The warning gong had only half-rung out when Xu Yunfan's toe struck its surface.
Red Flood Dragon Mountain Coiling Strength surged through the bronze, twisting the soldier's arms into mangled ropes.
He vaulted over the archery parapets, his eyes drawn to the brightest blaze on the mountainside of Divine Weapon Ridge. The once-towering steel refining furnace was crumbling amidst the inferno.
Three tripwires sprang up from the shadows. Xu Yunfan twisted his waist in mid-air.
His Profound Steel Hundred-Forged Body activated, spiraling the muscles in his waist and abdomen. He forcibly shifted three feet to the side in mid-air. Following the motion, his Thunderfire Qilin Hammer swept out, snapping the fine steel chains. The recoiling iron chains then whipped back, slicing the hidden axemen in half.
At a turn in the mountain path, thirty Heavy Halberd Soldiers waited in formation.
