Chapter 36

When Tang Zheng returned to the Xinglai Inn, it was already very late.

He did not go in directly but first walked around the inn’s perimeter wall for a large circle.

After finishing his walk, he yawned and re-entered the inn.

The Xinglai Inn still had its lights on, but there were not many guests left on the first floor. Most of the guests had already returned to their rooms to rest, leaving only a few tables of drunkards still drinking and playing finger-guessing games.

As soon as Tang Zheng's left foot stepped into the inn, his senses suddenly tightened.

The entire inn seemed to be covered by a powerful star force!

He instinctively turned his head and looked around.

He saw an old man and a young boy sitting at the most secluded table, drinking. They were not strangers to Tang Zheng—last time, when he was with Tian Meng at a small restaurant, he had met this old man and the young boy.

At that time, it was this old man who warned Tian Meng about the consequences of a star burst, urging him to quickly find the young master of the Heavenly Doctor Valley, Xiao Tanzhi.

Tang Zheng still remembered that the proud young boy was called Azhi.

When he entered, the old man did not look up, continuing to drink his wine. However, Azhi put down his cup, as if sensing something, turned his head, and gave him a glance with a hint of something strange in his eyes.

Azhi's gaze seemed very peculiar to Tang Zheng.

It was not the joy of meeting an acquaintance, nor the usual awkwardness, but rather as if he saw something strange on Tang Zheng...

Tang Zheng ignored the awkward boy, nodded at him as a greeting, and then walked towards the innkeeper, saying in a voice that could almost shatter the floorboards, "I want room Tian No. 9!"

"Huh?" The innkeeper looked doubtful.

"I want room Tian No. 9!" Tang Zheng repeated, raising his voice.

The innkeeper found it strange. This person was already staying in room Tian No. 6, so why did he want room Tian No. 9?

Before the innkeeper could ask, Tang Zheng tossed a purple gold coin onto the counter with a thud.

The innkeeper had seen money before, but this was a purple gold coin!

A regular room cost only a few silver coins, and even if the Tian rooms were more expensive, a purple gold coin would be enough to stay for a month or two!

"Ah? Okay, okay!" The innkeeper, remembering that this person was specially mentioned by the Tang Family Fortress, did not ask further questions. He quickly took the money and handed over the key to room Tian No. 9.

As Tang Zheng was about to go upstairs, Azhi in the corner tilted his head back, finished his drink in one gulp, and sneered, "Pfft. Him? Last time he said I was inexperienced!"

"Did he say that?" The old man smiled.

"Yes, he did!"

"Is that so? You remember it very clearly..."

"Grandpa Gui, didn't you see? He threw a purple gold coin and loudly announced the room he wanted—Tian No. 9!"

"Uh-huh, I saw."

"He has such shallow experience in the world, yet he has the nerve to say I'm inexperienced. This guy really has a thick skin!" Azhi said, pouring himself another drink and finishing it in one gulp, as if in a fit of pique.

"Hmm." The old man, however, watched Tang Zheng's back with a smile, saying nothing.

...

Tang Zheng returned to the inn very late, but he went to sleep even later.

Not until the sounds of the drunkards' finger-guessing games downstairs had faded did he turn off the light and lie down.

Just then, he took out two more purple gold coins from his spatial belt and put them into the storage bag provided by the Treasure Pavilion.

The storage bag was a great item, as convenient to use as a supermarket shopping bag. Moreover, unlike a supermarket shopping bag, which cannot reduce the weight of its contents, the storage bag, no matter how much or how heavy the items, always weighed the same.

However, the price of a storage bag was enough to buy several boxes of supermarket shopping bags. The most frustrating part was that despite the huge price difference, the quality of the two types of bags was not much different, and both would break after a few uses.

Snap...

Just as Tang Zheng turned off the light, he heard a faint sound of a rope being tripped.

That rope was not placed in an ordinary spot!

If it were an ordinary person, no matter how hard they tried to jump, they would not be able to touch the rope, let alone trip it...

The sound was so faint.

The person who tripped the rope probably did not even notice the sound.

"He's here!" Tang Zheng suddenly reached out and pulled another rope by the bed!

...

Bang!

The second-floor corridor of the inn, like a stack of overturned wine barrels, shook and made a sound like heavy logs rolling.

From room Tian No. 2, Azhi's figure rushed out. The Blood Sea Corpse King behind him, with its two bright stars, illuminated the entire corridor. The two short swords in his hands glowed with a dark red light.

As soon as he came out, the giant spikes on the ceiling began to fall. He twisted his body and quickly dodged these spikes. Then, a loud explosion came from room Tian No. 9!

Azhi was stunned: "No way! Could it be... him?"

At the same time, a black-clothed, masked figure appeared before him. Both of them sensed an extremely dangerous aura from each other!

Without a word, they immediately engaged in combat!

Clang, clang, clang...

In a short moment, Azhi and the black-clothed figure had already exchanged over a dozen blows!

Both were using life-threatening moves, and in a short while, both were covered in deep and shallow wounds...

Azhi's eyes narrowed, and he seized an opportunity. With his left hand, he deflected the black-clothed figure's long sword, then ducked and, with his right hand, unleashed a burst of dark red star force!

Martial skill, Flash Assault!

At the same time, the black-clothed figure raised his sword, and star force surged...

Just as their martial skills were about to collide, Azhi suddenly felt his feet slip. Looking at the black-clothed, masked figure, he saw that he also lost his balance, and both of their star forces became disordered.

A layer of extremely slippery oil leaked from under the door of room Tian No. 9...

"Damn, who's spilling oil everywhere..." Azhi, barely maintaining his balance, missed his strike and was extremely frustrated.

Both of them jumped back, reorganizing their attack.

One stood to the left of room Tian No. 9, the other to the right, and star force surged again!

Just as they had taken their positions...

A thick cloud of poison mist suddenly descended from above the door of room Tian No. 9!

"Ah." Azhi, having failed to use his martial skills twice, was about to bang his head against the wall!

Just as he inhaled a bit of the poison gas, he felt his right hand become numb.

He quickly covered his nose and mouth and crouched down.

Swish, swish, swish!

A row of green-glowing darts shot out from the handrail of the corridor!

Azhi immediately crouched lower!

In the mist, he could barely see the black-clothed figure's position, but after dodging the darts, he lost track of the black-clothed figure...

Azhi gathered his star force and closed his eyes for a moment.

After just two seconds, he crossed his swords, and a dark red light flashed wildly. The star force at the intersection of the swords surged and shot towards a position diagonally ahead!

However, halfway through, he had to interrupt his action again.

He jumped up.

Because, from under the floor, a series of spikes shot out...

If he had not reacted quickly, the row of spikes emerging from the ground would have turned him into a pincushion!

Azhi quickly retreated a few steps to the end of the corridor, finding a spot upwind, and took deep breaths.

In the poison mist, he could not breathe deeply and had to retreat to this position...

However, a sudden snap from under his feet almost stopped his heart.

His ankles were in intense pain...

A finely crafted trap, glowing with star force, had clamped his feet!

At that moment, the door of room Tian No. 6 opened...

Tang Zheng quickly darted out and pounced on the black-clothed, masked assassin!

"You..." Azhi pointed at Tang Zheng, "You... don't live in..."

He clearly heard Tang Zheng asking for room Tian No. 9!

But how did Tang Zheng come out of room Tian No. 6, which was directly opposite room Tian No. 9?

Hearing Azhi's voice, Tang Zheng turned around, also stunned: "Damn! What are you doing here?"

Before Azhi could answer, the sound of a mechanism outside the window turned his eyes to terror.

Outside the window, a row of crossbows, capable of shattering a person, glowed with a terrifying silver light, aiming directly at him!

"I'm dead." Azhi's terrified eyes turned to despair...

His feet were trapped in the trap!

If his sword were long enough, he could quickly cut off his feet and dodge the crossbows to save his life.

But he used two short swords, which were not long enough to reach his feet.

"So, this is what it feels like to die..." Azhi closed his eyes.

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