This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 172 - 130: The Desperate Tiger, The Collapse of the Colossus (Extended - )_5

Li Lei immediately gave orders to several of his trusted aides.

"Yes."

Several subordinates who had followed him for over a decade and with whom he shared a bond forged through life-and-death experiences, once members of the middle squadron, left the room.

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Now, only Li Lei and Lu Sheng, who was sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, remained in the room.

Lu Sheng still held a gun in his hand. It was with this gun that he had just shot Wu Yihua dead.

"Old Lu, why, why did you do it?!"

Li Lei asked in a lowered voice, angry.

Even Tao Foundation Stage master Shangguan Xiao didn't dare to kill Yan Yichen directly, so what made Lu Sheng think he could kill an Imperial Official after being demoted to a mere clerk?

Lu Sheng looked at Li Lei, smiled, and said with a relaxed face:

"Didn't I just analyze the situation for you?"

"But..."

"No buts."

Lu Sheng interrupted Li Lei, "Anyway, my son is already dead, and now that I've avenged him, I don't have much left to live for. Might as well help you eliminate this problem once and for all, consider it a thank you for helping me take my revenge."

Li Lei was stunned; he had not expected Lu Sheng to say such a thing.

"I've already thought up a follow-up excuse for you. Just say that I accidentally shot him dead while holding him hostage, and then, wishing to make amends, volunteered to lead a team to deal with the bandits that entered the city."

Lu Sheng said with a smile:

"Worst case scenario, I'll just give up my life for his; I've lived long enough anyway."

"Old Lu, you're being too impulsive..."

Li Lei said weakly, sitting down on the sofa, at a loss for words.

"Ha ha ha."

Lu Sheng laughed carelessly.

He stood up, walked to a cabinet, took out a bottle of wine, and gestured to Li Lei:

"This is a fine wine treasured by Wu Yihua, possibly a gift from the Tiger Saber Gang. Old Li, come, drink it with me!"

"....Okay."

Faced with such a Lu Sheng, Li Lei couldn't find the words to refuse.

The two quickly poured the wine.

Lu Sheng didn't immediately lift his glass to drink, but instead spilled the wine from his cup onto the ground, murmuring:

"Changwu, your father failed to protect you. I'll apologize to you when I join you down below."

In that moment, he was no longer the resolute Captain but just a father full of guilt.

...

That night, Li Fei once again entered Qingyuan Fist Village to find Shangguan Xiao.

"Aunt-Master, are you all right?"

Li Fei asked with concern.

He knew that Shangguan Xiao also had been badly injured that day.

Shangguan Xiao shook her head, looking at Li Fei with surprise: "I'm fine. Are you okay?"

Li Fei shook his head with a smile: "I'm fine."

Shangguan Xiao looked at Li Fei, who seemed unhurt, and clicked her tongue in amazement: "Did you really just start practicing martial arts a little more than three months ago?"

To kill a Tao Foundation Stage with Qi Change Stage cultivation prowess wasn't unprecedented, but to do so with only a little more than three months of martial arts training truly was unprecedented!

"Actually, that Zhao Yu's Tao Foundation doppelganger strictly speaking wasn't a true Tao Foundation Stage powerhouse. Moreover, I had the right means to counter him, and that's how I managed to kill him."

Li Fei explained.

Shangguan Xiao smiled with a twinkle in her eyes: "You don't need to explain so much to me. Who doesn't have secrets or a lucky encounter? Your teacher back in the days also had quite a few fortuitous experiences."

Seeing that Shangguan Xiao had already surmised her own answers, Li Fei didn't say more.

"I called you here tonight to consider a matter."

Shangguan Xiao said to Li Fei.

It was she who had asked Li Fei to come over that night.

"Please, Aunt-Master, command me."

Li Fei said, performing a ritual greeting.

Shangguan Xiao waved her hand: "It's not a command, but for you to consider yourself."

"Yu Hu and Zhang Mingze are both dead, and Yan Yichen from the Zhi Ge Court has been captured. With today's battle, the Tiger Saber Gang elites are either dead or fled, and many are captured. The behemoth that is the Tiger Saber Gang has thoroughly collapsed. Have you thought about what Xing City will become afterward?"

Li Fei fell into thought.

The fall of such a giant would inevitably affect all aspects, like the ripples caused by a mountain plunging into a vast lake, spreading incessantly outwards.

"The major landscape will change. The Chen Family will likely rise quickly, and the martial world of Xing City will be split between your Qingyuan Fist Village and the Chen Family."

Li Fei said.

Shangguan Xiao nodded approvingly:

"You see it clearly and guess accurately. With the collapse of the Tiger Saber Gang, the Chen Family will certainly seize the chance to aggressively annex the Tiger Saber Gang's power. In the future, it will be between me and the Chen Family."

Saying this, she looked into Li Fei's eyes:

"Have you ever thought about stepping out as the Green-faced Ghost and making the martial world of Xing City your own one day?"

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