Chapter 8: The Mysterious Footprints First Appear

  Zhan Zhao carefully followed the two people with outstretched hands and found that they rushed all the way to a four-sided courtyard with a cypress tree in front of the door!

  Zhan Zhao stopped at the entrance, looked around and jumped into the courtyard. The yard was very spacious with three rows of tile-roofed houses. The main house faced south, with east and west wing rooms on either side. Zhan Zhao carefully approached the middle of the door, paused slightly, and that feeling of annoyance in his heart spread out again. Zhan Zhao understood that He brothers must be inside this room!

  Zhan Zhao's ear lightly leaned against the door, carefully listening to the conversation inside.

  "Big brother, just now when that person was looking at us, why did I feel a thread of fear to the extreme of heart palpitations?"

  "Second brother, I don't know if you noticed or not, when we were at the聚宝斋, that person saw us and on his forehead, right in the middle, a thread of silver light seemed to appear. After that, I felt an extreme sense of oppression and my heart started trembling uncontrollably!"

  "That's right, what kind of origin is that person, just relying on a pair of eyes, it makes us have this terrible feeling, could he be an official?"

  "What about the government people? Our matter is impossible to be exposed, now that dead ghost has been burned into ashes, no evidence of death, and I think, that person may not necessarily be a government person, we don't often see government people do we? It doesn't feel like it!"

  Two people continued to speak, and Zhan Zhao's heart moved. The matter of the two people was burned into ashes? Adding his own feelings in his heart, connecting them together, these two people called He brothers were absolutely the Wu brothers from Nanhuashan!

  Zhan Zhao suddenly felt that someone had entered the backyard behind him, turned his head to look, and found that Zhang Long and Zhao Hu had arrived. Zhan Zhao was somewhat astonished, how could they be so fast?

  Looking back, Zhan Zhao suddenly understood and smiled lightly. Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were both skilled in martial arts, and he had been extremely cautious while following them. By the time he arrived here, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu had already used their lightness skills to get here, naturally taking less time than him!

  Zhang Long and Zhao Hu walked to the front of Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao nodded, walked to the door, directly kicked open the door with one foot, and looked coldly at the two people in the house!

  The two were startled, their eyes bulging out, the left half of their face calm, while the right half was slightly aghast. They looked up to see a young man in blue clothes with an icy expression, his eyes like deep pools, staring coldly at them, and they couldn't help but feel greatly shocked, unable to utter a single word.

  "Liu Shichang!" Zhan Zhao suddenly shouted, stretching out his hand to take the black pot from Zhang Long's body. "You'd better take a good look, these two people in front of you are the murderers who killed you!"

  Suddenly hearing Liu Shichang's name, the two brothers stiffened and looked at the black bowl in Zhan Zhao's hand with a quiver.

  The black pot shook violently and emitted a series of trembling sounds, "Zhan Daren, it was these two people who killed me, Zhan Daren must not let them off!"

  Zhan Zhao was just about to speak when the bundle containing Wu Pan suddenly shook violently and fell from Zhan Zhao's hands, hitting the ground with a loud thud. From within the bundle, Wu Pan struggled free and rolled out, shouting "You two have made me suffer so much!"

  As soon as these words came out, the two brothers immediately changed color. One of them trembled all over and almost fell to the ground, exclaiming, "Big brother, it's him, he's a ghost, he's come for our lives..."

  Another person was also pale, a pair of triangular eyes stared into an equilateral triangle, and his limbs twitched uncontrollably. He muttered to himself: "No, no, it's impossible, there can't be ghosts! This is impossible!"

  Zhan Zhao snorted coldly, "He brothers, no, Wu Cheng and Wu Qing, you two, aren't you going to follow me back to Kaifeng Prefecture to confess?"

  Wu Cheng was stunned for a moment, then let out an angry roar. He turned around and grabbed something from the head of the bed, shouting loudly, "You want to take me away? Forget about it!"

  Zhan Zhao was taken aback, his eyes widened as he stared at Wu Cheng's hand, which was gripping a dark and sinister-looking axe. Zhan Zhao's anger flared up in an instant, his already irritable mood now boiling over. As Wu Cheng provoked him further, Zhan Zhao's entire being suddenly turned cold, a thread of murderous intent emerging from the depths of his heart, a surge of uncontainable killing intent bursting forth from the very soul!

  Zhan Zhao gritted his teeth and said, "Wu Cheng, you're looking for death!"

  Wu Cheng was now driven to desperation, and his heart also produced three points of courage. He involuntarily shouted in a low voice, "Second brother, come here! Since we dare to kill people, then we are not afraid of the government office. Let's rush out!"

  Zhan Zhao's heart turned cold, the giant sword suddenly emerged from its scabbard, and his body flashed, already appearing behind Wu Cheng and Wu Qing. The giant sword directly pierced into Wu Cheng's back, as if unsatisfied, and at the same time, he kicked out heavily, kicking Wu Cheng flying!

  Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were stunned, everyone in the Jianghu knew that Nan Xiaozhao was warm and elegant, with a broad mind, even when facing great villains, he would always leave some room for maneuver, and since entering Kaifeng Prefecture, Nan Xiaozhao had been self-disciplined, so how could he suddenly make a ruthless move against someone?!

  Both of them sighed silently at the same time, what is heard is often false, what is seen is true, and rumors in Jianghu are even more unreliable.

  Zhan Zhao kicked Wu Cheng flying away, and with a left fist, he slammed into Wu Qing's back of the head, directly knocking Wu Qing to the ground.

  Zhan Zhao suddenly knelt down on the ground, staring at the back of Wu Cheng in the distance, where fresh blood was constantly seeping out. Zhan Zhao only felt a little nauseous in his heart. In his past life, he had seen corpses, and in this life, he had also seen corpses and blood, but this was the first time Zhan Zhao had killed someone. He wasn't one of those people who could casually kill others without changing their expression just because they were a transmigrator!

  And it seems that this time, I was the first to take action and kill someone, and I was actually controlled by that murderous intent in my heart!

  Zhan Zhao took a deep breath, gazing at the bright red bloodstain. Contrary to his expectations, his inner turmoil intensified, and he felt an overwhelming urge to rush forward and chop Wu Cheng's corpse into minced meat!

  Zhang Long and Zhao Hu took two steps forward, helped Zhan Zhao up, Zhang Long furrowed his brow, "Zhan Guard, what's wrong with you?"

  Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "Never mind, after we return, if Lord Bao wants to investigate, I'll take full responsibility. Zhang Long, tie up Wu Qing, Zhao Hu, carry the wok, let's hurry back to Kaifeng Prefecture, otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold myself back from killing Wu Qing..."

  The words had not been finished, Wu Cheng suddenly sat up from the ground again, and let out a chilling howl. He jumped high, waving the axe in his hand, chopping towards Zhan Zhao!

  Zhan Zhao's eyebrows shot up, a strong sense of disgust arose from the bottom of his heart, killing intent surged forth, and the giant sword suddenly emerged from its scabbard, colliding with Wu Cheng's axe. The first strike missed, and Wu Cheng raised his axe again to chop down fiercely. Zhan Zhao hesitated for a moment, took a step back, and as if by instinct, the giant sword pierced into Wu Cheng's throat.

  Jū Què jiàn bá chū, Wú Chéng de shēn tǐ dǒu rán tān ruò dì, bú guò zhǎn Zhāo què méi yǒu xī huì, yīn wèi, tā gǎn jué dào, cǐ qián Wú Chéng de fǎn yìng sù dù sì hū yǒu le yī xī tí gāo, ér qiě, Zhǎn Zhāo de méi zhōng yī zhí zài tiào dòng, Tiān Yǎn sì hū xiǎng yào zài cì kāi fàng!

  Wu Cheng suddenly jumped up again, his whole body covered in blood, his eyes red and fierce, like a wild beast that had lost its mind, and he charged towards Zhan Zhao with a fierce cry.

  Zhang Long and Zhao Hu stared blankly, their eyes wide with shock. Both of them could see that Wu Cheng's heart had been pierced and his throat had been stabbed through, it was absolutely impossible for him to be alive! But why did he suddenly stand up again and attack Zhan Zhao?

  Suddenly a dull sound, half of the head flew out with blood, it was Zhan Zhao who ruthlessly killed him, urging his internal force, borrowing the sharpness of the ancient famous instrument Giant Gate, Wu Cheng's skull was cut off by more than half!

  Then, a terrifying scene that no one could have imagined appeared before everyone's eyes. Wu Cheng, who should have been dead with half of his skull missing, was still standing and swinging his axe forward, his movements and speed unchanged from before. The few people were shocked into a daze, involuntarily retreating several steps. Zhang Long and Zhao Hu suddenly came back to their senses, drew out their steel knives and rushed forward, using them to block Wu Cheng's axe!

  Zhan Zhao's eyebrows twitched in pain, and he could no longer suppress the throbbing sensation. A golden mark resembling an eye appeared on his forehead, and a silver light spread from his brow, enveloping Wu Cheng's entire body. Zhan Zhao was shocked to discover that the red glow within Wu Cheng's body had grown stronger, like a ferocious demon!

  His eyebrows twitched in pain, and Zhan Zhao was shocked to discover that the silver light emanating from him suddenly turned into golden light. The red glow within Wu Cheng seemed to have met its nemesis, and it began to dissipate rapidly. Wu Cheng's body also suddenly collapsed to the ground!

  Zhang Long and Zhao Hu took a step back, falling to Zhan Zhao's front. The two simultaneously opened their mouths and shouted, "Lord Zhan, what is going on here?!" The two raised their heads and suddenly froze, "Lord Zhan, how did that mark appear on your forehead again?!"

  Zhan Zhao said faintly, "Take care of Wu Qing!" Then he stared at Wu Cheng without blinking.

  Wu Cheng's body was constantly losing its blood color, and suddenly, Wu Cheng's body shook violently. The golden light emitted from Zhan Zhao's brow disappeared abruptly, only to see Wu Cheng's chest suddenly explode, and a bloody mist appeared after that, followed by a red shadow rising into the sky with a shrill cry. However, in Zhan Zhao's ears, he clearly heard a chilling voice: "Those who offend my demon realm will be annihilated!"