Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 325: Hiding Your Identity
Huang Sixi thought that Zhai Jiao and Du Silang had been attacked, but when he returned, he found that the two were not in danger, but the bamboo house where the children were held was on fire.

At this time, Zhai Jiao had left the ambush place and came to the front of the bamboo house. There were patrolling warriors stationed in front of the door, but they were nowhere to be seen.

When Zhai Jiao saw Huang Sixi coming back, she quickly explained the situation: "Just now some cavalrymen came to set fire. When they saw the house, they threw torches and ran away. It seemed that they were following orders to burn down the main altar. Silang and I had no time to stop them."

The leader of the Iron Cavalry Society, Ren Shaoming, and a group of other leaders had all been killed. No one would have given the order to burn the village. This should have been the cavalry's own initiative.

Just now, dozens of cavalry soldiers escaped from outside the Juyi Hall. They might have been worried about being hunted down by Huang Sixi, so they set fires everywhere to create chaos.

They believed that Huang Sixi must have come for a purpose, either to rob the fine horses raised by the Iron Cavalry, or to rob the money and food stored by the Iron Cavalry, or simply to seize territory.

They thought that by burning down the stables, granaries and large houses before escaping, they would force Huang Sixi to stay and put out the fire, and then give up chasing them.

This method really worked.

Although Huang Sixi did not come for money, food or territory, he came to rescue the children who were kidnapped by the Iron Cavalry Society.

Huang Sixi walked around the bamboo house to check the fire situation and asked Zhai Jiao: "Did Silang enter the house?"

Zhai Jiao said: "He went to call the children out!"

Huang Sixi gestured to her, "There are too many children. He can't handle it all by himself. You should go in and evacuate them too! If anyone is afraid to go out, don't try to persuade them. Just grab them and drag them out!"

"Ah good!"

Seeing that the bamboo house was filled with smoke that had already covered the door, Zhai Jiao took off her cloak and covered her head with it before rushing in.

As the fire was only started recently, the entire house was not burned. The spread of the fire could be controlled by extinguishing a few fire sources caused by torches.

Huang Sixi jumped onto the roof and used the last move of "Sky Frost Fist" 'Ao Xue Ling Shuang'. Rolling cold air surged out from his palms, and the temperature dropped sharply wherever the air spread. The flames were extinguished instantly, and a cold current swept across an area of five meters in radius, and the smoke was completely dispersed.

The door of the bamboo house soon revealed its original appearance.

At this time, Du Silang had already rescued the first batch of children.

Huang Sixi immediately called out to Du Silang, "Ask them if there are any children being held in other places in the main altar besides this bamboo house?"

Previously, Huang Sixi sneaked into the bamboo house to ask these children about the situation, but the situation was urgent at that time and his questions were not detailed.

After meeting Du Silang, these children became braver.

Without waiting for Du Silang to speak, they rushed to answer: "Master Divine Doctor, when we were arrested, there were more than a hundred of us. More than twenty sisters resisted fiercely. Those evil people said they would sell them to a brothel. After we were sold here, more than twenty brothers were beaten to death by the evil people here. The rest are all in the house. We live together every day!"

Huang Sixi was worried about the children who were imprisoned in other buildings of the headquarters and were burned to death. Since all the children lived in the bamboo houses, he would not have to run back and forth to put out the fire.

As for the little girls who were sold, we will find a way to find them after we rescue these children from the bamboo house.

An hour later, all the eighty-plus children in the house were led out by Zhai Jiao and Du Silang.

Huang Sixi also jumped off the roof.

He glanced at the crowd and found that the youngest child was only seven or eight years old, and the oldest was only thirteen or fourteen years old.

He looked at the crowd and asked, "Do you know which brothels those people who were sold to were sold to?"

The children all shook their heads. When the twenty or so girls were dragged away by the Iron Cavalry warriors, they only heard some conversations about brothels from the Iron Cavalry warriors, and they knew nothing else.

Zhai Jiao said, "Brother Haohan, brothels are the most mixed places in the underworld, and it is also the easiest to get information. Give me three days, and I promise I can find out the whereabouts of those girls."

Huang Sixi asked her, "How are you going to find out?"

Zhai Jiao is very familiar with the human trafficking business in the underworld. She analyzed: "The Iron Cavalry would sell the girl for money. Only the Baling Gang would offer a high price for the girl. I will go to the Baling Gang's brothel to get clues. There are brothels run by the Baling Gang in several nearby county cities, Changzhou, Danyang, and Xuancheng. The girl is most likely there!"

Huang Sixi had heard from Zhai Jiao earlier that there were eight gangs and ten associations in the underworld, and the worst were the Iron Cavalry Association and the Baling Gang: "How many brothels did the Baling Gang run in total?"

Zhai Jiao pouted: "There are many! There are 190 counties in the Great Sui Dynasty, and almost every county town has their brothels, nearly 200 in total. In addition, they have opened 300 gambling houses in various places!"

The Iron Cavalry Society's sphere of influence is limited to Changzhou County and its surrounding areas, but the Baling Gang's tentacles extend throughout the world.

"The Baling Gang is so big, is there some force behind it supporting them?"

A mere gang leader could never take on the huge profits of the Baling Gang.

Zhai Jiao said: "There are powerful forces behind the eight gangs and ten associations, mainly the four major clans supporting them. However, the Baling Gang is a little special. It is rumored that the owner behind it is Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty!"

Huang Sixi could not help but frown: "As the emperor of a country, Yang Guang did not need to make money by opening a brothel. Is your information wrong?"

Zhai Jiao smiled bitterly: "This is what is spread in the martial arts world. The Baling Gang was founded with the support of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. It did not originally run a brothel or gambling house business. Yang Guang wanted to use the Baling Gang to scout for beauties from all over the country and send them to the palace for him to enjoy!

But the leader of the Baling Gang worked hard for Yang Guang but didn't get much reward, so he opened a brothel and used the imperial power to sell women to make money! Yang Guang only wanted beautiful women, and as long as the Baling Gang regularly offered beautiful women to him for his enjoyment, he wouldn't care if the people of the world were sold!"

"Who is the leader of the Baling Gang?"

"The leader is 'Cigarette' Lu Kangshou, but he is just a representative of the underworld figures. The real person in charge is actually the deputy leader Xiao Xin!"

"Xiao Xin? Is he a descendant of the family?"

"It is rumored that Xiao Xin is the nephew of Empress Xiao of the Sui court, and he himself is a high-ranking official of the Sui court. Without him coordinating relations between various places, the Baling Gang would not be able to open brothels and gambling houses all over the world!"

Huang Sixi knew that although Xiao Xin was related to the royal family, he was an ambitious person. After the Sui Emperor Yang Guang was killed, Xiao Xin would become one of the self-proclaimed kings vying for hegemony over the world.

He thought of the middle-aged scholar and female warrior he had just met, who claimed to be from the Song clan in Lingnan, and asked Zhai Jiao, "What is the relationship between the Iron Cavalry Society and the Song clan?"

Zhai Jiao shook her head: "Very bad! Originally, the Song clan controlled the Jiangnan trade route, and the Iron Cavalry would specifically rob caravans to make money, which damaged the interests of the Song clan. It is said that the Song clan sent people to assassinate Ren Shaoming many times, but none of them succeeded!"

Huang Sixi raised the corner of his mouth, thinking that there was something wrong with the way the Song clan did things: "I heard that the leader of the Song clan, 'Heavenly Blade' Song Que, is a martial arts master with no rivals in Jiangnan. If he personally takes action, the two Ren Shaomings will not survive!"

The information Zhai Jiao knew were all gossips circulating in the underworld. She herself had no idea how much of this information was real inside information.

"Brother Haohan, the style of the evil monk Fa Nan and the nun Chang Zhen, who are the left and right guardians of the Iron Cavalry Society, is very much like that of someone from the Demon Sect. Their fellow martial artists believe that they are disciples of the Demon Sect. If the Iron Cavalry Society is a force of the Demon Sect, then Tiandao Song Que might be afraid of the Demon Sect's masters, so he didn't kill Ren Shaoming!"

The Demon Sect not only controls the Iron Cavalry Society, but also the Chu Emperor Lin Shihong, who is also related to the Demon Sect. Huang Sixi slaughtered the Iron Cavalry Society today. The Tiele tribe is far away and cannot retaliate against Huang Sixi for the time being, but the Demon Sect will definitely take action after hearing the news.

Huang Sixi originally planned to break into the Demon Sect's headquarters to look for the original volume of "The Heavenly Demon Strategy". He was not afraid of the Demon Sect's masters at all, but his mission this time to destroy the Iron Cavalry was to rescue these children.

He must make comprehensive arrangements for these children so that they will not be harmed by the evil sect.

The Iron Cavalry Society is not a place to stay for long.

Huang Sixi asked these children and learned that they had been practicing horse riding for the past half month. Although they were not yet very good at it, they could still travel on horseback.

Huang Sixi waved his hand and led the children to find mounts.

The stables in the main hall had caught fire and the foals in the stables were burned to death, but there were hundreds of war horses parked outside the Juyi Hall.

Near the early morning of the next day, they trained their horses and gathered them together, so that each person had two horses, which was more than enough for the journey.

Just as they were about to leave the Iron Cavalry Society headquarters.

Zhai Jiao happily found Huang Sixi, spread out her hands, and revealed two gold ingots: "Brother Haohan, I found Ren Shaoming's personal belongings. This evil thief hid ten boxes full of gold and silver. Should we take them?"

Huang Sixi glanced at her and said, "Nonsense, with so many children traveling together, the expenses will be huge. Now that we have found the money, we must take it with us!"

Zhai Jiao made a bitter face: "There are more than 100,000 taels of silver, and Ren Shaoming's treasures weigh at least 10,000 kilograms. It's hard for our horses to carry them!"

"Pack less, just enough to cover your travel expenses!"

Huang Sixi motioned for her to lead the way and went to check the treasures, saying, "You are quite capable. The main building has been burned down, but you still have the means to search out Ren Shaoming's belongings!"

"We in Wagang Village made our fortune by looking for other people's belongings!"

Zhai Jiao was quite proud. She knew exactly where the treasures of gangsters like the Iron Cavalry Society were usually buried. "In addition to gold and silver treasures, I also found two granaries, which were filled with dry food for the march!"

"Go check the dry food first!"

After Huang Sixi finished checking the granary storage, he asked the children to lead the war horses and each of them took a bag of dry food and bacon.

As for the gold, silver and treasures, in order to prevent them from slowing down the war horses, Huang Sixi only let the children each take a few silver ingots with them, and abandoned the rest, which made Zhai Jiao very regretful.

But Zhai Jiao didn't know that after she left the treasure room, Huang Sixi used the Qiankun Yiqi Bag to take away 20,000 taels of gold and 30,000 taels of silver.

If the Qiankun Yiqi bag had not reached its capacity, Huang Sixi would have packed up the remaining tens of thousands of taels of silver as well.

After daybreak, Huang Sixi and his cavalry left the Iron Cavalry Society headquarters and headed south along the official road.

Arrived at the outskirts of Lishui County at noon.

Huang Sixi asked the children to stop in a forest to rest and eat some dry food to replenish their energy.

Zhai Jiao volunteered to go to the brothel in the city to inquire about the news.

Huang Sixi heard from Zhai Jiao that there was a brothel run by the Baling Gang in Lishui County, so he asked Zhai Jiao and Du Silang to guard the cavalry while he went into the city himself to find the brothel madam.

He directly used the "Soul Transfer Technique" to torture and learned that a few days ago, a manager of the Baling Gang went to the brothel to collect debts. The madam complained that the business was too bad and hoped that the manager would intercede for the gang and send a few new girls. The manager revealed that the gang had bought more than 20 new girls half a month ago, but they had already been distributed to brothels in more than ten counties in Jiangnan. The next time there are new people, they will be sent to Lishui County first.

Huang Sixi felt that the twenty-odd girls were probably the ones sold to the Baling Gang by the Iron Cavalry Society. However, the Baling Gang did not keep these girls in one brothel, but dispersed them to more than ten counties.

The madam did not know the specific locations of the more than ten counties, and the manager was the only one who knew about it, but the manager had already set off to return to Baling.

Huang Sixi had no way to find the twenty or so little girls for the time being. He could only settle Du Silang and more than eighty children first, and then go to Baling to inquire about the situation.

Back in the woods outside the city, Huang Sixi gathered the children together and asked them, "You crossed the river to the south to seek refuge with your relatives. Now that you are safe, you can tell me the address of your relatives and I will take you there."

Du Silang thought Huang Sixi wanted to say goodbye to them, so he immediately knelt down and said, "My dear, I want to stay with you. Please take me in!"

In his heart, he regarded Huang Sixi as a savior and respected him like a god. He felt that if he could not follow Huang Sixi in this life, his life would be meaningless. In a fit of excitement, he swore: "Although I have no skills and a broken arm, I am willing to lead your horse and fall into the stirrups. I will not regret it even if I die. I hope you will not chase me away!"

The eighty-odd children at the scene recalled the corpses they saw on the ground in the Juyi Hall. Huang Sixi had killed all the members of the Iron Cavalry Society in order to save them. They didn't want to go anywhere now and just wanted to stay with Huang Sixi. They said one after another: "My dear, don't you want us? Even if you send us back to our relatives' homes, we will run out and look for you!"

After hearing this, Huang Sixi pressed his hand and the children immediately fell silent.

After they calmed down, Huang Sixi said to them: "Even if you follow me, I will send you to a secluded place and let you hide your identity. It's almost the same as you going to live with your relatives!"

These children were too young to play any other role except practicing martial arts and studying literature behind closed doors. If they insisted on following Huang Sixi, Huang Sixi could only take them to the Qianligang Mountains in western Zhejiang and let them live in seclusion.

Du Silang was overjoyed when he heard Huang Sixi relax his tone, and hurriedly said, "I will go wherever you tell me to go, whether I have to hide my identity or show my face in public, I will obey your orders!"

The children imitated Du Silang's gesture, bowed respectfully, and said, "We are willing to listen to your orders, sir!"

Huang Sixi said no more and gave the order directly: "Get on the horses! We are heading south!"

The children moved quickly, and even those who were seven or eight years old did not slow down the team.

Two days later, the cavalry arrived outside Xuancheng County.

As usual, Huang Sixi let the children dismount and rest.

After finishing the dry food, Huang Sixi was about to ask everyone to get on their horses and continue on their journey.

I saw two little girls, about thirteen or fourteen years old, walking into the woods. They were trembling with fear at first, but when they saw the faces of the people in the woods clearly, they cried with joy as if they had seen their family members.

Then they stepped forward together and bowed to Huang Sixi: "Greetings, Mr. Divine Doctor."

At this time, a child recognized the two and introduced them to Huang Sixi: "My dear, they are Sister Yunniang and Sister Qi. They were captured by the evil thieves that day and they were said to be sold to a brothel. How did they suddenly find us?"

The two girls wiped their tears, turned around and pointed outside the forest, reporting to Huang Sixi: "There is a lady named Song, she is the young master of the Song family, she rescued us from the brothel in Xuancheng, she said that the genius doctor is leading everyone to rest here, and asked us to come and look for him. At first we couldn't believe it, we didn't expect the genius doctor to be here."

Huang Sixi waved his hand and said, "Go and call the lady surnamed Song over."

Huang Sixi thought of the middle-aged scholar and the female warrior he met outside the Juyi Hall that day. They claimed to be from the Song clan. Could it be that the lady surnamed Song was the female warrior? But how did she find out about the relationship between the two girls and the children of the cavalry?
(End of this chapter)