Destiny is ashes

Chapter 349: God’s Destiny (33)

The other side.

"Don't stop! Shimen Town is just ahead!"

In the snow, a big man in gray was shouting loudly, calling out to his brothers not to fall behind: "The residents there have been relocated for a short time, we can rely on the town for defense!"

"Don't be afraid if the monster catches up with you, I will cover your retreat!"

After hearing his words, the people who were originally very tired actually took a deep breath and continued to move forward.

Xu Tai, the head escort of Hanlang Escort Agency, was born under the fate of "cutting a path through every obstacle". He had a very famous nickname, "A promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold".

When he just returned from graduating from the martial arts academy, he eliminated a group of long-time bandits in the mountainous area of ​​his hometown. The entire mountain stronghold was defeated by him. From then on, he became famous in one battle and became a well-known warrior in the local area. He used the money saved by the old bandits as a foundation to open his own escort agency.

In the beginning, Xu Tai's reputation was not so good because he had a very strange habit, that is, if the money given was not enough for his psychological expectations, he would definitely not accept the job. Even if he was forced to accept the job, he would never guarantee whether the goods could be delivered.

Whenever someone criticized him for this, Xu Tai would retort, "You don't know how valuable your goods are and how many robbers they will attract?" "How much money do you want your father to risk his life for?" "One cent for one effort, the reward you give is worth the effort."

He was therefore called the 'money ghost' at that time, and for a time, the entire Hanlang Escort Agency could not receive any commissions.

Until one day, an orphan and his widowed mother asked for help everywhere, begging to send them back to Hongjiang from the vast sea.

The head of this family was once a famous lawyer in Baishan City. His father helped a raped woman win a lawsuit against a warrior. That warrior was the son of a famous local martial artist, which offended the local martial arts school.

He himself fell into the river and died, his eldest son was inexplicably hit and killed by a carriage, and his eldest daughter also disappeared. It is likely that they all ended up in a miserable way, leaving only orphans and widows.

Because the martial arts school is very powerful and even has five supernatural powers that are close to being a martial arts master, a martial arts master may emerge at any time, and no escort agency in the surrounding towns dares to take over the escort commission.

Xu Tai was willing to accept it, but asked for 1,500 taels of silver.

How could one possibly gather together 1,500 taels of silver? Although the lawyer made a lot of money, the family expenses were also high. The orphan and his widow scraped together all the money they could find, including the jewelry and banknotes at the bottom of the box, and only had less than 500 taels.

Xu Tai did not refuse: "In this case, I can only save your son's life."

"That's enough." The tired and haggard woman smiled bitterly. She actually knew that her family had almost no chance of survival and was now just struggling to survive.

Xu Tai led the team out without saying much. He knew the situation was dangerous, so he set up false formations many times, disguised himself in different routes, and even led the team away alone, but he was still discovered halfway and was besieged by a team of masked warriors in the mountains and forests.

This team of warriors were all good fighters, and they also hired local bandits to shoot arrows and attack. The woman died early from the arrows, but the young son was always protected in Xu Tai's arms.

He was carrying nine arrows and four swords, and he fought his way out of the encirclement with one sword each, trekked thousands of miles into the city, and was caught up and fought in the suburbs of the city. He broke through four divine powers in the battle, and then sailed south.

On Hongjiang River, he fought a fierce battle with the last warrior who insisted on chasing him, and finally knocked him down. He successfully delivered the young child back to the woman's hometown in good health.

By this point, Xu Tai had become famous and was known as the warrior most likely to break through to the Grandmaster level in the area around Broken Blade Mountain.

He is still the same person, contributing every penny he earns, but no one calls him a money ghost anymore. Instead, they call him "a man of his word".

Everyone knows that as long as enough money is paid and a promise is made, Xu Tai will do his best to complete it, even if it means traveling thousands of miles and crossing hundreds of rivers.

But this time, Xu Tai did not charge any money for the commission.

Due to the frost disaster, the monsters and ferocious beasts, demons and monsters in the Broken Blade Mountains began to gradually transform into a migrating tide, heading south. This process is the so-called "Beast Tide".

However, unlike in the story, the beast tide will avoid large human cities and will never actively attack. At most, they will trample on farmland along the way and destroy some unprotected villages. They will not invade any town with a little wall.

However, even so, their existence would block the roads, making it difficult to transport supplies into the city. Moreover, because these ferocious beasts mostly migrated in batches, the blockade would last for a long time.

Linjiang City was blocked by a tide of beasts. Many people whose hometowns were Linjiang City and surrounding towns and villages raised funds to purchase a batch of supplies in order to provide support to Linjiang City. As long as there were experienced warriors who could identify the waves of beast tide migration, they could transport these supplies into the city to solve the urgent problem.

Xu Tai was from the outskirts of Linjiang City, so naturally he was commissioned. He did not take any money this time, but just muttered, "I'll donate this labor fee to my hometown," and then led the team to start work.

There shouldn't be any danger. With his strength, let alone avoiding those ferocious beasts, even if he really encountered a migrating group of ferocious beasts, Xu Tai was confident that he could fight his way out - as long as he didn't encounter a big demon spirit in the mountains that was comparable to a martial vein, Xu Tai had enough confidence.

This was indeed the case. As if sensing that this team was not to be trifled with, the ferocious beasts and monsters walked around their team. But who knew that Xu Tai and others encountered an unexpected accident among unexpected accidents.

They were attacked by monsters.

"Monsters aren't uncommon... but why are there so many of them, and so strong?"

Feeling the evil gaze behind him, Xu Tai felt uneasy. This muscular man with messy hair and untidy clothes and a beard had a knife scar from his forehead to his nose to his chin. He frowned at the moment, and even the scar on his face was distorted: "The monster is still chasing me, damn it! There are more beast meats than people next door, why don't you go eat them!"

In his sight, he could vaguely see a dozen strange monsters running fast in strange postures. These monsters still roughly maintained the image of the beasts before being eroded, but their bodies were gray and white, losing all color, and their facial features collapsed into a hole. Deep in the hole, there was a faint light flashing, like fire and stars, but it was chilling.

These monsters should be [Erosion Demons], the most common monsters, which are normal creatures hatched by the erosion of demonic energy. Their strength ranges from being inferior to ordinary people to comparable to the strong.

Xu Tai had no problem dealing with a few of them, but these monsters were fearless and would rush over regardless of their injuries while other monsters were fighting. Although Xu Tai was tough, he was also afraid of those who didn't care about their lives. What's more, he was not alone this time, he had more than a dozen brothers with him, so naturally he could only abandon the monsters and escape temporarily.

"eccentric!"

Xu Tai gritted his teeth. He was a professional warrior who had studied at the martial arts academy. How could he not know the habits of monsters? Although there were many of these corrupted monsters, they were all randomly corrupted. Theoretically, it was impossible for them to gather together and coordinate to attack them... There must be a conspiracy behind this!
As to whether it is a real demon sect or some other demon sect, or some crazy lunatic, no one knows... and what they are transporting are just ordinary food and some medicines, what is there to be conspiring about?
Unable to figure it out, Xu Tai's heart suddenly skipped a beat. Then he drew his sword without thinking, turned around, raised it diagonally, and with a few clangs, he knocked down five icicles that were brought in by the biting cold wind.

But the fragments of the ice cone still grazed his cheek, leaving a bloody mark.

In the distance, the monsters let out strange roars, and the surrounding cold air swept and gathered with their roars, turning into cyclones spinning in the air. In the air masses, sharp ice blades and ice cones were condensing.

They aimed at Xu Tai and others from a distance and then fired at the same time.

"Oh no, these monsters can actually cast spells?!"

Xu Tai was an expert in martial arts, and he suffered some minor injuries from the concentrated fire and ambushed attack. However, his brothers in the escort agency were not so lucky. They were fired at with a volley of ice cones. Although most of them dodged them with their martial arts, one of them was pierced through the thigh by an ice cone. The warrior fell down with a scream, bleeding profusely, and his face turned pale with pain.

While in intense pain, the injured warrior, relying on his eyesight, vaguely saw another cold light condensing in the distance and aiming at his head.

Boom boom boom...

A dull sound was heard, which seemed to be his own heartbeat or the roar of blood flowing.

"coming soon!"

Xu Tai, who was facing the monsters, also heard the sound. He thought it was the roar of the monsters running together, but soon he realized something was wrong: "Wait, this sound..."

This sound did not come from the front, but from behind, from the side...

boom!
But before Xu Tai could figure it out, a silver-white shadow came rushing from behind him at lightning speed, smashing all the ice cones and ice blades, and then, without slowing down at all, it rushed into the group of monsters like a galloping chariot!
No! Xu Tai opened his eyes wide, because he saw that the silver-white shadow suddenly disappeared before it hit the group of monsters, and a very young figure appeared in its place.

The figure drew out a long sword. Then, the long sword turned into waves, a silver arc of light, sweeping across the five monsters in front of him.

"Master!"

Xu Tai shouted out subconsciously, he knew too well the value of the knife strike just now.

In fact, ordinary people's eyes cannot see very fast speeds, let alone the flying arrows of powerful crossbows, or even some fast-flying birds. Ordinary people cannot see the front end of a brandishing stick or sword clearly. They can only see a connected afterimage and a smooth sword light.

But warriors are different. In their eyes, ordinary crossbow arrows are like slow motion. Dodging them is more difficult than catching a falling snowflake.

But even the eyesight of Xu Tai and the other four supernatural masters could only see a flash of sword light, which was enough to prove that the speed at which the figure drew the sword and slashed had reached a level - the level of Lei Yin!

Kakakaka—boom!

It was like a thunderous explosion, followed by a short and crisp sound of bone cracking. In just this arc of light, five monsters' heads flew high into the air. These monsters also showed confused expressions. They lowered their heads, as if they had no idea why they were separated from their bodies.

But the figure did not stop. He took advantage of the momentum of the knife and took another step forward. The whole person was like a silver whirlwind, rushing into the group of monsters, slashing left and right, causing a wave of blood and limbs.

Everyone in the Hanlang Escort Agency was stunned. Even the warrior with the injured thigh stopped shouting. He just held the wound on his thigh and stared blankly at the figure who swept away all the monsters that they were chasing like chopping melons and vegetables.

In less than five snaps of the fingers, all the monsters were killed.

The figure put away his knife, picked up the body of a monster, and walked towards the people from the Hanlang Escort Agency while observing.

A few people moved slightly, as if they wanted to turn around and run away, or they might have instinctively wanted to draw their swords, but Xu Tai shouted, threw the sword at his waist aside, stepped forward to greet them, and said loudly: "I am Xu Tai from Hanlang Escort Agency. May I ask who you are, and what do you want us to do?"

If there is no ill will, warriors will explain their origins when they meet. The figure raised his head, looked away from the monster, and revealed a young and heroic face: "Hanbei Anjing, I want to go to Linjiang City, please show me the way."

"An Jing?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was in an uproar, and the leader Xu Tai's face was even more distorted. He looked at this young warrior who completely met all the requirements, and said in astonishment: "God, God's destiny is peaceful?!"

"Correct."

An Jing saw it and knew that he was completely famous. He said calmly, "It's me."

(End of this chapter)