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Xiaoyao City is a border city-state, located thousands of miles to the north.
This place belongs to no dynasty; it is a land of chaos, a paradise for criminals and bandits, where murder and robbery are commonplace.
Its location is also extremely unique, with the Gobi Desert to the north, the Turkic steppe to the northwest, and the Tang Dynasty to the west.
The Sui Dynasty no longer existed. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, the Sui Dynasty was replaced by the Tang Dynasty.
To the south it borders a portion of the Ming Dynasty's territory, while to the east and even to the northeast, a large area is bordered by the Qin, Han, Yan, Chu, and many other Warring States.
On this day, outside Xiaoyao City, three groups of people who had come from afar collided, blocking the main road and drawing their swords and shouting insults at each other.
One of the groups came from the Ming Dynasty, and they were very imposing, not taking the other two groups seriously.
"Are you blind? Why are you blocking the way when the night thieves are allowed into Xiaoyao City?"
"The night watchmen of the Ming Dynasty?"
The leader of the group laughed loudly, "A mere frontier spy organization, lower in rank than the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Eastern and Western Depots, dares to challenge me, the Luo Wang? Let me show you my sword."
Clang!
He drew his sword from his waist, pointing it triumphantly to the sky.
Under the blazing sun, the gleaming blade of the sword dazzled everyone's eyes, particularly striking.
It turned out to be one of the eight famous swordsmen of the Yue Kingdom.
Although it's ranked last, everyone knows it.
"The Evil-Repelling Sword?" the Night Scout leader blurted out, fear written all over his face.
Seeing this, the leader of the Luo Wang organization said smugly, "You know your stuff, recognizing my sword. Logically speaking, you should know who I am, right?"
"The sword is the man, and the man is the sword. You are the Evil-Slaying Swordsman among the Eight Swords, one of the most powerful assassins, a first-class Heavenly rank?"
"You do have some knowledge, then get out of the way and make way for us."
"You... sigh, never mind!"
The night scout leader sighed bitterly and obediently led his team to the side, because he was the weaker party.
The other side is from the Qin Empire. Their Luo Wang (Net of Heaven) is at its zenith, running rampant in various dynasties. Who can defeat them?
The first-class Heavenly rank must mean that one's strength is at least at the half-step Heavenly Realm.
If you can't afford to offend the night watchman, you can at least avoid him.
Que Xie and a dozen assassins behind him rode slowly past the Night Watchmen, mocking, "The Ming Dynasty is finished, isn't it? A Jianghu guy named Lin Bufan has made everyone so paranoid. The Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Eastern Depot, and the Six Doors have all changed their leaders. Now, only Yu Huatian is barely holding on..."
"If you're going to leave, then leave now and stop talking nonsense."
Upon hearing the other party insult his own court, the night watchman retorted defiantly.
Quexie smiled slyly, not taking it to heart, and focused his attention on another group of people ahead.
"Hey, even the night scouts are making way, aren't you going to make way? Are you going to oppose my Net?"
"What is the Luo Wang? Compared to us, the Bad People, you are nothing but a fart."
"Bad People?"
Quexie paused for a moment, then picked at his ear. "Does this organization exist? I've never heard of it. Which dynasty are you from?"
"After the overthrow of Yang Guang's Sui Dynasty, the Li clan seized power and ushered in the Tang Dynasty's golden age, forming the Bad People organization."
The leader of the Bad Guys adjusted his large straw hat, full of fighting spirit: "Nice to meet you. I don't mind telling you that I am the first generation of Tianzui Star of the Bad Guys."
"What is the Heavenly Sin Star?" Quexie still didn't understand.
The Bad Guys' Heavenly Sin Star proudly declared, "There are thirty-six stars in the Heavenly Gang, and I am one of them. Our commander is called Yuan Tiangang, and he is the Heavenly Kui Star."
“Yuan Tiangang? I’ve heard of him, a fortune teller. But you? I’ve never heard of you, so you’d better get out of my way.”
The Demon-Slaying Sword pointed at the Heavenly Sin Star, threatening, "If you don't move aside, I'll turn you into a star in the sky."
Tianzuixing grinned maliciously: "You'd better think carefully about the consequences of offending the Bad People."
As soon as he finished speaking, a hand suddenly emerged from the thick dust on the ground and grabbed the horse's hoof.
With a twist of his wrist, the horse fell to the ground, and Que Xie also fell off the horse.
Is there an ambush?
Que Xie hurriedly got up, but unexpectedly the hand released the horse's hoof and grabbed his foot instead.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a person sat up from the dust; this was the owner of the hand.
A confused and muddled young man, covered in dust and filthy.
It's impossible to say how long he lay in the dust.
His eyes were glazed over, he seemed out of sorts, and he was talking incoherently.
"I need true energy, I need lots and lots of true energy."
Slurp~
The Northern Darkness Divine Art was activated proactively, frantically plundering the internal energy of the Evil-Repelling Demon.
Que Xie was greatly alarmed and, while trying to break free, shouted, "Who are you?"
"I don't know who I am either, I can't remember. Maybe I'll have some clue after I absorb your power."
In an instant, he lost more than half of his evil-repelling power.
"Help me!"
Unable to shake off the evil spirits, he shouted to his subordinates.
The men of the Luowang gang immediately drew their swords and began to kill the young man.
Unexpectedly, the young people suddenly launched a group attack, absorbing all of them and forcefully draining their internal energy.
The thugs were stunned, recalling the tragic state of the Ming capital a year ago.
A number of skilled members of the Embroidered Uniform Guard were killed, including Lord Qinglong, who died from the absorption power of An Shigeng and his son.
There's also Iron-Blooded Marquis, the four from Dragon Guard Manor, Iron-Handed Chaser from the Marquis's Mansion, Eunuch Wei and Eunuch Cao from the Eastern Depot...
They either die from the absorption of power or are tormented by it.
Ultimately, the beneficiary was a young man named Lin Bufan, because his absorption power was the strongest, far surpassing that of Iron-Blooded Marquis and Old Master An.
Tianzuixing and Yebushou were both stunned. They recalled a year ago when a man named Lin Bufan roamed the world of the Sui Dynasty and single-handedly defeated an entire Yuwen clan.
From Yuwen Laozu and Yuwen Shu to Yuwen Chengdu, they all died at the hands of Lin Bufan.
Oh, and many experts from the Dugu Clan and the Demonic Sect, and even the Great General Martial Venerable of the Eastern Turks, all died at Lin Bufan's hands.
Lin Bufan's specialty is absorbing energy.
This situation is so similar to what happened back then.
Could this person be...?
"Lin, Lin Bufan?" Tianzuixing and the Nightless Leader blurted out.
The young man was taken aback. "Who is Lin Bufan? That name sounds familiar."
I shook my head a few times, but still couldn't remember, so I simply stopped thinking about it.
He discarded the corpses of the assassins from the Evil Exorcism and Luo Wang gangs, and naturally used the Dragon Capture Technique to pull all the Night Watchmen and the Bad People like Tian Zui Xing towards him.
"Your internal strength is also quite good, give it all to me!"
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