by Zhi Bai
His heart couldn't take it anymore.
"You all... What are you doing?! "
The employees guarding the Gao Family's casino turned pale with fright when they saw the several hundred strong men marching towards them. That's right, they normally didn't care about the Gao Family's strength. However, when faced with hundreds of men who were brimming with killing intent, how could he possibly muster up that much strength?
Du Shoushou kept holding onto Mirror Reflection Temple's signboard the entire time: "It was taken from me!"
The head shop assistant nodded his head and bowed, "Master Du, Master Du, Master Du have something to say. We can be considered old neighbors. If there's anything we can't talk about, let's not fight yet. "
Du Shoushou grabbed the man's neck and threw him behind: "I didn't come to say anything, I came to fight!"
With a chop of his hand and a slash of his blade, the Brilliant Mirror Temple's signboard was split open from the center. The signboard split into two and fell from the top. Du Shoushou swept his leg out and the two half signboard immediately flew into the casino, slapping the two Gao Clan employees who were charging at him below.
"Those who bet, I will count to three and leave."
With a clang, Du Shoushou cut the blade on the table, and shouted at the people who were still gambling in the house.
Some of them looked at Du Shoushou as if they were looking at a retard, then laughed mockingly, "For a casino in the Gao Family, there's actually someone who dares to come and cause trouble. I don't even know where this country bumpkin came from."
"One!"
Du Shoushou ignored him, raising a finger and shouting.
A man dressed in black robes walked down from the second floor: "Isn't this Heavenly Awakening Sect's Master Du? "What, you want to come to my casino for fun?"
Du Shoushou nodded his head: "You're here to make fun of us, second!"
When he finished his second shout, everyone burst into laughter.
"Ha ha-ha ha, you truly do not know the immensity of heaven and earth. What kind of place was the Gao Family's casino? Could it be that no one had ever heard of someone daring to trespass into the government offices of the Fanggu, but no one dared to trespass into the Gao Family's gambling den? Someone from the Tiantong Palace would dare to cause trouble in Swallow King, and nobody would dare to cause trouble in the gambling den of the Gao Family. "
"There are all kinds of people here. The world is not peaceful, and there are many idiots."
"Scram! We are being held up by you!"
One of them grabbed a handful of silver from the table and threw it towards Du Shoushou: "You lack money? If you are short of money, I will give you some. Once you take the silver, hurry up and get lost. "If Grandpa wins again later, I'll give you a hundred taels to buy a girl in the building!"
The black-cloaked man laughed coldly as he walked over: "Please, Master Du, are you still waiting for me to make a move?"
"Three!"
After Du Shoushou finished counting three times, he took a deep breath, "Then don't blame me."
He rushed forward and the black-robed man's expression changed. He raised his fist and punched towards Du Shoushou's face. After arriving at Fanggu, Du Shoushou had never had a good fight before, now he was like a fierce tiger descending the mountain. The black robed man looked strong, but he was younger than Du Shoushou. His right fist came smashing over, while Du Shoushou's right fist also came smashing over. The fists of the two collided in midair, and with a 'kacha' sound, the arm of the black-robed man was broken.
Not only his arm, but all five fingers of his right fist were broken. The bones of his forearm were broken and protruded from the flesh. There were still bloody threads of flesh on them.
Du Shoushou's punch broke the black-robed man's arm, and before the man could react, Du Shoushou's knee hit his lower abdomen. The black-cloaked man let out a muffled groan as his body curled up and fell to the ground.
Du Shoushou picked him up and threw him backwards, "From today onwards, this is Heavenly Awakening Sect's territory!"
He pulled the long blade out of the table and hacked at it. The saber Qi drew a straight line, and wherever it went, all the tables and chairs were split apart.
"Scram!"
Du Shoushou shouted loudly, and those gamblers who were scared silly finally realised that Du Shoushou was serious. They all stood up and ran out, and the tables and chairs were overturned.
Some of them felt that their relationship with the Gao Family's casino was not bad, so they went forward to interrogate them, only to be sent flying by Du Shoushou's big mouth.
The ten odd waiters in the Gao Family casino tried to counterattack, but they were quickly subdued and tied up like dumplings by the people from Heavenly Awakening Sect. When it came to fighting, who knew how much stronger the men of Heavenly Awakening Sect were compared to the employees of the Gao Family's casino. Those waiters were used to using the power of the Gao Family to fake their own. No one dared to provoke them. And these people of the Heavenly Awakening Sect, were mostly criminals gathered from the borders, who did not have a murderous aura on them.
In less than 10 minutes, the 123rd store in the Gao Family Casino was taken by Du Shoushou.
"Leave some people here, the rest will follow me to the next house!"
Du Shoushou bellowed, and brought his men to the next Gao Clan's casino.
At the same time.
The battle within the Tiantong Palace was on a completely different level from that between Du Shoushou and the others. For some reason, the Tiantong Palace's army suddenly retreated. Even if it was a normal rotation, there was still no one coming. Not only that, even the palace maids and eunuchs in Tiantong Palace felt that it was about to rain like ants, and kept on running out. Everyone had their own bags in their hands, looking as if they were escaping for their lives.
The East Warm Pavilion.
Mu Changyan looked at the wine flags outside the window in a daze, and asked An Chengli who was standing at the side: "How many people are still willing to stay?"
An Chengli replied, "Reporting to the King, all of the men that we have gathered over the years have all come. On the surface, there were two hundred and sixty-two guards, but there were more than a hundred hidden in the shadows. Most of them were young, so their cultivation wasn't high. Sixty-four Sumeru Stage and above were arranged outside the Eastern Warm Pavilion. Above Captive Stage, there were nine. Lower Completion Stage's... "Two."
Mu Changyan laughed bitterly: "They have been in operation for so many years, and in the end, the ones who are willing to risk their lives for me, are only these few hundred people."
An Chengli shook his head. Some people are still observing. As long as the general situation is set in stone, those who are watching will impatiently come to express their loyalty. "
Mu Changyan replied: "It's not that easy, there are some people who are looking forward to death by themselves."
He asked An Chengli, "Now that you can be considered to have been exposed, I originally planned to let you hide it deeper so that you have a way out in the future. Yet, you refused to hide and chose to die with me. "
An Chengli laughed, "Your Majesty, I've thought since I was young that I definitely am not an ordinary person. Even if he wasn't a peerless hero in the future, he would still be someone who could leave his name in history. But I really don't want others to see An Chengli in the history books together with the three words great scoundrel. "Anyways, they are going to die anyway. I still feel that it's better to die openly and straightforwardly."
"Hahahaha!"
Mu Changyan laughed, "Well said!"
At this moment, countless black clothed people rushed in from outside the high wall. Large groups of them moved towards the Eastern Warm Pavilion like ants who had found food, looking at the scene in a dense crowd that caused one's heart to go numb.
"Kill!"
Someone shouted loudly. The man in black started to ru
sh towards the East Warm Pavilion.
"Guard!"
Duan Ren, who was standing outside the Eastern Warm Pavilion, shouted and took out his blade.
All the guards picked up the crossbows in their hands and aimed them at the black-clothed men who were approaching.
"Now is the time when the King needs us the most, and it is also the time for us to prove ourselves. With the King present, great swallow was happy. For the Swallow King, for the great swallow, even if it means death, there will be no regrets! "
Duan Ren pointed his blade forward: "Kill!"
All the crossbows were released at the same time, and a dense cluster of crossbow bolts swept towards the assassin. The men in black who were at the front were cannon fodder that attracted attention. In an instant, a large portion of them fell to the ground. This was probably the biggest disgrace the State of Yan had faced ever since they were founded. The Swallow King was actually surrounded and attacked by thousands of assassins in the palace. This could also be the biggest turning point of the State of Yan since its founding, being its survival or destruction.
Countless men in black fell down, but even more men in black rushed up, quickly reaching the outer perimeter of the guards' defenses.
Dozens of people wearing long black robes were walking through the palace entrance with large strides.
Everyone wore masks, only the person walking at the front revealed his face.
His face was gloomy, it was Gao Yuanhu.
Chapter 217 - Inviting the Great King to return to heaven
Gao Yuanhu no longer had anything to be afraid of, so he showed his true face to others. Even now, he still didn't understand why the Gao Family had suddenly reached such a state. Since the Old Master of the Gao Clan, why did the Jianghu Empire, which the Gao Clan had spent more than a hundred years to construct, collapse in an instant? So much so that they had no choice but to take the move to assassinate the Swallow King, and after that move was taken, even if the Gao Family succeeded, how long could they last?
The empress dowager would not allow the Gao family to continue existing.
But now, he could only take one step at a time.
Before he left, the old lady from the Gao Family told him that no matter how many people died, he would still kill Swallow King. Then, taking advantage of the chaos, the Gao Family decided to leave the Fanggu. They could earn back the lost properties, but if they did not let go of what they had lost, the Gao Family would never be able to recover.
Gao Yuanhu asked before he left. Why not just when everyone thought that the Gao Family was going to make a move?
The old lady bitterly smiled and said … Do you think you can escape? The empress dowager's men were all staring at the Gao family.
Gao Yuanhu felt somewhat sorrowful. He felt like that warrior from many years ago, who had brought a squire to the Youguo to assassinate the King of Hell.
But would he leave such a reputation in the history books?
Absolutely not, he would be despised by his descendants.
But there was no other way. Killing the Swallow King and then retreating would be the best outcome.
The black-clothed men that he brought with him continued to rush forward, falling layer after layer under the crossbows of the Tiantong Palace's guards. Gao Yuanhu was a little angry, a little angry, didn't they say that the Swallow King was a puppet? Why were there so many Death Soldiers by Swallow King's side?
However, there was no way out now, so he could only charge forward.
Moreover, all of those black clad assassins were cannon fodder. No matter how much of a loss Gao Yuanhu dies for, it wouldn't hurt. Using the death of these cannon fodder to draw out the hidden power around Swallow King, he would not lose out. The dozens of people who followed him into Tiantong Palace were the main force of today. These people were all experts, the kind of strength that the Gao Family could openly muster. Of course, other than him, there was also a team of the Gao Family that was waiting for an opportunity to kill him in one strike.
In other words, the assassins in black who died were just cannon fodder, and it, Gao Yuanhu, was the same. Gao Yuanhu himself was well aware of this point, but just like how the empress dowager used her power to force the Gao Family to kill the Swallow King, he had no choice but to walk forward.
The dozens of experts followed behind him, and none of them looked calm. The reason they didn't dare to show their faces was because they were different from Gao Yuanhu. Gao Yuanhu was the head manager of the Gao Family on the surface, but as for the person in charge, Gao Yuanhu could not escape no matter what. But as long as they did not show their faces, and killed Swallow King today, they could immediately leave Fanggu and fly far away. They would never return to this damned place, and no one would know their identities.
The number of the black robed assassins was shocking. Outside the East Warm Pavilion was a one-meter-tall platform. Below the platform was an empty space. By now, the corpses had piled up at least a meter high, beyond the platform.
The Tiantong Palace guards also suffered heavy losses, but their fighting spirit was much greater than the Gao Family's. An Zheng had discovered a problem a long time ago … Those young cultivators that were captured by Mu Changyan treated Mu Changyan as a god, in other words … Mu Changyan had founded a sect and he was the sect master. Those people seemed to have been brainwashed and were absolutely loyal to him.
When the man in black fell to the ground, the assassins behind him had already started to feel fear.
As the commander of the Black Tortoise Camp, the young cultivator whom Mu Changyan valued the most had a keen intuition and decisive reaction. When he saw that the assassins started to show signs of retreat, he pointed his saber forward. "Attack!"
Over a hundred guards followed behind him and started to counterattack the man in black. The number of black clothed men was at least five times more than the number of guards, but against those fearless young cultivators, the black clothed men were defeated very quickly.
Duan Ren's hand raised his blade and cut the black clothed man in front of him into two pieces. Those well-trained guards took him as an arrow, and like a sharp knife, they stabbed into the hearts of the group of men in black. Then, the charging troops began to spread out, forming a fan that expanded the result of their battle. The group of men in black felt as if a wedge had been forced through, and another hole had been forced open.
The guards' eyes turned red, and they continued to wave their sabers around to kill.
On the other side, Gao Yuanhu was leading a few dozen experts who did not even bother to look at the battle that was taking place, and with large strides, he walked towards the Eastern Warm Pavilion. It was as if they were people from another world, blind to the rivers of blood that flowed from this side.
Nine experts of Captive Stage led dozens of Sumeru Stage cultivators over from all around the Eastern Warm Pavilion, welcoming Gao Yuanhu and the others as they walked over. The people on both sides looked very calm. Their pace was steady, neither too fast nor too slow. The battle on the other side of the battlefield was in stark contrast to the slaughter on the other side. It was the same group of tens of people, silent and solemn.
"You are all sinners."
The leading expert from Tiantong Palace said coldly.
Gao Yuanhu waved his hand: "Kill them all."
The cultivators behind him began to increase their speed, and then they attacked.
Flowing light and overflowing color.
In the midst of the bloody light, each and every attack of the magic tools actually had a unique sense of beauty that overflowed with brilliance and color. There was no doubt that the main color was red.
When one reached the Captive Stage, one could be considered an expert. In this world, Lower Completion Stage s were not common, who could not be considered an absolute genius to be able to reach the Lower Completion Stage? He had to bitterly train for half a lifetime in order to reach such heights. And once one reache
d the Captive Stage, one could basically walk in the martial arts world without having to worry too much. This was because the experts of the Lower Completion Stage were all Grandmasters, how could they so easily fight and kill.
The experts of the Higher Completion Stage were rarely seen.
But now, with so many Captive Stage and Sumeru Stage experts on both sides, the battle had begun. In just a few moments, the empty ground in Tiantong Palace had been overturned.
The leader who was covered in blood was called Meng Kai Shan, he was an invisible guard of the Mu Clan. From the time he was of the grandfather's generation, he was a guard of the Swallow King, but he had never appeared in public. He had originally thought that he would be like his father and the others, living a peaceful life. There wouldn't be any ups and downs, and there wouldn't even be any ripples. When he became old, he would receive a large amount of silver, leave the Tiantong Palace, and find a safe place to live in seclusion.
But he didn't have the luck of his father and grandfather. He was at the worst.
He had ripped open an opponent with his bare hands, who was also an expert of Captive Stage. In the capital, such experts were rarely seen. Perhaps he was still an acquaintance when the mask was taken off. Just like how Meng Kai Shan was an invisible guard, the dead man was also invisible in the Gao Family. The two of them might have drunk together, but neither of them knew each other's true identities.
However, even though Meng Kai Shan had torn his opponent's hand into two, he did not remove the black cloth from his face. What he did not want to see was truly the face of an acquaintance. He only wanted to kill people, kill all those people, and then return home alive.
Then, he saw Gao Yuanhu.
"You are all sinners."
Meng Kai Shan said again with a sad tone.
Gao Yuanhu nodded: "I am a sinner."
He walked forward, and Meng Kai attacked.
He had no technique to speak of, just a simple punch. But at his level, this punch was powerful enough.