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Chapter 116 "Eight Pieces of Brocade for Internal Strengthening" (3k views, please vote! More votes this afternoon)

Bai Wu and Li Yao were adept at stealing and swindling, but when it came to actually killing someone at this close range, they trembled with fear.

Sister Hua felt a little sorry for Bai Wu, who was still young, not even twenty years old.

Just as he was about to step forward, Chen Zhan stopped him.

"If you don't kill them today, will you kill them when the Japanese come to your door tomorrow? When the Japanese kill me, kill Li Yao, kill Sister Hua, will you dare to do it?" Chen Zhan asked.

"Of course I dare!" Bai Wu said, sticking his neck out.

"Ha, you dare not! When the time comes, all you'll do is cry, wet your pants, and be powerless to do anything about the country's destruction and your family's ruin."

"If a mad dog bites you, and you don't retaliate with blood or teeth, you'll only be torn apart by its frenzied attacks until you have no chance to fight back!"

As they spoke, Ye Ningzhen and Gong Ruomei led five women dressed in blood out of the hall.

All five men were barely clothed, their bodies stained with tears and swollen from strangulation marks, and their bodies could only be covered by the blood-stained clothes of the dead bandits.

The woman staggered out and saw the bandits wailing in front of Chen Zhan.

They immediately sped up, scrambling and crawling as they charged forward, tearing and thrashing about with their hands and feet.

Even a woman with a whip mark on her face, feeling weak in her limbs, bit down and ripped off an ear, leaving her mouth and the ground covered in blood.

Chen Zhan remained unmoved. "You're not even as good as a woman?"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Bai Wu fired three shots, killing the bandit in front of him.
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Chen Zhan led his men down the mountain overnight and returned to Fuxin City.

Five women, two of whom were from Fuxin and were of good means.

These days, people with poor living conditions can't afford to take the train.

To be robbed on a train, one must have some wealth.

the next day,
Chen Zhan declined the invitation. Bai Wu and Li Yao took the person to the police station and then went there to file a report. Afterwards, the group secretly returned to the outskirts of Fengtian City as instructed by Chen Zhan.

Only three people remain in Fuxin City.

"Ma San should arrive in Fuxin this afternoon. Where should we make our move?" Gong Ruomei was eager to take revenge.

"How do you plan to do it? If it's an assassination, Ningzhen can kill him without a doubt from a hundred meters away. But would you be willing to kill him like this?" Chen Zhan asked.

It's actually quite simple. If she really resorts to any means necessary, Ye Ningzhen's marksmanship and long-range assassination skills would leave Ma San with no chance to fight back.

It all depends on what Gong Ruomei thinks.

She fell silent after Chen Zhan spoke.

Using a gun would indeed be easy, but...
She didn't think that winning with a gun was dishonorable. Ma San had already surrendered to the Japanese, and she was also preparing to leave the Northeast martial arts world. But the only hurdle she couldn't overcome was Gong Baotian.

At that time, Gong Baotian divided Xingyi Bagua into two schools and taught them to the two men.

The idea is that the two should carry forward Xingyi and Bagua, and if one of them goes astray, the other should personally take him back.

Gong Ruomei still hasn't been able to overcome this mental barrier.

"I don't want a gun, I want to kill him with my own hands."

Unsurprisingly.

During the Republican era, older generations of martial arts masters had a very low acceptance of firearms, and people like Ye Ningzhen who were proficient in them were extremely rare.

Many people regard guns and cannons as monstrous threats and avoid them at all costs.

Chen Zhan could understand that this was a kind of escapist mentality. To practice boxing all one's life and then be killed or injured by a single bullet, with one's martial spirit shattered, was simply ironic.

Gong Ruomei also couldn't get past this hurdle.

To be honest, if the other party were just a martial arts practitioner, Chen Zhan wouldn't want to use a gun either.

If one day Chen Zhan sees a Grandmaster of Internal Energy die at the hands of guns and cannons, just like Cheng Tinghua did back then, he will feel very sad.

"Then let's see, do you know who he brought?"

"I don't know, but he's a disciple of the sect, so he probably didn't bring any Japanese with him."

Chen Zhan nodded. Ma San came for the boxing manual, so it was unlikely that he would bring Japan with him. Even the Japanese might not know his purpose.

"I'm going to the train station this afternoon. You two wait for me at the inn."

"I'm also curious about what kind of boxing manual it is."

Chen Zhan quickly devised a plan. The two men were not skilled enough and would be easily detected, so there was no need for many people to keep watch.

The three found an inn and went about their own business.

It was soon afternoon. Chen Zhan glanced at Ye Ningzhen's pocket watch and quickly left.

He underwent some bone alteration, but his facial bones are still limited, and he doesn't have many muscles, so he can't be a man of a thousand faces. If you look closely, you can see that he looks very similar to Chen Sanshui.

However, once the felt hat is on, it's easy to spot without close inspection.

At that time, there were not many trains; only a few arrived at the station each day.

When Chen Zhan arrived at the station, he soon heard a clanging sound and his eyes were fixed on each exit.

Instead of finding Ma San, we discovered another pleasant surprise.

Hao Mingqi, one of the three elders of Fengtian who escaped last time!
He was carrying a load of cordyceps on a shoulder pole, dressed in a cotton hat and coat, disguised as a traveling merchant selling medicinal herbs, and he looked quite convincing.

But Chen Zhan saw through it at a glance.

This kind of outfit can only fool laymen.

Chen Zhan observed the gait pattern. When an ordinary old farmer carries such a heavy load, his center of gravity is all in his back, causing him to sag backward. As a result, his gait is unsteady, and he needs to bend forward.

Upon close observation, farmers of any era always carry their goods on their backs and lean forward to avoid getting tired while walking.

Hao Mingqi tried his best to look like he was struggling, but in fact his center of gravity remained stable and there was no fluctuation at all.

Once Hao Mingqi appears, Ma San will surely follow soon.

Just as the train was about to leave, a person emerged from behind the iron gate. He was short, dressed in all black, and had messy hair; he didn't look like a martial arts master at all.

Even Chen Zhan had to look around several times before he finally locked onto him.

When Gong Baotian was young, he was known as "Gong the Monkey" because he had perfected the monkey-like form. Ma San, who received his true teachings, was also able to achieve a similar monkey-like form.

The monkey form excels at shrinking and changing its shape; when mastered, it's similar to bone-shrinking kung fu, which is not surprising.

Chen Zhan could turn a man over 1.8 meters tall into a child with a simple monkey squat, but he couldn't maintain it for long; his bones would deform afterward, affecting his future power. Ma San's form couldn't be maintained for very long either.

Chen Zhan was able to spot him because he was walking too fast and unconsciously used the Bagua Steps.

They seemed to be in a hurry and walking fast, but every step they took was in the gaps between the crowds. They didn't need to turn to the side or dodge. It was like water flowing around a stone, automatically avoiding the crowded people.

Where would you find so many gossip experts, and to happen to run into them in this small place?

The two walked out of the station with the flow of people, without meeting, but as if by unspoken agreement, they both headed east of the city.

Fuxin is a small city, and the further east you go, the fewer people there are. Ma San and Hao Mingqi went into an inn one after the other.

Before entering, he cautiously looked around, naturally failing to notice Chen Zhan a hundred feet away.

The inn was nearly empty, but two guests arrived in quick succession, which pleased the innkeeper.

Chen Zhan quietly left and returned to the inn where the three of them were, and called the two women over.

“We’ll keep an eye on them tonight. These two are acting suspiciously, disguised, and might be planning a nighttime operation,” Chen Zhan said.

Neither of them objected.

The fact that Ma San didn't bring any attendants and dressed like this shows that he was someone who couldn't be seen in public.

Chen Zhan was extremely curious about Ma San's purpose. Others might not know about the Demon Star Chen Zhan, but Ma San couldn't possibly be unaware of it. The biggest thing Chen Zhan did in Tianjin was to massacre the Green Gang and eliminate traitors.

Now we have arrived in Fengtian.

He dared to take the risk and come out right away, which shows that he was determined to win. I wonder what kind of boxing manual he was referring to.

Practicing boxing is not a martial arts secret manual that grants divine skill and the power to command the world. No matter how high the boxing manual is, you may not be able to learn it, and you also have to put in a lot of hard work to practice it.

Sure enough, just after midnight, the two men, dressed in night clothes, jumped out of the inn and continued eastward.

The three of them hung in the distance.

Ma San and Hao Mingqi walked briskly through the streets and alleys. At the easternmost part of the city, there were even fewer people, and many of the earthen houses had collapsed.

I looked around but couldn't find the place.

"Old man, are you sure this is it?" Ma San was somewhat helpless. He had risked coming out, and if he came up empty-handed, he wanted to beat this old man to death.

"It's right, it's right. Gong Houzi has been coveting it for years. He has his pride and is too embarrassed to rob it openly. I had to ask him indirectly many times before I finally got him to tell me that it's over here. But he said it was ten years ago, and the street layout has changed a bit. Let me look for it again."

"Damn, the streets in Fuxin are so winding!"

"Sixth house from the left on East Third Street, the old man's dog."

"Damn it, ten years! The dog's long gone!" Ma San said angrily.

Hao Mingqi followed the street step by step, and after walking for a long time, he arrived at a house: "This is the house!"

He was about to kick the door open when Ma San stopped him.

"Are you crazy? Don't alert them!"

"Do you really think the martial arts world is full of mediocre talents like you?"

Ma San increasingly looked down on the three elders of Fengtian. His master, Gong Baotian, was on par with these two, a truly shameful disgrace to a fine man.

Ma San climbed over the side wall. It was a small, inconspicuous house, so the two of them tiptoed inside and carefully searched the place.

Hao Mingqi didn't dare to go against Ma San, but he knew that this family had no martial arts skills, belonged to a fallen sect, and had no one in the family who practiced martial arts.

Gong Baotian offered a large sum of money, but the other party, though down on his luck, was quite principled and refused to sell.

Gong Baotian was also a master, and he not only did not force him, but also kept the news secret.

Now that he knows this news, he still needs to rely on Ma San, so he has no choice but to come with him to retrieve it.

Hao Mingqi was afraid that if he went out, he would be beaten to death by Chen Sanshui in the blink of an eye.

"Found it! Is this it?" Ma San held up the scroll and showed it to Hao Mingqi.

The top has five characters written on it: "Eight Pieces of Brocade for Internal Strengthening"!
"This is it, let's go!"

They all looked delighted. If this skill was truly as miraculous as described, mastering it would be just around the corner.

"Hmph, when Chen Sanshui really comes, let's see whose Xingyi is better."

The two immediately leaped out and, taking advantage of the darkness, slipped through the quiet alley.

After walking through several streets and alleys, the surroundings were eerily quiet. There were hardly any cicadas chirping in the winter, only the soft crunching sound of the two of them walking on the snow.

"Something's wrong!"

"It wasn't this quiet when we arrived, was it?"

Ma San was very vigilant and waved his hand to stop Hao Mingqi, who also stopped.

The alley was narrow and long.

The moonlight was not bright to begin with, but it shone brighter on the snow.

"Senior brother, today we have to decide our fate." Gong Ruomei's voice came from the alley entrance.

Ma San's gaze darkened. He hadn't expected that even though he had come out so discreetly, Gong Ruomei had still managed to seize the opportunity.

"Junior sister, you're like a persistent ghost! Are you looking for death?" Ma San sighed. This wasn't Fengtian anymore, and there were no Japanese guns nearby.

"That's right. I won't be at peace until I take back the Xingyi Kung Fu from you, and my father won't rest in peace either!"

"The old man held back against me and wouldn't let you take revenge, so he would leave the Gong family kung fu in my body!"

Ma San spoke with righteous indignation, and what he said was true.

Gong Ruomei remained unmoved, took a few steps forward, and walked into the alley.

"My father spared you because he treated you like his own son, hoping to give you a chance to turn back. What happened after the old ape relinquished his seal? It was to look back!"

"Yet you turned into a traitor in the blink of an eye, and you still dare to mention that my father held back!"

"He spent his whole life training like a monkey, but he doesn't understand wolves! How can you tame a wolf?"

Ma San's expression was somber, unable to refute. He said to Hao Mingqi beside him, "Let's attack together and kill her. Everything from the Gong family will be ours."

Ma San's voice was very soft, and Hao Mingqi should have heard it.

But from the wall of the alley to the left, a voice came: "Joining forces, I'm afraid, won't work."

(End of this chapter)