Chapter 965 - The Sky Demon Plays the Zither (1/2)
Jiangnan had the nickname of the Village of Fish and Grain.
The scenery in Jiangnan was also incredibly beautiful. The place was filled with a faint and intoxicating scent of humidity. It allowed a person to feel refreshed, but at the same time, they would also be unable to help themselves but be enchanted in it.
There was an orderly green link separating the beautiful Common Reed Bank. The green link traveled down the bank in a zig-zagging manner, but it gave off a quiet feeling, and it allowed those who saw it to feel delighted.
Happy stood at the head of a small bamboo raft and felt the river breeze against his face and sniffed the refreshing scent from Common Reed Bank. As he listened to the bamboo raft pushing away the water, Happy felt even more intoxicated than when he drank Kaoliang liquor.
“Ferryman!”
“What is it, young master?” The ferryman was an old man in his fifties. He was an honest fellow but had a body that did not lose to a young man’s. When he heard Happy call out to him, he continued rowing the raft in an orderly manner while he answered to Happy’s call.
Happy did not turn his head around. He just pointed ahead of him, “How far away are we from Gusu City?”
“Hehe. Young master, you sure are hasty. Lake Tai’s territory is not far away from us. Once we’re past Lake Tai, in less than four hours after we get on shore, you’ll reach Gusu City,” the ferryman answered.
“Haha! Thanks!”
“Young master, you’re too polite. I can’t receive your gratitude.”
Happy did not say anything else. While he admired the view, he shut his eyes and was prepared to head to the other world.
This was already his second day since he traveled downstream from Beijing. Even though he was moving very quickly, he still wasted two days’ worth of training time, and it made him feel a little impatient.
Hence, over the past two days, he basically went to the other world to train.
Of course, he did not train in the branch prison.
He finally obtained time to train over there, and Happy naturally would not waste it. He searched for Myth Realm elites and caused them trouble, thereby pushing his Indestructible Body and Tendon Changing Classic to become even greater.
However, just when Happy was about to be dragged to the other world, he suddenly felt a violent gust of wind blow at him from the left of Common Reed Bank.
Whoosh!
It was as if that wind blew at the calm lake in Happy’s heart, and he failed to summon the suction force pulling him to the other world. He woke up and opened his bright eyes.
The ferryman behind him clearly sensed a powerful presence from the young man sitting at the front of the bamboo raft.
Just now, this young man was as elegant as a scholar, but now, an even frightening presence of a wanderer surged out of him. That presence was not any weaker than the famous wanderers who traveled about Lake Tai.
Happy was silent.
He naturally ignored the ferryman behind him. With an electrifying gaze, he swept through the reeds which had been pushed down by a large degree by the violent gust, and he frowned slightly.
There was a martial artist around!
He activated Tendon Changing Classic at full speed and spread his senses quickly in the direction where the wind came from.
After a few seconds, Happy’s expression changed.
Several faint and fragmented notes were mixed in the violent wind.
When he heard these notes, his qi and blood started surging a little, as if it was stirred up by the strange power contained in the notes.
A thought appeared in his mind. Then, without hesitation, Happy brought out a handful of gold from his Universe bag before he tossed it at the ferryman. “Wait here.”
Once he finished speaking, without even giving a chance to the ferryman to answer, he tapped against the raft and shot twenty-six feet forward. Then, he tapped against the calm surface of the lake once more before he arrived at the bank.
Whoosh!
The sound of air being pushed and of robes fluttering rose, and the reeds curled a little, unable to bear with the force of the wind. A black horse then rushed into the distance without stopping even once.
When he watched Happy swiftly vanish, the ferryman opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a long time before he put the gold into his bosom.
“Young master, you must come back before nightfall!”
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Common Reed Bank stretched out several miles, and the entire place was filled with a gentle layer of yellow water.
But in the depths of Common Reed Land was violent wind blowing vigorously. Three figures swiftly moved about, and as fragmented but piercing zither notes rose, dense waves of furious sound blades cut close to the two men chasing after the zither player, and those sound blades brought with them a violent momentum that could destroy everything.
The zither notes were fierce and domineering, but unfortunately, the zither player faced two enemies who were clearly not the usual martial art elite.
The two men had cold and aloof gazes and stared at the woman who had more than ten bloody gashes left on her arms with a stare as if they were looking at something dead. They swung their weapons together and easily dodged as well as crushed the sound blades coming at them while they pursued the white-robed woman.
The woman was dressed entirely in white. She had a cold presence, and there was a murderous glare in her eyes, but there was also a look of distress in her that refused to disappear from her eyes as well.
“Ambush from Ten Sides!
“Jade Fingers Plucking Stars!
“Deity and Demon Destruction!”
Even though Wind Chimes continuously strengthened her finger technique to force her enemies to back down, it did not work. The two people behind her were not only powerful, their equipment had also reached an astonishing degree. As they moved about, even if those sound blades touched their bodies, they would only bring up some sparks. Their bodies never swayed even in the slightest as they chased behind her. They did not seem to be injured at all.
Their postures remained.
‘Their ability to retain their postures is seriously so domineering!’
“Haha! Wind Chimes, your Sky Demon Zither Notes might be extraordinary, but unfortunately, you ran into us!”