Lin'an Matters Concluded

Silence!

At this moment, Lin'an City's marketplace was deathly quiet.

Though there were over twenty thousand people present, they had all been stunned senseless by the scene just now, as if they had forgotten how to breathe.

No one knew how long it took before the people present came back to their senses. They looked at the wreckage covering the ground, at Chen Pengfei's body split in two, at the hundred-meter-long sword scar carved into the earth.

After the shock came different reactions. Lin'an City's residents all looked toward Bi Changsheng's imposing figure atop the execution platform with the fanatical gaze of people beholding a living Sword God.

Meanwhile, Bai Yingfei, his companions, and those who had submitted to the Yellow Heaven Cult looked at Bi Changsheng with terror in their eyes. Bai Yingfei especially—no one in all of Lin'an City understood Chen Pengfei's strength better than he did.

Yet even someone as strong as Chen Pengfei had failed to withstand a single strike from Bi Changsheng. His heart was filled with utter despair.

"So strong!"

Fu Ziping, lying on the ground, had recovered somewhat by now and shakily climbed to his feet. He had seen Bi Changsheng slay Chen Pengfei with that strike when he looked up just now. When he recognized Bi Changsheng's familiar face, he blanked out for a moment before letting out that sigh.

Luckily, Senior is a good man.

Fu Ziping recalled the scene in Bi Changsheng's courtyard, when he had taken the medical book out of thin air. Back then, he had actually believed he could keep the entire situation under control. If Senior had not been upright in character and had harbored any greed, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Without realizing it, the way he addressed Bi Changsheng had changed from Mister to Senior.

Jiang Ziyue and Duan Ziming, who had been observing the situation from afar, voiced similar amazement. When they saw Fu Ziping get slammed to the ground by Chen Pengfei's palm strike, they had been frantic with worry. They had never expected the situation to turn around so quickly.

In Jiang Ziyue's eyes, Bi Changsheng's strike just now had already come close to the might of her father going all out.

Her father, Jiang Hongyuan, was the Sect Master of the Divine Fist Sect, an early Condensing Gang Realm Grandmaster.

"I never expected Lin'an City to be hiding such a powerful figure."

Jiang Ziyue secretly marveled to herself.

There was even less need to mention Uncle Fu and Liu Zhengqing. Neither had expected Bi Changsheng, whom they spent every day with, to possess such terrifying strength—far beyond anything they had imagined.

In truth, even Bi Changsheng himself had not expected that strike to be so powerful. By his conservative estimate, it should have been enough to kill Chen Pengfei with the element of surprise. Yet after killing Chen Pengfei, it had still possessed such overwhelming residual force. It felt like using an ox-cleaver to kill a chicken.

But even now that he knew how powerful that strike was, Bi Changsheng did not regret his cautious strategy.

Caution was the principle he had set for himself, and he would continue to abide by it in the future.

As the saying went, unless absolutely necessary, never challenge someone above one's realm. Crushing others with a superior realm was what Bi Changsheng wanted to do.

After standing still for a moment to ease the pain of that immense power pressing against his body, Bi Changsheng raised his saber once more and charged at Bai Yingfei and the others.

The power brought by burning a hundred years of lifespan had already faded. Given his physical condition, he could not use that strike again within a short time, but his own strength had not been greatly affected.

"You dare kill an elder of my Yellow Heaven Cult? Aren't you afraid of the Yellow Heaven Cult's retaliation?"

Seeing Bi Changsheng charge toward them, Bai Yingfei was so frightened that he lost all composure. He could only raise the banner of the Yellow Heaven Cult, hoping it would scare Bi Changsheng off.

"I, Ximen Xue, neither change my name standing nor my surname sitting. If the Yellow Heaven Cult wants revenge, come find me!"

As he advanced, Bi Changsheng deliberately called out the name he had prepared for this middle-aged appearance.

When he reached Bai Yingfei and the others, a storm of Blood Qi Sword Qi erupted again. Under Bi Changsheng's overwhelming strength, Zhao Honglang, Sun Chengde, and the others below the Qi and Blood Realm were all beheaded in a single strike. Even Bai Yingfei, who was also in the Qi and Blood Realm, only lasted two more strikes before falling beneath Bi Changsheng's sword.

At last, the Bi Family's great vengeance had been avenged.

After killing Bai Yingfei and the others, Bi Changsheng did not stop. Like a clear breeze drifting through the crowd, he continued harvesting the Yellow Heaven Cult's martial artists.

"Mercy, my lord!"

"We were forced into it!"

Watching Bi Changsheng reap lives so mercilessly, the ordinary people who had pledged allegiance to the Yellow Heaven Cult were terrified into dropping their weapons and kneeling to beg for mercy.

Only after killing all the Yellow Heaven Cult's martial artists did Bi Changsheng stop. He walked over to Chen Pengfei's corpse and picked up the Storage Ring. Bi Changsheng directly infused it with Blood Qi to claim it as its master, then searched Chen Pengfei's body. He found only an identity token and an array plate split in two.

Bi Changsheng cut off Chen Pengfei's head with his saber and stored it together with the identity token in the Storage Ring. The array plate that had been split in half was clearly useless, so Bi Changsheng simply tossed it onto the ground.

Only then did Bi Changsheng withdraw his Blood Qi and return to the appearance of an utterly unremarkable middle-aged man. As his Blood Qi receded, the saber in his hand directly turned to dust and scattered on the wind.

It had already shattered under the immense force when Bi Changsheng swung that strike. It had only maintained the shape of a saber because Bi Changsheng's Blood Qi had been continuously supporting it.

"I'll leave the rest for you to handle. No problem?"

Bi Changsheng said to Fu Ziping and the others. While Bi Changsheng was killing Bai Yingfei and his group, Jiang Ziyue and Duan Ziming had taken the opportunity to come over to Fu Ziping.

"No problem, Senior."

Fu Ziping and the others hurriedly replied.

Now that Bi Changsheng had killed the Yellow Heaven Cult's martial artists, there was not much difficulty in handling what came next. Bi Changsheng walked over to Uncle Fu, who was weeping tears of joy because the Bi Family's great vengeance had finally been avenged.

"I have something to take care of. You go back first."

After soothing Uncle Fu's emotions, Bi Changsheng said this to him and Liu Zhengqing. The moment he finished speaking, Bi Changsheng's figure vanished from where he stood.

Even after Bi Changsheng disappeared, the people at the scene remained immersed in everything that had just happened, especially Bi Changsheng's earth-shattering strike.

Only quite some time after Bi Changsheng's departure did Fu Ziping and the other two begin gathering the people who had pledged allegiance to the Yellow Heaven Cult and evacuating Lin'an City's residents.

Elsewhere, after leaving, Bi Changsheng headed straight for Sun Manor. When he arrived at Sun Manor's treasury again, he discovered that there were far fewer treasures inside than last time. Bi Changsheng guessed that the Yellow Heaven Cult's people had likely looted them.

Now that he finally had a Storage Artifact, things were indeed much more convenient. Bi Changsheng swiftly packed everything in the treasury away. On the way here, he had already examined the Storage Ring and discovered that it was anything but ordinary—it actually contained a hundred cubic meters of space.

After looting the Sun Family's treasury, Bi Changsheng did not immediately leave Sun Manor. Instead, he went to Sun Manor's Scripture Pavilion and emptied that out as well.

This time, Bi Changsheng finally followed the principle of proximity and went to the County Office. Just as he had expected, he found several treasures in the County Office's storeroom that he had previously seen at Sun Manor and Zhao Manor.

After likewise emptying the County Office's storeroom and Scripture Pavilion, Bi Changsheng headed for his final target, Zhao Manor, where he smoothly emptied its storeroom and Scripture Pavilion as well.

Because the Yellow Heaven Cult was carrying out its plan, Bi Changsheng's entire operation went exceptionally smoothly, without a single person stepping forward to stop him.

Of course, no one in all of Lin'an City could stop Bi Changsheng now.

Only after completing all his targets did Bi Changsheng return to his own courtyard, laden with a bountiful haul.