Wen Qing City's Apprentice Hall Second Branch (1)

"Men! If the opposing forces still not willing to surrender in five minutes, prepare to fire all weaponry on the target! Leave no survivors standing at the end of our barrage!" Zhang Wu Ji gives his people instruction to follow as he stares at his enemies.

"Master Senior, four minutes remaining!" the soldier standing beside him reported. With his palm is lowered for the first time, the first bell rang. Through the vibration of the chime, it incites fear and indecisive within the enemy ranks.

"Three minutes!" once again, the soldier reported. Even though it was his second speech, his existence creates fear amongst the enemy troops. Instead of feeling afraid of Zhang Wu Ji, they fear this soldier for repeatedly sending them closer to their death.

"Two minutes!"

"One minute left!" this time, Zhang Wu Ji raised his palm above his head. With the sign came in, soldiers gathered all over the City Wall with the Yuan-Tie Cannon activated and ready for action. With over 200 cannons aiming at the enemy troops, it instills fear into their mind.

Twenty cannons might only kill a small part of them, but two hundred? It was enough to turn them from standing human into a pile of minced meat. While they still hesitate to give up, a word from the soldier break their mindset and all their intention.

"Five minutes passed! Master Senior!" he said.

"We surrender..." the final moment destroyed all their intention to resist. But the reply is deafened by the sound of firing cannon. Two hundred shots are fired at the pile of human flesh as it started to tear them apart from one limb to another.

Blood splattered. Pitiful howl is heard. But Zhang Wu Ji did not allow all these wretched displays to dampen his intention in slaughtering all of them. In his mind, he already decides for the slaughter the moment his count went past two minutes.

Meanwhile, in the opponent's side.

They were lucky to have three Soldier Tier Commanding Officers protecting them. But how much can three-person do against a barrage of two hundred cannons? They deflected a few, but when the rain of iron ball smashed through their defense and started to pound the soldiers into a pile of human meat, the confidence in their own power begins to falter.

How can they know that inside the mind of their opponent's commanding officer, they're already sentenced to death? Their fight started to become weaker as they declined from 16,000 soldiers into 8,000 left. That was a casualty of half of their members at the beginning of the battle.

As an experienced battalion of soldiers, how can this happen? It was not only the worst preparation in this battle they ever participate in, but it is also the worst battle they ever participate. This is a tribute. A blood and flesh tribute that was offered to the enemies!

The first barrage left them with 8,000 soldiers. Among them, 2,000 is injured, leaving them with nothing but around 6,000 men still able to give their opponent a fight. Believing on their own ability as a Soldier Tier cultivator, they lead the others to attack the City Wall.

Unfortunately, their opponent did not do the same. Zhang Wu Ji expects to finish this battle without having a single casualty from his side, which is why instead of sending soldiers out into the battlefield, he instructed them to fire his Fire Lizard Touch instead.

The weapon caused a wall of fire burning before the city wall. With a flame wall blocking them from marching forward, it will extremely unbeneficial for them who possesses only strength but not weaponry, crafted tools, and other usable treasures!

"Bear Howling Fist!"

"Crane Style Kick!"

"Then, Fierce Fire Palm!"

"Get the f*ck off from here." the moment that commanding officer from Jie's Clan tried to send forth his attack, the other two kicked him away for being a complete idiot. By using Fire Elemental Martial Art against the wall of flames, won't that end up helping the wall instead?

Including Zhang Wu Ji himself, everyone labeled the commanding an idiot that couldn't see the importance of a matter. But that commotion soon cleared when Zhang Wu Ji noticed something flying to him from the eastern side of Wen Wu City.

"Iron Kong-Que... And there's another five Qiyue Flying Swords. It must be Master, Senior brother and sisters, and also Miss Meng Ran." Zhang Wu Ji smiled as their appearance in this side of the city means that the enemy forces attacking from the eastern side is completely decimated.

Meanwhile, inside the Iron Kong-Que.

"What is the continuous explosion earlier? Miss Meng, please control the Iron Kong-Que to fly faster to the northern side! I'm worried about the troop's defensive capability!" Liang Tian requested. Although he was an Inner Qi Lord, without an appearance of any other Inner Qi Lord within the battlefield, he's not allowed to make his appearance personally without any escorts.

And because of this matter, Liang Tian is not only forced to not made his attendance in this battle known by the enemies, he's also banned from flying personally into the battlefield as his appearance will disrupt the results of this battle.

But when they arrived at the Northern Gate, everything was out of his expectation. With Zhang Wu Ji as the leader of this battle, he completely decimated his enemies through the ability as a proper commander, tactician, and also fighter.

With a large number of troops died under the Fire Lizard's Touch, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the next barrage of fifty Yuan-Tie Cannons on the soldiers that still capable of giving out a fight. After he cleared the battlefield from a large number of enemies, Zhang Wu Ji sent out a few Soldier-Tier cultivators that were trained by the city lord to capture the three commanding officers.

After the three of them is subdued, Zhang Wu Ji ordered the Bell-Keeper to ring the bell continuously to announce their victory in this battle. When his achievement of not having zero casualties in this battle, Zhang Wu Ji's name once again echoed throughout the all human settlements within the Seven Star County, and even reach the Heavenly South County.

When this news spread until the soon to become Li Jiang City, the Patriarch of the Zhang Family was the first one to be excited with this news. Of course, as his personal servant before Zhang Wu Ji went to the Seven Star Sect, Zhang Da Zui and Zhang Da Yang share a part of the excitement.

"Third Young Master too amazing! When he left the town to enroll in Seven Star Sect, he's already an astonishing youth, with this news now, who dare to question our Zhang Family position within the Li Jiang City?" as usual, Zhang Da Zui with his big mouth is the first to talk.

"Da Zui, don't speak too much about this matter. No matter what, the Li Jiang City will be handled by one of the appointed mayors, the families will only be their supporters!" Zhang Qing Feng warned Zhang Da Zui from speaking too much.

"Da Zui understand. Master, do we need to get ready for three young master's return on the first day of the Continent New Year? I believe Da Niu, Da Gou, Da Yan, and Da Tou waited for their master to return for too long by now." Zhang Da Zui added. As he speaks, he pointed at the four other servants that used to serve Zhang Wu Yuan and Zhang Wu Chou before they went to the Imperial Capital and Heavenly Sword Sect.

"Based on what Wu Yuan says, Wu Ji might not come back if he cannot handle the matter between the Seven Star Sect before end up the year is here. Prepare everything for the three of them anyway, let us have some faith in Wu Ji's ability." Zhang Qing Feng said.

Who actually knows that in his mind, Zhang Qing Feng wanted to laugh out as hard as he could. When he says to have faith in Zhang Wu Ji's ability, it was out of good faith. But as a father, how can he not know about his child's ability to cause havoc?

"He's too used to sacrifice a cow to kill a cockroach. I just hope at the end of the day, this brat did not exhaust the whole treasure coffer of the Seven Star Sect to let his master retook the power to rule over this land once again." Zhang Qing Feng shakes his head as he thought about his child's ability.

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"Zhang Wu Ji! Zhang Wu Ji! Zhang Wu Ji!" the people within the Wen Wu City is cheering for his name as he returns to the Apprentice Hall by walking. In the term of popularity, perhaps not even the City Lord, his Master can compete with him.

Only by his appearance alone, Zhang Wu Ji greatly motivates the youngster to repeat everything he's done in this year. Youth that will reach fifteen years old at the early of next year are all looking up at him as an example, while those younger on started to focus on many different topics that related to the profession he's excellent in.

While the celebration is ongoing, the situation in Wen Qing City is not that positive. The moment the report of their complete defeat before entering the Wen Wu City, the Upper South Merchant Corporation immediately vanished from the city within that night.

Under the gaze of the residents, the City Lord made his escape as well. In their mind, this complete defeat will come back to haunt him and destroy everything he obtained until now. Instead of letting his fate judged in this situation, why not he make a run for it as a criminal instead?

With their main hope to handle the city is gone, the Wen Qing City collapsed. Every thug roaming inside the city tried to get their hand of their last robbery before escaping the Wen Qing City. Within that night, the Wen Qi City's crime rate increase by tenfold.

All criminals started to cause havoc in this city and tried to ruin it. Thugs, Muggers, and Rapist are all around the city hunting for people, money, and treasures. But before they could continue it for too long, the support came from the still organized military force and started to kill the criminals before they can proceed further.

But when the criminals are cleared, the soldiers turned into one instead! Being better organized, they robbed the houses with food supplies, treasures, and shops that stored a different kind of groceries, medicine, and cultivation pills. Under their hand, the wealth of the Wen Qing City is robbed clean before the soldiers left the city unguarded.

Looking from afar, Yang Yi and his people charged into the city! By occupying them at this crucial moment, the resistance is the weakest! With Liang Tian and the three other elders is sent to handle the escaped soldiers and City Lord, the Commander of Militarized Forces from Wen Wu City only need to occupy this city and run them like how it was before!

To replace a large number of casualties and the lack of population, Wen Wu City Lord ordered the remaining village located near the Wen Qing City to migrate here with the promise of excellent treatment, job prospect, and a better life.

Following behind their footstep, Zhang Wu Ji's Apprentice Hall came into the city next, with a large number of supplies that were brought here through the conveniences of Wooden Universal Plate and also Zhang Wu Ji's Iron Kong-Que.

Nine days later, the Apprentice Hall Second Branch that was established under the help of the people and resident finally completed. But the only differences are instead of taking a small area like the Apprentice Hall Headquarters, the Second Branch covers a quarter of the Wen Qing City's constructed area.

"Is this a branch or Headquarters? How can the size this branch covers took over so many plots s of land?" Zhang Wu Ji controlled the Iron Kong-Que as he inspects the buildings that have been demolished to be rebuilt again.

At this moment, he toured around the Second Branch to check the amount of land his Second Branch owned. Moments later, he returned to the Second Branch Main Hall to calculate the total landmass.

"Holy shit! My Second Branch is four times bigger than my current headquarters with the total land of 800 acres! It can fit four forbidden palaces without issue with space!" Zhang Wu Ji's eye opened wide as he estimates the amount of profit he can get from completely exploiting this land.

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[Author's Note]

At last, Wen-Qing City is in hand. Guess... How many chapters will it took before MC get his Tyrant Body, Control Seven Star Sect, and return to enjoy his Ping An Continent New Year?