Along the way, the official roads in Lingzhou were relatively peaceful, even if there were some thieves... But when they saw Chu Qiguang and his group wearing bright clothes and angry horses, not afraid of the severe cold, they immediately stayed away and did not provoke them.
When leaving Lingzhou and heading to Shuzhou via Yongzhou, the farther west they went, the more desolate and dilapidated the group felt.
At this moment, a cry suddenly came from the front, and then stopped suddenly, and Chu Qiguang and his party sped away on horseback.
Then I saw a carriage parked beside the official road, and more than twenty bandits with swords were looking through the corpses and searching for property.
Hearing the sound of horse hoofbeats again, they looked in the direction of Chu Qiguang and his group of five people.
When the leading bandit saw this scene, he said hello and immediately led five riders to surround him, while the other bandits behind him ran to keep up.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, Hao Xiangtong said angrily: "Bandits?"
Chu Qiguang glanced at the group of bandits and said calmly: "They are too weak...Chen Gang and Hao Xiangtong, let me practice with you."
Worried about hurting their horses, the two simply dismounted and faced the bandits. Chu Qiguang, Zhang Jitian, and Zhang Haizhu were on the side to capture the formation for them.
Shouts rang out repeatedly, and red blood spread on the white snow.
After Chen Gang and Hao Xiangtong killed the fifth bandit, the remaining bandits fled in all directions, shouting.
Chu Qiguang waved his hand, and Zhang Jitian sighed helplessly... Then he rushed over like a bolt of lightning, and layers of white snow exploded wherever he passed. One after another, the bandits had their hearts broken and fell to the ground.
Zhang Haizhu looked at him and thought to himself: 'Zhang Jitian is obviously a warrior in the fifth realm, but why does he listen to Brother Chu so much? I always feel that... the relationship between the two of them is a bit strange.'
Next, they met two more waves of bandits along the way. One wave retreated far away when they saw them, while the other wave rushed up and were strangled again by Chu Qiguang and his party.
Hao Xiangtong looked at the body lying on the ground and sighed: "Yongzhou...is it such a mess?"
Zhang Haizhu used to be from Yongzhou. At this moment, he was riding on his horse, looking at the vast tracts of uncultivated wasteland, his face sinking like water.
I only heard him say coldly: "Yongzhou has experienced several years of severe drought and the military rebellion of the Baiyun Sect. However, the local governments only exploited the people, forcing them to abandon their fields and flee and become refugees. Some of the refugees gradually became
bandit."
Hao Xiangtong on the side asked curiously: "Does the court just not care?"
Zhang Haizhu said: "They officials protect each other, and the honest officials sent by the court will become corrupt officials in a few years."
Zhang Jitian, who was born into a wealthy family, said: "Corrupt officials are only one aspect. The biggest problem in Yongzhou is the clan. It has the most vassals among the fifteen states of the Han Dynasty."
Chu Qiguang took out the map, looked at it and said, "Let's go quickly. We have to get to the next station this evening."
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Late at night.
It was pitch dark inside Zeshan Inn, with only a flickering lantern hanging in front of the door, emitting a hazy yellow light to the surroundings.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves sounded from the darkness.
A dark shadow gently opened the door panel, and under the dim moonlight, a group of five riders stood quietly outside the gate of the inn.
A strong smell of blood immediately after a fight also hit his face.
Zhang Jitian's voice then sounded: "Is this Zeshan Station? We are from the Zhenmo Division on a business trip south, and we are here to stay. Why don't you hurry up and prepare dinner, hot water, fodder..."
The black shadow slowly walked out, hunched over and said: "I am the postmaster of Zeshan Station, please invite the five gentlemen..."
Looking at the old man's appearance, Zhang Haizhu suddenly frowned and said softly: "This man seems to have been walking on tiptoe, and the room was dark. Why didn't he make any sound when he touched something?"
Chu Qiguang on the side smiled coldly: "Haizhu, you, Chen Gang, Hao Xiangtong, stay here, Zhang Jitian and I will go in."
Zhang Jitian was stunned: "Ah? Me...me?"
Chu Qiguang said: "If you don't practice hard, how can you pass the martial arts exam?"
Zhang Haizhu said: "Will it alert the enemy?"
Chu Qiguang said lightly: "It's just a nest of ants, does it deserve to be called a snake?"
After saying that, he kicked Zhang Jitian on the back, and kicked the resentful Zhang Jitian into the door of the inn.
In an instant, all kinds of squealing sounds began to sound. The originally dark and silent inn seemed to have returned to daytime, and in the blink of an eye, it was full of people.
A soft bang!
Zhang Jitian had already screamed: "So many monsters!"
Chu Qiguang also walked into the dark inn gate at this time, and then sealed the door panel behind him.
As he walked forward step by step, the sound of Zhang Jitian's fighting seemed to float farther and farther away.
At the same time, an oil lamp suddenly exploded, lighting up a pale yellow light.
A graceful young woman walked out slowly and said with a sweet smile: "Hey, hey, your friend is great, but he has been led away."
A man with a monkey face wearing a police officer's uniform smiled and said: "Today I will teach you a lesson from the world of martial arts. It is best not to be distracted when you are in trouble."
Another cook holding a pig's mouth ran out with a kitchen knife and shouted: "That's a prick over there, kill this one quickly and then go help."
Several monsters also surrounded him, all looking at Chu Qiguang with evil intentions.
Chu Qiguang touched Qiao Zhi in his arms. Qiao Zhi opened his eyelids and glanced at the group of monsters, then yawned and closed his eyes.
Chu Qiguang grinned, and his whole body slowly turned into darkness from head to toe.
Boom! Under the shocked gaze of the graceful young woman, the monkey-faced man was directly grabbed and torn into two halves.
Then the pig-faced chef slashed out with his knife, making a sound of metal and iron on the opponent's head. Then his head was suddenly grabbed and crushed to pieces.
The young woman fell to the ground with a thud. She looked at Chu Qiguang and trembled and said, "Master... please forgive me, hero."
But the next moment her vision went dark, and all her sight was blocked by a big hand as if it was covering the sky.
The young woman's teeth chattered and she said: "Let... let us go. We will be slaves and servants, and we will work as cows and horses to repay you."
Chu Qiguang glanced at the monsters in front of him and shook his head: "You are worthless."
With a pop, a snake corpse slowly slipped from his palm.
When Zhang Haizhu and Hao Xiangtong walked in, they saw blood and monster corpses all over the ground.
Chu Qiguang said calmly: "Go to bed early, we have to travel tomorrow."
"By the way, these are monsters and cannot be eaten."
Although the rest of the journey was not peaceful, they either met monsters or bandits, and there were even cultists from Huangtian Dao who tried to recruit them into the gang, but they were all killed by Chu Qiguang and others.
After traveling like this for half a month, the group finally entered Shuzhou and arrived at the boundary of Rongjin Mansion.
But before entering Fucheng, Chu Qiguang patted Zhang Haizhu on the shoulder and said: "You go first, I will go there in a day, and... don't say you know me."
Zhang Haizhu asked in confusion: "Why?"
Chu Qiguang said: "You are from the Hunter School, but I am from the Demon Assassin School after all. The Demon Suppressor here may not be so friendly to me."
Chu Qiguang's guess was good. The next day after he arrived at the Shuzhou Town Mosi Yamen, he sat there from morning to night, being dragged off again and again, and stayed there all day long.