Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 182: Encountering the Evil
What Wei Yixiao brought was the invitation letter from Dongfang Bubai.

In the letter, the other party hoped that Lu Ping could go to Black Wood Cliff, either to sit down and negotiate, or to fight directly, in any case, to resolve the previous conflict between Xie Xun and the Dragon Slaying Sword.

The tone of the letter was sincere but strong. In Lu Ping's opinion, it was a letter of challenge to a war, and the other party was setting a Hongmen Banquet.

If he had been defeated by Wei Yixiao just now, he probably wouldn't have taken out this challenge...

After Lu Ping finished reading the letter, he mobilized his internal energy to turn it into flames and burned it.

Seeing this scene, Murong Jiu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he almost had "Boss, I want to learn this" written on his face.

"Are you going to keep the appointment?"

"Who has time for him?"

Lu Ping sneered and continued to walk forward: "He wants to resolve the conflict, but he makes others travel thousands of miles to find him? Who gave him this bad habit?"

Murong Jiu asked: "But if you don't keep the appointment, won't people think you are afraid of the Sun Moon Sect?"

"Let those who don't know the truth gossip as much as they want."

Lu Ping waved his hand nonchalantly: "Anyway, I'm in the martial arts world, there are plenty of opportunities to prove my strength!"

……

Two days later, the two left Xuanyue County and entered Anning County.

Including the main palace, Anning County has a total of eighteen towns.

The level of development of these towns depends entirely on the management capabilities of local managers, which vary from person to person.

Therefore, even though they are all "towns", there are obvious differences in the living standards of residents in each town. A town like Taiping, with a population of over ten thousand, is already considered a large town.

There are villages of all sizes built around the Eighteen Towns.

The level of development of a village is not only closely related to the management ability of the village chief, but also related to factors such as the surrounding environment and humanistic thoughts.

For several days, Lu Ping and Murong Jiu passed by many villages with simple folk customs. These villages were all well developed, but the further south they went, the more Japanese people there were.

Basically, you will find several people in every village, and dozens of people in every town.

These people rented houses and shops and temporarily lived there on the pretext of doing business. They quickly gained the favor of the locals because the things they sold were scarcer and more exquisite than those in their hometown and the prices were fair.

However, after some personal investigation, Lu Ping discovered that these people all knew martial arts, and they intentionally or unintentionally mingled in the market to find out the information of those martial arts masters.

In the inn, Lu Ping and Murong Jiu were having lunch.

Not far away, a group of Japanese merchants were talking in a language that no one else could understand.

"If nothing unexpected happens, these people should be the advance team sent out to collect intelligence. I just don't know whether they belong to the Xijian School or the Wushen Jue Palace."

"But judging from the information uploaded from the public kiosk, the former is more likely."

Murong Jiu asked: "Then should we kill them?"

"...Why are you more murderous than me?" Lu Ping complained.

Murong Jiu was puzzled: "The ambition of the Western Sword School to encroach on the martial arts forces of the Suzaku Dynasty is obvious. Wouldn't it be better to nip this in the bud?"

Lu Ping shook his head: "What they can find out are all semi-public intelligence in the martial arts world, which is not very useful."

"Intelligence spies are worthless. If we kill one batch, there will be another batch. And if we act rashly, we may easily alert the enemy. It is better to follow the clues and solve the problem at the source."

"If we don't take action, how can we follow the clues and get to the root of the problem?"

"Since they are intelligence spies, they must contact their superiors regularly. We just need to keep an eye on them."

"I see……"

Murong Jiu suddenly realized, but soon thought of another question: "Speaking of which, do you understand Japanese?"

"don't know."

"Then how do you know who their contact is?"

Eh? !

Yes, how do I confirm their contact information and contact person?

Even if you stare at them all day long, if you can't understand what they are talking about, how can you be sure whether they are exchanging information about the underworld or discussing what to eat for lunch?

Lu Ping was silent for a moment.

Suddenly, a figure rushed in from outside the inn and said a few words to the table of Japanese merchants. The merchants' faces changed instantly, and they quickly paid the bill and left.

"good chance!"

Lu Ping's eyes lit up: "Seeing how anxious they are, something must have happened. Let's catch up and find out what happened!"

“Eh?! But I just took two bites of noodles…” “Eat, eat, eat… All you do is eat!”

Lu Ping immediately pretended to be heartbroken and said, "The martial arts world is in danger right now, and it is the time when young talents like us need to contribute. How can you abandon your responsibilities for just a bowl of beef noodles?"

"Show your dignity as the ninth lady of Murong Villa, your elegance as the sixth man of Jianghu Wanshiwu, and your bearing as one of the six Taiping masters. Don't be defeated by mere hunger!"

Why is this guy still flattering me?
And he became more and more excited as he spoke. What's going on?
Murong Jiu rolled his eyes, complained silently, and continued to slurp the noodles in the bowl, but at a faster speed.

"Let's go, let's go..."

Lu Ping paid the bill with the waiter, then grabbed Murong Jiu's arm and dragged her out of the inn.

“Ugh… Ugh… My face…!!!”

"Stop howling. At worst, I'll eat you out when I get back."

The two men kept a distance of fifty meters between them and followed the group of Japanese merchants out of the city. They tracked them all the way to the wild forest and suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from the front.

Murong Jiu's lightness skills were not good enough, so Lu Ping took her and jumped onto a tree and looked in the direction where the fighting sounds came from.

But in the open space in the forest, three groups of people were fighting fiercely.

The first party was the group of Japanese merchants. In addition to the few people who had just arrived and had dinner in the inn before, there were about twenty or thirty people here. All of them were fighting with samurai swords, so they were easy to identify.

The second force consisted of only four or five people, all of whom looked strange and their martial arts were bizarre and unpredictable, but it was clear that they were from the Southern Wulin.

The third-party force consisted of only two people, one using a soft sword and the other using a Tang sword, and their faces looked somewhat familiar.

"I didn't expect this forest to be so lively..."

As soon as the two of them climbed up the tree and had a clear view of the situation, Lu Ping heard Murong Jiu utter a "huh" sound.

"Why, do you know someone?"

Murong Jiu nodded and pointed his finger in the middle: "The swordsman and the swordsman are the secret agents of the Dragon Guard Villa."

The secret spies of Huolong Villa, aren’t they Duan Tianya and Gui Hai Yidao?

No wonder I felt they looked familiar.

"How do you know them?"

"I have a brother-in-law who often deals with people in the court, so he naturally knows them."

Murong Jiu has eight sisters and eight brothers-in-law.

This represents eight families and eight forces.

Being in the intricate world of Jianghu, it’s hard to imagine how many people would be involved just one person, let alone eight people?
Once such a network of relationships spreads, it will crisscross like the branches of a century-old tree, and eventually grow into a towering tree.

"It seems that the Hulong Villa is here specifically to investigate these Japanese people..."

Lu Ping thought for a while and asked, "Then who are those people over there?"

"I don't know that."

"alright."

In terms of numbers alone, these Japanese merchants undoubtedly have the advantage. Even if the other two parties were doubled in number, they would still not have as many people as them. But after all, they are just intelligence spies and their strength is not that strong, so they have a hard time dealing with it.

"Wait! Why do I feel that some of those people's martial arts are very similar to Xiao Yu'er's?"

Having said this, Lu Ping suddenly paused.

"Are they the ten evil men?"

"If it's really them, then it's not surprising. After all, they were the ones who taught Xiao Yuer martial arts."

Among these four or five people, the easiest to identify is the 'neither human nor ghost' Yin Jiuyou.

Yin Jiuyou's body movements are very unique and difficult for ordinary people to imitate, which is why Lu Ping thinks of the Ten Evils.

In addition to Yin Jiuyou, Hahaer, who always has a smiling face, is also easy to recognize. After all, there are not many people in the world who can laugh continuously during a fight like him.

In addition, there was a pair of fat twin brothers and a short and thin man on the field.

If nothing unexpected happens, they are Ouyang Ding, Ouyang Dang brothers, and Bai Kaixin who "harms others but does not benefit oneself".

Lu Ping briefly speculated about their identities, and Murong Jiu thought it made sense.

"Speaking of which, it's not just rumors in the martial arts world. After Lin Pingzhi caused a big fuss in the Money Gang, was he taken away by the Ten Evils? Now there are several of the Ten Evils here, so where are the rest? Where is Lin Pingzhi?"

"How do I know this..."

Lu Ping shook his head, and Xukong became sad: "Poor little Linzi, you are destined to have a miserable life."

(End of this chapter)