Chapter 453: Issue the Order, My Lord (Wishing Everyone a Happy May Day)

Red Dragon Realm, Great Xia Dynasty, Changle County.

Head Constable Xiahou Le of the Kuai Class in the county, leading over a dozen skilled men and over a hundred men from the Zhuang Class to bolster their numbers, surrounded the residence of Su Juxia under the orders of his superiors.

Xiahou Le himself had just turned thirty this year and was of the young generation that grew up listening to the stories of Su Juxia.

If Su Juxia were still alive, he would never have dared to bring men over to prepare for a house raid.

But now, well.

The only expert in this Su Family had swallowed gold and committed suicide, and there were few useful ones left.

With such a large estate, if they didn't show some "kindness" and seize it now, it would only benefit other outsiders.

And more importantly, who told the Su Family to have a grudge against the current Commandery Governor?

Although the Commandery Governor did not say it on the surface, his failure to stop the small actions of his subordinates who were solving his troubles already spoke volumes.

"We are wronged! Our Su Family has always been a family of good standing; how could we possibly do such things!"

Those who followed to bolster the numbers hadn't received their salaries for several years, and they all barely scraped by by following the Head Constable to raid homes and plunder, along with the occasional reward.

"Everyone is to be taken to the dungeon to await sentencing!"

His pupils contracted violently, and he looked with some disbelief at Su Juxia, who was sitting in a coffin gnawing on a pig's trotter.

If the Su Family could be dealt with by relying on the Head Constable, there was naturally no need for them to dirty their own hands.

These local powerful clans and officials began to frantically mobilize their men, starting to hunt down everyone and everything related to Su Juxia.

This was a scheme to kill and destroy their reputation.

They wanted to completely erase the humiliation they had suffered in this Changle County for decades.

He lowered his body, watching Su Juxia, who had stuffed the pig trotter bone into his mouth, crunched it up, and finished it clean, stand up.

As for the Corpse Examiner's inspection, either the Corpse Examiner had taken money, or they had been deceived by the other party's methods.

"The Great Lord has ordered: your Su Family has colluded with bandits and trafficked in illicit salt and ironware; the evidence of your crimes is conclusive!"

Ordinary people could also be comparable to the athletes of Water Blue Star.

Following this, the main gate was opened, and a group of people tried to flee.

This gave him quite a sense of accomplishment, especially since the people among them had to greet him with a smiling face just a year ago.

But if an accident occurred, they had backup plans to ensure that not even a chicken or dog of the Su Family would be left alive.

Head Constable Xiahou Le's knees immediately went weak and powerless.

The great families of Changle County would not allow the possibility of a vengeful enemy growing strong again after decades to happen.

Instead, he suspected that it was a play from the beginning, and that the old master of the Su Family had never really swallowed gold and committed suicide.

As he officially stepped into the courtyard, his subordinates also filed in one after another to surround the perimeter of the yard, many of them with red eyes as they looked at the house before them, waiting only to start looting to subsidize their households.

Head Constable Xiahou Le did not pursue them, but after a few light chuckles, he strode inside with the crowd.

Those of them who were sensible naturally had to exert their own subjective initiative to help the Commandery Governor vent his anger!

"It's a pity, your old master saw the situation quickly and committed suicide."

After Head Constable Xiahou Le's brain went blank for a breath or two.

In fact, after confirming that the Su Juxia who made them feel fear was truly dead.

This voice made the Su Family disciples dressed as scholars who were closest to the threshold open their mouths wide, forgetting even that their Old Ancestor had come back to life, and they hurriedly said:

Head Constable Xiahou Le heard the sound of ghosts wailing and wolves howling coming from the residence.

Head Constable Xiahou Le was startled for a moment, thinking that the people inside knew they were coming to raid the house today, so he drew his waist saber without a word and slashed wildly.

The Great Xia had been founded for over two hundred years, and by now it was on a downward slope; the situation in Changle County was likewise not good.

"Heh! Whether you are wronged or not, you will know once you go in and the Great Lord investigates!"

Head Constable Xiahou Le enjoyed the terrified expressions of the Su family members with their mouths agape in disbelief.

He guaranteed that he would definitely make it an ironclad case, not only having the Su Family raided and exterminated, but also leaving the Su Family with a stinking reputation throughout the countryside, proving that they were acting in the name of righteousness to destroy their own kin!

In the blink of an eye, after the few who had just run out the door were beheaded, the remaining Su family members were immediately frightened, and then they turned and ran.

Behind Head Constable Xiahou Le and the others, there were also experts sent by several great families in the county watching from the shadows.

Xiahou Le kicked open the offering table in front of the door, looked at the hall through the open main gate, laughed, and walked in:

"Your Su Family has committed a crime!"

The Red Dragon Realm had rich Spirit Qi, and even without cultivation methods, everyone's basic physical quality was quite good.

Walking into the hall, just as Head Constable Xiahou Le was about to say something more, he suddenly froze in his tracks.

Head Constable Xiahou Le sneered in his heart; he didn't know if the Su Family had done these things, but all the powerful clans in the county had, so there was as much relevant evidence as one could want.

Watching the legendary hero who had shaken Changle County for decades turn his head to look over.

"Su... Grandpa Su, you didn't die?"

"But once the case is settled, even if it's a corpse, it must be..."

What he thought of was not some resurrection from the dead.

After moving his mouth, he suppressed the panic in his heart and said:

"Grandpa Su, this is all the Great Lord's order; this lowly one, this lowly one is also just acting under orders."

"Acting under orders?"

"This old man understands!"

Su Ping's Avatar nodded, and the moment he stood up, he left an afterimage in the hall.

The next instant, he appeared in front of Head Constable Xiahou Le, looking down at him from a superior position.

When Head Constable Xiahou Le heard the word "understand," his heart just relaxed.

He then discovered a palm carrying an afterimage strike his face.

Slap!

Head Constable Xiahou Le was sent flying directly by this slap, turning into a black shadow as he flew backward and slammed into the wall with a dull, heavy thud.

Only then did he slide limply to the ground.

His head was already twisted at an unnatural angle, and he had lost his breath.

"Is this Heaven-Born Divine Strength?"

The dozen or so skilled men following Head Constable Xiahou Le all looked at the corpse of Head Constable Xiahou Le, and one by one, they finally awoke from their dream, recalling the legendary storybooks they had heard in their childhood about the old master, Su Juxia.

In the eyes of those who huddled in the county seat and relied on the Head Constable for their meals, they had never personally witnessed such an overbearing strike.

Even though they instinctively drew their blades, everyone was terrified and timid, retreating desperately in the face of the Su Ping Avatar.

The Su Ping Avatar shook his right hand, which had just delivered the slap.

He felt the sensation was quite good.

Moreover, the fragility of these people before him was even worse than he had estimated.

At least from the memories of Su Juxia, the head constables of several decades ago were not that fragile.

It seems it is the final years of the dynasty, and the time for the Divine Dao Red Dragon to be harvested in a new round is approaching.

This period will be a time when a generation of heaven-proud experts frequently appears, and also when the foundation of the dynasty's power is at its most rotten.

However, it does not matter.

Whether it is a weak or prosperous period, it makes no difference to him.

In any case, no matter how heaven-defying the dynasty and those heaven-proud experts of any era are, they cannot defeat him!

It is not that those heaven-proud experts lack sufficient talent; it is truly because he stands on the shoulders of giants far taller than all the heaven-proud experts of the Red Dragon Realm combined from ancient times to the present.

"Scram!"

Taking a deep breath, the Su Ping Avatar unleashed a Lion Roar toward the outside of the gate.

Those dozen or so skilled men who followed Head Constable Xiahou Le were immediately blasted away.

Afterward, they actually bled from their seven orifices, and not one of them could climb back up.

The Zhuang Class members surrounding the courtyard were also so frightened that they almost could not hold onto the wooden sticks, painted wooden sabers, and wooden spears in their hands.

As the lowest level of the three classes in the yamen who were bullied, no one expected them to be useful, and no one would—or dared to—equip them with real items.

After all, if they were holding sharp blades and suddenly rose up in rebellion, wouldn't that be looking for trouble for oneself?

And the Zhuang Class did not disappoint; after seeing Head Constable Xiahou Le and his confidants all lying on the ground,

without needing anyone to give an order, the hundred-plus Zhuang Class members all scattered in a rush.

Seeing this situation, the various experts outside immediately realized that something was wrong.

After catching a few Zhuang Class members who had escaped, the various experts felt they had grasped the situation.

"The old master of the Su Family is actually not dead!"

"This is troublesome!"

An elder expert who had witnessed Su Juxia sweep through Changle County whispered in trepidation.

"What is there to fear? No matter how powerful he was when he was young, he is sixty now!"

"Besides, he is only one person; we have so many people here, if we go together, it will only be a matter of one or two rounds!"

These were the voices of the young, hot-blooded experts who had just grown up.

The martial arts of the Red Dragon Realm, under the intentional control of the mastermind behind the scenes,

because of the richness of the Spirit Qi,

the strongest Grandmasters are about the same as a Foundation Establishment Body Cultivator.

Masters are at the Late-stage Qi Refining level, followed by First-rate Experts equivalent to Mid-stage Qi Refining, and Second-rate Experts equivalent to early-stage Qi Refining.

Note that because they lack corresponding inheritances, their physical fitness is equivalent, but their actual combat power—lacking spells, fighting methods, Secret Techniques, and even more so Dharma Artifacts, Talismans, and Pills—is far inferior to cultivators of the same realm.

Changle County is only a lower county; the most powerful person here is a First-rate Expert, but there is only one, and he sits in the military and will not easily listen to local calls.

Su Juxia, relying on his Heaven-Born Divine Strength, had previously been considered a top-tier Second-rate Expert.

Now that he is old, according to the martial arts experience of this region, even the most powerful martial artist will go downhill after fifty.

Especially those who fought more and were more powerful when they were young; the older they get, the more severe their decline.

There is no way around it; it is not that no heaven-proud expert has invented a Health Preservation Technique.

It is just that because a Health Preservation Technique might allow one to enter the Dao through martial arts and help a martial artist cultivate Divine Sense faster,

every time the Daoist sects harvest, they also conveniently wipe out the inheritance of Health Preservation Techniques.

After several such occurrences, even if there are residual Health Preservation Techniques, they are considered by martial arts sects and families to be Magic Arts that lead to sudden death or disappearance.

Added to the fact that they do not provide the quick success and great power that true Magic Arts offer, they naturally cannot be passed down.

Therefore, after a brief discussion,

the experts from various families who came this time were convinced that Su Juxia of the Su Family could at most maintain the strength of an ordinary Second-rate Expert.

Yet they had a full twenty Third-rate Experts and four Second-rate Experts on their side.

Plus, they brought strong bows and poison-coated sabers and swords.

No matter how you look at it, the advantage is with us!

"Charge! Whoever kills that Su Juxia will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and a hundred mu of fertile land!"

The expert with the highest status waved his arm forcefully, issuing a bounty to boost morale.

Hearing the reward, the experts' faces all flushed a bit, and their steps became much lighter.

They did not take the main gate, but instead leaped high and flew over the wall into the courtyard.

Shouts of "Su the thief, accept your death!" erupted from their mouths, resounding through this street.

Making the families on the street, who had tightly shut their doors, tremble in fear, they covered their children's mouths tightly, terrified of inviting disaster.

As the experts swarmed in.

The earth began to shake, and the sky began to tremble.

Thunderous roars erupted out of thin air, one after another.

This commotion startled even the Commandery Governor, who was drinking and socializing with a group of colleagues in a high-rise building.

The Commandery Governor's surname was Zhang, and he had just passed the age of thirty not long ago.

He was one of the few young and promising officials in the Great Xia Dynasty.

Due to his mentorship, he was also one of the trusted confidants of the current Crown Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty, and this assignment to Changle County was for him to gain experience.

Once the Crown Prince ascended to the throne in a few or over a dozen years, that would be the time for him to rise rapidly.

It was precisely because of this background that all the officials and powerful clans in the commandery were willing to run errands for him.

"That direction, is that where the Su Family is located?"

Commandery Governor Zhang stroked his short beard and asked with a calm expression on his refined face.

The County Magistrate of Changle County beside him hurriedly nodded in response and whispered about the grave crimes they had discovered, such as the Su Family colluding with bandits and trafficking in contraband salt and ironware.

"It seems they have encountered resistance; these sounds are from experts clashing."

The County Assistant also stood up to speak, and quietly asked if they should mobilize the troops from the drill ground and the experts from the yamen to go and investigate.

Commandery Governor Zhang had intended to feign hesitation, but suddenly noticed that the sounds over there had come to an abrupt halt.

Then, the surroundings seemed to return to an eerie silence.

Seeing this situation, the expressions of the representatives of the local powerful clans changed slightly.

They knew full well that after their own experts made a move, regardless of victory or defeat, they would send out a signal for each family to prepare early.

What was going on now?

Could it be that all their experts had developed amnesia?

Or was it that... not a single one of them escaped, and they all died in that brief, rapid burst of thunderous noise just now?

"This is impossible!"

The deputy patriarch of a powerful clan stood up, his face tense.

Commandery Governor Zhang narrowed his eyes and asked the representatives of these families in a gentle tone.

He learned of the suspicions in their hearts.

A premonition that something terrible had happened rose leisurely in Commandery Governor Zhang's heart.

The thought that Su Juxia might not be dead also emerged in his mind.

Limited by the circumstances, this was the most reasonable explanation these people could come up with.

It was just that... even if the other party wasn't dead, with so many experts surrounding and attacking, could they really not take him down?

Commandery Governor Zhang summoned the accompanying Assistant General, and this leader of the Changle County garrison hurried over to listen to his orders.

Following this, the banquet naturally came to an end, and everyone left in a hurry to gather their men.

The representatives of the various powerful clans in the city also rushed to the County Governor's Office to assemble after gathering their men.

As time passed.

They also learned what had happened at the Su Family.

Su Juxia, that fiend, was indeed not dead!

Not only did he kill Head Constable Xiahou Le with a single slap, but he also struck more than a dozen constables into idiots with a single roar, and they were now thrown on the street like decorations.

He also smashed the heads of all twenty-plus experts who had jumped into the residence, and threw their bodies outside the wall.

This completely shocked everyone on the entire street.

Those with ulterior motives were now all taking a detour.

And as for why Su Juxia was still alive.

Although the Su Family members said he had returned from the dead and had come back to life after smashing open his coffin lid.

However, those attending the banquet naturally did not believe it, all thinking that Su Juxia usually looked so honest and chivalrous.

It turned out it was all an act, and in the end, he wanted to rely on faking his death to escape.

As it turned out, they were the ones who were one step ahead, preparing to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, which was how they broke the scheme of this fiend Su Juxia!

"Give the order, Lord Commandery Governor!"

"That's right, Lord Commandery Governor! Scouts report that the fiend is still at home; he is either injured or worried about his descendants and unable to escape."

"Opportunity must not be lost, give the order quickly!"

"We shall pour out in full force; this time, even if we have to exhaust him, we will exhaust that fiend to death!"