319: Chapter 171: Within Ten Steps_1 319: Chapter 171: Within Ten Steps_1 At that ti, two teams of Transcendent Guards stood outside the teahouse.
After Housekeeper Song had poured the tea, he kneeled and sat to the side.
Song Guang sat cross-legged with an unconcealed calm, the vulgarly lavish young woman leaning by his side.
Jiang Wang and Zhongxuan Sheng were sitting across from him, both squarely seated on the floor with their legs crossed.
Zhongxuan Sheng sipped his tea and complinted Housekeeper Song, “The tea is good!”
Then he looked towards Song Guang and said, “Prefectural Governor Song, the situation in Chiwei Prefecture is on the verge of erupting.
We must co to an agreent soon…”
“No need to rush,” Song Guang waved his hand.
His hand was the withered kind unique to the elderly, but the knuckles were thick, showing formidable strength.
He deliberately shifted his gaze towards Jiang Wang, “I rember you.”
“Yes,” Jiang Wang responded neither humbly nor arrogantly, “Jiang Wang once visited the esteed Prefectural Governor regarding the rat plague chaos.”
At this mont, the woman beside Song Guang screeched, “You’re Jiang Wang?”
Jiang Wang furrowed his brows, then listened as she continued shrilly, “Was it you who killed my godson?”
Turns out this was Song Guang’s fourth concubine, and the deceased Shi Jing from Qingyang Town had acknowledged her as his godmother, which had helped him board Song Guang’s ship.
Given the woman’s deanor, she was evidently highly favored by Song Guang.
Jiang Wang ignored her and said to Song Guang, “I am indeed here to offer my apologies to the Prefectural Governor.”
“Apologies?
What use are apologies?
Can a dead man be brought back to life?” The woman screeched again.
Song Guang gently patted the woman’s hand, signaling her to quiet down for the ti being.
His eyes, however, were on Jiang Wang, “When you visited last ti, had I ever slighted you?”
There was certainly slight, but of course, Jiang Wang could only say, “Not at all.”
Song Guang asked again, “Between you and , is there any enmity?”
Jiang Wang shook his head, “None.”
Song Guang then asked, “Then, does my lady bear a grudge against you?”
Jiang Wang shook his head again, “I do not know her.”
Song Guang nodded, no longer looking at Jiang Wang, but turned to Zhongxuan Sheng and said, “Young Master Zhong Xuan, did you hear all that?”
He was clearly seeking Zhongxuan Sheng’s attitude.
Zhongxuan Sheng’s smile remained unchanged as he looked at the woman, “You are Song’s fourth wife, correct?”
The woman hmphed lightly, indicating her lingering anger.
“A godson over fifty years old, what exactly do you want from him?” Zhongxuan Sheng said as his smile slowly faded, “Is it his spending money on rouge and powder that you miss, or does this person…
truly have so unknown strengths of interest to you?”
His comnt was outrageous, and Song Guang’s face turned cold in an instant, “What do you an by this, Young Master Zhong Xuan?”
“What do I an?” Zhongxuan Sheng raised his voice, “Shi Jing is but dry bones in the grave, and you, Song Guang, are on the verge of dotage!
I put aside military affairs and personally ca to discuss matters with you, giving you full face.
And yet, you let this vile harlot co out and offend, what’s the aning of that?”
The woman was like a chicken who had its neck seized, both shocked and angry, but she didn’t dare to speak out.
Although she was normally quite haughty due to Song Guang’s favor, she was well aware of the weight of the Zhong Xuan family na.
She could only look at Song Guang with a face full of grievance, waiting for the master to take a stance.
Having been pointed at and cursed out like this, Song Guang couldn’t hold face, and his expression was extrely ugly.
But after all, Zhongxuan Sheng was a direct descendant of the Zhong Xuan Family, and indeed had the qualifications to be arrogant.
With his temper in check, he said gravely, “I am very willing to serve Daqi.
But before confirming our cooperation, I need to see your sincerity!”
He had no idea why Zhongxuan Sheng and Jiang Wang had co with hidden agendas, as both of them only displayed the Cultivation Level of Ascending Dragon, which was in itself the greatest disguise.
He himself was of Inner Mansion Realm strength, and outside the teahouse were two teams of guards.
The entire County City was under his control, and outside the city were stationed seventy thousand battle troops.
Which assassin would dare seek death?
And with the esteed status of Zhongxuan Sheng, how could he possibly take such a risk?
In fact, up until now, he only thought Zhongxuan Sheng was throwing a young master’s tantrum.
Zhongxuan Sheng looked at him, his voice very light, “The distance between you and is not ten steps away.”
The man deliberately asked his concubine to accompany him, utilizing Shi Jing as a topic for discussion.
Perhaps it was to pick a quarrel, to test, or simply to drive up the price.
But it did not matter anymore.
Zhongxuan Sheng’s words were only half spoken when he suddenly bounded to his feet.
“This is my sincerity!”
Zhongxuan Sheng was very fat, so his movents required a lot of effort.
Exactly because it was so effortful, he would not move unless necessary, and once he did, there must be a return!
Just how strong was Zhongxuan Sheng after opening the Heaven and Earth Gate?
At least Jiang Wang, who once had the chance to compete for the strongest position in the Tongtian Environnt, stood no chance against him.
It is known that Jiang Wang, when in the Tongtian Environnt, could kill ordinary cultivators at the Cultivation Level of the Ascending Dragon Realm as easily as slaughtering chickens.
And as Zhongxuan Sheng rose to his feet, his large hand was already reaching forward.
An invisible and intangible force imdiately enveloped Song Guang, who sensed sothing amiss.
What is the Inner Mansion?
The human body has five mansions, each one as if opening a new Tongtian Palace!
Although Song Guang had not attained Divine Skills, he was already a second mansion powerhouse.
With two Inner Mansions opened, in addition to the Tongtian Palace, he had three sources of dynamic power within his body.
These two Inner Mansions, in conjunction with the Tongtian Palace, thunderously activated, channeling a continuous stream of transcendent energy throughout his body.
But still.
Yet he found himself involuntarily being drawn toward Zhongxuan Sheng!
That formless yet imnsely powerful force was converging from all directions.
Behind him was a powerful repelling force, and in front was a terrifying suction force.
It was as if the whole world was “rejecting” him, “squeezing” him, pushing him into Zhongxuan Sheng’s clutches.
Song Guang almost imdiately recalled what this force was.
This was the Monster Art.
It was also the origin of the surna Zhong Xuan!
Before opening the Heaven and Earth Gate, Zhongxuan Sheng could only enhance his basic Dao Techniques with the Heavy Technique, but after, he was able to directly use the Heavy Technique against his enemies.
This was the bloodline secret art upon which the Zhong Xuan Family based their standing in the world, almost equivalent to a Divine Skill!
Why do the top aristocratic families often last for a thousand years?
It’s because they do not need to harvest Divine Skills to have a chance to demonstrate the power of Divine Skills in battle.
Song Guang was acutely aware of the current situation, understanding that his cultivation had not advanced for many years and had already begun to decline.
The reason he was desperately hoarding wealth was to accumulate resources, trading for heavenly materials and earthly treasures that could help him.
If he were to confront Zhongxuan Sheng, who had cultivated his bloodline secret art to such an extent, he would undoubtedly stand no chance.
However, with the guards just outside the door and the army just outside the city, as long as he could find the slightest gap, he would have the chance to turn the tables.
And at the mont when the three power sources were unable to stop his forward movent, Song Guang steeled his heart and directly detonated one of his Inner Mansions!
Boom!
A thunderous roar exploded within his body.
The wild and massive power, resulting from the detonation of an Inner Mansion, helped Song Guang temporarily break free from that omnipresent gravity.
But almost at the sa ti, Jiang Wang’s thought moved, and his Dao Technique was executed.
After stepping into the Ascending Dragon Realm, using all his accumulated power to unseal the second level of the Performance Stage, he fully deduced the Tiger Binding spell, thereby acquiring the advanced Dao Technique, [Five Qi Tiger Binding], which now belonged to the first-class Dao Technique rank.
Song Guang’s inner mansions had just exploded, causing the five qi within him to instantly disperse, but in the next instant, under Jiang Wang’s guidance, they “reconverged,” forming five streams of the five elental energies from inside out, binding the bursting Song Guang in place!
This binding lasted only for a brief mont.
But it was in that mont that a cold light shot across the tea room!
Rolling around, a decapitated head landed on the tea table, tumbling several tis before coming to a standstill.
Then ca Song Guang’s headless body… his blood spurted wildly!
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