Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 85: You still won’t let me go even after I’m dead?

Chapter 85: Chapter 85: You still won’t let me go even after I’m dead?

Third Miss Gan leaped into the air with incredible force, soaring ten or so zhang high.

However, just when she was about to reach the highest point and nearly paused mid-air, she suddenly accelerated downwards.

With a loud bang!

Her palm landed squarely on Zhao Siyang’s chest.

The ground around Zhao Siyang shattered outwardly, forming a large area of cracks.

Zhao Siyang spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood, his eyes wide with shock as he stared at Third Miss Gan, unwilling to close in death.

The faint glow within his pupils dispersed into endless voidness.

After her move, Third Miss Gan appeared behind Bai Yucheng, lining up alongside the Four Great King Kongs.

Zhang San’s eyes widened in shock—who could have expected that Third Miss Gan was one of their own!

At that moment, inside the Town Martial Office, a martial artist couldn’t help but ask curiously, "Is this Third Miss Gan also... one of ours?"

"What about those blueprints for the Seven-Star Repeating Crossbow? Did we get them from the beginning?"

"Wait! Could those blueprints be fake?"

Facing the wild guesses from the others, Bai Yucheng merely smiled subtly, his expression calm and unchanged.

"Actually, it’s pretty much as you have guessed..."

Hearing this, everyone grew curious.

"I merely utilized the Town Martial Office resources in Chuan-Yu Road to try to break through to the Purple Mansion Realm, but unfortunately, I tried many times and failed," said Bai Yucheng.

"As you all know, those cultivation resources, which are mostly medicinal herbs, are in high demand among martial artists. The market supply is limited and not something that can be replenished in a short period of time," he explained.

"And with the current deficit, I’m afraid the review in a few months won’t pass."

"Therefore, I needed a way to resolve the deficit of the Town Martial Office in Chuan-Yu Road," he concluded.

Although Bai Yucheng spoke these words with a calm expression, Zhang San noticed that many people’s faces changed.

Clearly, in this part of the world, the Great Sui likely prohibited such actions.

Otherwise, the expressions on everyone’s faces wouldn’t be so grave.

"And with this perfect plan, I can solve the problems I’ve encountered," Bai Yucheng said.

Bai Yucheng said, raising his hand and extending three fingers.

"First, the wealth brought by the twenty-four invited martial arts experts is all mine. Just this alone is enough to cover all the deficits I previously owed."

"Second, these resources, combined with the spoils of this time, are even enough for me to make another attempt at breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm and enhance my power further."

"Third, a single operation has struck so many martial forces within Chuan-Yu Road. Principal Officer Sun above us knows about this, and is likely to reward me."

"Tell me, with a threefold benefit from this plan, why wouldn’t I go through with it?"

At that moment, the previously silent Senior Xu finally spoke.

"I was curious before why the blueprints for the Seven-Star Repeating Crossbow from Martial Marquis Manor could have been stolen. After all, if it were really possible to steal them, the Imperial Court would have acted much earlier!"

"Moreover, until now, there hasn’t been any disturbance reported from the Martial Marquis Manor."

"Now it seems, Officer Bai, your strategic planning is truly brilliant. I admire that," Senior Xu said.

At the same time, Senior Xu moved to the front of the group from the Town Martial Office, positioning himself in front of Bai Yucheng.

"Run!"

Suddenly, Senior Xu shouted, clenching his treasured sword and glaring at Bai Yucheng.

Senior Xu understood that since Bai Yucheng had revealed this secret, he wouldn’t likely leave any survivors.

After all, if everyone died, then how the operation was reported would be entirely up to Bai Yucheng.

Zhang San, who had already sensed something wrong, had readied his Qi much earlier.

The moment Senior Xu shouted to run, he applied Swift Wind Technique to himself, Big Head Wang, Wang Ziteng, and a few others, turning to flee immediately.

Zhang San wasn’t a selfish man— he wouldn’t just speed up himself.

But Zhang San wasn’t selfless either—he couldn’t speed up everyone.

At this moment, the few people who were sped up, apart from Wang Ziteng, were those who had previously protected him.

Bai Yucheng, watching these fleeing martial artists, simply smiled lightly and with a slight hand gesture, the Four Great King Kongs charged towards the people of the Town Martial Office.

Senior Xu immediately acted to intercept them, taking on all four alone.

Watching Senior Xu’s intervention, Bai Yucheng appeared somewhat helpless.

"Senior Xu, if possible, I really did not want to kill you. You are one of the few pearls in this filthy world. Unfortunately, you stood against me. In the next life, we shall meet again."

The Four Great King Kongs were all confidants secretly cultivated by Bai Yucheng using resources from the Town Martial Office, and their cultivation techniques were also from there.

Although the four of them were only in the mid-stage of the Spiritual Platform Realm, they completely suppressed Senior Xu at the moment.

After all, Senior Xu was just one person facing the siege of four individuals whose strength was not far from his own, making it somewhat difficult for him to cope.

Soon, Senior Xu had more than a dozen wounds on his body.

Yet even so, Senior Xu never stopped trying to block any of the four of them.

Just then, a voice came from behind Senior Xu.

"Senior Xu, catch."

As Senior Xu heard that it was Zhang San’s voice, he immediately retreated and turned around to catch two small medicine bottles thrown by Zhang San.

"One for healing, one for replenishing Qi. I’ve escaped, I’ll wait for you outside the Ghost Domain!"

Senior Xu took the pills and poured them directly into his mouth.

"Don’t worry, your Senior Xu is not fated for a short life!"

The next moment, Senior Xu, who had swallowed the pills, charged towards the Four Great King Kongs.

Above the sword’s edge, the Thunder Method roared.

RUMBLE——

Following a devastatingly thunderous sword light that fell, one of the Four Great King Kongs, unable to dodge in time, was directly chopped into two halves.

Another one attacked from behind, picking up a Mysterious Weapon long saber from the ground and slashing it at Senior Xu’s back.

Yet Senior Xu forcibly bore the slash, grabbed the blade with his hand, and blasted the Thunder Method backwards towards his attacker.

With a bang.

The martial artist was directly blown into serious injuries, and Senior Xu seized the opportunity to rush forward and chop off his opponent’s head with a sword.

Then he used the Thunder Method to sizzlingly cauterize the wound on his back, sealing the injury temporarily.

In the blink of an eye, only two of the Four Great King Kongs remained.

Bai Yucheng’s eyebrows furrowed slightly upon seeing this scene.

"Senior Xu, I really did not want to personally move against you. Too many innocents have died by my hand in this world, but I didn’t want you to be one of them, unfortunately—"

Saying so, Bai Yucheng slowly drew his Mysterious Weapon long sword and charged towards Senior Xu.

The two remaining King Kongs immediately moved towards the martial artists from the Town Martial Office who were scattering in escape.

In the Town Martial Office, one must reach the True Core Realm to become an official martial artist and the Spiritual Platform Realm to qualify as a Martial Chief.

Now, the many martial artists here, facing two strong adversaries from the Spiritual Platform Realm, resisted, but they were typically killed within two rounds.

These two were secretly cultivated pawns for Bai Yucheng, killing these martial artists from the Town Martial Office without any mental burden.

"Where are Wei and Sister Ling? Didn’t they come along with everyone?"

Zhang San knew that without a Martial Chief to hold off these two Spiritual Platform Realm powerhouses, everyone would die here.

"They got separated from us as soon as they came in."

"It was Officer Bai who led them away!"

Zhang San suspected that Sister Ling and Wei had been deceived to return from the beginning, or those who came weren’t real.

After all, Wei was good at escaping, and he knew Bai Yucheng’s secrets, essentially holding leverage over Bai Yucheng.

Sister Ling was quite strong, so Bai Yucheng had not allowed her to come.

Who could he rely on now?

Feeling the murderous pursuit drawing closer from behind, Zhang San suddenly thought of someone.

In the next moment, Zhang San suddenly turned and rushed back to the previous battlefield.

The two remaining King Kongs, seeing Zhang San running back, were puzzled.

This kid must be confused, right?

Why would he run back?

However, Zhang San sprinted, dodging the two King Kongs chasing him and heading straight for the corpse of Zhao Siyang, who had died with eyes wide open amid the cracked ground.

He grabbed Zhao Siyang’s body and held it overhead as a shield to block the pursuing attackers from the Spiritual Platform Realm.

At that moment, the already dead Zhao Siyang grumbled with a gloomy face, "I’m already dead, aren’t you going to let me go?"