Su Mo Was About to Kill Someone!

He saw a bunch of street thugs brutally beating the old man who ran the bun shop.

His daughter rushed forward to stop them, only to be kicked flying as well. Blood instantly spewed from her mouth, and she collapsed limply onto the ground!

Su Mo's expression suddenly darkened!

He was just about to shout at them to stop.

But Heroine Chen beside him could no longer hold herself back.

With a delicate shout, she shot out like a nimble female leopard, flashing forward like lightning!

Heroine Chen had read countless tales of great martial heroes. As long as it wasn't a relative committing a crime, her sense of justice would absolutely overflow!

She charged straight toward the thugs beating the old man.

She raised her bare hand, and with a clang—

the great sword finally left its sheath!

Su Mo had originally thought it was merely a prop Heroine Chen used to scare people. For all he knew, there might not even have been a rusty iron sword inside.

Only now did he realize—

there really was a gleaming, ice-cold tempered treasure sword in the scabbard.

Not only did it look magnificent, it was incredibly sharp!

The great sword carved a streak of light through the air and flashed across the adult thug's ankle.

Then came a shrill scream.

The thug instantly clutched his leg and collapsed onto the ground, howling in agony!

Su Mo's eyes narrowed sharply.

Chen Qianyu had struck with such decisiveness and ferocity that a single sword had severed the man's Achilles tendon!

You truly couldn't judge a person by appearances!

Heroine Chen's swordsmanship was indeed, just as she had claimed, peerless in its refinement!

Xue Yishu's face had gone pale as she stared in disbelief at the imposing Heroine Chen, treasure sword in hand!

The dozen or so street thugs smashing up the bun shop saw their companion have his Achilles tendon severed by a young woman's sword, and their expressions changed dramatically.

They began shouting angrily.

Grabbing wooden clubs, benches, and the like, they surged toward Chen Qianyu in a menacing encirclement!

As the daughter of a salt-smuggling kingpin, Chen Bao, Chen Qianyu had witnessed plenty of killing.

To train her courage, Chen Bao had even taken her hunting in the mountains when she was only four or five!

With such a background, she naturally feared neither Heaven nor Earth.

She had even dared to say she would kill that dog of a county magistrate in Changping County!

Seeing the street thugs surround her,

Chen Qianyu gave a cold snort. Her treasure sword shone like a rainbow as she swept and maneuvered through the crowd, sending one thug after another screaming to the ground!

Some had their Achilles tendons severed; others had the tendons in their hands cut!

In merely a few breaths,

all of the dozen or so thugs had been knocked flat by Heroine Chen!

Su Mo was left dumbfounded!

Was this Heroine Chen's true strength?

If it had been him, he doubted he could have dealt with them as cleanly and efficiently as she had.

Severing only the tendons of their hands and feet was far more difficult than simply killing them!

In other words—

was he no match for Heroine Chen?

Su Mo swallowed involuntarily, cold sweat seeping from the back of his neck.

He had repeatedly courted death right in front of a heroine like this, yet he was still standing here in one piece. The granny beneath the earth must have done everything she could for him!

From this, it was clear—

just how terrifying the Female Captain who had silently put Heroine Chen to sleep had been!

Xue Yishu beside him had already been completely petrified.

The incredulous expression on her lovely face had entered a state of solidification +100!

After displaying her might, Heroine Chen expressionlessly glanced at the endlessly screaming street thugs and shouted coldly, "You scoundrels who bully the good—everyone has the right to slay you!"

"This female knight-errant is the chief disciple of Ten Thousand Swords Sect on Mount Wohu, Chen Qingming, the Jade Maiden Soul Chasing Sword!"

"Today, I shall merely give you a small warning. If you offend again, I shall certainly take your lives!"

After a pause, she added with a cold laugh, "If you refuse to accept this, feel free to come to Mount Wohu. This female knight-errant will be waiting!"

With that, she flicked her white robes, returned the treasure sword to its sheath, and drifted away!

Su Mo...

Whoever dared to say Heroine Chen was stupid again—

Su Mo would definitely pick a fight with him!

Watching Chen Qianyu, dressed in the standard white robes of a female knight-errant, stride away with heroic bearing,

the dream of martial heroes and the jianghu he had cherished since childhood was finally made whole at this moment.

This was the jianghu he had always imagined!

Su, unable to restrain himself, was seized by poetic inspiration: "What a fine one who kills a man within ten paces, leaving no trace after a thousand miles. When the deed is done, he brushes off his robes and leaves, hiding both his body and name!"

He then sighed.

After the heroine had punished evil and promoted good, she had patted herself off and left.

He, however, had to stay behind and clean up the mess!

As long as the authorities put in even the slightest effort, it would be easy to uncover Heroine Chen's true identity!

Xue Yishu, still in her petrified state beside him, heard the famous lines attributed to Li Bai. Her petrification immediately shattered, and she stared at Su Mo in shock!

Another lost masterpiece handed down through the ages...?

What in the world!

She considered herself well-read and believed her talent was no worse than that of any candidate, so how had she never heard of two such world-famous poems?

The surrounding commoners finally couldn't hold back their discussions.

"That female knight-errant is incredible!"

"She took down more than a dozen Five Peaks Gang members all by herself!"

"Do you think she's stupid? She beat them up and just left? She even announced her name!"

"The Five Peaks Gang will definitely seek revenge!"

"Maybe she's highly skilled and fearless!"

"What good is being highly skilled and fearless? No matter how skilled she is, can she be more powerful than the authorities? You don't know the background of the Five Peaks Gang?"

"I heard the gang's chief leader is even a high-level practitioner of the immortal arts!"

"Are you looking to die? You actually dare discuss the Five Peaks Gang? If they hear you, you're finished!"

As soon as those words were spoken, the surrounding commoners instantly fell silent as cicadas in winter!

Su Mo furrowed his brows!

He had heard Luo Lie mention the Five Peaks Gang.

He only knew that the Five Peaks Gang was one of the local tyrants in Changping County, with several hundred men under its command. They mainly occupied the eastern part of the city, and even Luo Lie was somewhat wary of them.

But he had never investigated the Five Peaks Gang's background in detail!

How could a mere gang of street thugs be hiding practitioners of immortal arts?

And from the sound of it, did they also have the authorities backing them?

Su Mo's eyes narrowed to slits.

After Chen Gan's reminder, he had become much steadier in his conduct. Naturally, he wasn't about to take the initiative to get involved.

Just then, he happened to see a pottery-shop owner nearby gloating as he watched the injured thugs screaming on the ground.

He walked over.

Pretending to be curious, he asked in a low voice, "Shopkeeper, what exactly happened?"

"I was just planning to buy some buns from the bun shop to fill my stomach. How did it end up getting smashed?"

The pottery-shop owner sized Su Mo up twice. Seeing that he was fair and clean, refined and scholarly, he figured Su Mo was probably a student and lowered his guard. He snorted. "What else could it be?"

"These street thugs demanded three months' worth of fees all at once, and they didn't even come as a single group!"

"They used to collect them once every five days. They'd only collected them the day before yesterday!"

"The bun-shop owner's daughter stepped forward to argue with them, but ended up angering them. They wanted to drag her away!"

He said furiously, "If those thugs took her, they'd definitely have their way with her one after another before selling her to some hidden brothel!"

"How could the shopkeeper stand by and watch his daughter fall into a pit of fire? After they argued a few times, the shop was smashed!"

After a pause, the shopkeeper added angrily, "Those bastards have gone completely mad these past two days!"

"Just at this pottery shop alone, several groups have come by. Damn them, they've taken a full thirty large copper coins!"

Su Mo was stunned when he heard this.

He knew that the street thugs were the ones collecting the fees.

He also knew that after collecting them, half had to be handed over to Luo Lie.

But Luo Lie understood the principle that draining the pond would leave no fish. He had established rules for the street-thug gangs, assigning each gang its own territory. The fees were collected only once every five days.

How had everything suddenly become so chaotic?

Could that bastard Luo Lie have realized that the Eastern Market was about to be handed over and decided to rake in a fortune during his three days of leave, regardless of the consequences?

Damn it!

Wasn't this setting him up?

He had even given Luo Lie the Regular Servant position!

Su Mo's expression instantly darkened. A cold, murderous aura surfaced in his narrowed eyes!

He wanted to kill someone!

In this world, establishing one's authority meant killing people!

It seemed that Leper Zhou alone still wasn't enough to establish his might!