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Chapter 124 Mountain Lord! ?

In the backyard of the Iron Hand Gang, Song Hai chased Ma Yanwang to a secluded house.

Ma Yanwang rushed to the door, but stumbled slightly. He grabbed the door frame, pushed open the wooden door, and slipped inside.

Seeing this, Song Hai did not rush in. Instead, he walked slowly to the door, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked at Ma Yanwang's disheveled appearance inside the room with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"Run away! Let's see where you can run to!"

Song Hai spoke with a hint of mockery. He stepped over the threshold and scanned the entire room. It seemed to be a storage room, with four or five large vats, about waist-high, filled with water. It was unclear what they were used for.

Song Hai glanced at the jars but didn't pay them any mind, assuming they were just old items used for storing water and preventing fires.

He wasn't in a hurry to act. Although the poison he used wasn't a deadly poison that would kill instantly, it could slow down a martial artist's strength, making their blood circulation sluggish and their muscles and bones weak and powerless. Even if Ma Yanwang was a master who had reached the Great Perfection of the Bone Forging Realm, being poisoned by this kind of poison would at least reduce his combat power by 30% to 40%. To him, he would be like a fish on a chopping board.

Song Hai paced back and forth, looking down at Ma Yanwang with a mixture of pity and smugness in his voice: "Brother, stop struggling. The Iron Hand Gang is in my hands now, and I'll manage it well, guaranteeing it will be even more prosperous than it was under your command. As for you, you can rest assured and go on your way."

As he spoke, he suddenly seemed to remember something, his brow twitched slightly, and he tilted his head to ask, "By the way, where's that slovenly Taoist priest beside you? He's always by your side, but now that you're in such a predicament, did he sense the danger and run away beforehand?"

Before he could finish speaking, a lazy voice suddenly came from the side.

"Oh?"

The voice was slow and leisurely, like someone who had just woken up and was stretching, giving a casual reply.

"Is the second-in-command looking for me?"

Song Hai's smile froze instantly. He turned his head sharply, looking in the direction of the sound, and saw a figure that had appeared by a large vat in the corner.

The man, dressed in a drab gray Taoist robe, with his hair haphazardly tied into a Taoist bun, was leaning crookedly against the edge of the vat, as if he had been sitting there for quite some time, or as if he had appeared out of thin air. It was none other than the disheveled Taoist Hu Daoren.

Song Hai's pupils contracted slightly, and he subconsciously took two steps back, his expression changing several times in an instant.

However, his brows quickly relaxed, a look of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he looked at Ma Yanwang again, sneering, "I had no idea what you were thinking. So the reason you ran to this house was to get him to save you."

He shook his head, his tone growing increasingly certain, "It's a pity, even if he were standing here, he couldn't save you—"

Song Hai's voice suddenly stopped halfway through his sentence.

Because he saw that the panicked look on Ma Yanwang's face had quietly disappeared, replaced by a calm expression of complete control.

At the same time, the sluggish blood and qi in Ma Yanwang's body also became steady and smooth again.

"Second brother, I didn't come here to have him save me." He paused, a meaningful smile playing on his lips. "It's to prevent you from escaping. After all, capturing a Bone Forging Realm master who only wants to run away is quite troublesome."

Song Hai's pupils suddenly contracted. He stared intently at Ma Yanwang's face, which had returned to normal, and then glanced at Hu Daoren's ambiguous smile in the corner. Suddenly, a chill ran from his tailbone to the back of his head.

He suddenly realized what was happening, and his expression changed drastically: "You weren't poisoned. You've been acting against me the whole time."

Ma Yanwang grinned: "Second brother, do you think you can fool anyone with your little tricks? The martial arts training ground, the winged tiger, that cook in the kitchen who was blinded by money... I know everything you've done clearly."

He shook his head and sighed, "Back when the Iron Hand Gang was formed, I told you, 'Just focus on your martial arts training, don't worry about anything else.' But you wouldn't listen. Now, all these underhanded tricks and schemes only make you a laughingstock."

Song Hai reacted extremely quickly, making his judgment almost the instant Ma Yanwang got up.

He wasn't stupid. Between two people at the peak of the Bone Forging Realm, the outcome was already difficult to predict. With the addition of the unpredictable Hu Daoren, the current situation was no longer a question of winning or losing, but a question of whether they could get out alive.

He pushed off with his feet, his body shooting towards the door like an arrow. But Ma Yanwang was faster, intercepting the doorway almost the instant he moved.

Forced back several steps by the attack, Song Hai gritted his teeth, changed direction, and darted toward the gap between the large vats in the corner of the room.

He glanced at the room when he entered. Besides the main entrance, there was a small window in the corner of the storage room. He could easily break it open with a single palm strike. Once he broke through the window and headed towards the dock, he would be in his territory, with his men.

He turned around and just as he got close to the nearest large vat, the vat wall suddenly shattered.

It wasn't broken by him; the contents of the jar rushed out on their own.

As the water splashed, a bluish-black shadow darted out of the vat, moving so fast that it was almost just a blur.

Song Hai had no time to react; his face was full of surprise. How could something be hidden here?

In the blink of an eye, the water monkey's sharp claws had already slashed across his chest, five claw marks tearing diagonally from his left shoulder to his right rib, his robes ripped open, and blood splattered everywhere.

Song Hai grunted and staggered backward, striking the water monkey's head with his palm, but only hitting its shoulder. The impact made his own hand go numb. The thing just swayed for a moment before lunging at him again.

Just then, the water monkey suddenly stopped.

As if sensing something extremely terrifying, it suddenly turned its head, its turbid eyes staring straight at a certain direction outside, a sharp and short hiss coming from its throat, full of vigilance.

At the same time, the usually lazy Taoist Hu suddenly stood up straight, his gaze fixed on the outside, his face filled with shock. "Mountain Lord!"

After a moment, Hu Daoren shook his head, his brows furrowed, rejecting his first judgment. He muttered to himself, "Mountain Lord? No—it's not the Mountain Lord. The Mountain Lord's power is unparalleled, its ferocity overwhelming. Wherever it passes, beasts cower in fear, and ordinary demons collapse at the mere smell of its aura. If it were to appear in this county town, it would surely cause chaos throughout the entire town. The fleeing beasts within a hundred miles would not be such a trivial commotion."

"That aura just now, though resembling a mountain tiger, wasn't nearly as intense, yet it possessed a dignified tiger's might, startling this water monkey into a state of utter panic. What exactly was that thing?"

On the other side, Song Hai staggered backward, five deep claw marks on his chest revealing bone, blood flowing down his clothes.

But a hint of relief flashed in his eyes. For some reason, the water monkey suddenly stopped. Taking advantage of the moment when the monster was stunned, Song Hai suddenly gathered his energy, pushed off with his feet, and shot towards the small window like an arrow.

But before he could even touch the window, a figure appeared beside him like a ghost.

Ma Yanwang's palm silently pressed down on his back, and the power of the Great Perfection of Bone Forging Realm emanated from his palm.

Song Hai froze mid-air, his limbs twitched, and then he completely lost all strength and fell onto the blue brick ground.

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