
Hao Zhao had only arrived in front of the Treasure Lantern when he realized that there was such a familiar horse carriage in his eyes, Hao Zhao remembered that it was the same horse carriage he had seen this morning making Hao Zhao quite wondering.
“Are the imperial soldiers visiting the Treasure Lantern?" Hao Zhao tried to guess why the horse carriage could be there.
Hao Zhao himself chose to enter the Treasure Lantern after, where the workers there immediately greeted Hao Zhao as if it had become their daily life.
Hao Zhao only responded as necessary to their every greeting, where seeing from how the workers were expressing themselves, Hao Zhao started to feel like something was amiss.
Indeed the workers saluting also greeted Hao Zhao as usual, Hao Zhao has no issues related to that. Where the problem this time is related to how the expression that is seen from the face of each worker.
No more now cheerful expressions as well as smiles bloomed on their faces, where only a suspenseful expression remained of what Hao Zhao noticed.
“What does this have to do with the arrival of the imperial soldiers in this city?" Hao Zhao had a wild mind about it, plus the fact that the imperial soldiers were most likely in the Treasure Lantern made Hao Zhao's guess regarding them even greater.
Hao Zhao immediately climbed up each floor of the Treasure Lantern to head towards the top floor, wanting to meet Yue Yie to find out for sure it was not wanting to just guess.
“Hey, stop there. No one can climb this floor, so get down there."
Hao Zhao's steps instantly came to a halt as a remark rang out, where it immediately looked up at Hao Zhao to see who was speaking.
Hao Zhao was just a little step up the stairs to get to the top floor, when in front of the stairs were already two men with a stocky body with full armament they brought.
“What the fuck?" Hao Zhao knew the armor the two men were wearing belonged to the empire, where he had seen was Hao Zhao similar armor worn by the horsemen who were escorting the horse carriage this morning.
“So right why every worker seemed uncomfortable before was because of the arrival of these people?" muttered Hao Zhao, not at all listening to the words that were thrown started to re-step his legs.
“Hey Boy, what do you think I said?" One of the two, already standing in front of Hao Zhao was blocking Hao Zhao from climbing the last rung of the stairs.
“I stay here, don't piss me off or you'll be sorry." Hao Zhao looked back at the man undaunted.
One imperial soldier who was now facing each other with Hao Zhao immediately frowned, wondering where Hao Zhao got his courage from to threaten him back.
“Lock, are you against the words of an imperial soldier?" asked the man with sharp eyes, trying to intimidate Hao Zhao who he thought was unconscious of his own ability to dare to challenge him.
“I told you before not to piss me off, now I'm upset do you know that?" asked Hao Zhao back with his clenched palms.
“What? This boy has lost his mind in rupa—"
The man had not had time to finish his words when Hao Zhao's fist had already hit his mouth, making the man flung backwards almost losing his balance.
Holding his mouth that was starting to bleed, the man glanced towards his friend who could only frown seeing it all.
“Hey, quickly help me. This boy is no ordinary warrior." The man with pain that does not go away in the area around his mouth.
“Half of swordsman? Are you sure about that?" Another man, quite surprised, seemed only to want to mock his friend who had just received a blow from a young man who knows who.
“Haha, alright. There is no need to be angry like that just because this brat is not clear" said the man's friend with a sword that had been drawn from its sheath.
“Hey, is it necessary to use a sword just to take care of it?" The man was a little distracted by the way his friend wanted to take care of it all.
“What are you talking about? Of course this was necessary, breaking off one hand or leg would definitely be a valuable lesson for him to not dare to go against an imperial warrior like us anymore." Friend the man with his smile that began to widen.
Hao Zhao only stared silently at the two as they were still cool in talking, questioning whether all the imperial soldiers tended to talk as much as the two.
“Hey, what are you staring at?"
“Remove the look in your eyes from us or we gouge those two eyes."
The two warriors, were already so prepared to finish off Hao Zhao with their abilities.
Both of them, despite knowing that Hao Zhao was a swordsman, did not think that Hao Zhao was a high-level swordsman, so they did not take Hao Zhao seriously.
Hao Zhao realized that he was amused by it, not knowing why an imperial warrior could have such a way of thinking within them.
“What are the warriors in the present is so bad at looking down on a younger generation?" Hao Zhao wondered, because it was not the first time he had been underestimated just because of how he looked.
Hao Zhao then chose not to worry too much about the same thing, where he had taken a stand ready to welcome the attack of the two imperial soldiers before him.
The two imperial soldiers themselves immediately took steps to attack not long after, where seeing that of course Hao Zhao was not silent.
Hao Zhao with his clenched hands chose to lung at the two directly, paying no heed to the sword eyes that had been swung towards him by one of them.
Buahghhh!!!
The sound of clashing a fist with a face rang out, where it was so loud that there were two faces simultaneously receiving the pounding of Hao Zhao's fist.
Hao Zhao's own fist had already been enveloped in bluish energy, a sign Hao Zhao was not messing around with the punch he launched.
In contrast to how Hao Zhao's previous punch was, Hao Zhao's punch that this time was clad in deep power clearly had a devastating power many times more incredible, the punch that Hao Zhao had dealt, seen from how the two soldiers had been thrown far enough to hit the wall behind them.
“Underestimated but lost by just one punch? Pathetic." Hao Zhao who was already standing before the two, where only the two could spit out without being able to get up again due to losing their consciousness.
“What's going on here?!"
A loud voice quite disturbing the ears rang out, making Hao Zhao turn his head to see who dared to disturb his hearing that badly.
The door of the room Yue Yie had opened where a man with an iron mask covering his face was already there, the man stared at everything that had just happened furiously questioning how could his two subordinates be lying in the middle of the guarding task he was given.
“Oh, who else is this?" Hao Zhao looked at the man quite deeply, seemingly trying to observe first the man with the iron mask who was it.