Chapter 531: Beheading! Already dead!

Yang Qilang and Zhang Tinggui had just fought their way to the rear of Li Qingluo's side.

The guards and constables who had come to arrest Li Qingluo were instantly entangled by the two.

They never imagined that a woman like Li Qingluo could pose any threat, and could only shout: "Sir, you hold them off first; we'll apprehend these two!"

Li Qingluo curled her lips into a smile, watching as Shangguan Zhong picked up the knife from a guard's hand on the ground.

Shangguan Zhong: "Just you?"

"You're just a woman, yet you dare to harm even a hair of this official?"

"I will personally slay you first!"

He came at Li Qingluo with a ferocious expression, swinging his blade——

Li Qingluo dodged calmly and lightly evaded.

"Official Shangguan, are you working for the Fourth Prince?"

"Why would he suddenly do harm to the Jiang family?"

"Is he planning to silence Yang Qilang here at the Ministry of Justice, and then frame the Jiang family for it again?"

"After all, if the Jiang family's crime of having Yang Qilang take the blame to rescue Third Master Jiang is stirred up by you all, the Jiang family will be utterly ruined."

"Official Shangguan, do you think this common woman's deduction is correct?"

Li Qingluo toyed with him like walking a dog, dodging east and west, leading Shangguan Zhong around in circles beneath the tree.

It seemed his next strike would cut her.

Yet she cunningly shifted her footing suddenly, ran behind him, and gave his back a heavy pat.

"Official Shangguan, or is the true master behind you not the Fourth Prince but the Qin King?"

She laid out the matter point by point; though she didn't know if it was correct, she had already succeeded in making Shangguan Zhong furious to the extreme.

"Baseborn wretch!"

"You dare to want to know?"

"Go die——"

Li Qingluo turned, and before Shangguan Zhong could even see clearly, she struck out with a heavy blow.

Shangguan Zhong felt his whole arm go numb, and the knife fell to the ground.

Then she quickly pulled the fine thread from her elbow, rose on her toes, and swiftly wound a tight loop around Shangguan Zhong's neck.

Then she jerked it hard backward——

Shangguan Zhong instantly unable to breathe, kept striking at Li Qingluo.

Li Qingluo: "I'll apply a bit more force."

"Your head, sir, will just fall off."

"Now, who is the baseborn wretch?"

Shangguan Zhong: "I…… am…… but a court…… appointed…… official……"

"You dare…… to…… kill this official……"

"I will…… let you…… die without a burial place……"

Li Qingluo: "Good."

Having said that, she tightened her grip again.

Shangguan Zhong's eyeballs nearly popped out.

He opened his mouth wide, yet could not catch his breath no matter what.

He felt his own blood spurting from his neck.

He begged for mercy.

However, he could no longer utter a single word.

The guards and constables on the other side, seeing this scene, immediately dashed over desperately.

But Duan Rongshi and Yang Qilang were here.

These guards and constables, having gone only halfway, were blocked and could not get through at all.

Yang Qilang and Zhang Tinggui had both sustained some injuries.

Only Duan Rongshi remained completely unburdened.

Seeing this couple like that, Zhang Tinggui thought: "Fortunately, Lady Nangong was kind-hearted and spared Changning a life, likely out of respect for me."

From now on, we should let Changning collect himself, and absolutely avoid provoking them again.

Otherwise, I couldn't even guarantee how she would die.

Zhang Tinggui, still shaken, had no choice but to fight harder.

Meanwhile, Yang Qilang likewise felt a lingering fear in his heart.

I had long known that Li Wu Lang was formidable, but I never expected his beautiful, gentle, and business-savvy wife to also be a martial arts master!

She could kill a court official without changing expression, her hand not trembling at all.

They are certainly not mere ordinary merchants!

Fortunately, I am not now in hostile relations with Li Wu Lang.

Moreover, they could be considered friends who share adversity, right?

However, seeing that Shangguan Zhong was about to be strangled to death, even beheaded, by Li Qingluo, she suddenly let go.

She loosened the fine thread and quickly retracted it into her bracelet.

All that could be seen was her dragging the half-dead Shangguan Zhong with one hand and dumping him beneath the tree.

Zhang Tinggui and Yang Qilang glanced at the scene, both simultaneously widening their eyes in shock.

Is she even still a woman?

Duan Rongshi followed to under the tree and stood before Li Qingluo.

Yang Qilang swallowed hard and quickly shouted loudly: "Did you see that?"

Shangguan Zhong has already been subdued by us; anyone who still wants to live, all hurry to surrender!

Dong Shaoqing also scrambled out clumsily: "Yes yes yes, everyone hurry to stop!"

This young lord and lady, you did a great job.

Although the methods are somewhat cruel and bloody, sparing Lord Shangguan's life is the wise...

His words had not yet fallen.

Duan Rongshi had already lifted Shangguan Zhong's head and personally chopped it off with one blow.

In everyone's shocked gaze, he turned and lifted the head high.

Shangguan Zhong is already dead.

All who obey his orders, all stop!

Lord Shangguan actually just had his head cut off like that?

With just those few of them, they routed all the guards and bailiffs of the Dali Temple, leaving them in utter chaos with countless casualties!

These people…… no!

It should be those two leaders; they controlled the whole situation!

Who exactly are they?

Perhaps Duan Rongshi's aura was too overpowering and oppressive, for a moment no one dared to move.

When a loyal follower of Shangguan Zhong shouted loudly: "They killed Lord Shangguan; we'll fight them to the death——"

The bailiff behind him hesitated not, and stabbed him through with a knife!

Immediately after, the sounds of weapons hitting the ground rang out one after another, clear and crisp.

Even Zhang Tinggui was very startled.

The bones of the Dali Temple are actually this soft?

It seems the future of Great Chu's realm is indeed worrisome……

However, the commotion here, at first the Dali Temple tried to conceal it, but when they could no longer hide it, it spread uncontrollably throughout South Peace.

Every household closed their doors and locked them.

Even the children dared not cry out at night.

The South Peace yamen did not know what was happening here, and still thought that no matter what, Lord Shangguan could not possibly lose, so they simply feigned silence.

And at every other guard post, seeing the South Peace yamen unmoving, they thought it was the court's tacit approval of some special cleanup operation, so they also restrained themselves and did not come to investigate.

So strangely, the Dali Temple experienced such a huge commotion and fight, but in the end it was Yang Qilang who ran to the palace gate, knocked on it and shouted: "Your Majesty——"

"Your Majesty!! Save me——"

The Minister of the Dali Temple, Shangguan Zhong, colluded with villains to harm the lives of officials!

He also colluded with the Witchcraft Technique of MiaoJiang, turning the entire Dali Temple prison into a man-eating demon's den——

The Chu Emperor startled awake from his dream.

Outside, lightning was already flashing and thunder rolling.

His recent nightmare condition has rarely recurred.

But vaguely, he seemed to still hear some noise.

"What is the commotion about?"

Ji Gonggong stepped forward and replied: "Your Majesty, did we wake you?"

"It's that something happened over at the Dali Temple."

"The prisoners in the Dali Temple prison have all gone mad."

A few people escaped, but it was said they were intercepted again by the Dali Temple Minister, Lord Shangguan, who wanted to silence everyone.

Now Lord Shangguan has already been beheaded, head and body separated.

It is Yang Family Seventh Lang who knocked on the palace gate, crying out to you for help.