Chapter 728: Zhang Fei: I

"Yuan Shao and Guo Tu, eh? You just wait! I'll have your lives!"

Zhang Fei said hatefully.

After venting his hatred, Zhang Fei calmed down slightly, looked at Yi Jiu, and requested: "Sir, I will entrust my family to your protection for the time being!"

"Next, I am going to avenge my eldest brother, and at the same time, find my second brother, and see my two sisters-in-law and my eldest brother's children!"

"I can't look after my family for now!"

"I, Zhang Fei, will remember this favor and will surely repay it handsomely in the future!"

Although he had routed the encirclement army sent by Yuan Shao this time, as long as it was known that he and his family were still within Jizhou and Yuan Shao's territory, Yuan Shao would surely send a constant stream of men to deal with him.

And next time, it wouldn't be as simple as this.

If it were just himself and his personal guard army, Zhang Fei was confident he could calmly handle an encirclement by ten thousand troops; Yuan Shao's army couldn't stop him if he wanted to retreat.

But it wouldn't work if his family and relatives were included.

Therefore, after careful consideration, it was better to entrust his family to Yi Jiu to help hide them.

Yi Jiu heard Zhang Fei's words and smiled slightly: "I already promised you this earlier, General, so naturally, it is no problem!"

"Also, I can tell you my true identity now!"

"Oh?"

Zhang Fei raised an eyebrow, curious: "I really want to know! If I hadn't been afraid of offending you, I would have asked long ago!"

When asking for help, one naturally shouldn't be too presumptuous!

But not knowing Yi Jiu's true identity, even if he had some guesses, he still couldn't feel completely at ease.

The reason he still chose to entrust them to Yi Jiu was that he had no other choice.

He just didn't expect Yi Jiu to be so forthcoming.

"I am a man under King Qian, Su Xuan! If you don't mind, General, I can arrange for your family and relatives to be sent to Jingzhou for settlement later."

"Once there, you won't have to worry about their safety at all!"

"Of course, if you want to take them away now, General, we will not stop you, nor will we use them to threaten you."

His master would not stoop to such things.

"King Qian?"

Zhang Fei was startled, then realized: "Indeed, I actually had some guesses before, but I couldn't be entirely sure!"

"After all, there are only a few warlords in this world who can be so well-informed!"

"Now it seems my guess was correct!"

"I thank King Qian here first!"

"I, Zhang Fei, will surely repay this favor handsomely in the future!"

Zhang Fei paused and couldn't help asking: "However, if I really want to take my family away by then, can King Qian really let them go easily?"

After all, since Su Xuan sent someone to contact and help him, he must have designs on him.

As for what he wanted?

Zhang Fei had nothing else for Su Xuan to covet, except for his own skills.

"Hehe!"

Yi Jiu smiled faintly: "What do you think of my strength, General?"

"Hmm?"

Zhang Fei was startled and looked at Yi Jiu carefully: "If I'm not mistaken, your strength has already reached the early stage of Gangjin? That is indeed quite impressive!"

"I see you are younger than me; in terms of martial arts talent alone, you are not much worse than me!"

In fact, Zhang Fei was curious about where Su Xuan recruited such talented people.

The key was that this person didn't seem like a traditional general, but more like a scout.

To be able to afford to use a Gangjin-stage martial arts expert as a scout showed that Su Xuan was not simple.

Vaguely, Zhang Fei understood what Yi Jiu wanted to express.

At this time, Yi Jiu said: "Actually, my martial arts talent is very average, at least far inferior to yours, General!"

"The reason I have achieved such martial arts success at this age is not because of my talent, but because my master provided me with sufficiently strong divine techniques and secret arts, and enough top-tier cultivation resources."

"And there are countless people like me under my master—well, maybe not countless, but dozens or hundreds!"

"I am not considered a top expert at all!"

"The true experts under my master are divine generals like Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Xu Chu... who have already broken through to the Heaven-Man Realm, and have even walked quite a distance within it."

"They are the strongest forces in my master's hands."

"Hiss?"

Zhang Fei couldn't help but gasp, disbelieving: "I heard long ago that Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun had broken through to the Heaven-Man Realm!"

"I thought it might not be true!"

"But now you tell me that not only Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun, but even Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and others are already in the Heaven-Man Realm? How is this possible? When did their talent become so powerful?"

"When did the Heaven-Man Realm become so easy to break through?"

You know, even a monster like his second brother, Especially Guan Yu Yu, had not yet fully broken through to the Heaven-Man Realm, being only at the half-step Heaven-Man Realm. (Zhang Fei did not know that Especially Guan Yu Yu had already broken through to the early stage of the Heaven-Man Realm after beheading Yan Liang and Wen Chou.)

"Hehe!"

Yi Jiu smiled: "I said before, it's not entirely due to talent; the main reason is the resources my master can provide!"

"If you join my master's command, General, you will understand everything then."

"At the same time, with your talent, General, breaking through to the Heaven-Man Realm will be an easy matter."

"Really?"

Zhang Fei was even more surprised: "Does King Qian really have a way to help me break through to the Heaven-Man Realm in the short term?"

Hearing that so many people had already broken through to the Heaven-Man Realm, Zhang Fei was indeed anxious.

"Naturally, it is true! There is no point in lying to you with such an easily debunked falsehood!"

Yi Jiu nodded affirmatively and continued: "Returning to your previous question, General, with my master having such means and countless fierce generals under his command, do you really think my master needs to risk his reputation and use your family as a threat to force you to join him?"

Shouldn't the real situation be that Zhang Fei himself begs to join his master's command?

After all, those divine techniques and top-tier resources are good things that martial artists under heaven can only dream of.

If Su Xuan were truly willing to announce it to the world and bring these things out to attract martial artists and generals, who knows how many would run to defect to him.

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