Chapter 255: Pacification Commissioner

Shen Xunning was scared to the extreme.

The intensity of martial arts struggles in the Great Shu increased linearly with the level of the practitioners. Scenes like the ones Li Miao fought, where both sides fought until they were no longer in human shape and were still exchanging blows, were something even the Jianghu people of Great Shu had never seen.

Therefore, the most miserable way to die in the cognition of ordinary Jianghu people was to fall into the hands of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

It wasn't that Shen Xunning hadn't heard the elders in the sect talk about the cruelty of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. But since the Five Mountains Alliance meeting last year, the elders in the Hengshan Sect had inexplicably changed their attitude toward the Embroidered Uniform Guard, never mentioning negative news, and under this subtle influence, she had subconsciously forgotten what kind of thing the Embroidered Uniform Guard was.

Now, she remembered.

The lazy voice behind her paused for a long time, then let out a light "eh."

"Dead soldier?"

Swish.

The sound of wind rose abruptly; Li Miao appeared in front of the old man instantly, grabbed his head in the air, and then slapped him.

Crack—

The old man's entire chin shattered instantly and fell to the ground.

Li Miao's other hand lifted and hooked; several teeth flew up from the ground, which Li Miao caught with the invitation in disgust, making a light sound of porcelain colliding with metal.

These teeth were all fake.

Li Miao closed the invitation and clamped it, crushing the teeth into powder. Upon opening it to look, Li Miao raised his eyebrows instantly.

On this invitation pressed from gold, it was already pitch black. Some teeth contained dust, others contained liquid, which mixed together along the hinge and flowed to the ground, instantly emitting white smoke.

Li Miao was not very proficient in poison, but someone who knew the trade would come later, so he threw the invitation onto a rock.

Turning to look at the old man, he was already bleeding from the seven orifices.

His means of suicide were not limited to the poison on his teeth.

Li Miao frowned and reached out to press on the old man's heart pulse.

Li Miao probed the old man's body with his true energy.

"Such exquisite means."

Seven types of foreign true energy were entrenched in the old man's body, each with different properties, intersecting in the heart pulse and maintaining a fragile balance.

Just now, the old man had a thought, driving his true energy to collide with a weak point, instantly destroying the balance. These seven types of foreign true energy instantly poured into the eight extraordinary meridians along with the heart pulse, annihilating the old man's vitality.

The exquisiteness of this method lay in the fact that although the seven types of foreign true energy had different properties, they were of the same origin as the old man's main internal energy, merging instantly and then inciting the old man's true energy to attack himself.

To crack this method was equivalent to picking out the unignited grains from a pile of gunpowder that had already ignited, and this method took effect extremely quickly, destroying the old man's heart pulse in an instant.

Healing techniques use true energy to generate flesh and blood; without meridians to sustain them, even a clever woman cannot cook without rice. No matter how brilliant the healing technique, it was beyond saving.

A trace of relief flashed in the old man's eyes, and he even cast a triumphant look at Li Miao.

"Interesting."

Li Miao sneered.

"Want to die? This official will grant your wish."

Boom!

A massive amount of true energy poured into the old man's heart pulse.

"Heh! Heh—"

The old man, who had been gradually closing his eyes, suddenly sprang up, trembling uncontrollably, blood tears flowing from his eyes. In his eyes looking at Li Miao, there was no more triumph, only fear.

Knowing that he couldn't keep a living prisoner, Li Miao directly used the old man as a test bench, using his massive true energy to shatter the meridians and true energy in the old man's body, grabbing the seven types of foreign true energy hidden within.

And during this process, the pain that should have lasted only a few breaths was stretched by Li Miao into torture lasting a full stick of incense.

By the time the old man died, his entire face had been distorted beyond recognition by his own struggling.

Li Miao threw the corpse to the ground and slowly stood up.

"Jiezi."

These seven types of true energy came from the same person.

To be able to cultivate seven internal energy techniques alone and set up this method that even Li Miao couldn't save in time, this person had undoubtedly cultivated the "Jiezi" realm.

However, Li Miao didn't find it very strange.

Ever since Yang Lizhang threw that punch at the Emperor, several Heaven-Men had tested the world, and hidden sects like the Sword King Pavilion had even stood out boldly to spread the concept of "Heaven-Man" throughout the Jianghu.

Without the cultivation method for nature, these Heaven-Men were only at the level of a single path and couldn't amount to much. Li Miao let them make a scene, letting those who were still watching also surface, so they could be dealt with all at once.

However, being able to use a peak expert as a dead soldier indicated that this person had at least one organization behind them that could stably produce peak experts.

This was worth Li Miao's attention.

Li Miao turned to look at Shen Xunning, who was lying on the ground, covering her ears and shivering like an ostrich, and smiled mischievously.

Without looking at her, he walked to the side of the road and looked down the mountain.

In the distance, a patch of firelight drifted toward the mountain.

Four flames led the way, rushing toward Li Miao's side at high speed.

Li Miao walked onto the road with his hands behind his back.

A moment later, a fawning, almost nauseating shout came from ahead.

"Pa~~ci~~fi~~ca~~tion~~ Com~~mis~~sion~~er~~~"

"The little one has come to pick you up~~~"

A young man with delicate features, looking to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight, saw Li Miao, dismounted from over ten zhang away, knelt on one knee in mid-air, and "slid" all the way to Li Miao's front.

"Pacification Commissioner! The little one has missed you to death!"

He looked up at Li Miao with teary eyes.

"Pacification Commissioner, you… have lost weight…"

He raised his hand to wipe his tears.

"Tsk."

Li Miao curled his lips and didn't reply.

An instant later, the other three flames also arrived.

The three dismounted, hung their lanterns on their horses, walked to Li Miao, and knelt on one knee.

"Pacification Commissioner!"

"Pacification Commissioner!"

Li Miao nodded.

"Progress in martial arts, not bad."

After another moment, the large patch of firelight behind arrived.

Shen Xunning, lying on the ground, shivered; the ground in front of her trembled under the horses' hooves; there were at least a hundred people.

She dared not move, only hearing the uniform sound of dismounting, clothing rubbing, scabbards colliding, and kneeling on one knee in front.

Then a hundred people shouted in unison.

"Pacification Commissioner!"

The suddenly erupting sound wave and murderous aura startled the birds and beasts in the dense forest, causing a noisy commotion.

The lazy voice said.

"Alright, everyone get up, such a big display."

"You have all been spoiled by Xiao Anzi."

Footsteps reached her side.

"You get up too."

"I… this junior… this commoner woman dares not…"

Shen Xunning simply didn't dare to look up.

"With this much courage, you dare to run down the mountain alone? Xiao Mei, she is far worse than you were back then."

"The Pacification Commissioner is joking."

A cold, wooden female voice said.

"Alright, get up. It's been this long and you still haven't recognized who I am; your ear-listening skills were practiced in vain."

Shen Xunning was stunned, then looked up in disbelief, seeing the "demon man" wearing the flying fish suit and looking at her with a mischievous expression.

And behind him, over a hundred pairs of eyes looking at her.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 256 =====