Chapter 64

Lanyan was familiar with Tang Zheng because he had seen the villagers of Fengmen Village draw portraits, which were about 70-80% similar to the real person.

However, this was his first time meeting Tang Zheng, so he felt very unfamiliar.

Lanyan quickly turned his body, and a constellation of a mountain eagle rose, the glaringly bright star indicating his peak one-star strength!

His eyes quickly scanned Tang Zheng's waist.

A sword?

Lanyan sneered — with Tang Zheng so close, most sword techniques couldn't be used, and it would be impossible to dodge his heavy sweeping slash!

"You're too close!" Lanyan immediately crouched down and swung his knife!

With the force of the turn, a gray-brown star power rose along the blade...

Lanyan was a granted surname servant, not a true member of the Lan family, so he couldn't have the Lan family's "Moon Hook" constellation. However, the first star he introduced into his first palace was the Breaker Star, one of the main stars of the main combat constellation. With this move, a powerful star power surged, and it looked like this slash would cut Tang Zheng in half!

But Tang Zheng just whistled...

The dagger in his hand had already pierced into Lanyan's right hand that held the knife!

"How is this possible?" The martial skill Lanyan was about to release suddenly lost its power.

Blood flowed from his wrist.

The knife in his hand clattered to the ground.

If he had seen it was a dagger earlier, he wouldn't have been so stupid as to use the sweeping knife technique "Crossing the Horse"!

Sword techniques are slow, but dagger techniques are fast!

Because he was sure the other party used a sword, he chose a more powerful but slower star power circulation knife technique.

But he never expected that what the other party pulled out of the scabbard was... actually... a damn dagger?

What kind of lousy blacksmith would forge such a deceptive weapon!

Lanyan cursed the blacksmith of this sword-dagger in his heart.

"Trouble." This single stab, though not fatal, had reduced his combat effectiveness by 70%!

Lanyan looked at Feng Le, who was already battered and bruised.

Feng Le's star power was about 3,000 to 4,000 threads stronger than Azhi's, but in actual combat, he could only defend, and had already retreated to the corner, with no place to retreat further.

Lanyan immediately realized that they couldn't continue fighting.

Whether as a direct disciple of the Qintian Sect or as a trusted confidant of the young master of the Hidden Blue Manor, he valued himself very highly!

Fighting hard with Tang Zheng and his group, regardless of the outcome, would not be worth it for Lanyan.

"Kid!" Lanyan said with a fierce look but inner fear, "Since you've come to us, you should know who we are! This is the territory of the Hidden Blue Manor. If we continue fighting, help will come soon. If you kneel and beg for mercy now, I can let you live..."

"Can we kneel and beg for mercy now?" Tang Zheng smiled.

"Yes."

"But if you kneel and beg for mercy now, it's too late!" Tang Zheng laughed again, not immediately pulling out the dagger, but taking two steps forward and raising the dagger upward!

Dagger technique, starting posture!

With the thick star power of a peak one-star martial artist, the dagger technique's starting posture rose upward!

The dual-star power, carrying a destructive force that could penetrate anything, burst open in Lanyan's wrist...

"Ah..." Lanyan felt a sharp pain in his wrist.

Then, a numbing sensation followed.

Soon, he couldn't feel his right hand at all — his right hand had lost all sensation.

What?!

Lanyan felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

How is this possible!

He couldn't accept that his right hand was disabled by such a simple, unadorned martial skill!

The precise positioning, the perfectly timed release of the martial skill, and the immense force exploding in such a small area of his right hand, with the star power controlled without dispersing...

"Exactly... how many stars do you have?" Lanyan's mind was in chaos.

At first, the people of Fengmen Village said the other party didn't even have a constellation lit, then in the battle in Echo Alley, a residual star power was found on Xiaogui, and now, without a constellation rising, he couldn't judge the other party's current strength.

Tang Zheng smiled and replied, "Nine stars!"

Then, he kicked Lanyan's knees twice, both with star power condensed.

A peak one-star martial artist, after all, had a thick base of star power. Tang Zheng's two quick kicks, almost without a pause, only shattered his left knee, while the right knee was protected...

Right hand disabled, left leg disabled!

Tang Zheng pulled out the dagger, shook off the blood, and the star power surged again, continuing with the dagger technique, starting posture!

"You..." Lanyan saw the light on Tang Zheng's dagger heading straight for his right leg and immediately understood his intention!

Capture alive!

The other party was trying to capture him alive.

He immediately mobilized all his star power to protect his right leg, and used his left hand to support himself, struggling to stand up and seek help at the alley entrance.

However, just as he stood up and all his star power was focused on his right leg...

Tang Zheng delivered a light hand strike to his neck!

Lanyan's mouth opened slightly, but before he could shout, his vision went black, and he fell to the ground.

Tang Zheng shouted to Azhi, "Quick, quick, Azhi! Didn't he say this is the territory of the Hidden Blue Manor? We shouldn't prolong the fight!"

"Whatever!" Azhi raised his two swords and launched a final assault on Feng Le.

...

Feng Le was already disheveled. When he saw the two stars on Azhi's constellation, he almost felt life was meaningless.

But it was the pain from Azhi's sword that woke him up!

After that, he fully retreated, continuously releasing defensive martial skills to protect himself, especially his vital points, which were guarded so tightly that not even a drop of water could get through. He wasn't unwilling to counterattack, but against Azhi's relentless attacks, he couldn't find a single opportunity to counter.

Azhi was only a beginner at the two-star level, while Feng Le was already at the intermediate two-star level. The thickness of their star power was completely different.

Feng Le decided to protect himself and didn't dare to attack, so Azhi couldn't do anything to him for a while...

His attacks were always sharp, but he couldn't hurt the vital points no matter what.

"Should... I use my constellation talent?" Azhi's chest heaved as he panted heavily.

Facing such a shameless fighting style, he was almost out of star power.

Once that happened, even if Feng Le was just a show-off, he could definitely deal with a two-star martial artist who was out of power, plus a mid-one-star martial artist...

"No time." Tang Zheng heard footsteps coming from a distance.

As Lanyan said, this was still the territory of the Hidden Blue Manor!

Tang Zheng knew they couldn't wait and directly rushed over to assist Azhi, using the dagger technique's starting posture to stab Feng Le's heart from behind.

Clang!

His star power-infused strike didn't even pierce Feng Le's clothes.

Tang Zheng felt a闷 in his chest...

The overwhelming power of a two-star martial artist, just this one counter-shock, almost overwhelmed him!

"Damn!" Tang Zheng saw that Meng Fenghua, with his dual-star palace, could fight Azhi, a beginner at the two-star level, for several rounds, but he didn't expect that his dual-star palace couldn't even break through a two-star martial artist's defenses.

Moreover, this two-star martial artist was just a show-off who had never experienced real combat!

Azhi gave him a look...

Meng Fenghua was already at the peak one-star level, and the star power of his dual-star palace was over ten thousand threads. Azhi had just entered the two-star level, so they could fight for several rounds.

Tang Zheng was only at the mid-one-star level, trying to use over a thousand threads of one-star star power to clash with a mid-two-star martial artist... Azhi laughed without giving him any face.

However, Azhi laughed but didn't miss any of Tang Zheng's movements!

He saw Tang Zheng continuously stimulating Feng Le's back and chest with the dagger technique's starting posture...

Right on target, without any deviation!

No matter how Feng Le moved, the point where Tang Zheng's dagger landed remained the same...

Suddenly, Azhi's martial skill exploded inside Feng Le's body!

Azhi immediately followed up with a killing move, which had been unable to cause fatal damage until now!

"Teacher..." Azhi pushed Feng Le and saw a small, fresh red blood spot on his back!

Although the blood spot was very small and was the result of several dozen precise strikes to the same spot, it had almost no practical significance.

However, no matter what, he had forcibly used one-star star power to break through a two-star martial artist's defensive martial skill!

The reason Azhi's final attack succeeded was because the small, mole-like spot that Tang Zheng continuously stabbed attracted a large amount of Feng Le's star power to protect it!

Feng Le, even as he fell to the ground, looked down at the blood and the terrifying wound on his chest, still couldn't believe that these two people dared to kill him.

He stared with wide eyes, weakly extending a finger...

Then, the constellation of the Red Hound behind him suddenly became as light and transparent as smoke.

"What is this?" Tang Zheng felt the star power around him surge wildly, "Star Burst?"

"Does he have the nerve?" Azhi sneered, "Constellation Talent! Be careful!"

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