While on Mount Hua, my mind is at peace!

Chapter 121 You should go down there yourself.

In a flower hall at the headquarters of the Stone Bridge Gang, the gang leader, Xiao Xiangwen, was toasting an elderly scholar.

"Mr. Liu, I heard that your eldest son, with more than a dozen men and an elder from the Heavenly Sword Sect as an inside agent, was still slaughtered by the leader of the Great Wind Gang on Heavenly Sword Mountain. Is this true or false?"

The old scholar was none other than Liu Ziliang, who had recently offered Xie Hongde his advice. Upon hearing Xiao Xiangwen's words, his gaze suddenly darkened: "Since Chief Xiao has brought this up, he must have already confirmed its truth. I just wonder what your intention is in bringing this up at this juncture?"

Xiao Xiangwen chuckled: "Mr. Liu is a wise man, so I'll be frank with you. My Stone Bridge Gang has been cooperating with the Heavenly Sword Sect for a long time, and even if we wanted to switch sides to the Xie family, it wouldn't be so easy. Mr. Liu, please understand the difficulties I face."

Liu Ziliang, suppressing his anger, said, "Let me ask you first, have you gotten your hands on the land in Qiongjie yet? If you haven't, what right do you have to negotiate with the Xie family!"

His words were quite impolite, but Xiao Xiangwen wasn't annoyed. He just smiled and said:

"I haven't acquired the land yet, but it's almost there. Mr. Liu, you should really consider what conditions are suitable for the current situation. Well, that's all I have to say. I have some other matters to attend to, so please take your leave, Mr. Liu."

Liu Ziliang, representing the Xie family in various gangs, had never been treated with such coldness. He was about to say something more when Xiao Xiangwen stood up. Suddenly, a gang member rushed in, leaned close to Xiao Xiangwen's ear, and whispered a few words.

Xiao Xiangwen's expression immediately changed, and he gave Liu Ziliang a cold look: "Mr. Liu, you really are a master of disguise. So you were waiting for me here all along. Good methods! Good cunning! Invite them in!" The last sentence was addressed to the gang member.

The gang member immediately turned around and left the flower hall, returning shortly with three other men. One of them was Xiao Bin, the young leader of the Stone Bridge Gang, who was covered in wounds and his clothes were soaked in blood; the other two were a middle-aged scholar and a young man in a blue robe.

The three walked over side by side, with Xiao Bin standing in the middle. However, for some reason, everyone's attention was unconsciously drawn to the young man in the blue robe.

Upon seeing the young man, Liu Ziliang blurted out, "Young Master Feng, what brings you here? Did the Second Young Master send you?"

Xiao Xiangwen looked at Liu Ziliang with a slight sneer, then sized up Yue Feng. He had been in contact with the Xie family for a long time and naturally knew that the Xie family had a new retainer. However, he never expected that this rising star would be so young.

Yue Feng replied, "Oh, no. I'm here on a private matter. What brings Mr. Liu here?"

Liu Ziliang, being an experienced and shrewd man, could easily see that Yue Feng and Xiao Bin had had a conflict, and that Xiao Xiangwen had misunderstood that it was his arrangement. He frowned and said, "I'm here on official business, ordered by Elder Xie. Young Master Feng, what is it that you need to discuss later?"

Yue Feng patted Xiao Bin on the shoulder: "Did you hear that? Your distinguished guest told me to talk about it later. Young Master, what do you have to say?"

Xiao Bin trembled and shouted, "He's talking nonsense! Who does this old bastard think he is! Father, quickly send him away, Master Feng has important matters to discuss with you."

Having said all that, Xiao Xiangwen could see that Liu Ziliang and Yue Feng were not on the same side. Seeing Liu Ziliang trembling with anger but remaining silent, he had no choice but to speak up: "I wonder why Master Feng beat my son like this? And what brings you to our humble sect?"

Yue Feng said, "I heard you stole a batch of medicinal herbs from Shuiyue Manor? I am the owner of Shuiyue Manor. Did you even ask me about this?"

Xiao Xiangwen said calmly, "Oh, so that's what Master Feng was after. You don't know, I'm also working for the Xie family. The Xie family wanted the land in Qiongjie, but didn't know where to start, so they dumped this job on me."

"I had a plan discussed with Mr. Liu, and it was going well, but your subordinate interfered. Yes, the one next to you, I think his surname is Sun? This Mr. Sun, for some reason, gave away expensive medicinal herbs to the poor doctor in the street for free."

"Listen to this! Is this something a normal person would do? If I hadn't acted decisively and sent someone to steal the medicinal herbs, it would have been a small matter if I hadn't been able to take over the land in Poor Street, but the real problem would have been that you two wouldn't be able to explain yourselves to Elder Xie."

Yue Feng said with a faint smile, "So, I should thank you?"

Xiao Xiangwen said, "Of course you should thank me. But Master Feng, before you thank me, shouldn't you apologize to me and my son first? After all, you injured my son without even asking what happened; there's no such principle in the martial world."

Yue Feng said softly, "Who do you think you are, to talk to me about reason? If I'm not mistaken, you're the ones who spread the plague in Poor Street."

A cold glint flashed in Xiao Xiangwen's eyes: "Master Feng is indeed clever. However, clever people often don't live long, unless they know how to exercise restraint!"

Yue Feng said to Xiao Bin, "Tell your father whether I have any sense of propriety or not?"

Xiao Bin cried out, "Master Feng is very sensible! He only crippled my martial arts, he didn't take my life! Father, I beg you, please return those medicinal herbs to Master Feng!"

Xiao Xiangwen roared and lunged forward with his palm. Yue Feng lifted Xiao Bin with one hand, using him as a human shield to protect himself and Sun Jingyi.

His timing was impeccable, striking just as Xiao Xiangwen's palm strike was at its peak, leaving him unable to retract it. Xiao Xiangwen's palm struck his own beloved son, shattering Xiao Bin's chest bones and causing him to spit out blood.

Yue Feng casually tossed Xiao Bin's body away: "If you don't value other people's lives, others won't value yours either! I, the master of this manor, will teach you this lesson today."

Xiao Xiangwen ducked to avoid Xiao Bin's corpse, his hair whipped wildly by the strong wind, his scalp burning as if slashed by a knife. Filled with grief and fear, he used a reverse triple-layered cloud movement technique to retreat to Liu Ziliang's side.

"Mr. Liu, this kid has gone mad. He won't let you go! Why don't we join forces and kill him to eliminate any future trouble!"

Liu Ziliang had long harbored jealousy towards Yue Feng, so he sighed and said, "Young Master Feng, I didn't want to make things difficult for you, but you are simply too arrogant. I have no choice but to teach you a lesson so that you can have a smoother journey in life in the future."

Xiao Xiangwen grinned maliciously and said, "The smoothest path in life is the one you don't take. Master Feng, when you get to the underworld, remember to give my regards to those maggots in the slums."

Before Xiao Xiangwen could finish speaking, a flash of light appeared in the flower hall! When the light faded, Xiao Xiangwen's sinister smile froze. Before plunging into boundless darkness, Xiao Xiangwen seemed to hear the judge's verdict:

"I'm sorry, Chief Xiao, I'm too lazy. You should go down and say it yourself."

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