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"Leave!"
Having made a thundering name for himself in Jiangzhou City, Sun Zhennan was decisive when he had to be.
Ye Xiao, this young man, was someone the entire Sun Family could not afford to provoke, even if they risked everything!
Zheng Qiming's choice to seek refuge with him made him more aware than anyone of what the might of a top-notch fighter meant.
However, Zheng Qiming, whose wrist was still trembling, did not make a move.
He stood his ground, enduring the delayed pain in his wrist, confronting Ye Xiao.
In such a state, should Ye Xiao strike, at least he would have time to react, at least, a chance for life!
"Zheng elder..."
The calm and collected demeanor that Sun Zhennan had just a moment ago had vanished from his face.
"Sun Lao Er, walking away without answering my question, isn't that rude?"
"If a nail grows long, it should be trimmed, but what if a hand grows long?"
"Hmm?"
As the final word left Ye Xiao's mouth, Sun Zhennan's body shook violently. Before Zheng Qiming could react, Sun Zhennan spat out a mouthful of fresh blood with a "Pu!"
"Mercy, please!"
Zheng Qiming's eyes nearly burst, the scene plunging him into an abyss of ice for countless years.
Just a single word had caused Sun Zhennan to sustain severe injuries, indicating this person's strength was at least that of a Qi Refinement Realm martial artist he had never encountered, even being in the sixth layer of Body Refinement himself!
"What...is happening?"
At this point, the people outside the bar still hadn't grasped what had just occurred.
"If a nail grows long, it should be trimmed, but what if a hand grows long...it should be cut off!"
Enduring the intense pain radiating from his internal organs, Sun Zhennan braced himself and spoke.
The opponent's strength far surpassed Zheng Qiming's. If he did not pay a price today, he could not hope to leave safely.
"So, you're waiting for me to take action personally, are you."
"Hmm?"
No sooner had Ye Xiao's words fallen than Sun Zhennan spat out another mouthful of blood with a "Pu!"
"Zheng elder! Strike!"
Sun Zhennan roared, his consciousness beginning to blur, but he had not forgotten his only chance for survival today.
Zheng Qiming, his eyes bursting with fury, looked upon the scene. He had formally joined the Sun Family only a month ago and had not yet reaped any real benefits, and now he was to cripple Sun Zhennan's hands just like that?
The next second, an icy chill swept over; looking up, seeing those calm eyes of Ye Xiao, Zheng Qiming's thoughts vanished as he brought down a knife-hand strike!
Pu!
Sun Zhennan's arms were disabled on the spot.
This was the strength of a martial artist at the sixth layer of Body Refinement—his physical body, already comparable to weaponry!
Yet, even such a powerful figure was forced to sever Sun Zhennan's arms!
The onlooking crowd watched Ye Xiao dazedly, no one uttering a sound.
To have pushed Zheng Qiming to such a state...
Just how powerful was this young man?!
"Does your excellency have any further instructions?"
Zheng Qiming was pale-faced and his expression was bitter.
"That question, you shouldn't ask me."
Ye Xiao replied with a faint smile, "Old Xie, don't you plan to show yourself?"
As the words fell, a figure stepped out from the Emperor Bar, none other than the chairman of the Emperor Bar, Xie Jun'an.
Xie Jun'an approached Ye Xiao, knelt halfway to the ground, and offered a respectful fist and palm salute, "Leader, today is my daughter's second birthday."
Ye Xiao frowned slightly, but eventually nodded, glancing towards the barely alive Sun Zhennan, "Half an hour, if his wife and daughter do not come to Emperor Bar, there will be no one with the surname Sun in Jiangzhou City."
Afterwards, Ye Xiao turned his gaze to Zheng Qiming, "Talking too much is not good."
Zheng Qiming's body trembled, and the next moment he abandoned the nearly dead Sun Zhennan, bursting out at his full speed to escape into the distance.
The crowd only saw a blur before their eyes as Ye Xiao seemed to vanish on the spot for an instant, only to reappear.
By the time the crowd took a closer look, they were struck with a numbing sensation of horror!
At that moment, Zheng Qiming's figure was no longer to be seen!
In that instant Ye Xiao vanished, Zheng Qiming had been erased from existence, his entire body completely vanished from this world!
"Thank you, Leader!"
Xie Jun'an said earnestly.
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"You owe my sister a birthday party."
He dropped a sentence, turned, and left, leaving behind the still-dazed crowd outside the Emperor Bar.
"Disappeared? Did Zheng Qiming just disappear?!"
"How did he do that?!"
"He killed someone? He has killed someone! Quick! Get someone from the Six Fan Gates!"
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Night fell gradually on Jiangzhou City, headquarters of the Six Fan Gates.
With the rise of martial Dao, Hua Country had established this department focusing on martial artists' affairs.
In the conference room, images flickered on the wall from the projector's beam.
"Slow down five times."
"Slow down ten times."
"Slow down... fifty times."
"..."
As the deep voice was heard for the final time, the entire conference room fell into dead silence.
"Captain... Captain, this is the limit, we can only slow it down by fifty times at most," said the young man operating the projector timidly.
"..."
Once again, silence engulfed the conference room.
The image projected was of the surveillance footage captured in front of Emperor Bar.
That was a face not from Jiangzhou City, yet it gave everyone present a huge headache.
"The only thing we can confirm now is that Zheng Qiming is dead, but the evidence..."
Fu Lingxiang took a deep breath, her expression weary.
This feeling of frustration was something she had never experienced in her life.
"Now, everyone knows that he's the murderer, but we don't have evidence. Because there's no evidence, we can't arrest him."
"Don't you all feel the least bit frustrated?!"
She could hardly bear it.
Death for a killer, repayment of debt, it's the law of nature. Yet now, they were blocked by the word "evidence."
"Although it may be inappropriate to say this... can you arrest him, even if... you had evidence?"
Captain Chen Dong pondered for a long time before speaking helplessly.
"On our side, the strongest is only at the pinnacle of the ninth level of Body Refinement. Catch someone whose movements we can't capture even with fifty times slow-motion?"
"Little Fu, you're new to Jiangzhou City. There are some things you don't fully understand. Without my order, you'd better not take any action on your own,"
Thinking of Fu Lingxiang's temperament, Chen Dong felt a headache coming on.
Those transferred from the Six Fan Gates headquarters in the capital to Jiangzhou City were not to be trifled with, especially this Fu Lingxiang. She was not only from the Six Fan Gates but also the precious daughter of the Fu Family, one of the eight great families in the capital. She had never faced setbacks in her life.
To catch someone whose figure couldn't be captured even with fifty times slow-motion?
This kind of idea, probably only Miss Fu Lingxiang herself would dare to entertain.
"Captain Chen, isn't that inappropriate? Committing murder in broad daylight and not arresting him? Where is the king's law? Where is the natural justice?"
Fu Lingxiang was unconvinced. She needed such a case to prove herself so she could return to the Six Fan Gates in the capital.
"Listen to my advice, for the time being in Jiangzhou City, it's best to turn a blind eye. If you meddle too much, even I can't protect you,"
Chen Dong sighed.
The person who killed Ke Qiming was not the one giving him the most headache.
What troubled him the most was that today, the Red Blood Order had appeared! Right at the Yang Family!
This was something that his superiors had pointedly ordered the Six Fan Gates not to interfere with!
Legend had it that the holder of the Red Blood Order had rendered great services to Hua Country, thus they were granted the right to use the Red Blood Order three times.
The first time, the largest consortium in Xia Country, a neighboring country of Hua Country, was annihilated, and Hua Country suppressed the matter.
The second time, the Jiang Family of Jiangzhou City, at the height of their power, was completely wiped out, yet nobody investigated.
Now, it was the third time, also in Jiangzhou City!
If this young lady truly lost her head and investigated the matter of the Red Blood Order, and if the higher-ups placed the blame, Captain Chen Dong of the Jiangzhou City branch of the Six Fan Gates couldn't bear the fallout.
"We just let him continue his wrongdoing?!"
Fu Lingxiang was defiant!