After fifteen years of cultivation, he finally reached the pinnacle of the first rank!

Chapter 156 Entanglement
When the old man Wuxiang heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Naturally, he had not seen Xu Qingcang and others during the day today. The reason why he found them was simply because they were unlucky and fell into his hands.

In fact, he had been tracking the enemy for several days, but he only reached the other side of the Julu River tonight.

Later, I heard several people from the martial arts world on the shore talking and learned about the incident of Li Musheng and others crossing the Julu River in a carriage in broad daylight.

Afterwards, he followed the trail and came to Zhanlu Villa.

He was originally planning to capture Li Musheng tonight, but before he started, Shen Juesheng happened to suddenly attack.

Therefore, he had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​taking action at Zhanlu Villa tonight.

"Then tell me, how are you going to help this old man like me?"

Old Man Wuxiang narrowed his eyes at Xu Qingcang and asked leisurely.

At the same time, he lightly hooked his fingers, and Xu Qingcang found that the restraint of the Qi thread on his body loosened slightly.

Seeing this, Xu Qingcang, whose face turned pale, looked at him and said:
"Please tell me what I want to do, and I will do my best to help you."

……

On the bank of a tributary of the Julu River, dozens of feet away from the entire Zhanlu Villa, Shen Liancheng and Ruan Zhenhui and her daughter, who followed him, all stopped.

The three of them looked at the tributary in front of them where the water was slowly receding, and each of them had a strange look on their face.

At this time, a huge hole was pierced through the entire river bank, and the river water leaked out through the hole, flooding towards a slightly lower mountain forest. It was visible to the naked eye that the water level in the river was constantly dropping.

A look of shock and horror flashed in Shen Liancheng's eyes. It was hard to imagine that his father, who had such terrifying martial arts skills, was knocked out of the entire villa with just one punch, and even broke through the river outside the villa!
"How could he be so strong!"

Li Musheng's overly young face suddenly appeared in his mind, and Shen Liancheng felt only disbelief and uncontrollable fear and terror.

At this moment, he remembered what Li Musheng had said before, that it would be easy for the other party to kill him, and then he thought about how he had actually tried to draw his sword on him before.

If Shen Juesheng had not appeared at the critical moment to stop him, he would probably have died by now.

After all, he did not have as profound martial arts skills as Shen Juesheng, and could not block the opponent's seemingly ordinary punch at all.

"Father!"

Thinking of this, Shen Liancheng jumped down without hesitation and jumped into the rushing river below.

Not long after, an astonishing knife light slashed out from the bottom of the river, breaking through the surging water surface and stirring up a huge wave.

Immediately, Shen Liancheng suddenly rushed out holding Shen Juesheng, who was covered in mud, and returned to the shore in a few leaps.

Seeing this, Ruan Zhenhui and Shen Anran rushed over to check the situation.

At this time, Shen Liancheng's face looked grim, but he immediately sat down and used all his strength to circulate his martial arts true energy, sending out two long red true energy rainbows to bring true energy into Shen Juesheng to save him.

However, the next moment, Shen Liancheng's expression suddenly changed.

He was about to withdraw his Qi and retreat, but it was too late.

The whole person was violently blown away by a terrifying force that erupted from Shen Juesheng's body, and directly fell into the river below, unable to float up for a long time.

Ruan Zhenhui and Shen Anran, who were standing next to them, were both shocked when they saw this.

After reacting, Shen Anran was about to jump into the river to save his father, but at this moment, Shen Juesheng finally opened his eyes very weakly.

His eyes were filled with disbelief and shock, and he opened his mouth in horror:
"I have never seen such a terrifying punch in my life!"

"Father, are you awake?"

Shen Liancheng broke through the water in a mess, jumped up with a pale face, and hurried to Shen Juesheng's side.

After seeing him wake up, he finally felt relieved, and then he suddenly coughed violently a few times, and even coughed up some blood on the spot.

Obviously, he was backfired by the power in Shen Juesheng's body just now and was seriously injured.

However, it was obviously too early for him to be relieved. He coughed a few times and looked up.

But after Shen Juesheng said a word, his eyes suddenly rolled back and he fell silent on the spot.

Shen Liancheng was shocked and hurried to check Shen Juesheng's condition. He found that he had simply exhausted his internal energy and fainted due to serious injuries. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

But at this time he no longer dared to rashly transfer his true energy into him, so he had to plan to take Shen Juesheng back to the villa to heal his injuries first.

However, when he was leaving, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Ruan Zhenhui and Shen Anran.

Finally, his eyes fell on Shen Anran, and after a moment of silence, he said:
"An Ran, you've always said that you only want to marry the most outstanding man in the world. And after seeing what happened tonight, I believe you should make a decision."

After saying that, Shen Liancheng sighed, and finally looked at Ruan Zhenhui, but didn't say anything more.

From beginning to end, he never scolded her for having a secret meeting with Hu Ruian. After all, Hu Ruian and Li Musheng were in cahoots.

Then, Shen Liancheng turned around and carried Shen Juesheng into the villa, while Ruan Zhenhui and Shen Anran looked at each other, but were speechless.

……

Li Musheng and Hu Ruian walked all the way back to the courtyard where they were temporarily staying. Along the way, Hu Ruian hesitated many times and had a lot to ask Li Musheng.

However, whenever he thought of the other party's punch that knocked Shen Juesheng away, he inexplicably felt a deep sense of awe in his heart, but everything he said was stuck in his throat and he didn't dare to ask any questions.

After hesitating for a long time, Hu Ruian still didn't dare to ask Li Musheng anything. He could only talk about his past with Ruan Zhenhui. It was also an active confession of what he had done tonight and an explanation to Li Musheng.

Li Musheng was not interested in this matter at first, but after listening for a while out of boredom, he roughly understood the emotional entanglement between the two.

Generally speaking, there are obstacles caused by prejudices between poor families and rich families, such as those between poor families and rich families.

There were also vendettas and grudges from the underworld that forced the lovers Hu Ruian and Ruan Zhenhui to separate.

At that time, Hu Ruian and Ruan Zhenhui were in love with each other and decided to spend their lives together, but Ruan Zhenhui's father despised Hu Ruian's family because they had fallen on hard times and was unwilling to marry his daughter to him who was penniless at the time.

During this period, Shen Liancheng from Zhanlu Villa appeared again and intervened. Although Ruan Zhenhui had no thoughts about him, the Ruan family had offended an enemy in the underworld at that time.

The enemy had some connection with a very powerful assassin organization called "Hall of Chasing Souls" in the underworld, so he hired assassins from the Hall of Chasing Souls in an attempt to destroy the Ruan family.

Ruan Zhenhui was unaware of this, and her father, in order to curry favor with Shen Juesheng, the famous owner of Zhanlu Villa at the time, in order to protect the Ruan family, secretly found Hu Ruian, told him about this and ordered him to leave Ruan Zhenhui.

To avoid embarrassing Ruan Zhenhui, Hu Ruian ruthlessly severed ties with her and fled to the capital of Dali to join the Tianjin Guard. "I had no choice at the time. The Soul Chasing Hall's assassin organization was simply too powerful. If my cousin and I were to cause the Ruan family to be exterminated, or even my cousin's death, because of my selfish motives, I would never have done that."

Hu Ruian sighed, perhaps because he was recalling the past and was feeling upset for a while, his fear and nervousness towards Li Musheng unconsciously faded a little.

Then, Hu Ruian seemed to be speaking excitedly and continued:
"After I joined the Tianjin Guard, I still harbored resentment towards the Soul Chasing Hall because of this incident, so I kept investigating this assassin organization, intending to find an opportunity to destroy it."

"However, more than a decade ago, the Soul Chasing Hall seemed to have offended a certain powerful force in the martial arts world, and it almost fell apart overnight. It wasn't until recent years that it seemed to have regained its momentum."

After hearing Hu Ruian's words, Li Musheng did not comment much, but in his heart he felt that it was not a bad thing for Hu Ruian and Ruan Zhenhui to separate.

After all, marriage between cousins ​​is illegal and can easily lead to the birth of deformed children with genetic defects. Such backward and feudal marriages should be stopped.

All I can say is that Ruan Zhenhui's father did a good thing with bad intentions.

Therefore, Li Musheng could not empathize with Hu Ruian, but he was slightly interested in the killer organization Hu Ruian mentioned, the Soul-Chasing Hall.

Because he also has a Hidden Killing Order from another underworld killer organization, the Hidden Killing Pavilion.

According to Cang Yinyue, he has held the Hidden Killing Order for some time, so the Hidden Killing Pavilion should have taken action against him.

But for some reason, the other party's killer didn't seem very professional and didn't make any moves.

However, Li Musheng didn't think much about it.

After all, he had been on the road since he left Shangyang City. Perhaps the other party's killer was on the way and had not caught up with him yet.

Not long after, Li Musheng and his friend returned to the courtyard where they lived.

At this time, after taking the antidote for Zuixiansi, Cao Gaoshan and others had almost eliminated the toxins in their bodies, and had recovered their martial arts skills and could move freely.

After seeing the two return safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, Shen Juesheng's attack just now was too terrifying, and they were obviously poisoned and ambushed by Zhanlu Villa, so they were obviously the hostile party.

At that time, although Cao Gaoshan, Wu Shang and others had already been detoxified, they all suspected that they would definitely die in Zhanlu Villa and would never be able to escape.

It was only because Hu Ruian and Li Musheng were not there that they had to stay in the yard and watch.

"How should we deal with Zhanlu Villa next? Please give us your instructions, sir."

Wu Shang came to Hu Ruian's side immediately and asked in a low voice.

Li Musheng killed several managers of the villa at that time. Wu Shang and others were still unconscious, so they did not see him take action.

In Wu Shang's eyes, Hu Ruian, who has the highest martial arts skills among everyone, is naturally the backbone at this time.

However, to his surprise, Hu Ruian did not answer his question, but looked at Li Musheng very respectfully, obviously asking for his opinion.

In response, Li Musheng just waved his hand, said nothing more, and returned to his room, as if he was too lazy to care about these things.

Seeing this, Hu Ruian felt relieved and said to Wu Shang and the others:
"Just rest assured, don't worry about anything, and continue on your journey tomorrow."

With a master like Li Musheng around, even Shen Juesheng was beaten away, so he doesn’t know what else to be afraid of?

At this moment, Hu Ruian felt an unprecedented sense of security in his heart. Although this sense of security came from the Eighth Prince, who was much younger than him, he felt inexplicably ashamed.

But it's just a little shame. As long as I can hold such a big figure, what does it matter?
Even Hu Ruian suddenly thought of the way Shangguan Qingqing had addressed Li Musheng before, and his mind was inexplicably confused, and he couldn't help but think too much:
"Could it be that the Eighth Prince is truly the best in the world?"

"He was able to knock Shen Juesheng away with one punch. His martial arts skills are at least among the top masters in the martial arts world."

"No wonder he resolutely joined the plan to wipe out Luoshen Peak. However... Luoshen Peak has unfathomable depth and is home to numerous martial arts masters. Can he really turn the tide on this trip alone?"

……

Hu Ruian's mind was filled with a myriad of emotions. Originally, he had almost planned to die on this trip to Luoshen Peak.

Otherwise, he would not have broken his promise and come to Zhanlu Villa to secretly see Ruan Zhenhui for the last time.

And after witnessing Li Musheng's true strength just now, a glimmer of hope undoubtedly ignited in his heart.

But Luoshen Peak, as one of the leaders in the martial arts world, has dominated the martial arts world for hundreds of years and is far from being comparable to a mere Zhanlu Villa.

At this time, he was not sure whether Li Musheng and Tianjin Guard alone could destroy it.

For a moment, Hu Ruian became a little worried. After he finished speaking, he didn't want to talk much with Wu Shang and others, so he returned to his room with a heavy heart.

When Wu Shang and others saw this scene, they all looked strange, because Hu Ruian's attitude towards Li Musheng was obviously different from before.

They actually seemed to feel a faint fear from Hu Ruian, a fear that he unconsciously revealed towards Li Musheng.

At this moment, a question arose in everyone's mind: what exactly happened while they were being poisoned and detoxified?
The only difference was that Cao Gaoshan's expression shifted slightly as he looked towards the room where Li Musheng was. He seemed to have thought of something, but he wasn't sure.

Murong Xiaoya's eyes flickered, as if she had confirmed something in her mind. For a moment, she was extremely stunned and a little bit unbelievable.

She stood there in a daze, wanting to ask Hu Ruian, but hesitated for a long time, and finally timidly retracted her head and went back to her room.

After all, the courage required to get a socially anxious person to speak up is simply immeasurable.

The remaining Wu Shang and Cheng Zhong looked at each other, both of them seemed a little confused. Although they seemed to have grasped a clue, they were still a little confused for a while.

With no other choice, the two had to continue staying in the yard to keep watch.

After a night like this, the entire Zhanlu Villa was very peaceful and nothing happened anywhere in the villa.

The sky brightens and the sun rises.

Wu Shang and his companions packed their luggage and did not even have time to eat breakfast. They went to the farm to find the carriage and horses that had been stored there, ready to continue on their journey.

Hu Ruian left early in the morning and no one knew where he went. He only came back when he was about to set off.

He knew that he could not hide this from Li Musheng, so he took the initiative to explain when he returned to the courtyard:

"I have just finished some personal matters, and now I can set off without any worries."

Li Musheng didn't care about it, waved his hand, and then looked outside the yard.

At this moment, a figure came outside early in the morning.

(End of this chapter)