Embers of Sword

Chapter 401 Demon Cave
Kill, or be killed?

This seems like a choice.

But in fact, Chu Guo knew he had no choice.

He stared at the table full of food in front of him, hesitated for a long time, then made up his mind, picked up a skinny leg of lamb, and bit it hard.

He wants to live!
"..."

Xie Xuanyi was a little surprised by the young man's sudden action. He wanted to say something but stopped himself. Finally, he watched the young man finish the lamb leg in front of him in silence.

Chu Guo hasn't had a good rest for a day.

In addition, we trekked through the desert for a full four hours.

Unlike Deng Baiyi, the latter is a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage after all. He has successfully practiced fasting and will not be affected even if he does not eat or drink for three or four days.

Chu Guo is still a mortal and has not even entered the "Qi Refining Realm".

A fierce battle ensued.

If you want to "survive", you must first "eat enough".

The young man tore the roasted lamb leg with all his strength. After a while, he had finished half of the food on the table. Seeing that Xie and Deng had not touched their chopsticks, he asked in confusion, "You don't want to eat?"

"We're not hungry."

Deng Baiyi spoke first, and with a strange look on her face, she reminded him cryptically, "You don't have to eat too much..."

"I know, these foods taste good, but the texture is a little weird."

The young man took a deep breath, wiped his mouth, then frowned and asked, "When will the fight start?"

"at any time."

Xie Xuanyi turned his head slightly and said calmly: "These people are already rubbing their hands and eager to try."

Pause.

Xie Xuanyi said slowly, "The table on the left is the bandits from Yuanzhou. Although they did not participate in the Pingzhi City riot, they contributed a little. The three tables on the right came from Wuzhou. They should have visited the cultivation sects in the wild mountains and ridges. There are two Qi Refiners here. Do you want to divide the work?"

Deng Baiyi took a deep breath, her mind had already scanned the area.

There were a total of twenty-seven people sitting at four large tables in the lobby on the first floor of the inn.

Chu Guo was a teenager after all, and had not yet mastered Qi training. Even if he made up his mind, he had no way of fighting against a Qi training master.

She said slowly: "I'm on the right, you're on the left."

"...What about the shopkeeper?"

Chu Guo wiped the corners of his lips with his sleeve to remove the oil stains, and his eyes darkened.

He was not in a hurry to leave the screen and take the initiative to attack.

"The master of this inn is at a very high level, and you cannot deal with him."

Xie Xuanyi smiled and said, "But don't worry, as long as you are ruthless, you can kill all these people. I can guarantee that no one else will interfere in this battle."

"it is good!"

Got such a reply.

The young man finally put his mind at ease.

He took another deep breath, grasped the spring breeze, pushed open the screen, and came to the noisy lobby. The people who were originally talking were all stunned for a moment, and their eyes fell on the young man.

"Are you from Yuanzhou too?"

Chu Guo forced a smile, holding his umbrella and sword, slowly walked to the table on the right, and spoke in Yuanzhou dialect.

"Is the kid from Yuanzhou?"

The man sitting on the main seat was shirtless, with long hair and a long scar running through his feminine face. He was thin but had solid muscles.

The feminine man held a long sword across his knees. He looked at the sword-holding boy in front of him who was no more than ten years old and took the initiative to greet him. He smiled and said, "You are lucky, you have a good master. You have enjoyed a lot in Qianzhou, right?"

These words sound somewhat ironic.

Chu Guo had just listened carefully to the conversation at the table. He knew, of course, that it wouldn't be long before this group of people would take the initiative to take action.

Murder, robbery, rape, nothing less.

If I don't take action first, this "good life" will come to an abrupt end today.

"Where."

Chu Guo smiled bitterly and said with emotion: "My master is young, but he is blinded by lust. When he saw that his maid was pretty, he wanted to elope. As a result, he aroused the wrath of the clan and was banished to Yuzhou... Now, his carriage encountered bandits on the way and was forced to be trapped in this desert. I have not been in Gao's house for long, but I have not had a good day."

"???"

Deng Baiyi, who was sitting behind the screen, almost spit out her tea when she heard this.

Xie Xuanyi couldn't help but chuckle.

Where did Chu Guo learn this from? He talks nonsense, but he looks pretty good.

"Oh?"

The bandit leader sitting in the main seat became interested, patted his men, asked them to move a seat, and then motioned the young man in front of him to sit down.

The bandit leader laughed softly and said, "I see that the young lady is fair-skinned and beautiful. It turns out she is also a lovesick person. Even if she throws away her millions of wealth, she is willing to elope with your master?"

"Who would be a lovelorn person these days? My master suffered because he studied in a private school and his brain was damaged. He even gave up his family property for a rotten skin."

Chu Guo smiled and took the initiative to sit down. He moved closer and lowered his voice: "If it weren't for a few pieces of silver, who would be willing to suffer? In fact, after this young lady and I left Qianzhou, we immediately regretted it... Anyway, we are no longer in Qianzhou. How can a nobleman who has lost his power be considered a nobleman?"

"Fun and interesting."

The bandit leader brought a cup of wine and handed it to the young man, saying, "Drink this cup and continue talking."

Chu Guo glanced at the wine cup, drank it without changing his expression, and then said slowly: "My master can't drink much, now he has drunk too much and is already drunk..."

"What do you want?"

The bandit leader sneered.

"Simple."

Chu Guo said in a deep voice: "I have just arrived in Yuzhou and I am unfamiliar with the place. I would like to ask you fellow villagers to help me choose a good Feng Shui location and take care of the 'trouble'. We will split the profits 50-50 afterwards."

The bandit leader smiled and asked, "Kill or bury?"

Chu Guo also laughed: "It's all the same."

“This piece of land is good.”

A big man at the table asked teasingly, "Kill first and bury later, or bury first and kill later?"

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this group of people were teasing the boy holding the sword.

"This land?"

Chu Guo pretended not to know and asked hesitantly, "Isn't this place a bit off?"

"Killing or burying is easy. It doesn't matter where you choose."

The bandit leader picked up the long knife, examined it, and said, "The important thing is, a fifty-fifty split is too little."

"Six-four, seven-three?"

Chu Guo was stunned for a moment, and said in a tangled way: "The bottom line I can accept is 82, any more is not acceptable."

"Too little."

The bandit leader wiped the blade with a blue cloth soaked in wine and said slowly, "We always do business very honestly. If we kill you, your master's money and women will all be ours."

"……good idea."

Chu Guo sighed, "Sure enough, Dali is rotten to the core. Why didn't the hooves of Chen Chong's cavalry crush the bones of you scum?"

The bandit leader's eyes widened.

The next moment, the young man who had been sitting near him suddenly drew out his umbrella sword.

Chu Guo practiced unsheathing and slashing thousands of times.

That's the only trick he has.

In the back mountain of Taoyuan, he faced the wooden man countless times but couldn't bring himself to do it.

But at this moment, all the acupoints and meridians of the human body appeared before his eyes. Chu Guo jumped up, without any hesitation, tightly grasped the long sword, and chopped down from the top of his head with all his strength. "Hua La!"

This sword was a thousand times sharper than Chu Guo had imagined.

The young man who had stumbled for four hours holding the umbrella sword had never felt that the sword was so light, as if someone had shared 90% of his weight with him, and when he raised the sword and swung it, he silently added 100% of his strength!

Draw the sword from its sheath and strike hard.

It's like cutting paper, or even more like chopping wood.

The Yuanzhou bandit leader, who had a naked upper body and bulging muscles but had not yet started practicing, was cut in half from the top of his head!
The entire wooden bench was cut in half!
This bloody scene immediately set off the entire inn.

"The little brat is pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger!"

"kill!"

The table of Yuanzhou bandits suddenly became chaotic, with swords drawn. Chu Guo, who was in the center of the chaos, opened his eyes wide. The whole world was extremely noisy, but his inner world was silent.

He never expected that his sword would be so effective!
Killed!

Is this murder?!
The pungent smell of blood rushed into Chu Guo's nostrils. He suppressed the dizziness in his heart and suddenly woke up. He quickly turned around and slashed out the second sword in panic.

Cross section.

If we say that the first chopping move still shows the shadow of more than ten days of hard training in the back mountain of Taoyuan.

Then this sword has no sword principles at all, it is just an ordinary, mundane sword swung randomly.

But the spring weeds are too sharp.

Even if it was just a random slash, it was a blow that ordinary people could not withstand.

"His!"

A stream of hot blood splashed onto Chu Guo's cheek.

He killed the second man, cutting him in half... But that was not the end, as the bandits drew their swords and rushed towards him.

Chu Guo hadn't started practicing yet, let alone learned how to kill people. He didn't have time to dodge when he felt a sharp pain in his back.

The powerful and heavy blow of the sword hit him on the back and knocked him to the ground.

A piercing pain surged into my heart.

The young man turned around with red eyes and swung the third sword. After witnessing the power of this "magic weapon", the attacker did not dare to use his full strength and dodged in panic. His long sword was cut in half by the umbrella sword and shattered. However, all the bandits surrounded him. One of them stepped back two steps, took out a long bow, put the bow on the string and shot an arrow, aiming at the young man's head.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow shot out and the screen shattered.

A white shirt fluttered out, and Deng Baiyi would no longer sit idly by. She swung out with her sleeves heavily, breaking the arrowhead halfway. She wanted to help Chu Guo kill the table of bandits from Yuanzhou after she appeared, and then deal with the Qi-refining practitioners from Wuzhou, but invisibly, a sword thought blocked her.

Xie Xuanyi, who was sitting in the middle of the screen, watched the scene indifferently.

Logically speaking, Chu Guo is the "prince" of the Chu State, a person worth a fortune. He should not suffer any harm.

It’s a pity that Xie Xuanyi doesn’t think so.

This group of Yuanzhou bandits may seem large in number and intimidating in appearance, but in fact they are nothing to be feared.

Killing one person will cause chaos.

Kill three people and the enemy will be afraid.

Kill five, and the rest will naturally be defeated and flee.

With the umbrella and sword at his side, Chu Guo launched a surprise attack and killed the bandit leader. From then on, as long as he was ruthless enough and fought desperately, he would be able to kill all the bandits!
"kill!"

"kill!!"

The inn was suddenly in chaos.

Deng Baiyi took the initiative to throw out the talisman, using the Taoist Five Thunder Talisman to gather a palm thunder, and smashed it towards the place where the Wuzhou Qi Refiner was.

The entire lobby of the inn was in turmoil. The servant holding the food tray was so scared that he pissed himself and quickly fled to the second floor.

"..."

Xie Xuanyi looked calm as he slowly raised his head and looked towards the second floor.

The screen was broken, and the two groups of people started fighting. The lobby was in turmoil, but where he was standing was a quiet place.

He left two divine thoughts, silently falling on Deng Baiyi and Chu Guo.

Although a disaster was set, it would not let the two of them really fall into a "death situation". If Chu Guo and Deng Baiyi really encountered an accident, such as encountering the extremely difficult to defend hidden arrow just now, this ray of divine thought would be stimulated... In fact, this method is redundant. With Xie Xuanyi's current realm, if he releases his divine thought a little bit, he can control the entire inn in his palm.

As long as he wanted, he could kill everyone with just a thought of destruction.

Finish these.

Xie Xuanyi slowly stood up, walked straight past the two groups of people fighting desperately, and walked towards the second floor step by step.

Just stepped onto the second floor entrance.

Then he saw the shopkeeper again, who was fat and had a face full of flesh.

The shopkeeper looked down through the gap in the stairs. There was quite a commotion in the lobby at the moment. Talismans and sword energy were flying everywhere, pots and pans were smashed, and tables and chairs were all overturned. It was estimated that 20 to 30 people died in this fight... However, although the shopkeeper looked unhappy at the moment, he was not too upset. He was able to keep his composure and said coldly: "Dear guest, you must compensate for the damage according to the market price."

"There are a total of one hundred taels of gold here."

Upon hearing this, Xie Xuanyi took out his waist bag and threw it on the ground with a dull thud.

The waist bag opened up, revealing a golden color.

The shopkeeper's expression eased a lot. He snorted coldly, squatted down with difficulty, stretched out his hand, and prepared to put the gold bag into his pocket.

The next moment, a sentence popped up out of nowhere.

"But...is this what you should take?"

The timbre of the voice seemed to have changed slightly.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, a little confused.

He subconsciously looked up, then widened his eyes, and a real fear emerged in the depths of his eyes.

The face of the young man in black in front of him gradually changed. Xie Xuanyi put his hands behind his back, looking down at the shopkeeper in front of him. His spiritual power drove the "Appearance of All Living Beings" to change his face... Several years ago, when he was traveling in Li Country, he also wore a mask and used a fake name. At this moment, his face gradually changed and became the same as when he stepped into the Yuzhou Desert that year.

"It's you?!"

The shopkeeper fell to the ground, his face as pale as paper.

More than ten years have passed.

He still remembered it very clearly.

Back when he was still a servant, a young man in black came here with a sword and killed so many people that the entire inn was filled with corpses.

More than ten years ago, the evil cultivators from southern Xinjiang traveled eastward and took root in the Yuzhou desert. They also built several magic caves. Yuzhou was originally a chaotic place outside the country. These evil cultivators gathered here, built inns, tricked people into staying, and ate flesh and sucked marrow. It was originally a good business that no one cared about, but unfortunately, they were killed by this young man...

"I felt sorry for you back then, so I spared your life and let you stay here so that you could find a way to make a living."

Xie Xuanyi said with disgust: "You are so good, you destroyed the demon cave and built another one, and you did all kinds of disgusting things..."

"grown ups."

The shopkeeper was about to cry and was about to explain.

"Shut up and get on your knees."

Xie Xuanyi said coldly: "Kowtow. Do not stop without my order."

The shopkeeper kowtowed loudly as if he had been pardoned, and the whole second floor was filled with the sound of banging.

Xie Xuanyi continued to walk towards the second floor.

The servant was shivering in the corner. He glanced at him and didn't bother to pay attention.

Go to the end.

No need to thank Xuanyi for pushing.

The wing room opened automatically, and a fragrant breeze blew in.

Xie Xuanyi looked down and saw a plump woman with half-undressed silk shirt. She had heard the noise outside a long time ago. She was kneeling on the ground, slowly raising her head, looking extremely seductive.

The woman's face was full of tears, and her voice was sobbing: "My benefactor, you are finally here! I have been waiting for you for many years!"

(End of this chapter)