29: Sigh
“Just a fluke,” Ye Hong said lightly, playing the role of the lucky one for once.
Qiu Jin’s eyes widened, and his Adam’s apple bobbed, unable to speak.
“Oh, by the way, if you have time, could you give me a ride to the Limit Martial Hall? It’ll save me trouble,” Ye Hong said again.
With a ready car, it would be a waste not to use it, especially since he remembered there was an entrance fee to enter the inner city.
However, the speaker had no intention, but the listener took it to heart.
Qiu Jin’s body trembled upon hearing this, and his face immediately lit up.
For the other party to say that, it clearly meant he was being treated as one of their own!
Thinking of this, Qiu Jin quickly nodded and agreed, “Alright, Master Ye, I’ll go get the car now.”
Soon.
At the entrance of the private club.
A sleek Bentley drove away, drawing envious glances from passersby.
Along the way, Qiu Jin kept his eyes fixed downwards, not even glancing at the rearview mirror.
This was because Luo Jinxuan was nestled in Ye Hong’s arms like a small bird.
The sweetness of their love almost suffocated him, a single man.
He drove for about half an hour.
The surrounding roads gradually widened, and the buildings in sight mostly changed from low, flat houses to tall ones.
In the distance, a massive city gate stood before them.
Beneath the city gate, the words “Taixi” were carved, grand and imposing.
At the city gate, a team of guards strictly guarded, meticulously checking everyone who entered and exited.
“Master Ye, we’ve reached the inner city. To be honest, I haven’t been to this inner city many times,” Qiu Jin said, pressing the brake to slow the car down.
“It is said that Taixi was the title left by our Yunhai City’s first City Lord, who broke through to the King Realm and cultivated the King’s Extreme Realm in the past.”
“He was an unparalleled fierce man, with countlessHou (Marquis) and King Realm Vicious Beasts dying by his hand.”
Ye Hong nodded slightly, a fleeting look of trance on his face.
Yunhai City, with a population exceeding a million, where Martial Artists were one in a thousand, then Martial Masters, Great Martial Masters, and Grandmasters.
Beyond that were the Marquis and King Realms.
It was said that powerhouses of that Realm could tear tanks apart with their bare hands, shatter rivers with a single kick, and suppress an entire region alone.
Even a domestic Nokia phone dropped from ten thousand meters would not be able to break through their Physical Body defense.
They were true individuals who could step into the Void Realm and shake Newton’s coffin lid.
But against the first City Lord of Yunhai City, they were still slaughtered like chickens and dogs.
One could see how terrifying he was.
“Stop, routine inspection.”
While he was contemplating, the Bentley had already driven to the exclusive lane below the city gate, separated from the pedestrian path.
A guard captain, dressed in a military officer’s uniform with a flying fish engraved on his hat, approached with a group of guards.
His two fingers gently rubbed together, the meaning almost self-evident.
Qiu Jin, understanding, pulled out a stack of red bills from his pocket, deliberately adding a few extra.
The guard captain quickly scanned them, and a smile appeared on his stern face.
“Pass.”
He signaled to the others behind him, and soon the Bentley drove into the city.
“That group of people just now are under Feiyu Marquis. It just so happens that this cycle they are responsible for guarding the city gate,” Qiu Jin explained as he restarted the vehicle.
“Hmm, go directly to the Limit Martial Hall headquarters,” Ye Hong said concisely.
He didn’t care about such small matters, and besides, it wasn’t his own money being spent.
“Alright.”
Qiu Jin agreed, activated the city’s essential Gaode Navigation, and then proceeded according to the voice guidance of ‘Little Ai Classmate’.
...
At the same time.
Limit Martial Hall headquarters, thirty-third floor.
“Damn it, I knew it was another cheater. Break his legs and drag him out!”
A burly man with a Scarface, looking at the pitiful three-digit number displayed on the combat power tester not far away, couldn’t help but curse, waving his hand to signal two Martial Artists from the Martial Hall to come forward.
“No… no! I was just momentarily possessed, spare me!”
A middle-aged man screamed miserably, his face ashen.
He struggled desperately, but it was useless.
One of the Martial Artists sneered, weighed the iron rod in his hand, and struck cleanly and decisively.
Crack—!
Accompanied by a crisp sound of bone breaking.
And then...
“Ah ah ah ah!”
The middle-aged man let out a pig-like shriek, his body convulsed, and he passed out from the pain on the spot.
The two Martial Artists didn’t hesitate, dragging him out and quickly descending via the elevator.
“How unlucky.”
Looking at the middle-aged man’s fate, Scarface’s expression didn’t change at all, and he even spat.
“Who says it isn’t? These people have all sorts of cheating methods, and the grassroots outposts can’t even detect them, just adding to our workload.”
“Heh, if I were them, I just wouldn’t come. They could live a few more days.”
Beside him, two stewards dressed in Martial Hall uniforms agreed wholeheartedly.
“You guys don’t know, this guy’s 6000 combat power isn’t even the most outrageous,” Scarface shook his head and said, “The data department sent a message saying that among this batch of abnormal people, there’s one who reached fifty thousand combat power. It’s simply preposterous!”
“Fifty thousand combat power?”
“Hahahahaha!”
Upon hearing this, the surrounding Martial Artists burst into laughter.
As if they had heard the biggest joke in the world.
“This is fooling ghosts! Fifty thousand combat power, that’s close to a Senior Martial Master. In our Martial Hall, they would be considered middle to high-level.”
“Too fake. Is the person in charge of that assessment outpost an idiot, actually believing it?!”
“And that tester, couldn’t they see something so obvious, or were they in cahoots?”
Voices rose unrestrainedly.
Scarface smacked his lips, took a can of fruit wine from the tray offered by a nearby attendant.
He popped open the cap and took two sips before saying, “Don’t even mention it, that kid Lu Wu, relying on his second uncle being a Martial Master stationed at the Martial Hall, dares to take on any job.”
“With such a big anomaly, plus his past bribery, he would have lost his life already.”
“It was the Martial Hall’s high-level officials who spared his life out of respect for his second uncle, waiting for that cheater to arrive, expose them, and then expel them from the Martial Hall.”
“Sigh, greed knows no bounds. Being able to save his life is already good,” a Martial Artist sighed.
“Emmm, do you think there’s a possibility that this is actually a two-pronged approach by the Martial Hall’s high-level officials?”
Another Martial Artist pondered for a moment and said, “If that person really cheated, there’s nothing more to say.”
“But if not, this action would indirectly give that person face.”
“Things won’t turn sour, and perhaps our Limit Martial Hall can even take the opportunity to recruit another Martial Master.”
“Impossible, you’re dreaming, you damn fool.”
Before Scarface could speak,
Another flamboyant young man, dressed in luxurious clothes, sneered, “Have you ever seen an Advanced Martial Master who lives on welfare, who wouldn’t want the hundred thousand monthly allowance from joining a Martial Hall, and instead go out and be laughed at?”
“Uh, Young Master Wang is right.”
This young man clearly held a significant position in the Limit Martial Hall.
Immediately, the Martial Artist who spoke chuckled awkwardly, and the atmosphere in the room became somewhat subdued.
But this calm didn’t last long.
At the entrance of the thirty-third floor, the elevator suddenly lit up.
Then, a female staff member led the old man behind her inside.
“Old sir, this is the second round of testing.”
The young woman said timidly, looking at Ye Hong, who was old enough to be her grandfather, and muttering to herself.
This old uncle didn’t look like a Martial Master at all.