Great Love for All Heavens Begins with Huang Yaoshi

Chapter 240 Demon, do you think you can run faster, or is my sword faster?
The next day, morning.

As Zhuang Buran walked outside Yong'an Pawnshop, he heard a commotion inside.

"Jing Tian, ​​it's one thing for you to skip work without a valid reason, but not long after you came back, you gave away our Yong'an Pawnshop's prized possession to a complete stranger. Have you been blinded by greed?!"

"What stranger? This is my sister!"

"What sister? I know how many people are in your family. Hurry up and make her take it off."

"Anyway, I owe you wages for decades. Consider this flowing fairy dress as a purchase. You can calculate it for hundreds more years, and let my descendants work for you. Is that alright?"

"Okay, this is what you said."

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Buran had already entered Yong'an Pawnshop and saw the stout Xu Maoshan, the thin young man He Biping, the cunning Yong'an Pawnshop manager Zhao Wenchang, and the clerk Ding Shiyan.

Beside Jing Tian sat a gentle and virtuous girl in blue.

"Manager Zhao, I have come today specifically to redeem Brother Jingtian from his bondage."

"Who are you?" Zhao Wenchang asked with a look of surprise and doubt.

"His name is Xu Changqing, and he's one of my men." Jing Tian, ​​as if seeing a savior, got up and walked over to ask quietly:

"You, a Taoist priest from the deep mountains, really have spare money to redeem me?"

Zhuang Buran said softly:

"A sword immortal who can traverse the heavens and mountains with a flying sword would never be troubled by life."

"That's great! Please help me redeem Maomao, Biping, and Uncle Ding as well," Jingtian said excitedly.

Zhuang Buran casually took a money pouch from the cloth bag slung across his shoulder and handed it to Zhao Wenchang:
"This should be enough, right?"

Zhao Wenchang opened the money bag, and everyone present, except for the girl in blue, stared in disbelief. The money bag was full of gold.

"Uncle Xu, you're incredibly wealthy!"

Zhuang Bu Ran smiled and said:

"Brother Jingtian, the mission is urgent, we should set off."

"Alright, I'll take Maomao and Biping to pack our things first."

Jing Tian clicked his tongue, glanced at Zhao Wenchang who was constantly counting gold, and led his men to the back hall with a big smile.

Before long, only Zhuang Buran and the girl in blue were at the table.

"Miss, I just heard Brother Jingtian say that you are her sister. May I ask how I should address you?"

The girl in blue lowered her head somewhat guiltily and said:

"Night Sunflower."

"You seem to have an injury on your leg. Would you like me to treat it for you?"

"Need not."

"Brother Jingtian and I are leaving Yuzhou City soon, are you sure you don't need to?"

"That would be troublesome."

As Zhuang Buran was casting a spell to heal Longkui, Zhao Wenchang brewed a pot of fine tea and came over, saying:
"Master Changqing, we can actually discuss other business opportunities, for example..."

Zhuang Buran interrupted directly:
"Manager Zhao, the gold I gave you earlier should be enough for you to buy an oil-paper umbrella, right?"

"Of course I can deliver it." Zhao Wenchang said with a broad smile.

“Master Changqing, we can actually talk about other business deals. For example, I think you are more suitable than me to be the owner of Yong'an Pawnshop.”

Zhuang Buran politely declined:
"I have urgent business to attend to and cannot stay in Yuzhou City for long,"

Having said that, he healed the girl in blue's leg injury and then said:

"Miss Longkui, the sun is blazing outside. You are frail, so you would be better off carrying an umbrella."

The girl in blue was slightly taken aback, her eyes showing surprise.

Tea time.

Zhuang Buran, Jing Tian, ​​Long Kui, and Xu Maoshan arrived outside Yuzhou City when suddenly a panting shout rang out behind them:

"Hero Changqing, Hero Changqing, wait for me."

"Young Miss, with your bag and sword in hand, are you perhaps planning to venture out into the martial world?"

Jing Tian scratched his head:

"Something's not right. How did you know we were planning to leave Yuzhou City?"

"Hmph, Zhao Wenchang is related to my third uncle, so naturally I know some things immediately."

Tang Xuejian glanced at Jing Tian and immediately said to the white-robed sword-wielding youth, "These days, my grandfather has been saying that I have too little experience and that I am progressing too slowly."

"So, when I heard about Master Changqing, I rushed over immediately."

Zhuang Buran said calmly:

"Miss Tang, you've run away from home."

Tang Xuejian gave an awkward smile:
"I still couldn't hide it from Master Changqing, but I left a letter for my grandfather. He'll definitely feel at ease letting me go out and explore the world with you."

Even at the very end, she didn't forget to add a sentence:
"I will absolutely not hold anyone back. I even brought the Five Poison Beast, our treasure, with me before I left."

Jing Tiancai, unwilling to travel with this spoiled and willful young lady of the Tang Clan, immediately spoke up:
“Hey, we have an important mission to carry out. You should hurry back so that Lord Tang won’t worry about you.”

"You're still as annoying as ever. You want to be a great hero but you're bad at martial arts. You want to be the manager of Yong'an but you don't work hard. You want to make a fortune but you only know how to gamble."

Tang Xuejian looked at him with disdain:
"If someone like you can go on missions with the great hero Changqing, why can't I?"

"A scholar should be viewed with new eyes after three days' absence," Jing Tian said arrogantly.
“Young Miss, let me tell you, I am no longer the Jing Tian I used to be, and the Changqing you mentioned is now my subordinate.”

Tang Xuejian said incredulously:
"what?"

“Brother Jingtian, the mission is of utmost importance. Miss Tang’s willingness to come is a great help, as each additional person adds to our strength.”

After Zhuang Buran finished speaking, Jing Tian suddenly remembered that Tang Family Fort was the local tyrant of Yuzhou City. If he sent this young lady back, who knew what kind of trouble she would cause? So he coughed lightly.
"Alright, for your sake and for the sake of Old Master Tang, let her help me complete this important mission."

"Since there are quite a few people now, let's board my Shushan Immortal Ship."

Zhuang Buran took out a small object from the cloth bag, and as he silently recited the incantation, the small object in his hand flashed with light.

Everyone opened their eyes wide and saw a spaceship, four or five zhang long, resembling a dark blue dragon, appearing before them. The ship's hull was shimmering with golden spiritual light and covered with various runes.

Jing Tian said with great envy:

"White tofu, your Shu Mountain really has all kinds of magical artifacts."

"The ancient vine forest is in Anning Village. Let's set off immediately."

Zhuang Buran boarded the ship first, and the others followed, looking around curiously.

More than half an hour later.

The group arrived outside a relatively peaceful village, and Jing Tian spoke:
"Go into the village and find an inn to stay in. You can then take the opportunity to ask about the ancient vine forest."

"This is too troublesome. I sensed the aura of a fox demon. She must be the local tyrant. If we find her directly, we should know everything."

"Fox demon?"

Jing Tian and Xu Maoshan instinctively hid behind the white-clad, sword-wielding youth.

Tang Xuejian originally wanted to avoid it, but when she saw how cowardly they looked, she wasn't afraid at all.

"She's just a thousand-year-old fox spirit, there's no need to make such a fuss."

Zhuang Buran's words only made the two people behind him tremble with fear.

"This thousand-year-old fox spirit isn't scary enough!" Jing Tian said, his scalp tingling.

"Based on my senses, there are several fox spirits outside the village with centuries of cultivation. Will you come with me into the village to catch them, or wait outside?"

"what?"

Xu Maoshan quickly grabbed Jing Tian's arm:

"Boss, I feel like we've stumbled into a den of vixens rather than a peaceful village."

"Now that you mention it, I feel the same way." Jing Tian looked around nervously.

"Hey, you two, stop making such a fuss, okay?" Tang Xuejian rolled her eyes dramatically.

"With the great hero Changqing here, what demons can harm us?"

Upon hearing this, the two glanced at the composed young man in white carrying a sword, and then looked at the bustling market in the village, which lessened their fear considerably.

"Let's go, come with me to see this thousand-year-old fox demon."

Zhuang Buran strode into Anning Village, and the others hurriedly followed.

It didn't take long.

In the village market, led by a young man in white carrying a sword, the group saw a beautiful woman who resembled a fox spirit.

She seemed to sense something and was about to pack her things and leave quickly when a voice reached her ears:

"You fiend, do you think you can run faster, or is my sword faster?"

The beautiful woman's face froze. She felt an extremely fierce sword intent descend upon her, which terrified her and made her almost reveal her true form.

(End of this chapter)