Chapter 456: Slaying Generals and Destroying Clans, Shaking the World (Part 2)
Then, he struck Su Ping's avatar with a flying kick, hitting a warhorse.
Bam!
The sharp saber sliced into the horse's body but couldn't stop the massive horse from crashing into him.
With a loud crash, General Jianwu and his horse were sent flying, rolling into a pawnshop.
The pawnshop couldn't withstand the subsequent damage, and the entire second-floor building shook a few times before collapsing with a crash.
Boom!
The rubble of the collapsed building suddenly exploded, and the disheveled General Jianwu fled from inside, shouting for the soldiers guarding the gate to stop Su Juxia.
But those soldiers had witnessed how the cavalry of General Jianwu was pursued and killed by the Demon.
Added to General Jianwu's panicked state, it made the soldiers disperse in a clamor.
The next moment, General Jianwu found himself being chased by Su Juxia!
His whole body trembled, thinking of an excuse to beg for his life.
He then felt a big hand grabbing the back of his head.
Immediately, he was smashed into the gate's entrance.
Boom!
This time, General Jianwu hit the ground, creating a pit over three meters in diameter and half a meter deep.
Facing life and death, General Jianwu began to resist desperately, a faint white light emerging from his body.
"A first-class master, relying on a robust physique, has intuitively sensed some workings of mana without a teacher?"
Su Ping's avatar glanced at the white light, not too concerned.
He merely swept his divine thought over it to confirm the fellow wasn't a pawn of some Chaos Demon God's avatar.
Clenching his left fist, he struck another punch at the bottom of the pit where General Jianwu lay.
Suddenly!
As a muffled sound echoed, a burst of air blew through the gate entrance.
General Jianwu bled from his seven orifices, and his spirit departed.
Su Ping's avatar began searching the corpse.
He found a nicely made short knife and an iron bone mace on the fellow.
Then dragged him by the rear leg back into the city.
He glanced around at the Jianwu Army, whose fighting spirit was gone.
Su Ping loosened his grip and shouted loudly:
"What are you standing there for!"
"Can't you see the county is left dirty and chaotic from our encounter?"
"Hurry up and organize a cleanup, and help gather the corpses!"
"By the way, find and bury this fellow along with the Prefectural Governor and that Assistant General together."
Su Ping paused, locking his gaze on a seemingly high-ranking armored servant.
The servant, one of General Jianwu's deputies, was stationed with the infantry, survived by fleeing with the routed soldiers.
Under Su Ping's avatar's gaze, his legs weakened, and he fell to his knees, repeatedly responding that he understood and would comply.
Su Ping returned to the Su Family, had a meal.
When night fell, he slipped out of the county under cover of darkness.
Then, in a single night, he sped a thousand miles, Su Ping's avatar repaying those powerful families outside the city who had offended him by setting fire to their manors and fortresses.
Unfortunately, among the five powerful families, only two clan leaders lost their lives.
The other three were cautious, leaving with valuables for the state mansion or even the Capital City before the Jianwu Army's news arrived.
Of course, they didn't foresee that Su Juxia would fearlessly face the regular army and slay the actual general.
Rather, like General Jianwu, they figured that Su Juxia causing such chaos would likely be fleeing.
Thus, while they might not fear bandits at their fortresses, encountering a master with innate divine strength like Su Juxia, they felt a chill at their necks and thought it wise to retreat temporarily.
After that night.
The news of Su Juxia transforming into the Demon Lord of Mayhem, annihilating the Jianwu Army in one battle, and extinguishing five major powerful families of Changle County in one night.
Spread like wings across a thousand miles.
And as merchants, servants of escaping noble families, and fleeing soldiers carried the word, it traveled even farther.
Changle County's jurisdiction, the state mansion of Tongzhou.
State Governor Sima Yi frowned, reading the documents from Changle County.
Around him, various significant figures of the state mansion had been gathered.
After all, the killing of a Prefectural Governor is a sky-high matter.
Not to mention, Governor Zhang had extraordinary connections.
State Governor Sima worried about being implicated.
Especially since the Daxia Dynasty, two hundred years since its founding, is nearing the dynasty's end.
Regarding such an incident of murdering an official, they are particularly sensitive.
"This is a matter of great importance, a matter of great importance indeed!"
State Governor Sima put down the document, sighed a few times, and then glanced at his colleagues around him.
He was about to express his thoughts, hoping to gain their support in minimizing the impact of this matter.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Hearing the voice of his trusted aide, State Governor Sima frowned slightly and allowed him to enter.
Soon, he saw this trusted aide approach him in a hurry, sweating profusely, whispering in Governor Sima's ear.
After a round of whispers, Governor Sima's pupils constricted.
Seemingly doubting what he heard, he asked several times, still not convinced.
He stood up and hurriedly went to the back courtyard, intending to dispatch the most reliable experts from the mansion to investigate.
The other officials present also realized that the situation had changed and sensibly took their leave.
Soon after, they learned through their own networks what had happened next in Changle County.
General Jianwu was killed, and the army was defeated by Su Juxia alone!
According to the deserters, Su Juxia was not human; he never tired, was impervious to sword and spear, and possessed immense strength.
Once anyone got close to him, whether elite soldiers or first-class masters, they were crushed in just one round!
As the officials were digesting this shocking news, they learned that Su Juxia had wiped out five powerful families in Changle County overnight!
This news instilled fear in many officials.
After all, many of them came from powerful families.
Even if they weren't before, after rising through the ranks, they became associated with one.
Su Juxia's actions made them feel a kinship with those who suffered.
Naturally, the people from the State Mansion were the first to disbelieve it.
They also dispatched their most trusted experts to investigate.
Meanwhile, a bounty order for Su Juxia in Changle County was issued.
It offered a staggering one hundred thousand taels of silver, and an opportunity to be recommended by the State Governor to become an Assistant General.
Such a rich reward would naturally attract those brave enough to take the risk.
Not to mention the self-assured experts from various families.
In just a few days, wave after wave of experts went to Changle County.
Soon, after a series of thunderous sounds, these experts were all collected by the soldiers and taken to the Chaotic Burial Mound outside the city.
Beside the Chaotic Burial Mound, there was a new mound.
On the mound, the corpses of the Prefectural Governor, Assistant General, and General Jianwu were buried.
However, apart from the tombstone, the coffins and corpses had been dug up and taken away by some individuals.
The Chaotic Burial Mound was frequented by grave robbers.
The main intention was to explore Su Juxia's methods.
"Is it really innate divine strength?"
A masked man examined over a dozen corpses.
He found no trace of mana.
He could sense that these people were shattered by pure, incomparably powerful force.
This mysterious masked man marveled at the sight.
Then, not long after, under the watchful gaze of this mysterious masked man.
He saw the top expert of the State Mansion: the Sect Master of the Yin-Yang Sect.
Along with the heads of the five Great Martial Arts Halls in the State Mansion, a total of six grandmasters of the martial path, they all arrived in the county.
Then, the five heads first arrived at the gate of the Su Family, and upon encountering Su Juxia,
While the Sect Master rushed to the scene hearing the commotion,
The five heads had already been turned into corpses.
Seeing this, the Sect Master immediately spun around and retreated.
But in the instant they locked eyes, Su Juxia threw a fine iron long stick he had taken from one of the heads at him.
Clearly, it was thrown from a distance of several hundred meters.
The fine iron long stick crossed the distance of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.
Even when the stick was before him, only then did the Sect Master hear the sound of it slicing through the air.
Then, the top expert of the State Mansion, unsurprisingly, was pierced through and impaled atop the city wall as a flagpole.
This frustrated the subsequent corpse collectors greatly.
"..."
"Ah, a wood-attribute Innate Spiritual Body."
"To awaken instinctively without transmission, such a quality is priceless indeed!"
The mysterious masked man's eyes flickered as he gazed at the back of Su Juxia heading off to sleep, a glint of greed flashing in his eyes.