280: Ye Beixuan

"What did you do to Yu Gang?" Li Yuan asked.

"Nothing much. He invited me to be a guest, and as a gesture of courtesy, I'm also having him sit for a while," Xu Le replied.

What bad intentions could Xu Le possibly have? He was just asking him to help test the strength of the Spirit Treasure, and once the Spirit Treasure testing was complete, he could leave.

As for when the testing would be finished, he could only indicate that there was still significant room for improvement, and the path ahead was long and arduous.

Li Yuan finally determined that Xu Le was not the impulsive or hot-headed type. He tapped on the table and said, "Yu Gang is a member of the Xuanwu Legion and the captain of the 11th ranked squad. If you let him go, I will pretend this never happened."

"And if I don't?" Xu Le was completely indifferent.

"Otherwise, you are provoking the entire Xuanwu Legion and setting yourself against all of humanity!"

Xu Le sneered, "Same old routine. Don't you have any new lines?"

"Can I take it that you look down on me and look down on the entire Xuanwu Legion? Huh?"

On the last word, Li Yuan's voice was high-pitched; it was the rhythm of anger that could barely be suppressed and was on the verge of erupting.

Zhao Shanhe was trembling on the side. He was just a small fry, and in front of these people, he didn't even dare to say an extra word, fearing he might suck up to the wrong person and get kicked away.

Hearing Li Yuan's angry final question, he shivered and collapsed to the ground, deeply understanding what it meant that "Divine Might" cannot be offended!

"Of course. How you interpret it is your freedom!" Xu Le was completely unafraid, his hands in his pockets.

After destroying the Golden Buddha, unless a True God descended, he feared no one.

Although his army of paper figurines couldn't beat a Blazing Sun Realm expert in a one-on-one fight, after Yu Gang's testing, he knew that a hundred or so paper figurines could defeat an Elementary Blazing Sun Realm. As for Intermediate and Advanced, if a hundred weren't enough, a thousand would suffice. If that still didn't work, there were three thousand, ten thousand.

The army of paper figurines could be made at will.

Whether using paper or leaves, they could be easily rolled out, and the consumption of the Ghost was negligible.

Xu Le planned to get some Materials when he had time to make a few high-quality paper figurines; by then, he wouldn't need the Ghost to act at all.

"You... what do you mean?" Li Yuan clutched his chest, feeling that he should have kept some emergency heart medication on hand.

Xu Le's response was not the answer he wanted. In his imagination, the other party should have been trembling in fear, but instead, the guy not only didn't tremble, he even pushed his luck, making him wonder for a moment if he had misheard.

"It means exactly what you heard." Xu Le put his hands back into his pockets.

Li Yuan finally realized it—hands in pockets, he didn't even know who he was dealing with.

How dare he! How dare he! Pfft! Li Yuan spat blood and fainted.

Zhao Shanhe looked at Xu Le tremblingly, then pointed at the unconscious Li Yuan on the ground: "I, I, I will take him to... to the hospital."

So he was a stutterer! Xu Le nodded: "Go ahead!"

Zhao Shanhe breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, he had thought the greatest nightmare of his life was the evil spirit that had almost wiped out his squad, but recalling it now, he had completely forgotten the appearance of that evil spirit, and his mind was filled only with a handsome youth without a single flaw.

The door to the conference room was pushed open. A tall, upright middle-aged man walked in hurriedly, followed by Xiong Jingxiang and an unfamiliar middle-aged man.

Seeing Li Yuan spitting blood on the floor, a flash of astonishment crossed the man's face, and he reached out his hand toward Xu Le: "Hello, my name is Ye Beixuan."

Ye Beixuan! The commander of the Xuanwu Legion.

When he was in the Bright Moon Realm, he once single-handedly held off four Blazing Sun Realm evil spirits, and even achieved a Breakthrough during the battle, killing three of the evil spirits in succession.

At the age of 35, he ascended to the Peak of the Blazing Sun Realm; even among the five great legions, no one dared to say they could defeat him.

It was even rumored that he only needed one great battle to break through to an even higher Realm.

However, he was always busy with official duties, and few people had seen him in person.

Upon hearing this name, Zhao Shanhe jumped up in excitement and saluted: "Commander, hello!"

Li Yuan, whom he had been halfway through helping up, fell to the ground with a thud.

"Hello!" Xu Le shook his hand back.

"I heard that some of my subordinates were not following the rules, but it seems they have already received their punishment," Ye Beixuan said very sincerely.

Xu Le looked at Xiong Jingxiang, knowing that the other party had good intentions, and smiled at him in acknowledgment.

Ye Beixuan was very polite and had absolutely no air of superiority or bossiness. Instead, he possessed the iron-blooded and capable aura of a soldier; he even showed quite a bit of care for Zhao Shanhe on the side, chatting with him for a few sentences.

After chatting for a while, Ye Beixuan said, "Yu Gang has also come over. He is still alive, right?"

Xu Le frowned and nodded.

Ye Beixuan smiled and said, "Don't misunderstand. We are all adults; one must bear the consequences of the trouble they cause themselves. However, Little Yu has served the legion for many years, and even if there is no merit, there is hard work. Please try to spare his life. As for compensation or whatever, his family can discuss it with you slowly later."

Xu Le: "What if he dies?"

Ye Beixuan's smile froze. He couldn't help but look at Xu Le with new respect and sincerely praised him: "As expected of youthful spirit, just like me back in the day!"

He didn't say anything more after that, and Xu Le seemed to see a trace of loneliness.

Ye Beixuan then changed the subject: "I heard from Xiao Qian that you have a technique for folding leaves into people, and the strength is quite good. Would it be convenient to let me see it?"

"This is called the Paper Control Technique. Whether using paper, leaves, or similar things, I can fold them into whatever I want."

Xu Le directly took out the name tags of the three people on the table and folded them into a dog, a Gourd Baby, and a sailor moon, respectively.

Then, with a single finger, he infused Mental Energy, and the three paper figurines expanded and grew larger, gaining life.

Ye Beixuan watched in amazement. He prepared to touch the sailor moon, but seeing Xu Le's somewhat unfriendly gaze, he changed his mind and touched the Gourd Baby instead.

"Do you mind if I have someone test their combat power?"

"Go ahead!"

"Xiao Qian." "Alright."

The middle-aged man behind Ye Beixuan immediately summoned his evil spirit, which turned out to be a Dragon Turtle covered in a tortoise shell.

Its head and tail resembled a dragon's, and it was covered in golden armor. It looked very... valuable.

The "three" also received Xu Le's command and charged toward the Dragon Turtle.

sailor moon hid in the back casting magic, the Gourd Baby drew its sword for a frontal assault, and the vicious dog circled to the back, presumably having learned some Skill from its distant relative—the hyena.

The Gourd Baby's sword strikes were like rain, each attack hitting the Dragon Turtle's weak points, but the opponent was simply too hard, and it was having trouble cutting through;

The vicious dog approached the Dragon Turtle's tail several times, only to be swept away by it. The one time it managed to get past the tail, it was kicked away by the opponent's legs.

Although the Dragon Turtle was hard, it was constantly being suppressed. Under Xiao Qian's instruction, it feigned a weakness, took three sword strikes from the Gourd Baby, and then immediately dashed, rushing right in front of sailor moon.

"Success!" Xiao Qian was secretly pleased, and then he saw sailor moon brandish its staff and smack it across the Dragon Turtle's face. Its two long, white legs kicked with great fluidity, its melee capability no weaker than the Gourd Baby's.

This... Xiao Qian watched, dumbfounded, with the illusion that he had been deceived.

"Good, it really is a Godly Skill!" Ye Beixuan laughed heartily.

But he wasn't truly obsessed with having them decide a winner. That battle just now had made it very clear: Xu Le's Paper Control Technique used Materials that were easy to obtain, and the combat power of a single paper figurine was not inferior to a Bright Moon Realm Peak expert. To say he was an army of one was no exaggeration.

"How many paper figurines can you create at once?" Ye Beixuan asked.

"Depends on how much paper there is."

"Hiss!" Everyone present couldn't help but gasp. This sentence meant that the cost of creating paper figurines was shockingly low.

Seeing Ye Beixuan's gaze becoming increasingly strange, Xu Le said, "You aren't thinking of locking me in a dark room and having me fold paper figurines for you forever, are you?"

"No! Absolutely not!" Ye Beixuan wasn't stupid; he absolutely could not admit to that at this moment. "I wanted to ask if you are selling this Paper Control Technique, and what is the price?"