Yuyang Commandery's Old Affairs

Cangwu Prefectural City.

Two groups faced each other on the road before the Liu Family estate.

The Liu Family guards stood on either side of the gates, while the city's patrols also stood with the Liu Family. At their head was Lü Zheng, a Martial Academy graduate who now served as a City Patrol Officer in Cangwu Prefectural City.

Lü Zheng was a little over thirty, with a cultivation base at the Qi Condensation Initial Stage.

At this moment, he stood with the Liu Family because he wanted to reduce the matter before it escalated.

His face looked calm, but the pressure those people opposite him exerted was far from insignificant.

There were only ten people opposite the Liu Family, but their formation was no weaker than the Liu Family's much larger group.

The man at their head was only a little over twenty. His Late Meridian Opening cultivation could not be considered outstanding among the ten, yet he stood at the very front, lazily waving a folding fan bearing the family crest of the Yuyang Xie Family.

His name was Xie Hengzheng. The reason he led the group was simple: his surname was Xie.

He was a direct-line disciple of the Yuyang Xie Family.

Standing to Xie Hengzheng's left was an old man dressed in exquisite black robes. His face was withered and lean, but his eyes held the sharpness unique to a martial artist.

A layer of True Essence fluctuations unique to a Peak Qi Condensation Martial Artist faintly surrounded him. Mixed into those fluctuations was the power of Origin Energy.

That was Half-Step Qi Gathering.

His True Qi had only been transformed into Origin Energy halfway. He was the attendant the Xie Family had assigned to Xie Hengzheng.

On Xie Hengzheng's right stood a young man whose