Chapter 244: Chapter 176: Strike with one punch to avoid a hundred! Martial Saint Jiang Shu! Fusang Bows Down!
The sound of a massive shell hitting the ground and exploding erupted behind Jiang Shu. The flames formed a mushroom cloud of unparalleled terror, enveloping an area dozens of meters in radius. Shrapnel, like countless sharp blades, scattered in all directions with the roaring blast wave.
Astonishing. Vast. And even more astonishing, more vast than this, were Jiang Shu’s five Yuan Qi greatsabers.
They sliced through the artillery shells, annihilating everything!
With the strength of one man, he carved a bloody path through a brigade of 6,000!
"Divine punishment... This is divine punishment!"
Tank after tank and armored vehicle after armored vehicle were obliterated and exploded under the might of the Yuan Qi greatsabers.
Some soldiers, already terrified to their knees, were fortunate enough not to have been struck by the Yuan Qi greatsabers. But watching the flesh and blood scatter around them, they continuously bent over and vomited, as if wishing to purge even yesterday’s breakfast.
Other soldiers were left with only half their bodies, trembling on the ground, their eyes filled with a desperate longing for life.
If Jiang Shu’s brief levitation had merely shocked and awed the onlookers, then the appearance of the Small Five Elements Saber Formation truly terrified Tokyo. This power was no longer human!
...
「The Fusang Supreme Operations Command Center.」
On the screen, they watched Jiang Shu, holding the Array Plate of the saber formation, elegantly depart the scene in an instant. He slipped into the crowd and vanished without a trace.
The Minister of State Affairs’ face was ashen.
He paused the footage, staring at the seemingly ordinary Array Plate of the saber formation, desperately trying to suppress his anger and fear.
What on earth is this!
"Minister, should we send reinforcements to encircle him..."
Beside him, a general clenched his fist, asking through gritted teeth.
"Encircle him? Why don’t you go? Idiot! This is Tokyo!" he roared. "If the artillery fire hits civilians, do you want us all to be forced to step down?!"
The Minister of State Affairs was seething, no longer able to contain his fury.
Five fighter jets.
Twenty to thirty tanks and armored vehicles, wiped out under his very nose as if they had never existed.
Less than half of the 6,000-strong brigade remained.
Assassinating Jiang Shu!
That mission should have been simple, a guaranteed success.
The live broadcast was also intended to make Fusang’s Martial Artists realize once again that Martial Arts were insignificant.
The pinnacle of Martial Arts was nothing but ants before a true military force.
But now!
Not only the Martial Artists of Fusang, but likely those of Xia Country as well, had seen every moment of this unfold with perfect clarity.
Everyone is probably laughing at Fusang now, laughing at the Fusang military!
"Yes, yes, yes. In that case, Minister, what should we...?"
The general, practically sprayed with saliva by the Minister of State Affairs, didn’t dare to dodge, his head lowered as he spoke in a submissive voice.
In Fusang, the Prime Minister and the Minister of State Affairs were the true holders of power.
"Lock down the scene, disperse the civilians, and dispatch medical personnel. Prioritize saving every injured soldier," the Minister ordered. "I will go and report to the Prime Minister now. Meanwhile, use every surveillance camera in Fusang to find Jiang Shu’s whereabouts! You must keep him under strict surveillance!"
The Minister of State Affairs’ expression flickered, alternating between regret and ruthlessness.
By now, he knew that attempting to encircle and annihilate Jiang Shu might have been a mistake.
From the very beginning, during the battle at Tokyo Tower, they should have let Jiang Shu return to Xia Country right after he had killed the Sword God with his bare fists.
After all, their strategy was already shifting away from Martial Arts towards genetics and Mechas.
What they needed was time for consolidation and further technological advancement.
Martial Arts had become almost dispensable.
There had been absolutely no need to let things escalate to this point.
But back then, who could have imagined that this seemingly insignificant Martial Artist, not even a Dan Jin Great Grandmaster,
would cause such an earth-shattering upheaval today!
One man, shattering an army of thousands!
...
「Xia Country.」
Inside the Martial Artist Alliance, there was a stunned silence.
Everyone stared at the video feed, utterly speechless.
As Martial Artists of Xia Country, they all knew just how heaven-defying Jiang Shu’s Martial Arts talent was.
In the battle at West Lake against Shang Siguo, he had reached the top of the Grandmaster rankings.
Later, he had even traveled to Fusang and, with his bare fists, killed their foremost Martial Arts Great Grandmaster, the Sword God, a man comparable to a Dan Jin Great Grandmaster!
Yet, none of that compared to the sheer shock of Jiang Shu’s current actions displayed in the video.
The military.
This was the army of a major nation!
It was true that with the appearance of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realms and the outbreak of Mutant Beasts along the coast, Fusang’s true strategic weaponry was stationed in those Secret Realms and along the coastlines.
The Sixth Brigade’s equipment, however outdated, could still crush the armed forces of some smaller nations!
When Martial Arts first rose to prominence, countless Martial Artists had wondered: so what if one cultivated Martial Arts to its absolute peak? They would still be no match for modern weaponry. A Martial Artist’s life or death would forever be decided by the whims of major nations.
But now, Jiang Shu was undeniably demonstrating to them what it truly meant for a single individual to be capable of challenging an entire nation!
This display by Jiang Shu shook not only Fusang but the entire world.
From this day forward, every minor nation on Planet Xuanxing would remember one name.
Jiang Shu!
"Standing suspended in mid-air, sabers shattering armies... Is this still Martial Arts? Even a Dan Jin Great Grandmaster couldn’t possibly achieve this, right? Don’t tell me Grandmaster Jiang... broke through again in the last six months?"
Finally, one Martial Artist typed hesitantly.
During the six months Jiang Shu had disappeared, Martial Arts in Xia Country had indeed developed further. Dan Jin Great Grandmasters had also begun to appear before the public.
Within the Martial Artist Alliance, one could even find lectures given by Dan Jin Great Grandmasters.
They explained the mysteries of Dan Jin to some Hua Jing Masters.
Grandmasters like Shang Siguo, who had originally been just one step away from the Dan Jin realm, had advanced even further, achieving breakthroughs within a few months.