Gu Long's World: Starting with the Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Chapter 142 The Sword Never Appears Empty

Yan Tieshan laughed and said, "Finding Dugu Yihe is easy. Although I have lost contact with Huo Xiu over the years, my relationship with Dugu Yihe is still quite close. After all, we had a very good relationship back in the Golden Roc Dynasty."

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "It is precisely because the two of you have a good relationship and have distanced yourselves from Huo Xiu that Huo Xiu thinks you will unite against him and try to take a share of his wealth."

Yan Tieshan said with a wry smile, "Anyone who wants to befriend a strange person like Huo Xiu is likely to be in big trouble."

Lu Xiaofeng smiled helplessly. If anyone here were to ask who had the best relationship with Huo Xiu, it would naturally be Lu Xiaofeng. Lu Xiaofeng had always liked making friends with eccentric people.

Yan Tieshan was right. If you make friends with someone like Huo Xiu, you never know when Huo Xiu might drag you into a trap for his own benefit, even disregarding your life and safety.

Huo Tianqing smiled wryly and said, "Actually, my relationship with Huo Xiu isn't bad, it's just that I didn't know the big boss had so many connections with him—"

Lu Xiaofeng asked in surprise, "You and Huo Xiu? When did this happen?"

Huo Tianqing said, "He's my neighbor, and I occasionally go to his place for a drink."

Lu Xiaofeng exclaimed in surprise, "Neighbors? How come you and Huo Xiu are neighbors?"

Huo Tianqing sighed, "Although he doesn't live here often, he built a small building on the mountain behind the house and comes here to stay for one or two months every year."

Lu Xiaofeng frowned and asked, "What's he doing here?"

Huo Tianqing shook his head and sighed, "Let's drink."

Lu Xiaofeng asked, "Just drinking?"

Huo Tianqing nodded and said, "He has an endless supply of fine wine. Even someone like me who doesn't particularly enjoy drinking finds it hard to leave his building."

Jiang Fengyue said, "Could you take us up to that building to have a look?"

Huo Tianqing's expression changed slightly, and he shook his head, saying, "No, if Huo Xiu hadn't personally invited the guests upstairs, no one else would have been able to leave that building alive."

Jiang Fengyue asked, "Why?"

Huo Tianqing smiled wryly, "It's because his little building has 108 kinds of traps, and traps never discriminate against people."

One hundred and eight kinds.

Jiang Fengyue and Lu Xiaofeng exchanged a glance, and at the same time they thought of that mysterious organization, Qingyi Tower.

Huo Xiu also had a special fondness for the number 108. The Green Robe Building had 108 buildings, and the small building built on the back mountain had 108 kinds of mechanisms.

Is there any connection between these two?

Lu Xiaofeng sighed, "So how can we find Dugu Yihe?"

Huo Xiu's matter can be put aside for now, but Dugu Yihe's life is of utmost importance.

Yan Tieshan smiled and looked outside, saying, "Do you know that the Emei Sword Sect has seven famous swordsmen among its younger generation?"

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Is Boss Yan referring to the Three Heroes and Four Outstanding Individuals?"

Yan Tieshan laughed loudly: "That's right, Su Erxia, one of the Three Heroes and Four Talents of the Emei Sword Sect, is a retainer of my mansion. The young talent you just saw is him."

Lu Xiaofeng laughed and said, "I knew it! How could someone like this be a well-read scholar? Steward Huo really fooled us."

Yan Tieshan sighed, "I am ashamed, I am ashamed. Su Erxia is unwilling to show his face in my mansion with his true identity, so I have no choice but to keep it a secret for him. Even Steward Huo does not know his true identity."

Huo Tianqing smiled wryly. He never imagined that this big boss had so many secrets he was hiding from him.

Lu Xiaofeng looked at Huo Tianqing and sighed, "So that's how it is."

Yan Tieshan smiled and said, "Let's go."

Lu Xiaofeng asked, "Where to?"

Yan Tieshan said, "Let Su Shaoying, the Second Hero of the Su family, take you to find his master, Dugu Yihe."

As soon as the group stepped out of the waterside pavilion, they saw Ximen Chuixue.

Ximen Chuixue wasn't blowing snow, he was blowing blood.

He blew lightly on the tip of the sword before sheathing it, as if he had just finished using it, to remove the remaining blood.

He gazed at the blood dripping from the tip of the sword, the gleaming silver blade reflecting in his eyes, which were filled with loneliness and desolation, as if he had lost a rare opponent.

The person who was killed was the young Su Shaoying.

Su Shaoying lay on the ground, her throat pierced.

Lu Xiaofeng said with a wry smile, "It seems that even if we don't go looking for Dugu Yihe, Dugu Yihe will come looking for us."

Hua Manlou frowned and asked, "Why are you fighting?"

This question was directed at Ximen Chuixue.

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Ximen Chuixue sighed and slowly said, "He wants to challenge me to a sword duel."

Hua Manlou said, "If we're talking about swordsmanship, who in this world can compare to Ximen Chuixue?"

Ximen Chuixue said, "That's why I told him to come back in twenty years. By then, his swordsmanship might have improved."

Hua Manlou said, "Of course he wouldn't agree. A swordsman who has been famous since childhood naturally believes that he is no weaker than anyone else, even if he encounters Ximen Chuixue, who has never failed to kill.

Ximen Chuixue said calmly, "That's right. If I were ten years younger, I would be the same as him."

Hua Manlou sighed, "If that's the case, why did you kill him?"

Ximen Chuixue coldly replied, "Because I only know one sword technique, and that is the sword technique for killing."

Jiang Fengyue sighed inwardly. She had already avoided a conflict with Yan Tieshan, but Su Shaoying, such a hothead, still rushed to his death.

He stared at the bloody hole in Su Shaoying's throat. Although it was a bloody hole, not much blood was flowing out. This reminded him of A Fei, who specialized in stabbing people in the throat, and also of Zhongyuan Yidianhong from a long time ago.

Those who have perfected the art of swordsmanship and incorporated killing into their skills often achieve victory with a single strike, and that strike is always aimed at the throat.

Su Shaoying died with his eyes wide open, probably because he hated not that he died by Ximen Chuixue's sword, but that his hard-earned sword skills were completely useless in front of Ximen Chuixue. Even if he used all his skills, Ximen Chuixue could break through his thousands of moves with just one sword.

Yan Tieshan sighed and said loudly, "Men, carry Su Shaoqing away."

The reason he referred to Su Shaoqing instead of Su Shaoying was because Su Shaoqing was a retainer in his household, not the famous swordsman Su Shaoying. It's like how some people cherish their posthumous reputation and would rather die than be too disgraced.

Huo Tianqing also came out of the water pavilion. Looking at Su Shaoying's body being carried away, he said in a deep voice, "As far as I know, Dugu Yihe has led his four disciples down the mountain to Guanzhong, and they are not far from us."

He continued, "I couldn't understand why he came here, but now I know that the big boss and he are old friends. I'm afraid his purpose in coming here is also to find the big boss."

Jiang Fengyue sighed inwardly, regretting that Dugu Yihe had not come specifically for Yan Tieshan, but rather to find the legendary Qingyi Tower.

Lu Xiaofeng asked curiously, "Four disciples? Which four did he bring?"

Huo Tianqing said, "The Four Beauties of Emei."