by Zhi Bai
An Zheng left the academy, and while walking towards the Zaocang, he tried to recall everything he knew about the Great Wangfei Hall. In his memories, the Great Cranes Hall was actually nothing. Only Kou Da and Kou Jiu could cultivate, the others couldn't. They were just ruthless people. Kou Liu could be considered to have reached the small success stage in body transformation, but a cultivator at the second or third stage of the Refinement Realm would be able to easily kill Kou Liu.
There was no end to cultivation. In a place like the Fantasy City, cultivators that had attained the purest possible realm could survive in there. However, not to mention Da Xi, even in the sixteen kingdoms, there were many cultivators at the Ascension Realm.
When An Zheng was halfway through the Nanshan Street, he realized that he had no choice but to stop.
There was a person standing on the street opposite him, looking at him coldly.
Kou Ba
This man was as sturdy as a bear, about two meters tall. Compared to An Zheng who was a little over ten years old, Kou Ba was practically a huge mountain. Kou Ba could not cultivate, nor did he train in the body, but this guy was naturally born with great strength. The Splitting Mountain Axe that he carried on his shoulder weighed three hundred and sixty Jin, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he could wipe out a thousand troops. Kou Ba was strong and ugly. His face could not be described in detail. In simple terms, it was like a big black bear.
"Mr. Eight."
An Zheng stopped and cupped his fists and bowed slightly.
Kou Ba's voice was like a bear's roar, hoarse but loud.
"Kid, are you a person of the Great Coyote Hall?!"
Kou Ba asked loudly.
An Zheng smiled, "Why do you ask, Mr Ba?"
Kou Ba had a rough personality, and could even be said to be somewhat foolish. In the Great Gangster Hall, his battle prowess was ranked in the top five, but because of his stupidity, he was often bullied by others. Therefore, he was only able to be ranked eighth from top to bottom. But Kou Jiu was a special case, because if he wanted to, Kou Jiu could go from ninth place to first place. But Kou Jiu was a very low-key person, and he was a little different from the rest of the people in the Great Gou Hall.
Kou Ba spoke with a muffled voice: "According to the rules, from the day you entered the Nanshan Street's Academy, you have been a member of the Great Cranes Hall. If you eat from the Great Gou Hall and wear the Great Gou Hall, you should be able to die for the Great Gou Hall. Right now, I have a mission for you. You are going to the Zaocang, right? We can't enter the Zaocang, but you can.
An Zheng laughed, and pointed to his own stomach: "It seems like there isn't even a single grain of food from the Great Coyote Hall here, and even the sh * t I pulled doesn't have the stench of the Great Coyote Hall. As for my clothes, does Mr. Eight think you gave me those clothes? "
Kou Ba waved his hand: "I don't care. If I want you to die, you have to die."
An Zheng was still laughing, "I'm guessing that the Great Gou Hall and the Chen Family have already fallen out with each other. Because you are the dumbest, they sent you to kill Chen Shaobai, right? You know that if you can't enter a place like Zaocang, you will die the moment you go in. That's why you stopped me and told me to kill Chen Shaobai. "
Kou Ba said: "So what if I am!?" Go and kill Chen Shaobai, I'll let you live. If you don't go, I'll kill you first. A piece of trash like you, is it not worth it to die? "
An Zheng replied: "If I go, I'll die. If I don't, I'll also die. Why do I have to listen to you?"
Kou Ba: "Then you will die faster!"
He took a big step forward. When his huge body took a step forward, his steps fell to the ground, as if the entire street was trembling.
The distance from here to the tavern in Great Mother Ye was not that far. It was less than ten meters. The flag with the word 'wine' on it was still swaying gently in the breeze. However, it was currently afternoon, so there weren't many people in the tavern. When the pedestrians on the street saw Kou Ba, they had long since hid far away and watched from the shadows. An Zheng tilted his head and looked at the flag in the tavern.
Then, he saw Yun Che standing at the window with his arms folded across his chest, looking at his Great Mother Ye with a solemn expression.
An Zheng smiled at Great Mother Ye, but the latter was unable to smile. An Zheng was around ten years old and his height was only 1.45 meters. Compared to the two-meter tall human bear, Kou Ba seemed weak.
"So big."
An Zheng suddenly said two words.
Kou Ba was stunned, even the Great Mother Ye was stunned.
An Zheng imitated Great Mother Ye and placed his hands on his chest, before lowering his head to take a glance: "So big."
Great Mother Ye subconsciously looked down and discovered that her twin peaks were indeed very straight. Therefore, she was slightly angry, thinking that this rotten child should be taught a lesson. But she felt that she might not just watch as Kou Ba beat An Zheng to death. Even though she had always felt that everything in the Fantasy City had nothing to do with her, no matter who lives or dies, it didn't matter. But this young man was very different.
"Mr. Eight."
Just as Kou Ba took a big step towards An Zheng and raised the Mountain Splitting Axe, An Zheng suddenly called out.
"Hmm?!"
Kou Ba's axe stopped in mid-air: "You regret it? Now, go to Zaocang to kill Chen Shaobai, I will spare your life. "
"No."
An Zheng pointed at Kou Ba's crotch: "I heard that you never go to brothels because you're impotent and didn't do anything early? A body full of muscles, yet a chicken powerless. Your life is rather bleak, isn't it? "
"I'll kill you!"
Kou Ba's face turned white from anger and he chopped down with his axe.
An Zheng was like a spirit ape, quickly flying to the side to dodge this axe strike. The axe smashed into the ground, shattering the hard limestone. The broken pieces of the stone flew out like bullets. With a "pa" sound, a rock hit the wooden board next to the tavern's door, creating a hole in it. Another piece of rock hit the pillar opposite the store, and the stone was directly embedded into the pillar, sending bits of wood flying everywhere.
Great Mother Ye raised her hand and made a gesture of smoothing her hair, gently smoothing it out, but just in time to stop a rock that was shooting towards her. No one noticed that Great Mother Ye had only raised his hand to stroke her sideburns, and with a flick of her finger, she sent the stone bullet flying.
The stone flew back even faster. With a "pa" sound, it hit the back of Kou Ba's knee joint. Kou Ba took a step forward, but suddenly lost all strength in his supporting legs, and fell to his knees with a thump.
Great Mother Ye looked at An Zheng, her gaze saying, "Why aren't you running?
The position of the stone was very ingenious, after Kou Ba knelt down, the blood vessels of his leg could not be opened for a while, thus An Zheng had the time to turn around and run.
But An Zheng didn't. He gratefully glanced at Great Mother Ye, then actually charged towards Kou Ba. Kou Ba lifted his head and An Zheng was already in front of him. Then, An Zheng's fist landed on Kou Ba's throat.
An Zheng was small, and relatively speaking, his strength was much smaller than Kou Ba's. However, based on his understanding of the human body, An Zheng was much stronger than Kou Ba. This punch was aimed straight at Kou Ba's throat, the weakest part of his body. But just as the fist was about to reach Kou Ba's throat, Kou Ba's chin suddenly pressed down, pressing An Zheng's fist down into his neck. An Zheng's expression changed, he bent his body, withdrew his body, and shrank back his butt. Both of his legs flew up to kick Kou Ba's chest, and he took the opportunity to pull his hands out.
But when his feet landed on Kou Ba's chest, An Zheng felt as if he had kicked a huge boulder. The muscles on Kou Ba's chest were so hard.
"You're courting death."
Kou Ba grinned and laughed cruelly. With a press of his chin, An
Zheng felt a sharp pain on his wrist.
Kou Ba stood up. An Zheng's right fist was squeezed between his chin and his neck. An Zheng's two legs knelt on top of his chest. It looked like An Zheng was hanging on his body.
With one hand holding the Mountain Splitting Axe, Kou Ba raised the clothes on An Zheng's back with the other hand and raised his chin. With the force of his hand, he raised An Zheng high above his head: "Little bastard, this old man will kill you like a mouse. A lowly bastard like you is not qualified to live in this world! "
After raising An Zheng above his head, he suddenly threw him to the ground!
An Zheng's body was like a cannonball that flew towards the ground. Just as his back was about to hit the ground, An Zheng grabbed Kou Ba's belt. He was like a spirit ape as he turned around from under Kou Ba's armpits and climbed behind him. But this time, Kou Ba's actions did not stop. He threw An Zheng to the ground and chopped down the Mountain Splitting Axe in his right hand.
If An Zheng were to fall to the ground, this axe strike would be able to hack An Zheng into two.
Peng!
The axe smashed heavily into the limestone ground.
An Zheng walked to Kou Ba's back and pulled out the dagger from his sleeve. That dagger was the one Gao Di had wanted to use to kill Du Shoushou back in school. An Zheng's dagger had accurately pierced the back of Kou Ba's neck and stuck there. Under normal circumstances, if the knife was stabbed into the neck, the person who was stabbed would be finished. But no one would have thought that Kou Ba would be so fierce!
Kou Ba screamed in pain, and then, he stood up straight. He reached out his hand, wanting to grab An Zheng from his back, but he couldn't reach him. He then jumped backwards and crashed into a window of a shop while facing An Zheng. An Zheng's back bumped into the window first, directly smashing the wooden window and causing his body to fall into the shop.
Kou Ba brandished his huge axe and split open the shop before barging in with big steps. An Zheng was struck hard. After all, his current physical body was too weak. Before he could react, Kou Ba had already bent over and grabbed his clothes.
Kou Ba grabbed An Zheng, swung him around, and threw him out. An Zheng's body smashed apart the front door of the shop, then flew straight towards the Great Mother Ye's tavern.
At this moment, Great Mother Ye could not hold back and was about to attack.
At the same time, the bear-like Kou Ba also rushed out of the tattered shop and chased after An Zheng. The giant ax in his hand drew a bright arc in the air as it flew towards An Zheng's back.
"Let me borrow your wine banner!"
In the air, An Zheng flipped his body and stepped on the walls of the tavern, as though he was squatting there. With both hands, he grabbed the wooden pole of the wine flag and stomped his feet on the wall. The wine flag in his hand fluttered loudly!
An Zheng turned his body, dodging Kou Ba's huge axe, and at the same time turned his body, chopped out the wine banner. With this chop, the flag of wine was completely unfurled, and the flag was hacked onto Kou Ba's forehead. It was just a wine flag, so what if the cloth landed on Kou Ba's body?
However, at this moment, the flag of wine seemed to have turned into a peerless divine weapon!
A dazzling white light flashed by, and a long sword seemed to emerge from the wine flag. The blade came down from Kou Ba's forehead and came down from his crotch.
After the sword passed, one would die.
After two muffled sounds, the split into two, Kou Ba fell to the ground, thick blood and his internal organs all over the floor. An Zheng's body steadily landed on the ground and turned around elegantly.
He held the wine banner in his hand as if he was holding an unparalleled divine sword.
Chapter 19 - toothpicks
The moment Great Mother Ye saw An Zheng pull out the flag of wine, an extremely complicated feeling surfaced in his eyes. There was an indescribable vicissitudes of life and sadness in her expression, a stark contrast to her beautiful face. It was a type of grief that would infect anyone with just a single glance. It was like the snow falling from the distant mountains, even though it was far away, it still weighed down on his heart.
An Zheng turned around and glanced at Kou Ba, who was slashed into two by him.
At this moment, Great Mother Ye hid all the emotions in her eyes. She walked out of the tavern with a straight face, then grabbed the wine banner from An Zheng's hands. "Go, never come back."
She snatched back the wine flag and then, as if she was on a pilgrimage, she used both of her hands to hold the wine flag and put it back into its original place. The wine flag was still fluttering in the breeze, but it seemed to have lost some of its charm. For some reason, An Zheng seemed to hear a long sigh.
"That sword strike was supposed to kill immortals, but you killed an ant … "What a pity, what a pity."
An Zheng didn't know whether or not he was imagining things, but in that moment just now, he had no choice.
He lowered his head and clasped his hands. "I'm sorry."
Great Mother Ye didn't turn his head around: "I don't blame you, but you don't need to come back either."
An Zheng knew that the sword which he had hurt Great Mother Ye with was definitely from the person who had placed that sword on top of the flag. Although An Zheng's cultivation was not, his eyes were still there, he knew how strong the sword intent was, and how strong it was when it was in contact with strong people. Faintly, that sword contained an immortal qi that transcended the mortal world. And the most frightening thing was that the flag did not only contain a single strike.
Therefore, the person who secretly sent the voice into An Zheng's ears saw wrongly, that sword was not alone. The sword was still above the wine flag, but the person thought that there was only a strand of sword intent hidden within the wine flag. He did not know that the flag was hiding a sword spirit that cultivated the sword.
An Zheng saw a scholar wearing plain clothes walking around the corner of Nanshan Street with his hands behind his back. That back was somewhat lonely, somewhat depressed.
An Zheng didn't know who he was, but he was sure that the person who spoke to him just now was a scholar.
"That sword attack could have slain Immortals."
These words still echoed in An Zheng's mind.
Immortal?
An Zheng sighed in his heart … Were there really immortals in this world? Someone once said that there was an immortal above the Greater Heaven Stage. To the world of the Nine Heavens, immortal and indestructible. With just a single move, one could pluck stars out of the sky. However, in this boundless universe, with An Zheng's experience, he had never heard of anyone who could cultivate to the Great Circle of the Greater Heaven Stage. An Zheng had once reached the ninth stage of the Lower Celestial Stage, and was only a hair's breadth away from the Heavenly Great Realm. However, that was his bottleneck, so it was difficult for him to take another step forward.
It was said that the Holy Emperor of the Great Xi Empire had already reached the Greater Heaven stage. However, that was only a legend. An Zheng had never seen the Sacred Emperor take action, so he was unable to determine just how strong the person was. There were also rumors that the First Sage who founded the Da Xi Empire and also had the word 'Xi' in his name might be the only peerless expert in the world that had reached the peak of the great heaven realm.
However, in the end, he had died as well, not being able to survive.
An Zheng did not know if there were any immortals, and even if there were, he did not know where they were. He only knew that even if there was an Immortal in this world, that Immortal was still a cold-blooded person. There were many injustices in the world, many evils that the deity had never cared about. felt that this Immortal Cultivator was just a selfish person, he didn't have the mindset of a great cultivator.
Killing Kou Ba was something that An Zheng did not expect.
He knew that the Great Gou Clan and the Chen Clan were at the point of falling
out with each other, and he also knew why Chen Shaobai was hiding in Zaocang and not coming out. However, he had not expected that the people of the Great Gou Clan would be able to force the Chen Clan to such an extent. An Zheng speculated that the Chen family's strength should be far stronger than the Great Vengeance Hall. Now that Chen Shaobai had hidden in the Zaocang and Kou Ba had brazenly stopped An Zheng in the streets, allowing An Zheng to go and kill Chen Shaobai, he was not afraid of the people from the Chen family at all … Evidently, the troubles that the Chen Clan had encountered were far greater than what they had expected.
An Zheng pondered as he walked, and finally understood... That's right, the enemy of the Chen family, how could it be the Great Gou Hall? The Great Gou Clan was just an existence on the surface. The ones who really wanted to destroy the Chen Clan were those who couldn't be seen. The businesses run by the Chen family were much bigger than the Great Cranes Hall. Therefore, if the Grand Canyon was destroyed, the Chen family's property would be even bigger. However, if the Chen family was wiped out, the Great Gou Hall would not be worth mentioning, and those people would be able to snatch a lot of benefits from the annihilated Chen family.
The Great Gou Clan was just a blade, and it wasn't sharp at all. The truly sharp ones were the people hidden in the darkness.
An Zheng had killed Kou Ba, so the Great Gou Clan would not let him live. Therefore, the Kou Liu who wanted to take An Zheng as his disciple, would probably kill him the next time he saw An Zheng.
Kou Liu had arrived faster than he had expected, so fast that he had not even reached the Zaocang, even though he had already seen the main entrance of the Zaocang.
At the entrance of Zaocang, the two attendants still stood there, looking straight ahead. It was as if Kou Liu, who was standing in the middle of the street, was thin air and would not attract their attention in the slightest. In fact, this was precisely the reason why a servant like them could receive so much silver a month. They knew very well that as long as Zaocang was not involved, no matter who died or lived, it had nothing to do with them.