High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 121 - 101: Severed Strings and Thunder—A Good Tune Makes a Good Start (Three-in-One)

Chapter 121: Chapter 101: Severed Strings and Thunder—A Good Tune Makes a Good Start (Three-in-One)

Fan Hailong’s pupils shrunk, startled within.

No attendant announced the person outside, nor did the visitor reveal their identity, making them undoubtedly an uninvited intruder.

Someone daring to break into the Governor’s Mansion at this moment must surely not have good intentions!

With a flash of lightning through the rain clouds, he clearly saw the person’s appearance, and his expression changed immediately.

This person... Fan Hailong recognized!

He was very familiar with this face.

Because in the past few days, he must have looked at this person’s portrait dozens of times!

Ranked thirty-third on the Canglang list, wanted by the Martial Saint Pavilion, having killed General Fei Feng Li Hongling and Three Tribulations Sect Young Master Wei Su, and raided Lady Liang and her daughter from the Celestial Prison—

Chen Kuang.

With so many titles attached, this person’s fame among cultivators has gradually fermented.

Especially since the Canglang rankings made a special issue for him outside the usual update time, just to insert Chen Kuang’s name into the list, most people who got the news would subconsciously be shocked.

Because the last time the Canglang rankings made such a move was when Shen Xingzhu emerged...

Could it be that this person can rival Shen Xingzhu?

But this bold guess was ultimately fleeting, and dismissed with a smile.

How is it possible?

Shen Xingzhu is a "beacon."

Can’t be compared to just any random person that pops up!

Moreover, this person is already wanted by the Martial Saint Pavilion, has enmity with the Three Tribulations Sect, and is being hunted by the Liang Kingdom. Surrounded by enemies from all sides, it seems like a certain death situation.

After all, just a transient topic of conversation.

Such a genius comes along every few years.

And then?

They don’t make much of a splash, after a while, they disappear, mostly due to youthful bravado and making enemies.

The most common saying among loose cultivators is that if Shen Xingzhu wasn’t born into the Shen Family, with a master like the Half-Saint Earth Spirit Daoist Monarch, she wouldn’t be Shen Xingzhu.

The implication being that even with a talent like Shen Xingzhu’s, without a strong enough backing, would fall halfway.

Though somewhat cynical, it aptly reflects the current situation.

In most people’s eyes, Chen Kuang is the same, or even the typical example.

As soon as he becomes famous, he draws the pursuit of three major forces. Ask how long can he survive?

No matter how powerful, he’s ultimately alone, and not that highly cultivated. How could he escape danger a second time?

Fan Hailong naturally thinks so too.

Especially when the obese Governor suddenly tells Fan Hailong he received news that Chen Kuang is at the South Pier’s Chen Family, Fan Hailong knows that person’s luck has run out.

Once the Martial Saint Pavilion acts, it’s bound to be with thunderous means!

This person has no escape!

As for the source of the Governor’s information, although Fan Hailong intuitively feels something’s amiss, given the Martial Saint Pavilion has sent people over, then no matter how strange, it’s just trivial tricks, harmless.

Fan Hailong already surmises that the mysterious expert who attacked his son that day should be Chen Kuang.

After all, within Jishao County, there are few cultivators skilled in sound-based attacks.

And those who dare to attack Cao Bang are even fewer.

But if like Chen Kuang, a desperado, it makes sense.

Fan Hailong feels Chen Kuang’s intentions are clear; his active assault could only be meant to provoke him, hoping he’d impulsively act, and gamble whether he could bypass the Martial Saint Pavilion and only deal with Cao Bang.

Since the waterways are controlled by Cao Bang, the fastest way out of the Liang Kingdom is by water.

Travelling via water can’t evade Cao Bang.

Being passively beaten is naturally not as good as actively attacking, solving this obstacle.

Moreover, Chen Family and this Chen Kuang are certainly connected, he must protect Chen Family, thus becoming enemies with Cao Bang.

Chen Kuang intends to kill two birds with one stone here.

He almost succeeded.

But the cowardly Governor revealed Chen Kuang’s identity and directly notified the Martial Saint Pavilion, successfully preventing Fan Hailong.

But such actions leave Fan Hailong somewhat dissatisfied, after all, the Martial Saint Pavilion had already lost a member in Jishao County, upon conclusion, they’ll surely continue placing their personnel here.

Now that three imposing figures have arrived, sending them away later won’t be easy.

Cao Bang’s dreams of monopoly fearfully may again be dashed...

More unexpectedly, is the sheer domineering nature of the Martial Saint Pavilion’s people... merely upon a look from the Governor, they killed him on the spot.

Letting Fan Hailong’s heart jolt.

Without that Governor, the promises made during cooperation naturally don’t count.

Whether the Civilization Official acknowledges, is a big question.

While the Civilization Official waits to reap benefits, standing in the corridor, thoughts heavy, feeling he might be the sacrificial donkey when the mill’s done...

This obese Governor sure is unreliable!

Just moments ago, Fan Hailong was silently cursing the Governor’s pig-headedness for acting without considering consequences.

In his mind, Chen Kuang was already a dead man.

The only concern was whether the Martial Saint Pavilion would further divide Jishao County afterwards.

Therefore, at this moment, upon seeing the face identical to the wanted poster, the horror in Fan Hailong’s heart was like seeing a ghost.