Legend of Swordsman

Chapter 6288: Black Fog

Xiang Yang nodded and replied, ”That aura came crashing from the sea without any restraint. Even a deaf person could sense it!”

”Keep your voice down!” Jian Wushuang frowned slightly, glanced out the window, and

asked, ”How did you know they came from the sea?”

”To be honest, yesterday I saw you sneaking away, and I couldnʼt sleep all night. I kept watch outside. After you left for about an hour, a black mist came from the sea, filled with an evil aura. I donʼt know how many people there were, but the leader was definitely a cultivator in the Golden Core stage!”

Jian Wushuang was surprised, not because Xiang Yang discovered that the group came from the sea, but because Xiang Yang had been watching him all along.

This made him somewhat displeased. He frowned and said, ”Why are you watching me so closely?”

”I was afraid you might run away!” Xiang Yang said, somewhat aggrieved. ”To be honest, youʼve always been guarded against me. You havenʼt even given me the complete cultivation method. If I donʼt keep an eye on you, what if one day you find me useless and run off with Jiang Shang?”

Since Xiang Yang had embarked on the path of cultivation again, his mind had become more active.

He increasingly felt that his presence or absence didnʼt seem to make much difference to Jian Wushuang, so he began to worry that Jian Wushuang might abandon him one day.

”Youʼre overthinking it!” Jian Wushuang patted Xiang Yang on the shoulder.

He didnʼt explain further because some things couldnʼt be told to him, but he would involve him in the plans.

For instance, the Wanliu Divine Tree on Jiang Shangʼs back seemed unrelated to Xiang Yang, but it was actually significant.

The aura of Wanliu Divine Wood was on Xingluo, and it might be possible to use Xiang Yangʼs identity to transmit it to Xingluo and lure him out.

Their cultivation speed was still too slow.

If Xingluo were willing to take them, Jian Wushuang would regain his immortality within a hundred years.

The immortality referred to here was not the immortals of the mortal world, but the Immortal of Derivation.

After leaving Xiang Yang, Jian Wushuang found One Ear.

He instructed him to prepare supplies for the ship, buying as much as possible.

After all, they would soon reach the inland of the Great Tang, so there was no need to bring much.

Once the instructions were given, the others had almost finished packing.

They left the inn together.

The rain outside was getting heavier. Everyone held oiled paper umbrellas, but their clothes still got wet.

When they reached the dock, they found that there were still many people there.

They stood at the dock in the heavy rain, not knowing what they were doing.

When Jian Wushuang and the others approached, they heard cries of sorrow.

Pushing through the crowd.

They walked to the dockʼs deck and discovered an elderly couple crying over the corpse of a woman in coarse clothes.

The elderly couple had gone fishing at sea yesterday and returned to the dock in the morning, only to find their daughterʼs corpse lying on the deck.

Jian Wushuang was not surprised. The demonic cultivator had followed the woman in coarse clothes to the fishing village yesterday.

It wasnʼt surprising that she was dead now.

However, Jian Wushuang still felt a bit regretful.

Listening to the old manʼs repeated calls of his daughterʼs name, Jian Wushuang learned that the womanʼs name was ”Azi.”

After noting it down, he boarded the ship without looking back.

After One Ear brought the supplies on board, Jian Wushuang asked him to bring Aʼziʼs parents onto the ship as well.

The fishing village was gone.

The elderly couple probably had no place to stay anymore, which was truly pitiful.

Moreover, since Jian Wushuang had obtained the coral from their well, he felt he had fulfilled a karmic bond.

The treasure ship set sail once more.

After reaching the straits of the Shanhai County, they began heading towards the Grand Tang Canal.

Along the way, Aʼziʼs body was given a water burial.

Jian Wushuang then began refining the coral.

The spiritual energy above continued to dissipate, and he couldnʼt let it go to waste.

Unfortunately, he only had the coral at the moment and no alchemy furnace; otherwise, he could have refined a batch of pills.

Now he could only refine the spiritual energy from the coral, which was quite polite.

Fortunately, the spiritual energy was abundant, enough for the three of them to absorb.

The three surrounded the coral and began their attempt to break through to the Golden Core

stage.

They paid no heed to the outside world.

It was unknown how much time had passed when the treasure ship stopped, but Jian Wushuang and the other two were still in closed-door cultivation, and no one dared disturb

them, so the ship remained stationary.

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

The treasure ship turned back, but three people disembarked.

It was Jian Wushuang and the other two.

They were now very close to Taiʼan City.

Jian Wushuang dismissed One Ear and the others, as it was not suitable to bring a group of ordinary people while seeking opportunities to enter the cultivation world. Therefore, he gave the ship to One Ear, telling him to live well in the Great Tang.

As for the three of them, they bought three fast horses and headed straight for Taiʼan City.

They traveled six hundred miles in a day.

By nightfall, they were still in the wilderness.

They thought of finding a small town to rest for the night.

However, when they entered a village, they found it eerily silent.

There was also a stench of decay.

”Itʼs a corpse!”

Xiang Yang frowned, walking into a courtyard and looking at the rotting corpse inside. His

stomach churned, and he almost vomited on the spot.

”Letʼs go, find another place,” Jian Wushuang said calmly.

But they had already seen several villages like this.

After six months in seclusion, they had all reached the Golden Core stage.

Originally, they could have flown directly to Taiʼan City, but to keep a low profile, they

decided to enter Taiʼan City as ordinary people. However, they hadnʼt expected to encounter

such strange occurrences on the way.

Some towns had even been slaughtered entirely.

Corpses were piled together, with the same bowl-sized wound on their chests as Jian

Wushuang had seen in the fishing village.

It was clearly the work of the same group.

They had removed the hearts of the ordinary people.

”The demonic cult is rampant!”

And not just rampant, but extremely so; they were only a hundred miles from the imperial

city!

Such things happened despite the fact that the Emperor of the Great Tang could also cultivate

and even had immortals under his command. Didnʼt he fear that one day the demonic cult

might massacre Taiʼan City?

The three decided not to stop and rushed to the outskirts of Taiʼan City overnight.

There was a curfew at night.

So when they reached the city gates, they couldnʼt enter.

They had to wait until dawn to enter Taiʼan City with the crowd.

Jiang Shang, who was initially full of curiosity about the Great Tang, felt somewhat disappointed after the incidents on the way. Especially upon entering Taiʼan City, she found it incredibly prosperous but did not see the grandeur she had expected.

In this regard, Jian Wushuang and Xiang Yang were quite experienced.

Seeing was believing.

Besides, they had seen many large cities.

In their view, this so-called flourishing Great Tang, boasted by ordinary people, was just that

-a large city, somewhat more prosperous.

Ultimately, it could not escape its vulgarity.

After entering the city, the three found a relatively bustling inn to stay in.

Jian Wushuang did not rest for a moment; after a slight disguise, he headed straight for the

First Building Under Heaven.

He initially planned to buy some information with gold and silver to understand the Great

Tang.

However, upon entering the First Building Under Heaven, he realized he had come to the wrong place.