Chapter 393: Chapter 393: Dai Linggang
After leaving the Celestial Wind Army Master, Chu Qingyun returned to his residence.
With just over two days before the Flying Ship was scheduled to leave Lianshan County for the next, he wanted to spend more time with his family.
However, at the entrance to the guards’ residential area, he saw that a large crowd had gathered.
He walked over to take a look.
Chu Qingyun found a very young-looking man in the center of the crowd, punching and kicking a Great Xia Dragon Guard Captain.
The captain had a few white hairs in his beard; he was clearly no longer a young man.
After beating him for a while, the young man still seemed unsatisfied. A vicious glint flashed in his eyes as he raised his leg, intending to stomp on the captain’s lower abdomen—right on his Qi Sea!
If that foot came down, the captain would be utterly crippled!
The faces of the many onlookers showed a mixture of pity, anger, and helplessness.
Some of them had tried to intervene earlier, unable to just stand by, but the young man, despite his age, was incredibly powerful. With a single wave of his hand, he had sent a dozen Captain-Level experts flying.
Chu Qingyun’s brow furrowed at the sight.
He suddenly shot forward, weaving through the crowd. With a sharp kick, he knocked the young man’s descending foot aside, then pulled the captain up from the ground.
"Are you alright? What happened here?"
Chu Qingyun patted the captain’s shoulder comfortingly.
Before the captain could answer, another, even younger man stepped out from behind the first attacker. "Alright? How could he be alright? He had the gall to bump into me. Doesn’t he deserve to die for that?"
This younger man was none other than the Ninth Prince, Yu Chen—the very person who should have been on the Flying Ship!
At the Ninth Prince’s side were several other young men and women. Each one possessed a profound and powerful aura. Incredibly, they were all in the Martial Spirit Realm—in fact, every single one was an Earth Spirit Realm expert.
Seeing so many young Earth Spirit Realm experts appear at once, Chu Qingyun’s expression grew serious.
"Lord Chu, it was just an accidental bump, but they immediately resorted to such viciousness! You have to get justice for Old Feng!"
"That’s right! He didn’t even really collide with them. In fact, Old Feng had already come to a stop, but they were the ones who crashed into him and sent him flying. How is that our fault?"
"Lord Chu, this is the garrison of our Great Xia Dragon Guards! What right do they have to come here and run wild?"
Seeing Chu Qingyun arrive, the surrounding Martial Master Realm cultivators acted as if they had found their backbone, and they all began to air their grievances.
’Lord Chu...’
A sharp glint flashed in the Ninth Prince’s eyes as he locked his gaze onto Chu Qingyun. He sized him up from head to toe, his expression gradually darkening.
He had come to the Great Xia Dragon Guards specifically for Chu Qingyun.
The story of how more than eight hundred Small Spirit Realm experts from the Great Xia Dragon Guards had heroically sacrificed themselves to defend the County City had long been the talk of the town, so it was easy to learn the details.
And the Ninth Prince had learned that the one who played the most pivotal role in that defense was none other than Chu Qingyun.
Far from feeling any gratitude, the Ninth Prince felt a deep-seated hatred and resentment toward Chu Qingyun.
In his eyes, it was precisely because Chu Qingyun had saved Lianshan County City and its millions of citizens that he had failed to bring Jingtai and the others under his control, causing him to lose face before Lord Lan and Prince Duan.
Someone as proud and arrogant as him would never admit his own faults. Instead, he was bound to place all the blame squarely on Chu Qingyun.
"A Tier Three Martial Spirit... and so young... Are you that Chu Qingyun?" the Ninth Prince asked, staring intently.
Chu Qingyun nodded. "I am. And who might you be? You’ve injured a man inside the Great Xia Dragon Guards’ garrison and were about to destroy a captain’s Qi Sea. You owe us an explanation."
Although these young men and women were clearly powerful for their age and must have extraordinary backgrounds, Chu Qingyun wasn’t afraid of them.
’So what if they’re in the Earth Spirit Realm? It’s not like I haven’t killed one before.’
’Besides, even an Earth Spirit Realm expert has no right to run wild in the Great Xia Dragon Guards’ garrison!’
"An explanation?"
"Hahaha, how ridiculous! You? You think you’re worthy of demanding an explanation from me?"
Hearing Chu Qingyun’s words, the Ninth Prince burst into laughter, his eyes filled with contempt and provocation.
As a Prince of Great Xia, Yu Chen had always been high and mighty. He looked down on people like Chu Qingyun, who had no powerful background. Even if he was a Great Xia Dragon Guard, he was beneath the prince’s notice.
The young men and women beside him also broke into laughter.
"Dai Linggang, this brat wants an explanation. Why don’t you give him one on our behalf," the Ninth Prince said with a sinister smirk to the man who had been beating the captain.
"Heh heh, don’t you worry. I’ll be sure to give him a ’proper’ explanation!"
Dai Linggang’s eyes grew cold. He sneered and took several steps forward.
The powerful aura of an Earth Spirit Realm expert exploded from his body, forcing the surrounding Martial Master Realm members of the Great Xia Dragon Guards to stumble backward.
The eyes of the Martial Artists were filled with absolute terror.
They had known Dai Linggang was a Martial Spirit Realm expert, but given his youth, they had all assumed he was merely in the Small Spirit Realm.
They had never imagined he was actually in the Earth Spirit Realm.
All at once, every Great Xia Dragon Guard on the scene turned to look at Chu Qingyun, their faces etched with worry.
There were rumors that Chu Qingyun had killed two Tier Four Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall, but the man he was facing now was no weakling like them!
’Another Tier Four Martial Spirit, huh...’
Facing the imposing aura of Dai Linggang, Chu Qingyun showed no sign of panic.
Although Dai Linggang’s power was certainly far beyond that of a scrub like Qingwa from the Martial Soul Hall, Chu Qingyun’s own strength had also improved dramatically after the great battle to defend the city.
In addition to breaking through to become a Tier Three Martial Spirit, he had used the Martial Soul Power he’d collected after returning to the garrison to upgrade all of his Martial Souls to Tier Four!
"Brat, don’t get cocky just because you killed a couple of Tier Four Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall. Today, I’ll show you the power of a *real* Tier Four Martial Spirit!"
"Mountain-Splitting Halberd! Crushing Mountain Strike!"
Dai Linggang barked, the immense Primordial Power of a Tier Four Martial Spirit surging around him. In an instant, a nearly three-meter-long Battle Halberd materialized between his hands.
The Battle Halberd was incredibly imposing, carrying the force to sunder mountains and shake the earth as it crashed down toward Chu Qingyun.
The man had used both his Martial Soul and a Soul Technique right from the start. It was clear he intended to overwhelm Chu Qingyun in a single move and show him his place.
The Ninth Prince and his entourage stared with gleaming eyes, eagerly anticipating the sight of Chu Qingyun being grievously wounded in a single blow.
Meanwhile, the surrounding Great Xia Dragon Guards watched with their hearts in their throats.
Although they weren’t strong enough to discern the full power of the attack, the hair-raising pressure it gave off was enough to tell them that it was anything but simple.
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