Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 548: Chapter 545: Painful Killing

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Chu Zhiyuan paid no attention to the Evil Sect experts charging in.

Instead, he focused on the other side of the street.

They were able to create such chaos, and even under the control of the City Guard, naturally, they must have had some unique tricks.

The horse aside, there were other experts secretly using a spirit secret technique.

Amplifying people’s fear and panic.

And fear and panic are contagious, able to be magnified in a crowd.

If it were him, he could easily break it with nothing more than a loud shout.

But being in the thick of it, unable to overlook the entire situation, the City Guards were flustered.

This still showed their lack of experience.

Tianjing City seems to have been peaceful for too long, rarely experiencing chaos, which makes it so fragile.

After this incident, they will surely have gained experience and ways to deal with it.

More than ten Imperial Guards rushed out from both sides, blocking those Evil Sect experts.

A battle ensued on both sides.

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head and scanned the surroundings with his eyes: ”Prince, it seems you don’t have many opportunities to fight against Evil Sect experts.”

The Prince smiled and said, ”Indeed, there are very few Evil Sect experts in Tianjing.”

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”There are quite a few Evil Sect experts in Tianjing.”

”Many?”

”I can see forty-some right now, besides this group in front, there’s another group hidden among the crowd observing.”

The Prince showed a look of disgust.

”Has the Prince ever witnessed the atrocities of Evil Sect demons personally?”

”...I’ve seen it once when I was young.” The Prince’s face turned an ugly color.

He didn’t want to recall that scene anymore.

It has been suppressed deep in his heart.

It had been buried for so long that he thought he had already forgotten it.

Seeing these Evil Sect experts today, the memories he thought forgotten became clear again.

Only now he realized he had never forgotten.

The eighteenth younger brother and he were both captured by an Evil Sect expert, who first devoured his eighteenth brother.

He watched as his eighteenth brother was drained to just skin and bones amidst screams of agony.

Chu Zhiyuan watched the battle in the arena calmly, looking at the crowd in the distance, and said calmly, ”Then the Prince should understand why I detest them so, why I must eradicate them.”

”Kill them all!” the Prince slowly said.

Chu Zhiyuan’s Super Sense was always observing everyone, including the Prince.

Watching the Prince’s eyes, the emotional turmoil.

Chu Zhiyuan sighed: ”The wisest move for me would be to stand by and do nothing, let your Da Meng’s Imperial Guards kill them, allow Da Meng’s guards to suffer losses, ... if I take action, I can prevent your guards from getting hurt, but you won’t appreciate it, instead, you will resent my meddling.”

”Princely Heir...” the Prince hesitated, ”Will the guards suffer losses?”

He had to admit Chu Zhiyuan’s words weren’t wrong.

The wisest thing for Chu Zhiyuan is to stay put, let the guards act.

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Once they unleash Jade and Stone Burning, the guards can’t withstand it.”

”...Then I request the Princely Heir to act!” the Prince gritted his teeth and said.

Today, he might as well lose face; compared to saving face, the lives of the guards are more important.

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Then shall I make a move?”

”Please do, Princely Heir!” The Prince nodded vigorously, ”Kill all those demons!”

From Chu Zhiyuan’s sleeve flew out eight apparitions, which hovered above, yet they were eight flying knives.

Eight flying knives, crystal clear, as if carved out of ice.

They hovered in the void a meter above Chu Zhiyuan’s head, quivering slightly, eager to strike.

The Prince examined them in astonishment, Hu Ping’an, Guo Pu, and others curiously observed these flying knives as well.

Each was exquisite and had faint, intricate strange patterns.

Those with a heart knew Chu Zhiyuan’s flying knife reputation; having not seen it personally, some always found it exaggerated.

How could there be such formidable flying knives?

While they were scrutinizing, they felt these eight flying knives seemed like living things.

Like eight eagles, eager to hunt.

”Whoosh!”

With a whistle, the eight crystal flying knives instantly vanished into the air.

In the next moment, they drilled into the battling crowd, flying past the foreheads of one Evil Sect demon after another.

They were discernible and indistinct, yet astonishingly fast; by the time one realized, the flying knife had already arrived, unavoidable.

The eight flying knives made one round, piercing through sixteen heads, then another round, killing all the Evil Sect demons engaged in battle.

They reappeared in the void above Chu Zhiyuan’s head, unstained by a drop of blood.

The Prince and others widened their eyes, feeling a sense of disorientation.

Chu Zhiyuan gestured with his mouth to the distance, ”There’ll probably be another battle over there.”

The Prince stared blankly at him, then turned dimly to the distant street.

”Should I handle it directly?” Chu Zhiyuan asked.

The Prince murmured, ”Deal with it then.”

The eight flying knives immediately glowed and shot out again, disappearing into the air.

They drilled into the crowd in the distance, passing through each head.

”Ah—!”

”Murder—!”

...

Screams echoed from afar.

Transparent flying knives pierced through each head, causing their owners to die abruptly.

Bodies shrank rapidly, leaving only clothes and the bones beneath.

In the blink of an eye, eight flying knives flew back to the void above Chu Zhiyuan’s head.

They trembled lightly, seemingly revealing a sense of dissatisfaction, a thirst for more killing.

Chu Zhiyuan faintly sensed their unfulfilled desire.

These Evil Sect experts were neither strong nor numerous, not enough for them to slaughter.

”Such a fine Sword Technique,” the Prince marveled, ”Truly a marvelous Sword Technique!”

Such a flying knife skill, miraculous indeed.

Chu Zhiyuan nodded with satisfaction, smiled and said, ”Glad not to have disappointed you.”

”Princely Heir’s divine knife, I’ve witnessed a grand spectacle!” the Prince marveled, ”Such unparalleled Sword Technique, truly wonder how it is mastered!”

Chu Zhiyuan laughed, ”By chance and coincidence, it’s very convenient for slaughtering Evil Sect demons.”

Guo Pu, clad in a red robe, laughed and said, ”Princely Heir, wouldn’t it be wrong, wouldn’t you kill the wrong people?”

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”They only kill those with intense murderous aura, specializing in slaying demons; those without such aura aren’t as easily killed.”

The Imperial Guards had already stopped, watching the rapidly shrinking corpses on the ground, turning their gaze towards Chu Zhiyuan.

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Prince, the purge is complete.”

”Thank you, Princely Heir.” The Prince clasped his fists, ”Shall we continue?”

”Alright.” Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

The Imperial Guards quickly moved the shrinking corpses aside, allowing the envoy and Da Meng Ministry of Rites officials to continue forward.

After a hundred meters, before reaching another street junction, the eight flying knives above Chu Zhiyuan’s head shot out again, drilling into the crowd at the junction.

Then came screams one after another.

”Ah!”

”Ah—!”

”Murder—!”

”Death—!”

...

The screams were incessant.

Chu Zhiyuan continued walking forward without stopping, and the flying knives above never rested.

Not long after returning, they flew out again.

By the time they reached the Four Directions Pavilion street of Da Meng, Chu Zhiyuan’s flying knives had already deployed six times.

Each time, killing twenty to thirty people.

The Prince secretly tallied, from the South City Gate to the Four Directions Pavilion, they had slaughtered over two hundred people.

Over two hundred Evil Sect demons, it made them shudder inwardly.

They never expected the Evil Sect to be so rampant, with over two hundred demons in Tianjing City!

These were just the demons coming to assassinate Chu Zhiyuan; not all the demons in Tianjing City would target Chu Zhiyuan.

So there are even more demons within Tianjing City!

Realizing this, they all felt heavy-hearted, a vague anxiety.

What was once thought to be steadfast and safe Tianjing City, harbored hundreds of demons, or even thousands, tens of thousands.

After bidding farewell to Chu Zhiyuan, each of them had a serious expression, looking grim.

The Prince then personally entered the Imperial Palace to speak to the Emperor.

He wished to report the matter of the Evil Sect demons personally.

He also needed to offer his apologies; today had indeed humiliated Da Meng.

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