Chapter 257

Youzhou, Xuanyou City.

This is the prefectural city of Youzhou.

After condensing the Myriad Laws Origin Pill, breaking through the mortal body to half-sage, and further combining with the Extreme Speed Decree, Shen Qing's speed had reached an inconceivable level.

From the capital of Wuyang Prefecture to Xuanyou City in Youzhou, it took less than a day.

Inside the Pacification Bureau.

Countless Embroidered Uniform Guards were whispering to each other.

A hundred-man commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard spoke.

"Have you heard? It seems the reinforcements from the capital this time consist of only one person."

Another hundred-man commander spoke, his face full of worry: "Ah? Only one person, but we have to deal with an entire stronghold, possibly even several Heavenly Gang Stars—how can only one person come to reinforce us?"

A thousand-man commander walked up beside them: "What's wrong with one person? He alone can slaughter his way through the White Dragon Sect's stronghold—with someone like him here, what other reinforcements do we need?"

The hundred-man commander's eyes lit up: "Xu Qianhu, from your words it sounds like you know who the reinforcement is—hurry and tell us."

The thousand-man commander revealed a mysterious smile: "Just now, when that official entered the Pacification Bureau, I saw him—you guys guess who it is?"

"It's Shen Qing, the Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander of Qingzhou!"

The surrounding people immediately perked up, their eyes gleaming.

"Isn't that the one who slaughtered the Prince of Wen, fought the White Dragon Sect, and even destroyed the Wheel-Reversal Tower in Yuzhou?"

The Yuzhou famine case and the Wheel-Reversal Tower case have already spread throughout the Great Wu—because of greed for merit, it caused a great disaster, killing over a million people.

Therefore, all the Embroidered Uniform Guards in Yuzhou were punished, and thus, every Embroidered Uniform Guard in the Great Wu has been promoting this case, using the Yuzhou Embroidered Uniform Guards as a negative example.

And Shen Qing, because of this matter, has acquired a touch of mythic color—after all, something that even a prefecture's Embroidered Uniform Guard couldn't accomplish, Shen Qing did, and moreover, Shen Longwang praying for rain added bricks and tiles to this mythic color.

This thousand-man commander snorted: "What you know of him is already past—those events, compared to Shen Qianhu's recent movements in Wuyang Prefecture, are trivial."

The hundred-man commanders immediately brightened, one coming over to pinch his leg, another handing over a wine jug: "Qianhu Sir, Qianhu Sir, tell us!"

The thousand-man commander hehehed: "Then I'll tell you."

"Shen Qianhu, actually the third young master of the Shen family in the capital—you know that, right? This time he returned to Wuyang Prefecture, stirred up heaven and earth in the capital, and killed at least seven or eight half-sages."

"And they were all half-sages of the Shen and Zhu families..."

Northern Pacification Bureau, Hall of Justice.

Youzhou Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander Ye Kong bowed to Shen Qing.

"Youzhou Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander Ye Kong pays his respects to Shen Qianhu."

Shen Qing glanced at him: "Speak—what's the current situation? Have you figured out the White Dragon Sect's stronghold?"

Ye Kong nodded, bringing a dossier and placing it before Shen Qing: "Shen Qianhu, please look—our infiltrator inside the White Dragon Sect has already sent back the location, but his status is low, so he cannot confirm how many Earth Fiend Stars and Heavenly Gang Stars are in the stronghold."

"But he has already been scouting."

At this moment, a Commander Deputy walked in: "Greetings, Shen Qianhu, greetings, Ye Qianhu."

"Intelligence from the infiltrator! He says the Earth Fiend Stars and Heavenly Gang Stars seem to have movements—they appear to be preparing to leave the stronghold for someplace."

Ye Kong's face darkened slightly: "How come this news came at this critical juncture—do you know where they're going...?"

Shen Qing narrowed his eyes, already impatient.

Since the battle at Mount Xuanwu, he spent four days cultivating in the palace domain, then later killed Shen Lin—it was the old ancestor Shen Wenda who made the move, and after breaking through to condense the Myriad Laws Origin Pill, he spent another two days, and finally, rushing to Youzhou took another day.

All told, Shen Qing has gone a full seven days without killing anyone.

This has left Shen Qing somewhat bewildered.

Shen Qing stood up, directly interrupting their conversation: "As long as I know where they are, that's enough."

"As for where they want to go? What they want to do? Irrelevant—anyway, we cannot let them have their way."

"They just want to go pay their respects at a birthday celebration—we still cannot let them leave."

Saying this, Shen Qing walked toward the outer gate: "Ye Qianhu, lead the way."

"By the way, summon all the Embroidered Uniform Guards of Xuanyou City—everyone go to the White Dragon Sect's stronghold."

Ye Kong froze for a moment: "Shen Qianhu, dealing with them—ordinary Embroidered Uniform Guards won't be useful, will they...?"

Shen Qing turned his head and glanced at him.

"Who let them go fight?"

"I'm afraid that if the situation there becomes too tragic, just you few collecting corpses would be painful."

Youzhou, Mount Tianyin—this is the stronghold where the White Dragon Sect is stationed.

And today is also the liveliest day for this stronghold, with a total of three Heavenly Gang Stars and six Earth Fiend Stars gathered.

Tianying Star held a gift box in his hand, eyes full of smiles, turning his head to glance at the several Heavenly Gang and Earth Fiend Stars behind him.

"Hey, are you all ready? Today is the 500th birthday of Baihe Wusheng—conveniently, he has returned, and we just happened to catch it."

"There will definitely be many people coming to pay their respects today—we need to hurry and find a good spot."

Baihe Wusheng is the White Dragon Sect's martial sage who has just entered the Martial Sage realm.

Among the Earth Fiend Stars behind him, there is one person who stands out from the crowd—his expression is peaceful, his eyes devoid of the ferocity

that the other Earth Fiend Stars possess.

He is none other than the Earth Yao Star who twice escaped Shen Qing's grasp—once by tripping on a stone, once by a yellow dog crashing into a roof beam.

Suddenly, his chest tightened with a sharp pain, and the Earth Beast Star beside him reached out to support him: "Earth Yao Star, what's wrong? Are you injured?"

The Earth Yao Star waved his hand: "It's fine, it's fine..."

But gradually, his voice grew weaker, and his pupils kept dilating.

This feeling he knows well—and it has already happened twice before: the first time was due to heart pain and tripping on a stone.

The second time, his heart had just begun to ache when his family's yellow dog crashed into the roof beam and died.

And because of these two times, he turned misfortune into blessing, escaping death at Shen Qing's hands.

But now, that feeling came again—he suddenly lifted his head and looked toward the clouds, seeing nothing unusual, yet the unease in his heart grew stronger and stronger.

He took a deep breath: "Everyone, I feel something's off today—maybe we shouldn't go? We can head back and apologize to Baihe Wusheng later."

Tianying Xing turned back and laughed: "Dixiao Xing, I've long heard you're all superstitious and jumpy—why is that feeling coming again? Don't overthink it, nothing will happen, and besides, Shen Qing is in Wuyang Prefecture right now."

"Haven't you heard about the massive earthquake he recently caused in Wuyang Prefecture? Who has time to bother with us? And this is Baihe Wusheng's five-hundredth birthday—five hundred years! If you miss this, will there be another chance?"

Dixiao Xing lowered his head, hesitated repeatedly, but in the end still chose to leave.

"Everyone, sorry—I trust my intuition. I wish you all good luck on your journey."

Having said that, Dixiao Xing turned and walked down the mountain, only able to faintly hear the mocking laughter of the Disha Xing and Tiangang Xing.

Yet Dixiao Xing still had no intention of turning back.

After descending the mountain, Dixiao Xing walked toward the distance—just after walking a short way, a streak of flowing light flashed across above his head, and at the same time, a voice landed in his ears.

"I advise you not to move here—wait for me to return, otherwise your fate will be grim."

Dixiao Xing was struck as if by lightning—just now he had caught a glimpse of that face, the face he had seen countless times in the portrait.

At this moment, only one thought remained in his heart.

Damn it!