The Tale Never Ends Chapter 198 Bian Dashou Was Caugh

From Bian Dashou's expression, I knew all his hopes must have already dashed to pieces at this point. He slowly closed his eyes and waited to die! In a hurry, I rushed forward, quickly raised my leg, and kicked at the Jiangs.h.i.+'s outstretched claws. However, my kick only pushed its claws away. Its body didn't budge an inch because it was as hard as a rock! But my feet hurt like h.e.l.l. Apparently, the Jiangs.h.i.+ hesitated a little because it somehow missed its close target. While by taking this chance, Bian Dashou ran back to the center of the tomb.

In my heart, I abused him. "Alas, Bian Dashou! You are Dragon-slaying Blade's envoy. How could you become such a wuss?" Though I secretly cursed him, my hands were still moving fast to cast a spell, and I also chanted incantations. Soon, I transferred the Qi in my body to my hands, which were making finger gestures. Then, I spread my palm. "Pow!" A raging flame emerged in my palm!

Originally, the spell "Burning" was almost powerless. But I was no longer as I had been. My great inner energies greatly enhanced the spell's power.

I did not hesitate at this time. Raising my hand, I pushed the flame in my palm to the black-haired Jiangs.h.i.+. Then, it went after the Jiangs.h.i.+ as if it could see! The moment the flame touched the Jiangs.h.i.+, I moved the fingers of one hand and slightly ordered, "Rise!" In no time, the small ball of flame expanded fast. "Whir!" It instantly enveloped the Jiangs.h.i.+'s whole body.

At the moment, Bian Dashou was trying to escape from the Jiangs.h.i.+'s chase. Suddenly, he heard the whirring sound when the flame of the spell Burning started to expand. Without thinking too much, he turned around and saw a burning claw coming right toward him! Unconsciously, he raised his hands to block. "Click!" The claw of the Jiangs.h.i.+ broke and fell to the ground. Only at this time could he collect his wits. He noticed that it slowed down quickly and finally stopped on the spot. Then, it lost all its power in the flame and fell on its knees. In an instant, it turned into a burned skeleton in the raging flame.

I breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground with Bian Dashou. A weak feeling stroke me. I knew it was because I had overdrawn a lot of energy to cast the Burning spell. Then, the feeling enwrapped me, and I gradually lost my consciousness...

Not knowing how long the time had pa.s.sed, I opened my eyes and found myself still in the tomb. It was just that I didn't know how long I had been staying at this place. At the time, Bian Dashou and others had already left.

I walked out of the tomb. In the sunset, I looked down around. All the trees in the nearby forests had been cut down, and it was a total mess under the place where I stood. When I came here, it was snowing. But now, the snow had thawed. So, I suppose that a long time must have past.

Once again, I jumped into the air. Without bothering to move a muscle, I naturally started to fly to somewhere. After a while, I arrived at a village. Seeing from the air, I saw a group of soldiers and horses rus.h.i.+ng into the village and quickly surrounded it. Then I saw someone pus.h.i.+ng the door open and walked out of a house. With his hands clasped behind, the person leisurely walked out of the door. The leader of these soldiers asked, "Are you Bian Dashou?" Now I found that the person walking at a leisurely pace was not someone else but precisely Bian Dashou, who dressed like a civilian!

But Bian Dashou totally ignored his question. "Click!" Several soldiers then stepped forward and put chains and shackles on him. Pus.h.i.+ng and pulling, they took him away.

These people came and went away in a hurry. Touching my chin, I thought, "At this time, Li Zicheng must have confiscated the property of the unlucky guy Wu Sangui. Meanwhile, Wu Sangui had fought all the way from Shanhaiguan to Beijing with his Manchu troops. Then, when Li Zicheng was on his way to escape, he pa.s.sed by here and caught Bian Dashou by the way."

I did not land on the ground. Instead, I continued following the troops on the run. Pushed all the way by those soldiers, Bian Dashou also left the village and was going with the defeated troops. On their way, Wu Sangui's Manchu troops had caught up with those Li Zicheng's troops a lot of times, and they fought many battles.

Since the time I experienced in the air pa.s.sed by much faster than the time they had below me, several days of them had gone within the blink of an eye to me. At this time, the defeated troops had undergone many battles after being caught up with Li Zicheng's troops, so they were already in noticeable mental fatigue. Now the troop carried Bian Dashou arrived at a mountain pa.s.s. Tied by chains and ropes, Bian Dashou was still pushed and shoved to move forward by the soldiers.

Then, they were through the mountain pa.s.s. "Whoos.h.!.+" When the soldier with him wasn't watching, Bian Dashou instantly darted into the woods nearby! Immediately, those soldiers burst into an uproar. I heard someone shouting something like, "Bian Dashou ran away!" After that, they rushed into the woods to pursue him. For a moment, there was a whole mess of clops and shouts. I was delighted and thought, "Did Bian Dashou become enlightened this time?" But on second thought, I remembered that there was a plot about Bian Dashou's escape on the way in Chen Yixuan's story.

Those soldiers pursuing him were on horses while Bian Dashou was running like mad with fetters. I could not bear the sight so that I quickly flew down to Bian Dashou.

At this time, wearing a panic-stricken face, Bian Dashou rushed all around aimlessly. But the surroundings helped him a lot. As those soldiers chased him on the horses had difficulty in moving through the woods, they hadn't reached him yet. However, I guessed that Bian Dashou could never outrun those war-horses so that he would be caught again sooner or later. Though the plot in the story said Bian Dashou successfully escaped, I thought I should help him escape the danger at this time.

Thinking of this, I looked around. This place that only had trees and bushes was full of clutter. Suddenly, I recalled the Battle of the Yellow Soil Ridge that Zhang Zhigui had. "Hehe!" I smiled and opened my calabash gourd. Then, large amounts of black noxious haze gushed out and covered a large clump of trees in an instant.

All of a sudden, those soldiers who chased Bian Dashou saw the black haze cropping up in front of them. Soldiers at the forefront had no enough time to brake, so they ran directly into the haze. Then, both the soldiers and horses collapsed to the ground. Lying there, they kept twitching. Seeing such a horrible scene, none of the soldiers behind them dared move further. One after another, they turned their horses around and ran along the edge of the black haze, trying to go around it. But they didn't know that I controlled the haze. No matter in which direction they ran, I could make the haze float there. Looking back to check Bian Dashou, I found that this track-minded guy had already run far away without turning back.

Seeing that Bian Dashou was far away, I said to myself, "But Bian Dashou almost did nothing to make himself escape. If it hadn't been not for me, would those soldiers brutally have beaten this track-minded guy up already?"

While thinking randomly, I took back the haze and left the mountain pa.s.s. Involuntarily, my body rose up to the sky once again. This time, I didn't know where I would go.

This time, I arrived at a barren mountain. Somehow, I landed at its foot. Checking around, I found a village in the near distance. At this time, smoke from the kitchen chimney had wreathed over the cottage. Although I couldn't feel sleepy or hungry, I still walked toward it subconsciously.

I didn't know what my situation was now. But I understood one thing: wherever I was sent, Master Six must have his purposes. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to fly at random. Thinking of this, I smiled in my heart and strode into the village. When I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw a person coming to the entrance from another direction, swaggeringly.

Wearing Taoist priest's crown and robe, this man held a hossu with a Taiji Sword on his back. He seemed like a Taoist priest. Raising my eyebrows, I thought, "In troubled times, it's pretty hard for a Taoist priest to make a living. He must also see the smoke in this village rising from kitchen chimneys and prepared to beg some alms there." Then, I walked to the entrance of the village with him. However, an unexpected scene appeared in front of us when we finished turning the last corner before the entrance. Under the leaders.h.i.+p of an old man, a group of male villagers stood at the entrance.

The old Taoist priest waved his hand to greet them. And then, he quickened his pace and walked into the crowd. Seeing that he came, the people there all cheered up, and some of them even cried with joy! It looked like that they finally had their savior here. At this point, I understood that I guessed it wrong. This old Taoist priest seemed to be invited here by the villagers.

The old Taoist priest walked up to the old man who led the villagers and kowtowed to him, saying, "Thanks to you for greeting me here, sir." With the help of a crutch, the old man took a step forward. He slightly bowed to the Taoist priest and said, "You are welcome, sir. Nowadays, weird things happened repeatedly in our village, which made all of us feel helpless. So, we have to bother you to come all the way to conquer the evil thing. Since you are willing to come here, we certainly should come out to greet you." Lifting his eyebrows, the old Taoist priest slung his hossu and said, "Dealing with the evil is surely an obligation that I will not decline. But I have just finished a long journey..." Upon hearing this, a young man next to the old man went forward in a hurry and said, "Sir, you must be fatigued by a journey. Please come to our village to have a meal." The old man added, "We have prepared a big meal for you. But since our village is in the middle of wildness, there are only unfiltered wine and scanty meals. I hope you will not blame us for that, sir." With this, he showed the way with his hand and said, "This way, please!"

Satisfied, the old Taoist priest smiled. Then, being escorted by the crowd, he slowly entered the village.