“How did they die?” Zhuxie Chixin asked, shocked. His first thought wasn’t Zu An, whom he knew was only around the seventh rank at most. Even though this fellow always seemed to manage to display strength greater than his cultivation, there was still a limit to that.

These three were all cultivators at the peak of the seventh rank, and their skills had been tempered on the battlefield, so their true strength was top-notch. They were definitely not warriors anyone could randomly skip ranks to defeat.

Zu An said without batting an eye, “I killed them.” There was no way he could talk about Yun Yuqing, so he could only step up.

“You killed them?” Zhuxie Chixin exclaimed, even more shocked. He scrutinized Zu An and asked, “How did you do it?”

Zu An replied, “They continued to pursue me, so I used the surroundings to break them up. Then, I defeated them one by one.”

He remembered the story of how ancestor Blood Blade had faced off against four enemies who were on par with him and came out on top, so he revised the story a bit and fed it back to Zhuxie Chixin.

Zhuxie Chixin stared at him, stupefied. There weren’t many people who possessed real strength like this. This kid was quite outstanding. When he saw the bloody holes in those corpses, he thought that they had been attacked by tremendous power. It looked like Zu An still had many trump cards in his sleeves! He didn’t ask Zu An about his exact abilities, as that was a taboo subject between cultivators. No one was willing to expose their ultimate moves for no reason.

Zhuxie Chixin laughed out loud. “This is a great achievement! Let’s go; follow me to his majesty!”

Zu An nodded. The case this time involved the Shi clan, so it wasn’t something Zhuxie Chixin could decide on alone.

...

The two quickly arrived at the study. Zhuxie Chixin respectfully reported the information to the emperor, while Zu An used this chance to examine the emperor.

After all, Jia Sili’s illusion was the first time he had faced off against the emperor, and he had even defeated him then. Even though that was only the emperor in his subconscious,...