Chapter Fifteen
After Xiao Liunian put everything back in its place in the cave, he checked the time and saw that it was already noon. So he picked up the cat and left the cave.
They found a spot a little away from the waterfall, but still with a view of it, set up a table and two chairs, and took out the food they had bought when they left town that morning.
A person and a cat, with beautiful scenery as seasoning and the sound of water as harmony, leisurely finished their lunch.
Afterwards, Xiao Liunian packed up the tables and chairs, picked up the cat, and used his lightness skill to return to Pingjiang City.
After arriving in Pingjiang City, the two of them, a person and a cat, found a shop and had dinner.
Xiao Liunian originally planned to go back to the courtyard to rest for a while before setting off to meet up with Wu Yan, but since Maomao wanted to go boating for a while earlier, Lin Mu took Shisan directly to the meeting point.
"Mumu, this boat is so much fun!" Thirteen used his paw to nudge one of the oars, making the boat move slowly.
Xiao Liunian also slowly rowed another oar.
A curved blade hung high in the sky, its chilling aura spreading outwards, as if telling those on earth: Do not approach, or you will suffer the consequences.
A curved blade sank deep into the lake, ripples spreading outwards. The blade began to lose its coldness, and the concentric circles of ripples seemed to invite the world to draw closer.
"Mumu, are you confident about what will happen with the Underworld?"
"What if Wu Yan withdraws, or he sabotages things behind the scenes?"
After playing for a while, Thirteen laid out a small cushion, lay down on the boat, and showed concern for its host.
"I'm not sure I'm on the safe side. If he backs out, I'll go myself. If he tries to sabotage me in secret, I'll cripple him first." The calm tone carried the harshest message.
"And I have you, my cat, the great System Master."
"Just activate your skill in a crisis, and we'll teleport away!"
Xiao Liunian took out a small blanket and wrapped the fluffy thing up.
Upon hearing this, the cat's tone instantly became excited.
"Many times, in critical moments, you don't even use the teleportation skill!"
"Many times, their lives hang by a thread!"
"You're really courting death a lot of the time!"
"If you're gone, where will I find another host as strategic and exceptionally intelligent as you!"
The comments that popped up on Thirteen were incoherent and chaotic.
"I promise, I won't die!"
"I want to become the host of hosts, and you want to become the host of hosts!"
"I will not die!"
Xiao Liunian patted Thirteen's fluffy head and assured the cat.
Then Xiao Liunian took out a large cushion and lay down as well. The two of them, one human and one cat, closed their eyes.
A gentle breeze brushed against my face, and I could hear the intermittent sounds of fish leaping out of the water and falling back in—a perfect scene for composing a poem.
The person and the cat began to breathe evenly and drifted off to sleep.
I don't know how much time passed.
Suddenly, Xiao Liunian opened his eyes and sat up instantly.
It turned out that Wu Yan was about to reach the lakeside, and the system monitoring function started to alarm.
Xiao Liunian deactivated the system's mimicry and materialization function, put away the cushion, returned to the shore, and left a few pieces of silver in the cabin as payment for the boat rental this time and the previous time.
"Brother Wu Yan, you've arrived just in time!" Xiao Liunian said politely.
"Miss Liu, thank you for waiting!" Wu Yan also said politely.
"Brother Wu Yan, if I may ask, why did you choose to travel at night using your lightness skill?" Xiao Liunian asked with some curiosity.
Traveling at night using light-footed skills would take at least three hours, and even if one used internal energy to recover, it would still consume a lot of cultivation and energy.
"One reason: traveling at night using light-footed skills can hone one's cultivation."
"Another reason: I'm out of money and can't buy a horse!"
"The last sum of money was just spent at noon as commission!"
Wu Yan gave two reasons, and Xiao Liunian didn't know how to respond for a moment, especially the second reason.
It seems that money really is sometimes very important!
The saying "Even a hero can be brought down by a penny" is no exaggeration; the fact that it has been passed down for so many years shows there is some truth to it.
"Brother Wu Yan, in this collaboration, we will work together. I still have some silver here. After traveling tonight, we can find a town tomorrow and buy two horses. What do you say?"
"This way we can preserve our strength as much as possible, and make more use of the Ganzhou Yama Palace branch!" Xiao Liunian suggested.
For Xiao Liunian, the issue of money is still manageable at the moment.
When she couldn't solve the problem, Xiao Liunian would go mining! She still had mines, and one of them was still on her fiefdom. As long as the fiefdom wasn't taken back, she would have a legal mine.
"Miss Liu is right, I have no objection!" Wu Yan seemed a little embarrassed.
After a polite greeting and discussion, the two agreed on their travel plan, and together with the hidden cat, they began their journey.
After a night of practicing lightness skills, Xiao Liunian and Wu Yan arrived at the outskirts of a town. After restoring their energy for a while, the two entered the town.
"Brother Wu Yan, how about we find an inn first, have a meal, then sleep all morning, buy horses after lunch, rest for the night, and set off early tomorrow morning?" Xiao Liunian suggested.
"Alright, where will Miss Liu stay? I'll come to meet you tomorrow morning!" Wu Yan asked.
“Brother Wu Yan, you’re too kind! You and I are partners. I’m staying at an inn, it’s unreasonable for you to camp out in the wilderness.”
"I will cover all the expenses along the way; Brother Wuyan, you need not worry about it."
Xiao Liunian led Wu Yan to an inn. After entering the inn, Xiao Liunian asked the innkeeper to book two superior rooms and then asked the waiter to serve wine and dishes.
After finishing their meal, they agreed on a time to meet Wu Yan at noon, and then went back to their respective rooms to rest.
At this moment, Wu Yan's inner thoughts were as follows:
"This young girl is so skilled, yet her abilities are so profound. I wonder who she is? Could she be a disciple of some senior master?"
"Besides his profound skill, he also has plenty of money. Could he be from some powerful family?"
"Forget it, why think so much? Let's destroy the Yama Palace first!"
"As for the rest, there's no point in thinking about it!"
"Yan Li, you're going to die soon!"
After a series of mental activities, Wu Yan, lying in bed, closed her eyes and began to catch up on sleep.
Meanwhile, in another room, Xiao Liunian and Maomao were.
"I'm so bored!" After the cat appeared, it rolled around on the bed and communicated with Xiao Liunian with its mind.
"Mumu, he's so poor!"
"However, to be so poor yet possess such high cultivation, to have come this far, he must be a ruthless person!"
"If we hadn't intervened, would his revenge against Yan Li have succeeded?" Cat was very curious. In some ways, Wu Yan and her host were somewhat similar.
“Yes, he will! If ten years of planning fails, then he can start over. If he survives, he must continue. With his abilities, killing Yan Li will not be difficult,” Xiao Liunian affirmed.
"I'm sleepy, time for bed."
"A whole night of light-footed skill!"
"Can internal energy be used like this?"
"Wu Yan is truly a formidable person!"
Xiao Liunian closed his eyes and started to catch up on sleep. The cat rolled around Xiao Liunian on the bed. Thirteen didn't want to sleep and was still very energetic.
Suddenly, the cat jumped onto the table, picked up a snack, and started munching on it.
"It seems Mumu is really sleepy!"
"This snack is quite good!"
The cat, happily munching on a snack on the table, noticed Xiao Liunian rummaging around on the bed, seemingly looking for something.
Thirteen put down the snacks, handed the cat head to Xiao Liunian, and prepared to eat the snacks after Xiao Liunian stopped moving.
"There are some snacks on the table, for the cat."
Xiao Liunian murmured softly in his sleep.
A little while later, the cat, having finished its snack, lay down on the bed and began to sleep.
Over the next few days, Xiao Liunian and Yan Li kept buying and changing horses, traveling by day and resting by night, occasionally camping in the wild, but mostly resting in towns.
Along the way, they encountered robbers who tried to rob them, so they tied them up and sent them to the local government.
Ten days later, the two arrived in Changcheng, Ganzhou. The branch of the Yama Palace was located in a mountain outside Changcheng.
After resting for a day in Changcheng, Ganzhou, Xiao Liunian and Wu Yan went to the Yama Palace branch at night.
A dark and windy night is the perfect time to commit murder! This aligns with what Xiao Liunian and Wu Yan are about to do.
On a tree next to the branch of the Yama Palace, Xiao Liunian and Wu Yan were both dressed in black and their faces were covered.
"The Yama Palace branch has a total of 130 people. Among them, the branch leader has the highest cultivation level, having reached the initial stage of the Hexagram."
"The branch's elite assassins number twenty, with cultivation levels around the statistical stage, and there are fifty ordinary assassins, for a total of seventy people."
"Ten elite spies from the branch judges and twenty-five ordinary spies, for a total of thirty-five people."
"Seven elite soup-cooking workers from the Meng Po branch of the sub-hall, and eighteen ordinary soup-cooking workers, for a total of twenty-five people."
"The various branches together have a total of one hundred and thirty people, but Brother Yan is not among them!"
"What are your plans?" Wu Yan asked. The fact that the personnel distribution survey was so detailed meant that there must be an even more meticulous plan.
"The plan? You come from the right, I'll come from the left, we'll charge straight in, and then we'll meet up in the middle!" Xiao Liunian replied.
"It's late now, and most people should be asleep except for the patrolling disciples. We should try to keep quiet and keep our breathing still when we move around."
"If we're discovered, it doesn't matter!"
At this moment, even Wu Yan, who was about to face his enemy in revenge, could sense emotional fluctuations in his words.
Xiao Liunian, however, remained remarkably calm. This young girl, still so young, showed no emotional fluctuation whatsoever in the face of killing and death.
"Set off!"
Xiao Liunian and Wu Yan entered the Yama Palace branch from different directions, beginning their first collaboration.
Xiao Liunian, having concealed his aura, held a dagger he had bought from some blacksmith shop.
Tonight, the moon is hidden by clouds, and apart from the light from the lanterns, the dagger shines the brightest.
This dagger is of excellent quality; it kisses neck after neck with little blood residue, and its luster remains undiminished.
"Mumu?" the system asked in a low voice through the space.
"Hmm? What's wrong?" Xiao Liunian's tone changed slightly, probably because he was charmed by the cat's hushed voice.
"Be careful! There are too many of them. You're the only one we can fight. I can't help you." Cat's tone was a little helpless.
“Killing isn’t about who has the most people,” Xiao Liunian replied. He didn’t know when, where, or from whom he had heard this before.
Although the two tried their best to conceal their presence and minimize their noise, not all the people in the Yama's Palace branch were incompetent. The two were eventually discovered just as they were about to meet.
The two fought their way back until they reached the center of the branch, where they were surrounded by the remaining assassins.
"How is it? Can you still kill them?" Wu Yan asked his ally, who was standing back to back with him.
"Several people passed by his neck, yet not a drop of blood stained him!" Xiao Liunian was suddenly inspired to write a poem.
"What a beautiful poem!"
"You two sneaked in at midnight and killed several of my Yama Palace members. Are you here to die?" The assassins retreated to both sides, and one of them stepped out from the crowd.
Holding a short sword in his left hand and a long sword in his right, he was none other than Song Si, the head of the Reincarnation Branch Hall.
Song Si, the head of the Reincarnation Branch, is one of the three second-in-commands of the Yama Palace, and his cultivation level has reached the intermediate level of geometry.
Song Si was a man who loved two things most in his life. One was his own name. It was said that anyone who had ever uttered his name died.
Secondly, they kill people with long and short swords, claiming it's because of the suffering in the world, and that they might as well enter the cycle of reincarnation sooner to be liberated.
"So it's Song Si! I heard that everyone who called your name in the past has been sent into reincarnation by you."
"But you've been tired all these years. Yama summoned you in a dream yesterday, asking me to send you into reincarnation tonight to receive his reward!"
The invisible cat expressed its admiration for Xiao Liunian's linguistic artistry.
Cat believes that, from a long-term development perspective, the host will eventually reach a state where no one can defeat him and no one can argue with him.
"Not only that, I also want to send Song Si into reincarnation. The world is full of suffering, why not let him stay a little longer!" Wu Yan also joined the ranks of language artists.
"Kill!" The two gripped their weapons and launched an attack on Song Si and the remaining assassins from the branch.
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