I Just Won’t Play by the Book - Chapter 166

The other four members of the team nodded at the same time and followed Zhou Guican to the place where the cries came from.

The five of them were very fast and arrived at the burning village in the blink of an eye.

“I go to the west with the Da Zong. Qing Yue, the three of you will go to the east. We’ll fight the fire separately.”

“Okay.” Li Fucheng nodded and led Tang Tingshuang and Di Liao to the few thatched houses on fire in the east.

When they arrived in front of a burning house, Li Fucheng activated the mystic energy in his body. Then, he suddenly pulled out his sword and waved it. The crescent-shaped sword qi instantly cut off the half of the thatched house that was on fire.

When a villager who was carrying a bucket and running towards the house saw this scene, he quickly shouted, “It’s the dual heroes! The village is saved, the dual heroes are here!”

Seeing the villagers were relieved when they saw him, Li Fucheng revealed a smile. Just as he was about to rush towards the next thatched cottage that was on fire, he felt a strong sense of danger.

Using all his strength, Li Fucheng pulled out his White Crane Sword and turned around to block the attack “Dang!”

With a clear sound, Li Fucheng’s White Crane Sword was cut in half. At the same time, there was a huge wound on his chest.

“Brother Li!!!” Seeing this scene, Tang Tingshuang ran to the side of Li Fucheng quickly, but she was sent flying by a blue-clothed man who fell from the sky.

Covering the wound that kept spurting blood, Li Fucheng stared at the blue-clothed man in front of him, but the intense pain made him unable to say anything. “You’re so weak. How dare you play hero with your weak pathetic strength?” The blue-clothed man looked at Li Fucheng with disdain and laughed.

At this moment, another strong man walked over and threw Zhou Guican, to the side of Li Fucheng. Zhou Guican was severely injured that he was on the verge of death.

“Do we really need to personally take action against these two pieces of trash?” The blue-clothed man sighed. “Do they really think we are the hitman?”

The strong man at the side continued, “It’s very easy to kill them, but the higher-ups want them alive.”

“Cough… Cough!” Zhou Guican, who had just recovered from his shock, managed to turn around. However, he could not stand up no matter how hard he tried, he could only gasp for breath as he said to Li Fucheng, “It seems like our good luck has finally run out. Two superior mystic practitioners came to kill us at once.”

Li Fucheng went speechless. He could only smile bitterly and nod his head.

Actually, when they thought about eliminating the Yellow Gang, they had thought that such a day would come. However, this day had come much later than they had imagined.

“Both of them have to live?” The blue-clothed man looked at the two people on the ground and asked.

The brawny man shook his head. “One is enough.” After saying that, he looked at the two people on the ground and asked, “Which one of you is Li Fucheng?”

Zhou Guican was stunned after hearing that. “Li Fucheng? Who’s Li Fucheng?”

However, the first reaction of Li Fucheng after hearing that was to raise a finger and point at Zhou Guican.

“Are you Li Fucheng?” The brawny man looked at Zhou Guican and asked.

“A real man will not change his name… Ah!!”

Before Zhou Guican could finish, he was kicked by the brawny man in the stomach.

“Stop the nonsense. Are you Li Fucheng or

not?!

Zhou Guican’s neck stiffened. He glared at the brawny man and said, “If you want to kill me, then kill me. If you want to… Ah!”

The brawny man who gave Zhou Guican another kick spat and said, “So much nonsense. Forget it. Bring both of them back.”

“What about the others?” The Blue-clothed man asked.

“Kill them all.”

“I like that answer.” The Blue-clothed man walked towards Tang Tingshuang, who had lost the ability to move.

However, before he could take two steps, he felt something pull on his right leg. He looked down and saw that it was Li Fucheng, who had lost half of his life.

“You still want to save the damsel in distress? Trash.” The blue-clothed man said as he stepped on Li Fucheng’s back. However, Li Fucheng did not even make a sound as he continued to hug the blue-clothed man’s right leg tightly. “Heh, what a tough person. Alright, then I’ll let you watch how she dies with your own eyes.”

The blue-clothed man said as he dragged Li Fucheng to the front of Tang Tingshuang.

Seeing that the blue-clothed man was about to raise his sword, Li Fucheng used all his strength to shout hoarsely, “No! Let her go! I’ll give you whatever you want.” “What do I want?” The blue-clothed man looked at Li Fucheng’s eyes that were filled with despair as he laughed maniacally, “What I want is the despair in your eyes when you watch your beloved die, hahahaha!”

After saying that, the blue-clothed man laughed maniacally as he stabbed his sword towards Tang Tingshuang. “No!!!”

Amidst Li Fucheng’s desperate screams, the blue-clothed man’s sword that was stabbing towards Tang Tingshuang suddenly stopped. His eyes looked behind him in disbelief. But in the next second, he completely lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground.

Seeing the blue-clothed man suddenly collapse, Li Fucheng forced himself to raise his head to look at the person who had killed the blue-clothed man.

He saw a man dressed like a scholar look at Li Fucheng and take out a green spirit medicine and stuff it into his mouth, “We are here to clean up the Yellow Gang. During this period of time, go find a place to hide first. Otherwise, you might not be so lucky next time.”

“Clean up the Yellow Gang? Is Brother Wang here… It must be Brother Wang. He actually has such a subordinate who can kill a superior mystic practitioner in one strike. Big Brother Wang is indeed…” “Unfathomable.”

This was the last thought that passed through Li Fucheng’s mind before it lost consciousness.

While Rivernorth District was in chaos, Jiang Beiran lived the daily life that he had always dreamed of. Every day, he would practice alchemy and spend his day leisurely. At night, he would go to Shi Fenglan’s place to ‘gamble’.

Very soon, a month of such leisurely days passed.

On this day, Jiang Beiran sat in front of the peacock cauldron and looked at the soul baby fruit as he fell into deep thought.

The peacock cauldron that he had exchanged for four tier 5 spirit medicines in Sect of Masked Moon was indeed useful. Many high tier spirit medicines that were easy to explode in the furnace in the past could now be easily refined by Jiang Beiran.

But whether or not to refine the soul baby fruit really made Jiang Beiran very conflicted.

First of all, there was only one soul baby fruit. It was a non-renewable resource. Once it was refined, it would be gone. And Jiang Beiran had yet to decide whether to refine it into a healing medicine or a poison.

However, he really wanted to use the soul baby fruit to practice and see if he could refine a spiritual pill of tier7 or even tier 8.

“Forget it. I’m not in a hurry anyway. I’ll refine it later depending on the situation.”

After making this decision, Jiang Beiran put away the soul baby fruit and walked out of the house.

Clang! Clang! Clang

The sound of metal clashing could be heard. Gu Qinghuan and Wu Qingce were fighting with their swords in the open space. Of course, Gu Qinghuan was still far behind in terms of strength. Wu Qingce was asked by Jiang Beiran to be Gu Qinghuan’s sparring partner.

Seeing Jiang Beiran come out, the two of them immediately stopped and bowed to Jiang Beiran, “Brother Jiang.”

Jiang Beiran looked at Wu Qingce and asked, “Have you fed the antidote to the Blood Shadow Beast?”

“Yes, I fed it yesterday.”

“How is it? Have you tamed it?”

“I…” Wu Qingce paused and was a little embarrassed to speak.

“You have already broken through to level 6. Don’t tell me that you can’t defeat it.”

Previously, Wu Qingce had consumed 70% Thunder Flame Body Tempering Pill, and he was brought by his order master to the Pavilion of Returning Hearts, which had the densest spiritual energy in the sect, to practice martial arts.

Therefore, his strength had soared sky-high. In just a month’s time, he had broken through from great mystic practitioner level 1 to great mystic practitioner level 6. Many of the middle-level cultivators in the sect were so shocked that they couldn’t close their mouths.

When they heard their senior brother’s tone, it was obvious that if they did not answer well, they would be knocked on the head. Wu Qingce quickly explained, “Brother Jiang, I have already defeated the Blood Shadow Beast yesterday. It’s just that its temper is too fierce. I have not tamed it yet, so I wanted to slowly ease down its temper.”

“Hmm… that’s more like it.” Nodding his head, Jiang Beiran said, “Then you go continue practicing. I’m going to see Sect Master.”

“Yes.” After the two of them finished speaking, they fought again.

Yesterday, when Jiang Beiran went to look for Etiquette Protector Cheng to play Go, he was told that Sect Master was looking for him.

This made Jiang Beiran, who had enjoyed a month of peace, worried a little. He was afraid that it would be some troublesome matter.

But after all, it was Sect Master who called him. Even if it was a troublesome matter, he had to bite the bullet and go.

He came to Sect Master’s residence with some trepidation, but the trouble that he expected did not happen. Sect Master Lu looked for him to ask if Sect Master Guan had contacted him recently. It was not a big deal.

However, just as Jiang Beiran was about to leave Sect Master’s residence, three options suddenly popped up.

[ Option 1: Leave immediately. Reward: Heavenly Punishment (low tier heaven rank)]

[ Option 2: Leave Sect of Returning Hearts. Reward: Heavenly Wave Forbidden Scroll (middle tier earth rank)]

[ Option 3: Stay. Reward: Random basic skill points + 1]

“what the ....!??”