Chapter 335: Conclusion

When Li Miao no longer concealed his identity, Cao Cao Hanyan understood that the matter today had reached the point of final judgment.

Cao Cao Hanyan didn't know much about court affairs. But the fact that the Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander, Li Miao's direct superior, was from the imperial clan was common knowledge in the Great Ming Ordinary Jianghu.

The imperial clan wanted to seize power in the court, while Lord Luo and his relatives and friends stood on the opposite side of the imperial clan.

This was political strife.

Li Miao could casually state the exact population of Lord Luo's family, which meant that from the beginning, the Embroidered Uniform Guard had murderous intent toward him. It was just that something Cao Cao Hanyan didn't know happened during the period, perhaps some benefit exchange, which allowed him to be sent out as an official and escape a disaster.

But now, he had stretched his neck under Li Miao's blade himself.

The charge of "colluding with the Embroidered Uniform Guard, taking bribes" might not be big enough, and the charge of "embezzling property" was also a bit lacking.

But the charge of "colluding with the Ming Sect, intending to rebel" was enough to stuff all the people the Embroidered Uniform Guard needed to implicate inside.

What? You say you didn't collude with the Ming Sect?

Then where did the Ming Sect stronghold and martial arts manuals in your hands come from?

The Embroidered Uniform Guard Battalion Commander gave them to you... um, sorry, this Battalion Commander accidentally poked his little finger into his nostril while washing his face a few days ago and died on the spot from excessive bleeding. The wounds on his corpse? Oh, he fell himself when he faked death, it absolutely has nothing to do with the Embroidered Uniform Guard family discipline.

No accomplices? Still not awake.

Why not pull out a fingernail, grind your teeth, refresh your spirit, and let's continue chatting?

Cao Cao Hanyan looked Lord Luo up and down; he had floating footsteps, weak hands and feet, fair skin, and looked like a weak scholar. If he entered the Embroidered Uniform Guard's imperial prison, he would agree to confess that he rebelled with his own father within a cup of tea.

With this saber, Officer Li could probably cut off quite a few heads that were usually hard to deal with along Lord Luo's relationship network.

Cao Cao Hanyan carried his saber and walked forward slowly.

He scanned the garrison troops around him, turned the saber in his hand, and faced forward with the back of the saber.

Lord Luo's face was pale, and he had completely lost his previous official prestige. Seeing Cao Cao Hanyan walking toward him, he couldn't help but retreat, tripped, reached out instinctively to grab the side but grabbed nothing, and sat down on the ground with a thud.

He turned his head in astonishment to look at his side, but there was no one there. Looking behind him, he saw the subordinate official who had been fawning over him and supporting him just now had quietly retreated several steps in a tacit understanding, distancing himself from him.

Seeing him look over, they turned their heads one after another. Some looked at their feet, some looked at the sky, some sighed and closed their eyes, and no one was willing to meet his gaze.

Lord Luo knew that they had also heard it.

Knowing the court affairs of the capital so well, and being able to state the number of people in the families of these high officials so accurately... the key was the sentence "traitorous beast" when mentioning the Embroidered Uniform Guard Battalion Commander who colluded with him.

Li Miao's identity was already obvious.

"You, you—"

Lord Luo's lips quivered, then his face turned ashen, and finally he gritted his teeth and shouted loudly.

"Sect Master Hua, listen to me!"

"Forget about the matter over there, come over and kill—"

Hua Zhiqiu on the other side fought Gao Anyu and felt his hands go numb, feeling that this brat's martial arts foundation was so thick that he couldn't find any flaws, and the original plan to capture him quickly had basically failed, and he was feeling unhappy in his heart.

At this moment, hearing Lord Luo's shout, he "tsk"ed in his mouth, didn't look back at all, and flashed to Gao Anyu's side, using the cover of his disciples.

The black ruler was handed out silently, ready to drill into Gao Anyu's waist. Gao Anyu seemed to have noticed, pulled his right fist down to block, but it was already too late!

Hua Zhiqiu showed joy on his face—at this moment!

Boom!!!

A mountain-collapsing and earth-shattering explosion, accompanied by splashing gravel and air waves, exploded behind him!

Hua Zhiqiu was focused on his move, and this gave him a shiver.

With this shake, the move slowed down by a point and was dodged by Gao Anyu.

But Hua Zhiqiu didn't have time to regret this missed opportunity and turned his head pale to look behind him.

He had participated in the Songshan Moon-Viewing Banquet.

If this kind of huge movement wasn't someone firing a cannon at his Kongming Sect mountain gate... then it was a Heaven-Man making a move!

A middle-aged man's face flashed in his mind... he knew it! How could Gao and Cao follow a person who didn't know martial arts? There must be a trick!

But I don't know if it is—hmm!?

Hua Zhiqiu's eyes widened suddenly.

A saber mark extended from the mountain gate to behind him, dozens of zhang long, the widest part was a full foot, and at the end of the narrowest saber mark, it was also a palm wide.

Along both sides of this saber mark, the garrison troops had all fallen to the ground, some with broken hands and feet, some with blood spilling from their noses and mouths, all rolling on the ground. Although they were all alive, they had no more strength to fight.

The saber mark continued to extend forward, taking Hua Zhiqiu's gaze from the ground to the back of the saber, and finally brought the person who slashed this saber into his sight.

It wasn't Li Miao as he thought.

It was Cao Cao Hanyan.

He was leaning on the saber hilt, sweat dripping from his face, panting heavily, seeming to be at the end of his rope.

But with that previous saber, no one dared to test whether he still had strength left. Everyone who witnessed that saber was silent as a cicada, looking at him.

That saber used the back of the saber, and it didn't slash a human body, but the ground. Just the aftermath sent the garrison troops guarding in front of Lord Luo flying, and then they fell to the ground like dumplings.

If he used the edge of the saber... I'm afraid that inside the Kongming Sect's mountain gate, a real rain of blood would fall.

After a long while, Cao Cao Hanyan seemed to have caught his breath, straightened up slowly, and walked toward Lord Luo.

Lord Luo had already been frightened out of his wits, was grabbed by the back of his neck, struggled twice, and was kicked in the ribs again, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted, and was dragged to Li Miao like a dead dog by Cao Cao Hanyan.

Bang.

Cao Cao Hanyan threw Lord Luo on the ground, looked at Li Miao carefully, clasped his hands, and bowed.

"Officer... I..."

"Forget it, you are of this temperament, it doesn't count as wrong."

Li Miao waved his hand.

Cao Cao Hanyan was ultimately kind-hearted. Li Miao passed a trace of True Qi to him with the Wedding Dress Divine Art, intending for him to capture Lord Luo and Hua Zhiqiu, and by the way, end the Kongming Sect matter.

Fighting this kind of scum, Li Miao was too lazy to do it one by one. Letting Cao Cao Hanyan experience the realm above the peak in advance was also beneficial to his martial arts progress.

But Cao Cao Hanyan didn't want to hurt the lives of these garrison troops; he didn't have the energy to take care of it before, so he could only minimize the damage. But with the True Qi given by Li Miao, he had a choice.

He chose to use the back of the saber to make the move, urging the True Qi out at once, and using the aftermath to shake away those garrison troops.

But doing so also exhausted the True Qi Li Miao passed to him, and at the same time left hidden injuries in his meridians, and he couldn't receive Li Miao's True Qi for the time being.

He violated Li Miao's meaning, and at the same time pushed the trouble of ending the Kongming Sect matter back to Li Miao. So he bowed to Li Miao, intending to plead guilty.

What could Li Miao do?

His subordinates were a bunch of bad seeds; as long as he gave an order, they wouldn't hesitate to do anything harmful.

Taking such a good person as Cao Cao Hanyan as a subordinate was to rectify the atmosphere. The mistakes he made because of his kindness, Li Miao could only accept.

Li Miao turned his head to look at Hua Zhiqiu, smiled, wiped his face, secretly operated the "Li Family Wedding Dress Divine Art," moved the skin and flesh that had changed position back to their original places, and revealed his true face.

Hua Zhiqiu's black ruler fell to the ground with a clang.

He said in despair.

"Off, Officer..."

Gao Anyu widened his eyes and looked around.

"Who? Who is the Officer? How many Officers are there here?"

"Where is my Uncle Li?"

"Brother Cao! Where did Uncle Li go?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 336 =====