Green Mountain

The brightly lit ship disappeared on the sea surface.

Chen Ji sat on horseback, lowering his head to count his wounds.

He muttered to himself, "Two on the shoulder blade, two on the left leg, one on the left shoulder, one on the left rib..."

On the wooden pier, which could only hold five or six people in a row, the county soldiers surrounded Chen Ji from front and back. Due to overcrowding, some county soldiers couldn’t stand steady and fell into the sea below the pier.

Countless bodies floated in the sea, all of whom were just killed by Chen Ji.

The pier was stained red with blood, and the county soldiers in front and back nervously gripped their spears, watching Chen Ji, covered in blood, at the center of the pier, not daring to approach.

Chen Ji counted his wounds to himself and suddenly whispered, "Not enough..."

The county soldiers grasped their spear poles, thinking they misheard, unable to help but look at each other in disbelief. They didn’t understand what Chen Ji meant by "Not enough". Was he talking about his wounds? But who would think they didn’t have enough wounds?

Is he crazy?

The next moment, Chen Ji seemingly oblivious to others, placed his long spear horizontally across the saddle, and raised a hand to wipe the blood splattered on his face.

He bowed his head to retighten his sleeve, straightened his collar, and tightened his waistband: "Mother told Xiao Man to teach me, before doing great things, one must tidy oneself up properly. If you dress sharply and neatly, others will think you have confidence and a plan, and will trust you more. Hmm, when the form is upright, the shadow is straight; when the appearance is correct, the inside is secure. That’s the reasoning."

He picked up the long spear again, his gaze turned to the county soldiers, grinning: "Come again!"

Zhaolei and Chen Ji moved as one, their hearts following their intentions, crashing into the county soldiers again.

This time, Chen Ji wielded six sword seeds to constantly guard Zhaolei while he attacked without defense, moving freely among the crowd as if in an uncharted terrain.

A county soldier seized the opportunity, when Chen Ji swung his long spear to the right, he took a swift step and thrusted his spear towards Zhaolei from the left flank.

But before the spearhead reached, a sword seed flew by and cut the spear pole in half, another sword seed pierced into his mouth and exited through the back of his skull.

Another county soldier fearlessly rushed forward, raised his spear and thrusted towards Zhaolei’s neck. The sword seed repeated its strategy, one cut the spear, while the other cut the person. The encountered county soldiers could not last a single round.

The sword seeds swept through like mowing grass among the county soldiers.

A crossbowman from a hidden spot shot an arrow, initially expecting it would be slashed away by the sword seed, but unexpectedly, Chen Ji just swayed to avoid the vital point, letting the arrow pierce into his arm.

Chen Ji’s expression remained unchanged, raising his long spear in hand and hurled it with all his might. The molten flow within his body surged fiercely in the burning meridians, rushing and converging into his right arm: "Go!"

The long spear emitted a soul-stirring whistle, spanning dozens of steps to the crossbowman, penetrating his chest and flying past, then piercing through the crossbowman behind him before stopping.

The Military Officer saw a long spear spanning dozens of steps and penetrating two people, instinctively reins in his horse and retreated: "Seeking Dao Realm?"

This spear’s might could never be thrown by an Innate Official!

At that moment, seeing Chen Ji without a long spear in hand, the county soldiers surged forward, but with a single thrust, Chen Ji unexpectedly grasped the spearhead barehanded and forcibly pulled the spear from the county soldiers’ hands.

Chen Ji wielded the spear like a rod, swung it circularly sweeping horizontally, the tail of the spear pole struck across the heads of three county soldiers, causing them to bleed from seven orifices, collapsing dead.

As the spear pole struck the third person’s head, the wooden spear shaft finally exploded into fragments and shattered.

Chen Ji weighed the half piece of long spear, the meridian in his upper body, was already filled with the scorching molten flow like a stove, turned into a warm river.

The Du Meridian commenced below the lower abdomen, carried upwards to the Chengjiang point; the Ren Meridian commenced at the Qugu point, carried upwards to the upper palate Yin junction point.

The two primary meridians traversed the upper body’s all meridians, meridians connected to all stove-like heat within the upper body, reflecting and echoing with each other, making Chen Ji’s upper body’s strength close to the threshold of the Seeking Dao Realm.

Chen Ji twisted his hips again to hurl the broken spear, the spear whistled forth directly towards the Military Officer’s face.

In the blink of an eye, the wind raised by the broken spear swayed the red tassels on the county soldiers’ helmets row by row, causing them to instinctively turn their heads, witnessing the Military Officer hastily pulling the reins tight, his war horse reared up to block the spear.

The Military Officer fell embarrassingly off his horse, crushed underneath the horse’s corpse.

The Deputy General hurriedly dragged him out from under the horse, and after getting up, he bowed his head hiding among the crowd, no longer dared to show himself: "Kill, kill him!"

Just as he finished speaking, Chen Ji seized another long spear and hurled it.

The Military Officer just stood up, his right hand still supporting the Deputy General’s arm, suddenly the Deputy General pulled his arm away, causing the Military Officer to stagger and almost fall again.

He looked in surprise, only to find it wasn’t the Deputy General withdrawing his arm, but because the Deputy General was pierced in the chest by a spear, consequently pulled away, flew out.

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On the trestle, the county soldiers handed over a long spear, and Chen Ji took one.

He hurled each long spear like an armor-piercing awl across the air, forcing dozens of crossbowmen to hide behind the spearmen, unable to lift their heads.

Those county soldiers around Chen Ji seemed to be his personal aides exclusively handing him armor-piercing awls. In just a dozen breaths, more than ten crossbowmen fell dead on the spot.

The Military Officer immediately roared, "Shoot arrows at him, ignore the people beside him, shoot and kill him! He’s just one person, what are you afraid of?"

Some crossbowmen got up with trepidation, nocked an arrow, and aimed, while the rest hunched and prepared to unleash a volley once this arrow suppressed Chen Ji’s arrogance.

But just as the arrow was shot, a long spear, faster than the arrow, pierced that crossbowman to death in one blow.

The remaining crossbowmen stood up, and they were shocked to discover that Chen Ji actually allowed the arrow to pierce his abdomen, continuing to seize spears and throw them without care.

Arrows embedded in Chen Ji’s body, yet he only slightly moved to avoid his heart and head, continuing to seize and throw long spears as if exchanging lives with the crossbowmen.

Chen Ji had over twenty arrows in his shoulders, right chest, abdomen, side, and legs, resembling a candied hawthorn skewer. Yet, he only spat out a mouthful of blood before grabbing another spear and throwing it, killing another crossbowman.

The county soldiers were merely militia recruited from Yingkou, and regardless of how strict the Jing Dynasty’s training was, they could not be trained into a one-in-a-hundred elite force.

They looked up at the back of Zhaolei, watching Chen Ji, whose blood was almost drained, with such fright that their liver and gallbladder ruptured. They dared not step forward, retreating, leaving a five-step gap around Chen Ji, waiting for him to suffocate on his own.

At this moment, Zhaolei could not see Chen Ji on its back. It could only lower its head, watching Chen Ji’s blood flow down the saddle to the ground, and it neighed in grief, stamping its hooves in place.

Then the county soldiers noticed that Chen Ji was full of arrows while Zhaolei only had some superficial wounds.

The Military Officer hid behind the county soldiers, looking through the crowd. He saw Chen Ji still riding on the horse, overlooking them all with a tiger’s gaze.

Chen Ji looked at the empty space beside him, then at the county soldiers’ faces five steps away, bearing inexplicable expressions of shock, and suddenly laughed heartily, mimicking Little Fourteen loudly saying, "The 32nd year of Jianing, Marquis Wu Xiang, Chen Ji... cough!"

After speaking, he coughed up a mouthful of blood and muttered to himself in a low voice, "Why don’t I have the momentum like others, seems like something’s missing."

Chen Ji turned his head to look at the sea, ensuring that he could no longer see that large ship, finally exhaling the last breath and slumping his head.

The county soldiers looked at Chen Ji, closing his eyes slowly, unsure whether he was truly dead, as his waist and back remained upright, still not falling off the horse.

Six pieces of sword seed clattered onto the trestle, and an agile county soldier quickly picked one up to admire. The palm-length, willow-leaf thin silver sword seed still had fine cracks from the prolonged battle. Just then, as Chen Ji fought to his last breath, even the sword seed was in danger.

The sword seed was heavy, and even just one small piece weighed several pounds, heavy enough to press an entire hand.

The county soldiers rushed forward to scramble for the sword seeds on the trestle. These were sword seeds, and if one could secretly bring one to Shangjing to sell, wouldn’t it easily fetch tens of thousands of taels?

Someone was the first to grab a sword seed, and when others came to snatch it, they clutched it tightly, refusing to let go even if it cut their hand.

As everyone scrambled for the sword seeds, suddenly someone screamed in terror, "Ah!"

The trestle suddenly fell silent as everyone looked over, only to see that person holding a sword seed, which was vibrating and buzzing incessantly.

The sword seed jumped in his palm, frightening the soldier holding it enough to throw it away, but the sword seed did not fall onto the trestle. Instead, it hovered silently beside Zhaolei.

The soldiers sent their gaze together, staring intently at the sword seed, full of doubt and uncertainty.

Someone quickly shouted, "Look, his blood!"

Everyone saw, in the droplets of blood falling from the saddle, there appeared to be flowing firelight, and when they looked up again, they saw Chen Ji suddenly open his eyes, looking at them coldly.

That gaze felt like it was peering from the icy depths of the underworld, captivating and haunting people’s souls.

The county soldiers’ faces drastically changed, retreating in horror: "A ghost!"

"Hiss!" Chen Ji took a deep breath of the cold winter air, raised his hand, and pulled out each arrow from his body. Every time he pulled one out, the corresponding wound would instantly heal.

Chen Ji’s seventh stripe within his body gradually faded, transforming into molten flow, merging into the Yangming Stomach Meridian of Foot, Taiyang Bladder Meridian of Foot, and Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian of Foot. His whole body only had the Spleen Meridian of Foot Tainyin, Liver Meridian of Foot Jueyin, and Kidney Meridian of Foot Shaoyin still unconnected.

Chen Ji’s originally pale face turned rosy. He lifted his arms, took down the plain silver hairpin, and retied his disheveled hair, casually forming it into a bun.

Zhaolei snorted excitedly, and Chen Ji smilingly patted its back: "After you and I catch up, let’s kill them thoroughly!"

Man and horse charged towards the Military Officer, the soldiers shocked and terrified, losing all fighting spirit, turned and fled in a panic, squeezing past each other, falling into the sea from the trestle like dumplings.

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