Turbid World: Martial Arts Master of the Republic of China Era, I Cultivate Immortality!

Chengdong·Haichuan Road

In the alley diagonally opposite the Han family's house,

Three men slowly poked their heads out.

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One breath

Two breaths,

Three breaths...

After a dozen or so breaths, Master Tianyi, unable to resist withdrawing from the probing state, frowned and looked at Zhao Zheng, who was still probing.

"We're just going to watch from here? Didn't you say that snake demon swallowed one of your servants, Han Lu...?"

"I said it seems like... that piece of clothing looks like the clothing of her servants..." Zhao Zheng corrected Daoist Tianyi's mistake without turning his head.

"Is this your friend's house? Then why are we sneaking around here?" Xiang Yu asked, exiting the spy mode with a puzzled look.

Without turning his head, Zhao Zheng said, "What if the snake demon is bait? What if we're greeted by eight hundred axemen as soon as we go in?"

"..." x2

You think too much!

Without mentioning Xiang Yu's thoughts, Daoist Tianyi, his lips twitching, lowered his voice and said to Xiang Yu, "Learn more from your junior brother!"

"You'll learn this too? Oh, okay, okay!"

Having misunderstood Master Tianyi's meaning, Xiang Yu nodded and looked at the timid Zhao Zheng with disdain, then Zhao Zheng received a blow to the head.

Xiang Yu rubbed his head, looking helplessly at Daoist Tianyi who was speaking unclearly, and immediately changed his expression to one of admiration as he looked at Zhao Zheng.

Master Tianyi's lips twitched at the sight!

After another dozen or so breaths, Daoist Tianyi couldn't help but look at Zhao Zhengdao, who was still peeking out, and asked, "Are you sure Miss Han Lu is your friend?"

"Friendship forged through peeing and playing in the mud!"

Zhao Zheng answered in a low voice, but there was something he didn't say: he was the one who peed, while Han Lu and Li Feng were the ones playing in the mud.

"..." x2

Regardless of Xiang Yu's thoughts, Master Tianyi, who felt he couldn't see any friendship in the Han family, only thought that if there really was a monster in the Han family, then at least dozens of lives must have been lost in the past few months.

"I'm just being cautious. It's only a few dozen seconds, not a lot of time. If I were to die because of those few dozen seconds, who would avenge Han Lu's family?" Zhao Zheng said without turning his head.

"..." x2

Well-reasoned and irrefutable!

The two Daoist masters were speechless. Zhao Zheng then said, "You two stay here and wait," and then disappeared in a flash.

Ten seconds later,

Still in the alley,

The general situation is as follows.

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One to say one,

I... don't understand!

Master Tianyi looked helplessly and wearily at Zhao Zheng, who was pointing a gun at a servant of the Han family and questioning him. He wanted to say that even if the Han family had really ambushed eight hundred axemen, he would accept it.

"Too cautious...I can't learn that..."

Xiang Yu muttered to himself, while Zhao Zheng knocked out one of Han's servants and asked doubtfully, "No servants in her household have gone missing. Hmm, maybe there are too many servants and they haven't noticed yet..."

Although the Han family cannot compare to the Zhao family, they are still one of the most prominent families in Anping County, and they have many servants.

"Let's go in and ask!"

Master Tianyi, who no longer wanted to stay in this alley, spoke up and then walked out of the alley towards the Han family's gate across the street.

Xiang Yu followed, and Zhao Zheng had no choice but to follow as well. But as soon as he took a step, his intuition told him that danger was imminent.

"Um?"

Zhao Zheng frowned, paused slightly, and then a cold snort rang out from behind him.

"snort!"

As the cold snort sounded, a cracking sound of a stone slab splitting open, accompanied by a gust of wind that tore through the air, struck the back of Zhao Zheng's head.

There really is an enemy!

Zhao Zheng's heart skipped a beat, and he realized that he had guessed correctly. Daoist Tianyi immediately turned around when he heard the noise, but as soon as he turned around, he saw Zhao Zheng move.

As Zhao Zheng took a sidestep and his figure shifted strangely, he struck out with his left hand and then clenched his right fist, exploding the air with a loud crack, and shouted.

"The sun and moon—creating the world!"

"Um?"

Upon hearing such a domineering name for the move, the attacker's expression changed, and he subconsciously widened his eyes.

Then he saw the light, an incredibly dazzling golden light in the darkness. As the dazzling golden light suddenly appeared, the attacker realized he had been hit and his eyes narrowed subconsciously.

The attacker immediately withdrew his fist, intending to block, but he was a step too late.

"A great opportunity!"

Zhao Zheng thought to himself, and activated his innate greed and cruelty powers simultaneously, instantly boosting himself with the power of two oceans.

As his attack power doubled, the golden light on his body suddenly disappeared, and he bent his legs slightly before exerting force.

The moment his toes slammed into the blue bricks on the ground, a series of cracking sounds rang out. As the blue bricks developed dense, fine cracks resembling tree branches, Zhao Zheng's body transformed into a blur as he charged toward the attacker several meters away!

"Taiyin—The Four Seas Overturn!"

As Zhao Zheng's raised right fist moved, he unleashed the ultimate killing move of the Surging Wave Fist and the cold, Yin-based Bi Gu magic power within his body.

All the spirit and blood in the body, as well as the magical power transformed into Taiyin, are concentrated on the fist peak, forming an invincible and domineering fist stance that advances without retreating and has no enemy but oneself.

The attacker only felt a sharp whistling sound cutting through the air suddenly appear in his ears, and at the same time felt an invincible killing intent and a fist intent that seemed to be a vast ocean surging and killing.

No, you're going straight for the kill!

The attacker's face paled. He instinctively tried to dodge and escape, but it was too late. Knowing it was too late, before he could even think, his eyes, which had opened when the golden light disappeared, saw the dazzling golden light again!

Damn it! They tricked me again!

The attacker cursed inwardly as he was caught off guard!

bang——

A dull, resounding thud, like the sound of metal striking metal, was accompanied by the cracking of bones from the arms that had parried the sneak attack.

As he appeared, the attacker screamed and flew backward like a kite with a broken string. Seeing this, Zhao Zheng stomped his foot on the ground again.

As the blue bricks on the ground cracked again, his figure darted out at lightning speed. His left hand, which was already in the form of a palm, was directly combined into a sword finger and thrust towards the chest of the person who was attacking him!

"The Great Sun—All Streams Return to Their Source!"

Innate Brutality—Activate!

The power of the two oceans continues to amplify!

Zhao Zheng's body, which had been instantly replenished by the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram, stirred once more. Combining his remaining spirit and blood, he unleashed the ultimate killing move of the Listening Tide Sword Technique!

Unlike the original "all streams converge to one," which gathers all scattered sword energy and internal force into a single point, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and then transforms into a devastating thrust.

His thrust, based on pure Yang magic, was like a volcanic eruption, directly unleashing scorching heat that distorted the air and an unparalleled, terrifying power of natural disaster upon his sword finger!

Danger!

Great danger!

A martial artist's intuition caused the attacker, who was still flying backward, to change his expression drastically. The prompting from his martial arts spiritual sense stopped him from screaming.

He subconsciously tried to use his movement skills to avoid the stab, but before he could move, a voice suddenly rang out!

"Zheng-ge'er, stop! We're on the same side!"

The speaker was Han Lu, who was standing not far away with a group of servants and maids, holding a candied hawthorn in her hand, staring in disbelief!

"???"

Upon hearing Han Lu's voice, Zhao Zheng abruptly changed direction, his sword narrowly missing the attacker's chest, and thrust towards the wall beside him!

Swah——

There was no loud noise, only Zhao Zheng stopping his footsteps and looking at Han Lu with a blank expression.

"Zheng-ge'er, why did you get into a fight with my family's caregiver?" Han Lu, holding a candied hawthorn, ran over.

She was running when she suddenly stopped, startled, and looked at Zhang, the caregiver, who had fallen heavily to the ground: "You're an eighth-rank martial artist, right?"

"Miss, I am a mid-stage eighth-rank martial artist!"

The nurse, pale-faced and clutching his left arm, stood up and replied, then clasped his hands in thanks to Zhao Zheng: "Thank you for your mercy, senior!"

Zhao Zheng withdrew his sword, which was embedded in the wall, and said to the nurse Zhang with a calm expression, "Sorry, there was a misunderstanding earlier!"

As long as he isn't embarrassed, then it's others who are embarrassed. Besides, his intuition was right; he had indeed encountered danger just now, after all, he was almost successfully ambushed by the other party!

"without……"

Zhang, the caregiver, suddenly stopped speaking, swallowed back as the wall next to Zhao Zheng collapsed with a crack.

He stared wide-eyed at the huge hole that appeared in the wall, as tall as a person. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Han Lu's surprised and trembling voice beside him.

"Zheng...Brother Zheng...I remember you just became a ninth-rank martial artist yesterday, right? How...how did you beat him?"

"???"

I was defeated by... a ninth-rank martial artist? And a ninth-rank martial artist who just became a martial artist yesterday! Zhang the caretaker was stunned.

Just as he was about to ask, his open mouth closed again, shutting down along with the bricks that crumbled and disappeared in the breeze. He just stared blankly...

Huh? Wait, where did everyone go?

Zhang the caretaker was taken aback, and then saw Zhao Zheng, whose clothes were clean, upwind outside the alley. He looked down and saw himself covered in a thick layer of dust.