Even though Chang Lin Town was surrounded by mountains on three sides, there were two roads leading into the town.
A main road extended from the nearest county town, Copper Hill.
The other road was the one that appeared when Feng Bujue's group entered the scenario.
The situation on the other side of the road was more tense.
Copper Hill was filled with people from various sects, people from the martial world, and even soldiers from the government. There were several thousand people there. Naturally, not all of them would go to Chang Lin. If they did, the small town would be flattened.
Therefore, there were certain conditions to take the main road to enter Chang Lin.
After the Sect Leaders of the various sects discussed with each other, they set down two rules. First, each sect had many disciples, so they could not bring all of them with them. Therefore, each leader could only choose at most twenty disciples to follow them into the town. The rest of the disciples had to stay at Copper Hill and were not allowed to cause trouble. Second, people from the 'evil path' were not allowed to pass. Of course, what was the evil path? Wasn't it still up to the so-called "righteous people" to have the final say?
Other than the murderers and rapists who were wanted by both the martial world and the government, some of the more marginalized people were categorized into the evil path and blocked from entering Copper Hill City. Even though these people were not known for their righteousness, they were not evil either. Most of them preferred to be alone or had a strange personality, so they did not associate with the righteous path. Now, they finally understood what it meant to be on the same side.
It was worth mentioning that in the setting of this scenario, the court normally would not interfere with the vengeance of the martial world unless it involved the civilians. The people of the martial world would not care about the court either. Who became the emperor and how well they did it had nothing to do with the martial artists. This was an invisible line between the two, and it was not allowed to be crossed.
Therefore, at least on the surface, the soldiers from the government were sent to Copper Hill to maintain order. If there were martial artists who disturbed the civilians, they would be captured and dealt with. They would not care about anything else.
Now for the small road, those who took this road … were naturally those who were stopped at the main road or those who were not allowed to show themselves at Copper Hill.
The disciples of the major sects were guarding the Copper Hill day and night. Anyone who tried to sneak out or barge in through the main road was courting death. Those with weaker martial arts would be shot into a beehive by the arrows, while those with higher martial arts … would be besieged by hundreds of people dauntlessly. Sooner or later, they would run out of internal energy.
Therefore … if this group of people wanted to enter Chang Lin Town, they would have to take the shortcut. As long as the number of people was small and their whereabouts were well hidden, they would be able to reach this small path after making a detour for a day.
However, there was also a malefic star guarding this place.
The blue-robed elder's identity was Ye Hai, the housekeeper of the "Sword God" Ye Cheng's residence. There were no stories about him in Jianghu, and not many people had heard of his name because he had never ventured into Jianghu.
Ye Hai had been a servant in the Ye Residence since he was twelve years old. It had been more than sixty years since then. Since he became the housekeeper of the Ye Residence at the age of thirty-two, the Ye Residence had already changed three masters. Only he, the housekeeper, had remained unmoved.
Ye Hai's martial arts were taught to him by Ye Cheng's grandfather. Ye Hai's talent was not that high, and he knew that very well. Furthermore, as a servant, even if he was talented, he did not have the right to join the Ye Family. However, at the time, Old Master Ye had been secretly teaching this young man. When the young master was practicing, he had Ye Hai sweep the floor and purposely read out some of the mantras. When Ye Hai secretly practiced at night, the whole Ye Residence pretended not to see it.
The Ye Family's martial arts were all top-notch, and hard work made up for it. Even though Ye Hai's talent was average, by the time he was thirty, he had made some progress and could be considered one of the top masters in the Jianghu. Two years later, he became the Ye Family's housekeeper, got married, and had a son. For Ye Hai, that was the happiest period of his life.
Several years later, Old Master Ye passed away, and Ye Cheng's father inherited the family business. He allowed Ye Hai's son to join the Ye Family as an official disciple. Unfortunately, the boy was too competitive. When he was sixteen, before he could finish his martial arts, he got into a fight outside and died. Ye Hai's wife died not long after that.
After losing his family, the sense of duty to serve the Ye Family became Ye Hai's spiritual sustenance and life's goal. In other words, Ye Hai had been grateful and loyal to the Ye Family for the rest of his life.
The current Ye Hai, in terms of martial arts mastery, even if the leaders of the big sects came, they would not be his match. There were only two kinds of people who could beat Ye Hai. One was a one-in-a-million master like Xie San and Ye Cheng. The other was a connate master who had trained for many years, and this kind of person had to be … more talented than Ye Hai, on par with him in terms of skill, and at least sixty percent of his internal energy. Only with these three conditions could one beat him.
With such a person guarding the path, the result was predictable.
In this half a month, many villains who were famous and not famous in the Jianghu were taken down by Ye Hai. In a way, he was helping the people.
Of the Jianghu, those who were not good at kung fu were 'invited' back. Only the real 'masters', those who were worthy enough to watch the duel, entered Chang Lin Town through the path.
As for people like Bai Dian, who appeared to be part of the Jianghu but actually had connections with the court, many of them died. After all, the court was the court. Since the beginning of time, the government had always said one thing and done another. On the surface, they did not interfere with the affairs of the Jianghu, but in reality, they did interfere in many places behind the scenes, but they would never admit it. Therefore, in similar situations, the Jianghu people would not hesitate to kill the people from the court. After all, the court would not admit that they were the ones who sent the assassin, so they could only suffer in silence.
…
On the same night, in the forest to the north of Chang Lin Town, not far away from the rumored haunted temple.
The vines and grass were knee-high, and there was no sound. Looking into the forest, it was dark and eerie. The branches above their heads intertwined, and the ground was covered in thorns.
A shadow flew over, stepping on the grass without making a sound.
The person who came was a woman. She wore a green robe, and her figure was slender and fit. Her appearance could be considered to be elegant and refined.
However, at that moment, her expression was serious, and there was a trace of fear in her eyes.
"Your Qinggong is not bad," a cold voice said.
As he spoke, another shadow appeared. Based on his posture, not only was he not holding a weapon, his hands were behind his back. He looked like he could win without even using his hands.
The woman did not say anything. Her sword carried a gust of wind, and she used all her cultivation to slash at him.
The black shadow used an inconceivable movement to dodge the sword and stepped on the long sword with his right foot. Using his vigorous inner strength to suppress the sword, the woman's face flushed red and she used all her strength, but the sword was unable to be pulled out at all.
"Unfortunately, the Qinggong that you specialize in is nothing more than a trick for me," the shadow said in a low voice. The black shadow said in a deep voice, "Heroine Lu, you can only blame your bad luck for discovering my secret … so you must die."
Before Lu Qingning could reply, something changed around them.
At that moment, a strange bell rang in the dark. At the same time, both of them were surrounded by an indescribable chill …
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