Chapter 566: Chapter 559: Soldiers
Leaving Yang Jian’s stall, Chen Hai wandered around so more.
Compared to Jinshan City, Qingmu City was larger and more majestic.
The streets, paved with bluestone, were exceedingly smooth, accommodating four or five carriages side by side without any feeling of congestion.
On both sides of the street, various shops stood in rows.
Shops within the city specialized in pills suitable for cultivators and so low-tier magic artifacts to aid in cultivation.
This alone made Qingmu City superior to Jinshan City, where Chen Hai had temporarily resided, which couldn’t catch up even if it tried.
Regrettably, within those pill shops, there were no pills suitable for a cultivator of Chen Hai’s level.
He also wasn’t interested in the low-tier magic artifacts they offered for sale.
With his current physical strength, an ordinary magic artifact would shatter with a single punch.
Having co from the Bloodthirsty Sect, his purpose was to infiltrate dicine King Valley and obtain so pills to aid his cultivation.
As a dominant force in the West Barbarian Mountain Territory, the defenses of dicine King Valley were undeniably several levels higher than those of the Bloodthirsty Sect.
Moreover, given their current major conflict with the Heavenly Extre Holy Sect, dicine King Valley’s security would certainly be far tighter than usual.
To forcefully break into dicine King Valley? Chen Hai wasn’t that arrogant.
He had to find the right opportunity to infiltrate dicine King Valley.
Inside Qingmu City, he was just finding a place to temporarily stay, still considering which approach to take.
“Innkeeper, a top room!” At the front of Dafu Inn, Chen Hai tapped on the counter and called out to the innkeeper who was looking down at the ledger.
“Alright! A top room costs ten spirit coins a day, sir. How many nights would you like to stay?” The innkeeper looked up and imdiately put on a professional smile, responding to Chen Hai.
“For now, three nights will do.” After a mont of thought, Chen Hai took out thirty spirit coins and placed them in front of the innkeeper.
For the short term, as he still didn’t know how to infiltrate dicine King Valley, he needed a place to stay in Qingmu City.
Being new to the area, he just happened to walk by and noticed this Dafu Inn, deciding spontaneously to make it his temporary residence.
Spirit coins were sothing he always had in abundance. When he had defeated Sun Jitian of the Heavenly Desolate Demon Sect and others, the spirit coins he acquired from them were an astronomical sum.
Indeed, spirit coins were commonly used in secular cities, but within the Cultivation World, exchanges among cultivators were either through spirit stones or bartering.
One spirit stone was worth a hundred thousand spirit coins, and they were priceless.
Inside Chen Hai’s storage bag, not to ntion the quantity of spirit coins, he had several hundred spirit stones.
Renting a room at an inn for a while was truly nothing significant for him!
“One top room for three nights, understood!”
“Ergou, take this guest to room number three on the sky floor…”
After glancing at the spirit coins a few tis and confirming them, the innkeeper shouted to a young man dressed as an attendant in the hall.
“Sir, please follow !” The attendant was quick-witted; as soon as the innkeeper finished speaking, he rushed over to lead Chen Hai upstairs.
Having no luggage to worry about, renting a room at Dafu Inn was rely a ans for him to find a place to stay.
In the inn room, he stayed for less than fifteen minutes and feeling a bit bored, he decided to head out and wander aimlessly so more.
Just as he stepped out of Dafu Inn and appeared on the street, not far from him, a pair of officers dressed with intense expressions rapidly marched toward his direction.
Chen Hai, who typically preferred to keep a low profile, especially now that he was in dicine King Valley’s territory, was not looking to cause trouble.
Adhering to the principle that avoiding trouble was better than seeking it, he respectfully stepped aside to the edge of the street, giving the officers room to pass.
“That spy, it’s him…” Yang Jian, who had chatted casually with Chen Hai earlier, was among the group of officers.
Standing about twenty to thirty ters away from where Chen Hai was, he pointed in his direction and called out softly.
Cultivators, with their sharp senses and at Chen Hai’s level, had exceedingly keen hearing and vision.
As soon as Yang Jian’s voice dropped, it clearly reached Chen Hai’s ears.
Following the direction of the voice, he recognized Yang Jian’s figure.
However, he was sowhat puzzled. When he looked around, aside from himself, there seed to be no one else nearby.
“clang… clang… clang…” The sound of swords unsheathing was, one after another, lodious to the ears.
The group of officers, about a dozen in total, except for the leader who was a Fourth Realm Storage Cultivator, the rest were rely martial artists.
After all, possessing a talent for cultivation was extrely rare; those who could beco cultivators were exceedingly valuable compared to ordinary people.
Even in Qingmu City, the largest city within the West Barbarian Mountain Territory, overseen by dicine King Valley, they weren’t extravagant enough to use cultivators as ordinary officers.
Martial artists, proficient in martial arts, were naturally a lot stronger than ordinary people.
Strictly speaking, those cultivators who had not yet entered the Storage Realm had very limited ans at their disposal, and in truth, they might even be inferior to martial artists when it ca to fighting.
The swords had been drawn; even the ordinary soldiers possessed incredible agility. The mont Yang Jian’s voice fell, a squad of soldiers had already rushed forward, surrounding Chen Hai completely.
“You claim to be Chen Hai? You’re in trouble, co with us?” The leading soldier examined Chen Hai up and down a few tis with a fierce tone, demanding an answer.
“I have always been law-abiding and honest, may I ask, what exactly have I done?” After a brief mont of astonishnt, Chen Hai had regained his composure.
He had indeed harbored ulterior motives upon coming to Qingmu City, which he admitted.
However, all he had done was enter the city on his first day, without causing any incidents, yet he found himself completely surrounded, which was quite baffling to him.
“Do you really not know what cri you have committed?”
“In Qingmu City, ordinary people have been forbidden from entering or leaving for quite so ti.”
“You just entered the city today? How did you get in? Did you sneak in?”
“The City Lord has already ordered that during these critical tis, any suspect considered a spy is to be executed without hesitation—better to kill three thousand by mistake than to let one go.”
“Refuse to admit your wrongdoing? No problem; once you enter Black Prison, whatever your sches are, whatever your purposes are, you’ll spill them all.”
Licking his lips, the soldier leader sneered coldly.
Without giving Chen Hai a chance to explain, he waved his hand and commanded his subordinates, “Take him away, if he resists, kill without rcy…”
As he finished speaking, the two soldiers closest to Chen Hai, swords in hand, advanced towards him from both sides.
The expressionless and cold faces of the two n seed to suggest that if Chen Hai showed even the slightest resistance, they would not hesitate to kill him outright.
“I have been keeping as low a profile as possible. Upon seeing you, I was ready to take another route.”
“Why? Do you not wish to live peacefully, insisting on seeking your own death?”
“Is it because I am kind-hearted and honest that you think I am easy to bully?”
“Since you are tired of living, fine, I’ll grant your wish…”
Chen Hai laughed in fury. With rely a wave of his hand, the two soldiers who were coming to restrain him had not yet touched him when they were sent flying.
With a booming sound, they landed on the ground, twitched twice, and then breathed their last, silenced forever.
“Enemy attack, brace yourselves; everyone, attack together.”
“He harms at the first move and still says he’s not a spy? Now let’s see what you have to say!”
“How dare you attack in Qingmu City and kill our comrades? You are definitely dood now, not even the divine Emperor can save you.”
…
Many soldiers repeatedly shouted in anger.
The commander of the soldiers, with a change in expression, pointed at Chen Hai and shouted sternly.
A bunch of insignificant creatures, even if he allowed them to attack without resistance, they could not harm him in the slightest.
Their reactions, as if unheard and unseen, Chen Hai couldn’t be bothered to spare them another glance.
His gaze was fixed straight ahead on Yang Jian amidst the crowd, who was flitting his eyes about, scarcely daring to look him in the eye.
“Considering we are both from Blue Star, seeing you, I felt sowhat fond and bothered to chat a bit more.”
“I had just left your stall when you completely betrayed behind my back.”
“What benefits are there for you in betraying ?”
Expressionless, Chen Hai walked slowly towards Yang Jian.
Anyone in his path was sent flying without any warning, not even having ti to cry out before falling to the ground, dead.
“Not good, a high-tier cultivator; this man is definitely above the Sky-controlling Realm, not soone we can handle…”
As a Storage Realm cultivator, the soldier leader had so judgnt.
Although he shouted loudly, seeing the situation turn sour, he had already fled far away.
But his subordinates, just ordinary soldiers, were not so lucky.
Because they were sowhat closer to Chen Hai, in a blink of an eye, at least six or seven of them were sent flying and were dead.
“Chen… Chen Hai…, we are fellow countryn…” Yang Jian’s face had already turned completely pale.
When he betrayed Chen Hai, he thought he had struck gold, possibly securing a small official position through this.
After all, as a visitor from Blue Star and deeply influenced by his bureaucratic mindset, his longti dream was to land a civil service role.
Regrettably, although he graduated with a bachelor’s degree, he failed the civil service exams several tis.
In Qingmu City, securing a small official position would perfectly fulfill his longstanding wish.
“Fellow countryman? Go to hell…” A hand clasped around Yang Jian’s neck, and Chen Hai twisted it gently.
With a snap, his neck was completely broken, and his body slumped to the ground, lifeless.
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