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Chapter 180 Colluding with the Demon Martial Sect, the Palace Master's Personal Guard
"Second brother, it's you?"

The person who broke down the door was not Su Chen, whom Luo Huaiwen was worried about, but Luo Huaiwu, who had no expression on his face.

Upon seeing Luo Huaiwu, Luo Huaiwen breathed a sigh of relief: "You've come at the right time. My injuries have just healed. Let's join forces and catch him off guard, then bring his head back to report!"

Luo Huaiwu strode up to Luo Huaiwen, a chill creeping into his eyes.

As Luo Huaiwen was using his strength to snap the rope, he was completely oblivious to the strange behavior of the person in front of him, muttering curses.

"what happened to you?"

He quickly noticed that something was wrong with Luo Huaiwu and asked with a frown.

Swish!
Suddenly, Luo Huaiwen's eyelids twitched, and a chill ran down his spine, spreading throughout his body in an instant.

The next moment, he saw Luo Huaiwu draw his sword, a cold glint suddenly appearing in his eyes as it hurtled towards him.

Bang!
The sudden turn of events caught Luo Huaiwen off guard. He scrambled to dodge, rolling around several times in a disheveled manner, like a wild dog turning over.

After getting up, Luo Huaiwen cursed, "Are you fucking crazy? I'm your brother!"

Su Chen, disguised as Luo Huaiwu, sneered. If Luo Huaiwen hadn't been somewhat useful, he could have finished him off with that last strike.

Now, I'll let you play along with me until the end of this charade!

Su Chen drew his sword again. Despite being a swordsman, he felt no sluggishness in his sword strikes.

Where the sword's edge pointed, a surge of energy erupted, and with a sudden grip, it slashed fiercely down at Luo Huaiwen.

"Made!"

Luo Huaiwen roared, feeling his scalp tingle at the sight of such a powerful offensive when he was unarmed.

How come Luo Huaiwu's strength has increased several times in just a few hours?

He didn't have time to think much. Although he didn't know what had happened to Luo Huaiwu, the fact that his brother had been murdered before his eyes left him not only confused but also filled with anger.

Having narrowly avoided Su Chen's attack, Luo Huaiwen leaped out of the window and fled the courtyard in a disheveled state.

Su Chen did not stop him; he had originally planned to send Luo Huaiwen back to deliver the message.

……

The following day, Luofu.

Luo Yun was not the only one who saw Luo Huaiwu's true face; two servants and a maid also did so.

However, unlike Luo Yun, the three of them did not bump into each other head-on, but only caught a quick glimpse from the side.

Their statements cannot be fully trusted, but when combined with Luo Yun's testimony, the veracity of the matter becomes questionable.

Upon hearing this news, everyone was shocked and angry, but also somewhat puzzled.

They didn't understand why Luo Huaiwu would kill Luo Sheng and Luo Yu, as there seemed to be no conflict between them.

In the lobby.

Deputy Clan Chief Luo Pei frowned, Third Elder Luo Changxiao looked solemn, and the other elders remained silent.

"Shouldn't Huaiwen and Huaiwu have been dealing with the deputy leader of the Sihai Gang last night? Why did only Huaiwu return? Where is Huaiwen?"

At this moment, an elder who was quite familiar with Luo Huaiwen and Luo Huaiwu expressed his doubts, which were also the doubts of everyone else.

"I've already sent people to look for them," Luo Changxiao replied.

"Report! Elder Huaiwen has returned, severely injured."

Suddenly, hurried footsteps came from outside the door, and a loud voice rang out.

Upon hearing this, the deputy clan leader and the others exchanged glances, quickly got up, and walked out of the main hall.

Soon after, the group arrived at the room, where the deputy clan leader and Luo Changxiao immediately spotted Luo Huaiwen lying on the bed.

“Vice Clan Chief, Third Elder.”

Upon seeing the two, a doctor surnamed Luo stood up and said...

Luo Changxiao stepped forward to the bedside and asked, "Huaiwen, what exactly happened? Who beat you up like this? And where is Huaiwu?"

However, no reply was received.

The physician bowed and said, "Reporting to the Vice Clan Chief and the Third Elder, Luo Huaiwen was seriously injured and died."

"what!"

Both of them were startled upon hearing this.

"Who did this?" Luo Changxiao's face flushed with anger as he asked in a deep voice.

"The deputy clan leader and the third elder said before Luo Huaiwen died that Luo Huaiwu had killed him," the doctor truthfully reported.

"You bastard!" Luo Changxiao cursed, his face ashen.

If the people had some doubts before, they now completely believed in Luo Yun.

Last night, Luo Huaiwu not only attacked members of the Luo clan, but also his own brother.

First he killed Luo Yu and Luo Sheng, and then he killed Luo Huaiwen. Such a traitor is truly unforgivable!
"Vice Clan Chief, the Lord's personal guards have arrived."

As everyone remained silent, a guard's voice came from the doorway announcing something.

"The Lord's personal guards?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Pei's expression hardened slightly. What were the manor lord's personal guards doing at the Luo family's residence?
For some reason, a faint sense of unease welled up inside him at that moment.

He waved his hand to dismiss the others and said to Luo Changxiao, "Changxiao, come with me."

Luo Changxiao nodded.

The group arrived at the front courtyard where they were to receive their distinguished guests. Before even entering the main hall, they saw a line of silver-armored warriors standing at the entrance, stretching all the way to the gate of the Luo Mansion.

The silver-armored soldiers stood solemnly upright, majestic and imposing, their mountain-like bodies making the air seem heavier.

This display of force startled both Luo Pei and Luo Changxiao.

"I apologize for not being able to greet you properly, sir," Luo Pei said with a hearty laugh as he strode in.

Two burly men in golden armor stood up one after the other, facing Luo Pei's smiling face with expressionless faces.

This expression caused Luo Pei's smile to falter slightly, but he still said, "Someone, bring tea."

“No need,” one of them said, looking at Luo Pei. “I am Qian Ren, a personal guard of the Lord of the Manor. I have come here on the matter of the Demon Martial Sect.”

"The Demon Martial Sect?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Pei's breath hitched, and his brows furrowed.

These three words struck him like a heavy hammer blow, and neither his clan nor the lord of the manor could easily dismiss them.

But what moved him even more was that the matter of the Demon Martial Sect had nothing to do with the Luo family.
Could it be that……

Luo Pei's thoughts were racing, and Qian Ren, as if knowing what he was thinking, explained the reason:

"Last night we received an urgent secret report from the Fengbei City Lord's Mansion, stating that members of the Demon Martial Sect had infiltrated Fengbei City with the intention of harming the City Lord's Mansion."

The prefect is very concerned about this matter and has ordered us to rush to Fengbei City overnight to investigate it.

Before dawn, we arrived at Fengbei City and learned from the city lord, Qiao Renzhou, that the person who attacked last night was Luo Huaiwu of the Luo family.

We request that Deputy Clan Chief Luo hand this person over so that we can verify the truth of the matter.

As soon as these words came out.

Luo Pei and Luo Changxiao's expressions immediately turned ugly.

An invisible thread seemed to connect the two of them, pointing directly to Luo Huaiwu and the Demon Martial Sect.

Upon hearing Qian Ren's words, the two of them simultaneously realized the reason for Luo Huaiwu's betrayal of the Luo family.

It must be because he joined the Demon Martial Sect that he ruthlessly killed Luo Huaiwen and the other two.

The people of the Demon Martial Sect are a bunch of lunatics, a bunch of lunatics who won't even spare their own relatives!

Luo Pei's expression shifted between light and dark as he considered more things. Luo Huaiwu's connection with the Demon Martial Sect was very disadvantageous for the Luo family.

"What? Luo Huaiwu isn't at the Luo family's residence?" Qian Ren asked casually.

Luo Pei forced a smile and said, "Lord Qian, is there something wrong with this? We saw Luo Huaiwu last night. How could he be a member of the Demon Martial Sect, let alone attack Qiao Cheng?"

"This matter was witnessed by Qiao Renzhou himself, and there are many other witnesses. As for whether it is true or false, you don't need to worry about it. I only want you to hand over Luo Huaiwu. If you can't, then don't blame me for being impolite," Qian Ren said indifferently.

"This... could you give me some time?" Luo Pei said, gesturing for Luo Changxiao to leave.

After hearing this, Qian Ren said expressionlessly, "Since that's the case, then I will give you three days. However, during these three days, no one may enter or leave the Luo residence without my permission."

As soon as he finished speaking, the silver-armored warriors outside the door let out a loud shout and then scattered to guard the various gates of the Luo residence.

Upon seeing this, Luo Pei, though his face was grim, did not say much. Instead, he ordered his men to treat Qian Ren and the other man well before turning away.

All of Luo's series of events were naturally the work of Su Chen.

He impersonated Luo Huaiwu, first eliminating Luo Sheng and Luo Yu, and then deliberately exposed his identity so that Luo Yun would discover it.

After returning to the abandoned house, Su Chen would then make his move against Luo Huaiwen.

The reason Luo Huaiwen was left behind was because he was rather foolish, and foolish people are easily deceived. Sure enough, Luo Huaiwen fell for it, without questioning Su Chen's identity at all, and directly assumed that he was Luo Huaiwu who had run back to the Luo family.

With Luo Yun as an eyewitness and Luo Huaiwen as a witness, it would be difficult for the Luo family not to believe it.

Finally, Su Chen found Qiao Renzhou and told him what had happened. Qiao Renzhou, upon learning that he could deal with the Luo family, readily agreed to Su Chen's plan.

So the two staged a play and then informed the manor lord of the matter.

The chaos caused by the Demon Martial Sect in the Great Zhou Dynasty is still fresh in our minds, and the Great Qian Dynasty has absolutely zero tolerance for the Demon Martial Sect.

In recent years, in particular, the Demon Martial Sect has stirred up trouble in Donglin Prefecture, making the Prefecture Lord even more disgusted with it.

Once the news of the Demon Martial Sect is learned, the Lord of the Prefecture will definitely launch a swift and decisive attack.

In addition, the relocation of the prefectural city during this period has kept the city busy and the order unstable, making the prefectural lord even more sensitive to the Demon Martial Sect.

Therefore, after receiving Qiao Renzhou's message, the prefect immediately dispatched his personal guards and silver-armored soldiers to seal off the Luo family.

It's a pity that there wasn't enough time; otherwise, Su Chen could have framed the culprit even more perfectly.

Fortunately, although we can't destroy the Luo family like we did before, we can still deliver a heavy blow to them.

After all, the Luo family was a powerful clan in the state. Even if the prefect wanted to eliminate them, he would have to think twice before acting.

However, since it can produce such results in just one night, there's nothing to ask for more.

For the time being, the Luo family will likely be too busy to attend to the Four Seas Gang and Su Chen.

Even so, Su Chen still felt that he hadn't done enough.

This time, Luo used Li Mo's matter as a pretext to lure Su Chen out and then take action against him. Will he use the same charade to take action against Li Mo next time?

Will they target Hong Ming, Fang Rou, and others again next time?
Will they kill all of Su Chen's relatives and friends the next time?
And then, and then the next...

Ouch, this is terrifying to think about; the consequences are unimaginable!

Su Chen absolutely could not allow such a situation to occur. He pondered a method in his mind, hoping to eliminate the Luo family once and for all.

After much thought, they still couldn't come up with a solution, so they could only ask Qiao Qiliang to send more people to secretly protect Hong Ming and the others.

"Forget it, let's focus on improving our strength as soon as possible. If I'm strong enough, I don't care about the Luo family, the Chu family, or the Liang family and the Yun family. I'll just sweep them all away and send them to meet those three old bastards from the Hong family!"

Fortunately, I managed to make another trip to the Luo residence last night and stole all of Luo Huaiwen and Luo Huaiwu's pills, so I won't need to go to the black market for a while.

"A total of six Blood Strengthening Pills and fifty Blood Nourishing Pills, which together are equivalent to three hundred and ten Qi and Blood Pills. Although they cannot improve the Vajra Iron Shirt and Pure Yuan Scripture for the time being, they can at least last for six days. I'll go to the black market then."

Reaching the fourth level of the Vajra Iron Shirt requires 600 Qi and Blood Pills, and even if you consume them all, you'll only complete half the progress.

However, upgrading to the second level of the Pure Yuan Scripture only requires four hundred Qi and Blood Pills, which can be obtained by making another trip to the black market.

"Although the Pure Yuan Scripture cannot improve combat power, it can enhance my five senses, and it seems to have other wonderful uses as well. In some situations, it is even more useful than the Vajra Force. However, right now I am focused on improving my strength, so I will put it aside for the time being."

Having made up his mind, Su Chen returned to the Qiao residence and began his secluded cultivation.

During this time, he would also inquire about Luo's whereabouts from Qiao Qiliang.

Luo Huaiwu's defection to the Luo family has indeed put the Luo family in a difficult position, and Qiao Qiliang has been developing his power very smoothly during this period.

In addition, Su Chen also met with Hong Ming and Fang Rou.

After a long period of cultivation, the two were only one opportunity away from breaking through to the Qi Refining stage, and Su Chen's trip was to help them achieve that opportunity.

With Su Chen's help, Hong Ming and Fang Rou both broke through to the Qi Refining stage, which gave them greater assurance of their safety.

He also took the opportunity to visit Li Mo. After not seeing him for nearly half a month, Li Mo seemed to have undergone a complete transformation, becoming much more robust.

He spent every day cultivating, and with the accumulation of abundant resources and his tireless dedication, he actually broke through to the peak of the Qi Refining stage.

Su Chen originally wanted to help Li Mo break through to the Refining Organs realm, but since Li Mo had just broken through, even with his help, he would not be able to continue to break through in a short period of time, so he gave up.

The increased strength of his relatives and friends brought Su Chen comfort, but also added a sense of urgency.

This sense of urgency intensified, especially after learning that the Lord's personal guards had withdrawn from the Luo family.

……

A courtyard.

Wen Qingqiu broke out in a cold sweat and dared not look directly at the three white envoys.

“Wen Qingqiu, you had the longest contact with Qing Envoy Li Guanghao, and he was the one who sent you away from Dafeng City in the end. Do you know what he did after you parted ways?” Li Jing asked.

Wen Qingqiu thought for a moment and shook his head, then said with a wry smile, "Reporting to the White Envoy, the Envoy never tells his subordinates what he is going to do."

The three exchanged glances, not surprised, knowing they couldn't get any information from Wen Qingqiu; it was just a casual question.

"My lords, I suddenly remembered something," Wen Qingqiu said, slapping his forehead.

"whats the matter?"

Wen Qingqiu replied, "I remember that Lord Qing once asked me to keep an eye on someone, and later he asked me about this person many times."

"Who?"

"His name is Su Chen."

Why should we pay attention to him?

"It's probably... an attempt to recruit him," Wen Qingqiu said, scratching his head, somewhat uncertain.

"Where is this person?" Luo Zhuo asked after a moment of silence.

"In the Qiao residence in Fengbei City, this person is a good friend of Qiao Qiliang, the son of the city lord of Fengbei City."

Li Jing nodded slightly: "We have already made a decision on this matter. Now I ask you, are you willing to become the Azure Envoy?"

"Azure Envoy?" Wen Qingqiu was taken aback and looked at Li Jing with surprise. Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, he said, "My lord, I'm afraid my strength is not enough to serve as Azure Envoy. Besides, I don't have the ability."

"If I say you have it, then you have it," Li Jing said indifferently.

Wen Qingqiu was just starting to feel touched when Li Jingxia choked him with a single sentence: "Even if you're a pig, I can still make you have it."

Unable to refute, he could only ask awkwardly, "Then what should I do?"

“I will teach you how to do it over the next few days,” Zhao Fei said from the side.

"Thank you very much, Envoy Zhao Bai," Wen Qingqiu said gratefully.

After giving a few brief instructions, the three dismissed Wen Qingqiu.

“Now that the new Qing Envoy has been found, the next step is to find blood food to enhance Wen Qingqiu’s strength and, incidentally, verify the effects of the Blood Fusion Technique,” ​​Li Jing said first, looking at Luo Zhuo.

Luo Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "I have also found out about the Moon Worshiping Thieves. We can make our move tonight."

Upon hearing this, both of them beamed with joy and nodded in agreement.

……

The stars hang low over the vast plain, and the moon rises over the flowing river.

A figure fled in panic. Ma Chen hadn't expected that after only a few days of peace, the Dragon Guard would come looking for him again.

Having no other option, he had to leave again.

However, to his surprise, among the guards who attacked him this time, there were actually three Silver Dragon Guards.

Three Silver Dragon Guards! These are all warriors at the fourth or fifth level of the Blood Transformation Realm, yet they joined forces to chase after him, a warrior who had just entered the second level of the Blood Transformation Realm.

That's a huge waste of talent!

If it weren't for my familiarity with the terrain and having prepared an escape route, I might have really capsized in the gutter this time.

"Last time it was the Dragon Guards, this time it's the Silver Dragon Guards, will it be the Golden Dragon Guards next time? Is it really worth it for a Pure Yuan Scripture?"

Ma Chen was in agony, on the verge of tears. He had tried many times to return the Pure Yuan Scripture, but they refused to take it back and insisted on taking him with them.

Hearing the whooshing sounds behind him, Ma Chen composed himself, increased his speed, and then disappeared into the forest.

The secluded mountains and forests, with their rugged paths, made it easier to shake off the Silver Dragon Guards.

After an unknown amount of time, the unease in his heart gradually disappeared, and Ma Chen slowed his pace and let out a long sigh.

There was no sound behind them, and no one was chasing them.

He was overjoyed to have escaped death from the pursuit of three Silver Dragon Guards, which was another historic breakthrough.

"There's another pleasant surprise. If I had a little more time, I could break through to the second level of the Blood Transformation Realm. At that time, my movement technique would improve again, and I would be able to easily shake off even the Silver Dragon Guards."

Ma Chen seemed to be deep in thought, and decided to find a place to hide and break through his cultivation level.

Suddenly.

Ma Chen paused, a strong sense of being watched enveloped him, making his blood freeze and his heart filled with fear.

Snapped!
A crisp sound rang out from behind his head, and Ma Chen felt his head sink, and the world before his eyes instantly dimmed.

"The sound is quite crisp; it's a good start."

He faintly heard a comment in his ear, which made his eyes roll back and he faint.

(End of this chapter)