Chapter 387: The Contract of Bei Wushuang

Watching Pan Dehai, Gao Shuxia, and Baimu Yu all chase after Bei Wushuang, Li Banfeng was very conflicted.

Is the contract now in Bei Wushuang's hands, or is it still in his home?

Could Bei Wushuang have dug up his own contract?

It was actually quite possible. Although doing so would cost him cultivation, if he stayed home guarding the contract, with Pan Dehai here, it would be a dead end for him. Better to take the contract and run.

If he really had the contract on him, should Li Banfeng chase after him too?

But what could he do even if he caught up?

He definitely couldn't beat Pan Dehai.

Gao Shuxia was a Wounded Demon Sha, and he couldn't beat her either.

Baimu Yu was a Wandering Freak. According to the cook, Baimu Yu's cultivation was far above his own, so Li Banfeng's odds of defeating her weren't high. If he followed now, he wouldn't gain any benefit, let alone get hold of something as crucial as the contract.

But if he didn't chase, he wouldn't even know who ended up with the contract.

Li Banfeng was just about to move when he suddenly sensed someone approaching.

He turned and saw He Yuxiu running over, panting for breath.

"Seventh Brother, don't chase. That isn't the person you're looking for — that's a cucumber!"

A cucumber?

"Zhang Wanlong grew it!"

He Yuxiu nodded and pointed at the sand pit: "The person you're looking for should still be down here."

Zhang Wanlong was truly ruthless — growing a cucumber-person that fooled Pan Dehai!

Li Banfeng stared at the sand pit.

He Yuxiu said: "Seventh Brother, you have to act fast. That cucumber won't hold up much longer."

Li Banfeng and He Yuxiu jumped into the sand pit, wondering where the entrance was.

The quicksand suddenly churned beneath their feet, and Bei Wushuang, carrying a pack on his back, burrowed out of the sand pit.

This wasn't a coincidence — Bei Wushuang had seized the moment to escape from his home.

He didn't know why Pan Dehai, Gao Shuxia, and Baimu Yu had suddenly left, but he knew one thing: this was his last chance to escape.

There were still two people in front of him. One he recognized — Meng Yuchun's lover.

The other he didn't recognize.

He had blown up his own hump, nearly costing him his life, fought a battle with Gao Shuxia and Baimu Yu, and the last two ragged breaths of Qi he had left were also spent.

Could he still beat these two people in front of him?

He had to fight even if he couldn't win. Any more delay, and once Pan Dehai came back, it would all be over.

Bei Wushuang had no time to maneuver or probe. He stamped his front hooves and let out a low, muffled roar.

"Hulululu~"

He used his best tactic — directly triggering the quicksand mechanism with a sound-cultivation technique to trap the two of them here.

The quicksand swirled, and Li Banfeng and He Yuxiu sank into the sand at the same time.

Bei Wushuang was just about to break away when Li Banfeng's legs trembled, and the quicksand beneath his feet split apart to either side, opening a channel.

A travel-cultivation technique: Path-Clearing Road-Opening.

Li Banfeng struggled free of the quicksand, then turned and kicked again to clear a path for He Yuxiu.

He Yuxiu also escaped the quicksand. Seeing Bei Wushuang leap into the air to flee, she grabbed a handful of sand from the ground and threw it at him.

That handful of sand, like a spray of buckshot, drove straight into Bei Wushuang's body.

Bei Wushuang fell from midair back into the sand pit and struggled to his feet.

This was one damned unreasonable Wu Xiu!

"Hulululu~" Bei Wushuang prepared to trigger the quicksand again. For him, it was just a matter of letting out a roar. He didn't believe Li Banfeng could keep countering with Path-Clearing Road-Opening.

"Huya yaya~" Li Banfeng didn't use Tianhe Zhi Ji. He roared right back at Bei Wushuang.

That roar disrupted Bei Wushuang's rhythm and cadence, and the quicksand didn't trigger.

Bei Wushuang was stunned.

Wasn't he a travel cultivator?

He just howled randomly, and it broke a sound-cultivation technique?

Could it be that he wasn't howling randomly?

Could it be that he also cultivated sound?

Bei Wushuang had no time to think it over. He Yuxiu was grabbing sand and pelting him with it.

Smoke poured from Bei Wushuang's whole body. Seeing his frame about to collapse, he opened his throat and let out another muffled roar.

"Huu~ Huu~"

"Huya yaya~" No matter what Bei Wushuang shouted, Li Banfeng used this one move to respond.

This was a technique he had borrowed from his wife using Shen Zhai Da Yuan. Since he didn't know his wife's sect, he didn't know whether this technique could counter Bei Wushuang, but he used it anyway.

Li Banfeng was far from the house, so the technique's power was actually very limited. If Bei Wushuang hadn't been injured, Li Banfeng's two shouts wouldn't have caused him any harm at all.

But Bei Wushuang was now hanging on by half a breath of life — how could he afford to grind against Li Banfeng like this?

After both sides had roared at each other a few times, Bei Wushuang suddenly went silent.

The moment the sound stopped, Bei Wushuang's figure vanished as well.

What technique was this now?

A sound-cultivation technique: Vanishing Without a Trace.

While continuously fighting with sound, suddenly cutting off the sound causes the sound cultivator's traces to vanish along with it — a high-level concealment art.

Earlier, when Bei Wushuang had been preparing to ambush Pan Dehai, he had used Vanishing Without a Trace. Even Pan Dehai couldn't see his figure at the time.

At that moment Li Banfeng saw him and doused him with a ladle of golden juice.

At the time Bei Wushuang thought he might have accidentally revealed his tracks, and now he was still planning to use this trick to slip away, but he never expected he still couldn't escape Li Banfeng's eyes.

Li Banfeng pushed Jin Jing Qiu Hao to its limit once more and saw Bei Wushuang's blurry outline again.

That outline of his was too easy to identify — a camel without a hump.

Li Banfeng stomped through Wanchuan with one foot and flipped Bei Wushuang onto the ground.

Bei Wushuang couldn't figure it out — Meng Yuchun's lover seemed to be his born nemesis.

Bei Wushuang knew sound-cultivation techniques, and so did Li Banfeng.

Every time Bei Wushuang vanished, Li Banfeng hit him square on.

Could it be that he had underestimated him before, and his cultivation was actually unfathomably deep?

In his moment of shock, He Yuxiu flung a handful of sand into Bei Wushuang's eyes.

This was Yu Yaoming now.

Not only did it hurt — Bei Wushuang's vision was severely affected.

He Yuxiu was reckless in how she did things, but she had her own set of methods in a fight; she knew what tactics to use and when.

Bei Wushuang, with his vision failing, realized Li Banfeng had disappeared.

Boom!

With a muffled bang, one of Bei Wushuang's front hooves exploded.

The technique Bei Wushuang feared most had come — Li Banfeng used Galloping Horse Glimpsing Flowers.

Fortunately he had a body tempered on the clouds, so this strike didn't blow it apart completely.

But even if he endured this time, the next was hard to say.

He widened his eyes wide and locked tightly onto Li Banfeng's figure, while He Yuxiu stood beside him with sand, pelting his eyes the whole time.

That pair of shameless lovers…

Bei Wushuang had fought the local earth-gods of the surrounding area his whole life — what kind of battle tactics had he not seen?

He never expected that today, at the end of his strength, he would fall to such a simple battle tactic.

"Wuu~ aoo…" Bei Wushuang tried to counterattack, but another clump of sand hit his eyes, making him lose his sight once more.

In the instant he lost his sight, Bei Wushuang lost everything.

His body exploded apart completely.

Among the flesh and blood strewn across the ground, only a saddlebag remained somewhat intact.

Li Banfeng didn't think twice — he picked up the saddlebag, grabbed He Yuxiu, and ran.

Pan Dehai could return at any moment; if they lingered, they wouldn't be able to get away.

Halfway through their run, He Yuxiu suddenly laughed.

Li Banfeng said in astonishment, "What are you laughing at?"

Could it be that she'd been hit by that camel's technique and her mind was affected?

He Yuxiu said, "You once said that plenty of heroes have capsized in the gutter. I was just thinking — does that camel count as capsizing in the gutter too?"

Strictly speaking, that really was the case.

Bei Wushuang, a powerhouse among the new land's local earth-gods — in a one-on-one fight, Meng Yuchun definitely wasn't his match.

He suffered heavy injuries under the pincer attack of Meng Yuchun and Pan Dehai, then fought a bloody battle against Gao Shuxia and Hundred-Bai Mu Yu, burning through his remaining combat power, and in the end died at the hands of Li Banfeng and He Yuxiu.

This final battle didn't last more than a minute from start to finish — a textbook case of capsizing in the gutter.

"But you can't put it that way! He's a hero, and we're heroes too."

He Yuxiu asked earnestly, "Then who exactly is the gutter?"

Li Banfeng glared at He Yuxiu, and the two kept sprinting.

……

Pan Dehai, Gao Shuxia, and Hundred-Bai Mu Yu were about to catch up to "Bei Wushuang," only to find that Bei Wushuang had suddenly vanished in the wasteland.

Where could he hide?

Vanish without a trace?

Pan Dehai shouted sternly, "Bei Wushuang! You spread the plague across Haichi Ridge — did you ever imagine this day would come? With death at your door, how long can you hide? Will you not surrender?"

As his words fell, Pan Dehai's body swelled dramatically as he looked down upon the four directions; he wanted to use the highly respected for virtue technique to force Bei Wushuang out.

After waiting half a day with no sign of Bei Wushuang, Pan Dehai turned back and seized Gao Shuxia and Hundred-Bai Mu Yu.

Gao Shuxia was startled: "Why are you grabbing us?"

Pan Dehai grinned savagely: "Didn't I just tell the two Misses that I need to ask you two to help lead the way? Let's make another trip to Bei Wushuang's residence — there are some matters I'd like to ask the two Misses about along the way."

……

On a one-li plot, Zhang Wanlong held a cucumber, took a bite, and by the sound of it, it was very crisp and refreshing.

"Lucky it came back fast," Zhang Wanlong looked at the cucumber and said to Xiao Genzi, "If they'd discovered it, the two of us wouldn't be able to shake off the connection."

……

Li Banfeng saw He Yuxiu back to her plot, then ran himself back to Ba Shan Zhu's residence, arriving at the tunnel where the platform was being built.

The tunnel looked the same as always, showing no change. Li Banfeng walked to the spot of Leaving Leaving Suishenju from memory, paused for a moment, and the rubble beneath his feet suddenly turned into smooth, flat earth.

"The earth isn't dry yet — stop trampling it!" Li Banfeng heard Leaving Leaving Suishenju's voice, and a great door slowly materialized before his eyes.

This was an authentication process — Leaving Leaving Suishenju confirmed Li Banfeng's identity, and the station and the great door materialized together.

Li Banfeng stepped through the great door, opened Bei Wushuang's saddlebag, and inside was a wooden case and an arched iron tally.

A contract!

Bei Wushuang had really dug up his own contract — he had wanted to flee with it.

Li Banfeng was overjoyed. He first checked the contents of the deed.

On the front of the iron tally, eight large red characters were engraved vertically: "A hundred-li territory, this serves as proof."

There were also specks of bloodstains on the characters.

On the back of the iron tally, there were many more characters, a dozen or so lines in all.

The first line in small script: Bei Wushuang was enfeoffed with this land.

The second line in small script: Bei Wushuang defeated Iron Arm Lang, gaining fifteen li of land.

The third line in small script: Bei Wushuang defeated Axe Qi Gong, gaining ten li of land.

……

Reading all the way to the ninth line, it read: Bei Wushuang defeated Ba Shan Zhu, gaining ten li of land.

There were several more lines after that, all of them records of Bei Wushuang's victories.

Bei Wushuang was truly a ruthless one. After becoming the local land god, he fought a total of fifteen battles, without a single defeat.

Li Banfeng first handed the deed to his wife: "Help me change Ba Shan Zhu's name."

His wife was also delighted: "Dear husband, this lingering worry has finally been removed."

The stylus carefully altered the characters on the iron tally one stroke at a time, quickly changing Ba Shan Zhu's name to Li Furong.

Li Banfeng was in excellent spirits and prepared to take out the oil can to celebrate, when the gramophone called out: "Husband, wait a moment. Today this little servant is not convenient, but that wretched Xiang Xiang Hongying is just in time."

Hearing this, Xiang Xiang Hongying took to her legs and ran off to the fifth room.

Li Banfeng paid no heed to Xiang Xiang Hongying and headed straight for the gramophone with the oil can.

The gramophone called out: "Husband, don't be hasty. This iron tally — how does husband plan to dispose of it?"

Li Banfeng froze and set the oil can down.

PS: This really is a problem.

(End of chapter)