to make ordinary people's hands and feet go limp with fear, let alone fight it!

Tang Jie will be torn to pieces... True Person Heyun was deeply worried. He did not wish to see Tang Jie die here.

In almost a single breath, the Snow Shadow Wolf crossed nearly thirty meters and appeared before Tang Jie. Its gaping maw opened to the limit and bit down at him, its dagger-like fangs sharp enough to crush steel in an instant!

Earlier, one of Tang Jie's throwing knives had been caught in the Snow Shadow Wolf's mouth and crushed between its teeth. That alone showed how terrifying its bite force was. Even a body as tough as a Corpse Puppet would not be able to endure a bite from it.

Crack!

Yet the Snow Shadow Wolf bit only empty air. The sound of its teeth snapping together made hearts tremble—getting bitten by it would be far more than merely losing a chunk of flesh!

"Iron Cutting Saber Art. Lifting Slash!"

Tang Jie reacted with lightning speed, taking a step back to evade the Snow Shadow Wolf's bite. Strength surged into his arm as he drew his saber in an instant, slashing upward. The icy saber qi spilling from the blade split the ground, carving a finger-wide crack as it cleaved toward the Snow Shadow Wolf!

Since beginning his martial arts training, Tang Jie had practiced only this Iron Cutting Saber Art, cultivating it to the point of perfection. Almost no one could block or evade his saber—not even first-rate martial artists.

Whoosh!

The saber light tore through the air, so fast it exceeded the limit of what the naked eye could track. Everyone present could only see Tang Jie's drawing stance; none could see the trajectory of his strike.

A streak of cold light ripped apart the air, carrying the lethal power to effortlessly cleave through all things!

Pfft!

The upward stroke split the Snow Shadow Wolf in two, but Tang Jie's pupils contracted. He could feel that the blow had met no substance—the Snow Shadow Wolf he had cut apart was merely an afterimage!

Trailing an afterimage, the Snow Shadow Wolf evaded Tang Jie's strike at a speed far beyond any human martial artist's reach, then swiped a claw at Tang Jie's face. Five sharp talons, each nearly a foot long, sprang from its paw like five blades, gleaming with an edge capable of tearing through metal and iron!

The greatest strength of demon beasts lay in their naturally powerful physiques. Whether in explosive force or speed, they were difficult for humans to match—even a top martial artist like Tang Jie!

Not good!

Though Tang Jie was shocked by the Snow Shadow Wolf's terrifying speed, his Martial Arts Grandmaster-level cultivation made his body instinctively lean backward, dodging the wolf's claw attack.

Pfft!

Tang Jie staggered back, a faint sting spreading across his face.

Once he steadied himself, Tang Jie's expression darkened slightly. That swipe had nearly split his head into several pieces!

"This..."

Tang Jie stared intently at the Snow Shadow Wolf before him, while cries of astonishment rose all around him, leaving him somewhat baffled.

"Hm?"

Only then did Tang Jie realize that while he had evaded the Snow Shadow Wolf's attack, the claw had torn his mask apart. It fell to the ground, revealing his true face!

But it did not matter. Tang Jie had worn the mask only to conceal his identity and avoid being wanted. After this incident, the authorities only needed to investigate a little to learn that the so-called Bull Devil King was Tang Jie. More than one person had seen Tang Jie's true face.

"Th-the Bull Devil King is this young? He's just a teenager?"

"How is that possible? Such a powerful martial artist looks like he isn't even twenty?"

The soldiers, as well as the surrounding spectators outside the execution ground, all cried out in astonishment. Seeing Tang Jie's true appearance was shocking enough.

In their imaginations, the Bull Devil King—broad and burly, with peerless strength—should have been a rough, middle-aged brute. None of them had expected him to be such an extraordinarily handsome youth!

"It really is Tang Jie..." True Person Heyun's expression was complicated. He had suspected earlier that Tang Jie was the one who had come to raid the execution ground, and indeed, he had not been wrong in the slightest.

"Jie'er?" Tang Tianhao, bound hand and foot in the distance and surrounded by soldiers, was undoubtedly the most shocked. It felt as though a thunderbolt had exploded in his mind.

"No wonder... The first time I saw the Bull Devil King, I felt something familiar about him. Whether it was his saber art or his internal energy... So the Bull Devil King is Jie'er?"

Tang Tianhao's emotions instantly became incomparably complicated.

No wonder he had felt something familiar about the Bull Devil King the first time they met, and no wonder he had risked his life without reason to save him today. The Bull Devil King was actually his biological son, Tang Jie!

Though his heart was full of questions and shock, Tang Tianhao hurriedly cried out, "Jie'er, don't worry about me! Leave at once!"

Tang Tianhao understood clearly that it was nearly impossible for Tang Jie to rescue him from this execution ground. Tang Jie might even lose his own life. Even if he truly managed to save him, they would be wanted by the Great Xia Dynasty and become fugitives, hiding east and west.

Tang Tianhao felt that he owed Tang Jie far too much, and he absolutely did not wish to see such an outcome.

"He... he is Tang Tianhao's son? Aunt Meng's son, Tang Jie?" The white-clothed maiden was already stunned to discover that the Bull Devil King was a youth only slightly older than herself. Hearing Tang Tianhao's shout, she found it even harder to believe!

The white-clothed maiden came from the Yun family. Tang Jie's mother was one of her elders, and she knew that Aunt Meng had chosen an ordinary martial man as her husband and had even borne him a child. That child possessed no spiritual root, and because of his unusual origins, he had been raised by Tang Tianhao since childhood.

In the white-clothed maiden's eyes, that Tang Jie should have been just another ordinary, weak person like Tang Tianhao. Yet she had never imagined that she would meet Tang Jie under such circumstances! His strength was even beyond her expectations!

For a moment, the white-clothed maiden's emotions were tangled to the extreme. This mortal whom she had considered ordinary had nearly killed her just moments ago.

"Little White, stop!" The white-clothed maiden lightly bit her pearly teeth and gave the command. She had no favorable impression of Tang Tianhao, the man she believed had ruined Aunt Meng's life, but she could not bring herself to kill Tang Jie, who carried Aunt Meng's bloodline. She ordered the Snow Shadow Wolf to stop.

But demon beasts were wild creatures by nature, difficult to tame—especially in the midst of battle!

At that moment, the Snow Shadow Wolf turned a deaf ear to the white-clothed maiden's words. It stared fixedly at Tang Jie, baring its fangs. Bloodshot veins filled its eyes as savage light flickered within them. Until it killed the opponent before it and tasted his flesh and blood, it would never stop!

Tang Jie ignored Tang Tianhao's shouts for him to leave and stared at the Snow Shadow Wolf before him. "I usually hold back against people. I do not wish to slaughter the innocent indiscriminately. But against beasts... I will not hold back!"

Tang Jie had restrained himself against the soldiers carrying out their orders, keeping his killing intent contained and showing mercy at every turn. But against this Snow Shadow Wolf that had nearly torn his head apart, Tang Jie felt no psychological burden whatsoever in killing it!

"Roar!"

The Snow Shadow Wolf seemed to understand Tang Jie's words. It let out a furiously enraged howl, like a bolt of thunder exploding beneath a clear sky, shaking so many people that they could not help covering their ears.

Yet this time, Tang Jie chose to strike first!

"Red Sun Art!"

Tang Jie no longer suppressed the vast true qi within his body. His Boyhood Art and Red Sun Art cultivation erupted in full, as dazzling scarlet radiance burst from every inch of Tang Jie's muscles and bones. Heat waves billowed outward, baking the ground within three meters until thin cracks spread across it. His entire body seemed to transform into a small scarlet sun!

"Awroo!"

At that moment, everyone looking directly at Tang Jie involuntarily shut their eyes, as if they had suddenly stared at the noonday sun. The Snow Shadow Wolf, closest to him, let out an even more miserable cry. Its eyes were scorched by the scarlet light, stinging as though pierced by needles!

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