Unparalleled Evildoer

Chapter 83 Volunteer to Build the Great Wall

Wuzhan saw the Qin soldier holding a knife and walking towards him angrily, and hurriedly said, "General, you misunderstood my meaning. I want to buy a horse and go with you to Shangjun to build the Great Wall. This way, we can reach the Great Wall without getting tired to death."

After hearing this, the other Qin soldiers laughed and said, "Do you think you are going to the Great Wall to relax? I think you are out of your mind!"

Qin Bing, holding a knife, laughed and swung his fist at Wuzhan's face, "I'll make you wake up!"

Although Wuzhan had no internal strength, he could still see through this simple move. He slightly tilted his body and the punch missed. The Qin soldier didn't expect Wuzhan to be able to dodge his punch. He tripped over Wuzhan and stumbled, almost falling to the riverside. Wuzhan immediately stepped back and said, "I'll go with you, General."

The Qin soldier cursed, "You little bastard, how dare you dodge? Let me show you how I'm going to teach you a lesson!" He swung his knife and slashed at Wuzhan.

Wuzhan dodged left and right, avoiding the Qin soldier's sword, begging for mercy: "Sir, please don't be angry. I know I was wrong. Hurry up and get on the road, otherwise we will lose time."

The Qin soldier kept cursing and slashing at Wuzhan with his sword, but he couldn't even touch Wuzhan's hair. He was so tired that he was sweating all over. This Qin soldier was the sergeant of these people. He thought to himself, "If I can't even defeat a sickly guy, won't they laugh at me?" He became more and more angry as the fight went on, and in the end he decided to kill him. The other three Qin soldiers watched from the sidelines and cheered for the sergeant.

This Qin soldier was too brutal. He attacked without saying a word. Wuzhan was exhausted after these blows. He thought to himself, "This is not a solution. I won't be able to hold on for long or I'll be stabbed. There are other Qin soldiers here too. If they attack together, I'll be beaten into a pulp." Thinking of this, Wuzhan dodged the oncoming knife and turned to the other side of the Qin soldier. He grabbed his fist with one hand and pulled it towards himself, and with the other finger he touched his ribs. Both of them cried out "ouch" at the same time. Half of the sergeant's body was numb and painful. Wuzhan took advantage of the situation and pretended to fall backwards to the ground. If Wuzhan had enough internal strength, this would have paralyzed the Qin soldier's whole body.

The sergeant was surprised. Before he could figure out the reason, he heard Wuzhan say sadly: "The general's fist is so powerful that it almost shook me to death. I have some silver and wanted to buy a good horse. Now I will give it all to the general. Let the general have a few drinks to calm down." As he spoke, there was a silver ingot in his hand.

The currency of the Qin Dynasty was mainly half-liang copper coins, which were round coins with square holes, and were the lower currency. Gold was the upper currency, and silver was used as jewelry and decoration, and its output was scarce.

The sergeant had never seen so much silver before, and he was overjoyed and said, "You are sensible, I will spare you today." He reached out and grabbed the silver, put the knife on his waist, looked at it for a while, put it in his arms, and made the other three Qin soldiers envious.

The sergeant glanced at the three people behind him and said with a chuckle, "Do you have any extra money? Let them have a few drinks too."

Wuzhan stood up, patted his body and said, "No more, I gave them all to Junye."

The sergeant reached out to collect it, and indeed there was no more. He took Wuzhan's dry food away, and then said, "Okay, you can go now."

Wuzhan said: "I won't leave. I want to go to the Great Wall with Junye."

The Qin soldiers were stunned after hearing this, then laughed and said, "You are really an idiot. Do you know how many people died while building the Great Wall? No one who went there could come back. With your physique, you might die of exhaustion before you even get there."

Wuzhan said: "As long as the general does not rush me, I will definitely be able to reach the Great Wall."

The sergeant laughed and said, "You asked for it. Come with us!" Then he mounted his horse and followed the cavalrymen without any obstacles into the corvée.

After Wuzhan's delay, the corvées had almost rested. The youngest of them was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and the oldest was over fifty years old. Most of them could not afford the heavy taxes and had to do corvée. Some of them were so-called criminals. Seeing Wuzhan taking the initiative to do corvée, they thought he was abnormal and no one spoke to him.

Wuzhan followed this group of corvées for a few miles and entered Jiujiang. Although the sergeant did not order these people to continue running, Wuzhan was already exhausted after walking so fast.

It was getting dark. When they arrived at the post station, Wuzhan followed the group of corvées to rest in the yard against the wall. Not long after, the Qin soldiers brought a pot of rice bran porridge and distributed it to the corvées. Wuzhan took one look at it and found it hard to swallow, so he didn't eat it. His dry food was taken away by the sergeant again, so he had to go hungry. After the corvées finished eating, only two Qin soldiers were left to guard the post station, and the rest went into the house of the post station to rest.

After a day's march, the corvées soon fell asleep, snoring loudly. Two Qin soldiers also leaned against the gate of the courtyard, snoring with swords in their hands.

The post station was surrounded by mountains and forests. A crescent moon hung halfway up the mountain, casting shadows on the trees. Stars flickered in the night sky, and the air gradually became cooler. Suddenly, a beautiful figure floated into the yard and stood in front of the two sleeping Qin soldiers. With a whoosh, she blew out a breath of fragrance. After the two Qin soldiers smelled it, their heads tilted and they fainted.

The pretty face smiled slightly under the moonlight, gently opened the gate, turned and walked towards the stable. Suddenly, her body stopped, as if she had discovered something, sniffed with her upturned nose, and swept her beautiful eyes towards the corvée sleeping against the wall. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she said in a lost voice: "Wuzhan, it's really you!" She rushed towards Wuzhan like a fly.

Wuzhan was not sleeping, he was meditating the whole time. When the woman entered the courtyard, he found her. He was pretending to sleep and didn't make any sound. When he heard the woman shouting his name, his eyes widened. He didn't expect that he would see Wanjiao in this place. Wuzhan just stood up and was hugged by Wanjiao. They hadn't seen each other for a long time. He didn't expect that they would be so intimate when they met. At this time, one of the corvées muttered something and turned around.

Wuzhan glanced at the corvée and hissed, "Why are you here?"

Wanjiao held Wuzhan's hand and said in a sweet voice, "Of course I came to see you. Why are you with them?"

Wuzhan was afraid of waking up the corvée, so he whispered, "Let's go talk somewhere else."

The two walked out of the courtyard gate and came to a hillside. They found a flat rock and sat down. Wanjiao kept holding Wuzhan's hand, but Wuzhan didn't care. Wuzhan asked, "Why are you looking for me if you don't practice well?"

Wan Jiao raised her pretty face, pouted her lips, and said with a smug smile: "What do you say? Of course I'm here to bring you medicine." As she spoke, she took down the package and opened it. There were more than ten medicine bottles, some medicinal materials and ornaments inside. While picking out the things inside, she said: "This one contains the 'Qi Hui Dan' from Mount Lu, which will definitely increase your internal strength after taking it. This bottle contains the 'Heart Protecting Powder' from Mount Song, which is guaranteed to open up your meridians. This one contains the 'Bing Xin Dan' from Mount Emei, which has the effect of calming the mind and concentrating the qi..."

Hearing about Emei, Wuzhan's heart sank, and he thought, "I wonder how she is now."

"This bottle is the 'Blood Lotus Pill' from Tianshan. After you take it, your blood and qi will definitely be vigorous. This bottle is the 'Sui Xiu Pill' from Xingxiu Pavilion. It is said to strengthen the tendons and bones. For this bottle, I was almost captured by the old monster Guantian. Fortunately, he was a cripple and couldn't catch up with me. This one is the 'Golden Fragrant Jade' from Taishan. It is said to be a pill for immortals..."

Wuzhan saw Wanjiao showing the pills to him complacently. He felt a pain in his heart and almost shed tears. He knew that these pills came from famous families and there were many masters there. Her cultivation was not high, and she must have suffered a lot or even faced many dangers in order to steal these pills. He thought that she should have lived happily, but she risked her life for him and ran around everywhere. How could Wuzhan bear such a relationship?

Wuzhan looked at Wanjiao in the moonlight and said gratefully: "Wanjiao, thank you!"

Wanjiao smiled and said, "Thank me when you're better. Take this 'Blood Lotus Pill' first and see if it works!" As she spoke, she picked up a red pill with her jade finger and put it in front of Wuzhan. Wuzhan stretched out his hand to take it. Wanjiao smiled like a silver bell and said, "Open your mouth. I want to personally put it in your mouth." Wanjiao opened her bright eyes and gently put the pill into Wuzhan's mouth. Yingying smiled and said, "If you are better, don't chase me away from now on."

Wuzhan swallowed the sweet pill and said with a smile: "If I am not well, you are not allowed to steal medicine again in the future. Otherwise, even if you steal it, I will not eat it."

Wan Jiao said: "If these medicines still don't work, then I will go to Kunlun Mountain and steal the Taiyi Yuanzhen furnace of old man Ye Yi. It is said that there is a 'Nine Turns Soul-Returning Pill' in it. If you take it, the dead can be resurrected."

Wuzhan said, "Don't go. If these pills can't cure the disease, then taking them will certainly be ineffective. Moreover, you are stealing these pills, which is like disturbing the emperor's head. They don't know how you stole these pills, and they will definitely not let you go."

"But it's strange. The Zhenren and Yuanjun of these sects are either in seclusion or traveling. I found out their locations and stole the medicine easily." Then she told how she stole the medicine from various sects. It sounded easy, but it was actually very difficult.

At the end, he took out a black ring with a white glow and a skull carved on it. He put it on Wuzhan's middle finger and said, "This is called the 'Exorcism' ring. It is said to be able to dispel evil spirits. I stole it from a wandering Taoist priest."

After Wanjiao said this, Wuzhan said hurriedly, "Oh, I forgot!" He took out a golden pill and placed it in front of Wanjiao, "You must like this thing."

Wanjiao opened her eyes wide, looking at the seven golden pills shining with golden light, and said in surprise: "I am not dreaming, if I refine all of these, those immortals can't do anything to me." A faint fragrance blew by, and Wanjiao kissed Wuzhan on the cheek.

Wuzhan felt a warm feeling in his heart when Wanjiao kissed him. This was the happiest thing that had happened to him in a long time. He remembered that when he first met Wanjiao, Wanjiao refined a few ordinary inner pills and was happy all night.

Wan Jiao said: "It seems that those stinky Taoist priests are talking about you. How did you do it?"

Wuzhan slowly and briefly described to Wanjiao what happened after they separated. The more Wanjiao listened, the angrier she became. In the end, she was so angry that she cried and wished she could kill all those people.

After hearing this, Wan Jiao said, "It was because I saw those two monsters that I knew you were in this area, so I followed the official road to look for you."

Wuzhan said with difficulty: "Where are they now?" After saying that, with a "puff" sound, blood mist spurted out.

(End of this chapter)