Chapter 195: Nation-Protecting Martial Saint

"Zhang Jiao, to this day, why not surrender?" On a mountain peak in Ji Province, several figures surrounded an elderly man in yellow mysterious robes who looked kind and like a grandfather next door. This person was none other than the Great Virtuous Teacher, Zhang Jiao.

One of them, a middle-aged burly man exuding blood-evil energy, looked coldly at the man and said.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, just by relying on you lot, you want to make this old Daoist submit?"

Zhang Jiao's expression was calm.

"Hmph! It seems you are still stubborn."

The one speaking was a fierce general who had walked out of the battlefield. His cultivation had reached the Dharma Image realm, and he was the Nation-Protecting Martial Saint of the Liu Clan.

Back then, he followed the Han Lingdi to suppress the Great General Dou. It was also after that battle that, with the help of the Imperial Clan's foundation, he broke through the ninth layer of Gang Refining and reached the Dharma Image realm.

With a physical Dharma Image, a martial artist could live for at least three hundred years.

He was still young, not yet a hundred years old, but this time, with the Taiping Dao stirred up by Zhang Jiao, he had to stand out.

As the strongest person of the Liu Clan, he had to take Zhang Jiao down.

The Taiping Dao Yellow Turban Uprising—as a high-level official of the Imperial Court, he naturally knew that if the Taiping Dao leader Zhang Jiao was not removed, the Yellow Turbans could never be extinguished.

So, while they sent a large army to suppress the Yellow Turbans in various places, they also dispatched experts to come and capture Zhang Jiao.

"Kill!"

Being a military general by origin, he didn't have much time to waste words with Zhang Jiao, and he knew that Zhang Jiao would not surrender. After saying two sentences, he acted directly.

The long halberd in his hand slashed through the air, and instantly, a thousand-foot wave of fire-gang energy erupted, slashing directly at Zhang Jiao.

The sharp gang energy seemed as if it wanted to tear the very heavens apart.

"Hmm!"

"Mysterious Yellow Body Protection!"

Zhang Jiao was unhurried. A mysterious light enveloped his body, and then he pointed his finger, and a light of extreme intensity pointed toward the sharp gang energy.

Boom!

The two attacks erupted in the air. The next moment, the heavens and earth changed color, wild winds howled, and the sky and earth were gray and difficult to see.

The stone peaks under the mountain, which had been hard to erode for thousands of years, also began to collapse under this force.

"You have indeed reached the Yin Spirit realm."

"But so what if you are a Yin Spirit? Today, you still won't be able to leave this place."

The martial general roared repeatedly. "Everyone, lend me a hand!"

He then said to the several old men in long robes behind him. These people were all offerings of the Liu Clan, and some were people of the Liu Clan themselves.

Several of them were Grandmasters at the ninth layer of Soul Refining. They immediately sacrificed the Liu Clan's divine artifacts, and rays of mysterious light shot into the sky, enveloping everyone within.

"The Liu Clan's divine artifacts?"

Sensing the change in the energy of heaven and earth, Zhang Jiao muttered. The other side was using divine artifacts to suppress the energy of heaven and earth, which could suppress the power of his Yin Spirit True Person spells.

"Hmph! This is not enough!"

"Yellow Heaven Great Art, break for me!"

Zhang Jiao gave a low shout, and mysterious energy rotated around his body. Immediately after, countless yellow threads of luck surged from the void toward him, instantly forming a yellow pillar of light shooting into the sky.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Jiao was as radiant as a holy being within this yellow pillar of light.

This was a powerful attack in the Taiping Dao that borrowed the power of believers to allow oneself to erupt.

Crack, crack, crack!

The mysterious yellow pillar of light shooting into the sky collided with the spirit-suppressing light shield set up by the Liu Clan's offerings using divine artifacts.

"General Liu Wu, act quickly, we cannot hold on for long. Zhang Jiao's cultivation is not a simple Yin Spirit, but the peak of Yin Spirit!"

The several Soul Refining Grandmasters outside the field felt the divine might erupting from Zhang Jiao, and their expressions were extremely ugly. At the same time, their souls frantically mobilized power into this divine artifact, wanting to crush that mysterious yellow pillar of light.

"Overlord Covers the World!"

Upon hearing this, the martial general's expression froze. To be honest, they had all estimated Zhang Jiao's power before, but they didn't expect to have still underestimated the other man.

The peak of Yin Spirit—I fear that in the entire Daoist sect, there are not many who can reach it.

However, the more this was the case, the more intense the killing intent in his eyes became. If he really let the other man break through the Yin Spirit and reach the Yang Spirit True Monarch realm, I fear the entire Divine Han would never be able to suppress him again.

The Taiping Dao might really start an uprising, and the Liu Clan would never have a peaceful day.

Thus, he directly unleashed his strongest offensive, and the Dharma Image behind him also instantly condensed.

Dharma Image, Divine Ability.

On this thousand-foot mountain peak, terrifying energy erupted. Countless living beings in the entire mountain forest fled frantically.

The light invading the heavens and the terrifying evil energy were blending and colliding, and even martial artists a hundred miles away could feel it.

However, no one dared to go there. That kind of earth-shattering attack seemed as if it wanted to destroy the world.

The battle didn't know how long it lasted. The sun set and the moon rose. A few days later, this mountain forest finally calmed down.

Only, the original thousand-foot giant peak had already disappeared, and there were giant craters everywhere.

"Brother Zhicai, it is just ahead."

"It seems that guy has discovered a fort, and this guy can really run. Has he already left the boundary of Yingchuan Commandery?"

"Correct, this place is Pei Guo."

Xi Zhicai nodded upon hearing this. They had followed all the way, and Xi Zhicai did not make a move immediately, but wanted to see where they were going.

As a result, he didn't expect this pursuit to last for more than ten days.

That Yellow Turban Colonel who broke through his father-in-law's fort now only had a few thousand troops by his side. They had been splitting their forces along the way, clearly looting everywhere.

"Pei Guo! As far as I know, Pei Guo seems to have been broken through by that Peng Tuo. Why come here again?"

Su Fan was also a bit suspicious.

"It seems this group of people should not just be looting and snatching grain, but have other matters."

"Eh! The fort ahead is not simple."

Following this group of Yellow Turbans, Su Fan and the others soon discovered a new fort. The outer wall of this fort was more than ten meters high, and around the wall, there were arrow towers. The arrow towers were full of people holding bows and arrows, all aimed at the Yellow Turban Army outside the fort.

"These Yellow Turbans don't seem to be here to attack this fort."

Xi Zhicai watched for a while and discovered that the Colonel seemed to be shouting something.

"Of course they are not here to attack this fort. Relying on their strength, I estimate that even if ten times as many came, it would just be sending food."

At this time, Su Fan already knew the owner of this fort.

"Unexpectedly, there is this unexpected joy."

Pei Guo, Qiao County, Xu Family Fort.

"Tiger-Fool Xu Chu, ah."

In the era of the late Han and Three Kingdoms, an era where fierce generals emerged in large numbers, he could still stand at the forefront.

This was a super fierce general, an expert on the same level as the Five Tiger Generals of Shu Han.

In the later generations on Earth, the Three Kingdoms era was the most famous period, and the fame of the fierce generals and strategists of this era was also quite large on the internet.

Especially in terms of martial generals.

Many people argued about who was the number one in the world.

Of course, most people discussed it based on the *Romance*, after all, who made *Romance of the Three Kingdoms* so well-known to every household.

Instead, the official history was relatively much weaker.

However, whether it was the *Romance*, official history, or unofficial history, Xu Chu was definitely an absolute fierce general of Cao Wei.

And it was still the same in this era.

Even though they were several miles apart, Su Fan could feel a very strong aura inside the fort. ===== CHAPTER 196 =====