After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 264 Sword Slashes Through Blood

After Lin Qingxiang left, Shen Xu dismissed everyone in Mo Jin Fang and sat alone on the threshold of Mo Jin Fang with his eyes closed.

After a while, the sound of orderly running in the distance, along with the surrounding noise and screams, echoed in his ears.

A smile involuntarily crept onto Shen Xu's lips.

He was right after all. Regardless of whether Madam Lin had the Purple Brocade or not, the final outcome would not change.

However, letting Madam Lin know that there was no problem with Mojinfang was also a very important step.

He never expected that he would be involved in such a thing less than two days after arriving in the capital.

However, after helping the Lin family get through this crisis, he could leave Yunyang Kingdom with a clear conscience.

"Surround this building! Don't let a single fly get out!"

As a majestic voice boomed in Shen Xu's ears, numerous steady and powerful footsteps scattered out, completely surrounding Mo Jin Fang.

Shen Xu opened his eyes, but the glaring light made it difficult for him to see clearly.

"Mojinfang has been illegally hoarding a large quantity of royal purple brocade. I have been ordered to seize it. If you don't want to die, get out of my way!" The middle-aged man was dressed in a magnificent set of dark armor, looking exceptionally heroic.

Shen Xu said in a deep voice, "I don't know whose orders you are on, but I know that Mojinfang is on the orders of the King to provide the royal family with purple brocade. It's not unusual for them to have purple brocade."

"It was the Lin family, not the Mojinfang, that supplied the royal family with the purple brocade. Moreover, the Mojinfang dared to sell the royal family's exclusive purple brocade to others, which is tantamount to treason!"

“Everything must be based on evidence. Empty words are not enough. You say it’s treason, so you think you’re the king?” Shen Xu asked coldly.

"Stubborn to the end, take him down!" the middle-aged man commanded coldly.

As soon as the man finished speaking, the two soldiers beside him drew their swords and walked slowly toward Shen Xu with ferocious expressions.

"With you guys!" Shen Xu slowly stood up, and an invisible aura burst forth from him.

Sensing this imposing aura, the two soldiers stumbled and fell face-first to the ground, their faces pale, covered in cold sweat, and their pained expressions were chilling.

"I only follow the orders of the King and Prime Minister Lin. I will let you in whenever you come looking for me," Shen Xu said, looking down at the crowd from the steps.

The middle-aged man's expression immediately turned serious. He knew that he had to act quickly this time. If he couldn't find those things in Mojinfang, his fate would be very miserable.

Seeing the middle-aged man's expression, Shen Xu smiled and drew his sword. "I bet you're wondering how much of a chance you have against me. I can tell you, even if you both come at me together, you still can't beat me."

Just then, an old man with gray hair and a hunched back, wearing a mask, leaped down from the opposite rooftop and stood in front of the middle-aged man. "Give him to me. You go in and search. My lord, this is an important matter."

"Thank you for your help, sir!" The middle-aged man bowed and then approached Shen Xu together with the old man.

But before the middle-aged man could get close to Shen Xu, he felt an invisible pressure, like a mountain, pressing down on him. The sudden pressure made his legs buckle and he almost knelt on the ground.

"Such power at such a young age. If you step aside today, I may spare your life." The old man seemed unaffected by his sword aura and instead took the initiative to persuade him.

Shen Xu could sense the surging blood energy hidden within the withered old man in front of him, which was far stronger than Bi Mu Ning's. This was probably a Blood Transformation Realm Spirit Blood Warrior.

But he felt no fear at all; instead, he was intensely excited. He wanted to see where the difference was between him and the Blood Transformation Realm, or whether there was no difference at all!

"I'm sorry, but this Mojinfang is related to my friend's life, and I have reasons why I can't give way. Besides, I really want to learn from you, senior." Six waves were already gathering on Shen Xu's sword.

"Haha, I haven't seen such an arrogant young man as you in a long time."

"Useless! You can't even break through someone's aura?" The old man shouted angrily at the middle-aged man beside him, whose face was contorted in pain.

"kill!!"

Hearing the old man's curses, the middle-aged man seemed to be provoked as well, letting out a fierce shout, his blood surging.

A phantom of a blood wolf howling at the sky emerged from his body, and then moved forward step by step with great difficulty, facing Shen Xu's sword momentum.

Shen Xu couldn't let him get close to the door, otherwise he would be easily overwhelmed when the old man launched an attack.

Amidst the billowing mist, he released his hold on the old man and focused all his sword energy on the middle-aged man.

But the moment Shen Xu removed the sword's momentum from the old man, the old man's attack arrived instantly. He only saw a dark purple bolt of lightning strike towards him with lightning speed.

But since he dared to remove the suppression of the elderly, how could he not take precautions against them?

"Boom! Boom!"

Two loud explosions were heard, and the blood wolf on the middle-aged man exploded into a cloud of blood mist, while the stone slab where Shen Xu had been standing shattered into dust, and a large area around it turned into a charred black.

The old man's expression changed when he saw his lightning easily shatter Shen Xu's form.

In an instant, several thick bolts of lightning, like wildly dancing silver snakes, spread outwards from him, enveloping the entire space within a radius of several feet in thunder.

With a deafening roar, the mist that had been surrounding him was instantly cleaved away without a trace.

However, in just a moment, the thick fog surged back like a tide, enveloping him once more.

At the same time, a strange sound entered the old man's ears. Two identical footsteps came from in front of him and behind him at the same time!

This sudden turn of events set off alarm bells in the old man's mind. He dared not be negligent in the slightest, and quickly waved his hands, sending out two extremely sharp bolts of lightning that struck straight towards the direction from which the footsteps came from.

Two loud bangs were heard, and then the two footsteps stopped abruptly.

Before the old man could fully relax, the footsteps sounded again, and this time it was not just two, but three footsteps echoing each other, gradually approaching him from different directions.

"Mere illusion magic!" the old man scoffed.

In an instant, his whole body shone brightly, and his head began to twist and deform violently, transforming into a ferocious and terrifying black leopard head in the blink of an eye.

Strange patterns flashing with purple lightning suddenly appeared on the leopard's head.

As these patterns glowed slightly, a dazzling bolt of lightning, like a sharp blade descending from the sky, swiftly struck down in a certain direction behind them with destructive force.

When the old man sensed that Shen Xu's faint aura had completely dissipated, a look of astonishment flashed across the leopard head that the old man had transformed into.

He clearly smelled the strongest scent on the hidden figure, so how could it be fake?

But he had no time to hesitate, because the other three figures had already moved very close to him.

The electric patterns on the old man's forehead flickered wildly, each flash accompanied by a deafening roar of thunder.

His entire body was enveloped in dazzling lightning, as if he had transformed into a giant ball of lightning.

Countless bolts of lightning, like dragons emerging from the sea, spread rapidly through the dense fog, covering the entire fog-shrouded area in the blink of an eye.

To outsiders, the area where the old man and Shen Xu were fighting seemed to have turned into a thundercloud zone radiating a deadly aura and flashing dazzling lightning.

Any creature that dares to trespass inside will likely be reduced to ashes in an instant.

However, at that moment, the old man suddenly realized that the lightning he released had automatically avoided a certain area behind him.

At the same time, an extremely dangerous feeling suddenly surged up from the bottom of his heart without warning.

This feeling was all too familiar to him, because it was the sense of danger that Lei Lingbao had given him after their bloodlines had deeply merged.

The old man was immediately terrified. He wanted to get away right away, but it was too late.

The extraordinary sense of smell bestowed upon him by the Thunder Leopard allowed him to detect an increasingly dense moisture surging towards him at an unimaginable speed, constantly washing over his body.

He heard a sound behind him that was so fast it seemed to pierce through space.

The sound was sharp and piercing, like the roar of a demon, constantly stabbing at his nerves.

He has no chance of escaping!

Thinking about this, he felt an unprecedented sense of relief for some reason.

Throughout his long life, Lei Lingbao's premonition of danger had saved his life countless times, but this time, this young man would step over his corpse to achieve his unparalleled fame.

For someone who had been barely clinging to life, this ending was a dignified way to die. Although it was a pity that he didn't die at the hands of a demon beast, dying at the hands of such a young man was not bad either.

"Master, this old servant is going to keep you company!" The old man smiled slightly.

From within the white mist, a beam of white light pierced through the old man's body, drawing out a trail of crimson blood. The old man's hunched body gently collapsed before the Ink Brocade Pavilion, the blood slowly flowing beneath him into a pool.

Shen Xu clutched his charred, bloodied left arm, his gaze dark and somewhat frightening.