Witch Wind

Chapter 329 The Great Witch Arrives (Part )

Xiang Yu was very calm.

Even though several of his classmates who he had spent every day with and grew up with turned to ashes right in front of him, he was still very determined to get married to Xiang Liang and to introduce the situation of the Western Chu Empire to Xiang Liang.

His behavior was as if he had always firmly believed that the Xiang clan members would one day return to this world through inexplicable means and use their supreme power to take back everything that belonged to them, the Xiang clan.

Not surprising.

After all, Xiang Yu was able to hold a quasi-holy spirit treasure personally forged by the saint's eldest disciple and was able to become Xiang Liang's only communication contact in this world. This was enough to prove that his identity was extraordinary and that he was the direct descendant of the Xiang family.

According to the traditional practices of the big families in Jiuzhou Shenzhou, there are many things that the eldest son of a big family must know, things that even the family elders are not qualified to know. There are many extremely secret and obscure things that ordinary family members have never heard of, and those eldest sons who are only seven or eight years old have already been deeply involved in them.

This is a common practice in large families, so it's nothing surprising.

The purple-ribbon Taoist robe flashed with a flash of light easily, and then turned into the most common clothing of the people in the Western Chu Empire - Tsk, Xing Tianli almost laughed out loud, black fabric, double-breasted with large buttons, and four pockets on the front, it was clearly the Zhongshan suit style of the Republic of China period in the previous life.

On the street, everyone, regardless of gender, age or status, wears clothes that look like this.

There are some extremely strong men with two heads and four arms. Their upper bodies are in Zhongshan suits, and their lower bodies are in large skirts similar to Ma褂. At first glance, the style of their clothes looks a bit like the uniforms of armed yamen runners in some fictional dynasties in previous film and television dramas.

They had three-inch-wide leather belts tied around their waists, with long swords hanging on them, as well as astonishingly large revolvers with six rounds of magazines. Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang could not help but be amazed when their immortal soul power swept over them.

The laws of heaven and earth are quite different. The extremely crude revolver, filled with propellant, provides energy per unit volume that is more than ten times that of the same type of propellant on Tailan Star - this allows these seemingly crude pistols to have terrifying muzzle velocities. A revolver that is only a foot long can probably only have an effective range of more than four miles?
There are tall buildings all around.

Airships soar in the sky.

Steam engine propeller fighters from nearby military bases and similar steam-powered floating cars flew at high speeds at low and medium altitudes. All of this represented that this world had a high level of technological civilization.

Normally, a highly developed technological civilization should be accompanied by highly self-disciplined and internally binding laws and regulations... However, Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang followed Xiang Yu all the way from the hill behind the campus and along the road. Along the way, they saw fights among blacklist gangs, gangsters molesting decent girls in the street, and three or five hooligans carrying dead cats and dogs in broad daylight and begging for alms from shop owners on the roadside.

And those "yamen runners" wearing "uniforms" with guns and knives hanging around their waists, in Xiang Yu's words, are the "armed patrols" of the "Public Security Bureau", who turn a blind eye to the actions of the gangs.

They were very familiar with the place. They walked into each shop according to the house numbers on the roadside and extended their hands silently.

As a result, strings of copper coins, silver coins and even gold coins fell into the hands of these inspectors based on the size of the shops, the number of hired shop assistants, the types of goods sold and other factors.

Some owners of large shops, when faced with criminals, can still rely on the family power behind them to scold them or simply ask their strong men to drive them out.

However, facing these armed inspectors, all shop owners and storekeepers bowed respectfully and flattered them. They also followed the rules and handed over today's tea money to these armed inspectors.

Walking on the street, in addition to an atmosphere of lawlessness and tyranny, the entire city governance gives people a feeling of roughness and imbalance. Large groups of two-headed and four-armed natives are rampaging in the city, but they feel out of place in every aspect in this city with beautiful natural scenery and extraordinary urban architecture.

It felt like a group of wild beasts that originally lived in caves in the mountains had come to a highly developed civilized city with their smelly bodies. They were wantonly polluting this city and this world with their secretions and excrement, their rudeness and lack of rules.

Luckily, it seems someone has been patching it up?

At least, Xing Tianli and his companions bypassed several streets and walked for more than twenty miles. They saw five or six gang-related fights along the way. After seeing the blood, those two-headed and four-armed guys would only clap and stamp their feet excitedly and make loud noises... There were floating vehicles spewing high-temperature steam, with a relief emblem of Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, coming at high speed from a distance.

Men and women in white uniforms, who looked like Xiang Yu, Xing Tianli, and Xiang Liang, rushed out of the floating "ambulances" with expressionless faces, carried the wounded with bruises all over their bodies onto stretchers with difficulty, stuffed them into the carriages, and then left at high speed accompanied by sharp sirens.

And in the streets and alleys, in many unnoticed places, these black-haired, black-eyed, yellow-skinned people are quietly repairing potholes on the road, repairing shaky bridges, and trimming branches for damaged roadside trees...

The two-headed, four-armed man who occupies a clearly dominant social position is enjoying and harming the city unscrupulously.

However, these people with black hair and black eyes, who are of the same lineage as Xing Tianli and others, are maintaining their status quo with difficulty and determination.

"This is all the king's fault!" Xiang Yu led Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang out of the city and followed a four-lane road to a small lake outside the city. There were densely packed high-rise reinforced concrete buildings on all sides. The buildings were extremely close to each other. On the buildings that were nearly a hundred stories high, there were densely packed small windows.

The extremely densely packed buildings surrounded the small lake. In a small area of ​​four or five miles long and wide, there were hundreds of thousands of people living there? Or even more than that. In some of these buildings, there were small rooms of ten feet square, with coffin-sized bunk beds. Such a small room could fit more than twenty adult men.

Xing Tianli carefully released his immortal soul and swept through this area with a very high floor area ratio. Wow, in the high-rise buildings on all sides, there were 1.2 million men, women, old and young living together!

Xing Tianli remained silent.

This Western Chu Empire is a bit...

The immortal soul is released and then collected again. In fact, this world has mutated technological laws, but the entire world belongs to the land of "absolute spirit".

In the void, there was not even a trace of the Primordial Qi needed by the cultivators, and the Dao laws of this world were incompatible with the three thousand Dao laws that Xing Tianli was familiar with. In terms of the Dao, this world completely cut off the path of "cultivation", whether it was physical cultivation or Dharma cultivation, there was no hope for success in this world.

The only strange thing is that although this world is "absolutely spiritual", it has no ill will towards external "spiritual objects", "spiritual energy" and "people who practice cultivation". On the contrary, this world is quite hospitable.

The energy level of this world is extremely high and its tolerance is extremely broad.

It's like a wealthy landlord who has a vast grassland at home. He opens his door and welcomes guests from all directions. He generously tells all the guests that no matter what they do, he will not pay any attention to them. Just do whatever you want on this piece of land, and no matter what happens, no one will pay any attention to you.

Therefore, when Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang came to this world, although it was a place of "no spirits", they could not absorb even a trace of the primordial Qi from the outside world, but they already had magic power and their powerful physical strength, which they could squander unscrupulously in this world.

If Xiang Liang came here alone, when he had exhausted his magic power, he would not be able to absorb the primordial Qi, and he would fall into the dilemma of running out of magic power... But for Xing Tianli, with so many small bronze tripods in his body, he could smelt everything unscrupulously and turn them into primordial Qi to replenish himself. To him, this world was no different from Tailan Star.

The only unfriendly thing is that once the power of the immortal soul is released, it will quickly dissipate to the surroundings. With Xing Tianli's immortal soul foundation at the Daluo realm, if he does not deliberately maintain it, his immortal soul power will completely dissolve into the void after sweeping out an area of ​​100 miles.

Xing Tianli followed Xiang Yu and walked into this ancient neighborhood with an astonishing density.

They had entered this area of ​​tall buildings. Sometimes the space between the buildings was so narrow and claustrophobic that only one vehicle could pass through. Xing Tianli's face turned ugly.

In broad daylight, sunlight cannot even penetrate into this area where high-rise buildings are too densely packed. Only at noon will sunlight shine on the ground for a very short time through the extremely narrow gaps between buildings, bringing extremely precious light and heat to this area.

So, walking on the streets beneath these buildings, the conditions are predictable. It's damp. Extremely damp.

The ground was extremely slippery, and the corners, steps, and stone slabs were all covered with moss.

On the roadside, in the doorways of buildings facing the street, rows of elderly people who have lost their ability to work sit silently in chairs, like zombies, sitting there expressionlessly, with a faint dim light flickering in their eyes, staring quietly at the children running around on the street.

A large group of children were running and playing, but their weak and tender cries and laughter were swallowed up by the dark and tall buildings around them as soon as they were uttered.

At the corners of many buildings, unruly young men gathered together, puffing smoke, inhaling the filaments of a strange plant that had a paralyzing effect; some women exposed their white arms and legs, painted with cheap rouge and lipstick, like bait on a hook, quietly waiting for the fish to take the bait.

From the shanties built haphazardly behind some alleys, the low sounds of knife sharpening mixed with crying and shouting could be heard, while the air was filled with a strong fragrance that made people breathless and unable to move their feet - that was the rich fragrance wafting from the medicinal bath of a fat and strong yellow dog in a casserole with Chinese herbs such as star anise and cinnamon.

In this way, the three people passed through many tall buildings and finally arrived at the small lake in the middle, which was one mile square.

Beside the lake, there stood an extremely old house with obvious signs of repairs. The three-story house covered a large area, surrounded by a small patch of old pine and cypress trees. The largest old cypress tree had a trunk that was so thick that ten people could hug it. It must have been there for at least thousands of years.

"This is all the king's fault." Xiang Yu repeated what he had said before.

He pushed open the gate of the courtyard and entered the courtyard with Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang. After walking through the front yard full of mottled traces, the three of them came to the main hall in the middle. This was a sacrificial hall, with green lanterns always on, and in the middle was a tablet of "Xiang Yu, the first emperor of Western Chu".

Xiang Yu walked forward, lit a few incense sticks, and saluted Xiang Yu's spirit tablet. Then he stood up and looked back at Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang: "Now the name of the Western Chu Empire has not changed, but the state system has been completely lost."

"It is written in the 'Letter to My Children' handed down from my ancestors that Emperor Taizu set up the Hongmen Banquet but let the most terrible enemy go, which led to the annihilation of the entire Xiang army. The king was too ashamed to face the elders of Jiangdong and committed suicide at the Wujiang River."

"We are here, this is 'Yaksha Star'... The king has fallen into his old habit again. He became sworn brothers with the Yaksha King Lousha, the current ancestor of the royal family of the Western Chu Empire, and eliminated the large and small tribes that were fighting on Yaksha Star in the past, unified the entire Yaksha Star, and established the Western Chu Empire with my Xiang clan as the main body."

"Afterwards, the king led his elite army, left Yasha Star, and continued his conquest of the heavens."

"Before leaving, the elders who assisted in the administration suggested that the king use the most brutal means to imprison and restrain these Yaksha natives. However, the king rejected the elders' suggestions out of consideration for his brotherhood with Lousha."

"Only ten years after the king led the army away, the successor emperor of Western Chu died of a sudden illness. The Yaksha King Lousha supported the youngest illegitimate prince to succeed to the throne. Your Majesty is still young, less than three months old, so the Yaksha King Lousha became regent..."

Xing Tianli's face turned dark.

Xiang Liang put his hands behind his back and looked up at the sky. He took a deep breath, then exhaled heavily, and spit at the tablet of Xiang Yu.

After a long silence, Xiang Liang said coldly: "The current Western Chu Empire..."

Xiang Yu said coldly: "The Xiang family still hangs the signboard of the emperor, but who is the emperor this time, whether it is a man or a woman, how old he is, whether he is alive or dead, no one in the world knows. The 36th grandson of Yaksha King Lousha died, and the seal was inherited as the regent of the Yaksha King's Palace, and the Yaksha King's decree was circulated throughout the world."

"I am a descendant of the Xiang family, so I inherited this small ancestral property and dedicated it to this ancestral temple." Xiang Yu looked at Xiang Liang expressionlessly: "Is it miserable? This small temple with three courtyards is the ancestral temple of my Western Chu Empire... I'm afraid that the Xiang family members who are scattered all over the world have forgotten this place."

"After all, His Majesty the Emperor and the Yaksha Palace are both in Yaksha City, three thousand miles away. No one has mentioned this Chujing for many years."

"By the way, we're going to arrange accommodation for you two, right?" Xiang Yu rubbed his hands, and walked out of the sacrificial hall with Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang. He turned through the side door, entered the backyard, and came to a wing room that was quite neatly maintained: "The bed, table and chairs are all ready, but the bedding and other things..."

'Boom, boom, boom.'

The gate of the front yard was knocked loudly, and Xiang Yu's face changed slightly, but when he looked at Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang, he was immediately certain - two powerful men who came across the air, who could kick a strong Yaksha native to complete annihilation with one kick, with such strength, they can almost compete with the generals of the Yaksha Palace, right?

In this spiritual world, after Xiang Yu left with the elite troops of Western Chu, the Xiang clan members who stayed behind here quickly lost their ability to practice. Some Xiang clan masters who originally had cultivation but had to stay on Yaksha Star due to serious injuries also had their magic power completely dissipated in just a few years.

However, the evolutionary path of the Yaksha natives who were born and raised in the wild has always existed. Their strength far exceeds that of the Xiang clan members who came from outside the land, as well as the other ethnic groups that followed them.

Xiang Yu has been bullied badly over the years.

But now, he has the confidence.

He walked slowly in square steps and leisurely came to the front yard, pulled the bolt, and with a "bang", the door was kicked open by someone. Several strong men who were nearly a meter tall, with two heads and four arms, but with a very ferocious aura, and were dozens of times stronger than the native teenagers in the back mountain, strode in.

Xing Tianli and Xiang Liang looked at each other.

The physical strength of these men was at least around one million jin. This three-courtyard, this extremely shabby Western Chu ancestral temple, with only two doors made of ebony, could not withstand their violent hammering.

But they waited until Xiang Yu removed the bolt before pushing the door open and rushing in.

"You still have some sense of awe. He deserves the death penalty, but as for the living punishment, it should be spared a little." Xiang Liang sneered, like a vicious bear who had just awakened from its hibernation nest and found its prey. He licked his lips vigorously, and there was even a trace of sticky saliva on the tip of his tongue.

Xing Tianli looked at him sideways.

You are also a famous figure in history books, so there is no need to put on such a vicious face, right?
Xiang Yu bowed to the men and said, "Hey guys, this is the Xiang clan temple. It's clearly marked as a 'key unit for public security inspections' by the Public Security Bureau. It's not right for you to barge in like this, is it?"

"How are we breaking in?" A sturdy man, about twelve feet tall, with a strong build, but with greasy and wretched expressions on his head, walked in slowly with his bare chest, two copper wrist guards with sharp teeth on his wrists, a one-and-a-half-foot wide thick animal leather belt around his waist, and a serrated machete hanging from his waist.

"Xiaoyu, you are such a naughty child."

"Didn't I ask your fellow brothers to go and invite you... You're back, but where are they? Hey, Master Meng has good intentions... You're an orphan without a father or mother, and you don't have anyone to rely on. Ahem, you're living alone in such a big yard. You're so poor and pitiful."

"My grandfather is going to adopt you as his adopted son. All you have to do is kowtow to him, and you will have the best food and the best drinks in the future..."

There was a sound of "clang" from the sword.

Xiang Liang drew his sword and rushed forward. With a flash of sword light, all five limbs of Meng Ye were cut off, and blue-green, extremely viscous blood plasma with a pungent and fishy smell spurted out for a long distance.

(End of this chapter)