Chapter 306: Cruel Punishment
Just as Tianyou hurried to the river beach where the villagers were, there was chaos on the river beach. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
After seeing a few figures on the river beach in a small boat, the villagers were very happy at first, thinking that the person who rescued them had come. However, when the men got closer, the villagers noticed that something was wrong. The attention of those who landed on the shore was not on them, but on the divine sword left by the immortals. The villagers thought of what that look meant, but they were cowardly.
There are not many people who have landed on the shore, only six, less than the villagers, but these six people are all young and strong, and they know that they are not easy to mess with at a glance. Seeing these six people walking towards the immortal sword left behind by the immortals suspended there, the villagers didn't even dare to make any sound to stop them. However, just as the six of them crossed the location of the villagers, the old man who asked Tianyou to cross the water suddenly mustered up the courage and shouted: "It was left by the immortals, and the immortals said that they couldn't touch it." β
The eyes of the six turned to the old man in unison, and then hesitated. These six people all knew that this divine weapon would definitely not be the property of these villagers, so the immortal theory should be true. But when they came, they really didn't see anyone else, and naturally coveted this temporarily ownerless treasure. Obviously, the villagers present are not their opponents, and as long as they kill people and kill them, and then take away this magic weapon, they will really make a fortune. Although these sailors did not know how precious the Taiyi Sword was, they were at least sure that it was very valuable. For them, it's enough to know that.
After a brief silence, the six people who came ashore looked at each other, one of them raised his chin at the old man, and the other five immediately drew their swords and walked towards the villagers.
Seeing their intentions, one of the women in front immediately shrank back in panic and asked, "What are you going to do......?"
The person who came didn't say a word of nonsense at all, and when he came up, he slashed the woman to death, and the rest of the villagers immediately panicked and retreated. The old man picked up the children beside him and turned to hand them to the half-grown girl, and then protected them behind him and kept retreating. It's just that this river beach is surrounded by cliffs, and there is no exit at all except for the water. Those who practice martial arts can climb it, but for the villagers, this is a Jedi.
The leader standing next to the Taiyi Sword over there watched the villagers of the five people continue to retreat, and couldn't help urging: "What are you doing with the grinding? Hurry up, when the owner of this thing comes back, you still have a life?"
Although the old man was extremely frightened, he still shouted: "Don't ......"
Unfortunately, the man didn't listen to the old man's obstruction at all, and still held the hilt of Taiyi's sword with one hand. The old man was so nervous that he even forgot to retreat, and the five of them also looked back at their leader. However, nothing happened. Taiyijian was still floating there, and there was no change at all.
"Hey, that's a bluff. One of the sailors turned around and took a knife and said viciously to the old man: "If you dare to deceive us, Lao Tzu will let you know today that you know how powerful our brother is." As he spoke, he raised his sword and went to cut the old man.
The old man took a step back in a panic, but he tripped over the rocks on the ground and sat down on the ground. However, just as the man's butcher's knife was about to swing down, there was a puzzled voice from their boss behind him.
In the silence of the night, the slightest sound can feel very loud. It wasn't loud enough, but it was still heard here. The man holding the knife stopped his hand for a moment, and when he looked back, he found that the boss was there fighting the divine weapon. It seemed that he had even used the strength to feed, but the divine soldier did not move, as if he had been nailed into a stake on the ground. But the problem is that it's floating!
This change immediately attracted everyone's attention, and one of the sailors even turned around to help his boss, but in the next second, the sword that was very valuable at first glance was lit up with blue arcs, accompanied by the rising electric snake, and everyone seemed to hear a buzzing sound like a bee flying in their ears. The voice was deep and powerful, with occasional crackling pops.
The eldest of the six no longer dared to hold the Taiyi Sword at this time, and hurriedly let go of his palm and stepped back. The man who wanted to help also stopped, not daring to go any further. However, even if the leader let go of the Taiyi Sword, it didn't mean that the Taiyi Sword would spare the mortals who dared to blaspheme him.
The Taiyi Sword is the treasure of the Immortal Gate, it is not cast by mortals, but is formed by the natural gathering of the Heavenly Spirit Qi and gradually guided by the immortal craftsmen. That is to say, unlike ordinary divine weapons, the sword spirit in the Taiyi Sword is not an acquired injection, but exists in the first place, and it was even born before the sword was formed.
This difference brings about the extraordinary spirituality of Taiyi Sword, and the strength of the previous masters has also cultivated Taiyi Sword's arrogant character. It doesn't want to give in, and the owner it doesn't like, no matter how strong it is, it still can't look down on it. However, it was absolutely unforgivable for this mortal in front of him to dare to touch it without the consent of its chosen owner.
As the arcs around the body became more and more dense, the arcs around the Taiyi Sword began to break away from the sword god, jumping back and forth between the blade and the ground, and instantly formed a terrifying thunderstorm around the sword body.
At this moment, the people around him became nervous, and they all unconsciously retreated, and the eldest of the six was about to turn around and run away, but a thunder snake suddenly shot out from Taiyi's sword, which instantly pierced the back of his heart. There was a loud bang, and a cloud of blue smoke burst open, and the flash of light made everyone have to turn their heads and close their eyes to avoid the glare, and when they looked back, there was still the shadow of the sailor leader on the ground.
"Where's the boss?" asked one of the sailors, anxiously, and began to shout around, but unfortunately no one would ever answer him again. The darkness of the night and the chaos of the river beach obstructed his vision, otherwise he should have seen on the ground, where his boss had disappeared, leaving behind a large patch of gray-white powder, the last relic of his boss.
After evaporating the mortal world who dared to desecrate him, the thunder light shining on Taiyi's sword finally eased down, but what startled the remaining five people was a young man who fell from the sky.
Because Tianyou came down from the sky, the five of them were frightened for a while. But after seeing Tianyou's face and dress, he immediately stopped panicking. "Hmph, it turned out to be a hunter. The man who was going to help his boss seemed to remember something after speaking, and said directly to Tianyou: "Hey, you, take this, go and tie that sword." So saying, the man threw a bundle of rope.
Tianyou had just landed, still observing the situation, and did not react immediately, but the person on the other side thought that Tianyou was frightened by them, and immediately put on a fierce face and brandished his sword and shouted: "Are you deaf boy? Hurry up, go and tie up that sword, remember not to touch the sword anywhere." Hurry up. β
This man had a lot of ideas, and wanted to tie up the Taiyi sword, and then grab the rope and drag it away. Looking at the previous situation, as long as you don't touch that sword, you'll be fine.
It's a pity that this guy is so unlucky, and the object of his threat turned out to be Tianyou.
"You want my divine soldier?"
"What's yours, that's Lao Tzu......" The sailor who spoke was stuck in the middle of his words, because he thought of the possibility of not fighting.
Although Tianyou has been joining Zixiao Palace for more than half a year, he is still not very used to wearing that flowing sect robe to go out to do tasks. In his opinion, the clothes for the task must be loose and do not affect the tactical movements, and the second is that it must be close to the body and cannot be dragged and hung to prevent it from being hooked or caught by the enemy during the mission. On the premise of satisfying these two points, the issue of defense can only be considered later, and according to the needs of the mission, it is also necessary to consider whether it is necessary to add the characteristics of camouflage and concealment, as for the question of whether it looks good or not, it can only be said that the combat suit is dispensable, and it is not necessary at all.
Zixiao Palace's caftan obviously does not meet Tianyou's definition of combat clothing. The outfit designed by the immortals was loose enough, but the flowing hem and the large sleeves of the wide robe were obviously quite in the way, and the color of this outfit was only a few colors such as light blue, white, light pink, and pink, and all of them were light colors. This color combination is obviously neither good for camouflage nor completely resistant to dirt. As for defense or something...... How much defense can you expect from a combination of several layers of silk and tulle?
Therefore, Tianyou still chooses to insist on wearing the jungle hunting suit he made himself when he goes out on missions so far. At the very least, the cotton and linen blend weave is much stronger and more wearable than silk, and the dark green and brown messy dyeing, although it may seem strange at first glance, is really hard to spot when squatting in the grass. More importantly, the hard leather vest of Tianyou's jacket can play the role of a stab-proof suit on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also provides him with a number of external points and tool bags, no matter what tools he uses, he can touch them immediately. Compared to this, worry-free bags are slightly inferior. After all, the latter has few advantages other than a large enough volume.
However, Tianyou's choice was to trap these sailors who wanted to work part-time as robbers. When they first saw Tianyou appear, their first reaction was that they thought it was a hunter who had entered the mountain, and they also jumped down from the mountain on this side because they saw the light emitted by the treasure. Even though you can get down from that high is pretty impressive, there are still five of them anyway. In their minds, the five of them should have a solid chance of winning against one Orion. But the information contained in Tianyou's sentence just now made the person who spoke react.
Tianyou said it was his magic weapon. Even if a hunter coveted this treasure, he would not tell such a lie that sounded like a lie, and on the other hand, if it was not a lie, then the sword was really his. Divine soldiers, is that what mortals can have? Therefore, the identity of Tianyou has been revealed.
"You...... You are...... Are you a monk?"
"Hmph, under the gate of Zixiao Palace. β
When Chang, the waist knife in the sailor's hand fell directly to the ground, completely ignoring the fact that the ground was full of rubble, so he knelt down directly, and then cried and begged for mercy while kowtowing desperately. The four sailors in the back also reacted similarly, and they fell to their knees one after another after half a beat and desperately begged for mercy.
Although there are a lot of monks in the Shenzhou Continent, most of them are low-level existences, and their actual combat ability may not even surpass that of the high-end martial artists of the people, and there are also some specially cultivated monks in various countries, such as a great general like Bai Qi, although he is also a cultivator, he is not a member of the sect. Therefore, although the monks who came out of these sects in the neutral zone were of high status, they were not to the point where they could run rampant.
However, there are two premises here. One is that ordinary people can't provoke monks in the first place. If they don't take advantage of it, the monks will also pay attention to some influences, and most of them will not take the initiative to find trouble with ordinary people, at least they must have an excuse for the past. Otherwise, the monks who are not part of the Neutral Zone sect will also find justice. The second is that the above conditions are not applicable to the disciples of Zixiao Palace.
All the cultivator sects in the neutral zone can be divided into two kinds in total, one is Zixiao Palace, and the other is all sects except Zixiao Palace. Compared to those chaotic sects, the behemoth of Zixiao Palace is really a bit outrageous. To use an analogy on Earth, it's a bit like the United States at the end of the Cold War. She deserves to be the number one in the world, and she is so strong that the two countries that rank second or third together may not be able to defeat her.
Although Zixiao Palace is not as exaggerated as the United States back then, it is not far behind. It is a well-deserved first sect in the entire neutral area, and its comprehensive strength is much higher than that of the second-ranked Lei Yin Zen Academy. If the two face each other head-on, there should be a one-sided slaughter.
Even the second-ranked Lei Yin Zen Academy is so much different from Zixiao Palace, you can imagine the attitude of other sects towards Zixiao Palace. Although the various factions will unite to target Zixiao Palace intentionally or unintentionally in many matters out of consideration of checks and balances, those are all major matters related to the interests of the sect. For such a trivial matter where sect personnel clash with ordinary people, no one dares to trouble Zixiao Palace at all.
Talking so much is to show one thing, that is, Zixiao Palace is really good, so good that it has no friends, and it is so good that no one dares to say anything without talking about certain rules.
Now the remaining five sailors have committed two major taboos. They first tried to rob the treasure, killed people because of it, and then spoke wildly about Tianyou. The disciples of the ordinary small sect will not give up, not to mention that the person in front of him is still a disciple of Zixiao Palace. Isn't this the old birthday star hanging and getting tired?
Facing the five people who were desperately kowtowing on the ground, Tianyou's gaze stopped at the motionless woman not far away. By this time, the blood on her body had soaked a large area. Because this is a shallow, the blood water cannot seep down, but is spread by the river, staining a large area red, which looks even more shocking.
Gently closing his eyes and opening them again, Tianyou was expressionless, and stretched out his hand towards Taiyi Jianyi, who was still floating on the side. The Taiyi sword standing behind Tianyou's side immediately turned around, flew into Tianyou's hand with a swish, and put the handle in his palm.
Tianyou clenched the hilt of his sword and asked in the direction of the five people, "Tell me your identity, your origin, and the information about the ship over there." β
The five of them were stunned when they heard this, and then the guy in front hurriedly replied: "We are sailors hired by Zhang Sange's Cao Gang from Yuqiao Ferry, and the boat behind is the merchant ship of our Cao Gang." β
The Cao Gang in the Shenzhou Continent is not a gang, and the Cao Zhi in it does mean Cao Yun, but the gang is not a gang, but the meaning of help. Therefore, in the Shenzhou Continent, the correct understanding of the Cao Gang is to help people organize the Cao Operation, and the simple understanding is that it is a logistics company that is specifically responsible for water transportation.
What is the name of this Cao Gang, Zhang Sange Cao Gang, as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was a small river transportation logistics company with little reputation in a small place, and the boat behind me was their only merchant ship. This kind of small Cao gang does not have sufficient start-up capital, and the personnel in it are often very messy, and they can't afford to hire decent guards, so they can only choose some crooked melons and cracked dates to fill up. These sailors said they were sailors, but they were actually the security guards on the ship, and because of the confusion of their origins, these people may not have been clean people before. may be more polite to the people on the ship, but when you encounter this kind of opportunity to do business, you will never let it go.
Of course, there is also a possibility that the entire Cao Gang is a part-time team composed of water bandits. There are actually not a lot of such Cao gangs, after all, there are a lot of monks in the Shenzhou Continent, and the ten countries are under pressure, and the internal control is also relatively strict, so the water bandits are not so easy to mix. Robbery can only be done casually, and Cao Yun is actually the main livelihood of these bandits.
"Is there cargo on board?"
"Well, it's all full. "The sailor who took the lead was very obedient and answered whatever he asked.
"Where are you going?" Tianyou asked before he remembered that even if the other party said what ferry crossing, he might not know, so he added: "From which direction, do you want to go north or south?"
"We are coming from the Chu State, and we are going to Sanniangdu, in the north, near the border of Yanzhao State. β
Tianyou recalled the map of the Divine Continent for a moment, and then asked, "Is your helper on the ship?"
"Nope. We were on other boats, not on our boat. We help the small, a total of two boats, except for a few janitors on weekdays, everyone has to run the boat, and the helper is no exception. β
"Then who's going to call the shots?"
This time the sailor did not answer immediately, but looked in the direction behind Tianyou. Tianyou turned his head to look, but found that there was no one there, and then suddenly figured out that they were looking at the guy who was evaporated by the Taiyi Sword world. "That's what he meant by the divine soldier who just came down to rob me?" Tianyou asked again.
This time, the five of them reacted quickly, nodded desperately, and then began to cry how innocent they were, hoping that God would let them go.
"One last question. Ignoring the cries of these people, Tianyou looked at the five people and asked coldly, "Who killed the village woman just now?"
Four of them suddenly looked at one of them in unison, and the man immediately panicked, stood up sharply and stepped back while explaining that he was acting at the will of the boss, not that he wanted to kill himself.
Tianyou didn't bother to talk nonsense with him at all, with a snap of his fingers, the mocking wind fell from the sky, and the person fell to the ground in one fell swoop, and in an instant, a burst of flesh and blood flew sideways. The man's screams lasted only a few breaths before they stopped abruptly, and his dying hand was raised to the sky, as if trying to grasp something. Unfortunately, in the end it caught nothing.
The surrounding crowd was frightened and shrank back desperately, and the two children had already thrown themselves into the old man's arms and didn't dare to look at them again. If it were on Earth, even if it was not illegal to kill someone, for the mental health of the two children, God would never kill in front of them, let alone in such a bloody way. However, unfortunately, this is the Divine Continent, a world that faces death every day. So he didn't care about the children, they saw these in advance and maybe they could live longer. Kindness is not very suitable for this world, unless there is a way to take care of the other person for a lifetime, you should not give too much love, but you should let the other person grow up as soon as possible. NaΓ―ve people don't live long in the Shenzhou Continent. Especially for mortals.
Mocking Wind didn't care about the eyes of the people around him, so he bit the sailor to death in front of everyone, and tore the flesh on his body in front of everyone and swallowed it in big gulps. It is a demon, and cannibalism is a natural thing, just like it is not surprising that people eat hunted animals.
With the sound of the mocking wind tearing at the pieces of flesh, and the clatter of teeth cutting through the bones, Tianyou came to the remaining four. These people were completely frightened, and when one of them saw Tianyou standing in front of him, a large trace of smelly water instantly appeared under him. Heaven could hear him constantly gurgling and chattering his teeth. This man was already on the verge of being scared to death.
But in the end, Tianyou didn't really kill him, but ordered in a cold voice: "Raise your right hand." The man looked at Tianyou with a pale face, but he didn't react stupidly, until Tianyou repeated it again, he didn't react slightly, but he didn't raise his right hand, but asked Tianyou what he was going to do in a trembling voice.
Tianyou continued to say with a cold face: "Right hand or head, I want to take the same, you choose." After three breaths, if you don't raise your right hand, I will default to your choice of head. After speaking, he really raised the Taiyi sword.
The man finally understood what Tianyou was going to do, but he really didn't want to lose his right hand, let alone his head. So he finally raised his right hand, and Tianyou didn't deliberately torture him, and with a clean sword, he unloaded his entire forearm from the elbow position.
"Ahh
Looking at this guy's appearance, the second person fainted directly, but the stupid guy who was farthest away from Tianyou actually stood up and ran in the direction of the boat. This guy has been scared and lost his mind, because normal people will know that he will definitely not be able to escape.
Of course, God will not bypass him because of this.
"Mocking wind. Tianyou screamed softly, and after the mockery wind looked over, he pointed in the direction of the man's escape.
It is more fascinated by the feeling of catching and tearing up its prey than eating meat. Mocking Wind instantly dropped the inhuman-looking corpse that had been gnawed under him, flapped his wings and swept over everyone's heads, frightening the remaining sailor to faint, while Mocking Wind instantly caught up with the fleeing man and threw him down in the shallow water, biting the guy's back open, and directly digging out the internal organs from the inside and eating it. Compared with the first one, this man died even more miserably, and it took more than a dozen screams before he finally breathed.
Without looking at the invitation over there, Tianyou walked to the side of the two fainting sailors, lightly cut off the forearms of the two, and reminded them after watching them wake up from pain: "Go find a soldering iron or torch and burn the wound, otherwise it is none of my business to bleed to death." β
Including the one who was rolling on the ground, he didn't cry anymore, he got up and hurriedly ran in the direction of the boat, but unfortunately he was stunned after only two steps, and then shouted while running more quickly: "Don't go, wait for us, wait for us!"
The people on the boat are not blind, and they have already seen the situation here. I didn't go before because I was stupid, and because the wooden boat was very slow at this time, especially when going upstream, it needed many people to use the pole to propel, and in some places even needed the help of a slender man. They were actually going to run away just now when Tianyou let the mocking wind bite the first person to death, but unfortunately the ship was going to move very slowly, and it didn't tend to move until now.
Tianyou rushed all the way past the three of them, and reached the side of the big boat after a few take-offs and landings in the shallow water. This kind of punt looks big, but the draft is actually very shallow. As soon as Tianyou pulled the boat gang, he flew up directly, and instantly reached the bow of the boat. When the people on the boat saw Tianyou coming up, they were immediately so frightened that they all hid in the stern of the boat and huddled into a pile and shivered.
Tianyou glanced at it, this boat is not very big, and it is about the same size as seven or eight buses. There is a small aft building at the stern, all of which are decked in front, and there is a flap in the middle of the deck, which is supposed to be the passage for cargo to enter and exit. The people on the boat are all on deck, after all, the boat can only be held here.
Even with such a backward wooden merchant ship, it would not require too many people to handle it at this size. There were about ten sailors on the deck, two of them who didn't seem to be the ones who didn't make a lot of effort, and there was an old mother and a young girl. It's kind of weird.
There are only 14 people in Tianyou who saw it, counting the 6 people who got on and off the boat, a total of 20 people. With the size of this ship, even if there are still people below deck, it will be at the level of three or five at most.
Sure enough, after Tianyou ordered everyone to stand in a row and called out the people under the cabin, three more people came out from under the cabin. In this way, there were 23 people on board.
"This Immortal ......"
Someone wanted to get closer to talk, but was glared back by Tianyou.
"No one is allowed to speak, and now I ask who will be able to speak. Whatever I ask, you will say anything, and whoever talks nonsense again, you will see the fate of the following ones. β
The threat was so intuitive that everyone on board fell into extreme fear, but of course it did fall silent, and no one dared to say a word more.
Nodding with satisfaction, Tianyou ordered: "Report your name, identity, and what work you hold on the ship in turn." Start with you, one by one. β
The 17 people on the boat were very cooperative, introducing themselves one by one, and then Tianyou finally figured out the identities of these people.
Fourteen of the 17 people were from the boat, that is, the Cao Gang. Among them, there is a thin old man who is a fisherman, and his work on the ship is similar to a combination of captain and navigator, but he only drives the boat, and the real decision-maker is actually the guy who has been evaporated by Taiyi's sword.
The remaining 13 Cao Gang personnel are all boatmen, that is, the low-level personnel who are responsible for contributing.
The three who did not belong to the Cao Gang were a young man and the two women. They are the owners of the goods, and everything that is carried on the ship is theirs. The young man and the old mother were servants, and the girl was the shopkeeper.
The natural and social conditions of the Shenzhou Continent are relatively harsh, so there are not many restraints in terms of etiquette and religion, because human beings really don't have extra strength to waste in this regard, otherwise they will be wiped out. Therefore, it is not strange that the female shopkeeper is in the Shenzhou Continent, but it is rare to be so young and beautiful.
Tianyou is not the type to see a woman who can't walk, and he has no interest in this woman, so he doesn't care much. However, after screening and confirming that the boats were all ordinary people, and the robbery was only a temporary idea of those six people, Tianyou did not embarrass them anymore. However, God blessed the boat did not let this boat go.
Since you have provoked him, you naturally have to make good use of it. The raft was destroyed by the fish monster, and now this is not the ferry that was delivered to the door?
They spoke openly and honestly to the people on board, and asked for their boats to be requisitioned to take everyone to the ferry port downstream, and this condition was agreed almost immediately. The people on the boat had seen the previous situation, and no one wanted to provoke this little immortal in front of them, who was even more terrifying than a demon.
After negotiating this side, Tianyou began to command the whole ship to help as a matter of course, first burying the dead woman on the spot, and then picking up the others on the boat, and then letting them wait here, Tianyou drove the small boat on the big boat to pick up Bai Bingyu and them. When they got on the boat, the big boat turned around and drove downstream, and picked up Liu Ye halfway, finally getting the team back together.
Unfortunately, there are only nine villagers left who they managed to bring out.