novelraw Chapter 718 - 391: Shock! Old Demon Duan Battles Tianzhou’s Number One Mrs. Mingqi!
Chapter 718 - 391: Shock! Old Demon Duan Battles Tianzhou’s Number One Mrs. Mingqi!
The Gu Family’s banners fluttered, determined to capture the Old Demon alive.
Yes, capture the Old Demon alive.
This is the slogan the Young Madam of the Gu Family raised all the way here.
"Capturing Old Demon Duan alive, that might be quite difficult."
"Difficult, so just give up? Do you even know which family has set out? It’s the Gu Family!"
"The Gu Family is indeed formidable, but capturing alive is another story. Countless people in this world want to kill Old Demon Duan, yet he remains unharmed, while others die instead."
Anyone who knows a little about martial arts understands that capturing alive is much harder than killing.
Capturing alive usually only happens when one’s strength significantly surpasses the enemy’s, like when Old Demon wants to capture some lady or heroine as Star Fury, he typically uses methods of live capture.
It’s said that in Old Demon Duan’s mysterious den, it’s filled with women he captured from all over, kept inside, subjected to Old Demon Duan’s torment, shedding tears of beauties daily.
And only those who perform exceptionally can see the light of day again and appear outside as heroines.
For example, the recent Purple Jade Female Knight, who has been creating chaos by digging rivers, is a clear sign that she served Old Demon Duan well in the den to be able to appear before everyone.
This is obviously a baseless rumor, yet it spreads widely, and as the saying goes, ’three people make a tiger,’ more and more people believe it.
In this, the storyteller cannot be blamed. The storytellers are busy tarnishing Old Demon Duan’s reputation and have no time to tell these tales.
It can only be said that people in the Martial World enjoy creating salacious rumors the most.
Once the rumors spread, the speakers feel spirited, and the listeners are amused.
"So what? You newcomers in the mix, you don’t know the terror of Gu Family’s wrath. Do you know, the Gu Family has an ancient saying, ’to strike down the Grandmasters!’ No matter how formidable Old Demon Duan is, he’s merely a powerful Grandmaster. I know that the Young Madam of the Gu Family’s Heavenly Fragrance Phoenix Blade has defeated ten Grandmasters."
"Even if the Young Madam of the Gu Family showed mercy, those ten Grandmasters later still felt dizzy and faint, as if their energy and spirit were drained."
"Is it true? So mystical!"
"What’s real or not? Could Gu Family matters be false? When the Gu Family dominated both martial and underworld, suppressing the Demon from claiming its title, where was your ancestor, I wonder."
Yes, even though Old Demon Duan has killed many experts and destroyed countless sects, even killing the two top elders of the Mo Sect at the Black Tower right in front of everyone, many still believe the Gu Family will win.
Because the Gu Family has such deep foundations, if Old Demon Duan has two and a half years of glorious achievements, the Gu Family has had similar achievements for a century.
Moreover, the Young Madam of the Gu Family is so high-profile, she must be well-prepared.
Yes, just those by her side are all sect Grandmasters.
Even just those Powerful Warriors carrying houses are top experts in Body Refinement.
To drive top experts like oxen and horses, only the Gu Family can display such grandeur.
Facing such a Gu Family, would Old Demon Duan be nervous?
In fact, when the news arrived, Brother Murong and Feng Ling’er were somewhat nervous.
After all, they knew how formidable the Gu Family was, and now the people from the Gu Family were this ostentatious, they were clearly well-prepared.
But they couldn’t tell if Duan Yun was nervous.
Because Duan Yun was still eating and drinking as usual, even leisurely enough to go act as a supervisor.
Yes, it was supervising the river digging project created by the Purple Jade Female Knight.
This season, it was already the time for harvesting lotus roots, and he used his Sword Technique to help dig quite a few acres of lotus roots.
You know, digging lotus roots is not just a matter of strength, but also a delicate task.
Duan Yun had plenty of strength as an expert, but ensuring efficiency and that the dug-out lotus roots were not broken required skill.
Fortunately, as a rare cultivation genius, Duan Yun possessed both strength and precision.
As his Demon Sword Gentle pierced into the earth, operating True Qi, those lotus roots, deeply embedded in the mud, all flew out.
Because his technique for digging lotus roots was indeed rare, after all, while there are Martial Artists who dig lotus roots, such expert digging is unheard of.
Soon, a crowd gathered around the lotus fields.
Now Duan Yun was rolling up his pants, baring his arms, digging lotus roots in the fields, quite at ease.
When Brother Murong and Feng Ling’er found him, Brother Murong couldn’t help but complain, "Still digging? The Gu Family’s people have come to take you!"
Duan Yun emerged from the lotus fields, with Breaking Body Sword Energy like Silk Rain scattering the mud from his legs, and said, "They’re taking me, not you, what are you nervous about."
Brother Murong said, "This time it’s not simple, it’s the Gu Family’s Young Master’s Wife who’s coming."
Feng Ling’er, surprisingly agreeing with Brother Murong, said, "The other side came so ostentatiously, they must have some secret finishing move specially against you."
Duan Yun suddenly became interested, asking, "What’s the background of this Gu Family Young Madam?"
Being an old riverside know-it-all, Brother Murong wanted to say but realized his knowledge of the Gu Family was incomplete, mumbled a few words, and could only say, "I heard she’s a famous beauty, ranked first on Tianzhou’s Famous Instruments List before marrying into the Gu Family," and that was the end of it.
Feng Ling’er scoffed, "That’s all you know?"
Brother Murong lowered his proud head, saying, "I haven’t studied the Gu Family deeply."
"Go to one side!" Feng Ling’er mocked.
Then, she began to tell Duan Yun about the Gu Family’s Young Madam.
"To talk about the Gu Family’s Young Madam, one must first mention the Gu Family’s Young Master, Gu Dile. This person showed an extremely terrifying talent since birth. It is said that he could stand on the day he was born, and could speak clear human speech at one month old, even insulting others, so many people spread rumors that he is the ’reincarnation of a Demon Child.’"