Chapter 78

Update Time: May 3, 2013

As the landmine exploded, the top floor of the training ground was torn apart by a raging inferno! A massive fireball illuminated the dark night sky, and the red flames could be seen from dozens of miles away!

The surrounding walls, shaken by the continuous explosions of the landmines, finally could not hold up and collapsed with a thunderous roar, burying Gongsun Furan's remains!

No one knew that the beautiful woman's head in the wall mechanism began to spontaneously combust at the start of the explosion, quickly leaving no trace and completely disappearing from this world!

With the collapse of the training ground, countless stones of various sizes were hurled thousands of meters away by the powerful force, like rain, many landing on the willow trees and bird and beast patterned tiles!

Numerous hidden traps were suddenly triggered, and poisoned arrows whistled through the air at terrifying speeds, piercing the bodies of passing maids and guards! Many suddenly appearing trap doors caused people to fall into pits over ten meters deep, where they were impaled by sharp blades and died!

Golden nets with sharp hooks and binding spells appeared out of nowhere, enveloping unfortunate men and women, then tightened according to preset programs, turning their screaming victims into minced meat!

Huge logs falling from the sky, flying circular blades suddenly shooting out... all kinds of vicious traps unleashed their power simultaneously, and in a short moment, the number of people who died exceeded eight hundred!

Screams of terror, cries of pain before death, shouts of "Enemy attack, enemy attack," and commands to "Stay calm, form ranks" intertwined to create the most chaotic scene under the summer night sky! Tonight was the night of disaster for Gongsun Furan's residence, and the artificial hills and giant trees around the training ground were almost completely destroyed by the shockwaves that escaped from the cracks in the walls!

Who could have thought that the entrance to a tunnel in one of the artificial hills would be buried by debris? The tunnel collapsed instantly as the powerful force reached underground! Now, all traces of Yun Mo's visit had been destroyed by various forces, and this would surely become an unsolved mystery!

Swish! Swish! Several leaders from the City Lord's residence, equipped with flying magical artifacts, were the first to arrive at the scene! They all stood on variously shaped magical artifacts: some were disc-shaped, some were long and narrow, and others were oval, with varying numbers of spirit patterns, clearly indicating different qualities!

But they all hovered behind one ordinary middle-aged man!

He was not tall or short, with an ordinary, slightly pale face and no beard, and his features were unremarkable. There was no trace of elemental energy around him, he wore no armor, carried no weapons, and was dressed in a purple-red robe made of common material. Apart from a dull gray bracelet on his wrist, he wore no other ornaments!

He stood there with his hands behind his back, looking at the scene of broken walls and black smoke, deep in thought, without a word!

He looked so ordinary! But no one dared to treat him as an ordinary person, because he was floating in the air without using any flying magical artifacts!

Flesh flying! This was the most terrifying cultivator, who could be called ordinary by no one, dared by no one!

The leaders of the guards behind him looked at his slender figure with deep admiration in their eyes.

Pang Tianya! The supreme commander of the million guards of Zuye City, the second-in-command of Zuye City, a true cultivator, a second-class duke of the Wuteng Empire, a true noble who rose from the common people!

He was sworn brothers with the City Lord of Zuye City! In their youth, they roamed the imperial capital together, fought countless noble scoundrels in drunken brawls, and slept with countless noble ladies, even the young princess of the Eighth Prince! They caused trouble in the Yunxiao Palace and beat up the heads of the detective bureau!

He drank with the emperor and joked with the empress. He flirted with the imperial concubines without punishment and kicked powerful eunuchs without repercussions!

He led the empire's millions of iron cavalry in battles against enemy nations, fighting side by side with his sworn brother on the battlefield, shedding blood to protect their homeland, and earning great military honors, his reputation shaking the world!

Who was this man? He was a true legendary figure, a top expert no force in the world dared to underestimate, a martial arts master! And he was also a tactical genius! There were many people with high martial arts skills, but how many could also lead armies in battle?

He had never been defeated by anyone in his life, except by the City Lord of Zuye City! They became good friends after fighting, but Pang Tianya declared that he would not leave his brother's side until he defeated him in a fair fight! He accepted the noble title but refused the imperial fief!

So Zuye City had two pillars of stability! So the surrounding four cities did not dare to provoke easily. So few dared to provoke the tiger's whiskers!

All of this was because of this man's existence!

Pang Tianya, known as the "Zuye Thunder Venerable"!

After reaching the level of flesh flying, martial artists naturally comprehend a power that only soul mages can control, a blessing from heaven.

And the power Pang Tianya comprehended after achieving flesh flying was lightning! Therefore, the empire bestowed him the title of Thunder Venerable! Because he was in Zuye City, he was called the Zuye Thunder Venerable. If he ever defeated his sworn brother and received his own fief, he would naturally be named after that city, but for now, he was the Zuye Thunder Venerable!

No one dared to provoke the Zuye Thunder Venerable lightly!

His face, calm and composed, showed no signs of panic. But he was burning with anger, the anger of being provoked!

He was proud and believed in the strict adherence to hierarchy! Although he came from a common background and did not follow any rules, even making the emperor helpless, he was strict with others! He had no good feelings towards commoners, as he had been bullied by them the most in his childhood. He was a very contradictory person. He himself was sometimes confused about why he held different standards for others and himself, and whether this was right.

He was also puzzled and lost, so he stopped thinking too much and just did what his heart told him to do! That was why there was a violent night in Zuye City last night. He did not care about the deaths of commoners, and he had a fire in his heart!

The City Lord of Zuye City understood his sworn brother's contradictory nature and could only smile. No one is perfect!

Today, the contradictory and ruthless Pang Tianya was extremely displeased! Because after a city-wide search last night, another shocking incident had occurred right under his nose!

Gongsun Furan, a promising leader and a loyal guard of Zuye City, had perished in the inferno!

In a short moment, the death toll and the heavy losses were reported!

Pang Tianya felt nothing about the deaths of the fifth-level guards! With a million guards, a few deaths were not unusual. Even if a few captains were killed as collateral damage, he did not flinch. But when Gongsun Furan was blown to pieces, he could no longer contain his boiling killing intent!

"Order the city to be sealed again, dig up every inch of ground, and find the suspects!"

"Yes!" The people behind him accepted the order and left.

Zuye City was once again in turmoil!

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