Chapter 248: The Name of This Place

Ren Ren Wenlie had his throat slit by Li Li Banfeng, and the remaining two Junior Brothers, Pei Pei Maojin and Gao Gao Yangting, were still standing in place.

They didn't dare to look back, nor did they dare to move forward, because Li Li Banfeng had said that standing still without moving was the best strategy.

Li Li Banfeng patted their heads and smiled: "Are you disciples of the Saint?"

Pei Pei Maojin trembled and said: "The Saint has boundless magic power. You have already made a big mistake. It's not too late to turn back now!"

Gao Gao Yangting echoed from the side: "We will speak a few good words for you in front of the Master. This matter will end here, and we will no longer pursue you."

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "You are truly worthy of being disciples of the Saint, kind-hearted and broad-minded. Come, you two, follow me to the cave dwelling to sit for a while."

Xiao He Yuxiu stood in place, her clothes already soaked with sweat.

Li Li Banfeng looked at this woman with great appreciation: "You have performed a meritorious service today. I will chat with these two disciples of the Saint first, and there will be another reward tonight."

Xiao He Yuxiu looked at Li Li Banfeng's back as he turned around, not knowing what the reward he mentioned was.

After entering the mountain cave, Pei Pei Maojin's momentum was still very strong: "I think you are still a reasonable person. The Saint is waiting for us to return to report, so we must set off as early as possible. We won't waste time here."

Pei Pei Maojin was almost wetting his pants while saying these words, but he still felt that as long as he said two more harsh words, the bearded man in front of him would let him go.

Gao Gao Yangting had already realized that the situation was wrong.

He knelt in front of Li Li Banfeng with a thud and cried: "Benefactor, I was forced to come. I have studied for many years, and every year they said my opportunity wasn't enough. Today, I don't know why, but I suddenly became a disciple of the Saint."

"They just tricked me into coming to die. I didn't want to come, but I didn't dare not to. Benefactor, please spare my life."

At the critical moment of life and death, the performances of the two were very different.

Where did the difference come from?

Li Li Banfeng brought the two to the Personal Residence to study them carefully. After asking less than two sentences, the root cause was found.

Pei Pei Maojin was born and raised in Muxian Village. In his eyes, the Saint was omnipotent and omnipresent.

Gao Gao Yangting grew up in Black Stone Slope. At the age of fifteen, he was sent to Zhong Huaien Village by his family. He knew that a big shot like the Saint generally wouldn't take action for characters like them.

Li Li Banfeng asked Pei Pei Maojin what kind of place this was, and Pei Pei Maojin's answer was: "This is the barren mountain next to Muxian Village. It has no name."

"I'm asking what the name of this whole territory is?"

"This is the Saint's territory. The whole world is the Saint's territory."

In Pei Pei Maojin's vision, the world was only this big.

The same question was very different for Gao Gao Yangting.

"Benefactor, do you want to hear the outside version, or the inside version?"

There was no need to listen to the inside version; Li Li Banfeng had heard it too many times.

There were two versions of the outside version. Gao Gao Yangting said one by one: "My dad told me this is Saint Grace Mountain, the place where the Saint teaches the teachings of the sages."

"But on the road, I heard people say this place isn't called Saint Grace Mountain; it's called Villain Ridge."

Villain Ridge!

Li Li Banfeng remembered Yao Lao's map and Ma Wu's description of the rear territory of Puluo Continent. Every time he heard the name Villain Ridge, Li Li Banfeng was always very curious about what kind of place would be called Villain Ridge.

Now he wasn't curious anymore.

Since coming to this place, Li Li Banfeng had seen too many villains, to the point that people who didn't want to be villains became aliens here.

Li Li Banfeng was very surprised, and the phonograph was even more surprised.

"Husband, how did you come to Villain Ridge?"

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "This matter can't be explained in a few words. Lady, have you been to Villain Ridge?"

Chirp, chirp~

The Lady replied: "Hey husband, the little slave hasn't been to Villain Ridge, but I've heard of it."

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Hmm, heard of it."

"Hey husband, this place is unusual!"

"Yes, it's unusual."

Why was the Lady's speech a bit hesitant?

"Hey husband, Villain Ridge is very hard to find. It has become harder and harder to find in recent years. It is said that few people who have come to this place can get out. We are afraid we will be trapped here for a while."

Li Li Banfeng blinked: "I have already been trapped for a while. Counting it up, it's been more than ten days."

"More than ten days is not long. The little slave once heard that some people were trapped for decades before they could leave this place."

Li Li Banfeng waved his hand: "I can't endure it. It doesn't need decades. In three or five years, I estimate the villains here will be killed by me."

"Husband, this matter really can't be rushed. Just now listening to you interrogate those two people, the Saint in their mouths is definitely not an ordinary person. Husband, be careful. In a few days, I'm afraid he will come to the door in person."

Being able to send fifth-layer experts casually, and having strong subordinates like the Breaking the Cocoon, this person is definitely not an ordinary person.

Li Li Banfeng looked at the phonograph, always feeling that she knew some things but didn't say them.

If the Lady doesn't want to say it, don't force her.

Li Li Banfeng brought Pei Pei Maojin and Gao Gao Yangting over: "Lady, have your meal."

Gao Gao Yangting cried incessantly: "Benefactor, spare my life. I was forced to come!"

Pei Pei Maojin still didn't forget to release harsh words: "I don't care who you are, nor do I care about your background. Moving the Saint's disciples, you definitely won't live! Hurry up and let me go. I'll go beg for mercy from the Master. The Saint might still show mercy..."

Hoo~

A line of steam struck, cutting off Pei Pei Maojin's tongue.

The Lady was in a bad mood; she felt Pei Pei Maojin was too noisy.

After Li Li Banfeng left the Personal Residence, the Lady ate the souls of the two people directly.

Wheeze~ wheeze~

The phonograph pondered again and again and asked Xiang Xiang Hongying: "Bitch, did you feel familiar when you saw that Breaking the Cocoon just now?"

Xiang Xiang Hongying replied fiercely: "Evil woman, do I have eyes? What should I feel familiar with?"

Almost forgot, Xiang Xiang Hongying couldn't see.

The phonograph asked again: "Have you heard of Villain Ridge?"

"Never heard of it. I haven't heard of those place names you mentioned, what Green Water Bay, Medicine King Valley, Sea-Eating Ridge. I haven't even heard of Iron Fortress."

Is this a bit absurd? Xiang Xiang Hongying had been trapped in Iron Fortress for many years, but she hadn't heard of Iron Fortress.

She really hadn't heard of it. She was deaf and blind, had lost the ability to receive information from the outside world, and didn't know where she was at all. She didn't know about the many changes in the world over these years.

"You evil woman know quite a lot. Thinking about your encounters after death, it seems there were quite a few." Xiang Xiang Hongying's voice was much gloomier.

In the past, if Xiang Xiang Hongying had taken the initiative to bring up this past event, the phonograph would have been furious.

But the phonograph wasn't in the mood to get angry today. She had been paying attention to Villain Ridge for a long time.

She turned the horn toward the Red Lotus and asked: "Do you know some inside information?"

The lotus flower didn't make a sound, not knowing whether she really didn't know or didn't want to answer. She had been concentrating on refining Cong Cong Shixiang's corpse.

Li Li Banfeng returned to the En-Gong Shanzhai and ordered people to repair the damaged wooden house and gate.

The people in the stronghold looked at Li Li Banfeng with different eyes.

They came to rely on the Benefactor before because they heard that the Benefactor dared to challenge the Saint and dared to snatch the Saint's things.

However, today, they saw with their own eyes that the Benefactor killed the Saint's disciples, and killed quite a few.

From today on, Li Li Banfeng didn't need to say the things he ordered a second time, and the things Li Li Banfeng hadn't ordered, they would take the initiative to think about doing.

Xiao He Yuxiu's status had also been raised by a large margin. The Benefactor said it himself: this is an eighth-layer Literary Cultivator, an eighth-layer expert.

They hadn't seen what the eighth layer was, but someone who could be looked upon by the Benefactor was naturally worthy of their respect.

At night, Li Li Banfeng found Xiao He Yuxiu and gave her one hundred silver dollars.

The reward mentioned during the day, Li Li Banfeng kept his word.

Xiao He Yuxiu refused to accept it: "Benefactor, I don't want this money."

Li Li Banfeng was startled: "Think it's too little?"

Xiao He Yuxiu waved her hand: "One hundred silver dollars is not a small amount for our mother and daughter, but I didn't help the Benefactor today. I shouldn't accept rewards without merit. I still owe the Benefactor so much, and I don't know when I will be able to pay it back."

"Besides, in this place, money is useless at all. We don't dare to go to the village to buy things, and even if we dared to buy them, the villagers wouldn't sell them to us."

"Then save it and use it later."

Xiao He Yuxiu lowered her head and said: "Benefactor, there are some things I don't dare to tell Nannan. I just wanted to tell you. I don't know what I will look like in the future, and I don't want to think about it."

"The Saint's disciple who came today, I still feel a pain in my heart when I think about it now. I don't know if that was a person or a monster. I have read so many books, and there is nothing so scary in the books."

"Benefactor, when you were fighting for your life with him, I was really scared. I really didn't expect you to be able to win. I just thought about dying here with you."

Li Li Banfeng laughed: "Why? Regret following me?"

Xiao He Yuxiu shook her head repeatedly: "I don't regret it. When I was young, I lived under someone else's roof. Before I grew up, I became a mother first."

"I took Nannan to wander around and beg for a living. It wasn't easy to meet a wealthy family, but they couldn't tolerate me."

"In this life, this is the only period of time I've lived with dignity. Benefactor, to say something shameless, even if I really can't get out in this life, I am willing to follow you for a lifetime. Benefactor, I..."

Xiao He Yuxiu looked up and found that Li Li Banfeng had disappeared, leaving only a bag of silver dollars beside the straw mat.

Xiao He Yuxiu bit her lip and muttered to herself: "Did I say something wrong? Did I make him think of me as something?"

"I don't have that intention. I still have a daughter. How can I be worthy of him?"

Li Li Banfeng left silently, not because Xiao He Yuxiu said something wrong, but because he sensed danger.

Although he didn't know the technique, Li Li Banfeng's Traveling Cultivation had reached the fifth layer, and he knew the danger was at the gate of the mountain stronghold.

At the gate, Li Li Banfeng saw the white-clothed boy waiting quietly at the gate. Several people responsible for standing guard at the mountain stronghold were standing at the gate like clay sculptures, temporarily losing the reactions that normal people should have.

The white-clothed boy looked Li Li Banfeng up and down. He really wanted to know who this person was, why he could make his three Senior Brothers go and not return, and even include his Senior Brother.

He wanted to look a few more times, but suddenly heard Li Li Banfeng shout: "Don't look at what is improper!"

The white-clothed boy hurriedly lowered his head and explained: "I have no malice. I didn't hurt your people. They are just temporarily asleep..."

Li Li Banfeng shouted again: "Don't say what is improper!"

The white-clothed boy didn't dare to say more.

Li Li Banfeng was silent for a moment: "Did your Master send you?"

The boy nodded: "He wants to see you."

Li Li Banfeng said: "If he wants to see me, let him come to see me himself."

The boy didn't know how to answer. His Master's meaning was to let Li Li Banfeng pay a visit, but it seemed Li Li Banfeng didn't have the idea of paying a visit.

After a moment of pause, the boy said again: "The Master said he wants to see you in ten days. Let you prepare early."

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "Why ten days later? Why not today?"

The boy lowered his head: "The Master said so..."

Li Li Banfeng pondered for a moment and agreed: "Go back and tell your Master, ten days later, at ten o'clock in the evening, I will wait for him here."

PS: Who exactly is this Saint?

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