Fists that can subdue mountains and rivers, martial arts that can lead to immortality!

To be proficient in martial arts means to reach the pinnacle of martial arts in this era!

Logically speaking...

A martial artist at the Qi and Blood Realm can live for 120 years!

A martial artist at the Strength Realm can live for two hundred years!

A martial arts master of his caliber, born with innate talent, is destined to live for three hundred years!

But he is different.

He followed an unorthodox path, and although his strength increased very quickly, his lifespan did not increase much.

In fact, the backlash from the cultivation technique actually shortened his lifespan considerably.

Although he is not yet a hundred years old, he already looks very old.

Logically speaking, a martial arts master like him should be in his prime at 100 years old, enjoying immense prestige.

He was already very old, like a candle flickering in the wind.

Therefore, he must break through his current realm and enter the legendary realm of profound understanding.

Once you enter the profound realm, you will be able to connect with heaven and earth and gain a lifespan of five hundred years!

Although his cultivation method might not extend his lifespan by that much.

However, there is no need to worry about lifespan issues, at least in the short term.

He has been running the Red Umbrella Cult for over thirty years.

Before the previous dynasty collapsed, he was a heretical and rebellious cult, like a rat crossing the street, hated by everyone.

But now the previous dynasty has collapsed, and various warlords are holding their own armies, plunging the country into chaos.

This was the best of times for him.

If one cannot achieve something in such an era.

Once a certain destined warlord continues to grow stronger, he will eventually achieve unification.

Then he would never have another chance.

Therefore, he must fight for it!

He was determined to fight for the sake of that once down-on-his-luck scholar who had repeatedly failed the imperial examinations!

He wanted to prove to the world that he, Shen Qingzhou, was definitely not an incompetent person!

The Cao family, father and son, were merely insignificant stumbling blocks on his road to success!

The Cao family army entered the concession on the second day.

"Damn Cao's army! They killed my wife, humiliated my sister, and ruined my family! I'll fight you to the death!"

A Red Umbrella Sect member, wielding a butcher's knife, stabbed a member of Cao's army to death.

Another member of Cao's army, who was with him, was about to pull the bolt.

As a result, the skin-smoothing martial artist slit his throat with a single stroke.

The Skin-Smoothing Warriors are already considered the backbone of the Crimson Umbrella Cult.

These people wore light bulletproof vests to protect their vital organs, and carried kitchen knives, shovels, scissors, and other ordinary household items, disguising themselves as ordinary people driven to desperation by Cao's army, thus evoking empathy from others.

Such incidents are unfolding throughout the Tianjin concessions, and are escalating.

Until someone who was driven to desperation by Cao's army stood up and launched an attack on Cao's army members coming and going in the streets.

The entire Tianjin concession was thrown into complete chaos.

Someone suddenly threw lime into the eyes of Cao's soldiers.

Someone was sniping at Cao's army from the middle gate with a hunting rifle!

Some people who sold steamed buns would put arsenic directly into the filling of their buns, deliberately letting a group of Cao Cao's soldiers steal and eat them, thus poisoning dozens of Cao Cao's soldiers to death.

When ordinary people are driven to the brink of despair, what awaits Cao Cao and his son is utter hopelessness!

In just one day, Cao's army suffered four to five thousand casualties.

at the same time.

The Red Umbrella Cult's undercover agents planted in the Tianjin Concession police station began to take action.

They clashed with Cao's army several times.

It eventually evolved into a large-scale gunfight.

More than 3,000 police officers from the foreign concessions were all killed, but Cao's army also suffered thousands of casualties.

The Cao family, father and son, led an army of 30,000 into Tianjin, and now more than half of them have been killed or wounded.

This caused them, father and son, great distress.

At that very moment, consuls from various countries were secretly meeting with Shen Qingzhou, the leader of the Red Umbrella Sect.

With the police station completely destroyed, the foreign consuls were utterly panicked.

The police station was their henchman, but now that the Cao family has removed all their henchmen, they are completely at the mercy of the Cao family.

They've heard all over the place about Cao the Skinflint these past few days.

This father and son are absolutely inhuman!

Under the guise of searching for remnants of the Red Umbrella Cult, they went door-to-door extorting money.

They not only preyed on ordinary people, but also targeted Westerners, wealthy merchants, celebrities, and officials in the concessions.

It's truly a case of plucking a feather from a passing goose!

They had long been dissatisfied with the Cao family, father and son.

The Cao family army entered the concession on the third day.

The Cao family father and son gradually became more restrained.

There is no other reason.

The father and son had almost completely ransacked the concession area by the time they entered.

The remaining few, apart from consuls from various countries, are traditional Western aristocrats, and they dare not make any rash moves for the time being.

Moreover, the actions of Cao's army during this period have thoroughly aroused public anger.

Four or five thousand soldiers died or were wounded every day.

This was all the work of those troublemakers.

Although Cao Yingxiong really wanted to kill all these troublemakers, to shoot them all.

However, there are more than 100,000 people in the concession. If all of them were killed, there would be nowhere left for the Cao family to hide in such a vast country.

What troubled the father and son even more was that they had already dispersed their troops throughout the Tianjin concessions.

They also conducted a thorough search.

Besides killing many believers brainwashed by the Red Umbrella Cult, and also killing many official members of the Red Umbrella Cult, no high-ranking members of the Red Umbrella Cult have been captured.

Not to mention Shen Qingzhou, the leader of the Red Umbrella Sect, not even one of his four protectors was captured.

There's another thing, and that's the strange beast from the Crimson Umbrella Cult.

That thing is a behemoth; it can't be hidden in an ordinary place.

But despite searching for so long, they still couldn't find the whereabouts of that wicked beast.

This left them constantly feeling uneasy!

"Son, tonight we're going to do something big, father and son."

"Loot all the consuls from various countries and those wealthy Western nobles, and then kill them all."

"After that, we claimed that the Red Umbrella Church was enraged and killed all the foreigners in the Tianjin Concession."

"As for you and I, father and son, although we wanted to turn the tide, the Crimson Umbrella Sect was too brutal, and our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, leaving us powerless to reverse the situation."

"Therefore, we have no choice but to withdraw our troops and retreat from Tianjin!"

"What do you think of my fabricated story?"

Cao Yingxiong sat in the lobby of a mansion in the concession, holding two smooth, oily jade walnuts in his hands, and said to Cao Junlin with a smile.

"Brilliant!"

"Old Cao, if anything, you're the cunning one!"

"I've disliked these foreign devils for a long time."

"And these foreign devils' wives and daughters are all very capable too."

"We'll pack everything up and divide it equally between my son and me, two-for-five."

"We've brought honor to our country!"

Cao Junlin's face was full of lewd smiles.

"You brat."

"But I want to choose first!"

"Hahaha!"

Cao Yingxiong said with a loud laugh.

It seems that the tens of thousands of soldiers who died in the past few days are like roadside weeds in their eyes, not worth mentioning.

"Old Cao, this isn't funny..."

The Cao family, father and son, are still indulging in wild fantasies here.

Meanwhile, the Tianjin concessions learned from the movements of Cao's army that Cao and his son were about to take action against them.

Therefore, they immediately notified the Red Umbrella Cult and cooperated with them.

The reason the consul of the concession brought the Cao family into the venue was to suppress the Red Umbrella Cult.

In the end, they ended up cooperating with the Red Umbrella Cult to fight against the Cao family.

The transformation in this process is truly heartbreaking.