A Sword Seals the Throat!

"What a Guiyuan Sect disciple..."

He Xiongfei had never expected to run into an iron wall this time.

But this time, He Xiongfei did not retreat again.

Because he had nowhere left to retreat.

The martial world was just like that.

Once you were in the martial world, you could not act as you pleased.

Once blows were exchanged, it was either your death or mine.

There was not the slightest room for maneuver.

You had to retreat when it was time to retreat.

But when it was time to risk his life, He Xiongfei would never show mercy either.

And now, it was time to risk his life!

Boom.

He Xiongfei moved.

He seemed to have used a secret technique.

The Blood Qi within his body instantly swelled, actually breaking through the Human Limit as his Blood Qi surged past the threshold of a hundred strands in a short time.

Of course, secret techniques like this often came at a tremendous cost.

He Xiongfei would not have used it unless he had been driven to desperation.

Bolstered by that immense Blood Qi, He Xiongfei's heavy saber slashed straight at Zhang Su.

This slash carried overwhelming force and crushing weight.

From afar, it looked like a gigantic Blood Blade descending from the heavens.

Coupled with He Xiongfei's inborn divine strength, the might of this strike was like thunder bearing ten thousand tons. Anyone facing it head-on would feel boundless terror.

It was as though no power remained that could block this strike.

At last, a flicker of surprise appeared in Zhang Su's eyes.

This He Xiongfei might have had only a mere hundred strands of Blood Qi, but with his inborn divine strength, he was in fact extremely powerful.

Even among the Guiyuan Sect's Outer Sect disciples, he was outstanding.

And now that he had unleashed a Blood Qi secret technique and broken through the Human Limit, he was even stronger.

This slash was likely second only to those of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples of the Guiyuan Sect.

No wonder He Xiongfei had rampaged through the martial world and earned such a formidable reputation.

The next moment, Zhang Su moved.

Whoosh.

Zhang Su shifted his feet, and the Lengshuang Sword in his hand lightly swept through the air.

There was no earthshaking eruption of Blood Qi.

Nor was there any bizarre move.

It looked like the most ordinary sword strike.

Yet this sword strike made He Xiongfei's pupils contract as an intense warning flared in his heart.

Danger!

Extreme danger!

That sword seemed to melt into the air, into the smoke and dust.

He could only vaguely see a glimmer of reflected light on the blade.

The flash made He Xiongfei narrow his eyes despite himself.

In that instant.

The two passed by each other.

He Xiongfei's entire body stiffened.

His incomparably fierce slash had actually stopped.

It had not struck Zhang Su at all.

He was even still holding his heavy saber high overhead.

Drip. Drip.

Drops of blood fell from Zhang Su's sword.

The air was thick with the stench of blood.

"What sword technique is that?"

He Xiongfei asked.

"Light Shadow Killing Sword!"

"What a Light Shadow Killing Sword. It truly deserves the name 'Killing Sword'..."

He Xiongfei was unwilling to accept it.

But no matter how unwilling he was, it was useless.

Thud.

He Xiongfei fell stiffly to the ground.

His eyes were even wide open.

Unfortunately, he was dead.

Like the other fierce bandits, his throat had been sealed by Zhang Su's single sword strike!

The surroundings fell even quieter.

Looking at the corpses strewn across the ground, especially He Xiongfei's body, everyone felt not only shock, but fear.

A sword sealing the throat!

Every one of them had been killed with a sword sealing the throat!

By his own strength alone, with one man and one sword, Zhang Su had slain dozens of fierce bandits on horseback.

He had nearly wiped out the many bandits of Feitian Ridge.

From this day onward, Feitian Ridge was finished.

Clack.

Zhang Su sheathed his sword.

In truth, He Xiongfei had been very strong.

If the Light Shadow Killing Sword had not reached Perfection before this, Zhang Su would have needed to go through some trouble to kill He Xiongfei.

But once his Light Shadow Killing Sword had reached Perfection, everything was different.

The Light Shadow Killing Sword at the Perfection Realm truly lived up to the name of being peerless. It was simply terrifyingly powerful.

It silently blended into the surroundings.

And its speed was so fast that it defied imagination.

It far surpassed the Nine Shadows Sword Technique from before.

Even the speed of One Sword Nine Shadows was not as fast as the Light Shadow Killing Sword at the Perfection Realm.

The Light Shadow Killing Sword had no flashy sword moves.

It emphasized killing with a single strike!

That was why the scene just now had occurred.

He Xiongfei's throat had been sealed by Zhang Su's single sword strike!

"Chief Escort Li."

At this moment, Zhang Su spoke.

Li He shuddered all over and immediately came back to his senses.

What had just happened was too shocking.

The dozens of Feitian Ridge bandit corpses lay right before his eyes.

He could not help but be shaken.

"May I ask what orders Second Young Master has?"

"Are the Feitian Ridge bandits wanted?"

"Th-there are! The bandit chief carries a reward of one thousand taels of silver. As for the other fierce bandits, their rewards vary, but together they should be worth more than one thousand taels."

"So the total is over two thousand taels?"

"Yes."

"Fine. Give me two thousand taels, and you can take these corpses to claim the reward."

"Uh..."

Li He's mouth twitched.

Claiming bounty silver was actually very troublesome.

And it could not be collected anytime soon.

Usually, one had to wait several months.

Sometimes, one even had to grease palms above and below.

But he did not dare refuse Zhang Su's demand.

"Go, bring two thousand taels in silver notes."

"Yes!"

Very quickly, Li Wushi brought over two thousand taels in silver notes.

Zhang Su promptly tucked them into his robes.

He returned to the inn.

After this bout of "trouble," the inn seemed to have become much quieter.

Even the waiter served dishes much faster.

Zhang Su's food was brought out at once.

Zhang Su was indeed hungry, and he immediately dug in with great relish.

The others occasionally glanced at Zhang Su from the corners of their eyes.

But they did not dare look for long.

To them, this Zhang Su before their eyes was even fiercer than that group of Feitian Ridge bandits from earlier.

Those dozens of bloody corpses still lay outside the door.

The air even retained a heavy stench of blood.

However, after deliberating for a moment, Li He still brought Li Xiaoman before Zhang Su and respectfully bowed. "Second Young Master, my daughter behaved improperly earlier and spoke about you behind your back. Please forgive her."

Without even raising his head, Zhang Su said calmly, "I already said it earlier. It doesn't matter."

"May I ask, Second Young Master, are you returning to Qingquan Prefecture?"

"Yes."

"We are also returning to Qingquan Prefecture. Why not travel back with us, Second Young Master?"

"No need. You are too slow. I'll set off immediately after eating."

Disappointment appeared in Li He's eyes.

Zhang Su was so powerful. If they could return to Qingquan Prefecture together with Zhang Su, there would surely be no more danger along the way.

However, he also knew that an escort agency traveled very slowly.

It was only normal for Zhang Su to be unwilling to travel with them.

"Then we won't disturb you any longer, Second Young Master."

Li He knew how to read the room and left with Li Xiaoman.

No one else came to disturb Zhang Su afterward.

Once Zhang Su had eaten and drunk his fill, he set off at once.

This time, nothing unexpected happened along the way.

On the second day, Zhang Su raised his head and looked at the familiar city before him.

He knew that he had arrived at Qingquan Prefecture's city.

People were lining up at the city gate to enter.

Ordinary people even had to pay an entry fee.

Of course, Zhang Su did not need to line up.

After all, he was an Outer Sect disciple of the Guiyuan Sect, and Qingquan Prefecture was also territory under the Guiyuan Sect's jurisdiction.

Thus, Zhang Su rode straight to the city gate.

A city guard stepped forward, about to ask Zhang Su's identity.

Suddenly, dust billowed up behind him.

A luxurious carriage came galloping over.

The city guard's expression changed, and he immediately said, "Please wait. An important person is entering the city behind you."

"An important person?"

Zhang Su raised an eyebrow.

But he did not pay it much mind and merely shifted slightly aside.

Then, without even stopping, the carriage drove straight into the city.

The city guards even lowered their heads and bowed, not daring to block it in the slightest.

Only after the carriage had left did the city guard raise his head, wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Zhang Su immediately tossed his Guiyuan Sect Outer Sect disciple token to the city guard.

The city guard's expression tightened at once when he saw it. He hurriedly bowed and said, "So you are a disciple of the Upper Sect. Please enter the city!"

Zhang Su took back the Identity Token and asked blandly, "Who was the owner of that carriage just now?"

The city guard cautiously glanced around.

If it had been an ordinary martial artist, he would not have answered at all.

But a disciple of the Upper Sect, even an Outer Sect disciple, was not someone he could afford to provoke.

Thus, the city guard could only answer in a low voice, "In reply to you, sir, she is the second young lady of the Su Family Third Branch."

Zhang Su understood.

Put simply, she was Su Zhenzhen's cousin.

She was actually this overbearing and arrogant?

Though the Su Family was known as "Su Bancheng," they should not have been this tyrannical.

As though he knew Zhang Su did not understand, the city guard explained quietly, "The second young lady of the Su Family Third Branch is betrothed to Young Master Jiang Cheng of Qingquan Prefecture. The Jiang Family is a martial arts family in Qingquan Prefecture, and it is said that Young Master Jiang Cheng possesses extraordinarily outstanding talent in martial arts..."

The city guard said no more.

But Zhang Su already understood.

The second young lady of the Su Family Third Branch being betrothed to Jiang Cheng was a union of two powerful families.

The Jiang Family was a martial arts family with great influence in Qingquan Prefecture.

Though the Su Family Third Branch was not as wealthy as the Su Family First Branch, it was still considered immensely wealthy in Qingquan Prefecture.

That was why the second young lady of the Su Family Third Branch acted so arrogantly.

"Interesting..."

Zhang Su vaguely understood that the Su Family's internal affairs were a tangled web of roots and branches.

His eldest brother's days in the Su Family were probably not easy either.

"Enough. This is your reward."

Zhang Su directly tossed out a piece of broken silver.

"Thank you for the reward, sir."

The city guard bowed and scraped, delight spreading across his face.

Zhang Su mounted his horse and slowly rode into the city.