The Heavens: Man Covers the Heavens, Refines Treasures to Become an Emperor

He casually pulled out a handful of silver coins from his purse, about a hundred of them, and threw them on the table with a clatter, speaking in a condescending tone.

"Hey kid, I've got my eye on your pet rat. Here's a hundred silver coins, enough for you to earn for half a year. The rat is mine, the money is yours."

Jiang Xuan didn't even look up. He simply picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and acted as if he hadn't heard anything.

Rui Qing's face darkened, feeling that she had lost face in front of her female companion, and her voice turned cold.

"Kid, don't push your luck! In Qingliu Town, no one dares to disrespect me, Rui Qing!"

As he spoke, he actually reached out to grab Qiuqiu, who was playing in Luoluo's arms!

Just as his fingers were about to touch Chiu Chiu—

"Whoosh!"

A whooshing sound rang out! Jiang Xuan's ordinary bamboo chopstick struck Rui Qing's wrist tendon with pinpoint accuracy!
"what!"

Rui Qing felt a numbness in her wrist, and her entire arm instantly went limp and weak. She cried out in surprise and pulled her hand back.

He was both shocked and furious, and his other hand shot out again, even faster!

"Whoosh!"

Another bamboo chopstick shot out, hitting his other wrist precisely once again!
"Uh!"

Rui Qing's hands fell limply to his sides, both shocked and furious. He had never been so humiliated.
He stared intently at Jiang Xuan and said sternly.

"Fine! Fine lad! You dare to lay a hand on me? Do you know who I am? My father is the garrison commander of Qingliu Town! You're finished! I'll make sure you never leave Qingliu Town!"

Jiang Xuan finally raised his head and gave him a cold glance, his eyes filled with disdain and chill, as if he were looking at a buzzing fly.

He was too lazy to waste words on this spoiled brat and simply stood up.

Under Rui Qing's horrified gaze, she grabbed him and the screaming woman, A Jiao, by the back of their collars, one in each hand.

He walked to the window and, without hesitation, threw the two people out of the second-floor window!

"Puff! Puff!"

"what--!"

Two muffled thuds of heavy objects hitting the ground and a piercing scream echoed from the street, along with gasps from passersby.

The diners on the first floor of the restaurant were stunned by this sudden scene and fell silent.

Jiang Xuan frowned slightly the moment he threw the two out the window.

He keenly noticed that while Rui Qing was being arrogant and provocative, something was happening at several other tables on the second floor of the restaurant.

Those who appeared to be ordinary diners exhibited extremely subtle and abnormal fluctuations in their breathing.

It's the excitement and murderous intent of a hunter seeing his prey fall into a trap.

Something is wrong!
Jiang Xuan immediately turned around and shouted at Luo Luo, who was still in a daze.

"Luo Luo, close your eyes! Hold on tight to your brother!"

Luo Luo didn't understand what had happened.

But trusting Jiang Xuan completely, she immediately closed her eyes obediently and tightly gripped the hem of Jiang Xuan's clothes with her little hands.

Almost at the same moment Luo Luo closed her eyes, Jiang Xuan drew the [Flowing Light Battle Blade] from his back!
The cold glint of the drawn blade illuminated his icy eyes.

His gaze was sharp as he swept over the seemingly leisurely "diners" on the second floor.

The sound wasn't loud, but it carried a chilling killing intent and clearly resonated throughout the entire second floor.

"Gentlemen, we've waited so long, why hide yourselves any longer?"

The moment the words fell—

"kill!"

The seven or eight "diners" on the second floor seemed to have heard the order to attack, and their leisurely expressions were instantly replaced by ferocity!

They suddenly overturned the table, and in their hands appeared various magical weapons such as swords, chains, and darts, all gleaming with a cold light!

The killing intent erupted as if it were a tangible force, rushing towards Jiang Xuan from all directions!

"Boom! Click!"

The once elegant second floor of the restaurant was instantly transformed into a bloody battlefield!

Amidst the clash of swords and the impact of spiritual energy, tables, chairs, cups, and saucers shattered, splinters flew everywhere, and the walls were cracked and even collapsed from the fierce aftershocks of the attack!
The ordinary diners on the first floor had never seen such a scene before.

Terrified, they fled for their lives, crying and screaming, as they ran out of the restaurant in complete chaos!
Not far from Fengwan Restaurant, under the shadow of a rooftop, a middle-aged man dressed in gray, with a deep and unfathomable aura, was quietly lying in wait.

He held in his hand a strangely shaped longbow with a bluish sheen on its body, which was the magical artifact called "Throat Sealing".

This man, named Ma Ming, was the person in charge of the operation. He had reached the Heavenly Gang Realm and was most skilled at long-range sniping.

His plan was ruthless and effective.

The twenty-seven skilled men lying in ambush on the second floor of the restaurant were to launch the first attack, sparing no effort to entangle the target Jiang Xuan, forcing him to reveal himself or creating chaos.

He then led thirty-three crossbowmen who were lying in ambush outside, occupying the high ground around them to form a deadly net of arrows.

Even if his comrades inside the building suffer heavy casualties or even all perish, he believes it's all worthwhile as long as the mission is ultimately accomplished.

"Boom——!"

With a loud bang, the second floor of Fengwan Restaurant succumbed to the intense battle, with parts of the walls collapsing and smoke billowing out.

Ma Ming's eyes narrowed, and he raised his hand to signal the crossbowmen around him to get ready, waiting for Jiang Xuan's figure to appear from the ruins or windows before delivering a fatal blow.

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the expected scene of Jiang Xuan fleeing in a sorry state or being forced to reveal himself did not occur.

The ruins were deathly silent, save for the crackling of burning wood and faint groans.

Ma Ming frowned, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

Time passed slowly, and the fierce fighting inside the building had subsided at some point, but Jiang Xuan was still nowhere to be seen.

"What happened? Where are the people inside the building?"

One of the crossbowmen lying in ambush couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

Ma Ming did not answer; his unease grew stronger.

In this eerie silence—

"call out--!"

A sharp, piercing sound suddenly rang out, a mournful sound that was definitely not from an ordinary crossbow bolt! The sound came from... the depths of the ruins!
"puff!"

Not far from Ma Ming, a crossbowman hiding under the eaves fell to the ground.

A fine steel crossbow bolt, still trembling slightly, was stuck in the center of his forehead.

The fletching on the arrow's tail clearly indicates that it is an arrow from the Imperial Army's standard-issue crossbow!
He's down there!
He's not dead!

Ma Ming was horrified, and finally understood!
Jiang Xuan was not eliminated by the ambush inside the building. Instead, he used the ruins as cover and launched the first attack on the ambushers on the perimeter!

"Watch out! Take cover!"

Ma Ming hurriedly shouted loudly.

But it's too late!
"Boohoo, boomboo-!"

Like the call of death, dozens of crossbow bolts shot out from various tricky angles from the collapsed ruins of the restaurant!

These arrows seemed to have eyes, accurately hitting each exposed crossbowman!
"what!"

"my leg!"

"Help..." Screams of agony rose and fell! In just one surprise attack, seven or eight ambushers were killed or seriously wounded by arrows!

The remaining crossbowmen panicked and scrambled for cover, their formation collapsing!

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Seeing the situation was dire, Ma Ming was terrified and no longer cared about the mission; he only wanted to save his life first.

He shouted the order as he stood up, preparing to jump off the roof.

The moment he stood up.

A beam of light, more concentrated and faster than the other arrows, shot out from a crack in the ruins, precisely capturing his movement trajectory!

"Pfft!"

Ma Ming felt a sharp pain in his mouth, and a tremendous force sent him flying backward, his back slamming heavily against the roof ridge!

He stared in terror, trying to scream, when a crossbow bolt shot into his mouth, pierced the back of his neck, and pinned him firmly to the roof!

……

Deep within the ruins of the restaurant, in a small space formed by collapsed beams and a counter.

Jiang Xuan slowly put down the captured crossbow, his eyes as cold as frost.

He gently covered Luo Luo's eyes to prevent her from seeing the bloody scene outside.

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Jiang Xuan's keen senses, honed through countless life-and-death experiences, had already detected the anomaly.

The "diners" on the second floor were very well disguised.

But their thick calluses on their hands, their overly calm reactions, and the subtle pauses they made when they subconsciously stood up but forcibly suppressed themselves during Rui Qing's disturbance did not escape his notice.

During the fierce battle with the ambushers inside the building, he clearly sensed the ominous and murderous aura outside.

Therefore, at the end of the battle, he deliberately created the illusion of the restaurant collapsing, actually using the ruins as perfect cover.

He took out the [Boundless Spirit Bow], though he did not use it for shooting directly.

However, thanks to its accompanying "insight vision" ability, it clearly "saw" the location of every ambusher outside.

Combined with the "absolute calm" state brought by the Boundless Spirit Bow, he used the captured short crossbow and Divine Arm Crossbow to carry out a precise and efficient counter-sniping kill.

In the end, all twenty-seven soldiers who had been lying in ambush inside the restaurant were wiped out.

Of the thirty-three ambushers outside, Jiang Xuan used the terrain and his archery skills to shoot and kill twenty-four of them. Only nine of them managed to escape by acting quickly.

Jiang Xuan carried Luo Luo as they slowly emerged from the shadows of the ruins.

His blue robe was stained with dust and blood.

But his eyes remained as sharp as ever.

He had barely stepped out of the ruins when a commotion arose at the end of the street.

Rui Qing, whom he had thrown out the window earlier, was now bruised and swollen, limping, leading a group of people in a menacing manner.

The leader was a middle-aged man in official robes with a gloomy face; he was the garrison commander of Qingliu Town and Rui Qing's father.

Behind them followed a dozen or so garrison thugs wielding clubs and exuding hostility.

Rui Qing spotted Jiang Xuan emerging from the ruins at a glance, jumped up and down, pointed at Jiang Xuan, and cried to her father beside her.

"Father! It's him! It's this thug! Committing a crime in broad daylight, throwing me and Ajiao from the second floor of the restaurant, he has absolutely no regard for the law! Look at this restaurant... he must have destroyed it in his rage! You must get justice for me!"

Rui Zhenshou's face was gloomy. He first glanced coldly at his good-for-nothing son, and then turned his gaze to Jiang Xuan.

When his gaze met Jiang Xuan's deep, calm, and unwavering black eyes, he couldn't help but feel a slight chill.

The young man's eyes were far too calm; he was no ordinary brute.

He looked around again, his gaze sweeping over the broken walls and ruins of Fengwan Restaurant.

And those faintly visible signs of battle, which could not have been caused by an ordinary brawl.

Deep knife marks on the walls, charred craters on the ground, lingering spiritual energy fluctuations and a faint smell of blood in the air...

All of this points to an extremely brutal and high-level battle between cultivators!

This cannot be explained by his son's simple description of "violent fighting"!
Having navigated the treacherous waters of officialdom for many years, Rui Zhenshou immediately realized that things were far from simple. The young man before him was likely of extraordinary origin and had just emerged from a fierce battle.

Just as he was filled with doubt and uncertainty, Jiang Xuan spoke, his voice calm yet carrying an undeniable power.

“Lord Rui, if I hadn’t thrown your son out of the restaurant, he would probably be a corpse by now, no different from the twenty-seven people inside.”

"You fart!"

Upon hearing this, Rui Qing jumped up and started cursing.

"It's clearly you..."

"Shut up!"

Commander Rui turned around abruptly, shouted angrily, and raised his hand at the same time.

With a sharp "smack," Rui Qing received a solid slap across the face!

The slap was quite forceful, causing Rui Qing to stagger backward, her cheek swollen and red. She stared at her father in disbelief, completely stunned.

Commander Rui forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, turned to Jiang Xuan, forced a slightly stiff but polite smile on his face, and cupped his hands in greeting.

“Young master, my son has been unruly and offended you. I apologize on his behalf! Thank you for your mercy and for saving his life! May I ask your name? If you would be so kind as to invite me to the garrison headquarters, where I will host a banquet to express my gratitude.”

He adopted a very humble attitude, clearly recognizing Jiang Xuan's extraordinary nature and wanting to befriend him, but at the very least, he couldn't afford to offend him.

Jiang Xuan shook his head slightly, calmly refusing.

"We've only met by chance, no need for that. I have a favor to ask the garrison commander."

"Please speak, young master! As long as it is within my power, I will certainly do my best!"

"I'll be the town garrison commander," said Commander Rui hurriedly.

Jiang Xuan pointed to the ruins of the restaurant and the scattered corpses around it, and said.

"There are fifty-one corpses inside and outside the building, all of whom were the people who tried to kill me. I request that the garrison send men to collect all their belongings, including weapons, pills, spiritual materials, and money, and hand them over to me."

Upon hearing this, the corner of Rui Zhenshou's eye twitched slightly.

Fifty-one corpses?!

He was horrified, but remained outwardly calm, and immediately gave orders to the constables behind him.

"Didn't you hear me? Do as this young master says! Search thoroughly, don't miss a single needle or thread! Confiscate everything!"

"Yes!"

The constables were filled with doubt and even fear.

But they dared not disobey and immediately dispersed to take action.

Before long, the spoils were collected one after another and piled up on the open space of the street, forming a small mountain!
Among them were not only a large number of standardized military crossbows, sharp magical swords, and various insidious hidden weapons.

There are also many high-quality elixirs for healing injuries and restoring spiritual energy.

In addition, there are many rare spiritual materials and a considerable amount of gold coins!
These items are all of high quality and have a unified style, clearly originating from a well-trained and well-resourced organization.

Looking at this "treasure mountain", Commander Rui and his yamen runners all gasped in astonishment!
This is no ordinary thug.

This is clearly an elite assassination squad!

The power behind it is probably terrifyingly large!
Jiang Xuan expressionlessly stored all the spoils in his storage ring, then looked at the pale-faced Commander Rui and gave him a brief reminder. (End of Chapter)