Cultivating in Different Professions

Chapter 183: Chapter 131: Eagles and Hounds

Inner City, before the Hu Mansion.

A flash of saber light sliced the ”Hu Mansion” plaque in two.

Su Mu, saber in hand, waved it forward. ”Surround the Hu Mansion! No one is to enter or leave without permission. Those who disobey will be executed!”

”Yes, sir!”

Several hundred Taiping Imperial Guards flooded the street, blocking it off completely.

At Su Mu’s command, they spread out like a tide, encircling the Hu Mansion.

At the end of the long street, a crowd of people in varied attire craned their necks to watch.

In the Inner City, the mobilization of several hundred Taiping Imperial Guards had long since alerted the various great families.

”The Hu Family is having a bad year. Not long ago, someone smashed their main gate, and now even their plaque has been split in two. Who did they offend?”

”Who else could it be? Didn’t you see how many people the Taiping Bureau sent out? Whatever the Hu Family is involved in, it’s not something small.”

”I bet their new gate won’t last long, either.”

The onlookers whispered among themselves.

BOOM!

Luo Anning swung her sword twice, shattering the gates of the Hu Mansion.

The Taiping Ti Qi swarmed inside.

Most of the Taiping Ti Qi were descendants of Taiping Captains. Limited by their own aptitude, they found it difficult to break through to the Blood Transformation Realm.

However, they came from profound family lineages and lacked for no resources, so almost all of them had successfully completed their Body Tempering.

Those at the Third and Fourth Stages of Body Tempering were everywhere.

Moreover, serving in the Taiping Bureau, they were constantly exposed to combat, making them far stronger than ordinary Body Tempering Martial Artists.

The Hu Family’s guards had no time to react before they were struck down by the wolf-like Taiping Ti Qi.

Su Mu and Luo Anning walked slowly into the Hu Mansion. Witnessing the brutal scene, Su Mu praised them silently in his heart, ’As expected of the court’s hounds.’

’They’re leagues better than those constables from the Outer City.’

Su Mu once again recognized the true nature of the organization he belonged to.

He had never had such a visceral understanding of it before.

Before returning to Wuling City, Su Mu had considered asking Luo Anning to have the City Lord dispatch men to bring the Hu Family under control.

But Luo Anning had looked at him in confusion, asking why he wanted the City Lord’s Mansion to send people.

Since the matter involved demons, the Taiping Bureau could act openly and righteously.

The Taiping Bureau didn’t just have Taiping Captains.

It also had the Taiping Ti Qi, capable of large-scale operations.

And so, the current scene came to be.

With a single accusation of ”colluding with demons,” several hundred Taiping Ti Qi had directly surrounded the Hu Family.

”Insolence!”

A furious roar came from the inner courtyard of the Hu Mansion, followed by the eruption of several powerful auras, and then the sounds of shouts and fighting.

Su Mu’s figure blurred, crossing through halls and doorways in an instant.

In a courtyard ahead, several Taiping Ti Qi had been knocked to the ground. A dozen or so others were surrounding and attacking a single man.

SWISH!

Without the slightest hesitation, the Thunder Shocking Saber transformed into a streak of white silk, plunging through a gap between the Taiping Ti Qi.

The man, who had been effortlessly handling the siege of over a dozen Taiping Ti Qi, had his expression change drastically as he whipped his long saber back to defend.

SCHLICK!

The Thunder Shocking Saber shattered the long saber and, its momentum unchecked, slashed across the man’s chest.

The man froze on the spot. A distinct line of blood appeared on his chest, and in the next instant, fresh blood gushed out, his intestines and organs spilling onto the ground.

His eyes widened, filled with terror and indignation.

”Captain!”

Seeing a Blood Transformation expert fail to even block a single one of Captain Su’s strikes before being killed on the spot, the Taiping Ti Qi were filled with reverence.

”Continue.”

Su Mu said coolly, continuing deeper into the Hu Mansion.

The Taiping Ti Qi shouted their assent, glancing at the dead Blood Realm expert from the Hu Family and his broken long saber.

”I heard Captain Su comprehended a Conception! A man’s reputation precedes him; he’s truly as amazing as they say. So incredible!”

one of the Taiping Ti Qi couldn’t help but exclaim.

”That man must have completed at least seventy percent of his blood transformation, yet he couldn’t even take one blow from Captain Su. And I heard Captain Su himself only just reached the Blood Transformation Realm not long ago. That’s what you call a genius.”

another Taiping Ti Qi said with a look of envy.

People like them had ordinary aptitudes. Without some great fortuitous encounter, it was almost impossible for them to step into the Blood Transformation Realm.

Because of this, they understood the gap between ordinary people and geniuses all the more.

There was no shortage of geniuses among the Taiping Captains, but Su Mu was definitely the most dazzling of them all.

Su Mu advanced, Thunder Shocking Saber in hand. Wherever he went, he met no match, leaving a trail of splattering blood and scattered corpses.

With Luo Anning and the Taiping Ti Qi joining in, the Hu Family, despite their numbers, could not withstand such a slaughter.

Soon, the Guard Martial Artists completely collapsed, dropping their weapons and kneeling on the ground, waiting to be captured.

Taiping Ti Qi, also dressed in Brocade and Ink Shirts but without the round patches on their chests and backs, quickly restrained them.

Watching this scene, Su Mu did not relax.

He knew that all of this was merely an appetizer.

The real challenge still lay ahead.

Arriving before the final courtyard of the Hu Mansion, Su Mu immediately spotted the Hu Family Patriarch, Hu Gongxiu, along with a group of the family’s experts gathered around him.

Behind them were the old, the weak, the women, and the children of the Hu Family.

Su Mu stopped, watching Hu Gongxiu from a distance of several dozen feet.

Behind him were countless Taiping Ti Qi.

The mass of Taiping Ti Qi held their long sabers, the bright silver blades forming a single, shimmering sheet.

A cold, murderous intent permeated the air.

These were the true hounds of the imperial court!

When Su Mu was a Sima and a constable in the Outer City, he would have needed conclusive evidence to mobilize on such a large scale.

But when the Taiping Ti Qi moved out, they didn’t need any evidence at all.

You need evidence to bust a gang, but for counter-terrorism, all you need is a location.