49: Chapter 49 Lishui Sect 49: Chapter 49 Lishui Sect Swoosh!
The mont Ye Zhen sensed danger approaching, his body darted like a spirit snake, instantly flashing behind a surrounding wall within the stronghold.
As he moved away, Ye Zhen’s fingers grazed and searched on Guo Shanfeng’s bracelet, pinching what he suspected to be a storage bracelet in his hand.
Almost simultaneously, accompanied by the clashing sounds of a large number of armor leaves, a large group of people rushed into Guo Shanfeng’s courtyard.
So of them aid their crossbows directly at the already deceased Guo Shanfeng.
Another group aid their crossbows at the place where Ye Zhen was hiding, especially the two-ter-long blood-red giant bow, which chilled Ye Zhen’s heart.
Ye Zhen recognized it as the Blood Killing Bow, exclusively used by the military faction of the Black Water Kingdom.
Within a hundred ters, no one below the True Essence Realm could withstand it, and even martial artists of the True Essence Realm found it extrely difficult to counter.
However, seeing this Blood Killing Bow, Ye Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.
The sudden appearance of these people, they were not enemies but were likely the county soldiers of Wusan County.
“Captain, it’s Guo Shanfeng, Guo Shanfeng has been killed!” a county soldier reported after inspecting.
“My daughter, you must have suffered, are you alright!” Hearing of Guo Shanfeng’s death, Hee Bancheng who followed at the rear, staggered and rushed towards Miss Hee in the inner hall.
Hee Bancheng didn’t even untie the ropes binding his own daughter but carried her out of the inner hall, still bound, and turned several circles in the courtyard before finally untying her.
Ye Zhen was initially puzzled, but then he understood.
By not untying the rope, Hee Bancheng was proving his daughter’s innocence to the people present; otherwise, who knows what rumors might spread later.
“Is the one across a benefactor?”
Ye Zhen did not co out right away, not even when Hee Bancheng shouted; he only cautiously erged from behind the wall after the Captain of the Prefectural Office ordered the soldiers to lower their crossbows.
Influenced by the events of the past few months, Ye Zhen acted much more cautiously.
If he rashly ca out and was killed by the official archers, that would indeed be a grievance.
Seeing a young man with a sowhat juvenile face erge, the Prefectural Colonel, Guan Ping, was visibly taken aback, his eyes registering disbelief.
He had led elite soldiers to storm the mountain three tis, all repelled by Guo Shanfeng.
He suddenly heard from Hee Bancheng, who went to the barracks to report that a hero had ventured alone up the mountain.
He had imagined a righteous martial artist who road the world, never expecting it to be a young boy still showing signs of youth.
“Did you kill these people?” Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping asked in astonishnt.
Ye Zhen, sowhat speechless, just nodded irritably.
Who else could it have been?
Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping instantly reacted, “I’m sorry, may I ask for your esteed na?”
“From Qiyun Sect, Ye Zhen!”
“Qiyun Sect?” Upon hearing this, Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping was overjoyed.
He casually ordered the soldiers by his side to hunt down the remaining bandits, then approached Ye Zhen.
“Junior Brother Ye, Guo Shanfeng is a fugitive wanted by the Imperial Court.
Killing him carries military rit.
May I verify your identity jade to report upwards?” Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping asked.
“Junior Brother Ye?” Ye Zhen was quite surprised by the address.
“Oh, not to deceive Junior Brother Ye, I was once an Outer Disciple of Qiyun Sect and later earned military rits to serve as the Prefectural Colonel here at Wusan County.
Sadly, my cultivation is modest and Guo Shanfeng was exceedingly cunning, which caused him to ravage the region for so long without being exterminated,” Guan Ping said.
Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen, realizing they were sect brothers, was overjoyed and hurriedly handed over his identity jade for Guan Ping to inspect.
After a look, Guan Ping grew solemn and respectful: “Junior Brother actually ranks first on the Earth List?”
Hearing this, Ye Zhen was also startled for a mont, then realized: since Gu Duozhi, the forr number one on the Earth List, was finished, his own ranking naturally rose.
Hee Bancheng, who was continuously comforting his daughter, also brightened up.
The Heaven and Earth List of Qiyun Sect was extrely famous throughout Black Water Kingdom, and here was Ye Zhen, the top of the Earth List, and so young.
Knowing of Ye Zhen’s rank as number one on the Earth List, Guan Ping’s address for Ye Zhen changed from Junior Brother Ye to Senior Brother Ye, which was as awkward for Ye Zhen as could be.
However, no matter how much Ye Zhen protested, Guan Ping refused to change his address, stating that it was the rule of the Outer Gate of Qiyun Sect.
Quickly, Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping’s soldiers wiped out the entire den of thieves, decapitating and collecting over two hundred bandits.
What surprised Ye Zhen the most was that the soldiers also seized a significant amount of loot from the den, appearing to be about twenty thousand silver.
This made Ye Zhen slightly worried.
Could it be that the bracelet he snatched from Guo Shanfeng wasn’t a storage bracelet?
“That’s it?” Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping casually kicked the pile of loot, frowning, “It’s said that Guo Shanfeng was prodigiously wasteful, truly as his reputation suggests.
Just last year, he robbed Wang Dahu of Moshui County of all his wealth, said to be several hundred thousand silver, and in less than a year, it’s all been squandered.”
Hearing this, an idea dawned on Ye Zhen; it seed quite likely that the bracelet he held might indeed be a storage bracelet.
Suddenly, Prefectural Colonel Guan Ping pulled him aside, looking troubled as he negotiated with Ye Zhen, “Senior Brother Ye, there’s sothing I’d like to discuss with you.”
“What is it?
Please speak!”
“Senior Brother Ye, could the army share half of this with us?”
Seeing Ye Zhen’s expression change, Captain Guan Ping hurriedly explained, “Senior Brother Ye, you don’t know, we’ve attacked Guoo Shanfeng three tis, losing many brothers.
If we can get so military rit now, the compensation for those brothers can be more substantial.”
“Moreover, if destroying Guoo Shanfeng has nothing to do with us, I’m afraid my position as the Prefectural Colonel could be at an end,” Guan Ping said as he pulled open his clothing at the chest, revealing a half-healed, bone-deep wound.
“Senior Brother Ye, it’s not that we didn’t try our best!
I almost lost my life here.”
“By the way, you can take half of today’s loot.
How about it, can you help?”
Seeing the wound, Ye Zhen was deeply moved.
Military rits didn’t matter to him, as his ambitions lay elsewhere, so he nodded in agreent.
After setting fire to the villains’ hideout, Captain Guan Ping led the group with the heads back to the small forest.
In the small forest, those who survived the ordeal, filled with either grief or joy, all bowed to Ye Zhen, their savior, before departing.
Only a youth, who had just buried his father, stood there with a look of blank despair.
“My father had intended to send to the Qiyun Sect to beco a servant disciple.
I never expected…” as Ye Zhen asked, grief overwheld the youth.
“To beco a servant disciple, do you possess Bloodline Talent?” Ye Zhen inquired.
“Triple Vein Top Grade!”
Hearing this, Ye Zhen imdiately handed the youth five hundred silver.
“Take this for your expenses, go to the Qiyun Sect to beco a servant disciple, and cultivate well.
Don’t forget what happened today…”
The youth, puzzled, did not understand what Ye Zhen ant.
“Only with power, only by possessing greater power, can one truly control one’s own destiny!”
As Ye Zhen spoke these words to the youth, he suddenly had a realization, understanding what he truly sought by joining the Qiyun Sect.
It was power, freedom, to master his own destiny!
Just like the girl he had glimpsed in his childhood, freely soaring through the skies…
On the way down the mountain, Ye Zhen and Guan Ping casually chatted, mostly about how Ye Zhen had killed Guoo Shanfeng, which Guan Ping was particularly keen on.
“Senior Brother Ye, how did you break Guoo Shanfeng’s Soft Water Palm?
I suffered a great deal at the hands of that guy’s Soft Water Palm,” Guan Ping asked.
“Soft Water Palm?” Ye Zhen was surprised, “Is it that set of punches that seems slow but is fast, continuous without breaking, where the initial force never ceases, and the following force strikes imdiately?”
“Yes, that’s the palm skill.
You don’t know it?”
Ye Zhen shook his head, “I didn’t know.
That palm skill was too tricky; in the end, I had to resort to a tactic of mutual harm to break his offensive.
Otherwise, I would have definitely lost.
How about you, do you know its origin?”
“Senior Brother Ye, maybe because you travel less, you don’t know that the Soft Water Palm is the trademark skill of the Lishui Sect, not taught to anyone but elite disciples.
It’s very powerful,” Guan Ping said.
Ye Zhen was aware of the Lishui Sect, a sect within the Black Water Kingdom with considerable influence, which had been rivalling the Qiyun Sect in recent years.
“How did Guoo Shanfeng learn the Lishui Sect’s trademark skill?” Ye Zhen was puzzled.
“Senior Brother Ye, you don’t know, Guoo Shanfeng was a discard of the Lishui Sect.
After roaming Jianghu for several years, he turned to banditry here,” Guan Ping explained.
“Since he is a discard, why didn’t you ask soone from the Lishui Sect to co and clean up their own ss?” Ye Zhen asked.
“We did invite them!
The Prefectural Governor himself sent five official letters, but there was no response at all from the Lishui Sect,” Guan Ping replied.
“This Lishui Sect is indeed despicable!” Instinctively, Ye Zhen felt a hint of detestation towards the Lishui Sect.
As it was too late to return to Wusan County, Ye Zhen and the other survivors could only spend the night in Captain Guan Ping’s military camp.
Of course, Ye Zhen, a great hero, received different treatnt than the others, with a private military tent to stay in.
After seeing off Captain Guan Ping, when only Ye Zhen was left in the tent, he eagerly took out the bracelet he had taken from Guoo Shanfeng.
Ye Zhen, following the thod he knew to open a Storage Bracelet, put the bracelet on his wrist and concentrated.
With a surge of True Yuan, he sent it into Guoo Shanfeng’s bracelet.
In the mont True Yuan transferred, the bracelet flickered slightly, and a space asuring one cubic ter suddenly appeared before Ye Zhen’s eyes.
The contents within this cubic ter space made Ye Zhen’s eyes widen, startling him greatly.
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