Is this NPC even playable if it's not nerfed?

Chapter 106 The Giant Python in the Deep Pool, the Female Corpse in the River, Yi Wushuang Discusses Heroes Over Wine
Outside Hangzhou city.

The perimeter of a mountain forest has been cordoned off by government troops.

Dozens of players bypassed the layers of blockade imposed by the soldiers and successfully entered.

After the players had walked away, the group of minor leaders suddenly exchanged glances.

"They went in?"

"It seems they've gone inside."

"These extraordinary people are too audacious. I don't know if they are ignorant or arrogant. With only the strength of a sixth-rank cultivator, they dare to covet those monsters."

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, the supernatural beings won't die. Let them be arrogant. After they hit a few more walls, they'll understand that with their current strength, they have no way to defeat the monsters."

These minor leaders are all quite powerful, generally around the fifth rank. In terms of rank alone, they are much higher than the players.

Even so, they dared not confront the monsters directly, and only dared to set up layers of encirclement around them to prevent ordinary people from entering.

That's already pretty good.

After all, Hangzhou was a first-class metropolis in the Great Yong Dynasty.

They are strong in all aspects and have the ability to set up an encirclement.

But this may not be the case in other cities.

Especially in those poor and remote areas, they would at most put up a sign to inform the surrounding villages and towns.

Life and death are preordained, wealth and honor are determined by fate; they can't control too much.

……

"This water python is relatively well-behaved. It wouldn't be good to let these strange people disturb it."

"If they break out and attack, we won't be able to hold them off."

One of the junior leaders said with difficulty.

There are two spirits around Hangzhou.

In a deep pool in the mountains, there lived a giant python over 100 meters long, who called himself a dragon god. The surrounding villages had temples dedicated to him, which was one of the reasons why the python was relatively docile.

Another one is in the moat of Hangzhou, which contains the body of a woman. This woman was very restless and killed several living people as soon as she was born.

Every night, the female corpse would sit on the bank of the moat and sing a song. Once someone was bewitched, their body would be found in the river the next day.

It is said that this female corpse was hurt by a heartless man before her death. In grief and anger, she threw herself into the river and committed suicide. Her resentment turned her into a vengeful ghost, who would kill heartless men and women who broke up other people's families.

Very fierce.

The first victim was the prefect's own son.

The way they died was absolutely gruesome.

His heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys were all removed.

……

"If we can't hold out, we'll just run. Our mission is to encircle them and prevent outsiders from getting in. Once they come out, we'll retreat. Wherever there's an encirclement, it's still an encirclement."

"Holy crap, you're really damn smart."

"In this world, if you're not quick-witted, you'll die."

As the group chatted, screams echoed from the forest.

A moment later, only one or two players escaped.

Their expressions were terrified, as if they had encountered the most terrifying thing in their lives.

"I'll kill you the moment we meet, I'm just messing with you."

"Even Xuan-level weapons can't break its defenses, how can we fight it?"

"We've withdrawn, we're not fighting anymore."

"I'll come back to it when I'm level 80."

"Damn it, it swung its tail and I almost died. What a waste of all my equipment, it's all ruined. It'll cost me millions to repair it, damn it."

"At least you survived. Your equipment is ruined, but it can still be repaired. What about the guild leader? He's a higher level and has better equipment. He's dead, and he can't get his equipment back. That python swallowed him whole. How are we supposed to compete?"

"Enough talk, let's get out of here, don't let that beast catch up with us."

……

midnight.

A dark figure dragged a person to the moat.

"Please don't kill me, please, please don't kill me."

The person being dragged had his Achilles tendon severed and could only beg for mercy.

"He who betrays his brothers shall die."

The shadowy figure didn't let him go. Instead, it raised the blade in its hand and plunged it into the man's chest. With a swift movement, the heart was ripped out.

"Hmph, so your heart is red too?"

The dark figure kicked the man's corpse away and was about to leave when a melody reached his ears.

The shadowy figure shuddered, as if it had realized something.

Turning around, sure enough, on the bank not far from the moat, a woman was singing a little tune with her back turned, her voice melodious and mournful. The shadowy figure, its will stripped away, was about to fall into the river.

Suddenly, a corner of the wedding dress in his arms emitted light, and the shadowy figure's will returned, immediately turning and running away.

The woman on the riverbank suddenly stopped singing, turned around, and looked in surprise at the direction the dark figure had fled.

"Isn't he a heartless man?"

"Then I'll help you this once."

"hiss……"

The river water churned, and the organs of the body thrown down were instantly ripped out.

The next morning, the officers and soldiers discovered the body floating in the river.

"Another one died."

……

Wangyou County.

"The Honey Heart Sutra, such a simple cultivation method, can you practice it just by eating it?"

"Yiyi likes this."

“It’s too easy.”

Chen Yiyi spent several days finally mastering the art of disguise as a thief.

A martial art that can be practiced simply by eating.

The better the food, the faster your skills will improve.

Coincidentally, eating is Chen Yiyi's favorite thing.

Whether it's braised pork knuckle, sweet and sour fish, or any other dish, these are all foods she enjoys.

When it comes to food, Chen Yiyi has no taboos.

Even if it's a terrible dish, she'll still throw it into her mouth to try it out.

"call."

Chen Nian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He went to great lengths to get his daughter to practice martial arts.

Now that his daughter has successfully mastered the skills, he can retire gracefully.

"Father, I want swordsmanship."

"Yiyi will take the pink pig sword and become number one."

Chen Yiyi brandished the pink pig-head sword in her hand, looking very serious.

"I……"

Helpless, Chen Nian could only turn his gaze to his third brother.

"Go find your third uncle. He knows swordsmanship. Ask him to teach you."

Regardless of whether Chen Fei wanted it or not, Chen Nian passed this hot potato to him.

"Ah I?"

"My swordsmanship is rubbish."

"Yiyi, do you want to practice Uncle San's trashy swordsmanship?"

"Garbage?"

"Extremely rubbish, third-rate martial arts, just a roadside dummy."

"Then Yiyi doesn't want it. Yiyi doesn't want to become a roadside weed."

"I'm going to find Uncle Yuan."

After Chen Yiyi finished speaking, she picked up her pink pig sword and headed towards Lu Yuan's house.

And at this time.

Lu Yuan was drinking with the outgoing Yi Wushuang in the courtyard.

Yi Wushuang was boasting to Lu Yuan about how high his martial arts skills were and how extraordinary his swordsmanship was.

He even dared to say that among the younger generation in the martial arts world, apart from Lu Yuan, he was invincible.

Perhaps due to being drunk, Yi Wushuang abandoned his usual humility and began to comment on the younger generation in the martial arts world one by one.

His words were full of disdain.

It was as if to say, "I, Yi Wushuang, am second only to Lu Yuan."

Let's brew wine under the tree and discuss heroes.

"Brother Lu, you have no idea how stupid the senior brother of the Tianshan Sect is. He actually argued with his entire sect over a courtesan. Can you believe how stupid he is?"

“He married a geisha that others had already discarded, treating her like a treasure. He has completely disgraced the Tianshan Sect’s ancestors for eighteen generations.”

……

(End of this chapter)