Chapter 440 - Ghost Controlling Charm

Running out of the valley, Xiao Chen’s chest pain was finally relieved, and he turned around to see Koo-chee beast sulking at him. He asked, “What’s wrong, Brother Koo-chee?”

“Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” Koo-chee beast shouted twice and seemed to be very angry. Xiao Chen was a little puzzled, and then asked, “What’s wrong?”

Koo-chee beast turned and ran a few steps back, blinking its pair of big eyes, looking at the direction of the bamboo forest where Huangfu Xin’er played the zither and kept humming.

Xiao Chen walked up and said, “Let’s go, Qingluan and the others should be nearing Huai Prefecture.”

The Koo-chee beast turned and looked at him angrily, pointed at him, then at its mouth, and finally pointed at the direction of the Heartless Palace. Xiao Chen gave it a little thought, and asked, “You mean, Xin’er has been taking care of me and healing me these past few days?”

“Koo-chee! Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” Koo-chee beast nodded continuously.

Xiao Chen suddenly felt a severe pain in his heart. He had said such hurtful words just now, even calling her Huangfu Empress. At the thought of this, he immediately ran back to the bamboo forest. What was left in the forest was just a broken zither and a ground full of bamboo leaves.

Xiao Chen took a deep breath, walked over slowly, and rubbed the zither body gently, and the seven broken strings. It took him an hour to put back the broken strings one by one. Finally, when he was done, he looked up again in the direction of the Heartless Palace but turned and left in the end.

As he returned to the valley entrance again, Xiao Chen glanced in the direction of Huai Prefecture, called out the flying sword, picked up the Koo-chee beast, and then went to the next town on the sword. A moment after he left, someone suddenly walked out of the woods. That person was in green and was holding the Duster Sword.

The next three days passed and today was the July 15th, Hungry Ghost Festival. At night, Xiao Chen arrived in a small town. The town was very lively, lit with lights, where pedestrians kept coming and going and many people were lighting up water lamps by the river.

Xiao Chen looked around. It turned out that this small town was a small town that he passed when he and Murong Xian’er went to Middle Continent. The scenery was still the same, but time has passed too long. He wondered how Xian’er had been.

At a glance, Xiao Chen seemed to see someone following him, but a pedestrian blocked his view, and the man seemed to have disappeared. He frowned. At this moment, he was not as spiritually aware as before. He wondered if he was being followed, but now he had to leave as soon as possible. Now he could not even beat people of Zuoqiu Yang’s level. Guifeng could not be summoned as well.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen picked up the Koo-chee beast, quickly walked into the crowd, crossed several streets, deliberately went around a few forked roads, and finally quietly entered an inn and asked for a room on the second floor. Then he went up with the Koo-chee beast.

Once inside the room, Xiao Chen closed the doors and windows immediately and set up another layer of defense mystic arts. Without light, he went bed and pretended to sleep. By midnight, the moon was bright like the day, and the moonlight came through the window screen. The surroundings were gradually quiet.

Around 1 a.m., Xiao Chen could not resist the tiredness anymore, but did not dare to be in deep sleep. He took out the Unsullied Sword and put it behind the pillow.

Nothing happened overnight. The next day morning, Xiao Chen immediately set off for Huai Prefecture. After another day and night, he was finally reaching. He just had to climb over a mountain and he would reach the boundary of Huai Prefecture.

At noon, Xiao Chen landed onto the ground from his sword. He found a stream and drank a few sips of water. He took a break and waited to continue his journey. Suddenly his expression became serious as he noticed that someone was approaching him. He said coldly, “Come out!” He turned around, but was surprised, “Mo Yu!”

Five people had suddenly appeared across the stream. Three were in front, two were in the back, and the man on the left in the front was in black and burly. Obviously he was a martial arts practitioner. He was He Chentian, who was defeated by Xiao Chen in Widespread Wintriness Sect earlier and also allowed Xiao Chen to take away the Blood Lotus Demon Blade.

The man in the middle was also someone Xiao Chen had met last year. It was a handsome young man from the Mo family, called Mo Wen. They once met at the Daoist League of the Five Continents last year and had a fight against each other. As for the man in the purple clothes on the right, Xiao Chen was naturally familiar with him. It was Mo Yu who was competing with him for a place in Violet Manor when he was in Three Pure Sect!

Mo Yu was still as devilish, and he smiled gloomily. “Junior Brother Xiao, I haven’t seen you for a long time, why is your hair completely white…”

Xiao Chen gritted his teeth and pinched his phalanx. At that time, this man colluded with Devils’ sects and almost brought Three Pure Sect into a state of desperation. On the same day, he also uttered insults to Bai Ying and even attempted misconduct to her…

Mo Yu laughed mockingly, and said in a weird tone, “What? Is this how you should look at your Senior Brother? I wonder how’s your master doing huh? It’s been a long time since I went back to see…”

Xiao Chen was infuriated, but soon calmed down, thinking that there could be nothing good for these three to be here today. Mo Yu’s aura now seemed to be in the late Nascent Soul Realm stage. That Mo Wen’s cultivation was even higher, and he was in the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. As for that He Chentian, his martial arts had reached the Realm 4 Ninefold, which was equivalent to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm and even pre-Nirvana Realm.

Xiao Chen settled down. If he was during his heyday, he could easily destroy these three people with only one hand, however, it would be a bit difficult to deal with them at the moment. He and Mo family, one was a family that was rejected hundreds of years ago, and another was the forgotten family, it was not surprising that the two were now together. He said lightly, “I wonder what you three want from me?”

He Chentian shouted, his eyes were fierce, and he yelled, “I once said, Immortal Slayer is only temporarily deposited in your hands, and I’m here today to retrieve it!”

Xiao Chen sneered, his eyes turned to the Mo family again, and he said lightly, “What about you?”

Mo Wen’s eyes were indifferent and he did not speak. At the Daoist League of the Five Continents, he had intended to stand up for Mo family, but the opponent froze him in a single move. Not to mention about Mo Yu, he had hated Xiao Chen to the bones when they were in Three Pure Sect and now he could not wait to kill him personally.

However, these three were still cautious about Xiao Chen, otherwise, they would not have followed him for so long, only to show up now. Especially Mo Yu, the scene of Xiao Chen’s demonization in Three Pure Sect was deeply imprinted in his mind. He was even more shocked to hear about Xiao Chen’s deeds in Violet Manor recently.

“Not a word? Do you mean to take my life? Are you three going to come together or what?” Xiao Chen naturally saw these three people’s fears for him, and now he could only try to calm himself, and must not show a hint of cowardice and panic.

The three were alert, but none of them took the lead. Although He Chentian was arrogant when he first came to Widespread Wintriness Sect, recently overmatches had risen like a bamboo shoot after a spring rain everywhere. He had naturally become more careful. Besides, there are four people in the Mo family, he would not be the one to take the lead.

Mo Yu and Mo Wen looked at each other, and Mo Yu immediately winked at the two people behind him. The two immediately moved; they stepped on the water, and attacked Xiao Chen with their swords.

The two came fiercely, causing the water in the stream to splash. Xiao Chen immediately circulated the Qi within his body and pushed out with both palms, and the dragons yelled into the sky. Two golden dragons with a length of tens of feet whistled away. The stream splashed more than 100 feet high; the two in midair were shocked by the impact and instantly bled through their ears and noses, and flew back.

The three on the opposite side were shocked. Both of them were Mo family elites, and they both had Nascent Soul Realm first-level cultivation practice. How could they not be able to even defend one move, did Xiao Chen move up into the Nirvana Realm already!

The three were in horror at thought of this, Mo Yu’s first thought was to flee, and probably scared by Xiao Chen’s demonization in Three Pure Sect, but Mo Wen suddenly realized something was wrong. He grabbed him and said, “Why are you panicking!”

At this moment, Xiao Chen’s gaze was cold. That was his strongest blow just now and that had consumed most of his True Qi. He had done it to deter these three people. Now that the initial effect has been achieved, then there he had to maintain his act. He said indifferently, “I do not wish to kill today, on August 15th, I’ll wait for you in person on the top of the Wuyue Peak. Don’t let me down.”

After speaking, Xiao Chen looked at the Koo-chee beast in the distance, and said, “Brother Koo-chee, let’s go.”

Looking at the back of his indifferent departure, Mo Yu pinched his phalanx loudly, but he did not dare to chase after him. Mo Wen at the other side frowned deeply and felt that something was not right. He bellowed, “No! He now has no strength to even fly on his sword!” Then he leapt and attacked the back of Xiao Chen like a flash of lightning.

Xiao Chen was startled by the attack and was instantly covered by the palm wind of the opponent’s in no time. He could only turn around and take the blow. “Poom!” A loud bang and rocks were flying across. Xiao Chen felt that all his internal organs had burst, he took large steps back and spilled out a mouthful of blood.

“Koo-chee!” The Koo-chee beast was frightened, Xiao Chen flicked his sleeves, and sent it to the distant forest. Mo Yu across the stream was shocked. He was so strong just now, how did he suddenly become so weak?

Xiao Chen spat out a mouthful of blood again. Originally, the strength in his body had been continuously drained away. Once he fought with others, it would drain even more quickly. After taking a blow from Mo Wen he had already dropped to the beginning of Nascent Soul Realm and now Mo Wen was about to strike his second blow, he could not care more if he could summon Guifeng out now with his current spirit energy. He desperately shouted, “Guifeng!”

“Guifeng’s here!”

A three-foot-tall devil shadow suddenly appeared, and the weather changed violently at that moment. Mo Yu and He Chentian were shocked. However, Mo Wen glanced, waved his hand, and a golden light in his sleeve flew towards Guifeng. In that instant, Guifeng stopped moving as a golden seal talisman was pasted on its forehead.

Mo Wen moved his fingers and chanted, Guifeng immediately disappeared from its place. Xiao Chen was shocked, what mystic arts was this to be able to force a General of Soul back.

Mo Yu flew over and laughed, “Senior Gu Ming’s ghost controlling charm is indeed powerful! Haha!”

Xiao Chen was startled again. “Ghost controlling charm, what is that? Yes! Guifeng belongs to the human war spirit, and the opponent has a master who specializes in dealing with soul spirits!”

Mo Yu sneered. “Well, Mo Wen, leave this scum to me…” His two viper-like eyes swept over Xiao Chen, and he was no longer as scared as before.