Chapter 2209: Private Grudges

Jiang Wang had traveled south and north for many years, and could be said to have visited all corners of the heavens. Among all the fleeting moments of joy, he was most enthusiastic about collecting food — he had a gluttonous younger sister at home, and as an older brother, that was something he had to do.

And even if you considered the entire world, the food at Huang Liang Terrace could still be called first class.

After all, besides Yu State Duke Qu Jin Kui, no one else had been heard of who loved to cook to absolute perfection.

Great Qi Crown Prince Jiang Wu Hua’s cooking skills could also be considered wondrous, and the fine cuisine of Chang Le was a Linzi specialty, with Qi people regarding it as an honor to enjoy. But it still couldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as Huang Liang’s food.

Huang Liang Terrace didn't host many banquets, and every table was always full. In Chu State, countless high officials and nobles vied for the pleasure of dining there, calling it the "world’s utmost taste" and the "ultimate desire for mouth and belly."

But every time Jiang Wang came to Chu, he could always enjoy a table – for this, he had to praise Zuo Guang Shu's ability to find a wife.

The Demon Race was strategically contracting, and clearing demons in the border wilderness was already a arduous task. Jiang Wang originally wanted to move on, turn to Yu Abyss, and seek to kill a True One.

From the Demon World, through the border wilderness of the present world, fighting from the Mu State defense line to the Jing State defense line, and then going to Yu Abyss. In a sense, Jiang True Person could be considered hated and loathed by demons, and he wasn't sure if the Asura would welcome him.

The entrances to Yu Abyss were nothing but Qin and Li.

Normally, people going to Yu Abyss for training would all pass through Qin territory via Wu Pass. Li State was a snowy country at the time, with its borders locked year-round and not open to the outside world for Yu Abyss access. Now that Hong Jun Yan had returned and a new dynasty stood in the northwest, actively engaging in external exchange, they had also opened the Yu Abyss entrance, sincerely inviting cultivators from all over the world to train there.

But for Jiang Wang, he naturally wanted to go to a place with more intense warfare, so Qin State's Wu Pass was a better choice. Coming to the southern domain along the way to visit some elders and relatives in Chu was also a proper duty.

Zuo Guang Shu was also not like the first time he came to Chu, rolling out thousands of riders to welcome him. Now, a letter was considered enthusiastic, and welcoming him at the door was considered intimate.

However, he was also familiar with the way and freely treaded the air in the southern domain.

This southern domain had quite a few powerful True Persons worth visiting to seek advice from.

Leaving aside Chu State, there was also Wei State Great General Wu Xun, Yue State hidden minister Gao Zheng, Song State state minister Tu Wei Jian, Jian Ge Wan Xiang Sword Master...

Speaking of it, Southern Dou Hall's Lu Shuang He and he still had an absolute top appointment, but now it seemed the Seven Kill True Person was unable to keep the appointment. Later, he still had to ask senior Guan Yan to untangle the fate pattern entanglement.

While casually practicing Dao technique on one side and pondering about trial sword targets in the southern domain on the other, suddenly, Long Xiang Si trembled in its sheath! There was a wisp of absolute strong knife qi horizontally across a hundred li away!

Jiang Wang casually pressed the sword hilt, soothing Long Xiang Si's eagerness to try – as he continuously killed Cave True and dominated all worlds, this sword also became more and more arrogant, wanting to clash with whomever it encountered.

Southern Dou Hall was, after all, a great sect in the world, with a long inheritance. To say something unpleasant, at the time Southern Dou Hall stood as a great sect in the world, Xiong Yi Zhen didn't even know where he was. This time, Chu State exterminated Southern Dou, and there were quite a few battles at all levels. Strong individuals contending and killing must have been a common sight.

Jiang Wang told himself he wasn't a person who liked to watch excitement, so he pressed Long Xiang Si and calmly continued towards Chu State. Guang Shu was still waiting to start eating! But just at this moment, his casually released observation inadvertently captured a name –

"Dou Zhao!"

Jiang True Person's footsteps turned, immediately restraining his form and sound, and followed the sound to fly.

It wasn't exactly like watching a play; hearing a colleague's name and going over to show a little concern wasn't it a common human emotion?

Dan State had already perished, and what rose was the Yuan Shi Dan Alliance.

Between the Yuan Shi Dan Alliance and Song State, there were many mountains, among which the most famous one was, of course, Yan Yun Mountain.

Wu Sheng Teach Ancestor Zhang Lin Chuan had once secretly built the Wu Sheng underground palace here. He had also bloodily slaughtered pursuers here, killing more than ten Shen Lin cultivators and several hundred super-ordinary cultivators from various countries.

The bloody slaughter in the Yan Yun Mountain underground palace and the tragedy in Wei State's late Sang Town were all Zhang Lin Chuan's evil deeds. These two places thus became known to the people of the world.

By coincidence or not, Jiang Wang followed Dou Zhao's name today and turned back to fly to this place.

He had once carefully searched for Zhang Lin Chuan's traces here, thus he was very familiar with Yan Yun Mountain. He could remember the terrain with his eyes closed. Opening his Qian Yang Chi Pupil, he saw a Dao rainbow hanging horizontally in the distance.

The cold edge was like a wash, splitting open heaven and earth.

Dou Zhao's martial clothes fluttered, swaggering in the air, very wild: "Fa Luo! I've already let you escape for three days and three nights, and still no one has come to save you. Did you point the not-dead incense? Did you really send a distress message?"

The Three Points Fragrance Building True Person named "Fa Luo" had just been chopped down into a mountain valley, his fall creating a *hong* sound as he opened up the mud, trapped a hundred zhang deep in the ground, unable to climb up for a while.

Being chased and chopped by Dou Zhao for three days and three nights, he could still breathe, which was already very good.

"Dou Zhao, what are you bullying?" Fa Luo's voice, full of resentment, echoed yin-cetely from the ground pit: "If not in the southern domain…"

From within the ground pit, steam rose. That steam turned into a roe-shaped three-color strange beast, emitting a strange fragrance. It raised its head and let out a long howl, its sharp mouth showing jagged teeth. For a while, a hazy yin covered the air, spreading and weaving, making the yuan qi all dim and the fierce sun all dark, yet somehow producing a kind of intoxicating and desired sense of peace.

It made people unconsciously lower their guard and fall into danger.

This is hard to describe.

The Three Points Fragrance Building's secret super-grade Dao technique, Huo Shi Nine Fragrance!

Unlike general Dao techniques, it was a staircase-class Dao technique, which could be disassembled into several stages for use.

Among them, the complete version was heaven-rank level, and in the hands of Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing, it truly had the might of a祸世. Fa Luo could only use the first three fragrances, but they also had the power of an earth-rank Dao technique.

Of course, with him so heavily injured now, he could only barely stimulate the roe fragrance.

That roe-shaped strange beast rose in the air, baring its fangs, constantly expanding the haziness and the fragrance outwards, its ferocious appearance gradually intensifying —

A martial boot stepped down, mercilessly crushing it!

Endless golden light burst from the bottom of the boot, greatly illuminating this world, instantly sweeping away the yin atmosphere and revealing the Feng Xiang True Person at the bottom of the pit, his makeup smudged despite applying grease and powder, and his usually immaculate appearance now covered in wounds.

His breath was extremely weak, and his handsome face was no longer recognizable.

"Trivial trickery!" Dou Zhao looked down on him from above, just about to force out some means, when suddenly his eyebrows lifted, and he became spirited.

His Qi machine moved like a tiger roaring on a mountain.

Connecting person with knife, he suddenly turned a hundred li, dividing the field with his body, one knife splitting down — "Ghostly and sneaky, come out and meet your death!"

He chopped into a sea of sword light!

The sword light converged into a tide, surging into sea waves, instantly counterattacking.

Dou Zhao's acuity was such that he already recognized the comer, yet he still pretended not to know, his knife momentum suddenly increasing a hundredfold, tearing cracks all over the sky, like a thousand hundred roots dragging him, not letting him split down the black lines —

Dou Zhan Seven Styles of Heaven Punishment.

He chopped down a piece of broken sky!

Jiang Wang came to the southern domain intending to rest slightly, but he was unwilling to engage in a great battle with Dou Zhao right now – this son of a turtle was more difficult to deal with than any Cave True he had killed.

So, he simply took a step back, returning the sword tide to his sheath with a backhand. "Dou Ge Yuan! It's me!"

Tian Xiao Knife's blade was suspended in front of his forehead. The blade touched the space, being oppressed and emitting丝丝缕缕 trembling sounds. And Jiang Wang, who faced this edge, remained motionless, his smile warm.

"Oh —" Dou Zhao reluctantly put away his knife: "So it's you."

A backhand knife!

Heaven Punishment lines suddenly fell upon the ground pit, chopping the attempting-to-sneak-away Fa Luo back into the ground pit again.

He looked at Jiang Wang, speaking in a complaining tone: "Why are you so ghostly and sneaky? You didn't even show yourself early, I almost chopped you to death just now!"

Jiang Wang smiled lightly: "It's normal for someone at your level to not be able to control your strength; just practice more years and it will be fine. Don't be self-conscious."

Dou Zhao gave two 'hehe' sounds: "You're not killing your true demons in the Demon World, boasting about yourself, what are you doing running to the southern domain?"

Being coaxed into the southern domain by Zhong Shan Wei Sun, Jiang Wang himself didn't care much, at most he would just keep his distance from Zhong Shan Wei Sun later. Zhong Shan Wei Sun also didn't dare have other thoughts, as for "borrowing the name"… he wasn't willing to lend his name, so Zhong Shan Wei Sun just didn't borrow it. Just like he said to Zuo Guang Shu, this trip was just to visit the Hui State Duke in Chu State.

But this matter was undoubtedly a fast knife from Dou Zhao's mouth – you Tai Xu Ge Yuan were led around by the nose by Zhong Shan Wei Sun, what else is there to say!

It was foreseeable that for a very long time, Dou Zhao would not forget this matter.

As for how Dou Zhao knew – Zhong Shan Wei Sun released the message through a secret channel that he, Huang She Li, and Jiang Wang all wanted to come and protect a person named Long Bo Ji. The high-level officials of Chu State naturally wanted to ask Dou Zhao, who was also a Tai Xu Ge Yuan.

Jiang Wang chose to avoid the edge, looking left and right as he spoke: "I heard a colleague's name from afar, so I came over to show a little concern. Diligent in Ge Wu like you, not worrying in your highest building, what are you doing here?"

"Oh —" Dou Zhao didn't think of a good way to explain, so he simply turned and jumped into the ground pit, and with a knife towards Fa Luo —

"You waste! Gave you so many days, not a single expert attracted, instead attracted many flies! What kind of dog fart Feng Xiang True Person are you! Isn't it important to be in the building at all?"

As the Feng Xiang True Person of Three Points Fragrance Building, and the only male within the building, Fa Luo was chopped by this knife and lost his composure. He barely managed to set up a jade ruyi, but it was easily crushed into flowing light.

His face was pale, and he gritted his teeth and said: "You Dou Zhao are a Tai Xu Ge Yuan, already separated from Chu, you should uphold justice in your actions and be convincing! Why are you chasing and killing me? If you want to talk about Chu State's criminal order, this matter between Chu State and Three Points Fragrance Building, what does it have to do with you?"

Jiang Wang had absolutely no self-awareness of being a "fly," he lightly drifted to the edge of the ground pit, half-squatting, a smile on his face, looking down at the two people in the ground pit from above.

Dou Zhao was furious: "How dare you speak to me in that attitude! This is a private grudge between you and me, what does it have to do with Chu!"

"When did you and I have a private grudge!" Fa Luo was overwhelmed with grief and indignation: "We hadn't even met before!"

"Get to the point!" Dou Zhao lifted his knife and shouted angrily: "You did business in Chu State, but you never once paid your respects to me, you clearly look down on me!"

With that one knife, he split the already heavily injured Fa Luo's corpse into two sections.

Alas, the Three Points Fragrance Building truly fell today.

Every contemporary True Person was achieved after a thousand tribulations and ten thousand difficulties. Every strong individual who achieved contemporary True Person status had their own grand life.

For Three Points Fragrance Building to develop to its current scale, and even take the step of separating from Chu to stand on its own, Feng Xiang True Person Fa Luo made indelible contributions to it.

Including the operations of many branches in West Qin, all of them were personally opened up by him.

But this time he was targeted by Dou Zhao, and no one could save him – nor did anyone save him.

Dou Zhao calmly said: "There is a kind of flower in Yun Xian Forest called 'Fei Xian Luo', wherever the wind blows, it grows there, no one knows where its root is. When it is alive, it is everywhere, and where it is wiped off, it still exists – isn't it very much like the Three Points Fragrance Building?"

Jiang Wang half-squatted: "A kind of parasitic flower?"

Blood rain fell from the sky, pattering.

Dou Zhao stood up, very casually flipped his knife with a backhand, and a violent knife qi swiftly swept across, wiping away the blood rain and making the sky clear again.

"Tsk." Jiang Wang said leisurely: "Dou True Person is too overbearing, the person is already dead, there isn't even a body to collect. And you still won't allow heaven and earth to mourn?"

Dou Zhao casually threw a token onto Fa Luo's corpse, indicating that this was his Dou Zhao's kill. Naturally, no one in the southern domain dared to touch this corpse. And people from Chu State would come to collect it.

He jumped out of the earth pit and flew towards another place: "To die under my Dou Zhao's knife is his glory, what is there to mourn!"

Dou Da Ye was still in a hurry to find the next True Person to chop, impatient with Jiang's nonsense.

If Jiang Wang hadn't been right there just now, he wouldn't even need to find an excuse. Chasing and killing Fa Luo these days, he had deliberately crossed various countries in the southern domain, who dared to stand out and say anything?

Jiang Wang also leaped up, following behind him, neither fast nor slow.

"Why are you following me?" Dou Zhao turned his head back with disgust.

Jiang Wang smiled and said: "You and Fa Luo – is he called Fa Luo? Your private grudge is settled, what are you still doing here? No Ge Wu today?"

Dou Zhao gave him a sideways glance: "Aren't I allowed to have other private grudges? Do I seem like I have nothing to do? If you have something, say it quickly, if you don't, don't bother me here!"

"Killed several True Persons, huh?" Jiang Wang asked with a smile.

"Just two, right!" Talking about this earlier, what was there to be bothered about? Dou Zhao smiled slightly, his tone indifferent: "Besides this Three Points Fragrance Building Feng Xiang True Person Fa Luo, there was also a Southern Dou Hall Tian Tong True Person, seems to be the fourth true of Southern Dou? Can't remember clearly, too weak, I have no impression."

"Oh —" Jiang Wang dragged out his voice: "Just two, and you still killed them separately."

Dou Zhao sneered: "They might not be shut in a cage with nowhere to run! Just take that Tian Tong True Person, skilled in Hong Yin technique, flying to heaven and escaping to earth, formless and traceless! I chased him all the way to outside the heavens, only then did I cut off his head. How can you imagine the difficulty involved?"

"Is that so?" Jiang Wang was still smiling.

Dou Zhao decided to slaughter a few more True Persons before talking, otherwise, he wouldn't feel straight enough at the waist, so he said coldly: "You're smiling too ugly, if you have nothing to do, just go to the Hui State Duke mansion to rest. It's a long way, being tricked over here is not easy either."

"Oh, I have nothing to do." Jiang Wang smiled and waved his hand: "You go ahead."

Dou Zhao turned and just walked away.

"Wait!" Jiang Wang called out to stop him again: "I just remembered something!"

Dou Zhao frowned and turned back: "Just say whatever you want."

Jiang Wang happily took out a storage box from his chest: "I was in the border wilderness, ah, I killed two true demons. You know about this, right?"

"Why would I want to know? Am I very concerned about you?" Dou Zhao sneered and shook his head repeatedly: "You're very superficial, you know? Killing two true demons is just showing off. True demons are so silly, so easy to kill!"

"Let me finish, okay?" Jiang Wang's smile didn't change: "I killed two true demons, one of them, I don't know why, maybe they had a collection habit —"

He threw the storage box to Dou Zhao: "Look, is this arm frozen inside yours? It's even golden!"

It was past eight in the evening.

Reasonable and strong.