I'm here in the martial arts world just to find love.

Jiang Chao briefly recounted to Chu Ning what had just happened in the corridor.

After hearing this, Chu Ning breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself:

"As long as he's not a womanizer..."

"Brother Chu, what did you say?"

Jiang Chao was taken aback, thinking he had misheard.

Flower thief? What flower thief? Where did this flower thief come from? What does this have to do with flower thieves?

The girl under the straw hat felt a little embarrassed. She had been so nervous that she had accidentally let slip what she was worried about.

"cough……"

Clearing her throat, the girl tried to remain calm. She adjusted the edge of her straw hat, turned to face Jiang Chao, and urged him in a muffled voice:

"It's nothing, Brother Jiang. This place is too dangerous; why don't we leave now?"

Jiang Chao was unaware of the other party's thoughts, but he wasn't in the mood to pay attention to them at the moment. The feeling that thing had given him was too strange, so much so that Jiang Chao was still wondering what the thing under the black robe was and why it had targeted them alone instead of others.

Therefore, when faced with Chu Ning's words, the young man replied without hesitation:

"For now, everything should be fine. Besides, the commotion was so loud that it must have woken up the other guests in the inn. Let's wait and see what the innkeeper's attitude is towards this matter."

There are many rumors about ghosts and gods in the martial arts world, but as it turns out, many such rumors are eventually revealed to be nothing more than smokescreens and mystification tricks created by people with ulterior motives.

Their purpose is nothing more than to use deception to confuse the public, create panic, and obtain the greatest benefit at the lowest cost—a despicable tactic.

Jiang Chao originally did not believe in these superstitious beliefs.

But after he actually experienced such a thing, he realized that his original atheistic beliefs had begun to waver.

Thinking of the mysterious valley hundreds of miles outside Qingzhou City, Jiang Chao had a vague feeling that this world seemed to be different from what he originally knew.

Could it be that ghosts and gods really exist in this world?

Otherwise, how would you explain what just happened?

Looking back now, regardless of the smell or the feel upon contact, that thing didn't seem like a living being. It was more like a corpse that had been refined by someone and could move freely...

However, Jiang Chao naturally wouldn't say these words aloud.

On the one hand, his conjecture was too horrifying; on the other hand, the "Chu Liuxiang" he shared a room with was a young woman who loved to fantasize. If he shared his conjecture, she would not only be unable to help him, but she might even be frightened.

The mere mention of being a flower thief was enough to scare the other person into trying to escape through the window. If he were to tell them the truth, the person who had been spying on them from outside the door might not be a living person at all, but a legendary monster like a zombie or drought demon...

Jiang Chao didn't even dare to imagine how this Miss Chu would react after hearing this.

In short, it is absolutely impossible to remain calm.

Seeing that Jiang Chao refused, Chu Ning felt uneasy but did not try to persuade him again.

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However, the hidden weapon concealed in her sleeve was already in her hand, and the girl was ready to strike at any moment.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, an incense stick had burned.

There was still no movement outside the door, as if everything that had just happened in the corridor was just an illusion that the two of them had fallen into at the same time.

The rest of the inn was unaffected.

Jiang Chao frowned. "Something's not right!"

Chu Ning shuddered upon hearing this.

"Wh-what?"

"It's too quiet."

Jiang Chao's expression was slightly solemn. He looked up at the sky outside the window, where the originally bright moonlight was now obscured by a dark cloud.

The stars in the sky have also vanished without a trace.

He had just gone out through the window, quickly bypassed the inn's backyard, and climbed back in through a window on the side of the corridor, catching the entity that had been secretly watching them off guard.

Recalling that time, Jiang Chao felt a little strange.

The moonlight outside was bright at the time. Although he was extremely fast when he used his lightness skill, he should have left no shadow!

How could a person not cast a shadow under the moonlight?

If there hadn't been a shadow...

Where did his shadow go?

Jiang Chao subconsciously looked down at the ground.

This glance had a significant impact.

The next moment, Jiang Chao's scalp tingled and his pupils suddenly contracted.

Beneath his feet, a dark shadow was wriggling and taking shape. Almost instantly, the tall figure who had fought him and escaped reappeared beside him!

Almost without thinking, the wind from his punch howled like thunder. Jiang Chao's blood and qi instantly surged into his entire right arm. He twisted his waist, his clothes billowing, and unleashed a powerful punch.

"Bang!"

A loud bang came from inside the room, and an invisible shockwave rippled outwards. Before Chu Ning, who was not far away, could figure out what was happening, he was blasted backwards by the sudden and terrifying shockwave.

His body crashed through the wooden and mud wall, and was swept away by the immense force, his whereabouts unknown.

However, Jiang Chao had no time to pay attention to these things at this moment.

The boy immediately felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy!

The dark figure, a full head taller than Jiang Chao, withstood his domineering punch but remained standing still, completely unmoved!

"What the hell are you?"

Jiang Chao roared angrily and stopped throwing punches.

He reached out and grabbed the longsword leaning against the wooden table. With a flick of his wrist, a three-foot-long sword, its blade gleaming coldly in the darkness, was drawn from its sheath.

The boy gripped the sword hilt, channeling his inner energy into it. The longsword rang out with a clang, and a sharp, silvery-white sword light suddenly burst forth.

Between the flickering sword light, sword energy crisscrossed.

The clanging and jingling sounds were incessant.

But they still couldn't break through the defenses!

Jiang Chao was horrified.

Knowing that if he didn't use his full strength, he might die here today.

This is because even his father, Jiang Buwen, a renowned martial arts grandmaster, had never given him such a strong sense of pressure.

However, just as Jiang Chao was preparing to exert all his strength, activate the Qilin bloodline within him, and fight to the death, the tall figure in front of him suddenly turned into fragments and vanished into thin air!

Whether it was an illusion or not, amidst this strange change, Jiang Chao vaguely sensed a strangely familiar aura.

Before he could ponder the source of this familiar feeling, the sword energy that had already erupted, once the mysterious black shadow was no longer obstructing or neutralizing it, instantly swept outwards.

Jiang Chao inwardly cried out that he was in trouble.

If his sword energy is allowed to run rampant, the Four Seas Inn will likely be doomed and will inevitably become ruins.

Jiang Chao didn't want to cause such a commotion, so he had no choice but to do his best to contain it.

However, a sunken boat can be mended, but spilled water cannot be gathered up again.

Although he had used his movement technique to the extreme, his long sword danced like afterimages as he busied himself intercepting the sword energy in all directions.

In the end, however, more than a dozen sword energies still managed to break through his desperate attempts to block them and flew out.

It silently pierced through the wall and disappeared without a trace.

Fortunately, there was no smell of blood in the surroundings.

This indicates that the sword energy did not harm anyone, but only left a dozen or so sword energy holes in the wall of the Four Seas Inn.

Jiang Chao breathed a sigh of relief, raised his arm, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

The events of tonight were too bizarre; even someone as carefree as him couldn't help but feel a lingering sense of unease.