Beyond the Deertail Beacon Tower, five or six hundred steps away, two riders stood motionless, giving an abrupt impression.
The bearded man squinted at the two figures locked in combat atop the watchtower. “My instincts are always spot on. Both sides have Master; it’s just a matter of where they’re hiding and when they’ll emerge. In this kind of hunting game, it all depends on who ends up being the mouse or the cat, and then who is the cat or the tiger.”
Liu Daoxiang, the secret expert and personal maid of Zhong Tan, furrowed her brow and asked, “Could it be someone from Qingliang Mountain’s Tingchao Pavilion? But why would they appear at such a small beacon tower?”
Zhong Tan stroked his chin. “Who knows?”
Zhong Tan nudged his horse. “Let’s go. We’ll do those two noble sons from the Y family a favor. They must be furious by now. By the time we arrive, those two minor masters who met by chance should have destroyed each other.”
Approaching the Deertail Beacon Tower, Zhong Tan and the woman leapt from their horses and landed gracefully on the watchtower.
The situation had deviated somewhat from Zhong Tan’s expectations, but it was nothing serious.
The lurking Beiliang expert hiding inside the beacon tower had not only killed the family’s revered master bodyguard of the wealthy Young Master, but despite sustaining serious injuries, had teamed up with another relatively young Ember Sentinel to eliminate twenty Bei Man soldiers.
The ground was crowded with corpses, both Bei Man and Beiliang. Zhong Tan gave a light kick, sending a Beiliang Ember Sentinel’s body flying.
Zeng Pingshan crouched in a corner, clutching his head and trembling all over.
Pang Rui, in a frenzy, wildly hacked at a corpse with his sword.
“One master and one third-grade expert! I’ll be killed by my family when I return!”
“I’ll chop you all to pieces!”
She, disguised as Zhong Tan’s maid, frowned. Zhong Tan coughed once, and when the finally recovered Zeng Pingshan raised his head, Zhong Tan nodded at him, then calmly said to Pang Rui, “Enough. What’s the big deal about some experts? I’ll give you one when we return, and it’ll be much stronger than the one lying here. As for how to explain this to your father, the general of Wazhu Town, I’ll handle it for you.”
Pang Rui was stunned at first, then overwhelmed with ecstatic joy after narrowly escaping death.
Zhong Tan walked over and helped up the trembling Zeng Pingshan, kindly saying, “Tonight, invite Pang Young Master. I’ll treat you both to drinks to calm your nerves.”
Zeng Pingshan, sobbing and sniveling, tightly grabbed the sleeve of General Zhong Tan’s robe, nodding like a pecking chick.
Zhong Tan subtly shook off Zeng Pingshan’s hand and walked to the battlements, where he saw a corpse hanging from the beacon tower’s stone tablet.
He, a prominent figure in the entire Bei Man Empire, stared straight at it for a long time.
The woman asked, “What’s wrong?”
Zhong Tan didn’t shift his gaze at all, softly saying, “A few unknown experts appearing is nothing at all. What’s truly terrifying is knowing where they are.”
Zhong Tan extended his finger, pointing at the stone tablet.
The woman was somewhat puzzled. “Hmm?”
Zhong Tan smiled, stretching his arms. “Anyway, let’s capture the three cities of Wogong, Luanzhu, and Luanguang first. Otherwise, our general will personally send my uncle to drag me back.”
As the group descended the tower, everyone watched in astonishment. Suddenly, Zhong Tan walked up to the stone tablet, gently lifted the corpse down, and carefully seated the unknown Ember Sentinel’s body against the stone tablet.
That Ember Sentinel, as if gazing toward the south.
Zhong Tan strode away, and after mounting his horse, he looked back deeply toward the north.
She softly said, “You won’t die.”
Zhong Tan expressionless, muttered to himself, “But the more than forty thousand people at Youzhou’s Hulukou all knew they would die.”
The real fear is if that day ever comes.
Youzhou, Liangzhou, Liu Prefecture, Ling Prefecture.
Everyone in Beiliang will think the same way.
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