Chapter 625 Emperor Qing Out of Seclusion

The Mount Red Leaf was located in the middle of the Jinyun Mountains in the southern suburbs of Shang Jing City. The mountain peak was a blessed place with rich spiritual Qi.

As for Mount Red Leaf, it was a special place for Emperor Qing to cultivate in seclusion. He had been living there since the time he obtained treasures abroad.

He didn’t tell anyone about the seclusion, but everybody knew that this particular seclusion was extremely important to him.

The next time he showed up, he would be in the Divine Realm!

Emperor Qing was the first one among all to have reached that realm, earlier than Devil Incarnate Ye Longyuan, Little Roc Shi Fenghou, Zhang Hanyang, and Mu Xue the female demon who had a strong background.

If he managed to take one step ahead, he would always have the priority for everything.

Emperor Qing’s era would last. Jiang Yanlan had high expectations of Zhang Hanyang, and she didn’t want any risky confrontations to arise between the two.

She wouldn’t be worried too much if Zhang Hanyang was just trying to challenge Emperor Qing. However, should either of them die in the challenge, the Wu Dao World in this country would suffer a great loss.

There were plenty of martial artists in the Hua nation, but few of them were as powerful as Emperor Qing and Zhang Hanyang. The world needed them to defend it from the invasion of sects from other worldlets. The National Security Agency was influential enough, but it was still weaker than those big sects.

Jiang Yanlan’s words surprised many people.

They didn’t expect Emperor Qing to get involved in today’s incident, which would make it the top-level duel in Shang Jing City!

“Who on earth is the man sitting there?”

“Grand Master Zhang… is he really Zhang Hanyang?”

Many people were too frightened to believe that. Fear had clung to their backbones.

If he was really the Zhang Hanyang they knew from the past, he must have made some formidable progress.

They gazed into the man’s eyes, trembling in fear.

Qiao Fei and Lin Jie found hope again. They stared at Zhang Han eagerly, hoping to read fear on that face.

To their surprise, their old acquaintance Zhang Han smiled lightly and said peacefully, “You want me to surmount Mountain Red Leaf?”

Jiang Yanlan seemed upset when she heard that. She sighed and said, “Why didn’t you contact me? You’re driving me crazy!”

“Hey, gorgeous, just be patient!” Instructor Liu said. He called her “gorgeous” because he didn’t know how powerful she was.

He thought she was just an ordinary civil servant, and he had no idea that she had already reached the peak of Grand Master Realm. He laughed and said, “Mr. Zhang can even kill a man in the Divine Realm. Even if Emperor Qing made a breakthrough, he wouldn’t dare to come here.”

“Hmm?” Jiang Yanlan hesitated upon hearing that.

No one had called her that ever since she joined the Vermilion Bird Detachment. She was currently the captain of the detachment, and Instructor Liu’s tone was too disrespectful.

“What do you know?”

Jiang Yanlan scolded him and pressed forward with her right hand. An invisible airwave palm went straight toward Instructor Liu.

“Uh?” Instructor Liu was startled.

Feeling the overwhelming power, he screamed, “Mr. Zhang! Help!”

But Zhang Han ignored him.

He wasn’t abandoning him. Jiang Yanlan’s attack wasn’t very powerful, and she had controlled it in a subtle way. Instructor Liu was slapped ten meters away after he tried his best to block the attack. Then he fell into a flowerpot.

“Ouch!”

Instructor Liu stood up, hands covering his butt. He exclaimed, “The gorgeous girl is way more powerful than me!”

“Humph! I can still teach you a lesson even if you have him as your backer,” said Jiang Yanlan. She was glaring at Instructor Liu.

“Yes, you’re right, you’re always right.”

Instructor Liu patted his butt and laughed embarrassedly. He knew his boss wouldn’t help him, even if the woman beat him again.

Obviously, they were acquaintances.

“You…” Jiang Yanlan raised her right hand and was going to hit him again.

But she took back her hand and looked at Zhang Han. Then she said in a sulking tone, “Then I’ll leave you alone.”

She quickly took a seat on the sofa and picked up a glass of red wine.

Qiao Fei and Lin Jie were desperate upon seeing this.

Their waist had already been turned into stone, which made them feel utterly depressed and desperate. They even felt that their minds had been slowed down.

Right at this moment…

A group of people flooded in through the door.

There were about 16 or 17 people. Half of them were from the Qiao Clan, and the others were from the Lin Clan.

The Lin Clan was still trying to find backers when they were told by the Qiao Clan that the opponent was Zhang Hanyang.

The Lin family all of a sudden felt hopeless and didn’t know what to do. They later heard that the Qiao Clan flew a helicopter to Mount Red Leaf, so they gathered a few people and visited the Qiao Clan.

The Qiao Clan would’ve been as panicked as the Lin Clan if they didn’t have Emperor Qing as their backer.

At the same time, the news began to spread.

The Zhang Clan and the Liu Clan had been keeping an eye on Zhang Han. Therefore, they were the first to know what happened.

The core members of their family were gathering. There were 15 or 16 of them from the Zhang Clan and 5 or 6 of them from the Liu Clan.

They kept receiving news from ‘the frontline’.

“Zhang Han went to the Han Tai Club for the appointment.”

“Qiao Zhan has gone to the Dongfang Hotel. He hasn’t come out yet.”

“Zhang Han went to the private room. What the hell? He killed Dong Hu so soon! I’m scared! Should I flee?”

“Oh my god, he poisoned Qiao Fei and Lin Jie.”

“Some officials arrived. I don’t why they showed up, but they were ushered out of the room. I can’t believe this! Zhang Han is a general! Ning Hu is here! He’s a high-level official of the National Security Agency! He knelt down and begged for mercy. Then he left in embarrassment!”

“The Captain of the Vermilion Bird Detachment, Jiang Yanlan, is there! She couldn’t stop Zhang Han, either. She’s now sitting next to him and drinking wine. Damn, Qiao Fei’s and Lin Jie’s bodies are going to turn into stone!

The shocking news kept coming in; the people from the Zhang Clan had a troubled mood because of them.

At the moment, they wished Zhang Han would lose, because otherwise, the Zhang Clan would have to pay millions in compensation to the other two clans.

They were also regretful because the tough guy used to be one of them. If Zhang Han were still in the clan, they would have had the chance to be the most influential clan among all in Shang Jing.

They knew they couldn’t always get what they wanted. They had never thought that the once useless playboy would become this fierce one day.

“I feel as if we lifted a rock only to drop it on our own feet, and Zhang Han is definitely a hard rock.” Zhang Nan sighed. “Today is the second day and tomorrow is the last day. We should get the money ready no matter how.”

Other people were all moved and they exclaimed, “Do we really have to give away 10 billion yuan?”

“I don’t want to do that! Will he destroy our family if we don’t give him the money?” asked someone in an angry tone.

Most of them were calm, and they gave others the final answer, “Yes, he will.”

It was not easy to raise ten billion yuan without preparation. The Zhang Clan was still sitting on the fence.

As for the Liu Clan, they were present just to enjoy the big show.

Whether they would fight or not had nothing to do with the Liu Clan. They were pure onlookers.

The news spread slowly, and many people were stunned upon hearing it.

Zhang Hanyang was back!

The news spread fast like a storm.

The Qiao and Lin clans felt much pressure because their people were in that private room.

Their patriarchs and important members weren’t there to rescue the two because it was Merciless Zhang the one they would be facing.

They only sent representatives to speak on their behalf.

Qiao Yongming, head of the representatives from the Qiao Clan, saw Qiao Fei and Lin Jie. The parts below the two’s necks had already been turned into stone, and they were about to lose consciousness.

Although he had seen enough tricks from different martial artists, he was still startled when he saw this. He was inwardly horrified, but he showed a calm front.

Qiao Yongming took a deep breath and glanced at his family members who didn’t dare to say anything. He looked at Zhang Han and said in a deep voice, “Mr. Zhang, we respect you very much. Perhaps one of our kids has offended you, and our clan would be glad to punish him for you. So would you please stop turning him into stone?”

“So? How will you punish him for me? How about giving me a divine weapon as an apology?” Zhang Han said with a faint smile.

A divine weapon?

Qiao Yongming’s face froze. He was angry and answered, “You’re going way out of line… my clan and my people are not pushovers…”

They had heard the story more or less. They knew Qiao Zhan had gone to the Dongfang Hotel where Zi Yan was staying in, and Qiao Zhan had never come out ever since. He must have died there. They clearly knew who could kill Qiao Zhan that easily.

He was there to solve the problem. They hadn’t even blamed Zhang Han for Qiao Zhan’s death, and they begged Zhang Han to let go of Qiao Fei. They had been humble enough even for their clan’s proud nature.

Qiao Yongming had two plans for this.

Plan A: they wouldn’t offer any treasures because Emperor Qing would come to rescue. Plan B: they would threaten Zhang Han that Emperor Qing was coming out of seclusion.

But before Qiao Yongming finished speaking…

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