Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 70 Fight to the death
Lieutenant Xie followed the sound with his sword in hand, but he only saw Ren Yuan and the other two. He couldn't help but sneer and said, "Oh, you two ran away separately? Did you two deliberately lure me here to cover the other two's escape?"

"That's right." Ren Yuan nodded and said loudly, "You are too busy to do anything, right?"

"Hahaha, what a joke." County Lieutenant Xie laughed, "They can't escape anyway, I'll cut you two into pieces first, and then it won't be too late to chase them!"

"Xie Gui, you are not only blind, but also deaf. Haven't you figured out who I am yet?" Ren Yuan deliberately made his identity clear to buy some time.

In order to let Xie Gui recognize him, he wiped off the dust with his sleeve.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the two sides faced each other for the first time. Xie Gui stared at Ren Yuan's face, his eyes stern and he said: "Xie Cheng, you are not dead yet?!"

"Hahaha, Uncle Sixteen is disappointed!" Ren Yuan laughed up to the sky and said, "Your subordinates are not doing their job well. As expected, like master, like servant!"

"You!" Xie Gui's forehead was throbbing with veins. Ren Yuan always made him angry easily. "If you were lucky enough to escape, why don't you just run as far away as possible? But you have to come back to die. As your uncle, I have no choice but to oblige you!"

As he said this he raised the demon-slaying sword.

"Wait a minute!" Ren Yuan raised his hand and said mysteriously, "Don't you want to know why I had to come back?"

"I just want to know how to make you die more quickly!" County Lieutenant Xie grinned. How could an old criminal like him be led by the nose?
"Then you don't want to know how Curry's 60,000 strings of money disappeared?" Ren Yuan shouted again hurriedly.

Xie County Lieutenant's knife barely stopped again. He really wanted to know the answer. The four-character spirit writing of "not in this world" had troubled him for many days.

He calmly used the Qianlong Wenqu technique, looked directly into Ren Yuan's eyes and said, "Why don't you tell the truth?!"

"It was done by an enlightened ancestor of our Xie family!" Unfortunately, Ren Yuan had already experienced this trick and had a way to deal with it. Before Xie Gui made a serious move, a soul-calming talisman was enough to resist.

"My life was also saved by that old ancestor!" he said confidently.

"Ancestor? Which ancestor?" Xie Gui was stunned by this outrageous answer.

"He didn't say anything, he just said that he had an idea and figured out that the Xie family's children were going to cause a disaster, so he came to stop them." Ren Yuan said seriously, "The disaster he was talking about was your robbing of the tomb of Donghunhou, which would bring disaster to the Xie family!"

"You also said that if you hadn't let Donghun Hou go, no one would know that I had robbed the tomb!" Xie Gui immediately broke down his defense.

"Uncle Sixteen, what you said is wrong. I am just remedying the situation according to the method taught by our ancestors!" Ren Yuan said calmly.

"You've already pierced the sky, and you're still trying to fix it!" Xie Gui's face flushed, but his instinct for survival prevailed, and he asked, "How do I fix it?"

"..." Ren Yuan then told Xie Gui how to crack the code. Although Xie Gui still didn't quite believe it, he didn't interrupt him, thinking that it would be good to listen, just in case he could find a way to survive.

Tian Liangzi on the side was stunned. He didn't expect that this kid could really rely on his mouth to drag the matter out for a quarter of an incense stick of time.

If it were me, I would have been chopped into eel pieces by Xie Gui by now...

But it could only be dragged on till here. At this moment, the ground shook slightly, and heavy footsteps rumbled, and the group of stone statues finally came over following the sound!
Xie Gui suddenly came back to his senses, put two fingers on his temple, his eyes shone with divine light, and he used the Qianlongwenqu technique to the extreme, and asked angrily: "Are you telling the truth?!"

Ren Yuan's soul-calming talisman instantly turned into dust. He laughed loudly, "Hahaha, of course I was lying to you, idiot!"

"Looking for death!" Realizing that he was fooled, Xie Gui flew into a rage and stretched out his hand to grab Ren Yuan's face. "Your opponent is me!" Tian Liangzi laughed loudly, revealed his true form and stood in front of Ren Yuan, and whipped Xie Gui away with his tail!
Xie Gui landed on the stone hill with both feet, looked at the giant yellow eel that was more than ten feet long, and sneered: "I knew you were not human!"

As he spoke, he swung the demon-slaying sword, and a blood-red blade energy slashed towards Tianliangzi's huge body.

Ren Yuan saw this and quickly pasted a copper head and iron arm talisman on Tian Liangzi. However, a large cut was still made on the eel's body, and blood was flowing.

"Hahaha, don't waste your energy! This sword is called 'Demon Slayer', and it's specifically designed to defeat demons and evil spirits. Once you're hit by the sword, just wait for your blood to flow out!" County Lieutenant Xie laughed wildly and swung the sword repeatedly. Even though Tian Liangzi dodged quickly, he was still hit by two swords.

Tian Liangzi screamed in pain, and suddenly a powerful water mine exploded, hitting Xie Gui's chest.

Xie Gui was unable to dodge and was hit directly. With a loud bang, the stone hill he was standing on was blown to the ground.

However, he was unharmed under the protection of the Qingming hand shield. He rushed out of the smoke like a meteor and chopped at the big yellow eel with his knife!
"Suffer to death!"

Before Xie Gui could strike with all his strength, a grayish-white figure suddenly rushed out from the side and knocked him away!

The next moment, stone men and stone beasts came one after another, filling up the originally small open space.

The targets of these stone statues' attack were all outsiders, so half of them went straight to Xie Gui, while the other half stopped and surrounded and beat Tian Liangzi.

Tianliangzi was beaten and screamed in pain, but the damage caused by those stone statues was indeed not comparable to that of the demon-slaying sword.

Moreover, Ren Yuan's copper head and iron arm talisman has a defensive effect against the attacks of these stone men and stone beasts. Sticking them on one after another can always help Tian Liangzi withstand most of the explosive hammers.

Although Xie Gui was attacked by surprise, he was in much better condition. He used his body skills to avoid the attacks of the stone men and beasts. If he couldn't avoid them, he used the Qingming hand shield to neutralize them, and he didn't suffer any damage.

But he had no way to deal with these stone statues. They were not monsters, and they were not afraid of the sword of the demon-slaying sword. The extremely solid stone bodies could not be cut hard. As a result, it became a situation where no one could do anything to anyone.

He was trying to figure out how to break the impasse when he suddenly saw a stream of purple air rising up from behind the giant eel and rushing into the sky!

Although Xie Gui didn't know what that thing was, he immediately realized the danger. Only then did he realize that there was someone hiding there, preparing a powerful move! And it was the kind that could hurt him!
This time he no longer cared about whether he would get hurt. With a roar, his body turned into a shadow and rushed straight towards the purple light.

"This road is blocked!" Tian Liangzi had been staring at him and immediately stopped Xie Gui, and launched another extremely yang water dragon explosion!

Xie Gui raised his left arm and used the Qingming hand shield to block most of the damage, then he took advantage of the situation with his right hand and slashed heavily on Tian Liangzi's head.

Tian Liangzi's skin was torn and his head was covered with blood. The wounds were horrific, but he did not retreat. He continuously sprayed water dragon cannon to delay Xie Gui's attack.

But Xie Gui's agility was so cunning that he not only avoided his water dragon cannon completely, but also found time to slash him a few more times.

Then he was surrounded by stone statues and had to deal with these annoying guys who could not be killed or driven away.

ps. There are more to come.

(End of this chapter)