Cultivating in Different Professions

Chapter 218: Chapter 148: Seeking Death

"Who dares!"

Zhong Guizheng and Wei Bufan flew into a rage, drawing their sabers with a CLANG.

BOOM!

Xie Zuowen snorted, his long saber flashing out like lightning.

Zhong Guizheng and Wei Bufan stumbled back several steps, their long sabers snapped in two.

"You’re overestimating yourselves!"

Xie Zuowen sneered, "If it were a true Taiping Captain, they might be able to trade blows with this General. As for you?"

"Seize them!"

Xie Zuowen commanded.

"General Xie, get back to the Inner City now, and I can act as if nothing happened."

Su Mu said placidly, his gaze lowered.

"Su Mu, it seems you haven’t grasped the situation."

Xie Zuowen said coldly, "If you don’t want them to die at the hands of the demons, you’d best cooperate with me obediently."

His men had already taken over the Outer City walls, and this place was now under his control. He could act with impunity.

’In any case, these Outer City mud-legs will all die in the Demon Tide anyway. Naturally, no one on the outside will ever find out what happened here.’

"General Xie, I believe you are the one who fails to grasp the situation."

Su Mu said placidly, "If I recall correctly, the Taiping Bureau is the department with special privileges. Since when does the City Defense Army get to bully us?"

"Haha!"

Xie Zuowen roared with laughter. "Young man, let me teach you a little something: Might is the only true privilege.

"You are weaker than me, so you will listen to me."

"So, you refuse to go?"

Su Mu asked.

Xie Zuowen’s expression turned grim. ’This brat Su is testing my limits, again and again.’

’If he weren’t still useful, I’d swat him dead right now!’

’Once the Demon Tide is over, his usefulness will end. Then, he can die.’

"This could have been simple. My City Defense Army and your Taiping Bureau stay out of each other’s way—I do my job, you do yours. Why must you make things so complicated?"

Xie Zuowen said coldly, "Do you really think you’re Zhao Poni? A few mere Taiping Captains, daring to challenge me?

"On a normal day, I might give you some face, but look at the situation now!

"In the face of a Demon Tide, strength is everything. Your Taiping Bureau status isn’t worth dog shit."

"Since you understand that, you can die with peace of mind."

Su Mu said placidly. Suddenly, he sliced his palm across the string of the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow, instantly staining it crimson.

Xie Zuowen couldn’t help but roar with laughter. "You just used the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow yesterday! The toll on your body can’t have recovered yet, right? Trying to scare me?

"You can’t possibly use it right now!

"And even if you could use it in a couple of days, do you think I’d be afraid?

"They’re in my hands. What could you possibly do to me?"

Xie Zuowen gestured towards Luo Anning and the others, his face a mask of absolute confidence.

’Did they really think I, Xie Zuowen, would just come to the Outer City to vie for glory without a plan?’

’From the moment I set foot in the Outer City, it was already mine for the taking.’

’The Taiping Bureau doesn’t even have a single Captain left in the Outer City. Did they really think a reputation alone could scare me, Xie Zuowen?’

’Zhao Poni isn’t in Wuling City, and all that’s left are a few washed-up Taiping Captains.’

’I’m not afraid of the Taiping Bureau at all!’

’When Zhao Poni and the others get back, I’ll have my own story ready. In the face of a Tier Five Demon Tide, aren’t some sacrifices to be expected?’

’Besides, with the credit for fending off a Tier Five Demon Tide, my rank might not even be beneath Zhao Poni’s by then.’

A smug look spread across Xie Zuowen’s face, but the very next moment, it froze solid.

Because he saw Su Mu had actually drawn the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow!

He’d drawn it!

He’d actually drawn the bow!

Xie Zuowen screamed internally, ’How is this possible?!’

’According to my estimates, Su Mu only just drew the bow yesterday to kill that Tier Three Demon. He should need at least two days of rest before he can draw it again!’

’It’s only been one night! How can he possibly draw it again?’

’He’s not even at the peak of his cultivation stage! Forcing the bow open with Physical Divine Techniques should be even more draining!’

"Cap—Captain Su, it was a misunderstanding! This General was only joking!"

Xie Zuowen said, his expression rigid.

Before he could even finish his sentence, he saw Su Mu release the string. A streak of crimson light shot straight toward him.

Xie Zuowen’s soul nearly fled his body in terror.

’How dare he!’

’I already backed down! How dare he attack me in front of everyone?!’

Xie Zuowen roared, erupting with all his power. He swung his saber forward in a desperate slash as his body shot backward.

SWISH!

He had just raised his arm, his saber not yet even begun its descent, when the blood-red arrow sank into his chest.

With a WHOOSH, five-colored flames instantly engulfed Xie Zuowen’s form.

He let out a single, short scream, his body contorting as he collapsed within the flames. A few breaths later, he had been reduced to a cloud of drifting ash.

At such close range, Su Mu couldn’t have missed even with his eyes closed.

The Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow was powerful enough to kill a Tier Three Demon; what chance did a mere Rebirth Realm cultivator like Xie Zuowen stand?

The flames vanished completely. A gentle breeze swept through, scattering the black ash on the ground. All was calm again, as if nothing had ever happened.

Xie Zuowen had vanished utterly, not even a single hair remaining. His armor, his saber—everything had been incinerated by the five-colored flames of the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow.

Everyone present was stunned, including the City Defense Army soldiers Xie Zuowen had brought with him.

They had all witnessed Su Mu’s decisiveness and brutality, and the sheer power of the Five Flames Heaven-Shaking Bow.

Zhong Guizheng, Wei Bufan, and the other Taiping Captains also felt a chill run down their spines.

They hadn’t expected Su Mu to actually kill him.

In their minds, simply intimidating Xie Zuowen would have been enough. After all, he was the General of the City Defense Army, a fifth-rank Military General.

Killing him without a clear reason would lead to endless trouble.

"Xie Zuowen colluded with demons and attempted to assassinate a Taiping Captain. When his plot was exposed, he put up a desperate resistance, so I executed him on the spot."

Su Mu said slowly.

He noticed the expressions on the faces of Zhong Guizheng, Wei Bufan, and the others, and began to understand why Xie Zuowen had dared to be so arrogant.

’The Taiping Bureau is supposed to be the privileged department, but the Taiping Captains in Wuling City are too hung up on principles.’

’They spend all day slaying demons, and it’s turning them into fools.’

’What kind of organization was the Taiping Bureau? Compared to the Jinyi Guard from his past life, its authority was even greater.’

’And they were letting some local official bully them?’

’It was a complete joke.’

’Those officials should thank their lucky stars the Taiping Bureau doesn’t come looking for trouble with them, yet they have the gall to provoke us?’

’A gentleman can be duped by exploiting his principles.’

’But Su Mu was no gentleman.’

’Xie Zuowen’s little tricks might have worked for bullying inexperienced Taiping Captains like Luo Anning, but to Su Mu, they were utterly laughable.’

’Slay demons and exterminate evil to bring peace to the world... Well, things are peaceful now, aren’t they?’

The City Defense Army soldiers stared at Su Mu as if he were the devil himself.

The Taiping Bureau had always been a lofty institution, but they had never been known to kill people so casually.

And this wasn’t just some commoner, either.

This was the General of the City Defense Army!

Killed just like that?

Fear gripped the hearts of the City Defense Army soldiers, and they subconsciously began to fall back.

The soldiers who had already begun setting up defenses fell into disarray.

"Wang Guan, relay my orders."

Su Mu said calmly, "These are times of war. Any soldier of the City Defense Army who dares retreat will be treated as a deserter and executed on the spot."

Wang Guan’s eyes lit up with excitement. ’Hot damn, isn’t this exactly the kind of major event I’ve been dreaming of?’

’That son of a bitch Xie Zuowen got what was coming to him.’

’These City Defense Army guys came to the Outer City, and now they think they can just run back to the Inner City?’

’Not a chance!’

’Once you’re in the Outer City, you’re an Outer City soldier.’

’Our Brother Mu is the Commander-in-Chief of the Outer City now. All troops here are under his command!’

Wang Guan puffed out his chest and strode forward. Using the powerful voice he’d developed from singing ballads, he began to shout at the City Defense Army soldiers.

Zhong Guizheng, Wei Bufan, and the other Taiping Captains glanced at each other, utterly flabbergasted. ’You can do that?’

’Kill the leader and keep his soldiers?’

’The problem of the Outer City’s insufficient manpower... solved just like that?’

"Senior Brother Su, how many more shots can you make?"

Miss Luo asked, her face full of eager anticipation.

She couldn’t care less about Xie Zuowen’s death. As far as she was concerned, Su Mu’s actions were perfectly logical and justified. Xie Zuowen had been courting death, so wasn’t killing him the natural outcome?

Her mind was already on whether they could defeat the Tier Five Demon Tide. After all, wasn’t the Taiping Bureau’s purpose to slay demons and eliminate evil?

’There are so many demons outside the city walls. Let’s go kill them!’

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