Sword Among Us

Chapter 965: The Sky Demon Plays the Zither

Jiangnan had the nickname of the Village of Fish and Grain.

The scenery in Jiangnan was also incredibly beautiful. The place was filled with a faint and intoxicating scent of humidity. It allowed a person to feel refreshed, but at the same time, they would also be unable to help themselves but be enchanted in it.

There was an orderly green link separating the beautiful Common Reed Bank. The green link traveled down the bank in a zig-zagging manner, but it gave off a quiet feeling, and it allowed those who saw it to feel delighted.

Happy stood at the head of a small bamboo raft and felt the river breeze against his face and sniffed the refreshing scent from Common Reed Bank. As he listened to the bamboo raft pushing away the water, Happy felt even more intoxicated than when he drank Kaoliang liquor.

“Ferryman!”

“What is it, young master?” The ferryman was an old man in his fifties. He was an honest fellow but had a body that did not lose to a young man’s. When he heard Happy call out to him, he continued rowing the raft in an orderly manner while he answered to Happy’s call.

Happy did not turn his head around. He just pointed ahead of him, “How far away are we from Gusu City?”

“Hehe. Young master, you sure are hasty. Lake Tai’s territory is not far away from us. Once we’re past Lake Tai, in less than four hours after we get on shore, you’ll reach Gusu City,” the ferryman answered.

“Haha! Thanks!”

“Young master, you’re too polite. I can’t receive your gratitude.”

Happy did not say anything else. While he admired the view, he shut his eyes and was prepared to head to the other world.

This was already his second day since he traveled downstream from Beijing. Even though he was moving very quickly, he still wasted two days’ worth of training time, and it made him feel a little impatient.

Hence, over the past two days, he basically went to the other world to train.

Of course, he did not train in the branch prison.

He finally obtained time to train over there, and Happy naturally would not waste it. He searched for Myth Realm elites and caused them trouble, thereby pushing his Indestructible Body and Tendon Changing Classic to become even greater.

However, just when Happy was about to be dragged to the other world, he suddenly felt a violent gust of wind blow at him from the left of Common Reed Bank.

Whoosh!

It was as if that wind blew at the calm lake in Happy’s heart, and he failed to summon the suction force pulling him to the other world. He woke up and opened his bright eyes.

The ferryman behind him clearly sensed a powerful presence from the young man sitting at the front of the bamboo raft.

Just now, this young man was as elegant as a scholar, but now, an even frightening presence of a wanderer surged out of him. That presence was not any weaker than the famous wanderers who traveled about Lake Tai.

Happy was silent.

He naturally ignored the ferryman behind him. With an electrifying gaze, he swept through the reeds which had been pushed down by a large degree by the violent gust, and he frowned slightly.

There was a martial artist around!

He activated Tendon Changing Classic at full speed and spread his senses quickly in the direction where the wind came from.

After a few seconds, Happy’s expression changed.

Several faint and fragmented notes were mixed in the violent wind.

When he heard these notes, his qi and blood started surging a little, as if it was stirred up by the strange power contained in the notes.

A thought appeared in his mind. Then, without hesitation, Happy brought out a handful of gold from his Universe bag before he tossed it at the ferryman. “Wait here.”

Once he finished speaking, without even giving a chance to the ferryman to answer, he tapped against the raft and shot twenty-six feet forward. Then, he tapped against the calm surface of the lake once more before he arrived at the bank.

Whoosh!

The sound of air being pushed and of robes fluttering rose, and the reeds curled a little, unable to bear with the force of the wind. A black horse then rushed into the distance without stopping even once.

When he watched Happy swiftly vanish, the ferryman opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a long time before he put the gold into his bosom.

“Young master, you must come back before nightfall!”

*****

Common Reed Bank stretched out several miles, and the entire place was filled with a gentle layer of yellow water.

But in the depths of Common Reed Land was violent wind blowing vigorously. Three figures swiftly moved about, and as fragmented but piercing zither notes rose, dense waves of furious sound blades cut close to the two men chasing after the zither player, and those sound blades brought with them a violent momentum that could destroy everything.

The zither notes were fierce and domineering, but unfortunately, the zither player faced two enemies who were clearly not the usual martial art elite.

The two men had cold and aloof gazes and stared at the woman who had more than ten bloody gashes left on her arms with a stare as if they were looking at something dead. They swung their weapons together and easily dodged as well as crushed the sound blades coming at them while they pursued the white-robed woman.

The woman was dressed entirely in white. She had a cold presence, and there was a murderous glare in her eyes, but there was also a look of distress in her that refused to disappear from her eyes as well.

“Ambush from Ten Sides!

“Jade Fingers Plucking Stars!

“Deity and Demon Destruction!”

Even though Wind Chimes continuously strengthened her finger technique to force her enemies to back down, it did not work. The two people behind her were not only powerful, their equipment had also reached an astonishing degree. As they moved about, even if those sound blades touched their bodies, they would only bring up some sparks. Their bodies never swayed even in the slightest as they chased behind her. They did not seem to be injured at all.

Their postures remained.

‘Their ability to retain their postures is seriously so domineering!’

“Haha! Wind Chimes, your Sky Demon Zither Notes might be extraordinary, but unfortunately, you ran into us!”

“To fight against you, we deliberately crafted two sets of fourth-echelon demon vessels that can retain our posture to a high degree! With our defense and with our abilities to retain your postures, you won’t be able to run away from us!”

While they spoke, they moved about on the grass in a familiar manner to Wind Chimes’ left and right. Their weapons yanked countless reeds from the ground, and those reeds filled up the entire region before forming two black wolves with fierce momentums. Then, they charged at Wind Chimes, leaving her no room to escape.

Because of their skills, each reed was as vicious as an arrow.

Wind Chimes was instantly in danger.

Her expression changed, and without remaining idle, she slapped her Sky Demon Zither.

Clang!

Sky Demon Zither flipped around, and all six strings faced the ground.

Wind Chimes looked like she was possessed. She stood on the ground, and her hands flickered with light, as if they were supernatural entities. Then, with a stunning speed, her fingers moved like the wind. She used an incredibly bizarre manner to play the zither while the strings faced downward.

“Sky Demon Plays the Zither!”

“That girl wants to die with us! Careful! Dodge!”

When they saw Wind Chimes’ resolute posture and presence, their expressions changed, but at that moment, they had already executed their attacks, and hence, they had to forcefully pull their qi back to dodge.

They rolled away in a pathetic manner, but it was already too late.

Sky Demon Zither looked as if it was supported by a giant, invisible hand in the air, it spun around quickly, but Wind Chimes moved even faster. In fact, her fingers moved so fast that it was unbelievable. Her long hair was dragged up, even though there was no wind. It was as if she was a supernatural being. Her fingers manifested movements that were dazzling to the eyes, and she continuously formed waves of sound.

The silent zither sounds looked like ripples that crashed into air.

One ripple, two ripples... ten ripples... one hundred ripples. The ripples overlapped with each other and were packed densely together. In an instant, they filled a circular of 328 feet.

Even though the duo were quick in cancelling their attack and fleeing, they were not faster than the speed of the ripples spreading out in the air.

“Sky Demon Plays the Zither! End of Affection, Destruction of Righteousness! Kill!”

As a cold shout that sounded like judgment tumbled out of Wind Chimes’ lips, the sound ripples that filled the air suddenly had an astonishingly explosive force burst forth!

Those sound blades seemed to have found their target, and they shot forward in frenzy.

Right when all the reeds in a circular area of 328 feet were cut, they were instantly cut down by those sound blades, and they were crushed into powder.

In less than three seconds, everything within a circular area of 328 feet was completely drowned out by the powder formed by the reeds.

While the two people chasing after Wind Chimes had good defense, they could not withstand the baptism of those thousands of sound blades. Their bodies were instantly pierced through numerous times, and they were reduced to a bloody mess. Like rags stained with blood, they fell to the ground with fear and shock in their lifeless eyes.

They were subdued.

The reed powder that filled the air spread out like dust.

The reeds within a circular area of 328 feet had now become shorted by more than six and a half feet. An astonishing wind swept through the entire area.

However, once Wind Chimes finished doing all this, she fell to the ground with no strength left in her.

Sky Demon Plays the Zither was a killing move in Sky Demon Zither Notes that required the user to use all their strength. Once the song ended, not a single bit of true qi would be left in the body. For a short period of time, the user would be like a normal person. Any person who came over could easily kill the user, and this was a forbidden move within Sky Demon Zither Notes.

A long time ago, Wind Chimes played this once when she fought against the Wild Wolves. If One Emperor had not appeared, Wind Chimes would have been killed by an injured Wild Wolf.

“Cough! Hack-wheeze...”

She coughed up a mouthful of blood on Common Reed Land. Wind Chimes’ face was pale, and she did not even have the ability to activate her qi cultivation technique. She laboriously brought out a Small Reversion Pill from her Universe Bag, and the motion itself already made her gasp for breath.

“I didn’t expect that the normal members in Wild Wolves are already so strong. If I don’t use Sky Demon Plays the Zither, I can’t fight against them at all...

“Also, how did they avoid being read by master’s Universe Secrets Inkstone!”

A hint of healthy red finally appeared on Wind Chimes’ face.

But very soon, this healthy shade of red that was provided by that Small Reversion Pill vanished again. As she saw a faint black figure that appeared among the reed powder, Wind Chimes sucked in a deep breath. Then, she mocked the black figure with a bitter smile. “I knew it. You Wild Wolves always did things carefully and meticulously. There’s no way you’d just send two people to come after my life!”

The person who appeared in front of Wind Chimes was a Chinese player who had yellow skin typical of an Asian, and black eyes. But that prideful and aloof gaze was the same as the two people from before.

A Wild Wolf!

The person who arrived was still someone from Wild Wolves!

This time, Wild Wolves did not send two people to kill her, but three!

“As expected of Wandering Know-it-all’s disciple, you do have some skill. It has been a long time since we have had any casualties when we were tasked to kill.”

That person could clearly see that Wind Chimes had no strength in her right now. She did not even have the strength to play her Sky Demon Zither. Hence, he walked really slowly and leisurely. There was a cold look on his aloof face. “But it’s your fault that you’re Wandering Know-it-all’s disciple. With him helping you perform divinations, Wind Assault Tower, Class One Hall, and plenty of top-class sects in the Chinese server helping you, it’s truly not easy to kill you.”

“...How did you avoid my master’s Universe Secrets Inkstone? My master has been keeping track of you all this time.”

“Speaking of which, Wild Wolves has spent a lot of effort in killing you and delivering a blow at Wandering Know-it-all.” That person laughed. “We first went to America and killed hundreds of people over there to use the Killer Star effect to avoid your master’s eyes before we immediately returned to the Chinese plains. During that period of time, we kept on killing other people. For the sake of this day, we’ve killed around ten thousand people... We’ve had the Killer Star effect on us for a few months, and finally, we caught you alone.”

Wind Chimes said nothing, but her face was pale. “You sure spent a lot of money to kill a weak woman like me.”

“It was worth it. You have Nine Yin Blocked Pulses, and that makes you different from the normal player. Killing you just once is enough to destroy you and Wandering Know-it-all.” That person cackled. “Hahahaha! I know that you want to stall for time so that your helpers will arrive. But unfortunately, even if they arrive, they can’t stop me from killing you! Besides, you don’t have that much time left.”

Once he finished speaking, he drew his saber.