Chapter 64: The An Sisters (Part 2)

  An Yuwen's eyebrows shot up, and she sneered: "Our benefactor is wise, brave, and upright. How can you compare to him? You say you killed Cao Tianhao? Ha! I'd like to see what qualifications you have to make such a boast."

  As soon as she finished speaking, she thrust her long sword forward and stabbed at Xiao Ziyang's face door. However, she only used five parts of her strength when drawing her sword, apparently just wanting to test Xiao Ziyang's martial arts skills.

  Xiao Ziyang let out a furious roar, his voice filled with the ferocity of a beast. He swung his hand and grasped An Yuxuan's incoming long sword. Suppressing the endless killing intent in his heart, he didn't take advantage of the situation to attack, instead swinging his hand to fling it away.

  An Yuxuan only felt the long sword in her hand surge with an unstoppable and immense power, lifting her off the ground. She hastily threw away the sword, but it was already too late. Her entire body was thrown flying five or six zhangs away, and she was about to crash into the large door of the assembly hall.

  Fortunately, An Yuvan's martial arts skills were not weak. She and her sister came from a famous family and had exceptional talent, which was rare in the world. Although they were still young, their martial arts skills had already reached the threshold of top-notch experts.

  At this critical moment, she suddenly became weak and boneless, twisted her body, adjusted her posture, lightly touched the door frame with her toes, and landed steadily in front of the main hall.

  But she didn't show any sign of triumph, instead, she stared at Xiao Ziyang with extreme horror.

  Under the influence of the heart demon, Xiao Ziyang's body was surging with energy and his muscles and bones had become as hard as iron, causing An Yuxuan's hundred-refined steel long sword to be crushed by him.

  As he crushed the long sword, the blade also deeply cut into his fingers, scraping against the phalanges with a sound that made one's teeth ache.

  But he seemed completely unaware, tightly grasping the few pieces of broken steel sword in his hand, standing still, panting heavily, and desperately suppressing the evil thoughts in his heart.

  As they watched Xiao Ziyang suddenly seem to transform into a demon, the three sisters were shocked and at the same time, somewhat believed his earlier boast about killing Cao Tianhao.

  Looking at Xiao Ziyang's terrifying state, the three sisters all felt a strong sense of crisis. An Yuxuan and Ermei exchanged a glance, both slowly backing away, intending to leave.

  Su Erjie pulled her little sister back two steps, and suddenly the little girl turned around and shouted to Xiao Ziyang: "You'd better leave quickly too! Cao Tianhao is really formidable, he's killed all the bandits in this mountain stronghold. What are you still doing here?" Su Erjie was shocked and hastily covered her sister's mouth.

  Three people looked at the boy who was shaking all over, panting heavily, and seemed to be holding back something.

  What the three people did not expect was that Xiao Ziyang actually opened his mouth to answer Su Xiaomei's words, and he said in a dreamy tone: "There are many...many women who have been robbed in this mountain village...I want to find a way to settle them down...can't let them fend for themselves..."

  Also fitting is Xiao Ziyang's Hong Fu Qi Tian, the heart demon will amplify the evil thoughts in the cultivator's mind. The more the cultivator suppresses their evil thoughts, the stronger they become, just like how a person who tries to forget something will instead remember it even more clearly.

  To suppress evil thoughts, there is only good thoughts, but for those who are invaded by heart demons and are full of evil thoughts, how can they give birth to good thoughts?

  Su Xiaomei's last sentence was exactly what I wanted to ask!

  Xiao Ziyang had lived in Nanba County for more than half a year, so he naturally knew that every time the bandits of Cangshan Village broke into the village, they would abduct young and beautiful women to take them up the mountain. Just now, during the process of killing the bandits, he also saw the shadows of several women in the wooden houses on both sides.

  Chu State is located in the south, where people attach great importance to etiquette. In Nanba County, there was a case where a woman who had barely escaped from being robbed by mountain bandits was killed by drowning in a village pond.

  If these women are left to their own devices, most of them will not survive. If they go down the mountain, they will be killed by feudal ethics; if they do not go down the mountain, they will either starve to death in the mountains or fall into other strongholds.

  Therefore, he just had an idea and wanted to find a way to help these women survive.

  As soon as Su Xiaomei asked this, it immediately evoked the good thoughts in his heart, and with the emergence of good thoughts, the evil spirit was suppressed. Xiao Ziyang immediately regained a few points of consciousness, found the key, and made every effort to recall the happy events of his life.

  After a cup of tea's work, under the gaze of Anjia sisters' fright and palpitation, Xiao Ziyang finally suppressed his heart demon.

  Xiaoziyang, whose mind had cleared up immediately, bowed deeply to Su Xiaomei.

  He didn't dare to think wildly anymore, and he took out the palm-sized flying dragon crossbow from under his cloak. He said to the three of them: "That day at Fu Rui Inn outside Shuo An City, it was indeed I who saved your sisters. I have a deep blood feud with a powerful enemy, so I hope you three will look at the fact that I once saved you and not mention this matter to others. My cultivation has gone awry, and my heart is always filled with evil thoughts. Just now, I was rude to you three, please forgive me."

  An Jia and her sisters saw him regain his consciousness, and they all let out a long sigh of relief.

  The three saw the slingshot in his hand and immediately believed him. This "Flying Dragon in the Palm" has only ten pieces in the world, and they had specifically inquired about the owner of this slingshot when searching for their benefactor years ago. The whereabouts of nine slingshots were very clear, but their owners would not be the ones to save them. Only one was unknown.

  An Yuwen hastily stepped forward and saluted, saying: "It's I who should be blamed for being ungrateful. You, sir, are concerned about the lives of others even at your own life-and-death moment. This truly makes me, Yuwen, admire you to the extreme. Only someone with a heart as broad as yours would risk their life to save people like us who have no relation to you."

  Su Xiaomei suddenly interrupted: "So you really have killed Cao Tianhao?"

  Xiao Ziyang said, "That's right. I was in the county town of Nanba buying medicinal materials for my practice when Cao Tianhao and his brother spotted me with exposed wealth. I pretended not to recognize them and used Palm Dragon Strike to kill Cao Tianhao by chance."

  He paused and continued, "Also, the three of you must not call me a benefactor. If it weren't for this young lady's words reminding me, bringing out the kindness in my heart, I'm afraid I would have been doomed today. Who knows, maybe from now on I'll be crazy and confused."

  An Yuwen said: "If I hadn't acted rashly, you wouldn't have lost control. But what kind of martial arts did you cultivate? Although the power is not ordinary, it's even more terrifying after losing control."

  Xiao Ziyang said, "The family's traditional martial arts are not worth mentioning. It's just that I've been practicing on my own without anyone to guide me, and I thoughtlessly neglected some very important basic skills, which is why I ended up like this. Alas! I only hope it's not too late to mend the fence after the sheep has escaped."

  An Jia sisters saw Xiao Ziyang refuse to mention his own martial arts practice, only saying that this martial art is related to his origin, and did not ask again.