A burst of neighing sounds kept rising, the master died, those horses all went crazy, spread their hooves and galloped away, setting off a rolling dust storm in the original village, wrapping Yuan Ye in the center of the battlefield.

  The survivors in the village, as well as those who crawled out of the ground holes, were all shocked to see Yuan Ye, a young man under twenty years old, whose figure was vague in the smoke and dust, had killed all the enemies in just over a minute, including two Wu Emperors.

  Everyone's eyes were focused on Yuan Ye, but at this moment, he was lowering his head and panting.

  No one knows what Yuan Ye is thinking, Yuan Ye just lowers his head and gasps, no one can see his eyes.

  A close fight, in an instant, life and death are decided.

  "Cut, don't you know that I'm very cool, and you want to fight me? You people are just a bit too weak, only fighting with someone of the same level as myself can bring out the passion of battle, bursting out the strongest fighting power on the edge of life and death, burning the greatest potential." Yuan Ye looked down on them in his heart, but when he raised his head, he saw a group of fervent eyes, and before he knew it, all the villagers had knelt down to worship him. Yuan Ye could only bitterly smile, for worshipping the strong was indeed a universal disease in this world.

  "Get up, get up, there's nothing to kneel for, I ask you, who are these people?"

  The villagers rushed up, and the young man of the Wu family immediately stood out and cupped his hands: "Sir, they are a small force from the Blazing Continent. I didn't expect them to choose this place for an assassination attempt this time... My brother too..."

  The young man's tears fell uncontrollably, but Yuan Ye furrowed his brow, "What? Do villages in other places often encounter such situations?"

  The villagers nodded in unison, and one of the elderly men said helplessly: "So our village has tunnels everywhere, it's good to hide when these people come, before the big guys on our side arrive, whoever can survive will survive, those who can't, we're used to death anyway."

  There are too many villages, and there are too many ordinary people. Those masters can't protect them all. They can only rush over after hearing the news, but often by the time they arrive, the village has already been slaughtered empty.

  "Why don't you just move away then, far from this border?"

  "The border is already two hundred miles away, and no one dares to live there. But we can't escape just by leaving the border two hundred miles behind. How far do we need to run? The entire state of Hunluo is only five hundred miles wide, there's nowhere to retreat to. These bandits want to kill us, wherever we go, it's useless."

  "Damn it, these people are also Wu Jun and Wu Di, yet they specifically target ordinary people. I thought the high mortality rate at the border was due to battles between experts that affected innocent bystanders, but I didn't expect it to be this kind of death. As for shamelessness, no one can compare to them."

  Everyone was silent, and Yuan Ye saw that the young man's face was shamefully lowered.

  "Hey, I'm asking you, don't people from the Blazing Continent often do this kind of thing?"

  The young man did not dare to conceal it, and merely nodded his head.

  Yuan Ye felt his blood boiling, as if two great masters were fighting, affecting tens of thousands of innocent people who died. Others could understand and not pursue the matter; but he tore apart fifty thousand women and children, and was scolded by everyone in the world. Yuan Ye really couldn't forgive those martial kings and emperors for slaughtering ordinary civilians, even if it was the icy mainland with a deep grudge that couldn't be accepted.

  Yuan Ye suddenly grabbed the young man and shouted: "Why? Your mother!"

  "Adults, those senior masters put us, Wu Jun and Wu Di, in the borderlands, with no one to ask about us. They have already treated us as cannon fodder to block the enemy's first line of defense. But who wants to be cannon fodder? To go to the headquarters of the eight states, receive guidance from super masters, and live a safe and glorious life, that requires military merit. Killing a Wu Jun, killing a Wu Di, these are all military merits. Accumulating military merit bit by bit, until it's enough, then you can return to the headquarters in Hunluo State. Once there, basically, there won't be any danger to your life. After all, only large-scale battles can mobilize them, but large-scale battles don't happen even once in a thousand years."

  At this point, the young man carefully glanced at Yuan Ye and stopped talking.

  "Continue!" Yuan Ye said coldly.

  The young man swallowed his saliva and continued: "But killing Wu Jun, Wu Emperor is not that simple. So we rushed into the Ice Abyss Continent, killed those civilians, brought back their heads, and said that they were the ones who beheaded Wu Emperor. Others can't verify it. Sometimes, we also took some women to enjoy ourselves. After all, in this borderland, it's too dangerous and stressful, so we need to relax and have fun."

  "Is everyone here like this?" Yuan Ye's voice became even colder.

  "Sir, this border area is very chaotic. If a warrior acts alone, even if he's the strongest martial emperor, there's still a high chance of being surrounded and killed. All top-notch warriors above the level of Martial King are affiliated with small forces. The fifty people you killed today were from one such small force. Our place is made up of these small forces. Every force does this: if others do it but you don't, you'll be at a disadvantage. Such forces can't exist for long."

  "How many people will be killed by this force every month?" Yuan Ye asked coldly again.

  "Adults, this is not necessarily the case. Everyone's head is a war trophy, and whoever wants to seize it will average out every half month. At most, they will massacre for five minutes before running away. Each time, around 300 people are killed. In the border areas of Guyang, Bianxia, and Fenxiang, there are over a thousand large and small forces. The number of civilians killed in a year is probably no less than 40 million! Every household here is struggling to survive, with seven or eight children per family. If they had fewer children, this place would have been extinct long ago."

  "Four million in just one year!" Yuan Ye even felt a sense of powerlessness, as if he had owed a debt of 50,000 lives. But that was not what he wanted; his heart was set on redemption. Now, seeing people who clearly knew what they were doing yet still slaughtered defenseless civilians with impunity, Yuan Ye felt a pang of sorrow.

  "You killed the civilians of Bingxue Continent, and Bingxue Continent killed our civilians here. Killing each other back and forth, the two continents have such deep hatred, and the guilt is all on you. I, Yuan Ye, am also one of them, owing many lives in debt. If I can stop this border massacre of civilians, I can save millions of lives, which would be the greatest kindness, and also a way for my soul to rest in peace."

  In an instant, Yuan Ye knew how he should atone for his sins here.

  Yuan Ye asked the young man for more news about this side of the border.

  On the other hand, the first and second masters of Heifeng Mountain were leading more than a hundred people to keep watch not far from the village. They called it keeping watch, but in fact they were resting. If someone from Lieyan Continent came to rescue them, it wouldn't be just one person, and the momentum would be easy to detect.

  "Big brother, it seems something is off. Why hasn't that little rascal Geng Tu arrived yet? A lot of time has passed already." A middle-aged man wrapped in a black robe walked up to the side of the burly man and frowned, saying this. This middle-aged man was none other than Man Shan, the second-in-command of Hei Feng Mountain, whose strength was extremely formidable, said to have reached the peak of Wu Emperor. Far surpassing the third-in-command of Hei Feng Mountain.

  The barbarian Han was extremely robust, with muscles that were also extremely developed. By all accounts, he should have been a simple-minded person with well-developed limbs. However, even the second-in-command of Heifeng Mountain, Manshan, feared this leader to an extreme degree, not just because of his own strength, but also due to his ruthless and venomous heart.