The sword light flashed, and the moment it was unsheathed, the sword blade pointed to the ground, and it couldn't reach it, but the sword qi made the wooden plank on the ground show a crack more than two meters long.

Sa! ——

The sword marks should be remembered, and the cold eyes turned sharply, and the sword was put into the sheath.

"Master, have you seen it, your personal disciple has now reached your original realm."

…… However, there was no response, and I knew that it was expected, but I was inevitably a little disappointed.

There are no other important things in the house, only this sword, Zhang Wenliang wants to take away. But he knew very well that although this sword was a relic of the master, now that the master had passed away, the sword should not belong to him. I want to see Li Changyuan and let Li Changyuan recognize the master of this sword face to face.

"Gu Yuan rains at the right time, and the sword cuts passers-by."

When the master used to face the enemy, he often said a sentence, every time he said this sentence, a sword was unsheathed, and the opponent had no chance of survival, and he missed the days when he was in the sect before, although he had experienced hardships, at least he still lived a carefree life. Life in the Moment,...... Alas, just the calm before the storm.

Back on the first floor of the restaurant, before leaving, Zhang Wenliang asked Li Changyuan where he was, saying that he left Nankeng City a week ago, and he didn't know where he was going.

Out of the door, after thinking about it, Zhang Wenliang decided to go there and ask,

Maybe he knew.

……

Three courtyards and four rooms, a square wall with a single portal, a huge courtyard in the middle, in which chickens, ducks and dogs are raised, and in a large room in the atrium, Huang Qiang is pacing back and forth in the hall.

He didn't know that Zhang Wenliang had returned, and the reason for anxiously waiting was just because the news he got the day before yesterday was far beyond his expectations-he didn't see Li Changyuan's life or death, and what he brought back was the corpses of the five ronin servants who were sent out.

'The cause of their death was all wiped with a knife, we need to send someone to investigate, Huang, your commission must be put on hold for a while. ’

He entrusted a group of thieves on a hill outside the city, the day before yesterday, the words of the thief leader have been haunting his heart, no, not to say, when Zhang Wenliang comes back, how to say this.

"Wait for me?"

Huang Qiang, who was pacing back and forth, thought about it, and when he was worried that there was no way, he heard a man's delicate voice coming. Ah, this voice, there is no second person but him!

Huang Qiang was so frightened that he turned his head to look at it, thinking that this was an illusion, Huang Qiang was stunned and did not move, until Zhang Wenliang stepped into the threshold step by step and walked to him.

"Wait for me?"

Zhang Wenliang asked again.

At this time, Huang Qiang was already covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and with a slight movement, the beads of sweat on his forehead flowed down his cheeks and chin, and fell down. Seeing Zhang Wenliang's expressionless face, Huang Qiang squeezed his eyebrows and made his eyes, and forced a hideous smile:

"Hey, hey...... Zhang Gongzi, you, you came, I don't know when you came. Quick, fast, please take a seat! ”

After speaking, he immediately lowered his head, did not dare to look at Zhang Wenliang, and was silent for a moment, but did not see Zhang Wenliang's movements. Raising his eyes slightly, he saw that Zhang Wenliang was still standing in place. Raising his eyes again, he saw Zhang Wenliang's smile squinting his eyes, his voice was as soft as cotton silk, and he turned his head like water:

"Everyone Huang, I heard that Zhang's little friend died in the ring, you are the host steward of the martial arts club, may I ask - can you conveniently tell Zhang, how did this Li Changyuan little friend die?"

'How to ...... to Die'

Huang Qiang trembled when he heard this, and almost urinated out.

If you want to say that you are not afraid, it is false, when Zhang Wenliang first arrived in Nankeng City, he held a paper fan in his hand, and killed more than 30 ruffians in the city within ten breaths, and the official office came to the door, but in the end he couldn't take this Wenliang. It can be seen that not only strength, but also background is not something that people of Huang Qiang's status can speculate.

"I, I, I...... I don't know ......."

"I don't know?"

"Oh no! I know, Li Changyuan is not, not dead! ”

Huang Qiang was afraid that his head would fall to the ground in the next second, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly changed his words.

"If you are smart, you should know that what Zhang wants to hear is not this, it is useless to quibble, this Li Changyuan Xiaoyou, how did he die, said. Affair. True. ”

woke up Huang Qiang at once, and it turned out to be ...... Zhang Wenliang knew all the things that Huang Qiang did behind his back, the dirty things that bought the murderer to hunt down Li Changyuan, Zhang Wenliang actually knew it!

That's right!

Huang Qiang's heart tightened, could it be ...... The five men in black,...... Zhang Wenliang did the killing!?

But I didn't come to the door until now to ask for the guilt, this ...... It's a bit impossible, but Huang Qiang really doesn't know if Li Changyuan is dead or not, and where he went. For a while, in the face of Zhang Wenliang's questioning, he really didn't know what to say.

lowered his head and kept peeking, and caught a glimpse of Zhang Wenliang's hand quietly placed on the hilt of the sword at his waist,

This scene frightened Huang Qiang and immediately knelt on the ground:

"I say! I say! Everything I know says, don't kill me! ”

"Zhang is good friends with Old Master Huang, how can he kill you."

Zhang Wenliang comforted a little, and saw Huang Qiang, who was kneeling on the ground, waiting for his defense.

After a while, Huang Qiang said that he wanted to embezzle his father's abacus, and in order to make the plan come true, he planned to hunt down and kill Li Changyuan with a group of thieves outside the city. Zhang Wenliang listened quietly throughout the whole process, and couldn't help twitching his eyebrows halfway.

Such a heinous act......

"Finished?"

“…… Yes, that's it. ”

"You went out from the west gate of Nankeng City, right?"

"Yes."

After everyone who should have been asked, Zhang Wenliang drew his sword and flashed, seemingly just making a stroke in the air. Huang Qiang, who was kneeling and bowing his head, saw the sword light flashing on the ground, and glanced sideways, and the blade of the sword hanging to the ground was not stained with blood. It seems that Zhang Wenliang didn't make a move, but just drew his sword to warn.

"This time there is a lesson, no matter how offensive there is, Old Master Huang will not be able to protect you."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Huang Qiang hurriedly responded.

After that, Zhang Wenliang turned around and left, and soon walked out of the Huang family compound, and Huang Qiang knelt on the ground for a while, and after confirming that Zhang Wenliang had left, Huang Qiang breathed a sigh of relief:

"Whew——...... Finally gone. …… Eh, by the way, what lesson did he say before? ”

Only then did he remember Zhang Wenliang's words before leaving, Huang Qiang couldn't understand, and when he was about to get up, he couldn't move his legs, and looked back curiously, only to find that his kneeling feet were cut off horizontally, and the calves were cut off horizontally, and the two ends were directly separated when he moved slightly.

The moment he saw it, the severe pain that he realized after realizing it, and the large patch of blood that flowed out after the translocation of the incision in his legs, made Huang Qiang's wail resound throughout the compound.

"Ahhhh!!h ——”

……

The day after Zhang Wenliang left Nankeng City, Huang Tian learned the news of his unfilial son's broken leg. However, Huang Tian didn't pursue it too much, and when he told Zhang Wenliang about what Huang Qiang had done recently, he knew that his son would be the result.

"Senior brother is still merciful."

Huang Tianke understands Zhang Wenliang's temperament, if ordinary people provoke Zhang Wenliang's hair, the other party is afraid that the door will be cleaned up and down, such a person who will be revenged, only letting Huang Qiang break a pair of legs is the biggest concession.

Just for the sake of Huang Tian's face.

Of course, even if this matter is over, Huang Tian did not pursue it later, and Huang Qiang did not dare to repeat the incident. As for the gang of thieves outside the city, when their leader came to negotiate with Huang Qiang again, he was directly driven out by Huang Qiang. That gang of thieves actually didn't have much strength, and they inexplicably suffered a dumb loss, and their gang also folded five people, holding two hundred and fifty taels of gold, which was a small comfort.

They didn't dare to make trouble, after all, the city was above the imperial court, which provoked Huang Qiang and brought out that Huang Tian, afraid that if the imperial court sent someone down, their nest of thieves would be directly eliminated.

In fact, no one knows that if you provoke Huang Tian, you don't need people from the court to make a move.

……

After walking for a while, Zhang Wenliang also walked on the official road.

On the way, I saw the knife marks on the big trees, the embers of the fire that had been lit by the stream, and the carapace left over from the ashes,...... The shell of a crab.

After going on the official road, I don't know which way Li Changyuan's kid is going. There are two ends of the official road, to the left is the wasteland, to the right is the barbarian city, think about it, that kid should not be so stupid as to go to the wasteland and not look back.

It's impossible to die in the wasteland......

There are very few people passing by on this official road, and even if there are people passing by the merchants, they are some loggers and wild hunters, and they can't ask for any useful information.

'Let's go to the Barbarian City first. ’

Turn right and walk on the official road, go two miles, and you will arrive at the east gate of the barbarian city.

Queuing up to register, when it was Zhang Wenliang's turn, the guards saw that Zhang Wenliang was dressed in a lofty and polite manner, and thought that he was a scholar, but he looked like a scholar, but he had a sword pinned to his waist.

It's not presentable.

"What's your name, a way or a merchant?"

The guards thought carefully, and asked questions as usual. Zhang Wenliang said truthfully:

"It's just a passing, looking for someone, Zhang Wenliang."

When the guard heard that he was about to raise the grade, he was suddenly stunned, stopped writing, and looked up to confirm:

"Zhang Wenliang?"

"Hmm."

"Your name?"

"Hmm."

I saw that the guards looked disgusted, and waved their hands again and again:

"Go, go, there was a Zhang Wenliang a while ago, which Zhang Wenliang are you, making trouble?"

"Is there such a person?"

Zhang Wenliang asked with a little surprise, and the guards looked puzzled:

"yes, what?"

Zhang Wenliang couldn't help laughing, took out a small brown ball the size of a soybean from his arms, handed it to the guards, and said politely:

"I know you don't take cash and bribes, and it's not a bribe, it's just a little bit of what I mean."

"What's this?"

"A bone forging pill, a small gift is not a tribute."

The guard's eyes widened, and when he heard that it was the Bone Forging Pill, he immediately took it quickly, and after dragging the Dan into the palm of his hand, he changed back to his previous appearance of nothing, and asked:

"Ahem, uh-huh, what's your name, passing through or being a merchant?"

Zhang Wenliang responded with a smile:

"My name is Li Changyuan, and I just passed by and came to find someone."

The guard scribbled on the paper with a pen and said:

"Well, let's go inside."

After entering the city, Zhang Wenliang began to look for people, and whenever he saw some decent hotels, restaurants, and inns, he would go in and ask one or two. Soon, I asked about an inn, and the innkeeper was also vigilant:

"Nope! What are you looking for Li Changyuan? ”

"He's an old friend of mine, and I haven't seen him for a few days since he came out of his hometown, and I've heard that he's been here recently, and I'm here to look for him to drink."

The innkeeper glanced up and down and looked at Zhang Wenliang from beginning to end. He is not afraid of trouble, but he is afraid of the residents of trouble, and his inn is also unlucky.

"What's your name?"

"Xiaosheng, Zhang Wenliang."

"Okay, let's go, come back early tomorrow morning."

That's it, and he didn't say anything to see him, the innkeeper waved his hand and asked Zhang Wenliang to leave. Even if he is a cautious person, Zhang Wenliang will not be surprised, thank you, and turn away.

"There is a burden to be treated, Zhang said goodbye."

Leaving the inn, at least he knew that Li Changyuan was in Barbarian City, and he lived in this building, and he was not far from ten.

But now the hour, Li Changyuan is not in his room, he is shopping in the market, at noon, every household has had lunch, the cool breeze at the end of the summer, the sun is not hot, autumn with wheat and fruits quietly approaching.

In this market, some vendors have already started to buy and sell fruits from the early autumn harvest. Bananas, autumn peaches, longans, persimmons, and so on. Green vegetables, chickens, ducks, and fish are available every day, but every day is fresh in the early morning, and at noon, most of the meat and vegetable shops are closed, and most of the street sells fruits except for the food stalls.

Zhang Wenliang was born with a good skin, and when he passed by, several ladies from the fruit stalls shouted at Zhang Wenliang:

"Little brother~, come and see, my fruit is sweet, I'll pick it early this morning! ~”

"Come on, handsome guy, reward you with a peach to eat, the thief is tender."

The aunt in the stall looked at Zhang Wenliang's face, her heart was so bright that she smiled, and threw a peach casually, Zhang Wenliang raised his hand to catch it and wiped it, and put it in his mouth to bite it.

After chewing twice, he turned around and smiled:

"Well, it's sweet."

"Ah, what are you saying, of course it's sweet, but you're even sweeter~"

Zhang Wenliang just smiled and didn't talk to him too much. After walking some distance from the fruit stall, I heard a snapping sound behind me, followed by a man's scolding:

"Sweet, sweet! Tell anyone about sweetness, no matter if you complain or not for a day, roll to the back and wash the dishes! ”

“￥&（@￥%……”

It is estimated that the little couple quarreled.

After Zhang Wenliang walked away, he walked out of the downtown street, the junction of the two villages in front. There is a field in the middle, the rice and corn seedlings in the field are growing vigorously, and it is about to enter autumn.

There is still a road ahead, out of this village and town, there is a path in the fields in front, Zhang Wenliang thought that it would be better to go farther, and it would be good to see the scenery.

When I entered the path, the dirt under my feet was a little muddy, and it didn't seem to have rained recently, probably because a farmer who lived nearby had come to water the field some time ago. After passing through the trail and fields, there was another village in front of you, but when you went to the next village, in another place outside the two villages, there was a very tall building that attracted Zhang Wenliang's attention.

It was a stone house in the shape of a circular ring.

It can't be said to be a stone house, it should be said to be an earthen house, the whole body is yellow, the whole building is made of large loess bricks, the outer wall is more than ten meters high, and it is comparable to the height of the stone wall on the periphery of the barbarian city. Zhang Wenliang turned around and came to the front of this building, only to see that there were many holes under this building, each of which was large enough to become a portal.

Well...... Maybe this is the door?

After walking in, I found that the light was quite transparent, and when I looked up, I found that the original house was not covered by the roof, but was open-air.

Looks like this is a venue.

Looking ahead, inside the venue, it resembles a circular stone slab ring, which is somewhat similar to the ring at the venue where the martial arts meeting is held in Nankeng City. However, this ring here looks bigger, but unfortunately,

"It turned out to be broken."

Approaching, Zhang Wenliang carefully observed the traces of the fragmentation of the entire stone platform, the edge of the crack was messy and formless, there was no straight line cracking, and there was no law to follow. After walking around this large pile of rubble, he still didn't find the traces he expected, and after thinking for a while, Zhang Wenliang thought:

"It's so violent, there's not a single sign of a weapon ever used."

That is, these ......

The means of turning such a large slate ring into gravel is to directly use brute force. Either a fist or a foot. What a terrifying method, this strength is by no means something ordinary people can have, let alone a scene caused by one person.

Thinking about it, something suddenly came to mind.

'Oh yes, I almost forgot about this stubble, Barbarian City has also held a martial arts meeting recently, but looking at the results, it seems to be unsatisfactory. ’

After reading this, there is nothing to see nearby, it is not early, return the same way -

"Who!"

A man shouted from behind him, Zhang Wenliang lowered his eyebrows and stared, and his fingertips quickly touched the hilt of the sword:

'There's a murderous aura. ’

Kicking straight legs and leaning over, turning instantly, he cleverly dodged the punch rushing behind him, and the sandbag-sized iron fist passed through the long brown and black hair on the side of Zhang Wenliang's sideburns, Zhang Wenliang's hand was already clenched on the hilt of the sword, but it was not the time to take out the sword. Dodging the oncoming move, Zhang Wenliang pulled away very easily, and said coldly:

"Xiaosheng's surname is Zhang, I don't know what to do to offend Your Excellency?"

The sturdy man had to be two meters tall, shoulder-width and arm-length as Zhang Wenliang's arm, and the muscles of his exposed arms were even more exaggerated to the point of frightening, like pieces of waxed bread sticking to them. He wore a sackcloth shirt with broken sleeves, a rope around his waist, gray trousers to bind his legs, and a copper-yellow complexion......

Looking at his coppery complexion, Zhang Wenliang unconsciously thought of some bad memories. But he was not sure, and without waiting for the other party to respond, Zhang Wenliang immediately opened his mouth to test:

"Remnants of the wasteland?"

Not only did the other party not respond positively, but when he heard Zhang Wenliang's temptation, he became angry, and rushed directly towards Zhang Wenliang before he could set up his posture, shouting angrily:

"Look for death!"

There is no need to draw the sword, this person has momentum, and his strength is less than one-tenth of Zhang Wenliang's.

Seeing the other party rushing towards him, Zhang Wenliang's figure drifted, flashing and moving, and dodged dozens of moves within three breaths, all of which were punches and kicks, rough!

"It's not good to hurt your temper."

Zhang Wenliang said weakly, and didn't look at the other party's anger, his whole face was red, his face was hideous, and he was about to hit Zhang Wenliang with a punch before he was willing to stop.

What a reckless man!

With such a speed of punches and kicks, ordinary people must not be able to see the shadow, but Zhang Wenliang closed his eyes and ignored it, but every move was exquisitely hidden, just a fraction of a fraction, but he flashed every time. This reckless man doesn't fight in one place, hide? I know how to hide, the thin monkey is flexible, and he can't hurt me at all!

'Iron Bone Realm...... No, it feels like it's the Blazing Breath Realm, and it seems to have the strength of the Blazing Breath Realm Fivefold. ’

With the speed and strength of the opponent's punch, Zhang Wenliang guessed the strength of the opponent's realm, if it was only the Blazing Realm, hehe, the difference in strength was too big, even if he didn't hide-

"That's enough."

The voice fell.

In the next move, the reckless man's fist hit Zhang Wenliang's outstretched palm. However, the white mist seeped out and rose in the palm of his fist, Zhang Wenliang's face did not change, and his eyes were slightly open.

"If you know about the remnants of the wasteland, it's impossible for Lao Tzu to let you leave alive!"

The eyes that opened slightly, looked at this reckless man, cold, cold, this killing intent was thousands of times better than the reckless man, just looking at each other, the reckless man was unable to move.

After a while, Zhang Wenliang withdrew his palm, turned around with a sword in both arms, and looked away, so that the reckless man could move.

This reckless man was already covered in a cold sweat, as if he had just gone through hell, his lips and teeth trembled, and he breathed slightly:

"Heavenly 、...... Heavenly Monks? ”