Chapter 54: The Fall of Sirius, the Menace of Tigers and Wolves!

"What a joke! Just a wet-behind-the-ears punk, and you actually think you can block my path single-handedly?"

Wanyan Wushu looked around carefully, and upon confirming that it was only Su Mu standing there, a trace of disdain appeared in his voice.

Gripping the wolf-tooth mace in his hand, Wanyan Wushu's eyes turned slightly cold.

"Do you know why we are called the Heavenly Wolf Guard? Because I am the Wolf King himself!"

"Today, I'll pound you into a meat patty to comfort the spirits of my brothers in heaven!"

Raising the heavy mace, Wanyan Wushu charged straight toward Su Mu.

Watching the incoming Wanyan Wushu, Su Mu merely shook his head.

"Utterly ignorant!"

Su Mu raised the Bright Moon Saber, and his body instantly erupted with astonishing speed.

In just a few seconds, he closed the distance right up to Wanyan Wushu.

Seeing the ferocious swing of the mace, Su Mu flexibly shifted his body in a graceful arc, cleanly evading Wanyan Wushu's fatal strike.

"Too slow!"

"With movements as sluggish as yours, you expect to take my life?"

As he spoke, Su Mu violently flipped the Bright Moon Saber in his hand. The blade swept from bottom to top, slashing directly past Wanyan Wushu's ear.

The next second, fresh blood sprayed into the air.

Wanyan Wushu covered his ear with one hand, staring at Su Mu in disbelief.

"I'm going to kill you!"

A flicker of cold indifference appeared in Su Mu's eyes.

"Just you? You still want to be mentioned in the same breath as Huyan Lie?"

"In terms of true strength, you are light-years behind him!"

Su Mu held the saber in his right hand while his left hand now gripped a soft sword.

Seeing this, Wanyan Wushu's pupils constricted, especially upon catching sight of the soft sword.

Over the past month, the moniker of the "Ghost Sword" had completely resounded throughout the barbarian tribes!

Relying solely on that single soft sword, he had slaughtered thousands of barbarian elites.

Not a single person who encountered the Ghost Sword had ever managed to return alive to report intelligence.

Furthermore!

What was most crucial was that all of them had been killed with a single sword strike, left entirely without the slightest chance to fight back.

Wanyan Wushu never expected that the notorious Ghost Sword would turn out to be this young man right before his eyes!

At that moment, he finally understood why those barbarian soldiers had been utterly powerless when facing the Ghost Sword.

Because even he, just now in that split-second exchange, had suffered a massive loss.

"The Ghost Sword! Perfect. I'll settle our old and new scores all at once!" Wanyan Wushu said viciously.

Su Mu shook his head, a flash of pity crossing his eyes.

"Settle scores? Just by you?"

With a blur of his figure, Su Mu once again engaged Wanyan Wushu in intense combat.

The Bright Moon Saber in his right hand moved with sweeping, grand motions and extraordinary momentum.

Meanwhile, the soft sword in his left hand was elusive and ghostly, impossible to guard against!

After merely a few dozen rounds, Wanyan Wushu was covered in wounds.

He stared at Su Mu with a face full of horror.

He was no match for him!

The gap in their strength was simply outrageously vast!

"Ghost Sword, let's make a deal!"

"As long as you spare my life, I guarantee that whatever wealth or treasures you want, I can give them to you!"

"I can even abandon the barbarian tribes and pledge my loyalty to serve by your side forever! As long as you let me live, I'll agree to anything you ask!"

With slightly trembling hands, Wanyan Wushu looked at Su Mu and spoke with desperate haste.

He was panicking!

At this moment, he could no longer maintain his composure.

Dragging the Bright Moon Saber along the ground, Su Mu pointed toward the Black Wind Forest.

"All your subordinates have been slaughtered to the last man, and now you're suddenly willing to surrender?"

Wanyan Wushu took a deep breath and forced a stiff, strained smile.

"To use your people's phrasing: he who knows the times is a brilliant man."

Su Mu raised an eyebrow, looked at Wanyan Wushu, and let out a cold snort.

"You are not worthy to use that phrase!"

"Because today, I am definitely going to use your head to consecrate my banner!"

Wanyan Wushu's eyes widened as he instinctively tried to raise his mace. But at that exact moment, he felt his arms become extraordinarily heavy.

Even the slightest movement felt like an impossible luxury.

"Stop struggling. I severed the tendons in your wrists just now. Barring a miracle, your career as a general of the Heavenly Wolf Guard has reached its end."

Su Mu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and swiftly slashed across Wanyan Wushu's throat.

From a purely rational standpoint, capturing Wanyan Wushu alive would have been the best option!

Given his status, taking him prisoner would have been an unimaginably great achievement.

Perhaps they could have extracted crucial intelligence regarding the barbarians from his testimony.

However!

Over the years, the Heavenly Wolf Guard had burned, killed, and looted, committing every conceivable evil!

And this Wanyan Wushu bore the heavy blood debt of countless slaughters!

If he didn't behead Wanyan Wushu and display his head publicly right then and there, he feared unforeseen complications.

"Captain! Are you alright?"

At that moment, Xu Qing and the others, having finished off the remaining members of the Heavenly Wolf Guard, rushed into the battlefield.

Upon seeing Wanyan Wushu, who had already lost his breath, their pupils sharply contracted.

They looked at Su Mu in disbelief.

Wanyan Wushu was dead?

One had to know that there were countless people within the Great Liang empire who wanted nothing more than to skin Wanyan Wushu alive and grind his bones to powder!

Because the slaughter inflicted upon Great Liang by the Heavenly Wolf Guard he led was simply unimaginable.

And yet, right now!

This nightmare in the eyes of countless people had just died like this?

"I'm alright. This is Wanyan Wushu, the leader of the Heavenly Wolf Guard."

"Although we didn't manage to ambush the Tiger-Wolf Cavalry this time, slaying him alone is more than enough to boost our morale."

Su Mu looked at the group and offered a faint smile.

Hearing this, the men were left speechless.

This morale-boosting feat could only be described as earth-shattering and awe-inspiring.

Moreover, what was most crucial was this!

In this very battle, their Tiger Might Camp had achieved a complete and overwhelming victory against the invading Heavenly Wolf Guard!

The entire force of over twenty thousand Heavenly Wolf Guards had now become history!

Everyone else always viewed the barbarians as an invincible existence.

Let alone their elite ace army!

Yet now!

Everything had been reversed!

They had won!

"Captain! Congratulations!"

"Annihilating the Heavenly Wolf Guard this time is a monumental merit. With this achievement under your belt, even Jiang Tian and the Su family will only be dreaming if they ever try to move against you!"

Guan Qing's face was flushed red as he spoke with great excitement.

The other men nearby exchanged knowing smiles upon hearing this.

Indeed!

With this military merit to protect him, any faction within Great Liang that harbored thoughts of quietly taking Su Mu's life would be engaging in sheer fantasy!

Hearing their chatter, Su Mu released his grip on the Bright Moon Saber and cast a helpless, exasperated glance at them.

"Alright, instead of standing around talking nonsense, why don't the lot of you hurry over and give me a hand?"

"Do you really think this Wanyan Wushu was just a paper tiger?"

During their brief exchange moments ago, Su Mu had forcibly taken several heavy blows from Wanyan Wushu head-on.

Even now, his hands were still trembling uncontrollably.

The men finally snapped back to reality and rushed forward to support Su Mu.

"Captain! What are you saying? Leave the rest to me! I'll carry you back on my back right now!" Guan Qing declared righteously.

At that moment, an untimely voice suddenly chimed in.

Su Yi stood quietly to one side, looking deep in thought.

"The entire Heavenly Wolf army has been completely wiped out, but what about the Tiger-Wolf Cavalry?"

"They won't make the same mistake twice."

"Trying to use this kind of ambush to deal with the Tiger-Wolf Cavalry from now on will be utterly impossible."

Su Mu's pupils constricted.

The Tiger-Wolf Cavalry? That was the truly harrowing threat lingering in his heart!