"Stop it, all of you! The nerve! Brawling in the streets with weapons? Do you really think the laws of Black Stone City are just for show?"
Song Mirror took the lead, charging into the scene with fifty or sixty Gold-Scaled guards. They quickly spread out, surrounding the two combatants in the center.
KAKAKAKA—
A series of crisp, synchronized clicks echoed as metal mechanisms were loaded. Dozens of cold military-grade repeating crossbows glinted in the sunlight, all aimed squarely at Li Heihu and Jiang Xuan in the center of the fray.
The crowd parted like water.
Dressed in black martial attire, Su Yu’s face was as grim as still water as he strode into the encirclement.
He went to Zhao Tie’s side and tapped several points on his body to stop the bleeding, then examined his injuries.
His arm and over a dozen ribs were broken. Even with a Martial Artist’s powerful regenerative abilities, it would take several months to recover.
Moreover, it seemed his internal organs were damaged. Without prompt treatment, it would likely affect his future Martial Arts cultivation.
This made the killing intent in Su Yu’s eyes flare even brighter.
He took a top-grade Blood Jade Glaze Pill from his Storage Ring and tossed it to Zhao Tie.
"Take it!"
Upon seeing the Pill, Zhao Tie quickly waved his hands. "Commander, it’s too valuable! I... COUGH COUGH... I don’t need it... It was my fault for trying to stop them by force. I should have waited for you."
"Take it. That’s an order."
Su Yu’s tone softened slightly. He knew Zhao Tie’s honest and simple-hearted nature sometimes led him to do foolish things, but he also knew the man would follow his orders to the letter.
Zhao Tie scratched his head and obediently swallowed the Pill.
Su Yu’s gaze shifted to the two men and one tiger surrounded in the center. He asked calmly, "Who injured you?"
"Commander, it was the demon tiger."
After hearing this, Su Yu gave a calm nod and walked forward.
At this moment, all eyes were on Su Yu.
Xu Xianzhou of the Spiritual Snake Martial Arts Hall saw Su Yu arrive and said with a sneer, "Well, look who it is. If it isn’t the great Commander Su."
"Tsk tsk, the number one genius of Black Stone City. A master at the Late-stage of the Flesh Refining Realm. I hear you can even defeat experts at the Perfection Realm. I wonder if you can still manage against an expert from Jian’an Prefecture?"
The mockery in Xu Xianzhou’s words was obvious. During the last operation to exterminate the Black Lotus Sect, Su Yu had impressed Old Man Lü of the Thousand Mechanism Tower with his Cyan-Scaled Eagle and received a bronze Token, which had only made Xu Xianzhou more resentful.
Su Yu ignored him and continued to walk forward calmly.
The two combatants had already noticed the newly arrived Security Guards.
However, both were proud and arrogant men. Even surrounded by military crossbows, they paid them no mind.
As for Su Yu, they had only heard of his reputation. Hearing Xu Xianzhou’s words, they both let their guard down.
’He’s just at the Late-stage of the Flesh Refining Realm. Even if he’s some kind of genius, he’s nothing more than a country bumpkin from this Black Stone City.’
’Compared to the rest of Qing Province, he’s just a frog in a well.’
’He can’t possibly think he can beat the two of us, can he?’
Both were battle-hardened veterans, and they were now holding back some of their strength in their exchange, wary of a sneak attack from Su Yu.
The demon tiger, under Li Heihu’s control, also positioned itself between him and Su Yu.
"Defying the law, brawling in the streets with weapons. Injuring a Security Guard, violently resisting arrest. Combined, these two offenses are a capital crime in Black Stone City!"
The instant his words fell!
BOOM!
The green flagstones beneath Su Yu’s feet fractured as he transformed into a violent afterimage. Like a cannonball fired from its barrel, he charged barbarically toward the snake-tailed demon tiger!
"You’re courting death!"
"Overestimating yourself!"
Li Heihu and Jiang Xuan both roared in anger. They never imagined that when faced with two experts at Refining Flesh Realm Perfection and a top-tier Demon Beast, this Su Yu would actually dare to charge them all by himself!
ROAR—!
The demon tiger reacted even faster than the two men. A brutal, bloodthirsty light flashed in its vicious vertical pupils. Its powerful hind legs kicked off the ground, and its massive body lunged at Su Yu like a collapsing mountain!
Its terrifying claw, larger than a washbasin, carried a foul, piercing wind that tore through the air as it viciously swiped down at the top of Su Yu’s head!
Before the claw even arrived, the intense, foul-smelling pressure wave had already sent market stalls dozens of meters away flying!
However, in the next instant, an aura even more tyrannical than the demon tiger’s erupted.
A dense, almost tangible, dark red Evil Qi surged into the sky, completely enveloping him. For a moment, the crowd seemed to see a peerless, violent ape stepping out from a primordial sea of blood and mountains of corpses, letting out an unyielding roar to the heavens!
Facing the mountain-crushing claw, Su Yu did not retreat. Instead, the muscles on his right arm knotted like tree roots. He clenched his fist and, meeting the claw that was even larger than his own body, threw a ferocious punch!
At the same time, his chest swelled and contracted violently like a bellows. Resonating with his Juque acupoint, a Buddhist true sound, like the tolling of a great bell, exploded from his throat:
"卍!"
Golden ripples of sound waves instantly appeared on the surface of the dark red, tyrannical fist energy!
The sound waves and the wind from the punch intertwined, sweeping across the entire area in an instant.
The demon tiger, which bore the brunt of the attack, along with Li Heihu and Jiang Xuan behind it, felt as if their eardrums had been struck by a heavy hammer! A dizzying sensation that threatened to tear their souls apart bloomed deep within their minds. The Qi and Blood that had been surging through their bodies like dragons suddenly stagnated for a fatal half-breath under the vibration of this strange Vajra True Sound!
In that half-breath of stagnation, Su Yu’s terrifying punch, which fused the ultimate intent of the White Ape with the Vajra True Sound, landed solidly on the demon tiger’s massive claw!
The result of this punch was beyond everyone’s expectations.
The massive demon tiger’s claw was shattered by the blow. A terrifying shockwave, like a tidal wave, surged up its arm from the point of impact. The tiger’s proud golden fur was torn away layer by layer, and the gnarled muscles beneath its flesh were brutally snapped by the savage force!
"AOWOO!"
The demon tiger let out a strangled, wretched howl. Its massive body was sent flying backward by Su Yu’s incomparably ferocious punch like a ragged sack!
BOOM—
The demon tiger’s enormous body traced an arc through the air, flying a full seventy or eighty feet before crashing through the wall of a three-story tavern. Amidst a violent tremor and a cloud of dust, its fate was unknown.
At that moment, Li Heihu and Jiang Xuan had just recovered from the impact of the Vajra Fearless True Sound, and they were utterly dumbfounded.
’One punch!’
’Just one punch! He sent a Tier Two Demon Tiger, comparable to a martial artist at Refining Flesh Realm Perfection, flying like a common dog?’
Giving the two no time to think, Su Yu, having succeeded with his first punch, followed up with his left. His fist, wrapped in an even more ferocious White Ape intent, shot straight for the abdomen of the still-reeling Li Heihu!
’Not good!’
Feeling the deadly pressure, Li Heihu cried out in his mind. His instincts, honed by years of walking the line between life and death, instantly told him the correct course of action:
’Retreat!’
’This kid isn’t some country bumpkin; he’s a ferocious beast in human form! I can’t fight him head-on!’
He retreated hastily, looking disheveled. At the same time, he flicked his right hand, and a black, poison-laced dagger shot out like a venomous viper, stabbing viciously at Su Yu’s incoming left fist!
’As long as I can nick him! As long as I can make him hesitate for even half a breath, I can use the opportunity to escape!’ A vicious glint flashed in Li Heihu’s eyes.
However, just as the dagger was about to strike Su Yu’s fist, a layer of dark golden, fluid-like substance suddenly erupted from it.
It was the Formless Flowing Gold!
The Formless Flowing Gold instantly transformed into a small shield in front of Su Yu’s fist. With a CLANG, it deflected the dagger, sending it bouncing away.
’What!’
Li Heihu was aghast. He never expected his full-power strike to be blocked so easily.
BANG!
Su Yu’s fist continued on its path and smashed into his opponent’s abdomen. Li Heihu’s body immediately curled up like a cooked shrimp.
"Urgh—"
In that moment, Li Heihu felt as if his internal organs had been twisted into knots, and he was about to vomit up a bellyful of bile.
SWOOSH!
Just then, the Seven Star Sword in Jiang Xuan’s hand slashed down at Su Yu.
It was an incredibly powerful strike. The astonishing sword intent had already materialized into a blade of light that enveloped the sword as it descended upon Su Yu.
Before the blade of light even landed, the air around it shimmered with a brilliant, dazzling radiance.
’Decent sword intent.’
Facing such a powerful blow, Su Yu merely offered this calm evaluation in his mind.
’To be able to manifest sword intent as a blade of light shows that his comprehension is quite good. It could have matched my previous Demon-Slaying Saber Stance.’
’But against me as I am now, it’s not enough!’
Su Yu formed his right hand into a claw and tore at the blade of light. The blood-red Evil Qi and the Formless Flowing Gold combined, transforming into a giant claw more than double its original size, which was the first to grab hold of the light.
RIP!
The seemingly indestructible blade of light was torn apart as easily as cotton silk.
Immediately after, with another CLANG, Su Yu’s claw struck the longsword from his opponent’s hand and seized Jiang Xuan by the neck.
"Aaaarghh..."
Jiang Xuan felt as if he were facing a tyrannical, ancient Demon Ape as his body was lifted effortlessly into the air.
The most terrifying part was the blood-red Evil Qi, which seared his spirit, causing him to cry out in agony.
He hammered at Su Yu’s arm with both hands, but with a SQUELCH, dozens of dark golden thorns sprouted from the arm, instantly piercing through his hands.
All of this happened in the span of just a few breaths.
Su Yu, fighting one against three, had sent two flying and captured one!
In the distance, the various Martial Artists who had been hiding in the shadows, waiting to see the Public Security Bureau make a fool of itself, were now so shocked their scalps tingled.
They stared blankly at the figure holding an expert at the peak of the Perfection Realm aloft with a single hand, a chill running down their spines.
A monster!
This Su Yu is a true monster!
Not only the experts of Black Stone City, but even experts from Jian’an Prefecture were no match for him!
Even that Tier Two demon tiger couldn’t withstand a single blow!
"This man’s talent has long since surpassed anyone in Black Stone City. He could hold his own in Jian’an Prefecture, or even the entire Qing Province!"
"The next edition of the Qing Province’s Hidden Dragon Rankings is coming out soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if Su Yu makes it on the list."
"Haha, now I’m looking forward to it. I wonder what rank this Su Yu will achieve?"