Embroidered Uniform Guard: I Can Plunder Talents-Chapter 38: Without You, It’s Very Important to Me

Chapter 38: Chapter 38: Without You, It’s Very Important to Me

Hearing Ye Liuyun’s praise, Si Nan couldn’t help but smile happily.

"..."

But this scene left Shi Sheng looking hesitant, as if he wanted to speak but stopped himself. In hindsight, it made sense—with Shi Sheng’s character, it would indeed be hard for him to accept threatening someone with a child.

Noticing the change in Shi Sheng’s expression.

Si Nan suddenly gave a relaxed smile, lifted his hand and placed it on Shi Sheng’s shoulder, and said,

"If I told you some of the things this child has done, I think you wouldn’t be so conflicted anymore!"

"What?"

This made Shi Sheng look over, curious.

Si Nan first pointed to the teenage boy tied to the tree, then turned to Shi Sheng and spoke.

"I’m not a good person, but I wouldn’t just grab someone at random. From what I found out, this fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy here, not long ago, ordered his servants to murder an entire family of seven who owned a steamed bun shop in the east of the city."

"Once, because someone accidentally bumped into him on the street, he killed them right there."

"Then, after taking a fancy to a girl, he had her father’s legs chopped off so he couldn’t work, forcing her to yield to him."

"..."

One incident after another—even Shi Sheng was silent, and even Ye Liuyun turned to look, unable to hide his reaction.

This was no mere boy—he was practically a demon from the underworld.

Relying on his father being a hundred-household commander in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, he did whatever he wanted, utterly lawless.

After a while, Si Nan stopped—not because he’d finished talking, but because his mouth was dry.

"What, do you think I’m lying to you?"

Seeing the disbelief in Shi Sheng’s eyes, Si Nan went straight over, pulling out the gag from the boy’s mouth.

The other immediately started cursing them out.

"You damn bastards dare to tie me up! When my father gets here, he’ll kill all of you—wipe out your whole families!"

He shouted so loudly his voice nearly cracked.

Shi Sheng ignored everything else, his face dark. He asked,

"Tell me, are those things they just said true?"

The boy froze for a second, then replied self-righteously,

"So what if they are? My father told me I can do whatever I want. They’re just lowly commoners. If I want to kill them, I kill. I—"

Before he could finish, Si Nan stuffed his mouth again.

And he shrugged at Shi Sheng. See? He wasn’t accusing anyone wrongly.

In an age like this, it was truly hard enough just for ordinary people to survive.

"Fuck! Let me chop this little bastard to death!"

Shi Sheng couldn’t hold back anymore.

He’d felt a little pity before, but now he realized—killing this little bastard was ridding the people of a scourge.

He drew the saber at his waist, ready to act.

But the next moment—

"Don’t harm my son!"

It was Lu Quan’s voice.

The instant he heard it, the boy with the gag became excited, frantically mumbling who knows what.

"Ye Liufeng! So it’s you!"

When he saw who was acting, Lu Quan’s eyes bulged in disbelief.

He clearly hadn’t expected that the one who captured his son and left a letter telling him to come alone outside the city, would turn out to be Ye Liuyun.

"Ye Liufeng, if you dare harm my son, Lord Thousand Household will never—"

Lu Quan was just about to drop Lord Thousand Household’s name as a threat to Ye Liuyun, when—

"Jade-shattering Palm!"

Ye Liuyun struck with a palm directly.

"Good!"

When Ye Liuyun attacked without a word, Lu Quan was not alarmed but rather delighted.

In Lu Quan’s mind, the formerly third-class Martial Artist Ye Liuyun, even with his recent breakthroughs, might not be a match for him in a real fight.

He circulated his inner strength and swung out a palm of his own.

Their palms clashed.

In Lu Quan’s eyes, with his full strength, Ye Liuyun shouldn’t be able to withstand it—he even looked delighted.

But once he felt that overwhelming power, his smile froze on his face.

There wasn’t even a stalemate in the exchange.

Lu Quan was blown back the very way he used his Qinggong to fly over.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

His body smashed through several trees before coming to a stop.

"Pff!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

If not for his inner strength protecting him, that one palm might have killed him on the spot.

"Impossible! How could your strength be so great?"

Propped against a tree, Lu Quan struggled to his feet, staring at Ye Liuyun in disbelief.

He simply couldn’t believe that Ye Liuyun was so far beyond him.

"..."

Ye Liuyun didn’t answer, one hand behind his back, the other on the hilt at his waist, approaching Lu Quan.

That look in his eyes, as if gazing at a dead man.

Lu Quan realized at that moment—Ye Liuyun truly meant to kill him.

"Wait! Wait!"

Lu Quan didn’t want to die—he still had a good life ahead of him, a bright future, and so much money he hadn’t spent yet.

How could he die like this?

"It’s a misunderstanding—there must be some misunderstanding between us. Spare me, and from this day on, I’ll do whatever you say. Whatever you want, I’ll do it!"

To survive, Lu Quan was willing to say anything.

Had he known it’d end like this, he wouldn’t have come to save even his favorite youngest son.

Even if he did save him, he’d never come alone.

In the end, he’d been too confident...

"Whether or not you serve me doesn’t really matter!"

While speaking, Ye Liuyun had already walked up to Lu Quan.

"But without you, that’s what matters to me!"

"Lord Thousand Household! Lord Thousand Household will never let you go!"

Seeing submission was useless, Lu Quan tried to use Lord Thousand Household’s name to threaten Ye Liuyun again, hoping he’d have scruples.

But the only reply was a blazing flash of the blade!

"Swish!"

Even the tree behind him was cut clean in two.

Even at his death, Lu Quan’s face was frozen in disbelief. He simply couldn’t imagine why the threats that always worked on others were useless against Ye Liuyun.

Are you really not afraid of the Nine-Thousand Duke behind Lord Thousand Household?

Unfortunately, Lu Quan would never get the answer to that question.

Ye Liuyun sheathed his blade again. Lu Quan may have been useless, but he carried some good attributes on him. Waste not, want not. After taking those, Ye Liuyun looked away.

He noticed that, not far away, the boy—the one Lu Quan so doted on, formerly crazed with hatred—now wore a completely dazed look.

He must never have expected his father to die.

"Clean it up."

Ye Liuyun wasn’t going to spare the boy. The massacre at the Golden Saber Sect was still fresh in his mind.

If you don’t pull up the roots, the weeds just grow back come spring.

Besides, killing someone so evil was a way of accumulating virtue for himself.

"Let me do it!"

Though Shi Sheng had resisted it at first, after hearing Ye Liuyun’s words, he rushed to act before Si Nan could.

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