Escape to Heaven

Bang! Bang!

Two muffled sounds rang out. The two soldiers had barely entered the room and had not even seen anyone clearly before they were sent flying back out, blood still gushing from the bloody holes in their foreheads.

Everyone outside was startled by this sight.

Only then did they realize that the person they were surrounding and killing was no petty thief, but a martial path expert.

"Stone projectiles?"

General Fan observed more closely. He had seen the method Chen Luo used to shoot dead his two subordinates. That was precisely why he found it troublesome.

Anyone who could kill with stone projectiles was at least an internal training master of the Martial Path Second Realm. Judging from the depth of the wounds, this man's martial arts were likely even higher than predicted. He might already have reached the Third Realm Bone Forging Level.

Bone Forging Realm Master.

General Fan narrowed his eyes instinctively, killing intent surging in his eyes.

With such an enemy lurking in the shadows, who could sleep peacefully? He had originally intended to capture Chen Luo alive and question him about a few things, but now he had no such thoughts at all.

An enemy of this level was most reassuring when dead.

"Set it on fire!"

The subordinates around him swiftly dispersed. Before long, flaming arrows soaked in flammable oil appeared in the hands of the archers.

Just as they were preparing to loose their arrows, the window on the left suddenly exploded. A large area of pitch-black hidden weapons flew out in a dense swarm.

Mixed among fragments of shattered doorboards, they arrived in an instant. The front row of archers had no time to react before wooden chunks smashed into their chests, sending large numbers of them tumbling backward.

At that moment, the first rain of arrows was also released. The densely packed arrows finally suppressed the attacks coming from inside.

"Keep going!"

General Fan stretched out one hand and fiercely caught a stone chunk flying toward his face. The force behind it made his palm go numb. He had nearly failed to block it just now, let alone the ordinary soldiers.

That was only the force of a scattered shot. If it had been a one-on-one assassination, he suspected that even he would not have been able to stop it.

Bone Forging Realm Master!

This stone had confirmed his guess. No wonder this man dared to be so bold. With the strength of the Bone Forging Realm, a small city like Qingya County truly was as flat ground beneath his feet.

Before they could react, another large area of shattered bricks and stones came flying out. Ordinary stones and wood fragments became like hidden weapons under the strength of a Third Realm Expert, injuring anyone they touched. However, there were simply too many people on the other side. The brick-and-stone projectiles could only affect the frontmost group. The archers behind them still fired their arrows.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The arrows shot into the house and quickly ignited the curtains inside. The flames rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fierce fire produced smoke, which soon filled the entire room.

"Everyone fall back. Be careful of the enemy's dying strugg—"

Before General Fan could finish his command, his vision suddenly darkened. A burning table smashed sideways out from inside. Close behind it came a ghostlike figure.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Fast!

Far too fast!

In what seemed like the leap of a rabbit and the fall of a falcon, the figure charged into the crowd. The people who had drawn too close to set the fire had no time to retreat before Chen Luo killed his way out. Several archers who failed to dodge in time were struck in the chest by his palms and sent flying like straw, sweeping down a large area of people.

"None of you are allowed to retreat!!"

General Fan was furious as he watched the crowd scatter.

If he let such a master break out, would he ever know a peaceful day again?

Meanwhile, Chen Luo seemed to have become a cold killing machine. Every time, he cleverly avoided the points where the most attackers gathered, keeping the number of people fighting him at three. In this way, he used his footwork to offset their numerical advantage with more of their own people.

This was an extremely brilliant Combat Instinct. Chen Luo had collected more than a hundred External Brains, and one of them happened to possess a genius for this.

However, this method could not continue forever. A Bone Forging Realm martial artist was still human in the end and could be worn out. Thus, Chen Luo killed as he moved toward the edge. He had to escape the encirclement before his strength ran dry.

Seeing this, General Fan drew his iron spear and mingled among the crowd as he thrust it at Chen Luo. The entire process was silent. No one even noticed him attacking, and there was none of the imposing aura one would expect from a general making a move.

That was the battlefield. No one spoke of Martial Virtue.

Whatever method could kill the enemy was the best method!

Three inches to the right. Heart.

Chen Luo had just knocked aside three soldiers surrounding him and was preparing to rush out when a sense of danger suddenly arose in his mind. His body twisted instinctively. An iron spear grazed past his face, thrust from amid such a dense crowd.

He had dodged even that?!

General Fan's expression darkened. He had already overestimated his opponent as much as possible, yet this person was even more difficult to handle than expected.

His Combat Instinct was almost like that of a wild beast. Logically speaking, without thousands of life-and-death battles, it was absolutely impossible to possess such sharp observation. This young man before him did not look like that sort of master at all. There was only one explanation.

A genius!

"Are you the thief who killed Eunuch Wei?!" Gripping his iron spear, General Fan did not attack again. After that thrust, he swiftly retreated behind the crowd, not giving Chen Luo the slightest opportunity.

The soldiers beside him had also been frightened out of their wits by Chen Luo's killing. Though they held swords, not one dared to take the initiative and attack.

In that brief stretch just now, more than a dozen of them had fallen. Those who went down lightly had broken arms and legs; the severely injured had died on the spot.

"Prince Ning?"

Chen Luo's gaze flickered as he tentatively spoke a name.

He had also guessed General Fan's identity. He was most likely the person who had entered the courtyard, Eunuch Wei's helper from behind the scenes. Truly, he had searched high and low in worn-out iron shoes only to find it without any effort! As long as he killed General Fan here, he and Third Uncle could live peaceful lives from now on.

"As expected, I cannot leave you alive!"

General Fan's face sank, and he instantly retreated.

"Shoot him dead! Poisoned arrows!!"

General Fan had not spoken with Chen Luo just now to give him a chance to rest. He had been giving the outer layer of his men time to set up a Defense Circle.

Unfortunately, General Fan had his schemes, but Chen Luo was no fool either.

Among his more than a hundred brains, the one most skilled at escaping had long since found a safe route. This stretch of fighting after he came out had been the most dangerous part. Now that he had reached this position, the situation was no longer theirs to dictate.

He stepped back half a pace, flashed, and seized a soldier on the left who had retreated too slowly.

With one hand, he twisted!

A crack sounded. The soldier, still holding his saber, died on the spot. His saber fell to the ground, and Chen Luo kicked it flying. It nailed another man to death midway. Chen Luo grabbed the corpse and hurled it far away. At that moment, the rain of arrows from outside came shooting over, most of them lodging in the corpse. Chen Luo himself seized the opportunity to Flash into the unburned house on the other side of the wall.

Crash.

Before the others could react, he smashed through another window.

After several leaps and bounds, he vanished into the darkness without a trace.

By the time the soldiers rushed over, they saw only a pile of scattered rotten window wood and a black hole continuously blowing cold wind inward. The sight turned General Fan's face ashen!

"Pursue!!"

Having come this far, they naturally could not let him go.

Otherwise, if he escaped today, General Fan would be the one to die tomorrow. Even he could not withstand the assassination of a Bone Forging Realm Master.

At his command, the soldiers swiftly gave chase.

The people General Fan kept at his side were all elite troops. Their loyalty had also passed trials, so naturally they would not be frightened back by a fierce bandit like Chen Luo.