Inside the teahouse, when Gu Lan heard those words, his gaze sharpened, and he gradually sank into thought.
Silence witnesses by killing… silence me?
Heh, who do you think you are? The protagonist?
Gu Lan calmly sipped his tea as countless thoughts raced through his mind.
“It looks like I can’t avoid this trouble today, but… what if I don’t leave?”
The Huajian Sect persecuted the loyal and upright, colluded with the Demon Clan, and slaughtered the people!
Influenced by the original host’s conviction as a scholar devoted to serving his country, Gu Lan was honestly somewhat furious.
Besides, Duan Xiao’s face was so disgusting. A thing that couldn’t even count as a minor villain… why not… just kill him?
Gu Lan thought about how last time, the Empress had inexplicably confiscated Cai Yu’s entire household into the national treasury, cutting off a huge wave of resources meant for the protagonist!
Afterward, the world’s storyline had not changed much…
Gu Lan did not like taking risks or showing off, but this kind of sure-fire windfall… why should he hand it over to the protagonist?
What was more, to be honest, Gu Lan really did covet that phoenix egg!
…
At this moment.
After Duan Xiao finished speaking with complete confidence, his cold gaze locked onto Wu Feng.
“Kid, I know you have an Image-Recording Stone on you. Smash it now, and I’ll let you choose a painless way to die!”
The Image-Recording Stone was a rather peculiar item in this world.
It had a recording function and could store images for a very long time.
However, if one wanted to open the recorded footage or destroy the contents, it had to be done with the recorder’s soul strength. Unless the other party’s cultivation had reached the Immortal Realm, nothing would work!
To prevent that stone from eventually falling into the Empress’s hands after Wu Feng was killed, Duan Xiao could only waste a little more breath.
“Heh, dream on!”
Wu Feng’s eyes gradually turned blood-red, filled with tragic resolve!
“If you want to kill me, then come! Even if I die, the images inside that stone will remain forever, and the filthy deeds you’ve committed… sooner or later, they will be laid bare before all under heaven!”
After roaring out the indignation in his chest, Wu Feng advanced instead of retreating, raising his saber as he flew toward Duan Xiao!
At the same time, he shouted to the people around him, “Folks, I’ll hold them off! Run! You must spread what happened today and let the capital know!!”
Swish, swish!
Before his words had even faded, the swords of several death warriors had already cut several gashes across Wu Feng’s body!
In an instant, fresh blood dyed the long street red!
The surrounding people immediately came to their senses. Their eyes reddened as they fled into the surrounding alleys.
“The Huajian Sect colludes with the Demon Clan! May they die a miserable death!”
“Hurry and go! We can’t let Young Hero Wu die in vain!”
“Run!”
“…”
But!
At that very moment, a demonic claw appeared in the void, directly covering an area several li around and sealing off the people’s path to survival!
Amid the people’s terror and unease, a wickedly charming figure appeared out of thin air!
“Uncle Fox, you actually came in person!”
When Duan Xiao saw him, he was overjoyed!
Clearly, this was the demon king the Huajian Sect had colluded with!
“Your father wasn’t at ease, so I’ve been following you in secret all along.” The demon king waved his hand and said, “The longer things drag on, the more trouble they bring. I’m too lazy to let you temper yourself any longer. I’ll just kill this herd of two-legged sheep and be done with it!”
In the eyes of the Demon Clan, humans were two-legged sheep, no different from livestock!
Seeing his arrival, Wu Feng no longer had any intention of struggling.
He knew full well how powerful a demon king was, and slowly closed his eyes, only hoping that one day in the future, the Image-Recording Stone he had risked his life to preserve could be opened by the Empress.
The trapped people were equally desperate!
Although they had never seen a demon cultivator before, just from this bloodthirsty, terrifying aura alone, they knew their chances of survival were already slim!
At this moment!
The demon king stretched a sharp claw through the void and stabbed toward Wu Feng, while countless black-mist-like demon spirits poured out from his body and rushed toward the surrounding people!
Half of Langzhou City was instantly covered in demonic clouds, with wails rising everywhere!
Just then!
A dazzling sword light pierced the clouds and split the sun, suddenly appearing from the edge of the sky!
The demon spirits it touched were annihilated in an instant, burned into nothingness!
Eh? A powerhouse has made a move? Even more impatient than me… Inside the teahouse, Gu Lan, who had been sitting calmly as if on a fisherman’s platform, raised a brow and fixed his eyes on that sword light!
“To be able to hide for so long without me noticing, then suddenly strike without exposing even a trace of aura… this person’s cultivation should be about the same as mine…”
“But now Langzhou City should be fine. Good… it saves me the trouble!”
Gu Lan was happy to sit back and enjoy the show, watching the scene outside.
At this moment!
The demon king seemed to sense something and looked up.
When he saw that sword light clearly, his expression changed drastically!
“Golden sword aura… it’s a human Sword Immortal!”
He hurriedly withdrew the hand that had been stabbing toward Wu Feng and hastily raised his arms to block in front of his chest!
But how could the gap between a King-level demon cultivator and a Sword Immortal be described merely as the difference between clouds and mud?
The golden sword aura did not even hesitate for a second before directly punching a massive bloody hole through the demon king’s chest!
Everything happened in a flash.
Wu Feng had not even reacted yet, and being saved so suddenly gave him an extremely unreal feeling!
Duan Xiao had only just seen the sword light, when Uncle Fox on the other side had already let out a painful muffled groan!
“A Sword Immortal… How is that possible? How could there be a Sword Immortal in a tiny Langzhou City!?”
Duan Xiao was both shocked and furious!
Human sword experts could be counted on one hand, and the Jing Kingdom had even fewer. How did he happen to run into one just as he came out to hunt someone down?
The demon king endured the destruction of the sword qi inside his body as his figure slowly fell.
At this moment, he could no longer even maintain his human form.
A fire fox with blood-stained fur appeared before everyone’s eyes!
The fire fox crouched on the ground, completely devoid of its earlier ferocity, and begged in a low, submissive voice:
“Senior Sword Immortal, I had no intention of offending you. Everything I did today was at the Huajian Sect’s command. If you are willing, I can get lost right now… and I can also wipe them out for you!”
Listen to that. As expected of a fox… the whole purpose of accomplices is to sell them out!
That huge blame was dumped away, and Duan Xiao was directly thrown into a daze.
“Uncle Fox… what are you saying!”
“Bastard! If not for you, would I have encountered a Sword Immortal?”
Although the demon king was in a sorry state, killing him was still more than easy. A demon spirit flew out, and in an instant, it devoured this young sect master of the Huajian Sect down to white bones!
The people present and Wu Feng were all stunned!
The deterrent power of a Sword Immortal was this terrifying!
It directly forced the demon king to switch sides!
Gu Lan found it even funnier to watch. He had not expected that the Sword Immortal who made a move could still bring such entertainment value.
Dogs biting dogs… always a joy to watch!
“I just don’t know whether this Sword Immortal will show up. If there were a title, the original novel might have mentioned it…”
Gu Lan kept waiting, but the Sword Immortal outside still did not appear.
The Sword Immortal was naturally the Empress.
If she had not witnessed it with her own eyes, she would never have believed that the Demon Clan nowadays was this arrogant, actually daring to barge into Langzhou territory and harm the people of the Jing Kingdom in broad daylight!
Mu Yuyan’s expression was icy to the extreme. Her fair hand formed a sword incantation, and three more golden sword auras gathered at the edge of the sky!
Their brilliance blazed, even more ferocious than before!
Clearly, she had no intention of letting the demon king go!
Seeing that things were going badly, the demon king shrieked repeatedly, “You can’t kill me! I’m a disciple of the Holy Demon Palace! If you dare kill me… the seniors in the palace will fight you to the death!”
Hearing this, the Empress let out a soft laugh.
If she revealed herself, she would inevitably have to worry about the relationship between Great Jing, the Holy Demon Palace, and even the Demon Realm.
However, she had never appeared at all!
With no evidence whatsoever, who in the Demon Realm would dare pin this crime directly on me?
The sword moved with her will!
Golden light blazed brilliantly!
Facing the moment of life and death, the demon king chose to fight with everything he had!
He spat out a black bead, sending it crashing toward the sword light!
The next instant, the sword aura dissipated, and that bead actually blocked the power of the Empress’s three swords!
Good heavens. A King-level being can use this thing to block a Sword Immortal’s strike… what kind of material is this treasure made of?
Gu Lan’s eyes lit up!
And that demon king, using the moment when the bead blocked the attack, hurriedly burned his blood essence and fled toward the horizon!