What is honor?Is it the jade belt around the waist, high status and power?

    Is it the abundance of gold and silver, being wealthy and influential?

    What is the honor in mourning?

    The most luxurious coffin, the most extravagant burial?

    High-ranking officials and nobles coming to offer condolences, turning a funeral into a celebration, with a long line of carriages and horses outside the door?

    The living can die, but the dead cannot return to life.

    In Wu Yinquan''s memory, he had attended the funeral of the deputy commander of the city guard''s mother several years ago. At that time, the deputy commander was now the current commander of the city guard in Yuecheng.

    At that time, he was already very popular.

    All the high-ranking officials and wealthy families in Yuecheng came to pay their respects.

    Even the chief jailer only sat at the lowest seat during the funeral banquet, and Wu Yinquan and his companions were not even allowed to enter the door, despite bringing gifts.

    At that time, he thought, this is the epitome of honor in mourning, right?

    He even dreamed that when his own mother passed away, there would be such a scene.

    So that when his mother died, she could close her eyes in peace, or even say, "My son''s life was not in vain!"

    For so many years, he had been working hard to climb up, treating the chief jailer as his grandfather, and the prison guards as his brothers, working diligently and conscientiously... but for so many years, he was just a small prison head.

    He knew that being a small prison head was his limit.

    Without powerful connections on the outside, and without transcendent cultivation, this was the most he could achieve in his life. His ambition had dissipated, and he began to live day by day.

    The "honor in mourning" for his mother could only exist in his dreams.

    But even now, at this moment, he couldn''t help but shed tears.

    Suddenly, he understood what "the honor in mourning" truly meant!

    Some people have passed away, but they are still alive.

    Alive in everyone''s hearts.

    People like Mr. Qin, no one wants them to die.

    Because it is people like Mr. Qin who support this world.

    They allow people to see the light in the darkest and most desperate moments.

    ...

    ...

    Li Yang, the chief guard of the Yuecheng Lord''s Mansion, had no other qualities besides being loyal to the lord.

    He had average combat strength and average comprehension, often unable to understand the thoughts of the lord.

    But whatever the lord said, he would do without any compromise, never slacking off.

    His father had told him before he died, "In your life, besides loyalty, you have no other qualities left, but as long as you maintain this, it is enough."

    Li Yang remembered these words very clearly.

    The lord had considered replacing him more than once, but the most private matters were always entrusted to him first.

    This absolute trust was earned through unwavering loyalty.

    Li Yang personally supervised the blockade of the Zeren Medical Center, and dared to guarantee with his life that no one in the entire medical center could spread the news.

    At first, this was not so easy, but after he killed two people with his own hands, the entire medical center quieted down.

    Only that Qin Nianmin tried to escape several times.

    He wished he could pretend not to recognize him and just kill him.

    But he couldn''t kill someone like him.

    Killing Mr. Qin''s son, especially a son with such a good reputation, would be condemned by the common people.

    Li Yang thought it over and over, but there was no good solution. In the end, he had to send the man to the prison.

    In the prison, there was no wall to climb over, right? An old man like him wouldn''t mind pulling a muscle!

    To avoid tarnishing the lord''s reputation, he even arranged for the city guard to handle this matter.

    As time passed, the condemnation of Yangguo by Rongguo had been publicly announced in the Eastern Region, and Jiacheng had officially announced the plague situation, notifying the entire country.

    The lord of Yuecheng had also received a stern reprimand from the county government, and finally decided to disclose the true situation facing the city.

    Li Yang thought that he could finally get rid of Qin Nianmin, the hot potato, and there was no longer a need to block the news.

    But at this moment, he received an order from the lord to immediately kill Qin Nianmin!

    He couldn''t quite understand the lord''s thoughts, but whatever the lord said, he would do.

    He didn''t need to consider whether he was willing or not, because he didn''t need to have his own will.

    What Li Yang found unbelievable was that in the heavily guarded prison, an old man who was powerless... actually escaped!

    The day before he set out to kill someone in the prison, there was a riot in the notorious "Ground Cell" of the Yuecheng prison.

    Dozens of serious criminals took prison guards hostage, broke open the cell doors, and caused chaos, turning the entire prison into a mess.The warden, relying on his transcendent strength, personally suppressed the riot. When the count was taken, it was discovered that apart from the two serious criminals who were killed on the spot, not a single prisoner had escaped. Only Qin Nianmin was missing.

    It was as if the prisoners had incited the riot at great risk to their lives, solely to get this person out.

    Li Yang found it unbelievable, not because the matter was so clever, but because it was so meaningless!

    These scoundrels in the prison had gone to such great lengths to do something so pointless.

    Even he, who had always been scolded by the city lord as a fool, found it laughable.

    The matter itself was not difficult to investigate.

    Apart from all the serious criminals in the "ground-level private rooms," there were also two people from within the prison involved in this matter.

    One was a prison guard surnamed Ding, and the other was a prison official surnamed Wu, both of whom had been stripped of their clothes and thrown into the cell. Whether they were killed or punished would be decided later.

    Qin Nianmin, who had already escaped from the prison, was not difficult to track down. A mere ordinary person without transcendent abilities, he was still an old man in his fifties. No matter how fast he could run, where could he escape to?

    It just so happened that the entire city of Yuecheng had already begun to seal off various areas, imposing martial law throughout the region.

    Not to mention an escaped criminal, even a law-abiding citizen could not get very far!

    As the head of the city lord''s mansion guards, Li Yang naturally had unimpeded access throughout the entire region of Yuecheng, with support from various forces.

    At this point, the truly incomprehensible situation arose—

    He found that as a transcendent cultivator, with the city lord''s orders and the covert support of the official forces in the city, he had mobilized a large number of people, yet still could not capture Qin Nianmin.

    The man was like a weak but agile fly, Li Yang could feel him circling around, but for the moment could not see where he was, unable to catch him.

    He felt an invisible force subtly resisting his search, yet he could not find out what that force was.

    Was there any force in the entire region of Yuecheng that could resist the city lord''s mansion?

    How was that possible?

    After much effort, and no results, the city lord of Yuecheng flew into a rage and decided to change the covert arrest to an open manhunt, mobilizing several of the most famous transcendent bounty hunters in Yuecheng to join the pursuit.

    One of the bounty hunters had worked with a blue-ranked bounty hunter in the Qi Kingdom when he was young, and was skilled and cunning.

    With a small display of his skills, Li Yang saw the prowess of these cultivators who specialized in tracking down criminals.

    It was also at this time that he realized that what had been hindering his private pursuit of Qin Nianmin was not any organization, but those peddlers, those shopkeepers, those innkeepers... ordinary and common people.

    They spontaneously hid Qin Nianmin''s tracks, deliberately leading Li Yang and his men in the wrong direction.

    This was something Li Yang had never seen in his limited experience. Among these ordinary people, there was not a single person who could pose a threat to him. But for some reason, he felt a chill down his spine, a coldness in his heart.

    Fortunately, his fear did not need to be taken into account, because he did not need to have his own will.

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    In the hands of the transcendent bounty hunters, Qin Nianmin had nowhere to hide.

    When Li Yang and the two transcendent bounty hunters caught up with Qin Nianmin, they found that he had unknowingly escaped to the edge of the Yuecheng city region.

    Under the pursuit of transcendent power, he had almost escaped from there.

    For a fifty-year-old ordinary old man, this was truly an incredible thing!

    It could be called a miracle created by an ordinary person.

    But in the end, it was just a little short.

    Sometimes, a step away is like a chasm.

    "Qin Nianmin!" Li Yang shouted loudly at the back of the old man. "You can''t escape! Come back to the city with me and await the city lord''s judgment!"

    He had received orders to kill Qin Nianmin, but it was not convenient to do so in front of the transcendent bounty hunters. In any case, he would be captured first and then dealt with.

    Qin Nianmin''s body visibly trembled.

    He turned around and looked back.

    His once well-maintained face was now haggard and frightening, but his expression was stubborn, without any sign of despair.

    "You are also people of Yuecheng!" he said loudly. "Don''t you know what is happening in Yuecheng right now? Shouldn''t someone take responsibility for this? Where is your conscience, where is your humanity!"

    The two transcendent bounty hunters looked at each other. Of course, they knew about the outbreak of the plague. But the source of the disaster was in Jiacheng, and it was inevitable that Yuecheng, as a neighboring city, would be infected.

    As for responsibility... they heard that the city lord of Jiacheng had already been killed, so what more responsibility did they need to bear?

    They speculated that there might be hidden reasons behind this matter. After all, it was a bit suspicious to have them come out to pursue an ordinary person, giving off a sense of something not quite right. But in the end, it was just speculation. As experienced and worldly-wise as they were, they naturally would not show it.

    Turn a blind eye, live in peace, and enjoy a prosperous era.Only Li Yang was clear about what Qin Nianmin was referring to.

    When the plague broke out in Yuecheng, Elder Qin was the first to find out. And the reason it had escalated to a situation second only to Jiacheng in severity was precisely due to the inaction of the Lord of Yuecheng!

    For this reason, he could not allow this man to speak any further.

    He leaped forward, shouting, "Stop spreading your bewitching nonsense! If you have any grievances, take them to the official court!"

    What was an ordinary old man if not easily captured?

    Just then, a sheathed longsword blocked the way.

    It was a sword that could astonish anyone at first glance, its sharpness almost piercing through the scabbard.

    Even sheathed, the sword seemed to hum on its own.

    As if it could not contain itself, it too wanted to stand upright and make its voice heard.

    Like the sword, one must speak out against injustice!

    "For some reason, whenever I hear the phrase ''bewitching nonsense'' lately... it just makes me feel uncomfortable!"

    A clear voice said so.

    Le Wen