NOVPUBXu Zimei’s eyes held a very powerful pressure that spread from them.
This pressure was extremely domineering.
In his eyes, a thundercloud storm brewed, and with it came the faint sound of crackling explosions.
Faint purple arcs of electricity flickered subtly.
Finally, when everything reached a critical point,
The aura around Xu Zimei soared proudly, with a loud "boom" emanating from his body.
His eyes were almost entirely overtaken by dazzling light.
Two purple thunderbolts transformed into a torrent, shattering everything in their unstoppable flight.
The thunderbolts carried the might to destroy the heavens and the earth.
This was the first layer of attack from the Heavenly Punishment Divine Pupil, "Nine Skies Heaven Thunder".
As the Heavenly Thunder rolled down, sweeping across the area, the guards simply couldn’t resist.
The Heavenly Thunder shattered Wu Geng’s empty space, with a thunderous rumble echoing in one’s ears.
The surrounding guards didn’t even have time to react before they were completely obliterated.
"Let’s go," seeing this, Wen Lianggong shouted to Lue Xiongying and immediately turned to flee quickly.
"Think you can escape?" Xu Zimei chuckled lightly.
Once again, thunderbolt burst forth from his eyes, shattering layer after layer of space with a speed so fast it was elusive and hard to defend against.
The thunderbolts came with a sonic boom that resounded all around.
Seeing this, the Blood Butcher Wen Lianggong realized he couldn’t avoid the speed of the thunderbolts.
He quickly summoned a skull to shield himself.
Meanwhile, Lue Xiongying seized the opportunity to hide behind Wen Lianggong.
With a "boom",
It seemed as if the sky itself had been punctured, with gusts of wind and shockwaves rolling outwards from the opening above.
The sound of cracking, like breaking glass, could be heard in the space around.
When everything settled, the skull summoned by Wen Lianggong was completely pulverized into dust.
Wen Lianggong and Lue Xiongying were kneeling on the ground, covered in blood.
Xu Zimei directly released his Binding Immortal Lock, tying the two of them up and throwing them heavily to the ground.
"I am the City Lord of Heaven Illuminating City, why do you help these beasts," Lue Xiongying said to Xu Zimei.
"Do you really want to be an enemy of the Heaven Tiger Empire?"
"Still talking tough at a time like this?" Xu Zimei stomped on the other’s chest.
A scream escaped Lue Xiongying’s lips as he spat a mouthful of blood, his complexion turning much paler.
"What do you want, sir?" Wen Lianggong asked somewhat calmly, looking at Xu Zimei.
"We have no grudges, do we?
Whatever you want, just say the word."
"Too bad the thing I want, you cannot give me," Xu Zimei shook his head slightly.
Then he turned to face Liu Changfeng and said, "They are yours to deal with."
Liu Changfeng was momentarily stunned, then gratefully glanced at Xu Zimei and nodded firmly.
He approached the two men, his expression indescribable, seemingly mixed with many emotions.
But above all, there was hatred and anger.
"Release me, and from this day on, Heaven Illuminating City and the Sea Serpent Clan will not violate each other," Wen Lianggong said to Liu Changfeng.
"Yes, or else even if you kill me, the empire will send another City Lord.
Your Sea Serpent Clan will still be a thorn in their side," Lue Xiongying hurriedly nodded and added.
"If I don’t kill you, how can I face those dead clansmen?" Liu Changfeng asked indifferently.
Xu Zimei paid no attention to the situation behind him; he turned away and walked step by step towards the city gate.
But shortly after, inhuman screams of agony could be heard from behind.
The screams, one after another, were chilling to the bone.
One could hardly imagine the extent of suffering endured by the one voicing them.
Xu Zimei waited at the city gate for a short while before he saw Liu Changfeng walking out slowly.
His mood was somewhat low, and he had been silent all this while.
"Is it over?" Xu Zimei asked.
Liu Changfeng nodded, fell silent for a long time, and then looked up at Xu Zimei, "Even if he was killed, what of it?
My fellow clan members won’t come back to life; it’s actually meaningless."
"At least revenge was taken," Xu Zimei said flatly.
"Thank you," Liu Changfeng said, nodding slightly.
"No need, we each had our own aims," Xu Zimei shook his head.
The two talked as they walked toward Sunset River.
Under the guidance of Liu Changfeng, the two followed upstream along the river.
The sky gradually brightened, and the east lit up with the pale light of dawn.
The morning air was exceptionally fresh, with the occasional cold breeze blowing.
Throughout the journey, both of them were rather silent.
Xu Zimei had nothing to say, while Liu Changfeng seemed still to be mired in the grief of his clan’s demise.
"Do you know? Our Sea Serpent Clan originally lived in this river, uninvolved with the world."
After a while, Liu Changfeng suddenly looked up at Xu Zimei.
He spoke softly.
His voice was very light, as if telling a story to Xu Zimei, or perhaps as if he were telling a story to himself.
"Until this man named Lue Xiongying assumed the position of City Lord, everything began to change.
This river was not originally called Sunset River; it was just a very ordinary river.
But he, to make a name for Heaven Illuminating City and to gain recognition from the empire,
Secretly developed a kind of powder that could project phantoms.
Every time at dusk, he would use Spiritual Energy to project into space, combined with this phantom powder.
That could create the so-called spectacle of Sunset River."
Xu Zimei listened to the other’s words, just nodding silently, without interrupting or interjecting.
Liu Changfeng, having said this, fell silent again for a short while.
He finally continued, "Our nightmare began from there.
That powder contained a strong poison, which contaminated the entire river so much that it became uninhabitable.
Though it doesn’t show on the surface, it posed a great danger to our Sea Serpent Clan, which had lived here for generations.
My father, the previous king of our clan, died because he accidentally consumed this powder."
"So that’s why you wanted to massacre the city," Xu Zimei said.
"What about later? What do you plan to do?"
Xu Zimei knew that although Lue Xiongying had been killed,
The Heaven Tiger Empire would still send someone else to take over here.
The new City Lord, even if he knew the secret of the powder, would probably not stop.
After all, it was because of Sunset River that Heaven Illuminating City became known to the world.
Otherwise, there are so many cities in the world, who would care about a nameless city?
......
"I don’t know yet, I’ll go back and discuss it with the remaining members of our clan," Liu Changfeng said, shaking his head.
As they talked, the sky was already completely bright.
And Liu Changfeng brought Xu Zimei to a certain place upstream.
There was a large tree growing by the river, and the water was not particularly turbulent.
"Here it is," said Liu Changfeng, as he placed his right hand on the trunk of the large tree.
After a brief silence, a beam of light emanated from the tree into the river beside it.
The water began to ripple, and the sound of "whooshing" reverberated around them.
