Chapter 14: Four Absolutes and One Lord

Huang Yuhan used precious medicinal ingredients worth a thousand gold to save a rat. Not only did he not mind, but he nodded repeatedly, "Has the poison on its body been cured?"

"It has been cured!" Qian Chen nodded while copying down the results on the side.

Huang Yuhan glanced at the prescription, not even looking at the price or the quantities, and waved his hand heroically, "Trouble little brother to write out a prescription, and I will have my subordinates go and prepare it."

Qian Chen turned his head and looked at him with a surprised expression, asking, "Steward Huang, this medicine is not cheap. Do you intend to save every single rat one by one? These are just a few rats..."

"These are not just a few rats; this is the face of our Four Seas Hall. We must kill those who provoke the Four Seas Hall, and we must save those we want to save. Compared to the face of the Four Seas Hall... these things are nothing."

Qian Chen, however, said, "If the person who poisoned them used a few hundred taels of silver worth of medicine to poison them, but I have to spend tens of thousands of taels to save them, wouldn't I have lost? Steward Huang, chop this rat up, mix it into food, and feed it to those rats... the poison will naturally be cured!"

"To think it's like this... haha, I still underestimated you, little brother." Huang Yuhan laughed heartily and patted Qian Chen on the shoulder, seeing that Qian Chen's ears were even a little red from excitement, looking very shy. He was even more satisfied and asked as if nothing was wrong, "Little brother, the person who poisoned them has some designs on our Four Seas Hall. I wonder if your medical skills can rival his?"

Qian Chen lowered his head and said, "I am still a bit inferior for now... but as long as you give me time, I can counter every move."

"Haha... with your talent, little brother, catching up to him is only a matter of time."

"Come, come with me to meet the various Wu Lin seniors in the main hall."

Qian Chen and Steward Huang had just arrived at the main hall when they heard someone report, "Hall Master, the Sha family brothers are carrying a sedan chair and wish to see you."

A deep, powerful, calm, and collected voice said, "Oh? Why not invite them in? If the Sha brothers want me to go out and welcome them, then I will tidy up, apologize to everyone, and then go."

"Those little beasts of the Sha family have such big guts!" someone shouted angrily. "They don't even look at what place this is."

"The Sha family juniors don't know etiquette, but everyone, give some face to their elder, the one who severed the Great River, Sha Tongtian. Do not bicker with these juniors."

The person reporting, however, said with a trembling voice, "Reporting to the Hall Master, the four Sha brothers dare not put down the sedan chair. They say someone made them bring a gift for the Hall Master, and if the sedan chair touches the ground, the four of them will die!"

Hong Sihai finally felt some doubt. He stood up and said, "Oh! Then I must see who has sent me such a grand gift." As he spoke, Qian Chen saw several extraordinary martial artists surrounding a burly old man with white hair and beard as they walked out of the main hall. The main hall and the main gate were in a straight line, so standing at the entrance, one could clearly see the situation at the main gate.

Under the archway at the entrance, four men in black were carrying a small black sedan chair, lingering there.

Their faces were pale, and sweat slid down their temples from time to time. Their entire bodies were soaked through, and they looked utterly miserable. Seeing Hong Sihai walk out, a strong brilliance erupted in their eyes, as if they had seen a savior. This appearance indeed did not look like they were here to cause trouble.

"Four nephews!" Hong Sihai was just about to cup his fists.

He heard the eldest of the Sha family say with a trembling voice, "Fourth Uncle, we were forced to bring this sedan chair to you. We haven't put it down for three days and three nights on the road. The people the Sha family sent to attend your birthday banquet, except for us brothers, were all killed by that person! We beg Fourth Uncle to look at this gift and avenge our Sha family..."

Hong Sihai's expression was grim as he used the copper smoking pipe in his hand to lift the sedan curtain.

That thick curtain was lifted at a corner in front of Hong Sihai, and everyone saw Hong Sihai's expression become ferocious as never before. Even when facing the Demon Sect Leader in his life, he had never been so moved. The hand holding the smoking pipe was trembling, and he only let out a painful cry: "Second Brother!"

This shout caused the third Sha brother, who could no longer hold on, to shake his arms, and the small black sedan chair immediately collapsed at one corner.

A 'person' rolled out from inside. The reason it was a 'person' was that he no longer had the appearance of one; he had become a puddle of mush. Qian Chen had never imagined that a person could become so limp, as if they had no bones, with a puddle of flowing meat sauce wrapped inside the skin. It was shockingly someone who had been hammered to break every single bone in their body with heavy techniques.

They had even pounded the flesh and blood into mud, yet without damaging the skin in the slightest.

Such a technique could be called terrifying to the extreme. The most terrible thing was not just this... the most terrible thing was that the person who had become mush was still alive. Following Hong Sihai out, the Shaolin Divine Monk Kongming said with unbearable pity, "This... what kind of sinister and poisonous technique is this... the perpetrator is insane."

The Wu Lin wanderers on the side, the quick-tongued brothers, couldn't help but say, "Isn't this Bi Tiantong, the second of the five brothers of the Four Absolutes and One Lord, who swore brotherhood back then?"

Qian Chen had just heard this name from the Divine Monk Chengwu.

The Four Absolutes and One Lord were five brothers who swore brotherhood thirty-five years ago and were famous in the Martial Forest. They all held justice in their hearts and were like-minded, so under the leadership of the eldest brother, Qu Hanjun, they acted chivalrously and swore brotherhood. Besides Qu Hanjun, the Lord, there was the Blade Absolute Fang Ruomu, the Leg Absolute Bi Tiantong, the Sword Absolute Liu Duxing, and the third-ranked—the Fist Absolute Hong Sihai.

Thirty years ago, because of the death of the eldest brother Qu Hanjun, they developed rifts between them and had not seen each other for many years.

It was only after the Four Absolutes and One Lord parted ways that Hong Sihai founded the Four Seas Hall and embarked on the path to becoming a Wu Lin titan. After the Four Absolutes and One Lord split up, only the second brother, Bi Tiantong, still had some contact with Hong Sihai. The brotherhood was very deep, but now he had become a 'greeting gift' delivered by the Twelve Yuan Chen.

The quick-tongued brothers couldn't help but say, "It is said that Bi Tiantong, who has traversed a thousand mountains, has leg skills that have reached the pinnacle, with unfathomable power. One step out is like a mountain or a peak... now..." Finally, someone couldn't help but pull on these two brothers, making them stop being so 'quick-tongued'.

Hong Sihai didn't care about the filth on Bi Tiantong's body and carefully picked him up. Bi Tiantong's eyes, however, seemed to have something to say.

Hong Sihai's tiger eyes filled with tears, and he sobbed, "Second Brother, are you asking me to kill you?"

A firm expression appeared in Bi Tiantong's eyes. Master Kongming chanted a Buddhist name, lowered his head, and couldn't bear to look anymore. Such a heavy injury was already beyond the help of gods. Bi Tiantong had held on until now just for the sake of revenge. Everyone present couldn't bear to persuade him otherwise; in such a state, death was more comfortable than living.

"Old Senior Hong..." The most outstanding rising star in the Wu Lin in recent years, the Three Absolute Swordsman Kang Kang Qian Deng, seemed unable to bear it and stepped forward, gesturing with his sword that he could do it on his behalf.

Hong Sihai, however, raised his hand to stop him. He placed his trembling right hand on Bi Tiantong's forehead and, enduring immense grief, said, "Second Brother, I, Hong Sihai, swear to heaven that I will find the thief who hurt you and bring his head to see you!!!" ===== CHAPTER 15 =====