Eternal Saber

Chapter 7: The Jianghu Is So Vast


Under the water torture, this Seventh Master couldn't hold out and finally revealed the location of Wushan Village.

Wushan is right near Bingzhou City!

However, around Wushan, there's a Qimen Five Elements Array set up by the Village Chief, and without knowing the method, ordinary people will get lost once they enter Wushan.

This Qimen Five Elements Array changes every day.

Even if the Seventh Master returns, he must wait for guidance from inside to enter the village.

Moreover, the white-robed girl also got a piece of extremely important information!

The Commander of Qingcheng County is one of the Ten Ghosts of Wushan, the Sixth Master, Painted Skin Ghost!

According to the Seventh Master, Painted Skin Ghost is skilled in disguise techniques; he killed the Qingcheng Commander, then peeled off the latter's face, covered it on his own, and disguised himself as the Qingcheng Commander.

Originally the straw-hatted man returned to the corner of the temple, seemingly not very interested in the Ten Ghosts of Wushan.

But upon hearing this, the straw-hatted man suddenly turned over and glanced over here.

The black-dressed boy snorted coldly and said, "Even the Commander of Qingcheng turned out to be one of the Ten Ghosts of Wushan. It's no wonder bandits can't eliminate Wushan Village."

"I've said everything I know, please just let me die quickly."

The Seventh Master pleaded bitterly.

He didn't even beg for his life, just asked to be killed quickly to avoid more torture.

"You want to die quickly, dream on!"

But the white-robed girl was not willing to let him go, still using water torture, muttering, "You filthy beasts, harming so many women, you still want a quick death?"

Next, under the shocked gaze of the black-dressed boy, the Seventh Master of Wushan Village was tortured by the white-robed girl for most of the night!

When he fainted, she'd wake him up again.

Then apply all sorts of methods.

Finally, the Seventh Master couldn't hold on and was tortured to death…

Chen Tang had also killed many people under his hands.

But he had never been as ruthless as the white-robed girl.

This girl appeared innocent and harmless on the outside, but once she acted, even the devils would fear her.

Moreover, during the process of torturing the Seventh Master, she seemed to be enjoying it, her eyes gleaming with a bit of excitement.

The straw-hatted man had already begun to regret teaching the water torture method to the white-robed girl.

The black-dressed boy couldn't help but shudder seeing her like this.

Falling into the hands of this girl, it was better to kill oneself early to avoid such torture.

After killing the Seventh Master, the white-robed girl clapped her hands, stood up satisfied, and sweetly smiled at the three people hiding far away: Chen Tang, the black-dressed boy, and the straw-hatted man, saying, "Don't be scared, I only treat bad people this way."

"That's uncertain... "

The black-dressed boy mumbled.

"What did you say?"

The white-robed girl, having sharp ears, heard it instantly and glared, saying, "Come here, I haven't settled accounts with you yet!"

"I'll come over, I'm not afraid of you!"

The black-dressed boy, holding a spear, walked over with large strides, saying in a deep voice, "What account do you want to settle? I clearly saved you just now."

"Did I need you to save me?"

The white-robed girl sneered, "I was planning on letting the people of Wushan Village take me, just to infiltrate Wushan Village, eliminate this den of sin, kill all the bandits in Wushan Village, and burn this place down with fire."

"But now, the man's dead, how can I enter the village?"

The black-dressed boy said, "Didn't we find out the location of the village? At worst, I'll go with you, and we'll level the village together."

"Humph!"

The white-robed girl sneered again, "Didn't you hear? There's a Qimen Five Elements Array around Wushan Village; without the method, outsiders can't get in at all. Do you know the Qimen Five Elements Array?"

The black-dressed boy was momentarily speechless.

Chen Tang helped to explain, "This brother was also eager to save people just now. Even if he didn't take action, the people of Wushan Village wouldn't have spared us; this battle was inevitable."

The black-dressed boy glanced at Chen Tang gratefully.

"You have a point as well."

The white-robed girl didn't argue with Chen Tang and surprisingly nodded.

The black-dressed boy was a bit speechless.

He looked at the white-robed girl and couldn't help but say, "I think you're just a Jianghu novice; you lack Jianghu experience. If you really infiltrate Wushan Village, your life might not be safe. It's better to plan slowly."

"Zip it!"

The white-robed girl's face turned red, "I may be new to the Jianghu, but I've got plenty of Jianghu experience—I'm not a novice!"

The black-dressed boy said, "Your disguise was good earlier, but you were too careless. You ate and drank what Squad Leader Liu gave you without even looking; that's too careless."

"Those things weren't poisoned. I saw them eating, so why shouldn't I eat?"

The white-robed girl pouted.

The black-dressed boy earnestly said, "There are many ways to poison in the Jianghu. They may eat, but you may not be able to. They might have poisoned the items as they handed them to you, or they might have taken the antidote earlier..."

"These Jianghu experiences, you have to learn them slowly, they're all knowledge."

"Wow."

The white-robed girl clapped her hands in amazement, "Young hero, you know a lot."

The black-dressed boy didn't hear her sarcasm and thought she genuinely praised him, simply nodding calmly, "I know a little. Just a bit."

Chen Tang heard this and smiled wryly.

Pfft!

The straw-hatted man seemed to fail to hold back and laughed out loud.

"Come over here, why are you all hiding so far?"

The white-robed girl beckoned Chen Tang and the straw-hatted man, "The Jianghu is so vast, yet we're gathered in this broken temple, even cooperated to kill the enemy, what a fated meeting, come over and get acquainted."

The white-robed girl looks quite normal when she's not torturing people.

Chen Tang walked over from the corner.

"Forget it."

The straw-hatted man didn't move, lazily saying, "Since it's a chance encounter, there's no point in getting acquainted if there's no future meeting."

"Why are you so uninteresting!"

The white-robed girl frowned, "You've got this old-fashioned demeanor, talking like my dad!"

Saying this, the white-robed girl actually walked over to the straw-hatted man, pulled him up from the ground, and dragged him to the center of the temple, next to the fire.

The straw-hatted man seemed a bit helpless, but he didn't refuse and just looked uninterested.

"Come on, let's get to know each other. Who wants to go first?"

The girl in white looked at the three of them, including Chen Tang.

The three exchanged glances but remained silent.

The girl in white nodded, pretending to have a lot of Jianghu experience, said, "Not bad, you three are quite cautious, not giving your real names. I was actually testing you just now..."

"How about this, none of us need to give our real names. Let's just make up some fake names, it'll make things easier in the future."

After a brief pause, the girl in white thought, "But if all the names are fake, it won't seem sincere enough between us, so the names should be half real and half fake."

The boy in black couldn't help but ask, "How can they be half real and half fake?"

The girl in white's eyes twinkled, and she turned to Chen Tang, asking, "Brother, what's the last character of your name?"

"Tang."

Chen Tang replied.

The girl in white asked, "Which Tang?"

Chen Tang said, "The 'Tang' in 'Haitang' (Chinese flowering crab-apple)."

The girl in white had a sudden inspiration and said, "Got it! From now on, you'll be called Murong Haitang!"

Chen Tang looked grim.

"Hahahaha!"

The boy in black couldn't hold back and pointed at Chen Tang, laughing, "You're Murong Haitang? Hahahaha!"

Chen Tang gritted his teeth and said, "Murong Haitang obviously sounds like a girl's name!"

The boy in black seemed to think of something, and laughed even louder.

The straw hat guy looked a bit surprised, not knowing why the boy in black was laughing so hard.

"Exactly."

The girl in white said, "Murong Haitang sounds like a woman's name, so others won't suspect you. It makes doing bad things easier in the future."

"Why the surname Murong?"

Chen Tang asked again.

The girl in white said, "You don't understand, Murong, Dugu, Yuwen, Changsun, besides the Royal Family, these are the most powerful and influential Four Great Clans in Qian Country. Whether the name is real or not, just saying it can intimidate people."

Previously, in Yan State where Chen Tang passed by, the Murong Clan was dominant.

And in this Bingzhou area, it's the Dugu Clan that reigns supreme.

Chen Tang was convinced by her.

Murong Haitang it is, after all, it's just a name, might as well use it.

Earlier having offended the Cyan Dragon Bureau and the Profound Celestial Temple, Chen Tang didn't know if his name had been blacklisted, so using a different name might be better.

The girl in white then looked at the straw hat guy and asked, "Brother, what's the last character of your name?"

The straw hat guy pondered for a moment and didn't say directly but instead wrote a character on the ground with his sword sheath.

Mo.

The straw hat guy feared the girl in white would arbitrarily combine words, so he simply wrote one character.

The girl in white looked at the 'Mo' character on the ground, thought for a moment, and said, "Your surname can be Yuwen."

"Yuwen Mo?"

The straw hat guy considered it, not bad, it's better than Murong Haitang.

"Not suitable."

The girl in white said, "Mo is your real character, using it directly would easily expose you. Instead, you can be called Yuwen Heigou!"

The straw hat guy: "???"

"Hahahaha!"

The boy in black burst into laughter.

Chen Tang couldn't help but chuckle.

Seems his Murong Haitang was not so bad after all.

"Why call me Yuwen Heigou?"

The straw hat guy almost lifted his straw hat in anger, gritting his teeth asked.

"You wrote it yourself."

The girl in white pointed at the 'Mo' character on the ground and said, "Black canines, isn't that a black dog? Yuwen Heigou, just listen to that name, even your closest people wouldn't suspect you."

The straw hat guy's face turned grim as well.

Indeed, no one would suspect with such an unusual name.

"What about you?"

Chen Tang asked in return.

The girl in white said, "My last character is 'Qing', hmm... I'll be Dugu Qingcheng."

Chen Tang and Yuwen Heigou exchanged a glance.

The name she picked for herself was pretty decent.

Dugu Qingcheng looked at the boy in black and asked, "What's your last character?"

"Ming, as in 'Yiming Jingren', 'not even a drum beats without a reason'."

The boy in black replied.

"Ming?"

Dugu Qingcheng pondered, "Then let's make it Changsun..."

The boy in black seemed to realize something and suddenly got a bit nervous, saying, "I can't have the surname Changsun!"

"Why?"

Dugu Qingcheng asked.

The three of them curiously looked at the boy in black.

The boy in black avoided eye contact and said, "Anyway, it's not good to have the surname Changsun..."

"It's okay."

Dugu Qingcheng said, "As long as others can't guess your real identity, what's wrong with a surname, how about Changsun Yiming?"

"No way!"

The boy in black quickly refused.

Dugu Qingcheng said, "Then it'll be Changsun Jingren."

The boy in black's face turned grim too.

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