Chapter 118 - 113: Do You Think My Dao Yi Mountain Has No One?

Chapter 118: Chapter 113: Do You Think My Dao Yi Mountain Has No One?

The entire Zhao Country Capital City was in turmoil.

It had started as a quiet, ordinary day in the morning. However, by noon, everyone in the Capital City knew that an audacious female fanatic had brazenly fought her way into the Minister’s Mansion and kidnapped the Minister of the Ministry of Justice of Zhao Country!

Since the founding of Zhao Country, such a severe incident that damaged the national dignity had never occurred right at the foot of the Imperial City.

The Capital City was a place of paramount importance. It was where the nation’s highest concentration of figures from all walks of life—the Three Religions and Nine Schools, encompassing both the upper and lower echelons of society—gathered.

Thus, when this news swiftly exploded across the streets, the numerous Martial Artists, commoners, and officials throughout the Zhao Country Capital City were all utterly shocked.

The citizens of the Capital City could only watch as the members of the Imperial City Department, clad in golden-yellow armor, alongside the black-clothed and black-hatted constables of the Ministry of Justice’s Six Gates, swept through the main streets like a violent gale, conducting a city-wide search.

At a tea shop in the Capital City, Chen Sha and his two disciples stood before a Treasure Vehicle drawn by four Thousand-Mile Horses. They watched the personnel from the Zhao Country Government Office and the Imperial City Department sweep the streets in their thorough search.

He hadn’t expected to receive news of his second senior sister, Yuu Miaolian, the moment he entered the Capital City.

The young Sect Leader smiled faintly and said to his two disciples, "Your Second Martial Aunt is truly a member of our mountain. She actually went ahead and did exactly what I had planned to do in the Capital City."

Lin Qingqing raised her head and asked, "Were you originally planning to kidnap the Minister of the Ministry of Justice too?"

After arriving in the Capital City, she finally understood why her master had come. It turned out that her Third Martial Uncle, whom she hadn’t seen since she went up the mountain, had been locked in the Celestial Prison by Zhao Country. No wonder her master had traveled in such a hurry without resting along the way.

Hearing his disciple’s question, Chen Sha merely smiled without answering. Then, he said, "Wait here for now. I will go find your Second Martial Aunt first."

***

After all, brazenly kidnapping the current Minister of the Ministry of Justice from a place like the Capital City, where Zhao Country’s experts were as common as clouds, meant Yuu Miaolian hadn’t expected to get very far. Still, she hadn’t anticipated the people from the Six Gates and the Imperial City Department to arrive quite so quickly.

As Yuu Miaolian sprinted across the intersecting rooftops of the Capital City, carrying a person in each hand, she suddenly heard the rapid clattering of horse hooves from the street below.

"Audacious rebel, where do you think you’re escaping to?!"

An explosive shout, booming like a roaring thunder, came from a residential rooftop fifty spans away. It was a middle-aged man in his forties, wielding a twelve-foot spear and sprinting across the roof tiles like a shooting star.

With a single glance, Yuu Miaolian recognized the person who had been the first to track her down. It was none other than Nie Zhengfeng, the personal disciple of the God Catcher from the Six Gates.

Within the Six Gates, experts were as common as clouds. The most well-known figures in the Zhao Country Martial Arts world were the Nine Great Divine Hunters: Cyan Tiger Gan Tianshui, Luohan Pingzhang, White Lion Sunx Jingrui, Little Medicine King Zhu Zijie, Autumn Swallow Sunx Hongling, Void Hand Zhang Yue, Earthquake Bomb Xu Fang, Celestial Monkey King Jian, and the leader of these Nine Great Divine Hunters...

...the Golden Seal Divine Hunter who was personally awarded the "Punishing Evil Golden Seal" by the Emperor—Nie Zhengfeng.

He was the God Catcher Wan Qingtao’s most prized disciple. Among the Grandmaster experts in the Capital City, he could easily rank in the top three.

Just as Nie Zhengfeng rapidly approached Yuu Miaolian in the distance with his spear on the rooftop, the other eight of the Nine Great Divine Hunters galloped out from the various streets and alleys below.

Gan Tianshui looked up and saw that Yuu Miaolian had already stopped on a patch of rooftop. His expression was complicated as he muttered, "Miss Yuu..."

At the same time, the personnel from the Imperial City Department led over a thousand Golden Iron Cavalry, completely surrounding the courtyards and rooftops in the area. Leading them was the Director of the Zhao Country Imperial City Department, Tan Xuanyi!

If there were a ranking tier for the Grandmaster experts within the Zhao Country Capital City, Master Tan could be considered "unrivaled among all Grandmasters in the Capital City." He had only practiced one martial art in his entire life: the Vajra Child Skill. In terms of absolute firmness and purity, his fifty years of Vajra Primordial Qi was unmatched in the Capital City. It was precisely this simplest yet most difficult martial art that he had cultivated to the Grandmaster Realm, giving him hope of even stepping into First-Grade Innate.

"Yuu Miaolian, you have no way to escape," Golden Seal Divine Hunter Nie Zhengfeng said, being the first to close within ten spans of her. "Put down Lord Zuo."

Such a massive formation in this area naturally attracted various experts from across the Zhao Country Capital City. One by one, they leaped onto the rooftops, watching from afar as the most powerful group of people in the Capital City surrounded a female Daoist who was carrying two people.

Yuu Miaolian surveyed the scene, noting that more than half of the experts capable of appearing in the Capital City had gathered here. Her Daoist Robe fluttered in the wind, but her expression remained remarkably calm. She simply gripped Zuo Qiantang by the neck, using him as a human shield, and said, "You all should know exactly why I captured him, shouldn’t you?"

Nie Zhengfeng spoke in a cold voice. "It’s for your junior brother, Zhang Liting, isn’t it? He has already been thrown into the Celestial Prison. The laws of the nation are ruthless. If you think you can save your junior brother by kidnapping Lord Zuo, you are simply delusional."

Down below, the thousand cavalrymen of the Imperial City Department had already drawn their bows and nocked their arrows, aiming directly at Yuu Miaolian. They sought orders from Director Tan Xuanyi. "Director, even if she is a Grandmaster, as long as we fire our arrows, we can still shoot her dead under a rain of ten thousand arrows."

Tan Xuanyi replied in a deep voice, "Wait for an opportunity. The moment she reveals even the slightest flaw, the Nine Great Divine Hunters of the Six Gates will be able to rescue Lord Zuo. At that time, listen for my command and loose your arrows."

Yuu Miaolian looked at the airtight encirclement and said, "My junior brother solved a case for your Six Gates. He clearly caught the real Flower Thief—the very one I’m holding right now—red-handed in that woman’s room. You all know the truth, yet every single one of you committed perjury for this animal in my hands, falsely accusing Liting. Since I, a humble Daoist, have captured the two of them today, I have no expectation of leaving this Capital City alive."