The scar-faced man's death left the Yellow Banner Gang stunned. Yet a dense volley of arrows shot out from the mountain forest, killing every last one of them.
A few survivors managed to escape the net, but the Imperial Guards waiting in the distance cut them down at once.
The soldiers under Su Chen were ranked by strength. General Zhou was the strongest, followed by the Imperial Guards.
The Imperial Guards excelled at assassination, intelligence gathering, and concealment. Their overall combat ability was by no means weak—in fact, they were at least stronger than the death warriors.
At that moment, Xu Yuheng and the people of the Xu Family were so terrified they nearly collapsed on the ground. When had they ever witnessed such a scene, with so many people dying right before their eyes?
Blood had spread across the ground, creating a sight both eerie and horrifying.
They had seen dead people before, but they had never seen so many die at once.
Someone from the Xu Family immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed repeatedly. "Spare us! We were only passing by. Please, my lord, spare us. Don't kill us!"
Once one person started, the others all dropped to their knees and began begging for mercy as well.
A group of people gradually emerged from the mountain forest. The man leading them was built like an iron tower, a small mountain whose presence was intensely oppressive.
When the Xu Family saw General Zhou, they began kowtowing and begging for mercy even more desperately, their faces smeared with mud.
They were utterly terrified.
General Zhou silently moved aside. Su Chen's somewhat slender figure stepped out. There was still a hint of fatigue on his face. Ever since leaving Qi Province, he had been rushing nonstop and had barely gotten