Chapter 525

"Did you catch the murderer?"

Li Yan frowned slightly and asked.

He didn't really care about the life or death of that coroner.

Although they were in the same line of work, they were strangers, so why would he care? He only asked because of Wu Qu.

"I fought him, almost caught him!"

Wu Qu clenched his fist tightly and said in a deep voice: "That person used poison needles; his martial arts were average, but his escape techniques were astonishing. He should be a master of the evil path."

"I almost caught him, but the other party used a desperate technique, not hesitating to damage his foundation, and ran off without a trace."

Li Yan said thoughtfully: "Have you inquired whether this fellow practitioner had offended anyone?"

"I originally thought so too..."

Wu Qu looked up, his eyes becoming solemn. "But I received another piece of news on the road: in a short period, three 'Living Yin Messengers' have already been murdered!"

Hearing this, Li Yan was shocked. "Someone is hunting 'Living Yin Messengers'!"

He finally understood why Wu Qu was in such a state.

It was not just because of the death of a good friend; the severity of this matter was enough to make the Huangquan Organization bristle.

Thinking of this, Li Yan said in a deep voice: "It's starting again?"

The original intention of the founding of "Huangquan" began with a massacre targeting "Living Yin Messengers," in which both righteous and evil sides participated, eventually leading to a great catastrophe.

Since then, that original agreement was born.

And now that it has appeared again, could it be that the human path revolution has arrived, and someone wants to clear away the "Living Yin Messengers" who are in the way ahead of time?

"I don't know..."

Wu Qu was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "I'll tell you something, don't get angry first."

"In the organization, some people are talking nonsense, saying it was because you broke the agreement first that these troubles were brought about, and they want to announce to the outside world that the Huangquan Organization has nothing to do with you."

"What?"

Li Yan doubted he had heard correctly and was almost amused. "Are they fools? How long has it been since that incident of mine?"

"If they wanted revenge, why wait until now?!"

Wu Qu nodded, was silent for a moment, and said: "Perhaps you are implicated because of me."

"To tell you the truth, the selection of 'Living Yin Messengers' is entirely based on fate. Over the years, it has long been a mix of fish and dragons, uneven in quality."

"Some people, once they get the official seal, become arrogant and collude with their protectors, relying on it to amass wealth. I couldn't stand it and taught them a lesson more than once."

"You were introduced by me, so they are mostly making an issue out of it. Huangquan has a rule: if the number of opponents reaches a certain amount, they can prevent someone from joining. They are using this rule."

"It doesn't matter."

Li Yan picked up his teacup and shook his head slightly. "I was originally going to observe for a while before joining Huangquan. Since that's the case, it's better not to join."

He had agreed to the Fengdou appointment at the time with the intention of finding an organization to back him up so he could deal with Zhao Zhao Changsheng.

But since things have reached this point, he might as well give it up.

For one thing, this Huangquan Organization seems a bit wrong.

The few people he had met before were fine, but there were clearly many Living Yin Messengers in the organization. Since so many people were opposed, it meant there was a force inside that was hostile to him.

Joining reluctantly might lead to some trouble.

Furthermore, he no longer needs to rely on these people now.

"Not joining is also fine."

Wu Qu was clearly in a bad mood, and the killing intent in his eyes had not dissipated. "The identity of a 'Living Yin Messenger' is special; even when meeting, they will try their best to hide their identity."

"Fewer than five people know the identity of my friend, and other 'Living Yin Messengers' have been killed; I'm afraid there is already a traitor inside!"

Li Yan also nodded in agreement, then asked: "Brother Wu, what do you plan to do?"

Wu Qu sighed. "I have known that coroner friend for more than ten years, and we were close friends. Now I am disheartened and have no intention of protecting others, so I might withdraw from Huangquan."

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth. "But this grudge must be avenged!"

"I will stay in Shu for a while. The fox will eventually show its tail. When that time comes, I will surely kill the traitor and use his head to sacrifice to my brother!"

"If you need help, I'll be there whenever you call."

Li Yan gave a promise, then changed the subject. "Since Brother Wu is here, there happens to be a matter, saving me a wasted trip."

He could see that Wu Qu was in a bad mood.

In such a state of mind, problems might arise. If he ran out recklessly to fight others, he would also fall into danger.

It would be better to find something for him to do to calm him down.

"What is it?"

"I want you to help him open his fist and learn Baji."

"I don't take disciples, but I can recommend someone to go to Cangzhou..."

"It's not a child, it's a brother of mine."

"A brother?"

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"This is the brother you were talking about?"

Looking at Wu Ba, who was giggling in the courtyard, Wu Qu's eyes twitched. He whispered to Li Yan: "This is a human-demon, right? Li Yan, are you joking with me?"

"His name is Wu Ba."

Li Yan answered very seriously: "Although he is a human-demon, he is no different from a person. He is a brother worth relying on."

"This is simply nonsense!"

Wu Qu shook his head directly. "If the elders of the clan knew that I taught the fist to a monster, they would surely strike me from the genealogy."

"No, no, I cannot agree to this."

"I don't want your Wu family inheritance."

Li Yan hurriedly pressed Wu Qu's shoulder. "Just ordinary Baji Fist, the kind that circulates outside. I really don't know it, so I had to beg at your door."

"You teach as you like, he learns as he likes. How much he can learn depends on his comprehension. Anyway, ordinary Baji has long been spread everywhere..."

Li Yan never liked to say nice things to people.

But the reputation of "Ghost-Fear" was not groundless.

For the sake of a brother, pestering him was fine.

"I..."

Wu Qu was pestered to the point of having no choice. He said helplessly: "Fine, I will stay for a few days and teach him the fist stance, but after he goes out, I will not recognize this disciple; it's all him stealing the learning!"

"Easy to say, easy to say!"

Li Yan was happy and hurriedly said to Wu Ba: "What are you standing there for? Come and pay your respects to the master!"

"Don't!"

Wu Qu hurriedly stopped him. "If you say that again, I won't teach."

"Fine, fine, fine..."

A smile appeared on Li Yan's face. "We slaughtered a sheep yesterday, and there is still some in the kitchen. I'll have someone heat some up for you. Can you eat mutton dumplings?"

"Anything is fine."

Wu Qu waved his hand impatiently.

After Li Yan left, he looked at the giggling Wu Ba and was full of disgust. "You deserve the surname Wu? From now on, I'll call you Big Fool, and you have to answer. Do you hear me?"

"Understand, understand, I... am called Big Fool."

Wu Ba touched his head and giggled.

Seeing this, Wu Qu was even more furious and kept complaining about Li Yan in his heart, but he didn't say much more.

"Stand in a horse stance and let me see!"

With a shout, Wu Ba hurriedly stood in a horse stance.

The horse stance is the foundation of martial arts practice. After these days of guidance from Li Yan, Wu Ba could be considered to have a decent stance.

But in Wu Qu's eyes, it was awkward no matter how he looked at it.

"This is also called a horse stance?"

With a cold snort, he suddenly stepped out with his left foot, turned his body, and his right foot kicked fiercely at Wu Ba's ankle.

He had suffered this move many times when he first learned boxing.

It was to let the disciple know what a stable horse stance was.

Bang!

However, when the kick landed, Wu Ba remained motionless.

"Hey~ Leng Leng Gun is courting death!"

Wu Qu's face couldn't hold it, and he even cursed in Cangzhou dialect.

The hidden energy in his leg erupted, and he hooked forward fiercely.

However, Wu Ba just swayed but still didn't fall.

"Good fellow..." At this moment, Wu Qu's eyes changed.

He could see that Wu Ba did not use hidden energy to resist, but purely brute force.

He also remembered Li Yan's words just now.

"This brother of mine has natural divine strength!"

Natural divine strength?

A fire rose in Wu Qu's eyes, and he rubbed his right foot lightly.

Bang!

Wu Ba fell flat on his face, then climbed up, not caring about patting the dust off his body, still giggling.

"Laughing?"

Wu Qu was also amused. He raised his eyebrows and said, "In two days, let's see if you can still laugh?"

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While observing one by one...

"Beyond the Nine Provinces are the Eight Yin, beyond the Eight Yin are the Eight Hong, beyond the Eight Hong are the Eight Extremes. The so-called Eight Extremes means 'the extreme distance in all eight directions'..."

"Head, shoulders, elbows, hands, tail, hips, knees, feet, all must be practiced to the extreme. The whole body is eyes, the whole body is hands!"

"This is called 'leaning', this is called 'bumping'..."

"Remember, the head must be upright, the neck must be straight, the body must be straight..."

"You Big Fool, you're going to be the death of me!"

Just as Li Yan expected, what suited Wu Ba best was Baji.

This big guy is simply a natural piece of unpolished jade.

With a little polishing, he would be a peerless weapon.

Seeing unpolished jade turn into a divine weapon in his own hands, no man could resist such temptation.

Wu Qu was the same.

At first, he only taught the basics.

But after Wu Ba mastered them, seeing his style of an ancient fierce general, he couldn't help but teach him more.

Just like that, there were almost scolding sounds all day long.

Li Yan and the others naturally knew this was Wu Ba's opportunity.

Wu Qu was a genius of the Wu family in Cangzhou, and his martial arts experience and vision were not inferior to Zhang Zhang Xiaoshan's.

Li Yan was still far behind compared to him.

With such a famous teacher's guidance, naturally, it could not be missed.

Everyone dared not speak loudly, and even Sha Li Fei spent these two days running to the servant's courtyard, occupying a room to practice.

The promised two or three days passed unconsciously into a week.

Wu Qu seemed to have figured it out; although he was still cursing, he taught many essentials of Baji.

No other reason, Wu Ba was simply born to practice Baji.

Baji emphasizes "first practice clumsy strength like a mad demon, second practice soft sealing, closing, and deflecting, third practice inch-connecting, inch-taking, and inch-entering, fourth practice free stance like a lazy dragon lying down, fifth practice heart, liver, gallbladder, spleen, and kidneys, sixth practice tendons, bones, skin, and flesh merging."

Ordinary people practice strength, requiring years of hard work.

But Wu Ba had natural divine strength, extraordinary bloodline, and had awakened a body supernatural ability. By just pondering on his own, he had mastered hidden energy.

Practicing Baji, he directly skipped the most difficult part.

Wu Qu's tormenting him all day was also to help him organize his strength.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yan was responsible for inquiring about news outside.

He had now connected with the martial world of Shu, and some more secret information could be obtained as long as he was willing to spend money.

Just as he expected, the martial world of Shu was currently surging with undercurrents.

On Mount Qingcheng, there was still no movement regarding the candidate for the new abbot...

Mount Emei was not having an easy time either.

The several forces on the mountain could not be said to have completely broken off, but they were each busy with their own affairs, putting on a stance of not wanting to have anything to do with each other...

Although this was the case, under the mediation of Guangde Temple, several righteous forces of the Mystic Sect in Shu still reached a cooperation to jointly suppress the Dragon-Worshiping Sect.

Zou Zou Shaohai's Shenquan Society took this opportunity to hold a grand meeting in Chongqing Prefecture, inviting Shenquan Societies from all over Shu, which could be considered unifying their strength.

Even the Gelao Society joined them.

These people of the martial world cooperated with the righteous forces of the Mystic Sect and wandered everywhere.

The mobilization of the entire power of Shu was indeed effective.

They collected information everywhere and found several secret halls of the Dragon-Worshiping Sect, a bit like the one Li Yan and the others found, hidden in deep mountains and old forests, all controlling water gods with secret arts.

Under the power of the Mystic Sect, these secret halls were all uprooted.

Besides this, they also found several villages that secretly worshiped the Great Lord Jiang Shen.

The Administration Commissioner's yamen in the Sichuan-Shu region personally issued an order to classify the Dragon-Worshiping Sect as an obscene and evil cult, prohibiting worship.

Ordinary people seek gods, nothing more than to pray for blessings and luck.

Now that it had become a disaster, naturally everyone avoided it.

In a short period, the Dragon-Worshiping Sect became a rat crossing the street in Shu, and with the generous reward money for reporting to the imperial court, the commoners talked about it like a tiger.

The pity is that the leader of the Dragon-Worshiping Sect never appeared...

As for the Prince of Shu's mansion, something happened too.

Just two days after the Winter Solstice, an assassin opened fire on the street in Outside Chengdu Prefecture, using a new type of firearm, and beat a Commandery Prince of the mansion into pieces, so that he couldn't even be put back together.

This move was like poking a hornet's nest.

The Prince of Shu was furious, personally holding a sword and riding a horse, taking the mansion's personal army to search everywhere in Outside Chengdu.

In this way, he broke the imperial decree of reflecting on his actions behind closed doors.

But facing the furious Prince of Shu, no one dared to talk about this matter anymore, and even from the capital, an imperial decree came to posthumously confer a title on the deceased Commandery Prince, which could be considered appeasing the Prince of Shu's mansion.

And this time, it also let people see the Emperor's attitude.

After all, blood is thicker than water; as long as the Prince of Shu did not openly rebel, the capital would turn a blind eye.

Because of this incident, the officials of the Prince of Shu's mansion, who had originally been silent, became completely arrogant, and all kinds of impeachment letters flew toward the Outside Chengdu Prefecture yamen and the capital like snowflakes.

The censor who had come to cause trouble before also left Sichuan-Shu in a dejected manner.

The Prince of Shu could be considered to have completely broken free from his shackles.

This was by no means a good thing for Li Yan and the others.

With the Prince of Shu's mansion having no more taboos, if they used means to deal with them, I'm afraid they would no longer be sneaky.

Li Yan naturally knew who the murderer was.

Tang Ling of the Meishan Sect!

I'm afraid, the "Young Master Wuxiang" also had a hand in it.

Under these circumstances, Li Yan naturally would not leave at will.

They stayed within the territory of Suining, protected by Guangde Temple, and the Prince of Shu's mansion seemed to have forgotten about this matter and sent no one else.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yan, like the others, practiced boxing at home during the day and looked for places with dense evil energy at night to practice the "Luo Feng Jing."

Unconsciously, several more days passed, and they entered the Minor Cold.

According to the lunar calendar, it was already the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.

There were not many days left before the Spring Festival.

And Wu Qu's guidance finally came to an end.

"The Fengdou Huangquan Assembly is about to open."

After breakfast, Wu Qu said directly: "I want to go around, at least to ferret out that traitor."

Li Yan hurriedly said: "How about I go with you?"

"No."

Wu Qu shook his head. "It's not appropriate for you to go. They would have more excuses to cause me trouble, and that traitor would also hide."

"Don't worry, those people can't stop me!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Wu Ba with complex eyes, shook his head and said: "If there is an opportunity in the future, take him to Cangzhou. The Meng family might make an exception and take him in."

"Farewell!"

"Take care on your journey!"

They were all people of the martial world, so there was no need for fuss. Wu Qu packed his luggage, went to the pier, and took a boat directly to Fengdou.

At the same time, a letter also came from Mount Qingcheng.

The candidate for the new abbot of Qingcheng had finally been decided!

(End of chapter)