"Sorcery … sorcery?"
Zheng Cunjian was taken aback, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
"What's going on?"
"This unscrupulous county magistrate of Taibai County, whose brain is full of muscles, actually knows sorcery?"
"And he's a warlock?"
"Ah … Damn it, how dare you … Ah!"
Screams came from the lightning net.
The figure made of black flames struggled violently.
Li Mu flicked his wrist.
The purple lightning net shrank, making crackling sounds as if a lightning whip was lashing something. Then, a figure appeared in the net.
It was a long-faced man in his thirties, dressed in black. His hair was more than one meter long, hanging loosely over his shoulders. He screamed and struggled, but the purple lightning whipped him, making sparks sputtered and a burnt smell permeated the air …
The lightning net dispersed.
The long-faced man fell to the ground.
The moment he landed, he sprung up as if a spring had been installed on his body. With a sharp dagger in his hand, he charged at Li Mu.
"Don't …" Zheng Cunjian shouted from the side.
"Weapons can never hurt this county magistrate of Taibai County."
But it was too late.
"Humph …" Li Mu casually raised his hand and grasped the blade of the dagger. His fingers were unscathed. Then, with a little force, the sharp blade was squeezed into steel mud and spilled out from between Li Mu's fingers.
"How is this possible?" The long-faced man could not believe it.
"Why not?" Li Mu gave him a backhand slap in the face. "Oh, you've been messing around for a long time. It turns out that you haven't figured out my strength yet.
"Smack!"
Half of the long-faced man's face was swollen.
"How dare you hit me? How dare you hit the supervisor of the Supervisory Department? Hahaha, interesting, too f * cking interesting. Young county magistrate, you're doomed. I'll definitely report everything that happened today to the Supervisory Department. You, your family, and your friends are all doomed … "The long-faced man growled grimly," I swear, I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life … Haha, this is so interesting. Just thinking about it makes me excited. "
Li Mu frowned.
"Then … go to hell."
He gave her another backhand slap.
"Bang!"
The long-faced man's head instantly disappeared from his neck.
A skull-shaped crack appeared on the wall twenty meters away.
In the middle of the depression, a mass of red and white juice slowly slid down.
Plop.
The headless corpse was still standing where it was.
"I think you won't find it interesting anymore."
Li Mu reached out and gave it a push, and it fell down like a puppet whose strings had been cut off.
"From today onwards, no one can threaten me … or my friends."
Li Mu slowly withdrew his palm.
In fact, Li Mu had held back when dealing with Zheng Cunjian, Ning Zhongshan, and Chu Shufeng.
He didn't really want to kill anyone.
But just now, when the long-faced man was obviously defeated, he was still as vicious as a poisonous snake and made threats recklessly, Li Mu suddenly understood a truth.
On this planet, in this martial arts world, forgiveness, tolerance, and leeway seemed to be meaningless, especially in the face of these so-called superiors who regarded human lives as worthless. Tolerance would make them think you were weak, forgiveness would make them think you were stupid, and leeway would make them think you were afraid.
If you wanted to protect what you cherished, you had to destroy what you despised.
If you wanted to guard the good, you had to destroy the evil.
Li Mu looked at Zheng Cunjian.
"No, no … Don't kill me, I … I was wrong, I …"
At that time, the Heartless Scholar was completely scared out of his wits. He stared at Li Mu as if he was looking at a demon from hell. His trump cards, his reliance, his sense of superiority, and his status had all vanished in a puff of smoke at that moment.
Since he even dared to kill the supervisor of the Supervisory Department, was there anyone in the world that the magistrate of Taibai County didn't dare to kill?
By that time, Zheng Cunjian had completely sobered up.
He had completely realized what kind of person he was facing.
A complete lunatic who had no taboo or scruples.
Killing such a person was no different from killing a chicken or strangling a bug.
"Give me a reason not to kill you?" Li Mu asked in a low voice.
Zheng Cunjian was scared out of his wits. "I … I … Second Young Master, I'll tell you the truth, I'll tell you the truth … It was His Honor who sent me here. I had no choice. Please, Second Young Master, for … for the sake that I took care of you and your mother when you were little, don't … don't kill me …"
"What?"
Li Mu was stunned.
"Is this guy crazy?"
"Nonsense?"
"Second Young Master?"
"What are you talking about?" Li Mu shook his fist and said, "Are you playing the fool?"
"No, no, no. Second Young Master, listen to me. I … I pretended not to know you, and you pretended not to know me, didn't you? I thought … I thought you didn't want others to know your real identity. I … Second Young Master, I know where your mother is. Don't kill me … "
Zheng Cunjian said in a panic.
"Huh?"
Li Mu suddenly realized something.
"Wait, this guy said he pretended not to know me. That is to say, he actually knows me … No, he knows the real Li Mu who fell off the cliff and no one knows whether he is dead or alive?"
"Second Young Master?"
"That is to say, the real Li Mu is not simple at all. He has a powerful background, doesn't he?"
Li Mu suddenly thought of many things.
"But why didn't I hear the two little attendants mention this before?"
After thinking for a moment, Li Mu directly punched Zheng Cunjian with his palm.
Zheng Cunjian spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground, motionless.
But when Ning Zhongshan and Chu Shufeng saw that, they were scared out of their wits.
Now that Li Mu had killed Zheng Cunjian, didn't it mean that he had lost his mind and wanted to start a killing spree?
Therefore, when Li Mu strode toward them, the two were on the verge of breaking down.
"Your Honor Li, don't kill me. Please spare my life …" Chu Shufeng, the round-faced fatty with a hooked nose, shrieked, "Listen to me. It's Zheng Cunjian who forced us to do this … I'll tell you everything. This time, the magistrate of Chang 'an sent us here to make you a mere figurehead and find a chance to get rid of you. We were forced to do this …"
Li Mu strode toward them step by step.
"Look at you. What a coward you are!" Li Mu clicked his tongue and shook his head. "Weren't you threatening me just now? Now, you are no better than the lowliest mangy dog. Do you think it's fun to live like this? "
"I … Don't kill me." Chu Shufeng burst into tears and pleaded, "I was forced to do this. Everything was arranged by the magistrate of Chang 'an. Your Honor Li, I was blind. I shouldn't have gone against you. Please spare me." He crawled to Li Mu on all fours, hoping to cling to Li Mu's thigh.
Li Mu simply lifted a foot and kicked him away.
The new Dianshi janitor of Taibai County crashed into a nearby rock with a loud thud. Many of his bones were broken and slowly slid down, leaving a trail of blood on the rock. Then, he slumped to the ground, his head tilted to one side, and he breathed his last.
Originally, Li Mu planned to let Feng Yuanxing, Zhen Meng, and Ma Junwu avenge them. But now, he changed his mind and did not want to waste any more time.
Li Mu looked at Ning Zhongshan.
Ning Zhongshan was scared out of his wits.
"Your Honor, please have mercy on him. I'll tell you that it was Qian Cheng, the deputy general of the black-armored army, who knocked out Qing Feng's teeth with the handle of his broadsword and hung him up with a thin rope. That's why he was so badly wounded …" Although Ning Zhongshan was a martial artist, he had lost all will to fight at the moment, like a mangy dog whose spine had been broken.
Li Mu stopped at those words.
"Which one of you is Qian Cheng?" He looked at the three deputy generals of the black-armored army.
The gazes of two of the deputy generals instantly fell on the person on the far right.
That deputy general's heart skipped a beat.
"Looks like it's you." Li Mu strode toward him.
"Ah, I'll kill you!" Qian Cheng bellowed and drew out the long broadsword at his waist. "I am Qian Cheng. Haha, I smashed that little bastard's teeth with this broadsword. Hahaha, what can you do to me? I'm a general of the regular army of the empire. How can I be afraid of a little county magistrate like you? Kill! "
He dragged the broadsword and charged at Li Mu.
His internal qi was swirling around him.
As a deputy general of the regular army, his strength was extraordinary. He was already a first-class expert at the peak of the Joint-thoughts level.
"Smack!"
Li Mu raised a hand and slapped him. The slap made him spin on the spot like a spinning top.
The gap in strength was too big.
"What can I do to you?" Li Mu raised a hand and slapped him again.
Qian Cheng spun faster.
His face was swollen like a ripe peach that was smashed on the ground.
"What can I do to you?" Li Mu raised a hand and slapped him again.
Qian Cheng felt his face, no, his whole head, was numb.
"Smack!"
"I think I can only give you an eye for an eye." Li Mu slapped him again.
Qian Cheng's nose and mouth were twisted. His mouth and nose were bleeding, and his whole face was deformed.
Li Mu kicked him twice.
"Crack, crack!"
Qian Cheng's legs were broken.
"Ah …" He screamed like a pig being butchered. His body spun and fell.
Li Mu raised his foot and stomped his legs into meat paste bit by bit.
"No …" Qian Cheng roared in agony, "Kill me. Just kill me."
"Death is too easy for you," Li Mu said in an emotionless voice.
At the thought of Qing Feng's injury, Li Mu could hardly contain the rage and killing intent in his heart. "How dare Qian Cheng torture a ten-year-old child in such a cruel way! That's totally inhuman. Li Mu just want to let him taste the feeling of losing his legs."
"Ah, I'm wrong. I'm not a human. Spare me." Qian Cheng wailed in fear.
"Now do you know you're wrong?" Li Mu looked down at him, the anger in his eyes like an erupting volcano. "Why do scumbags like you have the status to dictate the fate of others? You deserve to die ten thousand times. "
He stamped on him.
Qian Cheng's body was torn into pieces.
Li Mu turned around and walked toward Ning Zhongshan.
"No, no, no, Your Honor Li, listen to me, I …" Ning Zhongshan stepped back in horror.
Li Mu screamed, picked up Qian Cheng's long broadsword, and held it in his hand.
"This strike is to pay you back for Ma Junwu." Li Mu swung his broadsword down.
"Ah … Your Honor Li, please spare my life …" Ning Zhongshan's left arm was cut off at the shoulder. He staggered backward and said, "I've paid the price. I swear I'm willing to help Your Honor. I trust the Dianshi janitor. I can be your dog. Please don't kill me …"
"I don't want to keep a dog like you." Li Mu chopped again. "This cut is for Ma Junwu's broken dream of being a shooter in the Control Battalion." How could a man who had lost an arm shoot an arrow? Ma Junwu could not shoot arrows anymore, which was worse than killing him.
"Swish!"
The broadsword flashed.
Ning Zhongshan's head flew up.
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