Chapter 102

102. Chapter 102 The situation is chaotic

. Xiaotian had never expected Lu Qing’s sudden strike.

He had never even imagined that Lu Qing would suddenly strike him dead here.

But the chilling murderous intent in Lu Qing’s strike was so real that

Xiaotian had no doubt that if he didn’t dodge, Lu Qing would literally cut him in half!

Lu Qing’s murderous image in Happy Village flashed through his mind.

A powerful fear instantly filled Xiaotian’s body.

Between life and death, he had no time to think, relying on instinct and desperately dodging backwards.

At this moment, he subconsciously unleashed all his strength. He

channeled all his mind and willpower into his legs, hoping to mobilize more power, increase his speed, and avoid Lu Qing’s fatal blow.

In this moment of intense concentration, Xiaotian seemed to sense an additional force within him that he could harness.

Without thinking, he channeled it into his legs.

Boom!

Just like that, after Xiaotian had given his all, he finally retreated before Lu Qing’s sword could reach him, knocking down the fence not far behind him and rolling onto the vegetable patch.

Lu Qing’s sword failed, but he did not pursue him. Instead, he retracted his sword and looked at Xiaotian lying on the ground with a smile.

“Not bad, your reaction is not bad.”

“Young Master Lu, why is this happening? I wonder how I have offended you?”

Xiaotian asked panicked while lying on the ground.

He really couldn’t understand why Lu Qing suddenly attacked him out of the blue.

“You didn’t offend me. Feel the blood and qi in your body now. Is there any difference from before?” Lu Qing smiled.

“The blood and qi in your body?”

Xiaotian was stunned and quickly felt his body.

In that outburst just now, Xiaotian had used up all his strength. At this moment, he was weak all over, with strained leg muscles and soreness.

But Xiaotian couldn’t care less. He realized his Qi and blood were incredibly vibrant. More importantly, he could control them with ease, mobilizing and connecting them at will, gathering and dispersing them at will.

At that moment, Xiaotian couldn’t help but wonder what was happening.

He had finally grasped the secret of the Qi and blood connection, entering the long-desired Qi and Blood Realm!

“Thank you, Mr. Lu, for your kindness!”

Xiaotian rose and kowtowed to Lu Qing.

God knows how much he’d worked to reach the Qi and Blood Realm over the past few years.

Yet, for some reason, he couldn’t quite make that crucial step.

Even after taking the Qi and Blood Replenishing Pill, he’d thought he’d achieve an immediate breakthrough.

But even after the potency had waned by half, he still hadn’t found the trigger.

Xiaotian was already feeling hopeless, when Lu Qing struck him with a single blow, sending him back to the Qi and Blood Realm.

By now, he understood clearly that the murderous intent in Lu Qing’s strike wasn’t meant to kill him, but rather to force his potential.

Otherwise, with Lu Qing’s martial arts prowess, there wouldn’t have been any need for such a blatant display of killing intent. A single blow would have likely slain him.

So, at that moment, Xiaotian felt a surge of gratitude towards Lu Qing.

“Alright, that’s not necessary. Heaven rewards hard work. If it weren’t for your solid foundation, and the fact that you were only a hair’s breadth away from the Qi and Blood Realm, my single strike wouldn’t have been enough to help you break through,” Lu Qing said with a smile.

Xiaotian kowtowed three more times before finally climbing to his feet.

“Regardless, Young Master Lu, you are my benefactor. I will never forget your kindness,” Xiaotian said solemnly.

Lu Qing smiled and shook his head, about to speak.

Suddenly a loud shout rang out: “That little bastard is making trouble. He took down my fence and trampled the vegetable garden like this?!”

Lu Qing was stunned. He saw the second son of Uncle Zhang next door, staring at his own vegetable garden with wide eyes.

It turned out that in order to avoid Lu Qing’s knife, Xiaotian dodged desperately and broke the fence of his vegetable garden and crushed two vegetable plots.

Now the vegetables on the two vegetable plots are all rotten.

Xiaotian’s face turned red all of a sudden, and he was very embarrassed.

“Uncle Zhang, it’s me.”

Seeing this, Lu Qing could only shout.

“Ah Qing, did you mess up this vegetable garden?”

The angry Uncle Zhang paused when he saw Lu Qing.

“Sorry, Uncle Zhang, I was practicing martial arts with my friends just now and accidentally damaged your vegetable garden. I will help you fix it later.” Lu Qing said apologetically.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I thought it was done by some troublemaker. Since it’s Ah Qing, it’s okay. I’ll take care of it later. There’s no need to bother you.” Uncle Zhang waved his hand, and his anger disappeared.

At the same time, he recognized Xiaotian.

After all, he also often went to the big market to buy things, so he naturally knew Xiaotian, who was responsible for maintaining the order of the big market and was Ma Ye’s right-hand man.

He saw that Xiaotian’s clothes were yellow and green, stained with mud and vegetable juice, and he looked quite embarrassed.

Looking at Lu Qing’s body, which was spotless, he couldn’t help but secretly smack his lips.

He thought that this might not be a competition, but a one-sided abuse.

Xiaotian’s face flushed, he took out a purse from his arms, poured out a piece of broken silver, stepped forward and stuffed it into Uncle Zhang’s hand.

“Uncle, I damaged the vegetable garden and the fence, and this piece of silver is to compensate you.”

Then, he bowed to Lu Qing and said, “Young Master Lu, I’m going back to the market first. If you have anything to do in the future, just tell me and I’ll do my best to help you!”

After that, he blushed and walked out of the village.

Uncle Zhang saw the silver in his hand, which weighed half an ounce, and immediately shouted, “Hey, little brother, it’s just two vegetable plots, it doesn’t cost so much!”

However, the more he shouted, the faster Xiaotian walked, not even looking back.

Lu Qing found it funny and said, “Uncle Zhang, just take it. It’s his compensation after all.”

Xiaotian was Ma Gu’s capable subordinate, and now he was in charge of the market, so he naturally had no shortage of money.

A mere half an ounce of silver was nothing to him.

“Well, it doesn’t cost that much. It’s just a small matter. I just need to fix the fence and plant some more vegetable seeds. Why would I spend so much money?” Uncle Zhang still felt something was wrong.

Lu Qing didn’t care about this. After chatting with Uncle Zhang for a few words, he turned and walked into the yard.

After entering the house, Lu Qing’s expression became calm.

He still took the news brought by Xiaotian very seriously.

The county town is now in turmoil, and a large number of martial arts masters have gathered. I am afraid that a war will break out soon.

The county town is quite far away from Jiuli Village. In theory, even if there is a big fight over there, it will not affect here.

But it is better to be safe than sorry.

If the county government is defeated and martial artists are roaming around, who knows what will happen.

So we still can’t let our guard down.

“I hope the Wei family can stabilize the situation.”

“By the way, is the innate ancestor of the Wei family really dead?”

Lu Qing couldn’t help but think.

According to what Ma Gu said in the letter, the mysterious group openly shouted in the county town that the innate ancestor of the Wei family had died. This should be true.

But he always felt that something was wrong.

First of all, how did the innate ancestor of the Wei family die?

If he died in revenge, then why didn’t the existence that could kill the Xiantian realm strongman just take action and destroy the Wei family.

If he died in an accident, how did that group of mysterious people know about it?

And looking at the situation in the county, it seems that the death of the Wei family’s Xiantian ancestor seems to be known to everyone, which is weird in itself.

According to what the master said at the beginning, the Xiantian realm strongman has always been elusive and difficult to find any trace.

Now that a Xiantian realm person has died, it has caused a lot of uproar, which itself seems abnormal.

Lu Qing always feels that there is a pair of big hands behind the scenes, controlling this storm and plotting something.

“Could it be that the Wei family really has some treasure that is worth that person spending so much effort to plan?”

“Why doesn’t he just go for it and snatch it? Is he afraid, or maybe testing something?”

Lu Qing couldn’t help but think back to when he heard Ma Gu say that the Wei family, despite being a wealthy family, had its head staying in the old house in the county town. He

had guessed that the Wei family had a secret.

Now it seemed that he was right.

He just didn’t know if the Wei family could still keep this secret.

Unfortunately, he still had too little information to analyze anything.

“Forget it, even if there really is some big shot plotting something, it’s not something I can get involved in right now.”

Lu Qing thought for a while, but felt that he had no clue, so he simply gave up.

He was just a small Qi and Blood Realm cultivator now. Among the warriors gathered in the county town alone, there were countless people who could crush him.

Even if he knew the inside story, what could he do?

It would be better to just watch the show quietly and pray for the Wei family.

“However, Master still needs to be informed of this matter. The situation in the city is so complicated right now, it’s best for him not to come into town for the time being.”

Although Master was now a half-step Xiantian, the events in the city were likely a struggle between Xiantian realm

masters. Lu Qing still didn’t want him to be involved in such a turmoil.

With this in mind, Lu Qing closed the door and headed for the courtyard halfway up the mountain.

As soon as he reached the courtyard, he heard Xiaoyan’s laughter from afar.

Entering the courtyard, he saw Master, Xiaoyan, and Xiaoli sitting at a stone table, drinking tea and chatting.

Of course, Master was drinking tea, while Xiaoyan and Xiaoli were enjoying snacks.

“Brother!”

Xiaoyan, who was facing the courtyard entrance, immediately called out upon seeing Lu Qing.

“Yes,” Lu Qing walked over.

The old doctor turned around, seeing Lu Qing approaching, his eyes lit with surprise.

“Breakthrough?”

“Yes, not long ago.”

Lu Qing knew that his martial arts realm couldn’t be hidden from Master, who was about to forge the power of the soul.

“Your cultivation speed is truly…”

The old doctor exclaimed in amazement.

His disciple’s cultivation speed was truly extraordinary.

It had only been a short time since he became his disciple, and already he had reached perfection in the Qi and Blood Realm.

Even when he was traveling around the provincial capital, he had never heard of any martial arts prodigy with Lu Qing’s cultivation speed.

“It’s just Master’s good teaching,” Lu Qing said modestly.

“Don’t flatter me,” the old doctor said, laughing and unable to help. “Aside from teaching you a set of nourishing boxing and refining some elixirs, I haven’t done anything for you.”

“If it weren’t for Master’s gifts, I wouldn’t be where I am today,”

the old doctor shook his head helplessly.

His disciple was good in every way, except for his excessive modesty.

For some reason, no matter how much others praised him, he never considered himself a martial arts genius.

This wasn’t an act, the old doctor could tell.

Lu Qing truly never considered himself a martial arts genius. No matter how rapidly he advanced, he never seemed to be complacent.

“Master, just now Lord Ma sent his men to deliver a letter. There are some things in it. I think it is necessary to let you know.”

At this time, Lu Qing said.

“Oh, what is it?”

The old doctor saw that Lu Qing’s face was a little serious, and his expression straightened up.

He knew that his disciple had some friendship with Ma Gu from Daji.

Could it be that he encountered some difficulties and needed Lu Qing’s help?

“It’s all explained in the letter. Please take a look, Master.”

Lu Qing took out the letter sent by Xiaotian.

The old doctor took the letter, opened it and read it. As he read it, his expression gradually became serious.

“I didn’t expect that such a big thing would happen in the city after just a few days.”

After reading the letter, the old doctor sighed.

“Master, the city is now full of mixed people and the situation is difficult to discern. Recently, you should not go into the city.” Lu Qing said.

He knew that Master would go to the city to deliver medicinal materials from time to time, but with the current situation in the county, he really didn’t want Master to go there.

“That’s fine. I just don’t feel like going out recently. Since the city is so troublesome, I won’t go.”

The old doctor thought for a moment and nodded.

Although he is a kind-hearted doctor, he is not pedantic.

Knowing that the city has become a powder keg, he will not go there.

Seeing that his master agreed, Lu Qing breathed a sigh of relief

. He was afraid that his master would be too kind and want to save the dying and the wounded, which would be difficult to deal with.

Now it seems that his master is still very clear about these things.

“But, Ah Qing, you have to be careful too. I saw in the letter that the Black Wolf Gang seems to be making a move again. You offended them before, and you might retaliate.” The old doctor warned.

“I will pay attention, Master.”

In the following days, Lu Qing still lived a regular life according to his previous rhythm.

But he would be more careful when going out.

Occasionally, he would go to the big market to ask Xiaotian for information.

From Xiaotian, he did get a lot of news about the city.

For example, as more and more warriors gathered in the city, the situation in the county town changed dramatically.

The county town was already quite small, and the sudden influx of so many warriors naturally led to conflict.

It was common to see warriors brawling in the streets over a single disagreement, leaving blood splattered everywhere.

Some warriors, driven by desire for comfort, began to subjugate local forces for their own enjoyment.

Those who resisted were immediately destroyed, while those who complied were able to gain access to powerful forces, rapidly expanding their power and becoming one of the county’s most powerful factions.

The Black Wolf Gang was a prime example of this.

Its leader, Black Wolf, somehow managed to convince several powerful warriors to join him.

Some of these warriors even reached the Inner Viscera realm.

This made the Black Wolf Gang one of the largest factions in the city, and their prestige was immense.

In short, the city was now in utter chaos, with deaths occurring daily.

If the County Magistrate’s Mansion hadn’t announced that warriors were not allowed to harass civilians, the county would have been in chaos long ago.

The County Magistrate’s Mansion represented the face of the royal capital, and warriors openly did not dare to disobey its ban.

But even so, many civilians in the city fled the city to avoid the limelight, intending to return after the storm was over.

The city was in such chaos, but to Lu Qing’s surprise, the Wei Mansion did not fall.

Those arrogant warriors, watching the chaos in the city, never attacked the Wei Mansion.

Both sides seemed to be maintaining some kind of tacit understanding, waiting for something.

This made Lu Qing smell something unusual.

(End of this chapter)