Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 447 The Guqin is in hand, the true nature is revealed, and Fang Bo's attention is drawn.

Xia Hong had already become suspicious when he noticed Cai Mengya turning her head to look into the depths of Baifeng Forest. Although he was dealing with the beast king-level snow phoenix, he always kept a watchful eye on the direction into the depths.

So as soon as he sensed two powerful auras at the Yang level making their move deep inside, he immediately realized that he had been set up by Cai Mengya.

The woman's true purpose in coming to Bai Feng Lin was to deal with the two Xian Yang level beings deep inside. As for herself, her main task in her plan was to distract the Xue Luan clan.

Of course, the most important thing is the strongest beast king-level snow phoenix.

If the previous statements still contained some speculation, then when Xia Hong saw Lu Xinghai and Meng Zizhou, he could be certain.

Lu Xinghai and Meng Zizhou were the two young silver-armored generals standing before them, each wielding a sword. Their identities were far from simple.

Firstly, there is his family background. In addition to the Fangbo family, Caiqiu also has six other prominent families, including the Lu and Meng families.
Secondly, in terms of strength and talent, both of them have the strength of the Manifest Yang level and are not over sixty years old. Not to mention Cai Qiu, even in the entire Four Domains, they are definitely top geniuses.

Thirdly, there's the matter of status. Qinghua City has a total of 10,000 troops, each commanded by the city lord and four commanders. Among the four commanders are Lu and Meng.

Coincidentally, it was these two who, a month ago at the banquet in the City Lord's Mansion, fought with Cai Mengya over her affections and even led the others in using reverse psychology to persuade him to agree to accompany Cai Mengya to Bai Feng Lin.

"These people and Cai Mengya put on a show together. All that jealousy and rivalry before was just an act for me to see. Their purpose was to lure me over and help them attract that beast king-level snow phoenix..."

The moment Xia Hong saw Lu Meng and the other person, he instantly understood everything.

He didn't show much surprise on his face. Lu Meng and the others' provocation was not very clever, and he had already seen through it. Going along with it was just to maintain his image as the heir of a powerful and influential family.

What he didn't expect was that this group of people had started their design so early.

The act started when they were arguing over a man's affections...

Unfortunately, it's a disaster!
"Trying to outsmart me?"

The giant rabbit was struck by the shattering divine light, its body instantly frozen in place. Then, like a shattered porcelain vase, it first cracked and then fell off, leaving only its five tails of different colors standing firmly behind it.

In less than three or four breaths, the giant rabbit's body completely fell off and disappeared, and its five tails slowly straightened and contracted, finally bursting out with a burst of bright light.

After the intense light dissipated, the giant rabbit's body completely disappeared, leaving behind only a five-stringed zither about two meters long. The five strings attached to it were gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow, respectively, which corresponded to the giant rabbit's five tails.

"Do it!"

Upon seeing the guqin, Lu Xinghai immediately took action.

Upon hearing this, Meng Zizhou was naturally unwilling to be outdone.

The two ignored Xia Hong in the sky and directly reached out to snatch the guqin.

Click...

A streak of sword light slashed down from above. Lu Meng and the other man had already sensed it, but they clearly did not understand Xia Hong's strength. After frowning slightly, they still chose to continue their attack.

As the sword light fell, the flesh on their right hands was instantly severed, and the cracked bones made a snapping sound. The powerful force caused both of them to fall directly in front of the guqin, and only then did a look of horror and shock appear on their faces.

"How dare you try to steal from me, the young master? Who gave you the guts to do that?"

Xia Hong suddenly descended, standing three or four meters above the two men. As he asked them questions in a deep voice, he raised the Shattered Star Sword in his hand and slowly placed it against their necks, his killing intent in his eyes undisguised.

Having never experienced such a scene before, the two were immediately stunned.

"Brother Hong, Brothers Lu and Meng are here to help Mengya catch rabbit fur, what are you doing here?"

Cai Mengya, who arrived late, frowned slightly when she saw the scene before her, but quickly pretended to be clueless.

Xia Hong turned to look at Cai Mengya with a half-smile, making her look somewhat embarrassed before shifting his gaze to the old man in black behind her. After just one glance, he immediately looked away disdainfully.

"Since they've come to help you, then I, the young master, will spare their lives!"

Xia Hong responded with a cold laugh, without pointing out Cai Mengya's mistake. He put away the Shattered Star Sword and picked up the Five-Colored Ancient Zither from the ground.

When Cai Mengya saw Xia Hong pick up the guqin, a look of urgency flashed in her eyes. She quickly took two steps forward, and in a sweet and charming voice, she pleaded with Xia Hong, "Brother Hong, the rabbit fur beast can't be found anymore. Can you give this guqin to Mengya?"

Xia Hong turned to look at Cai Mengya, a look of disbelief on his face.

Even at this point, she's still putting on an act. Is her "playboy" persona too firmly established? Or is this woman just too naive?

In an instant, Xia Hong even lost the desire to be angry.

"Hahaha……"

He suddenly chuckled a few times, then raised the guqin in his hand and looked at Cai Mengya, asking in a teasing tone, "You really want it?"

Cai Mengya could easily hear the teasing in Xia Hong's tone, and her originally charming and alluring expression immediately froze.

“Young Master Hong, my young lady once publicly declared that whoever can help her capture the Five-Colored Demonic Sound Rabbit will be qualified to marry her. Young Master Hong is from a powerful family in a foreign land, and my young lady is a descendant of Cai Qiu, the governor. If you can form a bond today because of this Demonic Sound Rabbit, it may very well become a beautiful story in the future!”

The old man in black behind Cai Mengya finally couldn't stand it any longer. He stepped forward with his hands clasped, and spoke to Xia Hong with what he thought was goodwill.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cai Mengya also revealed a touch of girlish shyness, and she really had the shy feeling of a girl whose secret had been exposed.

"Your name is... Bai Jiangyuan, a retainer of the Cai family. I think City Lord Cai introduced you to me at the banquet at the City Lord's Mansion that night. If I remember correctly?"

The old man in black, Bai Jiangyuan, immediately cupped his hands and nodded. Perhaps Xia Hong's tone was too calm, which led him to have some wrong ideas. A smile appeared on his face.

However, the next second, Xia Hong's tone suddenly changed:

"Who do you think you are? How dare you speak ill of my marriage? With my power, status, and position, who can't I marry in your Caiqiu prefecture? Who wouldn't I dare to marry? You really dare to dream of giving me the right to marry you!"

Xia Hong turned directly to Cai Mengya and asked her the last question.

Upon hearing this, Cai Mengya's shy expression vanished abruptly. She looked up at Xia Hong, her face instantly turning crimson. Never before had anyone spoken to her like this, and the shame and indignation in her heart surged to its peak. She turned her head and screamed at Bai Jiangyuan beside her, ordering, "Kill him! Kill him! Kill him for me! I want him dead! I want him dead..."

"So that's all? That's it." Xia Hong recalled how he had feigned politeness with this woman when he first arrived, and felt nauseous. He then turned to look at Bai Jiangyuan, who was slowly walking towards him, and his expression instantly became extremely speechless.

This Cai Yunzhou is really concerned about saving face!

“Young Master Hong, you should be more discreet when you're out and about. I am a bit older than you, so I'll have to teach you today…”

"roll!"

Xia Hong had no time to listen to Bai Jiangyuan's nonsense, so he drew his sword and slashed at him.

call out…………

The sword's edge hurtled straight at Xia Hong's chest. Seeing Xia Hong's arrogant nature, Bai Jiangyuan's face also showed anger. He drew his broadsword from his waist and slashed horizontally with a crimson blade, meeting Xia Hong's sword head-on.

There are only about twenty people in the entire Caiqiu who can be called Cai family retainers, and Bai Jiangyuan is one of them. The title of retainer is not only a symbol of status, but also a proof of strength.

His strength reached 17 jun, and only the city lord Cai Yunzhou in the entire Qinghua City could suppress him. He was just a mere prince from an outer vassal state, still wet behind the ears. Even if he had been invited to a banquet by the city lord, he had no right to act wildly in front of him!

boom…………

All of Bai Jiangyuan's mental activity stopped instantly after he came into contact with Xia Hongjianfeng, and his decaying face also froze at the same time.

The crimson blade he unleashed with all his might was as brittle as paper before Xia Hong's sword, vanishing in an instant without even lasting a moment.

After it dissipated, the remaining blade slammed into his chest with a loud bang.

Bai Jiangyuan strained his bones to the limit to barely keep his body from flying backward, but the sword energy still managed to cut through his chest flesh and hit his internal organs and bones.

"Pfft..."

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Bai Jiangyuan's already decaying face became even more desolate. When he looked up at Xia Hong in front of him, his expression was exactly the same as that of Lu Xinghai and Meng Zizhou just now, only filled with horror and fear, and his body even trembled uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, Lu and Meng, who were still clutching their severed hands, were even more terrified when they saw Bai Jiangyuan injured like this by a single sword strike. For a moment, they didn't even dare to breathe.

"You think you're worthy to act like an elder in front of me, the young master?"

Xia Hong's furious question startled Bai Jiangyuan and the other two, including Cai Mengya who had already regained consciousness, causing them to tremble.

Seeing the fear on the four people's faces, his expression grew even more disdainful. He then looked at Cai Mengya, shook his head, and laughed angrily, "I call City Lord Cai 'Uncle' out of respect for his age, not because of his strength. I ask you to call me 'Brother Hong' out of respect for City Lord Cai. Otherwise, with your strength of 31, you wouldn't even be qualified to be my maid..."

Xia Hong had taken arrogance to the extreme. The disdain and pride in his words, coupled with his domineering gaze that swept over the entire room, made Cai Mengya feel a sense of inferiority. In the end, she slowly lowered her head.

"Before you have the strength, you should obediently lower your head and behave yourself. If you really provoke someone you shouldn't provoke, you will only bring trouble upon yourself. There are no less than eight thousand or ten thousand warlords like Cai Qiu in Bingyuan. If it were Governor Cai in person, I would naturally bow down. But what are you?"

After Xia Hong snorted, he glanced casually to his left, then transformed into a beam of light and flew straight towards Qinghua City in the southwest.

Bai Jiangyuan and the other three stood there, remaining silent for a long time.

The four men's faces were filled with deep fear and shock, clearly terrified by Xia Hong's words.

"City Lord!"

"City Lord..."

A dozen or so breaths later, a white figure quietly appeared on the left. It was none other than Cai Yunzhou, the city lord Xia Hong had just mentioned. Bai Jiangyuan, Lu Meng, and the other two noticed him first and quickly bowed in greeting.

"father…………"

Cai Mengya was the last to find out, but she also broke down the fastest. When she saw her father arrive, she finally had someone to rely on and cried out as she threw herself into his arms.

Seeing his youngest daughter crying with tears streaming down her face, Cai Yunzhou felt a pang of sympathy. He gently patted her back, shook his head, and said softly, "I told you at the banquet last month that powerful and influential families don't have any fools. This Hong Yu may seem muddle-headed, but he's actually extremely shrewd. He just saw through your little tricks but didn't say anything. If you could really outsmart someone like him, how could his elders bear to let him go?"

“Father, Ancestor Fangbo has already said that there are no Qin vassal states around our Mo'ao River at all. This Hong Yu is lying. That so-called Qin vassal state must be something he made up…”

Cai Mengya turned her head to look in the direction Xia Hong had left, a hysterical hatred flashing in her eyes, and continued, "Father, you heard what he said just now, didn't you? This Hong Yu is too arrogant, he doesn't even put you in his eyes, and you just attacked him directly..."

"What he just said is all correct!"

Cai Yunzhou suddenly interrupted his daughter in a deep voice.

Cai Mengya was stunned when she heard this, and Bai Jiangyuan, Meng Zizhou, and Lu Xinghai were also stunned. They looked at Cai Yunzhou with puzzled expressions.

They didn't know which of Xia Hong's words Cai Yunzhou was referring to.

"He just said he respected my age, not my ability. That's true. I was defeated the night I entered the city last month..."

boom!
Cai Yunzhou's words caused a huge uproar in the hearts of Cai Mengya and the other three. Their pupils dilated, and they looked up at Cai Yunzhou, confirming that he was not lying. Their expressions trembled uncontrollably.

The battle at the city gate last month, though no one knows the outcome.

But in the entire Qinghua City, it can be said that no one believes Cai Yunzhou lost, and probably no one even thinks it was a draw.

This is Cai Yunzhou!
Cai Qiu, the Sword Saint, one of the top fifty Xianyang-level experts from the four vassal states of Mo'aochuan, was actually defeated by the unknown Hong Yu.

How can this be?

It took Cai Yunzhou quite a while to accept his defeat. He took a deep breath, turned to look at his daughter and Bai Jiangyuan and the others, and said in a deep voice: "Although Lord Fangbo confirmed to me personally at the beginning of the month that there is no vassal state called Da Qin around Mo'aochuan, he also said that the Ice Abyss is vast, and who knows what the situation is like in other places."
Hong Yu is not old, but he has such terrifying strength. Who knows what his background is? As long as he doesn't cause trouble in Caiqiu, we don't need to pay attention to him. Since he is traveling, he will leave sooner or later. We just need to keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't cause any trouble.

After this, don't offend him again..."

Cai Yunzhou paused at this point, seemingly wanting to say something more, but seeing the hatred in his daughter's eyes, he held back the words that were about to come out.

"If he dares to act recklessly and cause any trouble, I, the Prefect, will personally deal with him. Just keep an eye on his movements!"

Recalling Lord Fang's words, Cai Yunzhou shook his head. He knew his youngest daughter's temperament well. It was his own fault for spoiling her too much. She had never been able to bear being wronged since she was little. If he told her what Lord Fang had said, he would probably cause some trouble later.

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