Chapter 83 The Last Hope
About seven or eight miles out of the city, there were basically no pedestrians on the road. Gou Zi was robbed here yesterday, and there was still blood on the ground from his vomit.

Now Gou Zi was stopped in this place again, “Little brother, we are really destined to meet each other, I didn’t expect to meet again”, and stretched out his right hand, “Hand it over obediently, so as not to embarrass our brothers, and you will suffer less physical pain.”

Gou Zi took out the silver note worth one thousand taels from his chest and said, "The thing is here. Come and take it if you have the ability."

The big man spat on the ground, then took out a dagger from behind and walked towards the dog. At the same time, several burly men rushed out from behind the dog with daggers in their hands and rushed towards the dog.

"That brat is quite arrogant. It seems that we didn't teach him a lesson enough yesterday. He wants to be taught a lesson by our brothers today."

At this moment, a scabbard flew from a distance and hit a big man on the head. The big man screamed and fainted. Everyone turned around and saw a man and a woman standing in the distance.

Zhou Chen did not attack but Leng Yiyao threw the scabbard. Although these people looked strong, their strength was only 80% or 90%, which was not enough for Leng Yiyao.

"Yiyao, it's too boring to practice at home. Today, these people will be your companions for practice. You'd better be careful, because they will not show mercy to you."

Leng Yiyao smiled and said, "Don't worry, Brother Chen," and then rushed towards everyone with the dagger Amber in hand.

Upon seeing this, everyone immediately sent two people to attack Leng Yiyao with daggers in hand. Leng Yiyao's strength has now reached over twenty, but her body shape does not seem to have changed much. In front of people who don't know the situation, she is still just a weak woman.

The three of them killed the two men directly after just one encounter, but Leng Yiyao did not kill them. Instead, he used the back of his knife to break the two men's right hands that were holding the daggers. At this time, the two men were lying on the ground, covering their broken arms and wailing.

The remaining dozen or so people looked solemn when they saw this. Gou Zi also came behind Leng Yiyao and said, "Gou Zi, stay away and see how I deal with them."

Gou Zi also tactfully retreated to a distance. Leng Yiyao hooked her finger at everyone, and they were not afraid at all because they were in numbers, "Brothers, kill him."

Seeing the dozen people rushing towards her, Leng Yiyao was not afraid at all and rushed directly towards the crowd. Even though Leng Yiyao had been trained by Zhou Chen, two fists could not beat four hands and she was bound to be hurt. Gou Zi was frightened when he saw this and directly picked up a dagger on the ground and rushed towards the crowd.

Although she was stabbed several times, Leng Yiyao was fine. With Gou Zi's joining, Leng Yiyao's pressure was instantly reduced a lot, and the two of them worked together to knock them all down.

"Master's wife, are you okay?"
Leng Yiyao shook her head and said, "It's okay. I have soft armor to protect me and they can't hurt me." The people lying on the ground suddenly realized what Leng Yiyao said.

Zhou Chen walked over and said, "Yiyao, although your strength has improved a lot, you still lack practical experience. You need to practice more in the future."

Zhou Chen said to the people lying on the ground, "Hand over the silver you robbed yesterday, and I can let you go, otherwise..." As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Chen punched a big tree not far away.

With a loud bang, the tree was broken by the punch, and the trunk was smashed into pieces where the fist collided with the trunk.

Everyone was shocked when they saw this, "Brother, we don't have any money. Why don't you give us a few days and we promise to get the money for you."

"I won't make it difficult for you. I know you were sent by the business. Go back and tell him to prepare the silver. My apprentice will go to get it tomorrow. If you dare to play tricks, be careful or I will tear down his business." After hearing what Zhou Chen said, they nodded in fear. In fact, they only had evil thoughts because of Gou Zi's weak strength. If they knew that Zhou Chen, their master, was behind him, they would never pay attention to Gou Zi.

Zhou Chen took the two of them directly back home. After returning home, Zhou Chen threw three hundred taels of silver to Gou Zi and said, "This is yours, take it."

Looking at the silver in his hand, Gou Zi rubbed his eyes in disbelief, "Master really gave it to me?"
Leng Yiyao said, "Just take it as your master gave it to you."

The next day, Gou Zi came to the trading company as promised. Zhou Chen also went to the county town, but he did not go with Gou Zi. Instead, he went to the blacksmith shop to forge a knife.

When Zhou Chen came back in the afternoon, Gou Zi was already practicing with Leng Yiyao in the yard. Zhou Chen directly threw the knife to Gou Zi and said, "This knife is for you."

Gou Zi took the knife and smiled happily, "Thank you, Master." Zhou Chen waved his hand and said, "This knife is just an ordinary knife, at the same level as Leng Yiyao's amber."

Gou Zi also took out two pieces of silver from his arms and handed them to Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen took the silver, put away one piece, threw the other into the air, then pulled out the long sword he had just given to Gou Zi, swung it upwards and then sheathed it. At the same time, the silver in the air was divided by Zhou Chen into two pieces, one large and one small.

Zhou Chen put away one piece and gave the other one to Gou Zi. He said, "In the future, you can do this kind of thing yourself. You only need to give me 70% of it, not all of it."

Time flew by quickly and twenty-nine days had passed. Now Zhou Chen's Demon-Suppressing Sword Technique had reached the level of minor success, and his strength had reached the level of nine hundred.

He was only a hundred points of strength away from a breakthrough, but he had not yet gathered enough strengthening points for the promotion. Zhou Chen was extremely anxious at this moment. He only had thirty strengthening points, but eighty points were needed to strengthen to the peak.

According to the speed at which he accumulated reinforcement points, there was simply not enough time for him to raise his strength to the sixth level, but fortunately, those who work hard will succeed.

Some time ago, Zhou Chen heard that a powerful Taoist priest came to the city. He was like a dragon that had been elusive. Zhou Chen had been looking for him for several days but couldn't find him. Until yesterday, Gou Zi had no idea what kind of luck he had, but he actually met the Taoist priest in the city.

However, Gou Zi did not know the Taoist's true identity at that time. The Taoist originally wanted to accept Gou Zi as his apprentice. If it were before, Gou Zi would definitely agree to him, but now that he has followed Zhou Chen, Gou Zi naturally looks down on other masters.

Gou Zi refused the Taoist's offer to become his disciple on the spot, and told Zhou Chen about this matter after he came back. Based on his description, Zhou Chen guessed that this person was the capable Taoist, so he told him about Leng Yiyao and asked him to invite the Taoist here no matter what.

Although Zhou Chen was not 100% sure, he was almost certain and now they had to rely on him. There was only one day left before the deadline mentioned by Lord Xia. Leng Yiyao had been saying that she was very sleepy these days and often fell asleep in broad daylight.

In the past, Leng Yiyao would never sleep in broad daylight. The reason was obvious, but he had no choice but to hope that Gou Zi could invite the Taoist priest back.

Gou Zi at the county government office lived up to everyone's expectations and found the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest knew that Gou Zi had something to ask of him and immediately put on airs, "Little brother, didn't you say that I was a liar? Why are you looking for me again?"
Gou Zi said humbly, "Master, please don't argue with me. I was blind before, but I already have a master, so I really can't accept you as my disciple anymore."

(End of this chapter)