Chapter 99: Haven’t mastered the swordsmanship yet?

Chapter 99: Haven’t mastered the swordsmanship yet?

Crunch, crunch...

The old wooden wheels turned slowly, passing through the official road and arriving outside the south city gate.

On the blood-soaked wooden boards, every corpse was particularly mutilated and horrifying.

They were covered in horrific scars, some were missing limbs, some were missing their heads, and some were torn into several pieces, almost no longer human.

Outside the South City Gate, many onlookers made worried sounds.

"So many people died again."

"This is the third trip."

"They all died so tragically. I really don't know what terrible monsters they encountered. Fortunately, I haven't gone into the mountains recently."

It's been a long time since something so serious happened in the county.

Dozens of warriors died in one day, all killed by monsters!

Based on the discussions of people around him and the accounts of martial arts disciples, Chu Liang gradually understood what happened today.

This morning, when he was still on his way back to the village, the atmosphere in the county town was not quite right.

The leader of the Dharma Protector Hall discovered that several groups of warriors patrolling the surrounding mountains and forests had not returned.

The Wu Meng immediately sent experts to lead a team to search.

They found a lot of signs of fighting and killing in the mountains and forests. Those areas were in chaos and bloody, and there were many carcasses of wild beasts scattered around.

"Later, the Martial Alliance issued a summons order and called us all over. We were divided into many teams to conduct searches. Senior Brother Chu, you were not there at that time..."

The martial arts disciples told Chu Liang the situation at that time.

This search revealed a big problem.

At noon, they found more than a dozen mutilated corpses in a cave. They were not from the Wumeng patrol team, but from a monster-catching team that had gone to hunt monsters in the forest very early.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone found the bodies of He Yuan and his teammates in a valley.

Judging from the situation at the scene, they had experienced extremely brutal fighting during their lifetimes.

The inferior sword in He Yuan's hand was smashed into pieces.

Just now, the bodies of another group of warriors were brought back on wooden carts.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. I'm afraid something big is going to happen."

There were people around with sad faces and couldn't help but sigh.

The world is about to be in chaos, and even such a small county town cannot escape. It is destined to be involved in the chaos.

Natural disasters, man-made disasters, demonic disasters...

These are all fine, except for the fear of a demonic disaster like a hundred years ago.

"Chu Liang, where did you go this morning?" Suddenly a voice sounded, and the speaker was Luo Hong, the leader of the Martial Alliance Merit Hall, who was walking out of the city.

"I went back to Qingshi Village." Chu Liang cupped his hands and replied.

"Are you alone?" Luo Hong frowned.

"yes."

"Don't act alone anymore."

"The village is very close."

"No matter how close you are," Luo Hong shook his head and said, "You are extremely talented and have great hope of breaking through to the Skin Refining Realm in the future, but there can be no accidents."

"I see."

Chu Liang knew that Luo Hong was doing it for his own good, but he was really used to acting alone.

Teamwork is not his thing.

"As long as you understand!"

Luo Hong walked to a wooden cart, looked carefully at the injuries on the body, turned to Chu Liang and said, "Chu Liang, can you see the problem?"

"question?"

Chu Liang also walked over, glanced at the entire corpse, and thought for a moment.

He quickly thought: "These warriors were all attacked and died by monster beasts. With the nature of monster beasts, they will definitely eat up the corpses of the warriors."

"That's right! But these corpses were not eaten, but were found by us." Luo Hong nodded.

This is where the problem lies.

Why didn't the monsters eat the corpses of these warriors?

They obviously knew that humans would retrieve these corpses, so they deliberately left these corpses behind.

Why do this on purpose?

"Is it just to vent his anger? A shock? Or a clarion call to declare war?" Luo Hong looked solemn, thinking of many possibilities.

Recently, the Martial Alliance has sent too many experts into the mountains to investigate. Too frequently, they may have angered the monsters in the mountains, causing them to do what they did today.

Or maybe it was because the monster was preparing to do something big in the mountains and was afraid of being discovered by humans, so it did such bloody and cruel things.

Deliberately leaving corpses to shock humans will make them afraid to set foot in the mountains and forests again in the short term.

The intelligence of monsters is not low.

They are cunning and ferocious and should not be underestimated.

Luo Hong thought for a long time and finally shook his head.

"We will discuss this matter after we get back."

He looked at Chu Liang and asked: "Chu Liang, are you interested in joining our Hall of Merit? What I said before is true. As long as you enter the Hall of Merit, you will be one of the deacons, obtain a ninth-grade official status, and be appointed by the imperial court. "

"Thank you Hall Master Luo." Chu Liang cupped his hands and said, "I am focusing on practicing swordsmanship now and will not consider becoming an official for the time being."

"Well, you are still young, I understand." Luo Hong did not force it.

"Hall Master Luo, I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave now."

"Okay, go ahead."

Luo Hong nodded and warned again: "Remember, don't leave the county alone again. If something happens, come to me and I will arrange manpower for you."

"Thank you, Hall Master Luo!"

Chu Liang thanked him again, led the donkey and left.

When he entered the county town, he did not return to the martial arts hall. He went to Yunlai Restaurant first.

The restaurant is very busy today, probably another banquet for the dead.

Qi Shun was counting the books behind the counter.

"Shopkeeper Qi." Chu Liang approached and called.

"Brother Chu?" Qi Shun's eyes lit up, "No, it's time to call me Master Chu now! Haha, I didn't change my mind for a while, I'm sorry!"

"You and I are so close, you can call me whatever you want." Chu Liang didn't care. He was still young and not used to hearing the word "master".

He sat down at the counter and took out a few bottles of pills from his bag.

"These bottles of pills nourish the spleen and warm the body. Shopkeeper Qi, please take them." Chu Liang said.

"How can this be possible?"

Qi Shun was a little tempted. He knew that these were pills that only warriors could buy.

Chu Liang smiled and said, "Don't refuse. It's just a few bottles of pills. I came here today because I want to ask for help."

"What is it?"

"I want to buy a house in the county. Does Shopkeeper Qi have any ideas?"

"That's easy!"

Qi Shun has a wide network of contacts and immediately promised to find a house that would satisfy Chu Liang.

Chu Liang said, "It's not for me to live in, but for my relatives. It doesn't have to be too luxurious, but the location must be good. Try to be in the north of the center of the county."

"The north of the city?"

Qi Shun suddenly realized.

He was a smart man. Combining what happened today, he immediately understood Chu Liang's intention.

If the monster attacked, the surrounding small mountain villages would definitely suffer, but the county town would be relatively safe, and the area in the north of the center of the county town was the safest.

After all, the county government, the Wumeng, and several major martial arts halls were all in the north of the county town.

Chu Liang planned to take his second uncle's family to the county town, so he naturally had to settle them in the safest place.

"Brother Chu, when do you plan to buy a house?" Qi Shun asked.

"The sooner the better, the price doesn't matter!" Chu Liang replied.

"No problem!" Qi Shun agreed, "I'll give you an answer before eight o'clock tonight."

"Okay, thank you very much."

Chu Liang stood up and thanked him.

He left Yunlai Restaurant and went straight to Wumeng.

There are a lot of martial arts in the Wumeng Library, which need to be exchanged for merits.

Chu Liang directly took out the pills worth three thousand silvers, exchanged them for three hundred merits in the Merit Hall, and then went to the library and looked for it carefully.

Most of the martial arts in the library are offensive, and the rest are rare.

He searched the entire first floor and only found three body-building martial arts, namely "Flying on the Grass", "Floating on the Water" and "Light Body Leap", which are all relatively famous and inferior martial arts in the world.

These martial arts only have the cover and a few pages of introduction, without specific content, so they are "incomplete" in the information of the Evolution Treasure Book, and need to offer flesh and blood to evolve to the full version.

Chu Liang looked carefully and found that the flesh and blood required to evolve "Light Body Leap" is the most, requiring fourteen pounds.

The other two only need eleven pounds.

"This is it!"

Chu Liang made up his mind and immediately found the owner of the library to exchange the full version of "Light Body Leap".

"Are you Chu Liang?" the owner of the library asked him.

"Yes." Chu Liang nodded.

"After you go back, this martial art can only be viewed by you and not by anyone else. Do you understand?"

"I know."

"That's good. Sign the contract. If you violate the contract, no matter how talented you are, the Martial Alliance will put you in the dungeon!"

"Okay."

Chu Liang signed the contract and was deducted 260 merits.

The body movement martial art was acquired.

He was about to leave when he heard a cold snort from the second floor.

"Genius? Chu Liang, I heard that you haven't even started learning the "Autumn Blade". How can you have the nerve to admit that you are a genius?" Liang Han, the head of the Law Enforcement Hall, walked down the stairs with an extremely unfriendly tone.

He happened to be in this library and met Chu Liang.

Chu Liang's expression did not change. He said calmly: "Don't worry about this matter, Liang, the head of the hall. I know what I am doing."

"Could it be that you are not good at swordsmanship and plan to practice body movement instead?" Liang Han asked again.

"Master Liang thinks too much, and is overthinking." Chu Liang changed the subject directly, "This state is not good for breaking through the skin refining realm. Master Liang must be careful, don't let your flesh and blood collapse and die."

"What a sharp-tongued kid!" Liang Han's face turned cold.

"I dare not, I can't beat Master Liang."

Chu Liang put away the contract and martial arts, ignored him, turned around and walked out of the library.

Liang Han's face was livid, and he was about to follow him out.

But the owner of the library behind him shouted: "Old Liang, you are already an old man, why bother with a junior?"

"I..."

Liang Han was holding back his anger.

How could he not hear that the owner of the library was clearly favoring Chu Liang.

Chu Liang was a genius that even the leader of the alliance was optimistic about, and many people believed that he would definitely break through to the skin refining realm in the future.

"You are not in the skin refining realm yet, just a kid who condensed two qi and blood, and you dare to be so arrogant in front of me?" Liang Han said angrily.

"You and I have both experienced youthful vigor. There's no need to worry about it." The owner of the library laughed.

"Humph!"

Liang Han walked out of the library with a cold face.

He planned to find a way to cause trouble for Chu Liang.

But he had just taken two steps when he found that Chu Liang had been in trouble!

"Hey, is that... Li Feng, the second disciple of Li Ren, the owner of the Autumn Sword Hall?"

Liang Han narrowed his eyes and found that Chu Liang was stopped by a warrior.

The man was dressed in black, carrying a long sword on his back, with sharp eyes and a sharp body, as if he was a cold sword out of the sheath. He was simply a younger owner Li Ren!

Li Feng, Li Ren's second disciple.

He has the strength of two qi and blood, and his swordsmanship is superb. He is quite famous among swordsmen.

He recently served in the Wumeng Merit Hall and would return to the martial arts hall to ask his master Li Ren every other week.

"Junior Brother Chu!" Li Feng clasped his fists and spoke in a clear voice.

"Senior Brother Li."

Chu Liang naturally recognized Li Feng.

Li Feng was a straightforward person and asked directly: "Junior Brother Chu, did the master give you the treasure of the town hall?"

"It's not a gift, it's a loan." Chu Liang corrected.

"Junior Brother, can you lend it to me?"

"Senior Brother, don't joke."

Chu Liang chuckled and shook his head to indicate: "This matter needs to be decided by the owner of the hall, not by me alone."

"Junior Brother, the master is partial to me. I also want to see the treasure of the town hall, but he doesn't give me a chance." Li Feng was outspoken and actually said the word "partial" in public.

There were many warriors inside and outside the library, and they all heard this.

Chu Liang was stunned.

I had heard that this second disciple had a straightforward personality, but I didn't expect it to be this kind of "straightforwardness". I couldn't keep it to myself.

How could such offensive words, especially words that offended the master, be said in public?

Fortunately, his master is Li Ren. If it were someone with Qi Hai's personality, he would have kicked him out of the martial arts hall long ago.

"Brother Li, the owner is not partial, but he thinks you still need to polish. When the time comes, he will let you observe." Chu Liang said patiently.

"Brother, I have polished enough!"

"What do you want?"

"Brother, how about a fight between you and me? Let's compare swordsmanship!"

Li Feng was straightforward and proposed a competition on the spot.

The treasure of the town hall is related to the sword, so it should naturally give a stronger understanding of the sword.

If he wins, it means that he is more qualified to comprehend than Chu Liang.