Chu Feng was merely looking at all this with indifference.
Over the years, the Qiao Family had been anything but ’generous’ to the Chu Family; it was about time they paid some interest. If it wasn’t for the Qiao Family Head playing smart and breaking the rules of the trade, trying to blackmail Chu Feng with the thousand-year-old Jiao tendon.
Perhaps, this disaster would not have befallen them.
Chu Feng’s ambitions were vast, and the Qiao Family were mere pawns in his eyes. If they hadn’t angered him, he wouldn’t have bothered to lift a finger.
The Jianyun Emperor, Prince Jianyun, the experts from the Three Outer Domain’s Clans—these were Chu Feng’s current targets. As for bigger targets, they were those who betrayed him and harmed him.
Such as Chang’e, some traitors, and the Panlong Crown Prince.
The killing did not cease; intense fighting and the dreadful screams of the dying could be heard from inside the Qiao’s Herbal Medicine Store.
An elder in a grey robe, wielding a Treasure Sword, fought fiercely against the two most formidable shadows.
All three were of Great Sword Master Cultivation, and their sword light in the dark night shone like never-ending candles, particularly dazzling.
With every killing strike, the force was terrifyingly potent.
The thick columns, the hard floors, were like rotten wood under the sweep of their sword light, easily torn apart and destroyed.
"Quickly sound the gong, send up the flare, urgently call for reinforcements from our allies. Ask the City Guard Army and the Forbidden Army to come and capture the thieves!"
The elder in grey, fighting one against two, was at a disadvantage. He bellowed with a voice harsh like a broken gong, in great urgency.
The uninvited guests were ill-intentioned; those who came to pillage the Qiao’s family were all masters.
And they were extremely ruthless in their actions, leaving no survivors.
The two shadows each swallowed an Elixir, and then their sword light surged by nearly double.
It was just a brief encounter, and the greyclad elder’s shouting abruptly stopped, as he was directly cleaved into two by the shadows.
The two shadows must be Bloody Beard and Han Qianren, who at the crucial moment took the Golden Talisman Elixirs bestowed by Chu Feng. The power of that Elixir was astonishingly great, easily helping them slay a mighty foe of the same realm.
"Quickly get in and search for goods!"
Those masked culprits in black, like predatory wolves, rushed into the store to plunder the precious medicinal materials.
These people were habitual criminals, veterans in their craft, each acting extremely proficiently in looting.
In just a brief moment, they burst out with bundles both large and small.
"In the entire Royal Capital, no one dares to rob my Qiao Family!" A furious roar echoed from afar, followed by a large number of Qiao Family’s experts arriving.
Among them was a strikingly beautiful woman wielding a long sword, catching everyone’s attention.
Chu Feng’s gaze was firmly fixed on her face.
With the thousand-year-old Jiao tendon in hand, only the intelligence chief of the Qiao Family remained.
From those in black who had raided the Qiao’s Herbal Medicine Store, several particularly formidable figures boldly confronted the arriving Qiao Family experts, while the rest followed the prearranged plan and quickly withdrew.
Some carried the bodies of their comrades on their shoulders.
They were the bodies of their fellow men in black.
They strove to leave no trace.
"Who are you?" Among the many experts of the Qiao Family, there was an elder with white beard reaching his knees, holding a very special Silver Snake Treasure Sword.
This man should be the Qiao Family Ancestor who rarely shows himself.
It is said that he has lived for over two hundred years and promoted to Great Sword Master Realm at the age of sixty, a genuine prodigy of the Sword Dao.
So many years have passed, and although his current cultivation strength is unknown, one thing is certain, he definitely has not reached the Sword Saint Realm.
Otherwise, the Qiao Family would not have compromised to the Blood Sword Gang last time.
They would directly summon this ancestor to sweep through the many experts of the Blood Sword Gang.
Strength, no matter where, is always very effective.
The seven black-clad men did not respond to the Qiao Family Ancestor’s questioning, instead, they all simultaneously attacked the many experts of the Qiao Family.
These seven people were at the very least at the peak of the Sword Master Realm, and each one of them was a master of swordsmanship.
"They are the experts of the Blood Sword Gang! The other three seem to be experts of the Han Family."
Li Shishi carefully observed the seven people, merely through the swordsmanship they displayed, she deduced their identities.
"Han Family, Blood Sword Gang? Good, very good, do they really think they can butcher my Qiao Family like sheep?" The Qiao Family Ancestor was furiously enraged, the Silver Snake Treasure Sword in his hand rang out with a sharp "clang", then lighting up with a dazzling sword light.
His sword light was actually a bit stronger than that of Bloody Beard and Han Qianren, who had taken the Golden Talisman Elixir.
One could imagine that the true strength of the Qiao Family Ancestor was more than doubled compared to Bloody Beard and Han Qianren.
He turned into a flash of lightning, extremely fast, rushing towards Bloody Beard and the others.
Who knew, those black-clad men merely coldly smiled and simultaneously hurled out fist-sized objects.
Those fist-sized objects looked like homemade bombs.
Once they exploded, billowing green smoke enveloped the area.
"Cough cough cough... be careful, it’s poisonous!" The experts of the Qiao Family were thrown into chaos. Even the Qiao Family Ancestor with his world-beating cultivation and formidable strength had no choice but to hastily retreat in the face of such a lowly worldly tactic.
He hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, fleeing desperately from the area covered by the thick smoke.
After a brief flurry of fighting, a woman’s angry and terrified scream rang out. But soon there was no more movement; she must have been knocked unconscious.
By the time the thick smoke had cleared, the City Guard Army and Forbidden Army had arrived one after another.
All the experts of the Qiao Family were in a sorry state, each one of them shocked and angry. They looked around, but could no longer see a trace of the black-clad men.
"Damn it... those bastards got away!"
The Qiao Family Ancestor, like a young lord cursing the heavens, pointed his Silver Snake Treasure Sword at the sky furiously, trembling with rage.
"Not good, Li Shishi has been abducted by those black-clad men!" The roar of the Qiao Family Master immediately followed.
Over the years, Li Shishi had made numerous significant contributions to the Qiao Family. Her information was precise, and it was all about covert matters.
The Qiao Family Master was able to firmly hold the position of Family Head, and lead the Qiao Family to continuously develop and grow, with a large part of the credit belonging to Li Shishi.
In the commercial battlefield, the most valuable asset is information.
Yet, those despicable thieves, not only did they rob Qiao’s Herbal Medicine Store, but they even abducted Li Shishi.
"Miss Shishi is beautiful, the fact that the thieves only abducted her, the consequences are worrisome!" A Clan Elder of the Qiao Family said with a bit of schadenfreude.
The Qiao Family is a large clan, divided into several bloodlines, with intense internal struggles.
Being able to watch the Family Head lose a strong supporter, probably many are secretly delighted. The line of the Family Head has been developing very strongly in recent years, and a setback for them might give the other lines a chance.
After taking silver from the Qiao Family, the City Guard Army and Forbidden Army were also hardworking, starting a city-wide search for those brazen thieves.
Unfortunately, they searched the entire city but couldn’t find anything substantial.
They just symbolically arrested a few suspects to go through the motions, also serving to give the Qiao Family an explanation.
As for that intelligent and beautiful woman from the Qiao Family, Li Shishi, there was no trace of her to be found. It was as if she evaporated from the face of the earth.