The Three-Part Origin Gathering Art was an extremely profound spiritual energy-type martial technique at the Supreme-Grade tier. When a martial artist executed it, they would extract three types of elemental energy from the heaven and earth attributes, thereby gathering formidable power.

This Martial King from Zhenyang Commandery had already comprehended it to the Great Achievement Realm. After simple energy accumulation, he unleashed it!

How powerful was it? There’s no need to measure it in pounds to avoid reader complaints. In short, the power was immense—so great that as it shot forward from a distance, even distant trees were uprooted by the violent winds.

Jiang Xie’s brows furrowed.

Although he had already broken through to Third-Rank Martial King and, through cultivation at the sect, stepped into the Supreme-Grade tier, he still had no confidence in directly blocking this move!

Was the Sect Leader standing in place planning to take it head-on?

“Whoosh!”

Just then, Jun Changxiao raised his hand. Profound spiritual energy permeated around his body and rapidly formed a substantial defensive energy wall before him.

After breaking through to Martial King, the application of spiritual energy became even more masterful, unlocking functions such as condensing energy walls.

There was another extremely important function.

Intent transformed into spiritual sense, allowing him to perceive everything in his surroundings!

When the condensed brilliance came attacking, Jun Changxiao captured through his spiritual sense that the strength of the force it carried was within his tolerance range, so he decisively manifested an energy wall.

Martial King—truly awesome!

Whoosh whoosh—

The Three-Part Origin Gathering Art skimmed along the grass and shot forward, finally crashing into the spiritual energy wall with a thunderous boom. The powerful explosion instantly formed waves that surged in all directions!

Flowers, grass, trees, and stones were crushed into dust under the rampage of terrifying power.

Looking from the city tower’s position, the area of several hundred meters where Jun Changxiao stood was barren, and even the ground had fractured.

“Terrifying!”

Xie Guangkun gasped.

At this moment, what he cared about more was—was Sect Leader Jun alright?

Gradually.

The spiritual energy dissipated, and the collision area became clearly visible.

The substantial energy wall still existed. Jun Changxiao still stood proudly, with an infuriatingly smug smile at the corner of his mouth.

“Im… impossible!” The Zhenyang Commandery Martial King’s eyes widened.

He had even released his trump card, yet he hadn’t broken through the opponent’s energy wall. Just how profound must one’s spiritual energy be to achieve this!

“Is this the Sword-Martial Twin King?” Jiang Xie’s heart was also shaken.

Ye Xingchen silently muttered to himself: “He just broke through recently. He shouldn’t have such profound spiritual energy.”

Even one of the former Ten Great Martial Emperors couldn’t figure it out.

Jun Changxiao waved his hand to dismiss the spiritual energy wall and said: “You’ve used your trump card. Next, this Seat will get serious.”

As the last word fell, he executed the Cloud-Treading Step and charged forward at such speed that the Zhenyang Commandery Martial King didn’t have time to deploy a spiritual energy wall in front of himself.

Actually, deploying one wouldn’t have helped.

Under Jun Changxiao’s striking force of three million pounds, all he could do was get spectacularly crushed in various ways!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

In the forest, fist strikes rang out frequently.

In just a moment, relying on absolutely overwhelming strength, Jun Changxiao savagely beat the Zhenyang Commandery Martial King until he lay on the ground with twitching limbs, foam spewing from his mouth.

“…”

Everyone’s mouths twitched.

That such a lofty Martial King expert could be beaten so miserably was truly unimaginable!

Could the Sword-Martial Twin King really be that fierce?

They didn’t know that Sect Leader Jun could thrash a Fourth-Rank Martial King not only because of being a Sword-Martial Twin King, but also because he had two spiritual cores. Although they didn’t produce an additive doubling effect, they still significantly increased his strength.

Like with the Three-Part Origin Gathering Art just now.

If Jun Changxiao only had one spiritual core, he certainly could have withstood it, but the energy wall would definitely have been broken, rather than taking it completely unharmed.

…

A battle between Kings ended just like that.

The Zhenyang Commandery Martial King who had been savagely beaten not only failed to take Tao Yuan away but also inevitably became a prisoner himself.

Qingyang City, at the training grounds.

The surrendered Tiger Might Army soldiers all squatted together with their heads in their hands.

“Sect Leader.”

Xue Rengui said: “How should we deal with these people?”

“Recruit those we can recruit. For those we can’t recruit, make Zhenyang Commandery pay ransom.” Jun Changxiao said.

A rising star with the talent of a great general, plus a genuine Fourth-Rank Martial King—they were definitely worth quite a bit of money.

Xue Rengui said: “Tao Yuan comes from a military general’s family. Recruiting him will probably be quite difficult.”

Jun Changxiao said nonchalantly: “There’s no one this Seat can’t recruit. If there is, just give him a bowl of fried rice. If that doesn’t work, two bowls.”

“…”

Xue Rengui thought of the meals Liu Wanshi made, and the words “truly fragrant” immediately rose in his heart.

“General Tao.”

Jun Changxiao walked over and said: “Are you convinced of your defeat?”

Tao Yuan, bound hand and foot, was silent for a moment before saying: “I am convinced.”

In this battle, he had lost too miserably, and the Tiger Might Army had been completely crushed by the Wolf Cavalry. He was absolutely convinced.

Jun Changxiao said: “My Iron Bones Clanging Sect urgently needs a large number of talented people. Are you interested in joining?”

Tao Yuan raised his head with difficulty and said: “Sect Leader Jun, although Tao is not some great personage, I absolutely will not surrender to the enemy army.”

“General Tao.”

Jun Changxiao wasn’t discouraged and said: “You misunderstand. This Seat’s meaning is—join my Iron Bones Clanging Sect.”

“And how is this different from surrendering to the enemy army?” Tao Yuan said coldly.

“There’s a difference.”

Jun Changxiao said: “This Seat will first ask General Tao—do you have a sect or school?”

“No sect or school.” Tao Yuan said.

Jun Changxiao said: “Although you’re a general of Zhenyang Commandery, you have no sect or school. Why can’t you join my Iron Bones Clanging Sect?”

This statement was without fault.

However, Tao Yuan said: “You led disciples to defend Qingyang City, making you my enemy. Joining your sect would be equivalent to defecting to the enemy.”

“No, no, no.”

Jun Changxiao said: “Defending Qingyang City is because this is my homeland. If Zhenyang Commandery hadn’t attacked, this Seat naturally wouldn’t have gotten involved.”

“Now that your siege has failed, my Iron Bones Sect will naturally remain uninvolved. We’re not enemies between us, so joining the sect is perfectly reasonable.”

“Moreover.”

Jun Changxiao continued: “Joining my Iron Bones Clanging Sect would just make you a disciple. I’m not asking you to lead troops to fight Zhenyang Commandery.”

“…” Xie Guangkun’s mouth twitched.

Sect Leader Jun’s recruitment verbal bombardment was really quite something!

Tao Yuan was also left stunned by the explanation. Thinking it over carefully, it did seem to make some sense.

“General Tao!”

That Zhenyang Commandery Martial King said weakly: “A warrior can be killed, but… but not humiliated…”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Jun Changxiao delivered a combination of punches, beating him unconscious, then dusted off his hands and said: “General Tao, this Seat will give you some time to consider.”

Then he added: “City Lord Xie, lock all these prisoners in the dungeon.”

“Mm.”

Xie Guangkun immediately gave the order to imprison Tao Yuan, that Martial King, and the several thousand captured Tiger Might Army soldiers in the dungeon.

“Sect Leader Jun.”

He cupped his fists and said gratefully: “If your honorable sect hadn’t come to assist, my Qingyang City would probably have fallen long ago!”

Jun Changxiao said: “Don’t celebrate too early. This was just the vanguard. Zhenyang Commandery’s main army is still in Heyang Commandery and Huayang Commandery.”

Xie Guangkun’s expression immediately became solemn.

That’s right.

Zhenyang Commandery had only sent thirty thousand. There were still over a hundred thousand troops behind!