Chapter 9: Slaughter and Escape

  The sky had gradually brightened, and the crowd set off again. However, after last night's raid, there were only more than 50 people left in the team, and the air was filled with a bloody and murderous atmosphere.

  Daytime, all the way uneventful, as if it were the last tranquility, eerie and abnormal.

  At night, the wing room of the inn.

  The dim candlelight illuminated the entire room. Wang Chen stood quietly at the bedside with his head bowed, while two elderly men sat at a table leisurely sipping tea.

  A moment later, the elder sitting cross-legged on the bed exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and placed his hands flat. Apparently, he had finished his meditation. Although Wang Fan didn't look at the elder, he could feel that the eyes of all three elders were fixed on him.

  "King Chen is right!"

  "The elder's voice made Wang Chen involuntarily feel a wave of fear, normally if an elder remembered his name it was probably good news, but now......, Wang Chen stood with fists clenched and head slightly raised to see the three people."

  "Wang Chen, you did quite well on this trip, killing many enemies. Not bad, not bad," the elder sitting on the bed praised, Wang Chen was slightly stunned and didn't know what to say, so he just stood there silently.

  The elder sitting on the bed was obviously of a higher status, and seeing Wang Chen not responding, he thought to himself that he didn't know his manners, and slightly disliked him. However, after pausing for a moment, he continued: "We've heard about what happened between you and Elder Li, we'll remind him when we get back, and no one will bother you or your friends again."

  Wang Chen was overjoyed upon hearing this, Zhang Tie no longer had any worries, and he could also go in search of his destiny with a clear conscience. However, after some thought, he bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying: "Thank you, elder! I don't know what task the elder has in mind, but I am willing to take on any mission, even if it means certain death!"

  Three people looked at Wang Chen's performance and smiled knowingly at each other.

  ……

  After a while, Wang Chen left the elder's room, but this time he had a package on his back.

  In the elder's room.

  "Boss, is it safe to give this kid the tenth box?"

  "Haha, this kid is not simple! I saw his swordsmanship a few days ago, tsk tsk, it's really not simple"

  "Although it's just a basic sword move, if done poorly, it'll be another masterful performance. This time, let's build a good relationship with him, so we can complete the task and also help each other out in the future."

  Wang Chen returned to his own room, took a brief look at the box in the package, and fell asleep.

  The next morning, the remaining forty or so people rode their horses away. Another day passed without incident, and the atmosphere in the group was much better. Those who had survived the battle were all quite skilled, and they naturally bragged a bit among themselves, saying that maybe one day they would be the leaders of the gang, and it wouldn't hurt to build relationships ahead of time.

  However, Wang Chen is an exception. It's not that Wang Chen thinks he's superior. He just considers himself half a cultivator and is destined to struggle in the mundane world, having no intersection with them. There's no need to maintain a good relationship. Moreover, these people are all smiling and welcoming for possible future benefits, so naturally they can stab him in the back for real benefits later on, making it even more unnecessary to get along.

  At night, a dense forest, quiet and peaceful, as if people were sleeping. The moonlight was also shining down, falling on the tents of Wang Chen's troops by the roadside.

  This is the last night, tomorrow afternoon can arrive at the destination, Yangzhou City.

  The person on duty rubbed his eyes, although he was very careful, but after all, he was too tired. The killing of the past few days was about to end, and the string in his heart was no longer so tight.

  Wang Chen stayed in the tent but didn't sleep, quietly waiting!

  We were ambushed several times along the way. Tomorrow we will arrive at Yangzhou City. If there are any more unexpected events, it can only happen tonight.

  It finally happened in the second half of the night.

  "Jiao Gang, are you really going to disregard the code of the Jianghu?"

  "Joke, Jianghu code of honor, hahaha, Sun Bu'er, you're really old now!"

  "Good kid, today you'll meet a junior disciple of the Giant Whale Gang!"

  When the old Sun and the Giant Python Gang started fighting, the horses and men of both sides were mixed together in a melee. However, this time was different from the previous two times. In the previous two times, although the opponent had an advantage in numbers, their strength was much weaker than that of the Dragon and Tiger Gang's disciples. Today, however, the Giant Python Gang's disciples had arrived.

  The Giant Python Gang is one of the two major gangs in Yangzhou City, and Yangzhou is more prosperous than Cangzhou. Its strength is not something that Cangzhou can compare to.

  The battle had just begun, and Wang Chen discovered the cat's trick. The Giant Python Sect was obviously using them as a touchstone to train their disciples! So, unintentionally, Wang Chen's body slowly retreated towards the dense forest.

  As expected, in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the three elders flashed and retreated. Among top-notch experts, unless there is a significant difference in strength, it's easy to injure each other but hard to kill each other. The three elders had deliberately retreated, so nothing happened. However, this was unfortunate for the remaining forty gang members.

  Fortunately, in order to hone their skills, the Giant Python Gang only let their members chase and kill, while Shadow Kill finished them off!

  The middle-aged man opposite did not show any weakness. With a loud order, several hundred people rushed out of the forest and killed them with great momentum.

  Wang Chen saw that the dozens of people who escaped did not go in the same direction, and there were people fleeing in all directions. First, those who fled on the official road were miserable, directly being chased by horseback and cut in half.

  Most of the helpers ran towards the mountain range like Wang Chen, and the mountain range stretched for tens of miles. As long as they were careful to hide, it was very difficult to find them.

  Wang Chen had just taken a few steps into the woods when five or six men surrounded him, their knives and swords at the ready, exuding an aura of murder.

  "No more time, can't back down, otherwise..."

  "Heavy sword without edge, kill, kill, kill"

  At the critical moment, Wang Chen didn't care about anything else, using all his strength, a simple and extreme horizontal sweep of the Thousand Army. The giant sword carried a heavy killing intent and swept away, resulting in several people's disdain, several knives and swords breaking off in unison, followed by a burst of bone-shattering sounds amidst their astonishment.

  Several thousand kilograms of strength is something that a second-rate or third-rate master can withstand!

  After killing the person, Wang Chen didn't care about anything else and turned around to leave. However, doing so was clearly the right thing to do, as the people behind him looked at Wang Chen's figure, hesitated for a moment, stripped the corpse of its valuables before chasing after Wang Chen, but by then Wang Chen was long gone.

  The sounds of fighting around gradually weakened, and after a while, there was no sound around. However, Wang Chen did not stop, still rushing into the dense forest with his head down.

  After walking for about an hour or so, Wang Chen really couldn't hold on anymore. He estimated that the distance was far enough and sat down on a rock to rest. Having not slept all night and having gone through consecutive battles, Wang Chen was indeed very tired.

  The sky gradually showed a tendency to brighten up, Wang Chen closed his eyes and rested for a while.

  Whoosh!

  Just as Wang Chen had just closed his eyes, a black figure, a black dagger, like a poisonous snake finally revealed its hidden fangs!

  Precise timing, a ghostly figure, one hit kill, almost the king of assassins.

  In the instant he closed his eyes, a sense of crisis surged towards Wang Chen. In that moment, the breath of death seemed to be within sniffing distance.

  "Peril, extreme peril"

  Wang Chen felt that in an instant, the sword in his hand had already been raised.

  For an instant it seemed like ten thousand years, and Wang Chen actually had this kind of illusion!

  The black dagger was getting closer and closer, but Wang Chen's giant sword was still a little short, just a little bit, as if the dagger would cut through Wang Chen's throat one step ahead.

  Faster, faster, even faster.

  In the midst of danger, the giant sword in hand seemed to have really become one's own arm, its speed suddenly increasing several times.

  "Ding!"

  A crisp sound came, the dagger pointed at the giant sword, and sparks flew. The assassin's dagger was blocked, and for an instant, it paused, as if unexpectedly. Next, his body fluttered, entwining around Wang Chen like a ghost, and the dagger in his hand kept revealing its fierce fangs!

  Wang Chen seemed to have fallen into a state of stupidity, his eyes dull and expressionless, with a bewildered look on his face.

  "Ding, ding, ding, ding"

  A string of continuous sounds drove the killer into madness.

  "What's going on? How is it possible that every time you just happen to block my dagger?"

  "It won't work. Master said that a second-rate master will definitely die with one blow from me, and not many top masters can escape my first strike!"

  "Could it be that I made a mistake? Impossible, won't happen... He must die, he must die..."