Chapter 196: Protagonist, the powerful murderous aura
Two streets away, Feng Yudie had previously mentioned searching for him in the city, but in reality, she had no leads. Thus, she wandered around the town like a headless fly, hoping for a chance encounter.
When she approached a tavern, the enticing smell of roasted chicken reached her nose. She turned and walked towards it with Yun Jiujiu and two disciples from Jianjiu Peak.
Although the tavern’s door was open, and many customers were inside eating and chatting, due to the martial law in the city, everyone was on edge, afraid of attracting trouble.
Feng Yudie walked to the counter and raised an eyebrow at the innkeeper, saying, “Shopkeeper, pack me a roast chicken.”
?
At a time like this, buying roast chicken!
The innkeeper initially thought she had come to inquire, feeling quite uneasy. However, upon hearing Feng Yudie’s request, he stood there dumbfounded. Yun Jiujiu, noticing his hesitation, raised her hand and slapped the counter, saying, “I told you to pack a roast chicken! Did you not hear me?”
The innkeeper was startled, with a face covered in cold sweat, and quickly instructed a waiter in the establishment, “Alright… Xiao Liu! Go to the kitchen and pack a roast chicken.”
After the waiter prepared the roast chicken, Feng Yudie tossed two spiritual stones, then turned with Yun Jiujiu and the others, leaving the tavern to continue wandering the streets.
The two disciples from Jianjiu Peak, following Feng Yudie and Yun Jiujiu, couldn’t help but exchange whispers,
“Aren’t we here to apprehend someone? Why does it feel like we’re just strolling around?”
“Well, let’s just follow along. Sister Jiujiu told us what to do. Why bother with so many questions?”
“Hey, have you noticed that Sister Jiujiu is unusually polite to Mr. Feng? She has never been this polite to anyone before. Do you think she’s the one?”
“That! No way, Mr. Feng is not Sister Jiujiu’s type.”
As they spoke, Yun Jiujiu’s ears twitched. She turned around, furrowing her brows, and scolded, “What are you whispering about?”
“Ah… We’re just curious. Mr. Feng is supposed to search for someone, right? Why does it seem like we’re just strolling around?”
Yun Jiujiu paused momentarily and then looked at Feng Yudie, asking, “Brother Yu, what are we doing?”
Taking a bite of her chicken leg, Feng Yudie asked in return, “So, where should we look?”
Yun Jiujiu repeated, hands on hips, “Exactly!! What do you think?”
“…”
The two fell silent, awkwardly bowed, and stopped talking.
At that moment, a disciple of the Sword Sect with blond hair suddenly rushed out from an alley in front of the street.
The person, pale-faced, held his left hand with his right, and drops of blood from his sleeve gathered on the ground. He appeared as if he had just escaped a life-threatening situation, looking quite dishevelled.
Glancing around as he emerged from the alley, his eyes met with Feng Yudie and the others approaching.
Approaching them, he pleaded, “Second… Second Miss, help me!! Someone is chasing me!!”
Yun Jiujiu squinted at him, confirming he was an inner disciple. She frowned and immediately turned her gaze towards the entrance of the alley he had emerged from.
At this moment, a girl with long black-brown hair walked out of the alley carrying a spiritual sword. Her steps were light, and the blade was stained with blood. Feng Yudie recognized her as her Junior Sister Pei at just one glance. After not seeing her for a few days, Junior Sister Pei looked good again. Still, Feng Yudie immediately realized that if the person just now was being chased by Junior Sister Pei, there was something wrong with this person.
Swish—
Feng Yudie summoned the spirit sword from her storage bag and clamped it to the side of the neck of the man who ran up to ask for help.
“You…”
However, her words were cut off by an explosion from beside her.
Boom—
With one step, Yun Jiujiu shattered the stone bricks five feet away from her feet, and in the blink of an eye, she was in front of Pei Lianxue.
The spiritual energy formed circles and waves around Yun Jiujiu’s right fist. Pei Lianxue blocked the punch with her sword, and sparks exploded. Pei Lianxue seemed unprepared for the punch’s force and slid back several feet before stabilizing her stance.
“You’re the thief, right! Humph!”
“…,” Pei Lianxue frowned in confusion and replied, “I don’t steal anything.”
“Hmph! Give me a beating first, and then talk!!”
Yun Jiujiu twitched the corner of her mouth, summoned a giant sword from the jade gourd at her waist, and swatted at Pei Lianxue horizontally.
Staying twenty feet away, Feng Yudie saw the situation and then looked at the internal disciple before her. She gritted her teeth and shouted to the two Jianjiu Peak disciples on the side, “You two keep an eye on him!”
Then, in a flash, she rushed behind Yun Jiujiu, lifted her hands off the ground, and shouted, “Jiujiu, wait, wait, wait!!”
“Ah!”
Whoosh—
Because Yun Jiujiu was picked up by Feng Yudie, the path of the giant sword in her hand was higher. Pei Lianxue crouched down and dodged.
Yun Jiujiu looked at the two hands touching her chest, wary of Pei Lianxue opposite her, and asked, “Brother Yu!! What are you doing? She is hunting down our Sword Sect disciples.”
“Ah… No…” Feng Yudie murmured for a while, thinking she had to pretend not to know Pei Lianxue. Then she said, “I don’t think she looks like her.”
“Why?”
“Ah… Look at this girl. She is as bright as a spring flower and as pretty as an autumn moon. She doesn’t look like a thief.”
Yun Jiujiu paused, looked at Pei Lianxue again, and asked, “What do you mean?”
“It just means she looks good.”
“…”
Hearing this, Yun Jiujiu couldn’t help but frown even deeper and wondered, Is she considered good-looking? Is he attracted to someone so gentle and fragile? What’s appealing about that?
At this moment, Yun Xi also ran out of the alley. She immediately understood what had happened after seeing Yun Jiujiu holding her not-so-elegant sword.
“Yun Jiujiu!! You idiot, besides fighting and drinking, what else is on your mind?”
“Tsk…”
Yun Jiujiu smacked her tongue slightly and turned to look at Yun Xi. “So, what is going on?”
Yun Xi gave her a big roll of his eyes and was unprepared to explain. Then she looked around and saw that the person who had just escaped was beside the two Sword Wine Peak disciples and walked over quickly.
“Tell me, what do you know?”
“I…” The man looked at Yun Xi with fear, bit his lip, and replied, “I… I escaped.”
“Escape from what? Where did you escape from?”
“My father asked me to go to Wutian Sword Pavilion yesterday at noon and said he had ordered a sword for me. However, when I arrived at the Sword Pavilion, I found that the master was not there, so I walked around for a while and saw…”
Yun Xi, slightly confused, twisted her eyebrows and said, “Who is your father?”
“My father is Yun Kun, and my name is Yun Shulong.”
Yun Xi recalled for a while and then remembered that Yun Kun seemed to be a descendant of her eldest brother “Yun Kunwu”, but it had been hundreds of years since his eldest brother died.
After a pause, she asked, “What did you find?”
“Twenty-seven bodies were found wrapped in oilcloth in the basement, and then I ran away.”
“Then why did you just run away without saying anything?”
“I thought you were here to kill me too…”
“Yeah!” Yun Xi narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, “Is anyone else wanting to kill you?”
“Several of my brothers have been looking for me, and I hid all night…”
Just as he said this, Pei Lianxue, standing next to Yun Xi, suddenly felt a murderous intention and looked sideways. Then he grabbed Yun Xi’s shoulders and took her a few steps away.
At the same time, Yun Jiujiu and Feng Yudie sensed a murderous aura and quickly jumped ten feet away.
Swish—
The heads of the two Sword Wine Peak disciples and Yun Shulong soared into the sky after a white shadow flashed past. A man wearing a black brocade robe and a half-gold mask, holding a purple sword, appeared where Yun Shulong had just been standing.