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?!"
As always, Fei Hou kept silent, so it was Huang Xiaolong who replied with a sneer, "Dare to kill your Duke Mansion's guards? Don't tell me that we should've stood here, and waited for you to kill us? We shouldn't have moved a finger in retaliation, right?"
In the eyes of dukes like Meng Chen, commoners were supposed to stand still and be killed by them.
Meng Chen's face became darkly sullen.
"Brat, I don't care who's supporting you; today, you've killed this Duke's guards! It doesn't matter who it is they won't be able to save you!"
Meng Chen's killing intent soared as he spoke in a cold voice, then He stepped back after and said to the two Tenth Order warriors (First Mister and Second Mister) "It doesn't matter what method you use, today, you absolutely must chop off their arms and legs!"
"Please rest assured, Lord Duke!" First Mister and Second Mister exchanged a look and acknowledged Meng Chen's order. And the Ninth and Eighth Orders also replied loudly.
Meng Chen and his son then moved to the sides, expecting to see a good show.
Meng Chen coldly observed the scene before him, although he had already guessed that if a little kid like Huang Xiaolong had a Tenth Order bodyguard surely, it meant that he had an unusual background. However, he wasn't worried. As a Duke of the Luo Tong Kingdom he had a high status within the kingdom, and the number of people he feared were very few, so few that they would total less than ten!
First Mister and Second Mister cautiously walked towards Fei Hou and Huang Xiaolong.
"Both of us will deal with him (Fei Hou), while the rest of you go and break both of that kid's arms and legs!" First Mister instructed the Ninth and Eighth Order Duke Mansion guards.
"Yes, First Mister!"
First Mister made his move before they could reply and a great serpent emerged behind him.
This serpent had a large head, but a small body and its entire length were a sickly white in color; this was his martial spirit, the Heavenly Serpent!
The Heavenly Serpent belonged to the snake beast category of martial spirits and snake martial spirits are generally ranked as grade seven. However, some powerful snake martial spirits were categorized as grade eight and this Heavenly Serpent was one of them.
First Mister immediately soul transformed after his martial spirit emerged, his body turned into the same pale white, with layers of serpent scale. His eyes became entirely red as he pounced on Fei Hou.
Whereas Second Mister's martial spirit was something rarely seen – a vine type plant! The vines were a purple so dark that it looked black as ink and it had thorns on it sharp as knives.
This is a type of special plant martial spirit and was highly toxic.
Second Mister's action was as swift as First Mister's; he immediately soul transformed after releasing his martial spirits and leaped towards Fei Hou.
At this time, the other guards of the Duke's Mansion moved quickly towards Huang Xiaolong.
"Young Master, you must be careful!" Fei Hou said as he looked sharply at the flood of oncoming people rushing at them. Suddenly his Silver River martial spirit emerged turning tens of meters long and enclosed Huang Xiaolong, protecting him. His hands were deflecting the many attacks coming from the Duke Mansion's guards.
The little violet monkey on Huang Xiaolong's shoulder was unusually quiet. Its pair of gemstone like blue eyes stared at the Meng Chen and his son.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Battle qi clashed, and the shock waves spread through the air of the small restaurant space. All the furniture had turned into dust, and the customers had all run for their lives.
First Mister and Second Mister never imagined that Fei Hou could block all the attacks from more than ten people while not moving a single step. This made their faces warped in fury.
Fei Hou's strength had exceeded their assumptions, and most surprising was his martial spirit which had evolved to the extent that it could strengthen its owner five times. In general, a Tenth Order warrior with Silver River martial spirit could only enhance their strength to a maximum of four times.
The warriors from the Duke Mansion were both shocked and angry at the same time, which motivated them to attack unceasingly.
Although Fei Hou was very strong, however, he couldn't last very long against so many experts at once, and in the end, each time he blocked an attack, Fei Hou's face lost a little color.
Fei Hou's body had strengthened till his Silver River was so dense that it looked close to being mercury.
When Meng Chen and Meng Xia saw this, a wide smile blossomed on the faces of both father and son.
"You will regret it if my Young Master is harmed!" Seeing the father and son's disgusting smile, Fei Hou reminded them while his hands continued to block attacks.
Meng Chen smirked, "Regret? I, Meng Chen don't have the word regret in my dictionary. Not only do I want to chop off your arms and legs, after I have you both paraded around the city streets, I will also have you beheaded in public! I want to see who can save the two of you!"
And at this point, Marshal Haotian had just returned from the palace and was surprised when he sensed bursts of battle qi energy coming from the direction of the Delicious Restaurant.
For the Delicious Restaurant was not far from the Marshal Mansion, and because Fei Hou's was a peak late-Tenth Order warrior, the energy vibration could travel the distance.
"Peak late-Tenth Order?" Marshal Haotian's brows furrowed.
Although fights are very common in the Royal City, however, it rarely involved a Tenth Order warrior.
"Marshal, it seems to come from the Delicious Restaurant's location."A guard beside Haotian remarked. And at this time, the guard captain who was guarding the main entrance of the Marshal Mansion saw that the Marshall had returned, quickly went up to report. "Marshal, a few moments ago, someone came and said that he was your Junior Brother and he took out Marshal's gold plate here, wanting to see Marshal." The guard's captain then took out the gold plate and showed it yo Haotian.
"Junior Brother!" Haotian took the gold plate from the guard captain, pleasure evident on his face.
This was the gold plate he gave to his Junior Brother more than a decade ago.
"Where's my Junior Brother?" He asked. It had been a very long time since he had seen Junior Brother, Fei Hou, and he didn't expect that his Junior Brother would be here. When they meet up, they must drink together again.
The guard captain hesitated for a moment, then honestly reported, "Replying Marshal, when he was here, I informed him that you were summoned to the palace and he left this gold plate and left, saying that he would wait for you at the Delicious Restaurant."
"Delicious Restaurant!" Haotian's face sank, as he continued to sense the ever increasing battle qi energy coming from the direction of Delicious Restaurant, could it be…?
"Junior Brother's in trouble!"
Junior Brother Fei Hou is in Delicious Restaurant, and there was a clashing battle qi emitted from there! There aren't so many coincidences in this world; it must be Junior Brother! In less than a heartbeat's time, Haotian was sure of it.
"Why didn't you say so earlier?!" Haotian roared at the guard captain.
The guard captain was so terrified that his liver nearly cracked-- he had never seen the Marshal in such a big temper!
"Marshal, I, I…" The guard's captain tried to explain, but Haotian didn't want to listen. Instead, he shouted loudly towards the sky: "Ironclaw
Condor!"
High up in the air the sharp cry of an eagle rang out following Haotian's holler and a huge gray condor appeared, about five meters long, its grayish wings looked like it was made out of iron reflecting a sharp light under the sunlight. Its big claws looked like it could tear apart an elephant with ease.
Haotian leaped up onto the Ironclaw Condor's back, and they disappeared towards Delicious Restaurant's direction.
In all of the Luo Tong Kingdom, other than the kingdom's ruler, only Marshal Haotian were permitted to fly in the Royal City.
The captain guard's knees gave out in fear and slide to the ground when he saw Marshal called out the grade four Ironclaw Condor to rush towards Delicious Restaurant.
Even though Fei Hou had given him the gold plate and asked him to send someone to the palace to inform the Marshal, he did not!
At that moment he thought that since there was no war going on, there was no point to it as the Marshal would return very soon from the palace. That's why he did not go and did not send anyone! He didn't expect that an accident would happen. And from the looks of things, it was a grave matter! If something really happened to Marshal's Junior Brother, what would happen to him?
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