Chapter 184: Dao Foundation! Dao Foundation! Dao Foundation!

(PS: I discovered some people still think there is only one update per day, so I might as well change the update time. From now on, I will update two chapters directly at 5: 0 PM every day. Besides, my daily output of 8000+ words is already faster than 90% of the books on Qidian.)

Bang!

Wei Ge was sent flying heavily, crashing through a wall and falling onto the street next door.

At this moment, on the main road where both sides were engaged in battle, blood stained the ground red. There were corpses everywhere, and warhorses clad in iron armor also lay on the ground. The stone-paved road was pitted and cratered, already smashed into a ruin.

A figure passed through the broken wall and arrived before the fallen Wei Ge.

It was precisely that Dao Foundation clone of Zhao Yu.

The black robe on this clone had already been destroyed, revealing its true appearance—dark-colored skin, a bald head, and no hair anywhere on its body. Its face was covered in crimson patterns, resembling snake scales. Its eyes were lifeless, its gaze dull.

From its appearance, one could no longer tell that this person was once Wang Ping, a registered martial artist of the Stop-Conflict Academy.

This Dao Foundation clone also had many wounds, but the flesh at these wounds was also dark red, and not a single drop of blood flowed out, as if there were no blood in this body at all!

Wei Ge spat out a mouthful of blood, revealing a look of despair.

In the battle just now, taking advantage of the Calm Spirit Technique disrupting the iron cavalry's charge, this clone had charged directly into the cavalry formation. Regardless of the warhorses crashing directly into him, and regardless of the steel blades hacking at him, he did not dodge or avoid them, nor did he retreat.

Time and again he unleashed the Red Scale Force; the seven or eight-meter-long red snake danced in the cavalry formation like a flood dragon churning the sea. Every time it danced, it could send several warhorses flying. Just like that, by his own strength, he completely destroyed the iron cavalry's charge!

What followed was a chaotic melee. The martial artists and masters on horseback could only dismount to fight on foot, while Zhao Yu's Dao Foundation clone attracted the vast majority of the "firepower."

Wang Ping cultivated the Red Scale Force. This type of force itself was not suited for frontal assaults, and Wang Ping's own fighting style was mainly based on skirmishing. But after being refined into a clone, he was forcibly used by Zhao Yu as a berserker!

Facing any attack head-on, the physical strength displayed by this clone was even higher than that of many Dao Foundation realm experts.

And even Dao Foundation realm experts would get tired, feel pain, and get injured, but this clone of Zhao Yu would not!

As long as Zhao Yu, the controller, was fine, and as long as the 【Corpse Cluster】 inside the clone was not destroyed, this clone could continue to fight even if its head were chopped off!

Such an enemy was undoubtedly terrifying and despair-inducing. Coupled with Zhao Yu and the sorcerers of the Calm Spirit Sect casting spells from the sidelines, constantly influencing the will of the City Guard, the morale of the City Guard completely collapsed after the battle had lasted for a while.

Although Wei Ge did not neglect training on ordinary days, and under Gu Zhenhui's control, this City Guard unit did not embezzle military pay, drink the soldiers' blood, or make soldiers do chores, this City Guard unit ultimately lacked actual combat experience.

In recent years, the only large-scale battle the City Guard had participated in was the last time they fought the Tiger Blade Gang in the Wuguang District, which was a one-sided battle with no difficulty at all.

Now that they had encountered a truly hard battle, the City Guard ultimately could not hold on.

First, the martial officers began to flee, followed by the ordinary soldiers.

Zhao Yu did not order a pursuit. His targets were those martial officers who were martial artists and masters. Now, with nearly twenty martial officers lying on the ground, dead or alive, he had already achieved his initial goal.

Yes, this was only the initial goal.

Zhao Yu's next target was the bodies of Dao Foundation realm experts!

"Tie up all those martial officers on the ground for me, dead or alive."

Zhao Yu ordered the horse bandits.

Afterward, he controlled his Dao Foundation clone to capture Wei Ge, broke the opponent's limbs, dislocated the opponent's jaw, and then bound him with iron chains.

After clearing the battlefield, Zhao Yu's side also received news passed on by the Tiger Blade Gang:

"Sect Master Zhao, the Great Leader of the Green Origin Fist Stronghold has just arrived at Anshan Street in the Kaiping District. Please take your men over there."

"Oh, so fast? Wasn't it said that the Great Leader was threatened? It seems the threat didn't work."

Zhao Yu looked at the person who came to deliver the message.

In the original plan, it should have been him leading his men to storm the Green Origin Fist Stronghold!

The messenger lowered his head: "Please hurry, Sect Master Zhao!"

Zhao Yu sneered: "What about the people from the Tiger Blade Gang and the Stop-Conflict Academy?"

"They are already on their way here!"

"Fine, I understand."

Zhao Yu did not delay and immediately led his large force toward Anshan Street.

His next target was that Great Leader of the Green Origin Fist Stronghold.

According to the plan made beforehand with Yu Hu, today they would first break the City Guard, then behead the Great Leader, and finally go outside the city to kill Hao Yi.

If everything went smoothly, Zhao Yu would obtain a large number of bodies of martial artists and masters, as well as the bodies of two Dao Foundation realm experts.

Only by obtaining the mature implants inside these people could he continue to strengthen his clone.

In this world, everything is empty; only one's own strength is the foundation!

"Defeated?!"

In the Administration Hall, in the Chief's office, Gu Zhenhui grabbed the secretary's collar in anger and asked in disbelief:

"My three hundred City Guards, well-equipped and well-trained, with dozens of martial artists and iron cavalry charges, how could they possibly be defeated?!"

"My—my lord, the enemy has a Dao Foundation realm expert sitting in command. One person alone injured many of our experts; no one could stop him at all!"

The secretary said with a sobbing tone.

"Dao Foundation realm? How could there be a Dao Foundation realm expert?!"

Gu Zhenhui's face turned ashen, and he slumped into his chair.

There was no need to wait for the final result; he knew that he had already lost this game.

In today's chaos, if the City Guard could defeat the incoming enemy, then everything would still have room for maneuver.

But now that the City Guard had been miserably defeated, the nature of this matter was similar to the 'Luoshan Incident' back then. Even if the Inspectorate eventually recovered the lost firearms, the Inspector General at the time, Huang Weiguang, still had to take responsibility and eventually retire early.

Regarding today's matter, Xingcheng was successfully invaded by a large group of bandits, which was directly the fault of the City Guard. Afterward, the City Guard was actually unable to defeat the bandits and was routed, making the fault even greater.

As the Chief, the City Guard was directly under Gu Zhenhui, so he was the only one who could take the blame for this in the end; he couldn't run away from it.

Back then, the Tiger Blade Gang forced Huang Weiguang to retire early, and now they were using the same method to target Gu Zhenhui. After this, there would be an opportunity to force Gu Zhenhui to step down directly!

That was why Gu Zhenhui was so desperate.

"Ultimately, I was defeated..."

This Chief, who had fought with the Tiger Blade Gang for so many years, sat in his chair and muttered.

Kaiping District, Anshan Street.

Shangguan Xiao arrived here with over a hundred people.

She had managed the Green Origin Fist Stronghold for many years, and under her command were two martial masters, twenty-five Body-Breaking realm martial artists, and over a hundred experienced fist fighters.

This time, she had brought all of them.

However, these people mostly had cold weapons; there were thirty-some heavy crossbows, and not many firearms.

Firearms smuggling in Xingcheng had always been firmly controlled by the Tiger Blade Gang, and it was very difficult for the Green Origin Fist Stronghold to get guns and ammunition from the black market.

"Great Leader, it has been confirmed that the group of bandits who entered the city is led by Zhao Yu, the Sect Master of the Calm Spirit Sect!"

A subordinate reported to Shangguan Xiao.

The Green Origin Fist Stronghold also had spies everywhere in the city, so Shangguan Xiao could obtain intelligence in time.

"Calm Spirit Sect?"

Shangguan Xiao was startled, "So that's how it is."

She immediately understood many things.

"Everyone, our goal this time is to eradicate the evil cult traitors!"

Shangguan Xiao said sternly.

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison.

"Shangguan Xiao—"

Just at this moment, a deep voice suddenly came from afar, filled with a sense of majesty.

A cold glint flashed in Shangguan Xiao's eyes as she turned to look in the direction the voice came from:

"Yan Yichen!"

A few seconds later, dozens of figures appeared in front, and the person in the lead was none other than Yan Yichen, the Head of the Stop-Conflict Academy.

"The Green Origin Fist Stronghold is colluding with an evil cult, intending to rebel! As a member of the Stop-Conflict Academy, I have the responsibility to eradicate the treacherous and evil, and serve the country with martial arts!"

Yan Yichen pointed at the people of the Green Origin Fist Stronghold in front and said sternly.

"Eradicate the treacherous and evil, serve the country with martial arts!"

The elite members of the Stop-Conflict Academy behind him shouted in unison.

Hearing this, Shangguan Xiao had a strange expression, and the people of the Green Origin Fist Stronghold all looked at each other in dismay.

How could it be that a second ago the Great Leader was leading them to eradicate an evil cult, and the next second they had become accomplices of the evil cult?

"Heh, a defeated opponent dares to distort the truth in front of me?"

Shangguan Xiao sneered and charged directly toward Yan Yichen.

She knew that the Green Origin Fist Stronghold and the Stop-Conflict Academy could not argue about such things; after all, the Stop-Conflict Academy were government officials and held the banner of righteousness.

Then they could only see the truth through their skills!

Yan Yichen's face sank. He had indeed lost to Shangguan Xiao last time, but he did not avoid the battle this time and took the initiative to meet her.

Although he was not the opponent's match, holding her off for a period of time was no problem.

The two Dao Foundation experts fought together, with great momentum.

The Stop-Conflict Academy and the Green Origin Fist Stronghold also began to engage in battle.

Although the Green Origin Fist Stronghold had more people, the weakest among the Stop-Conflict Academy were Body-Breaking realm martial artists, so it was the Stop-Conflict Academy that had the upper hand!

Seeing this, Shangguan Xiao relied on her faster movement technique to hold off Yan Yichen while also being able to support her subordinates.

With her strength, targeting those Body-Breaking realm martial artists of the Stop-Conflict Academy, she could solve one with a single palm!

Seeing his men being killed by Shangguan Xiao one after another, Yan Yichen could not help but be furious:

"Yu Hu, are you not going to make a move yet?!"

As his voice fell, everyone present was shocked.

Has the leader of the Tiger Blade Gang arrived as well?

"Hahahahaha—"

Following a loud laugh, a figure leaped up from behind a building, surrounded by frost and carrying astonishing momentum as he attacked Shangguan Xiao.

Dao Foundation realm powerhouse Yu Hu, joining the battle!

With the arrival of Yu Hu, the elites of the Tiger Blade Gang also joined the fray.

These people had been harassed by secret agents of the Supervisory Academy along the way and had suffered some losses, but joining forces with the elites of the Cease-Arms Academy, they immediately gained the absolute upper hand, suppressing the people of the Green Origin Fist Stronghold!

"The Tiger Blade Gang assists the Cease-Arms Academy in eradicating evil and serving the country through martial arts!"

Yu Hu shouted loudly while launching an attack at Shangguan Xiao.

Fearing his voice was not loud enough, he specifically used his internal energy to make his voice carry far away.

"Kill, serve the country through martial arts!"

The members of the Tiger Blade Gang also followed their leader in shouting the slogan loudly.

"Shangguan Xiao, you colluded with the Peace God Sect; you deserve to die, and today is your end!"

Yu Hu roared, striking at Shangguan Xiao with the high-tier internal energy technique, Cold Evil Drifting Snow Force.

With his addition, Shangguan Xiao's pressure increased significantly, and she no longer had the energy to help her subordinates.

If she were to fight Yu Hu one-on-one, the chances of winning would be fifty-fifty, but with Yan Yichen added to the side, she was immediately at a disadvantage.

"Senior Brother should have received the news; I just need to drag this out until he returns."

Facing the crisis, Shangguan Xiao remained very calm.

She knew very well how fast Hao Yi was when he unleashed his full power, so she did not feel that she would definitely lose today.

However, not long after they began fighting, another powerful aura rushed toward this side:

"The Peace God Sect has arrived, you lot stop being arrogant!"

It was Zhao Yu controlling his Dao Foundation clone, rushing toward this side at full speed while shouting loudly with internal energy:

"Great Leader, I have come to assist you—"

Saying this, the Dao Foundation clone charged into the crowd, rushing toward the place where the three Dao Foundation realm powerhouses were fighting.

The next second, a red snake was unleashed by him, forcing back Yu Hu and Yan Yichen.

Another Dao Foundation realm powerhouse?!

Such momentum allowed everyone present to see the strength of the newcomer; it was clearly another Dao Foundation realm expert.

In this way, Shangguan Xiao, Yu Hu, Yan Yichen, and this newly arrived Peace God Sect powerhouse.

In today's battle, there were actually four Dao Foundation realm powerhouses participating!

Shangguan Xiao was originally wondering why the City Guard had not stopped the Peace God Sect's team, allowing the other side to arrive so quickly.

Now seeing this suddenly appearing Dao Foundation realm expert, she finally understood what Yu Hu's trump card was.

After Zhao Yu's Dao Foundation clone forced back Yu Hu and Yan Yichen with one move, he immediately rushed toward Shangguan Xiao, seemingly intending to rendezvous with her.

But how could Shangguan Xiao dare to let the other side get close to her?

She struck out with a palm directly.

Slap—

The Dao Foundation clone did not dodge or evade, taking this palm from Shangguan Xiao head-on and being sent flying backward.

"Shangguan Xiao, you dare to betray this seat?!"

Zhao Yu controlled the Dao Foundation clone to point at Shangguan Xiao and roar loudly.

After speaking, the Dao Foundation clone rushed toward Shangguan Xiao again, this time ready to go for the kill!

"Huh?"

Shangguan Xiao was angered to the point of laughter by this clumsy scene before her.

Was this the script Yu Hu had arranged?

The Green Origin Fist Stronghold colluded with the Peace God Sect, but then the two sides had an internal conflict, and the Tiger Blade Gang assisted the Cease-Arms Academy in taking the opportunity to eradicate evil, protect Xingcheng, and serve the country through martial arts!

As for Hao Yi, as Shangguan Xiao's senior brother, he was naturally a co-conspirator, and it was only natural for him to be killed as well.

"Yu Hu, ever since Zhang Mingze died, your methods have become increasingly stiff and laughable."

Shangguan Xiao sneered while trading a palm strike with the Dao Foundation clone.

"The method is not important; the result is what matters most."

Yu Hu was surrounded by frost, shrouding Shangguan Xiao in ice and snow:

"After you die, you can laugh slowly with your senior brother down below, laugh together!"

On the other side, Yan Yichen held a long sword condensed from Gold Stone internal energy and thrust it out, cutting a gash on Shangguan Xiao's body.

Three Dao Foundation realm experts besieged Shangguan Xiao!

Elsewhere, Green-Faced Ghost was carrying 'Li Fei' and rushing toward this side.

Just to mention, tomorrow's update will be at 5: 0 PM, with two chapters released together.

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