The county magistrate, with his martial arts cultivation, could naturally tell that no real full moon existed.
Just like the sun's intent in the Heaven-Blazing Palm.
This full moon should also be a spiritual realm of this child's martial art. The extreme cold, like the cold of ten thousand-year-old profound ice, did not truly appear, but existed only on a spiritual level.
This spiritual will strike was too powerful. The child's spiritual will far surpassed that of the constables. The gap between them was too great.
Therefore, a situation arose where, even though no real ten-thousand-year-old profound ice appeared, and the constable's heart and brain were not truly frozen, freezing his thoughts – no signs of freezing were seen on the constable's corpse.
Yet, he was already dead.
Because on a spiritual level, he believed he had been frozen. Thus, on a spiritual level, he had been annihilated. In reality, even without actual freezing, his death was predetermined.
This was a typical outcome resulting from a vast disparity in spiritual will.
This also meant that the child's strength was likely beyond his imagination!
The county magistrate frowned greatly upon realizing this.
The previous report was that a child had severed a thief's right arm.
This thief, Jiang Caiying, often engaged in petty theft in the vicinity. The county magistrate knew him and knew that although he knew some martial arts, it was merely rudimentary.
With such skill, even if he was defeated instantly in a fight with a child, almost in one move, the stark contrast in their ages would cause strong shock, leading people to believe this child was a martial prodigy – but this was only a shock caused by a martial prodigy of his age.
Frankly speaking, with Jiang Caiying's rudimentary skills, many people in the county could defeat him instantly. The reason people around him labeled this child a martial prodigy was because he achieved it at the age of seven or eight.
If this child were three or four years older, at twelve or thirteen, people would be much less shocked. At most, he would be called a little genius or a young hero, but not a martial prodigy.
If this child were ten years older, and defeated Jiang Caiying instantly as an adult, people would only say this young man had excellent skills, not a martial prodigy.
Before personally witnessing Fang Ming's actions, and only seeing the information from the previous report, the county magistrate did not consider him very strong.
Such skills were still far from the "Human Ranking," a renowned young master. In the county, he could gain fame, but that was all.
However, now, truly witnessing Fang Ming's actual skills, and after he had also dispatched a constable in an instant.
The county magistrate's evaluation of Fang Ming's martial prowess rose greatly.
This constable was one of the county magistrate's top experts, having opened forty-three spiritual apertures, far beyond Jiang Caiying, who had only opened one.
To instantly defeat Jiang Caiying was something many in the county could do, but to kill a constable in one move, such strength was only achievable by himself, the near-Grandmaster, in the county.
This level of strength was definitely that of a master on the Human Ranking, possibly even ranking in the top three!
The county magistrate looked at Fang Ming with a solemn expression.
The Human Ranking collected young talents under the age of thirty.
The Earth Ranking collected Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters, with no age limit.
Generally, there was an unwritten rule that those on the Human Ranking would not be removed before they turned thirty.
This meant that sometimes, a Grandmaster at the lower end of the Earth Ranking might even be weaker than the number one on the Human Ranking.
Although this situation was rare, it had happened before, proving that young talents on the Human Ranking could indeed defeat Grandmasters on the Earth Ranking.
If true Grandmasters on the Earth Ranking could potentially be overthrown, let alone the county magistrate, who had failed to contend for the lower ranks of the Earth Ranking and had fallen from grace in various aspects.
He himself did not have a real chance of successfully challenging the top three of the Human Ranking.
And now, Fang Ming...
A hint of panic flashed in the county magistrate's eyes.
The top three on the Human Ranking were all prodigies from major powers who had been famous for a long time.
Most importantly, in the current Human Ranking, from first to thirtieth place, none were under twenty years old.
A ranking that included individuals under thirty, with the top thirty being over twenty, was normal. Because, by common sense, among geniuses, it was difficult for someone to surpass their peers so much in strength when there was a ten-year age difference.
But this child before him had almost broken this rule – this was not a ten-year age gap with the young talents on the Human Ranking, but at least a twenty-year gap.
With such a large difference, he could rival the top three on the Human Ranking. What kind of monster was this?
No matter how the county magistrate speculated about Fang Ming's identity, he could not figure it out.
But he knew that no matter who this person was, directly challenging the laws of the Great Yi Dynasty would only lead to death. And killing a constable in front of him was an unimaginable crime.
This was already a dead certainty.
Even if this child were the illegitimate son or young master of a sect leader from a top martial arts sect, he was still doomed.
All officials of the Great Yi Dynasty would not tolerate someone who trampled on rules and laws.
Everyone would move against him. What if he was among the top three on the Human Ranking? Even the top three on the Earth Ranking would only face death under the crushing might of the entire Great Yi Dynasty.
Unless they were experts at the immortal or demonic level, there was a possibility of defying the law, but they would inevitably be hunted by the Martial Emperor.
Was this child an expert at the immortal or demonic level?
The county magistrate chuckled self-mockingly. How could that be possible?
"The enemy is strong, we attack together."
Knowing that Fang Ming's strength could at least be considered among the top three on the Human Ranking, the county magistrate naturally had no intention of fighting him one-on-one. With his command, the dozens of constables around him attacked simultaneously.
Instantly, various martial arts, primarily executed through spiritual apertures, struck Fang Ming.
Dozens of constables, whose individual strength was not weak in the county, when attacking together, could overwhelm even the fiercest criminals.
Even masters on the Human Ranking, top ten or top five, would generally be defeated when facing dozens of people attacking them.
And with the county magistrate, a near-Grandmaster, also attacking and coordinating against Fang Ming, this was a force capable of encircling and killing true Grandmasters at the lower end of the Earth Ranking.
This was the power of collective effort.
The imperial court might lack in the realm of immortal or demonic level experts, but with its vast number of grassroots personnel, it possessed the largest number of individuals in the lower to mid-tier martial artist strata.