381 Blaze, My Sword Part Two

As a northern tyrant, Lin Pingyuan naturally carried a tyrannical spirit. Eventhough it was late spring, he wore a great fur cloak. Even though he wassomeone who had come to kill Su Li, he had even brought a dozen or so of hissubordinates, not worrying about information being divulged at all. “What is a tyrant? A great bully? A bully can only rampage in the villages. Atyrant who can rampage in the entire northern lands should be called aformidable and ruthless person. I thought that I was a formidable and ruthlessperson.” He looked at Su Li and said, “But a formidable and ruthless personmust be shameless. I will not be as stupid as Liang Hongzhuang. I’ve brought mymost trusted subordinates and a resolution to kill. I will definitely not befair, and I will attack from all sides if I need to. If I can put thirtydifferent kinds of poisons in your tea, there will not be a single typelacking. I will dig a pitfall trap as deep as I can.” If it was normal times, Su Li would not even pay attention to someone likethis. However, for some reason today, he instead seemed rather interested andsaid, “I feel that you’ve brought fewer people.” Lin Pingyuan laughed, “If Senior was not heavily injured by the demon expertswho attacked you from all sides, even if I brought all three thousand people,we would still not be the opponent of a single strike of your sword. But nowthat Senior is a tiger who has left the mountains and come to the plains, Ionly need to bring a dozen or so people. Also, the matter today needs to besecret, so it won’t be suitable to bring too many people. If I let theimmortals in the Mount Li Sword Sect know I’ve killed you, would I still beable to live?” Su Li smiled, “Since you’re scared, you’re still willing to kill me?” Lin Pingyuan said, “The price the others offered is just too great, so Icouldn’t help but be tempted and give it a try.” Su Li sighed with emotion, “No wonder you are a tyrant of the north, no, aformidable and ruthless person of the north. According to how formidable andruthless people act, after you kill me, you will definitely silence yoursubordinates.” Lin Pingyuan boldly waved his hand and said, “Senior doesn’t need to provokeme. These people have committed all sorts of crimes. We may not trust any otherperson, but we trust each other very much. Su Li smiled and turned around. He said to Chen Changsheng, “Look, he said ithimself that they’ve done all sorts of crimes.” Chen Changsheng stared at the marks of blood that may have been old or new.After hearing what Su Li said, he gave an interjection of agreement. Lin Pingyuan looked at him, and a sliver of doubt appeared in his eyes, “Whois this teenager? Perhaps he is a disciple of the Mount Li Sword Sect? Thenthat might mean I can only invite you to die too.” Chen Changsheng ignored him and continued to stare at the marks of blood onthe floor of the tea house. Although it was not bustling, the tea house stillwas on the side of the main road, and there was definitely many travelers whopassed by every day. Looking at the marks of blood, many people should havealready died here in the past few days. The owner of the tea house wasdefinitely dead, but just how many innocent travelers had also died? There was a breeze from the hill outside the tea house. Outside the window,there was a series of buzzing sounds. He lifted his head up and only saw adensely packed flock of mosquitoes and flies fly about, which he found to berather disgusting. Although it was late spring, the northern lands were notwarm, so where did so many mosquitoes and flies come from? The insects fellagain, leaving Chen Changsheng’s gaze and landing in the gutter underneath thewindow. There were many corpses piled on top of each other, and the scene was toohorrible to endure. Su Li’s congratulations to him were very reasonable. The northern tyrant called Lin Pingyuan and the people in the tea house allcould be killed. Xue He came to kill Su Li for the empire, Liang Hongzhuang came to kill Su Lifor revenge, but these people came to kill Su Li for profit. They had committedall sorts of crimes, so there was no reason for them to be alive. Lin Pingyuan stood up where he was and said, “The pitfall couldn’t trap yourfurry deer, and it seems like the poison in the tea is useless. However, youstill walked into this tea house, so I want to know if you can stand against somany of us.” There were many people in the tea house, and the people were very strong. Theyhad all undergone purification, with four in the Meditation realm and anotheractually in the Ethereal Opening realm. As for Lin Pingyuan himself, he was anexpert at the Star Condensation realm. Chen Changsheng could not use theIntellectual Sword, because even if he could see the weakness of Lin Pingyuan’sStar Domain and defeat him, he would fall unconscious like last time, so whatwould he do about the other people? Fortunately, he had just learned a new sword move and could try it out. Sounds of ‘kill’ suddenly exploded in the tea house. Lin Pingyuan did not careabout his so-called tyrant or bully prestige, and commanded his subordinates tokill. Meanwhile, he himself stood behind the group to hold the line, ready toact whenever. Chen Changsheng stood up and raised his head. His gaze passed through thepeople with fierce expressions and landed on Lin Pingyuan’s body. With a clank, the Dragoncry Dagger exited the sheath. Sword Qi flooded the interior of the tea house. Violent winds arose, and allthe tables and chairs were broken into pieces. A scorching hot Qi enveloped the entire tea house, and a bright ray of lightsurged from the dagger. The attacking subordinates saw a blazing dagger. Atop the blazing dagger,countless Golden Crows from the legends seemed to fly out. With only a moment, the temperature of the room increased rapidly, becomingextremely torrid. The bloody marks on the ground of the tea house, whether new or old, were allpurified. Light and heat surged from atop the dagger, representing an extremelyboundless true essence. In the group of people, there were consecutive miserable yelps of shock andpain. These yelps were all very short. Behind his subordinates, Lin Pingyuan’s expression suddenly changed, andbecame extremely serious. Chen Changsheng used the Yeshi Step. He suddenly disappeared into nothingnessand passed through those bodies that were falling and disintegrating. Hearrived in front of Lin Pingyuan and thrust his dagger forwards. The blazing true essence, the sword move of the Golden Crow, the sword energyof the Burning Heaven Sword and the resoluteness of the final move of the MountLi Sword Style were all combined into this one strike. Blazing Sword. A sword that blazed. The interior of the tea house became even brighter, as if the Golden Crowsthat had flown out from above the sword combined together, turning into a sun. The sun was so dazzling that even Su Li was unable to see what happened insideclearly. After some time, the wind in the tea house stopped, and the light slowlydisappeared. Chen Changsheng held the dagger in his hand and slowly withdrew it, as if hewas withdrawing the torch that burnt the heavens. With a swish, an extremely deep, bloody hole appeared between Lin Pingyuan’seyebrows. There were dead people everywhere in the tea house. Lin Pingyuan also was about to die. He stared, looking at Chen Changsheng. His face was filled with disbelief andasked, “Just how are you able to kill me?” He was an expert in the Star Condensation realm, a tyrant of the northernlands, a formidable and ruthless person that committed all sorts of crime. Justwhy was he killed by an Ethereal Opening teenager? “Because you deserve to die,” Chen Changsheng said. Lin Pingyuan did not understand, and did not need to understand because he wasalready dead. He collapsed on the ground, and the remaining sword intent chopped down,turning him into a dozen or so pieces of flesh. There were no more people in the tea house who could stand, other than ChenChangsheng. The tables and chairs in the tea house were already in pieces.Everything was in pieces. Only the chair under Su Li and the teapot in his handremained intact. The tea in the teapot contained a deadly poison, so no one knew why he hadlifted the teapot. Chen Changsheng walked in front of him. Su Li lifted the teapot, and slowly poured the cold tea onto his body. Therewas only a hissing sound. As the cold tea came in contact with ChenChangsheng’s face and body, it immediately turned into steam. Because of the ignition of true essence, Chen Changsheng’s entire body wasburning hot. At this moment, it had only decreased slightly in temperature, andhis face remained red. There were still remaining, violent embers in his eyes,so he seemed rather scary. “This sword is too violent… I still can’t withstand it.” With that, Chen Changsheng collapsed without any signs, just like how he wasafter defeating Liang Hongzhuang and crossing the mountains. “Fainted again?” Su Li looked at him who was on the floor and said angrily, “What if thatperson comes? Hurry up and wake up.” Chen Changsheng was already unconscious, so he naturally was unable to answerthis question. In the tea house, there were dead people everywhere, and pieces of flesheverywhere. It was a tragic sight, and the smell of blood attacked at the nose. Su Li calmed down and slowly closed his eyes. At an unknown time, he hadalready grasped the handle of the Yellow Paper Umbrella. Time passed slowly. The mosquitoes and flies outside the window entered inside. Whether kind, evil, virtuous or stupid, death was the same to gods and insects. Su Li opened his eyes and said without an expression, “Get up, looks like hewon’t appear.” Other than the dead people, there was only the unconscious Chen Changsheng inthe tea house, so who else could he be speaking to? Chen Changsheng opened his eyes and, with some difficulty, stood up. Hesupported Su Li and left the tea house. He summoned the furry deer in thedistance and continued their journey to the south.