Chapter 234

Chapter 234 Bandits, Massacre

“What’s going on?”

The people eating in the temple were stunned by the commotion outside.

“Boss, why is there a carriage here?”

a voice called out from outside.

“Of course, there must be some fat sheep staying here. We didn’t expect our luck to be so good. We just made a big profit and now we have more business coming in,”

another gruff voice said.

“Guys, there’s more business! Hurry and surround this dilapidated temple! Don’t let the fat sheep escape!”

“Yes!”

Amidst a roar of responses, the sound of rustling footsteps began to echo around the dilapidated temple.

It was clear that the people outside were surrounding the entire mountain temple.

Then, before Lu Qing and his companions could make a move, there was a loud bang. The only remaining half of the front courtyard gate suddenly flew up and crashed into the courtyard.

“Sure enough, the fat sheep are all in there!”

With a roar of laughter, a dozen burly men, swords in hand and a strong smell of blood, entered from outside the temple.

The leader had disheveled hair and a giant centipede-like scar on his face, looking quite ferocious and terrifying.

The group of big men behind him also had ferocious faces, like evil spirits, and they were not good people at first glance.

“Who are you and what do you want to do?”

A chubby middle-aged disciple stood up and shouted.

“Who are we? Of course we are bandits. As for what we want to do, it goes without saying, of course it’s robbery!”

The big man with the centipede scar smiled.

His smile made the scar on his face move, just like a real centipede moving, which was very scary.

This horrible scene scared the girl Xu Ping so much that she screamed and hid behind her father.

Seeing Xu Ping’s action, a violent look flashed in the eyes of the big man with the centipede scar.

“Bandits, robbery?” the chubby middle-aged man said with amusement. “Friend, have you mistaken yourself for robbing us?”

“Why, do you have some remarkable background?”

the man with the centipede scar said, observing Lu Qing and the others with interest.

He sensed that while some of the people in this courtyard were skilled in martial arts, the strongest were only at the Muscle and Bone Realm, making them no real threat.

“That’s not the case. We’re just ordinary travelers, with no valuables on us. You’ve chosen the wrong target by mobilizing such a large force to rob us.” “Really?

That’s hard to say. That carriage outside belongs to you, right? To be able to ride in one of those, you must be wealthy or noble, so how could you be without valuables?

Besides, even if you don’t have valuables, don’t we have a beautiful girl here? If we could capture her and make her my thirteenth concubine, that would be a great opportunity.”

As the man with the centipede scar spoke, the chubby middle-aged man’s face suddenly changed, a look of anger etched across his face.

Initially, he feared that the opposing force, with its superior numbers and archers, would be unable to cope with the situation if a clash erupted, leaving Doctor Chen and his men vulnerable to injury.

But the bandit leader’s intentions to target his daughter were unacceptable.

Just as the chubby middle-aged man was about to explode, Lu Qing, standing nearby, suddenly spoke up, “What’s that hanging around your waist?”

Everyone was startled, their gazes darting towards the waist of the centipede-scarred man.

A bulging cloth bag hung there, its surface stained with dark red blood.

“Are you talking about this?” the centipede-scarred man pulled the bag from his waist. “This is my trophy,”

he said, opening it. Suddenly, a blood-soaked human head emerged.

“Ah!”

Such a shocking sight frightened Xu Ping, who screamed.

Xiaoyan also cried out softly, burying her head in Lu Qing’s arms.

The old doctor frowned slightly.

As for the others, such as the chubby middle-aged man’s disciples, they were all startled.

“This head…”

The chubby middle-aged man couldn’t help but stare at it.

Although the head was covered in blood, it was still recognizable as the head of a very beautiful girl.

“Beautiful, isn’t she?” The centipede-scarred man smiled smugly at the sight.

“I originally had my eyes on this girl, but when I formally married her and offered her a betrothal gift to make her my thirteenth concubine, she and her father, the mayor, dared to refuse me.

I had no choice but to take my brothers down the mountain, massacre the town, and bring back her head.

A woman I, Wu Tian, set my sights on cannot escape my grasp, even if she dies.”

The centipede-scarred man gently stroked the girl’s cheek with his fingers, his face full of fascination.

That perverted look made Xu Ping tremble.

She suddenly remembered that the bandit leader had previously said that he wanted her to be his thirteenth concubine.

“Evil villain, how could you be so cruel!”

A chubby, middle-aged disciple, unable to bear it any longer, unsheathed his sword and pointed it at the centipede-scarred man.

“Oh? So, you intend to resist?”

The centipede-scarred man remained unfazed by the sword pointed at him.

The dozen or so burly men behind him remained unmoved, their weapons clutched, their gazes playfully fixed on the disciple.

“But you better think carefully. If we really come to blows, I won’t spare anyone alive,”

the centipede-scarred man snapped his fingers.

The next moment, there was a commotion all around. Dozens of figures appeared along the mountain temple’s courtyard walls and on the roof of the main hall. They

were all wielding bows, arrows, darts, and other hidden weapons, aiming at Lu Qing and the others.

“Offer that girl to me, or be shot to death by my brothers? It’s your choice.” The   chubby middle-

aged man’s face changed again.   He thought he had been careless. Even for him, the situation was extremely difficult to handle.   With their abilities as master and disciple, breaking through would be easy, but protecting the old doctor and the others would be extremely difficult.   Just as the chubby middle-aged man was secretly regretting that he should have captured the bandit leader immediately, Lu Qing spoke again.   ”No wonder you reek of blood. You’ve actually massacred an entire town.”   ”So what?” The centipede-scarred man looked at Lu Qing with some surprise.   He wondered if there was something wrong with this kid’s brain. Couldn’t he see the situation at hand? He actually cared about their massacre of the town.   However, he saw that Lu Qing’s face was unusually calm. After seeing him nod, he said lightly: “Master Ma, catch him.”   ”Yes, sir!”   The words came out, and before the centipede scarred man had time to figure out what these words meant.   He only felt a sudden burst of extremely powerful momentum in front of him, and the next moment, a figure appeared in front of him.   Feeling the suffocating breath from Ma Gu, the centipede scarred man was horrified and wanted to retreat.   Unfortunately, it was too late.   The knife flashed, and with two swish sounds, the two arms of the centipede scarred man had been separated from his body and fell to the ground. After   cutting off the two arms of the centipede scarred man with one move, Ma Gu did not stop, and tapped his chest with the handle of the knife.   After avoiding the blood spurting out of the other party, he lifted his neck, returned to Lu Qing, and threw him to the ground.   ”…”

Magu’s attack was sudden and swift.

By the time he had captured the centipede-scarred man, none of the bandits had time to react.

“Ah! My hand!”

the centipede-scarred man screamed, unable to bear the pain of his severed arm. Only

then did the bandits react.

“Boss!”

“Let our boss go!”

“Or I’ll chop you all down!”

“Shoot, shoot now!”

the bandits shouted frantically.

“Shut up!” Magu pressed the tip of his knife to the centipede-scarred man’s throat. “Don’t you want your boss to live?”

“…”

Seeing the blood already flowing from the centipede-scarred man’s throat, all the bandits fell silent, not daring to shout again.

Even the bandits on the walls and rooftops instinctively lowered their bows and hidden weapons,

fearing that a single misstep would injure their boss.

The round-faced middle-aged man and the others standing nearby were already stunned.

“That’s right.”

Lu Qing reached out and pressed a few acupuncture points on the man with the centipede scar, temporarily stopping the bleeding from his arm wound.

Then he said calmly, “How do you feel now?”

The man with the centipede scar was also a ruthless person, having now recovered from the excruciating pain.

He suppressed the pain, a sneer on his face: “I didn’t expect Wu to be wrong. You, a servant, are only at the Great Perfection of the Bones and Muscles Realm, yet you can unleash the power of someone at the Internal Organs Realm.

I was caught off guard, and I was defeated! But do you think you can escape safely by capturing me? At my command, my brothers will unleash their arrows without hesitation and turn you all into a hornet’s nest!”

“Oh, then give the order,” Lu Qing said nonchalantly.

“What did you say?” The man with the centipede scar was startled.

“I say, give the order now, have your brothers release their arrows, and see if they can turn us all into a hornet’s nest,” Lu Qing said calmly.

“Are you crazy, kid?”

The centipede-scarred man looked at Lu Qing with disbelief.

He could sense that Lu Qing’s words were true; he truly didn’t care if he ordered the arrows to be released.

This put the centipede-scarred man in a difficult position.

If he actually ordered the arrows to be released, he would surely die.

While brutal, he wasn’t so mad as to disregard his own life.

“It seems you’re still afraid.”

Lu Qing saw the centipede-scarred man’s hesitation and chuckled. “You scumbags are always like this. When you’re harming others, you act so high and mighty, as if you’re truly powerful and formidable.

But when you’re facing death, you’re more cowardly than a mouse. It’s truly pointless.”

Hearing Lu Qing’s insulting words, the centipede-scarred man’s face flared again.

But now, in the clutches of his own hands, he dared not lash out.

“What do you want in exchange for my release?”

the centipede-scarred man asked coldly.

He still held out hope. There were still children, elderly people, and young girls of low cultivation in the courtyard, and his men had already occupied every unseen corner on the high ground.

As long as Lu Qing and the others still harbored concerns, he still had a chance of survival.

What the centipede-scarred man didn’t expect was that as he spoke these words, he heard Lu Qing sigh.

“Well, since you don’t dare to give orders, then I’ll help you.”

“Wait!”

the centipede-scarred man cried anxiously, a chill running down his spine.

But it was to no avail.

Lu Qing extended a finger and gently tapped the man’s brow. The centipede-scarred man shuddered, his pupils dilated, and his breath slowly faded.

“Boss!”

Seeing the centipede-scarred man’s breathless state, all the bandits were shocked.

No one had expected Lu Qing to suddenly strike and kill their own boss.

Even the chubby middle-aged man and his disciples were completely stunned.

“Shoot, shoot now, kill them all!”

At this moment, a bandit leader finally reacted, shouting frantically.

The bandits occupying the higher ground also recovered their composure, drawing their bows and preparing to fire at Lu Qing and his men.

“Not good!”

the chubby middle-aged man, panicked, leaped forward, attempting to strike first.

But just as he leaped, still in mid-air, a hissing sound echoed. The bandits on the surrounding walls and rooftops screamed and fell like dumplings.

“Master Ma, Zi’an, kill them all, leave no one alive.”

“Yes, sir!”

Ma Gu and Wei Zi’an, unable to contain themselves, immediately erupted in excitement as they charged towards the dozen or so remaining bandits in the courtyard.

“Take my blow!”

Ma Gu, whose cultivation was higher than Wei Zi’an’s, was the first to approach the bandit leader, the one with the strongest aura and wielding a long sword, and struck him with his blade.

The bandit was horrified; he had just witnessed with his own eyes how even their leader was no match for the man before them.

In panic, he could only instinctively raise his knife upwards, hoping to block the blow

.

A flash of blade flashed. The sword in Ma Gu’s hand was no ordinary item, a thousand-refined precious sword that Lu Qing had forged for him over the past two years.

The bandit’s long sword, at best, had only been refined a few dozen times. How could it withstand Ma Gu’s thundering strike?

It was undoubtedly cleaved in half, sword and body alike, like tofu.

Boom! Boom!

After Ma Gu dispatched one bandit with a single blow, Wei Zian’s long staff arrived.

He launched two consecutive blows, like a poisonous dragon emerging from a cave, striking the chests of two bandits.

Staff techniques are inherently about overpowering and winning through sheer force.

Under the powerful impact, the two bandits’ chests collapsed, sending them flying backwards, crashing through the wall behind them and collapsing on the rubble, seemingly dead.

Having dispatched both bandits with a single blow, Wei Zian didn’t pause, sweeping his staff across, sweeping down the remaining bandits with a single, sweeping blow.

“My dear disciple, please don’t kill them all! Leave a few for the master!”

Magu was shocked when he saw this and rushed forward, fearing that if he was a little slower, his disciple would snatch all the heads.

On the other side, he saw Magu and his disciple going on a killing spree. With the strength of the two of them, they killed more than ten powerful bandits and made them flee in panic, screaming in pain.

The chubby middle-aged master and his disciples were all stunned, watching this scene with their eyes wide open.

(End of this chapter)