There's something wrong with me

The next afternoon, in a narrow alley.

A man dressed as a wealthy young master came here and said to a wall:

“Mr. Bai, I've found out that it was the Seventh Prince who ordered them to post notices all over the city.”

“Are you sure?”

Bai Shi Tong's voice came from within the wall, and a brick was moved slightly,

“How could they let you easily find out about the Seventh Prince?

The Seventh Prince is the Empress's most beloved youngest son, his status is so noble, how could he let you find out about him so easily?”

Bai Shi Tong's words were a hundred times disbelief, and he carefully observed the expression of the wealthy young master.

“I don't know why either.” Facing Bai Shi Tong's questioning, the wealthy young master was not angry, but respectfully replied: “Sir, but from what I understand, the government officials have no intention of hiding anything.

It's not that I'm deliberately deceiving you.

Instead, it's as if the Seventh Prince is doing it on purpose.”

“No concealment? Doing it on purpose?” Bai Shi Tong was even more disbelieving, but he was very accurate in judging people, and could see that the wealthy young master's face was full of respect, and his words were sincere.

At this moment, he was a little confused.

“How could it be the Seventh Prince?”

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, without any clue.

“I heard that the Seventh Prince has no interest in imperial matters, nor in Jianghu matters.

Before he came of age, his only pleasure was sleeping and eating in the palace.”

Bai Shi Tong was sorting out the information he knew, and telling it to the wealthy young master, so that he could help him analyze it together.

“You see, it seems that he went to Anqing County after he came of age, and then disappeared in the Southern City for some time.

According to his usual habits, I guess he was eating and drinking somewhere on the border.”

Bai Shi Tong said here, and asked the biggest question,

“With his style of doing things, and with my style of doing things, there is no intersection between me and him at all, how could I offend him for no reason?”

“Could it be the great hero you mentioned, sir?” The wealthy young master helped Bai Shi Tong deduce: “Although I heard you say that the great hero is a Jianghu person.

But could he be the Seventh Prince's man? For example, a retainer, or someone the Seventh Prince trusts?

So he wanted to find you, and the Seventh Prince helped him find you?”

While the two were guessing, they did not regard the great hero as Zhang Feng at all.

Because according to the information they knew, this was completely wrong.

After all, the great hero was more than 1.9 meters tall, with a lot of fat, and his aura was domineering and heroic, like a peerless fierce general.

The Seventh Prince was purely chubby.

According to the rumors of being a 'homebody', who doesn't care about anything, he should have clear eyes and only care about what to eat today.

Thus.

The two guessed for a while, and felt that the most reasonable explanation was that the great hero was the Seventh Prince's most trusted retainer.

“I didn't expect to be accidentally involved in court affairs.”

Bai Shi Tong sighed now: “Just because the great hero asked an assassin question, and I didn't answer, he became suspicious, thinking I was an accomplice of the assassin.

I was negligent.”

“This can't be blamed on your negligence, sir.” The man shook his head slightly, “Who would have thought that the great hero would not have any official air, but would be loyal to the imperial court and betray our Jianghu fellows.”

“This person has no morality at all!” Bai Shi Tong sighed greatly, and then began to calculate in his heart,

‘This great hero actually gave me ten thousand taels without blinking an eye?

That's ten thousand taels!

He must have received no less than hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the Seventh Prince to be so generous!

Such a good business cannot be missed! Cannot be missed!

Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver! This is more than ten times the annual salary of those court lackeys!’

Bai Shi Tong thought in his heart, and began to calculate his chips,

‘Since the great hero wants to ask me about the whereabouts of the assassin, it proves that the Seventh Prince may want to know the whereabouts of the assassin.

Although I don't know where Shopkeeper Wu and Gang Leader Xun are now, I do know where their old nest is, where they have trained hundreds of assassins, and several personal disciples.

They should be able to sell for a lot of money.

Even if an assassin is worth ten thousand taels, and a personal disciple is priced higher, at twenty thousand taels.

It's at least a million taels of silver!

Not to mention that there are some exercises and rock fruits in their old nest.

Even if it's discounted, it can be worth ten thousand taels of silver?

Although ten thousand taels is not as good as a million, it's equivalent to ten Great Hero Chu.’

After Bai Shi Tong calculated this account, he said to the man: “Now the Seventh Prince is searching for me with a dragnet, and he didn't let the yamen hide the news, probably to find me.

If I continue to hide, I may be killed by a dragnet in the future!

When that time comes, it will be too late to beg for mercy.

Since things cannot be done, I have decided to go to the Seventh Prince's mansion and talk to the Seventh Prince.”

Bai Shi Tong said here, his words resolute: “We Jianghu people should act upright and aboveboard, hiding is not what we Jianghu people do!”

“Sir?” The man heard Mr. Bai's appearance of generously going to die, and immediately stopped him: “Be careful of fraud!”

“What if there is fraud?” Bai Shi Tong's heart is now full of white silver, but his tone is quite dignified:

“We Jianghu people should despise princes and dukes, and treat emperors as ordinary!

Humph. Not to mention a mere Seventh Prince.

I will go and meet him! See what ability he has!”

……

Seventh Prince's Mansion.

“Little people Bai Shi Tong! Greetings, Your Highness Seventh Prince!”

Bai Shi Tong shouted loudly, kneeling on the ground with a flattering expression.

Next to him was Xiao Wu Zi who led him over.

And Xiao Wu Zi is also very puzzled now.

Because just now, he was wandering in the front yard, and then this Bai Shi Tong suddenly visited, asking to see the Seventh Prince.

Xiao Wu Zi was puzzled by this, and didn't know what this person was thinking.

But he also knew that his master was looking for him, so he brought him here.

At the same time, there were twenty guards with crossbows following him.

“You are Bai Shi Tong?”

At this moment.

Zhang Feng was looking at the middle-aged man who was bowing in the courtyard, and found that Bai Shi Tong had some skills, about 30% of the Opening Spirit Realm.

It's just that his appearance is not on the paper drawn by Great Hero Chu.

But according to his tone, it was the voice behind the wall.

“Yes, I am!”

Although Bai Shi Tong was also curious that this Jianghu great hero was actually the Seventh Prince? But surrounded by crossbows, his words were only respectful and fearful:

“Little people did not recognize Mount Tai a few days ago... did not immediately come out of the wall to salute the Seventh Prince... I hope... the Seventh Prince will forgive me!”

“It's okay.” Zhang Feng shook his head and asked the surrounding crossbowmen to retreat.

Otherwise, he would be so scared that he would keep shivering, and the words would be intermittent.

For a time, after the crossbowmen retreated.

Bai Shi Tong relaxed a lot, at least his kneeling body was not shaking.

“Master!” Xiao Wu Zi then moved a grandmaster's chair from the house and placed it behind Zhang Feng.

“Yes.” Zhang Feng sat down while looking at Bai Shi Tong who had not yet stood up: “Sir, please get up first.”

“Thank you, Your Highness!” Bai Shi Tong slowly stood up.

Perhaps the crossbowmen had retreated.

During the period of his getting up, he also secretly looked at this 'Seventh Prince Great Hero'.

At this time, he looked at this great hero again, and found that this great hero had the noble air of the imperial palace.

‘If it wasn't for looking exactly the same, I would have thought they were two people…’

Bai Shi Tong felt magical, and did not expect that a person's temperament could be switched freely.

‘This should be that the skill on the body has reached a state that I can't imagine?’

Bai Shi Tong guessed through Zhang Feng's change in temperament that Zhang Feng was definitely not the person who eats, drinks, and has fun in the rumors.

On the contrary, he is an unparalleled master that he dare not imagine.

At the same time, Zhang Feng saw him looking at himself, and asked: “This palace has been looking for you for several days, sir, and you only appeared today, is there anything you need this palace to help you with today, so you are willing to show up and come here?”

“Dare not, dare not!” Bai Shi Tong was so scared that he lowered his head.

Now, he is not afraid of crossbows, but afraid of Zhang Feng's martial arts.

“It's still about that night.” Zhang Feng then took the tea brought by Xiao Wu Zi, while drinking, he asked Bai Shi Tong who was drooping his head:

“Among the people who went to the palace to assassinate, are there any you know?”

“Not very familiar!” Bai Shi Tong hurriedly cleared the relationship first, and then said: “But I know Wu Lao Zei, Xun Lao Zei, these two thieves have trained a group of Jianghu experts.

Now I don't know the whereabouts of the two thieves, but I know the whereabouts of these people.”

“Speak.” Zhang Feng came to his senses and put down the teacup.

Because when he was in Anqing County three years ago, the county lieutenant he caught could be incorporated into the task.

It's just that he still needs to interrogate him, so he didn't choose to kill him.

But now, it seems that there are many.

Just kill some casually, and the task will be completed.

And can prevent it from happening.

“Those Jianghu people are in Xingwu Mountain Villa three hundred miles away from Lin City!” Bai Shi Tong did not choose to talk about the price, but said directly:

“In addition to these Jianghu people, several personal disciples of Xun Lao Zei are also among them.

If they can be wiped out in one fell swoop, it is equivalent to breaking the arms of the two thieves.

Even if those two thieves are masters of martial arts, it will be difficult for them to stir up trouble in the heavily guarded Imperial Palace!”

Now that Baishitong had decided to sell the information, he sold it thoroughly.

“Reward!” Zhang Feng nodded, then looked at Xiao Wuzi, “Take my palace seal and go to General Sheng outside the city. Transfer my guards and have them wait for me fifty miles north of the city.”

To prevent any fish from slipping through the net, Zhang Feng wanted to surround them.

As a prince, Zhang Feng was allowed to keep five hundred private soldiers, though they were nominally called guards.

However, they usually trained in the military camp outside the city.

Zhang Feng rarely bothered with them.

Not only that, Zhang Feng also wrote a letter and had another guard send it to the palace, requesting more outside help.

Since he was a prince, he might as well use the status.

The initial growth world of level 2 was meant to provide him with convenience.

In future level 2 worlds, even if he wanted to use it, he might not be able to.

… …

That afternoon.

Cloud Mist Manor.

Although it was called a manor, it was actually a small village on a flat piece of land in the wilderness.

There were roughly fifty small houses with courtyards, all connected.

From the outside, the manor had fields, water, and people tilling the land, which was nothing unusual.

Even outsiders who occasionally passed by the manor and came to ask for water or temporary lodging were warmly welcomed by the people in the manor, and there was nothing amiss.

But in reality, the ninety-odd men and women here were all experts in the martial world.

And at this moment.

These martial arts experts were, as usual, pretending to go about their daily lives in the manor during the day.

However, while they appeared to be planting and cultivating, they were actually discussing martial arts in their conversations.

“Old Li, remember to keep watch tonight! I’m going to the back mountain to practice my skills!”

“Brother Wang, I always feel like there’s something wrong with my saber technique.”

Their conversations were all about techniques and routines.

This was their daily routine. They would practice their skills for a while before going to bed at night, and then discuss them again during the day while pretending to work.

But they hadn't been chatting for long when—

Ta ta ~

The sound of rapid hooves suddenly broke the silence of the small manor.

“What’s going on?”

Just as they turned their gazes towards the direction of the hoofbeats, swish, swish, swish, a sky full of arrows came pouring down on them, incessantly.

This was the 'volley of crossbow bolts from the three thousand elite crossbowmen' that Zhang Feng had requested in his letter to the Emperor.

“Damn it! We’ve been discovered by the imperial court!”

“Run! Run quickly!”

“Ah… my leg…”

After a fierce rain of arrows, the ground in the manor was covered with dense arrows, and there were also people riddled with them.

After Zhang Feng and the two generals led their troops to the entrance of the manor, they saw only a dozen assassins kneeling on the ground, begging for mercy.

They had been hiding in the houses earlier and had escaped the disaster.

When they came out and saw this scene, they didn't dare to resist.

They were basically only one to two-tenths of the way to being experts, and their strength was not much greater than that of ordinary people.

At most, they knew some martial arts routines.

At the same time, Zhang Feng looked at them while surveying the arrows and corpses on the ground.

With one volley, most of the mission targets were dead.

‘This status is indeed powerful, but the prerequisite is finding the target.’

Zhang Feng first marveled at how good his 'max-level status' was, and then he pondered the future.

‘In future growth worlds, if I still have a high status, I can first find the target, complete all the tasks, and then think about cultivation.

This will make cultivation less worrisome.’

Thinking this in his heart, Zhang Feng walked forward and glanced at the assassins.

“Generals, spare our lives!”

“We know we were wrong…”

“We are willing to serve the imperial court!”

They kowtowed one after another, hoping that Zhang Feng would spare their lives.

Zhang Feng asked directly, “Do you know the whereabouts of Shopkeeper Wu and Gang Leader Xun?”

“No… we don’t know…”

“Gang Leader Xun and the others only notify us when something happens…”

“I don’t know…”

They shook their heads, truly unaware.

“Very well.” Zhang Feng drew a long saber and killed five of them amidst their pleas for mercy.

Surrounded by crossbows, their bodies trembled like chaff, making it difficult to resist.

At the same time, after seeing that the non-main quest was completed, Zhang Feng said to the two generals behind him, “Keep the remaining bandits for now. The rest of the soldiers will set up camp in the nearby dense forest and be careful to conceal themselves.”

Zhang Feng surveyed the manor and thought that the environment here was quite good for practicing martial arts.

He would set up a large arrow formation here and wait for the two to return.

… …

In the blink of an eye.

Ten years passed quickly.

The cold wind of early winter blew from the horizon, stirring up the dry leaves on the ground.

Inside the manor.

Zhang Feng, dressed as a hunter, was sitting under a withered tree, thinking.

Looking again at the prompt in the text that he could [Return] at any time.

Zhang Feng really hadn't expected that the two old thieves still hadn't shown up even though three months had passed since the main quest.

Didn't they say that people in the martial world should be quick to take revenge?

He had ransacked their homes for ten years and killed all their disciples. Shouldn't there be some movement for revenge?

‘Could they be dead? Or have they run abroad? Or perhaps they haven’t heard the news that their homes are gone?’

Zhang Feng pondered for a few moments. Since there was no quest related to them, he didn't know their whereabouts.

Precisely because he didn't know.

Zhang Feng had thought more than once, why not just go back first?

After all, last year, the blood energy in his torso had been unlocked, and his hands could achieve a 50% increase in strength.

His physique had also improved somewhat, allowing Zhang Feng to try opening an additional 2% of his meridians.

Over the past ten years.

Zhang Feng had almost completely absorbed the martial arts of this world, and what remained was to hone his experience in reality and other worlds to deepen his knowledge.

And eventually transform it into his own knowledge.

But now, the righteous martial world had deceived him.

“Forget it.” Zhang Feng didn't want to wait any longer and decided to go back first.

It wasn't worth delaying his new enhancements and his parents' longevity just to wait for two strangers.

But when he returned again, after reaching the realm of extending his parents' lives, even if they hid at the ends of the earth, they would not escape their fate.

At that time, even if they didn't want to be righteous, he would still tell them about vengeance.

‘What kind of martial world is this? Betraying trust and selling out friends.’ Zhang Feng wanted to laugh, but he also thought this martial world was quite good.

It was not about quick revenge or the chivalrous drawing of swords to help the oppressed.

Zhang Feng now felt that the martial world should be an indelible memory in life.

This memory was the meaning of the martial world.

… …

And a month ago.

Five thousand miles abroad.

In a certain dynasty.

Shopkeeper Wu and Gang Leader Xun were sitting in a small tavern, listening to foreign songs they couldn't understand while enjoying their drinks.

After finishing a cup of fruit wine.

Gang Leader Xun laughed loudly and then shook his head with a wry smile, saying:

“Hmph, the massacre at Cloud Mist Manor ten years ago, can that news be hidden?

The reason I chose Cloud Mist Manor back then was because there were several villages nearby.

And as soon as something happened that year, the news spread.”

“Someone must have betrayed us!” Shopkeeper Wu was lost in thought, “Otherwise, this news would never have leaked.”

“Definitely!” Gang Leader Xun affirmed, “I think it was that Baishitong! Because when you and I left the Central Plains nine years ago, that Baishitong had already disappeared.

Some people said that he had taken refuge with the Seventh Prince.”

“Absolutely impossible!” Shopkeeper Wu denied, “Baishitong is a righteous man, how could he betray you and me?

I think it must be the younger generation in the manor who couldn't bear the long-term concealment and simple food, so they exposed Cloud Mist Manor.”

“It’s also possible.” Gang Leader Xun nodded slightly, and then said, “In any case, Cloud Mist Manor must already be surrounded by troops.

Does the imperial court really think that we martial artists are fools?

Knowing that there are troops guarding there, would you and I go back to die for revenge?

Can't you and I leave our homes and plan for the long term?”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Shopkeeper Wu was also very happy, anyway, it wasn't his disciples who died this time.

Afterwards, Shopkeeper Wu looked in the direction outside the tavern.

Outside, there was a rustling sound of some kind of musical instrument, and the guards of this dynasty were being mobilized.

In the center of the guards, on the sedan carried by many people, was the king of their dynasty.

Shopkeeper Wu glanced at it twice and said to Gang Leader Xun, who was equally displeased, “I find the emperor of this foreign vassal extremely displeasing. I've long wanted to take his dog's head, and there are no experts in this dynasty…

Shopkeeper Wu lowered his voice, “Why don't you and I raise some experts here and then chop off the head of this foreign dynasty's emperor?”

“Eh?” Gang Leader Xun clapped his hands and cheered, “We martial artists should do just that! Quick revenge!”