Two people and a little monkey strolled around the Royal City. Undeniably this is the Royal City of the Luo Tong Kingdom, prosperous, lively and bustling on the long wide streets. Some of the streets were fifty to sixty meters wide, with an endless stream of horses and carriages that trotted along and if Cangnan County City were to be compared, it could only be described as a rural backwater.
From time to time, there were people in strange clothes who passed by Huang Xiaolong. There were over thirty counties ruled by the Luo Tong Kingdom's royal family, and under each county were many cities so the many different cultures between the cities were apparent. This was similar to Hua Xia which had many different ethnicities.
As they strolled about the city, a two-meter tall muscular man whose entire body was covered in coarse hairs and on his face were tiger-like whiskers passed by Huang Xiaolong.
"Is that a Beastman?" wondered Huang Xiaolong as he looked at the muscular man who just walked past them.
In the Martial Spirit World, other than the human race, there existed many others races and beast people were one of them. There were also, half-beast human – the offspring from the coupling between humans and beast people.
As the streets were crowded, Huang Xiaolong just went along with the flow, the little monkey on his shoulder squeaking nonstop in excitement.
Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou strolled casually, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right.
A few moments later, as he walked by a restaurant called Delicious Restaurant, Huang Xiaolong came to a stop.
"Fei Hou, let's go in and eat something." Huang Xiaolong said. Having spent four months training in Silvermoon Forest, his tongue was already coated black from eating roast meat every day, so he planned to eat to his heart's content today.
When Huang Xiaolong finished speaking, the little monkey perched on his shoulder immediately clapped in agreement.
"Glutton!" Huang Xiaolong teased.
They went into the restaurant and saw that it was full.
"Let's go to the Second floor." But as Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou were about to climb up the stairs, the restaurant's waiter quickly rushed up to them to stop them from going to the second floor and politely explained,
"Little brother, my apologies, but our second floor is reserved for nobles."
"Nobles again." Huang Xiaolong frowned, then he looked at Fei Hou. Fei Hou replied by throwing a gold coin to the waiter saying, "This is Young Master's tip."
The restaurant servant blanked out for a moment staring at the gold coin in his palm: "This, this is for me?!" His monthly salary was one gold coin and the nobles that frequent here usually reward him with a few silver coins.
"Now we can go up?" Fei Hou asked indifferently.
"Sure, certainly!" replied the waiter as he regained his senses, with his face sporting a wide smile he said "This way, please!" and respectfully led Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou to the second floor.
Although the second floor was said to be reserved for nobles, it was not necessarily true, for as long as the customer could pay, the second floor was open to them.
Evidently, Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou were people with money. Thus, the restaurant waiter led them to a good seat close to the window.
After Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou had sat down The waiter asked politely with a smile plastered on his face, "Masters, what dishes would you like to order?"
"Bring us about ten or more dishes that your restaurant is most famous for. And three of the biggest jugs of the best wine available!" Huang Xiaolong said.
"Ten or more dishes! Three urns of the best wine!" The restaurant waiter was stunned and his mouth agape.
More than ten dishes, and three urns of wine!
"Why you still standing there? Not moving?" asked Fei Hou but seeing that the restaurant waiter still was standing there, he frowned a little then he took out a small pouch and threw it to the waiter. The restaurant waiter caught the small pouch, opened it and looked inside. A beautiful golden glow shined before his eyes, that small pouch held about sixty gold coins.
"This is enough, right?" asked Fei Hou.
The restaurant waiter nodded his head vigorously: "Enough, enough. There will be plenty left over too."
"The rest is your reward. Go quickly and get the dishes."
The rest is your reward!! When the restaurant waiter heard this sentence, his eyes seemed to turn gold-colored, his head nodded like a chick pecking grains. "Two Masters rest assured, I will be very fast and quick in sending the dishes up!" He hurried down while his hand wiped away the sweat on his forehead, not sure whether the sweat is due to fright or delight.
Soon, the dishes were sent up.
The table was laden with fragrant dishes, enticing the appetite.
"Masters, these three urns are our restaurant's best wine called Snow Moon Wine, our restaurant's special brew." The said restaurant waiter respectfully.
"Snow Moon Wine?" Fei Hou nodded and waved the restaurant waiter away, "Good, you can go."
"Yes, yes, please call me if there's anything you need." The waiter said and withdrew with a smile on his face.
The moment the waiter left, the little violet monkey leaped off Huang Xiaolong's shoulder and went straight at one of the wine urns. With a light slap from its little hands, the cover flew off and instantly the scent of fragrant wine wafted through the air.
The little monkey's eyes lit up, lifted the urn of wine up and drank greedily.
After which it grinned and squeaked at Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou.
Both of them laughed at the little monkey's antics, and each took an urn and started drinking.
The instant the wine was swallowed, a refreshing icy cold feeling filled their mouths, full of the wine's fragrance.
While Huang Xiaolong, Fei Hou, and the little violet monkey were enjoying themselves, at the Luo Tong Kingdom Duke Fu Mansion's Main Hall, Meng Xia, who was shaved bald by Fei Hou, was shouting in anger: "Dad, you must kill these two darned commoners! Cut off their arms and legs! Cut off their arms and thighs, and then I want to parade then around the city, I want everyone to know the consequences of going against our Duke Mansion!"
Looking at his son's miserable appearance, the murderous intent in Meng Chen's heart soared; his son was actually beaten right in front of the city gates!
Furthermore, the mansion guards' hands were all cut off!
This was naked humiliation!
"Still haven't found those two?" asked Meng Chen in a cold tone as he turned to look at his Chief Steward, Xie Fei.
Just as Chief Steward Xie Fei was about to speak, without warning, from outside the Main Hall one of the guards who had been sent to investigate ran in, "Reporting to Lord Duke, we have found the two people, they are at Delicious Restaurant!"
"Delicious Restaurant!" Meng Chen stood up in anger, a cold glint flitted across his eyes, and he said: "Good, very good! Hit my son, and hurt this Duke's guards yet still dare to enjoy yourself at Delicious Restaurant!"
The other side was practically looking down on the Duke Mansion!
"Gather all the experts above Seventh Order in the mansion, and follow me to Delicious Restaurant!" Meng Chen yelled.
"Yes, Lord Duke!" Chief Steward Xie Fei acknowledged respectfully, but then hesitated before asking, "Then, should I call First Mister and Second Mister?" Meng Chen said, "That's fine! Do so. I don't care what tricks the other side has, I want them to die miserably!"
While all this was going on, Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou were wolfing down delicious dishes. Moments later, Fei Hou stopped eating abruptly, stood up and said to Huang Xiaolong, "Young Master, I'm going to see a person, he's here in Luo Tong Kingdom and is also a disciple of our Asura's Gate. I will bring him over to greet Young Master! If he knew that Young Master is in Luo Tong Kingdom, he would be very happy!"
An Asura's Gate disciple? Is this the reason why Fei Hou dared to hit a Duke's son? Huang Xiaolong nodded, "Okay, go and come back quickly!" He didn't ask for the identity of the Asura's Gate disciple in Luo Tong Kingdom because when Fei Hou returned, he would naturally find out.
"Yes, Young Master!" Fei Hou answered respectfully then turned and left.
Not long after, Fei Hou appeared before an enormous mansion, and written above the main entrance was a sign: Marshal Mansion.
In the Luo Tong Kingdom, there were Generals, Dukes, Marquises, but there was only one Marshal!
The Luo Tong Kingdom's Marshal remained the same even after three generations of rulers and he had saved the Luo Tong Kingdom from disaster a few times. Because of this, his was an exalted status, and he followed only one person's order.
He was exempted from kneeling before the king and has supreme prestige in the military.
However, Fei Hou was stopped when he wanted to enter the Marshal Mansion: "Who dares to trespass into the Marshal's Mansion?"
Fei Hou didn't say anything, but took out a gold plate. The soldier's face changed drastically when he saw the gold plate; the arrogance he had on his face earlier vanished as he knelt down immediately, saluting, "Seen the Lord!"
The gold plate on Fei Hou's hand was given to him by the Luo Tong Kingdom's Marshal Haotian, more than a decade ago.
"You may stand up. I want to see your Marshal." Fei Hou said.
The soldier stood up, and hesitated before he respectfully replied, "My Lord, The Marshal was summoned to the palace not long ago, and is currently not in the mansion."
"What? He is not in?" Fei Hou's brows wrinkled.
"It is so, my Lord," The soldier lowered his head when he answered.
"Send someone to the palace now and inform the Marshal that his Junior Brother came to visit and will wait for him at the Delicious Restaurant!" said Fei Hou.
Junior Brother! The soldier didn't expect that this ordinary-looking middle-aged man, who wore clothes no different from that of ordinary folks, would be the Marshal's Junior Brother.
However, the soldiers stationed at the entrance hesitated to go to the palace to inform the Marshal.
"Take my gold plate and go, I'll take responsibility if anything happens! But, if you were to delay the matter, and something happens, your lives won't be guaranteed!" Fei Hou threw the gold plate at the soldiers, and the Captain quickly rushed forward to catch it.
"Yes, my Lord!" The Captain didn't dare disagree.
Fei Hou turned around and left.
As Fei Hou turned around and headed back to the Delicious Restaurant, Meng Chen leading a group of experts from his mansion had gotten to the Delicious Restaurant and bulldozed their way through the door.
All the customers on the first floor were frightened and shocked when they saw Meng Chen and his men barge in aggressively.
"Oh, it is Lord Duke, does the Duke have matters with our restaurant?" When the restaurant owner saw Meng Chen, he quickly went forward and asked politely.
Meng Chen ignored the owner and instead, he turned to a guard beside him, asking, "Are they upstairs?"
"Yes, Lord Duke!" the guard replied immediately.
A cold glinted flashed across Meng Chen's eyes, and his hands signaled the men behind him: "Rush up, and surround the second floor, leave some of your guards below; not even a fly should be able to fly out of here!" He pushed the restaurant owner away and surrounded by his many experts, he rushed up to the second floor.
"Dad, that's him! It's that kid!" Shouted Meng Xia. They had just gotten to the second floor, and the bald Meng Xia instantly spotted Huang Xiaolong who was seated near the window.
Meng Chen was surprised when he noticed that Huang Xiaolong was alone, frowning he asked, "Where is the other one?"
"Lord Duke, this is better! If we catch the younger one first, the older one certainly won't escape!" said the Chief Steward, Xie Fei with as smile as he got to Meng Chen.
Huang Xiaolong slowly stood up and looked coldly at the Duke's Mansion guards and experts who had the second floor surrounded. Truth was, Huang Xiaolong had spotted them from the window as they made their way towards the Delicious Restaurant early on. But despite being surrounded by so many experts of the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and even some Tenth Order, he still wore a calm expression because he was confident that he could escape unharmed.
Huang Xiaolong's martial spirit's supernatural talent – Space Concealment could last for ten breaths from the initial six breaths after he broke through to the Fourth Order.
In ten breath's of time, combined with Huang Xiaolong's speed, he could vanish from Meng Chen's sight without a trace.
His gazed fell on the bald Meng Xia and snickered. "I didn't expect that you would have the guts to show up, aren't you afraid that I will cut off your scalp, layer by layer?"
Meng Xia and the people with him were surprised; How could this kid still maintain his calmness before all of them? to the point where he even dared to say he would cut off Meng Xia's scalp.
Anger followed surprise, and Meng Xia's expression became ugly as he roared: "Cut off this kid's arms and legs for me!"
"Yes, Young Lord!"
The Seventh Order warriors dashed towards Huang Xiaolong, and just as one of the guard's sword was about to slash down on Huang Xiaolong, a voice thundered from afar, saying, "Who dares hurt my Young Master!" The air seemed to ripple, and formed into a streak of lightning. The guards who had been struck by the lightning-like energy felt their bodies turn numb and they stopped moving.
Fei Hou who went to the Marshal Mansion had finally returned.
While still at some distance to the restaurant, when Fei Hou saw the scene in Delicious Restaurant's second floor, he used a battle skill that he hadn't used in a long time – Sound of Lighting Fall.
The Sound of Lightning Fall was similar to Li Mu's Sky Lion's Roar. However, Sound of Lightning Fall was a high-grade Mysterious rank battle skill, and its power was much stronger than Sky Lion Roar.
When all the Seventh Orders guards were numbed from the lightning strike, the remaining experts of the Duke's Mansion could see a Silver River (still far away) streaking towards them like silver lightning. It arrived before them in the blink of an eye.
"Lord Duke, careful!"
"Heavenly Serpent Sword!"
"Border Fist!"
By this time, Fei Hou who had transformed into Silver River stood before them, and the Duke's Mansion's strongest experts, Mister First and Mister Second made their moves at the same time, launching fierce strikes at Fei Hou. A huge Heavenly Serpent appeared, jaws wide open intending to swallow Fei Hou; simultaneously a fist print also spun towards Fei Hou.
But, when both the Heavenly Serpent and the fist print hit Fei Hou, it was if they fell on a vast sea, and sunk into the depths of the sea without leaving any ripples.
However, Fei Hou's Silver River continued to constrict the guards of the Duke's Mansion. Agonizing screams echoed throughout the second floor for a moment before all the guards tumbled to the floor, painting the second floor's floorboards red with their blood.
This time, Fei Hou wasn't as merciful like the first time where he only cut off his opponent's arms.
Ignoring the fallen bodies, Fei Hou appeared beside Huang Xiaolong, but his eyes stared at Meng Xia like sharp blades.
When he spared his opponents, however, he didn't expect that they would gather the courage to retaliate.
This time round... Fei Hou's icy-cold eyes zoomed towards Meng Xia's scalp.
"Dad, it's him! He's one who shaved off all my hair!" Seeing Fei Hou, Meng Xia shrieked with fear and hid behind the Duke's Mansion's two Tenth Order experts.
The expressions of the two Tenth Order experts from the Duke's Mansion were somewhat ugly. Their combined attacked just now was actually unable to stop Fei Hou; this meant that Fei Hou was a peak late-Tenth Order warrior!
One had to know that one of them was late-Tenth Order, while the other was peak-mid Tenth Order!
Meng Chen stared at the bodies of his guards fallen on the floor, feeling fear and shock at the same moment. "You, you dared to kill this Duke's guards?!"
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