“This is really Yanluo Hall!”

“And they are unexpectedly charging towards the two of us? Could there be even stronger people going to assassinate the young master?”

“The young master has so many people around, and City Lord Xu is no weaker than us. It’s not empty, ah…”

Just as this thought flashed through Ho Lei’s mind, a large fire suddenly erupted in the distance, turning the sky red.

After a moment, demonic energy surged upwards, a fierce wind raged, causing sand and stones to fly, and the mad howls of demons echoed through the clouds.

“Demons!” The two looked back in horror. “That side is… the City Lord’s Manor?”

“Bad! There’s trouble at the City Lord’s Manor! Or is it a demon matter? Will Xu Bingkun and the Town Demon Division be involved?”

“We’ve been tricked!”

An empty wheelchair suddenly appeared in front of them, spinning around in its original spot. The laughter in the air became a bit closer. “You two chased the wheelchair here. Since you’ve seen everything, why are you in such a hurry to go back?”

The two looked towards the sound. A sword light shot straight towards them, and behind the sword light was a pair of cruel eyes. “Since you’re here, then accompany *ye* for a game.”

“Clang!” Ho Lei quickly blocked the sword light and urgently said, “Fifth-grade assassin… I’ll deal with him. You go back quickly!”

“You can go back, but at least stay for half a cup of tea.”

“Swish, swish, swish!” Figures emerged from the mountain paths on both sides. The aura of magic treasures flowed through the mountain, vaguely forming a trapped dragon array.

Ho Ting angrily said, “How much money did the opponent give your Yanluo Hall to make you work so hard! We’ll pay double!”

“Even if you offer ten times, in our eyes, it’s not worth as much as his one sentence.”

Sworn to follow the general!

…

After sending off the Ho Lei and Ho Ting brothers, Ho Yu also felt a slight moment of guilt.

Uncle Fu was dead, and the Ho Lei and Ho Ting brothers had left. The guards he had who belonged to him were just a batch of seventh or eighth grade experts. He suddenly felt quite weak.

But looking at the many strong experts in the hall, City Lord Xu Bingkun and his guard team, the various vice commanders and middle-level officials of the Town Demon Division, and Liu Qingcang, who was also a strong expert, it still looked like a prosperous situation no matter how he looked at it. Moreover, once there was any movement here, the Ho Lei brothers would return for support very quickly.

No matter what, the opponent couldn’t possibly make a move at this time.

Ho Yu quickly suppressed the small unease in his heart and coldly snorted, “Everyone sit properly. Let’s drink tea first and talk about how to search for and capture that cheap seed.”

Xu Bingkun stroked his beard and smiled, “With the various colleagues from the Town Demon Division here, things will be much easier to handle. After all, the Town Demon Division has rich investigation experience and related treasures. Once traces are found, they also have enough strength to apprehend the person.”

Actually, the Town Demon Division crowd really didn’t want to get involved. Being forced to the forefront, they could only respond, “Tomorrow morning, we will dispatch personnel to search. As long as he is still in Xia State, it’s impossible for him to hide without a trace.”

Liu Qingcang said, “What if he hides in civilian houses? Search door to door?”

“Naturally, we’ll search door to door.” Ho Yu glared at Xu Bingkun with some dissatisfaction. Originally, they should have searched door to door today. This city lord was not efficient enough and dragged it out until now.

Xu Bingkun acted as if he couldn’t see his dissatisfaction, stroked his beard, and said, “That household nearby, shouldn’t we search it first?”

Lu Xingzhou tried to attract Ho Yu’s gaze away from Shen Tang, but he also knew he couldn’t keep it away for long. Ho Yu’s side, from Xu Bingkun to Liu Qingcang, kept causing trouble. Any random reason could pull Ho Yu’s gaze back again.

So Lu Xingzhou’s plan from the beginning was a quick battle and quick decision. He never thought of letting Ho Yu live past the evening of the second day.

Ho Yu was somewhat moved by what Xu Bingkun said. It was now midnight. If they searched the Shen family’s business, perhaps they could still…

Just as he was thinking this, a mad howl suddenly erupted in the distance.

Everyone was startled and quickly went out of the hall, leaping to a high place to look towards the direction of the sound.

The fire in the City Lord’s Manor was raging, and demonic energy surged into the sky.

Everyone suddenly turned their heads and stared at Xu Bingkun. Xu Bingkun’s face instantly turned pale, and he forced himself to say, “Could it be that a demon is attacking my City Lord’s Manor?”

Demon attack… This statement already removed quite a bit of his own suspicion of raising demons. Immediately, a vice commander of the Town Demon Division sternly said, “Demon invasion is the top priority. Young Master Ho, please forgive us, but we must go immediately!”

Without waiting for Ho Yu’s reply, the people from the Town Demon Division quickly left. Xu Bingkun, even more anxious, led the crowd away.

Ho Yu felt that he could also deal with demons a bit. He pulled Xu Bingkun and said, “City Lord, don’t be anxious. We’ll go together.”

Xu Bingkun secretly thought that if it was a demon matter, a group of Xia State subordinates on the scene could still try to cover it up or suppress it forcefully. If you were on the scene and heard it, it would be bad. So he advised, “I don’t know what cultivation level that demon has, daring to invade my City Lord’s Manor. I think it must be very strong. Young master, you are of noble status. You should not stand under a dangerous wall. Even if you want to go, please wait for those two guards to return, and then we’ll go together.”

Ho Yu thought he was right and nodded. “They will be back soon. City Lord, you go first, and we will follow.”

In the blink of an eye, the originally bustling Ho residence was left only with Ho Yu and his guard team, becoming cold and quiet.

Looking at the bright lights and messy cups and plates in the middle of the hall, the feeling of guilt in Ho Yu’s heart suddenly became denser. He always felt that the vast Ho residence was like a haunted house.

He paced back and forth a few steps and still said, “Why haven’t Ho Lei and Ho Ting returned yet… No, I can’t wait. Let’s go slay demons and eliminate evil!”

The guards, not knowing how much this young master was bluffing, still thought he really wanted to go fight demons, and they rarely felt a bit of respect. “Since the young master wants to go, we will fight to the death to protect the young master completely…”

Before he finished speaking, a clear wind swept through, and the candle flames swayed wildly. A “hehe” laughter was heard in the air. “Young Master Ho Six is not afraid of demons, so are you afraid of ghosts?”

The sound of a ghost crying echoed through the hall, and all the candle flames were extinguished.

Ho Yu instinctively rushed towards the outside of the hall and sternly shouted, “The cheap seed is still pretending to be a god and playing tricks! If you have guts, come out!”

Just as he stepped out of the hall, he felt something was wrong.

He turned his head to look, and not a single guard had followed him out. The middle of the hall was quiet and silent, as if it were an isolated dimension.

The only sound he could hear was Liu Qingcang’s angry roar, “Stinky little ghost, it’s you!”

Before Ho Yu could figure out the situation, a figure in a wheelchair slowly slid out from the shadows. Under the moonlight, Lu Xingzhou’s calm face gradually appeared. “Young Master Ho, long time no see.”

“You…” Ho Yu was stunned for a few breaths, then suddenly realized, “You are fundamentally not Ho Shang! You are that hunter family’s…”

“I never said I was Ho Shang.” Lu Xingzhou said faintly, “After all, sharing a bloodline with you, I think Ho Shang feels quite unlucky too.”

Ho Yu finally figured out what the problem was. “So you’ve actually been hiding in our back mountain all along!”

Lu Xingzhou snapped his fingers. “Tsk, rarely smart once.”

Ho Yu’s stunned expression disappeared, replaced by a sarcastic smile. “Taking advantage of the large gathering of city officials here, you guided me to send away the guards; then you used demons to lure away the officials, instantly collapsing my prosperous situation; …do you feel your plan is very exquisite, finally facing this young master?”

Lu Xingzhou said faintly, “If you had thought of this a cup of tea earlier, it’s possible you wouldn’t die.”

Ho Yu’s expression became ferocious. “But you couldn’t have thought that you yourself are no match for me?”

“Swish!” A small flying sword suddenly appeared in front of Ho Yu, then instantly enlarged, and a dazzling sword light shot straight towards Lu Xingzhou.

At this short distance, it was fundamentally impossible to avoid.

A talisman appeared in Lu Xingzhou’s hand.

The talisman burned, and an arc-shaped mirror surface appeared in front of him. The sword light brushed against the mirror surface and was deflected, stabbing into the courtyard wall with a bang and shattering into pieces.

“Mirror light talisman…” Ho Yu was stunned for a moment, then saw three or four talismans clipped between Lu Xingzhou’s fingertips, burning simultaneously.

“Very capable Dao cultivator… Too bad you met the Ho family.” Ho Yu laughed and suddenly sacrificed a jade pendant.

The light from the jade pendant covered the entire courtyard. The talisman papers in Lu Xingzhou’s hand suddenly extinguished, and his spiritual energy scattered.

“This is my Ho family’s forbidden spirit jade. All Dao methods below the third grade are invalid. What ability do you still have, you cripple?” Ho Yu laughed heartily, reached out to summon, and the flying sword circled back from the edge of the wall into his hand. He held the sword and flew towards him, stabbing. “Die!”

Lu Xingzhou, whose Dao methods were invalid, had no expression on his face from beginning to end. He stared fixedly at Ho Yu as he came flying, person and sword united.

Until he was close, he extended his left hand like lightning, gently deflecting the sword light, easily changing its direction.

Completely miscalculated! Horror filled Ho Yu’s heart. Lu Xingzhou was fundamentally not just a Dao cultivator. He was also a martial cultivator! He cultivated both Dao and martial arts!

Who would have thought that a sickly cripple sitting in a wheelchair was actually a martial cultivator?

Before the shock in his heart was over, Lu Xingzhou’s right hand holding the armrest of the wheelchair suddenly pressed lightly.

With a “bang,” the front end of the armrest suddenly exploded, and countless fine needles shot out, like a thousand trees and ten thousand pear blossoms blooming, or like a violent rain pouring down.

Violent rain pear blossom needles… Not a hidden weapon, but a magic treasure!

Lu Xingzhou’s seemingly ordinary wheelchair was actually a magic treasure…

A specially made magic treasure, and its grade was not inferior to his Ho Yu’s at all… Where did Lu Xingzhou get the resources to do such a thing?

Ho Yu then realized that this battle was fundamentally unknown to him! He fundamentally didn’t know what he was fighting against, while the opponent knew everything about him like the back of his hand.

Ho Yu had no time to think. The jade pendant hanging on his chest shattered with a bang, forming a soft protective shield in front of him. The sound of beads falling on a jade plate rang out, and countless fine needles flashing with terrifying energy rushed onto the protective shield. Ho Yu spat out a mouthful of blood and fell back.

“He has quite a few treasures…” Lu Xingzhou patted the armrest, and his whole person soared up like a soaring eagle, pursuing in the air.

Ho Yu fell back in mid-air, seeing that he couldn’t dodge. Yet, a look of excitement flashed in his eyes. “You were careless too, ah!”

Along with his words, a figure flashed out from the shadows beside him with incomparable speed. A knife light rushed towards Lu Xingzhou’s waist and chopped angrily.

Everyone who isn’t flying… is most dangerous in mid-air, unavoidable.

Lu Xingzhou’s face still had no expression. “You secretly following shadow guard, did you really think I didn’t know? If he appears, it means you have no bottom cards…”

From the first word he spoke, the ghost crying in the hall, which had seemed isolated before, stopped. A sticky little dumpling-like ghost flashed out and printed a palm on Ho Yu’s back.

Ho Yu’s protective treasure clothes on his back exploded with life-saving light again. When it touched A Nuo’s dumpling-like hand, the energy dissipated at light speed, like ordinary clothes, providing no protective effect whatsoever.

“Bang!” The hand firmly pressed on Ho Yu’s back, and the sound of bone cracking was heard. His spine broke.

At the same time, Lu Xingzhou stopped abruptly in mid-air, just right to let the shadow guard’s knife light pass. The shadow passed straight in front, and Lu Xingzhou smoothly patted a fine needle just under his ribs.

By this time, one sentence had just finished.

“Puff…” Ho Yu violently spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.