Officer Yuan widened his eyes.
The slash from the Red Lotus Sect Young Master was too fast; he couldn't dodge it.
"Clang!"
But at that moment, the slash that should have followed through towards his head suddenly veered off, striking the iron bars instead.
"Damn you!"
Officer Yuan was startled, unprepared for such an occurrence.
By reflex.
He executed a Triple Slash, forcing several Red Lotus Sect rebels back, and slashed once more at the Red Lotus Sect Young Master.
"Clang!"
The Red Lotus Sect Young Master raised his blade to block, driven back by Officer Yuan's powerful strike from the passageway entrance to the prison cell door.
"Get lost!"
He was unwilling to accept this.
Once again, he slashed with full strength.
Officer Yuan was unable to defend against it.
He felt numbing pain in his hands, his feet sliding backward, nearly falling to the ground.
The Red Lotus Sect rebels behind him seized the opportunity, hacking at him; in desperation, he swung back thrice, pushing those people away again. But before he could catch his breath, the hairs on his back stood up as he sensed a blade light flashing towards his neck.
The Red Lotus Sect Young Master struck again.
Officer Yuan internally exclaimed that this was bad.
In a panic, he turned to block the cut horizontally with his blade.
He had assumed that even if he could block the blow, his long knife would still fly from his hand, and he would end up wounded.
"Clang!"
To his surprise, the slash from the Red Lotus Sect Young Master felt like it had exhausted its force; Officer Yuan's long knife did not fly from his grasp, and his body only shook slightly.
Reflexively, he executed another Triple Slash.
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
"Splat!"
The first two strikes were blocked by the Red Lotus Sect Young Master.
On the third strike, he finally broke through the Red Lotus Sect Young Master's defenses, the blade piercing his chest; the Young Master retreated rapidly, leaning against the wall, blood streaming from his chest.
With fierce eyes, he glanced towards the workspace.
In his vision, a Little Prison Guard was holding a previously escaped prisoner in the corner, looking at them nervously.
Seeing his gaze.
The Little Prison Guard yelled at the prisoner, whose neck was under the knife: "Stay still!"
For a moment.
The Red Lotus Sect Young Master was utterly confused.
He'd had two chances previously to kill Officer Yuan, but at the critical moments, a poison needle struck his waist, causing his cut to deviate and his strength to diminish, allowing Officer Yuan to escape repeatedly.
It even led to his heavy injury.
He assumed there was a master hidden behind.
Who knew it was just a Little Prison Guard holding a prisoner there.
Could it be the hidden weapon was fired from inside the workspace?
"Young Master, the door's open, let's go quickly!"
A voice from the rebels echoed in the passageway.
"Young Master, quickly leave!"
Seven or eight rebels rushed in from the passageway, engaging in battle with Officer Yuan's men at the entrance.
"Get lost!"
The Red Lotus Sect Young Master couldn't think too much, turning to charge at Officer Yuan.
The black patterns on his body grew stronger.
Even spreading to his face.
Slashing out, the black patterns seemed to squirm, Officer Yuan sensed danger, and wielded his knife with all his might to block.
"Boom!"
The steel knife in his hands showed a crack.
Almost flying from his grip.
His body was flung backward, crashing into the prison cell's iron bars, denting it, and he couldn't control the gush of blood from his mouth.
"Demon Slaying Skill."
Officer Yuan was shocked.
The Red Lotus Sect possessed a mysterious cultivation technique known as the Demon Slaying Skill, which could dramatically increase the practitioner's strength and Qi Blood, and its effects and characteristics matched precisely what the Red Lotus Sect Young Master displayed at the moment.
"Those who block me shall die!"
The Red Lotus Sect Young Master didn't pause, charging again towards Officer Yuan.
He had to leave immediately.
Otherwise, the aftereffects of the Demon Slaying Skill would bring him down here.
"Come help me!"
Officer Yuan shouted to his companions.
He and the Red Lotus Sect Young Master were both in the Fifth Grade Blood Refining Realm, their strengths initially equal, but now with the increase in Qi Blood and strength due to the Demon Slaying Skill, the opponent seemed like a Fourth-Grade Martial Artist.
He was in disarray, retreating under the relentless attack from the Red Lotus Sect Young Master.
Once again clashing blades three times in succession.
"Crack!"
Officer Yuan's knife could no longer withstand it, being broken by the Red Lotus Sect Young Master; his chest also took a slash, the wound deep enough to reveal bone, blood flowing relentlessly.
Panic surged within him.
He knew it was over.
"Uhh."
Suddenly, the Red Lotus Sect Young Master closing in on him felt a dizziness, dropping to one knee.
Officer Yuan was overjoyed, picking up the broken blade from the ground and swiftly slashing at the Red Lotus Sect Young Master's forehead.
At this moment, the Red Lotus Sect Young Master's head was covered with black patterns, resembling a devil; suddenly dropping forward, he understood the poison needles had taken effect, and seeing Officer Yuan's slash, he raised his blade to block.
But at that moment, he felt a pain on his neck, akin to a bee sting.
The blade raised above his head lost strength, unable to stop Officer Yuan's attack.
The three-inch-wide blade embedded halfway into his forehead.
"Boom!"
At the last moment, he struck Officer Yuan's chest with a palm, sending him flying over ten meters, causing him to pass out on the spot.
And his own body fell backward.
His eyes were wide open, trying to look behind, seeing only the Little Prison Guard holding a prisoner, hiding in the corner.
He seemed to understand.
But it was too late as his consciousness faded.
"Young Master!"
The Red Lotus Sect rebels, who had been responding outside, finally charged in from the passageway.
Then saw the Young Master collapsed on the ground, a broken blade embedded in his head, dead but not resting in peace!
"The Young Master is dead!"
"Avenge the Young Master!"
They were stunned, some went mad, launching a massacre against the advancing Prison Army.
"Take the Young Master and fight out."
A loyal rebel tried to rush in to retrieve the Young Master's body, but unfortunately encountered guards coming down from the second and third layers, intercepting them.
Among them was a Female Commander from the third layer.
Armed with a two-handed sword, her strength was that of a Middle Third Grade Martial Artist, much stronger than Officer Yuan. Her swordsmanship was simple and direct, often lethal in a single strike, forcing the Red Lotus Sect rebels into the passageway.
With the Prison Army outside providing support, they executed the rebels in a pincer attack.
"Boom!"
Thunder Burst Beads exploded continuously in the passageway.
Agonized screams echoed one after another.
Thrown by both rebels and the Prison Army at the entrance.
In any case, the Red Lotus Sect rebels trapped inside the passageway suffered heavy casualties.
A quarter of an hour passed.
The sounds of slaughter in the passageway grew weaker.
The Red Lotus Sect rebels were gradually eradicated.
Jiang Feng dragged the prisoner who attempted to escape to the passageway entrance, joining a few prison guards.
Upon seeing the battle inside the passageway finished.
The Prison Army and the Female Commander led men in for inspection.
Jiang Feng made the prisoner kneel down, pressed his head, and angrily said, "Dare to escape, stay put!"