High Martial Arts: Gains one point of health per second, sweeping across the heavens.

On the screen, Nangong Bo saw Su Jie's calm yet murderous gaze, and his heart skipped a beat.

"What happened to War God Su Jie this time?"

"It's nothing serious," Su Jie said calmly, as if he were just saying the weather was nice. "It's just that a few rats sent by the Zhao family of Jinling almost bit my students. I just cleaned them up."

Nangong Bo's eyelids twitched: "The Zhao family? How dare they..."

"Of course they dare," Su Jie interrupted him, "because I was too 'amiable' before. Envoy Nangong, please convey my message to the Zhao family, or rather, tell Zhao Xuankong directly—"

Su Jie leaned forward slightly, and even through the light barrier, the terrifying pressure emanating from the God of War seemed to penetrate space itself.

"First, immediately hand over all members of the Zhao family involved in this attack and send them to the northern frontier to atone for their sins."

"Secondly, the Zhao family shall compensate my students for mental distress, nutritional expenses, lost wages, etc., totaling 10 billion star dollars, plus 100,000 federal contribution points."

"Third, Zhao Xuankong himself knelt down and kowtowed to me and my students to apologize."

"The above three conditions are subject to a 24-hour deadline. Failure to meet the deadline, or failure to meet any one of them..."

Su Jie's lips curled into a contemptuous smile: "I wouldn't mind going to Jinling myself, demolishing the Zhao family's ancestral hall, and helping them 'clean house'."

Nangong Bo gasped in shock. These conditions were tantamount to defecating on the Zhao family's head and then expecting them to hand him tissues!

Especially the third point, which requires the Zhao family's eldest elder to kneel and apologize, is even more painful than killing Zhao Xuankong! If the Zhao family agrees, they will lose face in Jinling, in Tiandu Province, and even in the upper echelons of the entire Federation!

"Su Jie! Isn't this too radical? The Zhao family's ancestor was once honored as the Federation's God of War. They have a deep foundation, and the Federation is deeply entrenched..." Nangong Bo tried to dissuade him.

"Radical?" Su Jie sneered. "When they attacked my people, why didn't they seem radical? Envoy Nangong, I'm not discussing this with you; I'm informing you and the Federal Parliament behind you."

His tone was resolute: "This is how I, Su Jie, conduct myself. If someone treats me with respect, I will treat them with even greater respect. If someone offends me, I will repay them a hundredfold! Since the Zhao family has chosen to be my enemy, they must be prepared to pay the price!"

"As for the Federation's rules?" A hint of disdain flashed in Su Jie's eyes. "My fists are the rules!"

After saying that, he cut off the communication, giving Nangong Bo no chance to persuade him again.

Nangong Bo stared at the disappearing light screen, his expression shifting between different emotions, before finally letting out a long sigh. He immediately reported Su Jie's exact words and attitude to his superiors, word for word. He knew that a huge upheaval was about to erupt in Tiandu Province, and even the Federation.

……

Su Jie didn't care how much the federal high command would be shaken. After issuing the ultimatum, he acted as if nothing had happened and continued his "multi-threaded operation".

"Once this finger bone is refined, the next one... well, the tip of the right ring finger. Sigh, one after another, it's so tedious."

Fortunately, things are going well in the experimental class. It's quite rewarding to see these kids making such rapid progress.

After the Zhao family matter is settled, I need to go explore the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Palace dungeon world. Relying solely on automatic health regeneration will likely be far from sufficient to upgrade my basic martial bones to spiritual bones later on.

While keeping an eye on the progress of the martial arts tempering, he also observed the students' recovery and training through the light screen.

After the attack, the remaining 39 trainees were not intimidated. Instead, they became like polished gems, their eyes sharpening and their training becoming even more relentless.

On this day, almost everyone upgraded their Martial Soul to the second tier, and the resulting boost to their physical bodies caused their combat power to surge.

Tie Zhu was even able to hunt down monsters with a combat power of around 500 points on his own. Although the process was still thrilling, the light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Su Jie looked at all this and nodded in satisfaction. This was more like what his "Su Jie Class" should look like.

……

The 24-hour deadline passed in the blink of an eye.

The Zhao family of Jinling did not respond at all.

They neither handed over the murderer, nor offered compensation, let alone an apology.

Clearly, the Zhao family chose to fight to the bitter end. They might believe that Su Jie wouldn't dare to actually march on Jinling, or that he was waiting for mediation from the Federation's higher-ups, or perhaps... he had something else to rely on.

Inside the cultivation room, Su Jie slowly opened his eyes, a cold glint flashing in them.

"Time's up."

He stood up, his blood and qi trembled slightly, and a crisp resonance came from the bone at the end of his right ring finger, which had just been tempered.

[The tip of the right ring finger has been successfully tempered! Base combat power +10000 points!]

[Actual base combat strength: 247.2 million points!]

"Perfect, let's use the Zhao family to test the hardness of my newly tempered finger bones."

He took a step forward, and his figure disappeared from the training room.

The next moment, a golden-red streak of light tore through the clouds above Linjiang City and shot toward Jinling City at a terrifying speed that exceeded the speed of sound!

Enraged, Su Jie personally went to Jinling!

All the powers in Tiandu Province have turned their attention to that ancient city with a history of thousands of years. A storm is about to break!

Su Jie transformed into a golden-red streak of light, like a meteorite tearing through the sky, making no attempt to conceal its terrifying pressure of up to 247.2 million points, and ruthlessly descended upon the sky above Jinling City!

The entire city of Jinling was instantly enveloped by this tangible pressure. Every martial artist in Jinling trembled violently, as if the end of the world had arrived. The city's defense system sounded a piercing alarm, but no one dared to raise their energy shields—who would dare to stop a Federal War God who was clearly arriving with overwhelming fury?

"Zhao Xuankong! Get out here!"

Su Jie's voice was like rolling thunder, resounding throughout Jinling City. Every word contained immense spiritual pressure, crashing down on the direction of the Zhao family mansion.

Deep within the Zhao family mansion, in an ancient and quiet cultivation room, an old man with a withered face but sharp eyes like an eagle suddenly opened his eyes, his aura surging. He was none other than Zhao Qiankun, the patriarch of the Zhao family, whose combat power reached 150 million points!

His face was extremely grim: "This junior actually dared to come! And how could his aura be so strong?!"

He originally thought that even if Su Jie was exceptionally talented and had just been promoted to War God, his combat power would only be 1.2 to 1.3 million points at most. With his profound foundation of 1.5 million combat power and the array formation foundation he learned from the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Palace dungeon world, he would be able to make the other party back down, or even keep him there and force him to reveal the secrets of the Martial Soul Awakening Method!

This is the real reason why the Zhao family was willing to take such a risk and send people to arrest the students in the experimental class! What they coveted was the core inheritance that those students might possess, which could change the fate of their family!

But at this moment, feeling Su Jie's terrifying pressure that far exceeded his expectations, Zhao Qiankun had an ominous premonition for the first time.