Chapter 144: A bowl of rough tea, ten steps with blood
"Li Ye returned with thousands of demon cultivators. We only brought these monks to intercept them, without the Taoist soldiers, can we really kill him?" After leaving Bianzhou City, Zhu Wen asked He Jingcheng in confusion.
"Li Ye has eight thousand demons around him, and we only have three or four thousand soldiers. There is no chance of winning when fighting head-on. Besides, it is very disturbing and easy to be noticed by him. If he turns around and escapes, we will be unable to do anything to him."
He Jingcheng said with his eyes: "And now I have the evil-killing grinding plate given by the Immortal Emperor. I don't need to use Taoist soldiers to kill Li Ye and his demon cultivators!"
Zhu Wen frowned, "Even if we only brought these monks over, the movement was much smaller, but we might not be able to hide the other party's perception halfway. During the march, we must first let the scouts explore the way. As a long-time general on the battlefield, Li Ye will not send people to go first."
He Jingcheng said confidently: "Just rest assured, I have a way to avoid his perception and can lure him to appear in front of us automatically and send the head to the right!"
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Since returning from the East China Sea, Li Ye has taken thousands of demon monks to fly all the way to Pinglu.
Because the cultivation of the witches is above the realm of the real person, it will avoid a lot of hardships in boats and cars. Otherwise, just solving the problem of eight thousand demons riding on boats and horses is a very labor-intensive task.
However, it is precisely because the witch is basically in the real world, the flight speed is not too fast, and it will take several days to arrive in Qingzhou. Li Ye has been away from Pinglu for two or three months, and the government and military affairs have been delayed a lot, so he doesn't want to fly slowly with the brigade. After leaving Zhao Batian to lead the team, he and Wu You, the boss's wife raised the speed.
The hot summer has not yet passed, and the evening sunlight also looks burning.
Outside a small town on the southern border of Qingzhou, there are several simple tea sheds and rice shops, which serve simple meals, which are much cheaper than restaurants in the town. Farmers who sell some local products from nearby villages to the city, or small vendors who make some hard-earned money, will choose to rest and have a meal here.
At this time, except for the people living in small towns, who returned from the fields with long shadows, there were basically no farmers walking. However, there were not many vendors entering the city, and they all ran around and needed to stay in the town for one night.
The dirt roads in the tea shed and restaurants were light and dusty, making them a little lively.
Li Ye, Wu You and others appeared on the road and walked slowly towards the town. When passing by the tea shed and dining area, Li Ye looked around at the dark-skinned and tired and poor people, with a look of thought that was difficult to detect in his eyes.
"Are we going to settle here today?" Wu You looked up beside him and asked Li Ye, with Shui Ling's eyes not doubting.
Li Ye nodded: "This town is a bit weird, I'm not relieved if I don't figure it out."
Li Ye's flight route was straight from the demon territory outside the East China Sea. Of course, there was no need to say anything about this, he had no reason to detour. This town happened to be on his flight route.
Originally, an ordinary town was not enough to attract Li Ye's attention, and it was not enough to stop him. It was not far from Qingzhou City. With his and Wu You's flying speed, he could return to the palace in more than an hour, and there was no need to stay in the town.
However, when approaching this border town, Li Ye smelled an unusual aura, which attracted him to stop.
It was a bloody smell, a very strong bloody smell.
With Li Ye’s years of experience in fighting on the battlefield, it is easy to tell that without the blood of more than a thousand people, there would be no such degree of blood.
However, when he stared at the town seriously in the air, he did not notice any abnormality. Although the town was not prosperous, people were also quite lively. Whether it was walking, the people returning with hoes, or the vendors who opened their doors to do business, it seemed normal.
There are no traces of large-scale fighting.
So Li Ye stopped and decided to see what was going on inside and outside the town.
This is the border of Qingzhou, the town is still within Qingzhou, and it is under the jurisdiction of Li Ye, and the people here are also his people. If something really happens, he cannot stand by and watch whether it is reasonable or not.
"Boss, let's have three bowls of herbal tea."
Walking into a tea shed, Li Ye sat down on the bench and greeted the wrinkled elderly couple squatting beside him. He did not rashly enter the town, but planned to observe one or two of them from the outside first.
This tea shed is very simple, and the roof cannot block the sunlight. A few golden beams fell from the hole, and one fell on the table in front of Li Ye. The wooden tables in all directions have no paint. Due to the long-term use, the edges and corners have been polished very flat and do not appear rough.
Wu You and the boss lady also sat down at the table. The latter looked around curiously. He probably didn't expect that the shops in the mortal world would be so simple, even worse than her inn.
The old man got up and went to the small counter to pick up the teapot and tea bowls, came to the table to pour it on Li Ye and others, put down the teapot on the table, turned around and went back, and continued to squat beside the old woman.
From beginning to end, the old man didn't even look at Li Ye and others without saying anything extra. It seemed that the pressure and embarrassment of life had already made him lose interest in everything.
Li Ye picked up the cracked old tea bowl and drank it, exclaimed the good tea, and smiled at Wu You and the boss's wife who were not moving, saying, "Don't you both taste it?"
Wu You hesitated and lowered his head and took a sip. Although his expression was tense and had not changed, his eyes were already bitter, but she still gritted the bullet and swallowed the tea. The princess, who has been pampering since childhood, has never drunk such a bad tea.
The boss lady turned her head and sprayed it on the ground in one sip. She looked at Li Ye in disbelief: "Can this be called tea? All the teas here are like this? I just go to the mountain to pick two flowers and leaves, so it won't taste this way, right?"
Li Ye seemed to smile: "You have to tell your boss these words."
The fox demon looked at the old couple, but saw them squatting there with a cold look on their faces. Perhaps they didn't notice the movements on their side, or perhaps they were too lazy to pay attention to them. The fox demon knew at their appearance that if she had any complaints at this time, the old couple would probably only say "Three copper coins, give money."
If the fox demon argues for a few more words, the other party might openly accuse them of drinking tea but finding reasons not to pay, and to mobilize the people around them to embarrass them.
Li Ye looked at the road outside the tea shed. The sky was already dim, but there were still many pedestrians. The hoe-carrying farmers who came back from the fields seemed to have no end. Most of the diners in the shops looked idly, while the owners were as cold as the old couple, as if they were all owed them to eat.
Is it cold or arrogant?
"Have you finished drinking it? I really admire you for being able to drink this kind of tea. Let's leave after drinking it? After tasting the tea here, I didn't even have the intention to enter the town." The fox demon said to Li Ye in disappointment.
"I'm afraid that it's not that easy for us to leave now." Li Ye said lightly.
Wu You immediately looked alert, and the fox demon was stunned, "Why?"
Li Ye did not answer the fox demon, but looked at the old couple squatting beside him and said to them: "I don't know why you haven't taken action yet. Maybe you are waiting for something you need to wait for, but if you don't take action, I will take the initiative."
When the old couple heard Li Ye's words, their expressions finally changed, and an unexpected look appeared on their cold faces. They looked at each other and stood up silently. The turbid and dull eyes also became sharp at this moment, like a sharp sword unsheathed, staring at Li Ye tightly.
However, they just acted in response and did not act rashly. They had not even emitted the fluctuations in their cultivation level, and they had not taken action. They were obviously hesitating or sticking to a certain order.
"It's really not easy." Li Ye shook his head.
While speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and stroked the tea bowl on the table, and shot at the old couple!
The tea bowl is just the most ordinary tea bowl. It can't withstand the power of Li Ye's current spiritual energy. It explodes in mid-air and turns into countless debris.
The spiritual energy was wrapped in these debris, like hundreds of thousands of tiny flying swords, covering the old couple like heavy rain.
The old couple's expression changed drastically, and they could no longer hide their identities and retreated.
At the same time, the two of them were shining with their own inspiration, and their original coarse linen shirt disappeared. Instead, they were replaced by the immortal robes, and their wrinkled faces returned to their normal appearance. The two of them waved their swords in their hands, waved with their arms, and while they were drinking, they splattered a circle of fish-scale sword lights, setting up sword nets in front of them.
The tea bowl crumbs hit the sword curtain, making a jingle sound, and the tiny aura exploded one after another on the sword curtain, like the splashes of water stirring up by the rainstorm on the lake, beautiful and full of power.
However, the sword light did not block the flying spiritual energy, and a lot of debris penetrated the curtain and penetrated the two immortals. In an instant, blood light burst out, and gorgeous flowers bloomed in the air.
The spiritual light dissipated, and blood spilled the ground behind the two immortals, and the farthest one was more than ten steps away from them. They knelt on the ground one after another, and then pounced straight forward.
The shocking change made the tea shed and restaurant area outside the town suddenly explode.
The guy who picked the vegetables overturned the vegetable basket, the master who was holding the spoon pulled off the apron, the diner who was eating shook off the bowls and chopsticks, the farmer who returned home threw away the kitchen utensils, and the walking vendor discarded the goods.
They move quickly, but they act calmly, and no one escapes in disorder.
They burst out with powerful cultivation in the Immortal Realm, and their disguise was instantly removed.
The roof of the tea shed and rice shop was overturned, and thatched grass flew around the head, driving away the last ray of sunset. Their figures passed through it like ghosts, advancing, retreating or snatching from different directions, surrounded Li Ye and others in the falling sunset.
After Li Ye killed two immortals, he stood there with his hands behind his back, without moving a single step, and did not move a finger. He watched the immortals run and fly away coldly, as if facing a great enemy.
His mouth tugged slightly, his eyes full of contempt.
The immortals stood at the right position according to the key points, staring at Li Ye with a stern expression, but no one took action rashly. It seemed that the person standing in front of them was not a mortal monk with only the earth fairyland, but a majestic venerable in the immortal court.
Li Ye's past achievements have made these immortals who are arrogant and never take mortal ants seriously, and are willing to give up their sense of superiority and respond with caution. And they will never come forward to seek death until the leader shows up and gives orders.
Their leader is He Jingcheng.
He Jingcheng is flying slowly out of the town now.
Beside He Jingcheng, there are Zhu Wen and more than a dozen immortals.
Even if the evil-killing blood grinder was in hand, even if Li Ye was surrounded heavily, He Jingcheng, who arrived later, dared not put himself alone in Li Ye's sight. Someone must be guarded by him.
Li Ye glanced at He Jingcheng and Zhu Wen without any surprise. He seemed to have expected that the other party would appear.
He chuckled: "I tried so much to lead the Lone King to this place, and arranged people to disguise the people and confuse the Lone King. Such a cautious and meticulous style of conduct does not conform to the noble identity that you immortals have claimed to me and are tough. The Lone King still remembers that when the first immortal appeared in front of me, he killed him directly. Why are you becoming more and more timid as you become? This really disappoints the Lone King."
"Li Ye! Don't be arrogant! Since you know that we have a layout to attract you, you should understand that you have become a turtle in the jar and a dead end!"
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