There was no such thing as a demonic sect or cult in Jianghu, and no sect or faction that didn't know the difference between life and death would label themselves as "demonic". Even for some vicious sects, once they were associated with the word "demonic", most of them would run to crowded places to cry for their parents. This was especially true for Jianghu, which had been crushed by the Beiliang cavalry. No one had the guts to walk this path that was destined to be short-lived. About sixty years ago, Jianghu was a chaotic place, just like the Nine Kingdoms of Spring and Autumn in the Central Plains. However, there was a sect that most of Jianghu looked up to and called itself the demonic sect. What happened to it?
Mount Longhu easily produced an immortal that was hard to come by in a hundred years, Qi Xuanzhen. He posted a message to the world, inviting a battle to the Devil Slaying Platform on top of the lotus flower. The Great Spiritual Master Qi single-handedly slaughtered six pretentious Devil Dao experts. Since then, he was unable to recover from the setback and had faded from the public eye for fifty years. Only God knew how many times he had been ridden on by the previous generation of sects.
Shu Xiu came from a leftist sect in West Chu, which had studied some witchcraft that had been severely suppressed by the orthodox path. Although she was a rare witch in the sect and had a chance to inherit the position of sect leader, Shu Xiu had her own ambitions. She looked down on the petty sect of less than a hundred people, so she escaped to live a carefree life. Relying on her good looks and low-class seduction techniques, she accidentally obtained an incomplete high-class mental cultivation method from a middle-aged Taoist on Mount Kongtong. After she practiced it, her power skyrocketed. Once she learned that it was only a third of the complete version of the "White Emperor's Pure-Embracing Secrets", she followed the clues and found her way to the Tide-listening Pavilion's armory. It was fortunate that she didn't die. As soon as she entered the prince's mansion, before she could even see the Tide-listening Pavilion's shadow, she was beaten half to death by the residence's hidden masters. After that, she exchanged several successful assassinations for a chance to live. This time, she obtained the "Pure-Embracing Secrets" and naturally cherished it.
Don't think that Beiliang Palace was only a place for assassination. Every time a group came, Beiliang would immediately send out a group to take revenge. Every time, they would eliminate the source of trouble.
This was the viciousness of the great pillar of the country, Xu Xiao. Shu Xiu, a fearless heterodox person, would only become as timid as a mouse as the accumulation of murder cases. No matter how fearless a heroine was, she wouldn't be able to withstand the hundreds and thousands of methods of the Pillar State that made people wish they were dead.
Hsu Fengnian did not have a good impression of Shu Xiu and the other two, so there was no need for him to exchange pleasantries. He simply urged his horse to the side of the carriage, lifted the curtain, and saw Yu Youwei playing with Wu Meiniang in her arms. She was in a good mood. Whether it was the courtesan Yu Youwei, or the orphaned girl of the West Chu Emperor's sword attendant, Yu Xuanji, no matter where she went, she was a caged sparrow. But if she could move to a bigger cage, from the Imperial Palace to the entire Jianghu, then her mood would definitely be better.
Jiang Ni was crouching in a corner. He wasn't sitting down but squatting down to read a secret book. His brows were slightly furrowed. Everything he did seemed to be very serious and diligent.
As for the old man wearing the sheepskin coat, he took up more than half of the space in the carriage. He took off his boots and used his hands to rub his smelly feet. After he was done, he put his feet in front of his nose and sniffed.
Hsu Fengnian let down the curtain and said helplessly, "It's been hard on Yu Youwei and the little mud man."
His Royal Highness muttered to himself, "Should we change to another carriage? Forget it, we're in the same carriage. If something happens, this strange old man will at least make a move. Otherwise, if something happens to me, he might not even bother to make a move, let alone two women. "
Hsu Fengnian took out a newly drawn map from his bosom. After the Liyang Dynasty unified the Central Plains, the original six prefectures expanded to the current nineteen prefectures. It could be seen that during the Spring and Autumn War, the Liyang Dynasty was like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. It was reasonable that Xu Xiao became the only pillar of the dynasty. Beiliang was a general name that included the entire Liangzhou and half of Lingzhou. Their group had just left the city not long ago. The city was in the southernmost part of Beiliang, and it was still a day's journey away from the northern border of Yongzhou. The official road that Hsu Fengnian took was the same one that he had taken four years ago. This journey was also easy at first. It could be said that they were wearing fine clothes and riding fine horses. It was only after they entered the hinterland of Yongzhou that the journey began to be miserable.
Perhaps because she couldn't stand the cross-eyed old man in the carriage, Yu Youwei held the white cat and poked her head out. She looked at Hsu Fengnian with a pleading look in her eyes.
Hsu Fengnian snapped his fingers. Yang Qingfeng suddenly opened his eyes. With a whistle, a maroon steed that didn't have a rider trotted toward His Royal Highness.
It was said that Yang Qingfeng could even raise wild ghost mountain chief, so riding a horse was nothing difficult for him.
Yu Youwei, whose horsemanship was quite good, sat on the back of the horse and carefully comforted Wu Meiniang.
For a moment, the entire road behind them was filled with dust.
The sound of horse hooves and the earth trembled. It was clearly not a formation that a hundred light cavalry could create.
Hsu Fengnian turned his horse around and squinted his eyes to look in that direction.
The carriage also stopped. Jiang Ni, who had left the prince's estate for the first time in her life, poked her head out.
Hsu Fengnian smiled. Across from him, Yu Youwei had a look of fear on her face. He waved his hand and said, "Change horses. Come sit with me."
In all of Beiliang, there were only two people who had this kind of spirit and skill.
His old man, Xu Xiao, didn't dare to steal His Royal Highness's limelight.
Then the truth of the remaining person was revealed.
It was rumored that Beiliang's one hundred thousand cavalrymen listened to his every word, the villain Tu.
How could Hsu Fengnian not recognize him?
Yu Youwei didn't have the face to do so, but when she saw Hsu Fengnian narrow his eyes, she could only dismount and mount again, sitting in his lap.
Including Great Halberd Ning Emei, there were three of Beiliang's four fangs.
Hsu Fengnian clicked his tongue and said, "What a grand display."
Amidst the dense crowd of cavalrymen, a white-clothed man spurred his horse forward.
Thinking back, this white-clothed man seemed to have galloped out of the formation with such style, killing the world-renowned general Martial Saint Ye and his wife and daughter in front of the battlefield.
The incomparably elegant man bowed slightly on the horse and said softly, "Chen Zhibao has come to send His Royal Highness off."
In the vision of Beiliang's three fangs and the dozen or so valiant generals in the front row, they only saw His Royal Highness holding a beauty in his arms, and the beauty holding a white cat in her arms.
On one side was the most outstanding person of the younger generation who came from a valiant family of generals and followed Xu Dazhu since childhood.
On the other side was the gentle young master who played with the cat in the countryside?
It seemed that in an instant, the difference between the two was obvious.
Hsu Fengnian turned his horse around again, a finger twirling the woman's hair. He said slowly, "I won't see you off."
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