<h4>Chapter 722 – One man against a State</h4>


    Yuwen n’s ten thousand Da Xi troops led by their most elite riders defeated Helian Family’s rebel army like boiling water sshing snow. After chasing for three hundred kilometers, there wawenty percent chance that the forty to fifty thousand riders would not be able to escape. Even those who managed to escape would not dare to return. They had no choice but to take off their rebel uniforms and find a secluded ce to hide.


    He was once in high spirits and instantly copsed.


    What surprised Chen Zhongqi was that after killing the Helian Family’s rebel leader, Helian Ting, An Zheng did not go back. It was as if he had disappeared into thin air. To Chen Zhongqi, the two days where An Zheng appeared in front of him were simply a nightmare.


    Some of the rebel soldiers on the battlefield said that they saw the ck robed young man walking towards the northwest. As for where he went, no one knew.


    Chen Zhongqi told Yuwen n’s people to send out a squadron of cavalry to the northwest to search for it. However, after chasing for a few days, they had already reached the absolute control of the Helian Family. The group could only retreat for the time being. After all, the Helian Family was still quite stable in therge city witadius of a few hundred kilometers.


    Therge city controlled by the Helian Family in the northwest was called Nine Peaks Mountain City because it was built ording to the mountain range of the Nine Peaks Mountain and was easy to defend but hard to attack. The buildings in therge city rose and fell with the rise and fall of the mountains,yer uponyer of buildings. Because it was located in the most important area of the northwest pass, it was almost half a military fortress when it was first built. The reason the people of the Helian Family had such guts was because they had the control of thisrge city all year round.


    After changing into a moon-white robe, An Zheng held his oil paper umbre, and under the drizzling rain, he arrived outside of Nine Peak Mountain City. His speed was fast enough, so the news of his defeat in the front line had yet to arrive. However, based on the time taken, the news of Helian Family’s cavalry beingpletely wiped out would arrive in at most half a day.


    Perhaps it was because the heavens had first seen the miserable deaths of tens of thousands of people. This rain was a message to the people of Nine Peak Mountain City. The only thing was that everyone in the mountain city was immersed in a feeling of fanaticism. The cold rain of the night could not extinguish the boiling mes in their hearts.


    The city gates were open, but there were several times more soldiers guarding them than usual. An Zheng noticed that many of the soldiers had very young and immature faces, which meant that during therge-scale recruitment that the Helian Family had done, many sixteen or seventeen year old youths had no choice but to join the army.


    A person’s ambition had implicated so many others who were in their prime.


    Perhaps it was because An Zheng had stood at the city gate for a slightly longer time that had attracted the attention of the guards at the city gate. A veteran brought four to five new recruits towards An Zheng, his de already half out of its sheath. The higher-ups had given orders that the people entering and leaving the city gate in the next few days must be strictly investigated, and that no one was allowed to enter or leave the city.


    No matter how one looked at it, An Zheng was very suspicious.


    At this time, An Zheng was standing at the city gate and looking at the Western Ping National g that was fluttering on the city walls. Many people were also watching. Some people’s faces were hot, some people’s faces were confused, and An Zheng’s face, was only filled with contempt.


    The ambition of the Helian Family, other than bringing about a cmity to the Nine Peak Mountain City, there was nothing else he could bring with him. If An Zheng did note, but the imperial government’s subsequent army of traitors had arrived, then Nine Peak Mountain City would not be able to hold even a single de of grass.


    The veteran pointed at An Zheng, and a sixteen to seventeen year old new recruit held onto the long de in his hand, and walked carefully to An Zheng: “What are you doing!”


    He purposely shouted out loudly to bolster his courage. For some reason, there seemed to be a force on that white-clothed young man that made him not dare to look straight at him. An Zheng retracted his gaze from the funny g of Xi Ping, looked at the new recruit who was obviously a little scared and asked: “Do you know why the g says’ Xi Ping ‘?”


    The soldier was stunned and subconsciously took a step back: “Who exactly are you? What are you doing! ”


    An Zheng’s gaze once again returned to Western Ping Country’s banner, and said witeavy tone: “The reason it’s called Western Ping, is because even if he dared to raise the g, he wouldn’t dare dream about the entire world. “The will of a sparrow isughable.”


    The new recruit pulled out his long de and pointed it at An Zheng and roared at him. It seems that only roar could make the fear in An Zheng’s heart subside a little: “What the hell are you doing here?! If you still don’t answer me, I’ll be rude to you! ”


    An Zhengughed: “I’m here to save him.”


    The face of the new recruit changed: “Save him?” Save who? ”


    An Zheng said: “If it wasn’t for you, from the moment you put on these clothes, no one would be able to save you. I only hope that after you guys who have put on your clothes die, Holy See will no longer pursue the crime of aplishing this duty to themon people in Nine Peak Mountain City. ”


    The recruit turned his head and shouted: “Leader! This person haroblem! ”


    The veteran drew his saber and ran over withrge strides. “Go, capture him!”


    The young soldier immediately shed his de towards An Zheng, not caring if this sh could kill him or not. In fact, he had only received less than a week of training. He did not know anything about thebat or killing techniques that the true soldiers of the Great Xixi were good at. When the de struck down, he even closed his eyes.


    He felt as if he had struck something, but also felt as if he had hit nothing. He staggered forward, and when he opened his eyes, the young man in white was already gone.


    Startled, he looked around and heard the shouts of the team. He followed their line of sight, and only then did he notice that the man in white had already reached the city walls. He extended his hand to pull out the gpole with the Western Ping National g hanging on it. That gpole was over a foot thick and at least ten meters tall. That person actually used his hand to grab it, and without knowing how, he gently lifted it before flying down from the city wall.


    This action had also attracted the cultivators from the city over.


    A general who was in charge of guarding the city gate saw An Zheng pull out the g pole and it flew towards him from afar. When he was still several tens of meters away from An Zheng, the de aura had already reached him.


    However, An Zheng still slowly walked forward, and didn’t even look at them, not dodging at all. The de aura arrived a few meters in front of An Zheng before it shattered. The de aura of the cultivator with Captive Stage was not even able to break through An Zheng’s protective Zhen Qi which was a few meters away.


    On the contrary, the bacsh of the protective zhen Qiyer had blown him out of the air. An Zheng looked at thergest building on the mountain in the distance, the city inside the city. That was the ancestral home of the Helian Family. No matter how many branches the Helian Family separated, the ancestral home was their root. In fact, the gate of the Ancestral Mansion halfway up the mountain was even bigger than the gate of Nine Peak Mountain City. ording to thew of the Great Xixi, this was against the rules, but unfortunately, after the fall of the Ming Fa Si, no one had investigated this kind of thing.


    Clearly seeing the location of the city gate, An Zheng threw out the gpole in his hand. The gpole whistled through the air and smashed a huge bloody hole into the chest of the fallen general. Then, the general’s corpse was carried halfway up the mountain. It was just a blur, but the big gpole carried the corpse and stabbed into the gates of Helian Family with a loud bang, directly into the city. As for the corpse at the front, it was smashed into smithereens.


    The g was still dripping blood as it hung down.


    From such a distance, the blue star point in An Zheng’s left eye moved slightly, and the g suddenly ignited into a ball of me witu sound, and the g was quickly burnt to ashes.


    On the main street, countless soldiers charged towards An Zheng, waving their des.


    An Zheng stomped his foot, and with that stomp, the ground shook a little. The soldiers on the street who were rushing over all fell. In the instant the ground shook, all of their legs broke. The shaking power quickly spread to their entire body, and behind the legs was all the bones in their bodies. These peopley on the ground wailing in pain, but they couldn’t die even after a while.


    An Zheng’s pace was not fast, but it was steady and firm.


    A cultivator rushed over from the side, and thrusted a sword towards An Zheng’s neck. No one saw An Zheng move, no one even saw An Zheng move. The sword suddenly turned around and pierced through the cultivator’s own neck, causing blood to flow profusely.


    When the saber came, the person holding the saber was killed.


    When the sword came, the wielder was killed by the sword.


    Those who dared to block it, all died.


    When Helian Heng heard the news, he quickly walked out of the hall and climbed up the walls of the inner city. Standing at the top of the city wall, he could just see the white-clothed young man slowly walking over from the main street. Who knew how many corpsesy behind that person? However, that person’s white clothes were still as clean as ever, without a speck of dust or bloodstains.


    “Your Majesty!”


    One of Helian Heng’s men cupped his fists and said, “This man is too arrogant. He must be sent by the Great Xixi. This subordinate is willing to fight and kill this man for Xi Ping Country.”


    “Go!”


    Helian Hen ordered, but for some reason he felt a surge of fear. It was obvious that the one who came in was a young man. Why would he be afraid when he was in his home and the ce where he had managed his business for so many years?


    When he was still a few hundred meters away from An Zheng, he drew his bow in the air, and then shot out an arrow filled with energy towards An Zheng. The arrow could not be seen and arrived in an instant. An Zheng waited until the arrow made of force reached him, then he extended his hand and grabbed, and actually grabbed the invisible arrow. In the distance, he saw a child standing there with a nk look and a slingshot in his hand. An Zhengughed and casually brought the slingshot over and ced the child a little further away. He then pulled the slingshot and shot the Qi arrow back.


    However, in the end, An Zheng did not know how to use the slingshot, and his shot might not be as urate as that child’s.


    The Qi arrow was about four to five meters away from the cultivator, and with a boom, it exploded a corner of Helian Family’s castle. Big chunks of stone fell from the castle and smashed into the Helian Family’s courtyard. At least two rows of houses were razed to the ground in an instant.


    “How arrogant!”


    Helian Heng was furious. “Who dares to kill this madman for my sake!”


    His subordinates looked at each other in dismay. They watched as the person who had charged over just now was somehow strangled by An Zheng’s neck. Then, he raised one hand above his head and threw it back as though it was a cannonball. The cultivator definitely wanted to struggle in the air, but he, who was already at the peak of the Lower Completion Stage, could not do anything about it. The body of the cultivator was the second shell that had destroyed the castle, shattering a tower into pieces.


    An Zheng turned around and looked at the child who did not know what happened, who was still standing there and staring at An Zheng nkly. He smiled, took out a candy and a cultivation technique, and ced it in his hands.


    “What’s your name?”


    “Yan Qingge.”


    “Good name.”


    An Zheng pointed to the technique manual and the sugar: “I just destroyed your slingshot, I’llpensate you with this.”


    The teenager shook his head. His eyes were moist as though he was about to cry. I want my slingshot. ”


    An Zheng sighed, then chosed wood sword and passed it to him: “This ispensation, can I consider it as supporting your slingshot?”


    The child looked at the wooden sword before turning tears into smiles. “Alright!”


    An Zheng stood up straight, and pointed touse not far away: “Go over there, the fireworks will be released in the cityter. If youe out, you won’t be able to see it. ”


    “Are the fireworks beautiful?”


    “Beautiful.”


    “Then the fireworks you released, what color were they?”


    “Red.”


    An Zheng slowly let out a breath of impure air before continuing on: “Only red.”