“Jiang Tian, I already know that you were shot while killing Nie Feng. And I just saw from your palm that you definitely got slashed at the Qixia Children’s Club too.”
With a bodyguard stepping forward to hold an umbrella over her, Xu Ruocheng smiled proudly and said, “Your cultivation must have dropped significantly—at best, you’re at the mid-stage of the Iron Body realm. Otherwise, there’s no way you would have gotten hurt. The forces I have here are more than enough to deal with you right now.”
“You can give it a try,” Jiang Tian said, his expression indifferent and unmoved.
“Fine! Let’s give it a try, then!”
Xu Ruocheng’s pretty face turned serious. With a light wave of her hand, her phoenix-like eyes blazed with killing intent. She looked like a female general commanding thousands of troops, and at this moment, she revealed the immense, domineering aura of Jinling’s underground queen.
As her delicate hand dropped—
Rumble!
The chaotic sound of footsteps rang out. Many of the organization’s tough guys stomped through puddles, splashing water everywhere. The ground shook, and the momentum was astonishing.
Raising their machetes and axes high, they charged at Jiang Tian like ferocious tigers.
Shhk!
A sharp machete sliced through the rain curtain, leaving a trail of brilliant white light as it slashed diagonally toward Jiang Tian’s neck. The speed was as fast as lightning.
The man wielding the blade was a skilled fighter from the “New World” organization. He had served in the military and was an expert swordsman. Years ago, armed with just a single blade, he had killed eighteen formidable men in a certain northeastern city in one night, making a name for himself with that very feat.
This slash was one of his masterpieces—overwhelmingly powerful, as forceful as a thunderbolt, incredibly fast, and delivered from a tricky angle as elusive as an antelope’s horn, leaving no trace to follow.
The gleaming blade reflected Xu Ruocheng’s confident smile in the distance. With this strike, even if Jiang Tian didn’t die on the spot with blood spilling five paces away, he would almost certainly suffer severe injuries.
But the next moment, Xu Ruocheng’s smile froze on her face. She could no longer smile, no longer feel pleased.
Clang!
Jiang Tian’s right hand shot out like lightning. Two fingers precisely pinched the machete blade and gave it a slight shake. With a crack—
The finely forged steel blade, capable of cutting through metal and splitting stone, shattered into fragments. The broken pieces fluttered in the air like butterflies dancing.
“What!”
Xu Ruocheng’s face drastically changed, filled with disbelief.
The next moment, realization dawned. She stomped her foot angrily and said through gritted teeth, “This kid has been hiding his true strength! Or maybe the Nie family deceived me!”
If Jiang Tian only had the cultivation of the Iron Body realm, there was no way he could shatter a machete like that.
Xu Ruocheng understood now that she had gotten the information wrong and had severely underestimated Jiang Tian’s power.
But she also knew that backing down at this point was meaningless. She had already shown her murderous intent, and Jiang Tian would never let her off.
She looked at the organization’s brutal men, who were stunned and terrified by Jiang Tian’s display. Then she shouted sharply in her clear voice, “What are you standing around for? Chop him into minced meat! Anyone who lands even a single wound on him gets a million cash reward!”
As the saying goes, under a heavy reward, there will always be brave men. These ruthless fighters were instantly stirred by Xu Ruocheng’s words, their eyes burning with greed.
A million!
In 2008, a million was no small sum—it could buy two or three high-end apartments in Jinling.
“Kill him!”
“What’s there to be afraid of? We outnumber him!”
After a brief hesitation, they roared again, raising their long blades and axes as they charged at Jiang Tian.
“Heh, a bunch of useless trash. You really don’t know when you’re about to die!”
Jiang Tian let out a cold laugh. He pressed two fingers together and swept them through the air. A ten-meter-long blade of condensed energy lashed out in all directions.
In an instant, with a sharp tearing sound, more than a dozen of the organization’s tough guys were sliced in half at the waist. Waves of blood surged, heads flew through the air, and their bodies crashed into the puddles, splashing water mixed with blood.
“Oh, my god!”
Seeing the severed limbs and internal organs scattered across the ground, the remaining fighters were terrified out of their wits. They all slammed on the brakes, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads.
They were ruthless men who killed without blinking—almost every one of them had blood on their hands. But they had never seen such a horrifying way of killing.
Jiang Tian had just waved his hand—they hadn’t even seen what he’d wielded—and more than a dozen brothers lay dead on the ground.
“Get him!”
“Yeah, get him! Kill him!”
The remaining fighters brandished their long blades and axes, shouting loudly with feigned bravado.
But their bodies were far more honest, trembling as they backed away.
“Oh no!”
Seeing this, Xu Ruocheng was also terrified out of her wits. Once again, she had to reassess Jiang Tian. A storm surged in her heart.
She had truly underestimated this kid!
Had Jiang Tian used a hidden weapon, or was this true energy released externally to injure from a distance?
If it was the latter, then he might very well be a true grandmaster of the Transformative Realm!
“Iron Wolf Gang—attack!”
Xu Ruocheng was indeed a ruthless character. Even now, she didn’t retreat. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she gritted her teeth as she issued a sharp command.
These men were useless now. It seemed she would have to rely on the Iron Wolf motorcycle gang to hold the line.
The leader of the Iron Wolf Gang, the man with the red rooster’s comb, raised his strange curved blade and pointed it at Jiang Tian. His voice rose an octave as he snarled, “You’ve offended Miss Ruocheng, so you must die!”
The next moment, he steered his motorcycle with one hand and charged at Jiang Tian. Accelerating, the steel beast of a bike lifted off the ground, arced gracefully through the air, tore through the rain curtain, and crashed toward Jiang Tian with immense momentum and killing intent.
Jiang Tian didn’t dodge. Instead, he sprinted forward like thunder, meeting the charge head-on.
His body tore through the rain, pulling the raindrops into straight lines behind him, forming a white tunnel.
The rooster-comb man’s bike was also incredibly fast, kicking up a trail of water.
The two streams of water shot toward each other like two狂暴的巨龍, meeting in the middle!
In that instant, everyone’s hearts tightened.
But most of the hired thugs were excited, because they knew how terrifying a modified Harley motorcycle could be when it collided with something.
Dozens of meters—in the blink of an eye, given their rapid speeds.
Boom! The two collided heavily.
Everyone thought Jiang Tian would be killed instantly, reduced to a broken, bloody corpse.
But the truth defied everyone’s expectations.
The entire motorcycle, along with the rooster-comb man’s body and blood, exploded like it was made of paper—bursting apart like a firework.
Mud, flesh, severed limbs, motorcycle parts, and tires finally rained down onto the ground, splashing up large puddles of water.
Gasoline floated on the water’s surface, forming little blue flowers. Blood bloomed like roses, only to vanish again under the torrential rain.
“Who still dares to come at me?”
At that moment, Jiang Tian stood there in his white clothes, unstained by any dust or blood. He looked down at these ants like a god, full of contempt.
Clang! Clang! One by one, long blades and heavy axes fell to the ground.
“Mr. Jiang, spare my life!”
“We are willing to surrender and serve you!”
The remaining tough guys’ legs went weak with fear. They couldn’t control their knees and fell to the ground, begging for mercy.
Jiang Tian’s power was beyond their understanding, terrifying them to their very souls.
He had smashed a motorcycle to pieces with just his physical body. How could that be human?
He was clearly like Iron Man or the Hulk!
No—they relied on technology or mutations. Jiang Tian relied on nothing at all. He must be a god.
Most of them knelt and stayed put, but a couple of fools, thinking their bikes were fast, turned and fled.
“Stay kneeling. Oh, you think you can run?”
Jiang Tian just let out a cold snort, pressed his fingers together, and swept them through the air.
With a sharp tearing sound, a blade of condensed energy shot out like the Milky Way falling from the heavens, slicing through several motorcycles and their riders in one stroke.
Amid the agonizing, fear-filled screams, bodies and severed limbs tumbled to the ground, splashing up waves of blood. The motorcycles shattered into fragments, bursting apart and scattering to the ground.
By now, Xu Ruocheng was fleeing in panic on a motorcycle through the forest.
“The Nie family set me up! They used me as a tool to kill Jiang Tian! They deliberately harmed me! Jiang Tian’s energy blade can cut through metal—he’s clearly a Transformative Realm grandmaster! How could someone at that level be injured by their gunmen?”
Looking back and seeing this scene, her mouth went bitter, and she cursed inwardly in rage.
“Thank goodness I was cautious and placed two peak Inner Strength experts and three high-level Inner Strength experts in this forest. Otherwise, I would have been finished this time! Quick, quick—I’m almost at the ambush point!”
She twisted the throttle, revving the engine furiously, her eyes locked on a specific area of the dense forest.
The two peak Inner Strength experts—Uncle Cheng, her father Xu Zhenlei’s junior martial brother, and Brother Wei, her master’s eldest disciple—were the Xu family’s most elite and powerful assets. All five came from the same school, practiced the same techniques, and excelled at coordinated attacks. Together, they could easily kill a Transformative Realm grandmaster.
The motorcycle tore through the rain curtain like a nimble leopard, leaping and darting through the forest. Soon, she reached the pre-set ambush point—but immediately after, she saw Jiang Tian closing in.
Jiang Tian soared into the air, breaking through the rain curtain, leaving a faint white trail behind him. He crossed dozens of meters in one leap and landed on a massive boulder less than five meters away from her.
“Jiang Master, I truly underestimated your strength. This time, I admit defeat. As long as you don’t kill me, the entire Xu family will obey your commands!”
Xu Ruocheng scrambled off the motorcycle and knelt directly in front of Jiang Tian, her beautiful eyes glistening with fake tears.
“The Xu family? Mere ants—unworthy of being my dogs. Besides, you were born with a treacherous nature. I don’t trust you,” Jiang Tian said, his expression indifferent and unmoved.
Xu Ruocheng prostrated herself on the ground, her face full of pathetic pleading. “Jiang Tian, if you don’t believe me, I’m willing to become your woman—let you completely conquer me!”
As she spoke, she crawled toward Jiang Tian, twisting her slender waist and sticking her hips high in the air.
Her rain-soaked cheongsam clung tightly to her body, outlining her slim waist, rounded hips, and full chest—completely exposed, seductive to the extreme, enchanting to the utmost.
Riding through the forest, her cheongsam had been torn by branches, barely covering her body, revealing her smooth, fair back and legs, with traces of blood here and there. She exuded a wild, captivating beauty.
Suddenly, Xu Ruocheng heard a faint tearing sound from the treetops behind Jiang Tian. She knew Uncle Cheng had made his move.
She lowered her head even further, hiding the triumphant smile deep in her eyes.
“Your ambush is too crude!”
Jiang Tian didn’t even glance at her. With a cold snort, he suddenly raised his right hand and flicked his fingers several times. Beams of energy shot through the air. Thud, thud, thud! A few sounds rang out—
Five bodies tumbled out of the dense forest, falling from the trees. Each had a bloody hole in their forehead.
Uncle Cheng, Brother Wei, and the other three experts hadn’t even had time to strike before Jiang Tian cut them down one after another.
“How did he sense them? How is this possible? He’s this powerful?!”
Xu Ruocheng’s heart sank into an abyss. She let out a anguished cry, shocked and terrified, her eyes filled with despair, her whole body trembling.
“Maybe the sniper rifles I set up can kill him. Those are Barrett sniper rifles—with armor-piercing rounds!”
Xu Ruocheng forced herself to stay calm. A faint, last glimmer of hope remained in her heart.
