Traitors Die! The Wang Family Patriarch

The County Lieutenant had colluded with the Demon Race, leaked secrets again and again, and tried to get Lu Yang killed, yet he had never succeeded.

Now it seemed that County Lieutenant had run out of patience, or perhaps had realized Lu Yang had seen through their true faces, so he had simply come at him openly.

As long as he posted a wanted notice in the county yamen's name, Lu Yang would have a hundred mouths and still be unable to defend himself.

Three thousand taels of silver was enough to tempt many people.

After sealing Han Qi's qi channels all over his body, Lu Yang used Xiantian True Qi to awaken Niu Hanshan.

"I... What happened to me?" After Niu Hanshan woke, he only felt a splitting headache.

Very soon, he noticed the hemp rope on his body.

"Brother Lu, why did you tie me up?" Niu Hanshan looked at Lu Yang and asked, startled and uncertain.

Lu Yang flicked his finger and shot out a strand of true qi, undoing the ropes on Niu Hanshan's body.

"I wasn't the one who tied you up. They were." Lu Yang pointed at the Han father and son on the ground.

Niu Hanshan thought for a moment and understood.

"Han Qi, you drugged our wine?" Niu Hanshan was instantly so furious his anger rushed to his crown. "I treated you as a brother, and you actually plotted against me?"

Han Qi quibbled, "Brother Niu, I had no intention of hurting you. It's just that this Lu Yang is a man the county yamen has put a heavy bounty on. I was only afraid you'd be deceived by him..."

Smack!

Niu Hanshan slapped him across the face.

"Bastard. What kind of person Brother Lu is—do I need you to tell me?"

Niu Hanshan had no interest in investigating whether Lu Yang was truly a wanted criminal of the county yamen or not. He only knew that without Lu Yang, he did not know how many times he would have died, and in the future, he feared he would have no fate with Xiantian at all.

Only Lu Yang was his hope of achieving Xiantian and rebuilding Niushi Fort.

Even if he truly was a wanted criminal, Lu Yang had never harmed him.

Moreover, what his ancestor Niu Haocheng had encountered at the yamen back then made him feel not the slightest bit of goodwill toward Black Mountain County Yamen.

"Brother Lu, I'm truly sorry. I originally wanted to have you stay here and rest for a few days. I didn't expect I'd nearly harm you instead," Niu Hanshan said, somewhat ashamed.

"No matter." Lu Yang waved his hand. "If not for him, I still wouldn't know I'd already been wanted."

"Mm." A troubled look appeared on Niu Hanshan's face, and he said hesitantly, "Brother Lu... Han Qi... Han Qi was blinded by lard this time. For my sake, could you... could you spare his father and son's lives?"

Lu Yang said coldly, "I originally intended to kill them beneath my palm, but since Brother Niu has spoken, then for your sake, I'll spare their lives for the time being."

During their earlier exchange, he had already used Xiantian True Qi to cripple that father and son. Without martial arts, even if they lived, they posed no threat to him.

A look of shame and guilt appeared on Niu Hanshan's face, and he was just about to speak.

But at that moment...

Rustle, rustle, rustle!

Rustle, rustle, rustle!

Just then, a series of dense footsteps rang out outside the house.

Faintly, the sound of metal clashing could also be heard.

Lu Yang's brows immediately furrowed.

In one arrowing step, he rushed over and grabbed Han Qi by the collar.

"Talk! Did you send someone to Black Mountain County Yamen to tip them off?"

A few traces of venomous resentment and the delight of revenge showed in Han Qi's eyes.

"Hahaha, that's right. I've always been in contact with the city, and I sent a carrier pigeon with a message early on. Lu Yang! You crippled Bao'er and destroyed all my hopes. I want you to be buried with us father and son!"

"You're courting death!"

This time, Lu Yang wasted no more words. He held two fingers together like a sword, and a strand of Xiantian True Qi shredded Han Qi's heart meridians.

As for Han Bao, he did not let him off again either.

A martial artist should kill and decide with thunderous resolve.

Since this Han Qi was stubbornly unrepentant, there was no need to worry about anything else.

Even Niu Hanshan, who had quite a good relationship with Han Qi, said nothing more now.

When one's greed was a snake trying to swallow an elephant, one could not blame others for dying.

Just then, a figure cut a sorry state as he pushed open the door and stumbled in.

"Eldest Brother, this is bad! A group of martial artists of unknown origins has surrounded Han Family Village!" Wang Kang said anxiously.

Lu Yang swept a glance over Wang Kang, then turned his head and said to Niu Hanshan, "Their target is me. You two stay here and don't get involved."

"But..."

Wang Kang still wanted to say something, but Niu Hanshan grabbed him.

"Brother Lu is no creature of the pond. Nothing will happen to him. If we follow him, the two of us will only hold him back." After Niu Hanshan said this, Wang Kang secretly clenched his fists and quieted down.

Just then, a loud, resonant voice spread throughout the whole of Han Family Village.

"Lu Yang, get out here!"

"Lu Yang, get out here!"

A petite, delicate figure in a plain hairpin and cloth skirt stood before a group of warriors in leather armor, leading the way for them.

"It's right there!" Han Ling'er pointed at the room where her father was, speaking with a beaming smile.

At this moment, she still did not know that her father and brother had long since died at Lu Yang's hands.

But the man at the head of the group was clearly not as relaxed as she was. Clearly, they all knew that mere knockout drugs and iron chains could not possibly hold Lu Yang.

If a Xiantian Realm cultivator could be bound by iron chains, that would be the real joke.

The news that Lu Yang had slain the Bull Demon had reached the Black Mountain County Yamen that very night.

Naturally, the many great families of Black Mountain County had all learned of it as well.

Creak!

The door was pushed open, and a figure slowly walked out from within.

That man held a blade in his right hand and stood at the doorway in a stance that was neither casual nor rigid. The edge of his blade was raised level, pointing straight at the crowd.

A powerful sense of oppression instantly made the many warriors behind the man secretly tremble in alarm.

Especially Han Ling'er. The moment she saw Lu Yang appear, her pretty face instantly turned deathly pale.

According to Han Qi's original plan, Lu Yang should already have had his head cut off by now, packed inside a box.

Now that he was not dead, then the ones dead were naturally Han Qi and Han Bao.

"Father!"

"Brother!"

The young girl's body went limp, and she collapsed to the ground in despair.

"Attack!"

At the leading man's order, the crowd of warriors rushed forward one after another.

Lu Yang's face was expressionless. With only a stomp of his foot, a fierce gust erupted from nowhere, sweeping those warriors up and flinging them high into the air.

Lu Yang's gaze fixed on that man, not a trace of unnecessary expression on his face. "The boring probing can end now. Those hiding in the dark, come out."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Three figures took up positions like the horns of a triangle, surrounding Lu Yang.

The man at their head wore a tall crown and broad sash, a measure of authority showing between his brows, and the aura emanating from him faintly resembled Lu Yang's in some ways.

The other two were likewise dressed in brocade robes and fine clothing, their eyes carrying authority; clearly, they were no ordinary people either.

On all three of them, Xiantian True Qi flowed without cease.

The man at their head said, "Captain Lu is truly young and accomplished. When I was your age, my Returning Origin Art had only just stepped into the Postnatal Realm."

Lu Yang narrowed his eyes and studied the sturdy Middle-aged Man.

On closer inspection, the aura on the other party's body did indeed somewhat resemble his own. Thinking on it now, this similarity was precisely because he had cultivated the Returning Origin Art.

"You're Wang Kui?" Lu Yang said.

Wang Kui, the current head of the Wang Family, was also a renowned figure throughout Black Mountain County.

Looking across all of Black Mountain County, aside from him, at present only the gravely ill County Magistrate Du Guiyuan and this head of the Wang Family had mastered the Gui Yuan Technique.

Lu Yang had met County Magistrate Du Guinian. This man clearly was not him, so his identity naturally leapt out as plain as day.