Counter-kill

Wang Ji revealed a faint smile, "You've arrived!"

Wang Ji shifted his body slightly, and the bullet whistled past his side.

"Damn it! He dodges fast!" Scorpion cursed, then fired again.

"Swish!" Five figures closed in rapidly. Aside from the sniper Scorpion, the other four were all Warlord-level fighters, most of them veterans. Their speed was not slow.

Covering four or five hundred meters in a mere five seconds, they surrounded Wang Ji.

"Liu Zhendong, you really are determined to see me dead!" Wang Ji mocked.

Liu Zhendong gave a cold, sinister smile: "You know, before you were even a prospective fighter, you should have just let my men break your knees. Then you wouldn't have to die here today!"

"Are you all here to kill me?" Wang Ji scanned his surroundings.

The team leader, Gao Qiang, said in a measured tone: "Wang Ji! Suspected to be a newly promoted Intermediate Warlord. A genius, indeed! What a pity. Don't bother trying to record a video or livestream this to find leverage against us. We're well-versed in this line of work. The surrounding signals have already been jammed."

Wang Ji laughed, "Oh! Whether it transmits or not is one thing, but I have to record it first. Alright, that's everything!"

"Swish!" Wang Ji began his slaughter.

"No! Get back! He's not an Intermediate Warlord!" Gao Qiang's soul nearly left his body in terror.

"Swish, swish..." The two Warlords, Dayang and Kezi, didn't even have time to react before Wang Ji decapitated them. These were the same two who had hunted him last time. Wang Ji remembered them well.

If he hadn't stumbled into the Rat Tide dungeon last time, he might have truly met his end in the northwest. Naturally, they were the ones he couldn't let go.

"How is this possible!" Gao Qiang couldn't believe it! This speed... it was almost the speed of sound! Terrifying!

What Gao Qiang prided himself on most was not his combat power, but his decisiveness. In that split second, Gao Qiang turned and fled without a moment's hesitation!

He didn't waver at all, turning directly to escape.

"Boss! How could you... we still had a chance!" Liu Zhendong roared.

"Swish!" The next moment, Wang Ji's sword flashed like a phantom, stabbing toward Liu Zhendong. Liu Zhendong's swordsmanship was not weak; in fact, his mastery was even higher than Wang Ji's. But Wang Ji's speed was several times his own, and the Heavy Mountain Sword possessed a sharpness equivalent to a Grade 9 weapon.

"Snap!" Liu Zhendong's blade shattered into two pieces, and a moment later, Wang Ji's sword pierced through his throat.

"Run!" The last remaining man finally broke down. In the blink of an eye, the leader had fled, and three of the four remaining Warlords were dead! Was this really an Initial Warlord? Even if someone called him an Initial War God, people would believe it!

"Escape!"

However, just a few seconds later, a blood-stained longsword pierced him from behind. Except for the leader Gao Qiang who had fled first, the other four attackers were completely wiped out!

Pursue! Continue the hunt! Only the leader, Gao Qiang, remained.

"You can't escape!" Wang Ji pursued relentlessly from behind. The extreme exertion just now had taken a heavy toll on him. At this moment, Wang Ji's speed was no longer at his absolute limit, but it still exceeded 300m/s.

As for Gao Qiang, whether he excelled in speed or possessed a secret technique to boost his explosive power, his speed also exceeded 300m/s for a short time. He was even slightly faster than Wang Ji.

Up ahead, Gao Qiang fled with all his might. "Faster! A little faster! Once I reach the front, just 50 kilometers more, I can survive! I've already sent the message! Faster!"

Gao Qiang activated his secret technique, overdrawing his genetic energy as he fled at top speed. Three minutes later, Gao Qiang's speed slowed, and he was finally cornered by Wang Ji.

"Any last words?" Wang Ji's smile was cold and grim.

Gao Qiang panted and said, "If... if I give you all my savings, can you spare me?"

"Impossible!" Wang Ji shook his head.

Gao Qiang said, "What if I told you I don't have much of a relationship with Liu Zhendong? I only took his 200 million to take the job. I'll give you 2 billion! Can you let me go? I've spent years in the Wilderness Zone to save up that 2 billion. I'll give it all to you!"

Wang Ji shook his head, "Forget it, I'm not short on money. You people who kill for cash at the drop of a hat—it scares me. It's safer to cut the weeds and pull up the roots."

Gao Qiang was about to say something else, but suddenly, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on his face.

Wang Ji felt a jolt of alarm and shifted into a defensive stance.

"Boom!" A figure flashed by, "Stay your hand!"

Wang Ji made a split-second decision: kill Gao Qiang! Kill him before the newcomer arrived! Since the enmity was already forged, he would see it through to the end!

Putting everything he had into it, Wang Ji lunged at Gao Qiang. Gao Qiang's power output was unexpectedly impressive. With the strength of a newly promoted High Warlord, he could actually unleash over 60,000kg of force! Nearly a twofold amplification! Even though Wang Ji's strength was a cut above, Gao Qiang could barely hold him off for a moment.

"Boom!" A blade swung down with earth-shattering momentum.

"Block it!" Wang Ji's 12,000kg of spiritual force was shredded the moment it touched the blade.

Wang Ji utilized his perfect-level footwork to retreat rapidly, his spiritual force providing a boost that pushed his instantaneous speed over 400m/s!

"Swish!" He soared directly into the sky! In the blink of an eye, leveraging his extreme explosive leap and spiritual force, he reached an altitude of 100 meters!

"A Spiritual Reader!" the newcomer said in a deep voice.

Gao Qiang shouted in delight, "Uncle Ling!"

The newcomer nodded at Gao Qiang and then said, "Friend up there, I mean no harm!"

"No harm?" Wang Ji sneered.

The man swung his blade toward a massive boulder nearby. The brilliant blade light, like a streak of silk, carried an earth-shattering momentum and an aura of absolute dominance, making one feel as if they were facing the wrath of heaven. "Look, I only did that to separate you two. If I had struck at you like that just now, you would have been injured!"

Wang Ji's heart shook violently. Such terrifying blade technique; the man hadn't been boasting. But it was safer to stay in the air—who knew what this person was really thinking?

"I only came because I received a plea for help from a junior. What exactly is the situation? Why don't we talk it over?" the man said amiably.

"Uncle Ling!" Gao Qiang stammered, having completely lost the composure he had at the start.

"Then speak! Gao Qiang, tell the truth! What is going on?" the War God asked.

Wang Ji, meanwhile, was sending a message to Wu Tong on his smartwatch: "Uncle Wu! Didn't you say there were no War Gods here? I just ran into one! His blade technique is terrifying! I almost died!"

In the blink of an eye, Wu Tong's call came through. "Wang Ji? What's the situation! Tell me quickly! If you have to, use the supervisor's name! Supervisor Zhuge Tao's name might still carry some weight with a War God! Tell him you are a key trainee of the Limit Martial Hall and are about to enter the Basic Training Camp!" Wu Tong said, sounding incoherent.

As he spoke, he immediately contacted Zhuge Tao. "Supervisor, Wang Ji is being hunted by a War God in the Wilderness Zone!"

"What!?" Zhuge Tao was shocked.

"That is where you were wrong!" After Gao Qiang finished speaking, the War God said kindly. His tone was calm, but his expression was stern.

"Yes! Uncle Ling, I was wrong! Whatever terms the brother on the other side sets, I accept!" Gao Qiang said readily.

The War God nodded. "Admitting when you're wrong—not bad!"

Whoosh! An afterimage drifted by, and the figure of a feminine man with a hooked nose gradually became clear.

"Accept? Accept what? Old Ling, I arrive only to see you bullying a junior!" the newcomer said.

The War God Ling said amiably, "Zhuge? You arrived quickly! Who am I bullying? Don't you know my temperament? When have I ever done anything like bullying others?"

The newly arrived War God Zhuge nodded. "That much is true! Everyone is clear on your temperament, Old Ling." As he spoke, he looked up at Wang Ji. "You are Wang Ji? I am Zhuge Shan, Zhuge Tao's older brother. He sent me to save you!"

Wang Ji was stunned. "Zhuge Shan? This is Supervisor Zhuge's War God-level brother?" Just then, Zhuge Tao's call came through: "I've sent War God Zhuge Shan to save you, you..."

Wang Ji replied, "War God Zhuge has already arrived."