Legend of the Dragon God
Ch. 69 – Devil Tree

— Currently in living room —

“Well, maybe because senior Qian is the mayor's son and therefore also many young men who want to marry you.” Liu Chang smiled slightly, since earlier the topic of his chat with Andini, the son of mayor Xin Long. Many lead to matchmaking and love problems.

“Hm, it's possible. Oh yeah, Chang'er is this swordsman who comes from where?” xin Qian asked curiously because Liu Chang's face was foreign and different from the residents of Werbei Country.

“Eh, Empire–” Liu Chang had yet to finish his sentence, when suddenly Xin Long appeared on the stairs leading to the second floor.

“Chang'er, come with me. I want to show you something!" xin Long said, he hurried back up after making sure his voice was heard.

Liu Chang followed Xin Long who said he wanted to show something without asking much. Liu Chang felt that Xin Long wanted to tell him something about the Hun plague.

It was not until a minute that Liu Chang walked up that he met the door of the room that read Xin Long. Liu Chang entered it after Xin Long invited him in.

Xin Long opened the window of her study, saying that something she wanted to show was behind this window.

“Chang'er, come closer!!" Xin Long called after seeing Liu Chang who since they entered earlier rolled his eyeballs looking at the entire corner of the room. Liu Chang approached not long after Xin Long called out.

“You see that? That's what's causing the people here to get a plague called Hun. We call it that way because on the tree there is an ancient letter that reads Hun.” Xin Long pointed at the silvery-colored tree that was shining quite brightly towards a night like this.

“A tree?” Liu Chang raised his eyebrows, he did not suspect that something that caused most of the population to be exposed to the Hun plague was a tree.

But according to Xin Long, the tree had a strange shape and the trunk was slightly different from the tree in general.

“Ya, tree. The tree suddenly just appeared when the vicious group came.” Xin Long's facial expression turned bad when talking about a group related thing that he called cruel.

Not long after saying the group was violent vaguely, Xin Long immediately continued his explanation of the group he was referring to.

Xin Long explained that a few months ago, a group called the Blood Rain came with an army of fifty horsemen.

The Blood Rain Group said that Xian Qi City would be their territory, and every month Xian Qi City would have to pay tribute to some gold coins. If that number is not reached then the girls and children will be captured for sale as slaves.

When he heard that, of course, the residents of Xian Qi City were not just silent and resigned. They put up a fight on the Blood Rain group but in just a few minutes the population who did resistance— amounted to almost 300 people—it was defeated.

After that incident, every month Xian Qi City had to pay tribute in the form of gold coins that were quite burdensome. Xin Long said that back then he had already sent letters of request for help to some sects around Xian Qi City several times.

But the warriors who had come to help the Xian Qi city would definitely end up tragically, either being killed with severed heads or being cut down by some parts of his body until his condition was flawed.

Since meeting many failures, Xin Long finally stopped her attempt to ask the sect for help out of fear that her plan would be known to the Blood Rain group.

Meanwhile, Liu Chang was actually quite surprised to hear the Blood Rain group again but he was not happy to interrupt Xin Long's words and wait for her to finish speaking.

“That means it was the Blood Rain group that planted the tree?” Liu Chang concluded something after hearing Xin Long's explanation.

“Yes, I'm sure it's them. The inhabitants of this city one by one died from the Hun plague. But strangely this plague is not contagious, they only infect one victim to death.

The reason I planted it I don't know but for sure the Hun tree was like absorbing life energy from the land of Xian Qi City.” Xin Long exhaled softly after explaining long enough. A lot of things have made him think hard lately.

“The city land becomes contaminated?” inner Liu Chang.he was surprised the Blood Rain had this kind of method to commit his crimes.

But in this case something that Liu Chang was furious about was the act of Blood Rain that always made chaos towards the area they were passing through.

But if the effect of the Blood Rain had been this far, Liu Chang felt that he would indeed have to annihilate the Blood Rain group as soon as possible.

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— Somewhere Ruins —

“B-boss, tributes from Xian Qi City in a few days will be ready. Is the Zhixin boss coming to the city again?” several people dressed in all black—marked bloodstains—kneeling before a man in his fifties.

“Yes, maybe I'll be there again. The mayor's son I hear is very beautiful, he can be the material of my new 'game'.” The man named Zhixin smiled cunningly, one of his hobbies was 'playing' with girls, let alone girls like Xin Qian who had a pretty face he rarely met.

“Go, prepare some fastest horses to get there!!” Zhixin shook her hand to drive away her men.

In the Blood Rain group, Zhixin had the authority as the chairman to lead a swordsman numbering fifty people. Moreover, there were rumors that said that Zhixin was under the direct orders of the Blood Rain Silver Eagle.

In addition to colonizing several cities, Zhixin was also given the task of the Silver Eagle to plant a tree known as the Devil's tree.

Nevertheless, in carrying out the orders of the Silver Eagle, Zhixin did not even know the reason for being given the order to plant the tree. He carried out his duties as usual and the rest of his time he spent entertaining himself with the pleasures of the world.

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— Xin Long workspace —

“I think we should cut it down, senior. While Zhixin was .. senior Long could entrust me. I'm sure my ability is enough to match him.” Liu Chang finally decided on something after quite a long discussion with Xin Long.

“When are you going to do it? Desperate residents will not let you, Chang'er.” Xin Long knew for himself some people who were unhappy with his decision to cut down the tree. So far he has never done it.

“I thought midnight would be good, and by then I was sure some people from their group would have prevented me from doing it.” Liu Chang planned to cut down the Hun tree when the time was night so that the residents or spies of the Blood Rain group did not know the real thing that happened.

Liu Chang, on the other hand, was quite certain that the black swordsmen moved more at night.

A few hours after the conversation, midnight arrived. Liu Chang, who was not sleeping because he was meditating, suddenly woke up from his meditation because he felt the existence of a murderous aura that felt thick around the house of mayor Xin Long.

Liu Chang rushed towards the rooftop to see who dared to enter this house. At that time it was seen some people dressed all in black were doing infiltration using the science of lightening the body.

In fact they had already hidden his murderous aura as best they could but Liu Chang's sharp instinct would not escape such cheap tricks.

“They are quite funny.” Liu Chang chuckled lightly at the movement of science lightening the rigid bodies of the assassins.

Liu Chang flew at high speed, in one strike the five-man assassin was killed with his head cut off.

After clearing all the spies from the Xin Long residence, Liu Chang moved back towards the Hun tree to cut it down like the original plan when discussing with Xin Long this afternoon.

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“Croping a tree is actually good but if the purpose of planting it provides difficulties for others, then cut down!!” Liu Chang's.

To be continued ....