Chapter 149

Wu Tie picked up the Wu maiden and shoved her into Wa Xiaoxi's arms.

"Wu maiden, play with Aunt Xiaoxi, uh, drop the bones, don't dirty Aunt Xiaoxi's clothes."

Wu Tie pressed one hand on Wa Xiaoxi's head and shoved her backward.

Wa Xiaoxi originally had some objection to Wu Tie pressing his hand on her head, and was baring her teeth and claws wanting to say something, but Wu Tie shoved the Wu maiden into her arms, and she instantly forgot everything, tightly embracing the pretty and lovely Wu maiden.

"Ah, how pretty!" Wa Xiaoxi's eyes were glowing, spitting fire, she tightly hugged the Wu maiden and gave her a "mwah" kiss on the face.

Wa Xiaoxi eagerly turned around, completely forgetting Gongsun Ying and Gongsun Xiong, and hurriedly showed off the Wu maiden in her arms to Wa Qinger.

Wu Tie stepped step by step toward Gongsun Ying and Gongsun Xiong.

Gongsun Ying's and Gongsun Xiong's smiles gradually faded, their hands hanging at their sides, fingers constantly clenching and unclenching, sharp auras like invisible blades silently slashing toward Wu Tie.

Wu Tie's tall figure was like an immovable mountain, stepping forward firmly and domineeringly, shattering the two men's invisible sharp auras, and violent air currents continually surged around him.

"You just said you wanted to break my legs?" Wu Tie stood less than a meter in front of the two brothers, slightly lowering his body, looking at the brothers who were a head shorter than him.

"This is the Gongsun family's garrison." Gongsun Ying sneered.

"My mother gave this building to me." Wu Tie firmly upheld Wa Mu's authority: "This is Wa Valley; my mother's words are the rule. So this building is now the Wu family's garrison."

"Wa Valley isn't decided by Wa Mu alone." Gongsun Xiong sneered: "Where did you put the three priests and all those elders?"

Gongsun Ying gave a mocking sneer: "Wu family? What a big Wu family... how vast is your territory, how many clansmen, how many warriors, how many slaves? Most importantly, how many Life Pool Realm elders and veterans does your Wu family have?"

Wu Tie remained silent.

Gongsun Xiong scoffed: "My Gongsun family's ancestral White River Domain spans ten thousand li, with three thousand big and small grottoes, and hundreds of millions of subjects... Besides directly governing the White River Domain, the five surrounding great domains all follow my Gongsun family's lead."

Gongsun Ying calmly said: "My Gongsun family has over a thousand direct-line clansmen, tens of thousands of collateral clansmen, hundreds of thousands of elite warriors, and hundreds of millions of subjects, all slaves of my Gongsun family. My Gongsun family's Life Pool Realm elders and veterans..."

Gongsun Ying suddenly closed his mouth.

The number of Life Pool Realm experts in a great clan or great power is an absolute core secret.

Even if the two brothers were foolish, they knew this number must never be told to outsiders.

Anyway, the figures they just blurted out would surely scare the living daylights out of this country bumpkin Wu Tie, right?

Gongsun Ying extended his hand, his right index finger jabbing hard into Wu Tie's chest, he lowered his voice and said solemnly: "We know you are Wu Tie, the brother of that lowborn Wu Jin... too bad we couldn't kill him in the arena."

Gongsun Xiong likewise extended his right hand, jabbing hard into Wu Tie's chest: "But rest assured, the Wa clan's ancestral land is fraught with danger; we have sent a full hundred elite warriors into the Wa clan's ancestral grounds, among them ten Chonglou Realm masters tasked with killing him."

Gongsun Ying extended his right hand and slapped Wu Tie's cheek: "So he's as good as dead."

With a soft "pa" sound, Gongsun Ying's palm landed squarely on Wu Tie's cheek.

Gongsun Ying stared, apparently not expecting Wu Tie to offer any resistance, not even a dodge.

And Wu Tie's cheek felt quite nice under the slap.

So Gongsun Ying increased his force, slapped hard again, and again.

Seeing his brother act this way, Gongsun Xiong also smiled and extended his left hand to slap Wu Tie's right cheek: "Maybe he's already dead? As I said, I want to use his skull as a urinal."

"Pa, pa-pa, pa-pa-pa!"

Gongsun Xiong then slapped Wu Tie's face several times in a row; seeing Wu Tie offer no resistance or dodge, he broke into a grin, likewise increasing the force and slapping Wu Tie's cheeks several more times.

Thus the two brothers, one with left hand, one with right, one striking Wu Tie's left cheek, the other his right cheek, in just two or three breaths they consecutively slapped Wu Tie's face over a dozen times.

Wa Qinger and Wa Xiaoxi had been teasing the Wu maiden when they suddenly heard the "pa-pa" sound and both turned to look.

Wa Qinger angrily said: "Gongsun Ying, Gongsun Xiong, what are you doing?"

Wa Xiaoxi, even more furious, jumped up: "You dare hit my fourth brother? Someone, come! Someone, come!"

Several girls in soft armor, accompanied by over a dozen heavily armored sturdy men, burst into the dining hall, the girls shouting in unison: "Xiaoxi, what's happening?"

The dozen or so warriors behind Gongsun Ying and Gongsun Xiong simultaneously turned around, forming a line to block those girls and warriors. These fellows, presumably accustomed to bullying, stepped forward several times and assumed a posture to drive Wa Xiaoxi's retinue out of the dining hall.

Before Wa Xiaoxi could speak, Wu Tie burst out laughing: "Everyone see clearly, they started it!"

Before anyone could react, Wu Tie let out a loud shout, grabbed the wrists of Gongsun Ying and Gongsun Xiong that were slapping his cheeks, then jerked and shook them hard.

Gongsun Ying and Gongsun Xiong felt an irresistible terrifying force surge; their bodies were shaken into the air, then Wu Tie swung his hand down, hearing a loud "bang bang", and their bodies slammed heavily onto the ground, carving out two large depressions.

The sound of breaking bones rang like popping beans; Wu Tie's physical strength was terrifying—even without using his full force, every bone in Gongsun Ying's and Gongsun Xiong's bodies shattered into fragments.

The two warriors accompanying them simultaneously turned around; before they could make a sound, Wu Tie reached out, seized their necks, and hurled them out of the dining hall's window.

When throwing those two, Wu Tie, fearing Wa Xiaoxi and Wa Qinger might see some gruesome sight unsuitable for children, held back his strength.

But in hurling those two out, Wu Tie exerted all his physical strength and also fully unleashed the Great Strength God magic.

The two weighed little over a hundred catties; Wu Tie erupted with full force, his supernatural power cultivation having become increasingly refined, the foundation of his Great Strength God magic now solid, amplifying his strength by over tenfold.

With several billion catties of force unleashed, the two shot out with a piercing sonic boom, instantly flying tens of li, heavily striking the rock face opposite the window, thickly covered with vines and small trees.

Two bright blood blossoms burst forth, large swaths of vines shattered, the rock wall blasted open into two pits tens of meters across, the so-called heroic brothers of the Gongsun family were utterly blown to bits, not even a sizable bone fragment remaining.

Wu Tie panted, "huff, huff".

Those two bastards shouldn't have said they sent people to besiege Wu Jin.

They shouldn't have told Wu Tie that they had once tried to kill Wu Jin in the arena.

One can imagine how much trouble they caused Wu Jin.

One can imagine how much trouble they caused in crafting the soul-nurturing basin for Wu Jin. They weren't just making things difficult for Wu Jin; they were thoroughly plotting to murder Wu Zhan, Wu Yin, and Wu Tong!

They were conspiring to murder Wu Tie's kin.

So, whatever the consequences... as Old Tie said, sometimes you just have to strike first to vent the anger in your chest.

For some reason, Wu Tie gazed at the two glaring blood-red patches on the rock face tens of li across the window and softly sang a cheerful little tune.

"The great river flows eastward... when it's time to act, just act..."

Inexplicable joy, inexplicable happiness, since arriving in Wa Valley, his long-repressed gloomy mood inexplicably improved.

Wu Tie suddenly realized things weren't that bad after all.

Wu Jin was still alive, and Wu Zhan, Wu Yin, and Wu Tong still had hope of resurrection.

His elder brother, Wu Jin, was striving for the resurrection of their father and second and third brothers, laboring in Wa Valley's ancestral secret realm to revive their kin.

What else do I have to be dissatisfied with?

Mother Wu Mu was also good to me, and Wu Tie could feel the fervent, magma-like emotion beneath her seemingly cold exterior.

My sister Wu Xiao Xi is also wonderful—what a delicate, cute, clean, well-behaved little girl she is; this little girl is my sister!

Everything, it's not that bad.

Everything, it's still not bad.

Wu Tie's mood became great; he lightly sang, his ten fingers constantly opening and closing, and he strode toward the attendant warriors Gong Sun Ying and Gong Sun Xiong.

"When it's time to act, just act……"

Wu Tie began to sing loudly; the melody of the song echoed in his mind, a feeling of righteousness, passion, and heroic fervor filled his chest. Wu Tie smiled, every pore of his body spraying joy.

The dozen or so attendant warriors brought by Gong Sun Ying and Gong Sun Xiong let out hysterical roars, desperately drawing their side swords, forming a reverse triangle formation in groups of three, and strode forward to charge at Wu Tie.

Blinding firelight spewed from Wu Tie's eyes.

It wasn't very lethal, but it was dazzling and glaring enough; the warriors' eyes were suddenly struck by the bright light, and they instinctively shut them.

Wu Tie charged forward to meet those longswords flashing with cold light.

Wu Xiao Xi screamed in alarm: "Brother, be careful!"

Wu Qing Er roared angrily: "You're causing trouble again!"

The Witch Maiden waved the Wind and Cloud Banner, excitedly nodding her head repeatedly: "Dad, give it your all, smash their dog heads!"

Wu Tie's neck made a 'crack' sound, and he abruptly turned his head to look at the Witch Maiden.

This little girl, where did she learn these……improper words?

The first group of three warriors had already reached Wu Tie; acting on their impression from before they closed their eyes, three widened and thickened ripple swords pierced toward Wu Tie's chest vital points with a piercing whistle.

Wu Tie tilted his body, precisely using his three ribs to meet the incoming longswords.

The sharp sword tip viciously trembled, piercing Wu Tie's chest flesh and lodging firmly into his ribs.

As Wu Tie had expected, his flesh was like tough old cowhide, difficult for the longsword to pierce, but his flesh was only a thin layer, so it hardly hurt. The sword tip slammed hard into his ribs, emitting a piercing metallic clang, and the tips of the three longswords snapped simultaneously.

Wu Tie's ribs were far harder than the longsword, excessively hard.

He waved his hands, grabbed two warriors, and casually threw them out. With the Great Strength God Magic plus Wu Tie's over-a-hundred-million-catty bodily strength, a force of several billion catties exploded, sending the two warriors flying out the window, almost in a straight line to strike the rock face dozens of li away.

Then another two, another two, another two……

Finally only one warrior remained; Wu Tie seized him with both hands and hurled him out the window with all his might.

On the rock face opposite the window lay a ferocious, glaring blood-red patch; over a dozen people had smashed into the rock face one after another, literally blasting a hole hundreds of meters in diameter into it.

Just as the last warrior flew out the window, a ragged, angry roar came from outside the dining hall's main door.

"Stop……you reckless brat……"

The few girls and over a dozen heavy-armored warriors brought by Wu Xiao Xi were shoved aside by a great force; a semi-transparent humanoid figure, resembling crystal glass forged, bare-chested and wielding a long spear, strode into the dining hall.

A humanoid figure about Wu Tie's height charged straight at him, the spear in its hand flashing a cold light like a sinuous spirit snake, thrusting toward Wu Tie.

The spear's technique was ever-changing, seemingly able to strike multiple deadly points on Wu Tie's upper body at any moment; within a flash of cold light, specks of dazzling pear blossoms swayed, this spear technique being exquisitely splendid.

Wu Tie let out a low roar; the White Tiger Split emitted a mournful tearing-through-air sound, a point of cold light thrusting straight out.

No flourish, no variation—just a murderous, overbearing, savage thrust straight at the figure's throat vital point. Wu Tie's spear technique was domineering and brutal, having reached the extreme of speed; the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, needing no winding or variation.

The figure, forced into disarray by Wu Tie's spear, shook and lifted its spear, bringing up a spray of cold light that entwined the White Tiger Split.

Wu Tie activated the Great Strength God Magic; the White Tiger Split let out a low growl, its shaft shook, and the opponent's spear shattered with a boom.

The White Tiger Split continued its straight thrust, without the slightest hesitation or delay, emitting a mournful shriek as it drove forward.

The figure cursed angrily, then retreated, retreating as fast as possible.

He retreated slower than the White Tiger Split; the Split's thrust speed far exceeded his retreat speed.

The spear tip rang 'ding' as it pierced the figure's throat; a point of cold light shone from the back of its neck, Wu Tie's magical power burst forth, and the crystal-glass-forged humanoid 'bang' completely disintegrated, exploding into countless tiny crystal fragments that sprayed far away, shooting out through the floor-to-ceiling window of the outer corridor.

Outside the stone tower, a furious yet forcibly restrained voice came in.

"Wu Tie…… I am Gong Sun Yuan; do you dare to come to my arena and test your skills?"

A trace of blood seeped into Wu Tie's eyes; he said solemnly: "Why wouldn't I dare? It's just—do you have the stake to put up?"