You're the One I'm Killing!

"Su Cheng, don't fight!"

As tensions reached a breaking point, Xiao Tao'er's mother caught up with them.

She was so frantic that she fell at Su Cheng's feet and tugged at his armor, pleading miserably, "It's Xiao Tao'er! Zhao Dao's daughter! Please, let us through!"

"Sister-in-law?"

Su Cheng gently pulled his armor free, frowning.

"Brother Dao's daughter?"

Quite a few City Guards began whispering among themselves when they heard this, evidently reminded of something.

"No!"

Su Cheng stepped back and drew a saber, his voice cold and stern.

"Without the city lord's written order, no one may take a single step out of Pingyang District."

"Anyone who disobeys will be deemed an evil person and killed without mercy!"

His unequivocal declaration hung over everyone's heads like a sharp blade.

Dead silence!

Could a six-year-old girl be an evil person?

"Big brother..."

Xiao Tao'er suddenly began trembling violently again, vomiting a great deal of black blood that ran down the front of Qi Lin's robes.

Her voice as faint as a mosquito's, she wept, "It hurts so much, boo-hoo. If I die, will it stop hurting? I want to die..."

"Xiao Tao'er, hold on. You haven't grown up yet..."

Countless blood vessels, like azure dragons, had begun to spread across Qi Lin's eyes!

"Su Cheng! Are you even fucking human?"

A furious roar suddenly came from ahead. A burly City Guard slammed his helmet to the ground and pointed at Su Cheng's nose, cursing him.

"If Brother Dao hadn't taken an arrow for you back then, you'd have been the one to die!"

Quite a few City Guards couldn't help shouting.

"After what you've done today, can you face your own conscience?"

"Let Brother Dao's wife and daughter out!"

Su Cheng looked coldly at the burly guard. "Han Yuan, keep stirring up trouble and you'll be expelled from the City Guard."

"Expel my ass! I quit!"

Han Yuan drew his blade and roared.

"Heaven sees everything we do!"

"Brothers of the seventh squad, clear a path for Brother Dao's wife and daughter!"

Several dozen City Guards, anger surging within them, followed Han Yuan and slashed straight at Su Cheng and his men.

"Kid, hurry and take them through while it's chaos!"

Han Yuan shouted at Qi Lin.

Qi Lin looked deeply at him.

This world was rotten to the core, but loyalty still lived!

"Han Yuan, you're courting death, and you're dragging dozens of brothers down to be buried with you? How stupid can you be?"

Su Cheng shook his head and gave a cold, mocking laugh. Then, his face utterly indifferent, he raised a hand and waved.

"City Guard, hear my command! Kill these traitors!"

Behind him, more and more City Guards gathered. At Su Cheng's command, they drew their swords and charged Han Yuan and the others.

Should they cling to the powerful and rise straight to the clouds, or act on impulse and end up in a mass grave?

Most of the City Guards knew the answer perfectly well.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the dark of night, the two sides clashed. Blades flashed coldly, and blood sprayed.

Hum!

At the center of the battlefield, a surge of powerful true essence erupted. A slender figure burst through the encirclement and came down upon Qi Lin, bearing down on him.

It was Su Cheng!

He stood in the very heart of the darkness, only half his pale face visible. The light of the blade in his hand reflected on it, revealing all his cold-bloodedness and selfishness.

Around him, the darkness of night surged up like mist, forming a true essence domain that intimidated everything.

"First stage of the Mystic Sea Realm, Mist Birth!"

"When did Su Cheng break through?"

The sight sent a chill through the hearts of the rebel guards. Even Han Yuan could already foresee that only death awaited them.

"What a fucking rotten world! The more selfish you are, the better you live!"

Han Yuan roared and kept chasing Su Cheng!

He did not regret his choice.

Unfortunately, Su Cheng didn't spare him a glance. Instead, he bore down on Qi Lin, his voice like the judgment of the law.

"Qi brat, as long as I, Su Cheng, stand here, there's no way out for you."

Every word stabbed at Qi Lin's eardrums like a blade.

Qi Lin's face was expressionless as he held the little girl in one arm, his gaze gentle.

"Xiao Tao'er, close your eyes."

The little girl wept, her consciousness beginning to fade, but she obediently closed her eyes.

And the instant she did!

Qi Lin suddenly raised his head!

The entire night sky abruptly split open with hundreds of bleeding sun-eyes, all bearing down on Su Cheng. Those blood-red eyes of the heavens looked at him with amusement, like hungry ghosts of the Heavenly Dao!

Su Cheng's sneer froze.

Before him, the black-clad boy holding the girl had blood-red eyes with hundreds of compound pupils, like the gates of hell!

The moment Qi Lin fixed his gaze on Su Cheng, the Qi and blood throughout Su Cheng's body froze.

A profound terror welled up in his heart!

"No!"

Su Cheng's expression abruptly changed, and he let out a panicked scream.

Pfft!

In an instant!

Holding the black wooden sword, Qi Lin passed straight through the middle of Su Cheng's body!

The edge of the black wooden sword slashed down, splitting Su Cheng in two and blasting the halves apart to either side!

Even his spine was neatly split in half!

"If I split you open, doesn't that make a path?!"

Qi Lin sneered and charged forward, sword in hand, without looking back.

The two halves of Su Cheng's body fell, and Han Yuan rushed up and stomped them into the mud.

"Holy shit, you bastard, you really split open?" Han Yuan shuddered all over. Taking a closer look, he cursed, "You thought you were so smart, Su Cheng? You died before I did, and you didn't even get to keep your corpse in one piece!"

He was stunned!

Completely stunned!

Was this black-clad boy really that strong?

"Follow Qi Lin and carve a bloody path out!"

Han Yuan's blood boiled. He raised his saber and roared.

"Commander Su's been chopped in half!"

The City Guards were shaken to the core and thrown into a panic.

"This kid really dares to kill City Guards!"

And he was slaughtering them, brutally killing them!

A City Guard commander in the mighty Mystic Sea Realm had been killed with one stroke of the Qi brat's sword!

Who could believe it?

Seeing the black-clad boy charge forward with his sword like an enraged dragon, every City Guard panicked and hurriedly got out of his way.

"Quick, send a signal for reinforcements!"

"The lowly commoners of Pingyang District are rioting! Send more men to suppress them!"

The night in Mystic City erupted into chaos, and fiery signals shot into the sky.

"Kill-!"

Large numbers of armored, armed City Guards were mobilized, and over a thousand bore down on the area.