Chapter 45: Bystanders of the Jianghu

“Didn’t you say that he couldn’t reach the True Realm in this crazy state?”

Shi Feizhe stood on the twenty-zhang high city wall, looking at the black sun and blue moon in the sky, and couldn’t help but say.

After being taken away from Leng Qianye by Fan Jianqiang at an extremely fast speed, Shi Feizhe could finally take a deep breath and speak a complete sentence.

“How would I know!” Fan Jianqiang said gloomily.

The Jianghu, indeed, is beyond imagination.

Who knew that going crazy could also lead to the True Realm!

Hmm… that means the value of the 《Sun Moon Concentric Formula》 has greatly increased!

Fan Jianqiang’s eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of several ways to scam people!

“Lan Xuan! You dog! Come out and face your death!” Leng Qianye’s roar could be heard throughout Qiuyang City.

“Insolent!” A majestic voice came from the City Lord’s Mansion, followed by a giant blue Qilin leaping out!

“Ice Qilin! It’s City Lord Lan!” Chen Yulou couldn’t help but say when he saw the Qilin.

“Die!” The black sun crashed towards the Ice Qilin Divine Image, as if the sun in the sky was falling!

The Ice Qilin spewed out a deep blue breath towards the falling black sun, like a cold wave from ancient times, freezing half the sky.

But it still couldn’t stop the black sun from falling!

Because Leng Qianye wasn’t alone!

There were three of them!

The black sun smashed onto the Ice Qilin’s forehead, knocking half of its head askew. Lan Xuan, a veteran True Realm expert, seemed to be at a disadvantage in front of Leng Qianye.

“How could I! How could I have always been afraid of you, you dog?”

“How could the past me be so useless!”

“How could I be so useless!”

Leng Qianye let out a cry-like roar as he slammed the blue moon onto the Ice Qilin’s head.

The True Martial Divine Image is the externalization of will and True Qi, so if the Divine Image is injured, the person will be injured too!

“…How is this possible?” Lan Xuan was a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance and a three-chi-long beard. He couldn’t understand why Leng Qianye, who had just entered the True Realm, was stronger than him, who had been in the True Realm for decades!

His Divine Image was damaged by the attacks, and he could only say “impossible.”

“Ice Seal the World!” he shouted angrily.

The Ice Qilin roared and spewed out blue cold air, freezing even half of Qiuyang City. Adding to that the clouds he had frozen into ice blocks earlier, ice blocks were now falling from the sky.

The falling ice blocks, coupled with the half of Qiuyang City that was frozen, made the entire city look like a living hell. No one knew how many people died under this attack, or how many survived.

“This…” Shi Feizhe couldn’t bear to watch as half of Qiuyang City was frozen, with women and children being frozen into ice blocks while trying to escape. “This is too tragic, let’s go save people!” he said.

“The battle between two True Realm experts is no longer something others can interfere with,” Fan Jianqiang said. “If you get close, you’ll die too! There’s no need to save them, their deaths were already destined the moment the True Realm experts started fighting.”

“No! I have to go home! My parents are still at home! Farewell!” Seeing this scene, Chen Yulou was anxious. He dropped a sentence and half a watermelon, then disappeared.

“I hope he survives,” Fan Jianqiang said, looking at the retreating figure of Chen Yulou, the bystander.

“Can’t you do anything either?” Shi Feizhe asked again.

“Me? I can’t beat either of them!” Fan Jianqiang said. “Besides, what does the fate of this entire city have to do with me?”

“…” Shi Feizhe remained silent.

Coming to this world, he once again felt the cruelty of the Jianghu, and… its unfriendliness towards the weak.

“The most terrifying disaster in the Jianghu is a battle between two top experts!” Fan Jianqiang saw the sadness on Shi Feizhe’s face and comforted him, “You’ll get used to it after seeing it enough.”

At this time, Lan Xuan didn’t care about the destruction of Qiuyang City at all, because he was being beaten by Leng Qianye and couldn’t care about anything else.

“City Lord! We’ll help you!” More than a dozen monks from the Golden Buddha Temple formed a formation, channeling the power of all of them into one person, granting that person temporary True Realm strength! This was their trump card against Destiny Academy, and now they had to use it.

Because if Lan Xuan died, all their investment in him would go down the drain!

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“Leng Qianye, a few days ago, I gave you a Sutra, which can be considered as forming a good relationship with you. Why don’t you give my Golden Buddha Temple some face today…”

“Fuck you!” The blue moon suddenly smashed the speaking monk, preventing him from finishing his sentence.

“《Analects》! The Master said: ‘Since you have come, be at ease.'” The scholars of Destiny Academy recited the 《Analects》 in unison, their Qi connected, and they jointly unleashed this attack that was like a True Realm expert’s! This was the trump card they had prepared for the Golden Buddha Temple.

Since you have come, be at ease.

Since you’re here, be buried here!

This was the killing move from the 《Analects》, the five elements rotating, transforming into sharp arrows that shot towards Leng Qianye!

“We hit him!” The scholars of Destiny Academy cheered.

“Clowns, what are you messing with?” Leng Qianye, who was hit by the 《Analects’》 killing move, was unscathed and said coldly. He backhanded a black sun, smashing and killing several scholars.

“Dark Cold Kill!” Lan Xuan, who had received help from the two forces, finally caught his breath. The huge Ice Qilin slowly shrank, transforming into an arm-thick ice spike in his hand. Then, like the inescapable cold of winter, it pierced fiercely into Leng Qianye’s chest.

Leng Qianye could have dodged, but he didn’t!

“You’ve already lost, you bastard!” Leng Qianye didn’t care that his body was pierced by the ice spike and his blood was frozen. He grabbed Lan Xuan’s arm madly and said to Lan Xuan, who had landed a successful blow.

“Do you understand? You’re going to die at the hands of our Leng Qianye, you bastard!”

He exerted force with his hand and tore off Lan Xuan’s arm. His other hand grabbed Lan Xuan’s head, and then he roared.

“Die!”

Under Lan Xuan’s horrified gaze, his head and spine were pulled out by this grab!

He drank the blood dripping from Lan Xuan’s head as if he were savoring fine wine! Then came the wanton slaughter.

In Qiuyang City, if he encountered a man, he killed!

If he encountered a woman, he killed!

If he encountered women and children, he killed!

If he encountered a monk, he killed!

If he encountered a scholar, he killed!

“Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!”

“It makes us so happy to kill you!”

“We should have killed you all long ago! Killed you all!”

Leng Qianye was covered in blood, laughing maniacally as he slaughtered the weak, driving away the terrified people fleeing in all directions, like a demon.

“Let’s go! Let’s go! We can’t stay in Qiuyang City anymore,” Fan Jianqiang said to Shi Feizhe.

“What about them?” Shi Feizhe pointed to the people fleeing under the city wall.

“Don’t worry about them. Leng Qianye has gone mad! If we don’t leave now, we won’t be able to!” Fan Jianqiang urged, “I still need to grab my luggage! Let’s go!”

“I…” Shi Feizhe knew he was powerless. He sighed and left Qiuyang City with Fan Jianqiang.

In this Jianghu, he was just an ant-like bystander for now.

Shortly after they left, Yellow Heaven descended, quelling the chaos in the city.

The first volume has ended. Subjectively wanting to hide, objectively escaping. This is the Jianghu, drifting with the current.