Chapter 34
Jiang Chen passed by the mine on his way back.
He didn’t have to search intently, since the traces of fighting were everywhere in the mine. He saw corpses from time to time.
Blaring noises could be heard from the top of the mine frequently. This meant the mine hadn’t fallen to the enemy yet. They were still fighting.
Jiang Chen climbed onto the mountain without any hesitation.
Halfway there, he heard a weak voice from the roadside, “Young Master Chen, is that you?”
Jiang Chen looked over. There was a lovely boy hiding in a tuft of grass to the side. He was dirty, but his eyes were very bright.
Jiang Chen asked him, “What’s your name?”
The Jiangs’ warriors responded quickly. They threw themselves over to the disciples of the Qingcheng Sect with an angry shout, like a herd of ferocious wolves.
“Not one of the Jiangs will die kneeling!”
A warrior of the Jiangs went up to the disciple who had sneered at them and pierced his scimitar into the latter’s chest.
Whoosh!
At the same time, an arrow shot through his head.
“Kill them all!”
Cao Song shouted coldly, and notched another arrow on his bow.
The Jiangs’ warriors who had been cornered in the cave were already the underdogs. They would like to fight one last time before their death.
The disciples of the Qingcheng Sect were not as courageous as them, but the cruelness they showed, as they were overwhelmingly superior, was scary as well.
The Jiangs’ warriors fell one by one.
Then, a sharp sound ripped apart the sky.
One arrow after another flew over. They were as fast as lightning. The disciples of the Qingcheng Sect were shot.
“Who is shooting arrows?”
Cao Song was sure the Jiangs’ warriors didn’t have any bows, since they had taken away their bows, so he thought it was a mistake of his own people.
But soon, an arrow came after him.
“What a fast arrow! How is that possible?”
The speed of the arrow was beyond his imagination. He didn’t have any time to dodge it, so he tried to grasp it by instinct. He failed. The arrow had already pieced into his chest.
Fortunately, the arrow was stuck in his armour. It was only a flesh wound.
“Find a place to hide! Quick!” Cao Song shouted immediately.
The Jiangs’ warriors reacted, too. They ran in the direction the arrows came from.
Jiang Chen was standing there, holding a bow and shooting out arrows.
The only victory in a battle was to kill enemies, by fair means or foul. It was unnecessary to compete for the position of number one warrior.
Bows, as the king of all weapons, functioned wonderfully at this moment.
Besides, the one Jiang Chen was holding was a spiritual bow, which was super powerful.
“Young Master Chen, are you by yourself?” the Jiangs’ warriors who had run to him stood there, astonished.
“Yes. What about you? Are these the only ones left?”
Jiang Chen counted roughly. There were only ten-odd warriors.
The leader was a big, bareheaded man. He said, “Young Master Chen, the Qingcheng Sect launched a sneak attack. They occupied our arsenal and killed many of us.”
“What’s your name?” Jiang Chen asked.
“Please call me Huoniu.”
“Tell me about them.” Jiang Chen saw the Qingcheng Sect’s disciples hiding behind some rocks, so he put down his spiritual bow to take a rest.
Huoniu nodded and said, “There are more than thirty of them. Most of them are in the preliminary stage of the Gathering Yuan State. Two of them are in the middle stage, a man and a woman. The man is their eldest disciple. His name is Cao Song.”
Cao Song?
The name sounded familiar to Jiang Chen. The Hundred Thousand Mountains was its own world. Some powerful people were famous throughout this world.
Cao Song was one of these men. He became famous because he achieved the beginning of the preliminary stage of the Gathering Yuan State at an early age.
Cao Song shouted from behind the rock, “Who is that?” He knew there weren’t any reinforcements. Even if there were, they wouldn’t have many people.
This was because the mountain town of the Jiang Mansion had been besieged… Once he was finished with the events at the mine, he would join his companions to attack the city.
“Your killer,” Jiang Chen answered coldly.