Chapter 56: Acting like a local emperor for so long, you really started thinking you were somebody?

Inside the hotel's private room, the four men's plan had been roughly finalized.

Zhou Cang stood up, smiling as he raised his glass.

"Then it's settled. Your three families find a chance to get the new Special Envoy out of Hanyue City. If he refuses... then join forces with the Bajier Tribe to kill him! After all, Hanyue City is close to the national border, and spies cause trouble all the time. The death of one Special Envoy isn't unacceptable."

Zhao Tianji and the other two were just about to raise their glasses.

But the private room's door was sliced apart into several pieces, as though cut by some kind of sharp weapon.

A clear, bright voice drifted in:

"Then I really must thank Special Envoy Zhou for the trouble. I just rushed over from so far away, and you've already prepared such a wonderful surprise for me."

A young man in black walked into the private room first, a teasing smile playing at the corner of his mouth.

"You're... the new Special Envoy, Jiang Qin!"

Zhou Cang's expression instantly turned extremely ugly. He had seen Jiang Qin's photograph before, and recognized him at a glance. Then his gaze swept over the group of people behind Jiang Qin.

Even Cao Hai had come.

Adding it all up, there were four Spirit Sea Realm cultivators in total. Resolving this without causing a huge commotion was completely impossible.

So Zhou Cang made a decision in his heart immediately.

He turned and punched through the wall with one blow, leaping out into the street outside the hotel, trying to use the chaos to escape.

He was also a Special Envoy.

Everything he had just said had surely already been recorded by the equipment on the other party's body. He had completely lost his last chance and would inevitably be wanted by the entire Zhenling Bureau. Now his only chance of survival was to leave this country as fast as possible.

It all happened in an instant.

Without Jiang Qin needing to say a word, Su Lingwei and Chen Xiaohu exchanged a glance and gave chase at the same time.

Su Lingwei leapt down through the hole in the wall, stepping on her Flying Knife in midair as she sped in the direction Zhou Cang had fled.

But Chen Xiaohu was unable to cultivate martial techniques.

So he could only rely on pure physical speed to pursue, charging through the street like a wild bull, ignoring all obstacles, his speed actually no slower than Su Lingwei's.

Meanwhile, inside the private room.

Lei Zhongshan stood up with a dark expression on his face and rebuked:

"Cao Hai, you have some nerve. This is Hongyun Group's territory! You just brazenly bring people charging in here — you clearly don't take my Lei Family seriously at all."

The Zhenling Bureau had lost its authority in this city for far too long, so it was no wonder he dared speak in such a tone.

Cao Hai had to consider the big picture.

But Jiang Qin had no such reservations. His figure shot toward Lei Zhongshan, raising his hand into a fist. Lei Zhongshan's reaction wasn't slow — seeing this young Special Envoy actually strike first, he unwillingly to be outdone clenched his own fist and met the blow.

The two fists collided. There was no suspense.

A figure flew backward like a kite with its string cut, slamming viciously into the wall.

After crashing through four private rooms in succession, Lei Zhongshan finally collapsed to the ground, coughing up fresh blood.

"Cough, cough..."

His right arm was twisted at an unnatural angle.

The violent Spirit Power had destroyed the meridians in his arm. Without a spiritual medicine capable of repairing the flesh, his arm was effectively crippled for good.

Just one punch — and surprise flashed through the eyes of Zhao Tianji and Li Ruyue beside them.

Lei Zhongshan was at Spirit Sea Late Stage, and his greatest pride was his powerful physical body. Yet now he had been crippled by a single punch from this young man.

How strong!

Jiang Qin walked over, grabbed him by the throat, and lifted Lei Zhongshan's entire body off the ground.

Whether speaking to him or to the other two, it was unclear.

"Some nerve?"

"If I remember correctly, this land belongs to Huaguo, doesn't it? Within Huaguo, there's no place my Zhenling Bureau can't enter. What kind of thing are you, daring to bark like that?"

"Or is it that you've been a local emperor for so long, you've really started thinking you're somebody?"

Two questions in a row, yet Lei Zhongshan didn't dare speak another word, terror and fear in his eyes.

He could feel that if he said another word, this young man truly would dare to kill him.

Just then.

Su Lingwei and Chen Xiaohu, who had gone outside to pursue, returned.

But there was no sign of Zhou Cang.

Jiang Qin couldn't help frowning: "Lost him?"

Su Lingwei shook her head, then tossed a blood-soaked eyeball onto the floor.

She glanced sideways at Chen Xiaohu standing beside her.

"He smashed the corpse into mincemeat with two punches. Only this one was intact."

Zhou Cang was merely a Spirit Sea Peak who had been forcibly piled up with resources.

In a direct confrontation, he naturally wouldn't be a match for the two of them.

Jiang Qin looked toward Cao Hai standing at the door and asked: "Director Cao, this eyeball should be enough to report to the higher-ups, right?"

"Uh... should, probably, be okay?"

Director Cao answered somewhat uncertainly.

They had been colleagues for so many years, and now all that was left was a single eyeball. He couldn't help but feel a certain... satisfaction in his heart!

Jiang Qin nodded, casually tossed Lei Zhongshan aside, swept his gaze over the other two, and said calmly:

"You conspired with Zhou Cang to plot against me, this new Special Envoy who can't even lift a chicken. But I'm a man who follows the rules. Call your families now, tell them to prepare the ransom to buy you back."

"Until the ransom arrives, you'll have to trouble yourselves by coming with me to the Zhenling Bureau for some tea. You... wouldn't refuse me, would you?"

Li Ruyue and Zhao Tianji exchanged a glance, then nodded in unison.

Refuse? Do they dare refuse?

Lei Zhongshan is still lying on the ground.

Soon a squad of Investigators from the Town Spirit Bureau walked in, carrying some fear and panic, and took the three Lei Zhongshan men back to the bureau to be detained, awaiting the ransom from the three great families.

Returning to the car, Cao Hai nodded and said:

"You were able to hold back and not kill Lei Zhongshan — that's not bad. Now is not the time to settle accounts with these three families. Not to mention we haven't yet gathered evidence capable of toppling them — even the three Divine Image Realm Martial Artists behind them are not easy to provoke."

The three great families have stood in Hanyue City for so many years — it's not solely on the strength of their mineral vein resources.

Behind each of them stands a Divine Image Realm Martial Artist.

That is the main reason the Hanyue Town Spirit Bureau has no voice in this city.

When Jiang Qin and the others returned to the Town Spirit Bureau, what greeted them was gaze after gaze brimming with respect. Only after their figures vanished into the stairwell did the crowd begin discussing again.

"This time headquarters has finally sent us a tough one for the Hanyue Town Spirit Bureau."

"Oh my god — the moment he arrived in Hanyue City he wiped out the former Special Envoy, and then had the heads of the three great groups arrested. When I went to arrest them just now, they didn't even dare to fart!"

"The glorious hour of our Hanyue Town Spirit Bureau has finally arrived!"

"I just got the latest news — this new Special Envoy is a man who kills without blinking. The lives he's taken number well over a hundred. But guess what? They say all the dead under his hands combined can't even be pieced together into two whole corpses."

"Hiss~ That's ruthless…"

When the people of the Zhao Family, Li Family, and Lei Family received the news, though they could hardly believe it,

they still gathered the ransom demanded by the Town Spirit Bureau at the first opportunity and sent it over.