Astral Apostle

Chapter 429: Subduing (1)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The shouting and killing on the battlefield gradually softened, leaving only sporadic sounds of fighting.

With the change in the camp, the bandits of Yellow Pond Mountain were in a panic and had no intention of fighting again. They were defeated on a large scale, and those who surrendered fled.

The people of Tiger Head Mountain chased after them for a while. Seeing that many of the enemies had scattered into the deep forest, they finally retreated under the orders of their leaders.

The fire in the camp was gradually dying down. The ground was covered in discarded weapons, stained with blood, and in a mess.

Everyone could only command the team to clean up the battlefield in the night. The once quiet night now became exceedingly noisy.

“Big Brother, I captured this guy. He’s a leader.”

Fang Zhen picked up Yu Zhen and threw him unceremoniously in front of Guo Haishen.

Yu Zhen was in a sorry state as he begged for mercy in panic… He had been knocked unconscious by Guo Haishen and was almost trampled to death in the chaos just now.

Guo Haishen took a deep look at Yu Zhen before he asked Fang Zhen, “Is this the only one? Where are the other leaders of Yellow Pond Mountain?”

Fang Zhen said angrily, “They all ran away. It’s all because of Deng Zhi. If he hadn’t interfered, these leaders with poor martial arts would have long been taken down by us.”

Guo Haishen shook his head, “Fortunately, their stronghold caught fire, and there were even mountain rocks collapsing and destroying their base. If not for such an accident, we would have been in danger.”

Fang Zhen chuckled, “This is most likely Second Brother’s doing. He must have messed up the other party.”

Just as the two of them were chatting, there was a rustling sound in the forest behind them.

Everyone from Tiger Head Mountain was shocked, hurriedly raising their weapons and looking warily at the source of the sound, afraid that something would happen again.

Not long after, a group of dirty-faced bandit soldiers walked out, raising their hands to show that they were unarmed.

“You’ve already escaped. Why are you all returning?”

Seeing this scene, the Tiger Head Mountain bandits were left speechless.

At this moment, Zhou Jing walked out.

He held Xu Gui in his left hand and Deng Zhi in his right. The spear hung diagonally on his back as he shouted non-stop, as if he was herding this group of bandits.

“Brother!”

Everyone was overjoyed and hurriedly welcomed him.

Zhou Jing threw the two people in his hands to the ground and nodded. “I captured their chief and realized that they had a secret passage. When I came down, I encountered a group of defeated soldiers, so I captured them.”

When everyone saw Xu Gui and Deng Zhi on the ground, they were overjoyed.

“Brother, you’ve captured them well. With these two in hand, we can be said to have finally subdued Yellow Pond Mountain!”

After they let the other leaders go, Chen Feng turned around and caught two of the most important ones. This settled the situation.

Fang Zhen pointed at Deng Zhi and gloated, “Haha, who told you to run? You’re lucky my second brother didn’t kill you.”

Deng Zhi’s face alternated between green and red.

In the narrow tunnel, Chen Feng was simply unstoppable. He was even more ferocious than when he was in An Lin Prefecture.

He was defeated by Zhou Jing the moment they met and almost lost his life on the spot. The troops were also beaten up by Zhou Jing until they threw away their armor. They were all terrified to the point they directly surrendered to one person.

Deng Zhi was glad that he had not been stabbed to death just now. At this moment, he was trembling in fear and did not dare to speak. He did not even dare to look at Zhou Jing.

Zhou Jing recognized this person, but he did not do anything towards him.

At this moment, Guo Haishen asked curiously, “Second Brother, was it you who caused the fire just now?”

Zhou Jing nodded, “That’s right. I only found out about their night attack plan after capturing Xu Gui. Seeing that you guys are being attacked from both sides, and it’s difficult for me to provide support, I might as well ignite their stronghold and collapse the cliff to cut off their escape route.”

“So the collapse of the cliff was also done by Brother!”

Everyone exclaimed in shock.

However, they had seen Zhou Jing’s divine power in Tiger Head Mountain, so they did not doubt him.

“It’s all thanks to Brother’s actions. If not for the fact that something happened to their stronghold, we might have lost this battle.”

Hong Dingxian’s tone was filled with admiration.

Guo Haishen sighed, “Although Second Brother is not around, it’s all thanks to Second Brother that we can turn the tables.”

Zhou Jing waved his hand and interrupted everyone’s flattery. He said, “Let’s not talk about this anymore. There’s no time to lose. Taking advantage that the other party has just been defeated, we’ll hold their Chief hostage and completely take down Yellow Pond Mountain.”

“We’ll listen to your instructions!”

Everyone’s expressions turned serious as they agreed.

Zhou Jing turned to look at the dejected Xu Gui and said in a deep voice, “Chief Xu, we’ll rely on you to quell the chaos and make all the people submit. You won’t play any tricks, right?”

Xu Gui came back to his senses and smiled bitterly. He bowed and made a ‘please’ gesture.

“Brother Chen Feng, your martial arts is divine. I admire you and will never go back on my word. I’ll persuade the entire stronghold to submit. I hope Brother won’t blame me for my previous offense and treat my brothers well.”

At this point, he knew that there was nothing he could do. He could only put away his thoughts and truly surrender.

In addition, when Zhou Jing displayed his divine power, not only did he shatter the cliff, but he also shattered everyone’s understanding of martial arts.

Xu Gui was scared half to death. He was extremely respectful to Zhou Jing now and did not dare to provoke him.

Guo Haishen was afraid that Zhou Jing would be violent and say something that would cause trouble, so he took over the conversation.

“When two armies fight, both sides rely on their own abilities. Since you’ve submitted, we won’t make things difficult for you.”

Although he was resentful of Deng Zhi’s encirclement back then, in order to take care of the overall situation, he gave up on teaching this person a lesson to appease the leader of Yellow Pond Mountain.

In any case, this person’s official position had been implicated and lost. He would take it that his second brother had already avenged him.

Hearing this, Xu Gui heaved a sigh of relief. He lowered his head and said, “Thank you, heroes. I’ll persuade my men now.”

Accompanied by everyone, Xu Gui quickly visited the surrendered soldiers of Yellow Pond Mountain and kept persuading them.

He had always been quite prestigious. The surrendered soldiers of Yellow Pond Mountain were in a panic and did not know what kind of treatment they would receive from the enemy. Hearing that even the stronghold master had submitted, they instead felt relieved.