Longevity Martial Arts: Obtain Golden Affixes at the Start

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the house, Li Tao'er came out to greet them.

"Brother Lang, you're finally back!"

Hong Lang smiled and patted her head: "Tao'er, have you grown taller?"

Li Tao'er's gaze passed over Hong Lang's shoulder and landed on the big pig behind him, her smile freezing instantly.

She stared at Zhu Dachang's enormous pig head and unconsciously shrank her neck.

Zhu Da, seeing a cute little girl, grinned, revealing yellow teeth: "Little girl, I can eat people!"

He bared his teeth as he spoke, making a "gurgling" sound in his throat.

Seeing that Li Tao'er was a little scared, Hong Lang laughed and said, "Tao'er, don't be afraid. Although this pig is ugly, it's a good person..."

He glanced at Zhu Dachang's pig-like face and changed his words, saying, "Good pig."

Zhu Dachang grumbled twice in dissatisfaction: "What do you mean by 'although I'm ugly'? My appearance is among the best in White Bone Plains."

Pu Xi coldly remarked from the side, "Even last place is still considered top-tier."

Zhu Dachang opened his mouth, wanting to retort, but then felt he didn't have much confidence, so he could only droop his big ears and mutter softly, "You people, all you know how to do is talk about looks..."

Hong Lang laughed and said, "Tao'er, look, if it dares to hurt you, your sister Pu will turn it into a roast suckling pig."

Pu Xi glanced at Zhu Dachang cooperatively.

Zhu Dachang shuddered, his large ears standing straight up: "No, no, no! I don't eat people! I'm a vegetarian! Really! I've been a vegetarian since the White Bone Plains!"

Pu Xi laughed and said, "You're a vegetarian? Then who ate the dried meat?"

Zhu Dachang blinked and whispered, "That...that's just an occasional indulgence."

As the group entered the house, the servants screamed in fright at Zhu Dachang, who held his pig-like head high, seemingly quite pleased with himself.

"Where is Sister Qin?" Hong Lang asked.

"My mother can't stay idle, so she did some needlework and sold it on the street," Li Tao'er replied.

Hong Lang sighed, about to say something, when suddenly a series of hurried footsteps came from behind him.

"County Commandant Hong! County Commandant Hong!"

Hong Lang turned around and saw Huang Li, Mo Qiushui's personal maid. She had a furrowed brow and a somber expression.

"What's wrong?" Hong Lang's heart sank.

Huang Li ran up to him and said, "County Commandant Hong, something terrible has happened! Last night, Ningyuan Town was massacred by a group of bandits, and Magistrate Mo led all the martial artists from the yamen out of the city to pursue them."

Just now, one of Magistrate Mo's warriors escaped back to report that they had been ambushed. The enemy consisted of two martial artists at the peak of the Meridian Opening Realm, one at the great completion of the Meridian Opening Realm, and more than twenty martial artists at the Marrow Cleansing Realm!

"What?!" Hong Lang's expression changed drastically. "Where is the messenger?"

"The man was too badly injured; he died right after he finished speaking."

Zhu Dachang looked completely bewildered, his enormous pig head swaying from side to side: "Um... can I ask you something? Are we going to fight?"

Hong Lang ignored him and turned his gaze to Pu Xi: "Miss Pu, how effective can twenty-odd people with Hidden Spiders be?"

Pu Xi pondered for a moment and said, "Within three zhang, I can take down anyone below the peak of the Meridian Opening Realm. I can't take down those at the peak of the Meridian Opening Realm, but I can weaken their combat power."

"To what extent can it be weakened?" Hong Lang pressed.

"It can reduce the combat strength by about 90%."

Hong Lang nodded, having already made up his mind.

Mo Wentian had treated him well, and now that Mo Qiushui was in deep danger, he couldn't just sit idly by.

He handed the silent, nameless woman to Li Tao'er, mounted his horse, and rode off to Ningyuan Town with Pu Xi and Zhu Dachang.

……

The wind on the riverbank, carrying the smell of blood, filled Mo Qiushui's mouth and nose.

She struggled to stand, supporting herself with her spear; the wound on her left arm was already numb, and ten corpses lay around her.

Those faces that had faced life and death together in Longxiang County were now cold corpses on the ground.

Six warriors spread out in a fan shape, trapping her in the middle of the riverbank.

Huo Qingbai, mounted on his horse, looked down at her as if she were prey caught in a trap.

"Magistrate Mo," Huo Qingbai said slowly, "why risk your life like this? Put down your weapons and come with us, and I'll guarantee you'll be unharmed."

Mo Qiushui didn't respond; this was a trap from the very beginning.

The massacre of Ningyuan Town was bait, and her life was also bait.

Like a fish drawn by the smell of blood, she bit the hook without hesitation.

Mo Qiushui recalled her father's instructions: Hengjiang County is located at the gateway, so you must be very careful.

She remembered it, but she still fell for the trap, and she felt ashamed of her father's teachings.

"My daughter, Mo Wentian's daughter, cannot only know how to kill; she must also know how to use her brain."

Her father said everything, but she didn't listen.

Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Huo Qingbai became somewhat impatient and gave Luo Heng a wink.

Luo Heng stood up, shook the blood off his knife, and slowly walked towards Mo Qiushui.

He slashed down with his sword, but Mo Qiushui blocked it with her spear. The spear shaft and the blade collided, sparks flying everywhere.

Her cultivation was only at the peak of the Marrow Cleansing Realm, while Luo Heng had already reached the minor completion of the Meridian Opening Realm. The difference in their strength was like an insurmountable chasm.

The blow caused her tiger's mouth to split open.

Two stabs sent her staggering back several steps.

She managed to parry the three blows, leaving three deep cuts on the gun barrel.

Luo Heng wasn't in a hurry to kill her. Like a cat toying with a mouse, he left room for maneuver with each attack, adding a new wound to her body before retreating and waiting for her to catch her breath before pouncing again.

Shoulders, back, thighs, sides...

Mo Qiushui's clothes were soaked in blood, and it was impossible to tell which blood was from the enemy and which was from herself.

Her vision began to blur, and her consciousness gradually faded amid blood loss and excruciating pain.

"Your father won't come to save you," Luo Heng said as he attacked. "If he wanted to save you, he would have come long ago. You're just a pawn he's discarded, like all those useless people who died here.

Mo Qiushui gritted her teeth and thrust out with her spear, but Luo Heng easily dodged it.

"You're talking nonsense..."

"I'm talking nonsense?" Luo Heng laughed. "Then tell me, why hasn't a single reinforcement arrived after all this time? If he wanted to come, he could have done it in half a day, but has he come yet?"

Mo Qiushui remained silent.

Luo Heng swung his sword down, and she raised her gun to block, the gun barrel snapping in two.

Half of the gun barrel flew out and landed on the riverbank, bounced twice, and then stopped moving.

Mo Qiushui staggered backward, tripped over a corpse, and fell heavily to the ground.

Luo Heng walked up to her, looking down at her, the tip of his knife pressed against her throat.

Mo Qiushui lay on the ground, many things flashing through her mind.

In the county government office of Longxiang County, her father taught her how to use a gun, move by move.

The cup of hot tea that Huangli brings every morning.

And then there was... the tender moment with Hong Lang at the bottom of Eagle's Beak Cliff, the first time she had taken off her clothes in front of a man since she came of age.

"Capture him alive," Huo Qingbai ordered.

Luo Heng raised his long sword, ready to knock her unconscious with the back of the blade.

Just then, a furious shout rang out, as loud as a thunderclap!

"Who dares to touch her!"