Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Shen Lou drew his sword quickly and steadily. If he didn’t draw his sword, he would have to wait for death. Knowing that he couldn’t beat him, Zhong Suifeng still had to bite the bullet.
The Luli’s aura was particularly conspicuous in the dark night. Zhong Suifeng drew his sword, and his moves were quite satisfactory. As soon as he drew his sword, Shen Lou easily avoided it, and then counterattacked at an extremely tricky angle. Shen Lou didn’t use any big moves at all, he just played with him erratically, as if he wanted to leave him to Lin Xin to slaughter.
Unable to walk or fight, Zhong Suifeng broke into a sweat. “Nephew Qingque, I have a very close friendship with your father. Our families are indistinguishable from each other. Today’s matter has nothing to do with you. Just let me go. Over there in Beimo…”
“It does.” Shen Lou said calmly. Interrupting Zhong Suifeng’s quibbles, he swung his sword without slowing down, trapping Zhong Suifeng firmly and pushing him away from Lin Xin’s battle circle, so as not to hinder Lin Xin from absorbing souls.
“Buzz–” The Yanggu Sword took on a light blue color because it absorbed the soul power, and the sword turned into thousands of afterimages, harvesting the heads of the barbarians.
These five barbarians were not weak in spiritual power, but they were not top-notch masters either. The five of them became weaker and weaker as they fought, even though Lin Xin’s sword clearly lacked Luli‘s strength, but he became more and more courageous as they fought. The soul power was like a firefly under the moon, and the stars were dotted and continuously gathering on the sword body in a whirlpool, just like an ancient demon opening its huge fangs and swallowing up everything.
“Dang Dang Dang.” The barbarians finally understood that they were no match for Lin Xin, so they joined forces and drew their swords together. The vertical sword was like a dragon cleaving the mountain, the horizontal sword was like the roaring sea, criss-crossing, weaving the sword into a net, firmly blocking the Yanggu sword in the middle.
Due to the combined efforts of several people, Lin Xin’s knees bent and he gritted his teeth to resist the strength of the five people.
The barbarians laughed proudly and muttered something. One of them suddenly changed his sword moves and came straight towards Lin Xin’s chest.
The tip of the sword turned into a silver light in Lin Xin’s eyes. He turned slightly sideways, and the demon sword Mojian suddenly came out of its sheath and cut the man’s neck with a clang. The barbarian’s head flew out, and before the others could see clearly, the scimitar had already been slashed in front of them.
“Bah—” A pillar of blood spurted out from his neck, soaring three feet high. Wherever the Mojian touched, blood mist spread one after another.
“Dong dong dong” The four corpses fell to the ground. Lin Xin shook off the blood beads on Mojian, inserted the knife in its sheath with a swish sound, and walked over there step by step with an evil spirit all over his body.
“Ah!” Zhong Suifeng screamed over there. Shen Lou actually chopped off one of his legs.
Shen Lou snatched Zhong Suifeng’s spiritual sword to prevent him from running away. Before he could say anything, a strong coercion came over him. It was Zhong Lu who came after hearing the sound. He immediately fought hand to hand against Shen Lou without any pause.
Neither of them had Luli, so they just competed with swords. Zhong Lu’s sword was a killing sword, fast and simple, and could hit the vital point directly; while Shen Lou, when he did not need to use a lot of spiritual power, was unfettered and brought out the world’s best swordsmanship to the extreme.
Only then did Zhong Suifeng realize that there was no Luli in Shen Lou’s sword!
“Don’t move.” A long sword was placed on Zhong Suifeng’s shoulder casually. Lin Xin’s face was still stained with the blood of the barbarians, but he wanted to put on an expression that was easy to discuss, “There is a lot to say. Why don’t you first tell me about why you took my mother’s spiritual weapon?”
Zhong Suifeng tremblingly took out the horn bell, “I just wanted a way out. This thing is a treasure of the barbarians. They can give me a stable life in exchange.”
Lin Xin snatched the bell away. The sound of breaking through the air came behind his ears. Lin Xin returned the sword directly, turned over to avoid it, and the sword body collided with Zhong Lu’s dagger, making a harsh friction sound.
“Pfft!” The tip of Yu Yuan’s sword penetrated Zhong Lu’s shoulder and penetrated him.
Zhong Lu roared, moved his muscles, pushed the sword out, and blocked Zhong Suifeng with his sword.
“Stop!” Zhong Wumo limped over, barely holding on to the dilapidated door frame of Zhou’s house, and when he saw the dead bodies and living people in the yard clearly, he frowned extremely slowly and painfully, “Second Uncle, why?”
“Xiao Mo, these two are going to kill me, come and help!” Zhong Suifeng said with horror.
“Why?” Zhong Wumo just stood at the door and asked persistently.
“Why?”
“You’re still pretending at this time?” Lin Xin sneered and said the unfinished words for Zhong Wumo, “Why did you want to collaborate with the enemy and commit treason? Why did you want to trap and kill Shen Lou? Why did you deliberately harm the two brothers and send them to the palace?”
“That’s nonsense!” Zhong Suifeng paled, “I have tried every means to bring them back over the years, how could I deliberately send them to the palace?”
“Then, who sent them to the palace on purpose? Shen Lou and I were led to the tomb, right?” Lin Xin casually crossed his left foot with his right foot and leaned against Shen Lou.
Zhong Changye had just died. In order to stabilize the situation in the Western Region, the funeral was kept secret. The young Shen Lou was led to the place where the body was hidden by the guards of the Zhong family and was almost chopped into pieces by Zhong Lu. The guard who led the wrong way was not found in the end. At that time, Mogui Mountain’s head was Zhong Suifeng!
Lin Xin had doubted Zhong Suifeng back then, but because he had made no achievements in his previous life, and because he couldn’t figure out why he would do what he did, he put the matter behind him. Now that it was known that Zhong Suifeng colluded with the barbarians, everything had its answer.
If they had followed their original plan and kept the funeral secret and allowed Zhong Youyu to succeed his father, then there would be nothing wrong with Zhong Suifeng. Only by making the matter bigger and letting the endangered Prince Xuan Guo attract everyone and quickly spreading the news to the capital could the emperor take away the brothers and let the “cowardly and incompetent” Zhong Suifeng take power.
Only by fully gaining authority over the Western Region could he deal with the barbarians with confidence and boldness.
“Everything I did was for the Zhong family, and I have a clear conscience.” Zhong Suifeng finally stopped his trembling voice, and his tone was calm, but still not very tough. This person seemed to be born like this. Even if he said something that was very clear, he would still be a little uncertain.
“Colluded with the barbarians for the sake of the Zhong family?” Zhong Wumo supported himself with a wooden stick and dragged his broken leg into the yard. Exchanging Luli for gold and attracting barbarians into the Central Plains did not seem to be good for the Zhong family. Instead, it would make the Zhong family decline day by day.
Shen Lou looked at him, his eyes darkening slightly. That fool Zhong Youyu definitely didn’t know what happened back then, but it was hard to tell Zhong Wumo. People who talked little were more thoughtful.
“The barbarians exchanged two taels of gold for one tael of Luli. What a good business.” Zhong Suifeng tied his injured leg and stood up. “The Zhong family needs this gold. Now we are looking at decline. We are just waiting for Youyu to succeed the position, open the warehouse, and the Western Region can rise again.”
“What happened to the gold mine?” Zhong Wumo was surprised.
The four regions of the world each had their own livelihood. The richest one was the Southern Territory, which owned the Luli mine; the Eastern Territory was adjacent to the East China Sea, and had pearls, crocodiles, and precious stones; although the Northern Territory had no special products, it had strong soldiers and horses. Every place needed to borrow troops from the Northern Territory to quell chaos. For example, this time when Shen Lou sent troops to Dizhou, the Zhong family would have to give him a lot of money.
As for the Western Region, there was a gold mine.
From this came the southern glass, the northern soldier, the eastern pearl, and the western gold.
“The gold mines became empty more than ten years ago.” Zhong Suifeng smiled bitterly. There were no other livelihoods in the Western Region, and the military strength was weak. Without the gold mines, sooner or later they would become nothing more than a snack.
“So, Zhong Changye sent people to intercept and kill my parents because he was poor and crazy?” Lin Xin said sarcastically.
Zhong Suifeng glanced at Lin Xin and remained silent.
“Your parents…” Zhong Wumo was shocked, he didn’t know about this yet.
“Your father firmly believed that my father had found a vein of Luli and sent people to intercept and kill him. He killed my parents and let this mad dog chase me for hundreds of miles.” Lin Xin clicked the tip of his sword to kill.
Although he had escaped disaster because of Zhong Lu’s strange habit of “not killing children”, Lin Xin could not be grateful to him. He killed Zhao Jian, and also caused himself to be trapped in the Zhao family during his childhood where life was worse than death.
Zhong Wumo didn’t believe it at first, as his father would never do such a thing, but when he heard that it was Zhong Lu who did it, he couldn’t argue.
Zhong Lu was a murderer raised by Zhong Changye. When he was young, he was pushed down a steep slope by his stepmother. He was rescued by the old man of the Zhong family and was raised as a mad dog by Zhong Changye. He only listened to Zhong Changye’s words, and he was blindly loyal and would fight wherever he was told.
“Zhong Lu, come here.” After Zhong Changye died, his loyal dog was passed on to the Zhong brothers.
However, Zhong Lu did not move.
“Lu will protect the master.” Zhong Lu stared at Shen Lou and Lin Xin for a moment.
Master?
Everyone was stunned, watching helplessly as Zhong Lu caught the piece of Luli handed over by Zhong Suifeng and embedded it in the spirit sword.
“Your master is Zhong Suifeng?” Lin Xin said hoarsely, suddenly tightening his grip on Shen Lou’s arm.
“Yes, his master is me.” Zhong Suifeng reluctantly stood up and lay on Zhong Lu’s back.
….
On that bloody hillside, it was the young Zhong Suifeng who grabbed the old Duke’s clothes and said, “Dad, let’s save him. He’s so pitiful.”
“He’s disfigured?” His father had the same temperament as Zhong Changye, and the words he said were always extremely unpleasant, “Well, an ugly slave is a good match for a loser like you.”
….
“It was the intention of the great witch to intercept your parents. The Luli mineral vein would return to Zhong house, while he only wanted your mother to return to Beimo. So I helped the barbarians sneak in, capture your parents, and asked Zhong Lu to eradicate the roots. It’s a pity that this idiot couldn’t kill you.” Zhong Suifeng said with regret.
Therefore, those who intercepted and killed Lin Zhenghan and Lan Su were barbarians pretending to be members of the Zhong family; it was Zhong Suifeng’s idea to pursue Lin Xin and seriously injure Zhao Jian. Zhong Changye had never been involved in this matter from beginning to end.
No wonder, no wonder Zhong Changye was so surprised when he faced his question. He killed the wrong person, avenged the wrong person, and extinguished the wrong soul! Zhong Changye, a great hero of a generation, had his soul destroyed by Lin Xin. He could not enter reincarnation and would never be reincarnated. Just like those few waiters in Yanqiu Town, he had become a bloody debt in Lin Xin’s hands!
“Xinxin?” Shen Lou saw that his breath was unstable and turned to check.
While the two were distracted, countless red threads suddenly emerged from the ground.
Shen Lou hugged Lin Xin and jumped up. But he didn’t have Luli, so he could only rely on his own spiritual power to jump ten feet high.
However, there were several red lines in the air that were laid out at an unknown time, which instantly cut Shen Lou’s back to bleed. Lin Xin came to his senses, stepped on Yanggu under his feet, and pulled Shen Lou away quickly. The soul power stored just now was still enough for two people to ride the sword.
However, the red thread seemed to be a living thing. After tasting Shen Lou’s blood, it chased after him and wrapped tightly around his ankle.
At this time, Zhong Lu had already escaped with Zhong Suifeng’s sword on his back.
“Whoops -” A fish pierced the night sky and rushed to Lin Xin. Lin Xin grabbed the small sword and looked through it. The word “Li” was written on the back.
“Master!” Lin Xin was shocked. This was Zhu Xingli’s trick. Something happened to the master!
Before he could finish speaking, there was a “pop” sound, and Zhong Lu, who had just flown up, was kicked down, and Zhong Suifeng rolled twice on the ground with him.
“Hey, what are you two doing in such a hurry? Digging a grave?” Zhu Xingli, who was dressed in crimson gauze, floated down with the Tanhuang biaoji sword that looked like a fire stick.
Lin Xin raised his sword to cut off the red line at the foot of Shen Lou, but Zhu Xingli stopped him immediately: “Don’t move!”
“If you don’t want Shen Shizi to die suddenly, just let me go!” Zhong Suifeng coughed twice and got up, the red line suddenly tightening.
Without saying a word, Zhu Xingli bit his finger, drew a talisman in the air, and flicked it above the red line. The red thread retreated suddenly like a tiny insect scalded by boiling water.
“I know how to do spells,” Zhu Xingli said proudly.
Seeing that the crisis was over, Lin Xin rushed over instantly. Before anyone could react, he hooked Zhong Suifeng’s neck with his knife, “I just want to ask you, did you kill my parents?”
“Yes… hey, it’s not me, it’s those barbarians.” Zhong Suifeng shook his head and turned into the coward who was greedy for life and fearful of death. “Every injustice has its owner and every debt has its owner. You go to the big witch to take revenge! I just have poor qualifications and wanted to fight with him and learn some witchcraft, um…”
Before he could finish his words, Lin Xin cut his throat.
Zhong Lu, who was entangled with Shen Lou, roared and rushed forward regardless. Suddenly Lin Xin turned his palm into a claw and grasped Zhong Suifeng’s Tianling Cap.
“One more step forward and I will crush his soul!”
Zhong Lu stopped in an instant and knelt on the ground with a thud.
Lin Xin held Zhong Suifeng’s head with trembling fingertips for a long time, took a few quick breaths, and slowly let go. A person whose soul was gone could not enter reincarnation. Revenge in this life should not bother you in the next life. In the final analysis, he, Lin Xin, was not Yama and was not qualified to do such a thing.
Zhong Lu caught Zhong Suifeng’s body and checked repeatedly to confirm that he was dead. This fierce man with a scarred face and three white eyes suddenly showed a trace of confusion.
He was beaten by his stepmother and ignored by his tribe. Only a cowardly child cared about his life and death. Regardless of whether he was a waste, whether he had no opinion, whether he was ruthless, or a traitor to his nation, he was the master and the only master of Zhong Lu.
“Ahhhh!” Zhong Lu suddenly burst into flames and rushed towards Lin Xin.
Shen Lou’s intercepted, and Zhong Lu bumped into Yu Yuan’s sword. The spirit sword blew his hair and cut off his hair cut off Zhong Lu’s neck, leaving his head in a different place.
The courtyard suddenly fell into silence. The north wind blew through the wilderness, picking up dust and sand, covering the ground with blood.
A dog could not live alone without its owner.
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