"Xur He, do you still think you have the power to make me fall to my knees and beg for your mercy?"
Ye Fan's hands remained folded behind his back as he hovered in mid-air.
An overpowering aura of authority and power exuded from his person and flooded the heavens.
The clouds rolled and churned behind him.
The waters in the lake boiled.
Ye Fan stood in mid-air, defiant of the laws of gravity.
He was a god whose power gave him the right to do so!
Xur He and his men were quaking in their boots.
Sheer terror filled them.
The sight of Ye Fan hovering in mid-air, impenetrable and invincible to their bullets, sent the thousands of men before him shaking with unimaginable fear.
"Dear heavens, who is this man? Whose wrath have we unwittingly incurred?"
The men and women of China feared gods and demons above all else.
These men were but ordinary folk who had lived ordinary lives. They knew nothing of martial arts and of how powerful grandmasters could be.
Ye Fan floated in mid-air before their eyes and could not be hurt by bullets. That made him a god.
In front of this god, these thousands of soldiers lost the bravado and ferocity that they had displayed moments ago.
All that remained was an endless and uncontrollable terror.
Those who were more superstitious had cast their weapons aside, fallen to their knees and begun begging Ye Fan for mercy.
"Almighty god, please spare us!”
"We were acting on the orders of General Xur. This has got nothing to do with us!"
"Look for the one who's responsible, not us."
"Yes, you should seek your revenge on General Xur."
"I'm the only son left in my family. I can't die. Please spare my life!"
Some of the soldiers pleaded loudly.
Cries of fear reverberated in the air.
Fear spread swiftly like a plague.
Upon the first cry, more men began to set their weapons down and plead to the young man hovering in the skies before them.
"What are you doing? A soldier never surrenders without a fight. How dare you cast your weapon aside? Get up! Don't you dare get on to your knees. Shoot! Fire! I command you to fight!"
Xur He wasn't going to give up and accept defeat though.
He continued to yell at his men and curse out loud in spite of the impossible feats that he had seen Ye Fan accomplished.
He didn't believe in gods or demons.
He was convinced that these were mere tricks that Ye Fan had conjured to fool them.
He continued to bark commands at his men, demanding that they pick up their weapons and shoot their enemy down.
He sent hard kicks at some of those soldiers who had fallen to their knees and were begging for mercy.
"Cowards! You're all cowards who are unworthy of respect! Get up right now, you useless pieces of trash! He's just a young punk. How can you be frightened of a young punk like him? Get up right now and fight! I'll kill you if you don't!" yelled Xur He like a man gone mad. His eyes looked crazed.
Any ordinary man would have gotten mad at such abuse, what more these hotblooded soldiers.
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