Ziwei Immortal Path

Chapter 1 Escort
In Nanhuai County, on the outskirts of Dongke Town, the sky and the earth were grim and heavy snow was falling.

There are shadowy figures in the wilderness.

"Hey!"

Xu Boyang pierced the chest of the man with a sword, then pulled out his sword and cut off the arm of another man.

A stream of bright red blood splattered all over the snow, shocking to the eye.

Before he could even catch his breath, a gust of wind suddenly blew up behind his ears, and two shining swords wrapped in snowflakes attacked from behind!
Xu Boyang dodged to the side and disappeared in an instant. When he reappeared, he was already behind the two men. He thrust out two swords with his front hand, one each, hitting the vital points on the vest and killing them both.

Figures fell one after another, the battle ended quickly, and the corpses scattered all over the place were soon buried by the heavy snow.

"Hu Xiaode!"

After shouting, Xu Boyang raised his leg and stepped on a large bluestone next to him. He took a breath, reached into his waist, took out an old linen cloth, and carefully wiped the sharp sword in his hand.

The sword was covered in blood, and he was afraid that the blood would solidify on it in a moment.

The young man was only seventeen or eighteen years old, but his swordsmanship was experienced and fierce, and he wiped the blood in an orderly manner. It was obvious that this was not his first time killing someone.

Three years ago, Xu Boyang was still an amateur writer on Blue Star. He died suddenly after staying up late to finish his manuscript, and his soul traveled to this world.

Fortunately, he was lucky. The original owner had the same name as him, lived in the town, had a house and a dog, and did not have the plot of the online movie where the family was broken up and the owner was burdened with blood debt.

The family has a small caravan that travels all over the country.

My father, Xu Shaoliang, was originally a well-known escort in Fengqing Town, Yuchuan County. He had worked in the Shenwei Escort Company in the town for more than ten years and was experienced and well-known.

The owner of Shenwei Escort Agency is surnamed Wang. He is quite powerful in Fengqing Town and all his friends in the underworld give him some face, so the escort agency does good business.

Later, for unknown reasons, the escort agency was taken over by a family surnamed Song.

Seeing the Wang family leaving in disgrace and the Song family coming in with full force, Xu Shaoliang was afraid of getting into trouble, so he simply resigned on the pretext of illness and went home.

After returning to the village, he set up a small business, took his son and apprentice with him, and hired three or five men. He specialized in delivering goods for small employers who were looked down upon by the escort agency, and earned some commissions by doing buying and selling on their behalf. He also traded some goods on the side from time to time.

Although one often lives on the edge of a knife and the risks are much greater, it is still a comfortable life in this chaotic world.

Unfortunately, his wife Chen died of illness early, leaving Xu Boyang as his only child.

Old man Xu Shaoliang is a loyal man and has never remarried, so he has been both a father and a mother over the years, and has really worried a lot.

Xu Boyang just turned seventeen this year and has been escorting with his father for more than five years. He has a handsome and stern appearance, thick and relaxed eyebrows, and a pair of eyes like a falcon squatting on a cliff. He is really handsome and quite powerful.

In addition, he was naturally clean, so this time he came out wearing a black cross-collared cotton coat with a fox fur cloak hanging on the back, which made him look heroic.

At first glance, he doesn't look like a bodyguard, but more like a knight.

"Brother Yang!"

Hu Xiaode walked towards them in the snow, knife in hand. He was about the same age as Xu Boyang, but not as handsome.

Hu Xiaode was Xu Shaoliang's apprentice. His parents died of starvation in a famine a few years ago. He grew up with Xu Boyang. Xu Shaoliang treated him equally and as his own son.

Hu Xiaode was a mischievous child, often fighting with Xu Boyang without distinguishing between right and wrong. The two of them also did a lot of sneaky things together. But now that he has grown up, he understands the situation and looks much calmer. With a look of concern on his face, he asked breathlessly,

"How are you?"

"I am fine."

Xu Boyang took another breath, looked up at the horse team not far away, and pursed his lips.

"How about you go check on the guys?"

Hu Xiaode looked over for a while, then turned back and said:

"Everything is fine, except that we were attacked at the beginning and two horses were stabbed to death!"

"Straight bitch!"

Xu Boyang's face was stern and his expression was a little ugly. He cursed angrily and ordered in a deep voice,

"Xue is too urgent. Take two people and search to see if these bandits have any valuable belongings, otherwise we won't be able to find them later."

"Yeah." Hu Xiaode responded in a muffled voice, put away his long knife, called a few people, rolled up his sleeves, went over, and dragged the corpse out of the snow by the feet.

Xu Boyang put away his sword and put it behind his back, then walked towards the cavalry, stepping back and forth.

This was the first time that Xu Boyang led a team to escort the goods. A few days ago, his father Xu Shaoliang had a leg disease and was lying at home, but he had accepted the order from the Ding family and could not delay, so Xu Boyang volunteered, patted his chest and took on the burden.

The employer, the Ding family, is wealthy and powerful. It is said that there are people in the family practicing in the fairy mountain. They are a well-known family of immortal practitioners in the whole Yuchuan County, and they are the backers of the Wang family of the Shenwei Escort Agency.

After all, it was the old boss Wang Mingru who personally entrusted him with the order. Xu Shaoliang had worked with him for so many years, so naturally he couldn't refuse the favor. Moreover, Wang Mingru had indeed taken care of him a lot in business over the years.

However, because this was Xu Boyang's first time as a bodyguard leader, Xu Shaoliang was afraid that something might go wrong, so he hired three more people.

A group of eight people and ten horses set out from Fengqing Town, Yuchuan, bringing with them five hundred kilograms of black pork bacon, three hundred kilograms of snow peaches, fifty kilograms of dried hemostatic grass, and twenty to thirty kilograms of spiritual rice.

Bacon and snow peaches are naturally the Wang family's property.

The hemostatic grass comes from the Ding family. It is mostly used to make medicine and is an excellent healing herb. It is not only bought by ordinary medical clinics, but also by those immortal cultivation families to make pills.

As for the spiritual rice, it was the first time that Xu Boyang saw it. He heard that it was the rice that the immortals ate.

But these are not important. What is important is that in his bag are three Qi Gathering Pills, five Spirit Nourishing Pills and one Yuan Pei Pill. This is the purpose of the Ding family asking him to come here.

The journey was relatively safe except for the bad weather caused by wind and snow. However, when we were less than 30 miles away from Dongke Town, a group of robbers ambushed in the snow on the road, scaring everyone to the ground.

Fortunately, this group of robbers were all mortals. Having said that, they were also unlucky. They were squatting in the snow for a long time in the cold weather and met Xu Boyang.

Ever since Xu Boyang came here, he has been traveling around the world with his father. He has long been accustomed to this decadent world where people are killed like mowing grass, and understands the importance of having skills. In addition, his father is extremely strict with him, so when he has free time from escorting the goods, he still practices martial arts without stopping, and dares not slack off at all.

At this moment, he started to hold the sword at the age of seven, which was ten years ago. Now with an iron sword in his hand, he was unpredictable and had inherited the true teachings of Xu Shaoliang. Not everyone could stop him.

These four or five bandits were not enough for him to kill alone.

Xu Boyang walked up to the horse team and looked down at the horses that had been stabbed to death. Winter peaches were scattered all over the ground. He sighed and shouted, "Come here! Collect the goods, move each horse a little, skin the horses, and take the meat away."

Due to the delay on the road, it was already dark when they arrived at Dongke Town. They had to grope in the dark to find an inn where they had stayed several times before and rest for the night.

After the meal, Xu Boyang and Hu Xiaode returned to their lodgings. Xu Boyang took off his cloak and hung it up, then put down his sword and whispered,
"Tomorrow morning, take your men to the market and sell the meat and peaches. For the grass and rice, go to Fugui's. Their prices are higher. But when you pass by other shops, ask them about it. Especially for the rice, don't let that old man fool you. I heard that the prices in the market are very chaotic these days, and I'm afraid he's taking advantage of the situation."

"Okay, Brother Yang."

Hu Xiaode sat down at the table, poured two cups of hot tea, sighed, and said with a worried look on his face,
"Brother Yang, Dongke Town is getting increasingly chaotic. Even in this cold weather, bandits are still out fighting. On our way here, the surrounding villages are almost completely deserted. I see no one in the town, and many shops are closed. If this continues, I think the Fei family in Dongke Town will be doomed."

"Keep your voice down!"

Xu Boyang glared at him, then returned to the table and sat down, saying with a sullen face,

"Be careful when you go out! If you don't keep your mouth shut, the neighbors might get annoyed!"

Hu Xiaode stuck out his tongue and handed over the tea. Xu Boyang took the tea and drank it all, saying in a low voice:

"There's money to be made in this chaotic world. Why are you worrying about all this all the time? You know how many people from Dongke Town have fled to our town in the past two years." "That's right. There are more and more people coming to Fengqing Town."

Hu Xiaode chuckled, poured Xu Boyang more wine, and whispered,

"Brother Yang, you don't know. I just went to the kitchen to ask for some food and wine, and I heard the innkeeper and the waiter say that there's been fighting in the north again. There have been a lot of refugees fleeing here recently. The group that attacked us just now had nothing but weapons and some cold food. I guess they fled from the north."

Xu Boyang raised his eyebrows and sneered, "Which of the families in the north doesn't eat meat and spit out bones? It's best if the dogs bite the dogs and both sides suffer losses!"

"Yes, Brother Yang, I think the Fei family in Dongke Town is just a fence-sitter, swaying from side to side. I don't know how much they have profited from the chaos over the years!"

Hu Xiaode seriously analyzed the situation in several surrounding villages and towns.

Xu Boyang saw that he was speaking without any order, and frowned:
"Xiao De, we're on the business side, and we don't talk about these things when we're doing business. Of course, you can go back to town and talk to your lover about what you heard, but you must watch your mouth when you're out there."

"You have to remember that we escorts have our own rules."

"I know, I know."

Hu Xiaode didn't take it seriously. He raised his hand and yawned. He ate two more bites tonight and felt a little tired. He said slowly,
"Three things you shouldn't touch and four things you shouldn't leave: don't touch a shop, don't get involved in gossip, don't touch a prostitute, don't sleep without clothes, don't leave your tools, don't leave your goods without your horse, and don't leave your horse without you."

"Look at you, you're such a coward! How many times have I told you this?"

Xu Boyang saw that he looked tired, glared at him again, and shouted,
"It's already up to your neck, but you're still insisting on drinking it. Next time, drink less! Is that yellow soup that tastes like cat urine really that good?"

"Alright, alright!" Hu Xiaode resisted the urge to sleep, rubbed his eyes, drank his tea, stood up, crouched down and washed his face with cold water in the copper basin under the clothes rack, then took the knife and

"I'll go down and take a look to see if they're slacking off!"

"Ah."

Xu Boyang's expression eased slightly, he stood up and patted his shoulder, then walked to the window, opened it and looked around, then turned back to get his cloak and sword, and said,

"I have to go out for a while too. It's about the Ding family. When you come back later, don't sleep too deeply. Pay attention to the movements downstairs. When the time comes, we will change shifts. Prepare the food and drinks for the guys."

Hu Xiaode didn't dare to ask any more questions when he heard this, and nodded: "Brother Yang, be careful!"

"Ah."

Xu Boyang climbed over the window and floated away.

Hu Xiaode looked at his agile figure, feeling envious, and sighed softly to himself:

"If only I... had Brother Yang's skills."

The night snow was falling. Xu Boyang wore the hood on his cloak and walked quickly on the street with his head down, turning left and right, as if he was very familiar with the place.

Before long, they arrived at an abandoned mining site outside the town.

Although the snow was lighter at this time, it was still falling continuously. The abandoned mining site was densely packed with colorful tents, with flickering candles. Many people were walking and stopping on the walkways, and there were no less than several hundred people.

Xu Boyang wiped his hand, and a fanged ghost mask appeared on his face.

After walking a few more steps, two people came out from the shadows on both sides of the road. One of them held a sword in both hands and asked coldly:

"Hey young man, are you setting up a tent or just passing through?"

Xu Boyang took a small fluorescent stone out of his sleeve and handed it over.

"Passing by."

This is the ghost market in Dongke Town. Because it cannot be seen in the light, it is open only at night. It is opened by the Fei family who manages Dongke Town. It specializes in selling things of unknown origin to people of unknown origin.

Of course, this is not a place where ordinary people can enter.

The small stone that Xu Boyang just took out is something that ordinary people cannot see. It is called a "spiritual stone."

The currency in this world is somewhat peculiar. In addition to gold and silver, mortal currency also includes a kind of copper coin, which is neither big nor small, a bit like a small shovel, but it is indeed made of copper. Mortal people call it "bu" and the unit is "ma".

A piece of linen means one coin.

In addition to this "cloth", there is also the "spiritual stone" used by the immortals. I don't know what it is made of. It emits fluorescence and looks a bit like jade. Xu Boyang felt it was very strange when he saw it for the first time.

However, this thing is difficult for mortals to come into contact with. Except for those who often deal with immortal families, they don’t know what it is even if they see it.

Xu Boyang paid the toll, walked into the ghost market, mixed into the crowd, and after walking for a while, he stopped in front of a gray tent.

A hoarse voice came from the tent.

"How are you, Daoist friend? What did you do?"

Xu Boyang looked around, confirmed that no one was paying attention, and said in a low and hoarse voice:

"Qi Gathering Pill, Condensation Stage, how much is it?"

"Oh? Condensation Stage."

There was silence in the tent for a moment, and then two wrinkled fingers were extended.

"This number."

Seeing this, Xu Boyang snorted coldly, stopped talking, shook his cloak, and took a step to leave.

"Dao, Daoist friend, wait a minute!"

A pair of dry and bony hands stretched out from the tent, as if to keep him. Xu Boyang had no intention of leaving, and was waiting for this moment. Hearing the sound, he stopped.

There was a laugh in the tent, and someone said:

"Your fellow Daoist has a fierce temper and won't even bargain!"

Xu Boyang didn't turn around, still facing away from him, and said coldly, "I'm asking you this honestly, why are you lying to me?"

There was a dry cough in the tent, followed by two awkward laughs, and then he slowly stretched out three fingers.

"Daoyou, this number, this number!"

"not enough!"

Xu Boyang turned around, pressed his thumb and stretched out four fingers, and said in a deep voice:

"The goods are in great demand now, so I got this price!"

"you"

There was silence in the tent for a moment, and then someone asked,
"how many?"

Xu Boyang knew it was done, so he took out a small celadon bottle from his waist bag and held it in his palm, saying lightly:
“One!”

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