Chapter 12: Instant Kill of the Qingcheng Sect Disciples

The attention of the people around them had actually been on Yu Xian and the woman all along; seeing the two of them flirting and playing so brazenly, their eyes couldn’t help but reveal looks of envy.

Ning Zhongze noticed that the surrounding gazes were all on them, and she was so ashamed she wished she could bury herself in Yu Xian’s embrace.

At her age, how could she Face anyone in the future!

Ning Zhongze gave Yu Xian a fierce glare, then sat up straight and proper, waiting for the show to begin.

Sure enough, before the dishes they ordered arrived, the sound of hoofbeats came from outside the wine shop. Two horses could be seen approaching the shop from a distance.

Yu Xian and Ning Zhongze exchanged a glance, both understanding in their hearts: they’re here!

As expected, two men dressed in long green cloth robes dismounted and walked into the wine shop. From the tone of their speech, it was clear they were from Western Sichuan; they should be Yu Renyan and Jia Randa of the Qingcheng Sect.

The two men first scanned the situation inside the wine shop from the doorway. When they saw two people of extraordinary appearance amidst a crowd of rough men, their eyes instantly lit up. Immediately after, their gaze filled with greed, and they walked straight toward Yu Xian’s table.

Yu Xian looked up slightly. Seeing the two walking toward them and sizing up him and Ning Zhongze with lecherous expressions, his eyebrows twitched slightly as he sat waiting for them to find their own path to death.

From the moment they entered the wine shop, Yu Renyan and Jia Randa’s eyes never left Yu Xian and Ning Zhongze. By the time they sat down at that table, they were practically drooling.

“By my old man’s beard, I didn’t expect such beauties to be in this tiny, broken place. My brother and I are truly blessed today.” Jia Randa’s gaze moved back and forth between Yu Xian and Ning Zhongze. Seeing that neither of them reacted, his boldness grew even further.

“Brother Yu, this flower girl’s figure is truly something else; her Face must be absolutely beautiful. And this kid, if he went on stage to play a female lead, he’d really seduce people…” Jia Randa critiqued Ning Zhongze and Yu Xian as if no one else were present.

Hearing this, Yu Renyan nodded in agreement, his gaze becoming even more burning, as if he had already planned how to deal with the two of them.

Aren’t these the same words used to harass Yue Lingshan and Lin Pingzhi in the original story? Did he and Ning Zhongze just take the hit for those two?

However, he had to admit these two from the Qingcheng Sect had an eye for beauty. His own appearance went without saying—even Lin Pingzhi would fall short by three points—and Ning Zhongze’s figure was top-tier.

“Do you two know that you have already found your path to death?” Yu Xian didn’t even raise his eyes, merely pouring a cup of wine for Ning Zhongze.

Upon hearing Yu Xian’s words, Yu Renyan and Jia Randa both burst into loud laughter.

Since they started their careers, this was the first time anyone had spoken to them like this. Especially coming from a pretty boy who looked like a kept man.

“By my old man’s beard, if you know what’s good for you, pour some wine for your masters and let this flower girl play with us. If we’re happy, we might let you go.” As Jia Randa spoke, he reached out, wanting to tear off the veil on Ning Zhongze’s Face.

However, just as his hand reached halfway, his wrist was grabbed by a powerful hand. That hand gave his own a gentle twist, and he felt a searing pain shoot through his entire arm.

“Ah!”

Jia Randa let out a scream of agony and tried to pull his arm back, feeling as though it were broken. But before he could exert any force, he found himself thrown into the air. Then, he took a heavy kick to the chest, flying backward out of the wine shop. And then… there was no ‘and then’.

“You dare to fight back?” Seeing Jia Randa sent flying, Yu Renyan didn’t go to check on him immediately. Instead, he drew his longsword and lunged at Yu Xian.

Yu Renyan thought that with a sharp blade in hand, he could take down Yu Xian, but the opponent merely used a single chopstick as a sword, effortlessly breaking his Pine Wind Swordsmanship.

Just as he wanted to attack again, he found a chopstick already at his throat, which then pierced straight through, snapping his neck.

Before he could even process why someone so young possessed such high Martial Arts to kill him in a single move, he collapsed straight to the ground, his breath completely gone.

“People of the Qingcheng Sect truly aren’t good sorts,” Ning Zhongze said, coldly glancing at the corpse on the ground.

She finally understood why Yu Xian hadn’t asked her to cover her Face earlier on the road, but insisted she wear a veil before coming in just now. It was to guard against these two.

She hadn’t expected that Yu Xian’s looks and her own figure would truly lure people in directly.

“Alright, the nuisances are dead. Let’s have Yue Lingshan return to Mount Hua later. We shouldn’t let her get involved in the matters of the Qingcheng Sect and the Fuwei Escort Agency,” Yu Xian said, shaking his head with a smile.

He thought the plot would follow the original, but who would have thought these two were so emboldened by lust that they’d come looking for them? They truly sought their own deaths.

He could be considered to have helped Lin Pingzhi out. Now that so many people had seen him commit the killing, he wanted to see if Yu Canghai would dare come looking for trouble with him.

Everyone in the wine shop was shocked beyond words by how Yu Xian had killed two people with just a kick and a chopstick.

Lin Pingzhi had already been prepared to stand up for those two. After all, this was the territory of his Fuwei Escort Agency; how could he tolerate such harassment of women and men happening here?

But before he could step up, the two troublemakers were killed so cleanly.

Lin Pingzhi swallowed hard. After snapping out of it, he ordered his subordinates to handle the corpses, then walked up to Yu Xian and the woman, bowing in greeting: “Meeting is fate. I am Lin Pingzhi, the Young Agency Head of the Fuwei Escort Agency. I wonder if I might make friends with this young hero? It would allow me to show some hospitality as your host.”

“Oh? So it is Young Agency Head Lin. I just took the lives of two Qingcheng Sect Disciples. Aren’t you afraid that being associated with me will bring you trouble?” Yu Xian asked with a smile.

“Ah? The Qingcheng Sect? They were from the Qingcheng Sect?” Hearing they were from the Qingcheng Sect, a wave of panic surged in Lin Pingzhi’s heart.

But he instantly remembered this was Fuzhou, the territory of his Fuwei Escort Agency. He wasn’t the one who killed them, so there was no reason for the Qingcheng Sect to trouble him, right? Even if the Qingcheng Sect came, surely they would give the Fuwei Escort Agency some Face?

Having just said he wanted to make friends, how could he, the dignified Young Agency Head of the Fuwei Escort Agency, be scared off by the name of the Qingcheng Sect? Wouldn’t that be a slap to the Face?

Lin Pingzhi tilted his head back, putting on an unconcerned air. “This is Fuzhou, my Fuwei Escort Agency’s territory. Besides, those two were in the wrong first. If they’re killed, they’re killed. This Young Agency Head isn’t afraid.”

Hearing this, Yu Xian and Ning Zhongze couldn’t help but look at each other and secretly shake their heads.

As expected, he’s an arrogant greenhorn who doesn’t know the weight of things, truly thinking his Fuwei Escort Agency is the greatest in the world.

However, they could also see that Lin Pingzhi was genuine and not a bad youth.

Yu Xian watched the Fuwei Escort Agency people help dispose of the bodies, then said to Lin Pingzhi, “There’s no need for friendship. Consider this an IOU for a favor.

If there is a need, you can find me at the Fuzhou Inn. If the Qingcheng Sect people look for you, you can also tell them to find me there.”