Sword rising red lotus, bears the sin of fire.

On Guan River Terrace, the world’s third outer building, the Wei country’s first proud, Yan Shaofei!

Compared with the owner of the world-famous sword, the Proud Sword, making a move, saying he was going to the south but ending up appearing on the east side of An Yi city as Coroner Wang, it wasn’t that surprising.

This Proud Sword’s sword intent, even he, this person who had already almost walked out of the eastern border of Wei country, could sense it. For those high-level powerhouses in Wei country, what surprise could there be?

Coroner Wang perhaps also had no surprise…

Bian City King gazed from afar, saw the situation clearly, then immediately suppressed his form, quickened his steps wordlessly, walking towards the distance. As everyone knows, among the six halls of Hell No Door, Yan Luo Bian City King is a soft-hearted one. He truly couldn’t bear to see former colleagues die in a miserable state, so he simply walked a bit farther away.

Coroner Wang, of course, wasn’t as stupid as a wooden chicken.

He also didn’t know that in Bian City King’s mind, he had already become a ‘former colleague’.

His usual method of escape was to leave a corpse in place, find an opportunity to briefly clash with his opponent, then ‘die,’ and quickly flee far away with another corpse. If the enemy picked up the trail and chased the fleeing one, the corpse left in place would ‘come alive’ and leave. If the enemy saw the corpse in front and thought the chase was over, then the escaped corpse was the real Coroner Wang.

In past experiences, it had almost never failed.

Because what he left was a real corpse, not a fake death. Even contemporary True Persons couldn’t see a ‘fake’ word.

But he hadn’t expected to encounter Yan Shaofei.

While chasing the trail of his other corpse, he simultaneously, with a single sword, brought forth the red lotus and destroyed the corpse he had left in place with such a terrifying killing move.

Truly not stingy with waste!

This time, he hadn’t intended to easily discard this corpse, but under the red lotus karmic fire, there was fundamentally nowhere to escape. He made a futile resistance and was instantly burned to ashes.

The fleeing corpse was heading towards the west.

As for going their separate ways with Bian City King and making noise at any time to divert the Wei Court’s attention… Once Bian City King was discovered by the Wei Court, he would only help Bian City King divert the Wei Court’s attention if ghosts flew!

Task requirements were task requirements, actual actions were actual actions. Unless Qin Guang King was supervising him moment by moment, otherwise, don’t expect unity and friendship from him.

As for feelings like guilt and apology, he never had any.

But the idea of never meeting again had vanished. He now very much wanted to meet again! At this moment, he very much needed Bian City King to block this Yan Shaofei and create more intense noise.

Merely being chased and escaping from Yan Shaofei wasn’t terrifying. What was terrifying was that this chase and escape was happening within the borders of Wei country!

Silently targeting the assassination of a certain person and openly and brazenly provoking a country’s manhunt system are not the same thing. Truly facing off against the Wei Court, even the entire Hell No Door thrown in wouldn’t be enough.

Heaven help him, he was just wandering outside An Yi city, in the process of monitoring special situations and waiting for a task. He had been held back for too many days and temporarily couldn’t help himself. He wanted to conveniently pick up some goods. Who would have thought that as soon as he took out a bone scraper knife, he was met with a Proud Sword?

You’re Yan Shaofei, why didn’t you say so earlier! You had a travel-worn appearance of returning home from a distant journey, full of vitality and with your cultivation not obvious. Who were you tempting!

How impolite of you!

But Coroner Wang fled for half a day in the western area of Wei country, encountering increasingly dense and ferocious pursuits and blockades, yet not finding a trace of Bian City King.

What’s the matter?

Bullying colleagues, you’re the first to charge.

When colleagues are in danger, you don’t help at all.

Do you have any human touch left!

Seeing Yan Shaofei already approaching from behind, another Divine Arrival Realm Wei country general flew up not far ahead.

Coroner Wang no longer cared about that much and suddenly let out a long howl: “Bian City King, don’t mind me, I’ll cover the rear here, you go first!”

There was still a Yan Luo here? And it was the one who slaughtered the entire You family clan in Jing country’s Feng Tian Prefecture, Bian City King?

Jing country and Wei country were separated by the Long River, facing each other. Such a great matter of a famous clan’s extermination, even if Jing country specifically suppressed the news, it couldn’t be hidden from the high-level generals of Wei country.

The Wei general blocking the road suddenly became nervous and quickly ordered the sealing of all checkpoints, releasing his spiritual awareness to exhaustively search heaven and earth.

And Coroner Wang turned back, pulled out a bone scraper knife, and faced Yan Shaofei.

Upon encountering, he turned into flying ash.

The Divine Arrival Realm Wei general was still searching here, not daring to relax.

Yan Shaofei, however, turned in the air and headed east.

On a long-neglected grave on a grave mountain in the eastern part of Wei country, the yellow soil suddenly loosened, and a pair of pale hands dug open the mud and stretched out. After several breaths, a person covered in yellow mud walked out of the rotten coffin.

Moving eyeballs revealed Coroner Wang’s cruel and indifferent eyes. He casually pulled a few wriggling maggots from his mouth, brushed off the wet soil from his body, and made himself a little more ‘normal’.

After his main body proved Divine Arrival, he had many more choices.

But between different corpses, ‘spirit transfer’ still had a certain distance limit. And in a powerful country like Wei country, outside the borders, divine intent was obstructed, the body was hard to cross the border, and the spirit was also not allowed. The backup buried in this grave mountain was already the limit of his choice range.

Even before joining Hell No Door, he was very skilled at killing people, and even more skilled at preserving life.

First east, then west, and then east again. If there were no accidents, he could shake off all pursuers, leaving them dizzy.

But Yan Shaofei was obviously that accident.

After coming out of the grave, Coroner Wang flew quickly close to the ground. Although he didn’t dare fly high in the air like an arrow target, he also no longer cared about hiding his traces.

With two consecutive corpses burned, he knew that Yan Shaofei had definitely locked onto the body where his spirit transfer was located, but he didn’t know how he did it, and he temporarily didn’t know how to crack it. He could only hope to quickly escape out of Wei country’s borders and let the Qin Guang King outside help solve it.

Solve this locking, or solve Yan Shaofei.

This person leaped across the ground like a flying bird out of a mountain forest, a string of black shadow piercing the low air. He collided face-to-face with another person also hurrying close to the ground.

Four eyes met, and both were suddenly furious.

Good you, Bian City King!

You tricked me into going west, you chose east yourself! You don’t even trust your colleagues, you deserve to run into me!

“Good you, Coroner Wang! You tricked me into going south, you yourself went east first, then west, and then east again!”

Both Yan Luos felt indignant at their colleague’s heartlessness.

But Coroner Wang’s indignation was internal.

Bian City King, however, directly scolded out loud. Not only did he scold out loud, he even lifted a foot and kicked him flying.

Coroner Wang swallowed the insult: “A great enemy is at hand, we’ll scold later. There’s someone named Yan Shaofei who has already locked onto us. If this person is not eliminated, it will be hard to escape Wei’s net. Big brother, I suggest we solve him first!”

Qin Guang King is the boss, Bian City King is the big brother, this is not conflicting.

With Bian City King’s current divine soul cultivation, he saw Coroner Wang’s problem at a glance, pointed his finger into a sword, and remotely chopped towards him: “I’ve already chopped off the thing pulling your divine intent. Separate and go.”

How could Coroner Wang dare to separate: “Big brother, I want to follow you, it’s good to protect you closely!”

Bian City King’s eyes turned cold and forced him to stop instantly.

“If you follow me, I will kill you.” Leaving this sentence, Bian City King leaped into a shadow and swaggered away.

Coroner Wang fiercely cursed several sentences in his heart, then turned and walked away on another path. But this time, he somewhat controlled the noise, no longer flying horizontally and rushing straight.

Not long after, Yan Shaofei crossed the air over the wilderness, hovered here, slightly paused at the position where ‘karma’ was cut off, and made a choice between two forked roads based on intuition.

Thus, he flew quickly for a moment.

Suddenly, he felt a huge danger, as if the sky was about to collapse. An indescribable, terrifying killing intent, condensed into substance, like a sharp needle piercing his spiritual platform!

An extremely overbearing spiritual awareness was stimulated and rose.

The Proud Sword stood empty, surging karmic force circulating around his body, turning into countless blood-colored lotus petals, secretly turning yin-yang, alternating life and death. While guarding against unknown danger, he also constructed infinite possibilities for counterattack.

But in the air, only a cold and merciless voice remained.

“Don’t chase.”

Unexpectedly, he had run into the real big fish!

Yan Shaofei felt that the opponent had already struck with a sword, but the sword’s edge had not yet reached his body.

There was no sword energy in his vision, no sword sound in his hearing.

Yet he saw, heard, and felt the roar of the killing intent!

This sword was far away with a single thought.

Under this sword, both body and karma were extinguished!

Yan Shaofei was slightly silent, withdrew the flames, turned back, sheathed his sword, and returned to the Wei capital without any attachment. It wasn’t because he didn’t dare to chase, or couldn’t fight, it was already too late.

Unless at the first moment of feeling the killing intent, he hadn’t chosen to guard, but had drawn his sword to kill against it. Otherwise, he fundamentally couldn’t catch up with this sword that had gone instantly far away.

This sword was soundless and formless, it escaped the senses, and in an instant, it traversed a hundred and ten li. At this time, it was already outside the borders of Wei country!

Clearly, it was a sharp, peerless sword, clearly piercing the empty world like thunder. But the people of Wei country along the way couldn’t detect what had happened.

The person was gone without a trace, the sword was gone without a mark.

Such a sword, such a Bian City King…

In this world of great contention, even the threshold for assassin organizations was increasingly high.

World heroes, indeed, did not often achieve a proud cry.

He, dressed in simple plain martial clothes, hung his sword and walked.

In the Wei capital, Zhang Shou Lian’s death had not yet been discovered by anyone. Zhang Shou Lian’s eight-lift sedan was still rampaging in the city.

The news of the karmic fire red lotus angrily burning the Hell No Door Yan Luo had already spread. Many people were surprised about who the target of Hell No Door was this time. Some also furiously demanded to immediately seal the borders, thoroughly investigate inside and outside, and make those assassins come but not leave.

Just in such an atmosphere, Yan Shaofei came to the Tian Qi Hall, where the Great Wei Emperor discussed matters.

As the Great Wei Emperor who unprecedentedly concentrated court and country power and intended to promote martial dao throughout the country, Wei Xuan Che was born with an extraordinary face and was different from others as a child. Not only did he have innate dao veins, but in every subject of literature and martial arts, he was the first among the imperial family of the same generation. His courage and spirit were even more incomparable to ordinary people.

His grandfather, that is, during the reign of Wei Ming Emperor, once met and talked with the Emperor of Jing country at the Long River. Wei Ming Emperor brought Wei Xuan Che along at that time. The Jing Emperor saw that this child was born extraordinary and intentionally teased him, pretending to be angry, and asked the boy why he didn’t bow to the central Emperor.

At that time, the six-year-old Wei Xuan Che said—”You are also Emperor, my imperial grandfather is also Emperor. How can a Wei imperial prince bow to the Jing Emperor?”

This matter is recorded in 《Wei Lue》.

Because of his favor for Wei Xuan Che, Wei Ming Emperor even went against public opinion, abolished the crown prince, personally eliminated all unstable factors, and passed the throne to his third son, whose talent was not obvious, that is, Wei Xuan Che’s birth father, namely Wei Qin Emperor.

And the first thing Wei Qin Emperor did after ascending the throne was to establish Wei Xuan Che as the crown prince. Later, he didn’t govern for many years before voluntarily abdicating.

Some people are born different from others. It should be said that Wei Xuan Che’s path has been one of implementing his legend every step of the way.

Since he ascended the throne, the national power of Great Wei has flourished day by day. Even forcibly reversing a hundred years of national policy and promoting martial dao nationwide did not cause too much turmoil, and he steadily passed the most painful period… The future is worth expecting.

At this moment, he was standing on the cinnabar steps, his hands behind his back, looking at his dragon throne, and the magnificent carving of the Great Wei rivers and mountains behind the dragon throne. He only gave the sheathed-sword-entering-palace Yan Shaofei a lonely and stern back.

“Yan Shaofei is incompetent and did not leave the assassin…” Yan Shaofei said formally: “Please, Emperor, descend punishment.”

“Didn’t you already leave some behind?” The Wei Emperor’s voice was very indifferent: “You burned two assassins’ corpses.”

Yan Shaofei did not speak.

His Proud Sword was initially bestowed by the Wei Emperor. He was very familiar with the Wei Emperor and deeply knew that the Emperor’s words were the truth itself. Once the Emperor’s words were spoken, no matter how the facts were dissected, they would finally have to be trimmed into this shape.

Then he had indeed left two assassins.

At this time, a voice outside the hall reported: “Your Majesty, the Judicial Office is still investigating, exactly who was stabbed, or rather, who was originally going to be stabbed… Now there is no news from anywhere.”

“Tell them not to investigate. The Judicial Office’s power is limited, don’t waste it on putting on airs.” The Wei Emperor said: “Send people to prepare a coffin and send it to Zhang Shou Lian’s residence. Also, go tell the Empress, tell her to restrain her grief.”

Yan Shaofei’s autumn knife-like brows slightly raised. Because the name Zhang Shou Lian was originally the first person he was going to kill this time upon returning to Wei.

The voice outside the hall received the order and left. The Wei Emperor, however, did not continue this topic, and turned: “You traveled far to other countries, separated for several years. Have you thought clearly about anything?”

The simply dressed Yan Shaofei stood in his own posture in the majestic and broad hall: “I haven’t thought clearly, and I still can’t think clearly.”

“Still going to think?” The Wei Emperor asked.

“Forget it,” Yan Shaofei said.

The Wei Emperor turned back and looked down at him from the cinnabar steps: “You are also of imperial family bloodline, an orthodox imperial descendant. Although scattered for many years and the inheritance lost, you have after all awakened bloodline divine ability and possess such talent and aptitude… Have you never thought of restoring Great Yan?”

Formerly, there was a great country called ‘Yan’, which horizontally occupied the southeast of the present world, suppressing calamity waters and pressuring neighboring states. And it unexpectedly collapsed in an instant, the dynasty changed four times, dissipating like smoke clouds.

When Xia was established, it already didn’t know Yan. Now Xia has also perished.

Yan Shaofei calmly said: “If I had such a grand dream of Spring and Autumn, could Your Majesty rest assured?”

“What is there for Your Majesty not to rest assured about?” The Wei Emperor lightly laughed: “Wei country is a very fair place. What you can do in Wei country, you can win for yourself how much.”

“Your unparalleled talent, Jing Long, collapsed his dao heart and ruined his own future, even harming his family. Jiang Wu An was world-famous, accumulating merits to become a marquis, but gave up everything and still needed a life-and-death duel to seek freedom. Your Majesty is not like this!”

“If you can borrow the power of Wei country to revive Yan country, that is your ability. If you have ability, Your Majesty will use you. If your ability is greater, Your Majesty will use you more heavily. Your Majesty governs the world with only four words—’Employ only talent!'”

Yan Shaofei said: “Books say, having talent but no virtue, the harm is the greatest.”

“Words of corrupt scholars!” The Wei Emperor waved his large sleeve: “The world is so big, with billions of living beings. How can everyone be a sage? Those who harbor evil and can act wantonly, it’s because the laws cannot be established; those without virtue who can do harm, it’s Your Majesty’s fault!”

Yan Shaofei suddenly had a strong feeling—several decades later, when Sima Heng continued to compile the Wei Lue of 《History Chisel Sea》, this dialogue today would perhaps be recorded in history.

Wei Ming Emperor governed the country with virtue. Wei Qin Emperor governed it with virtue.

And this current Great Wei Emperor is truly different from past generations!

He thought and thought, and finally followed his heart, slowly asking: “Your Majesty said ‘Employ only talent,’ the commoner wants to ask… Does this word ‘talent’ include Zhang Shou Lian?”