Chapter 151: The Wrath of City Lord Guo

"Dammit!!!" A roar akin to a clear-sky thunder erupted from the City Lord’s Mansion. People within a radius of several miles felt the boundless fury contained within it, and some low-intelligence beasts were even frightened out of their wits, dying on the spot.

No one knew why City Lord Guo was flying into such a rage, and those within the mansion would not utter a single extra word to the outside world. Only a handful of people knew the truth.

Aside from the City Lord’s Mansion, similar roars were particularly numerous today, as if those big figures had all taken the wrong medicine collectively.

City Lord Guo’s face was extremely gloomy, almost dripping with water. Looking at Guo Liu, whose life had been saved, he said in a deep voice, "Who on earth is trying to target my Guo family? First, my brother-in-law went missing, then the hidden forces of the Guo family were almost completely uprooted, and now my son has been crippled!"

"If I find out who is behind this, I will make sure he dies without a burial site! Ever since I, surnamed Guo, became the City Lord of Tianyang, no one has ever dared to provoke me like this! Among the local forces, aside from the Tianyang Academy, no one else would dare to make a move against my Guo family."

"However, although that old fellow from Tianyang Academy and I have some grievances, he wouldn't resort to such despicable methods. As for his daughter... well, although Liu'er is a bit playful, he wouldn't provoke that female demon."

"So the local forces can probably be ruled out. That leaves only those outsiders! Hmph! This is Tianyang City, my territory! If you dare to make a move, you must be prepared to have your arms broken!"

"No matter how vast your influence is, as long as it's not the imperial family, I fear nothing else! A fierce dragon cannot suppress a local snake, and I will make those who dared to reach out pay the price they deserve!"

Seeming to hear his father's words, Guo Liu slowly regained consciousness. He looked somewhat dazed when he realized he was lying on a bed.

Immediately afterward, the memories of the previous night rushed back. His face turned pale, and he despairingly looked down at a certain part of his body—it was already completely empty.

"No, this is impossible! This must be a dream, I must be dreaming! Dad, tell me, am I dreaming? Am I?" Guo Liu cried out in near-collapse.

"Shut up!" City Lord Guo, still burning with rage, glared fiercely at Guo Liu and said with exasperation, "I warned you long ago not to go messing around in those messy places, and not to hang out with that bunch of so-called fox friends and dog companions! Look at you now! You've been retaliated against!"

After giving Guo Liu a severe scolding, City Lord Guo's anger subsided slightly. Looking at his favorite son, he sighed and said, "Liu'er, Dad will find pills capable of regenerating severed limbs for you. They will grow back in due time."

"You stay at home to recover these past few days. Father will root out the culprits one by one and leave them to your disposal! To step right into the City Lord's Mansion and act so brazenly—do they really think I don't exist?"

"Liu'er, tell your father, what did those people look like? Any distinctive features?"

Hearing City Lord Guo say this, Guo Liu finally felt somewhat reassured. Fortunately, such miraculous pills existed in this world; otherwise, his life really would have been completely ruined.

Although such elixirs were extremely rare and hard to find, the City Lord’s Mansion possessed towering influence in Tianyang Province, and they would surely find one eventually.

The moment he thought of the man in black who had beaten his ancestral lineage-continuing assets into a pulp, Guo Liu's face filled with bitter hatred. He said, "Father, there were four people who beat me that day. One of them was effeminate, and another was a very tall and burly man."

"They were all dressed in black and holding hollow iron rods. Right, they seemed to take orders from a single person. Especially that effeminate one—he was the most ruthless. It was he who smashed my groin!"

"They are all cultivators, and their cultivation realms are definitely not lower than mine! I had no power to resist in their hands at all. They stunned me the moment they broke in. They are clearly seasoned veterans."

Hearing Guo Liu's description, City Lord Guo furrowed his brows so tightly they could crush a fly. With such a vague description, it was practically impossible to determine who had done it.

"Do you have any idea roughly how old they were? Also, could you tell if their accents differed in any way from those of Tianyang Province?" City Lord Guo asked.

"Well... their speaking voices were very peculiar; I couldn't tell their ages at all. As for their accents, they spoke in standard imperial court language, and it was extremely standard," Guo Liu answered truthfully.

City Lord Guo didn't know what to say anymore. Asking this was tantamount to asking nothing; right now, he had the urge to slap Guo Liu to death on the spot. Couldn't you damn well have observed more carefully at the time?

However, speaking fluent, standard imperial court language meant there was a very high possibility they came from the capital.

The capital... Hiss. That made things rather troublesome. Just what kind of people had this brat provoked?

Frowning, City Lord Guo asked, "Have you offended anyone recently? Especially people from the capital."

"From the capital?" Guo Liu racked his brains, but he couldn't recall whether he had offended anyone from the capital or not.

After all, the people he offended on a daily basis were simply too numerous; he couldn't even keep track of them himself.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Guo Liu's mind, and he hurriedly said, "Right! I remember that fellow Guo Zi'ang has two sworn brothers from the capital! And their identities are extremely mysterious. I sent people to investigate, but we couldn't figure out which aristocratic family in the capital they belonged to."

"Zi'ang?! Two young masters from the capital..." City Lord Guo was well aware of the feud between Guo Liu and Guo Zi'ang, but he didn't believe Guo Zi'ang was the one behind the attack.

Even though he held Guo Zi'ang in extreme contempt and had never even regarded him as his own son,

he fancied that he had figured out Guo Zi'ang's personality. Although Guo Zi'ang was somewhat wild, he wasn't completely brainless; he wouldn't do something like this.

In truth, his judgment was entirely correct—the former Guo Zi'ang definitely would never have made a move.

Unfortunately, Guo Zi'ang had met Chen Bo. Under Chen Bo's unintentional instigation, his original worldview had undergone a complete transformation.

The current Guo Zi'ang felt nothing toward the clan except anger, and more anger.

Actually, this was all Chen Bo's fault. Once, he had carelessly recounted the opening plot of a typical "trash-to-genius" web novel to Guo Zi'ang, and then... well, there was no "then."

Guo Zi'ang had completely immersed himself in the role.

If Chen Bo had known about this, he definitely would have given himself a mental thumbs-up. After all, wasn't he just helping Guo Zi'ang "escape from a sea of bitterness" ahead of time?

As for what Guo Zi'ang's sea of bitterness actually was... did that matter? Yes, it didn't matter at all!

Chen Bo would never admit that he was the one who had corrupted the kid; after all, he still wanted to be the moral paragon of the entire planet!

As for who exactly had crippled Guo Liu, apart from Chen Bo and his companions, everyone else was completely clueless.

As for the notion of "better to wrongfully kill a hundred than let a single one escape"? Stop joking around. Tianyang Province wasn't a place where the Guo family could cover the sky with one hand; there were many transcendent entities residing within Tianyang Province!

For instance, the Tianyang Academy, as well as various mysterious sects.

In short, if City Lord Guo dared to act recklessly, he would undoubtedly be besieged by a collective onslaught. There were far too many people eyeing his position with covetous desires.