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Chapter 632
The next day, the great hall of the Bai Mansion felt too quiet.Alex lounged in the high-backed chair at the head of the room, one leg crossed over the other, fingers drumming lazily on the carved armrest. Sunlight poured through the open doors and painted long golden stripes across the polished floor.He had ordered the servants to leave the heavy wooden gates wide open. Let them come. He wanted to watch every greedy face twist when they handed back twice the gold they had stolen yesterday. A simple lesson: you don’t con the City Lord and walk away smiling.Zhuge Liang stood at his right shoulder.Hours crawled by. No line of merchants appeared. No clink of returning coins.Instead, a low rumble rolled up the street—hundreds of boots, mixed with the sharper ring of steel. Then the shouting started.“Lord Bai must answer for his tyranny!”“Open the gates! The people demand justice!”Alex’s eyebrow lifted. He rose slowly and stepped onto the wide balcony overlooking the courtyard. Belo
Chapter 631
That night, Qingshui City lit up like a festival nobody had planned.Every tavern, every pleasure house, and every merchant’s private courtyard rang with laughter and clinking cups. The same men and women who had watched a mercenary get sliced in half that morning now toasted Lord Bai as if he were the greatest fool alive.Gold from the City Lord’s own treasury weighed down their tables, and they spent it like water.In the Golden Lotus Restaurant, a fat silk merchant slammed his cup down and roared with laughter. “Triple! The man paid us triple! City Lord Bai Xaichun—still the same drunken idiot he was before Wudang. Remember how he used to stagger in here, gambling away everything and chasing skirts? Nothing’s changed!”His friends howled. A woman in faded rouge leaned across the table, eyes sparkling with wine and greed. “He slept with half the city for free back then. Now he’s handing out gold like it grows on trees. We should have asked for ten times!”Word spread faster than spi
Chapter 630
The crowd froze, a hundred faces locked in horror. Blood pooled across the stones, dark and spreading, the metallic stink thick enough to taste.The big mercenary’s halves lay there like discarded meat—upper body face-down in its own mess, lower half still twitching. No one breathed. No one dared move.Then the screaming started.A woman dropped to her knees, hands clamped over her mouth. Merchants who had swaggered forward moments earlier stumbled backward, shoulders bumping, eyes wide with animal fear.The bamboo rod in Alex’s hand looked almost harmless again—slender, innocent wood—but every soul in the courtyard now knew better.Alex lowered it slowly, voice calm as morning mist. “One hit. That’s all it took. Anyone else want to test the other nine?”Silence crashed down harder than the roar of protest ever had.A thin merchant near the front—silk robes trembling—dropped his debt paper like it burned his fingers. “I… I’ll take the band-aid,” he stammered. “Please. That thing. It d
Chapter 629
In the quiet hush of the Bai Mansion, morning light spilled across the polished wooden floors of the great hall. Alex sat in a high-backed chair, Lord Bai in every sense—ruler, protector, architect of a new order. Across from him, Zhuge Liang leaned forward, his scholar’s robes draped neatly, eyes sharp with the weight of centuries of strategy.“Lord Bai,” Zhuge Liang said, “are you certain you want to hand out a single Wudang strengthening pill to every person who accepts the band-aid Gaia? These pills are ruinously expensive. One dose could feed an entire family for a month.”Alex frowned, the lines deepening between his brows. “They’re my people. What’s wrong with giving my own the very best? Even a farmer feeds his pigs the finest grain if he wants them strong.”Zhuge Liang fell silent for a moment, studying him. “Then… are you planning to butcher them later?”“Hell no,” Alex answered, a low laugh escaping despite the seriousness in his eyes. “But we need their strength. We’re goi
Chapter 628
Alex stepped through the Wudang’s gates and lifted into the air, the wind whipping past him as he flew toward Qingshui City.Moments later the familiar rooftops of the Bai family estate came into view, sprawling across the hillside like a fortress carved from white stone and ancient timber.The moment his boots touched the flagstones of the inner courtyard, every servant and guard froze. Faces turned, eyes wide with shock. Then, almost as one, the nearest attendants dropped into deep bows.“Welcome back, City Lord,” they murmured.Alex raised a hand, cutting the chorus short. “Send someone for Zhuge Liang. Now.”“Yes, City Lord.” One guard straightened, already moving. He sprinted for the outer gate without another word.Alex stood in the sudden quiet, the sun warm on his shoulders.Soft footsteps sounded behind him. Bai Yuhan emerged from the main hall, her silk robes whispering against the stone. She stopped a respectful distance away, hands folded.“Big Brother,” she said, voice br
Chapter 627
Li Qingxue’s hand rested lightly on his arm, steadying him as they drifted downward. She guided him through the humming sea of green until they hovered just above a cluster of seven-colored spirit orchids.Their petals shimmered like living jewels, pulsing with dense medicinal qi. The old master reached out with trembling fingers and plucked one ripe fruit from a low branch. It was warm, heavy, and perfect—its skin velvety beneath his callused palm.Real. It was all real.He had once heard from his master that whenever this fruit appeared in the world, Murim warriors would slaughter one another just to claim it. Hundreds had died for a single fruit, as it could boost one’s cultivation by fifty years.Yet now, with all these fruits lying before him, no one was fighting for them.Truly, times had changed.He closed his eyes for a long moment, then slipped it into his robe like a sacred relic. “Lead on, Qingxue,” he said, voice rough with emotion. “Show me the rest of the Peaks. Every si
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