Traveling Through the Heavens: Intercepting Duan Yu at the Beginning

"Brother Ning, so you are here!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded. Ning Caichen was startled at first, but when he saw who it was, a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Brother Chen, where did you go just now? I couldn't find you!"

Chen Fei's figure slowly walked over from not far away, with a hint of transcendental temperament.

"Haha, I just saw something interesting, so I'll leave for now."

"Unexpectedly, it started to rain heavily right after that. I only caught up with him when the rain stopped."

Chen Fei smiled calmly and did not explain what he had done.

However, the middle-aged swordsman in the pavilion had a serious look on his face.

In his perception, Fade Chen was just like an ordinary person, without a trace of aura.

But if Chen Fei hadn't spoken just now, he wouldn't have noticed anyone approaching at all.

He has the strength of an early stage Grandmaster, how could he not notice an ordinary person approaching?

"Master?"

The middle-aged swordsman stood up, the sword in his hand humming, and he looked at Chen Fei with shining eyes.

"Grandmaster, you are quite powerful!"

Chen Fei grinned and immediately revealed the other party's strength.

He naturally knew who the middle-aged swordsman was. That was Xiahou, a master swordsman. Ever since he was defeated by Yan Chixia, he had been practicing martial arts hard and would challenge Yan Chixia to a competition from time to time.

"As expected, hahahaha, why don't you fight me?"

Although he asked this, Xia Hou had already unsheathed the sword in his hand, and he rushed towards Chen Fei like lightning.

"Brother Chen, be careful! This is a murderer. He killed all those people on the ground!"

Ning Caichen hurriedly reminded him, he was worried that Chen Fei would suffer a loss.

In just a moment, the long sword in Xiahou's hand had already reached in front of Chen Fei. He was quite sensible and did not attack Chen Fei's vital points, but stabbed directly at his shoulder.

Xiahou used 70% of his strength in this sword strike.

However, Chen Fei stretched out two fingers slowly but quickly, and clamped Xiahou's lightning-fast sword.

"What..."

Xiahou was shocked. Even if he only used 70% of his strength, this sword was extremely powerful. Even Yan Chixia would not dare to take it head-on.

"The speed is okay, but the power is too weak, and you have distracting thoughts."

"You can only use 80% of a sword move out of 100."

"Go back!"

Chen Fei let go of Xia Hou's sword, and then snapped his fingers, causing Xia Hou to stagger backwards instantly.

Not only that, after Chen Fei snapped his fingers, his knuckles felt a dull pain, and a trickle of blood flowed out.

"So strong!"

Xiahou was horrified. He was pushed back with just a flick of his finger, and even his knuckles were cracked.

Who is the other party...?

"Your swordsmanship is okay, but you are too utilitarian in your heart, causing your swordsmanship to lose its original purity."

"Even your realm is stuck at the early stage of Grandmaster and has yet to break through."

"If you can spend more time adjusting your mindset, your martial arts skills will be further improved!"

Chen Fei glanced at Xia Hou and made a pointed comment!

"Thank you, sir, for showing mercy!"

Xiahou's expression froze. If Chen Fei was strong enough to kill him, he would be unable to fight back.

Xiahou asked himself, if someone attacked him for a disagreement, and that person was weaker than him, he would have been killed by him long ago.

"Let's go and calm down."

Chen Fei waved his hand, signaling Xiahou to leave on his own. Xiahou didn't dare to say much. He put away his sword, bowed, and walked away.

Looking at Xiahou's receding back, Fade Chen shook his head helplessly.

He had said everything he could say. As for whether Xia Hou listened to him or not, that was not Chen Fei's business.

When traveling around the world, Chen Fei would occasionally give some advice to people with good qualifications. This was already the most he could do.

"Brother Chen, I didn't expect you to be a martial arts master."

"You can hold such a long and sharp sword with just two fingers. That's amazing!"

Ning Caichen stepped forward excitedly, grabbed Chen Fei's hand and looked at it, only to see that Chen Fei's hand holding the sword was unharmed.

"Oh, it's useless to just study in order to travel the world. You have to learn some skills to support yourself."

"Reading is to reason with others, while learning martial arts is to enable others to listen to you calmly and rationally!"

"As the saying goes, one should conquer others with virtue, and martial virtue is also virtue!"

Hearing this, Ning Caichen's mouth twitched constantly. He felt that what Chen Fei said seemed to be a misinterpretation of the sage's teachings, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Chen Fei said seemed to make sense.

For a moment, Ning Caichen didn't know how to refute.

"By the way, Brother Ning, it just rained heavily. Please check if the account book is wet."

"If you get wet, I'm afraid people won't acknowledge you when you go to collect the debt!"

Chen Fei's eyes flashed and he said to Ning Caichen!

"Yeah!"

Ning Caichen realized that he had just been caught in the rain and didn't know whether the account book would get wet.

He took out the account book from the bamboo basket. Fortunately, the rain didn't last long and the account book was wrapped very well by him, so it didn't get wet.

"so far so good!"

Ning Caichen breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Fei raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw this.

"Brother Ning, you still have to go collect debts, and I have things to do, so let's part ways now!"

"We'll meet again someday if we're destined to!"

Chen Fei said to Ning Caichen that the account book was not damaged now, so there should be no accidents when Ning Caichen went to collect the debt.

By then, after collecting the debt, Ning Caichen will be able to leave safely. Although this will make him miss out on Nie Xiaoqian, it is better than falling into danger.

In the original novel, Ning Caichen has the aura of the protagonist. There were several times when he was in desperate situations, but he was lucky enough to escape.

Now that Chen Fei was here, he wasn't sure if his presence would cause things to go awry.

Although Ning Caichen is a nerd, he has a kind nature. If he can pass the imperial examination and become an official in the court, let alone in the future, at least in the beginning he will be dedicated to serving the people.

"That's it, okay!"

Ning Caichen felt a little reluctant when he heard that he was going to part ways with Chen Fei, but all good things must come to an end. He and Chen Fei met on the road and walked together for a while, which was already fate.

After saying goodbye to Chen Fei, Ning Caichen walked towards the county seat of Guobei County with a bamboo basket on his back. Chen Fei snapped his fingers and a stream of light fell on Ning Caichen.

This is the self-defense method that Chen Fei gave to Ning Caichen, which can save his life at critical moments.

After doing all this, Fade Chen soared into the sky and rushed towards Lanruo Temple.

Chapter 254: Money or life?

Chen Fei only knew that Lanruo Temple was near Guobei County, but he didn't know exactly where it was.

But this did not pose a problem for him. The direction Xiahou left was most likely the direction of Lanruo Temple. After all, the purpose of his trip was to find Yan Chixia who was hiding in Lanruo Temple.

However, Chen Fei doesn't walk on his feet like Xia Hou.

He flew in the sky, hiding his movements and figure, looking down and searching as he flew.

Soon, an abandoned temple came into view.

Although this temple is dilapidated, it can be seen from its appearance that it was originally a temple of considerable size.

However, at this moment, the temple is covered with weeds, big trees are growing in the temple, and weeds are growing all over the temple's courtyard and roof.

Outside the Lanruo Temple, there were corpses scattered all over the place. These corpses were covered by trees or soil. Although Chen Fei was standing in the air, he could still see them at a glance with his eyesight.

If it were just that, it would be fine, but the key point is that Chen Fei also felt a sinister aura.

That is demonic energy. If ordinary people are exposed to it for a long time, this demonic energy alone can make them seriously ill.

As a cultivator, Fade Chen really disliked this evil aura, which made him feel disgusted instinctively.

No wonder those who practice Taoism like to slay demons and eliminate evil. Besides being able to gain merit, the rejection of this kind of aura is probably one of the reasons.

However, the demonic aura in Lanruo Temple seemed to be just a remnant. Apart from this demonic aura, there was no real demonic creature.

I think this is all thanks to Yan Chixia.

Chen Fei stood in the air and looked into the distance. He saw a huge locust tree growing a few miles away from Lanruo Temple.

This locust tree is extremely thick and is at least hundreds of years old. It exudes a strong demonic aura.

"Grandma Tree Demon!"

Chen Fei whispered that among all the monsters in Lanruo Temple, the strongest one was this tree monster.

The moment he saw the true form of the tree demon, Fade Chen breathed a sigh of relief. In his perception, the tree demon's strength was only at the peak of the Heavenly Man Realm in martial arts, that is, the Human Immortal Realm.

At this level, Fade Chen could kill hundreds of them with one hand.

In this way, according to the calculation of strength, the so-called Black Mountain Old Demon should be about the same strength as himself. Even if he is stronger than himself, he is not much stronger.

"Interesting, this world is considered a welfare bureau?"

Chen Fei grinned, and with a move of his body, he descended towards the Lanruo Temple below.

On the other side, after parting with Chen Fei, Ning Caichen went straight to Guobei County.

The destination of Ning Caichen's trip was an inn, which was also the largest inn in Guobei County.

Seeing a customer coming in, the waiter greeted him warmly and even took the initiative to help Ning Caichen carry his luggage. The shopkeeper greeted him warmly behind the counter.

Business is tough these days, and any customer who comes is a blessing from the God of Wealth.

However, as Ning Caichen stated the purpose of his trip, both the shopkeeper and the waiter's expressions turned cold. The waiter even threw the backpack in his hand to the ground with a look of disgust on his face.

"you..."

Ning Caichen was furious, but when he thought about the fact that the most taboo thing when he was away from home was to make enemies with others, he chose to swallow his anger.

He picked up the backpack on the ground, took out the account book from it and slammed it in front of the shopkeeper.

Seeing that every bill was recorded clearly, even if the shopkeeper wanted to refuse to pay, he was ultimately helpless.

In the end, the shopkeeper had no choice but to hand over all the silver to Ning Caichen according to the amount recorded in the account book.

After getting the silver, Ning Caichen left happily, but he did not notice that a group of people were staring at him from behind.

The inn was originally a gathering place for all kinds of people, and now it was a chaotic time, and the majesty of the law had disappeared in this era.

Seeing Ning Caichen, a weak scholar, leaving with a large sum of silver, several people from the martial arts world in the inn couldn't help but look at each other, and some inappropriate thoughts began to arise in their hearts.

They took up their swords and followed Ning Caichen out of the inn.

The innkeeper naturally saw this, but instead of reporting to the police, he even smiled with sarcasm and even satisfaction.

"Bah, what the hell."

"You still dare to come and collect debts? You're going to die."

"How dare a weak scholar walk around with such a large sum of money? You're courting death."

"I can't get the money, and you can't take it back safely!"

The innkeeper reached out and touched his beard at the corner of his mouth, with a sneer on his face!

After Ning Caichen left the inn, he prepared to go back. It was still early, so he hurried on his way and found a place to sleep at night. He would be able to return to his hometown tomorrow afternoon.

However, after leaving the city, Ning Caichen felt something was wrong.