boom--!!

The earth-shattering explosion echoed over the dark sky of the city. The people hiding in their homes were startled. Through the cracks in the door, they saw the overwhelming "mystery" flying to the top of the restaurant, but was madly chopped down by two figures.

"These are the people brought by the Marquis! The Marquis is here to protect us!"

Seeing this scene, the male owner of one of the families showed joy, but he did not dare to speak loudly, so he could only speak in a low voice.

"Thank you, My Lord, thank you, My Lord... Thank you, My Lord, for avenging my little son who was eaten..." The woman next to him knelt down at home, facing the direction of the restaurant, and kept kneeling and bowing, her face full of tears.

"Dad, there seems to be someone else on this road?" A little boy blinked through the crack in the door and spoke uncertainly.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could there be people on the road at this time? Isn't that courting death?"

“But it really exists…”

The man looked through the crack in the door on the other side and saw a figure in a black robe and a bamboo hat walking along the road towards the restaurant.

"Is he crazy?!" The man's pupils shrank slightly.

"Dad, there's a monster flying down from above his head!" the boy exclaimed again.

I saw a monster that was originally flying towards the restaurant, but suddenly saw the figure below, and it changed direction and rushed towards him at a high speed!

Then, in the dim starlight, they could see clearly that it was a ferocious monster shaped like a bat. When it opened its mouth, its bloody mouth could almost swallow their house directly. Seeing the bat rushing towards them, the woman screamed sharply.

Just when the bat was about to swallow the figure and their house in one gulp, the figure suddenly raised his head and punched out!

Boom!

His fist smashed into the bat's jaw, creating a hideous bloody hole in its body. Then a ray of broken sword light flashed, and it chopped off its head like cutting tofu.

It all happened so fast that in the man's eyes, the figure just shook, blood spilled all over the street like rain, and a hideous head rolled to their door.

The man was so frightened seeing the monster's head at such a close distance that he fell to the ground with a scream!

The figure wearing a bamboo hat and a black robe glanced at them, hesitated for a moment, then picked up the bat's head with one hand and muttered to himself:

"Just treat this as a gift to the Marquis..."

The figure glanced behind the door and walked straight towards the restaurant.

After walking a few steps, a giant wolf suddenly jumped out from the corner of the street, with a bloodthirsty light in its eyes. It stared at the figure and rushed out with a roar... There was a loud bang, and the figure had a wolf head in his hand.

"Two gifts for meeting..." A faint voice came from afar and disappeared in the wind.

…

The sound of chaotic fighting came from the top of the restaurant. Huo Qubing withdrew his gaze and walked back to the dining table and sat down.

He picked up the chopsticks, tapped them lightly on the corner of the table, and began to eat the leftovers on the table leisurely, as if the fighting and noise in the outside world had nothing to do with him and he was just a pure diner.

"Your men are fighting outside, but you are eating leisurely?" The female prisoner said softly upon seeing this.

"They still need experience." Huo Qubing said lightly while eating.

"You don't need it anymore?"

"Yes, but these enemies are of little benefit to me."

"What a big tone." The female prisoner couldn't help laughing, "Then tell me, how strong are you now? Are you invincible?"

"I can't say I'm invincible." Huo Qubing spoke slowly. On his young and sharp face, a pair of deep eyes reflected the earth and the starry sky outside the window. "But in this era, I, Huo Qubing, am the highest pillar of mankind."

"The tallest human being?"

Hearing this description, the female prisoner was stunned for a moment, then sneered, "I thought the legendary Champion Marquis was such a heroic figure, but now it seems that he is just a conceited and arrogant teenager."

Huo Qubing did not refute. He lowered his head, picked up a piece of fish and chewed it carefully.

Seeing that Huo Qubing did not react, a glimmer flashed in the eyes of the female prisoner. "Since you are the highest among humans, why do you still use this special shackle to trap me? Are you so strong that you are afraid that I will escape from you? How dare you say that you are the best among humans when you are so timid?"

Huo Qubing paused with his chopsticks, glanced at the female prisoner, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"Provocation? It seems you are not stupid, but your provocation skills need to be improved."

The female prisoner's face froze, she snorted coldly and turned her head away.

"However, if you really want to try, I can give you a chance." Huo Qubing's voice came again.

"What?"

"I will untie your shackles, and you can use all your strength to try to escape from this city... If you escape, I will let you flee for three days, and then I will hunt you down."

Hearing this, a glimmer of hope flashed in the eyes of the female prisoner, "What if I didn't escape?"

"If you don't escape, you must obey me no matter what until you are torn to pieces by a chariot in Chang'an."

The female prisoner frowned tightly, as if she was thinking about something.

"If you think that you can cheat and disobey my orders even if you don't escape, then you might as well give up this idea sooner." Huo Qubing seemed to have seen through the prisoner's thoughts. He waved his hand and a purple reptile suddenly flew out of the void behind him and landed in his palm.

"This thing is called [Heart-Returning Gu], and it is one of the 'mysteries' controlled by me. If you don't escape, you will have to eat it... At that time, it will be up to you whether you obey my orders or not."

The female prisoner looked at the purple reptile and her face suddenly turned ugly.

But when she looked down and saw the heavy shackles on her shoulders, her eyes were still tangled. After a long time, as if she had made up her mind, she nodded solemnly:

"Okay, I promise you!"

Huo Qubing slowly put down his chopsticks and walked to the front of the female prisoner. A smile appeared on the young general's face.

"Then the bet begins."

With a light hook of his fingers, the heavy shackles on the female prisoner's shoulders suddenly broke in two from the middle. His mental power poured into her body again, and the long-lost sense of power filled her whole body!

The female prisoner's eyes suddenly brightened, and a powerful aura comparable to the ceiling of human beings suddenly burst out. She was like a light cheetah, flying out of the window in an instant and disappearing into the night sky.

He actually let me go?!

The female prisoner was ecstatic. She landed steadily on the ground two streets away. At this moment, she was only a hundred meters away from the city wall gate. It was nothing to her!

"Arrogant idiot."

She snorted lightly and was about to fly out of the city gate when a figure in a black robe, a bamboo hat, and dragging a pile of unknown monster heads behind him suddenly walked out from the corner of the street.

"Eh?" Lin Qiye was stunned when he saw the female prisoner in the middle of the road. "Isn't this the prisoner?"

He looked up in the direction of the restaurant, a smile also appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"This meeting gift should be more substantial..."