Li Chengyi paid no heed to the clamorous so-called old acquaintances; his attention fixed on the three lurking infected individuals in line.
In this location, it certainly wasn’t feasible to make a move, but... if they changed the place...
The trio felt uneasy under his gaze, suspecting they had been exposed, yet not daring to confirm it. Up to now, no one had been able to accurately detect the anomalies of the lurking agents.
The three exchanged covert glances and quietly retreated, slipping away from the crowd and out of the courtyard.
"What should we do?"
"We might have been noticed, best to fall back for now."
"I’ll go report to Lord Dongfang."
Quickly dividing their tasks, the trio turned and ran towards the city outskirts.
A thought struck Li Chengyi, and he was just about to move forward to investigate when an odd aura flashed, enveloping the three individuals and making them vanish without a trace.
"Hm?"
He frowned slightly.
Three lurkers were of little rit to him at the mont. He had hoped to trace the vine to the organization behind them, but little did he expect that the opponent’s penchant for concealnt was rather remarkable, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
’No wonder they can co and go in the city with ease, such stealth techniques indicate there must be a powerful figure organizing and controlling these agents....’
His mind cleared with this revelation.
Without alarming anyone, he temporarily continued dealing with the present company, pretending to have noticed nothing.
Elsewhere.
In a sowhat desolate dwelling in the town, three lurking agents appeared silently by a dried-up pond, standing before a middle-aged scholar.
"Lord Dongfang, after we infiltrated the place and were about to act, an overwhelming and fatal threat was felt. That Wang Yichen alone couldn’t possess such a threat, so it’s very likely soone powerful is watching his back."
One of the three, a fat man who acted as their spokesperson, conveyed soberly.
"As I suspected, the fact that you couldn’t even make a move clearly indicates the person lurking in the shadows is quite capable," Dong Fangling said with a smile. "Hence, Wang Yichen is bound to leave the city. As the vice county head with high status and authority, he can’t dwell here for long, so his stay will surely be brief. When that ti cos, you’ll intercept him en route, and I’ll be in hiding nearby."
"But Lord..." The fat man looked troubled. If they encountered a formidable opponent, wouldn’t the three of them be re cannon fodder?
"Do you object?" Dong Fangling’s expression turned cold, and a thread of murderous intent seeped into the three n’s hearts.
Seeing that they remained silent, he nodded in satisfaction.
He was just about to continue speaking.
Suddenly, a red shadow flashed outside, arriving in an instant beside him, turning into a man dressed in red and wearing a mask.
"Lord Dongfang, an urgent ssage from the valley! The Valley Master has summoned all the Blood Body experts to return!" the man reported urgently.
"The Valley Master has summoned us?" Dong Fangling’s expression shifted, "Why?! With five Blood Bodies and the Valley Master herself in the valley, to call everyone back in such haste... this..."
Why would the Valley Master issue such an urgent summons?
After a few seconds of contemplation, aware of the urgency of the situation, he decided.
"Forget it, even if the Wang Family escapes catastrophe this ti, cancel the plan. You will follow to gather everyone and pull out completely, returning to the valley!" he ordered swiftly.
"Yes!" The three n secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let’s go!"
They leaped up, turning into a dim bloodlight, and disappeared into the sky at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
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’Where to seek the credit I deserve...?’
Li Chengyi sat in the main seat, his face contemplative.
’What about those three from before? Why haven’t they shown up yet?’ His expression remained calm, but he felt a sense of eagerness and urgency, knowing he couldn’t stay here for long.
He had been sitting from afternoon until nightfall, and those three were as if vanished without a trace, stirring not the slightest commotion.
His heart sank with disappointnt.
His father was still in the front hall, entertaining guests who ca to visit again. This ti, his second sister also went out to accompany them.
He, on the other hand, excused himself to practice his skills, maintaining his dignity and staying in the inner room. After all, as the vice county head, he had to be greeted with formalities by the visitors, which would seem sowhat restraining and awkward.
Many of those visitors were relatives who, in the past, would be the ones he called his elders.
’This won’t do, I can’t just go back like this. The presence of lurkers in the city indicates danger, a lack of security.’
’Since those three ca here, ca to the Wang Family, it indicates that this place is likely targeted.’
’Therefore, for the sake of security here... it seems I need to thoroughly cleanse this town.’
Determined in his heart, Li Chengyi stood up.
He glanced at the open window.
Whoosh!
He shot up from the ground, leaping out like lightning.
Wrapped in True Qi, his speed reached over 200 ters per second, far exceeding Wang Yifeng and all the martial practitioners outside.
He was hardly worried about being noticed.
A second later, he appeared on a street outside the Wang Family residence.
Xinng Town wasn’t large, with only a few thousand residents and a handful of streets.
Li Chengyi dashed down each street in turn, his keen senses amplified by True Qi, becoming sharper, sweeping a hundred ters around him like radar.
One street, all clear.
Two streets, all clear.
On the third street...
Crack.
Li Chengyi ca to an abrupt stop, his eyes turning cold.
There was trouble.
Bang!
With a single palm strike, he forcefully hit the front door.
The wooden door shattered, collapsing inward.
Inside, two Bald Heads wielding blades turned just in ti, their faces half-covered by black cloths—half-worn, with the other halves hanging off their ears, not yet properly tied.
They stared dumbfounded at Li Chengyi as he burst through the door, mouths agape ready to scream.
"Infected!" Li Chengyi raised his hand and launched two poison-drenched darts, quickly followed by unsheathing his sword and advancing.
Horizontal slash.
Whoosh!
Their expressions shifted from shock, to confusion, to bewildernt.
Not until their heads rolled on the ground did they understand how they had died. They were just preparing to commit their intended cris, and hadn’t yet left the house....
Li Chengyi watched as the poison blood splattered onto the two bodies, swiftly contaminating the corpses. He imdiately took out the warning firework from his waist and snapped it, tossing it upwards.
The firework soared into the sky as he vanished from the spot.
In a corner of the Town General’s Mansion.
Dong Fangling looked at the ten subordinates who had gathered, his expression grave.
"Has everyone arrived?"
"We’re all here," a woman in the stage of Red Eyes bowed and said.
"Then let’s go. The situation is urgent, just bring your silver coin," Dong Fangling said.
"Yes!" The group bowed their heads in response.
Suddenly, a shrill scream rose from not far away—it was a bundle of red fireworks. At first, it was a single line, then exploded mid-air into a red blossom.
"It’s the Lurker warning firework! Did soone discover an infected person?!" The woman with Red Eyes frowned.
"Aren’t all of our people here in the city? Could it be that soone disobeyed the order and spread the infection at will?" Dong Fangling frowned as well, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.
"Impossible, none of us show the symptoms of having infected others, I have checked, and you may also inspect carefully," the woman with Red Eyes said firmly. "Moreover, without suppression dication, other infected individuals would surely spend most of their ti in a frenzied state and could be easily identified."
Dong Fangling’s brow furrowed tightly. He wanted to check it out, but still suppressed his curiosity.
"Forget it, regardless of which power it is, let’s head back first," he said.
He waved his hand.
"Withdraw!"
"Yes!"
Click.
Suddenly, a light sound ca from beyond the nearby wall.
"Who’s there!?" Dong Fangling’s gaze turned ice-cold, instantly turning to look in that direction.
A flash of white light appeared, and a figure shot up from the ground, fleeing into the distance.
His speed far exceeded all the True Qi Martial Practitioners within the town.
With their superior dynamic vision, the group of infected instantly recognized the man’s identity.
"It’s Wang Yichen of the Wang Family! How did he manage to infiltrate here?"
"He’s seen our identities! It’ll be difficult to return and hide here in the future..."
"Kill him! Otherwise, all our arrangents here will have been in vain!"
A sense of urgency filled the minds of the group.
Dong Fangling was surprised but knew that they must not let Li Chengyi escape, or the entire operation of Spirit Wisdom Valley here would be wasted.
If so many faces were exposed, there would be no chance of returning to hide in the town.
"Yun Su, go cut him down!" With his mind made up, Dong Fangling looked to the woman at the stage of Red Eyes.
"Yes!"
The woman leaped up, accelerating to a terrifying speed more than three tis the speed of sound. In the blink of an eye, she turned into a red streak, silently pursuing Li Chengyi.
Li Chengyi had already left the town.
In just four short seconds of delay, he reached the flat ground hundreds of ters outside the town.
He landed, stood firm, and looked back.
He raised his hand to hold the sword.
True Qi, Soft Qi, pure strength rged into one.
Clang!
In an instant, he drew his sword and slashed!
A dazzling sword light emitted a terrifying scream, encountering Yun Su, the woman with Red Eyes, head-on.
With a horrifying Giant Strength of over three-thousand tons, combined with True Qi amplification and the eruption of Soft Qi from his physical strength, his speed reached a terrifying six tis the speed of sound.
Swish!
The woman had just begun to slow down, preparing to land, when a silver-white sword light filled her vision.
"!!!"
She did not even have ti to transform before her protective Blood Essence was instantly sliced through, and she felt a pain in her neck.
A head flew high into the air.
Until death, her eyes remained filled with bewildernt and shock, seemingly completely unable to comprehend or imagine how she had died.
Gurgle.
The body landed, blood splattering and dispersing into the dark soil.
Li Chengyi slowly sheathed his sword, the blade so fast not a drop of blood remained on it, all swept away by the swift wind.
’Just as I expected, there was indeed danger in the town.’
His expression calm, he leaped up and in the blink of an eye headed in the direction from which his pursuer had co.
Previously eager to earn credit, wasn’t this opportunity now knocking on his door?
But before he got very far,
in the distant sky, a figure enveloped in blood hurtled toward him with a series of afterimages.
Dong Fangling instantly saw his disciple, beheaded and on the ground, not even able to transform.
His eyes imdiately flared with blood-red fury, a surge of murderous intent welling up within him.
"Scoundrel!! I want you dead!!"
In the blink of an eye, he spread his arms and pounced from mid-air.
Boom!
A pair of black and red claws fiercely struck the Official Sword Li Chengyi had raised.
The massive impact caused violent ripples, expanding and exploding outward in concentric circles.
Dirt was flung into the air as waves of explosions radiated outward.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!!
Dong Fangling, with his astonishing speed, struck like lightning claws at Li Chengyi’s body from all directions.
But to his shock, Li Chengyi managed to withstand each attack.
Even though this was not his Blood Body state and his strength was reduced by about half, the feat was still alarming.
One should know that the gap between him and soone at the Red Eyes stage like Yun Su was at least more than double.
Whether in strength, speed, or the power of Blood Essence and its contaminating properties.
The martial art he practiced, Ning Wu True Skill, was second only to the Valley Master’s in Spirit Wisdom Valley.
It could be considered a Grade Black art.
He had trained it to the ninth level out of a possible twelve levels.
Such strength ant that even the deputy of the Blood Guard Bureau of Cangshi County might not be his match.
But now...
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