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

Chapter 268: Murder for Money
The visitors were of course Lu Ping and his group.

After several days' journey, they finally arrived at Murong Villa.

As soon as they met, Zhang Jing and Murong Jiu greeted each other warmly as "Jiu Mei" and "Sister Jing".

After the two of them finished reminiscing about the past, Murong Jiu welcomed everyone in.

Since they arrived at dinner time, Murong Jiu, as the host, naturally ordered the maid to prepare a banquet to welcome the brothers and sisters.

For a moment, everyone seemed to have returned to the carefree and happy time in Baiwu City.

Faced with Murong Jiu's enthusiasm, Lu Ping and others did not think much of it. They just thought it was the etiquette that the host should follow. After all, he had treated guests in the same way at Lu Ping's home before.

But Zhang Jing, who knew her cousin's character well, keenly noticed Murong Jiu's abnormality.

Since childhood, Murong Jiu has been a homebody and a dull person, and he is not at all the kind of person who can deal with things like the one in front of him.

His behavior is strange now, there must be something fishy.

Sure enough, after three rounds of drinking, Murong Jiu revealed his true purpose -

"You came at the right time. I have a problem that needs to be solved urgently. Unfortunately, it is difficult for me to do it alone. Brothers and sisters must help me!"

Except for Zhang Jing, who realized something was wrong early on and was on guard, the rest of the people were half drunk and half awake, and in a daze. When they heard their sisters asking for something, they agreed without thinking.

"We are all brothers. Xiaojiu, if you have any difficulties, just ask and the boss will definitely help you!"

Lu Ping put his foot on the chair and shouted: "A real man is born in this world, how can he... oh no, I should speak frankly, why hesitate like a woman?"

"…why don't you open your eyes and see my gender before you speak?"

Murong Jiu was suddenly speechless, and a stiff, dry smile appeared on her delicate, fair, and tender face.

After a dry laugh, he elaborated on the reason——

A few days ago, Murong Villa received news that her cousin Murong Shengxue appeared in the Valley of Evil.

Not only that, he also started a medicinal material business with the "miracle doctor" Wan Chunliu in the identity of "Mingchen, one of the Ten Divisions of the King of Hell's Ghostly Path".

It turns out that due to the terrain of the Evil Valley, some special medicinal herbs grow there.

These herbs are refined using special techniques and added to prescriptions, which can have a good healing effect.

Southern Wulin has just recovered from a natural disaster and is now in a state of recuperation. There is a great need for supplies such as medicinal materials.

The purpose of Yanwang Guitu is to embezzle all these medicinal materials, hold them in his hands, and then monopolize the market, increase the price when selling them to the outside world, and take the opportunity to make a fortune from the disaster.

After listening to what Murong Jiu said, several people showed surprise on their faces, and strongly condemned Yanwang Guitu's method of raising prices and making money against his conscience.

But as he was talking, Lu Ping suddenly felt that there seemed to be something missing in this information: "Something is wrong..."

"What's wrong?" everyone asked.

"Didn't you just say that the King of Hell uses rare medicinal herbs that are only produced in the Evil Valley? But there are alternatives to medicine for healing injuries. Why do ordinary people have to buy the King of Hell's medicine?"

"Even if the medicine given by the King of Hell is very effective, once they raise the price, ordinary people will definitely not be able to afford it. How can they monopolize the market then?"

"You won't just kill the rich, right?"

When everyone heard this, they felt it made sense, so they turned to look at Xiao Yuer.

"Xiao Yu'er, you were born in the Valley of Evil, so you know the situation there better. Is there really such a medicinal herb?"

Xiao Yuer frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded and replied, "Yes, I grew up in Uncle Wan Chunliu's clinic, almost growing up in his 'medicine bath', and I have a good understanding of medicinal materials."

"I remember there is a medicine called 'Blood-enhancing Grass'. After being refined, it can exert a very strong effect of 'restoring qi and blood'."

"It's just that this drug's effect comes at the cost of overdrawing the human body's potential."

"After taking the medicine, if you can take in enough nutrients, you can make up for the loss in your body. If not... when you get older, you will definitely be plagued by diseases and die young."

"In the past, in the valley, several masters would torture me every once in a while to the point where I was covered in wounds in order to teach me martial arts. At that time, Uncle Wan Chunliu would use this medicine on me."

"But after that, he would always use other precious medicinal herbs, through medicinal baths or medicinal diets, to fill the gaps in my body, so I am still full of energy now."

Overdraft potential to restore Qi and blood...

So this is what King Yan and Gui Tu were planning? Now it all makes sense!

Lu Ping immediately figured out their conspiracy -

When Yanwang Guitu first started selling medicine, as long as he used the tactics of 'free' or 'low price', he would definitely be able to attract a large number of people.

Ordinary people only know that medicinal herbs are cheap or even free, and that they can give them strength after taking them, so they will definitely buy them and try them.

They neither understand pharmacology nor can they see any sequelae of overdrawing their lives. After taking the medicine, they find that they are full of energy and their strength has been restored. They only think that they are lucky to have met a good doctor, or that they have a good physical foundation.

He had no idea that his death was approaching!

Once the effect of the medicine wears off, the body's deficiency will immediately backfire.

By then, the condition has worsened, and if normal medicine is used for treatment or nutrition is taken to make up for the deficiency, it will definitely cost more money. But where do ordinary people get the money?

In order to save money and prolong their lives, they can only continue to buy the same medicine from the King of Hell, drinking poison to quench thirst. The situation after that is clear at a glance - the more medical treatment they receive, the worse their condition becomes, and the more medicine they take, the more likely they are to die!

The deficit caused by Blood-Enhancing Grass in the human body will grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, until it can no longer be suppressed in the same way. Then these deficits will burst out all at once at a certain point in time, and the patient will no longer have a chance of survival!

In this process, Yanwang Guitu only needs to slightly raise the price of medicinal materials to make people go bankrupt!

Even though these herbs are not addictive in nature, they are not much different.

Everyone present was a person of insight and quick thinking, so there was no need for Lu Ping to say too much. After listening to Xiao Yuer's introduction to the 'blood-increasing grass', they immediately understood the sinister intentions of Yan Wang Guitu.

For a moment, everyone in the room fell silent.

Everyone's scalp was tingling, cold sweats were pouring out, hands and feet were cold, and the drunkenness receded like the tide.

"How could someone do such a heartless thing?" Su Ying couldn't help but smack her lips.

She has always only valued the lives of people she cared about. As for irrelevant people, even if they were bleeding and begging in front of her, she might not even look at them.

I originally thought that someone like me was the 'most cold-blooded doctor in the world', but I didn't expect that there would be so many talented people in the world, and there are always people who are better than you.

You are just indifferent, but others are vicious and take human life lightly!

Thinking of this, she actually felt that she was a "good person".

After a long time, Lu Ping sighed.

"So, you mean to say that Murong Shengxue is doing these things? Then your brother is not a good person!"

"It's my cousin!"

Murong Jiu immediately defended himself: "It's just one word difference, but it makes a big difference!"

"Also, I've only met him two or three times in total, and we're not familiar with each other at all!"

Before this, Murong Jiu only knew that Murong Shengxue was mixed up with an organization called Yanwang Guitu, and had dealings with the miracle doctor in the Valley of Evil, but he didn't know about the blood-enhancing grass.

Now hearing about this, his face was suddenly filled with melancholy.

Firstly, he didn't know how to report to his thirteenth uncle Murong Ning, and secondly, he didn't know how to stop his cousin from going astray.

"Then what do you think?"

Lu Ping looked at Murong Jiu with a sharp gaze: "Today you asked the brothers for help, I am willing to help you, but you have to tell me how you want us to help you."

"Should we beat up Murong Shengxue and then hand her over to the Murong Mansion?"

"Or should we beat him up and then publish his misdeeds on a public poster board, so that he will be despised and abused by the entire underworld?"

"Or maybe we can be a little more ruthless and just..."

As he spoke, Lu Ping made his hands into palms and waved them to the left, right and middle, making the movements of "cutting hands, cutting feet and cutting neck".

Murong Jiu was speechless when he saw this: "The last one is too cruel, it's not good; if it is reported publicly, I'm afraid it will cause hostility from the Murong Mansion, which is not what I want to see..."

If her sworn brother and the elders in her family come into conflict, she will find it difficult to survive being caught in the middle.

"Then the first option is to beat him up and hand him over to the Murong Mansion!"

Lu Ping said loudly: "This is already the minimum punishment!"

"If he was just being dissolute in the martial arts world and ruining the reputation of the Murong family, I would not care; but since he has done something to make money and kill people, Baidai Kunwu will never let him off easily!"

"……I have no opinion."

After thinking for a moment, Murong Jiu agreed.

It's just a beating to teach him a lesson. Uncle Thirteen will definitely not mind. He might even be happy to see it.

"I will write a letter and send someone to inform the Murong Mansion to have Uncle Thirteen come and clean up this mess in person."

Lu Ping nodded and turned to look at the others: "In that case, before that, let's all go into the valley together and take down the people from the King of Hell's Path first!"

"No problem!!" ×N
Now that they have made a decision, they naturally have to make preparations first.

That night, Xiao Yuer drew a topographic map of the Evil Valley based on his memory.

"This is Uncle Wan's clinic, and the blood-increasing grass mainly grows here, about three miles away from the clinic. These places are where Uncle Du, Uncle Li and their families live..."

He had lived in the valley for more than ten years and knew clearly where the wild beasts were ferocious, where the rocks were steep, where the deep valleys were, and where the water sources were.

"If the people of Yanwang Guitu want to collect medicinal herbs in the valley, they will definitely not run back and forth, so they need to find a place to live inside."

"Other places are too far away. Uncle Du and his family's house is the closest. They have all returned to society and no one lives at home, so they should be the first choice."

"Nine out of ten people from the underworld live in there!"

(End of this chapter)