Chapter 10: The Power of the Discarded

  Meng Xuan was only one incense stick later than Jiang Yuechen and others in arriving at Bai Cao Garden.

  Within a hundred feet of the Hundred Herb Garden, he took a glance and saw strands of murderous aura floating above the garden. He immediately understood that there must be someone lying in ambush for him inside the garden. However, upon seeing the murderous aura, his heart became calm instead, because since Jiang Yuechen had set up this killing trap, his target was likely himself, which meant that Qiao Yu'er should still be safe and untouched.

  In the Da Yi Xian Jue, there is a method of observing Qi to find people with serious illnesses. Apart from observing sick Qi, it can also observe killing Qi.

  The thickness and number of killing intent floating in the air above Baicao Garden can roughly estimate the number of people ambushing oneself and their cultivation.

  Meng Xuan held a long sword in his hand and slowly walked to the entrance of Baicao Garden. From the entrance, he looked inside and saw that the gate was open, allowing him to see directly into the inner hall from outside. There was no one in the courtyard, but in the inner hall, there were two nobles dressed in brocade, drinking wine. One of them was Jiang Yuechen, who burst out laughing when he saw Meng Xuan arrive and took a sip of his drink.

  "You've finally come, and you haven't disappointed me..."

  Jiang Yuechen burst out laughing, and a hint of murderous intent appeared in his eyes as he gazed at Meng Xuan.

  "You've let me down..."

  Meng Xuanping calmed down the true energy in his body, entered with a sword, and said lightly: "Hand over Qiao Yue'er, I'll spare your life!"

  "Haha......"

  Jiang Yuechen burst out laughing and said to the young master in brocade clothes opposite him, "Shen brother, do you think this waste is crazy? He's about to die, yet he dares to threaten me?"

  While laughing, he poured himself a full cup of wine and placed it beside his foot. His expression suddenly turned cold as he spoke to Meng Xuan: "You're just a discarded disciple who was expelled from the Immortal Sect, what qualifications do you have to be arrogant in front of me? Today, I'll give you an opportunity. If you kneel down, crawl from the door to my feet, and drink this cup of wine, I'll spare your life this time. I'll only cut off your right hand and let the young lady from the Qiao family go. How about it? If you don't listen, heh heh, Jiang Shao's methods are also famous in Sifang City. Not only will you be unlucky today, but I'll also play with that young lady from the Qiao family and then sell her to a brothel..."

  Meng Xuan lightly shook his head and said: "Foolish people are indeed foolish, you really shouldn't... provoke me!"

  He held a long sword in his hand, pointing it diagonally at the ground, and walked straight into the inner hall.

  "Hum, you want face but don't know shame, today I'll make you unable to live or die!"

  Jiang Yuechen's face changed suddenly, and he threw the wine cup in his hand into the courtyard, shouting: "Take action!"

  "They even went so far as to use a coin toss to decide...this is really childish..."

  Meng Xuan sneered, a hint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

  At the same time Jiang Yue Chen threw out his wine cup, suddenly more than a dozen black-clad knife-wielding men rushed out, their knives flashing like lightning, directly attacking Meng Xuan. However, Meng Xuan didn't even look at them, his long sword suddenly slashing out, in an instant a streak of electric light flashed out, "whoosh whoosh whoosh" countless shrill sounds rang out, those dozen black-clad knife-wielding men were actually sent flying, each one's chest struck by a sword, blood spraying wildly.

  This sword is very ordinary, not some profound sword technique. The sword was simply picked up from an ironwork shop when Meng Xuan left the city. Its quality is ordinary, but under Meng Xuan's true energy of seven layers of cultivation, even the most ordinary sword techniques are not something that these mortal swordsmen can withstand. A long sword of ordinary quality becomes like a divine sharp weapon, with its sword energy soaring and cutting through iron and gold.

  "Whoosh..."

  Jiang Yuechen's face changed color. He didn't expect a dozen or so knife-wielding men to take down Meng Xuan, but Meng Xuan was dealing with them too easily.

  Meng Xuan's long sword dripped with blood, slowly falling to the ground. He didn't stop in his tracks, continuing to move forward. His gaze swept across the hidden knife-wielding men within the manor, saying calmly: "I know you're all knife-wielders who can risk your lives for money, but I still want to say this: only with life can you spend money. If you leave now, I won't make things difficult for you, but whoever dares block my path, I'll send him to the afterlife!"

  "Kill him..."

  As soon as Meng Xuan's voice fell, a brief silence appeared in the courtyard, but immediately a loud roar erupted, and a black-clad man jumped out first, holding a sharp knife, with a gleaming blade, rolling towards Meng Xuan. In the instant he jumped out, Meng Xuan suddenly darted forward, his sword flashing like lightning, sweeping across the man's neck, and he stiffened instantly, suddenly losing all his strength.

  Meng Xuan walked past him, without even giving him a second glance.

  "Bang..."

  The swordsman's head suddenly fell off, and fresh blood spurted out of his neck, shooting up three feet.

  "You...... you......"

  Jiang Yuechen's hands and feet were icy cold, and he jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

  "You're a Meng, and yet you're so ruthless..."

  It's no wonder that Jiang Yuechen reacted this way, although he had prepared his knife hands, he didn't intend to take Meng Xuan's life, just wanted to capture him, humiliate him a bit, and then break his legs. But he didn't expect that as soon as Meng Xuan appeared, he would strike with such ferocity, only using two swords, one to cut down over a dozen ordinary knife hands, the second to take the head of the leader of the knife hands, all while maintaining an expression as if nothing was out of the ordinary.

  "Are you leaving?"

  Meng Xuan's eyes shone brightly, and all the hidden knife hands felt a chill run down their spines, as if Meng Xuan had already seen through them.

  "Alright, you guys don't leave, originally it was for money that you risked your lives, then don't blame me for being ruthless..."

  Meng Xuan said lightly, suddenly his eyes turned cold, and he rushed towards a place in an instant. With a "whoosh" sound, a sword light directly chopped towards a haystack. Along with the flying hay, fresh blood flew up, and two black-clothed men let out miserable cries as their corpses were exposed.

  Then, Meng Xuan stared at another place again and slowly walked in that direction.

  "Wealth is useless if you can't stay alive, brothers, hurry up and escape..."

  Suddenly someone shouted loudly and jumped out from their hiding place, fleeing towards the outside of the garden.

  This shout was like opening a floodgate, and all the black-clad men rushed out of the garden in a hurry, completely losing their will to fight.

  They thought Meng Xuan was very strong, and they didn't plan to take him down easily. But they didn't expect Meng Xuan to be so strong. Originally, according to their plan, even if they paid the price of a dozen casualties, it would be worth taking down Meng Xuan. But they didn't expect that Meng Xuan's sword would flash out like lightning, killing people mercilessly, and in an instant, more than a dozen people were cut down by him, while they couldn't even hurt a single hair on his body.

  This group of thugs isn't stupid either, there's a simple truth: having money is useless if you don't have a life to spend it with.

  After all, they are not professional killers with a different occupation, but only a group of low-level martial artists who have learned a few knife skills and specialize in fighting for others. They are like street thugs from their previous life, giving them money to help you beat people up. But when someone suddenly pulls out a machine gun and "bang bang" kills more than a dozen people, it's strange if the rest aren't scared shitless.

  Meng Xuan did not chase after them, letting these knife-wielding men escape, and continued walking towards the inner hall with his sword in hand.

  Jiang Yuechen was now frightened pale, her hands trembling uncontrollably, the wine in her cup spilled all over her chest without her even realizing it.

  Just as Meng Xuan was passing by a flower tree, suddenly a knife light rolled out from behind the flower tree.

  Unexpectedly, there was still a knife-wielding hand that had not escaped, but instead hid behind the flower tree, waiting for an opportunity to ambush and kill Meng Xuan when he let his guard down.

  Unfortunately, under Meng Xuan's divine gaze, every move of his sneak attack was within Meng Xuan's expectations.

  "Bang..."

  Meng Xuan's long sword quivered lightly and knocked the knife out of that person's hand, while also sending him tumbling to the ground.

  Unexpectedly, the knife-wielding figure was just a child, looking no more than twelve or thirteen years old, with a gaunt face and a stubborn gaze.

  "Everyone else has escaped, why haven't you?"

  Meng Xuan glanced at the child lightly and asked in a soft voice.

  "Others are afraid of you, I'm not afraid of you. I want to kill you, make money, and then go rescue my sister..."

  The child suddenly let out a loud roar, with veins bulging on his forehead, like an angry little dog.

  "Your sister?"

  Meng Xuan was taken aback, but soon nodded lightly and said: "It seems that you are also a person with a story, fearless for the sake of your loved ones... But I only want to tell you one thing, in the situation where you clearly have no hope of success, you still attacked me, which shows that you are very foolish. A foolish person, no matter how brave, cannot achieve great things. So... be smarter next time..."

  The child's face changed, and a thread of fear appeared in his angry eyes.

  "You want to kill me... You really want to kill me?"

  The child kept backing away, and his eyes were filled with an unbelievable expression.

  "When you raised your knife to chop me, you should have been prepared for this!"

  Meng Xuan's face was expressionless, and the long sword in his hand rose up.

  "I am not reconciled, I am not reconciled. Do you know that I was originally the young master of the Golden Knife Du family in Jiang City? But my father was secretly killed by a rival family and unfortunately died. What's even more hateful is that my second uncle betrayed our family and led the enemy into our home. I had no choice but to escape with my sister, and yet..."

  The child cried out loudly, his voice full of resentment.

  "I'm not interested in hearing your story..."

  Meng Xuan shook his head and suddenly swung out with one sword, "swish" sound, a red mark appeared on the child's neck.

  "Your foolishness has implicated your own sister, go to hell and atone for it!"

  Meng Xuan walked past him with a cold and ruthless tone.

  Perhaps with time, this child will have a good fate due to his bravery, but Meng Xuan did not plan to give him that time.

  "Meng Xuan... Meng Xuan... You're actually so ruthless..."

  Jiang Yuechen's voice trembled, his face was deathly pale, and he looked at Meng Xuan as if he were looking at a demon king.