Killing Zhuge Yan! (Thanks to reader 2024...1631 for the 14 recommendation votes)

Zhao Yun's massive hand slammed down!

The man on the bed was instantly crushed into a pancake of flesh by the terrifying force of the blow!

Even the bed of packed earth beneath him was covered in countless cracks!

Yet the others near Zhuge Yan's house noticed nothing.

That was because an invisible barrier had enveloped the entire house!

They sensed nothing that happened inside.

Zhao Yun had clearly held back.

If he had truly struck with full force, let alone this house—even the entire village would have been flattened!

Until his death, Zhuge Yan never understood whom he had provoked to bring such a calamity upon himself...

After dealing with the insignificant Zhuge Yan, Zhao Yun vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already back in Zhuge Ming's bedroom.

"Is it done?"

Zhuge Ming looked calmly at the suddenly appearing Zhao Yun and asked.

Although he could have Zhao Yun act independently far away from him, he could only vaguely sense what Zhao Yun had done.

Once his soul power level rose, the connection between himself and these generals might become clearer...

Zhao Yun clasped his fists and replied:

"My lord, he was merely a petty scoundrel. This general has dealt with him without alerting anyone else."

"Very good."

Zhuge Ming nodded in satisfaction, then curled his lips into a smile.

"Now that this fool has been dealt with, it is time for the next step!"

As he spoke, Zhuge Ming turned his ambitious gaze toward the window...

Nanyang Village lay southwest of Langya City's jurisdiction.

The Osdel Mountains stood between it and the national border farther south.

West Sea City, on the southern side of the mountains, was the true front line of the war.

However, Langya City was also an important grain transport hub, making its location quite significant.

Nanyang Village, situated southwest of Langya City, happened to avoid the main transportation routes.

Thus, this tiny village of just over a hundred people had only a little more than twenty soldiers stationed at the nearby military camp.

Aside from the captain, Gasen, who was a one-ring Soul Master, the other soldiers were ordinary people without soul power.

Taking over the village would therefore be very simple.

Besides Zhao Yun, a level 96 Titled Douluo, Zhuge Ming also had one hundred soul-powered soldiers at the same level as himself under his command!

Even if Zhao Yun did not act, the hundred soul-powered soldiers alone would be enough to seize this village.

However, considering Gasen's previous care for him, Zhuge Ming did not want a bloody conflict.

Having Zhao Yun suppress them directly would produce far better results.

Faced with such an absolute disparity in strength, Gasen surely would not resist...

Zhuge Ming did not dwell on it.

To control the village, he first had to control the military camp where Gasen was stationed.

Zhuge Ming directly gave Zhao Yun an order:

"Zilong, please make a trip to the military camp outside the village and take control of it.

"But do not harm the soldiers. They are not our enemies."

Zhao Yun clasped his fists and accepted the order.

"This general understands!"

Meanwhile, at the military camp outside the village.

Gasen was currently drilling the soldiers.

As a regular soldier of the Pelagi Kingdom, he had enjoyed many privileges since childhood due to possessing innate level-one soul power.

Yet he had seen far too many people from his hometown forced onto the battlefield because of the Star Luo Empire's invasions, never to return...

Many of them had been his childhood companions and more distant relatives.

He had also seen many women in the villages reduced to breeding machines, either giving birth or on their way to give birth...

He had seen many villages left with almost nothing but women, without a single adult man remaining...

To help more men from his hometown survive, he had voluntarily given up his privilege of being exempt from military service and joined the army.

In exchange, many people from his hometown no longer had to go to war...

Fortunately, even after joining the army, his special status as a Soul Master still earned him much preferential treatment.

That was why he had been assigned to this relatively safe place, where life was not so dangerous.

However, he had recently heard that the third prince of the Star Luo Empire had been forced to flee into the Heaven Dou Empire after losing his struggle against the first prince.

Of course, by the time that news reached this remote place, it was probably already more than half a year old.

He had heard that because of this, the Star Luo Empire's military had begun pressuring the Heaven Dou Empire's border at the first prince's instigation.

They seemed to be trying to force the Heaven Dou Empire to hand over the third prince.

But the Heaven Dou Empire was no pushover. Naturally, it would not surrender a third prince of an enemy nation with such tremendous potential.

After all, the enemy of one's enemy was a friend!

If that third prince could grow stronger in the future, he might become Heaven Dou's greatest weapon against Star Luo!

Then, if the third prince could reclaim the throne of the Star Luo Empire with the Heaven Dou Empire's support, the Heaven Dou Empire would naturally reap endless benefits!

Thus, according to the information Gasen had received, the Heaven Dou royal family had recently sent many soldiers to the border in an attempt to curb the Star Luo Empire's pressure.

But that was not good news for the Pelagi Kingdom.

Whether it was Heaven Dou or Star Luo, as long as they did not engage in a large-scale conflict, they preferred to pick on the weak!

And the Pelagi Kingdom was exactly such a weak target!

Just as Gasen worried about his nation's future, the previously clear blue sky was suddenly obscured by dark clouds!

This strange sight made him, as a Soul Master, feel deeply uneasy.

While the other soldiers were still wondering whether it was about to rain, Gasen abruptly raised his head toward the sky!

Beneath the dark clouds, a silver-glowing figure hovered in the heavens!

The man wore silver armor and held a gleaming silver spear. His hair was unbound, whipping wildly in the fierce wind!

His icy eyes looked down upon them on the ground as though a god gazing upon ants!

He had not released any soul rings, yet an overwhelming pressure that made one suffocate already radiated from him!

This was not suppression brought by soul power level, but an even more primal, ultimate killing intent tempered through countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

A single glance made Gasen feel an intense urge to submit!

Remaining suspended in the air for so long while possessing such tsunami-like pressure...

Only a Titled Douluo could possess such abilities, right?

But why had a Titled Douluo suddenly appeared here?

Could this be a Titled Douluo of the Star Luo Empire?!

Was the Star Luo Empire about to launch a full-scale attack against the Heaven Dou Empire?!

At that thought, although Gasen's legs were trembling, he still struggled to summon his spear martial soul and used the spear to keep himself from kneeling.

The ordinary soldiers around him had long since fallen uncontrollably to their knees beneath the terrifying pressure, their entire bodies shaking...

Gasen gritted his teeth against the pressure and turned, intending to flee.

He had to... he had to pass along the vital intelligence that the Star Luo Empire was launching a full-scale invasion!

Otherwise, his country and his hometown would sooner or later be destroyed by the Star Luo Empire!

But when he turned around with great difficulty, his body abruptly froze, and his pupils contracted sharply!

Because the silver-armored man who had just been floating in the sky... was now standing directly in front of him!