Chapter 362: Villain, Liang Xiao Liu!!!!
There were heavy clouds above the sky, and the cold wind made the wooden door creak. In Pixiu Town, located in the snow forest in the east of the Northern Domain, the elixir shop was open and selling elixirs as usual.
Standing at the counter was a young man who looked to be in his twenties. The young man’s name was Wang Er. He was the apprentice that the shopkeeper of this elixir shop only accepted a few months ago. His cultivation level was only at the early stage of foundation building.
It was common sense for masters and disciples to teach each other and solve doubts. However, after following his master for so many months, Wang Er did not learn any skills in alchemy and talisman painting.
However, he learned a lot of human wisdom from Master.
Just like…
Squeak——
The door of the elixir shop was pushed open from the outside. Wang Er looked up and saw two slightly weird cultivators stepping over the threshold and walking in. He was suddenly surprised.
The two cultivators were dressed in very ordinary clothes. One was wearing black clothes and a white bamboo hat, the other was wearing white clothes and a black bamboo hat, and both wore hijab on their faces.
They were carrying an ordinary thing on their backs that was a musical instrument shaped like a guitar, wrapped in thick bandages. As the magic weapon was too wide, the two of them were stuck by the doorposts on both sides when they entered the door. They moved their bodies before they were able to enter the shop.
The two cultivators walked to the counter together. The cultivator in black clothes and white hat looked at Wang Er and said, “Snow covers the golden mountains and shines in the west.”
“Oh!” Wang Er listened for a moment, gestured to the two of them to wait a moment, took out a small book from his waist, flipped through it for a while, and replied, “Hunt thousands of tigers in the north and face the cold!”
This notebook recorded everything he had learned from his master in the past three months. As this place was an inaccessible wasteland within a hundred miles, this elixir shop had taken on the role of a shop for many evil forces.
Regardless of whether it was the Seven Killing Sect, the Seven Mysteries Sect, the Lily Society, or anything else, you could come to him to get in touch, inquire about information, or take on tasks.
After repeatedly looking at the records in the notebook to make sure that he had answered correctly, Wang Er quickly handed over his hand and said, “What do you two seniors want to inquire about?”
The cultivator in black clothes, and white hat looked at him with narrowed eyes and asked, “Newcomer!”
“Yes, I just started Daoism a few months ago. My master is refining elixirs in the back room. If the two seniors need anything, they can just tell the juniors directly.”
The cultivator in black hesitated for a while, raised his sword with his hand, took out three portraits and a bag of spiritual stones from the storage bag, and asked, “What is the location of these three people.”
Wang Er took a quick look and raised his eyebrows slightly, “Hey, these two seniors are already our third batch of guests who have inquired about these three people.”
The cultivator in black frowned slightly, “…Where?”
“The three people stayed in the Pixiu Town for two days, and then headed west to the Xuelong Town.”
“How many days have they been gone?”
“They left five days ago. If you two are more agile on your feet, you should be able to catch up. I don’t think the three of them are in a hurry.” The cultivator in black nodded, put the portrait back into his storage bag, glanced at the cultivator in white beside him, and cooperated with him, turning one hundred and ninety degrees, like a pair of crabs, sideways from the door.
Wang Er did not forget to wave his hands to say goodbye to the two of them, “Seniors, please walk slowly!”
Not long after the two people left, an old-looking cultivator opened the door and walked out of the back room. He seemed to have heard the movement just now and asked, “Who just came?”
“Two cultivators from the Seven Killing Sect. One is in white clothes and a black hat, and the other is in black clothes and a white hat.”
The old man took a deep breath after hearing this and asked, “Hiss – are they… carrying a guitar on their backs?”
“Yes! Master, how do you know?”
“Are you stupid?” The old man rolled his eyes at him and explained, “Those two are the Qin Kui of the Seven Killing Sect. The people on the road call them White Yin and Black Yang. Although they are cultivators in the middle stage of core formation, they once worked together to get the head of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the guitar behind them was also a mysterious treasure.”
“Is it awesome?”
“Nonsense! Those two people have never failed.” The old man slapped Wang Er on the head, hesitated for a while, and then asked, “Are they also here to inquire about the two women and the man?”
“…Yes.”
“Hey, the employer who issued this reward is really rich and powerful. Qin Kui of the Seven Killing Sect, the swordsman of the Seven Mysterious Sect, and Yu Potian of the Ghost Hunting Sect. To be able to attract so many top assassins in the world, at least there’s a reward of one million spiritual stones.”
Wang Er was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said with envy,
“Then Master, do you think we should follow and get a share of the pie?”
The old man kicked him on the butt and cursed, “A share of the pie! Are you looking for death? You brat, go chop wood in the backyard!”
After kicking Wang Er to the backyard, the old man walked to the gate with his hands behind his back, looked up at the street, and murmured,
“How much hatred does this have to offer a reward like this? At least half of the black market in the Northern Domain has been alarmed! No… I’m afraid it’s not just the black market.”
“When the Han Tian Kingdom’s court learns that someone has placed such a large bounty on the black market, they will definitely not sit idly by and will probably send someone to investigate.”
“I don’t know, who did those three cultivators in the core formation stage offend? With such connections, they can go to so many underworld forces to place bounties, and they are also rich and powerful. This is really… It opened my eyes today… ”
…
The moon was dark, the wind was high, and fluttering snow was flying in the sky. Under the eaves of the Huilong Town Inn, flint lanterns hung, swaying in the cold wind.
In front of the door of the inn, a woman dressed in white was holding a pot of strong wine in her hand, asking the snow to drink.
“GuluGulu——”
The strong wine entered the throat, dispelling the cold air that entered the body, and what followed was a crisp ringing sound.
Jingle Bell–
Gu Mingxin lowered her head when she heard the sound and looked at the pair of strange bells around her waist. They were given to her by a strange little girl in the forest outside Tainan City. She originally planned to throw it away after returning to the Eastern Domain.
However, this bell seemed to be tied to her soul. No matter whether it was buried, thrown into lava, smashed with a hammer, or bombarded with spells, it would return to her intact the next moment.
She also showed it to the weapon masters of the Heavenly Demon Sect, but no one could explain what it was. She always carried it with her, and apart from the noise, there were no other disadvantages for the time being.
Gu Mingxin simply regarded it as a string of tassels and tied it on her belt. It was like a piece of gall, reminding her at all times not to forget the lesson she learned in Tianan City three years ago.
After returning to the Demon Sect from the Central Domain, she immediately ran to tell her master what she had experienced in the Central Domain. Her master was furious after hearing this. In three years, at least four thousand Heavenly Demon Sect disciples were sent to spiritual fields or alchemy furnaces to be used as fertilizer and alchemy materials.
Gu Mingxin himself also rested for more than a year before she fully recovered from her injuries. After that, she recuperated in the Eastern Domain, followed Xue’s advice, and made some pretty good friends.
Xue, who was floating above and holding a small wine gourd in her hand, looked at Gu Mingxin’s frown and asked, “Mingxin, are you thinking about Tianan City again?”
“Hmph, how could I forget?” Gu Mingxin smiled coldly, raised her head, and took another sip of wine, “This is the first time since I was born that I had such a big belly… Liang Xiao Liu, even if I become a ghost, I won’t forget your name.”
Xue was a little helpless, sighed, and said,
“Why would you turn into a ghost? It’s so unlucky. And the name sounds like a pseudonym. Why do you remember it so clearly?”
“Then tell me what his name is?” Gu Mingxin twisted his eyebrows and complained, “It’s useless, and you still claim that you are the demon scroll weapon spirit who knows the world. You can’t even find his name…”
Xue was a little depressed, sighed helplessly, and said, “The Heavenly Demon’s Scroll only contains past events, and that person is a dual-spiritual cultivator. I don’t even bother to record him in the book. Maybe he died in the Core Formation Thunder Tribulation last year or the year before that.”
“…”
“Oh, Mingxin, I want you to stop thinking about him and be careful of your inner demons.”
“Snort.”
Gu Mingxin snorted coldly, raised her head, and took another sip of strong wine, ignoring it.
Xue was also helpless. After thinking for a while, she added, “The spiritual sword Liang Xiao Liu used before was the natal spiritual sword of Immortal Yunjian, so he is probably from the Yun family. His surname is Yun.”
“There are dozens of direct descendants of the Yun family of the Moon Shadow Sword Sect, and now there are only three girls left. How can he be from the Yun family, and he is not blond.”
“Maybe he dyed his hair? Is the Yun family hiding him again?”
Gu Mingxin directly went in and out of his left and right ears. He didn’t want to hear what Xue was talking about, so she looked towards the dim street under the flying snow.
Perhaps it was because Liang Xiao Liu left such a deep impression on her. Every time she went to a new town, she always felt a little uneasy, for fear that the town would be ambushed. Therefore, she did not stay in the house at night, but stood at the door of the inn, blowing the snow and drinking the wind.
For a moment, Gu Mingxin felt that she was a little ridiculous. The last time she was ambushed, it was a spy from the Heavenly Demon Sect who tipped off Liang Xiao Liu.
Now that the Heavenly Demon Sect had been purged, Liang Xiao Liu couldn’t learn the news again.
Besides, Liang Xiao Liu looked like a cultivator from the Southern Domain or the Western Domain, and would not appear in the Northern Domain.
“Sigh–“
Her lips parted slightly, and she exhaled a breath of hot breath, but it condensed into ice mist three feet away from her nose and fell to the ground. Gu Mingxin shook her head, drank the last sip of wine, and prepared to go back to the room to rest.
During this trip to the Northern Domain, her mission was to find out the location of the Snow Formation Eye of the Han Tian Kingdom, to help the demon sects in the Eastern Domain break through the borders of the Han Tian Kingdom, kill the empress of the Han Tian Kingdom, and bring the Northern Domain into the hands of the demonic cultivators.
To this end, the six sects of demon sects secretly appointed thirty-seven cultivators in the core formation stage, and hundreds of cultivators in the foundation stage sneaked in, divided into several teams, and marched in the four directions of the north, south, east, and northwest.
She and the other two core formation-stage cultivators who were traveling with her were one of them. They were responsible for searching the southwest of the Northern Domain and secretly spying on the Han Tian Kingdom’s movements.
Gu Mingxin was thinking about how she should complete the task, and when she was about to open the door and go back to the inn, the door of the inn was opened by someone from the inside.
The man who opened the door was named Wu Tianci. He was a high-level disciple of the inner sect of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and his cultivation was in the early stage of core formation.
After Gu Mingxin saw him, she raised her eyebrows and smiled, “Brother Wu, why don’t you have a good rest? Why are you out here in the middle of the night?”
“Isn’t Senior Sister Gu not sleeping either?”
Wu Tianci glanced at Gu Mingxin, walked out of the house, looked up at the flying snow in the sky, and suddenly sighed, “Huh——”
“What’s wrong? Why are you sighing?”
“Seeing the flying snow in the sky, I think of my incompetent father.” Wu Tianci narrowed his eyes slightly and gritted his teeth, “I still can’t figure out how my father could fall into a small Chilong Mansion with his methods.”
Gu Mingxin raised her eyebrows and said, “I didn’t expect that Brother Wu, you would care about this family relationship. Didn’t I hear that your family and Senior Wu are incompatible?”
“I’m not thinking about this family relationship.” Wu Tianci responded indifferently, “I’m thinking about the Thousand Punishment Formations in his storage bag, and I don’t know where his storage bag is now.”
When Gu Mingxin heard this, she raised her eyebrows and glanced at Xue above.
Xue rolled her eyes at her, took out a larger black book from under her skirt, flipped through it for a while, and said, “I have.”
Gu Mingxin nodded and said,
“Then if the Senior Sister brings you a formation map, how will you repay the Senior Sister?”
After hearing this, Wu Tianci narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, “Then it depends on what Senior Sister Gu wants to take away from this junior brother.”
“Just make friends.”
“Ha… Demon cultivators don’t like to talk about the word friend.” Wu Tianci sneered and said, “But if senior sister gets it, then junior brother will naturally help Senior Sister get what you want.”
“All I want is one person.”
“Who?”
“Liang Xiao Liu, if junior brother helps me kill him, how about senior sister go find the Thousand Punishment Formation Diagram and give it to you?”
Wu Tianci smiled, cupped his hands, and replied, “Junior brother, I will just remember it…”
Sough–
Just as the two of them were talking to this point, suddenly the sound of treading on the snow came from the end of the previously deserted street.
Gu Mingxin and Wu Tianci suddenly became alert and looked toward the source of the sound. But they saw two strange cultivators, carrying something like a harp on their backs, walking towards them.
One person was wearing white clothes and a black hat, and the other person was wearing black clothes and a white hat.
“…”
Gu Mingxin frowned slightly and stared at the two of them walking towards her, wondering why cultivators were walking outside in the northern wind and snow in the middle of the night.
Xue, who was floating above, glanced at the two of them and said,
“Ming Xin, both of them are cultivators in the middle stage of core formation. They should be carrying a mysterious treasure on their backs. They are not characters to be trifled with.”
Gu Mingxin frowned slightly and replied with his spiritual thoughts, “Why am I messing with them? It looks like a knife on the black market.”
Then, she looked back at Wu Tianci and said, “Junior brother, let’s go back to the house first and avoid them.”
“Um…”
Just when the two of them were about to open the door and go back to the inn.
Suddenly, strong winds began to blow.
Boom–
A bolt of fire blew up the ceiling of the inn, and a red figure on the second floor, covered in flames, crashed through the wall and landed on the thick snow on the street.
Gu Mingxin was startled, and turned around to look, only to see that the person who fell turned out to be another core-formation demon cultivator who was traveling with her and Wu Tianci.
——Lu Meimei, a high-level disciple of Hehuan Sect’s inner sect, in the middle stage of core formation.
Lu Meimei’s back fell heavily on the snow, and her clothes, which were not covering her body, became even more unsightly under the flames. After touching the snow, she let out bursts of sizzling sounds of barbecue. She slowed down for a moment, stood up quickly, and spit out the remaining blood in her mouth to the side, “Sigh—bad luck!!”
Gu Mingxin felt a little confused and immediately stepped forward, helped her up, stared at the hole on the second floor of the inn where thick smoke was rising, and asked, “Sister Lu, what’s going on?”
“The prostitute was a surprise.” Lu Meimei raised her chest and raised her head, curling her lips, and said, “Obviously that person is quite good-looking, but in the middle of the job, he suddenly stabbed me with a sword.”
?
Gu Mingxin twisted her eyebrows, subconsciously wondering if her charm had failed, causing the cauldron she grabbed casually in the town to break free.
After all, she was a cultivator of the Hehuan Sect and could not live without a man. For more than half a month, every time their group passed through a town, Lu Meimei had to grab a man for dinner at night and get information about the town.
However, before she could express her doubts, a dark shadow suddenly emerged from the cave on the second floor.
Gu Mingxin glared slightly and immediately raised the spiritual sword in his hand.
Ding–
Sparks.
A spiritual sword was directly blocked by her in front of her chest. Gu Mingxin squinted slightly and looked towards the person who was stabbing the sword, only to see a cultivator in blue robes whose cultivation was in the middle stage of core formation.
Wu Tianci, who was staying under the eaves of the inn, flashed behind the green-robed cultivator and punched him in the back.
Boom–
There were bursts of punches, but the cultivator in green used clever movement to dodge them and jumped ten feet away.
At this time, the two cultivators carrying harps who had just appeared at the end of the road also walked under the inn.
After the two people saw the cultivator in a green robe, there was a bit of hostility in their eyes. But when the cultivator in the green robe saw the two people, he smiled crookedly,
“Black Yang and White Yin, two seniors are here too?”
“Yeah.” Hei Yang nodded slightly and glanced at Gu Mingxin and the others, “It’s not easy to deal with.”
“Indeed, let’s break up later?”
“Here!”
Whoosh——
Black Yang and White Yin, with a slight wave of their hands, the guitar they were carrying behind them was thrown into the air by the bandage, and then they sat down at the same time, floating above the ground.
A dark green light appeared on the strings of the long harp and landed accurately on the thighs of the two people.
Gu Mingxin looked at this posture, and her eyebrows twisted into the character Sichuan.
What was happening here?
In their line of work, apart from Lu Meimei arresting a few men, they hadn’t done anything attractive. Why were they being targeted?
Moreover, these three people now didn’t look like decent cultivators, a dandy swordsman in blue, and two weird magicians holding mysterious treasures…
They seemed to be the kind of cultivators who liked killing people and grabbing treasures. There was nothing they could do when they encountered this kind of cultivator, but the key point was why they met three people at the same time, and the postures of these three people directly joined forces.
Gu Mingxin looked confused, and the big-breasted and brainless Lu Meimei looked even more confused, “The two people in white clothes and black clothes, do we have any grudges between us? If you want to say that I tied up the one in green clothes, I understand that he wants to kill me. Where did you two come from?”
The cultivator in green smiled cheerfully, “Fairy Lu, these two are my reinforcements.”
“Reinforcement!” Lu Meimei still didn’t react.
However, after hearing this, Gu Mingxin and Wu Tianci both captured such details. This cultivator in green knew Lu Meimei’s surname.
In other words, these people were completely here for them.
Wu Tianci felt that the situation was not good and whispered,
“Senior Sister Gu, the situation is not right, let’s go first…”
However, Gu Mingxin didn’t listen at all, and stared blankly at the three people in front of her, as if she had lost his soul.
“Senior Sister Gu!”
“Hehe… Hehe…”
“…” Wu Tianci narrowed his eyes slightly, not knowing what happened to her, but the next moment.
Gu Mingxin laughed louder and louder, holding her forehead with her left hand and raising her chin, “Hahahahahaha——”
The wild laughter spread directly to the entire town. Then a red light shot straight into the sky, breaking through the thick dark clouds above.
Gu Mingxin’s whole body was filled with rich blood energy, dyeing the flying snow in the sky into streaks of blood.
“Liang Xiao Liu!!!” The sound shook the doors of houses on both sides of the street.
Lu Meimei was so frightened by her yelling that her round chest trembled, she took a step back and asked,
“Sister Gu, who is Liang Xiao Liu?”
The next breath, there was only a loud “boom”.
Gu Mingxin kicked away the snow below, turning into a phantom that rushed straight into the face of the cultivator in green.
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