Chapter 440 - Ghost Controlling Charm (1/2)

Running out of the valley, Xiao Chen’s chest pain was finally relieved, and he turned around to see Koo-chee beast sulking at him. He asked, “What’s wrong, Brother Koo-chee?”

“Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” Koo-chee beast shouted twice and seemed to be very angry. Xiao Chen was a little puzzled, and then asked, “What’s wrong?”

Koo-chee beast turned and ran a few steps back, blinking its pair of big eyes, looking at the direction of the bamboo forest where Huangfu Xin’er played the zither and kept humming.

Xiao Chen walked up and said, “Let’s go, Qingluan and the others should be nearing Huai Prefecture.”

The Koo-chee beast turned and looked at him angrily, pointed at him, then at its mouth, and finally pointed at the direction of the Heartless Palace. Xiao Chen gave it a little thought, and asked, “You mean, Xin’er has been taking care of me and healing me these past few days?”

“Koo-chee! Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” Koo-chee beast nodded continuously.

Xiao Chen suddenly felt a severe pain in his heart. He had said such hurtful words just now, even calling her Huangfu Empress. At the thought of this, he immediately ran back to the bamboo forest. What was left in the forest was just a broken zither and a ground full of bamboo leaves.

Xiao Chen took a deep breath, walked over slowly, and rubbed the zither body gently, and the seven broken strings. It took him an hour to put back the broken strings one by one. Finally, when he was done, he looked up again in the direction of the Heartless Palace but turned and left in the end.

As he returned to the valley entrance again, Xiao Chen glanced in the direction of Huai Prefecture, called out the flying sword, picked up the Koo-chee beast, and then went to the next town on the sword. A moment after he left, someone suddenly walked out of the woods. That person was in green and was holding the Duster Sword.

The next three days passed and today was the July 15th, Hungry Ghost Festival. At night, Xiao Chen arrived in a small town. The town was very lively, lit with lights, where pedestrians kept coming and going and many people were lighting up water lamps by the river.

Xiao Chen looked around. It turned out that this small town was a small town that he passed when he and Murong Xian’er went to Middle Continent. The scenery was still the same, but time has passed too long. He wondered how Xian’er had been.

At a glance, Xiao Chen seemed to see someone following him, but a pedestrian blocked his view, and the man seemed to have disappeared. He frowned. At this moment, he was not as spiritually aware as before. He wondered if he was being followed, but now he had to leave as soon as possible. Now he could not even beat people of Zuoqiu Yang’s level. Guifeng could not be summoned as well.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen picked up the Koo-chee beast, quickly walked into the crowd, crossed several streets, deliberately went around a few forked roads, and finally quietly entered an inn and asked for a room on the second floor. Then he went up with the Koo-chee beast.

Once inside the room, Xiao Chen closed the doors and windows immediately and set up another layer of defense mystic arts. Without light, he went bed and pretended to sleep. By midnight, the moon was bright like the day, and the moonlight came through the window screen. The surroundings were gradually quiet.

Around 1 a.m., Xiao Chen could not resist the tiredness anymore, but did not dare to be in deep sleep. He took out the Unsullied Sword and put it behind the pillow.

Nothing happened overnight. The next day morning, Xiao Chen immediately set off for Huai Prefecture. After another day and night, he was finally reaching. He just had to climb over a mountain and he would reach the boundary of Huai Prefecture.

At noon, Xiao Chen landed onto the ground from his sword. He found a stream and drank a few sips of water. He took a break and waited to continue his journey. Suddenly his expression became serious as he noticed that someone was approaching him. He said coldly, “Come out!” He turned around, but was surprised, “Mo Yu!”

Five people had suddenly appeared across the stream. Three were in front, two were in the back, and the man on the left in the front was in black and burly. Obviously he was a martial arts practitioner. He was He Chentian, who was defeated by Xiao Chen in Widespread Wintriness Sect earlier and also allowed Xiao Chen to take away the Blood Lotus Demon Blade.

The man in the middle was also someone Xiao Chen had met last year. It was a handsome young man from the Mo family, called Mo Wen. They once met at the Daoist League of the Five Continents last year and had a fight against each other. As for the man in the purple clothes on the right, Xiao Chen was naturally familiar with him. It was Mo Yu who was competing with him for a place in Violet Manor when he was in Three Pure Sect!

Mo Yu was still as devilish, and he smiled gloomily. “Junior Brother Xiao, I haven’t seen you for a long time, why is your hair completely white…”

Xiao Chen gritted his teeth and pinched his phalanx. At that time, this man colluded with Devils’ sects and almost brought Three Pure Sect into a state of desperation. On the same day, he also uttered insults to Bai Ying and even attempted misconduct to her…

Mo Yu laughed mockingly, and said in a weird tone, “What? Is this how you should look at your Senior Brother? I wonder how’s your master doing huh? It’s been a long time since I went back to see…”

Xiao Chen was infuriated, but soon calmed down, thinking that there could be nothing good for these three to be here today. Mo Yu’s aura now seemed to be in the late Nascent Soul Realm stage. That Mo Wen’s cultivation was even higher, and he was in the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. As for that He Chentian, his martial arts had reached the Realm 4 Ninefold, which was equivalent to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm and even pre-Nirvana Realm.