Chapter 156: The Struggle of a Cornered Beast

"Four Tier-Ten experts?"

"Such a lavish move?"

Lu Ye was somewhat startled. He had still underestimated Cheng Qimeng's importance within Y6. Because she possessed too many secrets about Y6, her capture would mean the complete paralysis of Y6's entire intelligence network, and all the crucial information previously acquired would lose its value.

Even so, deploying four Tier-Ten powerheads all at once just to snatch someone back was still far too exaggerated.

Azure Dragon said in a cold voice, "Why aren't you taking people and leaving? Do you think you can block us?"

Lu Ye smiled and said, "I'd like to try."

White Tiger chuckled as well, mocking, "You mere Tier-Nine, still wet behind the ears, what kind of big shot are you trying to act like here? If you don't leave now, you won't get another chance later."

Lu Ye repeated, "It doesn't matter, I still want to try."

Wu Ying sneered, "Does it even take the Four Holy Envoys to deal with you? You can't even handle me!"

Swish!

Wu Ying grabbed a long staff, leaped into the air, and brought it crashing down directly toward Lu Ye's head.

"Bang!"

Lu Ye casually threw a punch at the tip of the staff. Like a force transmitted through a mountain, the impact made Wu Ying grunt and fly backward more than a dozen meters, collapsing to the ground where he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Wu Ying stared at Lu Ye, his eyes filled with shock. "You're a Tier-Ten?"

Lu Ye smiled noncommittally, stepped forward, and delivered a supplementary kick, sending Wu Ying flying right to Azure Dragon's feet.

The once swaggering Tier-Nine expert was instantly reduced to a miserable dog utterly incapable of fighting back.

The Four Holy Envoys were equally struck with extreme shock, never expecting that this young man, despite his youth, was also a hidden Tier-Ten powerhouse.

However, after a brief moment of shock, a trace of disdain still rose within them. "Even if you are a Tier-Ten, you're only one person. How can you possibly defeat the four of us?"

"Hahaha, isn't there still me?"

A crisp, charming laugh echoed from inside the compartment of the Bentley GT.

Cheng Qimeng gracefully stepped out of the car, walked over to Lu Ye, pinched his chin, and looked him over carefully for a long time before smiling. "As expected of my son, you've grown up and you're still just as handsome!"

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen years had passed, and the child had grown up to establish a family and a career.

Yet, ruthless time seemed to have bypassed Cheng Qimeng entirely; her appearance remained unchanged from before, still as breathtakingly gorgeous as ever...

Lu Ye pretended to complain, "Mom, it's all your fault for giving birth to me so handsome. Now everyone in Mingzhu City calls me a kept man."

Cheng Qimeng chuckled and said, "You've been enjoying being kept by the Su family so comfortably, aren't you just a kept man?"

The Four Holy Envoys were also stunned for a long time. Azure Dragon glared at her and demanded, "Iris, he is your son?"

Cheng Qimeng turned her head away and smiled meaningfully, "Don't call me Iris anymore."

"My name is—Cheng, Qi, Meng!"

After decades of undercover work, Cheng Qimeng could finally shout those words out loud.

"Hahahaha..."

Azure Dragon threw his head back and laughed heartily before sighing, "To think you were willing to waste a full decade just to completely win our trust. I truly didn't foresee that."

"In that case, none of you will walk out of Old Ilya Port alive today. Leave your lives right here."

Cheng Qimeng said indifferently to Lu Ye, "Later, I'll stall Azure Dragon and White Tiger. You must eliminate Vermilion Bird, the one in the orange motorcycle suit, from among the Four Holy Envoys with the fastest speed."

"And there's the weakest one, Black Tortoise. Have your sister keep him entangled."

Lu Ye nodded, pinched his Bluetooth earpiece, and said, "Team B, close the net!"

A Dongfeng Mengshi suddenly appeared, racing along the path with a rolling cloud of dust. Chen Xi had arrived as well.

The situation instantly shifted to three against four.

As for the others, they hadn't even reached Tier-Eight strength and basically lacked the qualifications to participate in the battle.

However, having them lie in ambush on the sidelines to take potshots and harass the opponents was still feasible.

Chen Xi had been cultivating bitterly over the past few days, but ultimately failed to break through the bottleneck. Whether she could withstand the pressure of Tier-Ten experts remained a big question mark...

The Four Holy Envoys exchanged glances and charged straight at Lu Ye and Cheng Qimeng!

They intended to obliterate this mother-son duo in one go. This was a life-and-death struggle, and they had no intention of playing fair.

Vermilion Bird was the fastest. With a push of his feet, he shot directly toward Cheng Qimeng, his right hand fitted with a pair of Wolverine-like razor-sharp claws!

"Bang!"

Lu Ye's figure flashed weirdly in front of Cheng Qimeng, cutting off Vermilion Bird's attack with a side kick. "Your opponent is me!"

Vermilion Bird was slightly startled.

He excelled in agility and speed, yet he never expected this kid to surpass him in speed!

Lu Ye ducked his head and waist twice in succession to evade the claw swipes, caught an opening, and drove a fist straight into Vermilion Bird's abdomen, using the force of the punch to drive him back more than ten meters, leaving the main battlefield to Cheng Qimeng.

At that moment, Azure Dragon and White Tiger attacked Cheng Qimeng side by side!

Cheng Qimeng remained calm and composed, thrusting out both palms simultaneously to meet their fists.

"Boom!"

The surging true qi derived from the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra circulated frantically within her body, and she stood utterly unshakeable even against the full-force strike of two Tier-Ten experts!

"Bang bang bang..."

Cheng Qimeng's fists and kicks moved like the wind, combining defense and offense with rapid strikes that instantly disrupted White Tiger's offensive rhythm. Immediately afterward, she dropped low and swept her leg toward Azure Dragon's lower body.

Azure Dragon seized the momentum to leap up and evade, executing a flying kick in mid-air.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Qimeng's sweeping kick was merely a feint—a sound made in the east while striking in the west.

As Azure Dragon leaped into mid-air, her body twisted, and her other leg lashed out directly at Azure Dragon's waist.

Azure Dragon and White Tiger were the strongest two among the Four Holy Envoys, yet Cheng Qimeng fought them both single-handedly without showing any weakness at all.

Azure Dragon took two steps back, turned around, and barked, "Black Tortoise, what are you doing?"

Black Tortoise hurriedly replied, "Big brother, I'm being stalled by this little vixen!"

In the rear, silver light flickered across the sky.

Chen Xi continuously threw flying swallow daggers to harass him, driving Black Tortoise to distraction.

If Black Tortoise wanted to rush toward the front lines, he would inevitably expose his back.

Yet whenever he tried to turn around and finish off Chen Xi, the young woman rapidly widened the distance, flying him like a kite and never giving him a chance for a direct confrontation...

The situation was not developing as the Four Holy Envoys had anticipated.

They had thought their four Tier-Ten experts could crush the opponents like dry twigs snapping, but instead, they felt as though they were sinking into a quagmire.

Azure Dragon and White Tiger working together couldn't do anything to Cheng Qimeng, and Black Tortoise was being kited by Chen Xi and unable to break away for the moment.

Vermilion Bird was in a single combat with Lu Ye.

That situation didn't look very optimistic...

Or rather, it was entirely Lu Ye beating Vermilion Bird to a pulp single-handedly.

Their duel resembled something out of Naruto, so fast that they were reduced to mere afterimages.

Onlookers couldn't even see their movements clearly and could only shout endlessly: "Awesome!"

Only Vermilion Bird himself was suffering bitterly. No matter how he attacked or broke through, Lu Ye was always a step faster than him.

After a rapid succession of exchanges, Lu Ye caught an opening and landed a heavy punch right on Vermilion Bird's chin.

It instantly caused Vermilion Bird's head to buzz with a sky full of golden stars, his movements freezing instantly before he was reduced to a human punching bag subjected to a ferocious barrage of attacks by Lu Ye!

"Bang bang bang bang..."

No explanation needed, just a flurry of little punches pounding your chest, the kind that land a dozen times a second!

Vermilion Bird instantly lost all combat capability and was kicked by Lu Ye right next to his teammates.

The brothers Zhang Li and Zhang Zhang immediately dragged him over to the dock's crane and locked Vermilion Bird to the crane's steel frame with handcuffs.

"Stinky little brother, come and help me!"

Chen Xi let out a sharp cry not far away.

Lu Ye turned his head and saw that Black Tortoise had taken several flying swallow daggers head-on in order to forcefully charge in front of Chen Xi. Chen Xi had already drawn her black dagger for close-quarters combat with him, but clearly couldn't hold out much longer.

Lu Ye strode forward at a sprint, shouting fiercely, "Black Tortoise!"

Black Tortoise inevitably turned his head to glance at him.

"Swish!"

Unexpectedly, Lu Ye threw a handful of stone-dust powder into his eyes, blinding him temporarily. Then, cooperating with Chen Xi in a front-and-back pincer movement, the brother and sister launched a simultaneous fierce assault that instantly brought Black Tortoise crashing to the ground, leaving him to be watched over by the rushing Beauty Meng.

Now only Azure Dragon and White Tiger remained, and Cheng Qimeng was beginning to show signs of fighting alone against the odds.

However, both Azure Dragon and White Tiger knew in their hearts that the current situation was extremely unfavorable to them!

They never imagined that a single Cheng Qimeng could stall them for so long!

Now that Lu Ye had finished off Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, the moment he came over to join forces with Cheng Qimeng—along with Chen Xi, a peak Tier-Nine martial artist, hovering on the sidelines—these so-called Four Holy Envoys were probably doomed.

"Mom, we're coming!"

Lu Ye and Chen Xi flanked from behind, forming a triangular encirclement with Cheng Qimeng to trap Azure Dragon and White Tiger. The rest of the Vigilante operatives and the Five-Nation Squad had already deployed their formation on the outer perimeter, waiting in strict array.

It had already become a desperate struggle of trapped beasts...