Two jets of flame shot from Chu Baxing's combat boots, propelling him high above the battlefield.
He held a limp corpse in one hand. It belonged to Qin Yingguang, the once-mighty Commander-in-Chief of the Qin Character Legion.
Now, a large, charred hole gaped in Qin Yingguang's chest. His head swayed with Chu Baxing's movements, utterly lifeless.
"Everyone in the Qin Character Legion, look up and see for yourselves!"
Chu Baxing's voice thundered across the battlefield. "Qin Yingguang is dead! I, Chu Baxing, killed him!"
Holding the corpse, he turned to display it in every direction, making sure everyone could see the bloodstained commander's epaulet.
"The outcome is settled! Those who surrender will be spared! I, Chu Baxing, stake my honor on giving you a way out! But if anyone is foolish enough to resist to the bitter end, this will be your fate!"
On the ground, the soldiers of the Qin Character Legion who had still been desperately resisting froze, their tools lowering involuntarily.
The Commander... was really dead?!
Their faith crumbled.
Their morale collapsed completely.
"Father!!!"
Among the crowd, Qin Chunchang's eyes were bloodshot, her hair disheveled. Seeing her father brutally killed and humiliated, she lost all reason and tried to charge into the sky to fight Chu Baxing to the death.
Yet she did not even make it more than a few steps.
Boom!!
As Qin Chunchang charged, her entire body instantly exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
Behind the lingering blood mist, Yang Guanglie lowered his finger, which still trailed wisps of smoke.
"She was Qin Yingguang's daughter, after all. She had quite a few high-grade defensive tools on her."
Yang Guanglie sighed, though there was not a trace of regret in his voice. "If rage hadn't clouded her judgment and exposed a fatal opening, killing