Chapter 52

"Guangtouqiang? If he’s not bald, why is he called Guangtouqiang! I wonder if Xiong Er and Xiong Da are around?" A mocking laugh came from the open door.

"Everyone, get ready, he’s coming out!" The constables drew their knives and nocked their arrows, entering a state of full readiness in just a few breaths, demonstrating their high level of training.

"Get out of my way!" A fierce shout came from inside the door, and a black shadow darted out at lightning speed. "Fire the arrows!" The bowstrings twanged, and a rain of arrows instantly covered the black shadow.

"No! It’s me!" The black shadow struggled to deflect most of the arrows with a knife, but seeing the constables still swinging their blades, he couldn’t help but cry out in alarm.

The familiar figure, the familiar voice, and that gloomy face—when the cry fell, the constables knew who had arrived. Unfortunately, the steel blades could be stopped, but the arrows could not be recalled. Even with desperate dodging and blocking, some still hit his shoulder and thigh. "Ah!" Han Long cried out in pain, and the others hurried to his aid, with several leaving to find a doctor.

Xu Feng was suddenly alarmed. "Don’t panic, maintain formation!" Unfortunately, this small chaos was enough to change the tide of battle.

Whistling sounds! Countless black objects flew out of the door like flowers scattered by celestial beings, accompanied by dull thuds as they shot towards the archers.

"Ah!" Some were hit, others were injured; in a moment, over thirty archers fell. Amidst the cries of pain, the constables discovered that the black objects were actually various instruments of torture! The one hit by the branding iron suffered the most, losing a large patch of scalp, and it was uncertain if he would ever need a comb again.

Just as everyone was stunned, a figure jumped out of the door. "Don’t attack yet! Leng Lingqi is still inside." Having been deceived twice, they were naturally more cautious and stopped the constables from immediately attacking.

Being cautious was right, but this suited Leng Xiao’s plan. After using bait twice, he would not play the game a third time, and maintaining a good relationship with the future Four Great Constables was most important.

These two baits not only revealed the distribution of the constables outside but also helped him deal with the archer team, achieving significant results! Next came the real close combat!

This time, the figure that jumped out was naturally Leng Xiao. As soon as he jumped out, he collided with a constable, who was caught off guard and had his neck grabbed. Leng Xiao, holding the constable in front of him as a shield, looked around. To be honest, he hadn’t thought about escaping when he first arrived, so he hadn’t paid attention to the specific layout of the Six Fans Gate. Now, finding the adjacent room required some effort. "Damn! Are you playing with me? Is your neighbor’s room this far away?" Leng Xiao cursed in anger. A winding corridor with numerous torches and air vents stretched out, but the nearest door was at least a hundred meters away. This distance, which would normally take just a few seconds, was now enough to cause significant trouble.

Roar!

Leng Xiao roared and grabbed the constable, swinging him around like a heavy weapon. The constable, like a heavy weapon, was swung and thrown, the immense strength causing the constables he hit to break bones and tendons. Because of the camaraderie, the constables couldn’t really use their weapons against each other.

Leng Xiao swept through one group after another, and only when he noticed the constable in his hands foaming at the mouth did he throw him backward. The unconscious constable, as expected, stopped the pursuit of the constables behind him, and Leng Xiao sprinted towards the so-called "adjacent room." An iron spear stabbed at him, but Leng Xiao, without stopping, deflected it with his chain-wrapped arm and grabbed the spear with his other hand. "Let go!" With a fierce shout, the constable holding the spear felt an overwhelming force and couldn’t hold on, the spear being forcibly pulled from his hands, the sudden increase in friction even leaving his palms bloody!

Leng Xiao wielded the iron spear, the whistling wind making the constables’ eyes widen. The weapons that clashed with the iron spear were all knocked away, and for a moment, Leng Xiao’s forward momentum was unstoppable!

After passing the unconscious constable, the pursuers closed in again. Leng Xiao, seeing this, didn’t hesitate to discard the handy weapon and threw it backward. The whistling sound of the spear cutting through the air made the constables scatter, but in the crowded group, some still got hit. One constable was impaled through the thigh and pinned to the ground, unable to move.

The gruesome scene terrified the constables, and thus, Leng Xiao, while being surrounded, deflected some weapons, grabbed some, and threw some, occasionally grabbing a few unlucky constables and swinging them around.

For a moment, the constables were helpless against him. This was the advantage of being surrounded; even with more people, only a few could actually hit the target. Especially in this relatively narrow corridor, he only needed to deal with the people in front and behind.

Leng Xiao fully understood his strengths and weaknesses. Knowing his strength lay in his power, he used throwing techniques to attack from the front to the back, and his fierce and brutal momentum intimidated everyone.

As the distance to the room shortened, the constables seemed to get smarter. Even if Leng Xiao charged, they wouldn’t let him grab their weapons, and the spectacle of the human windmill didn’t appear again. But this didn’t stop Leng Xiao’s advance. As long as he moved forward, weapons would inevitably come at him, and with weapons within reach, Leng Xiao could naturally grab them, and once he did, he could prevent the effective encirclement of the pursuers. The entire scene seemed to fall into a strange and deadly loop!

Xu Feng and Lei Yiming, at the back of the group, exchanged a bitter smile. They never thought a small medical apprentice could be so vicious, single-handedly playing the entire Six Fans Gate. Since ancient times, adding reinforcements in the middle of a battle has been a taboo in military strategy. As two of the Four Great Constables, they were not uneducated. They intentionally let their subordinates exhaust Leng Xiao’s strength, as he had shown too much dominance from the start, and they didn’t want to face him head-on. The best way to solve the problem was to wear him down, and once he was tired and weak, they could capture him easily! But Leng Xiao was like a stubborn donkey, swaying but not falling, and steadily advancing.

They weren’t worried about Leng Xiao escaping, as the direction he was heading was the most secure Blood Prison of the Six Fans Gate. But even so, they had to act, as if this continued, the Six Fans Gate would have no constables left!

"Stand back!" They shouted in unison. Leng Xiao knew the situation had changed; these two had finally figured it out. Using skilled fighters instead of a mob was the best way to deal with him.

Two heavily armored men leaped into the fray, their helmets concealing their faces, but Leng Xiao wasn’t interested. His style was to prevent his enemies from succeeding in whatever they intended! Even if it meant getting dirty, he would make them pay!

You want to fight? I’ll run! Leng Xiao gave them a disdainful look and turned to charge forward. The constables were frustrated; stopping him would clearly go against orders, but letting him pass would mean giving way to a criminal. One constable, unable to bear it, thrust his long spear forward, and the previous scene repeated: seizing the spear, grabbing a person, and the human windmill!

...

While the Six Fans Gate was in chaos, the outside was no less peaceful.

As Ling Lingfa had just left, a team of constables raided the medical clinic, carrying away many boxes of various sizes, and most importantly, pushing and shoving Ling Lingfa’s wife away!

But these constables never dreamed that their usual bullying had finally stirred a hornet’s nest! A little girl with two small braids pouted and ran away quickly. Cai Po threw her stall and disappeared into an alley, no one knew where she went.

Fifteen minutes ago, a cute little girl entered the Justice Escort Agency. Fifteen minutes later, a black-clad figure leaped into the headquarters of the Jinyiwei, and almost simultaneously, the Jinyiwei commander, Baihu, personally led a large contingent to raid the Six Fans Gate!

Fifteen minutes ago, Cai Po entered the Drunken Moon Tower. Fifteen minutes later, a man with a mustache like eyebrows flew or rather floated away from the building.

Fifteen minutes ago, Ling Lingfa stormed into the palace, and fifteen minutes later, the emperor’s furious voice echoed in the Golden Hall...

...

It’s almost there, almost there!

The room was not far away, and Xu Feng and Lei Yiming, who had been chasing him closely, also arrived at this moment. In a roar, Leng Xiao turned and swung, this time not a human windmill or a steel spear but the chain he had wrapped around his arm!

Clang!

Sparks flew, the weapons of the Four Great Constables were clearly different. The long-suffering chain finally completed its mission, hitting the two back and breaking into two pieces, falling to the ground.

"He can’t block anymore, kill him!" The constables, clearly enraged, swung their steel knives and swords, and all eighteen types of weapons came at him.

Leng Xiao was truly angry for the first time, not because of his master’s wife or his own capture, but because of the constables’ lack of judgment! Yes, lack of judgment. From the start, Leng Xiao hadn’t used lethal force. All the constables were injured but not killed, and the only casualty was Guangtouqiang, who was killed by the constables. Now, these guys were so unreasonable!

Countless sharp blades came at him, as if trying to create a mountain of blades in the darkness. Blood was about to splatter, and Leng Xiao might become a wronged soul or a vengeful ghost, but who cared? At least the constables didn’t!

Time seemed to stop, the air froze, and the constables’ world suddenly went dark for a second. Then, there was a brilliant flash of light!

Clang!

A flash of light, and all the blades shattered. The constables looked at the few pieces of scrap metal in their hands, bewildered. No one knew what had happened. There was only one sound, so why were all the weapons destroyed?

Leng Xiao held a sword, Leng Xue’s sword. No one believed he had done it, as his sword had no internal energy. In the constables’ minds, internal energy was the foundation, the key to everything. By strengthening internal energy, one could eventually become a先天 (Xiantian) expert, as powerful as the Constable God.

Leng Xiao found this notion contemptible. Today, he would use his sword to show them that internal energy was not everything, and Xiantian was just the beginning!

The constables were still dazed, and Leng Xiao, seeing this, smiled sinisterly and grabbed the quickest-reacting Xu Feng. "Chasing me was fun, right? Swinging me around will be even more fun!"

Xu Feng watched the constables spin around him, up and down, left and right, slowly blurring and darkening until his vision went black.

Leng Xiao looked at this with satisfaction. It seemed that grabbing someone with high martial arts skills was the right choice; they were indeed durable!

Throwing the unconscious Xu Feng against the wall, the room was now in sight.

Reaching out to the door, before he could touch the handle, the door opened on its own!

"What’s going on? So noisy!" The man who walked out had a calm face, but his gloomy aura made Leng Xiao start.

Xiantian realm! Cen Chong!