Thirty miles outside the Demon City, some people were quietly setting up camp. They took a long detour to avoid the eyes and ears of other families, but they arrived earlier than other families because they had better horses and traveled day and night. They set up camp on a hillside. A small pavilion was built on the outermost side of the hillside. A middle-aged man in a red robe was sitting there, drinking tea and looking at the golden city not far below.
"Master, we have set up camp. The spies reported that the three men are ten miles away." A young disciple knelt on one knee outside the pavilion.
"Okay, put the flag up." The man in red robe said quietly.
"This... Patriarch, we deliberately avoided people from other families along the way in order to avoid our identities being discovered. Is it too high-profile to raise the clan flag now?" the young disciple asked in confusion.
"Since we're already here, there's no need to hide our identities. Let them see who in the world of martial arts is truly confident enough to kill the people below." The man in the red robe drank a cup of tea with a slight smile on his face.
"Yes!" said the young disciple with his head lowered.
Soon, a vermilion flag was raised in the camp with a big "King" written on it.
The Wang family is the first of the four great families in Jiangnan.
The carriage carrying three people continued to move forward.
"It's too quiet." Su Baiyi murmured in a low voice.
"No, it's too noisy." Zhao Xiaqiu closed his eyes, looking serious, "There are so many horse hoof sounds, it's really too much."
Nangong Xier's expression became increasingly ugly. She turned over and jumped onto the top of the carriage. She looked at the sky and whispered, "From just now on, I have been hearing birds singing. It turns out that there are so many birds flying from the north. All animals have spirits. There is danger ahead. We can't go to Demon City anymore."
Zhao Xiaqiu shook his head: "No, only by going to the Demon City can we avoid this danger."
Nangong Xier frowned slightly: "Su Baiyi, you make the decision."
Su Baiyi smiled and said, "Since you are here..."
Nangong Xier said helplessly: "Be serious."
"I can't avoid them. They all come for the Immortal Book on me, so I will go to meet them." Su Baiyi gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "Let's see if they can take it away!"
Nangong Xier smiled helplessly: "When did you become so courageous? I had to coax and trick you to bring you down the mountain."
"When following my senior sister, I naturally cannot be timid." Su Baiyi said, patting his chest.
Zhao Xiaqiu suddenly opened his eyes: "After crossing this forest, you can see the Demon City."
"Okay." Su Baiyi whipped the whip violently, and the carriage accelerated, passing through a dark woods and entering a broad avenue. At the end of the avenue was a huge city with golden walls, flashing enchanting light under the moonlight.
"What a big city..." Nangong Xier exclaimed.
"Demon City is about the same size as Jinling City in the prosperous Jiangnan area. At that time, the ancestor of Demon City was a founding general, and was later granted a city called Jinyuan. Although it is close to the northern barbarian land, it is governed very richly. The city lord is called Jinyuan Hou, and the name has been passed down from generation to generation. After three generations, he became famous in the martial arts world and called himself Demon City, but the gift from the court has never changed." Zhao Xiaqiu explained, "So don't think that Demon City is just a martial arts sect, it is really a city!"
"Demon City Lord, cut me into pieces. Here I come!" Su Baiyi shouted.
On the hillside, the man in the red robe narrowed his eyes slightly and stretched out his hand, saying, "Take the bow."
The young disciple who was serving beside him immediately fetched a huge red bow and arrow. The man in the red robe stood up, put the arrow on the string, and aimed at the carriage below.
"Who is willing to accompany you to encircle and suppress the demon city? Let's end it here." The man in the red robe tightened the arrow string, let out a light breath, and shot the arrow.
Nangong Xier was about to open her mouth to tease Su Baiyi, but she heard the crisp sound of an arrow.
That was the sound of the air being torn!
Nangong Xier turned around suddenly, raised her hand slightly, and the Lover's Sword flew out from the top of the carriage and fell into her hand.
"Senior Sister?" Su Baiyi noticed something strange and turned around to ask.
"Keep driving the carriage. Leave it to me." Nangong Xier leaned over slightly, leaped up, and cut the feather arrow in half. But when she landed again, she found that another feather arrow was about to hit her.
Silent arrow!
Nangong Xier gritted her teeth and swung her sword to block the feather arrow, but found that another feather arrow came from the side and directly interrupted the silent arrow.
Nangong Xier turned around and found that Gu Ye was riding a horse on their left side. Gu Ye let out a long sigh: "This is the Zhu Yan longbow, the best bow in the world. I didn't expect that I could actually block it. It was a fluke, a fluke."
On the hillside, the head of the Wang family put down the red bow in his hand and said slowly: "Gu Ye."
Gu Ye raised his head, looked up at the hillside, and murmured to himself in a low voice: "Zhu Yan Changgong... is it him who came?"
"Master?" asked the young Wang family disciple outside the pavilion, "Should we send someone down to intercept them?"
The head of the Wang family shook his head: "It's too late, and someone has already followed us."
"Who?" asked the young disciple.
"Tianshui Villa." The head of the Wang family smiled, "But it was all in vain."
Zhao Xia Qiu in the carriage suddenly pulled out the broken sword on his back and stabbed it downwards. Immediately, two people rolled out from under the carriage. It turned out that when Su Baiyi drove the carriage out of the woods just now, someone had taken the opportunity to hide under the carriage.
The two men fell outside the carriage, each drew out a knife, and slashed towards Su Baiyi who was driving the carriage.
"Attack the ground and kill!" Nangong Xier had heard of this secret skill of Tianshui Villa. It was said that the user could walk close to the ground, attack from below, and deliver an unstoppable blow.
“It’s also a two-person collaboration.”
“But they are far inferior to us.”
"Strike up from the ground, thinking you are invincible?"
"How ridiculous! Kill him in one fell swoop."
Two feminine and ghostly voices suddenly sounded, singing in unison, full of teasing.
Zhao Xiaqiu smiled and said, "They are here."
Suddenly, two figures appeared in front of Su Baiyi, both wearing tall hats, one in black and the other in white, both with extremely pale faces. The two were originally standing side by side, but suddenly they each moved to the side and pulled open a long chain. Su Baiyi thought the chain was coming for him, so he hurriedly reined in his horse, but the two immediately leaned over and then moved towards each other.
In the meantime, the two killers from Tianshui Villa had been tied up.
"Kill them, kill them."
“No, no.”
"Then let them go."
"The farther away the better."
The two men sang in unison, swung the chain upwards, and threw the two killers far away.
Su Baiyi looked at the two people in front of him who were clearly dressed in clothing and asked in confusion, "Black and White Impermanence?"
The man in white turned around and said with a smile: "Demon City, Minotaur."
The man in black made a face: "Devil City, Horse-Faced."