When Huyan Lie's broadsword was only inches away from Jing Zhe's arm, his sword stopped there, unable to go any further.
Jing Zhe remained calm and composed, not even raising his hand, squinting at him with a cold smile.
He tried harder, but the result was still the same.
The broadsword was like a knife hitting a wall; it couldn't budge.
Others who witnessed this found it rather strange.
Could it be that the king is trying to scare him?
But he didn't seem scared at all!
At this moment, Jing Zhe finally raised his hand, and with two fingers he gripped the knife, gripped it...
Everyone was stunned. They found the scene abrupt and comical, as if Hu Yanlie had raised his broadsword to scare Jing Zhe, and Jing Zhe, instead of being afraid, had even pinched the broadsword between his fingers, just like children playing house.
Of course, they never considered that Huyan Lie's knife stopped there because he couldn't cut down, while Jing Zhe's catch was a true case of catching a blade barehanded...
"As I just said, since you won't talk, then let's talk to another king. You can die now!"
After saying this, Jing Zhe moved with lightning speed. Hu Yanlie only felt a blur before his eyes, his wrist loosened, and when he looked down, his hand was empty, while the broadsword in his hand had fallen into Jing Zhe's hand.
How... is this possible?
...
Although Huyan Lie is a king and was born into the royal family of the Western Frontier, his talent for martial arts is among the best in the country. Given the scarcity of martial arts manuals in the Western Frontier, he has reached the peak of the fourth level through years of hard work, which is unprecedented in the history of the Western Frontier.
The western border region is inhabited by nomadic peoples and various tribes. It is common for large tribes to be dissatisfied with the royal family. Every royal family has to deal with the provocations and rebellions of large tribes. In some cases, the royal family was even established by the successful rebellion of large tribes.
After Huyan Lie came to power, although he encountered this situation, because of his superb martial arts skills and the fact that he had trained a 10,000-strong heavy cavalry regiment, the major tribes rarely dared to provoke him.
This made Hu Yanlie even more arrogant. He could tell at a glance that Jing Zhe had no martial arts skills and planned to cripple his arm with one strike before talking to him about his life ideals. But what happened was too messed up!
As someone involved in the situation, Jing Zhe's methods surprised him greatly. Although he still couldn't discern Jing Zhe's cultivation level, he was at least at the mid-stage of the sixth level!
After all, the reason that the slash stopped in mid-air was because it struck the defensive barrier formed by his true energy!
Faced with a sixth-level expert, he couldn't muster the slightest will to resist. All the thoughts of wanting to destroy Jing Zhe that had been swirling in his mind vanished, and he knelt down on the ground with a thud.
"Young Master Jing, spare my life!"
Hu Yanlie didn't care about saving face; at this moment, preserving his life was the most important thing: "Young Master Jing, what do you want to talk about? Let's sit down and have a proper discussion!"
"You want to talk now?"
Jing Zhe raised an eyebrow.
"Talk, talk, talk!"
Hu Yanlie answered three times. He was pleased to hear that Jing Zhe seemed to be softening his stance. He cursed the Prince of Jin inwardly, thinking, "No wonder he promised me so many benefits. It turns out this guy is a tough nut to crack, and the toughest one at that!"
When I get back, I'll extort some more grain and cotton from the Prince of Jin. Who told him to lie to me? He said everything was so easy.
While he was daydreaming in his mind, Jing Zhe had already raised the broadsword in his hand.
"We can talk."
Jing Zhe said calmly, but Hu Yanlie's pupils contracted slightly as he watched his broadsword gleam with a cold light.
"Go underground and talk to the King of Hell!"
The movement was so fast that Hu Yanlie didn't even have time to react before the broadsword came slashing down from the sky.
Fortunately, his knife was very sharp, and Jing Zhe's strength was beyond that of ordinary people, so he passed away peacefully, without even feeling much pain, before leaving this world.
With another "thud," this time, Hu Yanlie's headless body fell to the ground, blood gushing from his neck.
Jing Zhe raised his knife, pointed it at the nine dumbfounded people, and said coldly, "Who else?"
...
The other nine people were still in a daze and hadn't recovered yet.
Jing Zhe killed Hu Yanlie so quickly that even those whose highest cultivation level was only at the early stage of the fourth level couldn't see it clearly.
Even though Jing Zhe killed someone, these nine people didn't see any fluctuation of internal energy. So they assumed that Hu Yanlie was just trying to scare Jing Zhe with the knife, which is why he stopped the knife at his head. But who knew that Jing Zhe was a hothead who not only wasn't afraid, but also reached out and grabbed the knife, eventually snatching it away.
Hu Yanlie probably thought he was just an ordinary person and not worth fearing, and he never expected him to be so ruthless. In the end, he was killed by Hu Yanlie with a single blow.
Of course, perhaps they were too concerned to think clearly, or perhaps they simply didn't believe that Jing Zhe, who knew no martial arts at all, could kill Hu Yanlie, who was at the peak of the fourth level.
Therefore, after Jing Zhe asked this question, everyone snapped out of their daze and became extremely angry.
Wan Jiangbabu, being at the very front, was the first to be hit.
"How dare you kill our king! You'd better pay with your life!"
He was secretly pleased.
The king was killed in front of his subordinates, and if he could kill Jing Zhe, he would become the most powerful general in the Western Frontier. In other words, he could become the next king of the Western Frontier!
As for the task of not allowing the King of Jin to kill Jing Zhe, who would care once he becomes the King of the Western Frontier?
However, his situation was similar to that of Huyan Lie.
However, his knife only stopped cutting after it struck Hu Yanlie's knife in Jing Zhe's hand. Only then did he realize what Hu Yanlie had gone through in such a short time.
"It seems that if you become the King of the Western Frontier, you won't be able to have a proper talk with me anymore."
Jing Zhe asked a question, then exerted force on his knife, causing Babu's knife to be deflected.
"Then... die too!"
As his voice fell to the ground, Babu's head also hit the ground.
All of this happened so fast and so abruptly that the thousand generals who had picked up their swords were all stunned.
If Jing Zhe's killing of Huyan Lie was an accident, then his killing of Babu can no longer be considered an accident, right?
Something unusual must be going on. They all put down their knives and watched the two half-generals who had already rushed forward, waiting to see what would happen.
The two half-generals shared the same idea as Babu: if Babu became the King of the Western Frontier, the position of the ten-thousand-general would be vacant, and whoever performed well at that time would have a chance!
So when Babu charged upwards, the two of them also charged up, and they were very fast. By the time Babu's head hit the ground, the first half-general had already rushed up to Jing Zhe and couldn't stop even if he wanted to.
"I--"
He wanted to say, "He can talk," but Jing Zhe spoke before him, "Since you can't talk either, then you might as well die!"
Then, his head also hit the ground with a thud.
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