
The night air at the end of autumn was getting colder and gripping, the thousands of fiercely moving petals of sparks being blown by the wind were getting hotter and the heat was consuming many things into the fierce belly of the smoldering red flames. An village is now just the rest of a village that blazes red hot fire, looks bright and deadly. The night was getting late, the darkness was getting more and more enveloped, and the silver full moonlight was shining high above the dark sky.
Chao Gu looked around vigilantly, he wouldn't be so wary if all they faced was a bunch of bandits or other villains, either, but it would be different if what they were facing was another figure from the young commander under this full moon.he would rather not come into contact with that ferocious creature, he said, or being a coward doesn't matter either.
“if you guys see master, don't approach him !!”, remember chao gu again.
The special soldiers who heard their young general's words again were a little confused but they still obeyed their general's words and looked around warily. After the fire heat attack until this moment there was no more threatening movement or maybe the heat was targeting someone else.
“there, do you know the noble lady??”, chao gu asked.
Some people just shake their heads. They only knew about the extent of someone who lived in that place, the rest did not know because the young lady was always in the courtyard and never came out of that place.
Their attention was distracted when they heard a rustling sound from within the corner of the forest, and everyone who had been talking to each other silently looked towards where the rustling sound was.
Everyone waited tensely but nothing came out of it, chao gu gestured to some soldiers and they walked towards the tall grassy grove in front of them with a sword brandishing vigilantly.
Chao gu was wide-eyed when he saw a woman's body in front of him.
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BEFORE THE FIRE IN AN VILLAGE, AN village inn.
Zheng bai who ordered his subordinates to go bring all the villagers to the place he had shown, he himself could sense that these people were eyeing something.
The fire was moving wildly and consuming all the buildings of the village house, he looked unconcerned and still stood in this room with one hand holding his sword.
The cold and cruel expression of zheng bai seemed to grow darker as he saw hundreds of fire arrows shot towards him. He could feel some black-clothed people also moving towards him. Without making a sound zheng bai jumped down from his place and moved wildly slashing at the people in black clothes. His ferocious and swift movements in killing those people made some of them move alertly.
“who are you !!”, shouted someone looking for the whereabouts of the person who attacked them.
Zheng bai smiled coldly, his smile was seen mocking the corpses that were now all around him, he casually kicked one of the corpses and walked again.
The loud whistle sounding typical made zheng bai raise his eyebrows, he knew it. These people are from the ghost valley. The ferocious rays in his eyes increasingly shone like seeing soft prey when these people in front of him gathered. But, he slightly raised his eyebrows when one of them looked surprised at each other.
“you, what are you doing in this place!!, no, if you get the order, we have to kill the man first”, said someone from the group.
“right, big brother, he has killed many of my subordinates, cih”, replied someone else, he looked down at the man who was currently seen standing arrogantly among the corpses of his subordinates. Just look, I will have his body dismembered and give it to a savage beast in the ghost valley, the cruel man thought.
“you spread out and find the young lady”, he said again giving orders, the people he ordered nodded, saying, but when they were about to split up looking for a sharp glint pierced through their bodies and quickly a sea of fresh red blood filled the area.
“BEDBAH !!”, umpat that person when he saw his subordinates die quickly before even giving up resistance.
“because you gave up your life voluntarily did not benwang have to speed up khekhe”, said zheng bai, his laughter sounded so hoarse and dark, the aura around him also felt increasingly dark and dark. Some of those people retreated because this dark spiritual aura before them seemed to involuntarily make their souls tremble in fear.
Seeing this unusual spiritual aura that people were releasing in front of him made them all become alert, and moved quickly to form a formation typical of the ghost valley to ensnare their enemies, zheng bai who was already firmly bound within their artificial spider formation only grew to widen his cold smile even more.
The sound of flesh being cut off from within the formation sounded so loud and real. A splash of red blood under the full moonlight soaked all the surrounding parts of the place. Those people from the underworld died with wide-eyed eyes, looking in disbelief that the complicated formation they were studying was instead attacking back its user.
Zheng bai walked up to the one of them who was still left. He drew his sword right at the neck of the man who was now sitting in fear, and looked at the zheng like a deadly ferocious creature.
“katak”, sizzle zheng bai cold.
“is.aakkhhh”, that person's answer was cut because the first zheng bai cut his neck.
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BACK TO NOW.
White grains descended from above the night sky, the cold air grew increasingly frosty as the first snow had fallen throughout the zhong empire. The villagers who saw this condition became increasingly complaining and frightened, how they will survive until the morning amid the conditions of snow grains that are increasingly falling. Chao gu saw a condition that he could not predict, he was a little confused because on the one hand they had to wait for their warlord and on the other hand dozens of villagers' lives at this time he also had to think about.
Suddenly, a distinctive whistle from zheng bai rang out loud from across the village. Chao listened carefully to the whistle and greeted it with his whistle.
“well, tonight, we will all go to the capital, all your needs the imperial palace that will guarantee it”, shouted chao gu who idled all the villagers. They did not believe that these people who were protecting them were from the capital and not ordinary travelers.
“lord, how about your young master ??”, asked the innkeeper aunty.
Chao Gu was silent to hear it, but then he smiled.
“young master will be fine, aunt, after we deliver you to our capital will return”, said chao gu.
The innkeeper's aunt nodded, she slightly looked at the young woman clad in hanfu with the best quality of cloth was now being carried by chao gu who looked to endure the pain and still closed her eyes.
“we must quickly walk towards the territory of the imperial capital, most likely in the snow capital is still not there, so you only need to hold back briefly”, chao gu shouted.
The villagers who heard chao gu's words were slightly relieved. They all went that night to the territory of the imperial capital with the imperial soldiers escorting them.