Longevity from Liao Zhai

Chapter 194 How Can You Be So Handsome?

Qianzhou City.

As Zhou Ping walked in Qianzhou City, his appearance changed again.

"It was a close call. I was almost caught by Suzaku." Zhou Ping felt a little scared.

Zhou Ping didn't know, if he teleported away the moment he was caught by Suzaku, would he bring Suzaku with him to Qianzhou City.

After all, Zhou Ping had teleported while holding Liu Ruyan, so he could teleport with things in his arms.

If Zhuque followed him to Qianzhou City, Zhou Ping would not know how to deal with it.

"Why did she want to catch me? Was the demon in me discovered? Or does she want to know my true identity?" Zhou Ping guessed for a long time, but still didn't know why Zhuque wanted to find him.

After Zhou Ping arrived in Qianzhou City, he had changed his appearance several times. He was afraid that Zhuque would follow him.

Suzaku is of the first rank and can also teleport!
"Well, I'll just hide in Qianzhou City for a few days before going back." Zhou Ping thought. He was still afraid that if he went back now, he would be caught by Suzaku.

To outsiders, it seemed that Zhou Ping went to Qingyuan County, and the round trip took ten days.

According to normal time estimates, it will take Zhou Ping three days to return to Qinghe County.

Zhou Ping planned to stay in Qianzhou City for the next three days. He was afraid that he would leave traces that would be discovered by Zhuque.

Qinghe County, Zhou Family.

Yan Yi returned to the house with a little excitement.

What happened in Qinghe County Office just now only took an hour! It is only midnight now.

Mr. Yuan stayed in the outer courtyard, his eyes were a little empty. Today was the seventh day after Mr. Yuan's daughter's death.

"Mr. Yuan, I have something good to tell you." Yan Yi said excitedly.

Yuan Gong clasped his fists towards the yamen runner and said, "Young Master, what's the matter?"

At this time, He Yunqing and Liu Ruyan also heard the noise and came out. The noise just now was too loud and both of them couldn't sleep.

"Xiaoyanzi, what happened just now? Was there thunder and something else?" He Yunqing asked.

Yan Yi did not answer He Yunqing's question, but smiled and said, "The son of County Magistrate Lu is dead."

Yuan Gong's dull face was filled with disbelief: "Captain Lu is dead?"

He Yunqing asked, "Is it the noise just now? Did some hero kill Lu Chang?"

He Yunqing thought that some hero disliked Lu Chang and killed him.

"It wasn't the hero." Yan Yi thought for a moment and said, "It was Magistrate Lu who killed him personally."

Next, Yan Yi recounted the whole story.

When Yuan Gong heard Yan Yi's words, he was initially unconvinced, and then gradually became shocked. He thought that no one in Qinghe County could do anything to Lu Chang, after all, his father was the head of a county.

But Lu Chang died!
"The demon cult wanted to take Lu Chang as his apprentice, but County Magistrate Lu killed him." Yuan Gong's eyes slowly regained their light, and then he slowly sobbed, "Young Master, I'll take a day off tonight."

Yan Yi nodded. She knew that Yuan Gong needed to calm down.

Yuan Gong walked out dejectedly. His daughter's death made Yuan Gong heartbroken, and what was even more painful was that he had to consider his family so he couldn't take revenge.

Yuan Gong had forced himself to forget his hatred for Lu Chang. What if he didn't forget it? He still had a family!
However, Lu Chang died!

"It is true that evil will be punished." He Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief.

What Lu Chang did in Qinghe County was simply disgusting. As a woman, He Yunqing also wished that Lu Chang would be killed.

Yan Yi disagreed: "What's the saying that evil will be punished? This evil boy almost became a disaster. Fortunately, his father killed him. This is a good thing."

Anyone with a discerning eye could understand that Magistrate Lu killed his own son not because he was afraid that he would grow up to be a bad person, but because he was afraid that his son would affect his future after joining the evil cult.

His son was a member of the Demonic Cult, which would implicate several clans. County Magistrate Lu's career was definitely over.

"For the sake of future, he even gave up his child." Yan Yi said, "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs!"

He Yunqing changed the subject: "Have the members of the Demon Cult been caught?"

Yan Yi shook her head, her eyes sparkling: "I didn't expect this person to be so powerful. Although he is a member of the Demon Sect, he has the cultivation of Buddhism and Confucianism."

"Under the city-sealing formation, he relied on his Confucian cultivation to become the strongest being under the formation. It seems that he had already calculated that County Magistrate Lu would open the city-sealing formation."

"Not only that, the Buddhist disciple Baiyun and the Taoist Zhiqiu Yiye, one of them is the first of the young generation of Buddhism, and the other is the first of the young generation of Taoism."

"Neither of them is a match for the Demon Cult's people."

Yan Yi was a little scared when she thought of the amazing lightning column. She thought to herself that she would not be able to survive under the lightning.

Liu Ruyan was slightly stunned and murmured in a low voice: "The first person of the young generation of Taoism, Zhiqiu Yiye."

In the county government office, only Zhiqiu Yiye and Xiao Baiyun were left.

Both of them breathed a sigh of relief; the sweat on their foreheads showed how nervous they were.

Suzaku is gone.

"She finally left. I thought she was going to attack us. If she had, we wouldn't be her match." Xiao Baiyun breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhiqiu Yiye snorted coldly: "You must have a protective magic weapon on you, or a magic weapon that can summon your master Pudu Cihang, so why should she be afraid? Why would we two children be afraid of him? Would an adult attack a child?"

Little Baiyun looked at Zhiqiu Yiye and said, "We two are children? I am the child, not you."

Zhiqiu Yiye was about to give Xiao Baiyun a slap on the head, and Xiao Baiyun quickly covered his head: "Metaphor, metaphor, do you understand? She is the elder, and we are like children! It doesn't mean that young people are children."

Little Baiyun let out an aggrieved "Oh".

"I didn't expect the Demon Cult to have another amazing genius, and he's only eighteen!" Zhiqiu Yiye remembered Zhou Ping pointing to the sky with one hand, and immediately felt hatred: "It's okay to be a genius, but the key is that he is so handsome!"

Zhiqiu Yiye doesn’t care that Zhou Ping’s cultivation is higher than his, but he cares that Zhou Ping is more handsome than him!
With one finger pointing to the sky, he broke his own lightning power so easily.

Zhiqiu Yiye didn't dare to think about this matter no matter what!
"So handsome!" "How can you be so handsome!"

In the county government office, Zhiqiu Yiye was still very angry.

Magistrate Lu has returned to the county government office under the protection of the yamen runners.

"My two heroes, may I ask if the people from the Demon Cult have left?" County Magistrate Lu asked tremblingly.

County Magistrate Lu had not expected that Zhou Ping could actually withstand the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder. He had not expected that the Demon Cult's top master, Suzaku, would actually come.

"Let's go." Zhiqiu Yiye frowned slightly and asked, "Why does it smell bad?"

County Magistrate Lu was a little embarrassed. He quickly called his men, "Hurry up and arrange for the two masters to go into the house to rest. Prepare the best rooms and the best meals."

Zhiqiu Yiye waved his hand: "No, I don't like to interact with officials."

Xiao Baiyun also put his hands together and said, "Don't worry, I am here to do penance as well."

"You two." County Magistrate Lu wanted to keep the two people because he wanted them to protect him.

Qinghe County is not peaceful. First it was the people from the Demon Cult, and then it was the Demon Cult Suzaku. Any one of these two people could crush me to death.

So County Magistrate Lu wanted to keep the two of them. As long as he waited until the cooling time of the official seal's city-sealing formation was over, he would no longer be afraid.

So he wanted to keep the two of them for a month.

However, Zhiqiu Yiye and Xiao Baiyun didn't give him face at all, and they left after they finished talking. County Magistrate Lu was furious, and he called the two people's names over and over again, but no one responded.

"Sir, what should we do with the young master's body?" asked a bailiff.

County Magistrate Lu took a look at Lu Chang's body and said with some regret: "The fallen leaves return to their roots! Find someone to bring his body back to Qianzhou City!"

"What do you two think of that person?" Zhuque asked, crossing her legs. Her face was a little pale, and the lightning strike just now had hurt her a little.

Zhuque was even more certain that the person who took the thunder was the Demon Lord! Only the Demon Lord could take the Nine Heavens Thunder so easily.

Captain Leng and Zhang Sheng fell to the ground.

"This man is extremely powerful. He should be a top-notch expert in our Demon Sect. What's more amazing is that he also has knowledge of Confucianism and Buddhism. Our Demon Sect is truly full of talented people." Captain Leng flattered.

Zhuque snorted coldly and said nothing. She was even more certain that Zhou Ping was the Demon Lord, otherwise why would he hide from her?

Only the devil would avoid me.

"I don't think he is a member of the Demon Cult." Zhang Sheng said after a moment of hesitation.

The air around suddenly became a little colder.

Zhang Sheng and Leng the Captain also felt this chill. Rather than chill, it was more like murderous intent.

"What did you say?" Zhuque's voice was a little cold.

Zhang Sheng's face immediately broke out in sweat. He didn't understand why Zhuque was angry. However, the people of the Demon Cult were inherently violent and would kill people if they disagreed with him.

"This person has Buddhist and Confucian cultivation, and also knows Taoist magic."

"On the surface, his purpose seemed to be to take Magistrate Lu's son as his apprentice, but Magistrate Lu's son was beheaded."

"I thought this man's ability could protect Lu Chang, but Lu Chang died in the end."

"I boldly guess that he is not a member of the Demon Cult. His purpose is actually to kill Lu Chang. He just set a trap."

"As for the evil spirit on this person, he must have used some means, and his arrogant look is also fake."

"In this incident, only Lu Chang died, and no one else died. This shows that this person is not a bloodthirsty person! So I don't think he is from the Demon Cult."

Zhang Sheng knelt on the ground and spoke hurriedly.

The chill in the air took a long time to disappear, and Suzaku took a long time to say, "That makes sense. Go on."

Zhang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief: "I dare to guess that this person can teleport, so he should be a first-class master. A first-class master was playing in the human world and found the evil boy Lu Chang. He wanted to kill Lu Chang but didn't want to do it himself, so he used someone else to do it for fear of dirtying his hands."

Suzaku held his chin with his hand, his brows furrowed.

"Yes, if he were here, few people at the scene would survive, and the county magistrate would also die."

"But there was one person who died in the county government office, and it wasn't him."

Zhuque murmured to himself, with a deep disappointment in his eyes. Zhang Sheng's words made Zhuque realize that the man should not be the Demon Lord!
Now everything makes sense. The reason why that person was hiding from me was because he was afraid that I would know his identity.

"Uncle, where are you?"

Qinghe County, at the city gate.

The yamen runners posted a notice at the city gate, and immediately many people gathered around.

"The people of the Demon Cult caused chaos last night. County Magistrate Lu's son, Lu Chang, heroically sacrificed his life to fight against the Demon Cult. I would like to commend him for this."

A scholar read out the words on the notice.

"So there was thunder and something else last night. Someone from the Demon Cult is coming."

"The son of County Magistrate Lu actually died while fighting against the demon cult."

"It's true that a good father will have a good son."

"Hey, I never thought that a man like him who bullies men and women and has no good intentions would really stand up at the critical moment."

"That's right. If he died to fight against the Demon Cult, then his contribution would be offset!"

The people of Qinghe County discussed this. They knew that Lu Chang was not a good person, but if he died fighting against the Demon Cult, then the bad things he did could not be forgiven.

"This county magistrate is really shameless." An outsider cultivator said in amazement. He witnessed what happened last night and knew what happened.

Another outsider cultivator also said with a sigh of relief: "You are indeed scholars. You can say white is black and bad is good. These common people are so naive. They actually believed this nonsense!"

The crowd around didn't understand what was going on. They all looked at the two outsiders.

"Sir, what happened last night?" asked an old man.

The outside cultivator had a somewhat disdainful expression on his face, and he told the story in detail, revealing the truth of the matter.

"There was indeed someone from the Demon Cult in Qinghe County last night. He came to take Lu Chang away and wanted to take him as his apprentice because the Demon Cult members felt that Lu Chang had the potential to become a member of the Demon Cult."

"County Magistrate Lu was afraid that his son would become a member of the evil sect and influence him, so he killed his son."

"Lu Chang died at the hands of his father, not at the hands of the Demon Cult."

"It's that simple!"

The outsiders were almost clenching their teeth at this moment. The death of a bad boy was clearly a disgrace, but Magistrate Lu actually described it as a heroic sacrifice.

Magistrate Lu’s shamelessness made these foreign cultivators tell the truth.

"I see. That's what I was saying. This guy doesn't seem like such a righteous person."

"Yeah, after all this time it turned out that the people from the Demon Cult took a fancy to him."

"That's right. Lu Chang is ruthless and bullies men and women. He is very suitable for the Demon Sect."

"It turns out that Magistrate Lu killed his own son himself. He is really cruel."

"Anyway, it's a good thing that Lu Chang is dead."

The people from Qinghe County who were watching the scene were talking about it a lot. After they learned the truth, they applauded and praised.

As the outside cultivators told the truth, the news about Lu Chang's death in Qinghe County quickly spread throughout the county.

Compared to what was written in the notice, that Lu Chang died fighting against the Demon Cult, the common people would rather believe that it was the Demon Cult who wanted to take him away, but was killed by his father.

The people knew what kind of person Lu Chang was and knew that he did not have such a righteous spirit.

Another version of the story also spread in Qinghe County.

At the doorstep of Chen Li's house, she was cracking melon seeds and listening to an outsider cultivator chatting.

"In fact, that demon cult member might be a hero!"

"The hero didn't like Lu Chang and wanted to kill him, but he didn't want to dirty his hands, so he set up this deadly trap and forced Lu County Magistrate to kill his own son."

Everyone listened with great interest, and even Chen Li thought this statement was very reliable.

Everyone looked at Chen Li, they still felt that Chen Li was reliable.

"I think what this person said makes sense!"

(End of this chapter)