Chapter 836

The rain had not stopped.

Rumble~

Lightning flashed.

Ding Fengmian's disheveled, mud-covered face was stuck with leaves. The hired workers braved the light rain to collect ropes, discussing among themselves, filled with inexplicable awe.

Riding a dragon and descending.

Shocking!

Yin Yingbo took a deep breath and raised his hands in a bow.

"The three families' abilities are insufficient. Ding Fengmian was close at hand, yet we deployed for half a month and gained nothing, still needing Baron Xingyi to take action. My lord, rest assured, we will absolutely not let him escape easily again!"

"That's not right." Liang Qu shook his head. "Without the three families busy running around, I wouldn't have been able to catch him so easily."

If he had opened the rain curtain, he would have had to search for several days, even ten days.

Gold-badge Imperial Guards were promoted based on their ability to solve cases; none of them were freeloaders. If they targeted a place to search the mountains, there must be a reason.

On the way here, he heard that the three families had repeatedly searched a certain location. Liang Qu specially rode the dragon to circle around. Who would have thought that Ding Fengmian happened to poke his head out near the mountain of the camp? He was easier to find than imagined, and he took him down with one arrow.

Three roving great bandits, causing much disaster. He took them all down by himself in one month; shouldn't there be a great merit?

Liang Qu pondered secretly.

Yin Yingbo's mind was also turning a hundred times.

Although it was hard to believe, the facts were before his eyes.

The person the three families had spent half a month searching for in vain was thrown to their feet like a dead dog after the other party made a slight move.

Fortunately, Liang Qu came late.

If he had come a few hours earlier, the leader and his subordinates would have been wiped out in one pot, and they wouldn't even have been able to gather five Wolf Smokes.

Thinking of this.

"Baron Xingyi, regarding the two things mentioned earlier, the first one, ten thousand shi of grain, the three families have already sent the caravan to the Xige Prefecture government office to distribute disaster relief in the name of the Pingyang River Patrol Office."

"I saw it on the way here." Liang Qu nodded. "The second thing..."

"Fortunately, we did not disgrace the mission. We didn't get the Hunting Tiger, but we have five Wolf Smoke roving bandits. Please, Baron Xingyi, move your steps to take a look."

"Good."

An attendant held an umbrella.

The crowd stepped on the mud and arrived outside the cage.

Lifting the rainproof cloth, a foul stench permeated briefly, but was quickly washed away and covered by the rain.

The prisoners lay horizontally inside, all their limbs broken, and they had been fed bone-softening powder.

The attendants opened the cage, dragged out the roving bandits, grabbed their hair to force them to look up, revealing their true faces.

"Baron Xingyi, please look!"

Yin Yingbo took out the wanted poster album, introduced them personally, and compared them one by one.

It was true that there were five Wolf Smokes.

Just one point...

Liang Qu pulled out two pages from the album, pointing to a fatty and a thin, withered old man among them.

"These two, they were fleeing with Ding Fengmian, right? You caught them, but didn't catch Ding Fengmian?"

"These two were tied up and placed on the mountain by Ding Fengmian himself."

"Hmm?"

Peng Chuji explained: "According to the two men's confessions, Ding Fengmian couldn't bear our three families' day-and-night searching for half a month. Worried about exposure, he turned around and heard about the number of five Wolf Smokes, so he simply tied up his own subordinates to spend money to ensure safety. It happened just over an hour ago."

Killing generals to seek peace,

Ceding cities to retreat troops?

Liang Qu's expression was strange.

No wonder Ding Fengmian was so close to the camp just now... Coming early is not as good as coming at the right time.

"Baron Xingyi, this action, it doesn't matter, right?" Jiang Jixi asked.

"It doesn't matter. Ding Fengmian behaving like this is also something you forced out of him. What day is the sparring match? What kind of style?"

Yin Yingbo spoke: "Three against one, armed combat. Just now, Lord Liang shot an arrow through the mountain, which must have consumed a lot. The date will be set by Lord Liang. Whatever day you are in good condition, that day we spar."

"No need. A Hunting Tiger mid-level, I'm in very good condition. After supporting Xige Prefecture, I'll deal with things, take a long leave, and then I'll go to the Imperial Capital to be promoted to Perfected Form. You choose the date, as soon as possible."

Liang Qu's words were light, but the content falling into the ears of others set off stormy waves!

The Three Heroes subconsciously calculated Liang Qu's age.

Regardless of nominal age.

A Jiang Zongshi in his early twenties?

Not long after the founding of the dynasty, there was a thirty-year-old Bai Guangyi. Since then, in the sixty-year cycle, there had been no one who broke the record.

A young Jiang Zongshi in his twenties, his existence needs to be traced back to the Great Qian of the previous dynasty, but even then, he was only twenty-six.

A full four-year improvement!

Huge profit!

The Three Heroes of Xige Prefecture were surging with emotion. They realized this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

A twenty-two-year-old Perfected Form will surely become famous throughout the world.

At that time, his last battle before Hunting Tiger, as long as there are highlights, it will definitely be talked about and written about extensively!

"Then... north of Xige Prefecture city, early morning five days later?"

"Good!"

"Quick, quick, quick! Spread the news! Spread it!"

"Go to the restaurants, go to the brothels, go wherever there are many people."

The Peng, Yin, and Jiang families operated rapidly, promoting this battle extensively. Combined with Liang Qu riding a dragon to patrol the sky and capturing the three great roving bandits, the news quickly spread to the streets and alleys.

"September 1st, North City Martial Arts Arena, the Great Shun's first young Hunting Tiger, Baron Xingyi, will spar and give pointers to the Three Heroes of Xige Prefecture! There's free mung bean sweet soup to drink if you go!"

"The Three Heroes are three people, right? One-on-one? Three matches?"

"Idiot, it's three-on-one! One match!"

"Ah? Many against few, isn't it shameful?"

"You don't know shit. Who is Baron Xingyi? An eighteen-year-old Hunting Tiger great martial artist, a talent praised and encouraged by His Majesty the Emperor himself. Why would he bother with one-on-one? He doesn't even care to waste effort fighting you!"

"Baron Xingyi came for a month, and the three great roving bandits that the entire Xige Prefecture was helpless against were all captured by him alone!"

"So powerful?"

"More than that. We in Xige Prefecture were unfamiliar with the place, which is why it dragged on so long. Before, in Pingyang Prefecture, a large county flooded. In one day, Baron Xingyi caught the culprit and handled the fleet. I heard it was because Baron Xingyi came quickly, and there was no plague afterward!"

The people of Xige Prefecture were familiar with the Three Heroes, while Liang Qu was limited to a name. But under the deliberate propaganda of the three families, all kinds of heroic deeds from the past were "dropped" out.

The crowd was boiling!

Temporary office location in Xige Prefecture.

"You kid, you stir up trouble wherever you go." Xu Yuelong pointed outside the window. "In two days, the news outside has gone crazy."

"It has nothing to do with me; the three families did it."

"If you didn't agree, would they dare to do it?"

"The three families are local snakes. If they nest and don't exert effort, how could we suppress bandits and provide disaster relief so quickly? The River Patrol Office supports by imperial decree. If we suppress quickly, everyone has face. Why shouldn't I exert some effort?"

"Oh, I have to thank you."

"Cough, that's not necessary." Liang Qu covered his mouth and coughed, sat opposite, and handed over the action record. "The things Boss entrusted a month ago, I've handled them all. Regarding this merit..."

"Hunting Tiger great bandit, adding grain..." Xu Yuelong thought for a while. "Two things, I'll count them as five."

"Commandant is generous!"

Liang Qu was overjoyed.

With grain in hand, there is no panic in the heart.

Back and forth, although he didn't trigger the mountain search and demon suppression, he didn't work in vain either.

The year before last, he killed the Ghost Mother Sect Jiang Zongshi Ning Gongcai. He returned to the Imperial Capital and exchanged all the great merits in his hands, obtaining one Time Insect and one Sun-Moon Water Lily. But at the end of the year, he was first in the peer assessment, and two more popped up.

Last year, he fought the Octopus King, got twenty-three, evaluated two more at the end of the year, twenty-five for the year, totaling twenty-seven.

During the period, he used the Xuanhuang Badge obtained from fighting the Octopus King to exchange for a wisp of Xuanhuang, which was integrated into the Creation Long Qi, consuming ten.

Therefore, the number of great merits he could use in his hands was seventeen.

Counting the five now, it was twenty-two.

If there were two Xuanhuang Badges, he could completely exchange for two wisps of Long Qi, making up three wisps.

Three wisps of Long Qi were enough to be promoted to River Lord's Favor, or to open the Vortex Palace divine ability!

The former helps with promotion, the latter enhances strength; both are of great benefit.

Unfortunately, Xuanhuang Badges belong to special rewards.

But...

Does the old monk have any in his hands?

Liang Qu vaguely remembered that when the Prince of Yue broke through, the imperial court gave five Xuanhuang Badges at once. One of the Xuanhuang Badges was used as a master-disciple gift for Wen Wen Shi Yun along with the Soul Golden Lotus, becoming Yang Dongxiong's breakthrough opportunity.

As a wandering martial artist, the rewards the old monk received were certainly not as good as the Prince of Yue who was in the system.

But there should be one or two badges, right?

No.

Perhaps more.

Badges plus great merits can exchange for Long Qi, so giving badges not only gives benefits but also disguisedly lets the Martial Saint work...

(End of chapter)