Chapter 14: First Experience in the Underworld

In a large stone house with granite walls, a light blue shadow was moving east and west, up and down. The light of the dim oil lamp was swaying.

The light blue shadow seemed to be walking and jumping according to some rules. The light blue shadow did not seem to move fast, but the direction he stepped on was very strange, which made the seemingly slow movement turn him into a blurry shadow.

Suddenly, the light blue shadow stopped, squatted on the ground, frowned, and gestured something on the ground with his fingers. After a while, he jumped up again and started running.

The light blue shadow would stop every once in a while. His slightly immature face was slightly sweaty, and his expression was happy and angry. This expression on his face made people feel a little funny.

In his hand, he was holding a one-foot-long thin wooden stick. While running, he kept stabbing the thin wooden stick in his hand. It looked very strange.

After a while, the light blue figure seemed to have found some rules. He stopped, scratching his head and cheeks, looking a little overjoyed.

He sat down on the stone bed next to him, looking up at the granite roof, lost in thought.

Suddenly, he jumped to the ground again, his feet strangely twisted, as if he was taking a step forward, but when he took this step, his whole body suddenly disappeared in the stone house.

The flame of the dim oil lamp calmed down and stopped swaying. Suddenly, the lamp flower flashed, and the light blue figure strangely appeared in the dark shadow under the oil lamp on the wall.

"Haha, it's finally done." The figure cheered and slowly walked out of the dark shadow under the oil lamp. This figure was Wu Yan, who had started practicing all the time after getting the secret book of Fengyun Step.

After spending nearly a month to figure out the secret book of Fengyun Step, Wu Yan finally mastered some of the secrets of Fengyun Step. This set of footwork is indeed strange. When walking, he can be as light as the wind and as ethereal as the clouds. The whole person turns into a vague shadow, making it impossible to figure out where he is when he is running.

He has not yet fully understood the secret of Fengyun Step, but he can already exert some of its magical power. This is a very strange hidden skill. At the same time, because the direction of walking is strange and strange, combined with the strange sword angle of Fengyun Nine Swords, the combination of the two can actually produce an extremely strange hidden killing function.

This discovery reminded him of the copied "Hidden Killing Art", and he didn't know if there was any connection between them. Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the knocking sound from the stone door, and the voice of Elder Feng came faintly: "Wu Yan, get ready to go."

Wu Yan then remembered that today was the day he had agreed with Elder Feng to go down the mountain to visit his hometown. The things that needed to be packed were almost packed, and Wu Yan replied excitedly: "I'm here!" Holding a cloth bag on the bed, he pushed open the stone door and walked out.

Elder Feng was standing outside the door in a plain coarse cloth, leaning on a wooden crutch with an old medicine gourd hanging on it. He looked like a traveling doctor.

Wu Yan was also dressed like a country boy, carrying a cloth bag, which contained only some daily clothes and some loose silver, and the incense burner that he had never been willing to throw away.

"Master, are we leaving now?" Wu Yan asked excitedly.

Pharmacist Feng took out a short dagger with a black sheath from his bosom, threw it to him, and said, "Take it with you for self-defense. Along the way, you will inevitably run into people from the Broken Blade Hall. They have always had friction with our sect, and they have blocked the roads between Qing and Gu counties. If that doesn't work, we have no choice but to fight."

After saying this, Elder Feng reached out to Wu Yan. Wu Yan quickly took out the booklet from his bosom and handed it to Elder Feng without hesitation.

Pharmacist Feng put away the booklet, and then said no more. He walked out first, leaning on the wooden crutch. Wu Yan quickly followed. The two of them, one in front of the other, left Xiaogushan, Wild Wolf Valley, and walked to Gushan Town. In Gushan Town, a disciple of the Iron Sword League had already prepared a carriage for the two of them.

The carriage and the driver were rented from the town's carriage shop. Elder Feng didn't say much, he lifted the curtain and got into the carriage. Wu Yan followed the driver and sat on the shaft.

The driver whipped the horse and set off. The carriage went east along the official road, out of Gushan Town, and then turned north, heading straight for the border between Qing and Gu counties.

Two days later, the carriage stopped at a small town on the border of Gu County. The two got off the carriage and stayed in the town for one night. That night, Elder Feng called Wu Yan to his room and packed up again. The next day, they continued on their way.

Wu Yan had walked this road before when he fled, and he still had some vague impressions. After passing the town and going northwest, he was in Qing County.

Seeing that it would take another three or five days to return to his hometown Wujiagou, which he had been away from for more than a year, Wu Yan was extremely excited. However, the two of them had walked for less than half a day and had just entered Qing County when they were stopped by the Broken Blade Hall.

On the official road, the disciples of the Broken Blade Hall had blatantly set up roadblocks and strictly checked the pedestrians and merchants passing through the two counties. When they met suspicious people, they would inevitably scold and interrogate them.

Elder Feng was leaning on a wooden crutch with an old medicine gourd hanging on it. He had two dog-skin plasters on his face, and he looked like a wandering doctor. Wu Yan was now dressed as a doctor's medicine boy, carrying a worn-out medicine bag on his back, and following behind Pharmacist Feng.

The disciples of Broken Blade Hall who were in charge of checking here all looked fierce, holding or carrying a big sword in their hands or on their shoulders, and guarding the main road at the intersection with great dignity. When the two appeared at the roadblock on the official road, they were naturally checked by them.

Elder Feng was indeed an old man who had been in the martial arts world for a long time. He took Wu Yan through with a few words.

After walking more than ten miles past the official road, two forks appeared in front of them, one east and one west. The two walked along the western fork.

This fork was built along the low mountains on both sides. It was already a bit desolate, covered with weeds, and it was almost impossible to find the path. Wu Yan was more familiar with the road in front of him, and he led the way, jumping and shouting with great joy and excitement.

After walking for most of the day, the two walked more than twenty miles. Wu Yan was in high spirits and didn't seem to feel tired at all. After all, Elder Feng was old and showed a little fatigue, so he stopped Wu Yan and planned to rest on the spot for a while.

As soon as Elder Feng sat down, Wu Yan obediently handed him a gourd filled with water. Elder Feng took it in his hand, took a few sips, and handed the gourd to Wu Yan, then sat cross-legged on the grass and closed his eyes to rest.

Not long after the two sat down, they suddenly heard a noise coming from the front. Wu Yan jumped up and stretched his neck to look forward curiously. He saw four or five big men with knives running towards them from the west of the road.

Wu Yan was a little surprised and ran to Elder Feng and looked at him. Elder Feng seemed to have no idea that someone was approaching, and he was still sitting cross-legged there, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

When the four or five big men with knives came closer, one of them pointed a knife at the two and asked, "What are you two doing here? I don't think you are from Qing County. Tell me, where are you from?"

Elder Feng seemed not to hear anything, and didn't even raise his eyelids. It was unknown whether he deliberately looked down on these thieves and ignored them, or whether he didn't hear what these people said at all.

Wu Yan was a little worried. Seeing that Elder Feng didn't say anything and asked for his instructions before leaving, and that he had to step in to solve all problems, he pretended to be stupid, squatted beside Elder Feng, and pulled the weeds on the ground for fun.