Chapter 155: Encountering Stone Jade at the Border
Seeing that Chu Yuan also supported the two envoys of rewarding the good and punishing the evil, Lu Tianshu, Liu Chengfeng, Shui Dai and others could only acquiesce to this matter.

Moreover, it was Hua Tiegan who ambushed the two envoys of rewarding the good and punishing the evil first, so it was reasonable that he was killed by them.

"On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month next year, the three leaders of the Yunlong Clan will go to the Xiake Island on time for the banquet."

After the competition, Chu Yuan talked to the two envoys about rewarding the good and punishing the evil.

He is now becoming more and more interested in the Island of Heroes. The martial arts of the two envoys who reward the good and punish the evil are so high, and they are just two disciples of the island master Longmu of the Island of Heroes.

It is hard to imagine how high the martial arts skills of the two island masters, Long and Mu, on the Xiake Island are.

"Boss Chu's martial arts are peerless, the only ones we two brothers have ever seen in our lives. Perhaps only the two island masters of Xiake Island can rival Boss Chu in martial arts."

After thinking about it, he rewarded the good envoy and talked to Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan's martial arts skills are so high. As people from the Island of Heroes, they know the truth about the Island of Heroes. It is not at all like what is circulated in the Central Plains martial arts world and the martial arts world, that is, sending everyone to their deaths. So they don't mind revealing some information about the Island of Heroes to Chu Yuan to express their goodwill.

Chu Yuan already knew that there were two Longmu Island Masters with higher martial arts skills on the Knight Island, but he pretended to be surprised and asked, "Two Island Masters?"

The envoy nodded slightly: "Yes, there are two island masters with unfathomable martial arts skills on the Knight Island. We brothers are both disciples of the two island masters!"

Chu Yuan said: "I see, it seems I must go to this Knight Island."

Lu Tianshu, Liu Chengfeng, Shui Dai, Shui Sheng, Di Yun and others...

Only then did I realize that in addition to these two extremely skilled envoys who reward the good and punish the evil, there are two island masters on the Island of Heroes who are even more skilled in martial arts.

For a moment, they felt extremely sorry for Hua Tiegan's death. Now it seems that Hua Tiegan was really daydreaming.

He thought that he would be fine if he took the order to reward the good and punish the evil and killed the two messengers. In fact, there were two island masters with stronger martial arts on the Island of Heroes. Maybe the two messengers who reward the good and punish the evil were not the only messengers who issued tokens on the Island of Heroes.

Because it is said that since the Reward the Good and Punish the Evil Order appeared in the world thirty years ago, the two Reward the Good and Punish the Evil Envoys who appear in the world every ten years have different appearances, but they all look like middle-aged men!
No matter how powerful the people on Xiake Island are, they can’t keep their youthful looks forever like gods, right?

So there is only one possibility, that is, there are many masters like the two envoys who reward the good and punish the evil on the Island of Heroes.

The envoy who was rewarding kindness said, "As long as Boss Chu knows, the rumors about the Island of Heroes in the martial arts world are mostly false. In fact, going to the Island of Heroes to drink porridge is not that dangerous."

Chu Yuan nodded and said, "I understand."

He knew that going to Xiake Island to drink porridge was not only harmless, but even beneficial.

Then Chu Yuan looked at the two and asked, "Didn't they say that the Xiake Island only invites the martial arts sects in the Central Plains to drink porridge on the Xiake Island? Why did you two send tokens to the Western Regions this time and even destroyed the Blood Knife Sect?"

The rewarding envoy said, "In the past, when the Knight Island issued a rewarding order for good deeds and punishing evil deeds, inviting people to drink porridge on the Knight Island, the sects were indeed limited to the Central Plains martial arts world. But this time, before the two of us brothers went from overseas to the Central Plains to issue the tokens, the two island masters issued an order that the Western Region martial arts world must also be included. Moreover, over the years, haven't two very famous sects emerged in the Western Region martial arts world? The Blood Knife Sect is one of them, and we have heard of its notoriety even overseas."

Chu Yuan asked curiously: "Who is the other sect?"

The Punisher said, "Snow Mountain Sect."

The envoy of rewarding kindness said: "The Snow Mountain Sect is different from the Blood Knife Sect. Although they act in a domineering manner, they are still a righteous sect after all and have never done anything evil to the outside world."

Chu Yuan asked again: "Next, the two of you plan to go to the Snow Mountain Sect to distribute tokens?"

The envoy shook his head and said, "Although the Snow Mountain Sect and the Blood Knife Sect are both on the grassland, they are not in the same direction. The Blood Knife Sect is slightly to the north, while the Snow Mountain Sect is due west. We plan to return to the Central Plains first, and then go to the Snow Mountain Sect after delivering the token."

The Punisher said, "It's a pity that our brothers destroyed the Blood Blade Sect, but the culprit, the Blood Blade Ancestor, escaped."

Hearing the two envoys of rewarding good and punishing evil mention the Blood Knife Ancestor, Chu Yuan, Lu Tianshu and others looked at each other in surprise.

Chu Yuan said: "Blood Blade Patriarch has actually died in our hands. We were invited by the martial arts heroes to come and encircle and suppress the Blood Blade Sect and Blood Blade Patriarch. Blood Blade Patriarch used an avalanche to deal with us halfway. Except for a few of us, everyone else died, and he himself was killed by me."

The envoy said, "I see. Now we two brothers can rest assured."

Chu Yuan invited: "You are going back to the Central Plains, and we are going back to the Central Plains as well, why don't we go together?"

The envoy of Shangshan said, "It is better to obey than to be respectful."

The Evil Punisher said, "Let's go together."

Chu Yuan and his companions paid the reward to the herdsman Gongga, who had promised to lead the way from the beginning.

At this time, the herdsman Gongga had a look of panic and fear in his eyes when he first entered the Blood Knife Temple and saw the corpses everywhere. After watching Chu Yuan's fight with the two envoys of rewarding the good and punishing the evil, he looked at Chu Yuan with eyes full of admiration and treated Chu Yuan as a god.

Although he knew that people like Chu Yuan were called heroes in the Central Plains and the Ming Dynasty.

As everyone was preparing to go down the mountain, Chu Yuan suddenly thought of something. He suddenly stopped and said, "Wait!"

Under everyone's puzzled gaze, Chu Yuan began searching every room in the Blood Knife Temple.

As expected, hard work pays off. Not long after, he found a good thing in the Blood Knife Temple.

A parchment scroll was being worshipped, with several crooked symbols written on it, and inside it were diagrams of some little men holding long swords and practicing sword techniques. It looked like a martial arts secret book.

The herdsman Gongga saw the sheepskin scroll and said, "There is Tibetan writing on it."

Chu Yuan handed the parchment scroll to the herdsman Gongga and said, "Can you help us see what is written on it?"

Gongga took it in his hand, flipped through it and said, "The words written on this parchment scroll are the Blood Sword Sutra."

Chu Yuan thought for a moment and said, “It should be the martial arts secrets practiced by the Blood Knife Ancestor and the Blood Knife Sect.”

As he spoke, Chu Yuan looked at the two envoys who rewarded the good and punished the evil: "What do you two mean?"

The envoy who was rewarding good deeds said, "This item was discovered by Gang Master Chu, so it belongs to Gang Master Chu. Gang Master Chu can dispose of it as he sees fit."

As they spoke, there was a hint of disdain in the eyes of the envoy who rewards good deeds and the envoy who punishes evil deeds.

It can be seen that they do not think highly of this martial arts book called "Blood Sword Sutra".

After Chu Yuan took back the parchment scroll from the herdsman Gongga, he glanced at the little man holding a knife and performing some moves in the "Blood Knife Sutra", which also had some meridian diagrams on it.

This shows that "Blood Sword Scripture" is not only a sword technique, but also includes internal strength.

Chu Yuan immediately roughly judged the power of the "Blood Sword Sutra".

If the "Shen Zhao Jing" is the top-level magical skill, then the "Blood Knife Sutra" is at most first-rate. If the "Blood Knife Sutra" is powerful, the martial arts of the Blood Knife Patriarch would not be so weak.

If he had not taken advantage of the avalanche to gain the upper hand, he would have even been tied with one of the "Four Wonders of the South".

After reading it, Chu Yuan made up his mind. He didn't think much of the "Blood Knife Scripture" and threw the parchment scroll to Di Yun.

Chu Yuan said: "Since you have taken the Blood Sword of the Blood Sword Ancestor, this Blood Sword Scripture also belongs to you."

Di Yun, who was carrying Shui Dai on his back, was a little confused: "Brother Chu, this is the martial arts secret book you found!"

Chu Yuan glared at Di Yun and said, "Just take it if I tell you to. Why are you wasting your time talking?"

Seeing Chu Yuan say this, Di Yun could only put away the parchment scroll containing the "Blood Knife Sutra".

Lu Tianshu, Liu Chengfeng, Shui Dai and Shui Sheng, who were standing by, were all a little surprised when they saw Chu Yuan giving the Blood Knife Sect's "Blood Knife Scripture" to Di Yun.

This is the "Blood Knife Sutra" of martial arts practiced by the Blood Knife Sect and the Blood Knife Ancestor. Although the "Four Wonders of the South" all have martial arts inheritance behind them, they are unable to give away such a martial arts secret book as a gift.

However, they felt relieved when they thought of Chu Yuan's superb martial arts and the rumors that he had inherited the martial arts from a martial arts master named "Qingcheng Sword Immortal".

Judging from the looks of Chu Yuan and the two envoys who reward the good and punish the evil, it seems that neither of them thinks highly of this "Blood Sword Sutra".

The group then went down the snow mountain, parted ways with the herdsmen who led the way at the foot of the mountain, and then began to return to the Central Plains.

The grassland is vast and boundless.

If I rely solely on my legs, I don’t know how long it will take me to get there.

So when Chu Yuan and his companions passed by a tribe, they each bought a horse from a herdsman's home.

This way, it would not only be more convenient for them to come, but also easier.

On his way back to the Central Plains, Di Yun was getting along very well with Shui Dai and Shui Sheng, father and daughter, and they were having a very pleasant conversation.

This day.

Chu Yuan and his team chose a concave area with three high sides and the remaining side sheltered from the wind to rest in order to avoid being blown directly by the cold wind.

After everyone rested, in the dead of night, Chu Yuan walked over to Di Yun, who was sitting by the bonfire, and said to Di Yun, who was adding dry cow dung to the bonfire, "You've already fallen for the girl. Don't forget that she's already engaged to my cousin, and they have a common name in the martial arts world."

The dry cow dung was purchased by Chu Yuan and his team from the herdsmen of the tribe when they passed by.

In the cold winter on the grassland, you don't encounter tribes and herdsmen's homes every day. Every time Chu Yuan and his companions pass by a tribe, they will buy a few baskets of dry cow dung from the herdsmen's homes to take with them to keep warm at night when they sleep outdoors.

Because it was winter, the nights on the grassland were extremely cold and everyone was sleeping soundly while sitting around the campfire. Di Yun was startled by Chu Yuan's words and he quickly turned to look at Shui Dai and Shui Sheng, father and daughter.

Fortunately, to his relief, Shui Dai and Shui Sheng were leaning on the slope nearby, sleeping with their eyes closed, and did not hear what Chu Yuan said.

Di Yun then turned around and explained, "Brother Chu, please keep your voice down. I don't have any improper thoughts about Miss Shui. It's just that seeing that Hero Shui is seriously injured, it's inconvenient for Miss Shui, a teenager, to go out..." Chu Yuan said, "Miss Shui can't take care of her father, doesn't she still have uncles and aunts? As the third leader of the Yunlong Gang, why are you running over to join in the fun?"

Chu Yuan's words left Di Yun speechless for a moment.

But he is really just kind and upright, and he has no other thoughts about Miss Shui.

Chu Yuan continued, "Since you have joined in the fun, I think you should try to get Hero Shui to agree to let Miss Shui marry you. Anyway, you two have been getting along well these days, and Miss Shui and her cousin haven't gotten married yet. I'll ask Ding Dian to copy a copy of the 'Yin Yang Huan Yang Gong' for you. Maybe you can use it."

When Di Yun heard the "Yin Yang Huan Yang Gong", he became anxious for a moment. His face turned red and he stood up quickly.

He knew that "Yin Yang Huan Yang Gong" was a martial art passed down by Chu Yuan to Ding Dian, a practiced by both husband and wife.

Ding Dian said: "Brother Chu, you misunderstood, there is really no connection between me and Miss Shui!"

Chu Yuan said: "Keep your voice down, or you'll wake everyone up."

Chu Yuan's words frightened Di Yun greatly. He quickly glanced at the people sleeping around the campfire. Fortunately, everyone had their eyes closed and was snoring softly. No one showed any signs of waking up.

Chu Yuan said, "Listen to me, this Miss Shui is much better than your Junior Sister Qi Fang. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. And you are more than qualified to be her match with your status as the Third Leader of the Yunlong Gang. How do you know it won't work if you don't try? What if Hero Shui appreciates you and Miss Shui likes you too!"

After saying that, Chu Yuan stood up and returned to his original position, leaning against the slope and fell asleep.

Di Yun wanted to rush up to explain to Chu Yuan, but he thought that the noise they had just made was loud enough, and if he chased after them, he might wake up the others.

He could only sit there, staring at the red-burning bonfire, thinking about the question Chu Yuan mentioned.

According to his elder brother Chu Yuan, Shui Sheng was indeed a better choice for him than his junior sister Qi Fang, but he felt that he still liked his junior sister Qi Fang.

But what made it hard for him to let go was that his junior sister Qi Fang not only gave birth to a child for his enemy Wan Gui, but also was killed by Chu Yuan who arrived in time when Wan Zhenshan and his son, who were greedy for the treasure of "Liancheng Jue", besieged the Yunlong Gang together with many other sects.

Later, his junior sister Qi Fang came to him with her daughter. The hatred in her eyes for him and Chu Yuan made him feel heartbroken for a moment.

This means that my junior sister Qi Fang doesn’t like me at all!
Maybe she likes me too, but she thinks he is not as important as her husband, her enemy Wan Gui.

Not to mention Di Yun who was thinking about this matter, on the surface everyone was asleep, but among the people traveling together, at least they were all masters in the world.

While Chu Yuan was speaking, the two envoys in charge of rewarding the good and punishing the evil, who were sitting at the outermost edge and meditating instead of sleeping, smiled.

When Chu Yuan was talking about what happened between Di Yun and Shui Sheng, Shui Dai, who was sleeping soundly, had a hint of smile in the corner of his eyes.

Shui Sheng, on the contrary, had some girlish shame and anger in her eyes.

The next day.

Everyone woke up and continued on their way, but the way they looked at Di Yun was different, even Shui Sheng was the same.

Shui Sheng, who originally didn't mind bothering Di Yun, tried her best to avoid Di Yun on the road, and took care of her father Shui Dai herself.

However, there was a hint of admiration in Shui Dai's eyes when he looked at Di Yun.

However, Di Yun was a dull person and did not notice the change in attitude of Shui Dai and his daughter towards him.

Soon they left the grassland and entered Shaanxi Province. The surrounding area was no longer grassland, but loess slopes connected by gullies.

Chu Yuan and his companions entered a northwestern town to rest.

I originally planned to part ways with everyone here.

However, when walking down the street, Chu Yuan caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.

"Dog brother!"

Chu Yuan shouted at the young man who was leaning against the wall, with a dishevelled face, wearing tattered clothes and sleeping with his arms folded.

He recognized at a glance that this person was Dog Brother whom he had not seen for many days.

But that’s not right!
Didn’t Brother Gou go to Zhenjiang, Jiangnan to be the leader of the Changle Gang?
How come he appeared in this northwest town?
"You got the wrong person. I'm not some dog brother. Go away and don't disturb my sleep!"

The young man heard someone shouting beside him. After opening his eyes, he found that he didn’t know the other person at all, and he didn’t know any Dog Brother at all. He turned over and continued to sleep.

"Boss Chu knows him. Is he an old friend of Boss Chu? But why doesn't he know Boss Chu?"

Seeing Chu Yuan suddenly stop, everyone stopped as well. The Envoy for Rewarding Good, one of the two Envoys for Rewarding Good and Punishing Evil, stood by and said.

While the young man was speaking, Chu Yuan immediately realized that the young man in front of him, although he looked exactly like Dog Brother, was indeed not Dog Brother.

Because although they look very similar, the other person's voice is thinner, and although this boy is dressed in rags, he doesn't look like a beggar at all, unlike the rustic Dog Brother!
There is only one person in the world who looks exactly like Brother Gou but is not Brother Gou.

That is... Jade in the Stone!

Gou Ge’s twin brother who has the same father and mother.

"He doesn't know me, but I know him. He looks exactly like one of my younger brothers. By the way, he is also one of your targets. He is Shi Zhongyu, the leader of the Changle Gang."

Chu Yuan looked at the young man lying on the ground and said.

The young man, whose sweet dream had just been disturbed by Chu Yuan and who looked a little impatient, was frightened and immediately woke up when he heard the words "Changle Gang" and "Shi Zhongyu". He opened his eyes, stood up and wanted to escape.

But Chu Yuan stretched out his bamboo stick and blocked his way.

"Brother, admit your mistake. I am not Shi Zhongyu, nor am I the leader of the Changle Gang. Please be kind and let me go."

Seeing that Chu Yuan would not let him leave, the boy immediately begged for mercy with a sincere look in his eyes, trying to get away with it.

Just as Chu Yuan guessed, this young man was Shi Zhongyu.

After he learned the real purpose of Bei Haishi and Changle Gang, he escaped from Changle Gang. In order to avoid being hunted by Changle Gang, he disguised himself as a beggar and hid in this northwestern town.

Who would have thought that even after he was disguised like this, he was still recognized by the other party at a glance. Shi Zhongyu felt that he was extremely unlucky at this moment.

"Whether you are or not, you know it in your heart."

Chu Yuan said in a calm tone.

Fortunately, he already knew the answer, so he was very sure that the young man in front of him was Shi Zhongyu. If it were someone else, they might have been fooled by the other party's acting skills and let him go.

"So he's the leader of the Changle Gang. If we remember correctly, isn't the Changle Gang's headquarters in Jiangnan? Why is this Shi Gang leader hiding in this northwest town, pretending to be a little beggar?"

The envoy who rewarded kindness looked at Shi Zhongyu and smiled.

They were not surprised, because the leaders of the sects in the martial arts world had come up with so many strange ways to refuse the order to reward the good and punish the evil.

Disguising himself as a beggar and hiding in this northwestern border area, this jade in the stone really doesn't rank high.

"May I ask your Excellency?"

Shi Zhongyu looked at the envoy who was rewarding good deeds, and for a moment he had a feeling that something was wrong.

"I will reward kindness."

"The two envoys who punish evil."

Rewarding the good and punishing the evil are the two ways.

"I came to the Central Plains specially to invite the leaders of various sects in the Central Plains to go to the Knight Island to drink a bowl of Laba porridge."

The envoy who rewards good deeds continued.

After hearing the identities of the fat and thin men in front of him, Shi Zhongyu was so frightened that his face turned pale, his legs went limp, and he collapsed to the ground.

He had already found out clearly before that those sect leaders who were invited to the Island of Heroes to drink porridge by the two envoys of rewarding good and punishing evil did not have a good ending. In all these years, not one of them had returned.

He knew that the reason why Bei Haishi wanted him to be the leader of Changle Gang was to let him die and take the blame for Changle Gang, so he sneaked away from Changle Gang.

Who knew that before the Changle Gang found him, the two envoys who rewarded the good and punished the evil had already found him.

If he had known that if he ran out secretly, he would be caught by the two messengers of rewarding the good and punishing the evil, he would never have run away secretly.

"Boy, take the order?"

As he spoke, the envoy took out an orange-yellow bronze plate and handed it to Shi Zhongyu.

When Shi Zhongyu saw the legendary order of rewarding good and punishing evil handed to him, which said whoever accepted it would die, he was so frightened that he rolled his eyes and wished he could die on the spot.

"Why don't you accept the token and refuse the order to reward good and punish evil? Are you tired of living?"

Seeing that Shi Zhongyu was reluctant to extend his hand, the evil punisher threatened him.

Shi Zhongyu was looked at kindly by the envoy who rewarded good deeds and spoke in a cold tone by the envoy who punished evil deeds, and he was so frightened that his whole body trembled.

(End of this chapter)