."...That! Was! Their! Slander! Against! Me!..."

Early morning, in the rain curtain before the Wu Hu Inn, two groups of people were still facing off. Some of those with higher martial arts skills heard the indignant roar that seemed to be coming from not far away.

Each side in the standoff had dozens of people. The side led by Shi Weiyang was strong and well-equipped, with many experts, and naturally had the upper hand. However, their initial intention in coming had been disrupted by the inn's fearless crowd, and they couldn't care less about the slight unexpected noises at the moment.

While they were pressuring and cursing each other, in the alley behind the inn, the indignant young man and the black-skinned girl in the raincoat in front of him were also facing off. A small bald head peeked out of the trash pile behind him, looking at the scene with confusion.

The figure in the raincoat seemed quite at ease. Hearing the young man's roar, she smiled, but not quite.

"Really? I don't think so... Everyone knows what our dear Long has been up to in the Southwest. You're lecherous and fond of women, leaving none untouched. You know in your heart why you ran away from home this time, don't you?"

Hearing these words, the little bald head curiously turned his head back and forth.

In the cold rain, Long Aotian clenched his fists, his face flushed red.

"Hei Niu, I'm warning you, don't joke about this!"

"Oh, getting angry." The woman named Hei Niu blinked her eyes. "Where am I joking? I'm just saying what everyone knows. By the way..."

"Say that again and I'll kill you—"

"Kill me?" The woman who had been smiling tilted her head, her eyes widening. Then, she shook her wrist in the rain, and the surrounding raindrops splashed open like a whip striking the water's surface. She praised leisurely, "Good... ah, as expected of the Five-Foot Y Demon, you've made a name for yourself, you're promising, you don't even spare your older sister. I'd like to see how you plan to kill me..."

The little bald head turned around in the rain, thoroughly amused.

Long Aotian, who had been radiating the aura of a young man in the throes of puberty, paused, "I... I... You know they're slandering me!"

"I don't know." Hei Niu shook her head. "You can know a person's face but not their heart. Long, you know what will happen if the reputation you've made this time spreads back to the Southwest, right?"

"You... you just don't have to spread the rumors!"

"We don't have any control over that. After all, everyone already knows."

"Everyone..."

"But now, there's a way. You've been running away from home for four months, making a huge commotion, but you haven't accomplished anything significant. Now that you've been caught by your older sister, it can be considered fate. So, be good and surrender, don't resist, let me beat you up and take you back. Then, we elders will settle your affairs for you. After all, family shame is family shame, we still have to save face outside. What do you say?"

In the alley, the autumn rain pattered on the woman's raincoat. The black-skinned woman spoke these words slowly with a smile. The young man's momentum was suppressed quite low, his face flushed red and then white. After hearing these words, he suddenly burst out.

"Bullshit! I haven't finished what I need to do, I don't want to go back with you!"

"Sigh, going out for three or four months for a girl, and you still haven't found her..."

"I'll skin her alive sooner or later..."

"A night of love is worth a hundred days of kindness, Little Long. Come on, let your older sister teach you a little about life."

The two sides confronted each other, stating their positions. At this point, the woman in the raincoat clenched her hands together, her fingers clicking, and took a step forward. The young man also clenched his fists in the rain, gritted his teeth, and prepared to fight.

"Don't be arrogant."

"I'm not being arrogant, I'm waiting for you to kill me."

The black-skinned girl smiled brightly, revealing her white teeth. This kind of confrontation had obviously happened more than once between them, and they seemed to be very familiar with each other. The little bald head, peeking out of the trash pile behind them, asked in a low voice, "B-Big Brother, who is she?"

"She's an enemy!" Long Aotian's fists swung in the rain, and he shook his legs. "Get ready to fight, we'll beat her to death!"

The little bald head didn't think so, and asked in a low voice, "Wouldn't it be not very good for the two of us to beat one person?"

"...Huh?" Long Aotian tilted his head, his expression complicated for a moment, unsure how to explain.

Hei Niu, on the other side of the autumn rain, heard this sentence, and her smile became even more friendly. "This must be Little Sage Sun, Sun Xiaoge. Seeing that you have a good relationship with Little Long, come on, call me Hei Niu Jie (Older Sister)."

"Don't pay attention to her!" Long Aotian said.

"Amitabha." The little monk put his hands together. "Hei Niu Jie."

"What a good little monk." Hei Niu smiled. "It's okay if you help him, your older sister will be gentle, it will only hurt a little, just cry and it will be fine..."

As she said this, her footsteps suddenly stopped. Long Aotian, who had been keeping an eye on her, seemed to notice her distraction and took a step back, but then stopped as well, turning his puzzled gaze to a side fork in the road.

There was a subtle movement in the rain.

At this moment, what startled both sides was the subtle sound from the fork in the road, but what first made the change clear was the dilapidated roof ten or so zhang away. Two figures suddenly clashed on the roof. Their movements were strange and fast, but they still broke some of the tiles on the roof. One figure retreated rapidly, and then with a few thuds, landed in the courtyard below, seemingly having used Qinggong (Lightness Skill) to dissipate the force.

"Someone is tailing us."

A voice came from the roof. Hei Niu frowned, and the young man also frowned. The one speaking from the roof was clearly the most dangerous sniper in the Huaxia Army at the moment—Yuwen Feidu. He had apparently run to the surrounding area to habitually find a high point, and as a result, had fought with someone. After saying this, the figure quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

And Hei Niu and Yuwen Feidu had already appeared...

The young man moved to the side, looking towards the fork in the road not far away. He saw a glint of a blade slowly appearing from a pile of debris - this was a person who had been lying in ambush here. The reason he showed himself was not only because Hei Niu and Aotian were both paying attention to this side, but also because another figure in a raincoat had been standing quietly for a long time a little further away from the fork in the road.

This person's skin was also relatively dark, and his figure was tall and thin. The muscles on his arms beneath the raincoat were knotted like iron. Long Aotian gritted his teeth and said to Hei Niu, "You're really insidious! Shameless."

From childhood to adulthood, he and Hei Niu had fought countless times, and they knew each other's strength well. The other party was slightly older, and girls developed earlier. She was on the same level as his Saozi (Brother's Wife) Chu Yi. Along the way, he had been beaten to tears by her many times, so even if he showed some rage because of her words, it was only a short-term bluff.

Once they really fought, this fork in the road that didn't look easy to walk was the escape route he had chosen, but now it seemed that as soon as he ran over, he would be caught by Xiao Hei who was hiding over there.

Simply the most poisonous woman's heart!

Relatively speaking, Yuwen couldn't just shoot at his own people, so he was the least threatening.

Of course, at this moment, Hei Niu, who was a nearly equal Shijie (Senior Martial Sister), was already unbeatable. Xiao Hei and Yuwen were even more senior Shixiong (Senior Martial Brother) from the previous generation. Now, they had all received the true teachings of Hong Yi and Uncle Chen, Uncle Du, and other elders. None of them could be beaten, let alone all three of them coming together.

But these unexpected, suddenly appearing two big baddies, might become a glimmer of hope for him.

"It's not me hiding in the dark, what does insidious and shameless have to do with me?" Hei Niu said with a smile, incidentally dissing the companion and eavesdropper over there.

Xiao Hei sighed at the end of the fork, and then said, "This friend who's hiding, I wonder which hero are you from?"

The middle-aged man holding the knife stood with his sword held horizontally, looking like a master with a very disciplined stance. "Everyone is hiding, the boss can't say anything about the second. I am Lu Xian, the vanguard under Wei Tian Sha (Heavenly Executioner Wei). Where are you friends from, dare you give your names?"

The autumn rain fell. For a moment, the three sides confronted each other here. Long Aotian waved his hand towards the rear. He knew there was a chance...

******

After discovering the problem with Wu Hu Inn, Lu Xian secretly passed the information about the two Y Demon to Shi Weiyang of Zhong An Fang, and then continued to stake out nearby with his Shifu (Master) Li Duanwu for a morning.

In theory, if Shi Weiyang maintained a basic level of vigilance, the search of places like Wu Hu Inn should be carried out with a surprise attack as the priority. But firstly, Shi Weiyang was quite confident in his team and his father's reputation. Secondly, Lu Xian couldn't reveal the information involving the Reading Club inside Wu Hu Inn. As a result, Shi Weiyang swaggered over, but the inn had already prepared. The two sides confronted each other in front, which meant that Lu and Li's vision of "the inn being smashed, chaos breaking out, and all parties revealing themselves" fell through.

He couldn't help but complain in his heart about the unreliability of these young masters' handling of affairs, but the two's stakeout, overlooking the overall situation from the rear of the inn, still played a role. When two figures sneaked out furtively from the rear, even watching the fun recklessly on the roof, Lu and Li prepared to capture their movements with the posture of a mantis stalking a cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

At present, the big matter was the entanglement between Wu Hu Inn and the Reading Club, and an even bigger matter was whether the background of the Reading Club had any involvement with the Southwest. The capture of these two Y Demon was not so important. It was also because of this that Lu Xian was not in a hurry to attack the target when the two climbed out. As long as he followed behind them, he could find out whether their next foothold was related to the people at Wu Hu Inn, and perhaps he could sort out the clues of the Reading Club from this mess.

As a result, when he followed to the alley behind the inn, he really heard some amazing information.

However, he was a mantis stalking a cicada, and there was an oriole behind. Just as he saw the woman in the raincoat about to fight with the Five-Foot Y Demon, Uncle Duanwu, who had climbed up to a high point on the nearby roof to stake out, was suddenly discovered. After the two sides exchanged blows, Li Duanwu went downstairs in a flash. From a distance, although Uncle Duanwu chose to retreat, he didn't seem too flustered, which made Lu Xian somewhat relieved. But as soon as he turned his head, the other black and tall figure behind this fork in the road was already standing there.

Lu Xian was taught by Li Duanwu, and he had tasted blood at the edge of a knife for many years. Even if he encountered some danger, he wouldn't be too flustered at this time in a one-on-one or one-on-two situation. He shook the long knife in his hand and stood out. He vaguely understood in his heart: this time, he had really encountered some sharp characters.

Most of the people in front of him and behind him had genuine Southwest Huaxia Army backgrounds.

In the two years since the founding of the Fairness Party, its momentum had expanded rapidly. While pulling the flag under the background of the Huaxia Army, it had also rendered the power of the Southwest mysterious and powerful. Lu Xian's martial arts were strong, and he had a certain power and prestige within the party by following Wei Xuwen, but in the past, when dealing with internal cleanups, the most dangerous situations he faced were nothing more than cleaning up some lunatics or seriously dealing with some members of the Reading Club.

This was truly the first time he had faced people coming from the Southwest after he rose to a high position.

He regulated his breathing.

"...I am Lu Xian, the vanguard under Wei Tian Sha (Heavenly Executioner Wei). Where are you friends from, dare you give your names?"

He spoke in a provocative tone.

In the cold rain, inside the alley in front, the woman in the raincoat said, "A good person."

At the same time, the young man named Long Aotian also spoke: "A black person!"

On Lu Xian's side, the black and tall figure who had discovered him and blocked his way sighed slightly at this time: "Ai..."

At this moment when their gazes intersected in the rain, the young man named Long Aotian waved his hand slightly, seemingly about to escape. Lu Xian shook the long knife in his hand, reached into his arms with his left hand, and took out a smoke firework tube with a ringing arrow. In the rain curtain, the black and tall figure's gaze sank, and he rushed over wildly, reaching out to grab!

Lu Xian's sword light slashed out.

In the alley in front, the woman in the raincoat broke through the rain curtain with a "Bang—" sound and shouted, "He's yours—" She pounced directly at the young man who wanted to escape. The young man stopped in his tracks, his legs suddenly solidified into a horse stance in the rain, and his hands crossed to form a circle, adopting a grand boxing stance: "Come on!"

Even though he had been beaten to tears many times in the past, he had never really been afraid of this kind of contest with a lifelong enemy! According to his father, after all, he was still young. When everyone was in their twenties, who knew who would beat whom!

He had ambition.

Even if he wanted to run, it would be after getting beaten up.

Hei Niu's fist broke through the rain curtain and rushed straight over. Long Aotian's footsteps were like a raging bull plowing the earth, and he moved forward twice with a "bang bang" sound. Then, he propped up his arms and did his best to parry the opponent's straight punch.

Splashing rainwater exploded between the two figures.

In the next moment, the fists they swung crisscrossed in the air. The young man's upward-sloping fist hit Hei Niu's ribs, and Hei Niu's hook punch almost hit the young man's face. In the next moment, she turned her fist into a grab, grabbed the back of the young man's neck, and hugged him with her other hand.

The two had been fighting since childhood, and there wasn't much difference between men and women. It was just that in the absence of weapons, wrestling skills were sometimes more terrifying than fists. Ning Ji knew that once he was hugged by the other party, he would probably be beaten half to death next, and he wouldn't be able to run away. He yelled "Ah—" and struggled with all his might, punching towards the other party's face and shouting, "Monkey Stealing Peaches!" But he didn't actually make the corresponding movement with his hand.

"I'll beat you to death!"

Hei Niu scolded in annoyance. The two's fists and feet crisscrossed in the rain, and they both gave each other a few punches in the blink of an eye.

On the other side, the moment Lu Xian took out the firework arrow, the sword light in his hand had already slashed out. The black and tall figure that rushed over was as swift and fierce as thunder. He sealed with both hands, and suddenly clamped the precious sword in his hand directly with his arms, unable to pull it out. He was shocked in his heart and immediately understood that the opponent was using the Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training Golden Bell Cover.

This Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training was indeed a hard skill, but when facing knives and guns, it didn't necessarily mean that people would directly use their flesh and blood to fight against it. More often, it was used to seal and seize with hard skills. When the other party sealed with his arms, Lu Xian immediately understood that the other party's horizontal training had reached an extremely high level. Even if he really took a knife, he probably wouldn't suffer too much damage.

He knew the difficulty of dealing with this kind of enemy, but he was not a mediocre hand either. Just as he was about to start wrestling, he suddenly heard a voice from afar: "Be careful!"

He saw a figure on the roof in the distance suddenly raise a long knife and slash towards a figure drawing a bow on the opposite side. It was Li Duanwu who had discovered the shooter's intention on the roof and had to come out to save people again.

The arrow flew through the rain curtain. Lu Xian suddenly abandoned his knife and pounced out. His figure rolled awkwardly in the rain. Just as he climbed up, the black and tall figure's fists and feet came in a series of attacks. In an instant, he saw the surrounding ground, debris, and walls explode in a series of "bang bang bang bang" sounds. The black and tall figure was like a chariot, and his hands and feet waved like fierce iron bars, smashing everything in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Lu Xian dodged in a hurry. In this critical situation, almost every movement was done subconsciously. The iron-bar-like attack grazed his face, leaving a burning sensation. In this hasty time, he also suddenly pulled open the firework tube in his hand.

This type of firework arrow had a certain probability of not being able to launch in the rain, but he felt the rushing aura after pulling it out. And in the next moment, the waving fist slammed down with a "bang".

In the rain curtain, he only heard a few swishing turns. The fired firework collided with the ground and walls, ricocheting several times, and then exploded in the rain with a "bang".

This arrow failed to rise into the sky.

In front of the Wu Hu Inn not far away, the two groups who were confronting each other heard the strange noises coming from the rain behind them.

Neither side knew what was happening.

But the negotiations had reached this point without any progress, and Shi Weiyang had already lost patience. At this time, he suddenly noticed that something was happening behind the other party's shop - although he didn't know what it was, it must be a good thing.

"Damn it! Stop talking nonsense, go in and get people!"

Shi Weiyang's fear of his father had reached the extreme. He knew that today's matter was likely to fail, but in any case, the other party was so nervous and wouldn't let him go over. If this wasn't the Y Demon's den, then they had some unspeakable secrets themselves. Rather than returning empty-handed, he had to save some face.

"Catch the two Y Demon who are wreaking havoc on the Jianghu (Martial World)! Whoever dares to stop me, I'll beat them—"

Both sides drew their weapons and clashed on the road in front of the bridge.

The people at the inn resisted on one side and sent out people on the other side: "Hurry up and call for people! Ask Jun Xian (Military Sage) and Long Xian (Dragon Sage) to uphold justice!" Shi Weiyang also sent out people: "Call all of our people nearby, as many as you can, we must not return empty-handed today!"

The fight broke out, turning into a mess. Some people had already fallen in pools of blood. Shi Weiyang was protected by several expert guests and was about to force his way into the inn. At this time, several figures rushed out from the side road of the inn. Running in the lead was a young man with a bruised nose and a tattered shirt. Behind him was a bald little monk. The two ran and shouted.

"Help—" the young man shouted, "Robbers are killing people—"

In the midst of the fighting and shouting on the street, this kind of voice was not particularly prominent. The two figures mixed into the crowd and were originally inconspicuous. They even occasionally interspersed with strange words like "The sky is falling! The earth is collapsing! The little yellow dog is gone!" If you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't be able to hear what the problem was.

But Shi Weiyang's nerves were stretched tight, and at this time, his gaze was suddenly attracted by the bald little monk.

He looked at the two figures rushing into the fighting crowd like fish in water, and starting to become ordinary. At a certain moment, he suddenly reacted and jumped on the spot, shouting loudly, "Catch them!"

"Catch that bald head, and that thing in front—"

"They are the Five-Foot Y Demon and the Four-Foot Y Demon—"

Shi Weiyang was extremely excited. Although he had never seen the appearance of the two, he had been subjected to cold violence in his father's slaps for days, and he had thought about the characteristics of these two Y Demon countless times. Two young men, the younger one of whom was a monk - what was there to distinguish!

Following these two Y Demon all the way into the crowd was also the black-skinned girl in a raincoat, and the black and tall guy and the cripple a little further behind. At this time, they didn't attract too much attention.

"The sky is falling! The earth is collapsing! The little yellow dog is gone—"

Working with the little monk, Long Aotian, who had finally escaped Hei Niu's pursuit, rushed into this pile of people fighting in groups. He was like a fish in water, very excited. When he found that the jumping young master at the inn's door not far away was pointing at him and shouting, and some people were surrounding him, he was a little confused.

I haven't even started to offend you!

Among the crowd, Hei Niu and others sneaked over.

After a while, Long Aotian cursed indignantly.

"Shi Baobao (Shit Baby), what's wrong with you, is your father dead—"

Shi Weiyang jumped and shouted, "Catch them! Catch them!"

Several thugs under the command of the Equality King had already arrived nearby. After the young man finished cursing, he crouched down in the crowd and suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight.

In the next moment, the ground-lying knife was unleashed, and several people nearby were silently shortened by a section...

The young man rushed towards Shi Weiyang in grief and indignation. Behind him, Hei Niu and others had also rushed over.

"What's going on..."

"How did it turn out like this..."

"Let's catch the people back first, I see things are going to get big..."

The few whispered to each other and overturned the people who came to them. This kind of Jianghu brawl was not as good as a battlefield fight. Before they were targeted, they could still handle it very easily.

More people rushed over from a distance, and the fighting spread on the street...

At the northern end of the city, He Wen entered the city in the rain curtain. Looking at the crowd kneeling on the side of the road in the rain, he sat in the carriage without much expression.

Several kings of the Fairness Party had already arrived. With his entry into the city, it seemed to be the start of a grand event for the outside world, but for the Fairness Party internally, the entire negotiation was about to begin. It would determine the future of the Fairness Party, and even determine the survival of the Fairness Party.

He already had a plan in his heart, but at the moment when things had to be done, he couldn't help but feel uneasy and apprehensive. And for these people kneeling by the road, he had an even more complex sense of guilt.

However, when things came to a head, he had to be bold.

In this mood, at a certain moment, he noticed the movement at the other end of the city.

"What's going on over there?"

"...It seems to be Shi Baofeng's people, fighting in the city." The place was relatively far away, and it wasn't long before someone brought preliminary news.

"..."

He Wen was silent for a moment. In fact, this kind of thing was the norm for the Fairness Party now, so there was nothing surprising about it. After a while, more detailed information came.

"...It's Shi Weiyang, the second son of the Shi family, who had a conflict with some people under Nong Xian (Agriculture Sage). Long Xian (Dragon Sage) has intervened... Mr. He, you just happened to enter the city, is this matter..."

"How lively."

He Wen sighed and shook his head with a smile.

He didn't pay attention to this matter again.