Chapter 162: Like a God, Like a Demon

"Raise shields! Raise shields!"

As Zhang Jie approached, the generals in the front row roared sternly, but they no longer had their previous full confidence,

only a shrillness like a fierce ghost crawling out of hell!

Swish swish!

These soldiers were worthy of being the elite carefully selected by the Yuan Court, each one burly and obedient to orders.

Following the general's order, heavy shields, taller than a person, gleaming with the unique luster of metal,

and clearly forged from high-strength steel, were raised one after another.

And above the heavy shields were spears with spearheads flashing with cold light!

In an instant, the entire army turned into a steel hedgehog.

Let alone a person, even an elephant daring to charge the military formation would be poked with countless holes!

"Not bad."

Zhang Jie, who had arrived nearby, still didn't rush and even nodded in approval.

These soldiers, or rather the Yuan Court, understood very well the method of dealing with martial arts experts,

which is large numbers, strong bows and hard crossbows, heavy armor, and heavy shields.

The arrows just now would have cost him quite a bit of effort even if he had blocked them head-on:

Ordinary arrows were one thing; Zhang Jie wouldn't have his protective Qi broken even if he stood there and let them shoot.

But hidden inside were some "Qi-breaking arrows" developed by imperial court experts and master craftsmen,

specifically designed to break the protective Qi of martial arts experts.

And among those shooting arrows, besides ordinary soldiers, there were many military generals who specialized in battlefield martial arts,

all using metal strong bows of several stones.

Such bows and arrows, although not as fast, were absolutely no weaker than modern rifles in terms of power!

The arrows shot by a few eagle-shooting archers were even comparable to sniper rifles!

Ordinary first-class experts would be shot into a sieve when facing a dozen arrows, and what came at him was far more than a hundred!

To deal with him, the Yuan Court probably emptied the Dadu arsenal,

and the experts of the Kheshig guard protecting Dadu were almost all transferred!

"He's close, the Sect Leader is approaching the military formation!"

Wei Yixiao, who was watching the battle, was extremely excited.

The light-body technique Zhang Jie had just shown simply made him feel like he was seeing a god. In front of Zhang Jie's light-body technique,

he, the Green-Winged Bat King famous for his light-body technique, was simply a toddler who couldn't walk yet!

"What does the Sect Leader want to do next?"

Unlike the excited Wei Yixiao, Yang Xiao and the others couldn't help but show dread and worry on their faces.

Approaching counts as one victory, but how to break the hedgehog formation next?

Those daredevils specially selected by the Yuan Court, each one burly,

infinitely strong, after wearing heavy armor weighing dozens of jin, each one was invulnerable to blades and spears,

like the Shaolin "Vajra Indestructible Divine Art" being accomplished,

on the battlefield, they were simply ferocious beasts charging and running wild.

Although they moved slowly, they couldn't even keep up with the speed of ordinary soldiers,

let alone Zhang Jie, whose light-body technique was peerless and even Wei Yixiao felt inferior to.

But in the current situation, they didn't need to move at all;

hundreds of people made up for this defect, and they only needed to hold their ground.

And Zhang Jie must have mastered techniques like "striking across the mountain",

directly striking the soldiers inside through the heavy armor, but as the saying goes,

there are too many people; even with Zhang Jie's skills, how many moves can he strike?

This is the reason why martial arts experts are firmly suppressed by the imperial court:

as long as a martial arts expert cannot kill a heavy-armored soldier without loss,

then once trapped in a siege, the martial arts expert will eventually be exhausted to death!

"Hold on, hold on! Hold your ground, and there will be a way!"

On the Yuan army side, seeing that Zhang Jie didn't launch a direct charge,

the general, thinking he was wary of the military formation, shouted loudly.

'Hold your ground, and there will be a way?'

'What? Are you that river channel supervisor who defended Beiping to the death, privately hid weapons, planned to make a comeback,

but ended up doing water conservancy work for a lifetime?'

Hearing the general's order, Zhang Jie laughed in surprise, complaining in his heart.

The person who issued the order became a guest of honor after surrendering, a minister.

Those who held their ground and fought to the death became war criminals in the General Forest, prisoners. This made him unable to hold back.

Of course, the carefully constructed defense lines that had been built for months or even years were broken through in a few days,

Zhang Jie didn't know whether they were too weak or the opposite side was too strong.

But even if you put tens of thousands of pigs, he wouldn't be able to catch them all in two or three days!

After complaining, Zhang Jie also put his energy into the military formation.

Zhang Jie: I want to put my energy into the military momentum~

It's not that he didn't concentrate his energy, but that these troops gave him too little pressure.

Except for the arrows just now, the rest of the people didn't give him any sense of crisis.

This five-thousand-strong army looked terrifying, but what he finally faced was only a dozen or twenty people.

If he wanted to leave, let alone these five thousand people, even if the Great Yuan mobilized all its troops, they couldn't stop him!

"Shocking Hundred Miles!"

Intending to finish the battle quickly, Zhang Jie raised his hand and struck out the palm most suitable for group battles in the "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms".

"Ang!"

With a long and infinitely majestic dragon roar,

a golden dragon with features like deer antlers, snake body, eagle claws, fish scales, and cow ears appeared before the army.

This dragon was a zhang long, its eyes majestic, and if its body hadn't been a bit illusory,

it would have almost made people think the Dragon King from heaven had descended!

"Dragon! It's a dragon!"

Looking at the golden dragon circling around Zhang Jie, the Yuan army's morale wavered.

They were soldiers carefully selected through layers of screening and loyal to the Great Yuan Emperor.

They firmly believed that the Emperor was the True Dragon Son of Heaven.

And now another dragon appeared, did it mean the Emperor

had lost the favor of heaven and they needed to re-select a True Dragon Son of Heaven?

"What dragon?

It's just a change in the martial artist's Qi!

It's all an illusion!

There is only one True Dragon Son of Heaven in the world, our Great Yuan Emperor!

Kill, strangle this fake!"

The general clearly didn't believe in any dragon, and he ordered fiercely.

"Kill!"

Some were afraid, naturally some were not.

A bold soldier raised his spear and stabbed at Zhang Jie.

"If you want to die, I'll fulfill your wish!"

Zhang Jie waved his hand, and the golden dragon circling beside him flew toward the soldier.

"Boom!"

Before the soldier could even get close, the golden dragon hit him.

At the moment of contact, it was as if a thousand-jin heavy hammer had smashed down,

the heavy armor on his body instantly deformed severely, and the whole person was knocked out dozens of meters.

Behind him, a dozen soldiers were knocked down,

their internal organs shattered by the powerful shockwave, bleeding from seven orifices, clearly not alive.

"This is not a human, this is a devil; we can't defeat him!"

Seeing such an impactful scene, the three views of the surrounding soldiers shattered,

morale collapsed, and they threw down their weapons and wanted to run away.

"Who dares to run? Those who run die!"

The general was also a ruthless person; he cut off the head of the soldier who ran the fastest with one blade.

"Don't be afraid, his power is weakening; look, that dragon has shrunk a lot!"

The general encouraged morale loudly.

The soldiers who calmed down looked and found that the golden dragon had indeed shrunk a lot after knocking away a dozen soldiers.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Realizing that the person coming was not invincible, the soldiers regained their confidence and killed Zhang Jie.

Thousands of soldiers swarmed in, as if a millstone was going to grind Zhang Jie, a pea, into powder.

They didn't know that Zhang Jie was a copper pea that couldn't be steamed,

couldn't be boiled, couldn't be hammered flat, and couldn't be fried!

'Who said I could only strike one palm?'

"Shocking Hundred Miles!"

"Shocking Hundred Miles!"

Zhang Jie struck nine palms in a row, and nine golden dragons flew around him.

Any soldier who approached him was beaten by the golden dragon's impact until their tendons were broken and bones were fractured,

worthy of being called dead upon touch and injured upon grazing!

In an instant, shields were broken, armor was pierced, flesh and blood were rotten,

bones were shattered, steel made an unbearable wailing sound,

and the whistling shockwaves created terrifying cavities, but could chisel out fist-sized holes.

The army facing the golden dragon trembled together, their steps staggering backward, as if beaten by invisible sea waves.

The dragon-shaped Qi energy pierced through their bodies, leaving behind shattered remains, falling silently one after another.

Zhang Jie's stamina and skills were continuous, without any scruples, manipulating nine golden dragons to twist and turn, sometimes spreading out,

sometimes gathering, shooting horizontally and vertically, leaving chaotic and dense zigzag afterimages in the air.

With such an offensive, the Yuan soldiers within dozens of meters could never dodge,

couldn't avoid, no matter if they ran or fought, they would eventually die!

He scanned with his eyes, and whenever a target wanting to attack appeared,

he immediately locked on, mobilized a golden dragon to go over, and the soldier immediately fell.

Dozens of meters around were shrouded in golden brilliance, and the blood of Yuan soldiers flowed across the ground.

In less than half an incense stick of time, hundreds of soldiers had fallen beside Zhang Jie, their corpses piled into a mountain of corpses!

"How can there be such a strong person?"

Not specifically targeted by Zhang Jie, retreated to the center of the military formation,

Wang Baobao, surrounded by soldiers, looked at everything in front of him in disbelief.

"Amitabha, a demon god has descended, a demon god has descended!"

The three Lamas were also shocked, chanting Buddha names repeatedly,

and in their hearts, there was no longer any thought of contending with Zhang Jie.

Wang Baobao nodded in agreement: Zhang Jie, who had killed until corpses were everywhere, whether he was a demon

or a god, he could be sure of one thing: Zhang Jie was not human!

"Brother, the urgent matter is not to investigate what this Zhang Jie is,

but to dispatch more troops to surround and kill him here!"

Zhao Min reminded with a cold face.

Although she admired Zhang Jie, before Zhao Min,

she was first a noble of the Great Yuan, the Princess of the Ruyang Prince's Mansion!

"Exactly, exactly!"

Wang Baobao, who had regained his senses, couldn't agree more.

If such a killing god were released, the Great Yuan would have no future!

And the two thousand-man teams that surrounded and killed him had already lost hundreds,

even though they were carefully selected elites, they had already reached their limit.

If they continued to fight, they would collapse immediately!

"Swish, swish!"

Wang Baobao waved the command flag in his hand and issued an order.

Although he was the deputy envoy, he was actually the real commander of this army.

The general in the small camp behind was his successor in case he was unfortunate.

"Kill!"

The cavalry ambushed on both wings lowered their face masks and roared out!

They raised their blades and spears, pointed at Zhang Jie, and began to charge on horseback; the speed was not fast,

but the horse hooves were like falling stones rolling down a hillside, hitting the earth heavily, splashing surging waves of soil.

They formed a surrounding posture, wanting to strangle Zhang Jie alive!

Although as the Great Yuan entered the end of the dynasty,

the Mongol cavalry that had swept across the world following the Great Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan had gradually decayed.

Most of the Mongols who were domineering in the Central Plains, let alone shooting arrows and fighting,

even riding horses to travel was a problem, but a rotten ship still had three inches of nails.

These iron cavalry came like a tide, with some of the style of the Mongol cavalry of the past!

"Prepare to rescue!"

The earth-shaking sound of horse hooves brought Yang Xiao and the others, who were watching the battle, back from the shock of Zhang Jie's great power

and killing in all directions, and they formed a formation,

ready to rescue immediately once Zhang Jie had the intention to break out!

"Well come!"

Facing the iron cavalry coming like a tide, Zhang Jie was not terrified,

but instead, a smile appeared on his face, and he shouted loudly.

He tapped his toes, and his whole person seemed to be riding the wind, rising several zhang, then took several steps in the air,

traveling more than a hundred meters, easily jumping out of the surrounding circle formed by the heavy infantry.

Nine golden dragons, a bit smaller but still majestic, circled around him,

setting him off as if he were an immortal descending from heaven!

"This, this, this!"

Seeing Zhang Jie jump out of the surrounding circle in two or three steps, Wang Baobao was shocked.

With such light-body technique that was almost flying, how could the army surround and kill him?

"Heavenly man, a heavenly man has descended!"

"Eternal Heaven, have you abandoned us?"

The infantry, who had already been scared out of their wits, saw this scene,

completely lost their will to fight, threw down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground, and prayed to their gods.

Or rather, they were praying to Zhang Jie! ===== CHAPTER 163 =====