Chapter 72: Meritorious Service, Reaching the Emperor's Ears!

Lu Gang looked sideways: "Let's hear it."

Xu Zishuai was not serious and liked to play tricks, drilling into piles of women, but his ghost ideas were indeed many.

Every year when celebrating the birthdays of Master and Mistress, he could always play some new tricks and make everyone happy.

"Two days ago, I received a reward from the government, saying that there was a bandit stronghold 120 *li* east of Pingyang Town, with more than twenty people. Anyway, Liang Shidi Liang will break through the barrier soon, so I didn't rush to go, thinking about taking Liang Shidi Liang to see blood after he breaks through the barrier."

Liang Qu raised his head in surprise, not expecting that he would be involved in it.

Xiang Zhangsong's face was bitter: "Cao Shixiong Xu loves to do this the most, taking new junior brothers to see blood. I was taken by Cao Shixiong Xu to suppress a bandit nest three hundred *li* away. After coming back, I immediately turned over for a long time, tired and nauseous, and almost vomited."

After a pause, he leaned into Liang Qu's ear and whispered in front of everyone: "I heard that the Fifth Senior Sister was also taken. After coming back, she cried loudly, and Cao Shixiong Xu was grounded by Master for a month."

"Cough, cough, what are you talking about? I'm doing it for your own good." Xu Zishuai coughed with a hollow fist, "Martial artists, if you haven't seen blood, how can you be called a martial artist? Master often hangs on his lips, martial artists are originally taking vitality with martial arts..."

"Don't talk nonsense, continue."

"My idea is, since that Mountain Ghost at the River God sacrifice could be attracted by human energy and the blood smell of large livestock, can we continue to do this.

Bring that group of bandits over. Anyway, they are all desperate people, raping and looting, and the government named them to want their heads. We will blood sacrifice them on the spot. Maybe we can lure the snake out of the hole. Human blood energy is much stronger than livestock energy, and it is the most attractive to mountain spirit monsters.

As long as the Mountain Ghost appears, we will have clues, see where it goes, and what it does.

If it has been trained, following them will naturally find the old nest. If not, then someone must be watching nearby. If no one is watching and it hasn't been trained, it proves that we are sentimental and think too much. How about it?"

"Where should the blood sacrifice location be?"

"Fahua Temple! My intuition tells me that the broken temple is not simple, and the big Mountain Ghost also disappeared there. Let's assume the target is it!"

Everyone present was lost in thought.

Hu Qi asked first: "The bandits are a hundred *li* away, won't it be too far? If the blood sacrifice wants enough effect, at least a dozen or so people are needed, right?"

"That's right, but the time is still ample. From the time Master left, if the Water Bath Sect really wants to do it, they will wait for the trouble on Master's side to become white-hot and completely unable to get away. In this way, there should be a buffer time of about three or four days, which is enough."

Xu Zishuai's statement sounded somewhat unfilial, as if he didn't care about Master Yang's safety at all.

But in reality, when Yang Dongxiong, a Hunting Tiger Grand Martial Artist, truly encounters trouble, they can only stare helplessly; not getting in the way is the best they can do.

Besides, they had confidence in their master.

Although the tiger is old, its power remains!

Seeing that everyone was still lost in thought, Xu Zishuai said: "Anyway, you don't have any other good ways, right? We are martial artists, not imperial secret agents. We are not good at investigating cases by peeling cocoons.

In short, my suggestion is to be simple and rude, otherwise if they really succeed, at least a few hundred people will die. Can we still live?"

The death of a few hundred people together is definitely a huge blow to the prestige of local powerful families.

The biggest "powerful family," Yang's Martial Arts Hall, is even more so.

In addition, a large number of people will leave their homes. Pingyang Town has developed for so many years, which can be said to be a failure, and the family foundation has been lifted by others.

"Then do as you say." Lu Gang made the decision, "As for Yixing City, it is late, I will find two martial artists I know tomorrow and let them live there for a period of time. From the outside, it won't be too suspicious, and it can be considered an explanation to those village elders."

"Thank you, Cao Shixiong Lu."

Lu Gang's approach can be said to give Liang Qu, who came to ask for help, both the inside and the face.

"Cao Shixiong Lu, look good! But you have to find someone to go with me. There are so many bandits, all alive, I am afraid I can't watch them alone."

"Liang Shidi Liang's spirit weapon can be cast in the past two days. I need to stay and watch, and he also needs to stay to bleed and shape. Liang Shidi Xiang's strength is slightly worse, only three barriers, guarding the martial arts hall is not enough, so let him go with you."

Xiang Zhangsong hurriedly expressed his position: "I have no problem."

"Hmm, please Liang Shidi Xu and Liang Shidi Xiang. If the Water Bath Sect matter is true, and we successfully strangle it in the cradle, regardless of whether the magistrate is true or false, or whether there is collusion with the Water Bath Sect, we will inevitably receive generous rewards from the imperial court, and it is even possible to reach the Emperor's ears."

Reaching the Emperor's ears!

Everyone present was excited, because it was really possible!

The last time the Water Bath Sect appeared, the Taizu was furious, and blood flowed into rivers.

This time the scale might not be as good as the last time, but under the blessing of the Taizu's fury last time, the nature is still very bad and deserves the attention of the imperial court. The reward will definitely not be stingy.

Although saving Pingyang Town and the surrounding villages is basically out of the moral sense of the senior and junior brothers, not wanting to see their hometown become a living hell, and familiar relatives and friends threatened, but having rewards while doing things is naturally the best.

Liang Qu sat among the crowd, his mood complex.

He encountered a Mountain Ghost in Yixing City and joked that it was like a wholesale breeding operation. He didn't expect it to be a prophecy. It was really a wholesale breeding operation!

It's just that the feed is a bit wasteful.

One hundred people raise one Galloping Horse martial artist, a method of fishing in a dry lake.

It is equivalent to cutting off logistics during combat, completely letting soldiers fight back to the water, and even killing soldiers' war horses. It will only appear in organizations like the Water Bath Sect that do not count the consequences and only want to retaliate against the Great Shun.

After all, they are a group of remnants of the previous dynasty, feeling that their privileges have been deprived, and it is not surprising that they do anything that makes heaven and earth angry.

After the discussion, Xiang Zhangsong and Xu Zishuai did not delay, borrowed horses from the Yang mansion, and rushed to the bandit stronghold overnight.

One hundred *li* is not close, and twenty people need to hire a carriage to bring them back. They have to hurry up, go fast and come back fast, and compress the time to two days as much as possible.

Lu Gang stood up: "The progress of spirit weapon forging is faster than I thought. Liang Shidi Liang, come to my house at noon tomorrow. I need to use the soldier master's fresh blood to shape the spirit weapon."

Liang Qu nodded. He knew that there was such a process in spirit weapon forging, sprinkling the soldier master's fresh blood during casting to shape the "nature" of the spirit weapon.

This method is not a recognition of the master in the traditional sense, there is no such saying.

Spirit weapons have spirits, and since they are spirits, they have nature. Those with explosive temperaments use explosive weapons, and those with gentle temperaments use gentle weapons.

If the temperament is compatible, it will naturally be as easy to use as an arm.

If the temperament is not compatible, it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect the quality of the weapon, it's just not that handy when using martial arts moves.

Adding the soldier master's blood during casting can make the two natures similar. In the future, the soldier master will not have major changes, and the temperament will change greatly, so it will always be the effect of the two natures being compatible.

After all the senior brothers left, Hu Qi asked Liang Qu not to leave. When he came back, he had a short stick and a small booklet in his hand.

"Liang Shidi Liang, this bow strength method is a method of circulating blood *qi* and strength. After learning it, the strength will be thin and hair-like, like drawing a bow and shooting an arrow, which is very suitable for your root bone. Cooperating with the ape punch, the power will be three points better. You read it once, and after remembering it, start practicing."

Martial arts.

Liang Qu knew this. It was recorded in *Yu Guanxiu, Ming You Gan*, mainly divided into three types: superior, middle, and inferior. ===== CHAPTER 73 =====