No Need for a Siege, I'll Deliver Myself!

"Got it. One was tempted by wealth, and the other was jealous over love."

An Yi set down his teacup. "Don't worry. After we eat, I'll take care of these troubles for you while I'm at it."

Little Fairy's expression changed as she lowered her voice nervously. "Take care of them? How? Mister Yao's influence in Qingshan Town runs deep, and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group has plenty of men. Don't do anything reckless!"

"Relax. I'm not some bloodthirsty lunatic."

An Yi picked up his chopsticks and gave a friendly smile. "As a civilized person, I'll definitely have a calm discussion with them first. If they're willing to be reasonable, everyone will be happy. But if they insist on getting rough with me..."

An Yi shrugged. "Then I can only respect their choice and send them to meet the King of Hell."

As they spoke, the waiter brought the lavish dishes to the table.

Having long since been starving, An Yi stopped wasting words and immediately began wolfing down the food, sweeping through the table like a ravenous beast.

However, after he had devoured half the dishes at an astonishing speed—

Bang!

Without warning, An Yi rolled his eyes and collapsed face-first onto the table, even knocking over the bowl of soup in front of him.

Little Fairy jumped in fright and hurriedly reached out to shake him. "An Yi?! What's wrong with you? Didn't you just wake up?!"

An Yi lay motionless on the table. Faint snores even drifted from him.

"Hahaha! Stop shaking him, Little Fairy. He swallowed an entire packet of Drunken Dragon Incense! Even a magic beast would sleep like the dead for days and nights after that!"

A cold, gleeful laugh came from the stairway.

A rather handsome young man, his face now twisted with jealousy, strode up to the second floor with several burly, blade-wielding mercenaries behind him.

It was Mu Li, the young leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group!

Little Fairy's face instantly turned pale when she saw him. "Mu Li?! You drugged the food?! What are you trying to do?!"

Mu Li strode to the table and glared at An Yi, who was sprawled across it. His eyes were filled with resentment and madness.

"Little Fairy! This young master has been utterly devoted to you! I gave you everything you could want and treated you like a treasure! But what about you? You actually debased yourself by fooling around with some wild man who crawled out of who-knows-what deep mountain forest! You even let him sleep in your room for three days and three nights!"

"Originally, I intended to marry you properly and make you the young madam of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. But now, a ruined woman like you is no longer worthy!"

Mu Li reached out with a sinister grin, trying to touch Little Fairy's face. "From now on, you'll obediently become this young master's concubine! I'll make sure to cherish you properly!"

"As for this little pretty boy who doesn't know his place..." Mu Li drew the sword at his waist and pointed its tip at An Yi's back, his voice icy. "I'll let him experience what it truly means to be sliced into a thousand pieces!"

A resolute chill flashed through Little Fairy's eyes.

Without hesitation, she pulled out a packet of poison powder she had prepared long ago and flung it straight at Mu Li's face!

While Mu Li and the others shut their eyes and dodged, she gritted her teeth, grabbed An Yi's arm with both hands, and tried to haul the six-foot-three man away.

Yet no matter how hard she pulled, An Yi's body did not budge, as though it had taken root.

The next second, a warm, broad hand gently closed around her slender wrist instead.

Little Fairy froze. "You..."

Under everyone's horrified gazes—

An Yi, who had supposedly been unconscious moments ago, slowly sat upright.

He even stretched lazily and let out a huge yawn. His eyes were perfectly clear, without the slightest sign of poisoning.

"Young master, did someone rip you off when you bought that sleeping drug?"

An Yi rubbed his sleepy-looking eyes as he looked at the dumbfounded Mu Li, his tone full of mockery. "That little bit of low-grade drug wouldn't even fill the gaps between my teeth. It was barely enough for a nap."

"Still, I seem to have heard someone say... he wanted to slice me into a thousand pieces?"

Mu Li was both shocked and enraged. Though he had no idea why this brat was immune to the sleeping drug, he relied on his superior numbers and roared through clenched teeth.

"Brat! Waking up won't save you! In Qingshan Town, if this young master wants you dead, you won't live! Get him! Cut off his arms and legs and bring him back to the compound! I'll treat him well!"

"Really? What a shame."

An Yi patted Little Fairy's hand and gave her a reassuring look. "Be good. Step back a little. This will be over soon."

Mu Li laughed angrily at An Yi's dismissive attitude. "You're at death's door and you still dare to talk big! Kill him!"

"Kill!"

The two mercenaries behind Mu Li roared, swinging their heavy ghost-head sabers that gleamed with Dou Qi as they hacked viciously at An Yi's limbs from both sides!

An Yi did not move his feet even half a step.

He merely raised his right hand casually, extended his index finger, and lightly pointed at the two charging mercenaries from afar.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Accompanied by two incredibly sharp whistles, two pale-golden streams of Dou Qi, brilliant as swords, shot from An Yi's fingertips in an instant!

The beams formed from Gengjin Dou Qi were so fast that not even afterimages could be seen!

The two mercenaries in front did not even have time to scream before their bodies froze mid-charge.

Thud! Thud!

Still locked in their charging stances, the two men crashed heavily onto the tavern floor.

Two bloody holes had appeared in the centers of their foreheads, piercing clean through from front to back as blood gushed out!

Instant kill!

The entire floor fell silent.

Everyone was terrified out of their wits by the sudden turn of events.

Externalized Dou Qi?!

That was a signature technique only experts who had crossed the threshold of a Dou Master and entered the Great Dou Master realm could wield!

A Great Dou Master's Dou Qi was condensed almost into solid form. Once fired like a bullet, its destructive force could easily pierce heavy armor and the hides of magic beasts.

And what An Yi had used was Mutated Gengjin Dou Qi, which possessed terrifying destructive and penetrating power!

The frail human body was even more fragile than paper before it!

Mu Li's face instantly drained of all color. He staggered back in terror, his voice trembling.

"Externalized Dou Qi?! You... you're a Great Dou Master?! No! Impossible! You're so young, that's absolutely impossible! You must have used some strange hidden weapon or Dou Technique!"

"Get him! All of you, get him!"

Mu Li shouted himself hoarse, but this time, the remaining mercenaries behind him seemed rooted to the spot. Every one of them had lost their nerve.

What kind of joke was this?!

They had not even seen how the white-haired young man attacked before two of their companions had holes blasted through their foreheads!

Whether this man was truly a legendary Great Dou Master or not, killing small fry like them would be effortless! Charging in would just be suicide!

"Why aren't you moving?! Do you still want to stay with the Wolf Head Mercenary Group?!" Mu Li cursed furiously.

"You sure talk a lot."

An Yi slowly raised his right hand again.

His index finger, like the barrel of Death's gun, aimed precisely at Mu Li's left kneecap.

Whoosh!

Pale-golden Dou Qi shot from his finger and instantly pierced through Mu Li's left knee!

"Ahhh—!!!"

Mu Li let out a shriek like a slaughtered pig and crashed heavily to one knee.

But An Yi did not stop. His fingertips flicked repeatedly.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Three more beams of Dou Qi shot out, accurately piercing Mu Li's right knee and the pipa bones in both shoulders!

In the blink of an eye, the arrogant young leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had been completely crippled in all four limbs. He sprawled in a pool of blood like a dead dog, in so much pain that he no longer had the strength to scream, only able to let out agonized hisses.

An Yi walked over and looked down at him from above, his gaze indifferent.

"You wanted to slice me into a thousand pieces? Sorry, but I don't have tastes as heavy as yours. Still, Little Fairy says you're the young leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, and what I hate most in life is endless trouble."

An Yi lifted his gaze toward the mercenaries, who were already trembling in fear, and coldly ordered,

"You lot, take this piece of trash back with you."

As he spoke, An Yi suddenly clenched his right hand in the air!

Hummm—!

With a deep, violent hum, a Tiger Soul Halberd over ten feet long appeared in his hand out of nowhere. Its entire body was black, while its halberd blade shone with a dark golden chill.

Bang!

An Yi drove the halberd heavily into the wooden floor. The lifelike White Tiger head on its blade radiated a suffocating murderous aura.

"Go back and tell your leader that I heard you've been recruiting men everywhere lately, planning to hunt a humanoid magic beast in the Magic Beast Mountain Range? There's no need to go through the trouble of searching the mountains."

"Tonight, I'll personally pay a visit to your Wolf Head Mercenary Group's compound."

"Anyone who wants revenge, anyone who wants to kill me for my treasures, anyone who wants the bounty... wash your necks and wait for me. I'll deal with all of you at once."

An Yi casually swung the halberd, stirring up a piercingly cold gale.

"Now, take this trash and get lost!"