Myths Begin From Boys' Gong

Ruan Xiong and Wang Song, Yan Congke will treat these two people seriously, and even consider them troublesome, but they are not untouchable.

In particular, his martial arts skills had greatly improved, and he was in the prime of his life, full of sharp sword intent, fearless and undaunted.

However, Xie Feng is different from the previous two.

Strictly speaking, this person's martial arts skills are not very high, but his methods of killing and his abilities are top-notch.

Yan Congke is also human, and he is afraid of death. Most importantly, Xie Feng is not someone he absolutely has to face.

Although Meng Zhao possessed extremely high martial arts skills and was confident in his unparalleled abilities, he did not truly believe that a master of hidden weapons was not a master.

Hidden weapons are all about the contrast of the weak defeating the strong and the few defeating the many.

Even if Xie Feng possessed top-tier weapons like the Peacock Feather, Guanyin's Tears, or the Rain of Pear Blossom Needles, he wouldn't dare to provoke him rashly.

While martial arts belong to the realm of extraordinary powers, the power of technology should also be respected.

"These are the three most troublesome people I found out. The rest are not easy to deal with either. I don't think we have much of a chance of rescuing Baoyu by relying solely on the three of us."

Meng Zhao thought for a moment and said,
"Alright, let's set off tonight and explore Baiyang Village and the Red Skull area. We don't need to rush to rescue Cao Baoyu yet; at the very least, we need to come up with a plan and strategy."

Ning Baihe nodded in agreement. "If you are prepared, you will succeed; if you are not prepared, you will fail." When he does business, he also tries his best to do research, gather intelligence, and plan in advance, which greatly increases the probability of success.

Yan Congke smiled as well.

“That would be even better. I’ve been to the Red Skull before and I even know a junior manager there. I can use the excuse of having fun to go in and investigate.”

Yan Congke is a figure in the underworld. He has no wife or children, so it's perfectly normal for him to have ties with underworld forces like Red Skull.

Once the three made their decision, they immediately took action.

About half an hour later, they arrived at the area of ​​Baiyangzhuang, where the county town is located.

The three of them stood at the end of a stone-paved road, looking towards Baiyang Village.

In the darkness of the night, under the moonlight, within the territory that resembled a giant beast lying prone, there were countless large red lanterns, like stars in the sky, illuminating the entire area.

The red lanterns, emitting a red glow, appeared extremely eerie and sinister, as if they belonged to an alternate dimension separate from reality.

As the three of them approached a fence built in Baiyangzhuang, they were greeted by two men dressed in coarse linen clothes, with calloused hands, who looked like farmers.

"Gentlemen, this is private property. We do not receive outsiders. Please leave!"

Seeing this, Yan Congke took out a red silk handkerchief from his pocket and said,

"We're here to have fun. I'm a regular customer. Oh, and I even know your Aunt Hua. Let's go!"

Having said that, he informed Meng Zhao via telepathy.

The two people in front of them were indeed farmers from Baiyang Village. However, they had learned some skills from Red Skull. In the shadows, there were many more people who had not yet come out. If an enemy attacked, they could pull out some military equipment and fight back in no time.

Meng Zhao looked far ahead. The area of ​​Baiyangzhuang was very large and boundless. It seemed to be a farm, but there were also many things such as arrow towers and crossbows built on it. It was indeed extraordinary.

What's even more unusual is that the government simply turned a blind eye and did nothing in response.

This further corroborates Ning Baihe's statement that the Red Skull likely has a Hongmen background, and the government dares not investigate it.

Returning to the Red Skull, one can see not only vast fields of farmland but also rows upon rows of buildings.

Some of these buildings are no different from ordinary rural farmhouses, but only a small portion of them.

More often, there are square, rather ornate mansions, with large red lanterns hanging in front of them.

Farmhouses and luxurious mansions are clearly separated by a central axis, one below and one above, clearly distinct.

Upon hearing Aunt Hua's name, the two farmers immediately recognized her as a regular customer and smiled.
"Oh, you're a regular customer. Please come in. Are you going to see Aunt Hua again today?"

"No, I was having fun on Aunt Hua's turf last time. This time I want to go play at Aunt Tang's place!"

Ning Baihe had previously told Meng Zhao about some of the relationships and characters within the Red Skull organization.

Red Skull primarily deals in prostitution; it's a brothel specifically for martial artists and underworld figures, offering a one-stop service for eating, drinking, and entertainment.

Anyone who comes to Red Skull to have fun must abide by the rules here, and Red Skull has enough force and deterrence to ensure that everyone follows the rules.

There are five people leading the Red Skull team: Aunt Tang, Aunt Hua, Aunt Shen, Aunt Lan, and Aunt Zheng.

These five individuals each have a group of girls under their command who practice special techniques, and they also each have their own territory within the Red Skull.

It contains a brothel, a casino, a boxing ring, and more; it's very exciting and tempting.

Yan Congke was a regular at the casino. According to him, he had spent no less than five thousand taels of silver there, including a whole white sheep.

These five aunts are the five beauties of the entire Red Skull. In terms of cultivation and internal strength, they should be no worse than some famous martial arts masters, and may even be stronger.

However, because these five people never personally greeted guests, no one knew anything about their background.

The three people Ning Baihe introduced earlier, Ruan Xiong, Wang Song, and Xie Feng, are actually regulars at the Red Skull.

They are all men who indulge in wine, women, wealth, and power; it's simply unrealistic to expect them to stay in one place indefinitely.

Only in a den of iniquity like the Red Skull could they be guaranteed to stay in one place.

This is actually an opportunity for Meng Zhao and Ning Baihe.

Strong individuals like Ruan Xiong and his two companions would never follow the rules and behave like servants, staying in one place and never moving.

They were naturally carefree and arrogant, and perhaps influenced by Ren Tianxing or some kind of incentive, they agreed to help guard Cao Baoyu.

But they themselves have weaknesses and vulnerabilities, not to mention that guarding is a very hard, repetitive, and boring job.

Naturally, this created a loophole in the guarding of Ruan Xiong and his two companions.

Meng Zhao also grasped this principle in a very short time, which gave him even more confidence.

Following Yan Congke along the way, it became clear that Baiyangzhuang was indeed not short of money, as a long blue brick road had been specially built that stretched all the way to the Red Skull, resembling a long dragon.

In the middle part, when Yan Congke pointed out that he wanted to go to Aunt Tang's place to have some fun, someone came to receive him.

The person who greeted them was a beautiful young woman.

Under the cover of night, she wore a dress made of sheer, barely-there fabric, with a red strapless top pulled down low at the chest, making her appear gaudy and seductive.

Judging from her appearance, she was only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a pure and beautiful face. It was a pity that this outfit completely destroyed her original charm and temperament. Based on Meng Zhao's perception of energy, this girl's internal strength was indeed quite profound.

While it's impossible to determine its overall strength, it has at least acquired a foundation of internal strength far exceeding its age under normal circumstances.

This is the domineering and unpredictable nature of the secret inner cultivation technique passed down within the Red Skull.

By absorbing the yang energy of men and transforming it into the medicinal power needed for women's internal energy cultivation, the secret medicine is avoided.

This is somewhat similar to the method of the Demonic Path's Human Essence Elixir, because the Human Essence Elixir uses a special secret method to transform the essence and blood of an ordinary person into the secret medicinal power needed for a martial artist to cultivate internal energy.

Of course, the two also have many differences.

The Human Essence Elixir is the orthodox method of the demonic path, which emphasizes transforming the world. Regardless of what internal cultivation method you practice, you can use this Human Essence Elixir method to cultivate. However, under normal circumstances, the amount of killing required is too great.

The inner cultivation method within the Red Skull is a secret and unique technique. It can only be used in combination with other techniques, and it is impossible for them to absorb the yang energy of a man and then cultivate another technique.

Furthermore, the Human Essence Elixir is essentially a secret medicine, except that it uses humans as its raw material.

The secret method within the Red Skull is a combination of mental cultivation and medicinal techniques, allowing one to cultivate while simultaneously refining medicine—a truly remarkable approach.

Yan Congke secretly told Meng Zhao through a telepathic communication technique that most of the women here were not particularly attractive at first.

However, as one deepens one's understanding of this martial art, one's internal energy becomes increasingly powerful, altering one's physique and leading to various transformations.

A woman's skin, temperament, and even facial features will be improved, thus transforming her into a rare beauty.

Meng Zhao was a little dumbfounded. Could there really be such a martial arts mental cultivation method?

In the previous life, it was fine because the continuous improvement of one's realm made one increasingly approach inhuman, which was equivalent to genetic optimization, life leap, and moving towards a perfect form. This was a very normal and natural thing.

This life is different. Although both are practicing martial arts, the gap is huge. Those who practice martial arts cannot achieve that leapfrog change and improvement.

Based on Meng Zhao's assessment of the secret medicine martial arts system, it is clear that he deliberately and consciously adjusted the effects of internal energy in this direction.

Moreover, Meng Zhao understood Yan Congke's implied meaning.

Of the women here, very few are truly born beautiful. Most of them have accumulated profound inner strength through countless encounters with men, thus transforming their physical bodies.

In other words, the more beautiful and attractive a woman is, the more experiences she has.

Meng Zhao certainly wouldn't do anything wrong. He wasn't without women, so he'd rather not bother with the people here.

Before long, the three of them arrived at a grand mansion with carved beams and painted rafters, led by the woman who called herself Xiaoli.

Two stone carvings of Pixiu swallowing pearls stand in front of the house, and the plaque above the gate reads "Tang Mansion".

In front of the gate, people were coming and going, making it quite lively.

Meng Zhao was somewhat shocked. There were so many martial arts figures? And they were all from the underworld?

Ning Baihe approached Meng Zhao to answer his questions and resolve his doubts.

"Many of these people are tourists who came specifically for the Red Skull. There are people from the underworld and evil paths, but they are very few."

In other words, all those rules we talked about before, like not receiving outsiders, were just pointless and meaningless.

However, the more people there are, the greater the chance that Meng Zhao and his two companions will succeed in taking advantage of the chaos, and the less likely they will be discovered.

After entering, a screen wall came into view, and the corridor there split into four paths. Xiaoli very attentively led the three of them to one of the paths.

This road is the road of rouge, leading to the ultimate realm of pleasure between men and women.

Xiaoli tried her best to pull the three of them along this path, hoping that if they went to the Red Powder Road, she might also gain a lot.

Despite her young age, Xiaoli has seen a lot of people and has a very sharp eye.

In her eyes, Meng Zhao, Ning Baihe, and Yan Congke are all top-notch talents.

The three men were not only strong and muscular, but they also practiced internal martial arts and possessed profound internal strength.

Yan Congke and Ning Baihe were fine, but they were old and not particularly good-looking. Although they had a fierce aura, what these women wanted was not fierce aura, but yang energy.

Meng Zhao was different. He had a young face that made him look much younger, with fair skin and a pure and powerful inner strength. He exuded a suppressed aura and surging pressure.

Most importantly, Meng Zhao was very handsome, which made Xiao Li, who was used to seeing men, waver and have a little crush on him.

Spending a night with a man like that, even without practicing martial arts, even if I had to pay him, wouldn't be so bad.

Unfortunately, neither Meng Zhao nor Yan Congke, nor Ning Baihe, had such thoughts.

However, it didn't seem too unconventional.

After listening to the introduction, I walked towards the fork in the road leading to the boxing ring, encountering many people along the way.

Some, like Meng Zhao and the other two, were led to the boxing ring, while others came out cursing and swearing, probably having lost money inside and venting their frustrations.

The boxing ring, also known as the boxing gym, only holds three matches a day. Each match is open for betting, resulting in a huge influx of funds and becoming a source of abundant capital for Red Skull.

Meng Zhao and his two companions arrived relatively early. Although the first boxing match was over, there would be a second and a third match.

Xiaoli led the three of them into a large house deep in the corridor.

There were people everywhere, both inside and outside the gate, with many sentries; in other words, the defense force was very strong.

If anything unusual happens, it will quickly attract a large number of people.

This is also what Meng Zhao and Ning Baihe noticed.

They are rescuing people, and once they are discovered, a fight is inevitable. The commotion caused by the fight will most likely attract the intervention of these defense forces.

Moreover, these people are very likely to be biased towards Ren Tianxing's side, which is something to be aware of.

As for solutions, there are indeed some.

That is, while rescuing Cao Baoyu, the troops should split into two groups and create a great commotion at another location of the Red Skull, attracting all the defensive forces there. This feint would greatly increase the chances of rescuing Cao Baoyu.

Moreover, Meng Zhao and Ning Baihe secretly memorized the route they took and the defensive forces they encountered, and made calculations based on that.

Yan Congke's approach is relatively simple: when gambling addiction strikes, one must use their eyesight to gamble.

I don't care how much I lose; the main thing is to satisfy my hobby. (End of Chapter)