Wuxia: Slay enemies to boost your cultivation; my power is boundless!

[Golden Bell Shield 50/100]

boom!

Countless experiences of cultivating the Golden Bell Shield flooded into Xiao Bieli's mind, as if he had cultivated the Golden Bell Shield for decades.

A moment later, Xiao Bieli opened his eyes.

Boom!

As the Golden Bell Shield activated, a pale golden bell of true energy enveloped Xiao Bieli completely.

"A Golden Bell Shield with 50% proficiency is enough to withstand the palm strike of Zhou Chang, who is at the peak of the sixth rank. Moreover, the Golden Bell Shield is different from Iron Shirt and Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training. As my true qi becomes stronger, its defensive power also increases."

The Golden Bell Cover dissipated.

"As for the Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers hidden weapon technique, mastering it to fifty or sixty points of proficiency is about enough!"

"If I'm fierce enough, why would I need hidden weapons?"

One thought comes to this,

Xiao Bieli chose a direction and quickly left.

……

As dawn broke...

A fishing boat quietly arrived on the river.

Although the Twelve Linked Docks and the Three Rivers Alliance were locked in fierce fighting during this period, they were targeting merchant ships transporting goods on the Yuanjiang River, and did not impose any restrictions on small fishing boats.

Old Jiang has fished on the Yuanjiang River his whole life. Every day he would set out on his boat before dawn and then take the fresh fish he caught to the dock to sell at daybreak.

Those high-ranking officials and nobles prefer to eat fresh fish, and once the fish dies, the price drops significantly.

"This is it!"

Standing on the boat, Old Jiang skillfully took out the fishing net and cast it into the river.

One online,

There were only three or four small fish.

However, Old Jiang didn't take it to heart. Even an old fisherman like him couldn't guarantee that his catch would be good every day.

And this is only the first net.

Another net was cast.

I pulled on it; it was quite heavy, and it was a bit difficult to pull.

Old Jiang's face lit up with joy, but when he pulled up the fishing net, he almost lost it.

Inside the fishing net, there was a corpse.

This is a bend in the river. Usually, fishermen would pull up things washed ashore by the river, but this was the first time in his decades of fishing that he had ever pulled up a corpse.

Old Jiang felt a pang of panic. He looked up and saw many floating planks and corpses not far away.

Old Jiang dared not delay any longer, so he pulled the fishing net onto the boat and hurriedly headed towards the market.

……

Less than half an hour later.

A ship from the twelve-linked docks headed towards that bend.

Standing on the boat was a middle-aged man in a green robe. His hands were behind his back, his face was a little pale, and there was a faint scar on his right cheek. Although his face was not handsome, he had a unique charm, which was the temperament that the years and the experience of the martial arts world had given him, making people feel awe and respect.

This person was none other than Qu Bufan, the Third Elder of the Twelve Linked Forts.

Old Jiang stood beside Qu Bufan, pointing cautiously to the bend in the road not far away:

"Elder, this is it!"

He had been fishing for many years, and the dock where he sold fish also belonged to the Twelve Linked Docks, so he naturally knew Qu Bufan.

He never expected that simply bringing the body back would attract Elder Qu to come in person and give him twenty taels of silver.

He fished, and could only earn a dozen or so taels of silver a year.

Qu Bufan nodded.

Chen Yuan, a master of the Twelve Linked Forts standing behind him, shouted loudly:

"Hurry up!"

A moment later, they arrived at the bend.

Chen Yuan, who had just spoken, lightly stepped onto the boat plank, landing on the water's surface. His toes barely touched the water before he landed on a floating plank, which then shot forward rapidly.

Chen Yuan stood motionless on the deck. As he approached the corpses, he scooped them up from the water with his hand and lifted them onto the boat. Then, with a few leaps, he returned to the boat.

Chen Yuan's expression changed slightly as he placed the body together with the one Old Jiang had previously retrieved. He whispered:

"They should have been dead for less than two hours... I haven't seen these two before, but this one should be from Baiyun Manor!"

"Judging from the situation here, they must have been swept downstream a bit upstream. I'm afraid there are more than just these three dead!"

"We haven't received any news that any of our brothers had an accident on the river yesterday!"

"What are the people from Baiyun Manor doing on the river?"

Over the years, the business on the river in Dongjiang County has been controlled by the Twelve Linked Docks. Could it be that Baiyun Manor intends to interfere?

Qu Bufan said calmly:

"Go and gather a group of fishermen and have them search along the Yuanjiang River. If they can retrieve the body, they will be rewarded with two taels of silver."

Chen Yuan nodded:

"Yes!"

Old Jiang quickly said:

"Elder, I'll go lend a hand too. There aren't many people in Yuanjiang who can surf the internet better than me!"

That's two taels of silver!

He fished for a month and couldn't even earn two taels of silver.

Now Elder Qu has given him twenty taels, and with what he has saved, it's enough for the third son to get married.

"Go!"

……

Half an hour later.

On the banks of the Yuanjiang River, in a makeshift thatched shed, about twenty corpses were neatly arranged.

"It's Zhou Chang!" Chen Yuan's face turned grave as he looked at Zhou Chang's pieced-together head and corpse.

"Who on earth was capable of beheading Zhou Chang with a single blow?"

"And there are corpses of the Three Rivers Alliance members. Could it be that Baiyun Manor has really allied with the Three Rivers Alliance?"

He was Elder Qu's confidant and a late-stage sixth-rank cultivator, but he knew he was still far inferior to Zhou Chang.

Zhou Chang's martial arts skills rank among the top five of the sixth-rank martial artists in the entire Dongjiang County.

But now it has become a corpse.

However, some of these corpses were wearing the clothes of the Three Rivers Alliance. If Baiyun Manor really joined forces with the Three Rivers Alliance, their Twelve Linked Forts would be in a passive position.

"It wasn't a single, decisive blow!"

Qu Bufan reached out and pulled Zhou Chang's collar down, saying:

"I have two more wounds on my body, but neither of them is fatal."

"He must have been attacked by a hidden weapon during a fight, and after being poisoned, he was beheaded with a single blow."

"Go and inform Baiyun Manor, and let them investigate themselves!"

"I'll go back to the main headquarters; I still need to inform the branch leader about this matter!"

……

Donghe County.

Cangxian County.

Seventy li outside the city lies Xiahe Town.

Xiao Bieli walked back into the inn where he had killed Han Long.

At this time, the innkeeper's waiter had been replaced.

However, the shopkeeper recognized Xiao Bieli immediately, and his expression changed drastically.

"Sir, what would you like to eat?"

The shopkeeper walked up to Xiao Bieli and asked in a low voice.

His family's inn has been running for over thirty years, passed down from his father to him. He grew up in the inn and has witnessed no fewer than twenty battles in the martial arts world, and dozens of people have died in his inn.

But none of the times he killed Han Long were as memorable as the last time.

With a swift stroke, the blade fell, and a head rolled to the ground!

The original waiters were so frightened that they dared not stay at the inn!

Even their inn's business has suffered considerably, but fortunately, this person left behind a lot of silver when they left, and this is the only inn in Xiahe Town.

So the inn's business slowly recovered.

Unexpectedly, this person has come again.

"The same as always, a pound of cooked beef, two side dishes, and a pot of wine!" Xiao Bieli said with a faint smile.

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly and instructed the waiter:

"Go and get ready!"

After the waiter left, the innkeeper cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Xiao Bieli and said:

"Young hero, if you intend to punish evil and uphold justice today, could you please leave my shop first?"

"This is a small business of mine, it really can't afford to suffer any losses!"