Chapter 15: Who Are You?
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The Old man closed his eyes and then opened it back up. He felt very disheartened.
He sighed inwardly.
‘I have thought that the matter of the past could no longer affect this old thing’
Who would have thought, the dark past he left behind is still chasing him?
Bai Qingniu could not have expected that he would be hunted by this Wang Li when he is in Henan.
The world is in chaos right now and Tang dynasty is showing sign of collapse since the Huangchao Rebellion. Emperor Zhongzong is controlled by that ingrate Zhu.
In the past going to Henan would be very safe.
Who would have thought that today, because of his carelessness he had been schemed by Wang Li, implicating his disciple and his granddaughter?
The regret in his heart, he almost could not bear it. In the end, he did not blame himself. In this world, how many schemes had he seen in the martial path?
He himself once schemed against people in his youth. He had leave that life behind and find peace in his current job roaming all over Tang dynasty and healing people with his medical skills.
The fault lies not on him. But on people greed and desire
And all of that is because of the Scroll that has long been taken away from him. Right now, even his granddaughter at Wang Li hand and threatened to kill her, he could not do anything
He could not give something that he did not have.
‘Wang Li, do not harm my granddaughter. This is matter of the past in Wulin. Do not involve unrelated people’
‘Junior Sister’ The young child in the white clothing shouted. He is still holding the sword but his hand is trembling.
But he could not do anything. The sword in that young child hand is nothing more than just a lump of metal
Bai Qingniu word is not wrong. His disciple knows how to apply medicine but not how to cut down a person.
‘Hmph!’ Wang Li snorted and then said
‘Give me the- ‘Before he could finish his word, Wang Li eyes suddenly widened. He did not finish his word.
Because something happened that shocked all the people in the area.
Wang Li was the first that notices it. He could feel a killing intent locked on toward him and he quickly took a step back but a flash of pain in his body jolted his entire body in alarm
The sound of braches of tree breaking
A sound of the wind tearing, and then a silhouette flash by, a sword light gleams and the sound of scream roars.
The darkness of the night seems to shrouded the flash of sword strike with mysteries. Bai Qingniu eyes also widened the moment that sword strike appears
Bai Qingniu might not have any of his past martial art skill.
But that does not mean he did not he is entirely weak.
What was stripped of him was his internal energy and not his movement.
He saw the opportunity from that sword strike.
He uses all of his strength that he has to dash forward and grab his granddaughter who were thrown forward when Wang Li wanted to deflect that sword strike.
He grabs his granddaughter and jump back on a safe distance from Wang Li. In a second, the whole situation changes.
With a sword strike that came from the darkness, Bai Qingniu granddaughter was rescued, Bai Qingniu life seems to find a way out
Wang Li scream stopped and he is restraining the pain that he is experiencing right now. Bai Qingniu look at Wang Li hand.
It is full of blood.
Two of his fingers had been cut off. Bai Qingniu could only see things in general but could not see it in details because of the darkness.
But Wang Li who experience it would clearly know better. His finger has been cut off so cleanly that it was like art. The blood did not spurt in the beginning.
It wasn’t until he realized it that his finger spurts out blood. Before he could even notice it, his finger had been cut off.
What a powerful sword technique! He thought to himself. The blade that he had wield to threatened Bai Qingniu is now ion the ground.
Wang li look to his left and right and only then he could see a silhouette of someone a few feet away from him
The clouds in the sky reveals the luster of the moon and the figure of that silhouette is revealed in the eyes of Bai Qingniu, Wang Li and the two children.
They all were shocked when they first saw him. There is a boy standing there wrapped in a wolf fur.
His appearance with the wolf fur covering his body look beastly, like the tales of the barbarians about some tribes that wears wolf fur. But his face and his demeanor is very elegant
On his hand is a sword. The sword looks very sharp. The moonlight reflected the sharpness of the sword to the people seeing it.
And wielding that sword, the kid pointed its sharp point toward Wang Li, with a smirk on his face.
His eyes are full of confidence. The boy is so young that everyone was shocked
Li Xian arrived in the scene. And he arrived with a sword s***h.
‘Phew’ he thought to himself. After one clash, he knew that he could defeat this person called Wang Li
Li Xian had made his decision when the quest popped out.
He would save Bai Qingniu, his disciple and his granddaughter. he chose the Heroic path. In this warring period it is easy to do great deeds of merit.
But it is also easy to wreak havoc upon the world
Since Li Xian had never been a person that like doing evil thing, why force himself to that path. So, he chose the heroic path.
He expects a rewarding reward from the system later.
Wang Li took a few step backward and look at the boy in terror.
He fears that Li Xian would suddenly execute that sword s***h again. Li Xian saw it and his smirk grew wider
‘Good, good. Be more afraid. The more afraid you become, the easier can I kill you’ he thought himself.
Li Xian is very calm, his sword is straight without any wavering or trembling, pointing it toward Wang Li fearlessly.
The other people could not understand the feeling of being pointed by that sword. It is like an arrow that is pointed toward him, ready to shoot.
Wang Li is sweating in his forehead.
Only he could feel this feeling.
Because that sword keeps pointing at him. When he takes a slight step to the left, the sword moves a bit. It is straight. Straight toward him. And that makes him mad and frustrated.
Bai Qingniu and the other two people beside him look at these two people, looking at each other.
The wind blows and their robes blow. The clouds move up in the sky, blood drips on the ground and the sword still did not waver.
The contrast between the two is very striking. Wang Li is muscly burly man. Li Xian is four feet tall, short compared to the large and tall Wang Li.
But the one that is injured and the one that have let go of his weapon is Wang Li. The girl looks toward Li Xian; her eyes is full of amazement.
The young disciple with the gourd tied on his waist, look gratefully toward Li Xian. Li Xian did not notice all of this.
His hand keep pointing toward wherever Wang Li moves.
He wanted to block any route of escape. His Seven Transformation Swordplay could create such a feeling of being pressured by a mountain.
Li Xian did not quickly end the fight. If he wanted, he could charge toward Wang Li quickly and with one s***h he could cut off Wang Li head.
He wanted to test his theory.
The wind blows again and Bai Qingniu, his disciple and his granddaughter and also Wang Li all look toward the kid that appeared.
The clouds in the sky moves again. This time the clouds covers up the moon. That area of the forest once again descends into darkness.
And everyone felt even more tense.
Shing.
The sound echoes.
It is the sound of the sword.
Li Xian move his sword and it created sound like one simple movement cut the air and split the course of the wind going through the sword.
They all felt goosebumps.
Bai Qingniu especially. In the Underworld Gate there is child recruit that is kidnapped and trained since they were little
That is one of the reason why all the sects in the martial arts world did not like them very much. And the fact that they supported Li Keyong made them very powerful.
But none of them have such skills that the young boy that has just appeared had shown him. This is one in a million talent.
He had never seen such a young child mastered such a powerful sword style.
A sword flash, a simple sword s***h has so much force, only the peak of mastery of the technique could produce such effect
Wang Li fingers were cut before he could realize it. If Wang Li at that time were even a little bit late, he would be dead by now.
The fact that the young child could see through the dark to accurately cut off the finger holding the upper part of the hilt of the blade and enable him to save his granddaughter is also a proof of the young child incredible mastery of internal energy
Mastery of internal energy did not mean one possesses powerful internal energy. It simply means having a fine control of one internal energy
The attack has no deception. Straightforwardness. Straight and powerful. Straight and fast. That is what he felt from the young child.
Wang Li on the other hand look angry. The more he thinks about it the angry he became.
‘ARGHH!’ He roars. The girl was shocked and hug her grandfather. The young disciple tightened his grip on his trembling sword.
Li Xian snorted. Pointing his finger toward Li Xian he shouted at him
‘Who are you?’ Wang Li roars.
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