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Chapter 322: The Second Creation of Water Margin and Classic Plots from the Romance
When Li Ke saw these bandits, he was sitting in the tavern calling Yun Ge to have tea and wine. He found some herbs and cured Yun Dalang's illness with some small spells.

So at this moment, what he saw was a rather chaotic scene: the bandits had already rushed into Yanggu County in groups of three or five, showing off their might. The surrounding vendors and common people, as well as the farmers who went to the market, were all fleeing frantically. The vegetables and the chickens and ducks they brought were also flying everywhere. However, the farmers, who usually cherished a few vegetables very much, did not dare to turn back to pack up their goods at this moment.

Because there are so many bandits!

There are hundreds of people!

The dozens of men in the front were holding swords, spears, swords and halberds, and they were wearing either tattered and rusty iron armor or wooden pieces tied together with hemp ropes. They were the elites of this group of bandits. The miscellaneous soldiers in the back were more realistic, dressed in cloth, and holding either sharpened bamboo poles or wooden sticks, or hoes and rakes.

However, when this group of ragtag troops rushed into Yanggu County, the officers and soldiers looked as if they wished their parents had not given them two more legs, and they had absolutely no ability to resist.

The people of Yanggu County suffered even more because of this. Several pretty women were directly arrested. Their husbands wanted to resist, but they were no match for the bandits who outnumbered them. Several bandits came with wooden sticks and knocked them to the ground. The bandits even surrounded them, threatened and tested them with swords, and amused themselves by seeing them rolling around in an ugly state.

Li Ke stood up immediately upon seeing this and was about to take action, but Yun Ge on the side quickly grabbed Li Ke's clothes and spoke while supporting his still weak father.

"Brother Li! Let's go! Otherwise, it will be over if the government troops come!"

Li Ke was stunned when he heard this, but then he felt helpless.

Nowadays, the ones who can be more ruthless than the bandits are naturally the soldiers, because every time they go out they can make money openly. Even if there is not much profit, the surrounding towns and people will naturally become the profit.

There were many questions like "How do I know you are not a bandit? How do you prove that this is not a bandit's stuff?". If the officers and soldiers of this era were required to meet the moral requirements of the People's Army, only Yue Fei's army in the entire Song Dynasty could barely do it.

And the scary thing is that no official would care about this matter because they always have a copy.

"This is my hometown. These bandits are like vicious tigers in the mountains. Now they have come to my home. Do you want me to surrender and watch my fellow villagers being eaten? Brother Yun, just keep an eye on Dalang. I'll be back soon!"

Li Ke looked at the noisy bandits and knew clearly that these bandits only bullied the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty. They would run away if they encountered some regular soldiers who wanted to get promoted and make money. Moreover, they must have unclear relationships with the wealthy families in the city.

I just don’t know why I came here at this moment!

Looking at several soldiers running towards this side, Li Ke snatched the spears from their men, and under their blank gazes, he rushed directly towards the bandits. When passing by a rack full of bamboo poles, he kicked it directly!
The bamboo poles on the rack were thrown directly at the group of bandits who were mocking the officers and soldiers and beating the civilians. A few of the bandits who were chasing them in a hurry were directly hit in the face by the bamboo poles. They screamed and covered their faces, not realizing that Li Ke had appeared in front of them!
Li Ke thrust the spear in his hand forward fiercely, like thousands of cold rays of light. In the blink of an eye, blood spurted out of the throats of five or six people. Some of them immediately covered their necks, while the fierce ones rushed directly towards Li Ke.

Li Ke kicked all the thugs away one by one, but as he moved, several gusts of wind shot towards his face. Li Ke raised his gun and swept away the arrows without even looking at them. Several arrows were knocked away. Then he held the spear and threw it directly out. The sharpshooter who could shoot arrows continuously was pierced through the throat by his spear and died on the harsh ground.

The sharpshooter struggled twice and wanted to stand up, but Li Ke did not give the bandits time to react. He suddenly pulled out the steel knife from his waist and chopped off the stunned bandit leader's head with one stroke. However, at the moment of chopping off the other's head, he spoke in surprise.

"Zhang Qigou?!"

With a cry of surprise, the chopped-off head of the bandit leader opened his eyes wide, trying to recognize who killed him. However, he died of dizziness caused by massive blood loss, and he never saw clearly who killed him until his death!
Li Ke did not hesitate, stretched out his hand and grabbed the man's hair on the back of his head, and raised it directly to the many gangsters.

"The leader of the bandits is dead, you still want to resist!"

While speaking, Li Ke kept wielding the long sword in his hand and slashing at the besieged people. Seeing his ferocity and seeing their leader's head with his eyes open, the bandits immediately lost their courage and fled out of Yanggu County just like the Song army before.

Li Ke did not continue to chase, but just held Zhang Qigou's head in his hand and looked at the dead bodies around him. He found that he had seen these dead bandits once or twice.

Most of these people were originally farmers and tenants in Yanggu County, but now they went up the mountain to become bandits, and even burned, killed and looted innocent people after coming down the mountain. Li Ke felt mixed emotions.

But this melancholy only lasted for a moment, because he had just seen clearly that these bandits had no mercy on people from Yanggu County, and they did not hold back when killing people.

The friendship among fellow villagers is of no use to them.

"Zhang Qi Gou, Zhang Qi Gou...ah..."

Throwing the head aside, and wiping the long sword in his hand with the bandit's clothes on the ground, Li Ke was a little distressed to see that there were several more notches on his long sword, and even the handle was a little loose. If there was another battle like this, this sword would become waste.

However, just as he retracted his sword and was about to help treat the people around him, he saw many wealthy businessmen dressed in silk and satin lying on the ground. There was even a carriage being pulled by a bandit who was trying to pull it out of Yanggu County.

Li Ke frowned, leaped up, and came directly to the side of the bandit who was unwilling to leave. He stretched out his hand to grab the other's shoulder, and kicked him directly in the heart. Immediately, there was a sound of bone fracture. The bandit flew out directly, shaking the carriage, and the carriage door curtain was blown open by the strong wind!

In the carriage, a beautiful lady with a delicate figure was surrounded by several maids and was looking at Li Ke in horror. She looked so pale and pale that she was like a peony in the rain.

However, with just this one glance, Li Ke saw that the other person was not only tall, but also slender. Her face was slightly numb, revealing a bit of naivety. There was a contradictory beauty between her married dress and gentle temperament. She wore almost no makeup, and it could be said that she was a natural beauty.

However, Li Ke, who came from the Water Margin, didn't feel anything. It was obvious that the other party came from a wealthy family. It was absolutely impossible for him to look down on a commoner like him who was a warrior. So he casually grabbed the curtain of the carriage to cover up the beauty inside.

Then he glanced at the servant who was wailing and holding his head, and then he began to speak.

"This is a place of trouble, leave quickly."

He had no idea in his mind. What he had to do next was to find a way to get an official position and command troops, preferably those with a backer.

Liang Zhongshu is a good fit, and then he can make some money and start to accumulate servants. When he is sent out to become the governor of a place, he can naturally support the enemy and even raise an army on the mountain. Therefore, the most useful people to him in Yanggu County are Wu Dalang and Wu Erlang, and the others are really useless.

Li Ke therefore left quickly, and even when someone in the carriage called him, he did not respond. However, when he passed by a white-haired old man, the old man threw a piece of white cloth to Li Ke.

"Brave man, you saved me, and I don't have much to give you except this piece of clean cloth. Please use it to wipe your face, so as not to scare others."

Li Ke didn't act pretentiously and directly took the cloth to wipe his face. However, just when he was about to return the money and the cloth to the other party, he found that there was no father-in-law around. The blood-stained white cloth in his hand suddenly turned into a scroll at this time.

"This is……"

With his eyes wide open, Li Ke wanted to open the scroll in his hand, but Li Ke's memories from Journey to the West, Wang Mang and others instantly sounded an alarm, making him throw the scroll away almost subconsciously.

However, the scroll turned into a golden light and disappeared the moment it left his hand. A panel appeared in front of Li Ke, and a line of large gold-plated characters slowly appeared.

"Ding, congratulations host, you have bound to the strongest emperor system. Please appoint civil officials and military generals, recruit subordinates, and establish your own territory..."

Li Ke: “…………”

He did not speak, but ignited his blood and stretched out his hand to touch the golden words that appeared. Then, after the line of golden words was unveiled like a small advertisement, three large words suddenly appeared in front of Li Ke:

'The Investiture of the Gods'

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These three powerful and vigorous characters shone with golden light, with dragon and phoenix characters embellishing them, exuding the noble inscriptions and official seals of the heavenly system, as well as the recognition of various immortal departments and the seal of the Emperor of Heaven.

Li Ke: “………………”

"Nima..."

Li Ke, who was already accustomed to the way people in the Song Dynasty spoke, couldn't help but swear.

This is a shady deal, right? This is definitely a shady deal, right?
Li Ke really wanted to know what these people meant, so he used Tang Seng Li Ke's magic memory and directly grasped the tail of the List of Gods. He mobilized a trace of his own blood and magic, took out the List of Gods hidden in his body, which was even disguised as a system, and threw it out!
But he also knew that since the Investiture of the Gods had recognized him, it would be meaningless if he couldn't get rid of it...

In other words, he has destiny again!
"It's just that everyone has destiny. It just depends on whether each person can make use of it..."

Li Ke shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Instead, he squatted down and set the bone of an old man with a broken leg. But when the setting was completed, the old man looked at Li Ke with gratitude.

He didn't pay much attention to it. After all, he knew the old man and had looked after him since he was a child.

"Thank you very much, Li Erlang. If it weren't for you, I would have lost my life. But I have nothing and can't give you anything. Well, I'll give you this piece of sandalwood. I was planning to exchange it for some candy for my grandson..."

As he was speaking, the old man handed Li Ke a piece of sandalwood as thick as his arm. Li Ke didn't think much of it. He had seen this thing when he was a child, so thinking about the Investiture of the Gods, Li Ke just took it.

But it would have been better if he hadn't taken it. The moment he took it, the sandalwood that had been enshrined in the old man's house for a hundred years suddenly cracked, revealing the sword with gorgeous patterns inside!
The moment the sword appeared, a ray of sunlight shone on it, and instantly a bright light flashed in all directions. The sound of the sword was like the buzzing of bees and the roar of dragons, which was truly eye-catching!

But Li Ke looked at the sword: "………………"

What kind of plot is this about an ancient artifact recognizing its master?
Li Ke, who was speechless for the third time, couldn't help but look up at the sky. He was very sure that there was no god at this moment, or that the great master had covered his tracks, making it impossible for all things in nature to reveal the figure of the great master.

But, isn't the implication of being appointed by someone else really too strong?

"But, are these dead bodies all over the streets arranged by the gods and Buddhas?"

Li Ke took the sword, returned it to the old man, picked up the sandalwood, and stood up.

Why would Li Ke need these things when he is rebelling?
What about the List of Gods, what about the recognition of the master of the divine artifact, and so on? If these things are really useful, then Song Huizong is the reincarnation of the son of the Jade Emperor!
Didn’t the Song Dynasty still perish?
Seeing Li Ke was about to leave, the sword buzzed wildly, as if it was crying. The old man holding the sword felt a little uneasy, and hurriedly caught up with Li Ke and began to persuade him.

"Li Erlang, this sword has been enshrined in my family for three generations, but no one has been able to make it appear. It has always appeared in the form of sandalwood. You just touched it and made it unsheathed to help you, proving that you are its true owner. Why did you return it to me?"

Li Ke waved his hand, indicating that he did not want the sword.

"I only accepted the sandalwood, not the sword. How can I accept multiple gifts after saving someone once?"

He spoke with confidence, but the next moment, a female voice appeared.

"Then how about I buy this sword as a token of my gratitude for saving me?"

Li Ke turned his head when he heard the voice, only to find that the woman he had rescued before walked towards him with a pale face, and bowed slightly to him and the old man. She took out a Jiaozi, which is a silver note, to exchange for the sword, and continued to speak to Li Ke.

"I am Meng Yulou, and I will use this precious sword to express my gratitude!"

(End of this chapter)