Mountain and River Festival

Chapter 29: Host and Guest Switch Positions
The shadow guard staggered and quickly disappeared.

Anuo chased after him directly.

Lu Xingzhou turned over and sat back in his wheelchair, sighing: "Everyone in the Huo family has a shadow that grew up with them. When necessary, it is actually a substitute. When I was a child, someone in the Huo family also asked me to be your shadow... How could you think I don't know? But then again, how can you be worthy of it..."

Huo Yu gritted his teeth.

It turns out that knowing yourself and your enemy is the most important thing in the underworld. Unfortunately, the price is too painful. The first lesson I learned was to pay with my life.

Lu Xingzhou sneered to himself, "It seems his loyalty isn't that great after all. He just ran away like that?"

Huo Yu looked at the direction where the shadow disappeared, and seemed to be a little dazed. He murmured in disbelief: "You... the child next to you is actually the ghost boy from Yama Palace! Then you... you are..."

No wonder this battle has such a strong Yama Palace style... These are all people from Yama Palace from beginning to end...

"Don't call me that. An Nuo hates this nickname. She will get angry if she hears it." Lu Xingzhou bent down with a smile and stretched out his hand to search Huo Yu's body. He confiscated all the magic weapons that he had not had time to use, and took away Huo Yu's ring.

"Yes, the ring is rich in medicinal herbs and spirit stones, which is just right for its use."

Anuo turned back at this time and whispered, "Someone got away."

Lu Xingzhou nodded. "Shadow has his own strange way of hiding. Once out of sight, he disappears immediately and becomes untraceable. Never mind. It doesn't matter anyway."

Then he smiled at Huo Yu and said, "Sixth Young Master, please go on your way."

"Bang!" A palm hit Huo Yu's forehead. He opened his eyes wide and died on the spot.

"Let's go." Lu Xingzhou turned his wheelchair and smiled easily, "Let's go to the City Lord's Mansion to see what's going on."

Ah Nuo pushed the wheelchair away with a smile: "I didn't expect that Sixth Young Master Huo is so weak... Among those people in the hall, Liu Qingcang is the most powerful and caused a bit of trouble."

"Ha... Liu Qingcang is almost done with his life. He keeps stirring up trouble every day. It's time for him to take a break..."

The master and disciple left with smiles all the way.

Not long after, the shadowy figure came breathlessly to Huo Yu's side. After bending over and examining him for a moment, he sighed. Suddenly, he put two fingers together, inserted them into Huo Yu's chest, and forcibly dug out a pill from his sternum.

The medicine is like white jade, with soft light flowing and refreshing spiritual energy.

"Lu Xingzhou is nothing special, huh..." Shadow took the pill, took a few breaths, and felt relieved.

Just as he was about to leave, An Nuo's voice suddenly rang out from behind him: "Little brother, what are you doing?"

"Swoosh", the pill had been snatched into Anuo's hand at some point and quickly stuffed into his arms.

The shadow was horrified and was about to run away when Lu Xingzhou walked in from the side door. "Sixth Young Master, how are you?"

With a "swish" sound, Lu Xingzhou casually swung his hand, and a sharp light flashed. The shadow screamed, and his legs broke.

Shadow curled up in agony, hugging his legs, his voice trembling: "You...you..."

Lu Xingzhou didn't even look at him. He pushed his wheelchair around and kept inserting flags everywhere on the ground, as if he was setting up a battle formation.

He casually replied, "I've already said it. I knew Shadow would die in my place when necessary. So do you think I ever suspected that Huo Yu was a fake from the beginning, and Shadow is the real Huo Yu?"

Shadow... no, Huo Yu hugged his legs with difficulty: "What makes you guess so? Isn't he domineering enough?"

"Because Liu Qingcang didn't recognize Huo Yu at first, and Huo Yu even politely explained that he was still a child... Why did he have to explain this to Liu Qingcang? It felt like he was forcing a self-introduction. Shouldn't it be 'You didn't recognize me? Slap me in the face!'"

Huo Yu: "...Just because of this?"

"Isn't suspicion enough..." Lu Xingzhou finished setting up the formation, returned to the corpse, reached out and lifted up a mask. Sure enough, the corpse on the ground was wearing a human skin mask that resembled Huo Yu.

Lu Xingzhou played with the mask with a half-smile and sighed, "Why bother, Sixth Young Master? If you put all those magic weapons on him, you'd be much weaker, wouldn't you? Oh, so it's because you're much weaker than him to begin with. Why not put him in front of others?"

Huo Yu was so angry that he twisted his body: "Since you suspected it already, why didn't the ghost boy continue to chase me? Aren't you afraid that I would really run away?"

"My tarsal bones are nailed to you, where are you going?"

"...Then why put on this show?"

Lu Xingzhou's expression grew distant. He looked up at the stars and moon in the sky, and after a long pause, he said, "Since you've recognized me, you should know that I'm well aware of the significance of that alchemy furnace. It contained an extremely rich aura of good fortune, capable of healing even the dead. The remaining spiritual energy in the Huo residence is a remnant of it... Using that furnace to refine restorative elixirs could truly offer a second life."

Huo Yu stared at him closely.

Lu Xingzhou continued, "Of course, relying on the furnace alone won't work. The elixir itself needs to be of a high enough quality. There aren't many of these elixirs, so giving each of the Huo family's eldest sons one is enough. They can save lives in an emergency... and such a life-saving item wouldn't be left somewhere easily searchable, like a ring. I don't know where you're hiding it. So, we have to set a trap and make you take it out yourself. Killing everyone won't do."

Huo Yu muttered to himself, "So... this is what you were after the whole time..." "If the thing was with you, then the tarsal nail would explode in a moment, and you would be seriously injured. You would definitely come back to get medicine to save your life. I knew it. If the thing was with him, you wouldn't want to lose such a treasure, so you would definitely come back to get it. I also knew it." After Lu Xingzhou finished speaking, he said calmly, "In this game, it doesn't matter whether you are Huo Yu or Shadow. It doesn't matter if I guess wrong. Any other questions?"

Huo Yu suddenly burst into laughter: "You have calculated everything, but you didn't consider that this thing can't cure your legs. Your legs have been deformed for a long time. Can it be reconstructed by the elixir? Haven't you considered that it is not suitable for your condition at all? Hahahaha!"

As soon as he finished speaking, blood suddenly burst out from Huo Yu's body. The nails that had been casually hit on his body just now exploded violently, like being tortured to pieces.

Huo Yu screamed miserably and curled up into a ball again, sweat dripping down his face. "Huo Qing! How can you be considered a hero if you torture others? Just give me some quick success!"

Lu Xingzhou said calmly, "You misunderstood... At least you were still young back then, and you weren't the one who took action against my family. There's no point in me torturing you. The reason I talked to you so much was simply because I was waiting for someone."

There was a hint of gloom in his expression... Could this medicine not cure his legs... It was indeed possible, because his legs could be reattached...

"Swoosh!" Thunder and lightning flashed in the distance. The brothers Huo Lei and Huo Ting finally broke free from the delay of Yama Palace and headed straight here.

A fifth-rank assassin was chasing after him, shouting in a panic, "Mr. Pan..., we tried our best. These two are very strong. We can't trap them for long. Be careful!"

Lu Xingzhou looked up and smiled: "That's enough, we have exceeded the target, I just waited for you for a while."

Huo Yu said sternly: "Hurry up and leave, there is a formation here, and there are ghost children..."

Before he could finish his words, An Nuo sealed his mute point.

In fact, the voice of the seriously injured Huo Yu was too soft, and the Huo Lei brothers could not hear it clearly. Seeing that Huo Yu seemed to be captured in the field, they became very anxious and rushed over quickly.

As soon as he entered the yard, fires suddenly rose from all directions, and thousands of sword energies crisscrossed.

The two were caught off guard. How did this become the enemy's home ground?
He only had time to gather his internal energy and withstand the attack for a while, when a chubby child next to him shot out with his fist like a cannonball and hit Huo Lei hard on the waist.

The assassin from Yama Palace was following him like a shadow, and a long sword flew into Huo Ting's back.

At the same time, several talismans floated up into the sky and spontaneously combusted in the air without fire.

"Boom!" Thunder as thick as a child's arm came crashing down.

It was like a rain of flowers blooming all over the sky, with endless death amidst the desolate beauty.

Lu Xingzhou leisurely unfolded a small banner.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner belongs to him, not to An Nuo.

Thousands of dark ghostly auras swirled around, like tens of thousands of ghosts tearing and biting the two men's hands and feet without letting go.

His strength was far from that of a fifth-grade cultivator. He could bully Huo Yu, a sixth-grade cultivator who was unaware of his opponent, and even cross the level to attack Huo Yu, but he had little impact on these fifth-grade cultivators. However, he could still interfere with and restrict them. As long as he could restrict them for a moment, the outcome would be decided.

"Bang!" An Nuo slapped away Huo Lei's sword with a palm and slammed his small fist into the opponent's chest. The seemingly sticky fist made contact, and the chest collapsed, and the internal organs were shattered.

The assassin from Yama Hall dodged past with a swish, leaving a bloody mark on Huo Ting's throat.

Huo Yu on the ground watched helplessly as his two strongest guards fell into a death trap. After fighting for only a few breaths, without even a splash, they both fell.

He was ambushed and killed in his own home turf, and died so easily.

The Yama Palace assassin bowed joyfully to Lu Xingzhou, "I never imagined that in my lifetime I would be able to set up a trap under the command of the Judge, and kill every enemy of my level without a single survivor, with almost no effort. I haven't experienced this kind of exhilaration in a long time, and I miss it terribly."

Judge... Huo Yu didn't even have the energy to complain.

He thought he was dealing with a cripple, but his opponent was the veteran think tank of Yama Palace, the builder of Yama Palace's organizational structure, and the right-hand man of Lord Yama. Who was he trying to shake a tree with the strength of an ant?

Lu Xingzhou waved his hand and said, "Be careful with your words. I'm no longer a judge. Go ahead. You won't be able to intervene in the rest of the matter. This mission ends here. Remember, don't tell your superiors that I've seen you when you return."

"Yes. There is no need for us to report our employer's information." The assassin bowed respectfully again and disappeared in an instant.

Ah Nuo was happily touching the corpse, searching for spoils. After finishing, he stared at Huo Yu with lustrous eyes: "Master, the bait is all used up. Are you going to kill him now? He dared to scold me."

Lu Xingzhou shook his head: "Unblocking his mute point will still be useful."

Huo Yu had already been used as bait to lure his own guard to death. Hearing that he was going to do it again, he was furious: "Huo Qing! Just kill me if you dare. Frowning is unkind!"

Lu Xingzhou smiled brightly and said in a gentle tone, "Sixth Young Master, how about giving you a chance to live?"

Huo Yu knew the possibility was almost zero, but his desire to survive still made him ask, "What are you going to do?"

Lu Xingzhou raised his head and looked towards the City Lord's Mansion, where demonic energy was rising to the sky. He seemed to be able to hear the fighting from afar. "The demons are rampant, but they are the common enemy of us humans. If you can order Xu Bingkun to control the demons he raised, such a great achievement will certainly buy your life. Even if I want to kill you, Sheng Yuanyao and the others will stop me, right?"

Huo Yu was stunned for a moment, and Xu Bingkun's previous behavior of trying to cover up something was flashing through his mind... Was the demon really raised by Xu Bingkun?
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