This old man was, of course, the Gu family’s only gatekeeper, Old Yang!
On ordinary days, he and Liu Yexi took turns managing the teahouse.
Not long after Old Yang had settled Wu Feng in, several black-clad men with swords at their waists appeared out of thin air above Langzhou City!
The leader did not look very old. At that moment, he looked around at Langzhou City below, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.
“Search. Wu Feng is hiding in this city!”
“Uncle Fox tore open his dantian, and it still hasn’t healed… Follow the blood trail and find him before dawn!”
“He has an Image-Recording Stone on him. This concerns the sect’s life and death. Even if you can’t kill him, you must get that stone!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the black-clad death warriors behind him scattered and flew off, beginning a carpet search.
Meanwhile,
Old Yang jogged all the way back to the Gu Residence and went straight to Gu Lan’s study.
“Young Master! Young Master, something has happened!”
“What is it? Why are you panicking?” Gu Lan was reading. He looked up at him.
Coincidentally, the Empress was there too.
Because of the secret memorial just now, she had sent Liu Yexi back to the capital to keep watch at all times. At this moment, she was peeling a few mandarins and feeding Gu Lan by hand.
“Old Yang, don’t rush. Sit down and speak slowly.”
Mu Yuyan had quite the bearing of a mistress of the household.
“Thank you, Madam.”
Old Yang plopped down, panted a few times, and said, “Just now, I was about to come back to sleep when the door of our teahouse was suddenly knocked on…”
He recounted Wu Feng’s matter from beginning to end.
“A martial cultivator covered in blood? And carrying a saber?”
Gu Lan frowned slightly when he heard this. Wasn’t this the classic chase-and-hunted plot from novels?
But he probably wasn’t the protagonist… Calculating the schedule, the protagonist was still quietly building up strength in a little fishing village near the East Sea right now.
After hearing this, Mu Yuyan moved a little closer to Gu Lan, looking somewhat nervous, and asked softly, “Did you ask that person’s name?”
“Madam, how would I dare ask?” Old Yang smiled bitterly and said with lingering fear, “If I had dragged things out a little longer back then, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be here to see Young Master and Madam now!”
“That person… was he handsome?”
Gu Lan suddenly asked an absurd question.
Old Yang froze. “No, not handsome. Completely ordinary!”
“Oh, then that’s good!”
Gu Lan nodded. After further confirming that this guy probably wasn’t one of those cheat-wielding monsters, he gradually relaxed.
After all, even when the System chose a master, it had to pick someone devastatingly handsome. Even supporting characters were no exception.
“I’ll go with you tomorrow. I’ll just watch from the side. Carry on as usual… If anyone else comes to attack or kill him, we’ll just run.”
Gu Lan was also curious about who had come this time.
But as long as it wasn’t the protagonist, with his Saint Realm cultivation that had returned to simplicity and truth, going to the side to watch the commotion was no problem.
“Wife, wait for me at home tomorrow and don’t go out.”
For safety’s sake, Gu Lan patted Mu Yuyan’s small hand and warned her.
After all, who knew whether those two groups would chase and kill each other all the way through and affect other parts of Langzhou City?
If his wife really got dragged into this, there was no way he could keep lying low!
Staying home is impossible. How could a mighty Sword Immortal like me let you take such a risk… Mu Yuyan hesitated for a moment, then obediently told a lie:
“All right… I’ll listen to everything my husband says.”
…
Early the next morning.
Langzhou City’s morning market gradually became lively.
On the second floor of Gu Teahouse, Wu Feng, who had slept for a night, finally woke up.
He felt around by his hand. Good, the Image-Recording Stone was still there!
Enduring the pain all over his body, he quietly opened the bedchamber window and poked his head out to look.
The street was packed with carts and horses, noisy and bustling.
“Whew~ I haven’t been discovered yet… But I can’t stay here long. I have to hurry and leave.”
Wu Feng grabbed his saber and took a piece of silver from his robes.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed that the person at the counter had changed.
Last night, it had still been an old man, but today it was a youth about his own age.
The youth was naturally Gu Lan.
Dressed in blue-green robes, holding a book in his hands, his bearing was otherworldly.
His appearance was also marked by sword-like brows and starry eyes, handsome beyond compare!
What a fine young master in this sullied world… Even while fleeing for his life, Wu Feng could not help praising him inwardly.
But when he came back to his senses, his brows furrowed slightly!
Why is it that he’s clearly reading, but I feel like he’s looking at me… Wu Feng was startled inwardly, unsure whether he was hallucinating.
At this moment,
Old Yang came forward. “Did you rest well last night, sir?”
“Well enough.” Wu Feng nodded, not daring to waste words with a stranger. “The bill.”
“Five qian.”
Old Yang accepted the silver and said as usual, “Please come again, sir!”
Wu Feng nodded woodenly, turned, and left.
Watching Wu Feng go out, Old Yang returned to the counter and said in a low voice, “Young Master, thank goodness… The people chasing him didn’t come!”
At this moment,
Gu Lan put down his book and slowly took a sip of tea. His gaze seemed able to pass through the screen before him as he said, “Actually, they’re already here.”
Several martial cultivator auras had arrived nearby half an hour ago. It was just that ordinary people couldn’t sense them…
As soon as he finished speaking!
The originally bustling crowd in front of the teahouse suddenly burst into panic!
A group of death warriors descended from the sky and surrounded Wu Feng, who had just walked out of the teahouse!
At the same time, a somewhat effeminate voice came from the air!
“Wu Feng, did you sleep soundly last night? In such a hurry to travel to the capital… did you ask whether I, Duan Xiao, agreed?”
Duan Xiao. It’s him… When Gu Lan heard this name, he had some impression of it.
In the original novel, Duan Xiao did not have many scenes, but his father did!
As a mid-level minor villain, Sect Master Duan Pei of the Huajian Sect still jumped around for quite some time.
With the strength of a demon king, the Huajian Sect gradually developed into a major sect in Yunzhou.
However, unfortunately, it ultimately provoked that cheat-wielding monster of a protagonist, and after entangling for a few chapters, it was still destroyed!
Right! Because of this, the protagonist also seized a phoenix egg the Huajian Sect had obtained from the Demon Realm, an existence comparable to a Xuantian Supreme Treasure!
And that phoenix later became the protagonist’s capable right-hand helper!
“A phoenix… I really want to ride one.”
Thinking of this, Gu Lan subconsciously felt a little tempted.
And at this moment, no one noticed that in a corner, an incomparably beautiful figure had arrived while concealing her aura. Blending into the crowd, her beautiful eyes watched the scene in front of the teahouse coldly.
“Duan Pei’s son chased Provincial Administration Commissioner Wu’s son all the way here from Yunzhou… Heh. If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes today, I’m afraid the Huajian Sect truly would have kept me in the dark!”
Mu Yuyan had originally come to secretly protect Gu Lan.
She had not expected to gain such an unexpected discovery!
Connecting it to the secret memorial she had read yesterday, her expression gradually darkened…
Provincial Administration Commissioner Wu had sent the news out and also dispatched his son urgently to the capital. It seemed he had already been killed.
Such news was even more heartbreaking than a sect’s betrayal!
“Huajian Sect, you colluded with the Demon Clan and killed officials of my Great Jing Kingdom. From now on… there is no need for you to exist!”
…
His gaze fell back onto Wu Feng.
Seeing Duan Xiao appear, Wu Feng’s expression immediately changed drastically. He hurriedly drew his saber and faced him down!
“Duan Xiao, your Huajian Sect colluded with demons and killed the loyal and upright. I will definitely expose the evidence of your crimes to all under heaven and avenge my father!”
He shouted through gritted teeth.
Seeing him so agitated, Duan Xiao smiled disdainfully. “You’re shouting so loudly because you want everyone around to hear, right? You’re thinking that even if you die, they can still pass the news to the capital?”
Hearing this,
Wu Feng’s pupils contracted violently!
At this moment, he truly no longer held any hope of surviving. He just had not expected Duan Xiao to see through him with a single glance!
“You can shout as much as you want, because… everyone here will be buried with you later. Who told them to hear things they shouldn’t have heard?”
After Duan Xiao finished speaking, his gloomy gaze swept over the terrified people around him.
His eyes were incomparably cold, as if what he saw was not people, but a herd of livestock for him to slaughter as he pleased!