All Heavens: A Role-Playing System Starting from Tianlong

Chapter 75 Outside the wooden house, an old friend is within reach

Zhang Cheng said helplessly, "Of course I won't stop you. But when you do it, please be a little restrained and don't go too bloody. It wouldn't be good if you frightened the villagers."

Meanwhile, the spoiled young master hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem.

He was sweating profusely from the pain, but he still yelled at the top of his lungs towards the people behind him, "What are you all standing there for? Come and help!"

His men were all trained martial artists hired at great expense.

When they first saw the physique of the man in black among the three, they knew this situation was probably going to be tricky. They had intended to spread out and surround the burly man, but before they could act, they were intimidated by the aura emanating from him, their minds wavered, and their movements slowed down by a beat.

Turning around, they saw their young master pinned to the ground by the youngest girl among the three, her wrist twisted like a pretzel.

Now, even the most clueless among them would realize that something was amiss.

Unfortunately, the Old Woman didn't give them a chance to speak. She raised her other hand and pointed several times in the air.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Several finger strikes shot out, accurately hitting the foreheads of the subordinates.

Each of them had a bloody hole between their eyebrows. The burly men swayed and collapsed helplessly.

The old woman was swift and decisive; the burly men didn't even have time to scream before they were dead.

"Murder—!" Upon hearing that someone had been killed, the nearby residents screamed and scattered in all directions. The roadside vendors didn't even bother to pack up their stalls and pushed their carts away.

The street instantly descended into chaos.

The纨绔 (playboy) before him finally realized something was wrong and shouted, "Don't kill me! You can't kill me! I am Xiang Rong, a member of a collateral branch of the Xiang family of Luoyang. According to the family genealogy, I am a grand-nephew of Empress Dowager Xiang!"

The Xiang family of Luoyang? Empress Dowager Xiang?

Zhang Cheng blinked and looked at Tong Lao. Tong Lao also blinked and looked at him.

The two stared at each other, wide-eyed.

Those two are uneducated; they don't even know what the "Xiang family of Luoyang" is, let alone whether it's a branch or not.

Li Qiushui, standing to the side, seemed to understand. She chuckled softly, her tone tinged with disdain: "For you to end up in such a remote town as Xin'an County, even if you're a member of the Xiang family, your blood ties are probably many layers removed. Besides—"

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She glanced at the old woman and said slowly, "Having you in my grasp, I don't care about this."

As if to confirm her words, the old woman stretched out her finger and gently stroked Xiang Rong's shoulder.

The skin and flesh were torn open, and fresh blood gushed out.

The old woman dipped her fingertip in blood and planted a life-and-death talisman inside his body.

Xiang Rong felt a chill creep into his wound, travel along his meridians, and disappear in an instant.

Granny Tong released her grip, stood up, and looked down at Xiang Rong, who was slumped on the ground.

"Boy, I have planted a life-and-death talisman in your body using a unique method that balances yin and yang. This talisman will activate once every hour."

You just said you seem to have some connections. Now I'm letting you go, let's see if you have the ability to find someone to neutralize the internal force of my Life and Death Talisman.

She paused for a moment: "Next is the first episode, so just enjoy the feeling."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiang Rong's expression changed drastically.

He began to itch unbearably all over his body, an itch that seemed to be crawling out from the cracks in his bones, impossible to scratch or reach.

"Ah—! It itches! It itches!" He screamed and rolled around on the ground, scratching frantically with his only good hand, his face and chest were scratched until they were bloody and mangled.

The old woman stopped looking at him and turned to lead Zhang Cheng and Ji Qiushui toward the inn.

Zhang Cheng deliberately slowed down by two steps, falling behind the two men. After creating some distance between them, he casually pointed and finished them off, giving them a quick death.

The three of them asked for a superior room at the inn to rest for the time being.

Not long after I sat down, someone came to my door.

The government officials arrived first.

The county magistrate of Xin'an County personally led a team of constables to surround the inn. Clearly, they had heard about the murder on the street.

Zhang Cheng didn't say much. He walked out of the inn, stood in front of the county magistrate, and prepared to strike the ground with a powerful move, Yang Ge Tian Jun.

The most powerful move in the Tianshan Six Yang Palms, combined with the amplification of the Northern Darkness True Qi and the penetrating effect of [Precision Strike] on ground defense attributes, creates an extremely terrifying visual effect.

"Boom—!" The ground shook violently, and dust filled the sky.

When the smoke and dust cleared, a deep pit several meters wide was left on the ground. The bottom of the pit was charred black, and cracks spread out along the edges like a spider web.

The county constable peeked out and his face instantly turned deathly pale.

Without a word, he clasped his hands in a salute, then turned and left with his men. They left even faster than they had come.

The disciples of Lingjiu Palace arrived shortly after.

Xiao Yu led several commanders into the inn and respectfully reported to the three of them: the remaining disciples had arrived outside the town and set up camp as instructed, without disturbing the people in the town.

The old woman listened casually for a few minutes, then waved for them to leave.

An hour passed quickly. Li Qiushui got up and went out, returning shortly with a stack of documents.

The three sat around the table and began to look through the information about the Deaf-Mute Clan.

The Deaf-Mute Sect. The sect leader is an elderly deaf-mute man who calls himself "Mr. Wise and Eloquent." He can communicate normally by writing, so he was clearly not born deaf-mute.

The rules within the sect are strict; all new disciples must have their ears pierced and their tongues cut off.

Their base was located in Tianlongdiya Valley at the foot of Leigu Mountain, about a day's journey from Xin'an County.

After reading it, the old woman abruptly stood up. "Let's go!"

Li Qiushui didn't object, but simply followed silently.

Zhang Cheng sighed helplessly and had no choice but to follow the two boisterous old ladies out the door.

It would take an average person a full day to travel from Xin'an County to Leigu Mountain on horseback.

However, all three were exceptionally skilled individuals at the time, and after traveling at full speed, they finally arrived at the Valley of the Deaf and Mute before the sun completely set.

Although there were many deaf-mute disciples in the valley, there were few experts. The three of them moved as if they were in an empty valley, sneaking all the way to the three wooden houses in the center of the valley.

Outside the wooden house, a thin, withered old man sat cross-legged on a futon, closing his eyes to rest.

The three hid in the shadows and communicated secretly using telepathy.

The old woman stared at the old man for a moment, then suddenly said, "I vaguely remember this person. He seems to be my junior brother's eldest disciple, Su Xinghe."

After she finished speaking, she was about to get up: "It seems we didn't come to the wrong place. Let's go."

Zhang Cheng and Li Qiushui simultaneously reached out and held her down from both sides.

Li Qiushui coughed lightly: "Senior Sister, since Senior Brother hasn't asked his disciples to contact us, he must have his own reasons. If we suddenly go in, it might put him in a difficult position."

She was just making up an excuse on the spot. The real reason was that she wasn't mentally prepared to face Wu Yazi, but she didn't want Tong Lao to go in first and be alone with Wu Yazi.

Zhang Cheng chimed in, "You two must be feeling pretty awkward seeing your junior brother in trouble. The three of us will work together to subdue your nephew first. Then I'll go in and check on him. You two can listen in from the sidelines."

He's more naive. He still has a lot of gossip waiting to be revealed to Wuyazi. If the two old ladies went in with him, it probably wouldn't be so easy to get the information out of them.