Aoyama

Chapter 277 Tianzun's Approval

In the corridor of the inn, the blood of the Tiance Army soldiers gathered into a small river, dripping from the cracks in the wooden floor to the floor below. The blood drops fell on the floor below, making a pattering sound, as if it was raining in the house.

When the blood had stopped dripping, the inn finally became quiet.

It was like a torrential rain in summer stopping, revealing a clean sky, so peaceful.

Chen Ji stood tiredly in the afterglow, leaning on his whale knife; the Tian Ce Army soldiers, like iron towers, sat in the shadows, leaning against the wall with gray faces, panting silently.

He covered his chest, as if this would slow down the blood flow.

At this moment, the winners and losers became clear, but Chen Ji did not feel happy as he looked at the corpses scattered in the corridor.

In silence, the soldier raised his head with difficulty: "Can you let me take a look at the sword?"

Chen Ji ignored him and just waited quietly for his life to end.

The soldier coughed up blood and sneered weakly, "Stingy guy... Don't think that having a sword seed is a good thing. From the day you start practicing, you will live under the towering shadow of the mountain master for the rest of your life. The mountain master will definitely come to find you."

Chen Ji asked softly, "Does the Wu Temple have a high status in the Jing Dynasty?"

The soldier's eyes gradually lost focus: "That's the Temple of Martial Arts..."

Chen Ji asked again: "Have you seen Lu Jin?"

The soldier's eyes moved: "Can you mention Lord Lu's name..."

After saying this, his eyes completely lost their spirit, and a stream of ice surged out of his body and merged into Chen Ji's dantian.

Chen Ji felt a little disappointed at the number of ice flows. Ever since he had seen Prince Jing's turbulent ice flow, other people's ice flows seemed particularly insignificant.

If the Tiger Sect wants to practice, it seems that countless important figures must die.

The next moment, the heavy sword on the ground was burned into pieces by the blazing flames. The flames were like the blazing sun, and they actually made the dark inn as bright as day.

Clang.

The sound of the sword being unsheathed echoed throughout the sky of Guyuan.

The sound did not come from him, but sounded directly in the sky.

Chen Ji looked up in astonishment. This voice had been heard when he killed the thousand-year-old military general Wang Chongli before, and now it sounded again.

A burst of pure sword intent burst out from the ashes of the heavy sword and flew into the pattern on Chen Ji's waist... The invisible sword energy in the second pattern was actually forged into a new type of sword with the help of this pure sword intent.

Wait, a second sword type?

Chen Ji recalled the nightmares he had in his childhood, and it seemed that Xuanyuan had only wielded one sword.

As his mind moved, two sword seeds flew out from the patterns together and hovered quietly in front of him, like two identical black bamboo leaves.

He lifted up the hole in his clothes and looked down. The first mark had changed from black to light brown, and the molten flow trapped inside was gone. He didn't know if there was still a chance to mend it.

At this moment, footsteps were heard behind him, and Chen Ji put away the sword seed.

Xiaoman carefully stepped on the gaps between the corpses and looked over: "Master? Master, are you still alive..."

Chen Ji turned around and happened to meet Xiao Man's eyes. Xiao Man said in surprise, "Sir, you are still alive!"

But before Chen Ji could say anything, she suddenly became panicked again, turned around and walked hurriedly in the other direction, as if she had lost her head and wanted to go look for it.

However, this corridor was a circle. She walked and walked until she came to the other side of the ruins: "Ah!"

Just as she was about to turn around and run away again, Chen Ji stopped her and asked in confusion: "Why are you running? I'm not a ghost!"

Xiaoman stopped and lowered her head to pick at her nails.

Chen Ji asked in confusion: "What happened?"

Xiaoman hesitated for a long time: "Sir, can Wuyun understand me?"

Chen Ji suddenly realized. He looked at Xiao Man with a half-smile: "Yeah."

Xiaoman hesitated for a long time again: "Then can you also understand what it says?"

Chen Ji smiled: "Yeah."

Xiaoman hurriedly explained, "I searched your clothes and your money because I was worried that your money would be taken away by Liang. I didn't want to steal anything. And I ate one of the cucumbers with holes on your table. It was very precious and I was afraid it would go bad if I didn't eat it..."

Her voice got smaller and smaller, and her confidence became weaker and weaker. "So you know everything, right? No wonder it keeps staring at me and won't let me touch it."

Chen Ji silently waited for her to finish speaking, then he said, "Thank you."

Xiaoman was stunned: "Ah? Why are you thanking me, sir?"

Chen Ji said slowly: "Thank you for coming to save me."

Xiaoman waved her hands quickly: "This is what I should do. I promised Auntie that I would protect you... Oh, sir, there was a flash of white light in the corridor just now. Did you see it? And there was also the sound of a sword being drawn from its sheath in the sky. Does it have anything to do with you?"

Chen Ji's heart trembled slightly.

Wuyun squatted on the beam above Xiaoman's head and meowed, "She knows too much."

At this moment, the sound of tiles moving was heard overhead, and the two people and the cat looked up at the same time.

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On the roof, Zhang Xia leaned over the tiles, listening anxiously to the sound under the tiles. Seeing this, others also followed suit and leaned over to listen.

Zhang Xia's eyebrows were furrowed tighter and tighter. Just now she could still hear the shouting and the sound of metal clashing from below, but now everything stopped. Qi Zhuzhuo propped himself up and asked in a low voice: "Have the Tiance Army left?"

Zhang Xia did not answer, his mood becoming more and more depressed: one side must lose and die before the fighting will stop completely. But considering the difference in numbers, it is impossible for Chen Ji to win.

She stood up and walked towards the crack: "I want to go down and take a look."

Qi Zhuozhu rushed to stop her and said, "Miss Zhang Er, I am an official, I will go."

Zhang Xia thought about it and said, "Okay."

Qi Chenzhuo came to the crack and quietly stuck his head in to look, but he could only see the corpses of the Tian Ce Army lying at the door.

He raised his body, sat on the edge of the crack and took a deep breath. His whole body was trembling and he was reluctant to go down.

Zhang Zheng said angrily: "Look at you, you are so cowardly, are you going or not? If you don't go, I will go!"

"Oh my god!" Qi Zhenzhuo gritted his teeth and jumped down from the crack.

Zhang Xia and Zhang Zheng immediately leaned over the crack and listened quietly to the movement inside.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the crack: "Ugh!"

Zhang Xia leaned in to take a look, and saw Qi Chenzhuo standing at the door of Room A, vomiting non-stop.

In the corridor, Qi Zhuozhu held onto the door frame and vomited out gastric juice and bile. When the vomiting stopped, he looked up at the corpses lying in the corridor and immediately began to dry heave again.

It was so tragic that one had to be very careful even when walking in this corridor to avoid stepping on the corpses.

Hearing footsteps not far away, he struggled to stand up and looked over. In the corridor of Purgatory, he saw Chen Ji walking slowly towards him with a whale knife in his hand, blood dripping from the tip of the knife.

Qi Zhuozhuo stepped back in fear: "You...you..."

Chen Ji frowned: "Where are the others?"

Qi Chenzhuo came back to his senses and hurriedly explained: "They are still upstairs. Did you kill all these people? Did you kill all the Tiance Army in the building? Ugh..."

Chen Ji ignored him, walked straight past him and went into Room No. 1, Tianzi.

Zhang Xiazheng poked his head out from the crack, and when he saw Chen Ji, he was immediately surprised and said, "You're okay! I thought you..."

As she spoke, she tilted her head to take a deep breath for a moment, rubbed the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, then turned back and continued, "I'm glad you're okay."

Chen Ji stacked up the tables and chairs under the crack and said, "Come down quickly. The defense line of Xuwei Lane won't hold out for long. Once the Tiance Army crosses Xuwei Lane, this side will soon fall. There is no sign of reinforcements. We have to move to the grain and oil shop quickly."

Zhang Xia responded and led everyone on the roof to climb down one by one. As soon as they reached the door, everyone had the same reaction as Qi Zhuozhuo, bending over and vomiting.

The mutilated corpse of a fellow creature causes the deepest shudder in the soul. The moment one sees the corpse, a strong cognitive conflict will occur, and fear and nausea will surge into the heart.

Everyone was vomiting, except Chen Ji, Xiao Man and the Prince.

Chen Ji turned to look at the prince. Although he was also pale, he looked much better than the others. He was moved. Either the prince's mind was far superior to that of an ordinary person, or the prince had seen such a cruel scene a long time ago and had passed the desensitization period.

The prince saw him looking at him and said in a dry voice, "I underestimated the Right Guard before. If you can return to the capital alive this time, I will definitely submit a memorial to ask for your merit."

Chen Ji bowed and said, "It is my duty to protect His Highness, you don't have to worry about it."

After that, he looked around the corridor with his whale knife, thinking about how to bring so many people downstairs. When he passed by Chen Wenxiao, Chen Wenxiao stepped back in fear: "Don't come over here!"

Xiaoman rolled her eyes, quietly moved closer to Liang, and said loudly, "Madam!"

Liang turned around and saw that she was covered in blood. She fell to the ground in horror: "You...what are you doing?"

Xiaoman took a step forward, squatted beside Liang, and looked at her straight in the eye: "Madam, you will return all the properties left by the aunt to my son, right? The Gufu Tower outside Donghuamen, the Yujing Garden in the Eight Great Hutongs, the Chenji Grain and Oil Shop, the Silk Shop outside the Bell and Drum Tower, and the 320 acres of fertile land in Changping, none of them can be lost."

Liang hurriedly agreed: "I will return it as soon as I can get back to the capital!"

Xiao Man rolled her eyes again: "Is that all? If my son marries a daughter of a rich family, will you have to help with the betrothal gifts? I think Tianbao Pavilion next to Gufu Tower is pretty good. I know Tianbao Pavilion belongs to the Chen family, and the title deed is with you!"

Liang promised repeatedly: "Tianbao Pavilion will also be given!"

Xiaoman stood up contentedly, then turned around and looked at Chen Liqin, Chen Wenxiao and Wang Gui with ill intent.

Just as she was thinking about how to take the opportunity to punish these people, she heard Zhang Xia shouting, "Xiao Man, come and help."

Xiaoman quickly replied: "Coming!"

When everyone was vomiting, Zhang Xia was the first to come back to her senses. She took Xiaoman to collect the sheets and quilt covers from each room, and then taught Xiaoman to twist them into ropes, tie them together with a fisherman's knot, and hang them down from the "cliff" of the stairs.

Everyone slid down the stairs along the rope, and Xiaoman stayed at the end. When she looked up, she saw Wuyun squatting on the beam and staring at her.

Xiaoman waved at it and said in a low voice, "Hurry up!"

The dark cloud stared at her for a moment, then suddenly jumped down from the beam and jumped into her arms.

Xiaoman was stunned in place. She lowered her head and stared blankly at the dark cloud in her arms: "Are you finally willing to let me hold you?"

She had tried countless times before. Sometimes she sneaked up to the dark cloud when it was sleeping, and sometimes she reached out secretly when the dark cloud was eating, but she had never succeeded in touching the dark cloud.

She couldn't understand why before, but today she realized that all her little actions were seen by the dark clouds.

"You don't blame me anymore?" Xiao Man suddenly remembered what Chen Ji had said before, and immediately added: "...Nine Heavens Yingyuan Leisheng Puhua Tianzun?"

Wuyun looked at her indifferently and glanced at the rope: Stop talking nonsense and go away.

Xiaoman was overjoyed. She put the dark cloud on her head, grabbed the rope with both hands and slid down.

(End of this chapter)