Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 13 A Face-to-Face Bet
"Who are you?"

Several people in the lobby looked at the screen.

The mayor recognized the young voice and angrily shouted, "Where did this brat come from? He speaks without restraint...with empty words, slandering a good man!"

Originally, he had something even more unpleasant to say, but when he remembered that he had just learned that the shopkeeper Ma was a wizard, he became a little cautious because of the previous experience.

But I still can't suppress my anger.

Because those words really touched upon some of his hidden thoughts.

Although he is the mayor, the Meng family has overshadowed him in recent years.

Moreover, the old families in the town are all wealthy and have a lot of land deeds in their hands.

The Meng family's wealth mainly depends on their shops and factories. If a group of robbers really can enter the town, even if they can't break into the Meng family's yard, it would be a good thing for them to rob those shops.

"I'm Chu Tianshu, just a doctor."

Chu Tianshu walked out from behind the screen.

Meng Lianfa said, "This is the doctor Chu I was talking about, who killed the robber."

The wealthy people had never heard of the power of the leopard cat warriors, so they certainly didn't care about the person who killed the robber.

But when Chu Tianshu walked out and moved a little closer, the old men on the chairs felt a little uncomfortable.

The area around this kid's body is obviously hotter than other parts of his body.

He looks gentle and polite, but if you close your eyes, the person opposite you gives you the feeling that he is an old blind bear coming down the mountain to look for food!

A middle-aged man beside the mayor, with a horse face, short beard, and a sword at his waist, saw his employer shrink back and said, "Young man, it's good to practice some martial arts, but don't get carried away."

"No matter whether you are a boxer or a doctor, you must respect these respected people here."

Chu Tianshu turned his eyes and stared at him, then suddenly smiled: "So, should I apologize to you all for what I said just now?"

The horse-faced man nodded slightly: "It's good that you admit your mistakes..."

"I was wrong. I shouldn't just rely on words."

Chu Tianshu's smile remained unchanged. "Look at how imposing he is. I believe he is the best guard hired by the mayor."

"I'm having a hard time beating that bandit. Why don't I try my luck with him and see what happens?"

The horse-faced man held the scabbard with his hand and glared, "You want to fight me?"

The mayor said, "Brother Wang Fu was originally the head escort of the Hewei Escort Agency. Brother Meng, if you, as a client, fight with him..."

Chu Tianshu interrupted him and looked directly at Wang Fu: "Why, you don't dare?"

Chu Tianshu is not making random challenges.

On the way to Meng's house with Manager Ma, they talked a lot.

According to Shopkeeper Ma, the leopard cat warriors alone are a considerable threat to this town.

The escort agency and martial arts school business is most developed in the north, especially near Beijing. During the Qing Dynasty, some of the escort agency masters there could even often enter the palace to receive rewards. The second most developed area is the southeast.

Yizhou is located on the southwestern border and is relatively poor. Those who can leave the escort agency and martial arts hall to work as security guards for the people in the town must have some skills and good overall qualities, but their ability in one-on-one combat... is just so-so.

Almost no one can deal with an adult ocelot warrior alone.

Wang Fu didn't know what Manager Ma thought of him, but he was already irritated by the young boy in front of him.

"Good boy, I will give you some pointers and help you calm down."

Wang Fu walked towards the front yard and suddenly turned around on the stone road. The moment he turned around, the long sword at his waist was unsheathed with a swish.

He was indeed experienced and was on guard against sneak attacks from behind, leaving the man no time to draw his sword.

This time, his body shape changed unexpectedly. He turned around and drew his sword, and it was completed in the blink of an eye.

"Over the years, I've killed at least fifty bandits with my sword, if not eighty. Even those who held guns, I've chopped off more than one or two of their hands."

"What weapon do you use, boy?"

Chu Tianshu stepped over the threshold with empty hands and spoke in a light voice.

"You will see my weapon when it's time to see it. Are you ready?"

Wang Fu snorted coldly: "Mystification, come on!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a flash of silver light on Chu Tianshu's left hand.

Ding! !

The silver needle that hit Wang Fu's right knee was cut off by a sword.

A hint of anxiety flashed across Wang Fu's face. He wanted to retreat and dodge, and he quickly raised his wrist to draw his sword.

Under the moonlight, his long sword seemed to spread out a fan-shaped afterglow in front of him, blocking from his right knee to his left shoulder.

The sword finally blocked the second silver needle that was shot towards the left shoulder in time.

"middle!"

Chu Tianshu rushed forward, uttered a heavy word from his mouth, stretched out his five fingers in the air, exerted force from his palms, and hit Wang Fu's sword directly.

Wang Fu had just blocked the needle in a hurry, with the sword's spine pointing outwards and his wrist changing direction at a very fast speed, so he hadn't recovered in that instant.

When Chu Tianshu took a quick step and raised his palm, it didn't feel like he was facing a dangerous sword, but rather like he was hitting a piece of iron.

His palm hit Wang Fu's chest through the iron sheet.

Bang! ! ! !

Wang Fu arched his back and took three or four steps back, supporting himself with his sword, stroking his chest with his left hand, his lips tightly pursed, his face flushed red.

Chu Tianshu stopped looking at him and turned into the house.

Several people in the lobby were about to go watch the fight when they saw Chu Tianshu's back seemed to move twice. He just rushed out and turned around and walked back.

"What's going on? Don't want to fight anymore?"

The mayor walked to the threshold, and Mr. Zhu and Mr. Tan also leaned out to look.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Wang Fu's face turned even redder, his Adam's apple bulged, and he finally couldn't hold it in.

"vomit!!"

As soon as he bent over, he vomited all over the floor. He felt like there was a stone pestle stirring in his stomach. After vomiting once, he could no longer straighten his back and vomited repeatedly.

After one encounter, he was beaten to vomit.

Even a fool could see that with Wang Fu in this state, Chu Tianshu could easily defeat him with just one more move. The mayor took a half step back, momentarily at a loss.

The expressions of Mr. Zhu, Mr. Tan and the guards around them all changed.

They had all seen Wang Fu kill bandits before and knew how powerful he was, so they were even more shocked by this scene.

"I'm sorry for dirtying the Meng family yard."

Chu Tianshu's voice reached their ears, "Only if you hit him here will he get hurt. If you hit him somewhere else, if you hit him too lightly, he might not obey. If you hit him too hard, you'll lose a good fighter in the town for nothing."

He hit the cardia, the junction of the esophagus and stomach, located behind the xiphoid process of the sternum, with extremely precise force.

Vomiting for a while won’t hurt your body.

Chu Tianshu looked at the mayor and others again, and they all looked at him with evasive eyes.

"What are you afraid of?"

Chu Tianshu's brows were cold as he said, "I'm not a robber and I won't break into your house to kill people. But when the corpse on the ground fought with me, it tore my clothes and almost killed me."

"If that group of bandits were to charge into the town and attack your wealthy families, would you really be able to hold out with only your family's guards?"

Shopkeeper Ma spoke at the right moment: "And I've already said, they are Jiaozhi people. Even if you want to negotiate with them, they may not understand what you are saying."

The mayor and his men turned pale, and finally took the words to heart.

Meng Lianfa stood up and said, "I will allocate half of my family's guards to work with the militia. If the robbers break in here first, my guards are familiar with the roads, and a large number of people can come to my rescue as soon as possible!"

Mr. Zhu, who had been trying to smooth things over earlier, immediately shouted, "How can we let Brother Meng handle this kind of thing alone? I'll send someone home and allocate half of our staff."

The mayor and Mr. Tan also echoed loudly.

Shopkeeper Ma tutted inwardly, looked around at everyone, clasped his fists and said, "Now that things are settled here, I have to go back to the restaurant to make preparations."

Chu Tianshu said: "Let me go back together."

The mayor said hurriedly, "Why don't you two come to my house and sit down. I'll have someone bring anything you need from the restaurant. If there's anything missing..."

Meng Lianfa stepped forward to stop the mayor.

The two men turned a deaf ear and went out, turning around the screen wall. Before leaving, Chu Tianshu wrapped the straw mat with a hemp rope and took the body away.

The shopkeeper Ma drew a spell on the corpse to create interference and prevent the bandits' sorcerers from realizing that the man was dead too early.

But the spell drawn with bare hands has limited validity, and needs to be repaired with cinnabar at a restaurant.

"These people...are such a nuisance."

Chu Tianshu walked on the road, "I kind of understand why you, Shopkeeper Ma, want to restrain your abilities so as to avoid dealing with these people."

Shopkeeper Ma strode along, lantern in hand. "This town is pretty good. Going into the city might seem safer, but it's actually full of troubles and even more deadly things."

"By the way, you were quite restrained before. I didn't expect you to be so proactive just now."

Shopkeeper Ma slowed down his tone and said, "You haven't been in town long, after all. Have you ever thought about leaving town to avoid disaster?"

Chu Tianshu kept walking, and his eyes moved when he heard this.

If you want to leave, you can find a reason.

But he still has many reasons to stay.

For example, it's easy to be targeted by beastly evil spirits. Leaving alone may not be safer than staying in the town; hiding in a house may not be safer than forming a larger group and joining them...

For example, collecting evil spirit materials, earning luck progress, etc.

But putting these things aside, he was not willing to leave just like that.

"After all, these are turbulent times. Judging from the newspapers, there are changes happening in all countries. I'm afraid it will be a turbulent time of unprecedented scale."

Chu Tianshu said, "I can hide here today and there tomorrow, but am I going to keep running around like this and accomplish nothing?"

He tried to lower his tone, but he couldn't completely suppress the irritability and ruthlessness.

"I really hate the feeling of having to run away. If I have a 30% chance of success, I should give it a try!"

Shopkeeper Ma walked silently, and after a while he smiled and said, "Well, a man who can master both magic and boxing is indeed a man of great ambition."

Chu Tianshu didn't ask him how he knew he was practicing multiple disciplines, but just smiled.

Lao Ma also came from another place, but he came earlier, has no family here, and is still so old.

But it was obvious that he wanted to actively fight the gang of robbers, not only for the sake of the restaurant, but also for the sake of the restaurant.

One old and one young, both can feel some similarities in their moods.

It's a great feeling to have fellow travelers.

When he returned to the restaurant, Chu Tianshu saw the dishes left for him on the table. He didn't feel very hungry, so he just poured himself a cup of tea.

"You come with me."

Lao Ma said something and walked quickly ahead.

Chu Tianshu followed with a teacup in his hand and stopped at the door of Lao Ma's room.

I saw Lao Ma push the quilt to the side of the bed twice and lift up the bed board.

His bed was shaped like a big box, with yellow paper and cinnabar, an inkstone and a brush, a bronze mirror and a bronze basin, a willow stick, and a gold and silver sword.

Piles of things were taken out and piled on the table.

Finally, he picked up a thick peach wood sword with talismans carved on the hilt. The sword body was covered with fine cinnabar talismans. The whole sword was a maroon color, and the color was darker where the talismans were.

"To fight a bandit who practices sorcery, you need a good weapon. This is what I used when I was young. Now that I'm older, it's no longer as effective. Take it."

When Chu Tianshu took the sword in his hand, he felt that the weight was not right. He held it and observed it, then pulled it out with both hands.

choke! !

There was a thick-backed iron sword hidden inside the peach wood sword. When it was just pulled out, it was dazzling and gleaming. Only when you looked closely could you see the green forging patterns on the silver-white sword that looked like fish scales.

"A wooden sword kills demons, an iron sword kills people."

Shopkeeper Ma's eyes flashed with reminiscence as he said, "However, the blade forging method and center of gravity of this sword are most suitable for boxers who pursue the goal of dragon-entangled body."

"From general to prime minister, three things in one, yet I don't know which path you're taking now?"

Chu Tianshu was admiring the sword and asked in confusion, "What's the three-in-one body?"

(End of this chapter)