Chapter 191: A Shocking Conspiracy

In the pool, for the sake of caution, Li Fei cut Zhao Yu's body into several pieces and threw them far apart.

Actually, Zhao Yu died quite unjustly; ordinary mages, even grand mages, would surely have met their end once this Dao Foundation clone of his got close, so how would they have had the chance to cast spells?

Only a freak like Li Fei, who could fight and tank in melee while also releasing spells, could have restrained Zhao Yu so thoroughly!

Picking up Zhao Yu's head, Li Fei charged out of the courtyard.

His exchange with Zhao Yu had lasted about a minute, and this minute of combat had reduced the number of Li Fei's blood souls to only 32.

Such a number of blood souls was already somewhat dangerous, but the battle was not yet over.

"Zhao Yu is dead—"

A head was thrown out like a cannonball, tossed toward the place where the three Dao Foundation realm experts were fighting.

Hearing this voice, all three chose to stop temporarily and looked together at the head that had been thrown.

Thud—

The head slammed heavily onto the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Because it was durable enough, the head remained intact, and its features could be clearly seen.

"Hahahaha, well killed!"

After Shangguan Xiao saw the head clearly, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, then looked with surprise at Li Fei, who was rushing toward them.

If she hadn't seen the transformed Ghost-Slaying Blade in Li Fei's hand and confirmed she hadn't misidentified him, she would have suspected that the Green-Faced Ghost before her was someone else.

"Could it be that this kid was deliberately holding back when sparring with me in the past?"

Shangguan Xiao couldn't help but think this.

To kill a Dao Foundation realm expert while in the Qi Transformation realm—if not unprecedented, it was certainly rare in this world!

"How is this possible?"

Yu Hu stared fixedly at the head on the ground, unable to believe it.

Everything had been planned out, and his side had clearly held the absolute advantage; why did it end up like this?

"Green! Faced! Ghost!"

Yu Hu turned his head to look at the approaching Li Fei, gritting his teeth with every word.

A surge of extremely fierce killing intent erupted from his body.

"Today, I will kill you!"

Yu Hu roared.

This fierce tiger could no longer suppress his desire to kill Li Fei.

If he couldn't kill Li Fei, the three words "Green-Faced Ghost" might even become his inner demon!

He did not believe that Li Fei could have killed Zhao Yu while remaining unscathed after "overcoming a superior."

"The Green-Faced Ghost must be near his limit; you hold off Shangguan Xiao, I will go kill him first!"

Yu Hu turned to say to Yan Yichen.

Yan Yichen hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Shangguan Xiao was already injured and affected by the Cold Yin Drifting Snow Force, her strength not even half of her peak; in such a state, he was confident he could win.

"Yu Hu!"

Li Fei had also arrived by this time, meeting Yu Hu's gaze without the slightest fear:

"You colluded with the Westerners and betrayed your country for glory! Today—

I will also kill you!!!"

This voice carried far, allowing everyone present to hear it clearly.

Colluded with Westerners?

Betrayed the country for glory?

The news Li Fei revealed was so explosive that Yu Hu, who had intended to strike immediately, was stunned in place, and Yan Yichen also looked over in astonishment.

"Nonsense, alarmist talk!"

After Yu Hu reacted, he roared loudly and then charged toward Li Fei with monstrous killing intent.

"Fifteen years ago, a spy from the Meijia Kingdom found you, willing to provide you with martial arts resources and connections, allowing you to establish the Tiger Blade Gang to constantly corrode Xingcheng and the Great Lan Dynasty!"

As Li Fei met Yu Hu and parried his attacks, he shouted these shocking inside stories.

The Meijia Kingdom was one of the seven Western nations and the main force of the coalition that fought the Great Lan Dynasty seventeen years ago!

"Fart, pure nonsense—"

Yu Hu could only continue to roar, simultaneously pushing out both palms, sending a blizzard surging toward Li Fei.

Li Fei ignored the chill and the pervasive cold force brought by the blizzard; he swung his blade to slash at Yu Hu, the dark golden blade light cutting through the wind and snow.

Yu Hu slapped the side of the Ghost-Slaying Blade, using a clever force to deflect the blade, and the vigorous power on the blade was like mud sinking into the sea, neutralized without a sound.

Not only that, the blade rapidly iced over, and the frost continued to spread toward Li Fei's arm.

With just this one move, Li Fei felt the pressure, clearly seeing the gap between Zhao Yu and a true Dao Foundation realm expert.

He had relied on the fact that Zhao Yu didn't understand martial arts to suppress him with technique. Now, fighting Yu Hu, the situation was immediately reversed.

He had only practiced blade techniques for a few months; wanting to compare technique and experience with an old veteran like Yu Hu who had painstakingly cultivated martial arts for decades was truly a joke!

While using his Geng Metal True Qi to shatter the frost on the Ghost-Slaying Blade, Li Fei extended his left palm to clash with the right palm Yu Hu was attacking with.

Bang!

Li Fei was not knocked back, but rather driven downward, the ground beneath his feet suddenly caving in to form a deep pit.

The sky full of wind and snow fell into this deep pit one after another.

Yu Hu's palm seemed to bring the snow of the entire world down upon Li Fei, making him feel the weight of ten thousand layers of cold snow, like a mountain pressing down on his head!

"Is this high-tier force?"

Li Fei mused inwardly, relying on his strengthened "Tyrant Body" to flick away all the snow falling on him.

The Cold Yin Drifting Snow Force was a "thick accumulation and thin release" type of force that grew stronger the longer one fought, so the initial damage wasn't too high; Li Fei's "Blood Demon State" defense was already very strong, and with the Myriad Blood Bead absorbing damage, he wouldn't be defeated by Yu Hu for a while.

While exchanging blows with Yu Hu, he continued to shout loudly:

"Without the help of outsiders, how could an ordinary street thug like you rise in such a short time?"

"If you want to condemn someone, you can always find a pretext!"

Yu Hu retorted loudly while attacking.

"The martial arts foundation you cultivate is 【Cold River Snow】; the Xingcheng Stop-War Academy has no cultivation method for this foundation at all, nor does the entire Datong Prefecture. Where did your cultivation method come from?"

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"A Westerner named Hu En Tuso has already been captured by me, and he has confessed the whole truth! Yu Hu, it has been the spies of the Meijia Kingdom helping you in secret all these years; do you still refuse to admit it?!"

Li Fei continued to shout.

These were all things he had tortured out of that force-practicing martial artist.

Seventeen years ago, the coalition of the seven Western nations was ultimately defeated by the Great Lan Dynasty, and for the seventeen years since, they had not dared to provoke border conflicts again.

All these years, the border seemed calm, but in reality, the secret actions of the Western nations had never stopped.

Two years after their defeat, the Western nations sent spies to infiltrate the Great Lan Dynasty, developing forces in various places and supporting people with talent and ambition like Yu Hu, thereby constantly causing internal strife within the Great Lan Dynasty.

Hu En Tuso and others had all specifically dyed their skin and hair to disguise themselves as Easterners; although they had learned the official language of the Great Lan Dynasty, their accents were still hard to correct, sounding somewhat strange.

Hearing Li Fei shout the name "Hu En Tuso," Yu Hu was struck as if by lightning, knowing he could no longer hide it.

If it were true as Li Fei said, that Hu En Tuso had fallen into his hands, then the fact that he had colluded with Westerners and betrayed his country could truly never be washed away!

"People of the Tiger Blade Gang, now that you know your gang leader has betrayed the country, do you still dare to risk your lives for him? Are you really not afraid of having your nine generations executed and being reviled by future generations after you die?!"

Driven by his Innate One Qi, Li Fei's voice carried far and wide.

The elites of the Tiger Blade Gang who were fighting others nearby all hesitated upon hearing this.

Behind closed doors, they could fight however they wanted; after all, looking across the entire Great Lan Dynasty, which place wasn't like this? Who wasn't fighting for power and profit?

But colluding with Westerners to betray the country—that nature was completely different.

To put it broadly, this crime could truly lead to the execution of one's nine generations, and one would be reviled by descendants for generations to come!

And to put it mildly, in many people's hearts, the Great Lan Dynasty was still the Central Empire, the Celestial Kingdom, the number one nation in the world that many were proud of.

You colluded with Westerners? That has no future!

That will surely end in defeat!

For a time, the hearts of the Tiger Blade Gang were shaken, and many stopped fighting.

"Chief Yan!"

Li Fei's "verbal assault" was not yet over; he continued to "output":

"Do you still want to continue aiding the tyrant and helping Yu Hu?"

"Yan Yichen, do you want to commit treason?!!"

These words were like a thunderbolt, "striking" Yan Yichen until his body trembled, and he finally stopped.

At the same time, the experts from the Stop-War Academy he had brought also stopped one after another, falling into confusion.

"Ah—"

Yu Hu was extremely furious and suddenly roared.

"Die for me—"

He frantically struck at Li Fei with his palms, wanting to kill him.

Even if he were to suffer a crushing defeat today, he would kill Li Fei under his palm!

Unfortunately, the Cold Yin Drifting Snow Force was not suitable for direct frontal assault, and the vast majority of the cold force was absorbed by the Myriad Blood Bead, so the cold force accumulated in Li Fei's body was negligible, meaning he was not affected in the slightest and could still block Yu Hu's attacks time and again.

Suddenly, the sky full of wind and snow was pierced by a dazzling electric light, and a figure killed their way in.

With Yan Yichen no longer holding him back, Shangguan Xiao rushed over to join forces with Li Fei to deal with Yu Hu!

Li Fei relied only on brute strength, and without internal energy to support it, it was difficult for him to truly threaten Yu Hu, but Shangguan Xiao's Wind-Thunder energy was different.

If her Gale-Qi energy and Flash-Thunder energy could truly fuse together, she would be able to master a high-tier energy—the Wind-Breath Thunder-Roar energy!

However, it was extremely difficult for mutated-attribute implants to fuse perfectly; Shangguan Xiao had to cultivate another type of implant to harmonize the two, but she had not been able to find the implant she needed all these years, so she remained stuck at the threshold of high-tier energy.

Yet, under Hao Yi's guidance, she used the Gale-Qi energy and Flash-Thunder energy in coordination, and the resulting Wind-Thunder energy, while not a high-tier energy, possessed power comparable to one!

Seeing Shangguan Xiao charging over, Yu Hu had no choice but to start falling back to defend.

"Yan Yichen, kill them both, and there is still a chance to turn the tables!"

Yu Hu shouted toward Yan Yichen.

"Chief Yan, one more wrong step and you will be beyond redemption!"

Li Fei also shouted immediately.

"Yan Yichen, if something happens to me, can you really remain unscathed?!"

Yu Hu threatened:

"As long as they are killed, any secret can be buried!"

Yan Yichen was finally swayed and also rushed toward this side, the golden sword radiance in his hand stabbing toward Shangguan Xiao once again.

Seeing this, Yu Hu breathed a sigh of relief and turned to continue attacking Li Fei:

"Let's see how long you can hold out!"

He firmly believed that his Cold-Evil Drifting-Snow energy must have already taken effect, feeling that it would not be long before he could kill Li Fei.

Li Fei was held back by Yu Hu's energy and found it difficult to move, able only to continuously block the opponent's attacks amidst the wind and rain.

At this moment, the preciousness of "Danger Perception" was once again manifested; Li Fei was able to anticipate the enemy every time and react in advance, thereby defending without a single leak!

Suddenly, the wind and snow on the periphery were broken through again; it was Shangguan Xiao, who had found another opportunity to charge over.

But before she could strike, Yan Yichen followed closely behind and forced Shangguan Xiao back with another sword strike.

Just as Yu Hu intended to urge his energy to continue attacking Li Fei, he suddenly sensed a crisis and turned around abruptly to strike with his palm.

A golden sword radiance tore through the wind and snow, stabbing toward him with an incomparably sharp sword intent.

Yan Yichen had suddenly attacked Yu Hu!

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(End of this chapter)