Chapter 46: Have You Seen the Shadow Guard Street Dance Team?

"Must you yield?" Fang Qi looked at him indifferently, "What if I refuse?"

"Refuse?" Gong He sneered, waving his hand toward the outside.

Immediately, a squad of city guards burst in.

Gong He looked at Nalan Ying, and seeing him nod, then said nonchalantly, "If you don't agree, you won't need to keep this shop open in the future."

"Gong He!" Right at that moment, in the row near the door, a figure stood up from the second computer desk, revealed to be a youth wearing a silver crown with a cold, arrogant gaze.

"Who is so bold as to call Master Gong by my full name?" Gong He turned his head around, only to see An Cheng's face, which was so cold it seemed ready to drop ice crystals, "What are you doing here?!"

"Young... Young City Lord?!" Gong He was utterly stupefied, considering he was currently inside a remarkably remote shop located in a commoner's alley district!

And originally, he was merely following orders from above to accompany this middle-aged man of extremely high status to buy some items.

Yet he had actually run into An Cheng?!

Gong He could not quite react, "You... how could you be here?"

"Do I have to report to you where I am?!" An Cheng said coldly, "Get the hell out!"

"Get out...?" Gong He pointed at Nalan Ying, then at An Cheng, his face drenched in sweat. One was his direct superior's son, and the other represented a powerhouse that even his direct superior dared not offend. Whom could he afford to offend? He couldn't offend either!

"Vice Commander Gong," Nalan Ying chuckled softly, "Since the Young City Lord has spoken, you should withdraw for now."

An Cheng then looked at Nalan Ying and said in a heavy voice, "Who are you? How dare you mobilize the city guards without authorization?"

One must know that the city guards were closely tied to the defense of Jiuhua City; ordinary people could absolutely never mobilize them at will!

Nalan Ying smiled faintly as he removed the leather glove from his right hand, "As for who I am, Young City Lord An has no need to know."

"It seems this shop is indeed not as simple as it appears on the surface."

His action of removing the glove was like a signal. The very moment the city guards retreated, the shop doors were suddenly blown wide open by the wind!

A ghostly wind blew into the shop from outside.

The surrounding atmosphere instantly grew chillingly cold, as if the temperature had suddenly plummeted at that very moment!

One dark shadow after another flashed in through the doorway, and a cold, sharp, and murderous atmosphere gradually spread throughout the entire internet cafe.

To the point where, under this influence, most of the players logged out of their games and could not help but look over.

Following that, they saw several neatly aligned rows of guards clad in black armor at the entrance of the internet cafe!

These men wore black ghostly masks on their faces and held exaggeratedly massive hand-crossbows in their hands, either crouching or standing, divided into two rows deployed in a straight line before the shop doors.

The bolts on the powerful crossbows gleamed with a cold and heavy ethereal light, and the incredibly sharp triangular arrowheads gave off an extremely dangerous feeling!

As these powerful crossbows pointed into the shop, An Cheng suddenly felt a chill rush straight up his spine into his brain!

"This... this is...?!" An Cheng suddenly recalled the records concerning this kind of giant crossbow and cried out in alarm, "This is the Immortal-Slaying Crossbow?!"

This kind of weapon was a super lethal instrument of war that had appeared during the founding war of the Great Jin Dynasty! It was absolutely one of the terrifying war machines targeted at cultivators!

Rumor had it that every single bowstring of this powerful crossbow was crafted from thousand-year flood dragon tendons, every single bolt was forged from the sharp teeth of high-tier demon beasts, and the design of the crossbow frame itself was personally created by Master Lu, who was hailed as the number one craftsman of the Great Jin back then. Before this powerful crossbow, a cultivator's protective spiritual treasures were just like paper!

Years ago, when the late Emperor Wudi was still conquering the land, he moved north from the Yun River and was once besieged by a hostile army of nearly ten thousand cultivators.

At that time, an elite squad primarily armed with this weapon launched a surprise attack on the enemy cultivators, directly shooting dead more than half of the high-tier cultivators before finally breaking through the encirclement!

It was precisely this battle that created a classic example of the weak defeating the strong in the history of the Great Jin's founding!

Yet right now, so many Immortal-Slaying Crossbows had actually appeared all at once?! An Cheng only felt his mind go completely blank!

Although he knew that today's Immortal-Slaying Crossbows could no longer achieve the power of those years, being pointed at by so many Immortal-Slaying Crossbows caused even An Cheng and the others, despite being cultivators, to shake like chaff!

In the entire Southeast region, even the An family, serving as the City Lord, was not equipped with weapons of this specification, and there was only one faction that dared to equip such weapons!

"You... you are...?!" If An Cheng still could not guess the other party's identity like this, then his title as the Young City Lord would truly be in vain!

Rumor had it that the leader of the squad equipped with the Immortal-Slaying Crossbows back then belonged to the Nalan family...

"I am Nalan Ying," Nalan Ying said indifferently.

An Cheng's entire body shook; he had already begun to regret scolding Gong He away. How could this small shop provoke such an existence?!

Rumor had it that Nalan Ying had already reached the cultivation of an eighth-tier Martial Grandmaster back then, serving as a member of that squad, and now... so many years had passed... what was his cultivation level now?!

Furthermore, whose authorization led to Nalan Ying's appearance was even more self-evident!

Let alone An Cheng, even if his father came here, he would not dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction!

No wonder Gong He dared not even utter a sound before him! He had even tried his absolute best to curry favor!

"Now, can we have a good talk about how you sell these spiritual treasures of yours, Boss?" Nalan Ying sneered slightly. The Nalan family had rarely appeared before the eyes of the various aristocratic clans in recent years, but their illustrious and formidable reputation had not faded in the slightest because of it!

Fang Qi glanced at An Cheng's expression, speaking as if he were describing a matter entirely unrelated to himself, "Can you take back these pieces of scrap metal? You're scaring my customers."

"Hmm?" Nalan Ying was stunned.

"Otherwise, I will treat it as causing trouble," Fang Qi said very seriously.

An Cheng: "??"

Ouyang Cheng: "??"

Bu Che: "??"

Not just them, everyone in the shop looked completely dumbfounded!

The man before them was not a second or third-generation youth like Xiao Yulv!

But a figure of a generation who had truly participated in the founding war and had become famous centuries ago!

Telling Nalan Ying's men to pack up these "pieces of scrap metal"?

Was he insane?!

"I did know that a cultivator of no low cultivation stood behind this shop," Nalan Ying nodded, "To be able to instantly subdue Xu Fuwei, he is indeed a talent."

"However..." He pointed at the Shadow Guards behind him and said, "Do you know what my Nalan family's Shadow Guards are called in the cultivator world?"

"Cultivator Killers!" he said in a heavy voice.

"Someone is causing trouble!" Fang Qi turned right around, pulled out his seat, and prepared to sit back down at his own computer desk.

Seeing this behavior of Fang Qi's, Nalan Ying found it somewhat baffling.

"Detected a large number of troublemakers, activating Tribulation Thunder."

But immediately after, he heard an incomparably noisy roar of thunder echoing right by his ears!

Crack!

Everyone only saw a brilliant flash of white light at the shop entrance!

At this moment, they seemed to witness the most spectacular... Shadow Guard breakdance troupe... in history...

Nalan Ying's expression at this split second was spectacular to the absolute extreme!