My Cultivation Starting from Archery

His tone and voice sounded no different from before.

Yet Ning Changqun felt an inexplicable pressure.

"Slander! Supervisor, Fang Qingyun is slandering me!"

He shouted to his family members, "Tell everyone, have I ever placed you under house arrest? Speak up!"

"Wuu wuu wuu..."

"No, General Ning has never threatened us!"

The crowd kept crying, adamantly denying, clearly not daring to provoke the other party.

"Supervisor, I haven't lied, right?"

Ning Changqun said, "These brothers' wives would never say a bad word about me! I definitely haven't caused turmoil within Selected Point!"

"As for those under my command, it is indeed true that I did not supervise them well. Am I not willing to accept punishment? Confinement, military caning, I'll take it!"

He looked at the scene before him.

Knowing that the trap they had painstakingly prepared for so long had probably been discovered earlier.

Otherwise, how could they have gathered all the family members in such a short time?

"What do the two of you think should be done?"

Sun Xiangzong looked toward the two beside him, waiting for a response.

"Supervisor!"

Governor Liu hastened to say, "This matter is no small issue, and those family members haven't identified anyone either. We can interrogate them in detail after going back; there's no need to rush to conclusions."

"That's right, Sun Dushi."

Mr. Hou stood up and said, "There's no need to be hasty; we can deal with this matter privately and slowly."

Although it was completely unexpected that Sun had been prepared, they could still win!
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Even if everything about today's incident were exposed, it wouldn't matter.

So what if everyone knew Ning Changqun was the mastermind behind it all?

Keep the matter quiet.

At most, they would have to reassign Ning Changqun elsewhere.

Let the matter fade away, still able to undermine Sun Xiangzong's authority, proving that he could no longer ensure the clear distinction of rewards and punishments. What else could he manage in terms of military control?

"You both said it, in front of so many people, that today a resolution must be reached. How can you have second thoughts now?"

Sun Xiangzong stated indifferently, "Execute him."

Not only Ning Changqun himself, but even the others were shocked.

The matter hadn't been fully verified!

And they were going to execute someone?

This was no ordinary person; this was the Martial Arts Top Scholar, the Martial Saint!

The order given, Meng Guangxin, Old Two, Old Qi, and a few generals eagerly gathered around; they had been unable to bear it any longer and were finally seeing their moment come.

"You can't kill him!"

Governor Liu's attitude became firm, "Supervisor Sun, lacking proper supervision at most warrants demotion; how can you demand his life directly!"

"Exactly."

With the situation as it was, Mr. Hou similarly spoke, his voice carrying a threat, "Mr. Sun, General Ning isn't someone you can just decide to execute on a whim!"

However,

No matter what they said.

The three main generals who received the order didn't stop in their tracks, even gripping their weapons in hand already.

In the distance.

There was the figure of another Martial Saint, Ji Lu, silently appearing with a Heavenly Halberd in hand.

Governor Liu and Mr. Hou realized.

This was real...

They were going to kill him!

Ridiculous!

How many years, how many resources, does it take for the court to nurture a Martial Saint?

Not to mention a loyal, obedient Martial Saint!

"Supervisor Sun, you've gone mad!"

Governor Liu accused, "You kill people indiscriminately without any evidence; are you not afraid that the Emperor will find out? This is the Main General dispatched by the Imperial Army!"

"Sun Xiangzong!"

Ning Changqun brazenly tore off the pretense, "Without sufficient evidence, you really have the guts to kill me? Do you know who I am?

"I am the Martial Arts Top Scholar personally appointed by the Emperor in the forty-second year of Longqing!

"I am one of the few Martial Saints in the world!

"What gives you the right to kill me!"

"Martial Saint?"

Sun Xiangzong's finger tapping on the armrest abruptly stopped.

In front of the tens of thousands, the old man couldn't help but laugh, causing everyone to be taken aback, somewhat at a loss.

Until the laughter came to an abrupt end.

"Top Scholar, what is that worth?"

When Sun Xiangzong spoke again, he no longer sounded like a common old man from the neighborhood; each word he uttered was laden with nearly a century of bloodshed, each word carried the commanding authority of one who had led numerous soldiers and looked down upon the world.

The tens of thousands present found themselves simultaneously struggling to breathe!

"And what is a Martial Saint worth?"

"..."

Ning Changqun swallowed his saliva repeatedly to relieve the pressure in his heart.

They all knew that Sun Xiangzong was not long for this world, but even so, this man on his deathbed had left him, a Human Martial Saint, with a mind completely blank!

"Bluffing!"

"Sun Xiangzong!"

After extreme fear came the urge for self-preservation, mustering all his strength.

Ning Changqun grasped the Mountain-opening Axe, "If I remember correctly, it has been over a decade since you have personally made a move, right? It was alright for you to look down on Martial Saints in the past, but now!

"Can you, truly still defeat a Martial Saint? Or should I say, are you even qualified to be a Martial Saint?!"

Yes.

In everyone's memory.

The last time Sun Xiangzong took action was fifteen years ago.

Over these fifteen years.

He had never shown his hand in front of others again.

All anyone knew was that he was aging more and more, like a candle in the wind.

"Boom——"

Ning Changqun's aura soared, and a terrifying force almost materializing around his body, the bodies of the soldiers who had committed suicide at his feet were pulverized under this power!

Martial Saint!

"I want to see how much strength you have left!"

Meng Guangxin, Old Two, Old Qi, and others were not Martial Saints but just at the Profound Image Realm, and they were all repelled dozens of feet away by this force emanating from the Martial Saint.

And the eldest disciple holding the Heavenly Halberd was still on his way here.

Ning Changqun arrived in front of Sun Xiangzong in an instant, and the Mountain-opening Giant Axe in his hand cleaved down like a Heavenly God, shattering the stone platform, countless Armored Soldiers were sent flying, Governor Liu and Mr. Hou rapidly retreated to escape the place, as if the power to split heaven and earth would halve the entire military camp, would split Liangzhou City in two.

A hundred meters around were engulfed by the Gale, everyone's ears rang incessantly, their insides felt as if they could be smashed at any moment, and most were too late even to think of fleeing!

Until the old man in coarse hemp clothing had, at some point, produced a silver dragon in his hand.

Then, the trees settled, and the wind ceased, and all returned to calm.

No one saw clearly what had happened.

They only knew that the entire body of Martial Saint Ning Changqun was gone, surely devoured completely by that silver dragon, with only several segments of limbs mixed with flesh falling like rain, yet blocked by an invisible barrier around the old man's body, his coarse hemp clothing remained unstained, amidst the flying blood and flesh, he appeared like an Immortal who had descended from the heavens, majestic and impeccable!

At that moment.

Tens of thousands simultaneously recalled what the name Sun Xiangzong meant, remembered Supervisor Sun who had once single-handedly broken over two thousand armors, remembered the Minister of War who died in the Imperial Palace, right under the Emperor's watch in the fifty-seventh year of Longqing.

That Minister was also a Martial Saint!

That's right.

He had grown old.

But he was still alive.

As long as he lived for another moment.

He would always be that figure who struck awe across the world, that figure who for forty years made countless barbarians tremble and not dare to encroach on the border, the peerless Gun Saint of the human realm, Sun Xiangzong.