Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 136 Three Battles
As hundreds of demon cult members surrendered to the righteous side, the situation between the two sides was reversed in an instant.

The righteous sects that were originally at the end of their rope suddenly turned around and began to gain an overwhelming advantage in the blink of an eye.

However, all the superior power is in the hands of Huang Sixi personally.

Among the followers who came to surrender, the eight people with the highest martial arts skills were the Four Friends of Meizhuang, Bao Dachu, Qin Weibang, Wang Cheng, and Sang Sanniang. They gathered around Huang Sixi and handed over the hostages first:

"Master Huang, there were a total of forty-two hostages captured by the Demon Cult. We brought back forty of them. Only Junior Nun Yilin and Sect Leader Zhenshan are still in the hands of Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing!"

"Nun Yilin and the Six Peach Valley Immortals were originally held hostage by Ren Woxing. In order to negotiate with Dongfang Bubai, Ren Woxing handed them over to Dongfang Bubai, saying that they were to offset Yang Lianting's blood debt. After interrogating them, Dongfang Bubai learned that Yang Lianting was killed by the Six Peach Valley Immortals, so he executed the six people himself!"

"Originally, Dongfang Bubai also wanted to kill Little Nun Yilin. But when he learned that Little Nun Yilin's martial arts were taught by you, Mr. Huang, Dongfang Bubai detained Little Nun Yilin by his side, presumably to threaten you, Mr. Huang!"

"Dongfang Bubai is personally guarding Young Nun Yilin, and Ren Woxing and Xiang Wentian are personally guarding Sect Leader Zhenshan. We are powerless even if we want to rescue her!"

Huang Sixi looked at the forty hostages present, all of whom were messengers and disciples of the Kunlun Sect.

The young man rescued by Huang Zhonggong earlier was from the same school as these disciples. Huang Sixi asked them to go together to find Master Fangzheng and Taoist Chongxu.

After sending the hostages away, Huang Sixi said to the surrendered people: "You have brought back 90% of the hostages. This is enough to prove that you have broken with the Demon Sect. I will definitely keep my promise and help you remove the Three Corpses Brain Pill..."

Sang Sanniang suddenly interrupted him and asked nervously, "I have heard about Master Jianglong's deeds a long time ago. You have helped many fellow sect members suppress the outbreak of corpse worms, but you have also killed people. It must be more difficult to remove the Three Corpses Brain Pill than to suppress the corpse worms. If you fail to treat us, do we still have a chance to survive?"

Huang Sixi asked back: "Why didn't you ask about this question first?"

Sang Sanniang and the Jiangzhong looked at each other and replied, "Even if your success rate of treatment is not high, it doesn't matter. We are willing to fight alongside you to capture Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing. Once we get the antidote formula for the Three Corpses Brain Pill, we can still survive."

Anyway, they have already made up their minds to rebel.

If I continue to follow Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing, I will have to beg for the antidote every year, live in fear every year, be threatened and enslaved for the rest of my life, and there will be no chance of turning things around. It is better to give it a try, even if it means death. It will be worth it.

Before they surrendered to Huang Sixi, they had actually made preparations for both scenarios. If Huang Sixi was sure that he could completely eliminate the threat of corpse worms for them, they would ask Huang Sixi for help. If Huang Sixi was not sure, they would join forces with Huang Sixi to deal with Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing.

Previously, Huang Sixi struck Dongfang Bubai in the air in front of thousands of disciples of the Demon Sect, which gave them the confidence to defeat Dongfang Bubai.

Now that hundreds of them have surrendered collectively, plus the masters from various righteous sects, their overall military strength is already twice that of Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing, so they are sure to win.

Huang Sixi told them frankly: "I can release the Three Corpses Brain Pill, there is absolutely no possibility of failure. As long as you are willing to let me treat you, I promise to extract the corpse worms from your body, but..."

"But what?" Jiang Zhong asked in unison.

"Every time I treat someone, I lose a lot of internal energy, and it takes a long time!" Huang Sixi pointed at the scene:

"It's wartime now, and hundreds of you have taken the Three Corpses Brain Pill. Even if I work day and night, I may not be able to treat you all in a month!"

"There are not hundreds of people. Only dozens of us have taken the Three Corpses Brain Pill. The total number is definitely no more than a hundred." Jiang Zhong hurriedly explained.

But they know in their hearts that no matter how many patients there are, the slower the diagnosis and treatment, the better.

After all, stripping the Three Corpses' Brain Pill is a delicate job that concerns their lives, so they all hope that Huang Sixi will treat them carefully and not be careless.

Even if Huang Sixi cured one person a day, they would be completely acceptable.

After discussing it, they all clasped their fists and expressed their stance to Huang Sixi: "We are willing to fight for Mr. Huang first, and after we defeat Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing, we will ask Mr. Huang to start treating us!"

Given the current situation, they could not force Huang Sixi to treat him. In case Huang Sixi's internal energy was exhausted, Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing would seize the opportunity to kill Huang Sixi, and they would never be able to get rid of the Three Corpses Brain Pill for the rest of their lives.

At this time, all the righteous sects had gathered around, and when they heard that they were willing to fight together, they were all full of fighting spirit.

Now half of the Demon Cult's elite members have surrendered. As long as the remaining half is annihilated, the Demon Cult will be wiped out from the martial arts world. From now on, only the righteous will prevail in the world, and the Demon Cult will no longer cause trouble.

Unfortunately, the righteous factions did not have time to sound the clarion call for a counterattack.

Suddenly, a commotion was heard: "Look everyone, reinforcements are coming!"

All the heroes looked outside the mountain and suddenly found that behind the demon cult's team, there were dense crowds of figures. They were dressed differently and were not from any martial arts sects, but there were a large number of them, at least one or two thousand.

When they were several dozen feet away from the demon cult, they all stopped and shouted in unison: "Master Jiang Long! Master Jiang Long!"

Hearing the name of 'Young Master Jiang Long', both the good and evil sides looked at Huang Sixi at the same time. All the heroes knew that Huang Sixi founded the Jianglong Villa and that Young Master Jiang Long was Huang Sixi himself. All the heroes thought, could it be that those people came to support Huang Sixi?
Lan Fenghuang stood on tiptoe to look into the distance, then smiled. "It turned out to be Tianhe Gang leader Huang Boliu, Changjing Island leader Sima Da, as well as the old man, Zu Qianqiu, and Ji Wushi. They must have heard that the young master was fighting in Shaolin Temple and came to help."

Lan Fenghuang looked relaxed as she introduced the righteous sects: "Don't worry, everyone, those people all owe you a huge favor. They are here to support you and fight against the Demon Sect together. They are one of our own."

She just finished speaking.

Huang Boliu and Sima Da had already walked out of the crowd and shouted to both the righteous and the evil sides, "We are all sworn brothers of life and death to Master Jianglong. Even if the old emperor dares to make things difficult for Master Jianglong today, we will fight to the death and never give up."

They were originally evacuated by Huang Sixi and all took a boat to the Yellow River, but the news that Dongfang Bubai led his troops to attack Shaolin Temple had spread throughout Zhongzhou. As the local tyrants in Zhongzhou, they obtained more detailed intelligence.

When they learned that Huang Sixi was trapped in Shaolin Temple, they immediately called on their gang members to come for support.

When the righteous heroes saw that they came for Huang Sixi, they were overjoyed: "So they are our own people, that's great! There are so many of them, just in time to block the Demon Cult's retreat. As long as we attack from both sides, the Demon Cult will hopefully be wiped out today!"

The heroes immediately rubbed their hands in preparation to besiege the remaining members of the Demon Cult.

Looking at Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing again, they were almost deserted by their friends and relatives.

Dongfang Bubai has no other experts besides hundreds of disciples of the Demon Sect, and none of the elders and flag masters are left. Ren Woxing has just escaped from the West Lake, and his only confidants are his daughter Ren Yingying, the elders Xiang Wentian, Lu Zhuweng and Qu Yang, and Qu Yang's granddaughter Qu Feiyan.

After killing Yang Lianting, Ren Woxing recruited the Four Friends of Mei Zhuang, the four elders of Sang Sanniang, and a group of evil cult followers, but they all rebelled and joined Huang Sixi.

At this point, even if Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing joined forces with all their might, there was no hope of victory. Whether they could survive the siege by the righteous forces was already a big problem.

Seeing that the Demon Cult was getting weaker and weaker, the righteous soldiers from the Qingcheng Sect and Songshan Sect who had surrendered to the Demon Cult earlier suddenly felt extremely regretful.

If they had known that the situation would develop to this point, why would they betray the right path?
The most depressed person was Yu Canghai, the head of Qingcheng Sect. He thought to himself, Huang Sixi could actually remove the Three Corpses Brain Pill, so why didn't he say so earlier?

Yu Canghai thought again, if he led the Qingcheng disciples to return to the righteous path again, he wondered if there would still be a chance?

At this moment, the morale of the Demon Cult was in chaos.

Ren Woxing turned his head to look at Ren Yingying and asked in a deep voice: "The man surnamed Huang can remove the Three Corpses Brain Pill, how come you didn't know this all along?"

Ren Yingying shook her head gently: "He never told me, and I have never seen him peel off the Three Corpses Brain Pill for anyone."

She thought that Lan Fenghuang might have successfully separated herself long ago. At that time, Lan Fenghuang brought the Five Poison Sect's property to Jianglong Villa and lowered her status to serve Huang Sixi. She always thought that Lan Fenghuang did this to suppress the corpse worms. Now, she thought that Lan Fenghuang must have done this to repay Huang Sixi's kindness.

She couldn't understand it before. She had known Huang Sixi longer, so why was Huang Sixi so close to Lan Fenghuang and always polite to her?

It was not until now that Ren Yingying understood: "He has always been on guard against me. If he tells me the details of the Three Corpses Brain Pill, I will definitely tell my father, and then he will not be able to incite the people of the Divine Religion to rebel today!"

When Ren Yingying figured out the key, she became more and more depressed. Huang Sixi seemed to have seen through her true colors since the first time he met her, so he kept his distance from her.

Dongfang Bubai glanced at her from the side, and seeing that she was distraught, he smiled and said, "In fact, this Mr. Huang is the one who can do great things. He is not tempted by beauty and can turn the tide at the critical moment. Although he is an opponent, I admire him."

"Yingying is upright and aboveboard, she has never deceived anyone!"

Ren Woxing immediately sneered, "Dongfang Bubai, you spent a lot of effort to seize the position of the leader, and worked hard for more than ten years. In the end, you don't even have a confidant around you. What's the point of trying to seize the position of the leader?"

Dongfang Bubai remained calm throughout the entire period. He had not asked about the affairs of the sect for several years and spent all day in the deep palace embroidering. The sect members had never met him and had never received any favors from him. It would not be surprising even if they all rebelled against him.

Dongfang Bubai raised his hand and pointed: "How many of your confidants are left? Look, Green Bamboo Old Man and Qu Yang are also planning to abandon you!"

Ren Woxing turned his head and saw Green Bamboo Old Man leaping into the crowd of righteous people, standing together with the Four Friends of Plum Manor and the elders of Sang Sanniang. He half-knelt before Huang Sixi to express his loyalty and was willing to fight for Huang Sixi.

This Green Bamboo Old Man, his master and Ren Woxing were brothers in the same school. According to seniority, he is Ren Yingying's nephew. But it was precisely because of his close relationship with the Ren family that Dongfang Bubai forced him to take the Three Corpses Brain Pill after replacing Ren Woxing.

He had gone to Luoyang to protect Ren Yingying out of friendship with his master, so he didn't have to worry about the antidote, but Ren Yingying was unable to help him get rid of the Three Corpses Brain Pill.

Now that the Demon Cult is doomed, Green Bamboo Old Man decisively betrayed Ren Woxing and Ren Yingying and defected to Huang Sixi. If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. There is nothing wrong with this.

As for Qu Yang, he is one of the most senior elders in the Demon Cult, and his status is similar to that of Tong Baixiong. When Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing were fighting, Qu Yang did not take sides, so he did not take the Three Corpses Brain Pill.

Considering that the Demon Cult was about to be destroyed, Qu Yang made a decisive decision to break off his connection with the Demon Cult for the future of his granddaughter Qu Feiyan.

Qu Yang and Qu Feiyan teamed up to rescue Linghu Chong and went to Huashan Sect together.

Only Ren Yingying, Xiang Wentian, and the hostage Zhen Shanzi were left by Ren Woxing's side.

Dongfang Bubai continued to mock: "Master Ren, Ren Yingying is your biological daughter, she can't possibly betray you, but Xiang Wentian is hard to say! Xiang Wentian rescued you from West Lake, not out of loyalty to you, he just didn't get the slightest attention from me, so I wanted to rescue you so that I can regain the power of the left and right envoys in the future!"

Xiang Wentian said coldly: "Now that disaster is imminent, are you still thinking about internal strife?"

"It's hard to tell who has trouble and who doesn't!"

Dongfang Bubai no longer paid attention to Xiang Wentian and shouted to Huang Sixi, "Withdraw your troops, and the Divine Church will leave Shaoshi Mountain. From now on, we can live in peace!"

Without waiting for Huang Sixi's response, the righteous heroes shouted angrily: "The Demon Cult has been surrounded, and it is impossible to escape even if you have wings. If we don't wipe you out today, the righteous will be poisoned by you in the future!"

Dongfang Bubai looked at Huang Sixi and continued to warn him: "As long as you withdraw the group of people behind us, I will release this little nun! If you dare to launch a siege, I will kill the little nun first!"

Ren Woxing continued, "Although you have many people and are powerful, it will be extremely difficult for you to keep me here. If you let me escape, all of you will inevitably be retaliated against today. Hurry up and get out of the way, and go your separate ways!"

The two leaders launched threats at the same time, and the righteous heroes immediately stopped their movements. With their martial arts, it would be difficult for them to stop Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing. If the two leaders really escaped today and launched revenge, all their sects would suffer.

They couldn't help but look at Huang Sixi and Master Fang Zheng.

But Huang Sixi replied: "If you release Yilin first, I will withdraw my troops and promise not to attack you."

Dongfang Bubai just shook his head. The hostages must be in his hands before there would be any chance of turning the situation around.

Dongfang Bubai was unwilling to let go first.

Huang Sixi did not order an attack, and the two sides immediately reached a stalemate.

Seeing that neither side would compromise, Taoist Chongxu said, "How about this, we won't rely on numbers to win, and you don't want to harm the hostages. Let's be fair and just, and decide the winner with martial arts. Let's fight three rounds. If you can win, we will let you go. If you lose, you can hand over the hostages. How do you think?"

Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing looked at each other and thought that if they could kill Huang Sixi and Master Fangzheng in the decisive battle, the members of the Demon Cult who had previously surrendered to the righteous path would most likely rebel again, and then they could reverse the passive situation.

Dongfang Bubai immediately asked, "Can Taoist Chongxu represent Shaolin Temple and Master Huang?"

(End of this chapter)