The martial artist spoke urgently.
"Something has happened to the sixth alliance leader! While he was holding the Armor Appreciation Assembly at Clear Breeze Ridge, an Imperial Guard arrested him. Even our Frost Scale Armor was seized by that Imperial Guard!"
"What did you say?"
Yue Jinghao slammed his palm onto the table, instantly making the bowls and plates clatter.
He sprang to his feet, his rotund body trembling with rage, the fat on his face bunching together, his eyes filled with savagery.
"Which blind fool of an Imperial Guard dared lay hands on an alliance leader of my Heavenly Dao Alliance and steal our treasure?"
"What? An Imperial Guard arrested our sixth brother? Which blind fool of an Imperial Guard-argh! Which blind fool of an Imperial Guard dared lay hands on an alliance leader of my Heavenly Dao Alliance and steal our treasure? Where did they take him?"
The martial artist hastily added.
"I heard he is an Imperial Guard from the imperial capital, named Su Fei and known as the Marquis of Martial Peace. He excels in swordsmanship and is extremely powerful. The sixth alliance leader couldn't even last two moves against him."
"They took the sixth alliance leader to the Cool Prefecture Thousand Households Office."
"An Imperial Guard? So what if he came from the imperial capital?"
Yue Jinghao let out a furious roar, his voice shaking even the roof.
"My Heavenly Dao Alliance rules supreme across Yong and Cool Prefectures. When have we ever suffered such humiliation? Though our eldest, second, third, and fourth brothers are away on business, how could I, the fifth brother, let our sixth brother suffer this grievance?"
He snatched up the two long-handled porcelain hammers beside the table. Each was as large as a winter melon and weighed several thousand jin.