The men atop Pukou City’s gates reacted far faster than the soldiers beneath them.
The instant they saw Pei Wugou trying to escape, they rushed out and began shutting the city gates.
So before the soldiers below had even finished shouting, the gates of Pukou City slammed shut with a resounding bang.
Pei Wugou was completely dumbfounded.
What the hell? Why had they closed the gates on the Marquis?
And those gates were enormous and incredibly thick. Even the attacking army would have to push for quite a while to open them, wouldn’t they?
How had these bastards managed to shove them shut in an instant?
What, did every one of them have the Marquis’s strength?
Or were there simply too many people pushing at once, allowing the gates to slide shut with a great rumble?
But what left Pei Wugou even more bewildered was that the men had formed a battle formation!
They had assembled it with astonishing speed.
Yet the formation was not aimed at Ren Tianye.
It was aimed at him!
And the most outrageous part of all…
The one presiding over the formation was actually Wu Xingzhou!
Pei Wugou nearly cursed aloud.
Wu Xingzhou had been captured by him and taken as a spoil of war.
But what was this supposed to mean?
Had the man he’d captured ended up helping him deal with his own commander?
Was he directing his own people to attack him?
After his initial confusion, Pei Wugou collapsed once again.
This time, it was because of the betrayal from behind him!
Now he finally understood why everyone had become so excited and eager the moment they heard they were going out to fight Ren Tianye.
So that was it…
None of them had ever intended to fight at all!
They had come purely to surrender!
How laughable. He had even planned to dispatch Ren Tianye with ease…
Even if he could defeat Ren Tianye, he would still be stabbed in the back and killed by the people behind him, wouldn’t he?!
Ren Tianye was also stunned for a moment when he saw this scene.
However, he had seen plenty in his time.
Ever since he attacked Sifang City, he had witnessed people surrendering to him in groups. Compared to that, this was nothing more than a minor spectacle.
He immediately swung his Fangtian halberd and said coldly, “Pei Wugou, are you still not going to surrender? What are you waiting for?”
“Waiting for this general to put some makeup on you?”
Before Ren Tianye had even finished speaking, Wu Xingzhou’s voice rang out.
“Pei Wugou, there’s no road to heaven above and no door to hell below. Why aren’t you kneeling and begging for mercy? What are you waiting for?”
“Waiting for everyone to admire those two chicken feathers?”
Wu Xingzhou’s bearing at that moment could only be described as dashing.
Someone had returned his warhorse to him, and he was holding his own Fangtian halberd. With a slight swing of it, he truly looked like a general leading troops into battle.
The only difference was that the troops he commanded were the soldiers of Sifang City!
Pei Wugou was utterly enraged. In fact, there was even a hint of despair in his fury.
Ren Tianye blocked the way ahead, and he couldn’t defeat him.
Behind him was a group of traitors!
And among those traitors was the enemy general he had personally captured!
Had they really surrounded him on all sides?
Even so, Pei Wugou’s judgment remained sharp. He could see that the two armies, which had originally been enemies, were rapidly closing in on each other.
Once they completed the encirclement, he would not be able to escape even if he had three heads and six arms.
Therefore, if he didn’t want to die, he had to break through while he still had the chance!
He gripped the spear in his hand and suddenly charged toward…
His own army’s camp!
He had to avoid Ren Tianye!
Even if Ren Tianye couldn’t defeat him immediately, he could certainly hold him back.
But the men in his own camp were another matter entirely!
The decision Pei Wugou made was undoubtedly precise and correct.
Including Wu Xingzhou, everyone was startled when they saw Pei Wugou charging toward them like a ferocious beast.
After all, they had witnessed Wu Xingzhou’s bravery just moments ago.
Yet in the brief moment they hesitated, Pei Wugou had already charged into the middle of them like a tiger among sheep. In an instant, he knocked down several soldiers, seized a warhorse, and galloped away along the city wall!
The soldiers were furious!
How could they let a duck that was already cooked fly away?
How were they supposed to explain this to Lord Duke, who was practically within arm’s reach?
Thus, they all broke into a full sprint and gave chase!
The steed beneath Ren Tianye was even faster. Before long, he had overtaken the others.
Seeing Pei Wugou fleeing in panic, already far ahead of him, Ren Tianye immediately…
Removed the hard bow hanging from his horse!
He drew the bow with both hands until it formed a full moon.
Whoosh!
An arrow shot through the air!
It struck Pei Wugou squarely in the center of the back.
But…
There was only a sharp clang.
Although Pei Wugou nearly fell from his horse, he still managed to remain mounted and continued galloping wildly.
Ren Tianye was startled.
The Young Master of the Li family and Ye Fan immediately flashed through his mind.
A thought arose in his heart.
Could this be another Child of Destiny?
But when he took a closer look, Pei Wugou was clearly in poor condition. His face had already gone pale, and…
That sound just now…
“A heart-protecting mirror!”
“So the flashy armor Pei Wugou is wearing is of extraordinary quality. And since my arrow loses force as it travels farther away from me, he can still barely keep running.”
“Phew!”
“Good, good…”
Ren Tianye let out a sigh of relief and began reassessing the situation.
How could he kill Pei Wugou?
The man had a heart-protecting mirror and armor covering his body. The arrow had been shot from too far away to inflict much damage, but…
He wasn’t wearing a helmet!
And if he wasn’t wearing a helmet, wasn’t his head the perfect target?
With that thought, Ren Tianye once again drew the bow until it formed a full moon.
His second arrow shot through the air!
Whoosh!
The sound of it splitting the air rang out.
Thud!
It struck Pei Wugou directly in the head.
Unfortunately, Pei Wugou noticed the danger when he turned his head to look back and managed to twist away at the critical moment. The arrow missed by barely an inch, but it still pierced through his hair and seemed to graze his scalp, sending a faint trail of blood drifting down.
Pei Wugou was frantic, but he did not slow down in the slightest.
Ren Tianye, however, had lost a little time by firing those two arrows. With that brief exchange, the distance between them widened. Trying to catch Pei Wugou now would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.
“Lord Duke…” Wu Xingzhou hurriedly said, “Allow me to take a group of men after Pei Wugou. He didn’t enter Pukou City, and this is all wilderness and mountain country. If I bring along some soldiers familiar with the area, we’ll definitely be able to find him.”
Ren Tianye shook his head. “Forget it. Even if you find him, unless I go personally, you won’t be his match.”
“Besides, even if I personally went to stop him, it wouldn’t be easy to hold him back if he was determined to escape.”
Ren Tianye was very clear on this point.
Back then, whether it was Zhan Shubai or Xiang Gui, if they hadn’t taken the initiative to come to him but had instead focused solely on fleeing, it would have been very difficult for him to kill them.
He had managed to kill Ye Fan, but how much effort had it taken to do so?
Ren Tianye’s strength was at precisely that level, so he naturally understood that once someone reached his level of power and martial prowess, fleeing was no simple matter. He couldn’t claim that escape was guaranteed, but stopping a person who was determined to run was extraordinarily difficult.
“Then…” Wu Xingzhou was somewhat unwilling to accept it. “Are we really going to let him get away just like that?”
“Have Su Jin send people to search for him. It would be best if they also dug up some information about this boy’s love life. Then, perhaps when we meet again, taking him down will be effortless.”
“For now…”
Ren Tianye turned back toward Pukou City and said, “Our army should return to our Pukou City now!”
Wu Xingzhou nodded, then immediately raised his right hand and shouted, “Welcome Lord Duke into the city!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers of Pukou City fell to their knees in unison, each of them shouting at the top of his lungs like thunder and crashing waves.
“Welcome Lord Duke into the city!”
“Welcome Lord Duke into the city!”
“Welcome Lord Duke into the city!”
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
