Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior

Chapter 379 - 226: Fire Sparrow Interception, Frostfire Purgatory!

The sudden chirping of cicadas arose in the desolate mountain, the mountain wind moaned, and Su Mu’s figure emerged from the forest, covering nearly ten zhang with a single leap as he sped towards Qingyun City at an astonishing speed.

"Tao Xingzheng can’t tolerate you... It was he who secretly tipped off that night, instructing me to rush to the academy to slay you... This Qingyun Three Counties is just a chess game, and the Black Mountain Army is a pawn of the Tao Family, just as you are."

"The Liu Family sees me as an ant, the noble families consider everyone as ants, sucking their bones and marrows, but now I am free... Yet you are still controlled by others, unable to be free... You and I were never meant to be enemies..."

"There are countless numb and ignorant fools in this world. What harm is it if many die? Those who wave the flag for the demon fiends of the noble families, who assist the tyrants, they all deserve to die..."

"You and I are basically on the same path... Why block me? Why not lend me a hand today?!"

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The words of Wang Xuantian before his death echoed in Su Mu’s ears outside Changfeng City. The two had once conversed through sound transmission, and it must be said that Wang Xuantian’s words were highly persuasive and seductive. If one’s will wasn’t firm, they might be swayed on the spot.

But unfortunately, Wang Xuantian chose the wrong target.

Su Mu’s will was exceptionally firm, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to cultivate the extremely painful cross-training martial arts. It should be known that for ordinary people, it is not easy to cultivate even a single cross-training martial art, yet Su Mu cultivated an entire set, finding sweet satisfaction in it.

Even when faced with ’Martial Arts Extinction,’ he quickly regained his spirits.

Furthermore, a crucial point that Wang Xuantian wouldn’t have anticipated was that Su Mu was not a person of this world. Su Mu might be just a novice in cultivation, but when it came to historical changeovers and dynasty noble family matters, he had insights and a vision far superior to those of this world.

The five thousand years of history of Huaxia in the past, and the earth-shattering changes in future societies, gave Su Mu a perspective that transcended this era.

There was some truth in Wang Xuantian’s words. To the ordinary ears of this world, those words might strike like a thunderbolt on a clear day, but in reality, though Su Mu was startled upon hearing Wang Xuantian’s words, those words could not deceive or beguile a soul that had traversed from another time.

Su Mu keenly captured two points within the seductive words.

He was indeed used by Tao Xingzheng.

"The night I rushed to Shuangbai Academy to guard Li Qiu, neither Wang Xuantian nor the Lin Family Siblings seemed to have exerted their full strength. If he wanted to kill Li Qiu, Wang Xuantian could have done so long ago... That night, clearly, Wang Xuantian was waiting for me, and then everything could be explained. The Lin Family Siblings’ escape was indeed to let Wang Xuantian take action."

As for why Wang Xuantian didn’t truly take action, Su Mu didn’t care to ponder deeply over a dead man. He only needed to understand that Tao Xingzheng wanted to use Wang Xuantian’s hand to eliminate himself.

The second point he captured was the Black Mountain Army’s rapid growth in just a few years into a rebel army entrenched in the three counties. It was clearly Tao Xingzheng, the Qingyun County Magistrate, who was promoting and assisting from behind. The reason was not hard to deduce.

Undoubtedly, it was to foster bandits to establish his own importance, so that when the time was ripe, he could wipe out the rebels and transform it into his own merit, becoming the stepping stone for Tao Xingzheng, Lord Qingtian, to ascend step by step. In this chess game, Tao Xingzheng or maybe the Tao Family was the player, and Wang Xuantian counted as half a player.

The rest, whether the people of the three counties, officials of two counties, the major forces in the three counties, or the newly appointed Golden Order, even the Qingzhou Judge, were all just pawns of the Tao Family.

The Tao Family regarded the death of these pawns with indifference!

For this reason, Su Mu believed there was some truth in Wang Xuantian’s words, but it wasn’t a justification for the rebel army to treat human lives as if they were nothing.

As for why Wang Xuantian wanted to reveal all this, whether he sought to save his life or wanted to drag Wang Xuantian, the flag bearer, down, or to borrow his hand to kill Tao Xingzheng, Su Mu didn’t care.

Now it was Su Mu’s own will to kill Tao Xingzheng, as allowing such a person to leave Qingyun alive would surely become a scourge. Wang Xuantian had one thing right, Su Mu was indeed a person who would repay grievances with vengeance.

"That mark will surely alert Tao Xingzheng... The longer the night, the more dreams. Act tonight!"

Killing intent surged in Su Mu’s heart, Wang Xuantian was extremely cunning, a fox. Once he sensed danger, he would want to escape. Su Mu was determined to settle accounts with him immediately!

"Did I just see something? It seemed like something flew past just now?"

On Cyan Cloud Avenue, a passerby looked upward in shock, feeling as if something had swept over the rooftop. Rubbing his eyes and staring again, he found no trace of any figure.

"Who dares to break into the Qingyun County Magistrate’s Office at night!"

Within the Qingyun Government Office, the unmasked and open intrusion of Su Mu into the Magistrate’s Office was discovered by guards inside, but even so, they only caught a vague glimpse of a dark shadow passing by, unable to capture even a clear image, let alone a face.

"A step too late, truly a cunning fox... Tao Xingzheng has indeed been alarmed."

Su Mu rapidly traversed across the County Magistrate’s Office executing his body technique, failing to discover the whereabouts of Tao Xingzheng and the Lin Family Siblings, knowing that Tao Xingzheng had likely fled the office.

Hmm?

Soon, Su Mu’s nose twitched slightly, detecting a metallic smell of blood from a room and the air that hadn’t completely dissipated. Scanning with his gaze, his eyes penetrated the darkness, capturing the undried bloodstains inside the room.

"The mark I destroyed, Tao Xingzheng must have suffered a backlash, and this blood must be left by Tao Xingzheng!"

Su Mu took a slight breath, his terrifying perception reaching its peak at this moment, quickly tracing the departing ’trail’ of this bloody scent.