We're practicing all martial arts, so why did you switch to easy mode?

Chapter 35 A Successful Retirement with Substantial Gains

After searching for a while, Su Chen looked somewhat disappointed. Apart from a dozen or so silver notes, he had not found the other party's martial arts techniques.

To be honest, he was quite envious of the third leader's martial arts skills.

After all, this was the first martial artist he had ever met who practiced internal energy, so the value of his martial arts skills was self-evident.

Unwilling to give up, he tried to explore again, this time stripping the clothes off the body completely, but still found nothing.

Su Chen gave up, stood up, and walked in front of the bandits under the awe-inspiring gazes of the crowd.

"Hand over your money and I'll let you go."

Su Chen said calmly, wanting to make up for the loss of not finding any martial arts techniques by taking them from these people.

Upon hearing that they could live, the bandits reluctantly handed over the money, though it pained them to do so.

Su Chen collected several dozen taels of silver in loose change, put them in his pocket, and then, ignoring everyone's stares, put away the Third Master's broken sword.

Just as he was about to leave, one of the bandits spoke up timidly: "Didn't you say you would let us go?"

Upon hearing this, Su Chen turned around and glanced at him, leaving behind the words: "I let you go, now it's them who won't let you go."

The bandits: "..."

After watching Su Chen leave, Yan Que immediately said, "Thank you for your help. I am Yan Que from the Broken Blade Sect. If you need anything, you can find me at the Broken Blade Sect..."

After speaking, Yan Que turned his gaze to the group of bandits.

"No, don't kill us."

The bandits were devastated; they had just escaped one danger only to fall into another.

No, it's been in a den of wolves and tigers all along.

"Where are our goods and people?" Yan Que asked in a deep voice.

“We can take you to the mountains, if you just let us go,” one of the bandits said.

Yan Que did not speak, but instead asked everyone to start counting the number of people.

"By the way, where is Junior Brother Su Chen?"

Suddenly, Fang Rou exclaimed in surprise, somewhat nervous, but soon she saw Su Chen in the crowd and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Su Chen was alright, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to explain it to Master Hong.

Soon, the headcount was completed. Apart from a few Fang family guards who were injured, the rest of the people were almost unharmed.

Apart from their leader, the third-in-command, these bandits were inferior to the Fang family in both numbers and strength, so they could not inflict much damage on them.

Subsequently, led by the bandits, Yan Que and his group quickly located the Fang family members who had been kidnapped, as well as a batch of goods.

In addition, Yan Que learned from these bandits.

They originally intended to pay the money to hand over the person, but the third leader insisted on extorting another sum, which led to what just happened.

"Master Yan, what should we do with these people?"

After rescuing the Fang family caravan, one of the accompanying martial artists looked at the bandits and asked them a question.

Upon hearing this, the bandits all became nervous and immediately knelt on the ground, begging for mercy with all sorts of strange reasons.

However, Yan Que remained unmoved, and with his command, the bandits' lives came to an end.

He didn't think that Lianyun Village would let them off the hook after the death of their third leader.

Since they have formed a deadly feud with Lianyun Village, there is no need for this group to remain.

Finally, Yan Que personally took action and killed all the bandits one by one.

Fearing that the people of Lianyun Village would find out, Yan Que and his men left immediately after dealing with the bandits.

Not long after Su Chen and the others left, in a village deep in the Lianyun Mountains.

"Report, Second Master, something terrible has happened."

A burly man who was training his bandits in an open space saw the man running towards him in a panic and yelled, "What are you yelling for? Can't you see I'm training?"

Having said that, he rushed over and slapped the man across the face, knocking him dizzy and causing him to fall to the ground with a thud. After a long while, the burly man asked in a deep voice, "Speak, what exactly happened!"

The man snapped out of his daze, covered his face, and his expression turned panicked: "Something terrible has happened! The Third Master has been killed!"

"What did you say?" The burly man grabbed the other man's collar, his tiger-like eyes filled with murderous intent.

"Yes, it's true, the Third Master's body is right at the entrance of the village," the man gasped.

Upon hearing this, the big man disregarded his anger and headed straight for the entrance to the village.

As soon as he reached the entrance of the village, he saw a thin man and went up to him, asking, "Big brother, where is third brother?"

The leader didn't speak, but looked at the corpse covered by the white sheet. The second leader felt a chill run down his spine upon seeing this.

He walked over, lifted the white cloth, and his eyes widened in horror: "Third Brother!"

Then, with bloodshot eyes, he asked, "Brother, who did it? The Fang family? Was it the Fang family?"

Upon hearing this, the leader's grief and indignation transformed into overwhelming rage:
"Fang family, Fang Youwei, you killed my third brother and humiliated him like this. The day my Lianyun Village falls will be the day the entire Fang family is wiped out!"

……

As dusk fell and the brilliant sunset bathed the earth, Yan Que and his companions appeared outside White Stone City.

After leaving Lianyun Mountain, the group didn't dare to delay for even a moment, and hurried on their way, finally returning to Baishi City before dark.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, their faces beaming with the joy of surviving a disaster. After paying the entrance fee, they entered the city.

"Master Yan, Miss Fang, we won't be going with you," someone said, taking their leave.

Yan Que nodded: "Thank you all for your hard work this time!"

The martial artists clasped their fists in response and parted ways with Yan Que and the others.

"Junior Brother Su, take care!"

Fang Rou bid farewell to Su Chen. Yan Que, who was standing to the side, noticed this and his gaze flickered slightly, but he didn't say anything.

Soon, everyone else left, leaving only the Fang family members.

Yan Que looked at Fang Rou and smiled, "Let's go, let's go back too."

Fang Rou nodded.

When the group returned to the Fang family home, Fang Youwei was nearly terrified when Yan Que told him about his experience at Lianyun Mountain.

Fortunately, Yan Que and Fang Rou returned safely, which put his mind at ease.

"Brother-in-law, we owe you a great debt this time. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable," Fang Youwei said gratefully.

Yan Que waved his hand after hearing this: "We're all family, elder brother, no need to be so polite. Besides, we owe a lot to that one-armed martial artist this time."

"This person was able to kill a martial artist who had mastered internal energy; his strength should not be underestimated. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be an unknown figure. Could he not be from White Stone City?"

Fang Youwei knew most of the martial arts practitioners near Baishi City, but he had never heard of a one-armed martial artist.

“No.” Yan Que shook his head. “This person should be from White Stone City.”

"how you said that?"

“I heard from the constables that a one-armed man once brought the head of the wanted criminal Liu Tong…”

……

After parting ways with Fang Rou and the others, Su Chen did not go home immediately.

Instead, he went to a money exchange and exchanged the silver he had received for gold before returning home.

By the time he got home, it was completely dark. He went into his room and placed his haul on the table.

A broken longsword, ten taels of gold, and sixty taels of silver.

As he watched, Su Chen's body suddenly trembled, and a flush of color rose to his cheeks. He clutched his chest and coughed lightly a few times.

"I wonder if the ultimate Tortoise Shell Technique can heal the injuries caused by the residual force in my body!"

(End of this chapter)