I began to understand the myriad things by chopping wood

Chapter 196 Killing

After hearing what the proprietress said, the five people from the Yunshan Sword Sect all changed their expressions, made a few clangs, and instantly held the sword in their hands.

It turns out that all these people in this store, as well as many people in the whole town, are in the same group!

When Xie Yuan and his companions looked to the side, they saw that all the wealthy customers in the store stood up and surrounded them.

This wave really walked into a trap and was surrounded...

Xie Yuan and his companions stood back to back. Even Huang Zifeng looked cautious. There were too many people on the opposite side. Not to mention those inside the store, there were also people outside the store who were eyeing them covetously. It was hard to say whether there were any masters in the Qi and Blood Transformation Realm.

They confronted the horse bandits in silence. The hands of Lin Cheng and the other two who were holding their swords were sweating, and the atmosphere was heavy.

Just as a big fight was about to break out, the boss lady's lazy voice came from behind the counter:

"You know my rules. You have to fight outside."

The bandits all paused, looked cautious, and stepped back slightly, not daring to act rashly.

Seeing the bandits' reaction, Xie Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly.

Pei Yu reacted quickly, put away his sword slightly, turned around and asked:

"Madam, what are your rules?"

"Are you stupid? You are definitely not allowed to do that here! If you break a chair, you have to pay for one hand. If you break a table, you have to pay for one leg. This is my rule."

The proprietress said with a smile.

Seeing that the bandits didn't say anything, Xie Yuan thought to himself:
"This lady boss is not from Lu Laosan's group, but her words are so effective, it seems that her strength or influence is extraordinary."

He glanced around, assessing the situation:
"There is only one person who has undergone a Qi and Blood Transformation here, which is not bad. But there is no way of knowing how many people there are in Fengshaji. If I were alone, I wouldn't be afraid, but there are still a few of them..."

Xie Yuan shook his head slightly and could only take one step at a time.

Pei Yu stared at the boss lady:
"What if a few more are broken?"

"If your hands and feet are not enough to pay, then pay with your life. I'll chop it up and feed it to the dogs."

The proprietress said impatiently:
"Any other questions? If not, then you should get lost."

Pei Yu nodded and said calmly:
"If I stay in the store and the boss lady is here, I think they can't do anything to me."

The proprietress was startled and sneered:
"Want to eat for free? We are sorry that you are not welcome in this restaurant."

Pei Yu calmly took out another gold leaf from his lapel and placed it on the table:

"Is there enough food here for me to wait for a while?"

He thought the greedy lady boss would agree immediately, but she leaned back in her chair without even raising her eyelids, and just said calmly:

"Who do you take me for? Get lost! I'll only count to three."

"one."

Pei Yu was stunned. He had never expected this to happen.

Seeing that the proprietress was serious, Xie Yuan fixed his eyes and took the lead to walk out.

In his opinion, he would rather confront the huge group of Lu Laosan's men than to offend the proprietress.

Huang Zifeng was still struggling, but when he saw Xie Yuan had already taken a step, he gritted his teeth and shouted:
"go!"

Several people walked out of the hotel quickly. They were surrounded by a group of big men in black on the street, and the big men in the store also followed them out and surrounded them tightly.

Huang Zifeng saw this, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice:

"My fellow brothers and sisters, the real test has begun. If you win this time, I think you will all be able to enter the inner sect when you return."

He tried his best to cheer them up, because there were too many horse bandits, and even if they were all trained outside, he felt he couldn't handle it.

What’s more, among so many people, there must be someone in the Qi and Blood Transformation Realm leading the group.

There were no more onlookers or referees. Huang Zifeng himself held a sword and led the four people forward.

As several people moved, the encirclement slowly moved. The people in front of Huang Zifeng slowly retreated, all the way to the corner of the street. It seemed that they did not want to start a fight in front of the door of "The First Store in the Western Desert".

Just as they retreated across the street, suddenly, the bandit in front of Huang Zifeng stopped and chopped him on the head with a knife!

The shining blade illuminated Huang Zifeng's face and a green bamboo sword.

Before the horse bandit could react, his body suddenly froze, he dropped his knife, covered his throat, made a hoarse sound, and fell down.

The bandits in front were all stunned. Before they could see the sword light clearly, they were suddenly dazzled.

"what!"

"what--"

A series of screams rang out, and Huang Zifeng attacked with all his strength. The bamboo sword was extremely powerful, and a large amount of sword light was swung out, and the enemies in front of him were suddenly wiped out.

"Come with me!"

A corner of the encirclement was suddenly missing, and Huang Zifeng took the lead and rushed forward.

Xie Yuan and his four companions formed a formation with their backs to each other. Xie Yuan quietly fell behind and watched them vigorously wielding their swords, making it impossible for the surrounding horse bandits to get close to them for a while. Then they all went out together.

The five of them ran as fast as they could, heading out of the town. Along the way, bandits kept jumping down from the houses or roofs nearby, but they were all quickly killed by the Sword Sect's superb swordsmanship.

As they were getting closer and closer to the exit, Xie Yuan suddenly frowned and paused.

A swift black shadow rushed over from the side, the scimitar in his hand glowing coldly.

Huang Zifeng reacted quickly and swung his sword to the side in an instant. With a clang, he swung the scimitar away, and his arm also vibrated slightly.

He had a stern look on his face, knowing that a master had arrived, and he responded cautiously with his sword in hand.

Seeing that he could handle it, Xie Yuan felt relieved.

The current situation is still under his control, and he does not want to be exposed unless it is absolutely necessary.

Huang Zifeng quickly exchanged a few moves with the horse bandit leader and found that his opponent was also at the same level as his Qi and blood, but was no match for him.

However, the horse bandit was experienced in fighting, and when he saw that he was defeated, he quickly changed his strategy and just pestered him and refused to let him go, instead of fighting him head-on. Although Huang Zifeng's swordsmanship was sharp, he could not win quickly, and he had no way to deal with this leader.

He made a prompt decision and said in a low voice:
"You go first! I'll cover you and follow you later!"

"Senior Brother Huang..."

Lin Zhen hesitated for a moment, but was interrupted by Huang Zifeng:

"Let's go! Have you forgotten what the outer sect taught you? If you hesitate now, you will only hold me back!"

"Yes! Senior Brother Huang, please be careful!"

The few of them no longer hesitated and quickly passed by the two men. The bandit leader wanted to stop them, but was forced back by Huang Zifeng's two swords. He sneered and stopped trying, concentrating on dealing with Huang Zifeng.

Huang Zifeng felt uneasy when he saw the leader was so calm.

However, now he had only two choices: either to kill the leader immediately, or to fight for a while and wait for the four people to go far away before retreating. As for what the four people encountered, he could only hope that their training in the outer sect was enough to deal with it.

The four of them ran quickly, and just as they turned a corner, they were suddenly met with a dozen horse bandits, blocking their way.

A large group of people could be seen from behind, with enemies blocking the way in front and pursuing them from behind.

Lin Zhen took a deep breath and shouted:

"Brother, Senior Brother Pei, Junior Brother Zhang, we have no choice but to fight our way out!"

"it is good!"

Several people responded loudly and rushed forward with swords raised towards the dozen or so horse bandits.

There was a battle with swords and sabers.

Xie Yuan looked up and saw that the three men had already exerted their full strength. Wherever their swords passed, a cloud of blood was raised, causing the horse bandits to scream in pain.

Even though the Western Desert horse bandits were extremely brutal, the disciples from the main sect were still much stronger than them in terms of strength. It was just that their experience was too little compared to these thugs who had just emerged from the sword world, and they did not have the advantage in numbers.

But the three men grew rapidly after seeing blood. Even though they were outnumbered, they did not lose momentum at all. Often an enemy would fall after just a few moves.

However, the gap in numbers was still too big... Not to mention those chasing from behind, even people from the houses and alleys nearby joined the battle from time to time to replenish the fallen bandits.

This Fengshaji has become Lu Laosan's lair.

Xie Yuan estimated the speed of killing the enemy and the speed of the enemy's reinforcements:

"It doesn't seem like this is going to work."

The attack of the horse bandits had gradually separated the few people, and they were unable to take care of themselves. Seeing this, Xie Yuan took advantage of the situation and simply separated himself from the few people as much as possible.

"Junior Brother Zhang, be careful!"

Seeing this, Lin Zhen shouted loudly. Lin Cheng even ignored himself and wanted to rush over, but was forced back by several scimitars. He was very anxious.

Pei Yu gritted his teeth when he saw this, and reached out to touch something in his collar. However, he was not careful and was scratched by the knife on his back, and groaned.

Although he was not seriously injured, he still held his breath for a moment and could only take a defensive stance and regulate his breathing.

Xie Yuan was besieged by several people. He fought and retreated, and gradually turned a corner and was forced into a corner.

Seeing that his three companions were no longer visible, he stopped retreating and stood in the middle of the street, looking at the enemy in front of him.

There were four people here, ranging from second to fourth level training. Seeing that Xie Yuan was no longer running away, they looked at each other and grinned:
"Okay, just stop running, so that grandpa won't chase you..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly covered his throat and nodded a few times.

The other three didn't have time to react, their eyes went dark in an instant, and they fell to the ground.

Xie Yuan shook his sword slightly, shook off the blood, and glanced back.

Several horse bandits who came to reinforce were stunned when they saw the situation and slowly stopped.

"Who are you..."

The leader of the horse bandits shouted, but before he could finish, Xie Yuan looked up, smiled slightly, and then disappeared from the spot.

The bandit's heart tightened immediately, and he subconsciously raised his scimitar. It must be said that his martial artist's intuition was quite sharp, but unfortunately his movements were too slow, ahead of Xie Yuan.

A series of muffled groans sounded almost at the same time, and the group of horse bandits fell to the ground one after another like playing Pai Gow.

Xie Yuan appeared behind him, and his long sword once again produced a blood flower.

When the Yunlong Step was put into practice, these foreign horse bandits were unable to react at all.

He narrowed his eyes and looked towards the nearby alleys and shops. Bandits were coming one after another. He snorted and disappeared from the spot.

Short screams and muffled groans sounded one after another, and soon Xie Yuan appeared around the corner again.

Behind him, there was dead silence in that direction, and no more footsteps were heard.

Xie Yuan tidied himself up a little, then suddenly stopped, took a big step, and walked out of the alley on his own initiative.

Swah——

A sharp sword was handed over. Xie Yuan bent down and exclaimed:
"Brothers and sisters, don't draw your swords, it's me!"

He stuck his head out and saw three people coming together. They were all stunned to see that he was unharmed.

"Junior Brother Zhang! Are you okay?"

Lin Cheng was very surprised and was about to jump over to take a closer look when Xie Yuan rushed out to stop him:
"Brother Lin, I'm fine!"

Lin Cheng was hugged tightly by Xie Yuan. Thinking that he was too nervous, he patted him on the back:

"It's alright, Junior Brother Zhang, we've dealt with the enemy too! It's alright now."

"Well, Junior Brother Zhang, did you kill all those four people just now? You weren't injured?"

Seeing that Xie Yuan was unharmed, Pei Yu, who was usually taciturn, asked in surprise.

Lin Zhen and Lin Cheng also stared at Xie Yuan, and were surprised to see that he was in such good shape.

Xie Yuan nodded honestly:

"Just now I was about to be defeated, but suddenly an idea came to me, and it seemed that my sword skills became much faster, and I managed to kill them all."

The three of them looked at each other and suddenly realized, is this a breakthrough under the pressure of life and death? Junior Brother Zhang is really lucky.

Lin Zhen said quickly;

"Although we have killed all the enemies in this wave, the ones behind are catching up with us soon. We should go from here..."

"No! This is a dead end."

Xie Yuan shook his head and pointed in a direction:
"Let's go from that side!"

The three of them were stunned for a moment, and seeing that Xie Yuan had already started walking, they had no choice but to follow.

Pei Yu frowned slightly. Is there a dead end here?
He subconsciously looked back and found that a large pool of blood was slowly flowing out from the corner and was still flowing along the street.

Pei Yu was stunned for a moment, without thinking much, but secretly thought that these four people were quite vigorous.

A few people left from another road, leaving this corner in complete silence.

Fluttering its wings, a crow saw that there was no movement here, so it landed on the eaves and looked down at the street.

There were corpses lying densely on the ground, blood flowing like a river, and it was quiet and silent.

If Lin Cheng had taken one more step just now, he would have seen this scene.

Karma——

The crow cawed a few times, somewhat excited.

In a few days, it will be a feast here.

The four of them walked quickly out of the town, looking back from time to time.

There was a loud sound of weapons clashing over there, and it was obvious that Huang Zifeng was fighting an enemy at the Qi and Blood Transformation Realm.

"I wonder how Senior Brother Huang is doing?"

Lin Zhen said this with some concern.

Xie Yuan shook his head:
"He's very strong, he'll be fine."

He just saw that the opponent's strength was far inferior to Huang Zifeng's. At most, he could delay him for a while. If Huang Zifeng wanted to leave, the opponent would definitely not be able to stop him.

At this time, Pei Yu came over, handed him a ball, and whispered:

"You are weak, use it for self-defense."

When Xie Yuan heard this, he was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, he suddenly heard a shout.

"Be careful, there are enemies ahead! There are really only bandits here..."

Lin Cheng shouted in a low voice, and several people were startled. Sure enough, they saw a group of horse bandits coming from the front.

The two sides quickly engaged in a fight. This time, Xie Yuan had laid the groundwork and showed a little more strength. With just a few swipes of his sword, the enemy fell, causing the other three people in the fierce battle to look at him with a bit of surprise.

But just like before, the horse bandits were everywhere and there were just too many of them.

I don’t know why Lu Laosan has deployed so many troops here?
Xie Yuan shook his head and tried his old trick again. He was surrounded by a group of people and seemed unable to defeat them, so he slowly retreated to the side.

"Junior Brother Zhang! Junior Brother Zhang has been taken away again!"

The three of them were very anxious. They saw Xie Yuan being forced around the corner by several people, and his sword moves suddenly became faster.

But after a while, they saw Junior Brother Zhang alone, running back from the side alley with a sword in hand, while the group of horse bandits had disappeared.

"Uh, Junior Brother Zhang is back again..."

Seeing the three people slowing down and looking at him, Xie Yuan smiled shyly:
"I was just scared and swung my weapons randomly. I don't know how I killed all the enemies again."

The three of them were a little bit incredulous. Junior Brother Zhang had a physique that became stronger with each battle?

There was no time to think about it. The number of reinforcements from the bandits seemed to be much smaller. The four of them joined forces and quickly killed all the enemies.

After killing these two groups of bandits, there were only a few enemies blocking the road. Even if there were some scattered enemies, they looked at them with great fear and did not dare to move forward.

Pei Yu sneered:
"The bandits are just bandits, a bunch of rabble. There are so many of them, but they got scared after only two of them died."

"Brother Pei is right."

Xie Yuan nodded in response.

A moment later, the four of them successfully rushed out of the town and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"I don't know if Senior Brother Huang..."

They were still worried when they saw a very fast shadow flying out of the town. It was Huang Zifeng.

Huang Zifeng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they were fine:

"I'm glad you're okay. I was afraid you'd be surrounded, but there aren't more horse bandits than I thought."

Several people felt that the horse bandits in the town this time were more noise than action, and for some reason they seemed not to be as numerous as they seemed.

Xie Yuan had a simple and honest face. He waited for his senior brothers and sisters to discuss for a few words, and then he heard Huang Zifeng say decisively:
"Let's go! I don't know what Lu Laosan's bandit gang is doing here, let's leave this place first!"

After several rounds of fighting, they suffered some casualties and quickly ran back.

With their internal energy surging and their skills enhanced, once they break free from the cage, these horse bandits will naturally never be able to outrun them.

unless……

After running for a while, they suddenly felt the ground shaking and the yellow sand trembling. They looked at each other and stared.

They have been fighting in the streets of town and seem to have forgotten something.

This is a group of horse bandits!
Looking back, I saw hundreds of people riding tall horses, short horses and camels on the sand dunes, rushing towards us in an uneven manner and gradually closing the distance.

Xie Yuan frowned slightly and looked at the three or four people in the lead. They all seemed to be in the Qi and Blood Transformation Stage. It was likely that all the horse bandits in Fengshaji were out in full force.

Why make such a fuss?

"You killed so many of us and you still want to run away!"

The leading bandit shouted angrily.

Xie Yuan was silent for a moment, then turned and ran.

Huang Zifeng and his men gritted their teeth. This group of horse bandits was quite united. They felt that they had not killed that many people.

"run!"

Huang Zifeng shouted, and they accelerated again instantly.

If it was a street fight in the city, Xie Yuan would have no problem killing these people slowly with his skills.

However, the desert plain was in full view, and he also felt that this cavalry of a hundred warriors led by several people who had undergone Qi and Blood Transformation was very difficult to deal with.

If he used the Cloud Dragon Step and the Sky Hidden Technique, he would have no problem escaping, but he would definitely not be able to outrun the remaining companions.

Even for Huang Zifeng, who had reached the first level of Qi and Blood Transformation, although he was faster in short periods of time, he might not be able to beat Ma Li in long-distance rushes. What's more, he was accompanied by several fellow disciples, and the yellow sand affected their speed. Although the majestic West Gate was visible from afar, it was at least half a day's distance away.

Seeing the bandits getting closer, Huang Zifeng gritted his teeth and seemed to be about to make up his mind. Xie Yuan sighed.

Forget it, he also wanted to see what Lu Laosan was doing anyway.

The five of them ran forward in a disorganized manner, and Xie Yuan gradually fell behind. Huang Zifeng frowned and was about to ask him to catch up, but suddenly he saw him tumble and fall on the sand.

The other four were running at full speed, and by the time they realized what was happening, they had already rushed a distance. They were horrified, and were about to turn back to rescue him, when they saw Xie Yuan lying in the sand, holding up his hands and shouting tragically:

"Let's go! Senior brothers and sisters, leave me alone! They don't dare to kill me now that I have revealed my identity. Go back and ask for help!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of horse bandits rushed up and overwhelmed him.

(End of this chapter)