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They discussed it in hushed tones as they walked.
Fu Hai said in a low voice, "But Miss Xianrui, you only arrived in Anjun the day before the Lantern Festival."
Li Xianrui said, "Initially, they probably only wanted to capture my three junior sisters. They planned to capture them first and then use their lives to lure me out of Jade City Mountain."
"But they soon discovered that I had also arrived in Anjun, so they hastily devised a plan. After all, dealing with me here is much easier than dealing with me in Yucheng Mountain."
It would be much easier for me to lead them out.
She glanced at the young man, knowing that if it weren't for him, he would have succeeded.
Fu Hai suddenly realized: "So, they killed Granny Liu and deliberately dumped her outside the city so that someone would find her? The purpose was to prevent the Six Doors from investigating further."
This place... but how did they know that the Six Doors were investigating that Granny Liu?
Li Xianrui suddenly stopped and whispered, "Someone is coming."
Fu Hai, Zhu Xiuhui, and Zhao Xiangmei were no match for her skills, so they quickly stopped and listened carefully, only to discover that there were indeed sounds approaching. Soon, the people on the other side also noticed them and stopped.
Li Xianrui looked closely and saw that there were three people on the other side, one of whom was an old man in a brocade robe sitting in a wheelchair.
This old man is probably not a martial arts practitioner, which can be seen from the wide-sleeved brocade robe he is wearing, not to mention that he seems to be disabled.
A burly man was pushing the old man's wheelchair from behind, while a government official carrying a goose-feather knife stood guard beside him.
The two people slowly approached, sizing each other up. Li Xianrui saw the old man in the brocade robe sitting in the wheelchair look up at her, and for a moment, his expression turned strange.
However, Li Xianrui did not recognize the old man in the brocade robe. She only heard Fu Hai say from the side, "Lu Kuai? What are you doing here?"
He was speaking to the man, around thirty years old, dressed in a black robe, who was a government official. Li Xianrui whispered, "You recognize him?"
Fu Hai turned around and introduced, "This is Brother Lu Cheng'an, our Anjun's fast horseman."
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The term "constable" is divided into three categories: head constable, fast horse constable, and fast hand constable.
The total number of constables was limited. The fast-moving constables were considered skilled and capable mid-level officers within the government, while the regular constables were simply men who obeyed orders and did odd jobs. This fast-moving constable named Lu Cheng'an glanced around and looked at Fu Hai: "Brother Fu, I work with this Tiger Lord, escorting this old gentleman..."
On his way back to the temple, he passed through the back alley of the Goddess Temple and was suddenly swept into a cloud of mist.
"Where is this place? What happened? And who are these three girls beside you?" Fu Hai introduced, "This is Ji Xianrui from the Painting Immortal Pavilion of Jade City Mountain, and the other two are her junior sisters."
"There are thieves causing trouble, trying to capture them, and I got dragged into this too. It seems there's a zombie living underground, you all need to be very careful." Lu Cheng'an pondered, "A corpse?" He exchanged a glance with the Tiger Lord beside him.
Fu Hai said, "We plan to find the enemies who fell in with us, join forces to eliminate the zombies, and then try to leave."
Lu Cheng'an nodded: "I am under orders from the government, and I must first ensure the safety of this Mr. Zhao. I will take him to a safe place first, and then see if I can come back to help you."
The two groups separated.
Only when they were far apart did the old man in the brocade robe in the wheelchair turn around and look, and said in a deep voice, "What's the situation now?" Tiger Master said, "I told you long ago that there was something strange about the place that Qingnang Nu found. Now look what happened, everyone has been killed by her." The old man in the brocade robe was also very calm: "But if it weren't for Qingnang Nu's illusion, they wouldn't have been able to make a move in the city at all."
"However, these people don't seem to realize that we're in cahoots with Qingnang Nu and her group?" Lu Cheng'an's face was quite gloomy as he gripped his goose-feather knife tightly, remaining silent.
Tiger Master glanced at him and said, "Brother Lu, don't worry. If you can't kill them all before you leave, then come with me out of An County. I, Tiger Master, still have some connections."
"Following me is better than being a lowly horseman earning a meager salary in this small county town."
On the other side, Fu Hai, Li Xianrui, Zhu Xiuhui, and Zhao Xiangmei continued their journey in the darkness.
Suddenly, Zhu Xiuhui whispered, "Senior Sister, there's something wrong with those three people." Li Xianrui replied calmly, "Hmm."
Zhu Xiuhui, fearing that she wouldn't believe her, analyzed, "The Qingnang woman's fog barrier is at most set up in that forest. Just now, the constable said that his mission was to protect that old gentleman."
"Never enter a forest. Who would easily enter such a forest when protecting a noble person?"
Zhao Xiangmei also realized: "And why was he in such a hurry to explain to us? Generally speaking, don't constables question others first? It means he has something to hide."
Zhu Xiuhui said, "Adding to what I guessed earlier, how could Qingnang Nu know that the Six Doors were investigating Granny Liu... She must be the mole within the Six Doors." She grabbed her sword and turned back, "They definitely have something going on."
Li Xianrui sighed, thinking, "You guys are so slow." She looked at the boy next to her and saw that he also looked speechless.
So he said, "My two junior sisters lack experience in the martial world, please forgive them, young master."
Fu Hai said, "Not at all! I think the two young ladies are just like my junior sister, exceptionally intelligent." Li Xianrui thought, "What's so intelligent about them?"
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly realized that his junior sister was none other than Xia Yuelan, the one who had fought and caused trouble in the street with his third junior sister and was then escorted back to the inn by the female constable of the Six Doors.
Then she exclaimed, "Ah! That's very clever!"
Chapter 137 Wow, how perverted! Ah, what a lovesick fool!
The moment Li Xianrui and Fu Hai saw those three people, they knew they were in cahoots with the pale-faced scholar, Peach Girl, Green Bag Girl, and Chen Ai Hu.
After a brief discussion, they learned that the old man in the brocade robe was the mastermind behind the arrest. But now was not the time to break off relations.
They heard the Qingnang woman shouting from the other side.
Rushing over, they saw the Green Bag Woman waving her hands, summoning something unseen that was flying forward and entangling a dark shadow in front of her. The shadow swayed and broke through layers of invisible barriers, grabbing and biting as it grew larger.
It seems that the woman in the blue bag is trapping the other party with pastries and honey. Although she is temporarily immersing the other party in honey mud, she is also feeding the other party until they become stronger.
They did not see Peach Girl.
Following the woman with the blue bag were the pale-faced scholar and Chen Ai Hu.
All three were badly injured. Chen Ai Hu not only had a wound on his right shoulder, but also three bloody scratches on his leg. Seeing them, the pale-faced scholar and Chen Ai Hu narrowed their eyes, both wary, but didn't cause them any further trouble. Li Xianrui glanced at them and said calmly, "Where's Peach Girl? Has she already been eaten by the zombies?"
The pale-faced scholar said, "No! Not yet. This monster almost caught her earlier, and the baby she was holding suddenly disappeared without a trace."
Suddenly disappeared? This statement made Li Xianrui furrow her brows slightly.
The scholar knew that prestigious sects like Yucheng Mountain had one thing that others couldn't match: their lineage was well-preserved, and they even had a special library to record the various events that their disciples had seen and heard over the past few hundred years.
Li Xianrui is known as a talented woman from Baocheng Mountain. She is well-read and must have extraordinary knowledge.
He said, "We are both trapped here now. If we don't get rid of this monster, we will both die. I wonder what Miss thinks?" Li Xianrui said in a deep voice, "According to some records in my sect's books, there are two types of raising zombies."
"One type is those who practice unorthodox methods, who nurture healthy dead people with a large amount of yin energy, combining them with various toxins and superstitious objects, turning them into henchmen they control."
"One type is when some people are seriously injured and dying or about to die, but are unwilling to die, so they bury themselves in an extremely yin place, take in disciples or successors, capture people to raise them, until one day they transform into living zombies."
Which one is this?
The pale-faced scholar knew nothing about this and went to the woman in the blue bag.
The Green Bag Girl exclaimed, "It must be the second type, meow! The first type is a huge poison pool, but the second type is an underground cave like this, meow!" Li Xianrui secretly breathed a sigh of relief. According to the book, the zombies raised by the first type were much more terrifying.
Moreover, they often lose their rationality, become bloodthirsty and murderous, and also use various difficult-to-deal-with methods such as potent poisons and sorcery. Because the person raising the zombie is raising a killing weapon for himself, he naturally dares to put in any poisonous or evil creature.
The second option is to transform oneself into a living zombie, but one dares not fill oneself with poison, nor dares to infuse one's body with various evil and demonic creatures.
Li Xianrui realized that the Green Bag Woman was using the evil spirit she had raised to trap the zombie. But the zombie was even more powerful and was devouring the evil spirit the Green Bag Woman had used to trap it.
The Green Bag Woman's approach is like trying to stop boiling water by adding more water; while it may provide immediate relief, it will only strengthen the evil force in the end.
“We’ll cooperate for now!” She quickly glanced at the pale-faced scholar. “After we leave, we’ll each go our separate ways. After tonight, I will go find the person behind you who hired you to deal with me, but you must not lay a hand on me again.”
The pale-faced scholar said, "Alright!" At this point, his own life was of course more important. Besides, he was originally a member of an evil sect, so he agreed at this moment.
Even if he manages to defeat this monster and has the opportunity, he might not necessarily keep his promise.
Li Xianrui knew, of course, that such evil people were not to be trusted, but for now she could only take it one step at a time.
She looked at Fu Hai: "Young Master Fu, please heal this Senior Chen's injuries first." She glanced at Chen Ai Hu. Fu Hai raised his hand: "Miss Xianrui, help me! My Healing Dragon Claw Technique is ineffective against him."
Zhu Xiuhui was shocked: "Young Master Fu, is your Healing Dragon Claw Hand, like your rope, only usable by our senior sister?"
Fu Hai said, "Almost, about the same." Zhao Xiangmei exclaimed, "Wow, that's so perverted!" Fu Hai's face darkened.
Actually, his "Healing Dragon Claw Hand" is effective on any woman.
But if I tell them that my healing skills can be used on all women, but not on men, it won't lessen how perverted I am in their eyes.
Besides, we can't blame them.
As a model young man who values the Five Virtues, the Four Beauties, and the Three Loves, he opened the cultivation techniques section in the system and even he himself felt that it was indeed... well, you know.
Chirp chirp chirp. Once upon a time.
I have a great system of five principles, four beauties, and three loves.
Li Xianrui looked at the young man and opened her mouth. She remained silent for a moment.
Your rope skills, your healing dragon claw techniques... they're all aimed at me alone, aren't they?
On the one hand, she also felt that her two junior sisters were right; this man was indeed very perverted.
On the other hand, a strange feeling arose deep within her heart... Just how infatuated was he with me? The first time Li Xianrui met this young man, she could tell that he admired her greatly.
Later, I heard from my three junior sisters that the first thing this young man did when he saw them was to ask them if they would come to Anjun.
But she was already a renowned woman of talent, possessing a beauty that could shame the moon and eclipse the flowers, and make fish sink and geese fall from the sky. Countless men secretly admired her, but she paid them no heed. She never imagined that this young man, on the surface, was merely one of her many admirers.
In reality, he was so extreme that he secretly cultivated various martial arts techniques specifically designed to target her.
Li Xianrui had heard that there was a strange, evil cultivator who could place some kind of restraint on himself, making some of his martial arts incredibly powerful, but it was only effective on specific people.
There was once a person who, because his clansmen were killed by thieves, used this extreme method of cultivation to put a powerful constraint on himself.
The martial arts he had cultivated could reach a high level when facing that group of thieves, but using them on anyone other than that group of thieves... would result in death! She had found this strange before.
His rope skills were so masterful that she couldn't resist them at all, but why couldn't he use them on Qingnang Nu?
Furthermore, his healing techniques were so powerful they were practically miraculous, bordering on divine arts. Could such skills truly belong to a lowly sect like the Dragon Claw Sect? Now it has been proven that his healing techniques and rope skills were only effective against her.
This is a kind of bondage, a special skill he painstakingly honed day and night for her alone, a skill imbued with a thousand deep affections and ten thousand bitter loves, born from his extreme infatuation with her.
This technique, this rope skill, all stemmed from his infatuation with her, a love that transcended that of any ordinary person. Therefore, it had a powerful and miraculous effect on her alone.
But if it were applied to anyone other than her, whether a man or any other woman... he would die. This was the price he paid for loving her!
Chapter 138 What a tragedy! Even jumping into the Yellow River won't clear my name!
Li Xianrui glanced at Fu Haidi.
Although I knew all along that he had inappropriate thoughts about me.
But for her sake, he secretly practiced a technique that severely restricted his own freedom.
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