Chapter 328: Battle of the Heroes

Chapter 328: Battle of the Heroes

Chapter 328: Battle of the Heroes (I)

After five generations of construction, the walls of Liu's residence are tall, solid and complete. More than forty houses are connected together. There is a newly built three-story building in the east courtyard, which stands out from the crowd and is named Yinfeng.

Qu Yang is good at playing the guzheng, and Liu Zhengfeng is an expert at playing the flute. The building's name comes from the story of "playing the flute to attract the phoenix". Sitting upstairs, one can overlook the entire mansion, including the two long streets from north to south.

"What a big house! Only the Han people know how to enjoy it!"

The petite figure leaped over several walls, avoiding the sight of the Songshan School disciples, and ran straight towards the Yinfeng Tower, like a colorful bird flying into a house. Her body was nimble and she landed silently. The pavilions, flowers, plants and trees naturally became her cover, which showed that her attainments in lightness skills had reached perfection.

"After all the hassles and haste, we finally arrived at Hengshan."

The tall building in Liu's mansion can be seen from North Street. Because it is far away and no masters from the Songshan School are stationed here, if anyone wants to peek at the bloody banquet in the front yard, this is undoubtedly the best place.

After a while.

"Yinfeng Tower?"

When she arrived in front of the building and saw the three words on the plaque, she suddenly laughed, her voice as clear and sweet as a silver bell.

"It seems like I should come here today."

At this time, the door was closed.

That's okay.

A door lock can only restrain a gentleman, but it cannot restrain a martial arts master.

"It's still quite a bit shorter than the Colorful Dragon Building at my house."

As the woman spoke, she tapped the ground with her left foot and her body flew into the air. She climbed up the vermilion pillar and leaped up a few feet. She stepped on the eaves of the second floor. The tiles made only a slight sound. Her embroidered shoes stepped on the animal horns and she leaped up another thirty or four feet and landed on the roof of Yinfeng Tower.

Before she could even stand firmly, she was surprised because someone had already reached the building.

"She's not from the Songshan School, and she doesn't look like Di Baiying's person either. Who is she?"

The woman in red robe lay on the tiles, one hand supporting her chin, the other holding a white jade wine gourd, her long black hair scattered behind her head. She looked at the front yard, where there seemed to be hundreds of ants quarreling, waving their antennae, trying to kill each other.

"Nice Qinggong!"

She seemed to have not noticed that there was someone behind her, and just said four words to herself.

"Sister Fairy, are you here to enjoy the view?"

Lan Fenghuang had a charming face and a sweet voice, revealing the simple and pure nature of a mountain girl. She stood there, seemingly a little reserved, but in her sleeves there were two small snakes, one blue and one white, crawling out along her snow-white arms, hissing and spitting out red tongues.

The woman in red robe did not answer, but turned her head slightly and glanced at Lan Fenghuang.

"The kite is flying... it's flying over here. Let me take a look. If there's nothing there, forget it."

Lan Fenghuang felt a great threat from the woman, just like the guard dog in the village, which would not panic at all when encountering jackals, wolves, goblins and leopards, but would retreat instinctively when it encountered a mountain king that grew up in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The beasts do not need to fight or even meet each other; the superiority of one can be determined just by their temperament and eyes.

Lan Fenghuang felt that she had the same feeling.

The Miao people are close to nature and believe in doing whatever they want. She originally had a fearless character, but when she met the red-robed woman lying in front of her, she felt like she was being stared at by a dragon.

"Then I won't disturb Sister Fairy from drinking anymore. Goodbye!"

Lan Fenghuang took two steps back and was about to turn around and leave.

The red-robed woman then spoke her second sentence.

"Now that you're here, don't be in a hurry to leave. Sit down!"

Lan Fenghuang stood there nervously, thinking for a moment, and realized that she had no confidence in escaping from this man. She felt relieved anyway, she was no match for him. She walked over to the woman in the red dress and sat down, and stopped pretending to be stupid.

"Sister Fairy, are you looking at those people from the Five Mountains Sword Sect?"

"Are any of them my sister's enemies or friends?"

"If he's an enemy, I'll go kill him for you, okay?"

When the red-robed woman heard this, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing a beautiful smile, domineering and ostentatious, sharp and proud.

It's like saying, in this world, how many people are worthy of being my friends? And how many people are worthy of being my enemies?
Lan Fenghuang was stunned for a moment.

"Sister Fairy, I seem to have seen you somewhere before... I just can't remember where. Anyway, it was either in this life or in the past life."

The oriental girl held the white jade wine gourd and looked at Lan Fenghuang. She stretched out her hand to pinch her chin, gently stroking it, and smiled: "You must be the leader Lan of the Five Poison Sect in Yunnan. You are young and good at talking. I heard that you are the 'blood of Chiyou and the holy body of a hundred poisons' that only appears once in a hundred years. You are born with the ability to control strange snakes and insects. You became the leader at the age of fourteen, and all the five major Miao villages respect you."

As soon as they met, the other party saw through her background. Lan Fenghuang recalled everything in her mind, but still didn't know who the other party was. She could only blame herself for living in Yunnan for many years and traveling less in the Central Plains in recent years. She didn't even know that there was such a great master among women!

"Sister is really a deity, she knows everything, but there is one thing she said that is wrong, it's not the Five Poison Sect, it's the Five Immortal Sect!"

The oriental girl took a sip of wine and turned her head: "Five Immortal Sect, let's call it the Five Immortal Sect, what are you doing here?"

"I heard there was something exciting going on, so I came to take a look."

"Do you know those two people?"

"know!"

The Yunnan Five Poisons Sect is a subsidiary gang under the Sun Moon Sect. When Lan Fenghuang became the sect leader nine years ago, it was the beginning of the Sun Moon Sect's external wars under the command of Dongfang Bubai.

She was summoned several times to lead the Five Poison Sect to participate in the war. Even if she had never dealt with important figures from the two major camps in the Central Plains, she had met them.

"One is Qu Yang, the Right Envoy of the Holy Religion, and the other is Liu Zhengfeng from the Hengshan Sect. The redwood man surrounding them should be from the Songshan Sect. I wonder if Zuo Lengchan is here. I heard that he is very powerful in the Central Plains martial arts world and is the only person who can compete with our Eastern Sect Master."

The oriental girl smiled and said, "You know a lot. It's boring to just watch the fun. Let's make a bet. If you lose, I will take something from you."

Lan Fenghuang whispered, "Sister Fairy, can I not gamble?"

"What do you say?"

Lan Fenghuang had a bitter face, not knowing what this man saw in her.

Miss Dongfang looked at the front hall and said slowly, "Let's bet on whether Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang can escape the encirclement of Songshan Sect today!"

Lan Fenghuang said: "I bet they can escape!"

The oriental girl turned her head, raised her thick eyebrows slightly, and stared at her coldly.

"Then...then I bet I can't get away with it, right?"

Lan Fenghuang wanted to cry but had no tears. Was this a bet? Was this a plan to rob someone?
The oriental girl nodded gently, sat up, held the white jade gourd upside down, and the wine fell from the air like a spring...

"Wow!"

A spray of blood fell to the ground.

Liu Ying clenched her teeth, her face pale, and she refused to scream. The bloody hole on her left leg instantly dyed half of her trouser leg red.

When the heroes saw this, they secretly praised the young man in their hearts, saying that he was a good man.

"Liu Zhengfeng, watch carefully! This sword will stab the thigh."

Wan Taiping drew back his sword and looked at the two people in the courtyard with a grim smile.

In addition to the twenty disciples who had sneaked into Liu's mansion with the Taoist priests of Fushou Temple in advance, the three hundred people from the Changjian Hall of Songshan School, on their way from Nanyue Temple to Hengshan City, were attacked by pre-buried fire mines. About sixty people were killed on the spot and forty or fifty were seriously injured. They were sent back to Fushou Temple.

They speculated that it was Liu Zhengfeng who did it, and that even some masters of the Demon Cult were involved. Therefore, after rushing to Liu's house, they were extremely careful and deliberately kept Liu Zhengfeng's children so that they would have bargaining chips to hold him hostage if something unexpected happened.

Lu Bai stood with his hands behind his back and chuckled, "If you dare to leave, the next sword will come out from the chest!"

Liu Zhengfeng said helplessly: "Brother Lu, you accused me of being a demon sect follower, but what your Songshan Sect did, how did it have anything to do with the righteous path!"

Qu Yang was also a little surprised. Deep down, he couldn't stand the fact that the Sun Moon Sect was gradually degenerating, the leader was being authoritarian, and the followers were terrified. It was completely different from the vibrant scene when he first joined the sect.

In these years of interacting with Liu Zhengfeng, he had some hope for the orthodox religion. But today he found out that all crows are evil. The Songshan Sect, the leader of the righteous sect, actually behaved in such a way and was so cruel to its own people. How could Zuo Lengchan be better than Dongfang Bubai?
Liu Ying lost too much blood and his body gradually went limp. Lu Bai showed no mercy and stretched out his left hand, grabbing his neck like an iron clamp, and looked coldly at the two people who were surrounded.

"If you dare to leave with Qu Yang, they will be the followers of the devil. In order to practice chivalry and deter villains, I, Lu Bai, can help the righteous martial arts world to relieve their worries. Even if I bear some infamy, I believe that the heroes of the world will understand!"

The Liu Mansion is located in Hengshan City, which has thousands of houses, crisscrossing streets and alleys, and complex terrain. Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang are good at martial arts and really want to escape. It may be difficult to stop them, especially since Lu Bai and Fei Bin were more or less injured in the previous ambush.

The only plan at the moment was to use his followers to trap Liu Zhengfeng, and then use the friendship between the two that was said to transcend the gap between good and evil to lock up Qu Yang, the right emissary of the Demon Cult who had appeared.

Qu Yang is old, and in the past decade, he has seldom taken action in the martial arts world, but his former fame and status are still there.

Except when the old takes over from the new, the Demon Cult usually does not appoint a deputy leader. The status of the Right Envoy is almost second only to the leader. If Qu Yang can be captured and killed, it will be a great achievement unprecedented in the righteous martial arts world in the past fifty years. The prestige of the Songshan School and the popularity of the Left Alliance Leader will both soar.

If Qu Yang escapes alone without caring about Liu Zhengfeng's life or death, it will prove that the so-called friendship between Boya and Ziqi, and the friendship between the qin and the flute, is nothing but a joke. It will also be more able to unite the people of the righteous path and will also be beneficial to the Songshan School, the leader of the righteous path.

This was what Lu Bai and Fei Bin had planned on the road after they were attacked. Now everything was almost going in the direction they had envisioned.

"Senior Brother Liu!"

Seeing that he was sure to win, Fei Bin walked slowly to the courtyard, looked around at the five or six hundred heroes present, turned around suddenly, stared at Liu Zhengfeng, and relaxed his lips, revealing an inexplicable smile.

"For the sake of our friendship in the past when we fought together, I will call you Brother Liu again."

"As long as Senior Brother Liu kills the evildoer around him, we can still be good friends and brothers. I will forgive you for your crimes. I am willing to risk my life to protect you in front of Alliance Leader Zuo. What do you think?"

Liu Zhengfeng turned around to look at his wife and disciple lying in a pool of blood, and closed his eyes in pain: "You killed my wife and disciple, and you still have the nerve to talk about being good brothers and good friends?"

Fei Bin sneered: "Your wife is dead, but you still have three children!"

The threat contained in these words is self-evident.

Hundreds of martial arts heroes were not frightened. They seemed to see the shadow of the Demon Cult in the Songshan Sect.

"Zuo Lengchan is cruel and tough, and the Songshan Sect is equally arrogant and domineering. Now he has even harmed Liu Zhengfeng's wife in front of all the heroes in the martial arts world. This is really wrong... But to deal with the Demon Sect, we must have such an iron-blooded person."

Taoist Tianmen had a blank expression on his face, and his mood was complicated. His master, Yu Xuanzi, was lured and killed by a female elder of a demon sect when she was in her seventies. This hatred was irreconcilable. Over the past few years, he had been traveling around the world, secretly searching for the whereabouts of the female demon.

"Fei Bin is a brutal criminal who kills innocent people indiscriminately. This is really against the ethics of the martial arts world!"

Master Dingyi frowned, feeling very dissatisfied with the Songshan Sect's overbearing style. When Madam Liu was killed before, she regretted not being able to help. Looking at the Hengshan disciples who were like little chickens behind her, she could only suppress the anger in her heart.

Yue Buqun took two steps forward and bowed to everyone, saying: "Senior Brother Liu, if you can't bear to do it, as long as you say the word, Yue and the martial arts heroes present can do it for you and kill this devil. It only takes a flip of the hand. As long as you make your attitude clear, you will draw a clear line between you and Qu Yang from now on!"

Tianmen Taoist also said: "Yes, we just need your words!"

Liu Zhengfeng closed his eyes and still said nothing.

Yue Buqun sighed softly and said, "Brother Liu, now that it has come to this, your family has been destroyed by the evil sect, and you still don't wake up?"

Qu Yang looked at the Songshan Sect masters present and felt that he would not be able to leave today. Fortunately, he had already sent Fei Yan out of Hengshan City. He smiled with relief: "If I can use my head to make you stop and stop killing innocent people, why would I care about my death!"

Liu Zhengfeng held Qu Yang's wrist, looked at Yue Buqun, and shook his head gently: "Right and wrong, good and evil, everyone has their own scale in their hearts. Thank you for your kindness, Brother Yue! People live for a hundred years, but they will die in the end. I, Liu Zhengfeng, will never abandon my friendship for my own sake!"

He was short and fat, with two rat whiskers at the corners of his mouth. Judging from his appearance and figure, there was nothing outstanding about him, and he looked like a country bumpkin.

Although real people never reveal their faces and heroes in the martial arts world are judged by their skills, with the same martial arts and the same chivalry, if he could grow up to be a handsome and elegant man like Yue Buqun, he would definitely be more in line with the image of a hero in everyone's mind.

However, at this moment, Liu Zhengfeng's eyes were shining, his short and fat figure looked heroic, and his heroic demeanor was undoubtedly revealed, just like a piece of unpolished jade without the stone skin. No one present had any doubt that the reputation of Liu Sanye of the Hengshan School was not earned by gold and silver.

"For a demon, you abandoned your wife and your disciples, and also abandoned us, your old friends? Senior Brother Liu, you... you are really stubborn!"

Yue Buqun sighed lightly and retreated again.

Lu Bai sneered and asked, "Liu Zhengfeng, from your tone, it seems that you don't think you are wrong!"

Because of his seniority, he ranks second among the Thirteen Protectors. His martial arts skills are not outstanding, not as good as the First Protector Ding Mian and the Third Protector Fei Bin, but when it comes to being vicious, cunning and playing with people's hearts, he is the best in Songshan.

"Okay, then I'll find someone to ask!"

Lu Bai raised his eyes and looked over. Liu Qing and Liu Ying were both glaring at him. Only the youngest, Liu Qin, had his thighs trembling non-stop and lowered his head, not daring to look at anyone.

"Bring him here!"

Upon hearing the order, Wan Daping let go of Liu Ying and personally carried the fifteen-year-old boy to Lu Bai.

"What's your name?"

"Liu...Liu Qin!"

"Do you know that guy? The one standing with your father."

Liu Qin lowered his head and dared not answer.

Lu Bai gave a wink, and Wan Daping immediately placed the cold sword tip on Liu Qin's neck.

The young man knelt on the ground, shaking like a sieve.

"I...I know him. Daddy asked us to call him Uncle Qu."

Lu Bai chuckled and said, "Uncle Qu? That's so affectionate! You were there just now, so you should know who Uncle Qu is, right?"

Liu Qin whispered: "I know, he's a bad guy!"

Liu Zhengfeng glared at him, "What nonsense are you talking about, you little bastard? They killed your mother without asking any questions, and you still want to give in to them? I, Liu Zhengfeng, don't have such a spineless son."

"father…"

Liu Qin felt aggrieved and tears were streaming down his face. He didn't understand why his father, who had always doted on him the most, would scold him like that.

Lu Bai walked slowly in front of him and stood between the father and son.

"Your father was a traitor and colluded with the devil. His whole family must die and will be infamous for eternity. Now that your mother is dead, it will soon be your turn. Do you want to die?"

Liu Qin just looked at Liu Zhengfeng and said nothing.

"Say it!"

Wan Daping shouted angrily, tightening the sword in his hand slightly and cutting the skin on the boy's neck. The smell of death and blood became very strong. He grew up in a study and had never seen the bloody storm in the world of martial arts.

"I...I don't want to die."

"Yes, since ancient times, the only hardship is death. Who wants to die? When you die, everything is gone. Besides, you are still so young... about the same age as my child. You haven't arranged a marriage yet, and you haven't left Hengshan City. You haven't seen the snowy plains of the North, the deserts of the Western Regions, and the Jieshi of the East China Sea. You haven't seen the world. If you turn into dust like this, who will remember that there is such a person as you? It's such a pity..."

Liu Qin listened to these words, which seemed to be meant to comfort her, but suddenly tears welled up in her eyes and she burst into tears.

"Uncle Lu, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."

Liu Zhengfeng shouted angrily, "You little bastard, if you kneel before the enemy, I will not have a son like you, I will not have a son like you!"

Lu Bai smiled and nodded. He had completely broken through the boy's defenses.

"If you don't want to die, that's easy. As long as you draw a clear line between yourself and your father and point out Liu Zhengfeng's faults, you can live and die!"

Liu Qin seemed not to hear anything and continued to cry loudly without saying a word.

Lu Bai chuckled and said, "I can only give this opportunity to one of you three siblings. I see that you are still young, and you look a bit like my child. You are well-mannered, like a scholar. You should be able to distinguish right from wrong and know what it means to sacrifice your relatives for the greater good."

He waited for a few more breaths, and his voice suddenly turned cold.

"I'll give you a chance, but you don't care about your life. Okay, Daping, send him to see his mother..."

Wan Daping hadn't raised the sword in his hand when he saw Liu Qin trembling all over and shouting, "I draw a clear line between Liu Zhengfeng and me, draw a clear line between me and Liu Zhengfeng. Don't kill me, don't kill me, I don't want to die..."

Lu Bai breathed a sigh of relief, but turned his gaze to Liu Zhengfeng.

(End of this chapter)