Chapter 44: The Son Returns

  The rain is still falling, getting heavier and heavier, seemingly with no intention of stopping.

  Tang An grasped the Black Jade Sword and walked slowly towards the door, step by step. His face looked extremely exhausted, having lost all its color.

  His lips were pursed tightly, his expression solemn.

  The corners of his mouth were still jumping irregularly, and every muscle on his face was also following the jump. He seemed to be trying hard to endure something.

  "Humming..."

  "Humming..."

  The sword suddenly began to hum.

  Tang An's hand grasped the sword and also began to tremble incessantly.

  "He has already lost, why don't you let go?" Tang An repeated again.

  However, the disciples of Jun Tian Jiao refused to give in without their master's orders.

  They are afraid of death. Everyone is afraid of death. But they know that giving up now and going back to wait for their own will be more painful, more unbearable than death itself.

  Jun Tian's rules are enforced by the Right Envoy. The Right Envoy is as fierce as a raging fire, with eyes that shine like torches. Under his rule, no one has ever been shown mercy! At the mere thought of the Right Envoy's methods, even those who fear death dare not retreat a single step.

  In front of the Tang Mansion, several hundred disciples of the Tian Jiao sect were now drenched in cold sweat, their hands gripping their knives so tightly that they had begun to slip. Yet, they did not dare retreat.

  They didn't retreat, but looking at Tang An's expression was fearful. "In the Jun Tian Sect, except for the sect master and the left and right messengers of Jun Tian, the eldest young master has the highest martial arts! The eldest young master has been cultivating bitterly for ten years without leaving his seclusion, and his abilities have become even more profound than they were ten years ago. The left messenger once said that under the heavens, except for a few great masters, the eldest young master's martial arts are the strongest. Even Nian Wu Shuang, who was touted by the imperial court as invincible, would absolutely not be able to withstand three rounds in the eldest young master's hands."

  But Wuji is already dead! Just now, he was defeated by Tang An!

  Thinking of this, the disciples of Jun Tian Jiao have already begun to tremble.

  "We will all die, today many people will die... The blood has already stained Lin'an red."

  Tang An walked slowly, and when he reached a place ten zhang away from the Tang Mansion's main gate, he lifted his head, but suddenly stopped in his tracks. Behind many of the Quan Tian Sect disciples, he saw a familiar figure.

  It's Yue Yi!

  Although Yue Yi's appearance still looked like before, very elegant. The jade hairpin on his head also seemed to be the same style as the iron eagle many years ago. But his appearance had clearly aged a lot. Even his hair was already white, and his face was already wrinkled, with deep eye sockets!

  Tang An was taken aback, and the impression in his mind began to slowly overlap with the person in front of him. Suddenly, he burst out laughing, this laughter was mournful and bitter, but it seemed more like he was ridiculing Yue Yi.

  Le Yi also saw Tang An looking at him.

  Their eyes crossed in mid-air, and at this moment, Tang An suddenly drew his sword.

  The sword energy only made one swing, "brush" a sound, and the Tianxian Sect disciples in front of Yue Yi were all cut in half by this sword.

  But when the sword energy reached Lü Yi's body, it completely disappeared.

  Tang An controlled it just right!

  Those disciples fell to the ground, blood splashing everywhere, instantly dyeing the road in front of Tang An and Le Yi a deep red.

  Lü Yi watched all this, his face turned pale and white, his throat moved, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.

  Tang An took a step forward, seeing the expression on Le Yi's face, with a hint of mockery at the corner of his mouth. He said, "Should I call you uncle or Master Le now?" Tang An's face was smiling, but it didn't seem like a smile because his voice was so cold.

  Everyone who heard it felt a chill in their hearts!

  No one answered, the scene was quiet, with only the sound of rainwater rushing and the occasional rumble of thunder. The sky had already darkened, with thick clouds covering the ground, growing denser by the minute, and the rain grew heavier accordingly.

  Heavy rain!

  In silence...

  Tang An suddenly let out a loud roar, his toes tapped the ground, and his figure flashed, transforming into an illusion that instantly appeared in front of Yue Yi.

  His sword had already pressed against Yue Yi's throat.

  "Rumble!"

  A massive lightning bolt flashed across the sky, as if it was going to tear the heavens apart.

  This lightning is really too bright, and Tang An's face turned pale with a hint of green!

  Tang An's eyes blazed with fury, his sword tip pressed against Le Yi's throat. With just one move of his hand, Le Yi would undoubtedly be dead!

  Tang An's eyes stared unblinkingly at Le Yi, gritting his teeth, word by word: "Jun Tian Jiao? Tie Ying Tang? Le Yi?"

  As soon as Tang An's hand moves slightly, Yue Yi's neck will be pierced immediately, and no one in the world can save him. And here, Tang An's sword is pointing at him, and no one dares to move.

  The heavy rain is still continuing...

  Tang An looked at Le Yi's appearance, suddenly shook his head and said expressionlessly: "Qun Tian Jiao, is it that impressive?" Tang An said, turning around to glance at the Qun Tian Jiao disciples surrounding him with swords drawn but shrinking back, sneering.

  Those disciples didn't even dare to move.

  Le Yi looked at Tang An, and Tang An's appearance was really different from his childhood. However, if he looked closely, Le Yi felt that Tang An's appearance was extremely similar to his sister. Especially the side profile, it was almost identical.

  Le Yi looked at him, suddenly bursting out laughing. "You've grown up and become famous, the first thing you do is prepare to go back home to fetch your parents, great! But, you're too impatient! You have no idea how big the Jun Tian Sect is, or how strong the sect leader and left emissary are! You're too reckless! Do you know or not, with your rashness, one careless move will put your parents in danger!" Le Yi's tone had turned to scolding Tang An by the end.

  Tang An also burst out laughing: "Haha…… If I hadn't come, how would I have known how powerful the Quan Tian Sect is, how formidable Ming Ru Valley is, and how dangerous my parents' situation is? In this world, apart from myself, who do you think would tell me all of this?"

  "Even one's own closest kin will betray oneself, won't they? My uncle!"

  Le Yi shook his head helplessly, but he raised it and said: "You're right. You've grown up now, and in the future, I believe you'll also have the ability to protect everything that belongs to you. I don't have anything else to say. What happened back then was my fault towards your family. If I had let your family escape, perhaps you could have escaped too..." Le Yi finished speaking, closed his eyes, and prepared to die. But he suddenly discovered that the coldness on his neck had disappeared.

  Le Yi opened his eyes and stared blankly at Tang An, filled with confusion. Because, Tang An had put down his sword.

  Just then, Tang An's sword flashed once in his hand, and everyone only saw a cold light... too fast, can't see clearly!

  "Pffft!"

  In an instant, a crisp sound, a blood arrow flew out, and Le Yi's right hand suddenly left his body, flying up...

  "Maybe we can escape as a family. But I'm not stupid, of course I know that we have a greater possibility of dying without a burial..."

  "I've already sent someone to investigate what happened back then. You didn't do anything wrong, so I won't kill you."

  However, Tang An's tone suddenly became fierce, his forehead also bulged with blue veins, and he was excited: "But you made me hate you for ten years! Do you know how I spent these ten years?"

  "There is no hatred towards you, no hatred towards the Tianxian sect, and no hatred towards Shushan. Do you think I could have survived until now?"

  "Sometimes I always feel, am I crazy? However, you are still alive, how can I be crazy? I must avenge! If I don't avenge, what's the point of me being alive?"

  "I know that my parents are still alive today in the Quan Tian Sect, mostly thanks to your secret protection. This is my second reason for not killing you. However, this is far from enough for me to forgive you! Today, I will cut off one of your arms, and our ten years of grudges will be settled once and for all."

  "If you're not convinced in your heart, just say a word and I, Tang An, will give you an arm!"

  Tang An finished speaking, and with a flash of his sword, he fixed his piercing gaze on Yue Yi!

  Leyi's face was somewhat pale, and his severed arm was still bleeding.

  "Bang..."

  Le Yi suddenly felt a wave of dizziness and couldn't hold on, so he sat down on the ground.

  His face was pale, but he was smiling. "No need to. I've lived too hard for the past ten years, this arm is what I owe you..." As he spoke, Yue Yi fainted from excessive blood loss.

  Tang An looked at Yue Yi, but suddenly burst out laughing: "He says it's he who owes me! He who owes me! But he doesn't know anything!"

  "He has no idea how I've spent the last ten years! Do you know?"

  Tang An turned around, surrounded by several hundred Tian Jiao disciples who were staring at his every move.

  At this moment, those disciples of the Quan Tian Sect suddenly felt that their true energy had solidified throughout their bodies and could not flow freely. Even their hands and feet couldn't move at all! It was as if they were frozen in place!

  They saw only flashes of black sword light in the air...

  "Pffft!" "Pffft!" "Pffft!"...

  Continuous sword light, one after another, like a spider web, shuttled back and forth among the disciples of Jun Tian Sect.

  A figure emerged from the crowd, and Tang An suddenly flashed out of the crowd. The black jade sword in his hand was dripping with blood, but the black body of the sword became more lustrous, as if it had been nourished.

  "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

  More than 400 corpses, just fell down on the street outside the Tang Mansion...

  Blood has stained the entire ground red.

  Black and red, thick and sticky, with a pungent smell that hits your nose!

  Tang An's heart moved slightly, and instantly, the Black Jade Sword was withdrawn into his body.

  "They dare to block my way home, they deserve to be killed!"

  Looking at the disciples of the Jun Tian Sect who were originally going to fight a fierce battle with themselves, they all fell to the ground and became corpses. The officers and men of the Tiger Leopard Army were deeply moved. But they only shocked for a while, and then they all shouted loudly.

  Someone shouted: "Hou Ye is mighty, the swordsmanship is the best in the world!" The other Tiger and Leopard Army soldiers also roared loudly: "The best in the world! The best in the world! The best in the world!" Accompanied by the rumbling sound of horse hooves, this shout was heard far, far away... Even the people of Lin'an City in the south heard it.

  Tang An's face wore a faint smile, "The number one under heaven? Heh heh..."

  There are only two kinds of people who would call themselves "the best in the world". One is an ignorant person, and the other is a madman.

  Unfortunately, neither of them is Tang An.

  He glanced at the huge plaque in front of him, which read "Tang Fu" in two characters.

  He stretched out his hand and the rainwater suddenly poured down, dripping onto his hand.

  He was washing his hands with rainwater as if no one was around. He washed them clean, and the skin on his fingers wrinkled up.

  It wasn't until much later that he brought his hand to his nose, sniffed it, and found that there was no longer any smell on his hand. Of course, the bloody smell was gone! Only then did he take out the silk handkerchief from his bosom and gently wipe it clean.

  Then he walked to the door with big strides, adjusted his clothes and made himself neat. Next, he began to tie up the scattered hair again and put on the jade crown. Wearing a purple robe and a jade crown, with a face as bright as stars and moons, he was indeed a handsome young man!

  Then he started knocking on the door.

  "Dad, Mom, are you there? Your son is back..."