HPDBC #184 - Thunder from the sky
#184 - Thunder from the sky
A fourth-rank peak martial artist exuded imposing power.
The garrison troops were strong, but their strength lay in their military formations.
When it came to individual martial prowess, Qi Xianghong was the number one expert in Qingzhou City!
Without sufficiently high martial arts skills, how could he possibly keep the Qingzhou martial world in check?
Naturally, Feng Tian had no way to confront Qi Xianghong head-on.
He held his Phoenix-Beak Saber and slowly retreated back into the ranks.
At the same time, he shouted loudly at all the soldiers:
"We are not rebelling; the Yang family are the real rebels!"
"Lei Yu and An Liangbi have both accepted a large amount of wealth from the Yang family; they are accomplices in treason!"
"I am killing them to prevent a rebellion from happening!"
"After this matter, I, Feng Tian, promise that all soldiers in the army will receive talisman water to heal themselves and their families!"
The two thousand armored soldiers only felt their heads becoming more and more muddled.
For a moment, they couldn't understand who was the rebel.
But hearing Feng Tian's promise of talisman water made the soldiers feel much more at ease.
After all, only when their families were healthy and safe would they be willing to enlist and risk their lives.
At this moment, Feng Tian looked at Qi Xianghong and bowed slightly:
"Lord Qi, now it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and between black and white."
"I will not fight with you; please investigate everything before speaking."
Feng Tian knew that Qi Xianghong was not a loyal dog of the Yang family; everything he did was for the sake of the overall situation.
Furthermore, Qi Xianghong's martial arts were too high.
Therefore, Feng Tian was unwilling to make an enemy of him.
Feng Tian immediately ordered:
"Sound the retreat!"
"Withdraw the troops and return to camp!"
Upon hearing the military order, the armored soldiers, still hesitant, chose to obey.
Immediately, all the soldiers formed ranks and returned to the camp, closing the camp gates tightly.
Qi Xianghong coldly watched the army return to the camp before turning around to look at the figure inside the gauze tent of the altar.
"You demonic person, what a skillful scheme of sowing discord!"
"You have caused the deaths of the Qingzhou garrison commander and the assistant administrator; your crimes can never be forgiven!"
Qi Xianghong said angrily.
With his voice, boundless momentum swept towards the Taiping Dao crowd.
The overwhelming momentum even caused a gust of wind to rise on the scene.
The people of Taiping Dao and the disaster victims were blown back in this strong wind.
The anger of a fourth-rank peak expert was indeed terrifying!
On the altar, Liang Jin's voice sounded again:
"This venerable one has personally arrived to slay the sheep demon and quell the plague."
So, this person was actually an evil demon allied with the sheep demon!
Qi Xianghong laughed in anger upon hearing these words:
"I am an evil demon?"
"You, a mere fifth-rank martial artist, dare to speak so boldly in front of this official?"
"It's simply…"
Saying this, Qi Xianghong raised his hand and suddenly waved it towards the altar.
A terrifying internal force surged forth, attacking the altar.
"Laughable to the extreme!"
The moment the words fell, that powerful internal force had already roared to the front of the altar.
The combat puppet Huang Xingzi wanted to rescue him, but it was already too late.
Qi Xianghong's martial arts were too high, especially his internal force, which was deep to a terrifying degree.
"Whoosh—!"
A gust of wind suddenly blew up.
This gust of wind came suddenly, causing sand and stones to fly on the scene in an instant.
Everyone covered their eyes, unable to open them due to the wind.
The next moment, the wind suddenly subsided.
Everything around was calm, as if nothing had happened just now.
Only the gauze tent floating on the altar was slowly falling.
Even the power generated by Qi Xianghong's wave just now seemed to have struck empty air.
Qi Xianghong revealed a look of surprise:
"You demonic person, your lightness skill is quite remarkable!"
"Playing tricks to deceive these ignorant commoners."
Qi Xianghong was, after all, a fourth-rank peak martial artist; he could quickly judge the situation that others could not see clearly.
The demonic person on the altar had relied on a powerful lightness skill to avoid Qi Xianghong's attack.
Especially the gust of wind just now, which allowed the demonic person to deceive the eyes of the world.
This made the killing intent in Qi Xianghong's eyes fully revealed; he no longer held back.
His whole body's internal force surged wildly, and his powerful aura instantly enveloped and locked onto Liang Jin!
Qi Xianghong no longer held back.
He planned to kill Liang Jin with a full-force strike!
To let the world see that this demonic person was nothing more than that.
"You are still pretending to be a ghost in front of this official! Let's see if you can still pretend?"
"Why don't you continue to hide! I'll see if you can hide from this move?"
Qi Xianghong's whole body's internal force condensed, like a taut bow.
As his momentum and internal force climbed wildly, he wanted to make this pretending demonic person feel boundless fear before death!
At this time.
On the altar, Liang Jin's voice sounded again:
"You evil demon, you should know the immensity of heaven and earth."
"If you don't submit, be careful of your soul being destroyed!"
At this moment, Qi Xianghong's lungs were about to explode with anger.
A fifth-rank weakling dared to pretend so much in front of him?
If he couldn't kill this pretending demonic person in one move, then the face of his Qingzhou Six Doors Commander would truly be lost.
Immediately, Qi Xianghong's whole body's power condensed into one move:
"I will smash your bones to pieces, and see if your mouth is still hard!"
After saying this, Qi Xianghong was about to push his hands forward.
The full-force strike of a fourth-rank peak expert was about to be unleashed.
Suddenly—
A wave of violent, arrogant, bloodthirsty, and evil aura suddenly appeared.
At the same time.
Qi Xianghong only felt that in the darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes had already opened, and… stared at him!
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At this moment, the hairs on Qi Xianghong's body stood on end.
A feeling of extreme danger swept through his whole body!
"Not good!"
Qi Xianghong was shocked; he suddenly realized that somewhere in the darkness, a truly powerful expert who made him feel fear had appeared!
This expert was… full of killing intent towards him!
Escape!!!
This was Qi Xianghong's only thought at this time.
He knew that if he didn't escape immediately, he wouldn't even have the chance to escape!
But…
Could he escape?
Suddenly!
A clap of thunder seemed to explode in Qingzhou City!
"Rumble rumble rumble!!!!!!"
A piece of lightning, like a chaotic and complex giant net, instantly enveloped the scene.
At this moment, everyone was so frightened that their souls left their bodies, and they all lay on the ground screaming in terror.
Especially since they found that their hair was all standing up, static electricity crackled and exploded on their bodies, and even the iron objects on their bodies seemed to be slightly floating due to some kind of suction.
Thunder sounded.
Lightning scattered.
The night at this moment seemed to turn into day.
In the intense electric light, people couldn't see anything clearly.
They only faintly heard a desperate and terrified scream in the thunder.
It was actually Qi Xianghong's scream!
Amidst the uncertainty, everyone couldn't bother to guess what had happened.
Because they only felt that the lightning net was about to swallow them in the next second.
Suddenly—
All the thunder and lightning disappeared in an instant!
Daylight also returned to night at once.
People's eyes had just endured the strong light, and now they suddenly fell into darkness, so they had short-term insomnia.
After a while.
When people's eyes gradually adapted, they could see clearly everything that had happened on the scene.
Qi Xianghong!
This character who had just looked down on the crowd and was full of bold words.
He was now actually…
Turned into a charred corpse!
He still maintained the appearance of painful struggle before his death.
A pungent burnt smell, accompanied by the aroma of meat, spread from the charred corpse, making people want to vomit.
The skin and flesh of his whole body had been burned into black coke, and a stream of electric light flashed above his body before quickly dissipating.
The dark red body that had been burned also quickly dimmed.
Large chunks of ash fell from his body to the ground.
Now no one doubted that as long as they stepped forward and kicked him, the charred Qi Xianghong would probably turn into a pile of dust in an instant.
Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside!
Hiss!!!!
The audience gasped.
This Six Doors Commander, the number one expert in Qingzhou City, a fourth-rank peak martial artist who was only one step away from entering the third rank!
Actually…
Died just like that!!!!
How did he die?
No one knew.
No one could see clearly.
But this did not affect everyone's speculation.
A disaster victim suddenly shouted:
"It's heavenly lightning!!!!"
"The Great Virtuous Teacher summoned heavenly lightning and exterminated this evil demon!"
This shout seemed to awaken everyone.
That's right!
Didn't the Taiping Dao say before that the Great Virtuous Teacher had already cultivated a divine skill to slay demons?
Now, the Great Virtuous Teacher must have used this divine skill!
The next moment, everyone couldn't help but cheer:
"I know, this must be the legendary Heavenly Lightning Righteous Method!"
"The Great Virtuous Teacher is indeed a god-like figure! He can actually use heavenly lightning to subdue demons!"
"This is immortal magic! I didn't expect that a mortal like me would have the honor to witness immortal magic today!"
"Great Virtuous Teacher, omnipotent! Boundless magic power!"
… …
At this moment, the piety of all the Taiping Dao Yellow Turban followers and disaster victims towards the Great Virtuous Teacher reached an unparalleled level!
No!
Piety was no longer enough to describe their mood at this time!
It was fanaticism!
Mad and blind fanaticism!
At this time, no matter what the Great Virtuous Teacher said, no matter how outrageous and absurd it was, they would regard it as the truth!
After all, this was a god who could summon heavenly lightning to slay demons!
At this moment, everyone on the scene bowed down to the person on the altar.
Even in the military camp, a large number of armored soldiers knelt down with awe and fear in their eyes…