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With his body's energy completely sealed and blended, Liu Mu, whose body was like a solid iron ball weighing over 200 pounds, shooting backward at a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour, possessed immense power.
The four people who were repeatedly knocked away by him, almost all of them with broken bones, had a profound experience.

However, Geng Xuan's actions did not stop there.

The instant he knocked Liu Mu away, he paused for a moment, then used his momentum to flash out again like a ghost, rushing towards the remaining few who were all stunned and helpless.

"Boom, bang, bang..."

Another lightning-fast series of attacks followed, followed by a string of three soft headshots.

After cutting off three more people, only two people remained intact and complete.

"Ah—ah!!!"

What they saw tonight, all that they had witnessed, finally exceeded the limits of what their minds could bear.

Unable to bear it any longer, the two instinctively cried out in alarm, then cast aside all distractions and worries, following their most primal instincts, and ran wildly in two directions away from Geng Xuan.

Watching their retreating figures, Geng Xuan's eyes held only a resolute calm.

Only now are you thinking of escaping?
late.

His figure shot out almost before the two men could even make a sprint.

Towards the fastest person.

Compared to his opponent, or rather, compared to anyone else on the field, his speed has an overwhelming advantage.

He had already reduced the distance between the two sides to zero when the target had only moved less than ten meters away.

"Oh!"

Then, just moments before he was shooting forward, his figure, without pausing, drew a sharp angle of no more than ten degrees across the night sky, revealing his sharp edge.

When the second target had fled fifty or sixty meters away in a desperate manner, the distance between the two sides was reduced to zero.

"Oh!"

At this moment, among the four people who were knocked away by Liu Mu...

The last one, and also the one with the least physical injury, caught his breath and overcame the initial confusion and discomfort.

Right now, I only have some slight pain in my ribs, and some lingering negative feelings of chest tightness and shortness of breath.

After recovering his strength, he wisely did not stay to fight, and immediately made a move to flee.

But on this battlefield where life and death hang in the balance, the time it took him to "catch his breath" was indeed far too slow.

Just as he was about to make a move to flee, Geng Xuan had already finished off the remaining two men with headshots and was rapidly turning back.

I had just adjusted my posture when I turned back.

Then I saw him clutching his chest, gritting his teeth, and swaying as he stood up from the ground, looking around as he tried to escape.

Didn't we just walk right into his line of fire?

This person's speed was even slower than the previous two who fled far away.

However, because the two were far apart, it wasn't until the person had fled nearly thirty meters away that Geng Xuan was able to close the distance with him.

"Oh!"

Another crisp sound of a headshot.

When Geng Xuan's figure turned sharply back again, he saw another figure who had already escaped more than thirty meters away.

The distance between them had increased to nearly sixty meters.

And it is racing desperately towards the edge of the distant night sky.

"Good lad, you've caught me in the act."

This person was the third person to be knocked away by Liu Mu.

After the first two "unlucky ones," Liu Mu, who weighs over 200 pounds and has a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour, has experienced a significant decrease in speed, and the kinetic energy he can generate is considerably weaker compared to the previous two.

The third person who was hit was in slightly worse condition than the last one.

In such a life-or-death moment, you can grit your teeth and get through it.

The timing of this person recovering was similar to that of the person whose head was blown off by Geng Xuan earlier.

But he cleverly delayed for a moment, until Geng Xuan pounced on another teammate, then he suddenly jumped up from the ground and ran wildly in the opposite direction from Geng Xuan and the other.

Given the distance between them, even though Geng Xuan was much faster than his opponent.

In the current situation, to reduce the distance between the two sides to zero, the person would have to escape at least another fifty or sixty meters.

At that time, the distance between Geng Xuan and the other three people present would increase to more than 100 meters.

If there were another "sixth brother" like this one, it would be possible for him to escape hundreds of meters, or even a mile or two.

Huangwei Island is only about ten miles long from east to west and only five or six miles wide from north to south.

This cramped area was now teeming with thirty to forty thousand soldiers, almost all of whom were completely out of their minds from the fighting.

Once the distance between the two sides becomes too great, anything can happen.

If the other party were to seize the opportunity to jump into the sea and escape completely, it is not impossible.

No matter how powerful Geng Xuan is, he is still just one person, and he hasn't grown wings.

This was the calculation in the hearts of the escapee and several other pairs of eyes still brimming with life.

But will Geng Xuan do as they wish?

Geng Xuan, his figure once again forming a sharp angle in the night sky, shot towards his target.

But this time, he did not close the distance to zero before making his move, as he had done before.

He suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, his voice forming a line that "bombarded" the rapidly fleeing figure at a speed far exceeding that of both of them.

This technique of "binding sound into a line" cannot, under the current circumstances of exerting all efforts, completely concentrate the power of the sound attack in the direction of the target, or even on the target itself.

Even with sonic attacks, the power will still involuntarily spread outwards.

Furthermore, this diffusion attenuation becomes more pronounced with increasing distance.

However, the goal is to achieve the second realm of cultivation.

The distance is between fifty and sixty meters.

Moreover, his body already had abnormalities that had not been fully resolved, and he was in a state of desperately trying to hold on.

All these factors combined happened to fall within Geng Xuan's "comfort zone."

"stop----!!!!"

Almost instantly, the figure fleeing for its life in the distance suddenly froze.

While he was running for his life, his left foot, which should have stepped out, failed to move in time.

However, its body continued to fly forward due to inertia.

Then--

A distinctly abnormal posture shifted, and the figure, who had been desperately fleeing just moments before, fell heavily to the ground.

Then, it started rolling uncontrollably on the ground.

With a popping sound, dust billowed up.

In the brief moment that he lost control, Geng Xuan, who was chasing him, had closed the distance between them to less than thirty meters.

But he did not go any further.

Clearly "seeing" that Geng Xuan's last bit of strength had once again dissipated, he used another move.

He reached out with a half-hearted gesture and slapped forward.

Nearly thirty meters away, the figure that was still rolling uncontrollably seemed to be firmly bound by an invisible force.

Not only did it stop rolling, but its body also uncontrollably lifted off the ground and floated into the void, thirty or forty centimeters above the ground.

And it quickly approached Geng Xuan.

Under normal circumstances, the combined effect of "Heart-Shattering Roar" and "Crane-Controlling Hand" would not be this powerful.

These two skills, when used against those of lower cultivation levels with vastly different strength, are the ultimate techniques for crushing weaker opponents.

However, it becomes somewhat ineffective when facing cultivators of similar cultivation levels, especially those at or above the first realm of perfection.

However, Geng Xuan activated both of his perfect skills at the most opportune moment, thus achieving the best results.

After confirming that he had the person under control, Geng Xuan did not wait to forcibly pull the person to his side and kill him completely. Instead, he turned around and walked towards the three remaining people in the field.

These three, including Liu Mu, who was the lightest in the group but was still dazed and confused from the continuous high-speed collisions and took a long time to barely regain his senses, were among them.

And the one closest to him at the time, standing back to back with him, cautiously looking around, was also the only one on "Huangwei Island" who had reached the third realm of perfection.

He was the first to experience the "iron ball collision" with a weight of over 200 pounds and a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour.

He was the person who suffered the most kinetic energy damage, besides Liu Mu.

He is already a senior person who has reached the first realm of perfection.

As the second person to be hit by the "iron ball," his condition was actually much worse than that of the first person hit.

Although none of them had fully recovered, the three of them knew how dangerous the situation was and forced themselves to regain consciousness immediately.

He is also preparing to take action.

But all they saw, besides the headless corpses lying all around them, was Geng Xuan's leisurely approaching figure.

Behind him, another comrade-in-arms floated in the night sky.

It's neither in the sky nor on the ground.

It just floated there.

As Geng Xuan approached them step by step, the floating figures involuntarily moved closer in sync.

"..."

Aside from feeling a little dizzy, Liu Mu felt no other problems and still retained at least 90% of his strength.

He stood up unsteadily, shaking his head violently a few times, squinting his eyes and staring intently at Geng Xuan who was approaching step by step, adopting a posture of fighting to the death.

But faced with his ferocious demeanor, Geng Xuan felt as if he were watching a toothless tiger demonstrating what "ferocious and terrifying" meant.

He didn't stop moving at all, and walked slowly towards Liu Mu, step by step, until he was beside him.

Finally, it stopped in front of Liu Mu's iron fists.

Liu Mu's knuckles were so clenched that they even touched the other person's clothes.

This gave him the feeling that if he pushed forward just a little more, he could deliver a powerful punch deep into his opponent's chest.

No matter how ferocious and terrifying Liu Mu's face was, and how he gritted his teeth, his iron fists couldn't push forward even a fraction of an inch.

Having already seen through the other party's doubts and fears, Geng Xuan did not completely trample on his dignity.

Geng Xuan could easily crush cultivators of a lower realm or even the same realm.

However, facing Liu Mu, whose cultivation level was a whole realm higher than his own, Geng Xuan was confident that he could win.

However, defeating or even killing the opponent in a direct confrontation is not something that can be accomplished in just one or two moves.

The key is that once one's cultivation reaches the peak of the fourth realm, except for a very few flaws, the body has basically been tempered into an indestructible, unbreakable, and unexplosive copper pea.

It's perfectly normal to go through several moves, a dozen moves, or even dozens of moves.

At this moment, Geng Xuan did not want to waste time here.

Moreover, this continuous, but not entirely overwhelming, maneuvering is more harmful than beneficial to his current image.

Having seen through all of this and noticed that Liu Mu's mind had already begun to waver, Geng Xuan decisively stopped the "fist fight".

They changed their offensive approach—

Attack the heart.

Seemingly unprepared, remaining within range of the opponent's iron fist.

The "prisoner" who had been captured by his "Crane Control Hand" and whose strength had been dispersed floated out from behind him at just the right moment.

Bypassing the void to his right, and while Liu Mu was still in a daze, it struck at his tightly clenched iron fists.

He watched as his companion floated above his iron fist, then seemed to lose all restraints in an instant, falling freely downwards to the position of his own iron fist.

After only a very brief hesitation, Liu Mu opened his iron fists, instantly transforming them into palms, and used them to catch his companion's falling body.

By deliberately withdrawing his fist, Liu Mu's last shred of determination to fight to the death dissipated.

He grabbed his companion with both hands, took two quick steps back to create distance between himself and Geng Xuan, and asked warily, "What exactly do you want?"

"I have no intention of wiping you all out, but I hope you won't be ungrateful," Geng Xuan said.

Upon hearing this, Liu Mu's brow twitched, and he feigned ignorance, saying:
"I don't know what you're talking about... Perhaps you could be more explicit!"

"How much money did Dong Guan give you?... It wasn't easy for you to get to where you are today, was it? Are you really going to risk your lives here for Dong Guan's grand ambitions?"

At this point, Geng Xuan paused, then said with a half-smile:

"Oh, even his grand ambitions and ambitions can only be experienced in his dreams now... His plan to march south can no longer be postponed, but I wonder if you are aware of this?"

As soon as he said this, Liu Mu managed to maintain a calm facade, but his brows continued to twitch uncontrollably.

The other three all wore expressions of horror.

They all turned to look at Geng Xuan, as if to determine whether his words were just empty talk or true.

Geng Xuan looked at Liu Mu, who maintained a calm demeanor, and asked, "Oh... it seems you've already received the latest news from Chizhu Plain. Why, haven't you shared it with your companions yet?"

The gaze that was directed at Geng Xuan shifted again, landing on Liu Mu.

How many people under Dong Guan were truly loyal and devoted to him out of loyalty and admiration?
How many people are loyal to him because of his power and personal gain?

This has always been a point of great interest to Geng Xuan.

Now, Geng Xuan feels he has some answers.

Of course, those with high cultivation levels, especially those who can reach the level of Liu Mu, are more clear-headed and have more independent opinions than those with low cultivation levels who lack a stable core and are easily swayed by others. They are also more discerning in weighing their own gains and losses.

Therefore, this can only be used as a reference and cannot be taken as the standard answer.

"What do you intend to do?" Liu Mu asked, already showing signs of being outwardly strong but inwardly weak.

Geng Xuan did not answer directly, but walked to the side of a headless corpse and took a longbow that was as black as ink from its back.

Geng Xuan tried it out briefly and found that the quality was even better than the copper-bodied iron-backed bow.

He took the longbow in his hand and casually removed the two quivers from the man's waist, slinging them diagonally behind his back.

He then said to the three men, "You stay here quietly. I can have a good talk with you after the war."

With that, he turned and disappeared into the night once more without lingering.

Because of their recent experience, a subtle feeling arose in their hearts.

It was as if the surrounding night sky was once again filled with murderous intent.

Watching Geng Xuan walk away so casually, Liu Mu opened his mouth.

He really wanted to ask, "Aren't you afraid we'll take this opportunity to run away?"

But he looked around at the darkness and then at his two companions.

Just as he looked over, their eyes also happened to be looking at him.

The numbers collide.

Then, they quietly moved away.

Everyone just waited quietly, feeling awkward.

No one said anything.

"Or, let's run away..."

These words were stuck in everyone's throat.

But strangely enough, not a single person said it aloud.

Everyone quietly pricked up their ears.

Faintly, from the noisy, wave of various sounds, they discerned some strange noises.

That was the vibration of the bowstring.

Those were arrows piercing the air. (End of Chapter)