Inner Demons Volume 1 Chapter 20

However, now he’s the eldest of the Six Ghost of the River, the Corners-raised Ghost, whose brother was dead.
Corners-raised eyes↑

Must kill him, Chen YiAn thought, it’s not only because he killed his fourth brother, but also because he couldn’t be seen through.

If he was a young man from the grottoes or the schools, who didn’t understand secular affairs, the swordsman would have many methods to deal with him. Those people were true immortals, and were skillful in magic, but they didn’t know how the world worked. He could please them until flowers bloomed in their hearts, all in an instant.

...but this boy...

He had thought about turning this enemy into a friend, but this thought only lasted for a moment. This kid who came out of who-knows-where was terrifyingly clever. If he decided to play a game with him, n.o.body would know who was going to be played in the end.

In that case, killing him seemed to be the only solution.

To burn his clothes and belongings, and dismember his body after killing him. He would soon be eaten in such a dense forest. After that, he would cut up the corpses of the others, and scatter them around here. No matter how skillful a person could be, he would never manage to track down that kid.

His problem was that he was too clever, had a background which was too good, but also wasn’t strong.

Unusually, he was not strong.

Chen YiAn felt a little hot. Actually, that young man...

...was quite pretty...

Those disciples of the grottoes and the schools, always acted so arrogantly, and wanted me to treat them humbly. Humph, did any one expect that one of them would be trapped by me in this ruined temple?

When you are getting stomped by me on the ground...

When you lie beneath me, how are you going to give yourself airs? Em? How?

When he thought to this part, he was only 4 or 5 steps away from the entrance.

Actually，he could dash through such a short distance within the blink of an eye if he wanted to, but he had to be careful, since the young man had been so brutal and scheming.

This forest was strange. It seemed to be haunted by ghosts.

They called themselves the Six Ghosts of the River, and they did witness some ghosts. They were scared at first, but they didn’t worry too much. One of the reasons was that he had seen an immortal, and the other one was that he knew that some ghosts were unable to hurt people, they could only scare them. The female ghost just before disappeared after being hit by him only once, so he knew that it was just bluffing.

They had killed countless people, yet they would be scared by ghosts? Are you kidding?

After one more step forward, he saw Li YunXin coming out of the temple with his hands behind himself.

While running through the forest, the sleeves of his white clothes were torn by the twigs. Now the ripped white cloth was hanging on his sleeve, and was waving in the night wind, which added more extraordinary charms to him.

Li YunXin was gripping a piece of paper in his hand. The swordsman slightly frowned while seeing this.

Of course he had heard of the painters, and now he started to think...could the young man be a painter?

Back in the days when he and his brothers were doing robbery everywhere, they didn’t have the patience to figure out the levels of the painters, and what a painter could do. The only thing he knew was that all those painters who could create illusions were great characters, who could rarely be seen by the ordinary people - and all of them were supported by the officials or other high-ranking people, who counted on their paintings to extend their own lives.

This man was so young, but his skill was so strong.

The swordsman became more determined to kill him.

What a pity. He may be a skilled painter, but no matter how skilled he was, a painter could only do tricks like creating illusions.

How could he compete with the priests and the swordsmen from the grottoes and the schools.

At this time, he heard the young man talking: “I won’t be polite to you anymore if you keep going forward.”

Chen YiAn sneered in his mind. This trick wouldn’t work on him any more.

Running the internal power within his body to its peak, he could even hear the gra.s.s bending under his feet clearly. He didn’t worry about the young man’s tricks.

He had seen it clearly: The young man was breathing when he talked, and had a shadow, which meant that he was a real person. The ghost which appeared before might have been created by the young man to scared them, but he could tell the difference if he didn’t panic.

“Prepare to die. I’ll make it quick.”

He shook the thin sword in his hand. The finger-length blade of the sword buzzed, like a silver snake moving its tongue in and out.

“Take this!”

His strike was fast and cunning, even that Qiao DuanHong from that escort team couldn’t dodge this. He was sure that the young man would die under this.

However...

He missed.

The swordsman was shocked!

The young man’s body suddenly became much more agile, and evaded his strike at a weird angle. He stepped back, and yelled: “I’m going to cast the spell!”

That dodge could not have possibly been made by any normal person - at least impossible with the strength of a normal young man.

It all happened within the flash of a lighting and the spark of a flint[2]. The swordsman knew he shouldn’t be distracted anymore. He saw that it was not easy for the young man to dodge his strike. Now his move came to its end, which meant that there was no possibility for him to evade his second attack.

While the swordsman shook his wrist, the silver light turned back like a moving snake, and again went directly towards Li YunXin’s throat.

At this instant, he saw the young shake his hand to spread the paper. After a flash of a dark green light, the swordsman found that a dark green figure suddenly appeared between him and the young man.

Looking at it, the swordsman found the figure kind of strange. It was a general in green armor, holding a light green sword with a wide blade, and was wearing a bizarre helmet - countless green gems were inlaid on it, which made him look like a fly.

What kind of person would dress like this?

However, swordsman knew that it was just an illusion. He must not be distracted by it, which would give that kid a chance.

Ignoring the sword coming towards him, he focused again, and intended to go through the illusion, and stab Li YunXin in the throat.

...but following a “pooch” sound.

Chen YiAn the swordsman’s head flew upwards.

It almost looked like the swordsman ran into the wide sword himself.

It was not an illusion, but a real thing which was materialized by a master of the Materialization Realm.

After beheading Chen YiAn the swordsman, touching the hot blood of a living person, the figure of that general in green armor soon became blurred. He put back his sword, nodded to Li YunXin, and said very seriously: “My blade, is yours.” 

Then he turning into some light spots, and vanished in the air.

The eldest of the Six Ghosts of the River, Chen YiAn the swordsman’s headless dead body fell on the ground.

Li YunXin breathed out.

It still doesn’t last long...

He couldn’t use any spiritual power, because his sea of qi was sealed. Thus he told the cat demon to go into his body. With the spiritual power provided by the cat demon’s spiritual body, he could just barely reach the realm of materialization.

The cat demon’s spiritual power was too weak after all, and it was not his own, so that thing only killed one person after being summoned, and soon vanished because of the impact of the hot blood and yang qi[3] of a living person.

However, the cat demon didn’t feel the excitement of that moment of life and death. It asked in a weird tone: “Ah, ya, dead. Hah, what was that? Em? That general in green armor, what was that, em? ”

Li YunXin sighed, his voice sounded nostalgic and mournful, but the cat demon definitely wouldn’t understand it.

“He…was called Yi. Yi the wuju bladesman[4].”

Translator’s notes:

Yi=Joyful

[2]Within the flash of a lighting and the spark of a flint电光火石: All of a sudden

The diagram of yin and yang. The white parts represent yang while the black parts represent yin.

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Translator: Rienne
Editor:Dropped