Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

After walking for a while, I suddenly heard footsteps behind me. I turned around but didn't see anything unusual.

As he walked further, the sound of footsteps sounded again. The faster he walked, the faster the footsteps became. When he walked slowly, the footsteps also slowed down. In short, the footsteps were closely following not far behind him.

Xuanying thought that someone must be following him, but the voices didn't sound like the bronze-armored warriors from Jinyang City, so he didn't know who they were.

He took a few quick steps, turned a corner, and hid secretly behind a stone pillar, wanting to see who was following him.

The footsteps behind me approached quickly and turned around. There were actually three people. It was dark at night and I couldn't see their clothes or appearance clearly. I could only vaguely see that the three people were holding a seven or eight foot long stick in their hands. Their movements were sneaky and they were definitely not good people.

One of them said: "It's impossible for this guy to disappear in an instant. He must be hiding nearby."

The other person hushed and whispered, "Be quiet, don't let him find out."

"What are you afraid of? He knows how to hide, so he must have discovered us. Let's just do something open!"

"That's true. But we can't be sure that this man is just an ordinary refugee. If we catch the wrong person and he reports us to the court, it will be difficult to handle."

"That's impossible. I've run into this guy three or four times. I often see him coming out of some shabby houses or street corners alone. No normal person would do that. Only refugees would do that!"

The third person said, "If they catch the wrong person, it will be over. Why would they bring the case to the court?" He made a hand-strangle gesture, meaning that if they catch the wrong person, they will kill him. It seems that this person is more cruel than the other two.

The first person said, "Well, that's good. I heard that the slaves in Jiaoshan have been causing trouble recently and many of them have escaped. The price of slaves in Jinyang City has gone up again."

"Yes, if we can catch this guy, we can exchange some gold shells for some fun and have some fun with him for a few days...Alas, our business is getting worse and worse."

"If you don't go to your lover's place, I'm afraid she will run away with another man." The man who spoke laughed with the other person.

"Stop talking, be careful, this guy is very agile, don't let him get away."

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The three of them were talking as they searched around, tapping lightly with the wooden sticks in their hands in the dark corners, making a tapping sound.

Xuanying suddenly realized that these three men were slave thieves who specialized in capturing beggars or vagrants and selling them as slaves. They had met him several times before, and today they must have been following him, but he had not noticed at all. It seemed that he had to be extra careful no matter where he was in the future.

He hated these slave thieves who kidnapped and sold people in distress, and wanted to kill them all. But now he was unarmed, and there were three of them, and they were holding weapons like sticks. He thought he couldn't kill them at all, so he had to give up this plan for the time being.

The three of them searched carefully inch by inch, and soon they would find Xuanying's hiding place.

If Xuanying wanted to escape, he could naturally do so, but this was against his nature and he hadn't even fought with the opponent yet, so there was no way he could escape at this time.

Seeing one of them slowly approaching, Xuanying stuffed two roast chickens into his arms, grabbed the long stick they stretched out with his left hand, and suddenly punched out with his right hand, hitting the man in the face with a bang, hitting him right in the nose.

The man's nose suddenly started bleeding and he screamed loudly.

The other two came over in a few steps, both holding long sticks and hitting Xuanying.

Xuanying used his left hand to try to grab the stick from the first person to block the attack, but the other person was very strong and he failed to get the stick after trying twice.

He was hit twice hard on the head and shoulders because he had no way to dodge, especially the one on the head, which made his head buzz and I'm afraid he was bleeding.

It was too dark in the night, and he couldn't see where the three men were coming from with their sticks, so he couldn't avoid them.

Just as he slowed down, one of the men took back the stick and hit him on the head.

Xuanying had no choice but to retreat again and again.

One person shouted, "You are so brave, you dare to fight against us. I advise you not to fight back, or you will suffer more."

Another person said, "Damn it, this guy is so sinister, I must break one of his arms!" There was a muffled nasal sound. It was the person who was hit hard in the face by Xuanying. He was angry after taking a punch, and his attack was much more ferocious than the other two.

Xuanying was hit a few more times and realized that he could not defeat these three people with his bare hands, so he had to run away.

The three men chased after him, shouting and yelling.

Xuanying was tall and long-legged, and his body was lean and light, so his legs and feet were naturally much faster than those three people. After running for a while, he left the three slave thieves far behind.

He turned a corner and came to a dilapidated stone house, and went in through a hole. After turning several turns, he climbed up a half-collapsed stone staircase. There was a corner with a lot of hay inside, which was where he rested and slept these days.

Xuanying was angry because he failed to kill the three people, but he couldn't see the three people clearly in the dark, so it was impossible for him to find a chance to kill them.

He sat on the haystack, took out two roast chickens, tore one of them open and ate it clean, and then he was full.

With nothing to do, he silently recited the Qi-nourishing method taught by his father Xuan Ding'an twice in his mind, and began to practice the Qi-nourishing exercises according to the posture that had already become somewhat unfamiliar to him.

Gradually, he entered a state of concentration where he was unaware of his surroundings and half real and half virtual. He had been able to easily enter this state of concentration when he left Xuan Island, but it was still a long way from opening the Force.

I don’t know how long it had been, but Xuanying actually fell into a deep sleep in his meditation state.

When I woke up the next day, although my place was still dark, there was a lot of noise outside and it was already bright.

After a night's sleep, he felt a little hungry again. He thought that there was still one roast chicken he had stolen last night that he hadn't eaten yet, so he could fill his stomach now.

But after searching around and rummaging through the haystack, the roast chicken mysteriously disappeared without a trace.

I thought that I slept too deeply last night, and the roast chicken was probably eaten by some small animal such as a weasel or a mouse, and I had no idea it. I had no choice but to spend money to buy it today.

He searched inside and outside his clothes for a while, but found that he did not have a single coin on him. He cursed his bad luck and thought that he could only steal some food at night and make do for half a day.

Having nothing to do during the day, he rested for an hour or two and went to the guesthouse in the city to check for the three Sha countrymen. During this time, he stole a small bag of gold and silver coins from a crowded place, and bought a short dagger when passing by a blacksmith shop, which he hid close to his body and put in his waist.

Along the way, he kept an eye out for the three slave thieves from last night following him, thinking that if he ran into them again, he would kill them.