What do you mean by that?'' The yellow robed man asked in surprise.
The man in brown hurrumphed, "Take a good look around you, the capital is already under the full control of the imperial court.
The influence the court official have even exceeds the emperor, those corrupt sons of a bitches have been eying the Grand General for a long time.
Outside the imperial capital they could not lay their hands on him, but if he comes here then that's the end, they won't let him go"
The man in brown robes explained with a shake of his head.
He was a servant working in the house of a court official and he hears their conversation daily.
"But what about the boarder?" The yellow robed man asked"
''tsk tsk, you are too naive! Do you really think that those officials care about what happens to us and the empire?
Even if the empire falls, their clans will still remain.
Look at the state of the capital! Though the we are safe from foreign invaders, we are not safe from those blood sucking parasites in the imperial court.
Take a good look at everyone of them, all the wealth they've achieved is through the blood, tears and hardwork of we the commoners, they are afraid of the that the Grand General may stop them from exploiting us so they intend to get rid him.
"This'' the yellow robed man hissed.
''But how can they know his intention? What if he comes and turns out worst than them, won't that be for the best? He asked because after all, the Grand General may not be the hero they all imagined he would be, in that case wouldn't it be best for them.
"Do you think those greedy parasites would want to share their profits with anyone else but themselves?'' The brown robed man asked.
''Then it's really unfortunate for the Grand General" The yellow robed man sighed.
My best advice to you it's to take your family and move away from the capital as far away as possible! A blood storm is approaching. These court official tyranny will know no bounds after they eliminate the Grand General.
''But what about the emperor?'' The brown robed man sneered upon hearing that.
''What can that puppet emperor do to help? He might even hate the Grand General more than the court officials''
The yellow robed man sighed and the two men continued their meal in silence.
A playful smile couldn't help but appear on the face of Gu Shang as he heard the conversation of those two men.
It was too early to decide who was going to eliminate who.
It didn't take long for his order to arrive, the owner of the tarven personally delivered Gu Shang's order.
The owner of a tarven was a middle aged man with a large pot belly and chubby face.
''Gu Shang couldn't help but smile after seeing him''
Young man, you look familiar are you from around here?" The owner asked with a friendly smile.
"Old Yan, don't you recognize me?" Gu Shang asked with a smile.
The middle aged man couldn't help but tremble after hearing Gu Shang.
"Y y you are Gu Shang! You're alive! You're alive! The chubby owner couldn't help but laugh loudly after hearing Gu Shang.
"I knew it was you hahahah! I knew that you little rascal would not easily die in battle like that!" He laughed happily as he took a seat on Gu Shang table and begun happily chatting as they shared a drink and reminisce about the past.
Gu Shang left the tarven after sunset, Old Yan was completely wasted by the time he left.
Gu Shang began walking towards the Liu Clan manor after coming out of the tavern
As usual the city was still bustling as lanterns lit up all the streets, suddenly Gu Shang stopped as he saw a group of guards beating up a commoner.
Three guard is battle robes were mercilessly beating a man in simple plain robes, the man was only at the second stage of the Body Refinement Realm, whiles the guards were all at the Fourth level.
''How dare you bump into the young master!"
"Are you blind or tired of leaving!"
The three guards furiously shouted as they were raining punches and kicks towards the man on the ground who could only take beating.
Behind the scene, a young man in luxurious robes was inappropriately harassing a beautiful young girl in his arms.
The women shared tears as she begged the young man to stop and release her husband.
A group of onlookers simply gathered a few meters away from the scene as they whispered among themselves.
''That's the third young master of the Yang Clan, I heard he is very lecherous and enjoys torturing commoners, but this is to cruel!' an onlookers said.
Cruel? He's done more horrible things, this couple should consider themselves blessed by the heavens if this stops at only this! Another onlooker replied.
"This is not the first time such a thing has happened, I heard that about a month ago he rap*d a married woman whiles her husband was forced to watch the whole thing, the woman later committed suicide and her husband who went to the Yang Clan to seek justice for his wife was butchered and fed to the wild dogs of the Yang Clan!"
A cold murderous light flashed through Gu Shang eyes as he began to approach the scene.
One commoner who saw him approaching couldn't help but warn him out of goodwill.
"Young man don't try to be hero here, or you might lose your life before you know it" the person warned but Gu Shang was too angry to care.
Thousands of soldiers were at the border risking their lives and fighting off enemies everyday because they wanted to protect their love ones from harm, but who would've thought that all their sacrifices would be in vain because their families were being treated like this not by outsiders,but by their own people within their borders.
What were they even fighting for then?
"Another idiot coming over to die!" One of the guards said coldly as he saw Gu Shang approaching.
He could not sense any aura coming from Gu Shang, this only meant one thing and it was that he wasn't even a cultivator.
Without wasting anymore of his saliva, he threw a punch towards Gu Shang, the force behind the he power was three thousand kilograms.
If the punch landed on Gu Shang, the best outcome would be becoming a cripple for the rest of his life, but if he was unlucky he would die without knowing how and a gruesome death at that too.
The onlooking crowd shook their head, Gu Shang was truly courting death.
The punch was moving at a rate at which the naked eyes couldn't see by the onlookers standards but to Gu Shang it looked like a joke.
He gently extended his palm and hit the chest of the approaching guard lightly, his movement was so quick that, no one noticed how or when he moved, not even the guard saw how. Or he felt was he chest becoming empty and with that his eyelids suddenly became too heavy to keep open, and then just like that his eyes shut and he fell onto the ground.
Silence!
At this moment everywhere became silent.
What was going on?
The onlookers of crowd were confused.
All they saw was the young master guard throw a punch strong enough to kill the man in white robes in just a breath, but before the punch could even land on the target, the guard collapsed on the ground.
One of the guards beating the young man stopped and rushed towards his fallen comrade to check up on him, but when he checked his body, he couldn't help but shudder as he looked at Gu Shang warily.
"Who the hell are you? Do you know you've just killed a guard of the Yang Clan?" The second guard questioned furiously.
At this moment all the onlookers exhaled their breath. How is this possible?
When did he kill the guard? They all wondered.
The two remaining guards looked at each other briefly and after coming to a tacit understanding lunge at Gu Shang together.
They both gathered all their strength and threw a punch towards Gu Shang at their fastest speed.
They didn't dare to underestimate him and wanted to take him down swiftly by aiming to smash his head, but when both punches arrived before Gu Shang they were shocked to realize that the figure of Gu Shang had suddenly disappeared, but before they could even react he appeared behind them and gently patted them on the back with both his hand.
This attack looks harmless, but with every palm that landed on the guards, their heart and internal organs all shattered and turned to dust.
To the onlookers all they saw was the two guards charge at Gu Shang without any warning but then they only blinked and before they knew it Gu Shang had arrived behind the two guards and gently pat them on their back.
And just like that those two guards collapsed on the ground like the first one, and it didn't take a genius to know that those three guards were as dead as they could be.
The young master begun trembling as he let go of the girl.
The girl after being freed rushed towards her husband to help him up.
Gu Shang on the other hand began approaching the young master with deliberate slow steps.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want?"
"I'm the third young master of the Yang Clan, If you touch me, my clan won't spare you.
Even your your family won't be spared if anything happens to me?
Gu Shang briefly stopped after hearing this.
Seeing Gu Shang brief pause as hesitation, the young man began to regain his confidence, What was there to fear anyway?
Who in the imperial capital would dare to go against the Yang Clan?
That's right submit to me, seeing that you have a bit of skill I'm willing to let you serve me if you kneel down and apologize.
The young man said cockily.
Serve you? Are you even worthy? Gu Shang suddenly slapped him sending the young master flying a hundred meters away until he crushed through a wagon full of metal pipes.
Silence!