He asked, "Is it not an exaggeration?"
Zhang Shi quickly replied, "Great General, of course not."
"That year, the barbarians led an army of a hundred thousand south. Commander Lin kept the gates of Shanhe City tightly shut, refusing to ride out to meet them in battle in order to wear down the barbarians' patience, while simultaneously mobilizing reinforcements from all over the Northern Frontier."
"Xiang Gui was among them."
"But he had a fiery temper. Completely ignoring military orders, he charged into the barbarian camp all by himself."
"That year..."
Zhang Shi fell into his memories, his face full of shock. "This subordinate was watching right from the city walls. Many of the eight hundred soldiers behind us saw it too."
"This Xiang Gui wore heavy armor, and his horse was heavily armored as well, covered so densely that not even a breath of wind could pass through. Wielding his Drum-Beating Golden Hammers, he fearlessly slaughtered his way into the barbarian camp."
"Striking left and breaking through on the right, he turned the barbarian camp completely upside down!"
"That scene truly left us in absolute awe."
"We never imagined that a single general could be so fiercely valiant!"
"In that battle, it was precisely because of Xiang Gui's charge that Commander Lin was given the opportunity to crush the barbarians in one fell swoop, shattering their dream of marching south!"
"Although Xiang Gui was heavily injured after that battle—and would have lost his life had it not been for the protection of his heavy armor—that combat achievement still made the blood of the entire border army boil with excitement."
"They all respectfully called him the Hammer King of the Northern Frontier!"
"Even Commander Lin praised him endlessly and tried his utmost to recruit him into the Chifeng Army. He was constantly rejected, and later, for unknown reasons, Xiang Gui suddenly left the camp and disappeared."
Saying this, Zhang Shi looked toward Xiang Gui.
Although nearly twenty years had passed and the Xiang Gui before them was certainly past his prime, he was still not someone Zhang Shi could shake.
His eyes were filled with deep reverence and fear.
It also made Ren Tianye quite alarmed.
Charging in and out of a hundred-thousand-strong barbarian army seven times!
This was a pure, freaking humanoid weapon!
Even though he had the protection of heavy armor during his charge, this man still could not be underestimated.
Thus, Ren Tianye cupped his fists. "So it is General Xiang Gui. Please forgive my lack of respect."
"Hmph, as long as you know my name." Xiang Gui regained his face, his posture becoming even more arrogant. Without wasting words, he laid it out: "My disciple Ye Fan went to your Yunji City for a trip, and on his way back, you actually dared to hunt him down?"
"I think you're tired of living."
"Now, I will give you a path to survive."
"Roll off your horse immediately, swear that from now on you will loyally serve my disciple Ye Fan, and I can spare your dog life!"
"Otherwise..."
"Do not blame my hammers for showing no mercy!"
The expression on Ren Tianye's face was as calm as an ancient well.
From the moment this Xiang Gui charged out, he had guessed that Xiang Gui and Ye Fan likely had an extraordinary relationship, he just hadn't expected it to be a master-disciple relationship.
A master-disciple relationship?
A master-disciple relationship in a female-oriented romance novel?
He wondered if there was something special between the two of them?
After all, he had a deep impression of the special master-disciple relationships in female-oriented novels. It was just that the ones he had seen before were mostly male masters and female disciples. Now it was a male disciple and a male master, which seemed unlikely!
But that wasn't important.
What was important was...
Finding a way to kill him!
Observing Xiang Gui closely, he seemed to still possess his valor and strength and could not be underestimated. However, he wasn't wearing heavy armor, and the horse beneath him, though a warhorse, was relatively ordinary.
Then there was a chance!
"Hey, I'm talking to you! What are you dawdling for?"
"Can't you hear me?"
"Answer quickly, are you willing to pledge your allegiance to my disciple Ye Fan?"
"Or do you want to be hammered by me first, and then pledge your allegiance to my disciple Ye Fan?"
Pausing, his tone became leisurely, "To tell you the truth, my disciple Ye Fan has taken a liking to you. Of those my disciple has taken a liking to, no one has ever been able to escape the palm of my hand."
"However, this can be considered a stroke of good fortune for you."
"My disciple Ye Fan has the appearance of the sun and the heavens, astonishing talent, and his calculations never miss. In this time when the world is about to fall into chaos, he will definitely achieve great things in the future."
"Being able to follow him is a blessing earned over three lifetimes."
"You should be secretly laughing in your sleep at night!"
Xiang Gui babbled on for a long time, but seeing Ren Tianye remain motionless, his gaze calm as if he were calculating something, he suddenly frowned.
However, this time he didn't reprimand him, but instead said, "Ren Tianye, I specifically had someone ask around about you."
"I know that you are quite brave in battles against the barbarians, that you wield a Heaven-Piercing Halberd with masterful perfection, and that you possess peerless physical strength."
"You actually have a bit of my demeanor from back in the day!"
"I am also someone who cherishes and loves talent."
"If you come over and pledge your allegiance right now, and then gain my disciple Ye Fan's approval, I will consider teaching you my treasured Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique holding nothing back!"
"What do you think?"
Ren Tianye smiled. "This junior is endlessly grateful for the old general's trust. However, this matter is of great importance and requires this junior to think on it a bit more. Please give me a little time, old general."
Having dealt with him like this, he quietly asked Zhang Shi, "In your judgment, looking at the three hundred men Xiang Gui brought behind him, is it possible that they have all been taught by Xiang Gui and each possesses half of his skills?"
Zhang Shi immediately shook his head. "Great General, that's impossible. General Xiang Gui and you are both exceptionally gifted. How could others easily learn that?"
"Furthermore..."
Zhang Shi's gaze narrowed. "Among those three hundred men, quite a few are former border soldiers. I recognize the one holding the iron shovel; he belongs to the border army ranks."
"I estimate that after the matriarchy ordered the disbandment of the border army, they had nowhere to go and somehow came to rely on Xiang Gui. However, Xiang Gui has extremely high prestige in the army, so it's not unusual for them to seek refuge with him!"
Ren Tianye felt relieved.
Good, good, good. As long as not everyone is the kind of fierce general who can charge in and out of an army seven times, it's fine.
He now had a good grasp of the situation in his heart.
Ye Fan had the aura of a protagonist. This Xiang Gui was just fierce, and probably didn't have the aura of a protagonist.
"Hey, have you thought it through yet?"
"Dawdling over such a small matter, are you going to make me keep waiting for you?"
Xiang Gui was clearly getting impatient. "Stop dawdling. I have crossed more bridges than you have walked roads. If you don't listen to an elder's words, you will suffer the consequences right before your eyes."
"Hurry up, dismount, drop your weapon, and come pledge your allegiance. Otherwise, I'll just have to let you eat a hammer first to extinguish your arrogance."
Feeling completely reassured in his heart, Ren Tianye revealed a smile and said, "General Xiang, this general has made up his mind."
"Trash like Ye Fan isn't even qualified to be a foot soldier for this general, yet he delusionally hopes this general will pledge allegiance to him? It's more like he's giving this general a good laugh!"
"You'd better take someone with a diseased brain like him back to your own home and worship him as a treasure!"
Xiang Gui instantly flew into a rage. "Ren Tianye, you dare insult my disciple? Good, good, good! Even if my disciple has taken a liking to you today, I will still kill you!"
He immediately waved his large hand. "Boys, retreat a hundred paces and clear the battlefield!"
"Today, if I let Ren Tianye last ten rounds under my hands, you can consider me useless."
The three hundred men behind Xiang Gui immediately accepted the order and complied.
Ren Tianye also swung the Heaven-Piercing Halberd in his hands. Waiting until Xiang Gui walked into the center of the field, he coldly commanded: "All three armies, hear my command!"
"Nock your arrows!"
"Fire!"
...
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
