193 The Soaring Dragon (1/2)

Wang Xiaoyun rushed at them with her fan brandished. She looked like a green blur as she sped towards their pursuers.

Seeing her take such an action, Xue Wei smirked wryly and rushed forward as well.

Inner Might – Sword!

Windwolf Sword Slash!

Xue Wei released a crescent blade of sword energy that was sent toward the closest opponent, placing the many pursuers between a rock and a hard place.

They had never expected that their targets would fight back like this and many of them started to feel uncomfortable.

A few tried to escape, but then they realized that the hunters had become the hunted, they had been lured out and it frightened them quite a bit.

Unfortunately, they could no longer back out. They had initiated the pursuit and now they had to battle for survival.

”Try this!” Xue Wei suddenly called out. A paper he had been holding for some time lit up.

He tossed it at the group with seven people, and grinned.

The paper grew brighter and brighter before a resounding boom sounded out through the entire alleyway and the houses on both sides shook.

A massive crater had been opened in the ground, and three of the seven experts were laying within it, dead and without a complete corpse.

”Oh, better than I thought,” Xue Wei muttered when he saw the damage that his Spiritual Energy Bomb did to the surroundings and his enemies.

”Retreat!” The pursuers were not the least bit unsure of their next move. They had to escape as soon as possible, because the boom would have alerted the authorities and the guards were likely to arrive at any moment.

”Think we'll let you go like that?” Xue Wei sent them his most brilliant smile as he picked up another piece of paper.

He poured a bit of qi into this paper and then threw it into the air. Suddenly everything stilled and all the experts beneath the Heavenly Warrior rank felt their bodies freeze for a moment.

The formation he had used was a crowd controlling formation that would freeze anyone in range beneath his spiritual energy rank for a second.

Although a second did not sound like much, that one second was lethal when taking the onslaught of Xue Wei's team of four into consideration.

All of them had their own movement techniques and they used them to flash from one person to another, executing them on the spot.

The Heavenly Warriors had long since realized that this was a formation, which made their eyes alternate between fear and greed.

They retreated slightly, still their greed was getting the better of them, wanting them to return to the battle. What if he had even stronger formations?

Not to mention that the guards would arrive soon. The guards were not to be trifled with; they walked in groups of ten and all ten were Heavenly Warriors. Some of the squads even had Ordinary Knights amongst them.

”I have some friends that could help me if I am sent to jail,” one of them muttered to himself, and it seemed the others had the same idea to use their connections to try and get their hands on Xue Wei's wealth.

Right as they retreated, a group of guards arrived at the location. There were seventeen corpses on the ground. Some of them were Heavenly Warriors, while the rest were Sky Warriors. All of them had died.

Four experts were still alive. Three of them were Sky Warriors and the last one seemed to be a Heavenly Warrior.

”What happened here?!” the captain of the guards roared. He had already decided that Xue Wei and his companions were the culprits. They had clearly killed someone, so they were to be arrested.

”Tie them up!” he yelled to his men. Xue Wei's eyes flashed dangerously the moment he did.

”You don't even know what happened and you are tying us up? This is self-defense, and in fact, I ought to have a conversation with your director of the Golden Chambers here in Golden Crow City. I was scared to death. Was it not for our beneficial deal just before, I would not want to continue the business deal I have with them,” Xue Wei said.

”Who do you think you are?!” The guard captain was furious. ”What makes you think you can talk with the director as you please? It is against the law to slander the Golden Chambers!”

”Throw them in jail!”

The other three looked at Xue Wei curiously. How would he react? But his final decision was to simply shrug his shoulders. ”Let's follow for now. I'd like to see this captain's face when he realizes what he has done.”

After getting their hands cuffed, they were led to the prison. Underway, the captain felt oddly uncomfortable when he noticed how cooperative they were.

It was as if everything was within their grasp. The captain turned more and more hostile. He led them through the most packed and busy place in the city to publicly shame them, but Xue Wei held his head high.

”Ye Xiao?” Suddenly, the voice of the Cerulean Starlight Sect's leader emerged from the sidelines. The captain was about to flare up until he saw the outfits that represented the Cerulean Starlight Sect.

”Oh, right! It is fortunate that I ran into you. Could I trouble you to inform Manager Hu of this?” Xue Wei grinned. ”The old captain refuses to listen to me, so I have to get ahold of that old director one way or another. I'll give you something great later if you help me.”

The man frowned. This was obviously an independent cultivator, so how could he possibly have something that would make the head disciple of a major sect's branch in the Skyward Empire run an errand for him?