Chapter 103 Silver Dragon Jade Belt
Chapter 103 Silver Dragon Jade Belt
Although being called a hero doesn't feel good, this seems to be the first time someone has entrusted him with such a task.
Zhao Tong wasn't good at this kind of thing, but he gradually removed the Qingfeng Mingyue Blade from the fat man's neck: "You better not be playing tricks."
The fat man chuckled awkwardly, "I'm too fat to do that kind of thing anyway~"
Zhao Tong: "..."
The joke wasn't very funny, but it reminded him of Bai Cen.
Zhao Tong received the message: "Let's go."
It was already pitch black, and you couldn't see your hand in front of your face anywhere.
But the fat man didn't carry a lantern or torch; he just used a spark to lead the way.
Zhao Tong said calmly, "Can't I get a torch?"
The fat man replied, “You may not know this, but strange people are still prone to appear in this area. They have been trapped in dark rooms for too long and are extremely sensitive to light, especially at night. If it is pitch black all around, and we hold up a torch, they will swarm up at us.”
The fat man's tone revealed fear, which showed that he considered these strange people to be extremely terrifying.
"What do these strange people do?" Zhao Tong asked.
The fat man said in a deep voice, "Nobody knows what they're going to do, not even they themselves. They're all crazy and irrational. Last time, a kid from Fengyang Sect wanted to mess with these weirdos, so he released a bunch of them. They ended up being torn apart by them!"
The fat man's voice trembled slightly, but he emphasized again, "Yes, it really was torn..."
Zhao Tong looked at him: "You saw it?"
Zhao Tong tried to piece together the strange man's characteristics, appearance, and habits from the fat man's words.
The fat man was taken aback. "The skinny man saw it and told me. After that, the two of us stopped going out for two days."
Zhao Tong noticed that Zhao Tong's hands were indeed trembling as he held the tinderbox.
Although the fat man is fat, he is actually quite timid.
I was so scared in the underground palace that I was completely at a loss.
Not cut out for evil...
The fat man continued, "Although the Bewitching Town is large, even ordinary martial arts masters would find it difficult to get out, let alone strange people. That guy with the Grass-Floating Lightness Skill is very skilled, and no one can catch him, but he is also trapped here and cannot get out."
Zhao Tong: "Then why don't you go find him?"
The fat man sighed softly, "He's always so frivolous and not very trustworthy. Let me tell you privately, last time he got bitten by a dog, I secretly put some medicine in his wound, otherwise it wouldn't have healed. But since then, he's been much less cocky and more cautious."
"Then how do you know I'm not elusive?" Zhao Tong asked.
The fat man chuckled awkwardly again: "Back in the underground palace, if it were Grasshopper instead, he would have come out and boasted that he could run faster than me; but you, hero, have spirit and composure, and most importantly, your swordsmanship is superb. You must be a master. The domineering aura emanating from your sword can scare people into fainting!"
That means I really considered faking fainting...
Zhao Tong knew perfectly well what was going on.
"Where is your sect leader and his family being held?" Zhao Tong suddenly asked.
Um?
The fat man suddenly realized!
"Great, great hero?" the fat man exclaimed excitedly. "Go out one mile to the east, and then go north for several dozen miles, there's a village."
The fat man was so excited he was almost incoherent: "Great hero, you...you're actually a really nice person, you just look a bit fierce~"
Zhao Tong: "..."
Zhao Tong said coldly, "You can stay silent."
The fat man quickly fell silent.
But after only a few moments of silence, the fat man suddenly stopped: "Wait."
Zhao Tong did as instructed.
The fat man gestured for Zhao Tong to be quiet, and Zhao Tong did so.
After a moment, the fat man handed the tinder to Zhao Tong, then lay down on the ground and listened intently with his ear pressed against the ground.
Zhao Tong remained calm and did not ask any questions.
After a moment, the fat man stood up, his eyes filled with panic, and said, "Something's not right. Every time I pass by here, I hear those strange people banging their heads against the ceiling, but right now there's no sound at all."
"What does that mean?" Zhao Tong asked directly.
The fat man exclaimed in fear, "Fengyang Gate released them all!"
Zhao Tong clearly saw the fat man nearly breathless with tension when he said the word "all," and asked, "A lot?"
The fat man nodded: "Lots!"
Zhao Tong remained calm: "What's going on? Are all these people being released?"
The fat man swallowed hard, his voice trembling as he said, "If Bewitching Town encounters serious trouble, we must destroy all people and things in Bewitching Town, leaving no trace."
Zhao Tong looked at him: "Will anyone inform you?"
The fat man suddenly realized this and shook his head.
Zhao Tong continued: "The explosives are in Dong Erli?"
The fat man nodded nervously: "Each of our sects is responsible for different things, and we are not familiar with the road to East Second Mile. We only know the general route from the map."
Zhao Tong said succinctly, "That's enough, let's go."
Although the other party didn't say much, the fat man felt inexplicably at ease. In short, he felt more at ease when he was with the thin man or even the sect leader.
"We'll go through this way and then go straight down into the tunnel. There are no snakes in the tunnel, but there might be people from the Five Poisons Sect..."
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Elsewhere, Bai Cen, holding a torch, ran breathlessly from the rooftop.
He was trying to show off!
But no one told him that these strange people could also climb on roofs and remove tiles!
Now there are strange people chasing him on the rooftops and on the ground, a dark mass all around him. He doesn't know if there are any more rooftops ahead. If there aren't any, will he fall and be fed to the mermaids?
Bai Cen: (｀Д)!!
We can't stop!
It can't stop, even if it kills us!!!
Panting, he suddenly felt a strong urge to return to Bazhenlou. At least there was the old man there, and a bunch of traps on all four sides. Right now, there was only the strange man, him, and the torch on the roof!
Bai Cen felt increasingly disheartened as he ran. How long was this going to take?
Although he still smelled of tiger urine to some extent, the smell was diluted when a large group of strange people followed him.
If the vicious dogs really did charge at him in packs, the faint scent of tiger urine on him would be torn apart before they could even catch a whiff; more likely, he wouldn't even reach the dogs before the strange man pounced on him, throwing him directly into the water, where they would all become mermaid food...
He grew more and more tired as he ran, while these strange people seemed to have been suddenly released from somewhere, with inexhaustible energy, showing no signs of letting up.
Finally, Bai Cen managed to create a gap between himself and the strange man after much effort.
Bai Cen seized the opportunity and jumped onto the two rooftops next door.
Many of the strange people didn't have time to brake and suddenly turned around with him, falling straight off the roof.
Before Bai Cen could even feel happy, those who had fallen down, and those who hadn't managed to get back up before, all jumped back up!
This is what a truly dark and suffocating mass looks like!
Bai Cen felt like dying...
And so, a white-clad swordsman, dressed in flowing white robes and holding a torch, ran desperately ahead.
A bunch of red-faced weirdos were chasing them from the rooftops.
Both sides of the road were lined with strange people running incredibly fast!
Bai Cen wanted to cry but had no tears.
Finally, Bai Cen made a high-profile U-turn back to the direction he had come from, and headed back to the old man's place!
When they got back to where they were, the carriage was gone!
The old man and his employer drove off in their carriage—so as not to disappoint his noble wish to save them at the cost of his life!
Bai Cen: o(╥﹏╥)o
In the darkness, Bai Cen floated on the roof like a burning white feather, followed by a dense swarm of insects jumping up and down.
Fortunately, the roof eventually couldn't support the many strange people who were climbing up, and they began to fall down one after another.
If you fall, you'll end up inside a house and be trapped there for a while.
By the time they came out, the distance between them had gradually increased.
The two torches in Bai Cen's hands weren't very noticeable, and the strange people gradually lost their target and began to drift off in different directions again.
In short, it seemed as if he had suddenly reached a tipping point, and fewer and fewer strange people were chasing after him.
Bai Cen felt an overwhelming sense of relief, as if he had survived a catastrophe!
They even started humming "Yo ho~" and showing off.
But the ancients were right when they said that excessive joy can turn into sorrow.
"Crack!" "Snap!" Two sounds rang out, and Bai Cen suddenly realized something was wrong, but it was too late.
He stomped on the roof tiles and smashed them with a loud crash, falling off the roof with a scream.
Whether they actually fell or not is one thing, but all the strange people who were nearby fell down with them.
Bai Cen: !!!
Bai Cen quickly got up and opened the door. Good heavens! Right there at the door was a ferocious red-faced monster who was practically begging him to open the door and rush in. Without thinking, he slammed the door shut and bolted it!
But when he turned around, there were more than a dozen strange people who had fallen down with him!
And more people are falling down!
Bai Cen: o(╥﹏╥)o, it would be a shame if I didn't die here today!
That won't do!
The landlord hasn't even grown any winter spinach for him yet! We agreed that if we found any spinach, we should cover it with oil paper so it could grow even in winter. He can't let these weirdos tear it apart before he even gets a taste of winter spinach!
Bai Cen had a sudden inspiration and quickly pushed open the window. Although there were also a large number of people outside the window, Bai Cen picked up the torch in his hand and threw it out!
The torches were coated with oak oil, so they wouldn't go out so quickly. Sure enough, a large group of red-faced strange men chased after the direction in which the torches had been thrown!
He couldn't throw his torch too far, but that short gap would allow him to rush out of the house.
Sure enough, half of the red-faced monsters inside rushed out of the window to chase the torch, but the other half did not fall for it.
Bai Cen took a deep breath and suddenly pushed open the door.
These houses were already dilapidated, and when he pushed them open, they made a loud creaking and groaning sound, which still attracted the attention of the strange people nearby.
Bai Cen's fall was quite severe, but the strange man who chased out of the house also fell quite hard, yet the strange man outside was still incredibly agile!
No, he can't die here!
Bai Cen remembered that there was still one last packet of dried spinach in his belt!
right!
He had previously dried and preserved the spinach to prevent any accidents.
He dried a lot of them, but very few of them actually turned into dried spinach; only this last little bit of scraps remained!
Bai Cen swallowed lightly, the key point being that the dried spinach was very unpalatable!
Bai Cen suddenly stopped, took out the small bag of dried spinach scraps, frowned, closed his eyes and put it in his mouth.
The worst part is that there wasn't even any water to swallow.
The slightly sour, not-quite-dried spinach bits lingered in my mouth after I swallowed them, leaving a strong aftertaste!
While Bai Cen dreaded the smell, he clearly felt the nine layers of true qi suppressing his inner strength gradually receding within his body. In its place came a surge of powerful inner strength…
The internal energy circulates rapidly, and a sense of exhilaration arises from the flow and control of this power throughout the body.
The strange figure behind him approached little by little, baring its fangs and claws. Bai Cen opened his eyes again, turned around, and the approaching strange figure in front of him could clearly feel the powerful intimidation emanating from the other side, and paused slightly.
But the strange man behind him, bewildered, pushed the strange man in front of him towards him.
Bai Cen reached out his hand, and the Dao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things!
The ninefold true energy circulates endlessly, its sound never ceasing.
With no sword at my waist, I'll use a broken branch as a sword!
He broke off a branch from a dead tree and twirled it in his hand, making neat and fluid movements.
He circulated his physical strength and inner energy, carried the sword on his back, and the withered branch in his hand shimmered with silver light, like a silver dragon and jade belt that appeared and disappeared intermittently.
As the strange men rushed towards him one after another, he drew his sword and straightened it. The sword energy, mixed with gentleness, roared out like a silver dragon and a jade belt!
With overwhelming force, wherever it went, all the strange figures were overturned by the sword energy of the Silver Dragon Jade Belt and fell to the ground. The previously dark mass was now completely destroyed, with not a single one able to struggle to their feet.
Bai Cen let out a long sigh, habitually sheathed his sword, and carried it behind his back, exuding an indescribable air of refined elegance.
But soon, the true energy in his body seemed to be drained away as the silver dragon jade belt roared out.
The familiar Ninefold True Qi, like a gluttonous dragon, swiftly devoured all the internal energy in my body. In a very short time, my internal energy went from being extremely abundant to being completely depleted. The difference between these two extremes seemed to drain all my strength.
If I hadn't poked the ground with a dry branch in time, I probably wouldn't have been able to stand up.
When the extreme exhaustion finally subsided, Bai Cen threw away the withered branch in his hand, sighing inwardly. That small handful of dried spinach was really only enough for half a move of the Silver Dragon Jade Belt.
The strange men behind him collapsed to the ground, groaning and unable to get up. He needed to get there as quickly as possible.
But when I lift my leg, my feet feel weak.
Bai Cen had a headache.
With such significant side effects and such a long road ahead, how should we proceed?
The horses are all gone.
Just as they were caught in a dilemma, they heard a "tap tap tap tap" sound coming from the darkness in the distance, moving towards them through the night.
Bai Cen frowned.
The voice was deep, powerful, and majestic.
Bai Cen had no strength left to fight, but even so, he had no choice but to confront the danger that was about to rush towards him in the darkness. Bai Cen squatted down and picked up the dry branch that had been lying to the side. No matter what, he couldn't face the danger that was about to rush towards him in the darkness empty-handed!
In the darkness, the sound of "tatatatatatata" approached.
Bai Cen took a deep breath, then held it, staring intently in the direction of the sound in the darkness, his heart pounding!
It's getting clearer, it's here...
Bai Cen frowned slightly. In his eyes, the other person's figure broke through the darkness and appeared in the faint light before him, stopping in front of him.
Bai Cen: ? ? ?
Bai Cen: !!!
Mighty?
Bai Cen was both annoyed and amused. He was annoyed because it had rushed into the Bewitching Town with a whoosh, and then rushed out again with a whoosh. He was amused because he probably really had no other choice but to leave.
Riding a pig...
[Author's Note]
My first time eating spinach transformed me
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