During the Chinese New Year, all the major sects should have arranged to welcome guests. After all, this is a good time for the sects to communicate with each other. However, this year is much quieter than in previous years.

Many sects have begun to stay indoors. At this time, everyone seems to be learning from the legendary Xuanwu, and they are so serious and close their doors.

No one can stand the group of people from the Six Gates, but everyone knows that once the head of the Six Gates dies, the whole martial arts world will be in chaos.

The person in charge of Xichang now is an old eunuch who is also quite old. This old eunuch can be regarded as a person of high moral character and is able to manage the situation at a time like this relying on her age and experience. However, her courage is not as strong as that of the man who died tragically. Therefore, once the former eunuch died, all the evil spirits in the underworld jumped out to cause trouble.

"I didn't expect that Hua Chaodu did some good things when he was alive. It's a pity that he died like this, and the martial arts world will be in chaos."

"What does it matter whether a person like him dies or not? I have disliked him for a long time. In any case, it is a good thing that he died."

It may be because Hua Chaodu brought too much pressure to the martial arts world when he was alive, so even after his death, there were still many people who applauded his death.

Some people said that the chaos in the martial arts world had nothing to do with the life and death of Hua Chaodu, while others said that this was originally a martial arts matter, so why let a person from the court get involved? Counting the knights of the previous dynasty, there has never been an era in which the martial arts world was so strictly controlled by the court as it is now.

As the saying goes, a knight-errant breaks the law with force. This saying does make some sense. For some people in the martial arts world, they always advocate a life of freedom and on the edge of a knife. Anyone who restrains them is considered a bad guy.

Moreover, for most knights who wander around the martial arts world all day long and may not even recognize all the words, they have never carefully considered the real impact of Hua Chaodu's death on the martial arts world.

Ordinary people are killed innocently? That is just something that happens every day in the martial arts world, but the frequency is a little higher now.

It seems that those people have become more unrestrained in an instant? It doesn't matter. They are the ones who can kill the demons. Only the upright knights can fight against the demons.

At least with Hua Chaodu dead, no one will be watching them when they sneak into the underground markets to make some extra money, right?

"Today's list seems to be more bloody than before."

A scarred man said as he looked at the lists in his hand.

"Why?" Opposite him, there was a charming lady boss, stroking her hair with her hand, and said nonchalantly, "Could it be that a hero like you would be scared when seeing this list?"

This is an underground market somewhere. Since it is a market, it should sell some things, and the word "underground" means that the things they sell are all shameful.

"Two thousand taels of silver for just these two heads, it's really a good deal." The scarred man laughed, the scar on his face made his smile look a little sinister, "I haven't seen such a good business for almost ten years."

"When that man was still alive, the guys in the Six Gates didn't let us release this kind of order. Those cops would often send people over secretly, so I had no way. But recently they should be too busy to take care of themselves, and we must take this opportunity to make a fortune." The proprietress said with a smile.

"This is the underworld." The scarred man looked at the list and smiled, "I've been annoyed with those people for a long time. If they are so scared, they might as well hide at home and suckle."

While the scarred man was talking to the proprietress, a man walked over cautiously from the opposite side, looked at the two people and said, "Well, I want to ask, do you have any escort orders recently?"

"Escort?" The expression on the proprietress's face suddenly became bored. She pointed to the opposite side with her finger with bright red nails, "We don't accept those orders anymore, and we can't get assassination orders yet. If you really want to take one, go to the Huaci Building opposite."

"Okay." The man hesitated and walked over to the opposite side.

"Don't you think this is strange?" The lady boss smiled and said to Scarface, "Recently, Huacilou seems to be possessed by a demon. Now other places are eager to accept assassination orders, but they are still accepting those useless orders. I don't know what their new owner is thinking. If this continues, the reputation of the first intelligence building will probably be replaced by someone else."

——Recently, the death of the Huaduzhu has brought unprecedented prosperity to the world of martial arts.

The world of martial arts itself is a relatively chaotic place. No matter how unrestrained the heroes in the storytellers' mouths are, no matter how righteous they are, it has to be said that many dark things in the world of martial arts are all hidden underneath, and the heroes who show up are only the tip of the iceberg.

Many businesses that were once considered "slow" suddenly became popular, which really catered to the minds of some bellicosity in the martial arts world.

There were also some people who didn't like bloodshed, but they found that their lives did seem to be better after the death of the governor.

At least, some disciples of the sects could find that the money they received suddenly increased.

Money is a good thing, which can shut up most people. Although no one mentioned the source of this money, perhaps everyone knew what was going on in their hearts.

After all, there is a distinction between the bottom and the top in the martial arts world, and in the ancient society, force occupied a large part of the advantage, but even the poorest martial artists were still better than those who worked hard.

Desire is a terrible thing after all, especially in the martial arts world where many terrible things will happen if it is not restrained.

So soon, the martial arts world became "uninterested" in Hua Chaodu's death, and no one cared about how this Hua Duzhu died, nor did they care about what would happen to Xichang next.

Of course, under such circumstances, there are still some changes. For example, the number of Beggars' Gang has been slowly increasing for some reason. For example, the underworld tabloids used to publish recent incidents of innocent civilians being involved in underworld fights and dying somewhere, but recently they have suddenly become tacit and not mentioned such things at all.

It feels as if the underworld, which has always been full of fighting, has suddenly become harmonious and peaceful, and there are no more terrible things. However, everyone knows that this is impossible.

Hua Chaodu has been dead for ten days now.

According to everyone's calculations.

Obviously, no one said how long he had been dead, but it was as if everyone had a calendar and remembered every day so accurately.

...

"Shopkeeper..." Feng Qing was playing games that day, and suddenly found that the waiters of her inn came upstairs to find her.

This group of people rarely gather together except when eating, especially classmate Chu Xiaobai, who is a little afraid that Feng Qing will test him in math recently, so he rarely takes the initiative to come to her.

Feng Qing found that this little brat seems to have grown a little taller recently. As he grew a little older, he suddenly changed from a rag doll to a little bit of a shota style, with an inexplicable look of a little adult. It's a pity that people in ancient times didn't pay attention to haircuts. If Xiaobai agreed to cut his hair, Feng Qing wanted to give him a sister's haircut, so that he could be a black-bellied handsome boy in a Japanese idol drama.

"Why are you all gathered here?" Feng Qing asked in surprise, "I will leave the inn in a while, but not now, so don't look at me like that."

A row of eyes stared at her silently, from the cold phoenix eyes to the round grape eyes. Feng Qing didn't understand what the light in those eyes meant.

It was like expectation, but it didn't seem like expectation. It was like not expecting, but the eagerness in them was about to drown her.

Could it be that in ancient times, there was also the thirteenth salary or something? Feng Qing thought silently.

In the past, the inn would hold an annual meeting at the end of the year. The fat and greasy boss would come to the annual meeting. As a rare warm moment for capitalists in a year, everyone would have a meal together, draw a prize, and give out bonuses to win people's hearts and minds, so as to continue to squeeze them next year.

"Shopkeeper..." Feng Xiruo said, and then silently looked at Xiaobai next to him. This kind of cute job is usually better at this little brat, and he, an old helper, can't do it at all.

But why did he come today?

Feng Xiruo knew what happened in the world recently, and none of the things that happened made him sweat all over.

He felt that what he was doing was a little funny. Most of the sects in the martial arts world were watching, and they actually came to ask for help from the shopkeeper. If this were told to others, it would be a shocking joke that would make people laugh.

In fact, he didn't know why he came to ask for help from the shopkeeper. After all, everyone in the martial arts world knew Feng Wuhen's temper. He

was cold, ruthless, cruel, and irritable.

In any case, he didn't seem like the kind of person who would meddle in other people's business.

But...

when he looked at the shopkeeper's face, his heart suddenly turned cold.

The shopkeeper was now looking at them quietly. She seemed to know what they wanted to say, but she didn't say anything. She just waited for them to speak first with a slightly teasing look in her eyes.

"Shopkeeper." Finally, Li Qi spoke.

"The New Year is coming soon, Hua Jing, are you going to come back to the inn to celebrate the New Year this year?"

...

The wild sand spread, and the sand mixed with ice and snow hit people's faces, even leaving a bloody mark on their faces.

A ragged man was walking on the road.

It was not easy for anyone to come here, after all, this was the legendary "Devil's Valley", and no one who entered here would come out alive.

However, he had been walking here for three days.

Because if he fell down here, he would never wake up.

After all, he knew that if he died, no one would feel sorry for him, they would only cheer.

"It's really unwilling to think about it this way." He licked his cracked lips.

"I am the only one in this world who can live such a miserable life, right?"