Warning for slight blood and gore.
There were screams, one after another. Wen Chan and Liang Yanbei looked at each other before Wen Chan immediately put down his chopsticks and stood up.
Liang Yanbei grabbed his arm with quick eyes and hands and asked, “What are you doing?”
“Aren’t you hearing what’s going on outside? I’ll go take a look.” Wen Chan couldn’t wait.
Liang Yanbei pointed to the dishes on the table and said, “Don’t you want to eat?”
“I’m full.” He used some strength to break free from Liang Yanbei’s grasp and followed the flow of people towards the entrance.
Wen Chan originally thought that it was a small friction between Jianghu people. After all, most of them were outspoken people, and it was normal for them to quarrel occasionally.
But when he left the restaurant, he realised that things were not that simple.
A large area of bright red blood stained the eyes. It was extremely offensive to the eyes.
There was a large empty space in the middle of the road that no one dared to approach. A man in coarse linen clothes was pressing on a woman and biting her neck. A large amount of blood spurted out and was sprayed on the ground.
The bodies of the man and the woman were soaked with blood. The woman who was screaming loudly a moment ago was getting weaker and weaker. Her limbs were twitching continuously, and she looked at the people in the distance beggingly.
Her mouth was wide open, but she couldn’t cry out for help.
Wen Chan was shocked by the sight before him.
He found that this man was not simply trying to kill her but was sucking the woman’s blood as if he were drinking some delicious nectar. It was not normal human behaviour at all.
Liang Yanbei stood behind him, his eyebrows furrowed, and he whispered, “Sucking human blood?”
The people around were talking a lot. The timid people had fled far away, while the bolder ones were watching from a distance, with horror and shock on their faces.
After a while, the man slowly climbed up from the dead woman while swaying.
Only then did Wen Chan take a clear look at this person’s appearance and see that his body was stained with blood. His eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and nose were completely covered in a ferocious red. His mouth was wide open, and a thick and sticky liquid was dripping down from it.
The man’s body seemed to be very stiff. His four limbs were collapsed straight, and his knees did not bend as he walked. His eyes were wide open. His black eyeballs were smaller than those of normal people, and the whites of his eyes were all reddish. His appearance was very terrifying, and he walked towards the restaurant step by step.
When everyone saw him coming, they fled in panic.
Liang Yanbei easily grabbed hold of his wrist and led him to the road. In a moment, the restaurant was empty, and the man slowly changed direction.
“That is not an ordinary person……” Wen Chan murmured in a low voice, absent-mindedly.
Liang Yanbei caught a glimpse of him looking queer, “What’s wrong with you?”
“Didn’t you see? He was sucking human blood. How can a normal person suck human blood?” Wen Chan was panicking a little, “This means……”
“You want to say.” Liang Yanbei leaned over slightly, raised his eyebrows, and asked, “That, it was a demon?”
“Yes, it’s a demon.” He said it with certainty.
The Shengui Clan occup in Wuyue Island illegally. Whenever anyone had anything to do with demons, Wen Chan first thought about this sect.
The man’s actions were very slow. He was not as fast as a normal person. He did not show the slightest emotion and kept walking forward.
Since seeing the leader of the Shengui Clan with his own eyes in his previous life, Wen Chan knew that there were demons and ghosts in this world.
It’s just that mortals always looked puny and helpless when facing these things.
Just when everyone was panicking, a blue and white figure suddenly emerged from the crowd.
There was a flash of silver light, and before everyone could see clearly, a long sword stabbed in the middle of the man’s heart.
A wisp of flame ignited from the sword wound, and in just the blink of an eye, the man was completely ablaze from head to toe. The burning smell filled the air. The man let out a shrill and hoarse hiss and fell to the ground, struggling.
In just a moment, the man turned into a pile of black ashes.
With a wave of the visitor’s snow white sleeve, the long sword disappeared out of thin air.
The young man was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with red lips and white teeth. He looked quite handsome, and he was frowning in disgust.
He had a white silver jade crown on his head. He was dressed in a long snow-white gown and a blue outer robe. It looked like gauze from a distance and like hemp up close. His belt was four fingers wide, and there was a piece of crystal blue jade inlaid in the middle, which was engraved with some strange leaf vein lines.
The only peculiar thing was that the young man’s long black hair had a hint of dark red, which was slightly conspicuous under the sunlight, giving the young man a demonic aura.
“Junior Brother, you acted without authorization again. Be careful. I will go back and ask the master to punish you.” Then a young girl walked out. Her clothes were nearly similar to those of the boy.
Although the words were filled with complaints, there was no blame in her expression.
“Senior Sister, what’s wrong with me for slaying demons and protecting the Tao? You don’t praise me. But why are you still threatening me?” When the young man saw the girl, his eyebrows suddenly loosened. He then showed a smile and walked to the girl’s side.
When everyone saw the two people’s clothing and heard their titles, they understood that they were members of a sect. So they began to speculate and discuss.
“Have you ever seen this kind of clothing? Which sect is it from?”
“It is somewhat similar to that of the Songhua sect.”
“Songhua Sect is just a sect that cultivates Qi, and it can only be regarded as a little bit related to cultivation. But didn’t you see that the young man was using the immortal technique just now? It is obviously much more powerful than those of the Songhua Sect.”
“Could it be that he is from an immortal cultivating sect?”
This statement was approved by many people, and some experienced people even began to guess which Immortal Cultivating Sect the two people came from.
There were cultivators of immortality in this world, but not in Xi Liang.
In Xi Liang, Taoist temples have always been built instead of temples for gods. But if the government discovers that there are temples dedicated to Taoism, they will definitely be reformed.
Therefore, there were no sects of immortal cultivation in Xi Liang, and those who practiced immortal arts in the presumptuous hope of one day attaining enlightenment and ascending were all arrogant.
If you don’t welcome us, we don’t want to go!
As a result, very few disciples of the Immortal Cultivation Sects appeared in Xi Liang.
Now, when two people suddenly appeared, it made everyone feel strange, and they marvelled at them.
“Little Immortals, where are you both from?” Someone asked boldly.
Those two were different from what the crowd thought. They were not at all standoffish.
The teenager replied with a smile, “We are from heaven.”
“You’re talking nonsense again.” The girl scolded him with a smile and said to the questioner, “We are coming from Shenwu Summit. And we are just passing through here. So please don’t arrest us and send us to the government.”
The girl’s playful chitchatting drew laughter from the crowd, and the fearful atmosphere of the party was dispelled. They all opened their mouths to invite the two to their own homes to drink tea and dine.
Only Wen Chan looked at the two with a vague uneasiness in his heart.
Just as the two were busy refusing, suddenly, from mid-air, came a burst of laughter that was sweet and charming to the ears.
Liang Yanbei, who was on his side, asked softly, “Huh?”
Wen Chan looked up and saw a woman in a pink dress standing on the roof of the restaurant. The outer veil she was wearing was lifted by the wind, revealing some skin on her tender white shoulders, which attracted people to salivate endlessly.
The woman was the one who stood in the middle while dancing on the second floor of the restaurant earlier. Her face was still covered with a lavender veil.
Under her slender indigo eyebrows, there was a little vermilion at the end of her slightly curved eyes.
No one saw her when she climbed up there. The wine jar in her arms was gone, and her thin white fingers lightly pinched the veil. She covered her mouth and laughed.
The moment the young man saw her, he frowned again.
But his Senior Sister didn’t react at all. She was just a little dissatisfied with the woman’s contemptuous laugh and asked loudly, “I wonder what this girl is laughing at?”
“I am laughing at you people from the Shenwu Summit who act recklessly.” She spoke softly, with her trailing voice drawn out.
“You’re also too arrogant and cocky in your speech! Where did you come from?” Someone asked her from below.
For Jianghu people, when you meet and greet them, they will first ask you where you are from and which sect you are from. If you are not famous, you two would battle it out. And if you are famous or they can’t afford to offend you, then you would discuss the pros and cons.
The woman winked and said directly to the young man, ignoring the questioner, “If you disturb my peace today, I will first take off the head of this little girl as a warning and then leave you with your life. Go back and inform those people of your sect, and leave Wuyue Island as soon as possible.”
“Otherwise, I will make sure you all won’t return.”
“How unreasonable!” The girl subconsciously covered her neck.
It was obviously her Junior Brother who made the move. So why did she want to take her life for no reason?
The young man snorted, completely disregarding the woman’s threat, “A lunatic’s ravings?”
His eyes narrowed slightly, “A mountain chicken that has become a spirit dared to make trouble in broad daylight?”
The crowd clamoured at these words.
“So this is really a demonic spirit?”
“Can a pheasant also be cultivated into a spirit?”
“It looks no different from us……”
Wen Chan was also a bit surprised, “How many years did this chicken had to cultivate before it was able to cultivate to this appearance?”
A light laugh came from beside his ear, and Liang Yanbei said, lowering his voice, “It’s not a chicken. It’s another bird. That young man was humiliating her by deliberately saying that.”
Wen Chan looked at him in shock, “How do you know?”
“This woman has a two-coloured crown and feathers on her head. Her original body should be that of a Phoenix.” He replied.
“How can you see it?” Wen Chan looked at the woman again. It was clearly the appearance of a normal girl. Where did the two-coloured crown and feathers come from?
His eyes widened in surprise, and he waited for Liang Yanbei to give an explanation.
Liang Yanbei also felt puzzled after hearing this, “You can’t see it?”
Normal people can’t see it, right?
Wen Chan looked queer, “There’s something wrong with your eyes……”
Liang Yanbei once again looked towards the woman. But he could still clearly see the woman’s head topped with two-coloured crown and feathers. He smacked his lips and said, “…… Maybe.”
While the two of them were saying a few words, the young man said something else, which completely angered the woman. She frowned and glared at the young man fiercely. The tone of her voice changed, “You are looking for death!”
She transformed her palm into a claw and bent down to charge downward. Her speed was extremely fast.
The young man reacted swiftly. He pushed his Senior Sister with one hand and lifted the other hand upward. The silver longsword reappeared and was held in his hand.
He turned his hand to put the long sword in front of him, just in time to block the flying claws.
Her fingernails collided with the blade of the sword, emitting an ear-splitting sound, and a layer of air suddenly swayed away from the two of them, rushing out into the surrounding area.
Everyone who gathered around to watch the excitement was hit so heavily by this powerful air current that they flew back and fell to the ground. Even the young man’s Senior Sister fell back a few feet. Her boots slid out of the ground and left two marks on the ground.
But something strange happened soon after.
When that layer of airflow touched Wen Chan and Liang Yanbei, another airflow that emanated from somewhere collided with it and actually rebounded the airflow back.
The two people who were confronting each other were caught off guard by the attack of this force. They were both shaken and retreated back a few steps continuously.
Among the wailing and screaming of people in pain, only two people stood still with confused faces.
After stabilising their footsteps, the young man and the demoness raised their heads at the same time and looked towards Liang Yanbei and Wen Chan in shock. Or, to be exact, towards Liang Yanbei.
The demoness’ face twisted for a split second before she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the veil and spreading a strange smell in the air.
Her eyes stared at Liang Yanbei in a very strange manner.
This caused Wen Chan to look at him in confusion.
Liang Yanbei himself was puzzled and asked Wen Chan, “What are you all looking at me for?”
The demoness was probably injured and didn’t want to fight anymore. With a wave of her long sleeves, her whole body turned into mist and disappeared from the place.
And the young man had no intention of chasing after her either. He put away his long sword and walked up to Liang Yanbei. He cupped his hands in greeting and saluted, “I wonder which sect brother is studying under?”
“No teacher, no sect.” Liang Yanbei answered truthfully, “I am a person from Xi Liang.”
The young man was full of doubts, “This is strange……”
“Junior Brother, what’s wrong?” The girl didn’t understand what happened but just said, “Let’s go back quickly and report the matter to the Master. Let him make a decision.”
The young man nodded and gave Liang Yanbei another salute, looking actually very respectful, “I am Lu Shaoqing. I am studying at Shenwu Summit. I hope to meet you again next time when I have the chance.”
Liang Yanbei returned the salute in confusion and reported his name, “Liang Yanbei.”
Lu Shaoqing? This name was somewhat familiar.
Wen Chan thought silently.
After saying goodbye, the young man took his Senior Sister and left, leaving behind a group of people who were wailing and screaming.
Fortunately, no one was really injured. They just fell. After shouting for a while, they got up. When they saw that the two of them were missing, they all looked around and called out for them. Very few people noticed Liang Yanbei and Wen Chan.
The two of them left the street and went to the open space to get their horses. Liang Yanbei noticed that Wen Chan had been looking at him throughout and finally couldn’t help but cover Wen Chan’s eyes with his palms and push him slightly, “Don’t always look at me with weird eyes.”
Wen Chan opened his eyes slightly in shock. He was so courageous that he even dared to push him.
It was no exaggeration to say that he suspected that the person standing next to him was a fake Liang Yanbei.
“What are you doing standing still?” Liang Yanbei led the horse over and handed the reins to his hand, “Let’s go.”
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