Chapter 455: You don't know you were wrong; you know you are going to die!

On the street outside the gate of the County Governor's Office.

Following a group of routed soldiers running past, crying for their fathers and mothers.

The figure of Su Juxia appeared at the mouth of the street.

A squad of retainers under the Commandery Governor stood on the perimeter wall and, in a panic, fired sharp arrows at this figure.

Su Juxia did not even dodge these sharp arrows, instead catching the incoming arrows directly in one hand.

Then, while walking, he performed a throwing motion.

Instantly, the retainers on the wall were all struck and tumbled down from the wall.

The dozen or so soldiers guarding the County Governor's Office saw this and, throwing down their weapons, scattered and fled.

Leaving behind only a tightly shut gate awaiting Su Juxia's visit.

Watching these deserters with no will to fight, the Su Ping Avatar shook his head slightly.

At the beginning, he had imagined himself wielding two broadswords, hacking his way from the East City all the way to the South City, turning the entire long street into a river of blood.

But the reality was that the county soldiers and the experts from various families in this Changle County did not have a cheat for locking morale.

After the vanguard on the opposite side was hacked to death, the others began to feel fear in their hearts.

And once those with courage were dead, the rest immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

No one boosted morale, and no one came to take revenge for their brothers.

He had even arrived at the County Governor's Office!

Wasn't it said that this new Commandery Governor had a deep background and a significant origin?

And this was the result? No one rushed over to protect him?

The Su Ping Avatar was slightly disappointed, but his pace did not slow down at all as he arrived before the gate.

After a punch was thrown, the gate of the County Governor's Office was blown apart, falling to pieces as if hit by a heavy cannon.

This blast also incidentally caused a large crowd of retainers and servants gathered in the front courtyard behind the gate to fall over in a large group.

Many people were pierced by wood splinters and let out painful howls.

Following closely, these servants, who had only been organized because they hadn't seen Su Juxia kill anyone with their own eyes, fled in a panic.

Su Ping ignored those servants who were clearly untrained.

After simply slapping away a few retainers and grabbing one who looked the best equipped.

He did not ask him where the Commandery Governor was.

With the perception of the Su Ping Avatar, he had already locked onto the auras of those few people when he appeared at the street entrance.

He simply grabbed this retainer, swung him around, and threw him toward the main gate of the great hall.

The gate was violently smashed open by this retainer.

At the same time as the loud noise, more than a dozen crossbow bolts were fired from the great hall!

This wave of crossbow bolts naturally missed.

It also left the powerful clan members and the Commandery Governor's confidants, who were holding the heavy crossbows, stunned.

Immediately, they regained their senses and were about to reload.

But Su Juxia, who was already like a chaotic demon king before their eyes, walked into the great hall.

And after directly pressing his hands onto the faces of two powerful clan members.

With a loud boom, he forcibly pressed them into the cold stone floor of the great hall.

When he released his hands, everyone could only see corpses with their faces destroyed, thoroughly dead.

"Wait... wait a moment, Su Juxia, Master Su, things can be discussed!"

A fat powerful clan member saw Su Juxia approaching, his expression changed drastically as he shouted.

"I have nothing to discuss with dead people."

Everyone heard that Su Juxia say these words of despair in a flat tone, and with a single slap, he twisted the neck of the companion who had just begged for mercy by one hundred and eighty degrees, after which he fell to the ground with a thud.

Seeing that this Su Juxia was truly insane, daring to kill even them, the noble direct descendants of powerful clans.

Several powerful clan members retreated repeatedly, giving way to Zhang, the Commandery Governor, who had originally been in the last row.

"Master Su, spare my life! It was all this corrupt official Zhang who forced us to harm you!"

"Master Su, spare my life, as long as you let us go, our families will be Master Su's dogs from now on!"

A flash of anger crossed the face of the Commandery Governor Zhang as he heard this.

But looking at Su Juxia, who had already turned his gaze toward him, he did not dare to act out, but instead took a deep breath, walked forward, and cupped his hands, saying:

"Su Juxia, Master Su, this junior Zhang Ping knows he was wrong."

"I beg Master Su to be magnanimous and forgive this junior; this junior guarantees that as long as I am in office, the official side of Changle County will never target the Su Family again."

"You know you were wrong?"

The Su Ping Avatar looked at the Commandery Governor Zhang.

This fuse that had caused him to crawl out of his coffin.

Looking at this bureaucrat of the Great Xia Dynasty.

He shook his head:

"You don't know you were wrong; you know you are going to die!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the Commandery Governor Zhang trembled all over and looked up at Su Juxia, who was a head taller than him:

"You... you really dare to kill me?"

"I am an official appointed by the imperial court, and my master is the Crown Prince's tutor!"

"You... do you know that if you kill me, you will be executed along with your nine clans?"

"Is that so?"

Upon hearing this, Su Ping nodded, slapped the Commandery Governor's neck until it snapped, and nodded at the fallen corpse, saying:

"Understood, I shall wait for the Emperor to come and execute my nine generations."

Boom!

The sound of the Commandery Governor's corpse landing heavily on the ground and Su Ping's voice rang out simultaneously.

This confirmed to everyone else in the main hall that this Su Juxia was for real.

He truly intended to kill them all without regard for the consequences.

Suddenly, some people had mental breakdowns and knelt to beg for mercy, while others turned red-eyed, drew their weapons, and charged over.

For those who erupted with courage in the face of death, Su Ping granted them the respect due to an enemy, sending them off not with slaps, but with fists and whip kicks.

As for the cowardly ones, he simply waved his palm to send them off.

After causing a stir in the County Governor's Office and resolving everyone who needed to be resolved,

Su Ping walked out of the residence, intending to have a big meal and rest for a while before heading to the true strongholds of those powerful clans, the various fortified manors outside the city.

At the street corner of the residence, a troop of armored cavalry appeared.

These cavalrymen were murderous, and at a glance, they were vastly different from the commandery soldiers.

The cavalry officer in the lead was a Second-rate Expert gripping an iron hammer; upon seeing Su Juxia appear, he immediately matched him to the portrait he had seen and recognized the opponent.

He saw the scattered corpses and signs of flight on the street, yet without the slightest fear, he immediately rode his horse closer and barked:

"Such audacity, you actually dared to storm the County Governor's Office!"

"I am a Battalion Commander of the cavalry camp under the Jianwu General; release the Commandery Governor at once, or perhaps you may still find a path to live!"

These cavalrymen were subordinates of the general stationed at the military camp outside the city.

The other party had also received the Commandery Governor's distress letter, so they had dispatched a cavalry troop to assist.

Most of this cavalry troop came from the border army and had spent the last few years fighting countless roving bandits and peasant armies in southern campaigns and northern expeditions.

They possessed a certain arrogance.

Because of this, even though they sensed that the person before them was not to be trifled with,

they still asked without the slightest bit of fear.

"The Commandery Governor?"

"If you mean that Commandery Governor Zhang, he has already been killed by this old man."

The Su Ping Avatar replied indifferently.

Then, he saw the face of the questioning cavalryman change slightly, after which he accelerated his horse, wanting to use the momentum to swing his hammer down.

If Su Ping were merely a martial artist with slightly greater strength,

encountering such a cavalry officer with the advantage of man-and-horse unity and equipment, he would likely have suffered a great loss in the very first instant.

Unfortunately, in the eyes of the Su Ping Avatar, the opponent's speed was simply too slow.

Even if he used only the same strength as the opponent, he could still kill him instantly by exploiting his flaws.

Thus, the cavalry officer, who was furious and wanted to kill after hearing that the Commandery Governor had been killed,

had just accelerated when the Su Ping Avatar moved faster than him, closing the distance and mounting the horse.

Then, grabbed by the face, he was thrown to the ground along with his warhorse under a terrifying, immense force, emitting a loud boom.

Following that, the Su Ping Avatar, not even glancing at the dead man, picked up the fellow's iron hammer.

Although he felt that this solid iron hammer, which was eighty centimeters long with a head about the size of an adult's fist, was still a bit light,

he also knew that this was a weapon that could only exist in a world that was abnormally rich in Spirit Qi but lacked cultivation heritage.

Back on Water Blue Star, those hammers on the battlefield were, in fact, shorter, and the hammerheads were even smaller.

The Su Ping Avatar gripped the iron hammer tightly and saw that the cavalrymen ahead, who had witnessed the officer's mishap, did not flee.

Instead, they formed a formation, drew their sabers or long spears, and charged over with shouts.

The Su Ping Avatar did not dodge either, charging directly to meet them.

The iron hammer first smashed the horse heads, then crushed the skulls of the cavalrymen who knelt along with their warhorses.

After one charge and intersection,

the cavalrymen who had initiated the charge met a fate where both men and horses were shattered.

Swish!

He shook the blood off the now-deformed iron hammer.

The Su Ping Avatar dragged the iron hammer and began to head home to eat.

Seeing the Su Ping Avatar walk far away,

people in the surrounding alleys finally poked their heads out to observe.

Then some ran to scavenge the corpses for benefits.

Others, bearing missions, rushed immediately to the gate of the County Governor's Office.

Then, they saw Commandery Governor Zhang and those powerful clan members dead beyond all hope in the main hall.

These spies all turned pale and left in a hurry.

Dragon Tiger Martial Arts Hall.

Having taken a slap and with his bones nearly shattered, the Lion-headed Hall Master, who had chosen to play dead until Su Juxia left before daring to crawl out, carried his disciples—who were also left with only half their lives—back to the martial arts hall in disgrace.

Not long after, the Hall Master, who was halfway through bandaging himself, heard a report from a disciple that Su Juxia had fearlessly killed Commandery Governor Zhang and the direct descendants of the various powerful clans.

And at the entrance of the County Governor's Office, he had also wiped out a cavalry troop of the Jianwu General.

"What kind of world-destroying demon has descended to the mortal realm?"

"It really is the three-hundred-year limit of the dynasty approaching; all sorts of monsters and ghosts are popping up."

After the Dragon Tiger Hall Master grumbled, he loudly told his disciples to come in and began ordering them to pack their valuables and move out of this Changle County immediately.

As for where to go.

The Dragon Tiger Hall Master recalled the various storybooks he had read and decided to return to the Capital first to cling to a powerful backer.

According to storybooks and novels, in such chaotic times, the Capital is the last place to fall into chaos.

When the time comes, he can flee the Capital in advance to hide in the mountains and forests, waiting for the overall situation to be settled and the new dynasty to establish Order.

With his skills, continuing to be a martial arts hall master should not be difficult!

Because the Daoist sects harvest the Divine Red Dragon.

Dynasties basically cannot last for more than three hundred years.

This is also like a rule, imprinted in the hearts of the middle and upper-class natives.

However, three hundred years is ultimately too long in a world without the Health Preservation Technique, long enough for three generations to die out.

Every dynasty, in the end, still has a faction that wants to try to save it.

Furthermore, as such Samsara occurs many times, it has also allowed the princes, nobles, generals, and ministers to grope for some loopholes.

For example, although the dynasty has changed, the emperor can still be of the former dynasty's royal lineage.

Therefore, whenever the dynasty is in its final stages and the royal family feels the situation is about to collapse, they will intentionally support capable people within the royal family, either letting them hold down a region or letting them command an army, and providing various conveniences.

This gives them a better chance to seize the initiative when the heroes compete for the world.

Of course, the idea is good, but the execution itself is full of problems and huge resistance.

Although Great Xia currently has such a trend, it has only sent a few princes to lead troops, while incidentally allowing a few princes with fiefs to break the rules and recruit experts to train soldiers.

It is very clear that the emperor and the ministers still feel they can struggle a bit, or at least that it won't happen before they die of old age.

The Dragon Tiger Hall Master grimaced from the pain, but in his heart, he felt more and more that Heaven's will is hard to defy; this Great Xia will definitely see more demons and monsters in the future.

He looked left and right, then called his most trusted disciple, and took his valuables to leave the house first.

Only by quickly running away and getting far from Changle County would the Dragon Tiger Hall Master feel he could be slightly at ease.

Meanwhile, fifty miles outside the county city, in a large military camp.

The Jianwu General, who was stationed there to suppress bandits, also heard the reports from his scouts.

He heard that the Commandery Governor Zhang had died.

This general also felt the severity of the situation.

A Commandery Governor of a region had died, and was killed by a single person!

Regardless of whether he believes it or not, the big shots above definitely will not believe it.

They will most likely think this is a conspiracy.

And he himself might just be one of the pawns caught up in it.

"Damn it! That so-called Su Juxia is truly damned!"

"How did he dare? That is a Commandery Governor! A fifth-rank civil official of the dynasty!"

"Quickly muster the troops and follow me to execute that wicked thief!"

The Jianwu General stood up and simultaneously called for a scribe, ordering him to immediately start writing a letter to inform the big shots in the Prefecture, and insisted on recording that he had started mustering troops the moment he received the news.

As for whether this military expedition would fail.

After investigating clearly, the Jianwu General was also unwilling to fight Su Juxia.

Of course, he was not afraid of fighting, it was just that.

He just felt that the most likely scenario was that after Su Juxia finished all this, he was already preparing to flee into the mountains and forests.

He was only sending troops now to shift the blame and go through the motions.

After this, it would be the government's business to issue arrest warrants and send experts into the mountains to search.

At most, he would send some subordinates to cooperate to show he had done his best.

After all, he judged others by himself.

In his view, even if that Su Juxia had broken through to become a First-rate Expert or even a grandmaster.

And had Heaven-Born Divine Strength, with endurance far exceeding ordinary people.

After high-intensity combat all the way, killing so many experts and soldiers, he should have reached his physical limit long ago.

If he could still keep fighting, then he would be even more terrifying than those princes, nobles, generals, and ministers in the storybooks.

The Su Family residence.

The Avatar of Su Ping returned home and continued to eat.

He paid no attention to the worshipful gazes of the Su family members around him.

Of course, during this time, there were also scholars among the Su family descendants who came over timidly to say things like, "Old Ancestor has killed the Commandery Governor, what shall we do in the future?"

To this, the Avatar of Su Ping scolded them all with a single word: "Scram!"

The targeted sound wave immediately caused the eardrums of those unfilial descendants to rupture and bleed, and they fled in a panic, scrambling away.

The Avatar of Su Ping ate his fill and sat in meditation for a while.

He then discovered that the sky had already turned to dusk.

The setting sun was like blood.

Under the blood-red light, large swaths of the Shadow of the Abyss emerged outside the gate.

It was the Jianwu General who had arrived with his five thousand soldiers.

As a regular army of the dynasty.

The Jianwu General had a troop quota of thirty thousand.

But because of various reasons.

There were actually only seven thousand five hundred soldiers in his military camp.

Half of them were auxiliary troops who could only shout and cheer to build momentum during easy victories, and half were combat troops capable of forming battle formations.

Then, among the combat soldiers, the ones who could truly fight were his five hundred mounted retainers.

Do not underestimate these mere five hundred riders; in fact, five hundred such riders were a significant force throughout the Great Xia Dynasty, and they were also the core strength for resisting roving bandits and deterring various local factions.

If deployed properly, wiping out an enemy force ten or several dozen times their own size was nothing out of the ordinary.

Likewise, they were also the apple of the Jianwu General's eye.

Unless necessary, he truly did not wish to suffer any losses.

And because of this, when this general learned that Su Juxia had actually not run away!

He was quite surprised and felt a toothache.

This damn fellow, he had been organizing his army for so long, so why wouldn't he just run?