Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 127

Gan Tieshan shouted at Baekji.

"Young Master Yang, hurry back to the carriage. It's dangerous."

He was a young master he had met on his way back from an escort mission, who had tagged along asking for a guide. It seemed a descendant of a noble family had run away from home and was traveling, but since he had received a large sum of money, he had to be responsible for his safety.

Since Hezhou was his destination, they were almost there, but they had run into a crisis.

An escort came and reported, "There are no survivors. Those who were injured were stabbed again and killed."

"Cruel brats..."

It was a situation where they had no choice but to suspect the Black Path of the Four Shrines Heaven.

Although they had to leave as soon as possible, their feet would not move.

"Collect the bodies."

"The bandits might still be around..."

When an escort worried, Gan Tieshan said, "If we were scattered like this as corpses, the Hainan Escort Agency would have surely collected us."

The escorts and porters collected the bodies.

Gan Tieshan's eyes fell on Young Master Yang, who was still wandering around.

'I told him to go inside... well, it is an age of vigorous curiosity.'

Then he felt a strange feeling. Young Master Yang was calmly surveying the gruesome scene. An ordinary person would have looked away or vomited.

In fact, there was even a porter who vomited while collecting the bodies.

And yet, the handsome Young Master Yang seemed to feel nothing.

Gan Tieshan approached Baekji.

"Young Master Yang, it will be over soon, so please go and wait in the carriage."

"Who do you think did this?"

"..."

Although he suspected the Four Shrines Heaven, he could not say it out loud.

"Is it the Four Shrines Heaven?"

Baekji asked back.

"Although the Four Shrines Heaven is the Black Path, they wouldn't go this far..."

Gan Tieshan rather made an excuse.

In fact, he had never heard of the Four Shrines Heaven robbing an escort group.

When passing through the territory of the Black Path under the Four Shrines Heaven, they could pass by paying a reasonable toll.

But it was not something he could be sure of. Gan Tieshan trailed off.

"Hmm. Then it's even stranger. This is practically the territory of the Four Shrines Heaven, isn't it? To commit such a daring act, they must be brats who look down on the Four Shrines Heaven. Who could such brats be?"

'Was he a martial artist?'

Gan Tieshan, hearing Baekji mutter, looked at him again. No matter how he looked, it didn't seem like he had learned martial arts.

At that moment, an escort who was keeping watch from a distance shouted and ran over.

"Enemies!"

Gan Tieshan hastily drew his saber and said to Baekji, "Hurry and flee."

"There's nowhere to flee. We're surrounded."

Baekji said.

He could see men in black masks approaching from behind as well.

"...Eum!"

Gan Tieshan regretted his decision.

'Should I have fled immediately...'

It was too late now.

The momentum of the men in black masks was unusual.

They approached without a word, but their killing intent rushed in first.

'These brats... their purpose is murder!'

Although he didn't know the reason, he could tell the intention of the men in black masks.

Gan Tieshan had a premonition that they too would be scattered on the street as corpses like the people of the Hainan Escort Agency.

'Even if I die... I can't just die!'

Gan Tieshan tightened his grip on his saber.

"Everyone, gather and form a defensive formation. Young Master Yang, hurry and get inside the formation."

By any chance... if someone had seen what happened to the Hainan Escort Agency and had reported it to the authorities...

Gan Tieshan wanted to cling to even a sliver of hope.

If even one person was to live, they had to hold out.

Gan Tieshan stood in front of the escorts who had formed a defensive formation and shouted, "For what reason did you kill these people?"

Gan Tieshan knew at least that these people were not here to rob the escort goods.

The men in black masks approached without a word.

"Hehe. You don't need to know. You just have to die."

One of the men in black masks raised his hand.

"Kill them all!"

Baekji raised his hand.

"Wait!"

The man in the black mask flinched.

He was a brat who looked like a child of a powerful family at a glance, but there was no sign of fear.

"I'm also curious. Why is this happening?"

"Who are you?"

"Me? Yes... a human escort good, should I say? I'm a person being delivered by the Guangdong Escort Agency."

"What a terribly unlucky brat... blame your fate for being in this place. Get rid of that brat too."

As soon as the words fell, the men in black masks rushed in.

At that moment.

"You bastards, I finally caught you!"

With a sharp woman's voice, a foot-long sword came flying.

Kwa-kwa-kwa!

An unusual wave of energy erupted from the spinning sword.

"Dodge!"

The men in black masks scattered in all directions.

The leader of the men in black masks swung his saber and deflected the flying sword.

Kwang―!

The wave of energy exploded properly, and the leader was pushed back a full 'jang' (approx. 3 meters).

Hwiririk!

A young woman in a beautiful blue silk dress fell from the sky and snatched the rebounding sword.

"You rat-like brats! You were good at running away."

The woman in blue shouted and rushed at the leader.

Following her, about ten people in blue flew in and attacked the men in black masks.

Chae-chaeng―! Chaeng!

In an instant, a chaotic battle erupted.

Both the people in blue and the men in black masks had formidable martial arts.

"Who sent you brats?"

The woman in blue asked the leader of the men in black masks while attacking.

"..."

The leader did not answer and raised his sword to block, scanning his surroundings.

Numerically, the men in black masks had the advantage.

The woman in blue, knowing this, rushed in to subdue the leader immediately.

Pa-pa-pat!

Powerful energy erupted from the foot-long sword.

The leader was startled.

The woman in blue looked to be not even twenty, but she was using powerful energy freely. That meant she was a master of the 'true realm'.

"Four Shrines Heaven! Jin Tianxiang?"

"Hmph! Seeing as you know me, you must also know that my sword is merciless!"

As Jin Tianxiang's sword rushed in, the leader was also formidable. He took something out from his bosom and threw it.

Kwang!

A thick red smoke spread.

"Trying to run away? Not a chance!"

Jin Tianxiang threw her sword and unleashed her palm energy. With some technique, the sword spun in the air. The moment the leader dodged, it was poised to strike down.

The red smoke cleared with Jin Tianxiang's palm energy.

Pisyung―!

The leader, who had something like a tube in his mouth, shot a poison needle.

"Twin Poison Sect! You brats are from the Twin Poison Sect!"

Jin Tianxiang tilted her head back to dodge and shouted to her subordinates, "Be careful of the poison!"

In the meantime, the leader flew away.

Jin Tianxiang shot up into the air and kicked the sword that was still spinning.

The sword shot down like an arrow and pierced the back of the fleeing leader.

"Keuk!"

The leader's mask was stained with blood.

"Damn it!"

Jin Tianxiang was flustered. She had aimed for the shoulder and kicked the sword, but the leader had strangely twisted his body and his heart had been pierced.

Jin Tianxiang landed next to the fallen leader, pulled out her sword, and shouted, "Your leader is dead! Surrender!"

The men in black masks rather went on a rampage.

"Kill them all! Let's kill that wench first!"

Three men rushed at Jin Tianxiang.

The remaining men in black masks also swung their swords without regard for their own bodies.

Since their skills were on par from the beginning, the people in blue, who were outnumbered, were pushed back.

Gan Tieshan thought.

If the people in blue were defeated like this, they would die.

"Eradicate the bandits with them!"

The escorts broke their defensive formation and rushed out, attacking the men in black masks in pairs and threes.

Chae-chaeng!

A storm of swords arose from all directions.

Gan Tieshan also faced one of the men in black masks and fought, but he was continuously pushed back.

'These brats... are not ordinary bandits.'

Gan Tieshan thought he was above the first-rate, but the man in the black mask was more than that.

Shwiik―!

The man in the black mask struck his saber repeatedly, then turned his body to strike Gan Tieshan's neck.

"Heok!"

Gan Tieshan, trying to move his body, tripped on something and fell. Thanks to that, the sword narrowly grazed his head.

As he hastily got up, he saw that he had tripped on the foot of Baekji, who was right behind him.

"It's dangerous! Step back."

Gan Tieshan rolled on the ground to the side, then bounced up and blocked Baekji's front.

It was a tear-jerking fighting spirit.

But the posture of the man in the black mask was strange. A sword was sticking out from the middle of his chest.

Jin Tianxiang, who happened to be nearby, had thrown her sword.

Jin Tianxiang had taken care of three men in that time and had even saved Gan Tieshan.

"You're no help, so stay out of it!"

Jin Tianxiang rushed over like a hawk, shouted, then pulled her sword from the corpse of the dead man in the black mask and jumped into the middle of the chaotic battle.

"Keok!"

Two brats fell at once with a single blow.

Chae-chaeng! Chaeng!

Jin Tianxiang was merciless. The men in black masks fell one after another. It was an amazing skill.

Gan Tieshan and the escorts were soon pushed out of the fight.

Baekji whispered in Gan Tieshan's ear, "Who is Jin Tianxiang? She's amazing."

"She is the younger sister of the Four Shrines Heaven Lord."

"Huh? Why is the Four Shrines Heaven fighting those brats? Weren't they on the same side?"

"It seems so."

When Jin Tianxiang jumped in, the tide turned in favor of the people in blue.

"Capture at least one of them alive!"

Jin Tianxiang shouted to the people in blue. Hearing this, the few remaining men in black masks tried to commit suicide by cutting their own throats with their swords.

Kkang!

Jin Tianxiang threw her saber and barely stopped one of them from killing himself.

But that brat's neck was also half-stabbed, and he immediately fainted.

"Vicious brats! Take off their masks. Let's see what kind of brats they are."

The people in blue took off their masks and searched their bosoms, but nothing that could reveal their identities came out.

Jin Tianxiang, rolling the tube that the leader had used with her foot, muttered, "This is definitely a Twin Poison Sect poison needle... but the other brats don't seem to be. Where could a place that can command such brats be?"

When the fight was over, Gan Tieshan went forward and cupped his fists.

"I am Gan Tieshan, the chief escort of the Guangdong Escort Agency. I will not forget the grace of the Four Shrines Heaven's Jin Tianxiang for saving us."

"I didn't save you, so you don't need to be grateful."

Jin Tianxiang waved her hand as if it were no big deal and examined the men in black masks one by one.

"Everyone, gather."

Gan Tieshan called the escorts together.

The fight was brief, but in that time, two escorts were seriously injured.

Three of the people in blue who had come with Jin Tianxiang were also seriously injured, so it was a relief.

"Hurry and collect the carts. We will leave quickly!"

When Gan Tieshan shouted to his party, Jin Tianxiang said, "No. You will go with us."

Gan Tieshan was startled and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"Haven't you heard the news? The escort groups passing through the Four Shrines Heaven's territory have been continuously robbed lately. Because they all died, there is a lot of resentment that it's our doing."

"Then..."

"First, go to Hezhou. We'll give you an escort there."

At Jin Tianxiang's words, Baekji let out an exclamation.

"Oh. So the Four Shrines Heaven were chivalrous heroes."

Jin Tianxiang glanced at Baekji but said nothing.

Her expression showed that she didn't dislike the term 'chivalrous hero'.

Jin Tianxiang said to Gan Tieshan, "You are the living witnesses. You saw those brats, right? They are the ones who massacred the escort group. You have to survive and make it known for sure."

"My party is seriously injured. So..."

Gan Tieshan, who wanted to avoid going to the Four Shrines Heaven's base at all costs, tried to make an excuse, but Jin Tianxiang was firm.

Watching her subordinates bring the horses, she said, "There are doctors in Hezhou too. If we ride fast, we can get there in half a day."

Gan Tieshan thought. It was the way back, so there weren't many escort goods.

If they took a detour to Hezhou, their return schedule would be delayed, but if they sent a person to the escort agency to inform them, it wouldn't be a big problem.

"I understand."

Gan Tieshan put the injured in the carriage and headed to Hezhou, following Jin Tianxiang.

Baekji stuck next to Jin Tianxiang and went.

Jin Tianxiang had a slender height, thick eyebrows, and well-defined features, exuding a unique charm.

As Baekji kept looking at her, Jin Tianxiang became conscious of it.

It was the clear gaze of a brat, but it was annoying that he was staring at her face.

"Why do you keep looking at me?"

"You're the sister of the Four Shrines Heaven Lord, right?"

Jin Tianxiang's eyes narrowed slightly. A young brat speaking informally...

Then her eyes went to Baekji's attire.

'A brat from a great family who doesn't know the ways of the world. A brat like this needs to be hit to come to his senses...'

There was no time to hit him now.

"Why do you ask?"

"Because I'm on my way to meet the Four Shrines Heaven Lord."

"The Heaven Lord? Why?"

"Because the Four Shrines Heaven Lord said he would buy me a drink."

(End of Chapter)