All Heavens: From Joy of Life to The Great Feng Night Watchman

"My Jiangnan Water Village will personally take action to ensure you die a horrible death!"

Li Chang'an's double is in Suzhou. It seems Fan Jin is going to instigate the failed candidates to complain to Prince Yong's double.

The stand-in encountered many complaints along the way, but he never accepted them because he did not have the authority to adjudicate cases.

However, Li Chang'an would have the local police investigate these cases, hoping to find some dirt on a high-ranking official in the court.

In other words, because Li Chang'an traveled to Suzhou, Fan Wujiu instigated the examinees to file a complaint, and the salt merchants spent a lot of money to hire someone to kill him.

Therefore, Fan Wujiu, who could have survived by seeking refuge with the Second Prince, may very well not survive.

Fan Wujiu's swordsmanship was superb, each strike aimed at vital points, and in the blink of an eye, he beheaded three more seventh-rank masters.

However, there were simply too many of them, and every move they made was deadly. Fan Wujiu was no match for their combined strength and was covered in blood.

He spat out a mouthful of blood and killed another seventh-rank expert; his defeat was imminent.

"Damn it...it seems I'll never be able to participate in the imperial examinations in this lifetime."

"No! No! No!"

Several dark, concealed weapons flew through the air, coming within a zhang (approximately 3.3 meters) of Fan Wujiu's back!

Fan Wujiu heard the wind, but it was too late to turn around and defend himself!

"laugh!"

Suddenly, a powerful, invisible sword aura shot out from the side, knocking all the hidden weapons away!

The sword energy was extremely powerful, and the true energy surged forth, piercing through the bodies of two seventh-rank martial artists!

The two seventh-rank martial artists looked down at the huge bloody hole in their chests, completely unable to believe that such martial arts existed in the world!

Without using any weapons, but only condensing true qi into a sword, it can injure people from more than ten feet away, and its power is so great!

"Nine... Ninth rank!"

"He's actually a ninth-rank expert!"

"External energy projection? How is that possible!"

"How could Suzhou have such a young ninth-rank master!"

The assassins were horrified to discover that a man was standing not far away—the very young merchant from the salt fields.

This is only a minor version of the Six Meridians Divine Sword. If it were to reach perfection, it might be able to shatter half of a body.

Li Chang'an tiptoed and charged into the crowd in the blink of an eye.

"You eyesore, you're asking for it!"

"Come together and kill him!"

Although a ninth-rank cultivator is powerful, in this world, a ninth-rank cultivator can be ganged up on and killed.

In the assassin's eyes, Li Chang'an was so young, and since he had cultivated long-range sword energy, he must be very weak in close combat.

However, Li Chang'an's methods were strange. The assassins felt the palm shadows flying in front of them, and several of their weapons were instantly knocked out of their hands!

Then Li Chang'an struck one assassin with a single palm strike, shattering their sternums and crushing their hearts!

The one who disarms you is the Tianshan Plum Blossom Hand, and the one who seriously injures and kills you is the Tianshan Six Yang Palm.

The strongest eighth-rank expert's vision blurred, and he only saw the afterimage of Li Chang'an moving towards him!

The Lingbo Weibu (Lingbo Steps) is based on the hexagrams of the I Ching. Once perfected, it is "unpredictable in its movements and difficult to anticipate in its advances and retreats," making it impossible for the enemy to predict its patterns of action or intentions.

Just like this eighth-rank expert, he only saw a blur before his eyes, moving as fast as a clone, and couldn't even touch Li Chang'an's clothes.

Immediately afterwards, the long sword in his hand flew away and a palm surging with true energy was already pressed against his chest!

He was hit by a palm strike, but it didn't hurt at all!

However, the internal energy within his body was surging outwards at an alarming rate!

Chapter 52 Is Your Highness a Celestial Vein Holder? The Sadistic Ming Qingda!

The Shadow Guards, who were about to rush forward to help, were stopped by Zhao Gao, who said, "Your Highness can handle this perfectly well. Don't get in the way."

"You rushed in, but His Highness's sword aura still had to dodge you. You're overestimating yourselves!"

Xing Yusen looked at Li Chang'an, who was handling the situation with ease, and couldn't help but sigh.

"A sixteen-year-old ninth-rank master is simply unprecedented and unheard of!"

"Amazing! There's only one word to describe His Highness's incredible skill!"

After waiting for a while, one of the Shadow Guards behind him couldn't help but ask, "Commander Xing, which character is it?"

Xing Yusen stared wide-eyed and said, "It's the word 'cow,' didn't I already say that!"

"Haitang Duoduo, the closed-door disciple of Kuhe, the Grandmaster of Northern Qi, was also a ninth-rank youth and was revered as a saint in Northern Qi."

"In recent years, people in Northern Qi have been saying that she is a person with a celestial lineage. I don't know if it's just hype or if there's any truth to it!"

Those with celestial bloodlines are seen by the people of this world as having blood left behind by the heavens, possessing extraordinary achievements in combat or art.

At this moment, Zhao Gao said disdainfully, "What holy men and women! If there are truly those with heavenly lineage in this world, it can only be Your Highness."

"You all say that only grandmasters can release their true energy, but look at His Highness's sword energy, isn't it formless and invisible, yet it injures the enemy without leaving a trace?"

"Although I don't have the same powerful true energy as a Grandmaster, I can project my true energy outwards just like a Grandmaster."

The Shadow Guards nodded in agreement, as Li Chang'an clearly fit the characteristics of a Celestial Vein user better.

In the time it takes to say a few words, Li Chang'an has absorbed all the true energy from that eighth-rank expert's body.

The eighth-rank expert felt that his dantian was completely empty, and his originally powerful true energy had vanished!

Although he was already at the eighth rank, even if his true qi was gone, his meridians would still be intact, and he could still cultivate it, but that would require many years of hard work!

The remaining seventh-rank assassins were also killed by him, one by one, with each palm strike.

At this moment, Fan Wujiu was covered in blood, with more than a dozen knife wounds on his body, but fortunately, his vital organs were not seriously injured.

He stared in horror at the blood-stained salt fields and the corpses of more than twenty experts.

Such a young ninth-rank expert easily killed more than a dozen seventh-rank experts, including several above the seventh rank!

Moreover, this person's martial arts skills were too strange; Fan Wujiu had never seen them before.

"Thank you for saving my life. I have no way to repay you. As long as you have any orders, I will go through fire and water without hesitation."

Li Chang'an said to the Shadow Guards who caught up, "Stop the bleeding first."

The Shadow Guards applied medicine to stop the bleeding for Fan Wujiu, and Li Chang'an then asked, "Are you Fan Jin, the failed scholar who caused a ruckus in Suzhou?"

Fan Wujiu gave a bitter smile and said, "Now I am a wanted criminal in Jiangnan Road, the deadly scholar Fan Wujiu."

Li Chang'an asked, "How many of the salt merchants who used cheating to ensure their sons passed the imperial examinations back then have you killed?"

Fan Wujiu smiled with relief, "Including the four people surnamed Liu who were killed, there are still two alive."

Fan killed them, which can be considered as a way of venting anger for the Suzhou examinees!

Li Chang'an shook his head and said, "Your vision is too short-sighted. Guo Zheng is still alive, and he's doing very well."

Fan Wujiu gritted his teeth and said, "The capital is a dangerous place, full of experts. My identity will be discovered soon after I enter the city."

Li Chang'an said, "I have a way to help you regain your legal status, but you must work for me."

Fan Wujiu had some experience in the martial arts world and had witnessed Li Chang'an's unfathomable skills, so he was already somewhat tempted.

"Young master, what do you need me to do?"

Li Chang'an said, "Come to Tianqiong Manor outside the city on the fifteenth of this month. We will not wait for you if you are late."

After speaking, Li Chang'an, accompanied by his Shadow Guards, escorted the eighth-rank master who had lost all his martial arts skills away from Yantian.

Fan Wujiu knew Suzhou; it was a famous villa of wealthy merchants in the city. It seemed that this young master was a rich man.

Now that we have a chance to clear our names, let's hurry up and kill the remaining two salt merchants!

If this young master could help him clear his name and participate in the imperial examination again, it wouldn't be impossible!

Li Chang'an and his group arrived at a secluded spot in the woods, where Xing Yusen began interrogating the expert from the Jiangnan Water Village.

"You'd better explain yourself who your superiors are!"

The man, having lost all his martial arts skills, became extremely cooperative, saying, "I am from the Jiangnan Water Village. I brought half of the leaders with me this time, but I never expected that we would be no match for you alone, young master!"

As he spoke, he began to kowtow frantically to Li Chang'an, saying, "Young master's martial arts are unparalleled, I admire you to the extreme, I beg you to spare my life."

"Fan Jin, the failed candidate, also known as Fan Wujiu, the deadly scholar from earlier, is a thorn in the side of the salt merchants of Jiangnan Road!"

“The salt merchants were terrified of being killed, especially those who had bribed the examiners, so they hired the Jiangnan Water Village to do it for them at great expense.”

Li Chang'an asked, "With these twenty people dead, what are the cultivation levels of the remaining members of your water stronghold?"

The man replied, "The chieftain's senior uncle, the old master, is a top-tier expert of the ninth rank, and is very famous in the Jiangnan region."

"Among the chieftain and other leaders, there are three eighth-rank officials, more than thirty seventh-rank officials, and more than two hundred brothers below the seventh rank."

Xing Yusen led nine Shadow Guards, all of whom were eighth-rank officials. With Zhao Gao, who was invincible below the Grandmaster level, slaughtering this water fortress would not be a problem.

According to Luo Wang's information, Ming Qingcheng, the illegitimate son of the Ming family, was spotted in the vicinity and was pursued by the Jiangnan Water Village.