“You piece of crap, you can’t get anything done!”
Feng Zhen the Bloodless Sword stared at Mu Shun who was supported by servants and felt incensed.
He started to doubt why he had chosen Mu Shun as his direct disciple? Mu Shun had indeed worked hard in the past and managed the Star Wind City well. Every year, he offered up huge wealth. But in the past few days, Mu Shun had made a fool of himself in succession and was beaten up by the scums from the inferior world. That had made Feng Zhen look bad, too.
At this moment, Mu Shun could only submit to humiliation.
He never thought that Guo Yuqing, a man who came from the inferior world, would be so tough and powerful. His strength was way beyond his expectation. In the fight, Guo Yuqing fiercely injured him just as much as he harmed him. Then, Guo Yuqing made his escape along with Zuo Qingqing and one of her subordinates.
“Master, please, listen to my explanation. I did all that because I wanted to show my loyalty to you…” Mu Shun dropped to his knees with a thud. He had no choice but to ask the disciples around him who were supporting him to leave, leaving only the two of them in the room. Then, kneeling on the ground in great pain, he helplessly told his master his original plan.
In the end, he even shed some tears and implored, “Master, you have to believe that I did all that for you.”
After hearing his words, Feng Zhen’s face slowly softened.
It turned out that there was such an inside story.
“You can get up,” he said in a softer tone.
Mu Shun heaved a sigh of relief and thanked his master in a hurry.
“Master, that Zuo Qingqing is indeed a charming virgin. Furthermore, her cultivation is extraordinary and her Heavenly Yin Origin is extremely pure. She would be an excellent Incense Stove. And she could never escape from this Star Wind City.” As there were only the two of them in the room, Mu Shun could finally speak without scruples.
“Good.” Feng Zhen nodded, a little tempted.
Mu Shun then added, “As for that Guo Yuqing, I’m sure that he is Li Mu’s best friend back on the Divine Land. As long as I catch him, I can definitely force Li Mu to show up. Then, with Master’s great strength, it will be easy to catch him. And the rewards promised by the major sects in the Brilliance Immortal Star Region will all be in Master’s pocket.”
Feng Zhen chuckled.
He raised his hand and channeled natural qi into Mu Shun’s body to heal his injuries. He then bestowed him another token and said, “Alright, but you should be discreet. We must keep this between ourselves. From now on, you can mobilize all the forces of Tianyi Palace in Star Wind City. Now, take the law enforcement team to locate the targets.”
“Thank you, Master.” Mu Shun was thrilled.
“Mind you, since we’re going to do it, then we should do it without mercy. Don’t let go of anyone who knows about this. Once this plot was exposed and known to other sects or spread on the Immortal net, there would always be some people who would like to resort to the clunky Alliance Law and make a big fuss over it. Although the Tianyi Palace would not be afraid of that, we do not want to cause too much trouble. So, do a neat job this time and don’t let me down again,” Feng Zhen said.
Mu Shun immediately vowed, “Master, don’t worry. I’ll kill them all. I’d rather kill ten thousand people by mistake than let one of the targets slip away. When it’s all finished, hehe, I’ll put all the blame on Li Mu the Wild Broadsword.”
Feng Zhen nodded with satisfaction.
That was a good idea.
Li Mu the Wild Broadsword was already a notorious killer known throughout the Brilliance Immortal Star Region. It was a perfect plan to make a scapegoat of him.
This way, they would achieve two things in one stroke.
…
Like a plume of smoke, Li Mu ghostly skulked to the ancient mansion of the All-directional Star Bureau.
A burst of lightning crossed the sky followed by a clap of thunder. Then, all of a sudden, it started to pour.
Li Mu used his body-movement skill to easily avoid the disciples of the Tianyi Palace guarding outside the ancient house and sneaked into the courtyard.
“Splash, splash, splash!”
The rain was getting heavier.
The raindrops clattered against the bluestone tiles and walls. The house after the war was in a mess. There were almost just ruins. Corpses haphazardly lay in the rain, and blood mixed with the rain flowed everywhere.
Nearly all the 40 members of the All-directional Star Bureau had been killed.
And almost all of them were murdered ruthlessly. Each of the bodies was covered in cuts, sporting more than one fatal wound. Broken limbs were everywhere. It was as if a huge meat grinder had just run through this place.
Li Mu saw a young face among the dead.
He recognized that the victim was one of the two young men in handyman clothes who came with the girl in white to his courtyard of the Immortal Pavilion in the daytime to deliver his goods. He should be the one called Older Liu.
A few hours ago, this young man was still alive and kicking. But now, he was lying in a puddle of blood with his face facing the sky, cold and not breathing. His thumb had been cut off, but his hand was still grabbing a broken sword. The fury on the young man’s face had frozen, and he seemed to be shouting right before he died!
Li Mu sighed softly.
The cruelty of outer space was obviously much more shocking than that of the inferior world.
Even in a so-called big city like Star Wind City where the law was strict on the surface, the weak could still be taken down silently at any time.
He searched the whole ancient house, but he didn’t find Guo Yuqing, the girl in white, or that Younger Liu. So, he roughly guessed that the three people who had escaped as Ding Yi said were those three.
Judging from the fierce battle at the scene, the three of them were probably all injured, and their injuries were not light.
Li Mu cast Taoist magic arts on the spot and replayed the scene. He wanted to find some clues to see where Guo Yuqing and the other two had escaped to.
Right at this moment, the message token suddenly showed that there was a new message.
“Sect Leader, I got something. They are blocked by the law enforcement team in an alley on East Star Street.” Ding Yi’s voice came from the message token, sounding extremely anxious.
…
Blood dripped down Guo Yuqing’s arm.
There were all kinds of cuts on his body, big and small. It was as if he was being dismembered.
From the opposite side of the alley, ten figures with black armors and copper masks were closing in on him.
It was the Dark Night Law Enforcement Team of the Tianyi Palace.
In the sky above, there were several flying shuttles barring the way in the air.
There was no way out.
Guo Yuqing knew that it was impossible to escape by flight.
When staying on the ground, he could still hide behind the packed buildings or in the corners of the winding streets. But once in the air, without the cover of the buildings, he and the other two would be easily surrounded. Then, the three of them would surely die.
Guo Yuqing carefully observed the surroundings and made a decision inwardly.
Charge!
They had no choice but to fight off the encirclement of the law enforcement team and rush into the opposite alley before they could get rid of the enemies for now and have a chance to breathe.
The brave one wins when coming face to face with an adversary.
Against the heavy rain, Guo Yuqing reached for his back and made a grab. The next moment, a bizarre-looking bow appeared in his hand. He held the bow in his left hand, and his right hand kept pulling the bowstring. In silence, transparent rain arrows darted across the rain in an incredibly inconspicuous fashion.
On the opposite side.
A member of the law enforcement team, who was wearing the armor of the Tianyi Palace and rushing to the forefront, was suddenly shrouded by a burst of blood-red light. Countless transparent arrows pierced his body as if it were a sieve, and then he went limp and fell down.
At the same time, Guo Yuqing stamped his left foot on the ground.
The Heart Heavenly Shoot’s profound power was unleashed.
In an instant, the rain on the ground turned into sharp and ice-cold water blades and abruptly bounced up like blooming crab claw chrysanthemum. Numerous water blades were all over the sky as if flying feathers, which then stabbed at the members of the law enforcement team all at once.
“Watch out!” someone in the law enforcement team shouted.
The remaining nine members of the law enforcement team raised their swords almost at the same time to counter the attacks.
Such actions disturbed their originally neat charging formation in an instant. They no longer imposed the previous sense of oppression on their enemies. What was more, they even revealed a gap in the formation.
“Follow me closely,” Guo Yuqing shouted.
The bow in his hand was split into two pieces, each of which turned into a peculiar machete. Holding the machetes, Guo Yuqing raced like a mad tiger and darted into the law enforcement team like a bolt of lightning.
Younger Liu, who was also covered in blood, supported Zuo Qingqing, who was a little inconvenient to move due to her injured leg, and closely followed Guo Yuqing.
A fierce battle at close quarter broke out.
In just ten seconds, the battle was ended.
Guo Yuqing killed his way out of the alley with Younger Liu and Zuo Qingqing.
They left ten corpses lying on the ground.
The members of the law enforcement team were all killed.
The three of them stumbled into the alley on the opposite side. The densely-packed buildings became the best cover for them. The flying shuttles hovering in the sky to monitor them soon lost track of them.
Half an hour later.
In an alley in the rain.
Under a big tree, Guo Yuqing and the other two halted and took a short break.
The fierce fight and the desperate run had consumed a lot of their strength and made them overwrought.
It was not until this moment that Zuo Qingqing and Younger Liu were shocked to find that Guo Yuqing, who had faced the pressure alone and protected them the whole time, was seriously injured in that battle.
In addition to dozens of cuts of different sizes on his body, there was also a broken sword on his back. There was a cut on his abdomen that almost sliced him into two pieces, and he was stumbling a little.
If it were an ordinary person injured like this, he would have long collapsed to the ground.
But on Guo Yuqing’s face, his expression was so calm that it looked a bit scary. He was like a war robot made of steel. He was covered all over with cuts and bruises. Still, there was not a trace of pain or fear on his face.
Raindrops streamed down through the gaps between leaves.
The water on the ground had become ankle-deep.
Bolts of lightning pierced through the clouds. There were about two hours to go before dawn. Now was the darkest time.
Anger and grief surged in Younger Liu’s eyes.
He saw with his own eyes that his friends, who he had been playing with since he was a child, were killed in the yard, including his brother, Older Liu. At the last moment of his life, Older Liu tightly grabbed the killer in black and urged him to run. That scene kept flashing back in his head…
Younger Liu covered his face in agony.
Tears mixed with rain flowed out from the slits between her fingers, which was bone-chillingly cold.
Zuo Qingqing gently patted Younger Liu on the shoulder.
“We will definitely avenge them.”
There was a kind of resolute in the girl’s eyes that he had never seen before.
“This kind of massacre without a reason is against the laws of the Star Alliance. Although those killers had covered their faces, I’m sure that they were members of the Tianyi Palace… Even the Tianyi Palace can’t be so unscrupulous. I swear that I will make their crimes known to the public,” remarked Zuo Qingqing.
Lest they be discovered by the pursuers, The three of them didn’t run their cultivation methods to resist the rain. By this time, they had been soaked through.
Guo Yuqing didn’t say anything.
He had to seize every second to recover his physical strength and natural qi.
