Chapter 355
Chapter 355
Su Nan had fled. No, it would be more accurate to say he had departed, not fled.
Because when he left, he set the capital ablaze and brazenly broke through the Vermilion Bird Gate.
Su Nan's actions were tantamount to slapping King Ning Yuanxian across the face in front of the entire world, utterly humiliating him. Everyone was so appalled they could hardly believe what they were seeing.
*'This... this is Su Nan's doing? He wasn't like this before. He didn't leave any room for compromise.'*
As chaos engulfed the capital, the most agitated were those at the State of Yue's Office of Foreign Envoys, where the emissaries from Chu, Liang, Chen, and Wu were staying.
*'Su Nan and several hundred men broke out of the capital so openly? And they turned the city upside down, setting fires that reached for the sky. Is the State of Yue all bark and no bite? Perhaps this is Chu's chance to become the hegemon of the south.'*
*'Isn't this the perfect opportunity for Wu to march south and seek revenge?'*
*'The State of Yue is so weak it couldn't even defeat a place like Nanguo after a whole year. I have torn away its facade of being a great power. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What is everyone waiting for?'*
But just as the capital was thrown into such turmoil, the Jin Clan's villa was also facing a formidable enemy.
Dozens of warriors stood guard in every corner of the villa.
Jin Mucong's martial arts were not profound, but he still held a sword, protecting Bing'a at his side.
Her belly was already quite large.
The possibility was slim, but they had to prepare for the one-in-a-million chance that the cornered Su Clan would attack this place.
Under normal circumstances, such a situation would not arise.
Since Su Nan had already broken out of the capital, he likely wouldn't have left anyone behind to carry out an attack.
But just as they thought that,
*Thud, thud, thud, thud.*
Wooden barrels suddenly fell from the sky.
Looking from not too far away, it seemed they had been launched by small catapults.
Fish oil leaked from the barrels that crashed to the ground.
*Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.*
Dozens of fire arrows were shot with force, instantly igniting the oil and erupting into a massive blaze.
Shen Shisan, Huang Feng, and the others were greatly alarmed.
*'What do we do now? Should we escort Bing'a and the heir, Jin Mucong, out of here and head to Imperial Emissary Yun Mengze's residence? Or should we go to the underground cellar?'*
Shen Shisan made an immediate decision.
They could not go outside.
Leaving at a time like this would only be more dangerous.
"Quickly, escort Lady Bing'a and the Young Master to the underground chamber. Are the water jars ready inside? Have the water-soaked cloths been prepared? Are the bamboo breathing tubes ready to extend outside?"
Huang Feng and Shen Shisan escorted Jin Mucong and Bing'a into the cellar.
"Big Dummy, are you alright?"
Big Dummy, extremely nervous, replied.
"I only know how to get hit, not how to hit people."
Bing'a immediately went to him and said.
"Big Dummy, look at my belly. There's a baby inside. When the baby is born, it will call you uncle. But right now, bad people are trying to kill the baby. What should we do?"
Big Dummy trembled as he asked.
"What should we do?"
Bing'a said.
"We have to beat them to death!"
"Okay! I'll beat them to death."
After entering the chamber, Huang Feng remained by Bing'a and Jin Mucong's side.
Shen Shisan and Big Dummy stood guard at the entrance.
At the same time, the entire Jin Clan villa was engulfed in flames that soared toward the sky.
*Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish.*
Masters from the Western Regions continuously leaped into the Jin Clan's villa.
The man in the lead wore a mask—the same twisted face of Qiu Tianwei he had worn when attacking the Count of Xuanwu's fief.
Qiu Tianwei seemed to be everywhere at once, a truly elusive figure.
Soon, the sounds of fighting echoed from the Jin Clan's villa.
Dozens of the Su Clan's masters from the Western Regions clashed with the Jin Clan's warriors.
The leader, with dozens of masters in tow, charged forward without resistance, quickly reaching the entrance to the underground chamber in the villa's garden.
The leader removed the twisted mask of Qiu Tianwei, revealing a cold face.
"I am Su Jianyan, the adopted son of the Marquis Zhenyuan's Estate. By my father's command, I have come to kill Shen Lang's woman and the child in her womb. I will also be taking Jin Mucong. Why don't you two step aside?"
Without a word, Shen Shisan raised the saber in his hand and said calmly.
"So be it. I'll just die here tonight."
Big Dummy, holding his heavy iron staff, said.
"Touch my nephew, and I'll kill you. For my nephew, I can really kill people."
The Su Clan's adopted son, Su Jianyan, laughed. "Haha," he continued.
"Your martial arts are far too weak! You must be Shen Lang's lackey, Shen Shisan, correct? You probably won't be able to block more than a couple of my strikes! Kill them!"
As soon as the adopted son gave the order, dozens of masters from the Western Regions charged toward Shen Shisan and Big Dummy.
"Capture Jin Mucong and kill Shen Lang's woman and child within a quarter of an hour. It couldn't be easier!"
At that moment, not far from the Jin Clan's villa, Imperial Emissary Yun Mengze was sprinting madly down the street without a horse.
The entire capital was under heavy guard, so he couldn't bring soldiers—not that he had many to begin with.
Finally, he held up a command token in one hand and shouted.
"I am Imperial Emissary Yun Mengze! I am Imperial Emissary Yun Mengze!"
He yelled as he leaped like a swallow, dashing frantically toward the Jin Clan's villa.
*"They have to hold on! They must hold on! Please let me get there in time, just in time. If Jin Mucong and Bing'a die, how will I ever face my brother?"*
But when Yun Mengze arrived at the Jin Clan's villa, the battle was already over.
The moment he saw the corpses piled on the ground, he was stunned.
The pile of bodies itself wasn't strange.
But the condition of the corpses was bizarre.
Most had their entire heads crushed, or their bodies were flattened, completely misshapen.
It was such a gruesome sight that just looking at it made one's teeth chatter.
Just then, he heard the air crack and sensed immense danger.
In the next instant, a massive dark figure charged straight at him.
Its presence was simply indescribable.
It wasn't particularly fast, but its ferocity was so overwhelming that the mere sight of it made one's legs tremble.
It was like an animal instinctively cowering before a tiger.
"Kill. Kill. Kill them all..."
A thunderous roar erupted as Big Dummy rushed out, viciously swinging the heavy iron staff in his hands toward Yun Mengze's head.
Yun Mengze's scalp went numb, but he used all his strength to retreat quickly.
Just then, Shen Shisan's voice rang out.
"Big Guy! Stop! He's on our side, our side...!"
Startled, Big Dummy forcefully threw the iron staff in his hands to the side.
*CRASH!*
A large rockery was instantly shattered to pieces.
Yun Mengze looked closely at Big Dummy and saw that his eyes were completely bloodshot, as if he were in a frenzy, possessed.
Big Dummy was normally so gentle that he must have entered a possessed state to become this ferocious.
After all, Big Dummy only knew how to take a beating, not how to give one.
Yun Mengze wiped a streak of blood from his forehead.
When the rockery had exploded just now, shattered stones had flown everywhere.
He had dodged most of the flying debris, but one must have grazed him, leaving a cut.
Yun Mengze cautiously approached Big Dummy, patting the back of his neck.
"Big Guy, it's over. It's all over."
A moment later, clarity gradually returned to Big Dummy's eyes.
When he was in his frenzied state, his vision had been completely red, and he could see almost nothing.
He had just swung the heavy iron staff in his hands like a madman.
He had no idea what he was hitting or who he was striking.
"Is it over? The bad guys? Where are the bad guys?"
Big Dummy was frightened.
Yun Mengze instinctively glanced at the pile of corpses on the ground.
*'Good. Big Dummy doesn't even know he killed all these people.'*
Yun Mengze took Big Dummy's hand and said.
"They ran away. The bad guys all ran away. Let's go. Let's go see our fatty. He must have been so scared he wet himself."
Big Dummy nodded at Yun Mengze's words.
"Yeah. I have to go see Little Dummy and the baby."
The door to the underground chamber opened, and Big Dummy, as if in a trance, quietly went inside.
* * *
Only Yun Mengze and Shen Shisan remained in the garden.
"Shisan, what happened?"
Shen Shisan answered as if recounting a terrifying ordeal.
"I don't know myself. The Su Clan's adopted son, Su Jianyan, came to kill Lady Bing'a and capture Young Master Jin Mucong. Our brothers outside were all tied up, and dozens of masters surrounded the two of us. I thought I was going to die for sure, so I prepared to fight for my life."
Yun Mengze nodded.
He knew of Su Jianyan; he was indeed a man of profound martial skill.
At the very least, he was much stronger than Shen Shisan.
With dozens of masters surrounding him and Big Dummy, there truly would have been no escape.
The reason Yun Mengze had rushed here alone was that he believed, as an imperial emissary, Su Nan's men wouldn't dare kill him, no matter how crazed they were.
"And then what happened?"
"I had prepared myself to die here. But the moment Su Jianyan said he would kill the Master's child, Big Dummy heard him and screamed that they couldn't kill the baby. His eyes instantly turned red, and he charged out, swinging his giant iron staff. And the dozens of enemies... as you can see, they were all beaten to death."
Yun Mengze's jaw dropped. He looked again at the corpses piled on the ground.
*'Can you even call this being beaten to death? They're completely flattened, crushed like pancakes. And the smell is awful.'*
Because they had all wet themselves the moment they were struck.
"Then what about Su Jianyan?"
"He saw Big Dummy's power and lunged at him with his sword, moving so fast I could barely see him. His sword was so swift that no matter how high my own skill, I could never have blocked it. Even the Mistress might not have been able to. But..."
Big Dummy had a natural talent for taking hits, and his ability to block swords was even more exceptional.
For over half a year, Grandmaster Zhong Chuke had ambushed Big Dummy ten thousand times, and Big Dummy had been driven half-mad blocking his sword.
If Big Dummy could block Zhong Chuke's sword, how could he not block Su Jianyan's?
"In any case, Su Jianyan stabbed at Big Dummy with his sword hundreds of times, and Big Dummy blocked him hundreds of times. While blocking his sword, Big Dummy was simultaneously striking down the other enemies. He couldn't see anything at the time, but he swung his iron staff like a madman. The masters from the Western Regions couldn't even get close to him; they were all beaten to death, crushed flat, or died pissing themselves. Su Jianyan stabbed at Big Dummy hundreds of times until his sword broke, his hand was torn open, and he even coughed up blood. After that, he fled."
"Incredible. Truly incredible."
Yun Mengze wasn't praising Big Dummy, but Su Jianyan.
*'The Su Clan's adopted son is formidable indeed. It might have looked like he was just stabbing Big Dummy hundreds of times, but in a way, he was taking the rebounding force of Big Dummy's blocks hundreds of times. And yet, he only coughed up blood once before getting away.'*