This Mission Suited Me Perfectly

He thrust both palms forward with explosive force.

A dragon's roar rang out.

The bolts flying toward him seemed to be seized by an invisible giant hand, freezing in midair.

Then, under Su Fei's control with the Dragon Catching Skill, those bolts began spinning at high speed.

Su Fei circulated his power through both palms and pushed forward.

The vortex reversed direction, carrying the bolts as they shot toward the black-clad men.

"Not good!"

The leading black-clad man's expression changed drastically. He wanted to dodge, but it was already too late.

A dense series of pffts rang out as the bolts pierced precisely into the crowd of black-clad men.

More than a dozen men at the front were instantly shot through the chest. They screamed as they fell, their blood staining the fallen leaves beneath their feet red.

Several others staggered backward after being hit, clutching their wounds and howling without end.

In the time it took to burn a stick of incense, more than half of the twenty-odd black-clad men had fallen.

Su Fei spared several of them. After crippling their dantians, he kicked one of them to the ground.

"Speak. Who sent you?"

One of the black-clad men clenched his teeth tightly.

"Kill me or carve me up as you please. Don't even dream of getting a single word out of me."

Su Fei walked over to the black-clad man whose mouth seemed the hardest.

Su Fei slowly crouched down and lightly tapped the other man's arm with a fingertip. Nine Yang True Qi turned into a fine needle and drilled into his meridians.

"You don't want to talk?"

The black-clad man shuddered all over, veins bulging at his temples.

Su Fei released a strand of Nine Yang True Essence into the black-clad man's body.

The true essence became a flame, burning within his dantian.

The black-clad man immediately looked as though he had been thrown into a pot of boiling oil. Pain curled him into a shrimp, and his teeth clattered loudly.

"What about now? Will you talk?"

Su Fei's voice was calm, yet it carried an oppressive force that brooked no doubt.

A beast-like growl came from the black-clad man's throat. After enduring that wave of agony, he panted heavily and said,

"If you've got the guts, kill me."

Su Fei did not respond. He merely drove his true essence onward.

That mass of true qi suddenly swelled, burning all the way along the meridians toward the man's heart.

The black-clad man finally could not endure any longer. A shrill scream echoed through the forest as his hands clawed wildly at the ground, his nails packed with dirt and streaked with blood.

"Ahhh! I'll confess! I'll confess everything!"

He violently tore off his face covering, revealing a twisted face full of agony.

"It was the Chen family. We're all martial artists trained by the Chen family. Captain Chen sent us."

"He provided the location too. He told us to wait for you here."

Su Fei furrowed his brows tightly.

"The Chen family?"

"Captain Chen? You mean Chen Zhenyu?"

"It was him. He said that as long as we killed you, each of us would get five hundred taels as settlement money. Once it was done, he would send us out of Qingzhou, and no one would ever trace it back to us."

Seeing someone confess, another black-clad man immediately added,

"Captain Chen said your edge was too exposed, and that you would become a great calamity in the future."

"Captain Chen also supplied those Gale Crossbows. He used connections to get them from the Qingzhou Army. He said he had to make sure you died without a complete corpse."

"And after it was done, they planned to pin the blame for killing you on the Four Demons of the Northern Region, then stage the scene."

"Stage the scene so that the Four Demons of the Northern Region happened to be nearby. You took the mission to investigate the Four Demons of the Northern Region and were killed by them. Isn't that perfectly reasonable?"

Su Fei slowly rose to his feet, his expression darkening as a chill gradually rose in his heart.

He had not expected that the intelligence the Thousand Households Office had received about the Four Demons of the Northern Region had also been arranged and provided by the Chen family.

Other than the Chen family, Su Fei had no other enemies.

Providing intelligence, setting an ambush, then framing others to finish things off—what a chain of schemes.

He had thought that after Commander Feng warned Chen Zhenyu, the Chen family would restrain itself somewhat. He had never expected Chen Zhenyu to be so outrageously bold as to use military crossbows to intercept and kill him, an Imperial Guard General Banner Officer.

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Using military crossbows alone was already a grave crime.

"Looks like I was too merciful."

Ding! Mission triggered: Repay vengeance with vengeance, repay grievances with grievances.

Mission requirement: Destroy the Chen family.

Mission reward: Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, forty years of cultivation!

He had not expected the system to issue him a mission as well. This mission suited him perfectly.

Chen Zhenyu was, after all, an Imperial Guard Hundred Households Officer. If Su Fei reported the matter, there was no guarantee Chen Zhenyu would not get wind of it.

The safest approach was still to follow the mission issued by the system and avenge himself personally.

After Su Fei made up his mind,

he drew his blade and finished off the few men, looking at the corpses strewn across the ground.

Su Fei first gathered all the Gale Crossbows, bundled them up, and carried them on his back.

Su Fei found a set of night-traveling clothes and changed into them.

He used his lightness skill and hurried toward the city.

The night was as black as ink, and Qingzhou City lay shrouded in deep darkness.

Dressed in night-traveling clothes, Su Fei landed soundlessly atop the high wall of the Chen family residence.

He set down the bundle containing the Gale Crossbows.

He activated the God-tier Insight Technique, and the positions of the patrolling guards, hidden sentries, and open sentries inside the courtyard all came into view.

The Chen family truly deserved to be a great clan of Qingzhou. There were more than thirty guards on night watch alone, as well as three Xiantian Realm martial artists.

"They're more cautious than I imagined."

Su Fei sneered. Qi gathered at his fingertips as the Dragon Catching Skill silently began to circulate.

Two guards beneath the wall were speaking in low voices when they suddenly felt their feet grow light. Their entire bodies were lifted into the air by invisible force.

Su Fei reached out with both hands and directly snapped their necks.

He casually tossed them into a corner.

After slipping into the inner courtyard, he heard the sound of silk and bamboo instruments coming from the direction of the main hall.

Using the shadows of the rock garden as cover, Su Fei crept forward and peered through a crack in the window. Chen Zhenyu was drinking with a rather similar-looking man.

Only, this man appeared somewhat plump.

The table was laden with fine dishes, while Chen Hu reclined sideways on a couch, being fed medicinal soup by a maidservant. His face still carried a venomous resentment.

Chen Zhenfeng held a wine cup, unease evident in his tone.

"Second Brother, can we really deal with Su Fei this time?"

"I can't shake this feeling of panic."

Chen Zhenyu drained the wine in his cup.

"Big Brother, with over twenty Gale Crossbows, Su Fei is only in the True Qi Realm. Even if he has broken through to the Xiantian Realm, he will surely die."

"And once he dies, we can conveniently blame it on the Four Demons of the Northern Region. Who would suspect us?"

"Big Brother, just rest easy."

Chen Hu cut in, "It would be best if he dies without a complete corpse! Once he's dead, I'll grind his bones to powder and feed them to dogs!"

Outside the window, Su Fei's face turned cold at those words, his right hand already gripping his blade.

Bang!

The window lattice suddenly exploded. Like an eagle pouncing on a hare, Su Fei crashed through the window.

His blade slashed straight at Chen Zhenyu's face.

Faced with this sudden change,

Chen Zhenyu was frightened out of his wits. In his haste, he grabbed the table and held it in front of himself.

Crack.

With a crisp sound, the fine rosewood table was split in two by the blade light. The remaining force sent him stumbling backward, while the dispersed blade qi struck the front of his robe.

His robe tore apart, leaving a bloody mark across his chest.

Chen Zhenfeng grabbed a chair and hurled it over. Su Fei casually struck with his palm.

Innate True Qi erupted, blasting the chair into powder.

Chen Zhenfeng's face was filled with lingering terror. Though he was a businessman with only True Qi Realm cultivation, he could still recognize quality when he saw it.

"Innate True Qi... you're a Xiantian Realm martial artist. You cannot be some nobody. Who are you? Who sent you to our Chen family?"