Chapter 79 : Chapter 79

Chapter 79: Come Back in Your Next Life—Then You’ll Be Younger Than Me!

The Fourth-Rank martial artist’s head hit the ground.

The household slaves and servants nearby, none of whom possessed a martial artist’s strength, were so terrified that they scattered in all directions, throwing everything into chaos.

The other Gao Family martial artists’ pupils contracted. They had never imagined events would develop like this.

A Fourth-Rank martial artist had died that quickly. There was even less need to speak of people like them, who had not even reached the Fourth Rank.

Before they could react, sharp whistling sounds tore through the air.

From twenty powerfully built Profound Cold Heavy Crossbows, bolts shot forth in unison and streaked across the sky.

Their hard, razor-sharp heads tore through Internal Energy and buried themselves in flesh.

The struck Gao Family martial artists let out muffled grunts of pain, and blazing fury rose in their eyes.

These people had actually dared come all the way to the Gao Family Ancestral Residence and attack them!

“Enemy attack!!!”

The Gao Family martial artists hurriedly dodged while shouting for reinforcements, their eyes red with shock and rage as they glared at Cheng Yu.

Only then did terror flood their hearts.

This was a master who could instantly kill a Fifth-Rank martial artist and who had not hesitated in the slightest to order a volley of crossbow bolts.

The moment they recalled Cheng Yu shouting about confiscating households and exterminating entire families, their hearts turned ice-cold.

These Jinyiwei really had come today to wipe out the Gao Family Ancestral Residence!

Before they could think any further, the Jinyiwei had already drawn their Xiuchun Sabers and charged. Three or four of them surrounded each wounded Gao Family martial artist.

They cared nothing for the jianghu’s so-called rules of fair combat.

Their only concern was killing quickly.

“Profound Cold Heavy Crossbows alone are starting to be a little insufficient...”

Watching his subordinates go all out, Cheng Yu silently sheathed his saber and walked deeper into the Gao Family estate.

Whenever he faced a force of any real strength, he always had to be the one to strike first.

The Jinyiwei had been in decline for a century. Against the martial might of the jianghu, they were naturally at a disadvantage.

If Cheng Yu, as their leader, did not strike first, then who among his subordinates would have the courage to strike at all?

His Jinyiwei had to recover their bloodiness and spirit first.

Only then would the day come when Cheng Yu trampled the jianghu under hoof and confiscated everything beneath the heavens!

With killing as the signal that drove them on, the Jinyiwei had grown rapidly during this stretch of time. Their coordination had become seamless, and their attacks had become ruthless.

Several Gao Family martial artists stood at higher realms, but in the end, the outnumbered could not prevail. They could only hold on with difficulty for a short while.

One of the stronger ones had just barely found a desperate opening and was determined to drag a Jinyiwei down with him in death, but before he could succeed, a Tang Sect Poison Dart shot in and abruptly interrupted him.

Very soon, the few Gao Family martial artists all collapsed into pools of blood.

The Jinyiwei raised their sabers in excitement and looked in Lord Cheng’s direction with blazing admiration.

“The Jinyiwei is conducting official business! Surrender at once!”

【The host led from the front, inspired his subordinates, and restored the Jinyiwei’s fighting spirit. Reward: three hundred portions of exotic poisons and antidotes!】

Hearing the system’s voice, Cheng Yu’s heart stirred.

He reached out and took several exquisite little porcelain bottles into his hand.

“Numbing Sorrow-Melting Breeze, Deadly Seven-Star Begonia, Joyous Union Powder”

“I had just said that Profound Cold Heavy Crossbows alone were no longer enough, and now such a gift has arrived.”

The Profound Cold Heavy Crossbows, which had once been unstoppable and had provided great help to Cheng Yu’s subordinates, were, in the end, merely finely crafted ordinary weapons. They could not bear Internal Energy Infused into the Weapon and did not even qualify as Low-Grade armaments.

As the martial artists they faced grew stronger and stronger, their bodies became increasingly nourished and tempered by Internal Energy. By the Third Rank, a martial artist’s body was already extremely tough.

The bolts fired by the Profound Cold Heavy Crossbows were incredibly fast, and ordinary martial artists found them difficult to evade.

Yet in the end, they still could not inflict fatal damage, which greatly reduced their effectiveness in battle.

Now, however, the system had rewarded him with a large quantity of potent exotic poisons. Coating the bolt tips with them would perfectly make up for that weakness.

It would once again strengthen the Jinyiwei under Cheng Yu’s command.

As for the truly precious things, items like the Divine Arm Bow could remain hidden for a while longer.

Cheng Yu intended to keep them until the proper moment arrived.

Then he would use them to give the jianghu martial artists a truly tremendous shock.

Terrified screams and the sounds of one-sided fighting had already echoed everywhere.

Martial artists from deeper within the Gao Family Ancestral Residence came rushing over after hearing the commotion.

Several leading martial artists from the Gao Family’s main branch saw the corpses of their own people strewn all over the ground, and their eyes nearly split with fury.

“How dare you kill members of my Gao Family! You are courting death!”

Cheng Yu looked at them and said coldly, “The Jinyiwei is conducting official business. All of you, surrender at once!”

And the Jinyiwei dared to act this arrogantly?

The Gao Family martial artists grew even more humiliated and enraged.

They raised their weapons, mobilized all their Internal Energy, and charged with furious roars.

But what greeted them was an overbearing blaze of saber light, accompanied by the explosive crack of terrifying thunder.

The Gao Family martial artists did not even have time to dodge or feel fear. They only felt a chill sink straight into their hearts before everything went black.

BOOM!

Wielding the Thousand-Forged Ice-Thunder Xiuchun Saber, Cheng Yu unleashed a terrifying slash like a thunderbolt striking down.

The three leading Fifth-Rank Gao Family martial artists at the front were cut cleanly in two. They collapsed into pools of blood, their bodies twitching.

The others were so frightened that their entire bodies turned cold and their limbs went numb.

The men who had just died were the strongest fighters currently stationed at the Gao Family Ancestral Residence!

“Second Master and Third Master are dead! Hurry and notify Eldest Master in Jiannan City!”

All the Gao Family martial artists were utterly panicked and at a complete loss.

Just then, an angry shout rang out.

“Beneath these bright heavens and under the noble way of chivalry, you actually dare commit such vile slaughter!”

Cheng Yu looked up.

Several martial artists with formidable Internal Energy emerged, but their attire differed from that of the Gao Family men.

They were most likely the jianghu people whom the gate servants had mentioned earlier—the guests currently being entertained by the Gao Family.

Among them, an elder with gray-white hair and a face twisted with fury stepped forward.

The Gao Family martial artists, seeing that someone was willing to support them, hurriedly cried out in grievance.

“Old Master, please act! These Imperial Hounds of the court are trying to destroy my Gao Family! As Eldest Master’s father-in-law, you cannot just stand by and watch us be slaughtered!”

At this, Cheng Yu frowned slightly.

The “Eldest Master” the Gao Family kept referring to was clearly Gao Song, the man of highest status and the eldest among them.

And his father-in-law, would that not be the father of that Seventh-Rank martial artist wife?

“I naturally cannot stand by and allow such vicious scum to do as they please!”

Li Ji nodded with a cold face and glared viciously at Cheng Yu.

He had been invited to his son-in-law’s house today for a gathering, to help foster ties with people of the jianghu. He had never expected to run into something like this.

At the very least, he was still a Sixth-Rank martial artist.

If he could not properly deal with one young junior, then where would the face of both the Gao Family and Li Ji be?

Gripping a ring-backed saber, he charged straight at Cheng Yu.

This was his famous martial art— Frenzied Gold Three Blades!

“Junior, hand over your life!”

“Old dog, are those old bones of yours still of any use? You do love stepping forward to back other people up!”

Cheng Yu sneered. Awe-inspiring Internal Energy poured into the Xiuchun Saber in his hand, making the thunderlight and icy aura even more terrifying.

Wave after wave of saber light flared into being, each strike tyrannical beyond measure.

Hundred-Battle Reincarnation Saber Art!

Sparks burst in all directions, and powerful Internal Energy swept outward.

“Brat, you court death!”

Li Ji grew fiercer and fiercer, unleashing all three of his blade strikes in succession. Bursts of golden Internal Energy exploded around him, and his might was truly impressive.

Yet every one of those three strikes was blocked by Cheng Yu’s incomparably meticulous saber art.

“This strength—”

Li Ji knew perfectly well that his own strength was far from weak.

But as terror seized him and a chill spread through his heart, his speed—already worn down by age—was no longer fast enough to defend against Cheng Yu’s attack.

He was struck backward and spat out blood.

“If I were twenty years younger, I certainly would not lose to you!”

“Then come back in your next life!” Cheng Yu sneered. “By then, you’ll be twenty years younger than me!”

The Xiuchun Saber in his hand slashed down savagely.

Thunderlight flashed.

With a deafening blast, a gigantic and horrifying saber wound appeared across Li Ji’s body.

In the next instant, he crashed to the ground.

Cheng Yu planted one foot on the blood-soaked Li Ji and glared coldly at everyone present.

“Any who refuse to surrender will end up like this thief. Kill without mercy!”