bookpub Chapter 429: A Murder Case Caused By A Key
Chapter 429: A Murder Case Caused By A Key
"This... is impossible!"
The second-in-command of the Black Wind Duo Ghosts couldn't believe that he had been taken down so easily.
He slowly turned his head, a movement that was originally effortless but now became quite difficult.
"What a leg..."
All he saw was a long and white thigh behind him. As for the owner of the leg, he would never have the chance to see them in his lifetime.
After he fell, Ling Tianxin took a step back with her long legs.
"I'll leave the rest to you."
"Okay."
Lu Yu nodded.
There are different levels of strength even within the Gold Core realm, and these two guys are clearly the bottom of the barrel.
Dealing with them would have been enough for him alone. But Ling Tianxin's intervention made the whole process even simpler.
After she took down the second-in-command of the Black Wind Duo Ghosts, Lu Yu seized the moment when the leader was distracted and threw a punch.
"You dare to be distracted while fighting me?"
Boom!
A loud sound.
A huge hole was blasted into the leader's chest.
He was the opposite of the second-in-command.
The second-in-command couldn't turn back, but the leader couldn't turn back after turning around.
In any case, when he fell, he also had a look of unwillingness in his eyes.
After his body fell, Lu Yu looked up at the chubby man.
"Come here."
"I... Fellow Daoist, spare me. I'm just a debt collector..."
The chubby man was now almost scared to death.
He had originally thought that two Gold Core cultivators against one would guarantee victory in terms of numbers.
But who would have known that there was another powerful Gold Core cultivator hiding in this village?
And he didn't play fair by launching a sneak attack. In less than a moment, the Black Wind Duo Ghosts had truly become ghosts.
If he had known that there was such a formidable person here, he would never have come again.
"A debt collector? Haha, I don't believe your nonsense. Everyone, disperse. Chubby, come with me."
Lu Yu sneered, then turned around and dispersed the villagers who had come to help.
The cohesion of Longya Village was top-notch, even if nothing else could be said about it.
When enemies attacked, almost everyone rushed forward, just to defend their homeland.
Especially now that they saw hope in their lives, their enthusiasm was even greater.
And Lu Yu was the hope of everyone now.
In just a few days, his image had successfully taken root in the hearts of these ordinary people.
He had a few guards take the chubby man to a secret room in Longya Village. Lu Yu had everyone else leave, leaving only Wei Xiaoxian and Ling Tianxin.
Lu Yu calmly sat down, looked up at the chubby man who was full of unease.
"Speak up, what did you come to Longya Village for? Don't tell me it's for debt collection, I don't want to hear nonsense."
"I just..."
"Well?"
Seeing that he still wanted to say those lame excuses, Lu Yu coldly snorted.
Suddenly, a strong chill rushed from the chubby man's feet to his forehead, almost freezing his entire fat body.
"Hiss..."
Bai Pangzi shivered and quickly closed his mouth.
He rolled his eyes, thinking about how to respond, while Lu Yu calmly took a sip of water.
The two sides remained deadlocked for about half an incense stick's worth of time before Lu Yu raised his head again.
"I say, I say... I actually came this time to snatch a ticket for the competition, the participation ticket for the Twin City Battle League. Your former leader had one in his possession, and I need that item."
"The ticket for the Twin City Battle? Isn't it only for the major sects of Wansheng City and Chenyue City?" Lu Yu furrowed his brows slightly and asked.
This answer was somewhat unexpected to him.
He had heard about the Twin City Battle when he left Wansheng City.
It was a competition held between Wansheng City and Chenyue City to vie for resources.
In order to avoid losing their top combat power, the participants in the competition were all cultivators at the Gold Core stage and below.
It was said that the side with the better final result would obtain more resources.
Lu Yu himself had no intention of participating in this competition, so he didn't bother to learn more about it.
"Lord Lu, you may not know this. The Twin City Battle is indeed a competition for resources between the Greedy Wolf Hall and the Chenyue Sect. But for some smaller sects, it is an opportunity. This competition actually takes place within a secret realm, and it is said that many people have found treasures inside..."
"Oh? So that's how it is." Lu Yu immediately understood upon hearing this.
The Twin City Battle couldn't just have the two major sects participating; without the smaller sects to contrast them, even if they agreed, there wouldn't be much sense of accomplishment.
The smaller sects also wanted their disciples to have a chance to find opportunities.
The interests of both sides didn't conflict, so there were actually quite a few people participating in this competition.
"But our Longya Fort seems to have never participated in the Twin City Battle. Where did the ticket come from?" Wei Xiaoxian, as the former leader of Longya Fort, was quite familiar with the situation of the fort.
She had lived here since she was young but had never participated in such a competition.
Bai Pangzi shook his head lightly.
"Not participating doesn't mean there's no ticket. Longya Fort used to be a major force when the tickets were distributed, and Lord Wei had quite a bit of influence. It's just that I don't know why you didn't participate in the competition."
"Perhaps that's true. What does the ticket look like?" Lu Yu nodded, everything made sense.
"It's like this..." Bai Pangzi was prepared and took out a jade slip from his pocket, handing it to Lu Yu.
Lu Yu took the jade slip from his hand and glanced at it.
This was no ordinary jade slip. As soon as he held it, he felt a strange spatial fluctuation.
In the center of the palm-sized jade slip, there was also a drop of bright red, like a drop of blood.
In the middle of the jade slip, there were two ancient characters written: "Xuanyuan."
"You have a ticket like this, why did you come to us?" Lu Yu flipped through the jade slip and asked.
"This one is a replica and doesn't work. Lord Lu, you know how precious this thing is, right? So we planned to make a replica and try it out. But we couldn't get it right, so we had to find the original." Bai Pangzi didn't hide anything.
Since things had come to this point, he could only reluctantly reveal everything.
After listening to his words, Lu Yu nodded and suddenly thought of something.
"But aren't you from the Chenyue Sect? Do you need another key? Do you have other sects?"
"Lord Lu, you really don't know. You probably don't know the composition of the Chenyue Sect, right?" Bai Pangzi didn't react as if his secret had been exposed. Instead, he calmly explained the situation of the Chenyue Sect to Lu Yu.
Lu Yu only knew that the Chenyue Sect's master, Chenyue City, was the strongest sect, but he didn't know the specific composition inside, so these things were quite fresh to him.