by Zhi Bai
"Mr. Liu."
An Zheng bowed respectfully, just like how he bowed to Kou Ba.
"You've surprised me and broadened my horizons."
Kou Liu stood there, with a calm expression, he looked at An Zheng. "I really didn't think that the disciples that I have carefully taught in the academy would be considered trash compared to you. And you have been hiding under my nose for so long, yet I did not see that you were a piece of unpolished jade. "This is what I regret the most. If I had discovered you earlier, you would have already been polished into a piece of jade in the Great Kou Hall. It was brilliant and dazzling."
An Zheng shook his head: "The Great Cranes Hall cannot polish me. If you guys can polish me up, that would be the true end of me."
Kou Liu was slightly stunned, then clapped: "Good ambition!"
An Zheng asked, "Sixth Master, you want to kill me too?"
Kou Liu shook his head: "I'm here to kill Chen Shaobai."
An Zheng sighed: "Sixth Mister was originally an arrow that was shot out. If we don't find a target that we can kill, then it is possible that he was cut off by an arrow halfway through."
Kou Liu laughed, and said casually: "I am indeed an arrow that has already been shot, there is no turning back. You're not stupid, you should know that at this point, the Great Gou Clan can no longer control them. Just as you said, the Great Coyote Hall is too weak … "Behind him, there's a hand that's pulling the bow open, treating everyone in the Great Cou Hall as if they're arrows, shooting them out one by one without even looking back."
"Thus, I am unwilling to kill you."
Kou Liu said: "I once pitied myself and felt that the world was unfair to me. Why is it that some people are born to practice, while I am not? Even though I trained with my life on the line, I was only at the initial stage of body transformation. There is a saying that the heart is higher than the sky … That's what I am. "
He looked at An Zheng, "Tell me, am I not as hardworking as others? Since I was six years old, I had practiced every day before the sun rose, and by the time I was sixteen, twenty-seven stakes were broken. My father told me that people were not born of high or low status, and that when they were born they were all just starting points. Therefore, even if he was a bit poor, as long as he was willing to work hard, and work twice as hard as the children of those large clans, he would succeed. If twice that doesn't work, then twice that. If two times didn't work, then four times. If it's not enough, then we can always make up for it by eating and sleeping. "
"But then I learned that my father had lied to me. No matter how hard you try the day after tomorrow, if you can't do it, then you can't. "
He pointed to his own heart, "When I was young, I wanted to become a general and lead a hundred elite soldiers to sweep the world and seek justice. Later on, I realized that the way of the world was definitely not so simple. When I was young, I wanted to be a chivalrous hero who traveled with the sword and killed people over a thousand miles away. Afterwards, I became an evil person … An Zheng, there isn't a single great bandit in the Great Cranky Hall. He is just a grass bandit, the two words "great bandit" are just deceiving himself. "
He turned around and walked towards Zaocang.
An Zheng asked from behind him: "Do you regret doing evil?"
Kou Liu shook his head. "I don't regret it.
An Zheng did not say a word.
Kou Liu walked to the entrance of the Zaocang and turned his head to look at An Zheng. Legend has it that as long as one had twelve spirit stones and the help of an expert from the Sumeru Stage, he would be able to change his body and enter the path of cultivation. An Zheng, you are still young, you have a chance. "Remember, if you can cultivate, there's no harm in letting everyone under the heavens down."
An Zheng said: "I'm not you, you don't have to entrust your unfinished business to me."
Kou Liu's expression changed, and he did not say another word.
"The Great Gou Clan is loyal to the Zaocang."
Kou Liu cupped his fists and shouted towards the entrance of the Zaocang.
An Zheng stood in the distance, quietly watching.
"What do you want?"
Someone from the Zaocang asked.
Kou Liu loudly replied: "Kill Chen Shaobai."
Someone from the Zaocang said, "Once you enter the door of the Zaocang, you will be a guest of the Zaocang. Your affairs in the martial arts world are outside the door. If you want to kill someone inside the door, you will not kill them as your enemy, but as the name of the Zaocang. "Therefore, I advise you to be patient and wait. Wait until you kill those who want to leave this place before you kill them."
"When does he come out?"
"I don't know. Whenever the guest leaves, he leaves. Anyone who can enter the gates of Zaocang will not be rushed out. "
Kou Liu said: "Then I cannot wait, my family has a wife and concubine, it is in the hands of others. "I will wait, they won't wait."
The Zaocang's man replied: "These have nothing to do with Zaocang. If you don't wait, you will die after entering."
Kou Liu said: "Then I'm sorry, please forgive my offense."
He drew his saber from behind him. It was made of steel, and it gave off a biting cold light. He started to walk towards the entrance of the Zaocang. The two attendants that received the guests stood there and frowned.
Kou Liu took his first step, but nothing happened. He calmed down a little and continued forward. Second, nothing happened. With his third step, his foot stepped on the doorstep of Zaocang's gates. Then, a blue light flew out from Zaocang's gates, like a crescent moon. The blue light flashed and Kou Liu lost his legs.
The blue light had cut off his thigh from its root, so he suddenly looked shorter by more than half. Kou Liu groaned, he placed the steel blade in his hand into his mouth and crawled forward with both hands. Just as his hand touched the Zaocang's doorstep, a blue light appeared again and both his arms were cut off.
Kou Liu fiercely bit a row of teeth marks on the steel blade. Without four limbs, he laid on the ground, looking like a big, bloody bug. He let out a roar, pressed his jaw against the ground, and pulled himself forward.
"Why?"
Someone from the Zaocang sighed, and then, that blue light flew out once again, and directly pierced through Kou Liu's skull.
With a clang, Kou Liu's blade fell to the ground, producing a clear sound.
The blue light floated there without moving, floating in front of the door. Afterwards, the blue light dissipated and an extremely small object fell beside Kou Liu's corpse.
An Zheng walked closer and discovered that it was a toothpick with blood on it.
Chapter 20 - Fierce Smile
Kou Liu died, killed by a toothpick.
This was the world of cultivators, and Kou Liu was outside the world of cultivators. That threshold was not only the threshold of Zaocang, it was also the threshold for cultivators and ordinary people. Kou Liu just wanted to cross the threshold and he's dead.
An Zheng silently walked over and looked at the toothpick. The toothpick was made from bamboo, and on it was blood, Kou Liu's blood. An Zheng walked to the entrance of the Zaocang and took out all of the silver from his robes. Roughly two to three hundred gold, he placed it in the hands of a waiter: "Please buy a coffin and bring the corpse over.
That servant didn't want to agree, and thus, looked into An Zheng's eyes. He didn't know why, but it was as if An Zheng's gaze had split his heart apart in an instant. Then he could only nod. He felt that if he said no, he would be scared out of his mind in the next second.
The current An Zheng obviously did not have that kind of strength, but he still had that kind of expression in his eyes.
The servant held the silver that An Zheng gave him, feeling a little helpless. An Zheng walked to the door and looked down at the doorstep. Previously, when he had entered, An Zheng had not paid attention to this threshold. Now, he suddenly felt that the threshold separating cultivators and ordinary people w
as actually this high. An Zheng even thought that at the moment he took a step forward, there would also be a toothpick that would fly out and kill him.
Therefore, his foot paused above the threshold for a moment, as if in provocation.
Nothing happened.
He entered and saw the young woman in a purple dress. She was a woman with a very special temperament, one that could give off an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Just like a young woman holding a child and bathing outside, he felt no threat at all. However, she also had a very noble aura, as if she was born to be the kind of girl that was favored by tens of thousands.
"Little mister is back."
she said, smiling.
Previously, she had addressed An Zheng as little friend, but now she addressed him as little sir. An Zheng didn't know if this change in salutation meant that this woman's attitude towards him had changed. From hot, to even hotter.
"Then what should I call you?"
An Zheng asked.
The purple-dressed woman smiled. Although the veil covered her smile, it could not hide her crescent-like eyes.
"You can call me First Mr."
An Zheng muttered to himself: "Little Sir, First Mr … It sounds like brother and sister. "
The purple-dressed woman said gently, "Everyone in this building calls me Madam. However, those close to me, call me First Mr. If you think that we're fated to be siblings, it's not a bad thing. I don't mind having another outstanding brother. Would you mind having another sister? "
An Zheng nodded: "I mind."
The lady in purple frowned slightly. "Why?"
An Zheng answered seriously: "Because I can't have any other thoughts since I've already become brother and sister."
The woman in purple was stunned. "Are you teasing me?"
An Zheng answered in a more serious tone, "Yes, don't tell me you think so?"
The purple-dressed lady's eyes narrowed even more. "Do you think you have the ability to tease me now?"
An Zheng lowered his head to look at it, then let out a long sigh: "Fate, is just this cruel."
The purple dressed lady seemed to think that An Zheng was especially interesting, so she was not angry: "It's been so long since I've seen such a playful kid like you. The last person I saw was from the Fantasy City's Su Family, and he seemed to be even more mischievous than you. Moreover, his talent is much better than yours. He was able to cleanse the marrow at the age of six, advance to the first grade at the age of seven, and advance to the third grade at the age of nine. "
She lowered her head, reached out and rubbed An Zheng's head: "But unfortunately, he died when he was ten years old."
An Zheng also squinted his eyes, staring at her chest which was bent over in an even more spectacular manner: "It's such a pity... Fortunately, my eleventh birthday is coming up in three days, so I should be able to live longer than the child you mentioned. Life is beautiful everywhere. The scenery in front of your eyes, so it's better to live … If First Mr has anything, please speak, I am saying that if you stand up straight, although I am small, it does not mean that I won't be hard. "
The purple-dressed woman was still not angry. If it were any other man speaking in such a manner, he would have died hundreds or thousands of times already. However, she felt that An Zheng was very special. Even if he said those flippant words, he was still not to be detested.
"Hard?"
She narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Then wait until you can be tough enough before you tease me. I believe that with your ability, you will definitely be very strong in the future. But now, you really can't. "
She straightened up, turned and walked back, swinging her hips and raising her legs. From the back, she could see that the purple skirt was wrapped around her buttocks, and even the seams of her buttocks could be faintly seen. It was as if under the purple dress, her fair skin was about to burst out. An Zheng was sure that she did it on purpose, so he knew that he had lost. He teased her, but she teased him.
"I want to grow up a bit."
An Zheng laughed and walked towards the second floor. Then, he saw Chen Shaobai standing at the corner of the second floor. This gloomy-looking mature youth was actually crying.
"An Zheng... "The Chen Clan is gone."
"No," he said.
An Zheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "No wonder they impatiently wanted to kill you.
It had only been half a day, but the Great Gou Clan was gone, as was the Chen Clan. No one dared to make any wild guesses as to whose Nanshan Street this was. An Zheng did not know how great the power of the Chen family was. However, there was one thing that was very clear, and that was that the power that destroyed the Chen Clan would definitely be extremely great. That cloth-clothed scholar in the distance at the Great Mother Ye Inn, had she anything to do with this?
"What are you going to do?"
An Zheng asked Chen Shaobai: "Now that the Chen family is gone, I'm afraid the Zaocang will not allow you to stay here anymore."
Chen Shaobai answered: "I can wait until tomorrow morning because I gave them the most valuable thing in the Chen family, so they can protect me for one day and one night. An Zheng, I want to cultivate, I want to be strong, I want revenge! However … I don't even know who my enemy is. My father wouldn't tell me, and I know he won't let me take revenge, because my enemies must be very powerful, and my father doesn't want me to take the risk. "
"You are only ten years old, and your strength has already risen by three levels. You and I are about the same age, I can't even cultivate. "
An Zheng said: "With your style of doing things, I think you deserve to die. However, if you die, then you will not be able to live up to your father's good intentions. So I'm just advising you with one sentence … With your talent, even if you go to Da Xi, you'll still be able to establish a foothold in a pretty good sect. But I want you to think back to your life before you were ten. Have you ever killed an innocent person? But have you bullied anyone worse than yourself? If there is, then don't put on such an attitude in front of me, because you are not pitiful. "
Chen Shaobai was stunned, then he took a deep breath: "You're right, I'm stronger than others, so I was the one who bullied others in the past, and others were stronger than me, so my family was ruined and everyone died. This was such a world after all. An Zheng, come with me. I know where I want to go and it's a place that can allow me to become strong. It's a sect that no one else knows about. It is because my father accidentally found out about this secret that his clan was exterminated today. "
"They wanted to interrogate my father as to where that sect is located. However, my father would never say it out loud. The reward for keeping this a secret is that I can enter that sect to study. An Zheng, follow me because I feel a little lonely. "
An Zheng shook his head: "I can't cultivate, why would I follow you? Your father gave you his life in exchange for this chance, yet you still haven't managed to comprehend his resolute fatherly love … Chen Shaobai, I think I should kill you. "
Chen Shaobai replied: Of course I know, but what should I do? Weeping? I've already cried. If crying can't solve the problem, it can only make me seem weak. I've already cried, so it's time for this to end. From the moment I left, my father's death and the extermination of the clan were the reasons for my cultivation. However, they will never hurt my heart again. "
An Zheng waved his hand. "Goodbye."
Chen Shaobai: "Follow me, and be my subordinate. I can tell you, as long as I enter that sect, I'll be at the peak of the Nine Heavens when I come out again. Everyone will worship me, and you are my follower, so you will enjoy this glory. "
An Zheng: "Scram."
Chen Shaobai: "Why don't you know how to appreciate favors?"
An Zheng did not speak further, he turned and walked out. Chen Shaobai tried to pull An Zheng back: "I'm really a little afraid … I've never lived alone. An Zheng, as long as you follow me, I will grant you countless benefits in the future! If I become succe
ssful in the future, you will also be able to enjoy the respect of the world! "
An Zheng did not even turn around.
The Great Gangster Hall was gone, as was the Chen family. This was exactly what An Zheng wanted to see, but he realized that he had not obtained anything. Obtaining twelve Spirit Stones could change a person's physique. Of course, they would need the help of a Sumeru Stage Ranker to cleanse one's marrow. The sect had a special formation to help the new disciples cleanse their marrow, but the sect's requirements to choose a disciple were too harsh. With An Zheng and Du Shoushou's current constitutions, they couldn't enter any other sect.
"You will regret it!"
Chen Shaobai shouted from behind An Zheng.
An Zheng turned his head to look and saw that Chen Shaobai's hair had turned white.
It was indeed Chen Shaobai.
An Zheng came from the second floor, walked to the front of the counter in the hall on the first floor, and looked at the arrogant little fellow inside: "May I ask how can I meet with First Mr? I want to tell her that I regret it."
The shop assistant was stunned for a moment, then scolded, "Idiot."
An Zheng looked in all directions. He knew that the First Mr was definitely watching him silently and there was definitely a smile on his face. She already knew that the Chen family was finished, and that was why she appeared in front of An Zheng. She thought this was a form of teasing and fun. Without the Chen family, An Zheng would definitely regret refusing her. So of course she wouldn't appear again, because she just wanted to see An Zheng's regretful look.
How boring life is, who teases who is not teasing?
An Zheng looked around, but saw nothing. The purple dressed woman never appeared again, while An Zheng turned around with desolation. But no one saw the smile on the corners of An Zheng's mouth as he turned around.