Chapter 89: If Trouble Can’t Be Solved
Liu Yong’s lips trembled,
A thin line of blood slowly appeared on his forehead, widening rapidly. Then with a "boom," his body exploded.
[Experience Points +4500]
In that instant, Gu Zhan heard the system’s notification in his mind.
He was radiating murderous intent, his eyes flashed coldly, fixing on the Vice Hundred Households, who was still in shock.
At that moment, in Gu Zhan’s gaze,
he no longer saw a living person, but a pile of experience points.
He’d already accumulated over eighteen thousand experience points, just a bit more than a thousand away from twenty thousand for advancement to Innate Third Layer, but to kill Liu Yong, he had been holding back, waiting for his chance. In the last moment, he spent five thousand experience points to upgrade Celestial Inquiry Three Slashes to Peak of Perfection Realm—one strike, instant kill!
Now, once again, his experience points had built up to over eighteen thousand.
He was about to advance to Innate Third Layer.
Under Gu Zhan’s icy stare, the Vice Hundred Households shuddered, feeling like he’d dropped into a frozen abyss,
He could never have imagined that with such perfect teamwork with Liu Yong, he would still be killed by Gu Zhan instead.
The Vice Hundred Households pointed at Gu Zhan and said coldly, "You... what a deep scheme!"
Gu Zhan knew that both the Vice Hundred Households and Liu Yong had misunderstood, but he had no interest in explaining, so he charged forward with his saber.
"Stop him!"
The Vice Hundred Households shouted and retreated at full speed, fleeing through the door.
"Hmph!"
Gu Zhan snorted coldly, swinging his saber fast, cutting down two expert members of the Inspection Team who rushed at him.
This slight delay,
allowed the Vice Hundred Households to escape Baihua Building.
Gu Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly, stamping down and crushing a floorboard. His body shot out like an arrow loosed from a bowstring, pursuing his target.
At this moment, the long street was in chaos.
The South City Embroidered Uniform Guard and members from various gangs were tangled in melee with the Inspection Team’s Embroidered Uniform Guard—fighting everywhere, thick with the smell of blood, Hailing from every direction.
The Vice Hundred Households rushed into the chaotic crowd, relying on his profound cultivation and body technique to weave through them.
"Get out of my way!"
Gu Zhan roared up to the sky, unleashing a ferocious aura like a tiger coming down the mountain—turbulent and mighty, his body drenched in blood, Horizontal Saber in hand as he dashed into the crowd.
In that instant,
the South City Embroidered Uniform Guard and members of the various gangs all stepped back.
Some Inspection Team members couldn’t react in time. Colliding head-on with Gu Zhan, they were all slaughtered, killed before they could even cry out.
The chaotic long street,
in that moment, bizarrely cleared out a wide empty space. The Vice Hundred Households, desperately escaping, was filled with terror, running frantically into the crowd. But wherever he passed, people scattered instantly, and when he tried to flee toward an alley or a shop along the street, a troop blocked his way.
After a while of running like a headless fly,
The Vice Hundred Households realized: he had walked into a death trap.
Yet in that instant, he suppressed his panic, spun around, and roared, "Gu Zhan, your death day isn’t far off! Arrogance always brings disaster. You’re so domineering—there will be a price!"
Gu Zhan dragged his Horizontal Saber through the night, its tip scraping the ground with a grinding noise, blood dripping down. His face was calm as he said, "Even if I die or my Dao perishes, you won’t live to see it!"
As soon as he finished,
Gu Zhan charged forward, saber in hand, smashing through stone tiles underfoot, fragments flying everywhere.
"I’ll fight you to the death!"
The Vice Hundred Households roared, his True Qi erupted, a Palm Seal appeared.
And in that instant,
Bright light suddenly burst from the depths of the night, shining pure and divine like holy brilliance, flooding everything with dazzling brightness,
It was a blade shadow, instantly illuminating the dark street in brilliant white—almost as if the sun had descended to earth!
The blade fell,
The Palm Seal shattered,
A long gash split the Vice Hundred Households’ chest, blood flooding and spraying.
Blood spewed from his mouth as he staggered backward several steps.
"I... will wait for you at the Bridge of Helplessness... you bastard..."
Blood splattered; his body crashed to the ground.
[Experience Points +3700]
On the long street, blood flowed like a river, fighting everywhere,
But as the Vice Hundred Households fell,
The Inspection Team’s Embroidered Uniform Guard lost their last morale, with little will left to resist.
Gu Zhan looked over at the thirty or so remaining Inspection Team Embroidered Uniform Guard. He flicked his Horizontal Saber, flinging blood onto the ground. Narrowing his eyes, he said flatly, "Kill. Leave not a single one!"
Even as the words faded,
Gu Zhan hurled his saber, piercing the chest of an Inspection Team member. He sprinted forward, yanked the blade out as the corpse dropped, and hacked out, sending a head flying.
"Kill!" "Kill!"
The cries of slaughter echoed under the starry night, as the clash of weapons played a grim symphony on the street.
About the time it takes for one incense stick to burn,
As the last Inspection Team Embroidered Uniform Guard fell,
The street gradually quieted.
Gu Zhan stood amidst the street, his expression cold.
The South City Embroidered Uniform Guard and gang members began clearing the battlefield, carrying off wounded and corpses.
The leaders of the various South City gangs and some Embroidered Uniform Guard gathered around Gu Zhan, every face grave.
"Sir!" A personal guard, covered in blood, clasped his hands and said, "This has really blown up. If it were only the Six Great Families, we could use their attack on the Embroidered Uniform Guard as pretext to deflect blame. We might not be able to handle everything, but we could muddle through for now.
But now, we’ve outright wiped out the Inspection Team, changing the nature of all this. One misstep and it’s implicating three generations—a capital crime. No matter how we try to shift blame, Wan Yan will never let this go. This is real trouble!"
This personal guard voiced everyone’s worries, including the gang leaders. Fear gripped them now,
This night, they’d planned to back Gu Zhan in a big confrontation, but never expected things would escalate so far.
The Six Great Families—that’s a matter of profit, a Martial World feud. With advantage on their home turf, even facing the Six Great Families counterattack, they could rely on the South City Hundred Households Office to resist; who would win was anyone’s guess.
But now, so many Inspection Team deaths,
Implicating three generations would be the least of it.
Gu Zhan wiped blood from the Horizontal Saber, looked at them all, then slowly sheathed the saber. In a cold voice he said, "Since Wan Yan won’t let it go, we’ll just kill him, too!"
"What?"
Everyone’s hearts trembled; all eyes snapped to Gu Zhan in shock.
Gu Zhan said coldly, "Gather all who can fight. Follow me to the Hundred Households Office. After tonight, either Linjiang City changes forever, or we get crushed by its order."
With that, Gu Zhan gently wiped blood from his face, calmly saying, "I, Gu Zhan, have never feared trouble. If trouble can’t be solved, then solve the one causing the trouble!"