Chapter 446: All of Them Were Slain

The Sanhe Commandery Hall had already been breached.

The Beggar Sect’s four Outer Elders—Elder Lin and the others—had led four third-rank martial artists over the walls and into the compound. Splitting into four teams, they killed anyone they saw.

Although most of the Caobang’s patrol teams were ranked martial artists, against experts of this scale and caliber, life and death were decided in a single exchange!

Several patrol teams fell one after another.

The Caobang disciples had all been alarmed and grabbed their sabers and swords to resist.

Wang Yuehui and Yang Feiyue wore grave expressions.

“Use bows and throwing knives!”

“Even if we have to drag them down, we have to drag them to death today!”

Both men held Yellow Dragon Bows and took aim from a distance at the Beggar Sect’s third-rank martial artists.

There were quite a few second-rank martial artists in the Caobang hall.

Many of them were already poisoning their weapons at the rear.

The enemy’s rank might be high, but under a storm of arrows from every direction, how could they possibly escape injury?

Before long, all four third-rank martial artists were wounded, their injuries turning black. They hurriedly swallowed Hundred-Poison Detoxification Pills and forced themselves onward, charging deeper into the compound.

Elder Lin and the others cut a bloody path through the front.

“Today, no one can save you!”

“Caobang disciples!”

“Hmph!”

“You all deserve to die!!”

They rose and fell across rooftops and courtyard walls, and wherever they passed, Caobang disciples kept dropping.

But the Beggar Sect’s four third-rank martial artists also gradually found themselves under a tide of attacks. The wounds on their bodies multiplied, until they were finally shot down one after another in a rain of arrows.

Among the crowd, someone had even aimed a Heart-Piercing Crossbow at one of the fourth-rank Outer Elders.

One of the Outer Elders was careless and took a hit.

His thigh was pierced through, and poisoned blood seeped from the wound. His movement technique and actions immediately slowed.

“Old Wu!”

“Damn it!”

“Hurry and save him!”

The other three elders all turned back to rescue him.

...

On Wangchuan’s side,

the moment he saw that Zhuang Xuyan had used his Ultimate Art a second time and that the Ultimate Art had entered cooldown, the sense of danger in his heart rapidly receded, and he charged forward again.

Zhuang Xuyan had already decided to eliminate the nearby Caobang disciples first, but with Wangchuan pressing him, he had no choice but to turn back and trade blows.

“Hmph!”

“You little fox!”

“I never expected that at your age, you would also know about Ultimate Arts, and even know how to use crossbow bolts to break mine.”

Wangchuan sneered and shot back,

“There’s plenty you don’t know.”

As he spoke, he decisively activated 《Wind Fills the Vast Sky》. In an instant, internal force flooded his entire body, his presence exploded upward, and both his movement speed and attack speed doubled on the spot.

《Raging Tide Sword Art》 leaped forward at once from the momentum of its third strike.

Two consecutive sword strikes pursued like linked lightning. The first landed on Zhuang Xuyan’s saber under his stunned and shaken gaze, shattering the spiral internal force on the blade. The second flashed directly onto his wrist.

It gave him almost no time at all to react or dodge!

His old force had just been exhausted, and his new force had not yet recovered...

Blood immediately burst from his wrist!

Just like Wang Gu, who had once challenged Wangchuan.

“Ahhh!!!”

Zhuang Xuyan’s severed hand, still gripping the weapon, fell to the ground.

Wangchuan’s sword strike carried more than seven hundred points of attack. It instantly crippled Zhuang Xuyan. Flowing with the motion, the next sword thrust drove straight into his shoulder...

He had aimed for the heart, but Zhuang Xuyan managed to evade.

Then another sword would do.

With 《Wind Fills the Vast Sky》 active, his speed had doubled.

The opponent might evade the first sword, but not the next one.

Pfft!

The Autumn Water Sword plunged into Zhuang Xuyan’s throat like a bolt of lightning.

By instinct, Zhuang Xuyan grabbed the Autumn Water Sword with one hand, staring at Wangchuan with utter disbelief. His body slowly sagged to its knees as blood streamed rapidly through the gaps between his fingers.

He recognized it now. The Ultimate Art Wangchuan had used was Luo Tiancong’s secret, never passed to outsiders.

Unfortunately...

He had learned it too late.

The Beggar Sect Inner Elder’s health was emptied out. Just like that, he died clutching the sword before Wangchuan.

Wangchuan withdrew the Autumn Water Sword.

Its blade was a pool of clear water, smooth as a lake’s surface, unstained by blood.

“Ergou, watch his corpse.”

With that, Wangchuan rose to his full height and rushed toward the place where the fiercest fighting in the hall was still unfolding.

“Elder Zhuang!”

“Are you alright?!”

Hearing Zhuang Xuyan’s scream, Elder Lin and the other three panicked at once and fought their way toward him while covering the wounded and poisoned elder.

But before they even saw him, a fierce rush of breaking air hit their ears. As they twisted to evade, a figure leaped over the wall like a ghost and descended upon them.

“Wangchuan!”

“What did you do to our elder?!” Elder Lin blurted out.

Wangchuan snorted coldly and answered with a sword strike.

Elder Lin was quite strong, but he still had not realized that Wangchuan had already broken through to the Fifth Rank, nor did he know that Wangchuan’s 《Raging Tide Sword Art》 had reached Perfect Mastery.

His pipe slammed against the sword edge, sparks exploding from the clash. The web between thumb and forefinger split at once, blood seeping out.

“Fifth Rank!”

“When did you break through to the Fifth Rank?!”

“That’s impossible!!”

After just two exchanges, Elder Lin had already suffered a hidden loss. Then he heard that strange sound.

And then he saw Wangchuan’s aura surge violently, his sword speed becoming terrifying. Sword light flashed like lightning before his eyes, knocking away the pipe and exposing the opening in his chest.

Damn!

The red-nosed Elder Lin inwardly cried out in alarm, and then, as expected, pain exploded through his chest. His vision went black, and he crashed hard into the ground.

“Elder Lin!”

Seeing Elder Lin struck through the chest and collapse to the ground, his life or death unknown, the other three men turned pale with fright and attacked together.

Wangchuan had only just activated 《Wind Fills the Vast Sky》, so he turned without hesitation.

The three elders were all weaker than Elder Lin.

Against a fifth-rank martial artist whose attack had risen beyond seven hundred points,

one sword strike was enough to throw open their defenses.

A follow-up sword took a life directly, emptying the health bar in an instant.

One!

Two!

Three!

Five swords.

Wangchuan used only five swords to kill all three remaining fourth-rank martial artists.

As for the final wounded and poisoned martial artist, he had already lost even the courage to struggle.

It was not that Wangchuan was too bloodthirsty!

Too many Caobang disciples had died in this hall assault.

Some of them had been employees of Sanjiang Studio.

If he did not kill them, he could not calm the public fury!

“Hall Master!”

Wang Yuehui and Yang Feiyue came over carrying the corpses of the other four third-rank martial artists and reported:

“All of the intruders who stormed the hall have been put down. They are all here. Not a single one escaped.”

“This subordinate has already checked. Every one of them was a Beggar Sect expert.”

“One Inner Elder, four Outer Elders, and four experts with Branch Master-level strength... To think a force of this scale was used to attack our little Sanhe Commandery Hall.”

Yang Feiyue still felt shaken.

Wang Yuehui also wore a look of lingering fear and shock.

That lineup should have been more than enough to slaughter the hall outright, yet they had actually counterattacked and annihilated it.

Had the Sanhe Commandery Hall already become this strong?

Wangchuan’s face was dark as water.

“Count the hall’s losses.”

“Bring all of the corpses to my courtyard.”

“Yes!”

Not long afterward,

Wang Yuehui finished counting the losses and reported back:

This time, the Beggar Sect experts’ assault on the hall had caused the deaths of thirty-nine brothers in total, crippled twenty-one, and injured seventy-seven more to varying degrees.

Divine Physician Shen had already arrived with his people to treat the wounded.

Physician Liao and the other doctors in the city had all been summoned as well.

Chen Ergou, meanwhile, delivered a private report:

On Zhuang Xuyan’s body they found a stack of Gold Notes worth seven thousand two hundred taels of gold, along with one Golden-Thread Soft Armor and two Lesser Rejuvenation Pills.

The four Outer Elders contributed a total of two Lesser Rejuvenation Pills, three bottles of Hundred-Poison Detoxification Pills, six thousand seven hundred taels of gold, and one fourth-rank martial arts manual, 《Pipe Acupoint-Striking Art》.

The four third-rank martial artists contributed another two thousand nine hundred taels of gold.