Chapter 484: The Killing at the City Gate
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Chen Zi thought for a moment before agreeing with a nod. Mo Wen indeed had nowhere to go to.
“There is a martial arts practitioner in Golden Elixir realm who is in charge of the Jianyou Sect in Panli City. We should get out of the city now before the Jianyou Sect reacts.” Zou Guangbo put the bamboo hat on his head again. They walked out of the yard quickly, carefully negotiating the narrow streets.
Fortunately, Zou Guangbo had been the Deputy Mayor of Panli City for decades so was very familiar with the layout of the city. There was no need to worry about getting lost.
However, they had only walked for a short distance when they realized that the streets and alleys were filled with people in law enforcement uniforms. They were patrolling rapidly as if they were looking for someone. The entire city seemed to be in turmoil.
“Oh no! The people of Jianyou Sect must already know about the death of Liu Jiang. Martial law is being enforced in the city.” Now Zou Guangbo was worried.
A troop of city law enforcement officers ran towards them from the opposite street. Zou Guangbo, who was leading the way, immediately dashed into an alley to hide. His face was extremely grave. He never expected the reaction of the Jianyou Sect to be so fast. The death of Liu Jiang had happened merely 15 minutes ago, yet the entire city was already under martial law.
At the same time, they realized that the walls of the streets and alleys were full of notices. On the notices were the portraits of Mo Wen and Chen Zi. There was even a bounty which had been set at a terrifyingly high amount.
Zou Guangbo laughed bitterly. “They’ve actually announced a bounty.” Jianyou Sect wasn’t pulling any punches. Now that a bounty had been announced, they would need to hide not only from the Law Enforcement Department of Panli City but would also need to be careful of the residents in the city as, if they discovered them, they would report them any time.
“What should we do then?” Chen Zi’s brows furrowed slightly. She had never expected the situation to be so serious. If she had known before that Jianyou Sect were in control of Panli City, she definitely wouldn’t have let Mo Wen kill Liu Jiang. They should at least have waited until they had left the city to kill him.
Now, the entire city was under martial law. They had become the scurrying rats which were condemned by everyone. The normal residents wouldn’t care about the fight between the Intentionless Sect and the Jianyou Sect as they did not belong to any Sect, but with the bounty, they wouldn’t hesitate to hand them over.
“What is there to be afraid of? Why should we be afraid of little Panli City and the Jianyou Sect?” Mo Wen’s lips curled into a smile and he folded his arms.
“Don’t be careless. There is a martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm of the Jianyou Sect in command of Panli City, and we don’t know if the martial art practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm of the Sacred Flame Sect has left. If there are two martial arts practitioners in the Golden Elixir realm in the city, it may be dangerous for us.” Chen Zi’s face was grave as she spoke. She knew that Mo Wen was very strong, and he was fearless, but he couldn’t be impulsive or over-confident about this kind of thing. If the two martial arts practitioners in the Golden Elixir realm were to appear, they would face a huge amount of danger.
Moreover, Panli City had already fallen into the hands of the Jianyou Sect, so Panli City would definitely have many Jianyou Sect’s martial arts practitioners in the Embryonic Breathing realm. It wouldn’t be a problem with a few of them but when the number was great, they would be facing an extremely frightening power.
“We’ll take the quietest route, then disguise ourselves a little. Now, let’s try our best to avoid meeting that troop of law enforcers,” Zou Guangbo suggested. In their present situation, swaggering around would definitely make them stand out and they would be quickly discovered.
The left the alley and soon found a house which was empty. After “borrowing” some clothes, they moved stealthily in the direction of the city gate.
Mo Wen had changed into a light gray sackcloth. He knew that leaving Panli City quietly and avoiding conflict with the martial arts practitioners of Jianyou Sect was the sensible thing to do. However, it was clear to him that Chen Zi and Zou Guangbo didn’t have a particular talent for sneaking around.
The three of them were constantly traversing the complex streets of Panli City, sometimes heading in the wrong direction or taking an indirect route in order to hide from law enforcement officials. Mainly though, they were heading towards the northern city gate.
After a great deal of effort, it seemed as though their luck was holding. They had not been discovered. The northern city gate was getting closer, but the buildings were also getting less dense so it would be easier to spot them.
A distance away, the silhouette of the huge city wall was faintly visible. Zou Guangbo’s eyesight was quite good and he could make out a constant movement of figures on the gate tower. It seemed though as if almost nothing was passing through the gate. “Oh no!” he said. “The city gate is closed and we can’t get out.” Their options now were to break through by force or fly out. However, regardless of the method used, they would be exposed straight away.
Furthermore, in the Green Ancient Mystery Dimension, the gravity was ten times of that in the main space. Only the martial arts practitioners in the Golden Elixir realm had the ability to fly, but Zou Guangbo and Chen Zi wouldn’t have that ability.
“We should have known that the Jianyou Sect would immediately close the city gate,” Chen Zi said, with a hostile expression on her face. Now that the city gate was closed, it was almost impossible for them to leave the city quietly.
“We should not make any rash moves. We can wait to see if we can break through at night.” Zou Guangbo furrowed his brows. It was almost impossible to break through in the day, but they might have a chance of breaking through under the cover of darkness.
“We don’t need to wait for the night,” Mo Wen said.
“Why?” Zou Guangbo looked at Mo Wen, baffled.
Mo Wen didn’t answer him. He merely looked at the sky as his lips curled into a gradual curve. Doubts filled Chen Zi and Zou Guangbo’s eyes as they didn’t understand what Mo Wen meant or what he was looking at. Very soon though, they realized what was happening.
A streak of blue light flashed from a distance before appearing in front of them. A figure was on the roof, but his feet never touched the ground and he was almost flying towards them.
“A martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm,” Zou Guangbo gasped, his face turning as white as a sheet. Only a martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm had the ability of gliding flight in the Green Ancient Mystery Dimension.
An old voice resounded from afar. “You are brave to actually dare to kill the Young Sect Leader of the Jianyou Sect. I will skin you and pull out your nerves before burning you into ashes.” At first, the voice was far away, but in the blink of an eye it rumbled like thunder upon them. The surrounding buildings were shaking, with tiles dropping constantly from the roofs, like the wave of the sound alone was able to bring death.
“Young Mistress, you break through the northern city gate immediately. I will try my best to block them for a while.” Zou Guangbo clenched his teeth firmly as he stamped on the floor to leap upwards. He flew more than ten meters before landing on a roof. The strong Inner Qi was gushing out of his body continuously, like a lighthouse in the darkness.
“Uncle Zou.” Chen Zi’s face changed drastically. At the critical moment, Zou Guangbo was willing to sacrifice himself. She was greatly moved by it. When the Intentionless Sect was at risk, there would still be this kind of loyal member of the Sect who would make those people trying to destroy the Intentionless Sect pay a great price.
“Do you intend to leave or not?” Mo Wen folded his arms and looked at Chen Zi, who was full of anger at his question.
Zou Guangbo should be able to delay the Jianyou Sect’s martial arts practitioner for a while, so the probability of breaking through the northern city gate now was very high. Of course, after escaping from Panli City, it was difficult to tell if they would be chased again and killed.
“I’m not leaving. You leave.” Chen Zi felt a surge of rage and in her desperate state, an emotion of dying valiantly rose in her. After all, the Intentionless Sect was going to be destroyed, so she might as well disappear with it. Knowing that the way ahead would surely have death as its ending, she nevertheless chose that path.
“If you were to die now, the chance to see the Intentionless City will be shattered,” Mo Wen said laughingly.
Chen Zi was in a daze as she heard him. If she were to die in Panli City, the wish of going back to take a look at Intentionless city would never be realized. The Intentionless Sect had been so glorious, but now had ended up this way. A sense of grief rose uncontrollably in her heart.
“Mo Wen, can you block the martial arts practitioner in Golden Elixir realm?” Chen Zi asked, as she bit her lip and gazed at Mo Wen.
She hadn’t wanted Mo Wen to take any risks as she knew Mo Wen’s identity. If he was still alive, the Intentionless Sect’s dream of rebuilding Ming Cult which they had held onto for hundreds of years could finally be realized. If Mo Wen was dead, Ming Cult might disappear forever.
If her grandfather was to choose, he wouldn’t let Mo Wen take any risks. However, she was already at her wits’ end. The only comfort she had was that there seemed to be only one martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm in Panli City, so perhaps Mo Wen could fight him. If there were two of them, the thought of this solution would never cross her mind.
Mo Wen folded his arms with a relaxed expression. He seemed to have absolutely no sense of anxiety. “Merely the beginning stage of Golden Elixir realm, obviously I can! It’s you who keeps thinking that I am not as good as them and must hide. What can I do? If I were you, I would have strutted out of the city long ago.”
“You are not a martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm, so you don’t know how strong a martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm is. There is a vast disparity between the Golden Elixir realm and the Embryonic Breathing realm!” Chen Zi sighed. Regardless of how strong Mo Wen was, he was after all merely a martial arts practitioner in the Embryonic Breathing realm and she had never seen him fighting with a martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm.
In the Green Ancient Mystery Dimension, there were numerous martial arts practitioners in the Embryonic Breathing realm and in normal circumstances, they were most probably considered to be an expert. However, in front of the martial arts practitioners in the Golden Elixir realm, they were nothing. Once the martial arts practitioner attained the Golden Elixir realm, they would be considered to be extraordinary, having surpassed the worldly norm.
That was why there were so few martial arts practitioners in the Golden Elixir realm in the main space. It was almost impossible to find one. It took more than talent and effort. It would also need lots of resources and assistance. Basically, the main space didn’t have such conditions.
The martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm was like a shadow which strode across the sky before appearing above Chen Zi and company. When he realized that Zou Guangbo was blocking him, he instantly laughed coldly. “Courting death!” For a martial arts practitioner in the Embryonic Breathing realm to actually dare to obstruct him, he must be sick of living. Even a martial arts practitioner in the Embryonic Breathing realm was simply considered as a slightly bigger bug to him, which could be crushed to death with a hand.
A frightening pressure descended from heaven. In the blink of an eye, it seemed to have transformed into an actual Qi Wave and hit Zou Guangbo’s body forcefully, sending him flying. His opponent hadn’t actually moved but his greatness was able to cause the martial arts practitioner in the Embryonic Breathing realm to have absolutely no ability to resist. It showed how strong the martial arts practitioner in the Golden Elixir realm was.
“Young Mistress Chen, it’s said that one would acquire something, which one had been seeking for a long time with no success, by accident through no effort of his own. Originally, we were planning to annihilate you in the main space, but in the end, you send yourself to court your own death.” An old man in blue was standing silently in the air. His hair and beard were white. He appeared to be kind and amicable, and stood in the air like a god.