“So, what’s the relationship between King Shen and the Black Horn?”

After saying that, Xiao Chen poured another glass of wine. When he was about to drink, he heard the sound of armored soldiers coming from downstairs. Their voices were very united. Then King Shen thundered, “Seal the entire Illusive Aroma Tower for me. If anyone is allowed to leave tonight, you’ll bring your head to me!”

As soon as the voice fell, the sound of countless heavy-armored soldiers coming upstairs could be heard. For a moment, it seemed that the whole tower was trembling. Then, there came the sounds of people kicking the doors, screams, and cries. The whole Illusive Aroma Tower was in a mess.

The high officials and nobles, as well as the wealthy merchants, who were drinking and laughing in the house, did not have time to react at this moment. The soldiers who broke through the door and entered the corridor forced them out to the outer corridor. They knelt on the ground and hugged their heads with both hands. In the crowd, everyone was in a state of panic.

Yang Qing said, “King Shen is a force of the empire. In Black-horn City, a relationship of mutual constraint exists between Black Horn and King Shen. But in the dark, the two sides also have a subtle cooperative relationship.”

As he spoke, the sound of the soldiers was getting closer and closer. The other three people were on their guard. Xiao Chen still looked relaxed. He drank the wine in his cup and said lightly, “Is that so…”

Before his voice fell, the door was kicked open with a “Poom!” Two black-armor soldiers with long spears in their hands appeared at the door and screamed, “People inside! Hold your head with both hands! Come out immediately…”

However, before the two soldiers could finish their words, with a “swoosh” sound, the wine glass in Xiao Chen’s hand flew over. With two bangs, the wine glass directly knocked the two soldiers away and smashed them down.

“Bang! Bang!” With two loud bangs, two black-armored soldiers fell and smashed a few carved sandalwood tables into pieces. Without mercy, the fruits and snacks on the tables were scattered on the ground, and the wine in the wine pot flowed out.

At this moment, the pavilion suddenly quieted down. Everyone’s faces were pale and their eyes were full of horror. They were the soldiers of King Shen!

On the fourth floor, a woman was standing at the door. She was about to deliver wine to Xiao Chen and the others. But now, she was so frightened that her face turned pale. She stood rooted to the spot with a jade plate in her hand. The jade plate kept trembling, making a soft sound.

“Tonight, maybe it’s not much of bad timing.” In the house, Xiao Chen said lightly with a smile. While speaking, he stretched out his hand and took the wine pot from the woman at the door.

At this moment, the whole Illusive Aroma Tower suddenly became so quiet that it was a little strange. Everyone held their breath as if they were waiting quietly for the last darkness before dawn to fade away.

At this moment, everyone’s eyes were focused on the man in the middle of the first floor. He looked fierce and had a scar on his face. His body shape was much larger than that of an ordinary person. His two arms were muscular and stronger than the legs of an adult man. He wore a red armor of a general with a sawtooth broadsword about half a foot long hanging on his waist.

This man was King Shen. He was glaring at the railings of the corridor that had been knocked down by two soldiers on the fourth floor.

“Swoosh!” There was a sound of the wind, and then a ghost-like shadow shot toward the fourth floor. However, with a “clang,” the man was stopped by a Full Moon Blade that flew out in an instant.

It was a man in black clothes. His eagle-like eyes stared at Chu Qi who appeared suddenly a foot away. Suddenly, Chu Qi moved. The next moment, she had appeared about a meter in front of him. She held the Full Moon Blade and cut toward his neck.

Time seemed to slow down at this moment. The man in black leaned back to avoid this fatal cut. He put his two fingers together again and pointed to Chu Qi’s waist. However, Chu Qi’s figure seemed to disappear at this moment. The next moment, she appeared again on his left.

She was so fast that the people downstairs could not see her clearly. But they knew that if King Shen was angered, blood would flow like a river. Tonight, there might be someone who would stay here forever.

“Swish!” Another sound of the wind came, and another man in white clothes next to King Shen also flew up. These two people were the right and left arms of King Shen. The man in black’s name was Windchaser, and the man in white’s name was Sunchaser.

At this moment, the two of them were fighting Chu Qi at the same time, and their body movements were extremely fast. However, the body movements of Chu Qi were also like ghosts and spirits. When the three people fought, the people downstairs could only hear “clang clang”. They could only see three shadows shuttling back and forth. It was impossible to see how the three people fought.

King Shen’s face became more and more gloomy and then he shouted, “Back off!” With a shout, he lifted the sawtooth blade on his waist and forcefully leaped, smashing the ground within a foot radius into pieces.

In the flying wood chips, King Shen flew to the fourth floor like a flash of horrifying lightning. He lifted his blade and cut toward Chu Qi. The fierce wind of the blade made it difficult for people to breathe.

At this moment, everyone’s face was as painful as being cut by a knife, and the whole Illusive Aroma Tower was in a strong wind. The pavilion shook violently at this moment as if it was about to collapse.

Everyone downstairs, at this moment, had a look of fear and uneasiness on their faces.

“Clank!” With a shrill sound, the Illusive Aroma Tower seemed to have stopped vibrating. But the next moment, a chilly wind blew. Everyone felt an unprecedented sense of bloodthirstiness coming, and a chill came from their backs. In the air of the fourth floor, strange patches of blood fog pervaded. Then, waves of the blood fog went down as if they were going to suck everyone’s blood dry.

“Wha… What the hell is this?”

Finally, some people could not help but scream because of fear. Those beautiful dancers and maids were so scared that their faces turned pale and they hid in the corner trembling. And those high officials and noble lords all knelt on the ground and did not dare to stand up at this moment.

Everyone looked up and saw a young man confronting King Shen. The strange bloody mist was seeping out from the blood-red broadsword in the young man’s hand.

At this moment, everyone held their breath and was scared to death. It was not because they were afraid of the blood mist, but because they saw a person who dared to fight King Shen.

“Ha-ah!” Veins popped up on King Shen’s face. He looked terrifying. He slashed down again. The cyan blade wind seemed to tear everything in front of him apart. Xiao Chen raised his knife to resist. “Clang!” With a loud sound, he felt his arms go numb.

One must know that he now had the cultivation of the Nirvana Realm. It was imaginable how strong the cultivation of the other person was such that the blow could numb his arms.

“Come on!” King Shen shouted again and slashed with his blade. The cyan blade wind with horrifying power surged out. Xiao Chen lifted his blade and slashed forward. The red blade radiance met the attack. “Clang!” The whole pavilion shook again.

Both of them could move mountains and go against the current, so it was a piece of cake to destroy the whole pavilion. However, the confrontation between pros was not to see who had the stronger destructive power but to see who could kill the opponent first without damaging the surrounding flowers and trees.

Clang, clang, clang. In an instant, they had already exchanged more than 10 blows. The cyan blade wind and the red blade radiance interweaved. No one dared to go up there at the moment. If they went up there, they would be ground to pieces.

Finally, King Shen stopped, panting heavily. His chest, which was twice as wide as an ordinary man’s, leaned forward. He stared fixedly at Xiao Chen and asked solemnly, “You… Who are you?”

“Me? I’m just an alcoholic who came to the Illusive Aroma Lane to have fun.” Xiao Chen took back the Blood Lotus Demon Blade and said calmly with a faint smile on his face.

The drinkers below were so scared that their faces turned pale. At this moment, a woman with a wonderful figure wanted to sneak away. King Shen suddenly shouted, “Did I allow you to leave?” He then stretched his hand backward. The woman seemed to be grabbed by the throat by an invisible force, and her body slowly floated in the air. Her face was flushed red and her hands and feet were constantly struggling.

“You…r Highness, please spare my life!”

The woman kept struggling and begging for mercy, but King Shen seemed to exert more force. Soon, the woman’s body quickly shriveled up, and in the end, she completely turned into a horrifying black dried-up corpse.

A moment ago, she was still a young woman in her prime, but in the next moment, she became a mummy. The people around her were so scared that they kept quiet out of fear. This was the cultivation method that King Shen cultivated, the Shen-luo Formless Skill.

With a thud, the woman’s mummified corpse was thrown down by King Shen. Then, she was dragged down by two black-armored soldiers. Then, King Shen turned his head and stared at Xiao Chen. He said in a cold voice, “You will be like her soon. Do you believe it or not?”

“Bang!” A crisp sound broke the silence. The jade plate in the hand of the woman who delivered the wine to Xiao Chen fell. She had already been dumbfounded because the woman who turned into a mummified corpse just now was a sister of hers in the dormitory.

“Spare my life, Your Highness! Spare my life, Your Highness! Spare my life, Your Highness…”

The woman immediately knelt and kowtowed to beg for mercy. King Shen shouted and immediately grabbed her. Xiao Chen waved his sleeve and instantly sent the woman to the room. He smiled and said lightly, “I think it’s nothing good to gain for Your Highness to kill an alcoholic.”

At this moment, the whole pavilion was quiet. Everyone could clearly hear Xiao Chen’s voice. Xiao Chen smiled and continued, “Those people who can really kill Your Highness must be the wild animals hiding in the dark corner of the shadows. They peeked at every move of Your Highness, and they would rush out and tear Your Highness into pieces at any time, just like the unarmed woman that Your Highness just killed. They are prey, and so is Your Highness.”

Everyone below trembled and held their breath at this moment. No one dared to talk to King Shen in this way. If King Shen got angry, he would kill not only him but also them.

However, King Shen King was not angered this time. Instead, he threw his head back and laughed heartily. In the end, he stared fixedly at Xiao Chen and said, “Very well! Who are you really?!”

“I’m just an alcoholic,” Xiao Chen said with a smile.

At this moment, a light sound of heels being touched suddenly came from outside the pavilion. It was the sound of a woman’s footsteps. The sound was very slow, and even a little lazy.

Then, a beautiful woman in purple walked in slowly. Her eyes were as beautiful as water, and her chest was half-covered. She held one hand in front of her chest and a purple pipe in her other hand. Seeing her coming, everyone in the pavilion felt as if they had seen a savior.

“Please stop fighting. If you keep fighting, I’m afraid that my Illusive Aroma Tower will be torn down by you two.”

The woman spat out a mouthful of smoke and said slowly. Her voice sounded extremely charming as if it could instantly turn hard steel into soft water.