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

Yidianhong poured herself a full glass of wine and said, "Brother Jiang, I'd like to toast you."

After speaking, Yidianhong drank the entire glass of wine.

Jiang Fengyue asked in surprise, "Brother Hong, what does this mean?"

Yidianhong said, "Now I understand why you guys always drink."

Jiang Fengyue asked, "Why?"

Yidianhong drank another glass of wine and said, "Because some things can only be said after drinking."

Jiang Fengyue also filled his wine glass. That day, he told Wuhua that he never drank wine from a bowl. Wuhua asked him with a smile if he only drank from a cup. But today he really only planned to drink wine from a cup.

Jiang Fengyue downed a cup of wine and said, "What are you saying?"

Yidianhong raised a glass of wine and said, "This glass of wine is to Brother Jiang for the time he saved me from qi deviation at Daming Lake."

After finishing his sentence, he took a sip of red wine and then refilled his glass.

Yidianhong said, "The second cup is to honor Brother Jiang for taking that blow for me with his sword."

After another glass of wine, her already flushed face became even redder.

Yidianhong added, "For the third cup, I want to toast Brother Jiang for his miraculous healing skills that cured Miss Qu's face. I am deeply grateful for Brother Jiang's kindness."

After a few drinks, Yidianhong seemed to be drunk, because he would never normally talk so much.

Jiang Fengyue also raised his wine cup and said, "Then I will also toast Brother Hong with two cups of wine. The first cup is to toast Brother Hong's broken sword."

Jiang Fengyue drank the wine and then filled her glass again.

He then said, "For the second cup, I thank Brother Jinghong for lending me his precious sword, so that I could easily expose Wuhua's conspiracy."

After Jiang Fengyue finished drinking, she filled both of their glasses with wine.

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "We should all drink this last cup of wine."

Yidianhong shook her head, her eyes glazed, and asked, "Why?"

Jiang Fengyue said, "Respect, we are friends."

The two drank the wine at the same time. After finishing the wine, Yidianhong collapsed onto the table with a thud; he was completely drunk.

Jiang Fengyue called Qu Wurong over and asked her to take Yidianhong back to his room. Qu Wurong did not scold Yidianhong for being drunk; her eyes were full of concern.

It was very late at night, and Jiang Fengyue lay in bed unable to sleep. He seemed to have gotten used to not sleeping and understood why Chu Liuxiang always stayed up at night.

Outside the window, there was the sound of the wind, the chirping of insects, the crying of children, and...

Footsteps.

Jiang Fengyue jumped from the bed to the table, picked up the sword placed on it, because the footsteps were not coming from outside the window, but from the corridor outside the door!

Sure enough, there was a dark figure in the corridor. When the figure saw Jiang Fengyue, it turned and ran away.

"Check-in!"

"Successfully checked in to Sword Seven and obtained the martial art Black-Clad Sword Technique."

Jiang Fengyue thought to herself, "What a strange name. This person must be the seventh member of the Yidianhong organization. He might be here to kill Yidianhong."

Jiang Fengyue chased after him. The man had already run far away, but the difference in lightness skill between him and Jiang Fengyue was too great, and he was quickly caught up.

The man in black stopped. The two had entered a deep alley. The man in black faced Jiang Fengyue and drew his sword from his waist.

Jiang Fengyue drew her sword, and just then, four more people emerged from the darkness, dressed in black and carrying the same swords.

Five men in black surrounded Jiang Fengyue, pointing their swords at him.

Jiang Fengyue was not afraid. She simply held her sword in front of her. The black-clad man's sword had already moved. Five swords were drawn at the same time, and they coordinated perfectly.

Their swords were too slow in Jiang Fengyue's eyes, and their sword moves were full of flaws. As soon as Jiang Fengyue swung his sword, four heads fell to the ground in a flash of silver light.

Jiang Fengyue pointed her sword at the last remaining person and said coldly, "Is your leader in the city tonight?"

The men in black did not answer, nor could they answer; they were killing machines devoid of human emotion.

The last head fell to the ground, and a bronze medal fell from the man in black. Jiang Fengyue picked it up and saw that it was Jian Shiyi.

Jiang Fengyue then searched the other men in black for their bronze badges: Sword Seven, Sword Eight, Sword Nine, and Sword Ten.

He broke out in a cold sweat. If all these men in black had come out in force, where would the others have gone?

Jiang Fengyue realized he had fallen for a diversionary tactic and turned to flee. The alley was far from the inn, and the man in black had made a thorough plan to lure him out.

Fortunately, Jiang Fengyue's lightness skill was fast enough, and he used it to the fullest extent all the way, pushing his lightness skill to its limit.

When Jiang Fengyue returned to the inn, she saw Qu Wurong confronting five men in black with her sword drawn. Yidianhong was still unconscious in bed, not yet sober.

The men in black had a clear objective: to kill Yidianhong. Every time they drew their swords, they tried to bypass Qu Wurong and touch Yidianhong lying on the bed. However, Qu Wurong held Yidianhong firmly behind her. After so many years of studying under Shi Guanyin, Qu Wurong's martial arts skills were not weak.

Jiang Fengyue dared not delay and charged at the men in black with her sword. Their swordsmanship was faster, stranger, and more ruthless than the ones Jiang Fengyue had dealt with in the alley.

After a few clangs, the swords in the hands of the five men in black were knocked away, but Jiang Fengyue did not take their lives.

Jiang Fengyue said, "I won't kill you, so why don't you get lost?"

The men in black neither spoke nor left. In an organization like theirs, failure to complete a mission meant certain death.

Jiang Fengyue said, "There are always other ways after we survive. You can go now."

After hesitating for a moment, the men in black jumped out of the windows one after another.

Qu Wurong asked, puzzled, "Why did you let them go? If they're alive, they'll still attack us, won't they?"

Jiang Fengyue sighed, "They are nothing but puppets who can't even speak. If we kill them, the person behind the scenes can just train ten or twenty more like them. We can never kill them all."

Jiang Fengyue activated her white-clad divine hearing to discern the direction the man in black had gone, but heard some other unusual noises.

Qu Wurong exclaimed, "Are you going to track them down and find the real culprit behind it all?"

Qu Wurong already knew that the person behind the scenes was the one who raised Yidianhong from childhood, taught Yidianhong martial arts, and made Yidianhong kill people. Qu Wurong knew how terrifying he was.

Jiang Fengyue laughed and said, "You know I would never let someone like this get away with it, don't you?"

Jiang Fengyue went to the window, preparing to jump out.

At this moment, Yidianhong sobered up, and murmured, "Don't go..."

Yidianhong added, "You can't beat him; his swordsmanship is unmatched."

Jiang Fengyue laughed and said, "Now that you mention it, I'm even more interested in meeting him and witnessing his unparalleled swordsmanship."

After saying that, Jiang Fengyue leaped out of the window and disappeared into the distance.

Yidianhong struggled to her feet, clutching her throbbing head—that's how people who've had too much to drink are.

Yidianhong picked up her sword and said, "Let's go too."

Qu Wurong said, "But with our martial arts skills, we can't help him much."

Yidianhong said, "I can't just watch him go to his death for nothing."

Just as the two were about to leave, another person walked in from the darkness.

The moonlight from the window shone on him, revealing that he was wearing a long, floor-length black robe and a sandalwood mask that covered his face, revealing only a pair of lifeless gray eyes.

When Yidianhong saw this person, her face was filled with fear.

The man in black sneered, "He's gone. Do you think you'll survive?"