Chapter 48 Good Guys
Chapter 48 Good Guys
"Okay, how can I help you?" As they spoke, there was only one step between them and their eyes met.
At this moment, Zeng Jianqiu's eyes flashed with warning, but he just squinted slightly and stood still. Li Wuxiang suddenly jumped in front of him and stretched out his hands. At the same time, he kicked his feet diagonally on the stove and threw himself behind Zeng Jianqiu. He put his left arm around his neck, put his right arm horizontally behind his head, held his right arm joint with his left hand, and pushed his head hard with his right palm, strangling him tightly!
Zeng Jianqiu suddenly felt his neck tighten, but he still stood still, breathing normally and laughing: "Boy, you want to fight me with your little skill?"
He raised his hand to grab Li Wuxiang's arm. Although he felt that this boy's bones were tougher than he thought, he didn't take it seriously at all. He exerted a little force and shouted, "Open!"
But he didn't know why his hand suddenly slipped, and he struggled hard to free his palm. Then he felt the two arms on his neck turned into a giant python, tightening again, and finally made his throat dry and unable to breathe.
He immediately used both hands, one hand grabbed Li Wuxiang's forearm and the other hand grabbed his upper arm - "Hey!"
With a sound of tearing cloth, Li Wuxiang's sleeves were torn into pieces by him, leaving his hands full of slippery flesh, but he hadn't pulled his arms apart yet! Looking at his own palms again, it seemed that he had just rubbed something rough, and the skin on the palms and the inside of his fingers rolled up, and blood oozed out all of a sudden!
Only then did he feel that Li Wuxiang was really exerting his strength. The muscles in his neck were crackling as he was tightened by him. His head was buzzing and his vision began to twitch!
He realized at this moment that he had underestimated this kid... Who did he learn Kung Fu from? !
He immediately rushed out three steps diagonally to the wall, then suddenly took a deep breath and jumped up, pushing his feet against the wall, causing his back to hit the corner of the stove heavily.
With a bang! Zeng Jianqiu felt his whole body numbed and his spine felt like it was broken from the shock he received from hitting the stove, but Li Wuxiang behind him seemed to have turned into a thin blanket, not providing him with any cushion at all!
This is fatal!
Zeng Jianqiu showed no mercy and stumbled to his feet, reaching for the long sword at his waist, but found nothing - he didn't know when the boy had pulled it out and thrown it away!
He immediately clenched his teeth and turned his face dark red. He circulated the Qi in his body to his muscles and bones, and slammed his elbows back - releasing the Qi! His clothes suddenly fluttered, and there were continuous explosions in the room. The dust around his body was instantly raised and turned into a small hurricane, sweeping the small objects in the room into pieces and splashing them onto the wall...
But the two python-like arms on his neck had not loosened yet and were still exerting force. It even seemed as if there were countless thin ropes, tightening his neck tighter and tighter!
Zeng Jianqiu felt a flash of stars in front of his eyes, his head seemed to explode, and his vision began to go black. He was really angry, and while turning around and slamming into the wall, he used his remaining strength to reach into his left sleeve and touched a cold little sword. When he was about to attack again, he had turned to the direction facing the entrance of the courtyard and vaguely saw a person.
But it wasn't Li Wuxiang, but a young girl, holding something in her hand. He was slightly stunned, and the hand in his sleeve slowed down -
The thing in the girl's hand smashed over and hit him on the forehead with a thud. Zeng Jianqiu opened his eyes wide and saw clearly that it was a door bolt... There was another thud on his forehead, and this time his eyes went dark and he really fainted.
When he woke up again, he found that his hands and feet were tied tightly and he was in the main house of Xue's family. The doors and windows were closed, Li Wuxiang was squatting in front of him, and Xue Baoping was holding his waist knife, with the sharp blade pressing against his neck.
He immediately tried to break the ropes that bound him, but his hands and feet only moved a little and immediately stuck back together. He couldn't help but take a closer look at the things that bound him - they weren't very thick, but a bunch of thin white strips, just like hair... What was that? He could even break a thin chain with this move!
"Hero Zeng, don't panic...Okay, you are not panicking at all. Then let's have a good talk." Li Wulian tilted her head towards Xue Baoping, and she moved the knife that was pressing on Zeng Jianqiu's neck away.
Zeng Jianqiu raised his head and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his neck, as if something had pierced his neck like a sieve. "Good boy, you have some skills. What are you talking about?"
Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "Didn't I just ask you to do me a favor? I was talking about this favor."
He stood up, rubbing his bandaged arm slowly and saying, "Let me be frank, I want to deal with Zhao Qi too."
Zeng Jianqiu's eyes widened, and he frowned as he looked at him again. "My name is not Li Jiye, but Li Wuxiang. You don't need to ask about my past, just know that I will never let Zhao Qi succeed. I did it quite smoothly - I asked him to accept me as his disciple, and we became closer, until last night, when he asked me to kill someone, oh, the one you met, named Chen Sanyao."
Zeng Jianqiu's anger suddenly disappeared. He just thought that it was because of his carelessness that the boy got the upper hand, and then he was too soft-hearted, and finally he got into trouble. But now, listening to what he said... Who is this boy? He looks so young!
"I thought Zhao Qi wanted to test whether I would listen to him, so I took action. But it turned out that Zhao Qi wanted to test whether I was a good person. This is quite interesting. As you said, he has harmed countless people, but he wanted to find a kind and filial apprentice. Anyway, after I took action, he immediately became cold and distant to me. I originally wanted to get his sacrificial rituals, but it seems that I can't do it now."
"So I was originally planning to use force on him like you. But then you came - oh, let me ask you one more question, did Zhao Qi accept me as his disciple just to ask me to help him summon the gods?"
Zeng Jianqiu's face slightly flushed, he closed his eyes, and frowned again: "Okay, no! If he wants to ask the Kitchen God to descend upon someone, he must want it to descend upon you."
Li Wuxiang nodded: "It's about the same as I guessed. Will I be miserable?"
"It depends on how you put it... you age quickly! One day in heaven equals one year on earth, that's still an understatement. If you really come down here, it will take more than a year. The Kitchen God will stay on you for a quarter of an hour and he will turn you into an old man. But since I said you will be fine, you will definitely be fine. I, Zeng Jianqiu, never break my promise to others!"
"Okay, if you say so, then so be it. But if this is the case..." Li Wuxiang thought for a moment, "If I help you capture Zhao Qi, can you help me get what I want from him? Another thing, if I accidentally kill him in the process, will there be any consequences? Will his ghost keep haunting me or something like that?"
"You can't kill him now!" Zeng Jianqiu's face turned grim, and his tone immediately became stern. "If I hadn't had to, I wouldn't have coaxed you to take the seal to help him summon the spirit... Zhao Qi should have been here for a while, and the current situation in the town is that the incense and the power of vows are extremely strong! I don't know which sect you are from, but you should know that the power of vows is something that ordinary people can't afford. If Zhao Qi hadn't completed the formation, and you were asked to kill him now without summoning the spirit, do you know how many evil spirits would be attracted to fight for food with so much power of vows that would have nowhere to vent!"
"What about you? You are also a practitioner, can't you find a way to resolve it?"
"I'm not a Qi Refiner! I've said that this is a unique method of their Ranshan Sect, and it's different from other sects' summoning of gods. It requires Zhao Qi to do the last step, and you bring the seal and let those wishes backfire on him, so as to resolve the disaster in this town!"
Li Wuxiang frowned and was silent for a while: "I don't really understand, but let me give you an analogy. Do you think it's right? It's like Jinshui Town is a pot, and the willpower is the water vapor in the pot. Usually, the pot is open and the water vapor dissipates, but now Zhao Qi has added a very strong lid to the pot. Now the water vapor in the pot is too much, and it's about to explode the lid... But you don't know how to open the lid, so you can only let Zhao Qi open it, and then mess with him when he opens the lid, so that he will be blown to death, and the people around him won't be blown up?"
Zeng Jianqiu was stunned: "I don't know what kind of pot you are talking about, but this is the truth."
Li Wuxiang nodded: "Okay, I understand. I have to ask him to get the job done, but he can't... In the end, you just need someone to stay by his side and act as a vessel for him to summon the gods, and then mess up his business, and then another person will take action to deal with him. This is not bad, I also want to know how he puts the lid on the pot."
"Well, Mr. Zeng, I just asked you to do me a favor, and now I need your help for this." He squatted down again and patted Zeng Jianqiu on the shoulder. "I will hand you over to Zhao Qi and tell him that you tried to incite me to rebel but I subdued you. He must be very moved. Then you can do what you wanted me to do before. As you said, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. If you help me with this, countless people will not suffer."
Zeng Jianqiu exhaled slowly, stared at Li Wuxiang, and snorted coldly after a long while: "If you dare to hand me over, I will expose your true colors!"
Li Wuxiang looked at him for a while and grinned, "You won't. Because you are a good person. You held back on me and didn't have the heart to hurt the little girl. Otherwise, how could I feel comfortable asking you to help me?"
(End of this chapter)