Chapter 259: Six Meridians Divine Sword

After those people entered the door, their gazes also swept toward Li Miao's side, but they all sneered in unison.

"Heh, what great prestige."

"Why did you let the Ming Sect knock the Emperor unconscious? Those who don't know might think you are very powerful!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Several Embroidered Uniform Guards' eyebrows stood up, and they were about to draw their sabers instantly.

Li Miao raised his hand to stop them, swept a faint glance at those people, and thought to himself.

If the attitude of bottom-tier Jianghu people toward the Embroidered Uniform Guard was one extreme, then the attitude of these few people represented the other extreme. On one side was extreme fear, on the other was the contempt of rebounding from the bottom.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard had killed many people in the past half year, but it actually exposed a problem.

A gap in succession.

At this time, there were no peak experts in the Embroidered Uniform Guard to suppress the Jianghu.

Bu Lei was dead, Zhu Zai could not leave the capital, and Wang Hai and the others would need at least a year or two to step into the peak level. And the remaining retainers could not be trusted, so Zhu Zai could not rest assured letting them leave the capital to handle business.

So for the past half year, the experts the Embroidered Uniform Guard brought out only reached the first-class level.

This gave many greenwood heroes who relied on their martial arts different thoughts.

"You can't even bring out a peak expert, let alone the Sword King Pavilion with that 'Heaven-Man'; what right do you have to show off in front of me?"

"So what if I mouth off at you? If you have the ability, bring an army to surround me!"

The battle where Wang Hai and the four others became famous was when several Jianghu people "mouthed off" at a few Embroidered Uniform Guards, resulting in a fight, and those people, not stopping halfway, directly surrounded and killed that team of Embroidered Uniform Guards, wanting to use this to become famous.

Although Wang Hai and the others immediately rushed over to hang the heads of those people on the city gate, it was just mending the fold after the sheep had been lost.

Just like the punch Yang Lizhang threw at the Emperor, what these people did was also tearing a hole in the face of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

If the Embroidered Uniform Guard couldn't bring out an expert who could suppress the Jianghu, then it was conceivable that there would be more and more situations like this later, eventually intensifying into the contempt and vendetta of the entire Jianghu against the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

This was also one of the reasons Li Miao descended the mountain.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard sitting next to Li Miao said in a low voice.

"Pa—"

Li Miao raised his hand to interrupt his words.

"Eat first."

"Rushed for half a day, aren't you hungry?"

"People can be killed anytime; making the whole room full of brains, how are we supposed to eat later?"

"Yes."

That Embroidered Uniform Guard then resentfully took his hand off the sword hilt.

Those five people didn't hear Li Miao's words, and seeing the Embroidered Uniform Guards back down, they became even more arrogant.

One person raised his hand and slapped his long saber onto the counter, making a loud noise, shaking the entire counter until it almost fell apart.

"Where did the waiter die? Roll out here!"

Boom!

The door curtain was lifted, the waiter was kicked out by the owner, and he turned to retreat back to the back kitchen, but the door panel was deadlocked, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't push it open.

"Owner…"

The waiter was almost crying, seeing the door in front of him with no intention of opening, he had to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, turn around tremblingly, and squeeze out a smile.

"Gue… guest…"

"What, would you like to eat, ah…"

The man had a face full of flesh, and when he smiled, he revealed a mouth of yellow teeth.

"Do you have beef?"

"No…"

The waiter said in a dilemma.

In the agricultural era, cattle were an extremely important part of the economy, and the Great Shu also strictly prohibited it. Although there were often cases of private slaughter, it wasn't always available.

"If you don't have it, why did you open this shop!"

The man was furious upon hearing this, raised his hand to slap the waiter, but his gaze drifted toward Li Miao's side.

These few people were all second-class experts or above; if it were normal times, they wouldn't act like this toward a waiter. It wasn't that they were kind, they just felt it was beneath them.

Clearly, they were doing this for the Embroidered Uniform Guard to see.

Testing, provoking.

The palm wind reached the waiter, lifting his hair; if this slap landed, the waiter would only be able to rely on drinking thin porridge for the rest of his life.

Li Miao raised an eyebrow, raised his hand, and pointed.

"Want to eat a proper meal, but you're climbing up my nose, aren't you?"

Swish!

Sharp true energy shot out, instantly reaching the man.

Boom!

"Ugh ahhhhhhh! —"

The man let out a sudden cry of pain, his long saber fell to the ground with a clatter, and he raised his hand to cover his face, large amounts of blood and broken flesh spilling from between his fingers.

"Who!"

"What kind of thief used a hidden weapon!"

The man suddenly let out a cry of pain, his long saber clattering to the ground as he raised his hands to cover his face, large amounts of fresh blood and shredded flesh spilling out from between his fingers.

Even the Emperor couldn't see Li Miao's martial arts, so these few small fries naturally couldn't see it either.

Li Miao raised an eyebrow and looked toward the door.

He wasn't the type to hold back; that finger was aimed at shattering the man's head, but it only shattered half his face.

When Li Miao's "Profound Heaven Finger" reached the man, a sharp, peerless true energy also reached the man, and the two true energies collided squarely.

Li Miao's "Profound Heaven Finger" shattered it, but the force was also deflected, which was why the man's life was spared.

Li Miao recognized this true energy.

Six Meridians Divine Sword.

A steady sound of footsteps came from outside the door.

A person lifted the door curtain and walked in.

Everyone in the room looked over.

This person looked to be twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, wearing a moon-white brocade straight robe, and the cloud-head shoes on his feet were also snow-white; a mutton-fat jade ring and a hollowed-out incense sachet hung from his waist, faintly emitting a quiet fragrance.

This attire, if worn by someone with ordinary features, would only make people feel it was funny. But worn on this person, it made people feel it was incomparably appropriate.

His appearance was like jade, clear and gentle, and every move revealed a sense of leisurely nobility.

If one were to talk about those with outstanding temperament seen by Li Miao in the twenty-seven years since coming to this Great Shu, this person would be the first, enough to contend with Li Miao for victory or defeat.

He entered the door, first looked at the few Jianghu people, then smiled and looked at Li Miao, bowing his hands.

"Seen the official."

"Just now I thought of the same thing as the official, but it was an accidental rescue that saved this person's life; it really shouldn't have happened."

Li Miao waved his hand.

"No matter, I'll give them to you to kill."

That person smiled.

"How about I treat the official to this meal as an apology. I will also handle the lives of these few people to save the official some trouble, which can be considered a token of apology."

"What does the official think?"

Li Miao smiled.

"As you wish."

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Yet he did not even glance at them, turning around with a leisurely air and cupping his hands toward Li Miao.

"Greetings, my lord."

"Just now, I had the same thought as you, my lord, but I saved this man's life by mistake; that was truly improper."

Li Miao waved his hand.

"It is of no consequence; I leave him to you to kill."

The man smiled.

"How about I treat you to this meal, my lord, as an apology? I will also handle the lives of these few, saving you the trouble, my lord, as a small token of my regret."

"What do you think, my lord?"

Li Miao smiled.

"Suit yourself."

(End of chapter)