Chapter 66: Kneeling Across the Entire Square!

"All unauthorized personnel, leave immediately!"

"If you don't want to lose your lives, clear out of Tianfu Square at once!"

"Otherwise, blades and swords are blind, and fists know no mercy!"

The ones leading the charge were two gloomy-faced middle-aged men.

"Patriarch Xue! Patriarch Guan!"

Seeing who had arrived, Qin Zhennan immediately cried out in a loud voice.

He had assumed that Second Master Qi was destined to die here today, but he never expected the heads of the two top families in the provincial capital to arrive together.

He instantly breathed a sigh of relief!

At their command, the onlookers in Tianfu Square scattered like frightened birds and beasts.

Earlier, it was merely a duel upon a stage, and watching the spectacle for amusement was harmless.

Now, however, the Xue and Guan families had brought fully armed soldiers in uniform.

It was obvious that something massive was about to unfold!

Remaining here without fleeing immediately would undoubtedly lead to getting caught in the crossfire.

Duan Lingxiao swept his gaze around the vast Tianfu Square, which had been thoroughly sealed off by fully armed soldiers.

There were nearly a thousand of them.

Wherever the eye could see, there were only enemies.

As for Zhao Heihu, the subordinates he brought from the Black Tiger Hall numbered only a few dozen.

In stark contrast, they appeared overwhelmingly outnumbered and hopelessly outmatched.

"Mr. Ling, shall our brothers escort you in a tactical retreat?"

Zhao Heihu crept up beside Duan Lingxiao and whispered urgently.

He never imagined that the Xue and Guan families would intervene at this crucial juncture.

This was utterly lacking in martial sportsmanship!

"A mere flock of chickens and dogs, pay them no mind."

Duan Lingxiao replied indifferently.

"A flock of chickens and dogs? Heh, where on earth do you get your confidence?"

"The elite warriors we brought can exhaust and crush you to death through sheer numbers alone!"

Xue Renmei sneered, glaring at Duan Lingxiao with pure hatred.

"Indeed, you nameless bastard dares to kill my son, and I will make you suffer a lingering death!"

Guan Zuying, the head of the Guan family, echoed the sentiment.

Their beloved sons had been murdered by Duan Lingxiao, an irreconcilable blood feud.

Thus, they had led a multitude of formidable experts to encircle and annihilate Duan Lingxiao.

These men were seasoned veterans tempered through countless life-and-death struggles on the battlefield.

They were the backbone of the two great families.

Utilizing this grinding wheel of attrition, they were utterly certain that Duan Lingxiao would perish.

"Foolish."

Duan Lingxiao’s expression remained calm, devoid of any trace of fear.

On the battlefield, he had witnessed formations tens or hundreds of times larger than this.

He had stood entirely alone against thousands of troops and horses, his expression unchanged.

Such a minor spectacle was, in his eyes, no different from children playing games.

"You are far too arrogant! Today, I shall avenge my son Taihe!"

"I will make you realize, unpolished brat, that the great noble families cannot be insulted, and insults demand a price!"

Xue Renmei waved his hand, and instantly, a horde of armed soldiers swarmed toward Duan Lingxiao.

"Lacking strength is called arrogance."

"Possessing strength... is simply reality!"

Duan Lingxiao unleashed a single punch.

Majestic as rivers and mountains!

Surging with boundless force!

Unstoppable!

The soldiers at the very forefront saw their armor instantly shatter.

Like a collapsing mountain or an overwhelming tidal wave, they were blasted backward.

The scene instantly turned into a gruesome sight of severed limbs and shattered bodies, too horrific to behold.

With just a single move, over twenty soldiers were reduced to critical injuries, casualties scattered everywhere.

"So powerful!"

"What level of cultivation has he actually attained?!"

This horrifying display struck terror into the hearts of all the remaining soldiers.

Their eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets!

"What are you all staring at in a daze? Charge, kill him! Kill this little bastard!"

Xue Renmei slapped the face of a stunned soldier nearby, roaring fiercely.

The soldiers snapped back to their senses, yet facing the overwhelming might of Duan Lingxiao, lingering terror gripped their hearts.

Not a single one dared to take a step forward.

Meanwhile, Duan Lingxiao took a single step, instantly appearing directly before Xue Renmei and Guan Zuying.

He reached out his hand to seize them.

"Impudent wretch, you dare!!"

Xue Renmei’s vital energy surged violently, radiating like a rainbow.

He threw a matching punch directly at Duan Lingxiao.

"Bang!"

Xue Renmei’s face abruptly twisted into a grimace of extreme agony.

With a muffled explosion, his entire arm was blasted into a fine mist of flesh and bone.

Blood sprayed across the faces, bodies, and mouths of both him and Guan Zuying.

Xue Renmei let out a piercing shriek, his complexion turning as pale as a sheet of paper.

Guan Zuying watched the horrific scene unfold, so terrified that he collapsed backward onto the ground with a thud.

He was no martial artist; compared even to Xue Renmei, he was merely an ordinary man.

Watching Xue Renmei’s arm shatter into bloody fragments while gore splattered across his own face, how could he possibly remain composed?

"If any of you wish to live, kneel down at once!"

Surveying the nearly one thousand armed soldiers still filling the square, Duan Lingxiao's gaze turned frigid as he let out a thunderous roar.

Channeling the God of War Art, his voice instantly transformed into a booming peal of thunder.

It reverberated with earth-shattering might, echoing across the entire firmament.

The soundwave shook deep within the eardrums of every single armed soldier.

"Puff! Puff!... Puff!"

Many soldiers failed to withstand the shock; their eardrums instantly ruptured, and blood gushed from their ear canals.

A single roar shattered the courage of every last man present.

Their bodies trembled violently, and the murderous momentum they had gathered vanished into thin air instantly.

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

It was uncertain who initiated the first movement.

Immediately following, all the armed soldiers buckled at the knees.

They crashed to the ground in a mass surrender!

Staring with profound reverence toward the spot where Duan Lingxiao stood.

In the blink of an eye, Tianfu Square was a sea of kneeling figures.

Densely packed, a vast and oppressive tide of humanity.

The entire perimeter of the square plunged into an absolute, suffocating silence.

Everyone felt profoundly and overwhelmingly shaken to their very core.

Such a spectacle was something they would not have dared to imagine even in their wildest dreams!

"Just how high is the master's cultivation realm?"

Zhao Heihu stared in dumbfounded awe, feeling as though the greater part of his life had been lived in vain.

"At least... as tall as three or four stories high!"

Cao Mengchen gestured with his hand beside him.

His face was similarly etched with a mixture of shock and fervent excitement.

A master peerless in both medicine and martial arts!

Damn it, you couldn't find even a handful of such figures across the entire nation!

Just how much good karma had he accumulated in his past life to be granted the chance to study under Master Ling?

Both Cao Mengchen and Zhao Heihu trembled uncontrollably with excitement.

"This... how can this be, how is this possible..."

"With a single punch and a single roar, he rendered the elite warriors we brought completely incapacitated?!"

Xue Renmei clutched his severed stump, his face frozen in utter disbelief.

Overwhelmed by sudden fury and despair, he spat a mouthful of black blood.

"Do you still wish for revenge?"

Duan Lingxiao looked down from on high, gazing indifferently at Xue Renmei and Guan Zuying.

"No, we dare not, this feud... we forfeit it."

"Spare our lives! Please spare us!!"

The two of them had been scared out of their wits.

Unless the Marquis of the Southeast himself intervened, who else within the entire Southeast Province could possibly suppress Duan Lingxiao?

"Even if you abandon revenge, you still must die."

With that, Duan Lingxiao delivered two swift kicks.

They landed squarely on the chests of the two men.

Snapping their internal meridians and crushing their hearts.

Both men instantly vomited blood and perished on the spot.

Since they had come looking for him to commit murder, how could Duan Lingxiao possibly let them walk away alive?

"Ling, you..."

Qin Zhennan’s eyes split at the corners, his glare burning with a desire to consume flesh.

He never imagined that Second Master Qi would arrive only to be beaten to a pulp with a single blow.

Nor did he expect that Xue Renmei and Guan Zuying would simply throw away their lives.

And a thousand armed soldiers, actually frightened out of their wits, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy without end.

This outcome was something he could never have conceived, even if he exhausted his imagination!

"The strength of this young man is truly terrifying beyond measure!"

Second Master Qi stared at Duan Lingxiao with a pale visage, his eyes flashing with a deep, consuming wave of regret.

"If I had known..."