They all became female demons after being reborn.

Chapter 43 We're going to kill that idiot, not you.

A loud explosion in the distance startled Wu Cheng.

"What noise?"

Qingque said calmly, "Your Highness, this is an important border town, unlike Lin'an City. The people here are fierce and diverse, so it's likely that some experts met and sparred at night."

The commotion was quite loud. Many passersby who were initially watching became excited when they saw many constables and city guards heading in that direction. They called their friends and decided to join in to watch the excitement.

"Caw! A master has appeared! Such power is rarely seen in this lifetime! Quickly, let's go watch the battle!"

"What a bloodthirsty audience."

Wu Cheng shook his head; he didn't intend to join in the fun.

"Let's go, Sister Qingque, it's time for our show to begin."

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Xue Jianren, who was sitting by the window on the second floor of the restaurant, was starving. As a local, he had already ordered a table full of dishes, but seeing that Zhou Ke was sitting still, he didn't touch his chopsticks either.

However, he soon became so hungry that he finally picked up his chopsticks and decided to eat something to fill his stomach first.

However, just as he picked up a piece of mutton with his chopsticks, he felt a sharp pain on the back of his hand, and the chopsticks and the mutton fell onto the table.

"Who is it! Ah? Junior brother is back?"

Just as Xue Jianren was about to get angry, he turned around and saw Wu Cheng smiling and Qing Que with a cold face behind him, and his anger immediately vanished.

He warmly invited them to sit down, "Come, come, this delicious food brought by the wind is truly exceptional, you're in for a treat today!"

Wu Cheng glanced at the bustling second-floor lobby of the restaurant, then sat down. "Business here is indeed booming. By the way, my two senior brothers, did you hear a loud bang just now?"

Xue Jianren nodded, and Zhou Ke sighed, "Judging from the commotion, there are at least two top-tier experts. However, we have to wait here for you junior brothers, so it will be difficult for us to witness the duel between these experts."

He looked rather regretful.

"It's best to avoid watching too much excitement." Wu Cheng knocked the chopsticks out of Xue Jianren's hand with another chopstick.

Xue Jianren was furious. "Junior brother! Why are you doing this? I ordered all of these are their signature dishes! They won't taste good once they get cold!"

"Because I don't want to wait until you're poisoned to death before I lie on your corpse and yell, 'Senior brother, why were you so stupid?'" Wu Cheng said with a smile as he sprayed the venom.

"Huh?" Xue Jianren was stunned. "But we've already tried it with silver needles. By the way, Senior Brother Zhou, you didn't touch your chopsticks, did you already know?"

Zhou Ke shook his head, "I don't know, but if Junior Brother Wu didn't say we shouldn't eat it, then we shouldn't eat it."

Xue Jianren was puzzled, "But we already ate lunch..."

"Because we had just entered the city then, the other side didn't have time to make arrangements. But so much time has passed, of course the other side has prepared everything." Wu Cheng sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Senior Brother Xue, I originally thought you were just pure and honest, but now it seems your stupidity is making me almost unable to breathe."

"Huh? I'm not that stupid, am I?" Xue Jianren said with a mournful face. "But then won't we only be able to eat dry rations from now on?"

"The prerequisite is to survive first." Wu Cheng's gaze swept around.

The previously noisy second floor gradually quieted down, and although no one looked over... this made things even more abnormal.

Wu Cheng thought he was handsome, but Qing Que would definitely turn heads!

But not a single one of them looked over!

"Senior Brother Xue." Wu Cheng patted Xue Jianren on the shoulder, "It seems that the foolish atmosphere on the second floor isn't solely your doing."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Xue Jianren looked completely bewildered.

"Senior brother, you yourself said that two masters are fighting. As a martial artist, what was your first reaction?" Wu Cheng asked instead of answering.

Xue Jianren replied, "Of course I'll go watch the battle!"

"Yes, you all heard the commotion here." Wu Cheng gestured with his chin towards the guests who were all looking over. "These people are all carrying knives and sticks, but they didn't react at all to such a master's fight. Why is that?"

Xue Jianren did possess some wisdom, after all, "because they had more important things to do!"

Wu Cheng thought it was nonsense, didn't you see that everyone had drawn their swords!

"Hehehe... I never expected you to be so clever. Now that you've discovered us, we'll stop pretending!"

The burly man with the thick beard, wielding a large sword that seemed to gleam with a dark blue light, pointed at Wu Cheng and Xue Jianren beside him, and said, "Leave this man here! We'll spare your lives!"

Xue Jianren was shocked. "So I'm still the target? Junior Brother Wu, save me!"

Wu Cheng remained expressionless. "Your disguise is too poor; this hardly qualifies as cleverness..."

"Enough with the nonsense! If you don't leave this idiot alive, I'll kill you too!" the burly man with the bushy beard grinned maliciously.

"Idiot..." Wu Cheng said with a strange expression.

"I'm not afraid to tell you," the burly man sneered, "we only want the life of this idiot from the outer sect of the Asking Heaven Sect. Outer sect disciples aren't really Asking Heaven Sect disciples, are they? After that, we'll keep to ourselves, how about that?"

Xue Jianren's face immediately turned as red as the bottom of a Sichuan hot pot, and Wu Cheng even hallucinated the little dwarf screaming "Warning! Warning!"

"I'm just a half-disciple of the outer sect! I'm currently learning swordsmanship in the Sword Pavilion!" Xue Jianren argued through gritted teeth.

Wu Cheng was shocked. So you don't deny that you're an idiot?

But have these people targeted the wrong person?

Wu Cheng already understood.

They came to kill him, but they had never seen him before, so their targets were labeled "outer disciple" and "idiot".

That's true. Sun Xiaohu had never even seen me before. He just fled in a hurry. The person behind the scenes probably thought that once I joined the Wentian Sect, I would be left to fend for myself in the outer sect.

After all, it was only the second day since I started learning.

They had all seen Xue Jianren's behavior just now, so it was normal for him to mistake someone else for someone else.

Wu Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly. "You mean you'll let us leave if we hand him over?"

The burly man with the thick beard nodded. "Of course."

Wu Cheng laughed, "Unfortunately, what I like to do most is say no to those self-righteous guys."

"Then don't blame me!" The burly man with a bushy beard grinned and licked the dark blue blade with his scarlet tongue.

"Ah? Ah! The knife is poisoned!" The burly man with the bushy beard suddenly realized what was happening. He looked up at Wu Cheng and the other three, then his eyes rolled back and he collapsed to the ground, trembling. In no time, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and he kicked his legs and died.

"Big brother!!!"

Several people around him knelt on the ground, groaning in pain. Then, they suddenly looked up, their eyes bloodshot, and glared at Wu Cheng and his group. "I'll kill you all!"

After saying that, the men drew their swords and charged!

What does this have to do with us?

Wu Cheng rolled his eyes, grabbed a plate of scrambled eggs, and flung it away.

The scrambled eggs smashed into the faces of the first few people, and their faces immediately began to hiss and emit white smoke as if they were being corroded. They screamed and fell to the ground.

"What a vicious poison!"

Wu Cheng was taken aback, then drew his longsword, "Then I won't let you live today!"

But someone was faster than him!

Suddenly, countless white lines crisscrossed inside the restaurant on the second floor!

The next moment, Qingque sheathed her sword, put away her umbrella, and stood beside him again, while the afterimages left by the sword light faded from everyone's retinas.

All the assassins who had been charging forward remained frozen in place.

"Such a fast sword..."

A gentle breeze swept by, and dozens of people's necks spurted out blood in the size of a comic book, even staining the thick horizontal beam above them red!

Xue Jianren stared in horror at the expressionless Qingque, as if he were learning for the first time how ruthless this junior sister who had just joined the Sword Pavilion was.

Zhou Ke's eye twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.

Wu Cheng's expression didn't change much. Instead, he looked at a swordsman dressed in black and wearing a bamboo hat sitting in the corner.

He hadn't made a move earlier, but now his sword was half-drawn, and a cut appeared on the hem of his clothes.

Qingque used her sword technique earlier, but in the end, she didn't kill him with a single strike.

She wanted to go up again, but Wu Cheng gently held her hand down.

After calming Qingque down, he looked up at the man and said, "Friend, you're not here to kill...my junior brother, are you?"

"The person I want to kill is named Wu Cheng, not Xue Baichuan's son," the man said calmly.

Wu Cheng laughed, "It seems those were just cannon fodder sent to their deaths. Your move is the real killing blow. But why haven't you made your move yet?"

"You are too strong; I am not confident." The man put down his teacup and stood up. "Wait for me a moment."

He disappeared as soon as he finished speaking.

Qingque's pupils contracted slightly, and Xue Jianren exclaimed in surprise, "Such fast movement technique!"

He suddenly felt a chill on his neck.

His opponent was so fast that if he had swung his sword just now, he definitely wouldn't have been able to dodge it!

Before long, the swordsman in the straw hat returned.

And he was holding a head in his hand.

The swordsman casually tossed the disbelieving head to the ground and said, "This man is the employer who hired me to kill you. He is a minor steward in the Prince Yu's mansion."

Wu Cheng raised an eyebrow. "An assassin kills his employer? Who would dare do business with you after this?"

"I only believe in one thing: integrity. If my employer is honest with me, I will be honest with him in return," said the swordsman in the bamboo hat. "This man deceived me, saying you were just a fool who didn't know martial arts, so he deserves to die."

Then he drew his sword and, just as Qingque and the other two were on guard, he slashed off his own left ring finger with a backhand stroke.

Only then did Wu Cheng and the others notice that he only had three fingers left on his left hand.

"Since I can't kill you, this finger is compensation for him."

Xue Jianren's eyes widened. "But isn't he already dead?"

"A person cannot stand without integrity. Although this person deceived me, I still accepted the commission but failed to complete it."

The swordsman said, "My name is Luo Shang. If you have anyone you wish to kill, you can come to me. I believe your Wentian Sect can find me."

After saying that, he disappeared again.

"He's an interesting fellow," Wu Cheng chuckled.

Zhou Ke said, "Junior brother, could it be that the mastermind behind this is Prince Yu?"

Wu Cheng remained noncommittal, saying, "Whether it is or not, we'll know once we go and ask them."