He was a middle-aged man.
He stood at least two meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thick, powerful torso.
He wore a dark green military uniform, with three gold stars on his epaulets.
He had a square face, thick brows, large eyes, and a short beard on his chin.
Standing there, he looked like a mountain.
An unshakable mountain.
Behind him followed a fully armed squad of elite Border Defense Army soldiers.
Every one of them had a formidable aura.
Even the weakest was at the False Awakener level.
But all their eyes were fixed on Qi Wu, the white-haired young man.
Qi Wu narrowed his eyes slightly at the sight of the soldier.
He recognized this man.
In his previous life, while working within the military, he had seen this man many times.
The Northern Guardian-
Kui He.
One of the Great Xia Border Defense Army's Four Directional Guardians, he had held the Northern Border's defensive line for twenty years.
He commanded immense respect in the military.
Among the people, he was known as the "Shield of the Northern Border."
But in Qi Wu's previous life, he had died not long after the Demon Tide erupted.
He had died in a surprise attack by a massive Demon Tide.
To cover the retreat of the soldiers on the defensive line, he had stayed behind alone, fighting for three days and three nights before finally dying of exhaustion.
Qi Wu remembered that when the news arrived, the entire Northern Border defensive line had wept.
It had been a devastating loss for humanity.
And now Kui He stood before him, alive and well.
His aura was even stronger than in Qi Wu's previous life.
An Awakener.
He had broken through too.
It seemed the Spiritual Energy Revival had allowed this veteran