As of now, this so-called half-traveling businessman position has brought me three benefits.
First, and most importantly, it allowed me to obtain partial permissions of "Dairi Xingcha" and be able to use some of its functions.
Second, it has slightly improved the strength of my soul and reached the standard of "entering tranquility".
Third, what I just discovered allows me to enter a special "calm" state when encountering an emergency, shielding some of my fears, so that I can better calculate the gains and losses... Of course, this calculation is also based on my Your own level will not improve, nor is it absolutely correct.
In addition, emotions such as excitement and excitement are retained... This is probably because people secrete adrenaline when they are excited, which makes their thinking more agile, helps them calculate gains and losses, and make decisions that are more beneficial to them.
As his thoughts were spinning, Zhao Chen followed his master and kept retreating, and soon retreated to the corner of the street.
He did not try to escape while the master of the hall, Huang Xianjun, was blocking the monster. After all, the opponent was obviously coming for him. Once he was attacked after leaving the master's side, the master would probably not be able to rescue him.
boom! boom!
There were two more gunshots, and Huang Xianjun hit the monster's two heads again, beating it to a bloody pulp and screaming... However, this could not stop the monster from moving forward - it had already reached the level of martial arts with the help of its jump. The museum is located on the high wall at the corner of the street.
At this time, Zhao Chen and Zhao Chen were only a dozen steps away from the monster, and the strong smell of blood on the opponent's body could be heard. It seemed that the opponent could kill the master and the disciple with just one attack.
But Huang Xianjun didn't panic. After firing the last bullet, he reached out and grabbed his apprentice's arm, then jumped up and took him into the window of a shop facing the street.
At the same time, on the other side of the street corner, a row of soldiers had already picked up long blazing guns and aimed at the jackal-like monster standing on the wall.
"shooting!"
As the team leader waved the command flag in his hand, more than a dozen fire cannons fired at the same time, instantly punching bloody holes in the monster's body.
After suffering from pain, the monster finally woke up a little from its anger, and wanted to escape from here first, but was shocked to find that it was unknowingly restrained by some kind of force, making it difficult to move at all.
For a moment, this huge and terrifying monster seemed to become a target, allowing the soldiers to pour bullets on it.
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped……
When the dense sounds like fried beans reached the fourth round, the monster's screams and roars all disappeared.
At this time, Zhao Chen also poked his head out from behind his master and looked at the wall of the martial arts hall along the broken window. He saw that the monster looked extremely miserable, with bloody bullet holes all over his body. Even the limbs had been broken, and the two heads had been completely torn into pieces, leaving no trace left.
It was just like a piece of burnt meat massed on the wall, motionless, as if it was dead.
Seeing this scene, the squad leader also raised the command flag and asked the soldiers to stop shooting.
And just when everyone thought the matter was over, the two horns on the monster's back stood up again, squeezing out the little life left, causing the black light to quickly condense and turn into a dark blade visible to the naked eye, pointing towards the monster. Zhao Chen and Huang Xianjun, who were hiding in a roadside shop, came over quickly.
This blade is extremely fast and will not lose too much to bullets. It has a large range and is difficult to dodge.
"Hey!" Huang Xianjun sighed. He couldn't bear the death of his disciple in front of him, especially when he still had some strength left, so he had to forcefully activate his own magic and use the "golden dart" to block the dark blade.
But at this moment, a flaming red sword light arrived first and chopped the pitch-black blade into pieces with just one blow. Then it circled in the air and then penetrated directly into the monster's two long horns. Location.
The next moment, the fire suddenly appeared and quickly devoured the monster's entire body. In just ten seconds, only an eyeball the size of a tennis ball was left on the courtyard wall, as well as ashes still warm under the eyeball.
The red sword light rolled up its eyes and rose into the sky again. Finally, it fell into the hands of a woman with twenty years of beauty, and turned into a seemingly ordinary long sword.
The woman has a beautiful face and graceful appearance. She is wearing a red official uniform and looks heroic without losing her feminine charm.
Seeing that the woman appeared and completely eliminated the monster, a burly middle-aged man wearing a purple robe came out from behind the fire gun team, walked closer and cupped his hands:
"It turns out that Mr. Yan, the 'Devil-Subduing Envoy', is here, and Li is not far away to welcome him... Thanks to your intervention, my grandson can be saved."
The woman surnamed Yan waved her hand and said with a smile: "Li Zhenshou, you don't have to be polite. It is our duty as 'Taoist officials' to kill demons... In addition, Xiuling and I are good friends and are also your juniors. You can just call me Just me, Hongxia."
At this point, she paused, looked at Zhao Chen and Huang Xianjun who had already walked out of the street shop, and continued: "What's more, even without me taking action, Mr. Huang should be able to block the blade."
Li Xiuling is the concubine who guards Li Hu and Zhao Chen's stepmother.
"Hongxia girl, don't put gold on my face, that's a blade aimed at the soul. If I want to block it, I'm afraid it will break my bones." Huang Xianjun's ears are very good, and he heard the name Yan from a distance. He smiled bitterly at Hongxia's "Devil-Subduing Envoy" words, and said with emotion, "I didn't expect that Hongxia, you have achieved magic power after not seeing each other for a few years, and it seems that you have also cultivated the 'Red Emperor Nourishing Sword Qi'?"
"Hongxia also got a piece of Bai Alchemy with the evil spirit of earth fire by chance, and she got it by luck." After Yan Hongxia said modestly, she looked at Zhao Chen who was following Huang Xianjun a few times, but did not make any contact with her. He spoke, then turned to guard Li Hu and said:
"I came to Bingquan Town this time at the invitation of Xiuling and her husband to investigate the possible involvement of an evil organization behind an aunt in her house... Who would have thought that as soon as I arrived today, I would encounter something evil.
"I didn't want to show up, so I secretly used the magic 'Xiaguang Net' to control the actions of the monster, so as not to alert the mastermind behind the scenes, but in the end it was exposed...
"So now we must fight quickly. I ask you to immediately send soldiers from the town to surround the small mountain temple where Aunt Mei of the Zhao family often goes, and help me hunt down the evil forces that may be entrenched there."
"Okay!" Guard Li Hu nodded directly without hesitation.
Then, he looked at Huang Xianjun and said to the old master in a sincere tone: "Please also ask Master Huang to help me take care of my grandson."
"I will protect my disciple," Huang Xianjun said, holding a long fire blunderbuss in one hand and stroking his beard with the other.
After Yan Hongxia and Li Hu led the people away from the street in front of the martial arts hall and headed out of the city, Zhao Chen also took Fengqu, the young man who had ventured over to see the situation, and followed the master back to the main hall of the Golden Dart Martial Arts Hall.
Only then did Zhao Chen ask: "Master, who was the heroine just now?"
"'The fragrance of the stockings creates green mist, and the golden hairpin turns into a sword and spits out red clouds'. She is a seventh-grade Taoist official of the imperial court, the 'Deputy Envoy of Subduing Demons', and the 'Hongxia Sword' Yan Hongxia.
"She is also the niece of Yan San, the 'Desert Flying Eagle' in 'The Seven Heroes of Monan'... But her niece is now much more powerful than her uncle." Huang Xianjun clicked his tongue twice and continued, "'Desert Flying Eagle' and I Ying' actually has some friendship, so he gave the little girl a few words of advice at the beginning. Who would have thought that after so many years, the little girl back then is now a master of magic power... and has mastered at least three natal spells.
"In addition, the little girl's mother is also a side branch of the Li family, so she can learn the 'Red Emperor Yangyuan Sword' in the Li family's "Five Emperors True Sword Art". Unfortunately, she is not a direct descendant of the Li family and cannot learn the other four swords. Jue, it is impossible to achieve magical powers with this method, we can only find another way."
The story goes around and around, and it's all related to the famous Zhangye Li family... Calculating it this way, I can barely be related to this 'Hongxia Sword', right?
After Zhao Chen complained a few words in his mind, he asked with some confusion:
"Are you friends with Yan San? Then why did Yan Sanxia's apprentice 'Yellow-shirted Gunslinger' help Sand Snake to challenge you?"
"I'm a little surprised too... But Jia Zhengming is not Yan San's serious disciple. He is not even a registered disciple. There is no taboo..." Huang Xianjun stroked his beard and did not dwell on this topic anymore. And asked, "Can you tell me what happened to you? You can't let me have a fight with an alienated monster. I don't know why..."
"Yes, Master." Zhao Chen also wanted to hear the opinion of Master, an old man in the world, so he began to selectively talk about his findings in the past two days.
…
On the west side of the town, in a secret room near the entrance of Chijin Mountain, more than ten mysterious men, completely covered in black robes, stood on both sides of a long table.
They first paid homage to the four statues of gods enshrined in the room that were covered with black cloth, and then took their seats.
After a few seconds of silence, a slightly charming female voice took the lead:
"The plan went very smoothly. The 'Xinguang Temple' stronghold in the town has been completely eradicated by Yan Hongxia. Fang Xuzi of the 'Zhongxinghui' has also been regarded as a member of the 'Xinguang Temple' group. It should not cause any more trouble." Suspect.
“The Zhao family in Bingquan Town, the Chen family in Chijin Town, and the Lan family in Jinwan Township have all fallen under our control.
"Soon, the leader of the Sand Snakes gang and the head catcher of this town will be replaced by our people.
"When the old guy from the Golden Guard Martial Arts School goes to the county town, the Chijin Mountain area will completely give us the final say...
"The only trouble now is guarding."
