Chapter 100: Chapter 89: I Am the King’s Law

"Huang Dongchun, hand over your life!"

Li Huai Sheng’s hoarse voice rang out as he seized the opportunity to strike from the side. With a flick of his arms, countless fine, black, poison-tipped needles shot out like a sudden squall, instantly blanketing Huang Dongchun.

"You cur! How dare you betray your master!"

When Huang Dongchun saw Li Huai Sheng, it was a case of enemies meeting, their eyes blazing with exceptional fury.

’If he hadn’t stolen the Spirit Marrow Gu and given it to our enemy, Chen Sheng, allowing him to break through to the Marrow Transformation Realm, how could the Huang Family have fallen to such a state?’

He instantly abandoned the grunts in front of him, spun, and gathered his full power. He unleashed a palm strike, the force of which was so fierce and unrivaled that it blasted most of the Poison Needles out of the air. Its momentum unabated, the strike continued straight for Li Huai Sheng’s face.

Li Huai Sheng specialized in insidious poisons; how could he possibly be Huang Dongchun’s match in a direct confrontation?

Seeing the palm strike, which contained terrifying Force, about to land, his expression changed, and he retreated without a second thought.

At the very same moment he retreated, an even fiercer, more domineering gale of Force swept past his side.

Li Huai Sheng took a closer look and was instantly relieved. ’It really is Commander Chen!’

From Huang Dongchun’s explosive attack, to Chen Sheng making his move, to Li Huai Sheng luring the enemy—it all happened in the blink of an eye.

Seeing Chen Sheng himself arrive to kill, the blood-red hue in Huang Dongchun’s eyes deepened, and his killing intent boiled to its absolute peak.

’Since there’s no escape, then we’ll all burn together!’

He was determined to see for himself just what kind of heaven-defying abilities this Chen Sheng truly possessed!

As the thought flashed through his mind, Huang Dongchun violently flicked his sleeve.

"WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—!"

A cold glint shot out from his sleeve, bizarrely splitting into six in midair. It became six throwing knives, swift as shooting stars, flying from cunning angles to intercept the charging Chen Sheng.

This Mother-Child Linked Rings Saber technique was his hidden trump card, and its element of surprise had helped him slay several powerful enemies in the past.

Huang Dongchun was certain that even if Chen Sheng could block the attack, he would be thrown into a panic and reveal a fatal flaw.

He immediately stomped his foot, shattering the stone tiles beneath him. His body shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, following close behind the flying knives as he threw a fully-powered punch straight at Chen Sheng’s heart.

However, what happened next made his pupils shrink and his very soul tremble.

Faced with those six swift, deadly, and unexpected flying knives, Chen Sheng’s charge didn’t pause in the slightest. He merely gave a casual swing of his right hand, which was gripping the hilt of his own saber.

"CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG-CLANG—!"

A rapid series of crisp, metallic clashes exploded through the air.

The brilliant light of his blade seemed to weave an impenetrable curtain before him. All six flying knives, infused with formidable Force, were precisely deflected by that single, seemingly casual swing. Amid a shower of sparks, they all fell powerlessly to the ground.

Chen Sheng’s momentum was only arrested for an imperceptible instant.

The next moment, his toes tapped the ground again. His figure blurred, leaving an afterimage as he moved with incredible speed, instantly closing the final distance between them and appearing before Huang Dongchun.

In that instant, Huang Dongchun’s follow-up punch—the one he was so certain would land—seemed laughably slow.

Seeing the cold edge of the blade already at his face, Huang Dongchun went pale with terror. He possessed no ability to block a sharp weapon with his bare flesh. In his haste, he could only twist his body violently in an attempt to dodge the fatal strike.

But while he was fast, Chen Sheng’s blade was faster.

"SHLIIICK—!"

A dark light flashed, and blood sprayed into the air.

Huang Dongchun felt a sudden coldness on his left shoulder, followed immediately by a searing, heart-rending pain.

His entire left arm had been severed at the shoulder. It flew into the air, scattering a rain of blood.

Before the agony could fully register in his brain, Chen Sheng’s left hand shot out like an iron pincer, precisely grabbing the wrist of Huang Dongchun’s outstretched right arm.

"CRACK!"

A sickening crunch of bone echoed clearly.

Chen Sheng’s fingers tightened, and an overwhelming, terrifying Force surged into Huang Dongchun’s right arm, twisting and shattering the bone within!

Until that moment, Huang Dongchun’s face still wore a mask of ferocious determination from his forward lunge, but his mind had gone completely blank. He was utterly unable to process the reversal that had occurred in the blink of an eye.

"THUMP!"

Chen Sheng released the ruined arm and followed up with a simple, unadorned kick that slammed heavily into Huang Dongchun’s undefended chest.

"PFFFT—!"

Huang Dongchun was sent flying backward like a kite with its string cut. The blood he spat drew a grim arc through the air, and the immense force of the blow tore at the wound of his severed left arm, sending even more blood spraying across the sky. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Only when his body slammed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, did the delayed, bone-deep, soul-searing pain finally wash over him like a flood.

Meanwhile, Chen Sheng landed gracefully, his robes fluttering, as if he had just completed some trivial task. His expression was one of pure indifference, as if he hadn’t just severed the arms of a Marrow Transformation expert, but had merely brushed a speck of dust from his clothes.

In that instant, the very air for dozens of yards around him seemed to freeze solid.

Everyone who witnessed the scene—be they government soldiers, Yang Clan Members, or the surviving disciples of the Huang Family—simultaneously stopped what they were doing. Their horrified gazes were all fixed on the figure in the black official’s robe.

Stunned.

In disbelief.

The dignified Patriarch of the Huang Family, Huang Dongchun, a veteran expert who had been in the Marrow Transformation Realm for many years, couldn’t even last a single exchange against Chen Sheng? In just one clash, both his arms were crippled, leaving him gravely injured and near death.

Yang Yi, who arrived just in time to witness the entire exchange, felt his pupils contract violently. A chill shot up his spine, straight to the crown of his head.

He had long known that Chen Sheng was powerful, but he had never imagined that his strength had reached such an utterly inconceivable level.

A feeling of profound awe spontaneously bloomed within him.

"Patriarch!!"

"Clan Leader!!"

"Dong Chun—!!"

After a dead silence, the heart-wrenching shrieks and mournful howls of the Huang Family members erupted.

The Huang Family’s granduncle, who had just finished securing the clan’s elderly and weak before rushing over with Huang Ke, arrived just in time to see Huang Dongchun being sent flying like a broken ragdoll.

Huang Ke’s eyes nearly split with rage as he rushed forward to help.

The Huang granduncle’s body trembled violently. With a loud CRACK, the cane in his hand splintered under his grip. His murky old eyes filled with boundless shock and a towering inferno of rage.

’This is too much!’

’This is simply outrageous!!’

"Chen Sheng, you’ve gone too far!" The Huang granduncle’s hair and beard bristled with fury. The long-dormant qi and blood in his body began to boil as he prepared to attack, heedless of the consequences.

"Grandfather, wait,"

a clear voice called out. It was Xu Shenzhi, who had just arrived, stopping the old man.

Xu Shenzhi glanced at his uncle, Huang Dongchun, lying on the ground with both arms severed and on the verge of death, and a foul anger flared in his heart. This, combined with his junior martial sister’s recent words about breaking off their engagement, made him utterly furious.

The two emotions welled up inside him, fanning the flames of his rage.

However, he ultimately remembered his family’s instructions. Suppressing his fury, he fixed his blade-like gaze on the proudly standing Chen Sheng and demanded in a heavy voice:

"You must be the commander of the Changshan Martial Preparation Camp, Chen Sheng?"

Chen Sheng slowly raised his eyes, his gaze falling upon Xu Shenzhi. The corner of his mouth curled into a barely perceptible, meaningful smirk.

"And who are you?"

"Xu Shenzhi, of the Prefecture City’s Xu Family!"

Xu Shenzhi puffed out his chest, enunciating each word clearly, attempting to use his family’s prestige to quell Chen Sheng’s arrogance.

"And?"

Chen Sheng’s tone was flat, as if he had just heard some irrelevant name.

Xu Shenzhi was so incensed by this dismissive attitude that he was momentarily speechless. Forcing down his rage, he said:

"The formal calling card I sent to your esteemed camp... Did Commander Chen receive it?"

"I received it."

"Since you received it,"

Xu Shenzhi’s voice suddenly rose. "Is Commander Chen unwilling to give my Xu Family some face? The Huang Family has already stated they have no wish to be your enemy. They are willing to pay a price to end this conflict, so why must you insist on exterminating them and committing such atrocities?

"Don’t tell me there’s no King’s Law left in Changshan County?!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Sheng’s gaze casually swept past Xu Shenzhi to the cold, stunning Han Ling’Er standing beside him. The smirk on his lips grew wider, full of undisguised arrogance and dominance.

"Your Xu Family... has no face here with me."

He paused, his voice not loud, but carrying a clear, unquestionable authority that spread to every corner of the battlefield.

"Because I... am the King’s Law in Changshan!"

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