Martial Artist

Jin Guangming's body slumped to the ground.

He continued to twitch in agony.

"Whoosh!"

Seeing this, Fang Lieyun no longer hesitated. He sprang up and vaulted straight through the window into the house.

At the same time he entered, Li ChunJun had already leapt out through a window on the other side.

He immediately raised his gun and took aim at Li ChunJun.

But Li ChunJun was running too fast, dodging erratically. With so many people outside, firing would risk hitting bystanders.

"I'll go after the killer! You save the others!"

Fang Lieyun shouted at the teammates who had infiltrated from other directions.

Power surged through his legs as he gave chase, nimble as a leopard, staying hot on Li ChunJun's heels.

"Help the captain. I'll handle things here!"

A middle-aged man who seemed to be the deputy captain waved the others away.

Then he went over to Jin Guangming.

Bright red blood kept pouring from the wound in his neck.

His twitching and struggling grew weaker by the moment.

There was no saving him.

He had heard a thing or two about what the Jin Family had done over the years.

And now Jin Guangming had met this end...

Karma.

But so many people had died in this battle. The political and business circles of Guangzhou City would likely be rocked by a massive upheaval, and who knew how many people would be dragged into it.

The middle-aged man sighed inwardly. Rather than do anything else, he turned and walked toward the hall.

He would see if anyone there could still be saved.

"Thud, thud, thud!"

Meanwhile, Li ChunJun rushed out of the villa and sprinted at full speed.

A cordon formed by Garrison Department and Mount Tai Security personnel lay ahead of him.

But after two of them were killed on the spot in a single exchange, the rest scattered in fear, not daring to stand in his way.

A few Garrison Department officers occasionally charged forward, eager to distinguish themselves and fearless in the face of danger. But the gap in physical strength was so great that after only a few steps, they had already lost sight of Li ChunJun.

Li ChunJun vaulted over Jin Family Courtyard and burst out of Hengguang Garden, breaking through a cordon of hundreds of Garrison Department personnel in less than a minute.

The stamina and explosive power granted by his fully enhanced physique also allowed him to maintain a speed of over ten meters per second, covering nearly a kilometer in just over a minute.

He had chosen a relatively complicated route. After a kilometer, he had long since shaken off the other Garrison Department personnel. Only Fang Lieyun was still right behind him, refusing to let up.

The gap between them gradually widened, but Fang Lieyun gritted his teeth and kept going, never taking his eyes off Li ChunJun for even a moment.

Judging by his explosive power, he was a Martial Artist no weaker than Han Shan, the master of the Sword Tasting Hall—perhaps even stronger.

After all, compared with Han Shan, who was nearing sixty, Fang Lieyun was only in his thirties!

He was at the very peak of his life!

But...

In a chase, the person fleeing could change direction freely, giving him a certain advantage.

And the enhancements Li ChunJun's Life Level had granted him reached every aspect of his being, inside and out.

Under these circumstances, Fang Lieyun's pursuit technique was clearly more nimble and less taxing. Yet after nearly three kilometers, he could already feel his strength giving out.

Li ChunJun was now more than forty meters ahead. It would be easy for him to disappear from sight.

Knowing he could not let this go on, Fang Lieyun abruptly drew his gun and fired a burst at Li ChunJun.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

Gunfire erupted.

Bullets tore through the air.

Forty meters...

Even with Fang Lieyun's specially made pistol, at that distance, the bullets went wherever they pleased.

There was no accuracy to speak of.

In the end, he could only watch helplessly as he emptied his magazine, while Li ChunJun never even slowed down before vanishing around the corner.

"Haah! Haah! Haah!"

Fang Lieyun controlled his breathing and slowed down.

His opponent's physique...

Had absolutely reached the peak of Unity.

A top-tier Martial Artist!

He had already expended far too much energy. If he fought a powerhouse like this while exhausted, it was anyone's guess who would come out on top.

However...

The man wouldn't get away!

Because Fang Lieyun wasn't fighting alone.

His teammates' voices were already coming through his earpiece.

While he pursued and directed the operation, his teammates had driven ahead to cut Li ChunJun off.

He had fired partly to try his luck and see if he could hit Li ChunJun, but also to alert his teammates to his exact location.

Once his battle-hardened teammates closed in...

Caught between them from both sides, the killer would have no way to escape, by land or sky!

But just as Fang Lieyun was about to give up, Li ChunJun suddenly reappeared from around the street corner.

"I'm out of bullets," Li ChunJun said.

Fang Lieyun, panting heavily, froze.

The killer actually dared to come back!?

That's right!

He dared to come back!

With the strength he had shown—peak Unity!—why wouldn't he come back to kill Fang Lieyun, whose strength was badly depleted?

Now...

They would meet on a narrow path!

The next second, Fang Lieyun reached for his waist with his left hand and quickly pulled out a magazine.

But before he could reload, Li ChunJun was already charging toward him.

And as he sprinted, he swung the Sharp Sword in his hand, power surging through him as he suddenly hurled it forward.

"Whoosh!"

The shrill whistle of the blade forced Fang Lieyun to dodge at top speed, even as he was about to finish reloading.

"Thud!"

The sharp blade skimmed past him and struck a "No Parking" sign four meters away. It pierced through the metal and lodged there, caught by its hilt.

As Fang Lieyun dodged the hurled sword and successfully loaded the magazine into his pistol, Li ChunJun came hurtling toward him at full speed.

Just as Fang Lieyun swung the gun toward Li ChunJun, his body shifted slightly...

"Bang!"

The bullet grazed past Li ChunJun's shoulder by a hair's breadth.

Fang Lieyun had only managed to fire once. Li ChunJun dodged the bullet and closed the distance until they were at close quarters. His right hand, like a divine sword piercing through the air, clenched into a fist and stabbed viciously toward the underside of Fang Lieyun's gun arm.

But Fang Lieyun's reactions, honed through countless battles, were remarkably fast!

His outstretched arm, gripping the gun, bent at once, then slammed down. He brought his elbow hard against Li ChunJun's stabbing right hand and deflected the seemingly simple punch.

At the same time, his combat instincts, honed to the utmost, told him to turn and close in. Using his shoulder as the point of attack, he slammed into Li ChunJun's chest, where the deflected arm had left him wide open.

Li ChunJun was sprinting at full speed.

Under the force of that collision, Fang Lieyun might be sent flying, and his arm might be badly injured, but...

Li ChunJun's ribs would definitely break!

Besides...

Fang Lieyun had a gun!

As long as he could right himself and regain his balance after being knocked back, he was confident he could use his superior marksmanship to kill Li ChunJun at close range.

With his wealth of experience and combat talent, this was a counterattack strategy he had devised in a flash!

Otherwise...

If the fight dragged on, he might not last against a top-tier Martial Artist like this with his strength so badly depleted!

Yes, a top-tier Martial Artist!

Since they had not yet fought in earnest, Fang Lieyun judged from the physique Li ChunJun had displayed that he was a top-tier Martial Artist like himself, one who had reached the peak of Unity!