Chapter 604 - 604 126 Demon Cave
604: Chapter 126: Demon Cave 604: Chapter 126: Demon Cave To kill, or to be killed?
This seems like a choice.
But in fact, Chu Guo knew he had no choice.
He stared at the table full of dishes, hesitated for a long time, and then made up his mind, lifted a gaunt lamb leg, and bit down fiercely.
He wanted to live!
“…”
The sudden act of the youth caught Xie Xuanyi by surprise; he was about to say something but stopped, ultimately watching in silence as the youth finished off the lamb leg.
Chu Guo hadn’t had a proper rest for a whole day.
Beyond that, he had trekked through the desert for a full eight hours.
Unlike Deng Baiyi, who after all was a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage and had succeeded in Fasting, so even if she didn’t eat or drink for three or four days, it wouldn’t affect her.
Chu Guo was still mortal, not even having stepped into the Qi Refining Realm.
What’s next was a fierce battle.
To “survive,” one must first “eat their fill”.
The youth tore vigorously at the roasted lamb leg, and within a short while, he had eaten nearly half a table of food by himself.
Seeing that neither Xie nor Deng had moved their chopsticks, he asked in confusion, “Aren’t you two eating?”
“We’re not hungry.”
Deng Baiyi spoke out first, with a strange expression and a veiled reminder, “There’s no need to eat too much, though…”
“I know, the food tastes good, it’s just that the texture is a bit odd.”
The youth took a deep breath, wiped his mouth, then frowned and said, “When will the fight start?”
“Any time.”
Xie Xuanyi turned his head slightly, speaking calmly, “They are already eager to go, itching to start the fight.”
A pause.
Xie Xuanyi continued slowly, “The table on the left are bandits from Yuan Province, although they did not participate in the Pingzhi City uprising, they contributed a bit of force.
The three tables to the right come from Yu State, likely have paid their respects to wild mountain training sects, and there are two Qi Refining Masters among them.
Do you want to divide the work?”
Deng Baiyi took a deep breath; her Divine Thought had already swept around the inn’s lobby once.
There were twenty-seven people in total on the first floor of the inn, sitting at four large tables.
Chu Guo is after all a young fellow, not yet a Qi refiner, and even if he made up his mind, he wouldn’t be able to contend with a Qi Refining Master.
She said slowly, “I’ll take the right, you take the left.”
“…
What about the Shopkeeper?”
Chu Guo wiped the oil from the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, his eyes growing stern.
He didn’t hurry to leave the screen and make the first move.
“The inn’s owner is of no ordinary realm; beyond what you two can handle,” said Xie Xuanyi with a smile, “But don’t worry, as long as you are resolute, you can kill all these people, and I can assure you, no one else will intervene in this battle.”
“Good!”
With such a response,
The young man’s hanging heart was at last put at ease.
He took another deep breath, gripping Spring Breeze as he pushed past the screen and stepped into the noisy lobby.
The crowd, which had been bustling with discussion, were momentarily stunned, their gazes falling upon the youth.
“Fellow countrymen, are you also from Yuan Province?”
Chu Guo forced a smile, holding the umbrella sword, and slowly approached the table on the right, speaking in the dialect of Yuan Province.
“Are you a kid from Yuan Province?”
The man sitting in the chief seat, bare-chested and with disheveled long hair, his feminine face marked by a long, thin scar, was lean but muscular.
The effeminate man had a long saber lying horizontally on his knees, and at the moment, he looked at the sword-carrying boy who was not more than ten years old and had taken the initiative to greet them, he opened his mouth with a smile: “You’re a lucky kid, following a good master, you must have enjoyed a lot of fortune in Qian State, right?”
This questioning carried a hint of mockery.
Chu Guo had paid close attention to the conversation at this table, and of course knew that it wouldn’t be long before these people would make their move.
Killing, looting, and desecrating, not one less.
If he didn’t take the initiative to strike first, his “good fortune” would abruptly come to an end today.
“Not at all.”
Chu Guo said with a wry smile, lamenting, “My Family Head is young and impetuous, blinded by infatuation, seeing that a servant girl had some beauty, insisted on eloping, thus inciting the wrath of our clan and getting demoted to Yu State…
Now we’re stuck in this desert after being ambushed by bandits on the way.
I haven’t been in the high household for long, and haven’t had a single good day.”
“???”
Deng Baiyi, behind the screen, almost spat out her tea upon hearing this rhetoric.
Xie Xuanyi couldn’t help but chuckle softly.
Where did this kid Chu Guo learn from?
Speaking nonsense like that, yet doing it with a flair.
“Oh?”
The interest of the bandit leader was piqued; he patted his underlings, instructing them to make room, then gestured for the young man to sit down.
He whispered with a chuckle, “I see that the little maid is fair and beautiful, also a sentimental fool, even willing to abandon a great fortune and elope willingly with your master?”
“Who is the sentimental fool these days?
My master’s misfortune is that he read too much in private schools, damaging his mind, and for the sake of a mere appearance, he even abandoned his family wealth,” stated Chu Guo as he apologized and took a seat, leaning in close, speaking in a barely audible voice, “If it wasn’t for a few silver coins, who would want to endure such hardship?
Honestly, the moment we left Qian State, we regretted it…
Anyway, now that we are out of Qian State, what counts as a fallen noble?”
“Interesting, interesting,” remarked the bandit leader, handing the young man a cup of wine, “Drink this cup, then continue talking.”
Chu Guo glanced at the cup of wine, showed no change in expression, drank it, and then slowly said, “My master can’t handle his liquor; he has drunk too much and already passed out…”
“What do you want to do?” the bandit chief sneered.
“Simple.”
Chu Guo said solemnly, “I’m new to Yu State and unfamiliar with the area; I would like to ask for help from the countrymen to choose a good feng shui spot and incidentally take care of the ‘trouble.’ Afterwards, we can split the profits fifty-fifty.”
The bandit leader beamed with a smile, “To kill or to bury?”
Chu Guo responded with a smile, “Either works.”