Chapter 605 - 605 126 Demon Cave_2
605: Chapter 126 Demon Cave_2 605: Chapter 126 Demon Cave_2 “This place isn’t bad.”
A burly man at the table joked, “Should we kill first then bury, or bury first then kill?”
Anyone with eyes could see, these men were teasing the sword-carrying boy.
“This place?”
Chu Guo feigned ignorance, hesitatingly asking back, “Isn’t this place not so great?”
“Killing and burying are easy to discuss, it’s the same wherever we choose.”
The bandit leader lifted his long saber, scrutinizing it as he spoke, “The important thing is, a fifty-fifty split is too little.”
“Sixty-forty, seventy-thirty?”
Chu Guo hesitated, struggling to say, “The lowest I can go is eighty-twenty; any more than that is impossible.”
“Too little.”
The bandit leader wiped the blade with a blue cloth soaked in alcohol, taking his time as he said, “We do business by taking everything.
Kill you, and your master’s money, women, all become ours.”
“…Good idea.”
Chu Guo sighed, “It’s true that Da Li has rotted to the core.
Why didn’t Chen Chong’s Iron Cavalry smash the bones of you scum into pieces?”
The bandit leader’s eyes widened.
The next moment, the young man who was sitting inconspicuously near him suddenly drew his umbrella sword.
Chu Guo had practiced the draw and slash thousands of times.
It was the only move he knew.
In Taoyuan Back Mountain, he faced the wooden man dummy countless times but couldn’t bring himself to strike.
But in this moment, when the human body’s acupoints and meridians, all appeared before his eyes, Chu Guo exploded into action without a trace of hesitation, gripping the long sword tightly, using all his strength to slash downward from the crown of the head.
“Wham!”
This sword was far sharper than Chu Guo had imagined.
The young man who carried the umbrella sword and staggered for four hours never felt the sword so light.
It was as if someone had taken on ninety percent of the weight for him, adding a hundred percent of the force silently while he swung!
Drawing the sword from its sheath, a clean cut to the end.
Like cutting paper, like chopping wood.
The bare-chested bandit leader with bulging muscles from Yuan Province, who had yet to start cultivation, was just like that, sliced in two from the crown of his head!
The whole wooden bench was also split in two!
This bloody scene instantly set off chaos throughout the entire inn.
“Little brat playing possum!”
“Kill him!”
The bandits from Yuan Province at the table immediately erupted into chaos.
Swords were drawn, and situated in the thick of it, Chu Guo’s eyes widened.
The whole world was filled with clamor, yet his inner world was silent.
He never thought that his sword would be so effective!
He had killed someone!
He had really killed someone?!
The pungent smell of blood rushed into his nostrils.
Chu Guo suppressed the dizziness in his head, suddenly alert.
He quickly turned around and made a frantic second strike.
A horizontal cut.
If the first downward slash somewhat reflected the arduous practice of over ten days in Taoyuan Back Mountain,
Then this sword strike had no sword principles at all, merely a chaotic slash made by a commoner.
But the Spring Breeze Grass was just too sharp.
Even a casual slash was more than a commoner could bear.
“Hiss!”
A spray of hot blood splattered across Chu Guo’s cheeks.
He killed the second person, chopping him in half at the waist…
but it wasn’t over.
The bandits drew their swords and surged towards him.
Chu Guo hadn’t started his cultivation yet, let alone learned how to kill.
Unable to dodge in time, a sharp pain shot through his back—
A powerful and heavy horizontal slice struck him squarely, knocking him to the ground.
The intense pain penetrated his Heart Sea.
The young man turned with bloodshot eyes and swung out his third sword, having witnessed the prowess of this “Divine weapon.” The sneak attacker didn’t dare to exert his full strength, scrambling to dodge.
The long sword was cut in two by the umbrella sword and shattered, but the bandits from Yuan Province surrounded him.
Someone stepped back and drew a bow to shoot an arrow aimed at the young man’s head.
“Whoosh!”
The arrow flew, and the screen shattered.
Dressed in white, Deng Baiyi couldn’t sit idly by anymore; she flung her sleeve forcefully, shattering the arrowhead midway.
She had intended to appear and help Chu Guo kill the Yuan Province bandits and then deal with the Qi Refining Master from Yu State, but invisibly, a sword thought blocked her way.
Sitting right in the middle behind the screen, Xie Xuanyi looked on indifferently at the scene.
Logically speaking, as “Prince” of Chu Country, Chu Guo was of precious status, and should not suffer any harm in the hall.
Unfortunately, Xie Xuanyi did not think so.
These Yuan Province bandits may seem numerous and intimidating, but in reality, they are nothing to be afraid of.
Kill one, and chaos ensues.
Kill three, and they are gripped with fear.
Kill five, and the rest will naturally crumble and flee.
With the umbrella sword at hand and Chu Guo’s stealthy strike to behead the bandit leader, all that’s needed is enough ruthlessness, to display a desperate vigor, and it would be possible to annihilate all these bandits!
“Kill!”
“Kill!!”
The inn suddenly erupted into chaos.
Deng Baiyi took the initiative to throw a talisman, summoning a Hand Palm Thunder with the Taoist Five Thunders Talisman, and hurled it towards the location of the Qi Refining Master from Yu State.
The entire inn’s main hall plunged into turmoil, and the serving boy holding a food tray, upon seeing this, wetted himself in fear and hastily fled to the second floor.
“…”
Xie Xuanyi remained calm, slowly raising his head to look towards the second-floor area.
As the folding screen shattered and two groups clashed in the main hall, the place became turbulent, but where he stood was instead a haven of tranquility.
He left behind two Divine Thoughts, quietly falling upon Deng Baiyi and Chu Guo.
Though he had set up a perilous situation, he would not really let them fall into a “deadly plight.” If Chu Guo and Deng Baiyi were indeed to encounter an accident, say, the hard-to-defend sneak arrows from just now, these strands of Divine Thoughts would activate…
In reality, this tactic was superfluous.
With Xie Xuanyi’s current realm, just a slight external release of Divine Thought was sufficient to grip the entire inn in the palm of his hand.
If he wished, with a single thought of annihilation, he could kill everyone present.
Having done all this.
Xie Xuanyi slowly got up and walked straight through the two fiercely battling parties, step by step, towards the second floor.
He had just stepped onto the entrance of the second floor.
There he saw the same corpulent shopkeeper with a face full of flesh.
The shopkeeper, peering down through the gaps in the stairwell, could see that the commotion in the main hall was truly significant, with talismans and Sword Qi flying everywhere, pots and pans all smashed, and tables and chairs upturned.
He estimated that twenty or thirty people would die in this skirmish…
However, although the shopkeeper’s face looked unpleasant at this moment, he remained composed and managed to contain his breath, coldly speaking, “Esteemed guest, damages and losses must be compensated at market rates.”
“There is a total of a hundred taels of gold here.”
Upon hearing this, Xie Xuanyi took out his waist pouch and threw it to the ground, producing a dull, heavy thud.
The pouch opened, revealing a full display of glittering gold.
The color on the shopkeeper’s face eased quite a bit, and with a snort, he awkwardly squatted down, extending his hand, preparing to gather the gold bag into his sack.
In the next moment, a sentence unexpectedly blurted out.
“However…
is this something that you should take?”
The tone of the voice seemed to have changed slightly.
The shopkeeper froze for a moment, slightly bewildered.
He instinctively looked up, then his eyes widened, revealing an unmistakable fear deep within them.
In front of him, the young man in black’s face was gradually changing.
Xie Xuanyi stood with his hands behind his back, looking down on the shopkeeper, and with Divine Thought, he shifted his face using “All Living Beings”…
Years ago, when he was traveling in Li Kingdom, he also wore a mask and used a false name.
Now, his face was slowly transforming into the appearance he had when he entered the great desert of Yu State all those years ago.
“Is it you?!”
The shopkeeper collapsed onto the floor, his face pale as paper.
After more than a decade.
He still remembered it very clearly.
Back then, when he was still a serving boy, a young man in black, alone with his sword, came to this place and left the inn filled with corpses.
More than ten years ago, the Southern Border Evil Cultivators traveled eastward and took root in the Yu State desert, even building several Demon Caves.
Yu State, already a chaotic territory of Li Kingdom, became a gathering place for these Demon Cultivators.
Building inns to deceive guests, feasting on flesh and sucking marrow, were perfect, unscrutinized flourishing businesses, but unfortunately, they were completely annihilated by this young man…
“Back then, I spared your pathetic life out of sympathy, allowing you to take over as the shopkeeper and find a way to make a living for yourself.”
Xie Xuanyi said expressionlessly, “But how good of you, the Demon Cave was destroyed, and you built another, engaging in such nauseating deeds…”
“My lord.”
The shopkeeper was on the verge of tears and just about to explain.
“Kneel.”
Xie Xuanyi said coldly, “Bow your head.
Without my command, you do not stop.”
The shopkeeper, as if granted amnesty, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and the whole second floor echoed with the pounding sounds.
Xie Xuanyi continued to walk towards the second floor.
The young serving boy hid in the corner trembling; he glanced at him but couldn’t be bothered with him.
Upon reaching the end.
Without Xie Xuanyi exerting any force.
The room door gently opened, and a whiff of fragrant breeze greeted him.
Xie Xuanyi looked down to see a woman with her robe half-unraveled, exuding charm.
Having heard the noise from outside, she was prostrating on the floor, slowly raising her head with tears streaming down her face, her voice sobbing, “My benefactor, you’ve finally come, I have been waiting so distressfully for so many years!”