Peace Order
Chapter 444 - 6: Carefree and Content, It’s Time to Draw the Sword and Right the Wrongs

Chapter 444: Chapter 6: Carefree and Content, It’s Time to Draw the Sword and Right the Wrongs

Li Guanyi looked at the martial artists charging forward, each one of them agile, mostly suffused with Inner Qi. At this moment, they all gripped their weapons tightly, staring intently at the youth across from them. Just a moment ago, five had struck at once, yet all were beheaded in one stroke, a sight enough to intimidate them.

Li Guanyi gripped his Battle Halberd and paced forward.

The rage in his heart transformed into a killing intent. When his aunt had taken him wandering, she was very careful to protect him; afterward, when he settled near Guan Yi City, there was the Xue Family, there were the Court’s rules. It was only after Elder Xue flattened the black market’s human trafficking once, that it moved to the Ghost Market.

That was the core territory of a major nation.

Order, the current order of Chen Country, was certainly much better than chaos and disorder.

"Kill, he’s just one person!"

"Kill him, otherwise, we won’t be able to escape either!"

The martial artists from the Martial World rose up all at once, each making their move. As their Inner Qi surged with traces of blood, there was no doubt that their Inner Qi was related to that alchemist’s research. Li Guanyi slightly tilted his neck to the side, narrowly evading an arrow, and with a sudden strike of his Battle Halberd to the back, he pierced through the belly of one man.

The Martial World, eh...

He finally realized the discordance he felt in this small town.

In such a town, just after sunset, it was impossible not to hear the voices of children.

For a place where common folk lived, this was impossible.

Li Guanyi had experienced the pleasantries of the Martial World, but ten days after entering it, he saw its darkness. He did not know if what he saw was everything, but at this moment, what he needed to do, his body understood even better.

Kill!!!

The Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd was retracted. This Divine Weapon was heavy, fitting Li Guanyi’s current state perfectly.

He took a step forward, hands gripping the Battle Halberd, and with a sudden sweeping strike, he kept it simple and direct. All those refined skills, swordsmanship, and other techniques had to revert to defense. The explosive strength of his physique shattered more than a dozen weapons.

The next moment, the Battle Halberd transformed from a horizontal slash into a vertical chop.

Heavily cleaving a man in two.

An explosion of air burst forth, carrying blood and flesh.

Li Guanyi took a large step forward.

It was no longer the step of the Martial World but the straightforward charge of the Military School, with a buildup of force followed by a shoulder strike that sent one man flying, spewing fresh blood mid-air, clearly doomed.

Seizing the moment, the Battle Halberd was swiftly raised.

The exploding Jin Qi turned into furious waves.

That was the Battlefield Martial Arts of the Military School in action. When a true general stepped onto the battlefield wielding a Divine Weapon, the best choice for someone from the Martial World was not direct confrontation but entanglement from a distance. Someone fired poison-tipped crossbow bolts from a Mechanical Crossbow, seizing the opportunity when the Battle Halberd was wide open to shoot at Li Guanyi.

The young man paid no heed to these.

Chi Xiao Sword Shadows attached to the Shaoyang Sword, a stream of red light circled around Li Guanyi, deflecting all hidden weapons away.

Perfectly compensating for the wide openings of Battlefield Martial Arts, where despite its power, gaps in defense remained.

The Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd powerfully chopped down, embedding in a big, fat man who weighed nearly three hundred pounds. He clutched the shaft of the Battle Halberd tightly and yelled, "Kill him, kill him!"

Several other martial artists lunged forward fiercely.

Yet they saw an icy coldness on the young Taoist’s face.

The man suddenly screamed.

Together with the Battle Halberd, he was lifted up!

Li Guanyi spun around, released his grip, and shifted to hold the spiraling end of the almost four-meter-long Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd. The Halberd emitted a black malevolent aura, and with just a single sweep, the gaping maw of the Halberd’s blade roared like a fierce tiger.

[Wave-Rolling]!

A moment of dead silence.

Raging waves exploded, turning Jin Qi into surging waves. More than a dozen martial artists were sent flying all at once, limbs severed and flung into the air. The one who had clutched the Battle Halberd was flung so far by the shock that no one knew where his body landed. Such viciousness of a Weapon, when wielded with the skills of the Military School in combat, was nothing pretty.

There was no beautified singular stab to the forehead, no graceful movement technique.

Only brutality, directness, and dominating force in the techniques.

Li Guanyi exhaled a breath.

The second layer of his Inner Qi was depleting quickly.

But he could still fight.

With his strong physique, even relying solely on physical strength, he could wield the Divine Weapon in a fray. Meanwhile, the noises from the fight were loud enough to awaken the townspeople, who then realized there was trouble here. Hearing the clash of swords, they braced themselves and rushed over.

What met their eyes were corpses strewn all about the courtyard, causing many to feel nauseous and nearly vomit, but still, they hurried into the houses, calling out, "Where are the children? Where have the children gone?"

The group of five from Divine Beast Manor also paled upon witnessing the scene.

How could those accustomed to the lower tiers of the Martial World site such a spectacle?

A few nearly regurgitated their cornbread from that morning; it was only their leader, who had come upon hearing that children were in distress, who managed to hold back and not vomit disastrously – maintaining the face of Divine Beast Manor. They scrambled around in search of the children, found none, until someone shouted, "Over here, here!"

The crowd surged toward the voice.

And then silence fell. The scene unfolded in the rear corridors of the magnificent residence, where dozens of children slept peacefully. A young Taoist sat cross-legged there, dressed only in a clean white undershirt, his Taoist robe spread out for the children to sit on, and a pine pattern ancient sword rested on his knee.

Outside was like a bloody battlefield, yet inside, there was an eerie tranquility.

The young man hummed an ancient lullaby.