A light breeze brushed through the forest in the mountain.

  “Yes!”

  Tantai Yutang said with certainty. Although the other party had tried hiding in some other places midway, changed their routes a few times, and even sprinkled medicine on the papaya girl to conceal her scent, these efforts were all useless. He was still able to find her.

  “Then would we be alarming them if we were to come over so rashly?”

  Ying Baiwu was worried. They should have informed their teacher.

  “Just treat it as coming out to the suburbs for a trip, what do you mean by alarming them? We’re all youngsters. Who would have their guards up against us? Therefore, you guys better act as if you’re out to have fun. Especially you, Xuanyuan Po. Don’t always wear a frown on your face.”

  Tantai Yutang instructed.

  “I still feel that we should tell Teacher.”

  Ying Baiwu felt that it wasn’t a good idea to be taking action by themselves like this.

  “We’re already here. Stop talking crap. Let’s go quickly!”

  Tantai Yutang urged them on. He wasn’t going to let Ying Baiwu tell Sun Mo.

  In this operation to save Lu Zhiruo, Tantai Yutang wanted to prove his own value and give Sun Mo a big surprise.

  “I’ve told you that I’m someone who relies on my brain for a living!”

  Tantai Yutang pouted.

  In the forest, Sun Mo and Old Wolf Ren met up.

  “Teacher Sun, there are only the few of you?”

  Old Wolf Ren was speechless and he glared harshly at the triangular-eyed guy. (How do you do things? How are we going to barge into the Daoist temple with only the few of us?)

  “Where’s my student? Is it certain that she’s inside?”

  Sun Mo asked, keeping his eyes fixed on the Daoist temple. There were young married ladies who came to pray for children, but there weren’t many people.

  “Most probably so.”

  Old Wolf Ren said and then quickly shared his analysis.

  “You’re saying that this place is a base for human-traffickers?”

  Li Ziqi was surprised. To think that there was still such a filthy place in an ancient city with a legacy of over 1,000 years? “Most probably so!”

  Old Wolf Ren nodded.

  “I’ll go in and take a look. Bring your men and spread out. Surveil the surroundings. Check to see if there are any secret passageways or something.”

  Sun Mo was worried that if they started fighting, the enemies would escape from the secret passageways.

  “Teacher Sun, I suggest that we better mobilize troops to seal up the mountain. This way, none of them would be able to escape.”

  Old Wolf Ren suggested.

  “It’ll take up too much time.”

  Sun Mo’s brows furrowed so tightly that he could clamp a king crab to death. It was because Lu Zhiruo was a girl. Each additional second she stayed in a den of human-traffickers meant that she was subject to one additional second of danger.

  “Take my token and head to Jinling government office and get the provincial governor to send troops over.”

  Li Ziqi took out a small golden token and handed it to Old Wolf Ren.

  Old Wolf Ren bent over to receive it with both hands trembling. It wasn’t because he was afraid, but that he was excited. This time around, he had really managed to cling onto someone influential.

  The provincial governor was the highest-ranking official in Jinling City. How amazing must this girl in front of him be to be able to use such a small token to mobilize his troops?

  “A Fa, you go.”

  Old Wolf Ren passed the token to the triangular-eyed guy. Although he couldn’t bear to do so, he had no choice. He had to stay by Li Ziqi’s side.

  If he could help her take a blow and get insured, he’d be able to become successful.

  “Sons, it’ll be up to your father’s performance today to see if you guys can become the children of an official.”

  Old Wolf Ren decided to go all out.

  “Go to the Zheng Clan manor and tell Old Master Zheng about the matters here as well!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  “Alright!”

  The triangular-eyed guy didn’t even need to ask which ‘Zheng manor’ he was referring to. It was because in the entire Jinling City, the most famous one was the former prime minister, Zheng Qingfang’s manor.

  However, he felt a little nervous. He hadn’t even dared to step near such an influential place, let alone enter it. If he was caught, he’d be beaten to death for that.

  “Go quickly!” Old Wolf Ren urged. He then assessed Sun Mo, feeling admiration for him.

  To think that a newly employed teacher could be so amazing, taking in a student like Li Ziqi. How great could he become in the future?

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Old Wolf Ren +30. Friendly (110/1,000). “Ziqi, stay here. Old Wolf, take care of her.”

  After giving out instructions, Sun Mo left the forest. However, he had only taken a few steps when he got stunned. It was because the group with Xuanyuan Po in front had appeared from the path.

  Both sides met.

  “Teacher?”

  Ying Baiwu was elated and ran over at the very first instant.

  Tantai Yutang was speechless. (What happened to the opportunity to prove my value? With Sun Mo here, everything is a mess now)

  “Why have you guys come?”

  Sun Mo frowned.

  “Tantai brought us here.”

  Ying Baiwu betrayed Tantai Yutang right away without any hesitation.

  “Go over and hide.”

  Sun Mo was worried that the students would get into danger.

  “Teacher, are you going to fight your way in? Why don’t you attract their attention from the front while we sneak in secretly and search for Zhiruo’s traces?”

  Tantai Yutang suggested. “Stop being willful!” Sun Mo reprimanded, “All of you go hide quietly. Otherwise, don’t blame me for resorting to the house laws!”

  Tantai Yutang turned and looked toward Xuanyuan Po. “We have house laws?”

  “I haven’t heard of it!”

  Xuanyuan Po replied seriously.

  “This troublemaker!”

  Li Ziqi felt displeased. Tantai Yutang was too much of a troublemaker. If this question was posed to Jiang Leng or Ying Baiwu, the two of them would definitely not reply. However, Xuanyuan Po was just a combat addict whose brain was filled with nothing but muscles. He would have no idea that Tantai Yutang was just mocking Sun Mo.

  “You……”

  Sun Mo wasn’t in the mood for jokes.

  “Teacher, I’m in the wrong. But I can find Zhiruo.”

  Tantai Yutang interrupted Sun Mo and held back his ridiculing expression.

  “How did you find your way here?”

  Sun Mo was actually curious about this as well. Tantai Yutang was quite smart to be able to find this children-gifting Daoist temple so quickly. “My constitution is weak, so I often take medicine throughout the year, causing my body to emit a medicinal scent. I’m also very sensitive toward the smell of medicine.”

  Tantai Yutang explained, “Lu Zhiruo and I often come into contact, and thus my medicinal scent has rubbed onto her. I found my way here by relying on my nose.” “I don’t believe a single word this guy said,” Li Ziqi mumbled in her heart.

  In fact, after Tantai Yutang had seen Sun Mo expelling Zhou Yong, he had looked for an opportunity to smear a type of medicinal powder onto Li Ziqi and the others.

  Lu Zhiruo and Ying Baiwu were the two he had “taken care of” with greater emphasis.

  It was clear that Li Ziqi had a significant background, so if Zhou Yong were to be seeking revenge, he wouldn’t choose her. Xuanyuan Po and Jiang Leng were either too difficult to deal with or were trash. Even if he were to kill or cripple them, there wouldn’t be much interest. However, it was different for Lu Zhiruo and Ying Baiwu.

  The papaya girl especially was considered to be the closest to Sun Mo. If anything were to happen to her, Sun Mo would definitely be enraged and blame himself for life.

  If Tantai Yutang was in Zhou Yong’s shoes, he’d choose to target Lu Zhiruo as well.

  “Hmph, I’ve already said that I’m someone who relies on my brain for a living!”

  Although Tantai Yutang didn’t say anything, he was feeling exceptionally proud of himself. (Look, what I’ve done is to take prior precautions. It’s a pity that Sun Mo has come as well, so things aren’t perfect.)

  “Really?”

  Xuanyuan Po went up to Tantai Yutang and took a whiff but didn’t smell anything.

  Tantai Yutang pushed away the combat addict’s head. “Teacher, seeing that there are no government officials with you, you should have found your way here through information dealers? I’ve asked about this Daoist temple before I came. It has been around for many years, and its reputation is quite good. This means that this is a group of sly repeat offenders who knows how to make use of the human heart. I won’t believe that those priests are innocent.”

  Li Ziqi looked at Tantai Yutang. She didn’t expect this sickly guy’s brain to be quite good.

  “My plan is for you and Ziqi to play the role of a couple who had defied morals to be together and had come to seek a child. Try to think of a way to meet that head priest. Then, Xuanyuan Po would charge in, pretend to be a simp and cry out loudly in grief, shouting ‘Sun Mo you trash’.”

  Tantai Yutang didn’t care about the others and went on to share his plan. “At that moment, the head priest would definitely be shocked and distracted. Teacher could then draw your dagger and plunge it into his heart.”

  When Tantai Yutang said this, he even raised his hand to perform a thrusting gesture. “Be harsher, try to take his life in one blow!”

  “Don’t call me Ziqi! Call me Eldest Martial Sister!”

  To act as a couple with Teacher, Li Ziqi felt that this plan didn’t look bad. This was the first time she realized that Tantai Yutang had his good side.

  “Alright, Ziqi.”

  Tantai Yutang expressed that he understood.

  Li Ziqi decided to take down this score on the small booklet in her heart.

  “What if this Daoist temple’s head priest is innocent?”

  Jiang Leng, who had been quiet all this while, spoke up with a grim countenance.

  Swoosh!

  Everyone turned their gazes over. (Oh my, it’s unexpected that someone like you who always wears a dead-pan expression would turn out to be so kind?)

  “I’m also very worried about my elder martial sister’s safety, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.” Jiang Leng felt immense pressure with everyone looking at him. “Human lives are very precious, and he has a family as well. If he were to die, his wife and child would be upset.”

  “Don’t worry. Old priests won’t get married. So even if he were to die, no one would feel sad.”

  Tantai Yutang consoled him.

  Jiang Leng was speechless. (This wasn’t what I meant.)

  “Why should I be the one acting? Jiang Leng could also do it, right?”

  Xuanyuan Po felt displeased. He was going to be the guy who was number one in the spear, being proud and lofty. “I feel that Jiang Leng is better suited for it!”

  Ying Baiwu was in agreement. Judging from how Xuanyuan Po’s brain was filled with nothing but muscles, it was clear that he didn’t know how to act. They could be exposed then. Moreover, Jiang Leng clearly looked like a pervert. However, she couldn’t say this, or she’d hurt his pride.

  “Haha, Elder Martial Brother Jiang Leng is very agile. He’ll go to accompany me.”

  Tantai Yutang explained. “Xuanyuan Po’s acting might be a little worse off, but his battle prowess is high. He can protect Ziqi.” “I told you to call me Eldest Martial Sister!” Li Ziqi corrected him. “Alright, Li Ziqi.” Tantai Yutang continued to explain, “Moreover, Xuanyuan Po’s mission is just to shout ‘Sun Mo, you trash! You deserve to die a horrible death!’ Before he could show off his acting skills, the head priest would be stabbed by Teacher and killed, and a chaotic battle would break out. This is unless Teacher’s attack wasn’t vicious enough.”

  Li Ziqi admitted that Tantai Yutang’s plan wasn’t bad. But why was it that this curse sounded like he was taking the chance to deride Teacher?

  Alright. One more score to record.

  “I have objections!”

  Ying Baiwu raised her hand. “Li Ziqi’s physical capabilities are too weak. She’s a burden. I should be the one to play the wife!”

  “You can’t!”

  Li Ziqi immediately refused. (Such a symbolic character must be played by me, the Eldest Martial Sister.)

  “You can’t!”

  Tantai Yutang shook his head. Li Ziqi then felt that Tantai Yutang had a good side to him now. (Alright, I won’t fuss about the problem of you not calling me Eldest Martial Sister for now.)

  One score written off from the booklet. “Why?”

  Ying Baiwu wasn’t willing to accept this.

  “You’re too straightforward by nature, and it’s clear in one look that you’re a woman with great ambitions and won’t accept living a dull life. Pray to be pregnant with a child? You don’t have that motherly disposition.”

  Tantai Yutang explained.

  “Tsk. Do you think that I can’t tell that you’re trying to mock me for having a soft character in a concealed way?”

  Li Ziqi’s lips twitched. This mustn’t do. She must add back the score she had scratched out from earlier.

  Ying Baiwu fell silent.

  Tantai Yutang took a glance around, appearing pleased. He then looked toward Sun Mo. “Teacher, what do you think?” They weren’t fools. Therefore, although no one asked Tantai Yutang for his objectives, they all understood.

  That head priest had a high probability of being the boss of this human-trafficking group. His battle prowess was likely to be the highest as well. If he were to be assassinated first, the enemies would definitely be thrown into disarray.

  This was what it meant to be luring the enemy out. Tantai Yutang was going to take the opportunity of the chaos to find Lu Zhiruo and save her.

  What would happen if there were too many enemies and they couldn’t flee from the Daoist temple? Haha, why was there a need to run? Couldn’t they just kill all the enemies?

  Other than Li Ziqi, Tantai Yutang and the others thought the same way.

  “Are you certain that you’d be able to find Zhiruo?”

  Sun Mo took in a deep breath. He knew that once he agreed to this plan, his five students would have to risk their lives.

  “At most ten minutes.”

  Tantai Yutang assured.

  “Teacher, quickly make the decision. The longer we drag things out, the more dangerous it would be.”

  Li Ziqi urged.

  “Alright, we’ll do it this way. But remember, once there is danger, immediately retreat. Your safety must be put first and foremost.”

  Sun Mo made up his mind. Although Tantai Yutang was a lunatic, this plan was really perfect. What that was left would depend on how the students performed their roles.

  “Let’s go!”

  Tantai Yutang immediately called out, leading Jiang Leng and Ying Baiwu to enter the forest by the side of the road, conducting their search operation.

  “Let’s go!”

  Sun Mo started to think of any possible loopholes in this plan. “Everyone’s so amazing.”

  Li Ziqi felt very moved. She realized that Tantai Yutang was smiling, as if he had found something fun. Xuanyuan Po was looking very excited because he could get in a fight. Jiang Leng continued to wear a dead expression, seemingly not scared at all.

  As for Ying Baiwu, this girl had her lips pursed and wore a determined gaze. It seemed that she wouldn’t let things be until Lu Zhiruo was found.

  “This can’t do. As the Eldest Martial Sister, I can’t lose out to them.”

  Li Ziqi took a few quick steps and caught up with Sun Mo. She held onto his arm, and soon, wore an expression that looked unsettled while still filled with hope for the future.

  This image of a delicate female who had fallen in love with her teacher but was worried that this love relationship would end in a bad way, instantly fell into Xuanyuan Po’s eyes.

  Xuanyuan Po was astonished. His mother’s words were right. It wasn’t just women’s words that couldn’t be trusted. He mustn’t believe in any expression from them as well.

  The current Li Ziqi was definitely a great actress.

  Sun Mo entered the Daoist temple and immediately looked toward the dao page who was sweeping the courtyard. Sun Mo had just activated his Divine Sight when a red note popped up. “Human trafficker, facade, extremely good acting skills. Please take note to keep your guards up.”

  When the dao page saw Sun Mo and Li Ziqi, he wore a likable smile and bowed before going back to sweep the floor. Although he was quite young, he had a hint of unsecular disposition.

  This dao page looked very handsome. In addition to his clean and crisp priest robe, he looked very suave.

  Sun Mo observed every priest he encountered as he walked, his brows furrowing even deeply. They had entered a human-trafficker den.

  None of them were innocent.

  Sun Mo moved near to Li Ziqi’s ear, reminding her in a soft voice, “Be careful. All of them are human traffickers.”

  Li Ziqi blushed, but she still went on to hug Sun Mo’s arm tightly, behaving even more intimately. It wasn’t difficult to meet the head priest.

  Li Ziqi took ten golden leaves and bought incense and candles, then pretended to pray to the divine altar in the Three Purities Temple. She then slowed down her footsteps, pretending to be admiring the scenery while whispering away to Sun Mo.

  It didn’t take three minutes before a middle-aged man appeared.

  “I am Daoist White Bird, the head priest of the Three Purities Temple!”

  Daoist White Bird looked very amicable. “Judging from both of your physiognomies, it seems that you’re feeling greatly troubled.”

  “Hello, head priest!”

  Li Ziqi nodded and bowed, but thought nothing of him in her heart. As expected, the prowess of ten golden leaves was very powerful. She had thought that this guy would have to wait for over ten minutes before coming out.

  “Head priest!”

  Sun Mo wore an expression as if he was hesitant to speak up.

  “Teacher!”

  Li Ziqi called out at Sun Mo, grabbing onto his hand.

  Daoist White Bird’s ears twitched. He was an expert that had reached the divine force realm after all. This tiny mosquito-like voice wouldn’t be able to get past him.

  He couldn’t tell that this girl was actually so courageous.

  Daoist White Bird assessed Li Ziqi without leaving any traces. Her chests were like small purses, but she had a slim face that was extremely exquisite. Moreover, from her disposition and generosity, she was clearly someone from an influential family

  Daoist White Bird had sold too many women, and he could tell that this girl was of great quality. However, he didn’t dare to kidnap her to sell. Otherwise, he’d get into big trouble.

  But that didn’t matter. Girls like her were the best signboard. This was her greatest value.

  (If even a young miss from a noble family is a devotee of our Three Purities Temple, then which of those young married ladies would suspect that this was a demonic cave?)

  “I’m definitely eating this fish today.” Daoist White Bird withdrew his greed and distracting thoughts, appearing increasingly unsecular. He was like a living bodhisattva who would dispel troubles for others. Sun Mo wore a conflicted expression and started showing off his acting skills as well. However, he had already activated his Divine Sight.

  Fan Bai, 45 years old, second level of the divine force realm.

  Strength 37, went overboard in leaping, strength is in decline.

  At the sight of this, Sun Mo’s eyelids twitched furiously. Even if his strength was in decline, it would still be crushing Sun Mo by several times over.

  But this was normal. The higher the realm, the harder it was to cultivate. However, one’s battle prowess would also increase in folds. Intellect 46, sly and intelligent. Despite committing all sorts of evil deeds, you continue to roam freely. You can be said to be an old fox.

  Agility 50, escaping is your capability.

  Endurance 47, slept with too many women that his waist bone has turned soft. Will die on the stomach of a woman sooner or later. Will 36, scared of death. Wishes to enjoy life for his entire lifetime.

  High potential value!

  Note: Leader of human traffickers. As he roamed freely over the years, he had developed a proud mindset. This is something you can make use of.

  Note: You only have one chance to make your move. If you can’t grasp it, you’ll die. Densely-packed data appeared next to Daoist White Bird. Sun Mo quickly glanced through them, trying to find useful information.

  “To think that he is left-handed?”

  Sun Mo felt that things were very dangerous. The spot he launched the sneak attack was of utmost importance. He had planned on attacking from the left. After all, most people were right-handed and it wouldn’t be easy for them to fend off his attack. However, he had to change to attack his right side.

  “I’m going to create a perfect chance for Teacher to make his move!”

  Li Ziqi wore a worried expression, sharing her pain while appearing embarrassed. She looked just like a dainty lady who seemed to be feeling lost about her future. This reduced the Daoist White Bird’s wariness greatly.

  “Tsk, he can even get on with his female student. This teacher is really something!”

  Daoist White Bird felt really envious. It’d definitely be very exciting to have such a teacher-student love relationship. However, he started to feel proud next. (I’ve also slept with a few female students. Although they weren’t as pretty as this one is, that youthful feeling was still very great.) Sun Mo feigned a troubled appearance, ‘casually’ walking up to Daoist White Bird’s right side. He was waiting for Xuanyuan Po’s bellow while feeling enraged in his heart.

  “Since you dared to kidnap my lucky mascot, today, all of you will have to die!”


  Chapter 200 Fresh Blood Massacre, Each Slash Exploding Heads!

  The smell of incense permeated in the Three Purities Temple’s hall.

  Li Ziqi’s voice was soft and gentle as she cried while sharing a story. She acted the role of a girl who was in love with her teacher but didn’t wish for this relationship to destroy her teacher’s career.

  Daoist White Bird, as someone with impure thoughts, was feeling some pity for Li Ziqi and a little envious of Sun Mo. It was so lucky for one to be able to get a wife who loved and cared for you so much in your lifetime.

  Sun Mo stood at the side, his scalp turning numb from Li Ziqi’s act.

  Why was it that everyone was acting, but she was so outstanding?

  Regardless if it was her voice, expression, or the small movements of rolling her sleeves up with her fingers, they all caused Sun Mo to suspect that she was really in love with him, and they were involved in a teacher-student love relationship. Even Sun Mo was affected this much, let alone Daoist White Bird.

  Right now, Li Ziqi was definitely giving an Oscar-level performance. The judges would probably still feel bad even if they were to give her two trophies at one go, feeling that it wouldn’t be a good representation of her capabilities.

  He had to say that other than having extremely bad physical capabilities, the little sunny egg was really a perfect girl.

  Li Ziqi was only 13 years old and didn’t have much battle prowess. Moreover, she was definitely very nervous and scared to be in a ‘woman-eating demonic cave’, but she forcibly suppressed such emotions and carried her mission out perfectly. This head priest was the boss of human-traffickers and had done all sorts of evil deeds in his life. He was also very strong. If Sun Mo was unable to take his life in one try, then the head priest would definitely hold her hostage.

  Given Li Ziqi’s intellect, it was impossible for her to not think of this. However, she didn’t hesitate to save her martial junior Li Ziqi.

  “Sigh!”

  When Daoist White Bird heard Li Ziqi’s pitiful and beautiful love story, he couldn’t help but sigh. However, at this moment, an explosive enraged bellow rang out.

  “Sun Mo, you trash! Return Li Ziqi to me!”

  Xuanyuan Po came dashing in, glaring fiercely.

  Swoosh!

  All the gazes in the hall instantly landed on this tall and strong young man.

  “Oh my god, Xuanyuan Po, why is your acting so bad? Why is it that you’re scolding our teacher but glaring at Daoist White Bird instead?”

  Li Ziqi complained in her heart, worried that the flaws would be exposed. However, at this moment, Sun Mo made his move. The timing was perfect.

  “What the hell? There’s even a love triangle?”

  Daoist White Bird was stunned. This was probably the most interesting show of the year, right? However, at this moment, his sixth sense felt that something wasn’t right. All of his hairs instantly stood up.

  This was his instinctive reaction toward killing intents after having been through too many life-and-death battles.

  Daoist White Bird didn’t even think and just slapped the back of his palm toward Sun Mo. Although he couldn’t see Sun Mo, his experience told him that Sun Mo must be the one who was attacking him.

  Bang!

  The fist and palm collided and a wave of qi currents erupted.

  Daoist White Bird retreated violently, his expression being a mixture of shock and fury. “Who are you guys?”

  An intense pain broke out in his chest, and Daoist White Bird lowered his head. He saw that a dagger had pierced to the left side of his heart, almost taking his life.

  “Protect Ziqi.”

  Sun Mo let out an explosive bellow, pouncing toward Daoist White Bird.

  “Head priest!”

  “Daoist!”

  “Kill them!”

  Sun Mo had stabbed the hornets’ nest, and all the priests came gushing over. However, as this was an emergency, the priests didn’t have any weapons on hand.

  “Silver-chan, after being hungry for so long, have a good taste of fresh blood to your heart’s content!”

  Xuanyuan Po said this and then tugged off the cover for his spear with a swoosh, revealing his silver spear. He shook his wrist and then the spear burst out in bright light, materializing a blooming spear flower that was encasing those priests.

  The few priests had wanted to pounce toward Li Ziqi to capture her, but their vision was affected by this skill, which left behind countless silver-colored light spots that were like the stars in the night sky.

  The priests were all spooked out and didn’t dare to charge forth forcibly, assuming their full defense.

  In this little bit of time, Xuanyuan Po had appeared next to Li Ziqi, sweeping out his longspear again.

  “Those in the divine force realm are really hard to handle!”

  Sun Mo was speechless. Regardless if it was his timing, attack angle, or strength, he felt that he had done them to the best. However, he still didn’t manage to clinch the kill.

  Sun Mo felt upset, but Daoist White Bird was astonished.

  (Who’s this guy? Why is he so amazing? His move was as smooth as flowing water.)

  Putting aside that he was now injured, even if he had taken the attack in his perfect condition, he could only rely on his capabilities to suppress Sun Mo with force. As for taking each move as they came? He’d definitely get bashed up if he were to do that.

  Cough cough!

  Daoist White Bird made a move, circulating his spirit qi. However, he immediately aggravated his wound and coughed up two mouthfuls of blood. That blade attack had been really brutal.

  Moreover, his luck was too horrible. If Sun Mo were to make a move on his left side, he might have been able to block it.

  Sun Mo got closer and closer toward him.

  Pata! Pata!

  Blood gushed out from Daoist White Bird’s body, dripping all over the floor. “Die!”

  Daoist White Bird knew that if he were to drag this on, he’d definitely die. Therefore, he clenched his teeth, disregarding that his injury would be aggravated and performing his ultimate move.

  Thousand White Needles!

  Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

  The soft floating dust in Daoist White Bird’s hands suddenly stood up and erupted, shooting out countless spirit qi needles that instantly encompassed Sun Mo.

  “Let’s see how you’re going to dodge from such a close distance.”

  Daoist White Bird looked at Sun Mo who was three meters in front of him while breaking into a savage smile.

  It had been 30 years since he had started out until now, and not a single person had managed to dodge this move.

  “Don’t kill them, I want them alive. How dare they assassinate me. I want them to live a life worse than death……”

  Daoist White Bird wasn’t able to continue the rest of his sentence. His eyes opened wide, and his face was filled with astonishment as he looked at Sun Mo with disbelief.

  For some reason, the countless spirit qi needles were reflected back.

  In that instant, Daoist White Bird was so scared that his soul was leaving his body. He only had one thought left on his mind. “Damn!”

  At the next instant!

  The needle light shot out, drowning Daoist White Bird.

  Pffft! Pffft! Pffft!

  Daoist White Bird instantly became a porcupine. Then, his body turned stiff and he fell to the ground.

  Bang!

  Dust flew up.

  “Take this execution as an example! By order of the provincial governor, put down your weapons and surrender to be pardoned from death!”

  Sun Mo bellowed out, his deafening voice ringing through the hall. “Head priest!”

  All the priests appeared anxious as they had lost their pillar. What should they do? Right now, the priests were all overwhelmed with both shock and fury. It was as if the end of the world had come.

  The head priest was an expert at the divine force realm. To think that he was killed. Wouldn’t they be courting death to be charging up? Moreover, judging from this young man’s words, this was a planned annihilation operation.

  Could it be that this base had been discovered?

  That was right, they had been committing evil deeds in the Three Purities Temple for over five years. If they still weren’t discovered, then the government would be too useless.

  At the thought of this, the priests no longer had the will to continue with the battle. They were starting to think about how they should flee to save their lives.

  “Send out the signal! Let the army start to charge in!”

  Sun Mo bellowed.

  Hearing this, the priests felt even more terrified. They had no idea that Sun Mo didn’t even have a single backup and was playing psychological warfare with them.

  However, anyone else in their shoes wouldn’t suspect him. Who would be foolish enough to charge his way into a demonic cave by themselves? Did they not want their lives anymore?

  “Why persuade them to surrender? These evil-doers should all be killed!”

  Xuanyuan Po was bathed in blood, sweeping his silver spear around and bringing forth agonizing cries.

  Hearing this, the priests looked at Xuanyuan Po in fury. (Hey, you’re young. but yet you’re so vicious.)

  “I’ll kill you!”

  A priest let out a furious bellow but didn’t charge forth. Instead, he retreated toward a small door.

  There was no helping it. This young man’s attacks were too sharp. Moreover, they were all moves that traded injuries with even bigger injuries! Who would be able to handle those?

  These human traffickers weren’t fugitives who took people on and killed them. What they did were ‘technical jobs’.

  To make it easier to understand, they just excelled in using schemes to do other people in.

  After Sun Mo killed Daoist White Bird, he pounced toward an anxious-looking priest. This guy was of a lower cultivation realm and was also scared. He was an easy target to kill.

  Under this situation of being disadvantageous in numbers, they must destroy the enemies’ will to retaliate as soon as possible Otherwise, it’d be bad if they were surrounded and killed.

  The best way to do so was naturally to kill even more people. Under the support from his Divine Sight, Sun Mo could pick out the weaklings effortlessly and then crush them.

  Hu!

  The black sandalwood blade sliced through the wind and immediately struck on a priest’s head.

  Bang!

  His head was like a big watermelon that was thrown to the floor at full force, shattering outright. The red blood and white brain juice were mixed together and splattered all over the place.

  “Easy!”

  Sun Mo heaved a sigh of relief. Thankfully, the strongest leader already died, and the others were a lot easier to deal with now. To speak the truth, he had taken on an extremely great risk earlier.

  If he hadn’t used Paying someone back in their own coin and Invulnerable Golden Body, killing Daoist White Bird by catching him unaware, he’d be the one lying down there, dead.

  This was the advantage of a saint-tier cultivation art.

  Just as the flow of the battle was turning for the better, the priest who had retreated to the back door suddenly let out an agonizing cry, falling back into the temple and spurting out blood.

  “Kill the men and take the women away.”

  Three men darted in, staring at Sun Mo with brutal expressions.

  They were the leaders of this organization and were quite capable. They instantly assessed the situation and even if they were to leave, they must bring Li Ziqi together with them.

  This girl definitely had some status. If they were to take her hostage, their chances of being safe would increase tremendously.

  When the lost priests saw these three men, their emotions stabilized quite a bit. However, when they saw Sun Mo, their scalps started to turn numb again.

  Wasn’t this guy too brutal? Even though he was using a wooden blade, each of his attacks was crushing heads. That was right. This guy didn’t attack anywhere else. He kept on hacking, smashing, and beating the heads. Moreover, his accuracy was terrifyingly high.

  Each head that was hit would just explode, leaving behind a pile of soft, flabby, and disgusting stuff.

  What was even more terrifying than death?

  To be brutally killed!

  The Sun Mo at the moment was using bloody and brutal means to bring forth endless terror.

  Everyone bellowed, but no one went up.

  “You little b*stard, when I started killing people, you were still in your mother’s womb and wasn’t born yet.”

  A muscular man holding onto a great saber came pouncing over with a fierce disposition.

  Sun Mo stared in his direction.

  The fifth level of the blood-ignition realm, specialized in strong attacks.

  “Strong attacks?”

  Sun Mo pursed his lips and faced him head-on.

  With there being so many priests watching, he mustn’t cower. Otherwise, Li Ziqi and Xuanyuan Po would be in trouble. “Arrogant!”

  The man’s countenance was savage and he hacked his great saber toward Sun Mo’s neck.

  Copy activated!

  In Sun Mo’s eyes, all movements had slowed down. He then swung his wooden blade.

  Colors of Autumn!

  Swoosh!

  Bang!

  The great saber didn’t strike Sun Mo’s neck but had only reached his shoulder. However, this was enough. Given the man’s strength, it was sufficient to hack Sun Mo into two. But at the next instant, the man was taken by great surprise.

  It was because the sense of touch wasn’t right.

  As Daoist White Bird’s strongest subordinate, he was responsible for the rough job such as fighting. Therefore, he had hacked many people before and was very familiar with how it felt when a saber sank into flesh and broke bones. But this time, he didn’t have that feeling.

  “Why?”

  The man didn’t have to think of the reason. He had just shown perplexity on his rough and big face when a wooden blade came sweeping over.

  Bang!

  Another head was crushed.

  As brain juice splattered away, a bloody skull bone went flying out. With a splat, it landed in front of a few priests.

  Splash!

  The few priests’ countenances were really pale and they quickly backed off. It was as if they had met some kind of venomous snake.

  “Who is this guy?”

  “Another instant kill?”

  “He crushes another head!”

  The priests were all shocked and terrified.

  “Excellent!”

  Xuanyuan Po looked very excited and couldn’t help but cheer.

  This was the battle style that he liked the most. Why dodge? Why block? Just attack! Attack! And attack again until the enemies were all crushed!

  The Sun Mo at the moment was a good fit for Xuanyuan Po’s sense of beauty.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Xuanyuan Po +100. Friendly (361/1,000).

  “Teacher is so amazing!”

  Li Ziqi held onto a dagger. While feeling worried for Sun Mo, she also couldn’t help but feel excited. Teacher Sun was really too cool, astonishing everyone single-handedly.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Li Ziqi +100. Friendly (930/1,000).

  “Teacher?”

  When the priests heard this address, they were a little stunned. Wasn’t this person from the government? They then started to feel angry. (You’re a teacher. Even if you didn’t teach your lessons or beat your students to punish them, you could just go get into a teacher-student love relationship. Why are you running here to kill people?)

  “Everyone, attack together!”

  The two remaining men exchanged a glance and made up their mind to pounce toward Sun Mo together.

  Sun Mo’s shoulder was aching really badly. Although he had taken the enemy’s saber attack head-on with his Invulnerable Golden Body and didn’t bleed, his bones were definitely hurt.

  However, Sun Mo didn’t care about it. His brain moved rapidly, thinking about how to deal with them as fast as he could.

  The longer this kind of battle dragged out, the more disadvantageous it was for him. “Die!”

  The two men attacked Sun Mo from the left and right concurrently.

  “The one to die is you!”

  Sun Mo stared at the one on the right. With a boom, a tremendous amount of red fog was emitted from his body.

  “What the hell?”

  The two men were very shocked, but the one on the left took it a little easier. After all, this young man was strong enough to be able to kill the second leader with one strike.

  It was better to let his companion wear him down for a little! But in an instant, he heard his comrade’s anxious call.

  “Help!”

  The man on the right was freaking out. Each time he blocked, he felt extremely miserable. He was like a small boat in a heavy storm and could be overthrown at any time.

  “This is a freaking crazy dog! Who fights like that?”

  The man was scared.

  He was suppressed in terms of disposition.

  “Don’t panic, I’ll come!”

  The man on the left had just shouted when he saw another Sun Mo darting out from the red fog. He held onto a wooden blade and struck toward the man on the left’s throat.

  Crimson lips!

  The man put his blade horizontally to block, but just as he was about to hit the wooden blade, it flicked up agilely, piercing toward his eyes.

  “F*ck!”

  The man was so shocked that his hairs were standing upright. This move was really ingenious.

  Swoosh!

  The man turned his head and dodged it, but his ear was still brushed by the wooden blade, hurting like hell. It was also because of this that he didn’t dare to attack recklessly.

  It started off as a two versus one, but how could there be two Sun Mo as well?

  “This……”

  The priests’ scalps turned numb from seeing this. How could he call out a clone? Moreover, the clone’s battle prowess was just as strong as the original.

  My god, this was definitely saint-tier cultivation art!

  Pushing back the opponent with a single move, Sun Mo’s Universe Formless Clone immediately turned and pounced toward the man on the right, attacking the enemy consecutively together with Sun Mo.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Double combo of Immemorial Vairocana encompassed the guy.

  “Save me!”

  The man bellowed loudly, and amidst the hurry, his long saber was flicked away, opening up a loophole.

  Hu!

  A wooden blade came sweeping over.

  Bang!

  It was another head explosion.

  The man on the left turned to run without any hesitation.

  “Thinking of running?”

  Sun Mo let out a cold snort, moving gracefully.

  Beauty Yu!

  Relying on a movement technique he didn’t know the grade of, Sun Mo instantly caught up to the man and struck his wooden blade toward the back of his head.

  Gale Shooting Moon!

  Pffft!

  The wooden blade cut through the wind.

  The man tried his best to twist his waist, blocking at full power. Ding!

  The wooden blade was pushed away, but before the man could heave a sigh of relief, an afterimage appeared just beside him.

  “Shit, there was another one!”

  Before the feelings of despair could even rise in his heart, his head had been crushed by the wooden blade. With a ‘bang’, his skull went flying up to the sky!

  Sun Mo panted vigorously and bellowed out. “Who else?”

  The priests instantly dispersed like birds, fleeing for their lives. There was no other way out. Their boss and the few leaders had all been killed. What was the point of continuing the fight?

  “Teacher!”

  Li Ziqi immediately came charging forward to support Sun Mo. “Teacher, aren’t you too amazing?”

  Xuanyuan Po looked toward the clone.

  Bang!

  The clone shattered into a lump of red fog, returning to Sun Mo’s body once again.

  “This is basic, don’t be surprised. Stay calm!”

  Li Ziqi beamed. The victory was close at hand.

  “Go look for Tantai!”

  As Sun Mo said that, he darted to the backyard.

  After consecutive intense battles, his spirit qi was already depleted. To speak the truth, if it wasn’t because the situation was urgent, he wouldn’t use this kind of crazy-dog attacking method. If there had been a slip, he’d have been the fallen one.

  “I didn’t expect that a guy as handsome as teacher has such a hot-blooded battle style!”

  Xuanyuan Po exclaimed.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Xuanyuan Po +100. Friendly (461/1,000).

  Due to his love for battles, Xuanyuan Po was very satisfied to see Sun Mo’s earlier performance. He wondered if he could do it just as perfectly as his teacher had done.

  “Teacher Sun, how are you?”

  Old Wolf Ren led his subordinates and charged in, only to see the chaos all over the place.

  “This…… this…… the battle is already over?”

  Old Wolf Ren had his eyes and mouth agape. As he wanted to earn some merit, he had been placing attention onto the movements in the Daoist temple. After hearing the killing calls, he immediately led his men and charged inside. However, he didn’t expect it to still be too late.

  “F*ck, this is brutal.”

  When his subordinates saw the few corpses and their crushed heads, they couldn’t help but gasp. They could feel their scalps freezing

  “Why are you stunned there? Go look for the girl!”

  Old Wolf Ren urged, “And take all the hostages you can.”

  After saying that, Old Wolf Ren gave his trusted subordinate a glance, gesturing for him to go look for the money. A human-trafficker organization like this would definitely have a tremendous amount of money stashed away in secret.

  Chapter 201 Why Would I Care about What Powerful Connections You Have? KILL!

  At a posh residence in the backyard of the Three Purities Temple.

  Li Can took a warm bath and after he ate, he heaved his tummy up and walked toward a small courtyard.

  “Zhou Yong, if the quality of this merchandise isn’t good, don’t blame me for falling out with you.”

  Li Can yawned and had a look of fatigue on his face. He had played with a semi-courtesan for the entire night in Concentrated Fragrance Brothel last time, and the activity was even more intense than usual.

  That semi-courtesan initially said that she wouldn’t sell her body.

  (Hmph, is this daddy some ordinary man? This daddy is the fifth son of Li Zixing, a little prince. You are asking who is Li Zixing?)

  Li Zixing was the younger blood brother of the Great Tang emperor. They were born from the same mother and he was given Jinling City to govern. One could say that in Jinling, Li Zixing’s power and authority were the greatest. Out of all nobles here, his status was the highest.

  In that case, Li Can naturally was the second-generation royalty of the highest status. Listen carefully. The word ‘royal’ was present. Hence, his status was much higher compared to the ‘official’ second generation, which consisted of the sons and daughters of the officials.

  (You are just a mere semi-courtesan, what airs are you putting up before me? In the end, didn’t you obediently allow me to pop your cherry and play you half-to-death?) “I know the little prince’s preferences.”

  Zhou Yong chortled. It wasn’t the first or second time he and Li Can were doing such things, and he had long since grown familiar with it. But what would happen if his father knew?

  Hehe, this was taught by his father.

  Actually, Zhou Yong had wanted to fawn on Li Tai. After all, Li Tai was the son that Li Zixing doted on the most. However, who asked Li Tai to be so overflowing with talent? Li Tai looked down on people like him; hence, Zhou Yong could only retreat a few steps and play with Li Can.

  Luckily, Li Can was also among the top three favorites out of Li Zixing’s sons. It was all thanks to his mother who was once a famous courtesan of Jiangnan. She was beautiful and highly skilled in performances. Hence, Li Zixing doted on her a lot.

  Moreover, Li Can inherited the good looks of his mother. With a handsome face, he naturally had more chances to prove himself and was doted on more.

  Naturally, no one knew that under the handsome appearances of this little prince, there was a venomous and perverse heart.

  Coincidentally, he and Zhou Yong fit very well together as the latter was a very scheming individual.

  (Sun Mo, are you not very awesome? You don’t place my father, one of the richest merchants in Jinling, in your eyes, correct? In that case, I will find you an even stronger opponent.)

  (What about Prince Li Zixing?)

  (In the eyes of these people, if they slept with your daughter or your wife, it meant that they were giving you face. If you aren’t convinced, then they will make every moment of your life a living hell.

  This move by Zhou Yong was called borrowing someone’s blade to kill others.

  “It’s all your fault. I initially planned to carve the word ‘whore slave’ on the face of the semi-courtesan when I woke up, but there was no time.”

  Li Can sighed in regret.

  “You can carve the words after you return.”

  Zhou Yong smiled. “You don’t understand. When doing things like this, the state of mind is very important. Besides, I’m afraid that the semi-courtesan might jump into a well to commit suicide. After all, something like this had happened before.”

  After Li Can spoke, he started laughing. “However, even if she died, I will feed her corpse to the dogs. If she dares to be disobedient, I’ll make her regret being born.”

  Zhou Yong laughed along, yet he was coldly sneering in his heart. (Damn, people always say that I, Zhou Yong, am an evil school tyrant. But if one was to compare me and him, I’m actually nothing much.)

  Li Can basically didn’t put anyone in his eyes. He treated everyone else like crickets as he pitted them against each other. He didn’t care whether you lived or died. It was fine as long as he was happy.

  Ha!

  Li Can yawned again, too tired from yesterday’s play. Hence, he even took a nap in the morning, but it was useless.

  “Trash.”

  Zhou Yong silently mumbled in disdain. Zhou Yong despised him, but it was impossible for him to give Li Can time to rest. He wanted Li Can to hurry up and play Lu Zhiruo until she was crippled. After that, he would send Lu Zhiruo back to Sun Mo and let him take a good look.

  Sun Mo would most probably explode from rage, right?

  Haha, that scene would surely be an extremely joyful one to watch.

  Creak!

  The door to the small courtyard was pushed over, and the two of them entered with familiar ease. Usually, there would be people in the backyard of the Three Purities Temple. But because today the little prince and Zhou Yong were coming, everyone was naturally driven off the premises. If not, what would happen if they spoiled the mood of these two?

  But because of these factors, it was also more convenient for Tantai Yutang and the other two to sneak in.

  The bright sunlight illuminated the room through the windows.

  In the corner of the room, there was a girl with her hands bound. There was a pitiful look on her face; she looked like a lost kitten.

  Upon hearing the noise, Lu Zhiruo inclined her head.

  “Beautiful!” Li Can praised loudly. He lifted his hand and patted Zhou Yong’s shoulder. “Where did you find such a beautiful girl from?”

  “She’s from Shengjing!”

  Zhou Yong looked through Lu Zhiruo’s case file.

  “There are no problems, right?”

  Li Can wasn’t a retard. Although his father could settle the aftermath the majority of the time, it was still quite troublesome and he would often be punished.

  “No problem, she is from a minor family.” Zhou Yong set Li Can’s mind at ease.

  “Is she still a virgin?”

  Li Can gulped down a mouthful of saliva. He was very worried that he would hear an unsatisfactory reply. After all, for such a beautiful girl, she wouldn’t be perfect if her chastity wasn’t intact.

  “I naturally did my best to select the best gift for little prince.”

  Zhuo Yong’s lips curled.

  “Haha, well done!”

  Li Can patted Zhou Yong’s arms. After that, he walked over.

  Lu Zhiruo cowered back in her corner. This scum had an extremely disgusting scent.

  “Little sister, I’m a big baddie. I’m going to eat you up later.”

  Li Can loved the expressions on the faces of his prey that would turn from helplessness, to panic, and finally to despair.

  “I’m not going to listen, I’m not going to listen!”

  “My father will protect me!”

  “My teacher will come and save me!”

  Lu Zhiruo mumbled. Her eyes never lost hope from the start until the end.

  “Teacher? It’s a question whether he realized you are missing or not.” Zhou Yong chortled. Daoist White Bird might not be too good in other stuff, but as for kidnapping people, he was an ace. It was even easier for a brainless target like Lu Zhiruo.

  Daoist White Bird had made use of her kindness and succeeded easily in kidnapping her.

  Tantai Yutang, Jiang Leng, and Ying Baiwu were hiding under a wall not far away.

  Pak! Pak!

  Jiang Leng lightly patted Tantai’s shoulder. “When should we act?”

  “No worry!”

  Tantai Yutang made a gesture to signal them to continue waiting.

  “Why?”

  Ying Baiwu couldn’t understand.

  “In any case, we already found her and also confirmed that Zhiruo is not injured. In that case, what we should do next is naturally to enjoy the feeling of satisfaction of successfully killing our prey.”

  Tantai Yutang shrugged.

  (When the enemies are at their most complacent moment, we will give them the most brutal strike. This is simply a wondrous matter. Che, I’m not going to say anything more. Even if I said more, you guys wouldn’t understand.)

  Jiang Leng glanced at Tantai Yutang as the corners of his lips twitched. Although he knew that this junior brother of his was a little mentally unsound, he didn’t expect it to be so serious.

  “Crazy!”

  Ying Baiwu frowned. She stood up and wanted to barge in immediately. Given her personality, she wouldn’t care if Tantai Yutang would get angry.

  Pak!

  Tantai Yutang grabbed hold of Ying Baiwu. “It would be far too merciful if we kill these scums just like that.”

  “No, I cannot allow Zhiruo to suffer any injury, or I would have no way to answer to teacher.”

  Ying Baiwu rejected. But when she turned, she saw Sun Mo grabbing a little daoist by his hand while rushing madly over. “Teacher?” Ying Baiwu was joyfully surprised. “So quick?”

  Tantai Yutang was astonished. Even if his teacher was killing chickens, it was impossible for him to arrive here so quickly, right?”

  It seemed like he had to reevaluate his teacher’s combat strength.

  In the room, Li Can squatted by Lu Zhiruo’s side. He stretched out his hand and stroked her hair. “Can you scream? Why don’t you scream? If you don’t scream, I can’t get excited!”

  Li Can was extremely eccentric, exuding the aura of a top-notch pervert.

  Lu Zhiruo was very afraid. Her eyes were red but no tears flowed. She also didn’t scream at all. “My father said before, I have to be a girl with perseverance.”

  “Oh? How determined are you?”

  Li Can held a lock of Lu Zhiruo’s hair in his grasp. When they were speaking, his countenance suddenly turned malevolent as he violently pulled.

  “Pervert!”

  Zhou Yong mentally spoke. (This daddy’s methods are still inferior to yours.)

  The papaya girl’s body was tugged sideways from the pull. But even so, she didn’t scream. Instead, she looked at Li Can and spoke in a serious tone, “I believe my teacher would surely rush over here to save me. At that time, you would definitely die.”

  “Hehe, I’m going to make you suffer so much now that you would wish to die.”

  Li Can grinned. After that, he pulled Lu Zhiruo’s hair toward him as he leaned in, preparing to forcefully kiss her. But at this very moment, the sound of wind breaking rang out.

  Swish!

  A wooden blade dyed red in blood rapidly shot over, heavily smashing into Li Can’s face.

  “Ah!!!”

  Li Can screamed in pain. His body directly slammed onto the ground due to the impact of the wooden blade.

  Pu! Li Can coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood in which two of his teeth could also be seen flying out.

  “Argh, it’s so painful. My face, my teeth!”

  Li Can clutched his face as he rolled on the ground.

  “What the hell?”

  Zhou Yong was terrified. He abruptly turned and saw Sun Mo rushing past him. Sun Mo arrived by Li Can’s side and lifted his feet, aiming a kick directly at Li Can’s head.

  Bang!

  Li Can’s head was knocked back, and his entire person spun like a spinning top. After that, a ‘bang’ rang out as he slammed into the wall.

  “Sun……Sun Mo?”

  Zhou Yong had a look of disbelief. (Are my eyes dazzled? Why did this fellow appear?) “Who the hell are you? You actually dare to hit me?” Li Can cursed, “I’m going to peel off your skin!”

  “Teacher?”

  Lu Zhiruo, who had had her hand clasped on her mouth, immediately showed a look of surprise and joy on her face. After that, she could no longer endure the terror and fright in her heart, and she started to cry.

  “Boohoo…… Teacher, I’m scared!”

  Tear stains could be seen on Lu Zhiruo’s beautiful face. She seemed incomparably miserable.

  Upon hearing the papaya girl’s quavering voice, Sun Mo’s temper raged even fiercer. He lifted his feet and stomped down on Li Can’s head.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  He ferociously stomped down three times.

  Li Can’s head felt as though it was trampled by a rhino. He fell completely into a daze as his nose began to bleed. “Do you know who I am? Do you know? Men, come and kill him for me!”

  Because he wanted to do something bad, Li Can didn’t bring his guards today. After all, he came here many times before and nothing had happened to him.

  Li Can shouted.

  “You are not allowed to flee!”

  Sun Mo roared in rage.

  Zhou Yong naturally wouldn’t listen. As Li Can was shouting, he turned and fled immediately.

  “Hmph!”

  Sun Mo snorted coldly. A large quantity of red-colored mist flooded from his body. The mist instantly congealed into a universe formless clone and began to pursue Zhou Yong.

  “Oi, scum. This road is blocked!”

  Xuanyuan Po carried his silver spear and blocked Zhou Yong’s way.

  “Scram!”

  Zhou Yong howled in rage. He then saw Ying Baiwu and the others coming out from the corner. Just when he was thinking of which way to flee, a hand blade directly smashed into the back of his neck.

  Bang!

  Zhou Yong’s body momentarily lost all sense of awareness. He slumped onto the ground, paralyzed.

  The clone grabbed Zhou Yong by his hair and dragged him into the house.

  “Teacher! Zhiruo!”

  Li Ziqi wanted to enter, but she was stopped by Tantai Yutang.

  “Wait, the scene that would be happening next isn’t fit for girls to see!”

  “I’m not afraid!”

  Li Ziqi pushed Tantai Yutang away.

  “It’s all your fault.”

  Ying Baiwu glared at Tantai Yutang. Earlier, they could have saved Lu Zhiruo but Tantai Yutang had told them to wait. If their teacher learned of this, he would surely blame them for not doing the right thing at that moment.

  Ying Baiwu worshipped Sun Mo, and she was very mindful of her position in his heart.

  Seeing that he wasn’t able to stop his fellow apprentice siblings, Tantai Yutang shrugged and followed them out.

  “Boss, what about us?”

  Some subordinates asked Old Wolf Ren.

  “We will not listen, nor look, nor care about anything.”

  Old Wolf Ren instructed. This was his philosophy in life. For things that mustn’t be asked, he wouldn’t even glance at them in case he drew trouble to himself.

  When Li Ziqi saw Li Can, she frowned.

  “F*** you. You should die. I’m Li Can, my father is Li Zixing. Do you know him?”

  Li Can roared loudly. His eyes were red as he glared at Sun Mo.

  Sun Mo crouched on the ground and pulled Li Can’s hair, dragging his head higher. “I know!”

  “Hehe, are you afra……”

  Before Li Can could say the word ‘afraid’, Sun Mo already grabbed his head and slammed it into the floor.

  Bang!

  Wounds appeared on his face, and the bridge of his nose broke as fresh blood flowed freely out.

  “My father is Li Zixing, he is a prince!

  Li Can thought that Sun Mo had assumed his father was a nameless nobody. Hence, he reiterated. But just when he finished speaking, his head was smashed into the floor again.

  Bang!

  Even the dust on the ground was kicked up from the impact.

  “I already said that I know.”

  Sun Mo’s voice was cold.

  “You still hit me although you knew? I’m a relative of the emperor, a true-blue second-generation royalty. If you injure me, your entire clan would be put to death!”

  Li Can coughed up more blood. He looked at the cold face of Sun Mo and suddenly felt fear. This fellow was so gusty to the max. Upon hearing Li Can’s identity, Ying Baiwu and Jiang Leng’s expressions drastically changed. Let alone a little prince, they couldn’t even afford to offend a child of a constable.

  Xuanyuan Po leaned against the door and remained unmoved. Tantai Yutang was whistling a little tune. “Is that so?”

  Sun Mo pulled Li Can’s hair, dragging his face up. After that, he continued slapping while switching between his front hand and back hand.

  Pak, pak, pak! The sounds of slaps resounded loudly.

  “Why do I care if you have powerful connections and are a relative of the emperor? Since you dare to harm my student, you are dead for sure!”

  Sun Mo was burning with anger. If he was late by one step, Lu Zhiruo’s future would have been ruined.

  After hearing Sun Mo’s words, other than Xuanyuan Po, the eyes of the other students lit up as their favorable impression of Sun Mo surged. This was especially so for Ying Baiwu, her gaze was filled with fanaticism.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Ying Baiwu +100. Friendly (600/1,000).

  “Zhiruo, do you want to do it personally?”

  Sun Mo asked.

  The papaya girl shook her head.

  “Teacher, why don’t I kill them for you?”

  Tantai Yutang volunteered. “You mustn’t let trash like them stain your hands. Moreover, I will guarantee that after they reincarnated into their next lives, they wouldn’t have the guts to do bad things anymore.”

  “No need!”

  Sun Mo spoke. He grabbed Li Can’s neck and prepared to break it.

  “Teacher Sun!”

  Old Wolf Ren appeared outside the door. “I discovered a cellar. Do you want to come and take a look?”

  “Lead the way.”

  Sun Mo loosened his grip and threw Li Can to Jiang Leng. “Bring the two of them along.” Old Wolf Ren was proficient in tracking. After questioning the daoists they captured, he soon discovered a dried-up well. He discovered a cellar there. Pitter patter!

  The icy cold droplets of water dripped down from the stone walls above. A drop of water dripped onto Li Ziqi’s nape, causing her to subconsciously shrink back as she hugged Sun Mo’s arm tightly.

  “It’s a little smelly!”

  Li Ziqi frowned and pressed her nose together.

  A pungent smell began to permeate the air. “Girls, do you want to withdraw for now?”

  Old Wolf Ren led the way while carrying an oil lamp. Before they turned a corner, he looked at Li Ziqi and asked.

  “I’m not afraid!”

  Li Ziqi directly walked over. After that, her entire body froze.

  On the other side of the corner, after taking a few steps forward, there was a hole of over ten meters deep. Other than bones, there were still over thirty women. The older ones were in their twenties and the younger ones were merely seven to eight years of age. At this moment, all of them were naked.

  Upon seeing the light, these female captives immediately knelt on the ground and clasped their hands. If they didn’t do this, they would be beaten up and had to suffer the pangs of hunger. “Save them!”

  Sun Mo frowned.

  Xuanyuan Po and Jiang Leng immediately rushed out. They broke open the jail’s door and leaped down into the hold.

  “The damnable Li Can and Zhou Yong are actually partners in human trafficking!”

  Li Ziqi cursed angrily. She no longer avoided the shit and urine in the hole and also jumped in to help these unfortunate females.

  “Go and find some clothes.”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  “Mn!”

  Old Wolf Ren immediately obeyed the order.

  “Teacher, there are two who are seriously ill. They are about to die.”

  Ying Baiwu called out.

  At the corner of the dungeon, there were two women on the verge of death. Their bodies were filled with whip scars and covered in filth.

  No matter the era, there would be women who were willing to defend their chastity to death. Ever since they were captured, they had never given in. Hence, they suffered the cruelest abuse and beatings.

  “Let me!”

  Tantai Yutang immediately went in. However, after he looked at the women lying there, he didn’t even bother to take their pulses. He shook his head. “There’s no need for me to inspect them, there’s no longer any hope for them.”

  “Even if the hope is dim, we must save……ah!”

  Li Ziqi came over but before she finished speaking, she was so frightened that she screamed.

  The appearances of the two women were simply too miserable. One had her eyes dug out and the other had her noses and tongues cut off.

  As for their limbs, they were all broken. The wounds on their body had festered and become pus, with maggots crawling all over them.

  “Try to cure her!” Ying Baiwu held their arms and waited for Tantai Yutang.

  “Alright!”

  Tantai Yutang didn’t mind.

  Li Ziqi trembled. She only felt warmth again after Sun Mo hugged her. Scums like Li Can and Zhou Yong truly deserved death.

  “Go and comfort the other women.”

  After Sun Mo released Li Ziqi from his embrace, he squatted beside the two women. “Do you all have any last words?”

  “Boohoo!”

  One of the women didn’t even have the strength to hum. As for the other one, she stared at the jail’s entrance and her eyes were filled with the thirst for freedom and longing for her family.

  “I will take revenge for all of you.”

  Sun Mo didn’t mind the filth. He carried one of the women and headed to the entrance. “Tantai, give the little prince and Zhou Yong the same treatment as how they have abused these women. Triple the abuse.”

  “No problem!”

  Tantai Yutang giggled in joy. “I’m familiar with this.”

  “Remember, when you are executing the punishment, make sure they are awake. If they fainted, there wouldn’t be any meaning in torturing them.”

  Earlier, when Sun Mo had hit Li Can and captured Zhou Yong, he had used his circulation technique and sealed their meridians, making them unable to move.

  “This doesn’t concern me; I didn’t do anything.”

  Li Can was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder. He shouted loudly, “I’m the little prince, my father is Li Ziqing, a relative of the emperor. You can’t kill me!”

  Sadly, this place was an underground jail. Even if he screamed so loudly until his throat broke, no one would be able to hear it.

  “Sun……Sun Mo, I’ll give you money. I can give you a lot of money, please spare me!”

  Zhou Yong had gone completely pale. He was truly afraid. However, he also knew that he didn’t have much hope of being able to live on. Sun Mo even dared to kill a relative of the emperor. What did he, the son of a rich merchant, count for?

  Moreover, Zhou Yong also realized that he might have stirred up huge trouble for his father. If things weren’t handled well, the Zhou Clan would be finished. The Zhou Clan was a clan that had a 100-year foundation!

  Why was Zhou Yong acquainted with Daoist White Bird? Because Daoist White Bird was a valuable guest invited by his father. In addition, when he recalled the conversation between his father and Daoist White Bird as well as their attitudes……

  His father couldn’t possibly be the mastermind behind this group of human-traffickers, right?

  Sun Mo basically didn’t bother with Zhou Yong. These two had to die today no matter what. Right now, he felt some regret. He shouldn’t have killed Daoist White Bird and should have slowly tortured him to death. If not, such a death would have been too easy for him.

  Li Ziqi followed behind Sun Mo, her brows were furrowed tightly. Killing Li Can was one thing. The problem now was how should they handle the consequences? “Make sure to blow things up!”

  Li Ziqi instantly had an idea.

  Sun Mo carried the woman out of the cellar. The sunlight shone upon the woman’s face, causing her body to tremble with agitation. But she hadn’t seen sunlight for over a year and felt a little not used to it now.

  “I will find your family and give them a sum of money!”

  Sun Mo continued, “I will tell them that you are very excellent. You persisted and maintained your chastity all the way from the beginning to the end.”

  When the woman heard this, a smile of gratitude appeared on her face. She wanted to pull Sun Mo’s hand but because her bones were broken, she had no way to move.

  A few minutes later, the woman died. As for the other one, she was too weak. She didn’t even manage to see the sunlight and already died on the steps leading to the outside.

  “Teacher!”

  Lu Zhiruo rushed over and hugged Sun Mo from behind. “Boohoohoo, I’m so afraid!”

  The papaya girl truly felt fear after seeing this scene. If it wasn’t for her teacher arriving in time, she most probably would have ended up like these women, right? “Sorry, it’s all because of me.”

  Sun Mo apologized.

  “No, teacher is not in the wrong!”

  Lu Zhiruo hugged Sun Mo tightly. “I believe that teacher would surely come and save me no matter what!” This wasn’t a consolation because this was Lu Zhiruo’s true thoughts. In the heart of this endearingly silly papaya girl, she always felt that her teacher was omnipotent and would definitely be able to find her to punish the evil people that abducted her.

  The truth had proven that she was correct.

  “My Teacher Sun is truly supremely, supremely awesome!”

  Ding!

  “Favorable impression points from Lu Zhiruo are temporarily unable to be calculated. The number exceeded the norm!”

  “Congratulations. Because of Lu Zhiruo’s trust, gratitude, and worship for you, the prestige connection between you two has directly been raised to the ‘reverence’ level from the ‘respect’ level.”

  “Congratulations, you have completed a great teacher feat and rescued your student!”

  “Congratulations, the prestige connection between you and a student has reached the ‘reverence’ level.”

  “To summarize, the system would reward you with a skill book of a subject of a chosen occupation. After learning it, your attainment in the chosen subject would reach the ‘grandmaster-grade’.”

  “As a reward, you can choose any subject you want!”

  As the sound of the system notification rang out, a skill book thicker than a chinese dictionary appeared before Sun Mo. It shone with golden light and looked extremely alluring.”

  “Why don’t you directly raise the prestige connection to the worship level?”

  Sun Mo didn’t understand.

  “This is just a minor incident, it cannot represent that Lu Zhiruo would worship you her entire life!”

  The system explained.

  This also meant that if Sun Mo did anything that harmed Lu Zhiruo greatly, it might turn her feelings for him into one of hatred.

  “You should be content. Lu Zhiruo trusts you completely, and this is why the prestige connection skipped an entire level. If not, it’s already considered not bad for the person you saved to just give you a few thousand favorable impression points.”

  The system encountered many hosts before and had witnessed similar situations.

  Old Wolf Ren appeared again. However, when he saw Sun Mo remain silent, he didn’t dare to disturb.

  “What’s wrong?”

  As the eldest martial sister, Li Ziqi took on her responsibility to maintain the overall situation.

  “We discovered the actual treasury.”

  Old Wolf Ren gulped down a mouthful of saliva.

  (1) semi-courtesan – a courtesan that only performs (dance, sing, etc) but does not sell their bodies.