Martial Arts: Starting with Bajiquan, I will prove my divine power through the ultimate path!

A tall, strong man came running like a cheetah, and the paving stones shattered under his feet!

As we approached the dilapidated courtyard.

His steps slowed noticeably, and his face was filled with immense sorrow.

The courtyard wall collapsed, the ground was littered with broken bricks and pits, and there were mutilated bodies, blood splattered everywhere, flesh and blood hanging everywhere, and familiar faces filled with unresolved grievances.

Ning Daxin was bleeding, his face was contorted with rage, and the veins on his forehead and neck were bulging.

His heavy breathing echoed like that of a wild beast.

Instead of immediately attacking the man, he silently helped his comrades tidy up the corpses, piecing them together on the open ground and placing the heads back into their corresponding bodies.

"Fifteen years in Tai'an, Dog Egg, you joined the army. When you first came in, you were incredibly stubborn. I specifically picked on you to beat up. I even broke your leg back then. You were just as stubborn, preferring death to submission!"

"Quan, you're the smartest kid, why didn't you come to tip me off this time?"

"Wang San, you said that once we made enough money together, we'd find a peaceful county town, marry ten or eight women, and have a bunch of kids. Why didn't you wait for me?"

Ning made a dull sound.

He could name each corpse and tell them their stories.

When he laid all the bodies out on the open ground.

The sorrow in his eyes deepened, and beneath his calm face lay a turbulent killing intent!

He did not despise the broken body and the scattered organs on the ground.

They were tidying up each of their comrades' appearance for the last time.

Ning Da sat next to the corpses and started chatting with them. Whenever he got to an exciting part, his voice became loud and intense!

Shi Wen didn't leave either.

He grabbed a jar of wine and washed his blood-soaked hands.

After washing your hands clean.

He sat on the ground, took out the dried gray meat he carried with him, chewed it casually, ate five catties of gray meat into his stomach, then took the wine from the wine jar to swallow, and poured all the few pills in the porcelain bottle into his mouth.

He chewed the pills like they were sugar candy.

His body was surging with powerful Qi and blood, and the characteristics of the "Taibao Henglian Gong" were restored, causing scabs to form on the surface of his body.

A laceration on the waist.

It grew dense granulation tissue, quickly forming a hideous scar resembling a centipede.

The bleeding has stopped.

Even though it's only at the 'Half-Step Blood Coagulation Stage', its recovery ability is far superior to that of the Blood Tempering Stage!

Ning Da didn't make a move; he seemed more like a dejected and defeated soldier.

He grabbed the wine jar and gulped down a large mouthful.

Even if the wine soaked his clothes down his chin, he didn't care.

Clutching the wine jar, Xiao Se reminisced about the past, "We border soldiers, year after year, guarded the frontier. Not only did we have to resist the gray fog and those strange creatures outside the high walls, but the imperial court was always behind on pay. We were often stationed in harsh, cold places, lacking military equipment and supplies. While the higher-ups proclaimed their imperial might, they treated us like dogs!"

"We are barely clothed, and sometimes, in order to eat and wear, we have to fight those other beings in the gray fog to obtain alien resources in exchange for food!"

"These guys are really greedy. They can exchange alien resources for several thousand taels of silver, but they only give us brothers some food and meat. Hahahaha, they're fucking greedy!"

When he spoke of his grief and indignation, Xiao Se's voice choked with emotion.

Ning Da angrily crushed the wine jar, his eyes blazing with fury. "We've fought day after day for ten years, shedding blood. A large group of brothers have shared life and death, fighting against the Gray Fog, shedding blood for the country for over a decade. Even if we haven't achieved anything, we've certainly earned our credit for our hard work!!!"

"What did we do wrong?"

"We're protecting our country. Without us, could you guys live here peacefully, eating, drinking, and making a living?!"

"Without us, would you even have the chance to investigate this and that?!"

"Why won't you let us go! Are we deserting?"

Why do you keep harassing us?

"We're not suing anymore!! Isn't it enough that we won't sue the higher-ups for withholding wages and illegally selling military equipment? Why are they still targeting us?!"

boom!

Ning Da slammed his fist on the ground, his face filled with sorrow and bewilderment.

Shi Wen continued to eat the gray meat silently, without saying a word.

Ning Daqi laughed bitterly, "Those higher-ups are ruthless! Knowing there was trouble on the border, they made us stay behind as bait, but they all ran off to rich lands to enjoy themselves more than half a year ago!"

"Half a year!!"

"More than half a year!"

"If we had been allowed to evacuate earlier, I wonder how many people could have survived."

"But this group of people, fearing that a large-scale evacuation would cause unforeseen events and that the court would punish them, actually fled alone, leaving us to resist those things. Can those things be resisted by humans?!"

"We dedicated our youth to the frontier, we toiled day and night guarding the high walls, resisting the outsiders shrouded in the gray fog—what wrong have we done?"

"Just because we want to live?"

"What's wrong with wanting to live? Why are you so determined to keep targeting us?"

Ning Da tore his robes open in grief and anger.

He stroked the four large characters "Defend the Homeland" on his chest.

Her voice was filled with sorrow, "Mother, is this the country you sent me to protect? You probably don't even know that the very officials you sent me to safeguard have abandoned us and run away!"

"We are all men of ambition, but the imperial court does not treat us like human beings!!"

"Are we deserters? It's the world that's forcing us to desert. We barely made it out of that place alive; it wasn't easy to begin with."

"Sir, why won't you give us a way out?!"

"We really don't want to go against the imperial court!"

Ning Da looked sad.

He stared at the boy sitting on the ground eating meat, his face showing bewilderment and unease.

His previous anger transformed into a cautious demeanor. "My lord, please spare my life! I'll do anything you ask!"

Shi Wen chewed on the gray meat and said calmly, "I am not a member of the imperial court."

"Don't joke around. If they weren't from the imperial court, how could they have been so precise as to kill my brothers before I left? And how could they have so conveniently planned to run into me in this way just as I was leaving? Isn't this just a trick by the Sinan Guard to toy with their prey?"

Ning Da took a swig of wine and said bitterly, "They're the elite troops trained by the Sinan Guard, aren't they?"

"During the blood clotting stage, you killed so many of my brothers. Impressive. These brothers are your whetstone, aren't they useful?"

"I am not a member of the Sinanwei."

Shi Wen responded with a single sentence and continued eating meat, but his muscles were tense, ready to explode at any moment.

He sensed a sense of crisis.

"Hehe, since you've already discovered us brothers, why bother making fun of me? If you're not willing to let me go, then let them out. We're just a bunch of deserters who escaped to Black Cloud County by sheer luck. We have no accomplices and just want to find a place to eat."

Ning Da silently took a few more steps toward Shi Wen, and said in a sorrowful voice, "Sir, you've killed so many of my brothers, can't you really give me a way out?"

He saw that Shi Wen remained silent.

My nerves were on edge.

Ning Da glanced around and felt that those quiet houses were surrounded by enemies!

"Since you're not willing to let me go, then let's see what you've got!"

"They're surrounded on all sides, aren't they? Let them come out. You, a mere junior, are no match for me. You bigwigs of the Sinan Guard, are you going to use the death of this dagger as an excuse to take action?"