Chapter 1155

The green-skinned blade-wielder was overjoyed, and with his great arms scooped Hearing Gai Nie into a crushing embrace,

"After all these years, you're still the kindest outsider to me.

Thank you, thank you…"

As he spoke, the green-skinned blade-wielder actually shed tears as big as a fight.

Being held by him, Hearing Gai Nie felt as if clamped in an iron band.

If he were not a Heavenly Being Realm martial artist, his bones would surely have been crushed by that hug.

Even so, the agitated green-skinned blade-wielder nearly squeezed the breath out of Hearing Gai Nie.

"Alright, alright, calm down, I have business to attend to…"

After finally struggling free from the green-skinned blade-wielder's "embrace," Hearing Gai Nie looked at the teary-eyed green-skinned blade-wielder, both amused and helpless.

"Could you not go there?"

The green-skinned blade-wielder pointed at the distant palace and suddenly said.

"Why?"

The green-skinned blade-wielder had warned him before that great danger lay in that direction.

Now that he regarded Hearing Gai Nie as his closest friend, he pleaded all the more earnestly for him not to go.

For a moment, Hearing Gai Nie could not help but feel a little curious.

"It's very dangerous there."

The green-skinned blade-wielder said solemnly.

"I know!"

But Hearing Gai Nie cared nothing for it.

"No, you don't!"

The green-skinned blade-wielder gesticulated wildly, miming something as he spoke,

"Buried there is a treasure of the Demon God!

A treasure called the Weapon Demon God!

If it's activated, not to mention you, even the Grand Elder and the Grand Chieftain would be powerless against it!"

Weapon Demon God!?

Is this the name of Chi You's demonic treasure?

But what exactly is the Weapon Demon God?

From what the green-skinned blade-wielder said, this Weapon Demon God was clearly extremely perilous.

Yet Hearing Gai Nie had no choice but to go!

"I must go. Someone waits for me there, and my duty lies there as well!"

Hearing Gai Nie said. Seeing that the green-skinned blade-wielder still wished to dissuade him, he tapped his own head and continued,

"Besides, I've mastered the Gale Step now!"

Hearing this, the green-skinned blade-wielder's eyes lit up.

"Good! May you return victorious!"

The green-skinned blade-wielder imitated the martial artists of the Nine Provinces, cupping his fist in salute.

Though the posture was still a bit awkward, it already looked passably proper.

Hearing Gai Nie saw this and returned the courtesy in kind.

After the two exchanged a smile, Hearing Gai Nie at last activated the Guigu Vaulting Art and headed toward the distant palace.

This mountain-valley town was neither large nor small.

Roughly speaking, it could hold at least ten Battalion Commander.

Sadly, at this moment the vast mountain-valley town had not a single soul in sight.

Along the way, there were only countless splotches of dried blood.

Gazing at these horrifying bloodstains, Hearing Gai Nie prayed silently in his heart.

Hoping that the one who committed such an atrocious sin was not Xiao Zhuang!

Otherwise, Hearing Gai Nie truly did not know how he should face him.

Hurrying along, he passed through streets and alleys without obstruction.

He did not encounter a single person from Shanzhuang trying to block him.

Hearing Gai Nie found it strange—Cheng Jiao had clearly brought no small number of men.

Why then had not a single one been left to stop him?

Could it be that…

His heart stirred as he considered a certain possibility.

Suddenly, after turning into an alley, the Gongdianda Sect gate appeared before his eyes.

Before the gate, he indeed saw people from Shanzhuang.

The ones guarding the palace gate were precisely the farmers' men led by Tian Hu.

But this time, the number of farmers' men who appeared far exceeded Hearing Gai Nie's expectations.

Apart from Zhuge Shennong's hall, all five other halls of the Farmers' faction had arrived in full force.

Chi You Hall's Tian Hu, Four Mountains Hall's Situ Wanli, Kuiwei Hall's Tian Mi, Lieshan Hall's Tian Yan and Tian Ci, Eunuch Hall's Tian Zhong!

Not only were the hall masters of the five great halls all present, but countless experts of the Farmers' faction under their command had come as well.

From afar, their presence was utterly terrifying.

Even though Hearing Gai Nie had newly acquired a secret art and his strength had risen once more.

He didn't dare to be so brazen as to simply ignore them and pass right through.

But if he stopped, he would clearly fall right into the trap set by Despair Shanzhuang.

After thinking it over, Hearing Gai Nie directly activated the Swift Wind Step.

Driven by Sword Heart, his意念 power followed in its wake.

Hearing Gai Nie as a whole entered a state of spiritual clarity, and vanished directly from this world.

"Hearing Gai Nie…"

Tian Hu was the one with the highest seniority among the five halls' men, and so he took himself to be the leader.

Seeing Hearing Gai Nie approach, he bared his teeth, ready to mock Hearing Gai Nie.

But before the words could leave his mouth, he discovered that Hearing Gai Nie's figure had already vanished.

"How could this be? What kind of demonic art is this?"

When Tian Hu and the others saw Hearing Gai Nie charging toward them, they had already released their Wu Gong Xin Qiji in succession to sense him.

Although among the many experts present, not a single one could be Hearing Gai Nie's match in a one-on-one fight.

But with so many experts of the Farmer sect, their Wu Gong all stemming from the same school.

These Wu Gong Xin Qiji linked into a net, having already sealed off the area around the palace gate tightly.

Even a single fly would not be able to fly through without a sound.

Yet Hearing Gai Nie suddenly vanished, still under the sensing of the Wu Gong Xin Qiji net.

At this, Tian Hu was so startled his eyeballs nearly fell out.

"A-Yan, quickly…"

Tian Hu had been given strict instructions that not a single person was to be allowed to pass through this place.

If not, upon returning to Despair Shanzhuang there would be no good end for him to eat.

With the Wu Gong Xin Qiji net showing no response now, he could only place his hopes in the current Lieshan Hall master — that is, his niece Tian Yan.

Tian Yan has long been called the Guan Zhong among the women of the Farmer sect; she is the daughter of the former Farmer sect leader and former Lieshan Hall master, Tian Meng.

On ordinary days, she wore a fur coat over her shoulders, looking as if she could be blown away by the slightest breeze.

In truth, she possessed a secret art called the Eye of Reading Faces and Observing Colors.

This secret art was nearly akin to the legendary pupil technique.

On a grand scale, it could observe the changes in true essence and the world's primordial energy; on a small scale, it could examine the five viscera and six bowels, the eight extraordinary meridians, and every hidden injury within another's body.

It is said that when this pupil technique is cultivated to its extreme, it can even see through another's fortune and defy the heavens to alter fate.

It's just that Tian Yan clearly had not cultivated to that stage yet!