Chapter 77 Bloodbath at the City Lord's Mansion
The Zhao family, the city lord's mansion, is located in the center of Tianxing City.
It is the most luxurious and largest family estate in the city.
The buildings are predominantly white.
The towering courtyard walls and the overlapping eaves and brackets exude wealth and grandeur.
On either side of the gate stood two rows of guards, about a dozen in number, all with solemn expressions; they were soldiers from the city's defense forces.
They were dressed in standard silver armor and carried spears, the tips of which gleamed coldly in the sunlight.
At that moment, a tall, slender figure suddenly appeared in front of the main gate.
The person who arrived was none other than Su Mo.
The two outermost soldiers immediately gripped their spears, the tips pointing directly at Su Mo.
One of them shouted sternly:
"Halt! This is the City Lord's Mansion, no entry is permitted..."
However, he hadn't finished speaking.
Two streaks of blood-red sword energy shot out from Su Mo's fingertips with lightning speed.
The sword energy pierced through their armor in an instant, leaving two shocking bloody holes in their hearts.
The two stared wide-eyed, their pupils suddenly contracting, and looked down in disbelief.
Their knees buckled, and they fell to the ground with a thud, lifeless.
The next moment, blood gushed from the wound, spreading across the bluestone slab, flowing along the cracks in the stone, and staining a large area red.
Upon seeing this, the other guards' expressions changed drastically. They were on high alert and gripped their spears, aiming them at Su Mo.
"Boy, you...you dare to cause trouble in the City Lord's Mansion! The City Lord will not let you get away with this!"
One of the guards roared, his voice trembling noticeably.
These people were just ordinary soldiers, not Soul Masters, and were more than capable of dealing with ordinary people.
But Su Mo was clearly a powerful Soul Master.
Fighting such a powerful figure would be tantamount to suicide for their small group.
Su Mo did not reply, but his body was filled with surging sword energy.
His clothes fluttered and rustled even though there was no wind.
The next instant, several sharp, blood-red sword energies shot out, precisely targeting the hearts of each guard.
The guards had no time to react before their hearts were pierced by the blood-red sword energy, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Immediately, Su Mo's soul power surged, and he raised his right palm, pushing it forward with a sudden thrust.
boom--!
The immense soul power crashed into the heavy door, instantly shattering it into pieces, raising clouds of dust, and causing the ground to tremble.
Su Mo calmly stepped over the ruins and into the square in the front yard.
Several servants who were working heard the noise and suddenly looked up.
When they saw the collapsed gate and the corpses lying haphazardly outside, they were so frightened that they dropped their tools on the ground.
"Murder...murder!" a servant cried out in alarm.
Immediately, they scrambled and crawled away into the depths.
Some people stumbled and fell to the ground, but they scrambled to their feet and continued running, their faces filled with terror.
Su Mo did not attack them.
Because they were all ordinary servants who were powerless to even kill a chicken.
Before long, soldiers came running after hearing the commotion.
The footsteps were dense and heavy, and the clanging of armor clashing resounded.
There were over a hundred of them, a dense, dark mass, pouring into the square from various passageways.
They quickly dispersed, surrounding Su Mo in the center, with spears aimed at him from all directions.
The squad leader was clad in iron armor and had a long sword at his waist.
His gaze swept between Su Mo and the corpse outside the door, and his expression turned extremely ugly.
"Boy! Do you know where you are? How dare you cause trouble here?!"
He shouted coldly, his voice loud and clear, trying to intimidate Su Mo.
Su Mo did not answer.
Seeing this, the squad leader's face turned ashen.
He raised his hand and ordered sharply, "Take him down! Dead or alive!"
More than a hundred soldiers thrust out their spears, aiming at Su Mo from all directions.
"Asura Sword Domain".
A terrifying aura suddenly spread out from Su Mo, enveloping the entire square.
Those soldiers were all ordinary people. In that instant, they felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave, and a fear from the depths of their souls swept over them.
They couldn't even muster the slightest thought of resistance.
They all stopped in their tracks, their spears slipping from their hands and clattering to the ground.
Some people's legs went weak and they collapsed to the ground.
Some of the timid soldiers even had their crotches soaked.
At this moment, Su Mo raised his right hand, forming a sword finger, and held it above his head.
The next moment, countless blood-red light swords condensed in mid-air.
Lightsabers hung in mid-air, their tips pointing downwards, densely covering the entire plaza, numbering in the hundreds, radiating a suffocating sense of oppression.
As Su Mo pressed down with his right hand, countless blood-red light swords emitted a sharp whistling sound and shot down like a torrential rain.
In the blink of an eye, the crimson lightsabers pierced through the bodies of all the soldiers below.
Fresh blood gushed from their wounds, blooming into clusters of blood flowers.
Screams echoed throughout the square.
Soon, there was not a single person left standing in the square.
More than a hundred corpses lay scattered in pools of blood, each with a different manner of death.
At the same time, the hard stone slab ground was also blasted into countless pits by the rain of swords. The edges of the pits cracked, and gravel flew everywhere, dust billowed up.
The originally exquisite stone carvings around the area were also shattered with a crash, and stone chips were scattered everywhere, turning the area into a pile of ruins.
The once neat and imposing square of the city lord's mansion was transformed into a living hell in an instant.
Just as Su Mo retracted the Asura Sword Domain, a furious roar came from the depths of the manor:
"Who dares to act so presumptuously in the City Lord's Mansion? Are they tired of living?!"
Immediately afterwards, four figures rapidly approached.
They were extremely fast.
In the blink of an eye, they landed on the square, maintaining a distance of several dozen meters from Su Mo.
The leader was a burly middle-aged man with a square face, thick eyebrows, and sharp eyes, exuding an aura of authority.
This person is the head of the Zhao family and also the city lord of Tianxing City.
At this moment, he was surrounded by five soul rings, two yellow, two purple and one black. His martial soul was the Ironclad Rhinoceros, and his soul power was level 55.
In this remote border town, a level 55 Soul King is already considered a powerful figure.
Behind Lord Zhao stood three other people, all of whom were honorary soul masters whom the Zhao family had hired at great expense.
On the far left is an elderly man with a thin build and sallow skin.
His eyes gleamed.
He wore a gray robe and was surrounded by six soul rings, two yellow, two purple, and two black. His martial soul was the Wind Shadow Wolf, and his soul power was level 69. He was just one step away from stepping into the Soul Saint realm.
The Zhao family's ability to dominate this city is largely due to this old man.
Standing next to the old man was a man in his fifties, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with a face full of fat.
He wore only a khaki short jacket, revealing his two thick arms, and his whole person exuded a sense of brute force.
His spirit rings are white, yellow, yellow, purple, purple; his martial soul is Rock Bear; and his soul power is level 52.
Although his strength was not as great as the old man's, it was enough for him to roam freely in this small town.
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