I Can Deduce Arts by Slaying Demons-Chapter 37: Qingyun County Magistrate Ye Qingshan! Profound Bird Guard!

Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Qingyun County Magistrate Ye Qingshan! Profound Bird Guard!

"Ah!"

The Second Chief lay on the ground, feeling the sharp pain on his face, with blood and tears mingling on his face, slowly dripping onto the ground.

Feeling this force far beyond the Refining Flesh Realm, how could the Second Chief not understand that the other party was deceiving him all along?

"Junior Brother, quickly catch him, he’s seen through our identities!"

"We’ll capture him..."

As the Second Chief was about to finish his last sentence, he suddenly fell silent.

Because he saw his Junior Brother being stepped into the ground with one foot by the opponent.

The Third Chief’s head was forcibly embedded into the hard ground, with a large amount of bright red blood remaining around.

The Second Chief’s body began to tremble instinctively, as he looked at the figure before him with fear, speaking incoherently.

"You, you, you..."

"Are you a man or a ghost?"

His Junior Brother, a Martial Artist at the Bone Refining Realm, was killed just like that, crushed to death by a single footstep from the opponent.

Seeing the opponent walking towards him, the Second Chief hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Don’t kill me. If you kill me, my master won’t let you go. My master is the Stronghold Leader of Black Wind Stronghold, a strong practitioner of the Blood Refining Realm."

"My master is in the Junling Mountain Range..."

The Second Chief, afraid that Lu Xuan wouldn’t believe him, even revealed his master’s exact location, trying to threaten Lu Xuan.

In the next moment, the Second Chief’s head exploded instantly, with red and white matter scattered everywhere.

Lu Xuan secretly noted down the location of their master, and his eyes looked indifferently at the distant horizon, lost in thought.

Meanwhile, Liang Cheng stood dumbfounded, unable to calm down for a long time.

......

County Office!

In the back hall of the County Office is a heavily guarded, tranquil, and elegant enclosed courtyard.

This is the office of the Lord County Magistrate, the parent official of Qingyun County.

At this moment, a hurried figure appeared outside the courtyard gate, and after being confirmed by several government officials stationed at the entrance, was allowed to enter directly.

Because the visitor was the Chief Constable of the County Office, Chen Shi!

Chen Shi strode quickly into the courtyard, seeming very familiar with the place.

He walked straight into an ordinary-looking room where the air was filled with the scent of books and the decor was simple and elegant.

However, Chen Shi paid no mind to these things; his weathered face carried an air of seriousness as he raised his head to look at a certain place.

There sat a broad wooden desk intricately carved with various fine patterns.

Various books were neatly arranged on the desk, and in front of the desk sat a middle-aged man at that moment.

The middle-aged man exuded a gentle and scholarly aura, seeming very amiable.

And he was the most powerful person in the entire Qingyun County.

The County Magistrate! Ye Qingshan!

Chen Shi respectfully cupped his hands in greeting toward Ye Qingshan.

"Lord, subordinates received news that the Lord County Chancellor came out from retreat yesterday."

Ye Qingshan put down the book he was perusing, his face calm and spoke gently, "Old Chen, go ahead."

"However, the County Chancellor doesn’t seem to be doing anything, instead, he stays at home as if he doesn’t care about Huang Xuanjie’s death at all."

After Chen Shi finished speaking, a hint of surprise appeared on Ye Qingshan’s calm face, as if he was a bit surprised by what Chen Shi said.

"Forget it, don’t bother with him."

Ye Qingshan changed the topic, saying to Chen Shi, "Old Chen, the reason I’ve asked you here is about what you mentioned last time."

"People from the Prefecture are coming, and if nothing unexpected happens, they will arrive in Qingyun County today. Old Chen, please go to the city gate to greet them on behalf of the county."

Ye Qingshan was talking about the incident last time when he had Chen Shi take the county’s troops to the Junling Mountain Range to exterminate the mountain bandits.

Unexpectedly, among those bandits, there appeared an unexpected martial arts expert who defeated Chen Shi.

The appearance of that person and his formidable strength shocked Chen Shi, who then realized the person’s identity.

The Leader of Black Wind Stronghold! Fang Sheng!

Having worked as a government official for most of his life, Chen Shi immediately could tell the person’s identity, the long-wanted, reward-posted Black Wind Stronghold Leader by the Prefecture.

The infamous Black Wind Stronghold in those days, where the Leader Fang Sheng was a Blood Refining Realm martial artist with formidable strength that made others dread him.

Upon learning the person’s identity, Chen Shi was terrified and withdrew with the county’s troops immediately.

Even if the person was injured, he was not someone Chen Shi could contend with.

Hearing this, Chen Shi was overjoyed and quickly asked, "Lord, who are the people coming from the Prefecture?"

The ones dispatched by the Prefecture to deal with Black Wind Stronghold Leader Fang Sheng were certainly not ordinary people.

"No, Old Chen, you’re mistaken. These people weren’t sent by the Lord Prefect; it’s that the Lord Prefect communicated this to the Great Xia Xuan Bird Guards."

Upon hearing the name of those people from Ye Qingshan, Chen Shi couldn’t help but exclaim in shock, "Xuan Bird Guards!"

The Great Xia Xuan Bird Guards are a subordinate organization under the current Emperor, wielding power and authority, with the right to execute first and report later!

Chen Shi had heard of the fame of the Xuan Bird Guards.

It’s said that each Xuan Bird Guard is selected from martial arts geniuses across the region, trained with utmost effort to eliminate anything that threatens the foundation of the dynasty for the current Emperor.

"Yes, indeed, the people coming this time are the Great Xia Xuan Bird Guards!"

"That Black Wind Stronghold Leader has been hunted by the Xuan Bird Guards for years;

But later, the Black Wind Stronghold Leader used some method to escape from the Xuan Bird Guards and then remained missing."

"Now it seems that the Black Wind Stronghold Leader has been hiding in the deep woods, no wonder he has survived the Xuan Bird Guards’ pursuit until now."

After knowing who the arriving people were from Ye Qingshan, Chen Shi planned to go to the city gate and wait, "Lord, since it’s the Xuan Bird Guards who came, I shall go to the city gate to await them."

"Hmm!"

Ye Qingshan just nodded to indicate that Chen Shi could leave, when suddenly, a graceful figure appeared at the door and then came in.

The visitor was a young and beautiful woman wearing a plain white long dress adorned with many floral patterns and with flowing long hair like a waterfall.

After she came in, she spoke directly, "Dad, Mr. Chen, I want to go too!"

"Just so happens, the leader of the Xuan Bird Guards who came to Qingyun County this time is Sister Yanran."

The visitor was Ye Xuan, the daughter of the Qingyun County Magistrate, Ye Qingshan.

If Lu Xuan were here, he would roughly recognize this woman’s identity as well.

This was the woman Lu Xuan encountered at the Drunken Immortal Inn in Shili Town, who wore a white cloth veil over her face.

Upon seeing the visitor, a hint of a smile finally appeared on the face of the always-serious Chen Shi.

"Oh, so it’s Xuan’Er, you’ve just returned to the county after a long journey, why not rest for a few more days?

There’s no need for you to wait at the city gate, Mr. Chen can handle that."

As it turned out, Ye Xuan was also a member of the Xuan Bird Guards. She had returned from the Prefecture to the county to see her long-unseen father, Ye Qingshan.

However, to her surprise, upon returning to the county, she learned that the Black Wind Stronghold Leader Fang Sheng was hiding outside of Qingyun County.

After the Great Xia Xuan Bird Guards received the information from the Prefecture, they also sent people to Qingyun County to capture and execute the long-escaped Black Wind Stronghold Leader Fang Sheng!

Leading the Xuan Bird Guards was Ye Xuan’s superior, a Yellow-level Xuan Bird Guard, Li Yanran!

The rankings of Xuan Bird Guards are Heaven, Earth, Profound, Yellow, and Human!

Human-level Xuan Bird Guards are martial artists at the Bone Marrow Refining Realm and above.

Yellow-level Xuan Bird Guards are martial artists at the Blood Refining Realm and above.

Profound-level Xuan Bird Guards are martial artists at the Inner Qi Realm and above.

As for the Earth-level and Heaven-level Xuan Bird Guards, Ye Xuan is not quite sure.

All Ye Xuan knew was that there was only one Profound-level Xuan Bird Guard in the vast Prefecture, commanding all the Xuan Bird Guards there.

As for Ye Xuan, she was recommended to join the Xuan Bird Guards by her father Ye Qingshan last year and was an ordinary member of the Xuan Bird Guard.

Ye Xuan, who was not yet eighteen, was already a martial artist at the stage of Meat Refining Realm Perfection, with extraordinary martial arts talent.

Even among the Xuan Bird Guards in the Prefecture, she was considered a notable martial arts genius.

"Well then, Xuan’Er, you can go to the city gate with your Uncle Chen to wait."

Seeing his daughter’s adamant demeanor, Ye Qingshan had no choice but to let her be.