Chapter 16

Volume One: Mountain Ghost Rumor, Chapter 16: The Chick Has Flapped Its Wings

A Ping and Bai Yuqing gazed at Zhao Chan's every move.

Their attitudes were different.

Bai Yuqing was assessing Zhao Chan.

The executioner who wanted to kill him was hiding in his house. Could this young man who grew up in the wild escape this disaster, and even kill him in return?

A Ping had a kind of curiosity toward him.

A young man with no power, no influence, and no background, possessing a peach branch suspected to be a Dharma treasure, with a calm mind and a city in his chest. Even Junior Sister Xie, who is so mean and ungrateful, two-faced and three-knived, looked at him differently.

Only Bai Youjun was really worried about Zhao Chan.

She nervously held her hands together in front of her chest, her cherry mouth half-open in anxiety.

Zhao Chan moved her emotions, and she couldn't help but beg: "Sister, can I go help the Young Master?"

"Shut up!"

The three watched Zhao Chan hesitate in front of his own door.

A Ping and Bai Yuqing didn't care about the Green Snake sword he carried, it was just a little magic power added by a cultivator in the Caiqi Realm Realm. Their gazes fell more on the peach branch.

Would Zhao Chan use the peach branch to slaughter the outsider in ambush?

After all, he hadn't taken off the Green Snake sword, and the three-foot-long peach branch was tucked diagonally at his waist, which he could grasp by raising his hand.

The rooster crows in Youju Town were one after another, which was a bit annoying.

Zhao Chan seemed to have merged into the night.

The magpie jumping on the tree trunk chirped a few times, as if urging him to open the door.

His hand was on the door lock. As usual, he habitually held the door lock in his hand, entered the courtyard, turned around to close the door tightly, dropped the bolt, and then put the lock on the windowsill by the bed.

This time, however, it was a bit different.

The force he used to push the door was too small, only pushing open a narrow crack.

There was an imperceptible breathing sound inside the door.

Zhao Chan pushed the door open suddenly.

A blade broke through the night and slashed down on his head.

He seemed to have expected it. In the blink of an eye, he dodged the blade, didn't give Qiu Gao a chance to slash again, turned his head and ran, without the style of chasing the wolf pack or fighting the tiger demon at all.

Qiu Gao rushed out of the door. Just as he saw Zhao Chan's figure running in the pitch-black alley, a hard object slammed into his nose. Nosebleed flowed out instantly, and tears also gushed out.

Wiping the nosebleed, he looked down and saw it was the door lock.

"Little bastard, I'll slaughter you!"

Qiu Gao carried the big blade and chased after the direction Zhao Chan "fled".

Bai Youjun, who was watching from the roof, took a long breath.

When the Young Master pushed the door, it was the most dangerous time. Once he had no precautions, the ambushing Qiu Gao could have easily killed him.

Fortunately, the Young Master dodged it.

Bai Youjun couldn't help but secretly thank the Heavenly Lord for his protection and pray that the Young Master would successfully pass this disaster.

Bai Yuqing raised her eyebrows and said to Bai Youjun: "Go, follow them."

Perhaps Bai Youjun was too worried about Zhao Chan and felt that her breathing was not smooth, so she couldn't say a word.

"After Zhao Chan dodged the first slash, he had a chance to kill the outsider in return. Why didn't he do so?" Bai Yuqing murmured to herself, "Could it be that he was scared silly? Didn't notice this fleeting opportunity? Or is his Middle-grade Body Refining Realm just a show, and he can't even beat an outsider in the Lower-grade Body Refining Realm? He runs quite fast, though.

Qing, I might have misjudged him. Zhao Chan is indeed not suitable to be the bait for fishing the mountain ghost."

"Sister, don't worry."

The two sisters followed Zhao Chan and Qiu Gao, who were running out of the town one after another, from afar.

"Hmm?" Bai Yuqing looked at Qing, who was blushing with nervousness.

"The Young Master should be worried about killing someone in the town, which would be difficult to deal with. So he lured the outsider out of the town. By then, whether it's burying him on the spot or throwing the corpse in the wilderness, it's all up to the Young Master," Bai Youjun said very seriously, as if she had seen through Zhao Chan's thoughts.

Bai Yuqing laughed and shook her head: "Qing, you think too highly of him."

He's just a young man from the wild, how could he have such deep and calculating thoughts?

A Ping also chased after them from afar.

He recalled Zhao Chan's actions just now and frowned secretly.

Zhao Chan stopped outside the door, he should have noticed someone in ambush. After Qiu Gao's assassination slash, he didn't seize this fleeting opportunity to kill Qiu Gao with the peach branch.

Instead, he turned and ran.

As if he had been scared out of his wits.

Qiu Gao's martial arts were particularly poor. Not to mention the cultivation world, he belonged to the unranked category in the Jianghu.

The young man valued by Junior Sister Xie clearly possessed a divine Dharma treasure like the peach branch, but chose to escape.

A Ping was really disappointed in him.

However, since he promised Xie Wan to protect Zhao Chan in secret, he would come forward to help Zhao Chan kill Qiu Gao at the right time.

Zhao Chan lured Qiu Gao to run toward Erniu Mountain.

The night sky.

A half-moon hung, and the stars flickered in the Milky Way.

Qiu Gao's running speed was not fast, and even a bit slow.

Zhao Chan slowed down his pace and waited for him, lest the outsider who assassinated him would run out of energy before running to Erniu Mountain.

"Little bastard! Let's see where you can run! I'm determined to kill you! No one can help you!" Qiu Gao shouted loudly.

Zhao Chan really wanted to tell him not to talk while running, especially not to shout loudly, as it would accelerate the consumption of physical strength.

One fleeing and one chasing.

The two peaks of Erniu Mountain soon appeared in his field of vision.

Passing through Xiaoshi Village.

This section of the road was muddy.

Zhao Chan was fine, he walked on flat ground, but Qiu Gao couldn't, deep one step and shallow the next, and his speed became very slow.

He had to slow down his pace and wait for Qiu Gao to wade through the mud and catch up with him.

Bai Yuqing and A Ping, who were following them from afar, gradually became confused.

They were not stupid, they could see that Zhao Chan clearly lured Qiu Gao to run to Erniu Mountain.

Could it be that the two of them judged wrongly?

Just as Bai Youjun said, Zhao Chan planned to kill Qiu Gao in the mountain to cover up his tracks?!

Bai Youjun was exceptionally excited.

She believed that Zhao Chan was a one-in-a-million genius, and also believed that their marriage was destined by heaven.

The sky was brightening.

Qiu Gao, who had finally waded out of the mud, chased after Zhao Chan, panting.

Zhao Chan's face was not red and his heart was not beating fast. While taking care of Qiu Gao's running speed, he was looking for a suitable location.

In fact, he was a bit reluctant to solve this outsider who was inexplicably chasing him on Erniu Mountain. Once the Demon Slaying Division came to Erniu Mountain to investigate, if they found an outsider dead here, it would be easy to associate this matter with him.

But he had to return to Erniu Mountain again.

He hid his skills in front of Wang Huan, so he had to deal with the wolf corpses cleanly.

He might as well solve both things at once.

Went up the mountain road.

Rushed into the woods.

This place was not far from where he slaughtered the wolf pack.

Qiu Gao pursued relentlessly.

A Ping jumped onto a high rock and looked at them from afar.

If Zhao Chan encountered danger, the stone he held in his hand would pierce Qiu Gao's head in advance.

Bai Yuqing and Bai Youjun sisters stopped on a steep slope, their field of vision was better.

But seeing.

Zhao Chan, who entered the woods, was like a dragon returning to the sea, nimbly avoiding one tree after another as thick as a bowl.

He stared at his feet, as if looking for something.

Suddenly stopped.

Bai Yuqing, whose gaze had been locked on Zhao Chan, raised her eyebrows high. She saw Zhao Chan stomp on the soil under his feet.

A Ping exclaimed in surprise.

Bai Youjun was so happy that she couldn't suppress the corners of her mouth.

"Why must you kill me?" Zhao Chan stopped running and stared at Qiu Gao, who was out of breath.

Qiu Gao leaned on a tree with one hand, breathing heavily like a fish thrown ashore. He saw Zhao Chan smile self-deprecatingly after asking this question, as if he had known the answer.

Qiu Gao held the blade in his right hand, watching Zhao Chan run toward him empty-handed like a ghost, rushing to him in three steps and two steps.

Too fast.

It was really too fast.

He didn't have time to swing the blade, Zhao Chan's fist slammed into him like a rainstorm.

It should be because he was worried that the blood Qiu Gao spat would stain his body and dirty his short clothes. After hitting Qiu Gao away with one punch, he waited for a while, and after Qiu Gao finished spitting blood and stood up shakily, he went around behind Qiu Gao, pressed his head down, and punched him one, one, and another one.

The force was unbelievably great. Every punch he delivered brought a gust of wind that blew away the branches on the ground.

A Ping was stunned.

The young man who was usually kind to others, how could he be so brutal when beating people?

Bai Yuqing opened her lips slightly, and after a long time, she murmured: "Your other side is actually like this."

Bai Youjun saw the Young Master hit Qiu Gao away with one punch and was dancing with joy.

However, seeing the originally calm and handsome Young Master beat the outsider to death like a manic demon, she rubbed her eyes, couldn't believe it, rubbed her eyes again, confirmed that she hadn't seen it wrong, and suddenly became even more happy in an unimaginable way, and even more in love with the Young Master.

Bai Youjun thought to herself, the Young Master is so powerful, he will be able to protect me well in the future!

Qiu Gao lost his breath before Zhao Chan stopped.

He didn't even look at Qiu Gao, who was dead thoroughly.

He took off the Green Snake sword, took off his coat, dug the soil with the blade, dug through the slightly hard soil shell on the outside, felt it was slow, and then began to dig with both hands.

The pit was dug to half a person's height.

He dragged Qiu Gao into it, felt four taels of silver, ten copper coins, and a secret manual called "Broken Cloud Blade Technique" from his clothes.

The blade couldn't be brought back, otherwise, if others saw it, they would definitely be suspicious.

He had to put it beside Qiu Gao's corpse.

Zhao Chan thought it was a pity. This blade looked good, the blade was shiny, the back of the blade was a finger wide, and it was about eighteen or nineteen jin.

After thinking for a while, he planned to bury the blade shallowly when burying it later, and wait for the limelight to pass before digging it out and selling it.

He didn't bury it for the time being, and walked to the other side with his upper body bare.

A Ping and Bai Yuqing were both surprised at what else he wanted to do...

After about a quarter of an hour, there was an answer.

Zhao Chan carried the hind legs of two wolves in one hand and grabbed the ears of two wolf heads in the other, throwing them into the pit.

He left again.

He carried two more wolf corpses and wolf heads and threw them into the pit.

Not to mention A Ping, even Bai Yuqing was stunned.

They were knowledgeable. The size of these four wolf corpses was slightly larger than ordinary wolves, they should be demon beasts.

It wasn't over.

Zhao Chan still left.

This time it was still two wolves.

But one of them was larger than the other five.

"Demon," A Ping murmured to himself, "He killed a wolf demon and the wolf pack led by the wolf demon."

Even if this wolf demon could only be counted as the bottom layer among demons.

However, a demon is a demon. It has opened its wisdom, knows how to advance and retreat, and understands interests. Besides, the wolf demon also led five wolf followers that were already demon beasts.

They are not ordinary beasts.

They are five demon beasts plus one demon!

Their combined combat power would have to be carefully weighed even by an Upper-grade Body Refining Realm cultivator.

It seems that Zhao Chan killed them and even wanted to destroy the corpses!

What is the young man thinking?

Bai Yuqing said softly to Bai Youjun: "Qing."

"Sister?" Bai Youjun's smiling corners of her mouth never disappeared.

Bai Yuqing stood on the steep slope and looked at Zhao Chan, who was busy in the woods: "I thought I had overestimated this young man, but I didn't expect that my overestimation was still an underestimation for this young man."

Paused.

She swallowed the next sentence she wanted to say.

Qing, Sister feels that you have planted roots of love for Zhao Chan. Sister understands you. You went down the mountain for the first time, liking the breeze and the bright moon, liking all kinds of pastries, liking red walls and green tiles, pavilions and towers, liking handsome young men...

But Qing, such a person like refined gold and beautiful jade, will sooner or later know your true identity.

Six wolves and Qiu Gao were all lying in the pit. Zhao Chan murmured: "Time is too tight, I still have to return to the Demon Slaying Division, it's too late to dig deeper."

Burying them all, he stepped on the surface of the soil, and found branches and leaves to cover them up in a seemingly casual but actually cautious manner.

Zhao Chan is a lacquer harvester, he knows too well what the ground in the woods should look like.

After doing all this.

He carefully observed for half a stick of incense, confirming again and again that there were no omissions.

Zhao Chan put on his coat, carried the Green Snake sword, put the four taels of silver, ten copper coins, and the manual "Broken Cloud Blade Technique" into his bosom, and walked toward the mountain road where the tiger demon lay dead.

Returning to Youju Town from the mountain road would be faster.

A Ping and Bai Yuqing sisters still followed him from afar.

They saw Zhao Chan covering up some bloodstains.

Passing through a jungle, he went down a steep slope.

The merchant's vehicles were still parked in place, the goods were all there, perhaps no one had passed by all night, otherwise they wouldn't be so intact.

The tiger demon, which had been split in two by Zhao Chan with a peach branch, had blood flowing all over the ground, already turning reddish-brown, and the various exposed internal organs emitted a nauseating stench.

Pinching his nose, he circled the tiger demon, and checked the traces of his fight with the tiger demon.

He took a long breath.

He perfected every place he could think of.

At this moment, the sky was already bright, and the cold mountain wind blew the thin mountain mist to cover this mountain road.

Zhao Chan called up the force between his muscles and bones, no longer hiding it, and returned to Youju Town at high speed.

Every step he took made the mountain mist ripple like water.

A Ping and Bai Yuqing watched Zhao Chan like a chick flapping its wings and flying high, sweeping out of the mountain road.

This time, even Bai Youjun covered her mouth, looking at the tiger demon that had been slaughtered in shock.

There was no need to guess the culprit, it was her young man.

Zhao Chan gave them too many surprises at once.

So much so that A Ping's mind was blank, not knowing how to face Zhao Chan next.

Bai Yuqing raised her eyebrows. Although she was heroic, her heart was worried, pondering whether to continue using Zhao Chan as the bait for fishing the mountain ghost.

Bai Youjun's smiling corners of her mouth calmed down.

She didn't have other thoughts, but was thinking that the Young Master was now in the Body Refining Realm, and the cultivation techniques of her and her sister were not suitable for him. Where should she find superior cultivation techniques to give to the Young Master so that he could move forward on the path of cultivation?

Zhao Chan slowed down.

The stream was gurgling, and a woman dressed in farm clothes was washing clothes.

She turned her head and looked, immediately beaming with joy.

The sunlight spilled down, as if plating a layer of gold powder on her delicate face.

"Sister Wu Ting," Zhao Chan ran over and shouted.

"Did you go into the mountain last night?"

"Hmm," Zhao Chan said, "Some of the lacquer trees were harvested too severely and can't produce much lacquer anymore."

Wu Ting pulled a long face, put down the clothes, and gently hammered his shoulder: "You! Running around at such a young age, aren't you afraid of the demons in the mountain!"

"Afraid," Zhao Chan said honestly.

In a flash, she smiled:

"Today is the eleventh of August.

I checked the calendar, it's a good day.

Everything is suitable!

The gods will also bless you to be safe and sound."