Chapter 41: This is a Good Thing

"Is there actually no one here?"

Passing through the houses and pavilions, Shen Yu searched room after room. Never mind the figure of the Great Chief, even those few personal Huwe by his side were nowhere to be seen at this moment.

After searching several times, Shen Yu grew bold and began to carefully enter the rooms to rummage through them. No matter what, even if he couldn't find the Great Chief, he had to find evidence of Xu Mufeng colluding with the Zhangnan Bandits.

Shen Yu firmly believed that, given the nature of this Great Chief, such evidence would only be kept in his own hands and would not be entrusted to anyone else. Come to think of it, the other chiefs here didn't seem to have much power.

To put it nicely, they were chiefs of the Zhangnan Bandits; to put it bluntly, in the eyes of the Great Chief, they were likely no different from dogs. The lives they led were not even as good as those of ordinary small mountain bandits.

"There's a secret passage!" After searching in the room for a long time, just when Shen Yu was about to give up, he suddenly touched a protrusion at the very back under the bookshelf in the main room. After pressing it, a secret door was actually opened.

The deep, dark passage didn't say where it led, but it looked very long. In the pitch-black darkness, there were occasionally a few flickers of candlelight, but it was hard to see clearly.

Why build a secret passage in one's own home? To guard against thieves? Hey, isn't he a thief himself!

After thinking for a moment, Shen Yu decided to carefully go down and scout the path. He walked along the secret passage for who knows how long. During this time, Shen Yu also discovered several secret chambers where gold, silver, and jewels were everywhere, dazzling his eyes.

With so much money placed in front of him, the impact was something an ordinary person could hardly resist. Over so many years, the Zhangnan Bandits had plundered countless times; the gold and silver obtained were likely mostly piled up here.

Nowadays, displaced people are rising up everywhere. If these gold and silver jewels were used to recruit soldiers and buy horses, it is feared that a force of 100,000 people could be raised in an instant. Tsk tsk, as expected, robbing is still faster.

But these were not the main point of the secret passage; the passage continued to go downward. However, further in, some blood-colored vines began to appear in the passage, inserting themselves into the secret passage from all over the walls.

Shen Yu did not dare to touch these vines easily and just carefully dodged them one by one. After walking for another period, the view suddenly opened up. Red light entered his eyes, seemingly reflecting this underground space as if it were a sea of blood.

Before Shen Yu's eyes, dense, blood-red vine roots were intertwined, looking like enlarged blood vessels. Under the illumination of dozens of fire basins, it appeared exceptionally eerie.

"It's the Great Chief!" Shen Yu, with his sharp eyes, saw the Great Chief surrounded by countless vine roots at a glance. At this time, his eyes were tightly closed, and those dense vine roots were inserted into his body. Looking from afar, it made one feel a chill.

The blood-red sap within those vine roots seemed like blood flowing; under the reflection of the firelight, it was clearly visible, continuously flowing into his body. And on the Great Chief's face, there was clearly a look of pain; obviously, the process was not pleasant.

"What kind of perverts are these!"

The medicine slaves at the very top had vines inserted into their bodies, while the Great Chief below had vine roots inserted into his body, as if they were plants. The vines absorbed energy and continuously supplied it to the vine roots. This Great Chief was the final beneficiary.

However, to be able to use this method, this Great Chief was also a ruthless person; he was truly ruthless to himself!

Taking the Sadness Breeze poison from his bosom, Shen Yu smiled lightly, opened the stopper, and quietly used his internal Martial Arts to blow the gas toward the Great Chief's side.

Shen Yu also didn't expect that he would happen to run into this Great Chief practicing his Martial Arts, and it seemed to be at a critical juncture. If he didn't take this opportunity to hit him, he would feel like he was letting himself down.

At this moment, the Great Chief suddenly opened his eyes, a cruel smile appearing on his face, as if he had glanced toward this side. Before Shen Yu could react, countless vines bared their fangs and brandished their claws as if they had come back to life, like a blood-colored ocean rising in a monstrous wave, rushing toward him as if to completely wrap and drown him inside.

"I've been discovered!" The sudden change made Shen Yu startle. The Yuanhong Sword in his hand quickly left its sheath, and in the blink of an eye, he struck more than a dozen times. In place, only streaks of sword shadows could be seen falling; the sword light was as swift as a thunderclap, blooming in the dim underground space.

The cold, bone-chilling Sword Qi was unleashed wantonly, releasing astonishing power. The enveloping blood-colored vines were torn into fragments in an instant. The "Immortal Flying from Beyond the Heavens" combined with the iron-cutting Yuanhong Sword brought Shen Yu a bonus that was by no means as simple as one plus one.

"My blood vines!" With a cold snort, seeing so many vines destroyed, the Great Chief felt very pained and looked at Shen Yu, gnashing his teeth.

"A Xiantian Expert, there is actually a Xiantian Expert coming to find trouble with me!" Looking coldly at Shen Yu, the Great Chief did not act rashly. The hardness of the blood vines was like gold and iron, but under the opponent's sword, they were like tofu, which forced him to be cautious.

The Great Chief narrowed his eyes slightly, and the killing intent all over his body was undisguised, especially the terrifying aura radiating from his whole body, which was constantly climbing, bringing a pressure like a great mountain pressing down on one's shoulders.

Such an anomaly also made Shen Yu understand that his opponent was not ordinarily troublesome. Fortunately, his realm did not seem to have exceeded the Xiantian level; although that feeling of threat remained, it lacked the unfathomable, fatal feeling from the very beginning.

"I clearly used Sadness Breeze; how are you fine?"

"Hmph! I practice Martial Arts with blood vines; my blood and the blood vine sap have long since merged into one. My blood is the most poisonous of poisons, naturally immune to all poisons! Your poison had just arrived here before it was already absorbed by the blood vines!"

"A miscalculation!" Frowning slightly, he didn't expect that using Sadness Breeze to poison him would expose himself, letting the Great Chief become aware. Since that was the case, he could only resist head-on.

With countless vines wrapped in front of him, the Great Chief looked coldly at Shen Yu and asked, "Who are you? This seat does not remember ever offending your Excellency!"

"The County Magistrate of Baian County!" Silently gathering his Sword Intent, waiting only for the final explosion, Shen Yu also looked coldly at the other party, "You Zhangnan Bandits have committed many evils, which can be described as too numerous to record. This magistrate will naturally exterminate you for the sake of the common people!"

"County Magistrate of Baian County? Who is that?" This title left the Great Chief in a daze. He had been robbing houses and plundering for so many years and had done countless things, but he never remembered offending the Baian County Magistrate. However, why did this title sound so familiar?

"No, Baian County Magistrate? It's you!" At this moment, the Great Chief remembered where he had heard it; wasn't this the fierce County Magistrate who had finished off Xu Mufeng's son? That bastard Xu Mufeng had actually brought him a great enemy!

You say a County Magistrate, not dancing with ink or showing off, that would be fine; isn't it good to listen to songs and watch plays on weekdays? Playing with sword techniques, practicing Martial Arts, and even daring to come and challenge him one-on-one, seeking death!

Speaking of which, if you want to find trouble, just find trouble; the most annoying thing is these scholars who have to beep for a while before fighting, making it seem like they are standing on the moral high ground, just short of shouting "I will destroy you in the name of the moon." Hypocritical and disgusting, who needs you to represent them!

After hearing Shen Yu's words, the Great Chief also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, putting down the worries in his heart, "So it's not someone from the Capture Gate, then this seat can rest easy. You can go die!"

The blood vines danced all over the sky, and endless power seemed to pour into the Great Chief's body in an instant. A moment later, the blood vines became limp as if they had been drained of power, while his aura seemed to surge in a short period.

That terrifying aura seemed to make people unable to breathe. The vine roots were retracted from the Great Chief's body, and the Great Chief slowly stood up; the powerful strength brought him great self-confidence.

He felt that the current him, even if facing an existence beyond the Xiantian level, had the strength to fight. He was going to tear the little County Magistrate opposite him into pieces!

However, responding to him was a small box, a small box that looked small but brought him a feeling of fatal danger.

"What is this?"

"Rain of Pears Needle, this is a good thing!"