Daily News: You promised yourself to be a fisherman, but you've become a martial arts god?

"Ninth Master is mighty! He crippled that arrogant brat with just one punch!"

"That kid used to be so arrogant and looked down on everyone, but look at him now, he's ended up like this!"

"Our Ninth Master is truly formidable. What prestigious sword techniques are utterly insignificant in the face of absolute power!"

Upon seeing this, the bandits instantly erupted in excitement, shouting at the top of their lungs with faces full of ecstatic joy.

Ma Mianbiao looked at his fist, a look of unexpected joy on his face, thinking to himself:

"I never imagined my punch would be so powerful, actually breaking the spine of a kid who's just practicing bone cultivation!"

"Next time the village is reorganized, I'm sure I can move up a rank!"

After finishing his thoughts, Ma Mianbiao did not go to execute Zong Zhengyu.

For martial artists, being crippled is worse than death!

Furthermore.

Once Li Hanhai kills Yi Huan, and they defeat Li Nian, the people on the island will be like fish on a chopping board, to be killed however they want!

At this moment, Liu Tong walked to Zong Zhengyu's side, carefully examined his spine, and said with a deathly pale face:

"The Imperial Envoy has finished."

"His spine is broken, his vertebrae are shattered, he has no hope of ever cultivating martial arts again..."

It's ruined!

Li Nian narrowed her eyes, watching Ruan Hanzhou return with great interest.

Ruan Hanzhou approached Li Nian and said in a voice that the two of them could hear:

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but I didn't ask for your opinion beforehand..."

"With so many people around, there's no need to say anything more!"

Li Nian interrupted Ruan Hanzhou and gave him a deep look.

He could tell that Zong Zhengyu's spine had been deliberately crippled by Ruan Hanzhou.

Ruan Hanzhou did something he wanted to do but couldn't.

Zong Zhengyu was jealous of him and even plotted against him in such a life-or-death situation. In his mind, Zong Zhengyu was already a dead man.

Just now, Zong Zhengyu was severely injured by Ma Mianbiao's punch and flew into the crowd. As a guest of the Yi family, if he wanted to continue to work in the Yi family in the future, he could not sit idly by and watch Ma Mianbiao kill him.

He wouldn't have made a move if he hadn't noticed Ruan Hanzhou's flying protection of Zong Zhengyu.

I thought Ruan Hanzhou went up there to claim credit, but I never imagined his real purpose was to cripple Zong Zhengyu!

As for why Ruan Hanzhou did this, Li Nian had a pretty good idea.

Zong Zhengyu and he didn't get along, and Ruan Hanzhou was one of his men. If Zong Zhengyu were alive, he would be a threat to Ruan Hanzhou.

Ruan Hanzhou told him the truth because her purpose was to curry favor with him.

"What a clever lad!"

Li Nian nodded affirmatively.

He likes intelligent people.

Truly intelligent people know how to choose sides.

However, if someone takes sides with malicious intent, he will kill even his own fellow disciples and family members!

"The gamble paid off; the Inspector and Zong Zhengyu really don't get along!"

Seeing that Li Nian did not blame him, Ruan Hanzhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, his cold gaze swept over Zong Zhengyu, who was like a lump of mud, and he thought to himself:

"Zong Zhengyu, don't blame me for being ruthless; it was you who insisted on becoming enemies with Inspector Li!"

"I did this to protect myself, and also..."

"Live well with a reliable person, and climb the ladder step by step!"

"I don't aspire to reach the summit; I'd be content just to find shade under a big tree!"

After pausing for a moment, Ruan Hanzhou looked at Li Nian solemnly, thinking to himself:

"Li Nian, you're so calm. I believe you have the ability to help me survive!"

At this moment, Ge Xiong stepped forward, his fierce eyes sweeping across the entire scene, and said:

"Now it's my turn to be the beachhead killer!"

As he spoke, his arrogant gaze fell upon Li Nian, and he said:

"Li Nian, right?"

"Boy, you're the patrolman from Crescent Moon Island who escorted Miss Yi from the prefectural city and participated in the killing of my tenth son, aren't you?"

"it's me."

Li Nianping responded in a flat voice.

After speaking, he clasped his hands together and put them into his sleeves.

Within his sleeve, he flicked the finger of the storage ring, and a white jade plate appeared out of thin air in his hand. A stream of energy flowed from his fingertip into the jade plate, moving towards the nearest black point of light...

"Kid, you seem pretty calm. Do you perhaps think that my tenth son's death is your doing?"

Seeing Li Nian's calm demeanor, Ge Xiong made a sarcastic remark.

Li Nian, instead of being angry, laughed and said:

That's how I feel.

"What do you think? Hahaha—"

Upon hearing this, Ge Xiong burst into laughter, mocking everyone in the room:

"Kid, you're just a piece of trash who barely entered the Bone Refinement stage, how dare you kill my tenth brother, who's at the peak of the Bone Refinement stage?"

"If it weren't for Yi Jifeng, the head of the Yi family's martial arts hall, you would have been reduced to ashes long ago!"

"To still dare to claim credit now? What a joke!"

The bandits from Shenyuan Village present joined in mocking Li Nian, saying that Li Nian was shameless.

The officers and soldiers on the island all lowered their heads, feeling extremely ashamed.

Everyone thought that Li Nian had no ability to kill Liu Tanqi back then, and it was impossible for her to kill Liu Tanqi.

If you didn't kill the person yourself, and then publicly claim it as your own achievement, wouldn't that make you a laughingstock?

Li Nian remained unmoved by everyone's ridicule, standing firmly in place.

Liu Tanqi, the tenth leader of Shenyuan Village, was indeed killed by him.

But he didn't want to explain.

The best explanation isn't how good your speaking skills are, but rather demonstrating your abilities and convincing everyone!

"Laugh as much as you can, because you won't be able to laugh anymore once you're dead!"

Looking at Ge Xiong, who was loudly mocking him, Li Nian snorted coldly in his heart.

His hands never stopped moving.

Two breaths later, the black light spot in Yi Huan's Wanli Tongxin Plate trembled slightly.

"They responded!"

Li Nian was at a loss.

Immediately afterwards, following Yi Huan's scent, they checked her location.

He needed to keep an eye on whether Yi Huan had come out of the cave and when she would arrive here.

He would only make a move if he was certain that Yi Huan could arrive at any time.

After all, he knew that Tu Yue, whose cultivation had reached the Dark Force level, was among the bandits right in front of him.

If he kills Ge Xiong, Tu Yue will definitely take action.

Although he was certain that he could escape from Tu Yue's clutches with his own abilities, he didn't want to.

With Yi Huan's breakthrough to the Dark Force realm, combined with his overall strength, killing Tu Yue shouldn't be a problem.

Why run away when you can kill?

Fleeing would also bring him the blame for dereliction of duty, create a rift between him and the Yi family, and affect his future appointments.

He wouldn't have run away unless he had no other choice!

"Um?"

After sensing Yi Huan's location, Li Nian narrowed her eyes slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in them.

"Yi Huan has actually emerged from seclusion, and..."

"He's in the stone forest behind us!"

Li Nian glanced at the stone forest behind her out of the corner of her eye, thinking to herself:

"Hiding in hiding must mean he has something to do."

"Yi Huan probably doesn't know that Tu Yue has come to the island. Having broken through to the Dark Force realm, he could easily have dealt with Ge Xiong and Ma Mian Biao, who were at the Bright Force realm, yet he didn't show himself. He probably wanted to use this as a test to see if I, the officers and soldiers present, and the retainers were truly loyal to the government and the Yi family!"

Thinking about this, Li Nian suddenly realized something.

With a flick of his finger, he stored the "Ten Thousand Miles of Unity" disc into his ring.

He pulled his hands out of his sleeves, looked coldly at Ge Xiong who was laughing so hard he was doubled over, and said:

"Stop laughing. You're already ugly, and your smile is even uglier."

"Come, I'll take you to reunite with Liu Tanqi!"