Inner Demons Volume 1 Chapter 26

Li YunXin’s had a bad look on his face. He stared at the sword for a while, and sighed.

It was much easier for him to accept this than for other people. This kind of plot happened quite frequently in movies and novels -- A immortal wants to play a trick on a mortal, so he gives him a gift, which cannot be abandoned, and will automatically come back to him when he tries to discard it. Now Li YunXin finally see this magic in the real life.

He put his hand on the handle of the sword, and rubbed it. He sighed again: “Well, let’s go, to Wei City, like the old plan.”

He could only choose to keep the sword since he was not strong enough to get rid of it. Even if he could have run far enough, once Bai YunXin have found him, he would be force to take her anger.

Maybe she would tear him apart at once. Demons’ moods were too hard to be predicted by a human.

He pulled out the sword from his belt, held it in his hand, and whispered: “Go.”

It was still dark, but the moon was not covered by clouds. Mild breeze blew through the gra.s.sland. Gra.s.s wave in the gentle wind, like a dark green sea. Li YunXin painted 2 pictures and held them in hand as well. Accompanied by the cat demon, he walked carefully towards the road.

Maybe Bai YunXin had killed the Six Ghosts of the River, and maybe they(female) didn’t...

Li YunXin stepped on a cold body. He lowered his head, and found it a headless corpse.

As expected, they were all murdered. The dead was wearing a dark cyan Taoist robe, and his head was bit off -- He might have been a victim under that maid’s hands.

There were 2 more bodies next to the swordsman’s, and those 2 were guards of the escort team.

Perhaps...they were all dead.

However, he still need to go to Wei City, since he needed a place to settle down. Li YunXin looked at “Qiao JiaXin”, who was by his side. He frowned...Actually, he make some uses out of this little girl.

Suddenly, sounds came from the bush nearby. Li YunXin waved his sword at once.

The sharp blade cut down the gra.s.s without any effort, dived deeply into the bush like a strip of cloth, and finally stopped on the neck of a person. Now, with the help of the moon light, Li YunXin saw his face. It was Liu the old priest.

It seemed that the old priest didn’t know who was approaching, so he planned to sneak away in the bushes, but got heard by Li YunXin. In the next second, a shiny blade landed on his neck. His skin had already been broke by the sword, and this scared him too much that he lost his tongue for quite a while, and his legs shook like he was filtering grains.
Filtering grains with a bamboo sieve.
When Liu finally recognized the young man under the moonlight, his throat moved, and then he jump on him to embrace his legs: “Master! Save me! Demons!”

Li YunXin covered Liu’s mouth with his hand: “Stop yelling! Answer me, have all the swordsmen died?”

“Dead...all of them are dead.” Liu wiped his eyes, “I’ve lived so long, but what happened today really expanded my eyesight. However, I’d rather not to expand it like this. I knew it’s my luck to meet you, master. I saw ghosts and demons...it was really a demon, one bit, one head! If this old man didn’t...”

“Okay. Everything is fine now. I’ve seen that demon, and now it’s gone.” Li YunXin put his sword back, and removed Liu from his legs, and stopped the cat demon from playing with Liu’s released hair bun, “One more question: How many from the escort team still lives?”

Hearing what Li YunXin said, the old priest blinked, and stared into his eyes: “Master, you have fought with the demons? Did you drive them away?”

He gazed at Li YunXin for a while, and kowtowed to him: “I have lived so many worthless years, and now I finally see a real G.o.d! Mater, please take me in as your disciple, so that I can take a peek on the great path of painting. This humble priest...”

Li YunXin sighed: “What’s your problem? Why can’t you answer my question before talking about anything else?”

“Her dad is still there, but he’s the only one left.” Liu lifted his head and wipe his own face, and then he saw Qiao JiaXin clearly: “Ay? Has this kid... lost her mind?”

The cat demon blinked: “Yee? Tae! How dare you!? Em...this G.o.ddess...em? How dare you!?”

Li YunXin sighed, and dragged the cat demon behind his back: “She saw the demons, and was horrified. Qiao DuanHong is till alive? That’s G.o.d. Where is he?”

Liu scratched his messed-up hair bun, stepped away, and pull a bush apart: “...Right here.”

Then Li YunXin saw Qiao DuanHong, who seemed to be at his last gasp. As a leader of an escort team, who was just about to reach the second cla.s.s of martial arts, he tried his best. There were blade wounds all over his body, but most of them were on his legs. Maybe his desperate fight p.i.s.sed of the swordsman, so he decided to torture him instead of killing him right away.

However, the bad guy didn’t know that the situation may have been reversed if he have done this -- The maid came and bite off his head.

It looked that Qiao DuanHong’s legs were disabled. The bones inside his knees were exposed, and the blood had kept coming out. Liu thought that he couldn’t have made this through.

Li YunXin walked up and pressed several main arteries of him, then the bleeding of the wounds got controlled. The technique of stop bleeding by pressing arteries was a necessary skill of both cultivators and martial artists. However, it’s not that amazing like how it looked like. It could stop the streams of blood temporarily, but if the arteries are kept in that way for too long, some body parts may be mortified.
Arteries
However, Li YunXin thought that Qiao DuanHong’s situation wouldn’t have gone any worse -- Due to the limit of the current medical technology, he had already lost his legs. Even if he could have only survive, there would be huge amount of smoke above the grave of his family[1].

Liu didn’t look reliable, and Qiao JiaXin definitely couldn’t be counted on. Li YunXin ripped off some cloth strips from Liu’s robe, and roughly wrapped Qiao DuanHong’s wounds with them.

Then...he must deal with this complicated situation.

It was at this moment, Li YunXin realized what a convenient technique film transition is. For example, the last scene was the seriously wounded soldiers smiled after a Pyrrhic victory, then the next scene would be they lying in a cozy ward after being bandaged.

However, before Li YunXin, Liu looked that he could be blown over by wind, and Qiao JiaXin was a immature girl... He didn’t think he could go far while carrying Qiao DuanHong.

It was really an annoying situation.

“Let’s wait for a pa.s.ser-by.” Li YunXin said, “There is only 1 or 2 shi[2] to dawn -- Em, more than 2 shi, I think. It would be his fate if we can find someone to take us with him. If not, his hard life will come to its end.”

After these words, he carried Qiao DuanHong on his back, while Liu supported him on the side. After more than 10 minutes of hard walk, they finally reached the road which they traveled on. Li YunXin laid Qiao DuanHong on the gra.s.s, and then they started to wait.

Liu sat next to Li YunXin, shivered. After thinking for a while, he asked: “Master, what...”

Li YunXin held up a finger: ‘Listen. Don’t ask about me, and don’t tell anyone about what happened tonight. I don’t want my ident.i.ty to be let out. I’m here for my trials. If you want to learn something, I can teach you, but if anyone ask you about what happened today, you need to be the hero. This girl has been shocked. When her family asks you about this, you know what to say. Anyway, I don’ want to be disturbed, and I would like to stay at your place for some days. Behave, and I will teach you what you want to know, okay? I’ll start with Traveling in the Night in Gorgeous Garments.”

Translator's notes:
[1]The smoke above the grave of his family: Great luck.
Cyan smoke was said to appear when someone become immortal. If the smoke raises from the grave of someone’s family, it means that one of his dead family member has become immortal, and is now blessing his family with his immortal power.
[2]Shi时: Chinese unit of time, equals to 2 hours.
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Translator: Rienne