Volume One: First Signs of Greatness Chapter Ninety-Seven: Invincible

In the spray of blood, the sound of slaughter burst forth all at once.

One after another, the windows of the levitating cars were blown apart by gunfire with deafening cracks, the vehicles themselves jolting violently.

The members of Lin Shengli’s Tiger Adventure Team remained calm, as though they had long grown used to scenes like this.

Still, each of them knew very well that staying in the car was no longer a sensible choice.

They would only become targets for those people, and if a levitating car was pushed to its limit, it could explode.

So without the slightest hesitation, Lin Shengli and the others hurriedly got out, taking the old man with them.

The group made to retreat along a side path.

In their withdrawal, they did not even notice that Wang Jue had already been left behind.

Wang Jue did not care about that at all.

His gaze had long been locked on the old man. No matter where that old man went, he had him figured out and could reach him at any time.

He looked around once, then walked unhurriedly through the midst of the carnage. His calm demeanor stood in stark contrast to the furious combat all around him.

The people nearby had long since been driven mad by bloodlust, and no one noticed him at all.

A few blind assassins rushed up to him, only to have their throats crushed barehanded by him before he had even taken out a weapon, and then be tossed casually to the ground.

Experience +100

Then Wang Jue looked toward the assassins who kept breaking through the lines, his eyes blazing.

These were all experience points.

Even if there were no star source points, experience was still not bad.

Especially now, after the exams had passed and the number of people going to the Martial Arts Association to train had suddenly dropped to about one tenth of before.

Aside from those who had already been diligent or hard-working from the start, the experience Wang Jue gained from them was barely more than what he earned by killing blood wolves in Blood Wolf Valley.

Wang Jue licked his lips, drew his longsword from behind his back, and charged forward with brutal force.

He began a slaughter on all sides.

...

"Captain, things are looking bad!"

During the escort, the fat man kept a constant eye on the battle behind them. Watching one line after another be broken through again and again, his heart sank.

Suddenly, he froze.

At the far edge of his vision stood a figure like a human beast.

Wherever that figure passed, every assassin it struck was sent flying, dying on the spot.

The scene could scarcely be described as anything other than a river of blood.

Under Wang Jue’s savage sword light, there was not a single living soul within three meters.

"Damn..."

Because he was a little too far away, the fat man could not make out the other person’s face clearly at first, but when he saw that the man was wearing the same clothes as they were, he blurted out, "No way. Since when did our team have someone this fierce?"

If not for the fact that the ones dying were all assassins wrapped in black cloth, he would have thought the enemy had sent some terrifying monster.

Even so, knowing that their own side was hiding someone this vicious still sent a chill through him.

At that thought, the fat man turned back to look at Lin Shengli.

"Captain, you've really kept this hidden deep."

Lin Shengli also raised an eyebrow and glanced over. The figure seemed vaguely familiar, though he did not think much of it.

Right now, the mission was what mattered.

He withdrew his gaze and said gravely, "He's buying us time. Don't waste his kindness. Hurry and get the target out of here!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The members of the Tiger Team answered in unison.

All the while, the fat man could not help looking back again.

He found that in the blink of an eye, more than half the assassins had already died, while their own people had seized the chance to regroup toward them.

Very quickly, the team of six or seven had swollen to forty or fifty.

However, Wang Jue was nowhere to be seen there, and no one present, including the members of the Tiger Adventure Team in the same temporary squad, took it to heart.

No one needed to think hard to know that in a situation like this, if someone failed to keep up, they were more or less dead.

Just as the assassins were on the verge of being wiped out, Lin Shengli confirmed the route again and led the steadily gathering group into a rapid withdrawal.

In his view, as long as they could get out of here, the mission would be complete.

Before Lin Shengli could even breathe a sigh of relief, a sudden chill shot up from the depths of his heart.

Something was wrong.

He looked up, his expression changing dramatically, and shouted urgently, "Scatter! All of you, scatter!"

Scatter?

The people in the group all froze.

Why?

Out of trust and habit, the Tiger Team members all chose to believe their captain.

Some of the others reacted quickly and dodged in time, barely saving their lives.

At that moment, a figure in front swooped down from the sky with thunderous force, both hands gripping a long saber as it slashed down in a sweeping arc.

Rending sound...

Those who hesitated where they stood had no time to react at all, and were instantly cut to minced flesh.

Boom!

The newcomer landed, and countless stones on the ground burst apart.

A spray of blood, like a sudden downpour, splattered across the earth.

When the rain ceased, the scene fell into utter silence.

Gulp...

Looking at the massive figure more than two meters tall and the explosive muscles rippling over his body, many people instinctively swallowed.

"It's him?"

The fat man clearly recognized the newcomer and shuddered all over.

Lin Shengli and the Tiger Team members beside him all looked at him, their gazes fixed. "Fatty, you know this guy?"

"I don't know his name."

The fat man came back to his senses, his expression tense. "I remember seeing him when he was still working alone. His saber skills were beyond uncanny. More importantly, he's a killer through and through. I’ve never seen anyone survive after crossing blades with him, and I never expected him to show up here."

Thinking of the moment that brute had just appeared, many people felt a sudden surge of cold fear in their hearts.

"Tch, that's only because he never met me!" the dagger-wielding man on the side said with disdain.

The fat man looked at him and said word by word, "Do you know how Li Ming died? That guy needed only one strike. You think you're stronger than him?"

In an instant, the dagger man's face turned deathly pale, and he cried out in horror, "What? You’re saying Li Ming was killed by him?"

The fat man said nothing. The meaning was already obvious.

At that moment, everyone in the Tiger Adventure Team was stunned.

Even their captain, Lin Shengli, was no match for Li Ming, and now they were facing someone who had cut Li Ming down with a single stroke.

How were they supposed to fight that?

While the others were still frozen in place, the hulking man on the opposite side had already moved.

His overwhelming power was like a cannonball in motion. With every step he took, a sunken footprint appeared in the ground beneath him.

The long saber in his hand burst with endless chill, and in a flash he charged in like a wolf among sheep.

The bodyguards who were just ordinary people had no power to resist at all, and the entire defense line quickly lost nearly half its men.

Seeing the other side closing in at speed, Lin Shengli finally felt the weight of helplessness for the first time. His face pale, he looked toward the old man they were meant to protect.

The old man seemed to have been frightened senseless as well, standing there without moving a muscle.

"Captain, give up the mission. Even if we all go together, we still won't beat him," the fat man said, grabbing Lin Shengli, his face full of panic. "We're here to make money. There's no need to throw our lives away. As long as we're alive, we can always earn more."

Hearing that, the others also began to think seriously about retreat.

"Yeah, Captain, if we run now, there's still time."

"It's too late. Captain, give the order already."

"It's not worth dying over a mission."

"..."

Before absolute strength, none of them wanted to throw away their lives in vain.

Lin Shengli said grimly, "Don't panic. I'm thinking of a way! We..."

If he chose to flee, not only would he be disgraced for the rest of his life, but even the Tiger Adventure Team would be dragged down with him.

Before he could finish, the howl of a figure rushing past sounded sharply.

Whoosh!

A fierce wind rose, overwhelming in momentum.

They saw that figure holding a longsword, like a demon god.

He struck decisively at the hulking man!

"Isn't that Wang Jue?"

When Lin Shengli and the others saw who had rushed out, everyone froze.

They had thought of every possible outcome, but none of them had imagined that the person stepping forward at a moment like this would be Wang Jue, whom they had treated as little more than invisible all along.

"Has he lost his mind?"

At that moment, the fat man was dumbfounded.

The dagger man was dumbfounded.

The other members of the Tiger Team were dumbfounded.

The remaining bodyguards and the old man they were protecting were dumbfounded together.

Even Lin Shengli was dumbfounded.

But being the captain, he recovered quickly and turned to shout at the people beside him, "Stop standing there like idiots! Take the target and go. I'll help him!"

"Captain!"

The fat man and the others changed color at once. Pointing toward Wang Jue, they cried out in shock, "Look over there..."

Lin Shengli turned to look, and in the next instant he was utterly stunned.

He had never seen such a ferocious sword technique before, like a surging blaze of fire and thunder.

A murderous coldness, like iron and blood on the march, struck straight into the mind.

"He..."

Lin Shengli only had time to say that one word.

In the distance, Wang Jue’s sword had already struck the hulking man’s long saber.

It was as though time itself had frozen.

Wang Jue hung in midair, descending with his sword in a savage slash, his expression sinister.

The hulking man roared in fury, wielding his saber to block.

That single image was carved deeply into everyone’s mind.

The next moment.

Clang!

As the weapons collided, sparks boiled and burst like stars scattered across the sky.

A gale was whipped up as well, sweeping sand and stones through the air!

Everyone watching felt their hearts seize.

Bang, bang, bang...

The hulking man retreated again and again, and beneath his feet the blue stone bricks instantly split into countless web-like fissures that spread rapidly outward.

"This power?"

Before he could react, there was a sharp crack, and Wang Jue, pressing in close, sent him flying with a single sword strike.

He was driven backward in a frenzy.

That scene nearly stunned everyone present into silence.

"You're kidding me, right?"

"Did I see that wrong?"

"That guy, who looked like a god of slaughter, actually got knocked back by a single sword strike?"

"My God, that one strike was absurdly strong!"

At this moment, Wang Jue’s figure seemed godlike, deeply etched into the hearts of the crowd, leaving everyone in shock and uncertainty.

Crack.

After landing, Wang Jue suddenly exerted force, and as the stone bricks beneath his feet exploded into fragments that flew in all directions, he once again surged toward the hulking man like a cannonball.

This sword was even more savage and unparalleled than the last.

Facing the sword light rushing toward him head-on, the hulking man’s pupils contracted. A chill as extreme as if it had come from the deepest abyss erupted in his heart like a nuclear blast.

Impossible!

I can't die!

Looking at Wang Jue’s thunderous sword strike, for the first time in his life he felt fear of death.

"No, the one who's going to die is you!"

The hulking man roared and unleashed all the star power in his body, intending a desperate counterattack.

Yet no matter how desperately he fought, Wang Jue’s face, cold and indifferent as ever, did not change at all.

Split Heaven.

The sword light in midair suddenly detonated, and the surging power radiating from Wang Jue poured out like a flood unleashed.

At that moment, Wang Jue made everyone understand what sheer power looked like in its most complete form.

And he also gave a full definition to what it meant to be

invincible.