Bamboo Coffer Chapter One Dong Sword Immortal, give me a chance.

The middle-aged man with the sword at his waist glanced at the boy and gave a faint smile.

“So you know I’m a sword immortal?”

The boy’s face went stiff. He had forgotten one thing: he was now in a monster’s body, and the sword cultivators of the Sword Qi Great Wall would never let a monster off easily.

“Master Sword Immortal, if I told you I’m not a monster, would you believe me?”

The man’s smile widened. He drew his sword and rested the blade on the boy’s shoulder.

“If I told you I’m not Dong Sange from the Sword Qi Great Wall, would you believe me?”

“I would, I would!” The boy nodded so hard it looked as if his head might fall off, his face full of sycophantic flattery.

“Then come along. Lead the way.”

The man sheathed his sword and strode ahead without a second thought.

The boy hurried after him, finally letting out a breath.

No matter what Dong Sange intended, his life was temporarily safe.

“By the way, where is your home?” Dong Sange asked suddenly. “I want to meet your sister.”

The boy froze, then stammered, “S-Sword Immortal, that’s really not necessary. My sister is just average-looking, really…”

“Lead the way.”

Dong Sange looked back, narrowing his eyes.

The boy instantly felt a chill run down his spine and quickly agreed.

“I’ll take you there right away, Master Sword Immortal. Please show mercy. My sister is a good person, no, a good monster…”

Dong Sange only smiled and said nothing, merely fastening the sword known as One-Zhang-High back at his waist.

Following behind him, the boy’s eyelid kept twitching.

One-Zhang-High was already close to shattering.

Could it be that Dong Sange was already at the Ascension Realm now...

The boy sighed inwardly. No wonder even Liu Cha held him in admiration.

In the Wild Wilderness, in the city of Stopping Jade, a girl wiped the sweat from her brow and carried down the bucket she had drawn from the well.

“Sis, I’m back!”

A boy’s voice rang out.

The girl looked over and smiled.

“Ran off to play again, did you?”

But the next moment, her brow furrowed.

Why was there a grown man following beside her little brother?

“Sis, listen to me. This uncle here saved my life. I went out of the city and—”

The boy rushed to his sister and winked frantically, trying to warn her.

But the girl merely frowned, covered the boy’s mouth, and walked over to Dong Sange.

Among monsters, the girl was still very young, yet she was already strikingly beautiful, with the bearing of a peerless beauty.

Brushing back the loose strands at her temples, she curtsied deeply.

“Thank you, senior, for saving my little brother.”

“Heh, nothing worth mentioning.”

Dong Sange smiled and walked to the well beside her, looking down into its depths.

The bottom was dark and lifeless, without a trace of light.

“This well is quite precious,” Dong Sange said casually.

The girl, who had been stern-faced before her brother, immediately stood and came to his side.

“S-Senior, this well isn’t anything special. There’s another one north of Stopping Jade City, and theirs is bigger and better…”

“Sis!”

The boy rushed over and grabbed the hem of her clothing.

“Oh, that one seems to be hiding a monster at the Jade Gorge Realm.”

Dong Sange pointed at the girl and said, “The Great Way favors water. Even in the Broad and Blazing World, that’s rather rare. The well there and your well are probably connected. He wants to take you as a concubine, doesn’t he?”

The girl’s face instantly went pale.

“So young, and already thinking of using another’s blade to kill. You and your little brother really are cut from the same cloth.”

Dong Sange looked into the distance and murmured, “A scheme? No, you don’t have that kind of ability. Coincidence? Then it’s too much of a coincidence...”

The boy hurriedly told his sister, “This senior already killed that brute!”

The girl was stunned.

Dong Sange then asked, “What is your name?”

“Lu Yun.”

“Lu Cui...”

Brother and sister spoke at the same time, then fell silent at once.

“Shall we make a trade?”

Dong Sange leaned against the well and pointed toward a crowd rushing over from afar.

“I killed their patriarch, but a strand of his remnant soul escaped. They must want to sacrifice you now... So, what do you say?”

Lu Cui stared blankly at the group, knowing that if she did not agree, she would surely die here with this middle-aged man.

“What can I do for you, Senior...”

She collapsed to the ground and spoke weakly.

“I want you to rise to power in Stopping Jade City.”

Dong Sange slowly stood up.

“If this city loses its city lord, chaos will not be good for it. So I want to find someone pleasing to the eye to become the new lord.”

Lu Cui was so shocked she could not speak.

But Lu Yun felt a coldness in his heart.

His sister might be astonished, but he knew Dong Sange was not lying.

But how could Dong Sange possibly allow two monsters to control Stopping Jade City?

Dong Sange flicked a glance at Lu Yun, then said to Lu Cui, “Your little brother is smarter than you.”

Lu Cui seized Dong Sange’s sleeve and cried out, “This has nothing to do with my brother! Senior killed that brute, and I am willing to serve you like an ox or a horse. There is no trade, none at all. I will do exactly as you say...”

“Killing that great monster was merely my whim. But now it seems it was probably part of someone’s scheme, and had nothing to do with you. So, a trade is a trade.”

With a flick of his finger, Dong Sange sent the rushing crowd toppling like wheat before the wind.

Sword energy swept for a thousand miles, and a crack split open in the city gate of Stopping Jade City.

Everyone in the city could feel that fierce sword intent, as though it could sever all things.

“Stopping Jade City? What an awful name.”

Dong Sange slowly drew his sword.

“That group isn’t dead yet. The strongest among them is probably around the Five Realm. I’ll leave them to you. If I return and find you all killed by them, then I’ll have to find someone else for the position of city lord, and you can obediently become that beast’s nourishment.”

With that, Dong Sange stepped forward and vanished in an instant.

At the same time, the entire city of Stopping Jade began to shake violently, and the great banner atop the city wall started to totter.

From the firmament above, someone roared, “Dong Sange, after hiding for decades, today this old man will surely kill you!”

“For so many years in the Wild Wilderness, not a single one of you Ascended monsters has managed to kill me. I think you lot might as well line up and surrender at the Sword Qi Great Wall!”

As ever, Dong Sange was carefree and unrestrained. He laughed aloud, appearing atop the city wall of Stopping Jade City, and swung his sword toward the heavens.

“Hidden up in the sky, do you really think yourself some immortal?”