394 The inner treasury was burned to ashes, and the streets were trampled with the bones of the nobles
The main street of Zhongzhou City is extremely spacious. In addition to being convenient for pedestrians to walk, it is also convenient for various exotic beasts and mounts to walk side by side.
Chu Linfeng and Zhou Tianli stood in the middle of the street which was like a square.
He took out a formation plate and threw it at his feet. The formation plate merged into the earth and soon covered the nearby blocks, isolating Chu Linfeng and Zhou Tianli from the people and objects in the outside world, forming a small duel arena.
The onlookers each chose a seat and sat down, while the vendors skillfully moved among the crowd, shouting their wares in an endless stream.
"Pearl seeds, tea, fermented rice cakes..."
"Candied fruits and medicinal herbs, candied haws..."
Jiang Xin wanted to eat the Begonia cake, so she touched the Xumi bracelet, but found nothing. Then she remembered that she had bet all her fortune on Chu Linfeng to win.
She sighed in disappointment, holding her face in her hands and said, "I hope Brother Five will finish the fight quickly."
Before she finished her words, she smelled a sweet fragrance, and it turned out to be a piece of crabapple cake being brought to her.
Jiang Xin was overjoyed: "How did you buy it?"
Jiang Xiao chuckled: "I traded the spiritual plants with the uncle who sells Begonia cakes, and he gave me a lot of spiritual stones. We can buy whatever we want."
Jiang Xiao was holding a handful of crabapple cakes and fermented rice cakes in his arms, all of which he had just exchanged for spiritual plants.
The fellow disciples ate happily, not caring much about the loss-making deal.
Mortals and cultivators live together in Zhongzhou City. Due to the strict management of the Chu family, there are very few incidents of cultivators bullying mortals.
Therefore, many mortals are brave enough not only to do business with the monks, but also to joke with them occasionally.
It’s just because they are unable to practice and lack strength, the upper limit of mortal development is very low, and many natural treasures cannot be obtained.
The spiritual plants given by Jiang Xiao were nothing to them, but they were priceless treasures to mortal vendors, so they gave a large portion of all the cakes they sold to Jiang Xiao.
Jiang Xin took a bite of the crabapple cake and smiled happily.
In the center of the duel arena, Chu Linfeng drew out his long sword: "Let's make it clear first, except for your own life weapons, you can only rely on your own cultivation to fight, and you cannot use secret treasures, elixirs, magic tools or other external objects to help you."
Both of them are rich young men, and they have many treasures given by their families. If they could use some external aid, both sides could fight a war of attrition for three days and three nights.
Zhou Tianli wanted to win against Chu Linfeng fairly, so he was naturally arrogant: "No problem."
He brandished his spear, his figure flashed, and he rushed towards Chu Linfeng at a high speed.
Chu Linfeng swung his sword to meet the attack and dodge the powerful Overlord Spear.
Zhao Shi was sitting in the stands, slightly surprised: "This Young Master Zhou is quite powerful?"
An expert knows the ins and outs of things and can see a lot from just a few moves.
Zhao Shi could see that Zhou Tianli's basic skills were very solid, which could not be compared with some trash who were simply improved by elixirs.
Shen Mousse drank the Yunding Bailu tea, feeling the refreshing aroma of the tea, and said with a smile: "It is said that the atmosphere here in Zhongzhou City is good. There are dandies who are unlearned and unskilled, and there are also children of noble families with real talents and real learning. Generally, those who have the courage to challenge the fifth junior brother should be the latter."
"Why doesn't the former come to challenge Fifth Senior Brother?" Jiang Xin asked.
"This kind of person has been scared away by Fifth Junior Brother before. Only the children of aristocratic families who have practiced hard have the confidence to challenge Fifth Junior Brother again."
Jiang Xin sighed: "If they don't come to challenge Fifth Brother, we will be at a great loss."
Shen Muse nodded vigorously: “That’s right, I have to persuade the fifth junior brother to beat people lightly in the future, leaving a chance to make a fortune in the future, just like the master.”
In the duel, Chu Linfeng dodged Zhou Tianli's sharp shot and turned around to meet it with his sword.
The two people's spiritual power collided, making a loud noise, but neither of them gained the upper hand.
This seemed like a draw, but in reality Zhou Tianli had already lost a move.
——He is in the Nascent Soul stage.
Theoretically, the Nascent Soul stage should definitely win over the Golden Core stage.
But Chu Linfeng also felt that he had lost.
During this period of training outside, he often jumped to the Nascent Soul stage. Now he has tied with Zhou Tianli, so he has lost, right?
It seems that he really underestimated Zhou Tianli.
"When you meet a man after three days of absence, you should look at him with new eyes." Chu Linfeng smiled, showing the excitement after meeting a strong opponent.
Zhou Tianli didn't lose the fight, and responded with the same smile: "I underestimated you. I didn't expect that your cultivation level is comparable to that of the Nascent Soul Stage. Which sect did you join when you went out?"
The three words "Tianshui Sect" slipped to his lips but Chu Linfeng swallowed them down: "I won't tell you."
"It can't be some small sect in a remote corner, right?" Zhou Tianli sneered and flew over with his gun raised.
Chu Linfeng swung his sword to meet the attack, the tip of the sword touching the tip of the spear. The sword's force surged forward, actually overwhelming the force of Zhou Tianli's spear and knocking him away.
Zhou Tianli was trying to steady himself in the air, but Chu Linfeng shot out like a cannonball to catch up with him, using his sword moves continuously.
Zhou Tianli was busy dealing with the situation and gradually felt overwhelmed.
In a trance, he only felt a sharp pain in his body, which was the pain of his flesh and blood being torn apart after the spiritual power that protected his body was shattered.
Blood soon seeped out of the blue clothes.
Zhou Tianli was extremely shocked. Before he found a chance to fight back, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. The spiritual power that was running at a high speed in his body was shattered. He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.
Just as he was about to stand up, there was a flash of silver light, and the cold sword blade was already against his throat.
He lost.
Zhou Tianli was completely stunned.
Halfway through the fight, Zhou Tianli discovered that Chu Linfeng's cultivation was far beyond his expectations, and he thought he might lose.
But he didn't expect that he would lose so quickly and so easily.
He thought that he could at least beat Chu Linfeng half to death before he could lose to Chu Linfeng with an attitude of "honor in defeat".
Now he was too disappointed, and Zhou Tianli couldn't accept it: "What did you learn outside? How can you beat me?"
"This young master is extremely talented, so isn't it normal that I can beat you?" Chu Linfeng put away his sword swiftly, and seeing the figures of the Law Enforcement Hall disciples approaching in the distance, he hurriedly put away the formation plate filled with small dueling arenas under his feet.
The audience was left wanting more, feeling as though the battle was over before it even began.
Only Jiang Xin was jumping up and down happily: "Win! Win! Get the money!"
She pulled Ning Yao to find the gambling house owner, not afraid of being deformed by the crowded crowd.
"Hurry, hurry, hand over the prize." Chu Linfeng nervously watched the disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall flying towards him while extending his hand in front of Zhou Tianli.
Zhou Tianli snorted coldly, and unwillingly took off a fusion stage secret treasure from his body and threw it into his hands: "Who do you choose as your master?"
Seeing that everyone was busy, Chu Linfeng chuckled, pulled Zhou Tianli up from the ground, and uttered a name: "My master is the number one swordsman in the fusion stage."
"Those sword cultivators in the fusion stage all claim that they are number one." Zhou Tianli rolled his eyes, feeling that what Chu Linfeng said was equivalent to saying nothing.
He took the pills to ease his injuries a little. He inadvertently glanced at Jiang Xin who was happily asking the gambling owner for money, and suddenly thought of something.
——Not long ago, Tianshui Sect leader Jiang Yichen and his wife Qi Lanqing were blessed with a daughter.
Normally, the major sects would not accept a little girl with no cultivation as a disciple. Unless this child was born in a sect.
Jiang Xin agreed to this condition.
Looking at the secret treasures on Jiang Xin's body, although they were covered with magic, they could not be hidden from Zhou Tianli, who had been surrounded by treasures since he was a child. He could see that every thing on Jiang Xin's body was a first-class treasure.
Those who can enjoy this treatment are either the clan leader’s biological daughter or the granddaughter of the supreme elder.
Jiang Yichen is a sword cultivator in the fusion stage, could it be...
Zhou Tianli looked at Chu Linfeng in disbelief, not knowing how to start talking for a moment.
When Jiang Xin happily received the spirit stones and returned to Chu Linfeng amid the tears of the shopkeeper, Zhou Tianli couldn't help asking, "What's your name?"
"My name is Jiang Xin, you can also call me Xinxin." Jiang Xin said crisply. Seeing him lose so easily, I felt that Zhou Tianli was much more pleasing to the eye.
Zhou Tianli hesitated and asked, "Is it Jiang Yichen's Jiang?"
Jiang Xin's eyes lit up obviously, and she nodded frequently: "Yeah, yeah, it's Daddy's Jiang."
Zhou Tianli: “!!!”
really!
He turned around and questioned Chu Linfeng: "How could you join the Tianshui Sect and ruin the reputation of our Zhongzhou!"
Chu Linfeng thought he was very strange. "Does Zhongzhou's reputation still need me to ruin it? Don't you know how many people out there call us profiteers, call us cold-blooded, want to destroy Zhongzhou's noble families, and shout 'The inner treasury will be burned to ashes, and the streets will be trampled with the bones of the nobles'?"
Zhou Tianli stood there in a daze.
He really doesn't know these things.
He has lived in a luxurious environment since his childhood and has never seen life outside. No matter how hard or tiring life is, it is just time to go out and gain experience.
Even so, he is surrounded by guards sent by his family, and when his life is in danger, the secret guards will come to his aid.
He knew that there was poverty in this world, but he had never seen it with his own eyes or experienced it personally, so he didn't know how far apart he was from those people.
He even found it difficult to understand Chu Linfeng's words.
But he knew that Chu Linfeng was not the kind of person who talked nonsense.
Even from Chu Linfeng's last two sentences, he could imagine the tragic scene of the streets beneath his feet turning into a river of blood and the corpses of the major families in Zhongzhou City lying all over the ground.
Zhou Tianli shuddered violently and asked hesitantly, "Why do they hate us so much?"
Chu Linfeng: "Because many of us are indeed assholes."
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