Night.
A fire was lit, crackling.
"What's your name?" Lin Changfeng chewed on the meat and asked in a muffled voice.
"I don't have a name yet" the boy shook his head.
The mountain wind blew.
The light from the fire cast a flickering shadow behind him, adding a sense of loneliness to it.
Lin Changfeng's eyes flickered as he gulped down a mouthful of liquor.
— — -he's only around 3 years old, so he probably has a nickname, but no official name.
Only when he's 5 years old and brought to a sect by his family, after being examined by a disciple of the sect, would he be given a name according to his talent.
This boy's relatives are all dead, so it's uncertain if he'll even get a name in the future.
Thinking that, Lin Changfeng gave him a piece of steak.
"Eat, it's delicious" he said.
The boy shook his head: "I'm already full, but why does the water in your gourd contain the power of so many spirit objects?"
"This is called liquor — — spirit liquor, I brewed it myself"
Lin Changfeng gave the gourd to the boy to sniff.
The boy praised: "How nice, can I have a sip?"
"Of course not, you're too young, you can't handle the spirit energy in this liquor" Lin Changfeng hurriedly said.
He put the gourd away and asked: "What's your nickname?"
"I'm thinking, but I can't think of one" the boy answered.
"How about I think of one for you?"
"Let me hear one"
"How about — — Gouzi?"
"Can't"
"Gou Dan?"
"Can't I, can I change it to an animal?"
"You look down on Gouzi?"
"I don't, but it's a loss of dignity that'll hinder my future"
"Ah, so young and you already want to be a heavenly being?" Lin Changfeng mocked.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew.
Lin Changfeng's expression changed, waved his hand to extinguish the fire, then shouted: "Stay here and don't move, I'm going to take a look"
Before he finished, he had already disappeared.
The boy sat in the darkness, thought for a bit, then took out the rattle-drum.
— — -when he arrived at the Chaos, he entered the body of a 3-year-old child with a toy like this in his chest.
Even though it was only a toy, it could still exert a bit of its power.
That village …
Just who was it that had killed everyone?
The boy slowly stood up, held the rattle-drum, and walked into the darkness.
Time passed slowly.
There was a gentle breeze.
Lin Changfeng landed quietly and said in a low voice, "We're leaving, little guy."
He paused for a moment and suddenly said anxiously, "Little guy? Where are you hiding? "
The next moment.
Four men in black robes walked out from the darkness and surrounded him.
The leader looked at him and muttered, "Tiger of Cangnan, Lin Changfeng …"
Lin Changfeng stuck out his chest and pretended that he didn't care at all. "That's me. Who are you?"
The four of them looked at each other.
The leader said, "You have a good reputation, and some of the things you've done recently are indeed eye-catching. I heard that you've already attracted the attention of the Dao Sect. I think it won't be long before you have the opportunity to receive an invitation to cultivate."
Lin Changfeng was startled and murmured, "Why didn't I know?"
That person smiled and said, "How can a small rogue cultivator like you listen to the matters of the Saint Clans?"
Lin Changfeng said, "Since you've heard of my name and know that I'm going to enter a sect to cultivate, then why have all of you surrounded me? To ask for a reward? "
The man shook his head and said, "I originally didn't want to trouble you, but when we checked the population of the previous village, we found that one person was missing"
"So it was you who massacred the village?" Lin Changfeng's voice became gloomy.
The man coldly laughed: "Don't play dumb, we've always been the ones to do such things — — we've checked a few traces and found that it was a child who probably ran away with you"
Lin Changfeng shook his head and said, "I've never seen a child before"
He suddenly drew the two blades at his waist and slashed behind him without turning back.
Hundreds of thousands of blades flashed in the darkness, clashing against an axe and a sword.
The continuous sounds of collisions pierced through his ears, and it was continuous and unending.
All of a sudden, both the sword and the axe were knocked away. The two men couldn't hold on any longer and had to take several dozen steps back to stabilize themselves.
A deep ravine appeared on the ground.
Lin Changfeng's body slightly bent, both hands gripping the blades tightly as killing intent exuded from his body.
"Good Blade Art!"
The leader of the group praised.
"You've killed countless people, of course it's good Blade Art" Lin Changfeng scoffed.
The leader thought for a bit, then said: "How about this, you only need to point us in a direction, then we'll immediately retreat, even if we've never seen you before"
"Really?"
"Really"
Lin Changfeng pondered for a bit, then pointed his blade in a certain direction.
The man clasped his fist and said: "We'll meet again"
He turned around and left with the other three.
Lin Changfeng stood still, silently waiting for a while.
"Little guy?"
He called out in a low voice.
A faint drumming sound could be heard from the tree above.
Lin Changfeng was surprised: "So it's here, you're quite smart"
He flew to the top of the tree and looked at the child.
In the darkness, the child's bright eyes were staring at him, asking: "Why did you lie?"
Lin Changfeng replied: "If I didn't lie to them, you'd be dead"
"Who are they?" the child asked.
"They're all assassins" Lin Changfeng appeared disdainful, "They slaughtered the nearby villages, killed countless women and children, they don't even count as humans"
"Assassins, why would they kill defenseless mortals?"
"As long as you give them money, they'll do anything"
"Their lives should be more important than the money — — didn't they say that the Connate Saint would descend near Bu Zhou Mountain? Why would they dare to kill so many people? "the child asked again.
This question stumped Lin Changfeng.
"That's right … this is the foot of Bu Zhou Mountain, the Saints had already announced that the Connate Saint would descend" Lin Changfeng muttered.
The child opened his bright eyes wide and casually said: "If the Saints want to receive the Connate Saint, why would they allow these assassins to slaughter one village after another? If they were to act, they would be able to stop everything "
Lin Changfeng was stunned.
He shuddered suddenly.
Even if he had always been a carefree person, he finally understood something.
The waters of this matter are too deep.
— — it's not something a loose cultivator like him can get involved in.
With a serious expression, Lin Changfeng jumped down from the tree with the child in his arms.
"Go — — we need to leave quickly, otherwise it'll be troublesome if they turn around and chase after us"
He chose the opposite direction from the assassins and flew with all his might.
Time slowly passed.
The sky was slowly turning white, the first rays of dawn were slowly rising.
Lin Changfeng arrived at a ferry with the child.
There was a boat that was about to cross the river, but there was no one on board.
"Hoh — – hoh — – as long as we cross this river, we'll be out of the Grand Tie Wei Mountain's territory, we won't run into those assassins again" Lin Changfeng breathed heavily.
River?
The child looked up and found that he couldn't see the other end of the river.
This river was simply like the ocean, its waves were like the tide, and it rolled and flowed without end.
Standing at the edge of the river and looking down, he could see that the current was rapid, as well as an unknown giant body that was faintly discernible in the water.
Perhaps noticing his expression, Lin Changfeng explained: "This river is about 80,000 miles wide, there are millions of aquatic creatures, dragon palaces, jade ponds, countless treasures, and there's even a Water Saint guarding it. Normal people can't fly across, they have to cross the river on a ferry, no formalities"
"Those are the aquatic creatures?" the child pointed at the giant creatures in the river and asked.
"They're aquatic creatures, don't mess with them — — don't worry, they won't mess with the ferry either, there's a rule here" Lin Changfeng replied.
He took out an extremely transparent jade coin from his pocket, counted 8 of them, and gave them to the boatman.
The boatman carefully counted the money and gestured for the two of them to board the ferry.
Lin Changfeng lifted the child up, put him on his shoulder, and boarded the ferry together.
A few moments later.
The ferry set sail.
The ferry slowly left the shore, drifting towards the rapid current of the river.
It was now that Lin Changfeng finally sighed in relief and slumped down on his seat.
The child silently sat next to him, looking back at the shore, all the way to the towering Cang Mountain that reached the sky.
— — Mount Bu Zhou.
Lin Changfeng thought he was sad and said:
"Don't look at it anymore, when you grow up, after 20-30 years, you can come back to pay respects to your family"
The child blankly said: "I'm actually thinking that I need a name so that you can call me"
"Ah? You want to give yourself a name? "Lin Changfeng asked with interest.
"Giving myself a name is too much of a waste of energy, I just happened to be looking at this Mount Bu Zhou — — I'll just call myself Gu Qing Shan"
Lin Changfeng smiled and shook his head: "Little guy, only heavenly beings have the right to give others names, you're being too reckless"
Suddenly, a voice came from the other side of the ferry:
"That's right. Naming himself after Mount Buzhou is too presumptuous and reckless. Such a child should die early."
Lin Changfeng's expression changed.
On the other side of the ferry stood 8 black-clothed men.
"We meet again"
The leader clasped his fist and said.
— — -it was the leader of the hitmen who was tricked by Lin Changfeng before.
Lin Changfeng drew his Blade and stood in front of the child.
He looked at the back of the ferry, only to see that the boatman had already been cut in half, dead beyond death.
The leader of the hitmen silently looked at Lin Changfeng and asked in confusion: "Lin Changfeng, ever since you deceived me, there's something I don't understand"
"— — -you have such a bright future ahead of you, why did you save a child you don't even know? And even offend us for that? "
Lin Changfeng replied: "Since I saw it, I couldn't help but get involved"
"No one forced you to do this" the leader of the hitmen replied.
Lin Changfeng wielded both Blades and laughed: "Cultivators like us, seeing injustice but not doing anything, what kind of cultivation do we cultivate?"
The leader of the hitmen slowly drew his weapon and slowly replied: "Such a trivial matter, not worth paying too much for, not to mention, it would result in death"
"You think it's a trivial matter, but this trivial matter is my Dao, and what I cultivate is precisely this" Lin Changfeng spoke in a low voice.
All the hitmen drew their weapons.
"How regretful, die!" the leader of the hitmen shook his head.
In a flash, the sky became completely dark. The entire ferry was enveloped in intense wind and rain, as if it had entered a completely different world.
Boom!
Thunder resounded.
Within the torrential rain, the 8 hitmen turned into armored skeletons, flying back and forth.
They alternated, sometimes hiding in the rain, other times appearing from the void of space, slowly approaching Lin Changfeng.
Lin Changfeng opened his eyes wide and shouted in a low voice: "World Technique — — not good, Gu Qing Shan, quickly go hide in the cabin!"
As soon as he said so, three skeletons flew out from the void of space, brandishing their Blades to attack Gu Qing Shan from three different directions.
Gu Qing Shan didn't move at all.
He was blankly staring at the rattle-drum in his hand, seemingly muttering something.
"Shameless!"
Lin Changfeng shouted and brandished his Blades, unleashing hundreds of thousands of Blade phantoms in every direction.
The three skeletons were sent flying, once again disappearing into the torrential rain.
The leader of the hitmen's voice came from the depths of the torrential rain: "Your talents are decent, but you're still an amateur, you don't even know where your weakness is, so how do you plan to stop the 8 of us?"
The void of space moved.
The 8 skeletons surrounded Lin Changfeng, attacking at the same time.
Lin Changfeng roared and raised his Blades — — -
In a split second, the Blade phantoms and sword images overlapped one another, like a mountain or an ocean, densely covering the entire area, giving off a rapid sound of clashing.
One breath's worth of time passed.
All the supernatural phenomena disappeared.
Lin Changfeng knelt on the ground, his body full of wounds.
"Hmph, who would've thought I'd die under the blades of a group of hitmen" he laughed self-deprecatingly.
The leader of the hitmen spoke: "Stubborn fool, do you know, you could've joined our sect …"
Lin Changfeng's expression changed.
The leader of the hitmen also felt that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he raised the weapon in his hand: "I'll cut off your head right now and end everything"
Lin Changfeng was already on his last breath, so even though he could guess a lot of things, he also knew that his life was about to end.
He couldn't help but look towards Gu Qing Shan's direction.
Only to see that Gu Qing Shan's face was pale as she slowly raised the rattle-drum in her hand and shook it.
Dong — —
The drumbeat resounded.
"Kill them" Gu Qing Shan spoke.
Lin Changfeng opened his eyes wide, only to see the 8 hitmen standing still, as if they were restrained by something.
A good chance!
Lin Changfeng exerted the last bit of power in his body, swinging his Blades to create a white streak of light.
Sha — — -
Eight heads flew to the sky, hitting the deck of the ship with a heavy 'bang bang' sound.
In the blink of an eye!
The outcome of the battle was completely reversed!
"Ahahaha!"
Lin Changfeng coughed up blood, laughing in a frenzy.
Gu Qing Shan's body was trembling nonstop as she slowly walked forward, sorrowfully speaking: "I'm sorry, it took me a bit of time to activate this technique, but I still couldn't make it in time"
Lin Changfeng's eyes were wide open, staring at the child in front of him.
"Precelestial Saint?" he asked.
"You can say that" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Lin Changfeng smirked and said: "Let's make a deal, can you at least give me a better identity in the next life?"
"You've saved me once, your Merit is more than enough for this, there's still some left over" Gu Qing Shan replied.
Lin Changfeng thought for a bit, then said: "Then help me with something else"
"What is it?"
"In the next life, let me take care of hitmen — — - lest they keep killing innocent people"
"Merit can help a bit, but you'll need to work hard for more" Gu Qing Shan said.
"Alright, then it's a deal?"
"It's a deal"
Lin Changfeng nodded, the smile on his face slowly faded.
He lowered his head and died.
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