Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 404 - 379: The battlefield is like a chessboard, and I am a pawn. Despite the grueling steps, I have never retreated!

Chapter 404: Chapter 379: The battlefield is like a chessboard, and I am a pawn. Despite the grueling steps, I have never retreated!

Zhang San had just finished swearing his oath when he heard the sound of thunder roaring from the west side of the Capital.

Zhang San didn’t understand, why would there be thunder on a clear and sunny day?

When can’t it thunder? Does it really have to start just after I finish taking my oath?

And this wasn’t just a single clap of thunder.

It was one after another, as if it wouldn’t stop until someone was struck dead.

The Martial Artists from the Town Demon Office who were gathered around Zhang San laughed.

Although no one knew what exactly was causing the thunder, at least it proved that Zhang San’s oath just then was completely unbelievable.

Zhang San looked around and saw that Hu Xingxiang had already been pulled away by Aunt Nine and others, likely safe by now, so he shouted loudly.

"Today, I, Zhang San am here, with the Chief of the Town Demon Office wounded by a stab. Do you people truly have the ability to take me down?"

Originally, everyone had been thinking about slowly closing in on Zhang San, trying to make him surrender voluntarily.

But listening to Zhang San now, it seemed he was still planning to resist!

Luckily, the Town Demon Office had been preparing for a long time, and martial artists who looked like ordinary civilians kneeling on the ground suddenly sprang up. In an instant, at least thirty or so martial artists from the Town Demon Office charged towards Zhang San.

Zhang San raised his hand and pointed to the sky, bellowing, "Lord of Thunder, aid me! Strike down with thunder!"

The people from the Town Demon Office around him mistook Zhang San as being able to control the thunder in the sky and scrambled back in fright, with many immediately transforming their Qi into Shields above their heads.

However, no one saw any lightning strike down.

Just as everyone had let out a sigh of relief, a series of thunderclaps boomed and struck the Demon-Execution Platform directly.

Given the sturdiness of the Demon-Execution Platform, it certainly wouldn’t be easily destroyed by Zhang San’s Thunder Method.

Yet the real thunderclaps terrified the civilians who didn’t have the courage to stand up, causing immediate panic.

The Crown Prince had arrived, and people could kneel and bow their heads to the ground.

The Town Demon Office was arresting people, and they could still kneel, pretending to see nothing.

But now, with the thunder out of a clear sky, if they continued to kneel, they feared they would not only be struck by lightning but also be crushed by the falling Demon-Execution Platform.

"Run for it!"

"If we don’t run now, people will die—"

Screams erupted from the crowd, their volume far surpassing that of ordinary people.

At the same time, demon Qi soared into the sky from amongst the tens of thousands of people.

While the ordinary people couldn’t sense this demon Qi, the Martial Artists of the Town Martial Office were extremely sensitive to it.

Many martial artists who had been trying to surround Zhang San were already unable to pinpoint his location due to the chaos caused by civilians running in all directions.

Now with so much demon Qi suddenly bursting out, it made all the martial artists’ hearts leap to their throats.

At that moment, Shen Erxian immediately called for the government officers from the Magistrate of Metropolitan prefecture’s office to maintain order, as chaos here would spell trouble for the Town Demon Office, and he wouldn’t be able to escape responsibility either.

But Shen Erxian had already realized why, when Zhang San had shouted earlier, thousands from the crowd had echoed his call.

That thousand-strong group was probably not human at all, but the Demon Clan deliberately releasing their demon Qi now.

What Shen Erxian didn’t understand, however, was how Zhang San had managed to find so many from the Demon Clan and get them to come to his aid.

Amidst the chaotic crowd and demons intentionally releasing their Qi, the martial artists from the Town Demon Office had long since lost track of Zhang San.

In the crowd, people pushed against each other, hurling insults.

"Run fast! If you run slowly, you’ll get struck to death by lightning!"

"My food! I earned back those twenty catties of grain by drinking four large bowls of porridge!"

"Whose child is this? If no one comes to claim him, I’ll take him away!"

"And who does this little girl belong to? If nobody claims her, I’ll take her too! Ouch, ouch, ouch... my manhood... ah—"

In the midst of chaos, Zhang Datui’s tiger-like eyes bulged as he looked through the crowd and suddenly spotted a figure that managed to keep heading west despite the turmoil.

When the thunderous roar had come from the west, Zhang Datui had sensed that there was something abnormal about the thunder.

So, he estimated that after Zhang San left, he would surely escape toward the west.

Sure enough, he found Zhang San by searching to the west.

"Zhang San, stop right there, take my punch!"

"I won’t!"

Zhang San, noticing Zhang Datui leap down from the Execution Oversight Platform, responded and then ducked, weaving through the crowd.

The members of the Demon Clan who came to help from Hundred Flowers Fang and Jingshan Fang would deliberately release their Demon Qi when near the martial artists of the Town Demon Office, but they also knew that if they allowed their Demon Qi to affect this Principal Officer Zhang Datui, he could truly shatter them with one punch.

However, just as Zhang Datui landed not far from Zhang San and was about to send a punch his way, a figure suddenly rushed out from the side.

Clad in coarse cloth, with a mask covering his face, he threw a punch at Zhang Datui.

Zhang Datui sensed that the strength of the other party’s punch was only at the True Core Realm, he couldn’t help but laugh, "A mere foot soldier trying to block a chariot! Break—"

Yet, at that moment, the masked person’s aura soared around him. From True Core to the Sea, he instantly stepped into the realm of Qi Filling the Majestic Sea of the Spiritual Platform Realm!

"Can you withstand this punch, with ten years of my cultivation?"

Boom!

Their fists collided, and Zhang Datui watched as the brave figure was sent flying backward, crashing directly into a Rice and Grain Shop and collapsing it.

"Send some men, capture the one I’ve sent flying!"

However, in the next instant, the figure that had been sent flying unexpectedly charged back out again.

"Kid, just now I saw you were young and newly entered the Spiritual Platform Realm, a promising seedling, so I spared your life. Do you really want to come back here to meet your death? Don’t you know that no one can stand against the momentum of a chariot and horses!?"

At this moment, Zhang Datui unleashed a strong Might, directly causing many of the Demon Clan and even some of the martial artists from the Town Demon Office who took advantage of the chaos to all drop to one knee, unable to even stand.

Yet, Zhang Datui was astonished to find that the young man he had sent flying was now, step by step, walking towards him with a defiant look in his eye.

Even some of the Spiritual Platform Realm cultivators from the Town Martial Office, who were currently forced to kneel due to the Might released by Zhang Datui, unable to stand up, but this young man who had just entered the Spiritual Platform Realm was stubbornly advancing towards Zhang Datui step by step.

Zhang Datui’s eyes widened as he saw the young man’s eyes grow increasingly bloodshot, his aura completely overwhelmed by his own, but somehow forming his own Might under the pressure as solid as a boulder.

"The battlefield is like a chessboard, and I am a pawn. Although each step is fraught with hardship, I have never retreated a single step!"

The masked young man said, launching a punch at Zhang Datui.

Thud!

The fist landed on the wound on Zhang Datui’s chest, but it didn’t cause Zhang Datui much pain.

Clearly, this person had exhausted all his strength, and it was a miracle that he could even reach Zhang Datui, let alone land a punch that could cause any damage.

At that moment, Zhang Datui suddenly thought of his old self in the army, stubbornly refusing to fall and relying on a pair of blood-stained iron fists to fight for a way out.

Zhang Datui grabbed the other party’s collar, lifted him, and whispered in his ear, "Wait for me behind Zhang San’s house!"

Having said that, Zhang Datui flicked his wrist, flinging the man towards the area where the Demon Qi was at its densest.