The ticking sound kept beating on the ground and the roof of the small courtyard.
It also touched everyone's heart.
They looked at Zhang Xingzong's fallen body in disbelief. He died in front of them.
There was no warning.
But the culprit of all this was wiping the blood on his sword with a calm expression, his slightly frowning brows seeming to dislike the smelly blood that had stained his sword.
"Asshole!" Meng Ziliang roared angrily. Even though he was always gentle, he couldn't control the anger in his heart at this moment and wanted to step forward.
As soon as he took a step forward, Chu Qingxiao's hand stretched out and held him.
Meng Ziliang looked back at Chu Qingxiao in confusion when he saw this, only to see Chu Qingxiao shaking his head towards him at that time.
Gu Yuanhuai raised his eyebrows and looked at the two of them, with a smile on his lips: "Mr. Meng, you must learn from this Mr. Chu. You will know that he has a long memory when you see him suffer losses."
"You!" Meng Ziliang's eyes turned red, but he finally understood that this was not something he could change. After an abrupt roar, he slowly lowered his clenched fists and stood slumped.
In place.
Gu Yuanhuai was very satisfied with everyone's performance. He sheathed his sword, took one last look at everyone, turned around, and left at this moment.
The rain is still falling.
The people standing in the rain lowered their heads and allowed the heavy rain to wash away their bodies.
Everything that happened in just half an hour was extremely impactful to them.
It almost shakes these young girls' understanding of the world.
"I said, help them clean up."
After all, it was Chu Qingxiao who broke the silence. He said softly and looked at the children around him, as well as the bodies of Sanniang and Zhang Xingzong.
After hearing this, everyone looked at the corpses around them, and after a period of silence, they finally nodded.
…
Chu Zhaozhao carried Sanniang's body to the back room where wind and rain could not penetrate. She looked at the woman's face that looked like she was sleeping, thinking about the first time the two met.
In the afternoon forest at Gosying Village, they lay on the grass and took a nap.
She told her a lot about her past.
The grievance of being framed by an adulterer at home, the determination to cut one's cheek, and the despair when there was no hope of redress.
She has obviously gone through so much, but she still doesn't see the suffering in the world and always wants to do something for others.
Such a person should not die like this.
She feels it's unfair.
Feel aggrieved.
His eyes suddenly turned red.
Ziyu came over at this moment. She held a child's body, placed it beside Sanniang, and immediately looked at Chu Zhaozhao.
She thought that she should comfort Chu Zhaozhao, but the thought just came up, but she couldn't think of a suitable word to put her thoughts into practice for a long time - she was not very good at this after all.
She could only stand by her side silently and accompany her in her own way.
Chu Zhaozhao swallowed a few more times, and finally suppressed the cry that was swirling in his throat. He raised his head and looked around. Everyone had moved the corpses here. Next, they only needed to notify people to come over and bury them alive...
…
Chu Zhaozhao thought like this, but suddenly frowned, his eyes swept across the crowd again and then asked: "Where is Qingxiao?"
Most of the people who were still in an atmosphere of grief and anger were stunned when they heard this. They also looked up and carefully searched around the courtyard, all hoping to find traces of Chu Qingxiao.
"It's strange, I saw him here just now..." someone muttered.
…
Gu Yuanhuai was in a good mood.
Originally, he was a little dissatisfied with the assignment from Ningzhou to Cangzhou.
He had been following the Ningzhou case for half a year. Although the false god was very good at disguising, he still caught some mistakes. Seeing that the matter was about to come to fruition, a piece of paper from above changed his hard work.
The results of half a year were handed over to others.
You must know that catching a false god or an extraterrestrial demon is not an easy task. After all, most of these guys have weird methods.
But they didn't expect that this trip to Wancheng was surprisingly smooth. The demon was extremely weak when he was born. What surprised them the most was that the host of the demon was more like a passive reincarnation, always retaining a trace of consciousness and trying to fight against the body.
The devil.
The best evidence of this is the children who survived the first birth.
If the demon is born under normal circumstances, it will probably kill all its blood relatives immediately to complete its first growth, and then fulfill the host's long-cherished wish to complete the entire ceremony.
But this demon apparently suffered fierce resistance from its original host when it was slaughtering those children, so it allowed them to survive.
It was precisely from this inference that Gu Yuanhuai captured the demon for the first time and released it, forcing him to complete the first step of the birth ceremony.
What he didn't expect was that even after reaching this point, the original host still showed strong resistance to the slaughter of those children, especially his biological sister, and was even persuaded by the woman at one point.
This forced Gu Yuanhuai to help him.
Although this result cannot make the demon's reincarnation complete enough, compared to the time it took less than half a month to obtain an almost complete star-level divine marrow, the result is still gratifying enough.
.
Whether they keep this thing for themselves to refine slowly, or hand it over to Supervisor Tiansi, Gu Yuanhuai and Xia Jingru can get enough benefits to keep them under their guidance for several years.
With this thought in mind, the two of them walked briskly and unknowingly walked several miles out of Wancheng.
For them, staying in that small town filled with the smell of horse manure was torture every moment, so there was no need to keep the information now.
The rain is still falling, and there is deep water on the official road.
"In this ruined land, even the rain is so annoying." Xia Jingru muttered.
Gu Yuanhuai heard the words and said in a deep voice: "With this divine essence, Jing Ru, you have a chance to break through the six realms within five years. The spiritual power is as strong as the river and the sea, and it can be used to protect the sun and rain. Isn't it something that can be easily obtained?"
"Six realms..." After hearing this, Xia Jingru's eyes filled with fire.
The further they go on the path of cultivation, the more difficult it becomes. Both of them are in their thirties. They have been wandering in the five realms for a long time, and their breakthrough is far away. However, for them, this divine marrow is like a panacea. As long as they can practice well,
Transformation, the six realms are indeed just around the corner.
"Speaking of which, Mr. Gu has to have some clever calculations. Otherwise, this trip would not have been so easy." Xia Jingru said at this time, her tone was a little softer, and there was a faint flow of autumn water between Gu Yuanhuai's brows.
When Gu Yuanhuai saw this, his heart felt hot. Of course, he had some thoughts and was about to say something.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
But at this moment, a sound similar to the sound of rain falling from the sky, but slightly different, came from not far away.
The difference was extremely subtle, and with the heavy rain all over the sky, if Gu Yuanhuai hadn't reached the fifth level of cultivation, he really wouldn't have been able to hear it clearly.
He was startled and turned to look at the place where the sound came from. He saw outside the dense rain curtain, a broken sword was spinning, cutting open a stream of rain particles and shooting towards him.
He frowned, stretched out a hand at this moment, spiritual power surged in his arm, and he held it in the air. At this moment, the broken sword that was coming was firmly held in his hand.
Zheng!
The blade of the broken sword trembled slightly, as if unwilling to be held by Gu Yuanhuai, but the trembling soon stopped.
A smile appeared on the corner of Gu Yuanhuai's mouth: "It's a small trick."
He said this, but as soon as he finished speaking, a long black sword passed through the rain curtain and struck at his face at an alarming speed.
The smile on Gu Yuanhuai's face faded, and he shouted: "Seeking death!"
The spiritual power all over his body exploded, and the surrounding rain curtain was also shaken by the spiritual power. The rain particles exploded one after another and turned into a ball of water mist.
The force wrapped in the water mist made the owner of the black sword tremble, and the attack slowed down significantly.
Gu Yuanhuai threw out the broken sword in his hand, passed through the rain curtain with his hand, and firmly held the incoming sword again with his physical body.
The owner of the long sword obviously did not expect Gu Yuanhuai's reaction to be so quick. He used his arm to pull out the long sword, but the sword was tightly held by Gu Yuanhuai. No matter how hard he tried, he could not pull it out.
Half a minute.
"I just praised Master Chu as a man who knows current affairs, but I didn't expect that I looked down upon you." Gu Yuanhuai stared at the visitor and said in a cold voice.
Chu Qingxiao's face was ugly. He looked at the man in front of him angrily and cursed through gritted teeth: "Don't make such nonsense! A villain like you who kills innocent people indiscriminately is no different from a pig or a dog!"
"I, Chu Qingxiao, am an upright person. What does it have to do with me whether someone like you looks up to me or looks down upon me!?"
"What an upright person!" Chu Qingxiao's words undoubtedly angered Gu Yuanhuai. He snorted coldly and slapped his other hand towards Chu Qingxiao's abdomen with huge force.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao's body retreated several feet. Finally, he inserted the long sword into the ground and created a gap several feet long in the ground. Only then was he able to stop his violent retreat.
But despite this, his face had turned extremely pale, and a mouthful of blood spurted out from his mouth.
"Chu Qingxiao, because of your status as a disciple of Tianxuan Mountain, I have let you go once. Don't think that with Tianxuan Mountain's support, you can really be unscrupulous!"
"This is the last chance I give you. If you persist, I will kill you!"
When Gu Yuanhuai said this, a cold light surged in his eyes.
But Chu Qingxiao didn't say anything after hearing this. He just pressed the hilt of his sword with his hand and stood up straight with some difficulty.
"Well, I feel Lord Gu's magnanimity." He said very seriously at this time, but the corners of his mouth suddenly opened up, revealing a bright smile.
"So, as a return gift..."
"When I kill you two later, I promise to do my best to make your death as happy as possible!"
As he said this, he slowly raised his other hand, and a golden object the size of a grain of rice was held in his palm.
"Huh?" Gu Yuanhuai and Xia Jingru's expressions changed when they saw this clearly. Gu Yuanhuai immediately looked at his chest and saw that the clothes there had torn apart at some point.
His heart trembled, and he immediately realized that Chu Qingxiao's feint attack just now was not to really hurt him, but to take this opportunity to take away the divine essence in his arms.
It was this thing that he had tried his best to achieve. Now that it was taken away by Chu Qingxiao, he could no longer maintain the calmness on the surface.
His eyes were bloodshot, and veins popped out on his face. At that time, he looked at Chu Qingxiao, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Chu Qingxiao! Do you know that you are looking for death?"
Chu Qingxiao didn't care at all about the threat in his words, he just raised the marrow high and shook it towards Gu Yuanhuai provocatively.
"want to?"
"Then just take it based on your ability."
After he said this, he smiled slightly.
He put the hand holding the marrow to his mouth, and with a gurgling sound, he swallowed the marrow into his belly.