Chapter 456: Echoes of the Past (Part )"!!!" Wu Gensheng's scalp tingled after hearing this. He restrained his frivolousness, his expression became heavy, he slowly stood up and sighed softly. He was extremely helpless and had to give it a try as he was forced into a desperate situation. "Senior, since you insist on making things difficult for me, I'm sure there's no escape. Can you give me some time to leave a letter home?" "Ah." Lu Ci smiled even more and nodded slightly. The murderous look in his eyes was as sharp as a knife, staring at the four people in fear. "Ah? A letter from home." Jin Feng and Xia Liuqing were both stunned. They had been following the Sect Leader for some time, but they never knew he had any relatives. "That's it." Wu Gensheng leaned forward and bowed to express his gratitude, clasping his hands in a fist. "Thanks."
After he finished speaking, he seemed to have made up his mind. He turned around suddenly and ran away at the fastest speed in his life without looking back. "Disperse, go!" Wu Man, who had anticipated this, shouted loudly, and the sound waves vibrated with great power. It was the Vajra Lion Roar, one of the traditional Buddhist martial arts, which caused sand and gravel to fly all over the sky and cover his eyes. "call out--!!" The sound of breaking through the air came from different directions. In a flash, they were already dozens of meters away. However, Lu Ci, who was standing there, did not move a single movement, allowing them to escape. "." Wu Gensheng escaped a hundred meters away, his heart pounding, and he dared not look back. The foreboding of death in his heart, instead of lessening, became stronger and stronger. He gritted his teeth, and the true energy in his body rushed to his feet. He burst out with twelve points of strength and ran like the wind in the desert. Not far away, Wu Man, Xia Liuqing and Jin Feng, none of them dared to stop, and they gathered their strength and ran five or six hundred meters in one breath without stopping, and faster and faster. More than ten seconds passed, and Lu Ci stretched his body to stretch his muscles. It was time to end this mouse-playing game. "boom!!" As his afterimage disappeared, a sharp sonic boom sounded, like a flash of thunder. They were only a thousand meters away and so close. The slow-running little bald guy in green and the short, bespectacled Jin Feng had not yet reacted to what was happening. "Boom!!" Lu Ci's Ruyi Power had already reached the pinnacle, and with a casual flick of his fist, a terrifying and huge fist light, like a rolling earth dragon, instantly swept across the front over a hundred meters and submerged the two panicked figures. "Pfft!!" "Pfft!!" In an instant, the mortal body exploded into two balls of blood mist. Under the destruction of the fist light, Tongdanzi's Xia Liuqing's wish was finally realized, and the distance between him and Jinfeng became negative. You are in me and I am in you. They fell one after another, leaving only sticky blood all over the ground.
This thunderous punch made Wu Man and Wu Gensheng, who were two kilometers away, look like frightened birds, their faces turned pale. Chase after him? ! As they expected, Lu Ci took another step forward, and as if with the magical power described in ancient books to shrink the ground into an inch, he actually chased in front of Wu Man and intercepted him. "boom!!" Another punch was thrown, without any further exchange of words. Absolute speed + crushing power, the result is no surprise. The master who once had a feud with the Wang family and was among the best in the whole world didn't even have the chance to say his last words. Wu Man's upper body was hit by the Ruyi force that could hit the bull from a distance. It suddenly exploded like an inflated balloon, and blood and flesh flew everywhere, and he fell to the ground. After executing three people in succession, Lu Ci gazed into the distance and saw a tiny black shadow about to disappear at the end of the horizon. With a smile on his face, he chased after it, his robe rustling in the hurricane's wind. However, all this happened in just a few seconds, and Wu Gensheng, who was still fleeing, suddenly stopped. His face was gloomy and he stared at the figure in front of him warily. At the end of his rope, he was highly concentrated, every inch of his skin was tense, and even his breathing became rapid. It’s Lu Ci who is here. They appear like ghosts, as if they do not obey the known laws of physics of this world. "If I say I'm going to kill you, you can't leave." Lu Ci said in a flat voice, treating the leader of Quan Xing like a lamb to be slaughtered. "." "boom!!" Wu Gensheng reacted quickly and took the initiative to attack in order to gain a chance of survival. He pounced towards Lu Ci with his right hand, which was affected by the divine spirit effect. The five fingers of his right hand were slightly bent to accumulate strength, and his true Qi was released, ready to burst out with inch power and slap the visitor's heart with a palm strike. "boom!" Lu Ci was faster than Fast. He easily grabbed his right hand and clamped it tightly like a vise. Then he exerted force, swung it 180 degrees and smashed it to the ground. “Pfft.” Wu Gensheng spat out a large mouthful of dirty blood. He was injured and knocked unconscious. He vaguely felt that his internal organs were about to be shattered. The divine spirit was forcibly interrupted, and he became listless and his mind was a mess. “Gurgle, gurgle!!” In an instant, his face changed drastically, and he clearly felt a strange feeling coming from his wrist. A dense stream of Qi flowed along his wrist into his body, and the speed of spread was impossible to stop. The most strange thing was that the speed at which his divine spirit was dissipated was much slower than before. one tenth One twentieth one-thirtieth As time went by, Wu Gensheng discovered that his limbs, internal organs, were all covered by the mysterious Qi flow, and the speed at which he could dissolve the Qi could not keep up with the opponent's invasion speed. "Who are you?" Wu Gensheng had blood flowing from the corner of his mouth and he looked up and asked unwillingly. "Pfft!!"
Lu Ci looked down at him coldly without responding. He exerted force with his palms, just like a flame igniting the fuse of a firecracker, creating a chain reaction. “Bang bang bang!!!” Dull sounds continued to be heard from Wu Gensheng's body, and many of his vital parts and organs were broken into pieces by the explosion of the Qi flow. he died. His eyes were wide open, dull and lifeless, with a lingering feeling of astonishment and regret. In order to prevent the dead from coming back to life, Lu Ci snapped his fingers and shot out a stream of Qi, which blew up the drooping head. When he returned to the sand cave, Liang Ting's eyes had been gouged out. His dark eye sockets were oozing blood, and his broken veins were exposed. "solved?" Gao Mei saw Lu Ci coming out of the corner of her eye and asked about the result. "Ah." "Can I help you with this?" He skillfully took out a set of torture instruments from the storage ring, looking generous and unceremonious. "Then it'll be hard work." Gao Mei smiled slightly and accepted his kindness. Afterwards, Lu Ci stepped forward, locked Liang Ting's throat with one hand, and used both of his red hands to treat Liang Ting's injuries. He, who was originally on the verge of death, suddenly became full of energy and even his ability to speak and hear was restored. However, his vision was completely dark and he could not see anything. "what!!" "Bitch, I'm going to kill you!!" Liang Ting struggled violently, panting heavily, and was quite unwilling to accept it. His anger overwhelmed his rationality, and he shouted with a fierce smile: "Oh, oh, if you hate me so much, I will definitely torture you." "Pfft!!" “Wuwua ... Before he could finish his words, Lu Ci roughly reached into his mouth with his left hand, grabbed that hot and wet tongue, pulled it out, and swung the knife down. The pain made his eyes bloodshot and he howled like a pig being slaughtered. "What are you in such a hurry for, young man?" With his blood-stained left hand, Lu Ci patted Liang Ting's face, which was full of flesh but stiff as iron, and said soothingly, "It will take a long time, save your energy." "Woo." Liang Ting spoke incoherently. Having lost his tongue, he was filled with hatred but was unable to utter complete words. Then, Lu Ci grabbed his head with his left hand, amplifying the nerve pain perception hundreds of times.
"Ouch!!!" In an instant, Liang Ting screamed miserably. Lu Ci had not yet started to torture him, but the slight breeze was like countless knives cutting his skin, and he trembled with pain all over. Soon, a brutal torture began. Lu Ci held two bone-cutting knives that shone with a cold light. He marked several joints and the periphery of the bones, made a cut, and finally connected them together, easily cutting through the thick layer of pig skin. Liang Ting could not endure such torture. After struggling for a moment, he fainted from the pain. However, Lu Ci's red hand's ability woke him up the next moment and continued to torture him. "Ah!! Ah!!" Inch by inch of muscle was cut off, and Liang Ting was in so much pain that he couldn't think. He couldn't even remember how many times he had fainted. His eyeballs regenerated and were pierced again. His weight became lighter and lighter. It seemed as if all the blood in his body was drained. He was trapped in a dark world, desperate and helpless. After several hours, his nerves were completely numb and collapsed. However, Lu Ci would not give him a chance to breathe. While keeping his memory intact, he once again used his full strength to heal his nerves. "Ouch!!!" Liang Ting panicked, tears and blood kept falling from the corners of his eyes. He could not stand this torture. Every time he thought he was about to die, he miraculously survived. "Kill me," his spirit conveyed a strong and tragic plea. "Please, give me a quick death, ahhhh!!!" Gao Mei watched silently without saying a word, and Lu Ci cooperated tacitly, continuing to dismember, slow slicing, and repair the body, repeating the cycle for two whole days. By the morning of the third day, Liang Ting, who had just been cured, was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He clearly remembered everything that had happened. He was terrified and begged with tears: "Please give me a quick death, please, please, I beg you!!" There were other reasons that caused him to collapse to this extent. While torturing him, Lu Ci also used the Blue Hand to search his soul, finding the most painful memories, and repeating them over and over, distorting and modifying them. Under the created illusion, Liang Ting was insulted by countless people as a monster and an ugly thing, and all kinds of dirty things were thrown at him. He curled up in a corner, anxious, destitute and crazy. He could no longer distinguish between reality and falsehood, and suffered from both physical and mental torture. "shush" Lu Ci motioned for him to be quiet, and under those eyes flashing with fear, he wiped his mouth out of thin air, as if it had never existed. "continue?" "Ah." Gao Mei nodded in agreement. In fact, she was a little tired of watching, but there was still one day before the agreed time, and she had nothing to do anyway, so she just took another look. At the same time, in the Tang Sect far away in Sichuan and Shu, Tang Bingwen sat in the meeting room, with his senior brother Tang Jiaren and Master Hong beside him. He looked at Gao Yingcai standing in front of him and asked: "Brother, what do you think?" "Master, I want to go."
After two days of deliberation, Gao Yingcai gave a definite answer. He would not hesitate even if there was an ambush, and added: "I have taken care of the recent orders. If you have any personal matters, you don't have to affect the business." The implication was that he didn't want to trouble the sect and planned to go to the appointment alone. "it is good." "Now that your order is settled, I can explain to my employer." "As for your grudges, you need to be cautious on this trip to prevent Quan Xing from cheating. My brother and I will bring some more people to accompany you." Tang Bingwen made the decision. The news coming from the inn was too strange, and he was not comfortable letting his junior brother go alone. At the same time, he also knew that if it was really a trick, his junior fellow apprentice would not be able to deal with the Quan Xing monster, otherwise, the tragedy would not have happened that year. "Master, I'm afraid I can't afford the remuneration for you, my brothers, and everyone else at the moment." Gao Yingcai said in a hoarse voice, very moved, with a look of relief and helplessness on his face. There are rules in the Tang Sect. If a member of the sect is unable to complete a task, he can ask for help from other people in the sect, but he must also pay a reward or share half of the bounty. The prices offered by Tang Bingwen and Tang Jiaren were even more astronomical, absolutely representing the status quo. They were much higher than the hiring prices of other elite personnel, starting at ten gold bars with no upper limit. Even though Gao Yingcai is their junior fellow apprentice, there is no room for leniency. The rules are the rules and cannot be moved at all, but there is room for flexibility. "Then sign this IOU, come back alive, and take more orders in the future. One day you will be paid off." Tang Bingwen smiled nonchalantly, took out a written IOU from his arms, waved for his junior fellow apprentice to come forward, and handed it to him. There were only a few words on it. "Tang Clan Gao Yingcai, now owes the clan leader Tang Bingwen 10 gold bars, with an annual interest of %. It is the tenth day of the twelfth month of the th year of the Republic of China." "Senior Brother." Gao Yingcai choked. "Here, Junior Brother, please sign mine as well." Tang Jiaren also handed over an IOU with a smile. The content and format were almost the same, both for the lowest price, 10 gold bars. The two of them wanted to help him, but in fact they didn't even want to receive any reward. Writing those two IOUs was simply a way of respecting the sect's rules and setting an example. Give Gao Yingcai one more thought, hold on to the breath in my heart, and hope that he will do his best to come back alive. It doesn’t matter even if I spend the rest of my life repaying this debt, after all, being alive is the most important thing. If someone unfortunately dies, the debt is settled and there is nothing to worry about. "Master, Senior Brother, thank you very much." Gao Yingcai understood their intention, sighed slightly, thanked them quickly, then bit his index finger, used the blood as ink, and pressed his fingerprints on the two IOUs. "Go get ready, we'll leave later." "Yes, at your command."
dusk. In front of Jianghu Inn, there was a bustling noise, and some curious people were watching what was happening on the street. A fat man, covered with bruises, looking dazed and stupid, with dull eyes and drooling from the corners of his mouth, was dragged along with a long iron chain locked around his throat. The peasant woman holding the iron chain had a frosty face and exuded a hint of murderous intent, creating an illusion of a sea of blood and corpses in the eyes of the onlookers, who were so frightened that they fled in panic and hid quickly. Soon, several people arrived at the inn. The waiter was stunned and rushed to the second floor to report to the shopkeeper. "what?" "He was really caught?" Liu Wei was extremely surprised. "Yes, downstairs." Upon learning the situation, Liu Wei hurried downstairs. When he saw the foolish Liang Ting, his pupils restrained and he could hardly believe his eyes. The villain, a great master, was tied up like a wild dog, without any arrogance or arrogance at all. "You two, that's a good move." "He was caught right away. Please forgive me for my lack of foresight and the joke I made." Liu Wei's brows relaxed and he kept congratulating her. If it was any other demon from Quan Xing, he might still worry that his fellow disciples would come and cause trouble and kidnap the captives, but for Liang Ting, who was not welcomed by everyone in Quan Xing, no one would help him at all. "Bring a jug of good wine and some good food, and two guest rooms." Lu Ci handed Liu Wei several large-denomination silver bills. In this era of severe inflation, the prices of food, clothing, housing and transportation fluctuate day by day, and the expenses are high, easily costing thousands or tens of thousands of French francs. "Brother, you are too polite. You have done a good deed by capturing this evil man. This meal is on me. You two can stay in the guest room." Liu Wei politely declined Lu Ci's banknotes, turned around and told the waiter to go to the kitchen to prepare the dishes. "Come! Sit!" The three of them sat down at the side window of the store. Liu Wei suddenly remembered something and asked: "You two, did you meet the other four people?" "No, they got separated by a sandstorm, and when we went there, we caught one like this." Lu Ci replied calmly, unwilling to reveal the real news. "Really? Thank you for your hard work on this trip. I'm here to do what you two asked me to do." "I have already done it. According to the agreement, the people from the Tang Sect may arrive tonight or tomorrow morning." "As for Liang Ting, where should we put him to guard? I'm afraid the people in my sect can't control him." Liu Wei poured tea for the two of them while asking about their plans. "No need to look at him. His meridians are all broken, he has become a cripple, and he is mentally retarded. He is not worth mentioning."
Gao Mei expressed indifference. "If that's the case, that's good." Liu Wei's anxious heart was slightly relieved and he felt much more at ease. soon. As night fell, wine and food were served, and Gao Mei and Lu Ci began to eat. Half an hour later, figures outside the house approached silently. Even if they turned on the invisibility barrier, it was of no use. Given the absolute gap in strength, any disguise was a crude trick. "coming." Lu Ci gave a reminder, and several people walked in through the restaurant door behind Gao Mei at the same time. Looking at the senior whom he once admired, whose aura, appearance, and manners were exactly the same as in his memory, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed, with a faint smile on his lips. Chief Tang, long time no see. "?" Tang Bingwen, Tang Jiaren and Gao Yingcai, who were still invisible, suddenly felt someone staring at them from the side. They turned around and saw a middle-aged man with ordinary looks and sallow skin. The other person didn't have any of the Qi that a supernatural being should have, but he gave them an unimaginable sense of danger. The killer instinct honed from countless life-and-death experiences warns them that the person before them should not be underestimated. The back of his desk mate was also ordinary, but it made them even more uneasy. They could sense a kind of aura that was suppressing them in all aspects. This was undoubtedly an assassin! Moreover, her strength is unprecedented and more terrifying than the leaders of many assassin organizations. "!!!" Walking around the drinking table where the two were sitting, Gao Yingcai's attention was attracted by a disheveled figure. The man curled up in the corner was the beast whom he wished to cut into pieces. At this moment, his body trembled slightly uncontrollably as he tried his best to suppress his hatred. "Since you are here, come and sit down. The people are prepared for you. Please make yourself at ease." A rough voice was heard, it was the peasant woman in sackcloth who was speaking. Even without looking back, she could still easily identify the three familiar auras. Dad, Master, and the Master are all here. Thinking of this, Gao Mei's eyes showed a hint of gentleness, and her heart was filled with waves. Tang Bingwen and his companions knew they had been discovered, so they no longer hid themselves and showed themselves, greeting politely and courteously: "Hello, fellow Taoists!" "Come here and sit down." Lu Ci greeted him warmly. He turned around and shouted to the waiter at the counter: "Brother, bring some tea. New friends are not allowed to drink alcohol." "okay!" Tang Bingwen and the other two walked over cautiously and sat down slowly. When he saw the peasant woman and the middle-aged man, he somehow felt a sense of déjà vu. However, due to my age, my memory has declined. Also, I have met hundreds of thousands of people in my life, so I can't remember them all at once. I can only introduce myself first:
"I am Tang Bingwen from the Tang Sect. This is my senior brother Tang Jiaren and my junior brother Gao Yingcai. May I ask what are your two friends' names?" "A casual cultivator, a country bumpkin, Xu Fangxiu, that's my brother, Xu Wuqing." Gao Mei said calmly. Tang Bingwen knew that there was no free lunch in the world, so he asked directly: "My two friends, since you know the grudge between my junior brother and Liang Ting, and you have sent me such a generous gift, I would like to ask if you have anything to ask for?" "I have a good relationship with Xu Qingyu. We are neighbors from the same village and we had a deep friendship in our early years. When my father was seriously ill, she even helped me." "Later, due to the war, they went their separate ways. Recently, I heard about her whereabouts. She died of illness many years ago, and her husband and only daughter were bullied by the Quan Xing monster. After much inquiry, I found her whereabouts, abolished her cultivation, and sent her to you to repay her kindness in the past." Gao Mei calmly read out her mother's name. In her memory, her mother was frail and sickly. She died of illness when she was young and was buried in a village near Tangmen. Tang Bingwen was a little surprised. He didn't expect it to be this kind of relationship. "Sister, you actually know my wife?!" Gao Yingcai felt a pang in his heart, his eyes slightly red, and a feeling of guilt came over him. He could not forget his wife's entrustment before she left, that he must take good care of their daughter, but he broke his promise. In the end, this deep blood feud was only able to be avenged thanks to the protection of his deceased wife's spirit in heaven. "Ah." "We are from the same village, share the same surname, and are more or less related by blood. I treat her as my younger sister." Witnessing his father crying in front of him, Gao Mei appeared calm on the surface, but his heart was already filled with emotion. An inexplicable pain welled up in him, and he understood Gao Yingcai's suffering from his own feelings. As a father, he was powerless in the face of tragedy, which was the most cruel thing. "I will never forget this great favor. Please accept my greeting." Gao Yingcai wanted to stand up and kneel, but was held down by a rough big hand covered with calluses. Feeling her father's thin, fleshless left hand, Gao Mei shook her head and said: "It's our family that owes Qingyu more." "This is just something we can do. You don't have to do such a big thing." "Thank you. Thank you!!" Gao Yingcai bit his lip and lowered his head. His voice was trembling and his face was covered with tears. (End of this chapter)