C15

The Dragon Tiger Cave was located at the north side of the mountain. Xiao Ziyan and Sima Xiao Yue climbed over the mountain and saw a cave entrance at the foot of the mountain from afar. The cave entrance was supported by a wooden door by bandits.

Sima Xiao Yue nodded and hid behind a rock without making a sound. Xiao Zi Yan stood up and dashed towards the cave entrance. The person guarding the door had just been alerted, "Who is it!"

Xiao Ziyan's eyes turned cold, "The person who will take your life!" With that, he rushed towards a bandit and drew his sword. Before that bandit could react, he had already gone to meet his long-dead mother. As if they were facing a great enemy, they drew out their weapons and rushed towards Xiao Zi Yan. Xiao Zi Yan's body was like a feather in the wind, light and elegant, the bandits' attacks all landed on empty air, this movement technique was what Xiao Zi Yan had learned from the feather when she practiced slashing, it made her body like a feather, the key was to use the wind created from the enemy's attacks to predict the opponent's attack trajectory, and easily dodge it. Xiao Ziyan used both her energy and energy to recover her speed. The zhenqi in her body circulated crazily, the moment her opponent had an opening, she would slash out with a fatal blow. Not long later, Xiao Ziyan killed the bandits, leaving only one person among them, that was Zhang Ting.

When that youth saw how brave Xiao Ziyan was, he couldn't help but blurt out, "Idol!" Seeing that he couldn't defeat Xiao Ziyan, fear appeared in Zhang Ting's eyes, "Hero, I wonder how I offended you to the point that I want my life." Xiao Ziyan spread out her hands. "There's no other way. I don't have any money to spend, so I can only accept your wanted poster."

Hearing that, Zhang Ting was enlightened, "I wonder how much is my life worth?"

"Fifty taels of silver."

Zhang Ting was delighted, "Little hero, I still have three hundred silver taels. Since you want to kill me for money, I'll give you the three hundred silver taels. How about you spare my life?" Xiao Zi nodded. "Not bad. I can only take fifty liang if I kill you. If you give me three hundred liang, I'll let you go."

Zhang Ting was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately took out three hundred taels of silver from a box in the hall and handed it over to Xiao Ziyan, "Here's three hundred taels for Hero. Please spare my life. Xiao Ziyan accepted the silver taels and carefully put it away before hacking Zhang Ting to death. When Zhang Ting fell, his round eyes were still filled with disbelief. He didn't understand why Xiao Ziyan would kill him even after taking his money, "This cut is not for 50 taels of silver, but for the village you massacred."

Xiao Ziyan called for Sima Xiaoyue to come over and then looked at the tied up youth, "Big brother Xiao, put him down first."

"Yes." As soon as the youth was freed, a smile blossomed on his face and he couldn't help but thank Xiao Ziyan. "Thank you, thank you! You're so amazing! You could kill these bandits by yourself with no effort at all. You're much stronger than me."

"I heard they said that you're a disciple without any martial arts training. How could you be caught here?" There were several times when I tried to tell Senior Brother that I wanted to encircle and annihilate these bandits. However, every time, Senior Brother would push and shove them around, and in the end, he even scolded me, saying that if I were to encircle and annihilate these bandits, I would only lose the power of my faction. It would be better for me to practice more martial arts and become the number one of the top sects in Sichuan. The teenager scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "I didn't expect my martial arts to be so poor. I was captured alive without even killing a single bandit."

When Sima Xiao heard the youth's words, he was so amused that he covered his mouth and laughed, "You're such an interesting person. You clearly can't beat him, but you still forced yourself to come here to die." The youth laughed heartily. "Haha, even so, I only want to do my best."

"Hmm, compared to those hypocrites in the martial arts world, you are really a big hero." Hearing Sima Xiao Yue's praise, the teenager was overjoyed, "Oh right, my name is Zhong Shu. I still don't know your names."

"I'm Xiao Ziyan. She taught Sima Xiao Yue." As if he had heard the good news, his eyes lit up. "So it's big brother Xiao. Just now little brother saw big brother Xiao fighting against ten with one, relying on his superior martial arts. He's simply a role model for me, an idol in my heart!"

When Xiao Ziyan saw the admiring look on Zhenju's face, she couldn't help but say helplessly, "I wonder what Brother Zhonghua plans to do, will you return to the Martial Way?" Zhong Shu frowned, "That is a place without morality. It's fine if I don't go back. I, Zhong Shu, want to be a true hero!" With that, he kneeled to the ground and said, "Brother Xiao, please let me follow you to learn martial arts. I hope that I can become a great hero."

Xiao Zi was startled and hurriedly went forward to help her up. "A man has gold under his knees. If you have anything to say, just say it." The book was overjoyed, "Then big brother Xiao, did you promise me?" Xiao Zi thought for a moment, "Central State is a vast land filled with strange things. There are also many strange things that happen. Someone at my level really isn't worthy to be with you." Hearing this, Zhong Shu's face was full of depression, but he then heard Xiao Ziyan say, "But you can follow me for now, I'll find you a good master when I get to Tianjing."

"That's fine too, as long as big brother Xiao allows me to follow you." Sima Xiao Yue, who was at the side, suddenly interrupted, "Don't keep calling me Brother Xiao, you're already calling me old." Hearing that, Zhong Shu scratched his head, "Big brother Xiao's kung fu is better than mine. I admire him, so of course I have to call him big brother Xiao."

He got up and walked around the hall to see if there was anything else of value. The book and Sima Xiao Yue also got up to look for something, and in the end, the three of them found two perfectly intact tiger skins. They estimated that they could sell them for a good price, so they put them into their bags and left the cave. It was already noon and the weather wasn't too cold. Xiao Zi Yan decided to find a place to eat, "Zhong Shu, do you know where there's smoke? Let's go find a meal."

"The gates of the sword are very lively walking west from the Fowler Mountain. There are many small vendors doing business there, so we might as well go there and take a look."

"That's fine too. Let's go check out that gate of the sword." He was so happy that Xiao Zi Yan saw that he was actually happy. She had accompanied him for so many days, and now he finally had the money to eat whatever he wanted. Compared to the two of them, Zhong Shu looked even more excited and excited, but no one knew what he was thinking about.

Xiao Zi Yan, Sima Xiao Yue, and Zhong Shu were walking together as well. Under the warm sunlight, they headed towards the entrance of the sword gate.