Chapter 28

Liang Jingtang looked at his disciples kneeling on one knee and blaming themselves, couldn't help but let out a long sigh toward the sky, and only after a good while did he help them up one by one.

"Get up! The situation in Li Cheng has been a bit complicated recently, and it's hard to say when there will be turmoil. Whatever preparations you can make, make them in advance."

"Xingji, your family business is large, and you have many children and disciples. You must plan ahead and think of a retreat, lest you wait until the chaos starts and it's too late to move your whole family."

"And Yongbao, Yunfeng, one of you runs a restaurant and the other a brothel. The people coming and going are a mix of dragons and snakes, the most complex. You must try to avoid conflict."

"If you really feel the situation is not right, sell the restaurant and brothel early, go to a small place in the countryside to be a rich man or woman, and live a comfortable life."

"And Daoming, you have the least foundation among your fellow disciples, and your cultivation is the lowest. Shi Yingdeng and Xu Shisen were frustrated today. If they are unwilling to let it go, they might take their anger out on you."

"You have decided to go on a long journey recently, which is just as well to avoid the limelight. But the world is chaotic now, so you must be low-key when you are out, and it is better to endure for a moment and suffer a little loss than to get into disputes with others."

Liang Jingtang finally helped Xia Daoming up and exhorted him earnestly.

"Master, don't worry, the disciple will be careful. Master, you must take care of your health," Xia Daoming said.

"I am old, it doesn't matter anymore." Liang Jingtang patted Xia Daoming's shoulder, swept his gaze over the crowd, and added: "Now that the situation is unclear, besides trying to be careful and not getting into disputes with others, you must also try to avoid getting too close to the Ding Clan."

"Master means..." Zhuo Xingji asked, his heart jumping slightly upon hearing this.

His escort agency had quite a bit of business with the Ding Clan.

"The Ding Clan is powerful and shares the same breath as the Lin Clan and the Badao Sect. The Xu Clan's ancestor is old and has no new Grandmaster rising, so they won't easily have a direct major conflict with the Ding Clan and the others."

"So forces like our Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan and the Wu Clan Fortress are the best targets for the Xu Clan to kill the chicken to warn the monkey. It's just a pity for Gu Ren, originally... sigh!" Liang Jingtang sighed heavily when he reached the end.

"Master, could it be that Wu Yueli was done by the Xu Clan?" Yuchi Xiao and the others gasped.

The strength and intelligence of the Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan were far from comparable to the Ji Clan.

Let alone Yuchi Xiao and the others, even Liang Jingtang didn't know as much inside information as Ji Wenyue.

Liang Jingtang didn't answer them, just swept his gaze over the crowd again and said: "In short, they fight their fights, we live our lives, hide as far away as you can. Alright, Master is leaving."

Having said that, Liang Jingtang walked toward the outside of Yaohua Tower.

Under the lamplight, his tall and fierce back was slightly hunched, gradually disappearing into the street.

The third day after the Yaohua Tower incident.

Early in the morning, Xia Daoming took the four maids, including Xia He, to the Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan.

Today, he was preparing to go on a long journey with Liu Qiaolian.

Originally, leaving the four of them at home to watch the house would have been the most appropriate.

However, the incident at Yaohua Tower three days ago made Xia Daoming worry that Shi Yingdeng might be insane. If he came to the door and couldn't find him, he might take his anger out on the four maids, so he simply sent them to the Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan.

Let them help with chores in the martial hall and continue to learn martial arts along the way.

The four maids, the youngest was only sixteen, and the oldest was only eighteen.

Although it was a bit late to learn martial arts at this age, it wasn't too late.

The world is chaotic now, and being able to learn some martial arts for self-defense is better than nothing.

Moreover, Xia Daoming was not short of silver and elixirs now, so ever since Liu Qiaolian bought the four of them from the human trafficker, she had been teaching them martial arts in her spare time.

Now they had a bit of a foundation.

Leaving them at the Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan for this period of time would just happen not to waste their martial arts.

Looking at the four clever and lovely girls standing gracefully behind Xia Daoming, Liang Jingtang was first a little disappointed, then seemed to have figured something out, and pointed at Xia Daoming with a smile: "You kid, you know how to enjoy life better than your master! But it's good to be able to think it through, so as not to end up with nothing in the end, with more regrets."

"Cough, cough, Master, it's not what you think..."

"Alright, Master didn't have high hopes for you anyway. Life is short, it's best if you have the opportunity to step into the fifth-rank realm. If not, it's not bad to enjoy life while you're young."

"As for them, don't worry, as long as they don't leave the Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan, Shi Yingdeng wouldn't dare to come and trouble them even if he had ten guts!" Liang Jingtang waved his hand and interrupted.

Xia Daoming had to change his words: "Then the disciple will take Xia He and the others to Xu Shixiong, ask him to arrange it, and won't disturb Master anymore."

"Go, go!" Liang Jingtang waved his hand.

So Xia Daoming took Xia He and the four of them back to the outer courtyard.

"Hehe, you really can't judge a book by its cover! Seeing you so serious at Yaohua Tower, we all thought you were dedicated to martial arts, firm in your will, and didn't get close to women, and we were very impressed."

"Unexpectedly, you actually hid beauty in a golden house, and hid four of them!" Yuchi Xiao said, eyeing Xia He and the others while hooking his arm around Xia Daoming's shoulder, saying ambiguously.

"Cough, cough! Xu Shixiong..."

"Alright, Xu Shixiong understands, you can go with peace of mind!"

Xia Daoming looked at Liang Jingtang's expression of "I understand, I am also a man," and couldn't help but be speechless.

Understand my ass!

My goal is to be a Grandmaster, how can I be addicted to women?

Cough, cough, but occasionally playing cards with Liu Qiaolian shouldn't count as being addicted to women!

Xia Daoming soon left the Hidden Dragon Qianjiao Wu Guan and returned to the Xia residence.

Liu Qiaolian had already packed everything and was waiting for him.

After the time it takes to burn a stick of incense.

A man and a woman wearing veiled hats, covering their entire faces, each riding a fine horse, galloped out of the East City Gate and headed southeast along the official road.

This man and woman were naturally Xia Daoming and Liu Qiaolian.

The coldest place in Mangzhou is north of the Cangmang Mountains.

That is an endless desert, scorching in summer and freezing in winter, sparsely populated. Not only that, beyond the north is the Tianhe Grassland and the Tianhe people living on it.

The Tianhe tribe is a nomadic people with extremely fierce folk customs, who would occasionally raid the north of Mangzhou, and sometimes even pass through several canyon passages in the Cangmang Mountains to raid the south.

However, because of the natural barrier of the Cangmang Mountains, the threat of raids by the Tianhe tribe in the south is not great. The biggest threat still comes from the demonic beasts of the Cangmang Mountains, the hot weather, hurricanes and rainstorms, miasma, insects and snakes, and the natural environment with many mountains and few flat lands.

And the further southeast you go in Mangzhou, relatively speaking, the less threatened and affected you are by the harsh natural environment.

Precisely because of this, most of the larger cities in Mangzhou are located in the southeast region, including the state capital.

Xia Daoming's plan for this trip was to walk along the cities in the southeast direction to see if he could find pills and herbs in local pharmacies that could effectively strengthen his meridians.

The south of Mangzhou has many mountains, complex terrain, and winding roads.

Along the way, there are not only many insects, snakes, and fierce beasts, but even low-rank demonic beasts occasionally appear, and there will be mountain bandits and robbers blocking the road from time to time.

For ordinary people, traveling from one city to another is not only arduous, climbing mountains and wading through water, but also extremely dangerous.

So the vast majority of people will never leave the area where they live in their entire lives.

The cost of logistics between cities is very high, so circulation is very limited.

After leaving the city gate, the official road within ten miles of the city is wide and flat, and people and horses can be seen coming and going from time to time, and there are fields and villages on both sides.

But after leaving Li Cheng for more than ten miles, the official road began to gradually become narrow and pitted, overgrown with weeds.

Mountains were connected to mountains, and it was hard to see flat land.

Some fields occasionally appeared at the foot of the mountains, but most were abandoned and uncultivated.

Only areas with fortified villages would have cultivated fields and human habitation.

After leaving the city for more than ten miles, the number of refugees encountered gradually increased, and the number of bandits blocking the road also increased.

Xia Daoming was too lazy to tangle with them and directly released the qi, blood, and force aura of a fifth-rank Great Wu Shi, and those bandits immediately fled, not daring to block them.

This day was already the fifth day since the two left Li Cheng.

"Master, twenty miles further is Dongfang Tieshi Town. Dongfang Tieshi Town is just a market town, and the conditions for food and lodging are average, but after passing Dongfang Tieshi Town, it will take two hours of night travel to reach Green Cypress City." Liu Qiaolian looked up at the setting sun and said to Xia Daoming.

"Haste makes waste, the mountain road is complex, and traveling at night is more likely to lead to wrong paths. Let's stay in Dongfang Tieshi Town tonight," Xia Daoming said.

"Okay, Master!" Liu Qiaolian lifted her black veil and smiled sweetly at Xia Daoming, her bright eyes flowing. In this wilderness, she had a different kind of seductive charm.

"Are you tired, Lian'er? Do you want to come here and rest for a while?" Xia Daoming looked at Liu Qiaolian's delicate and dripping face, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little restless.

Liu Qiaolian looked around, blushed, and nodded obediently.

Seeing this, Xia Daoming's index finger moved. He drove his horse closer, stretched out his arms, hugged Liu Qiaolian by the waist, and sat her in front of him.

Holding the two reins in one hand and hugging Liu Qiaolian's soft and plump waist with the other, smelling the faint fragrance on her body, Xia Daoming felt all his fatigue and sleepiness disappear.

Xia Daoming's hands soon wandered up and down dishonestly, while Liu Qiaolian leaned against him obediently, letting him be reckless, and letting the horse run.

"This is what it means to be in high spirits with fast horse hooves!" Xia Daoming felt heroic.

"In high spirits with fast horse hooves?" Liu Qiaolian was slightly stunned, then her beautiful eyes shone with brilliance, and her face became even more shy and moving.

In the wilderness, on the deserted mountain road.

A young couple was riding a horse together, and just as they were being affectionate, the sound of cart wheels rolling and horse hooves came from behind.

Hearing the movement behind him, Xia Daoming felt a hint of vigilance and let go of Liu Qiaolian's waist.

Liu Qiaolian pressed her hand on the horse's back and flew back to her own mount as light as a swallow.

Because it was a downhill road, the carriage was very fast.

Xia Daoming and Liu Qiaolian were preparing to stay in Dongfang Tieshi Town tonight and didn't need to rush, so they avoided to the side of the road.

After the carriage passed, they would ride together again and continue to be affectionate.

The carriage soon brushed past the two of them.

This was a carriage pulled by two horses, with gold and silver decorations on the carriage body, carved with exquisite patterns and designs, looking quite luxurious and particular.

Sitting on the saddle was a coachman, his qi and blood surging; he was actually a fourth-rank Wu Shi.

When the carriage passed, the curtain was lifted, revealing a young man with a large black mole on his right chin.

On the silk seat opposite the young man sat an old man in gray clothes.

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