Free Web NovelChapter 557: Chapter 557: Assassination
"Candied haws, sweet and fragrant candied haws!"
"Steamed buns, freshly steamed white flour buns!"
"Freshly collected ground honey, melts in your mouth, sweet to the heart!"
As night fell and the city lights first came on, the streets of West Plain City were even more bustling and lively than during the day.
All the shops along the street hung bright lanterns, and the attendants stood at the doors shouting hard, attracting customers from the passersby.
Peddlers and laborers, car drivers selling beverages, merchants from the east and west, all gathered here!
Zhang Yuan mixed within the bustling crowd, smelling the endless aroma of human life, feeling leisurely and relaxed.
He had been working in West Plain for two months.
But he had never really experienced the local customs of this Dao City!
Zhang Yuan restrained his own aura, blending in with the crowd.
"Little brother."
Suddenly, a little girl carrying a flower basket came up, blocking his path.
The little girl blinked her big black eyes and raised the bouquet in her hand: "Jasmine flowers picked in the afternoon, very fragrant!"
Zhang Yuan stopped in his tracks, laughing in silence.
He took the bouquet offered by the girl and sniffed the flowers.
Indeed, very fragrant.
So Zhang Yuan reached out and took out a piece of silver, placing it into the little girl’s hand: "I bought it."
The little girl immediately widened her eyes: "Brother, that’s too much!"
A bundle of jasmine flowers only cost three copper coins, yet Zhang Yuan gave half a tael of fractured silver, evidently far exceeding the cost.
Looking up, Zhang Yuan’s figure was already gone.
Holding the bouquet, Zhang Yuan walked through the crowded crowd and soon arrived in front of a tavern.
It was the dinner hour, business inside the tavern was very good, laughter and cheers constantly emanated from inside.
Easily tempting the craving of Zhang Yuan’s stomach.
Actually, at his cultivation realm, ordinary food merely barely supplements the body’s needs.
But Zhang Yuan wouldn’t deliberately suppress his appetite.
Even after entering the Divine Realm, he would still savor the aroma of human life.
"Sir, would you like a candied haw?"
An old white-haired man holding a grass stick came over, speaking with a face full of flattery: "Sweet and fragrant candied haws, just five coins a stick."
Zhang Yuan glanced at the old man and suddenly laughed: "So cheap, then I’ll have a stick."
"Alright!"
The old white-haired man suddenly beamed with joy, quickly handed Zhang Yuan a stick of candied haws: "Sir..."
Before he could finish his words, his previously timid eyes mixed with flattery suddenly turned razor-sharp, and the candied haws in his hand stabbed towards Zhang Yuan’s throat at lightning speed.
The tip shone with a metallic gleam!
Simultaneously, a vendor who had just circled behind Zhang Yuan suddenly attacked.
A black dagger fiercely stabbed towards his back!
The two enemy assaults happened in an instant, so fast that the surrounding people hardly noticed.
Zhang Yuan instantly fell into a dangerous situation, besieged from front and back!
However, at this critical moment, Zhang Yuan seemed to grow eyes at the back of his head, suddenly sidestepping and lifting his leg.
While avoiding the old man’s trick, his right leg, with whistling strength, heavily kicked the waist and abdomen of the vendor at the back.
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With a heavy thud, the vendor’s body flew backward like a kite with a broken string.
Though he was a Tier Four Martial Artist, physically strong and his True Qi ample, taking Zhang Yuan’s kick immediately ruptured his Sea of Qi, his organs instantly turned into pulp from the invading Gang Power, and he spat out foul blood mixed with fragments.
Before even hitting the ground, he was already dead at the Yellow Springs!
Although Zhang Yuan deliberately controlled the angle of his kick, sending the enemy flying without hitting pedestrians on the street.
But the fierce conflict that erupted suddenly left the surrounding people dumbfounded.
In the next moment, screams rose one after another.
The entire street suddenly exploded, people scattered in panic, fearing becoming innocent victims.
Yet there were also several figures moving upstream, converging towards Zhang Yuan from different directions!
At this moment, Zhang Yuan reached out and grabbed the old man’s wrist.
Crunch!
The opponent’s wrist bone was crushed into powder.
But this old white-haired man was also valiant, actually enduring the pain without wincing, and spat out a burst of cold light.
Shooting straight for Zhang Yuan’s face.
It was a bunch of poison needles like cow hair!
However, these ghostly blue poison needles froze just inches away from Zhang Yuan’s face as if hitting an invisible barrier, unable to advance further.
Protective Gang Qi!
The old white-haired man was surprised.
The information he got indicated Zhang Yuan was a peak Tier Five Martial Artist.
But what Zhang Yuan displayed now was clearly the power of a Tier Six expert!
The old man immediately realized he had been deceived.
However, it was already too late to regret.
He roared, and his right arm suddenly shook, directly breaking his own right hand, forcibly escaping Zhang Yuan’s grip!
"Begone!"
Zhang Yuan angrily shouted, instantly releasing an invisible wave of Gang Qi.
The dozen cow hair poison needles hovering before his eyes instantly flew back, striking the old man’s face and neck.
"Ah!"
The old white-haired man never dreamed that the hidden weapons he had just unleashed would all be turned back on him.
Caught off guard, he emitted a terrible scream.
All these poison needles were coated with lethal venom, making them deadly even the old man himself had no antidote, his face rapidly turned pitch black, the wound began to rot rapidly.
In just the blink of an eye, the old man fell to the ground, his face horrifyingly unrecognizable.
Dead beyond dead!
And after quickly dealing with two assassins, Zhang Yuan faced three more killers.
These killers coordinated seamlessly, their three gleaming short blades all targeting Zhang Yuan’s vital areas, blocking all his escape routes.
Moreover, as they launched their attack, they raised their left hands and simultaneously released a flurry of poison powder!
As the target of all eyes, Zhang Yuan coldly snorted, raised his hand, and swept forward.
The poison powder swirling towards him instantly vanished!
All absorbed into his Storage Space.
However, having dealt with the poison powder, Zhang Yuan couldn’t avoid the three short blades stabbing towards him.
His left waist, the back of his head, and his chest were simultaneously pierced.
The three killers immediately rejoiced!
Yet in the next moment, they all stopped smiling.
Because the Profound Short Blades capable of easily penetrating heavy armor, when stabbing Zhang Yuan’s Protective Gang Qi, couldn’t advance any further, as if hitting an incredibly thick iron wall.
Moreover, the rebound power cracked the killers’ knuckles!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
At the moment the killers were stunned and incredulous, Zhang Yuan swung both palms forward and backward, heavily striking their foreheads.
Three heads suddenly exploded!
