Peace Order
Chapter 404 - 171: Back in the day, I charged through battlefields with golden spear and iron steed, with a presence that swallowed miles like a tiger!

Chapter 404: Chapter 171: Back in the day, I charged through battlefields with golden spear and iron steed, with a presence that swallowed miles like a tiger!

Zhao Dabing waved a special long whip in his hand, a whip with layers of scale armor. With each strike in the air, the scales staggered open and then closed again, resembling a dragon-snake swimming through the void, emitting a deep, hissing sound.

The exotic beast wrapped in thunder became even more submissive.

A martial artist who seemed to not have even entered the realm, now with one hand, had grasped two exotic beasts with Kui dragon bloodlines. The muscles on his arms bulged visibly. Li Guanyi sat inside the carriage, looking at the young lady who was sleeping peacefully.

"Li, in the end, it’s still me who’s sending you out."

"There are salt-baked peanuts and a pot of strong red tea inside the carriage. You know where they are, help yourself and don’t be polite."

Zhao Dabing grinned, his eyes fixed intently ahead, his speed truly like thunderbolts.

He drove the exotic beasts out of Jiangzhou City.

Then, upon reaching the wide open plain, Zhao Dabing suddenly breathed out, and with a burst of thunder on the bodies of the two beasts, their speed surged violently. Li Guanyi was pressed against the carriage seat by the sudden acceleration, almost caught by thunder, racing at a speed far exceeding what that of a carriage should be capable of.

Guan Yi City was several hundred miles away from Jiangzhou City.

And considering the winding and meandering roads, it might be nearly a thousand miles.

Riding a horse normally would take a day.

Yet, Li Guanyi felt that, with the exotic beasts pulling them, racing through the wind and rain, they might even return before dawn. In Jiangzhou City, the imperial guards who finally detected the direction of Li Guanyi mounted their steeds, which were top-notch mounts capable of covering a thousand miles by day and eight hundred by night, each with a trace of exotic beast blood.

They spurred their horses, forming battle formations on the great road and galloping rapidly.

Covered in battle armor, raindrops fell on the armor, sparking little splashes that reflected thunder and moonlight. The horses’ hooves struck the stone slabs below, thundering like a storm!

But suddenly, the complexion of the leading general turned grave as he fiercely pulled the reins, shouting:

"Halt!!!"

"Everyone halt!!!"

With such briskness, he pulled on the reins, causing the horse to pivot sharply during its pell-mell run. The general’s legs clamped tightly on the horses’ flanks, eliciting a long whinny as the horse reared up, its front hooves stabbing the air.

The hooves of the war horse heavily stomped onto the ground.

The following imperial guards nearly collided into one another. During a charge, such an incident was akin to a death wish, earning military punishment, but at that moment, the imperial guard general couldn’t care for such matters anymore, as his left hand tightly gripped the reins and his tiger-like eyes stared ahead.

It was the common folk.

One after another, dressed in simple clothes.

They appeared to be the usual vendors, the living, the residents here, from remote places, all had come out. The youth sitting in front of the carriage, passing by beside Zhao Dabing, was spotted by a shopkeeper who was awakened by the thunder.

The news spread like wildfire.

The common folk also had their own way of passing messages. In the rain, they stood there quietly, gazing at the imperial guards in a calm, silent wall, like a trench blocking the path between the guards and the youth.

The imperial guard general suddenly realized something, looking towards the city gate.

"...The gate that originally led to the Ghost Market, these people, they are all..."

"Li Guanyi, who broke the Ghost Market, slaying nearly a hundred, saving nearly a thousand..."

A thousand people, how much is in each household?

Looking at these common folk, he suddenly found himself at a loss for words. Although his hands held a sword and his body was clad in armor, he felt a suffocating oppression, as if it were this torrential downpour.

It’s not just the high and mighty who understand the principles of kindness and morality. Amidst the heavy rain, the common folk standing here may not understand valor or righteousness, but they knew the principle of repaying kindness. If their benefactor was in trouble, even if left with nothing to eat, they would roll up their sleeves and come out.

You saved my son; you avenged my grandson.

I need to help you, otherwise, I couldn’t rest even if lying down!

This was the same primary principle as paying back what you owe or avenging a wrong.

Today, the Imperial Palace was in chaos. If the imperial guards trampled on the commoners now, the dignity of the Chen Kingdom Royal Family would truly shake and crumble. The captain of the imperial guards lifted his sword several times, yet each time he put it down. There were only a hundred or so people nearby, but in the distance, more commoners, holding torches and lanterns, slowly approached.

Frail and insignificant, people who could be shattered with a single slash, yet when they gathered and swayed together, they resembled—

They resembled the Red Dragon!

The fire in the hands of those commoners, the light in their eyes, were like the scales on the Red Dragon. Then, standing together, unarmed, they faced the imperial guards. The shopkeeper who had poured tea for Li Guanyi stood at the forefront.

He even remembered the words he had once said to the youth.

’Us commoners, we are like the weeds in troubled times. As long as we don’t get uprooted, we’ll survive no matter what, eating grass, eating bark, we just have to keep living, right?’

’To survive, to get stuck in the mud, to be trodden upon and still live on.’

’As long as we live, there will come a day when we’ll see a prosperous and peaceful era.’

’You agree, don’t you?’

He softly said, "But the weeds, they don’t want it like this either."

"The weeds, they too can ignite a great blaze."

"We, we are also humans."

......

When Ji Yanzhong rushed into the Imperial Palace, Yue Qianfeng had long since retreated. When they first met years ago, Yue Qianfeng was just a small bandit with a stout heart, failing to rob a village several times, ending up helping with chores, and even losing three chickens in the process, making him stamp his feet in anger and howl with hunger.