From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Furthermore.

The shop owners of the Confucian Association were making money by displaying their supernatural abilities on the street.

Strictly speaking, the people on Cultural Street never bothered to hide their abilities.

The "advanced" "special effects" of the performances at Boss Cha's theater are also due to supernatural powers!

"That's true, but your arrests in the street have caused too much noise and panic among the people in the city. What should be your punishment?"

The smiling tiger questioned.

"Why don't you arrest me?" Jiang Liu suggested.

"Hmph! This great general would never stoop to bullying a child!" The Smiling Tiger could command hundreds of thousands of troops not only because of his own abilities but also because he was quite righteous.

Arrest a seventeen-year-old boy—

Shame!

Although the child was unusually mature for his age...

"This will not be allowed to happen again!"

The smiling tiger slammed his hand on the table and said, "And those people tied up outside, since they've done so many heinous things, just kill them."

"General, this is not a good situation."

Jiang Liu shook his head.

"What's so difficult about it?"

The smiling tiger was puzzled.

“If someone is killed in the street during an arrest, that's the end of it. But some of the prisoners have connections with reputable sects, so we have to let them handle it.”

Jiang Liu gave his reasons.

Actually.

Killing them is fine, those sects won't say much, but you have to get someone else to do it—

"What kind of prestigious sects are they? They can't even control their own people! I'll do it!" Smiling Tiger didn't care about the prestige of any prestigious sects; he only knew that this was a good opportunity to once again establish his image as an upright and incorruptible person in front of the people of the city!

Before coming to the Confucian Association, Smiling Tiger had already come up with a solution: to intimidate the Confucian Association and use the lives of these Quanxing demons to create momentum for the martial arts tournament!

I just didn’t expect that the Confucian Association would actually be led by Jiang Liu, a young man... Could he possibly arrest all the shop owners in the entire cultural street?

That's it!

We can't do that!

The people in the city are just watching the show now, but if he arrests everyone on a street, the whole of Yuhang will probably be in a state of panic!

Especially with recent news of a planned northern expedition from Guangdong, and the emergence of a surprise force in Hunan...

The Smiling Tiger must stabilize the current situation, and this can be achieved by leveraging this martial arts tournament to gain the support of the major sects in the five provinces—

He doesn't need the military support of these sects; as long as they offer verbal support, his legitimacy is guaranteed!

This has been the case for all dynasties since the Qin and Han dynasties.

Leaving aside the future plans to destroy Buddhism and Taoism, those who bring about a change of dynasty in the early stages often have, to varying degrees, extraordinary individuals from Taoism or Buddhism assisting them.

This is what's called orthodoxy!

Having "legitimacy" can stabilize the morale of the army and reassure the people.

The Smiling Tiger believed that even if more foreign guns and cannons appeared in the world, it would not change the pattern of the dynasty; at most, it would just be a different "outer skin" for disguise.

However, this wasn't his main objective; he also needed some experts to help him accomplish something...

And so!

On the second day, which was the last day before the martial arts tournament began, Smiling Tiger came to Cultural Street again, took away the Quanxing demon from the wooden stake, and praised the Confucian Association as a gesture of goodwill.

Afterwards, those Quanxing demons were brought to the arena, where, under the personal guidance of Smiling Tiger and witnessed by disciples from various sects and factions participating in the tournament.

Bang bang bang!

Gunshots rang out across West Lake!

One by one, the demons of Quanxing fell, their blood staining the entire area red, a stark and glaring sight against the backdrop of the green waters of West Lake.

In fact, a large number of ordinary people who had registered were scared off and gave up participating.

of course.

The registration fee is non-refundable.

"Brother Jiang, was that smiling tiger the one who came to ask you for people yesterday?"

Although the Quanxing demon deserved to die, it was still somewhat tragic that he died by gunshot, which made Lu Jin feel a little sentimental, but he immediately cut off this thought.

As an "Outsider" of the "New Era," he can also use a gun.

"more or less."

After watching the excitement, Jiang Liu called to Lu Jin and Hong Guniang and headed towards the cultural street, saying, "This can help build momentum for the martial arts tournament."

Although we are not on the same path as him, at least on this level, our goals are similar: to showcase the extraordinary to ordinary people.

We're just trying to remove the mystique surrounding these extraordinary individuals in the eyes of ordinary people.

"Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, and their gang..."

Not far away.

Li Muxuan, who was also watching the commotion, noticed Jiang Liu and the others leaving. He narrowed his eyes and thought to himself, "Such an interesting thing as targeting Quanxing, and they didn't even invite me to join!"

Oh shit!

Are we still friends?

But these are things Li Muxuan can only think about in his heart now.

Because he wants to maintain his current public image.

and--

He now represents the Sanyi Sect, and can no longer be as carefree and unrestrained as he was when he traveled west with Jiang Liu and Lu Jin.

Zhang Zhiwei was another person who noticed Jiang Liu and his group leaving.

"Senior brother."

Following his gaze, Zhang Huaiyi also saw Jiang Liu's back, his eyes filled with a strange look. "Isn't it a bit much for him to make such a big deal out of this?"

His previously flamboyant personality caused suffering for his family...

What Jiang Liu did can hardly be considered ostentatious, can it?

"It's not good, but it's different from your situation."

Zhang Zhiwei understood his junior brother's worries, but shook his head. "Back then, you were just flamboyant, but not ruthless enough, and your strength was insufficient. Besides, your hometown is in the countryside."

But Jiang Liu had a ruthless streak in his heart. His elder, Wang Yaozu, was a member of the Quanxing sect and was even more ruthless. He also knew the nature of the Quanxing members and was sure that they could handle everything.

The businessmen on that cultural street are all independent cultivators, mingling in the world. They appear easygoing on the surface, but in this day and age, if they don't have a ruthless streak in their hearts and are unwilling to stay in the countryside and farm, how could they have survived to this day?

With strength, influence, and a ruthless streak, Quanxing dares to retaliate; they might even dare to wage war against the entire Quanxing.

But Quanxing dared not.

Although these wicked people are fearless and will go wherever there is excitement to cause trouble, and even dare to set fire to villages, they would never dare to cause too much trouble in such a big city.

The smiling tiger wouldn't care about stealing, assaulting, or even killing someone, but if he set fire to the city—

Then the smiling tiger will have to forcibly order the supernatural forces within the five provinces to wipe out all the Quanxing demons within those five provinces! We can't stand aside either!

The Quanxing faction is a troublemaker, but they're not stupid!

Zhang Huaiyi remained silent.

So, he was just arrogant back then, but not strong enough, not ruthless enough, and had no background or power?

What concerned him even more was that in just half a month, his senior brother had seen through all of this, and was even more mature than him...

Master, you sent me down the mountain, surely not just to be my senior brother's money bag?

Besides the two groups from the Sanyi Sect and the Celestial Master's Mansion, other supernatural beings from other forces also focused their attention on Jiang Liu to varying degrees.

For example, the two brothers of the Lü family, the Lü Shuangbi.

The Smiling Tiger had no jurisdiction over the Lü family, which was located outside the five provinces, but in order to broaden the horizons of the two brothers, the head of the Lü family personally brought them out to join in the fun, though he did not allow them to register for the conference.

The same applies to the Gao and Wang families.

The Lu family didn't send anyone... well, you can't say they didn't, Lu Jin and Lu Mingfei are members of the Lu family!

# Chapter 278 Ru Song's Visit

Is that the river?

"For the past two weeks, we've been deliberately looking for him on Cultural Street, but we haven't seen him at all. We never expected to run into him here."

When Ghost Hand King withdrew from the Quanxing ritual, only one patriarch from the Lü family attended; the two Lü family members did not.

Now that he had finally met Jiang Liu in person, Lü Ci grinned and took a step to catch up, but a hand pressed down on his shoulder.

"Big brother?"

Lü Ci was puzzled.

"Let's not cause any unnecessary trouble for now." The man shook his head. "Anyway, the tournament starts tomorrow. Let's watch his amazing skills from the sidelines. If he's really that good, we can find him to spar with after the tournament."

"cut!"

Lu Ci was unwilling to give up, and seeing that his own father was also persuading him in the same way, he could only temporarily give up his plan to go and spar with Jiang Liu.

Many other individuals with similar thoughts, like Lü Ci, who had only heard of Jiang Liu's abilities but had never truly witnessed his strength, also shared similar ideas.

But for now, they could only hold back and wait until tomorrow when the martial arts tournament hosted by the warlord "Smiling Tiger" officially began, so they could either observe from the audience or personally assess Jiang Liu's skills on stage...

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