From the Iron Shirt Technique to physical sanctification

Dazexiang, the home of Hu the rich.

Liu Caomei was playing with a baby boy, making the baby giggle.

After being taken home by Hu the rich man, she initially tried to commit suicide, but after having a child, she gradually got used to life in the Hu family.

In the quiet of the night, she would think of Niu Mancang and her two sons, but in the end, all that remained was a deep sigh: "Perhaps this is my fate!"

After having a son again, she devoted all her energy to him and could hardly remember what Niu Mancang and her two previous children looked like.

"Aunt Liu, Master has sent over a bolt of brocade." A young maidservant entered carrying a brightly colored bolt of brocade. "He said he'd make a set of clothes for you and the young master."

"Hmm, put it there." Liu Caomei glanced at the brocade; the color was beautiful, and she liked it.

Days passed by like this, and when she could no longer remember what Niu Mancang looked like, one day she suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Hey, you surnamed Hu, get out here right now."

Then came a huge noise.

boom!

boom!

It sounded like the gate collapsing.

Wow……

The child suddenly started crying, and Liu Caomei immediately picked him up and comforted him, while saying to the maid beside her, "Go out and see what happened?"

"yes!"

The maidservant hurried off to inquire about the situation.

Liu Caomei felt a little uneasy; the voice sounded like Niu Mancang.

"No, that's impossible. I must have misheard. Niu Mancang is long dead," she muttered to herself.

……

Niu Mancang kicked down the door of Hu the rich man's house.

"Who dares to cause trouble at the Hu residence?" A Ming Jin martial arts guard from Hu the rich man rushed out and recognized Niu Mancang, who was the one he had injured.

"Niu Mancang, I spared your life back then, yet you still dare to come looking for death."

The guard roared and threw a punch at Niu Mancang.

Niu Mancang did not dodge and took the punch.

boom!

Niu Mancang didn't budge an inch; with his current defensive capabilities, this punch was like a tickle.

"You dog, you helped that Hu fellow kill my parents, throw my two children to their deaths, and steal my wife. Today, I'll kill you first."

Niu Mancang roared and then slapped the other man on the head.

Uh...

boom!

The guard's head exploded like a rotten watermelon, with red and white fluids flowing all over the ground.

thump!

The headless corpse fell to the ground.

ah... ah...

Screams instantly echoed throughout the entire Hu residence.

Hu, the wealthy man, happened to see this scene when he came out to check the situation, and he recognized Niu Mancang.

"This..." He was shocked, but he reacted quickly and immediately shouted to the servants and guards around him, "Kill him, and I will reward you with 1000 taels of silver."

A generous reward will surely attract brave men.

Furthermore, in the minds of these servants and guards, Niu Mancang was an honest and simple farmer.

So, a dozen men, armed with wooden sticks, charged toward Niu Mancang.

bang bang bang...

The wooden sticks felt like tickles to Niu Mancang; with one slap, these people became headless corpses.

Puff... Puff...

Thump! Thump...

One after another, corpses fell to the ground.

Hu the rich man was terrified: "This...how could this be?"

He saw Niu Mancang walking towards him with bloodshot eyes, then turned and ran towards Liu Caomei's courtyard.

"Grass Sister, Grass Sister, save me!"

"Master, what happened in the front yard?" Liu Caomei carried the child out of the main room and saw Hu the rich man rushing in in a panic.

"Niu Mancang has stormed in!" Hu the rich man said in a look of terror.

"What? Niu Mancang? Wasn't he dead?" Liu Caomei asked, looking puzzled.

"I don't know either, Cao Mei. For the sake of the child, and because I've been good to you, providing you with plenty of food and clothing, please help me," Hu the rich man pleaded, staring at Liu Cao Mei.

"Niu Mancang dares to kill people?" Liu Caomei looked incredulous. In her memory, Niu Mancang was an honest and simple farmer who wouldn't utter a word even if you beat him with a stick. How could he dare to kill people and even break into the Hu mansion, which was guarded by martial arts practitioners?

Ta-da...

Heavy footsteps approached from afar, and then Niu Mancang's tall figure appeared in Liu Caomei's courtyard.

"Mancang, is it really you?" Liu Caomei stared at Niu Mancang, holding her child, her face full of disbelief.

"Wife, you're still alive! That's wonderful! Did that Hu fellow bully you?" Niu Mancang was overjoyed to see that Liu Caomei was still alive.

"I'm doing very well. Mr. Hu treats me very well," Liu Caomei said.

Upon hearing Liu Caomei's address to Hu the Rich, Niu Mancang finally noticed the child in her arms: "Whose child is this?"

"Mancang, the past is the past, it's all our fate," Liu Caomei replied, seemingly unrelated to the question.

"Whatever happened is in the past, Liu Caomei. Our two sons were killed by that Hu fellow. Today I'm here for revenge. And you actually had a child with that Hu fellow? Are you even human?" Niu Mancang roared.

"What am I supposed to do? I've tried to commit suicide before, but I'm pregnant again. I can't let my child lose its mother. You just ran away, leaving me all alone here. What am I supposed to do?" Liu Caomei cried.

He had a wronged expression.

"This, this..." Niu Mancang was not good with words to begin with, and at this moment he didn't know what to say.

"Mancang, go. For the sake of the two children I gave you and the care I gave to your parents, please spare Master Hu. After all, he is now the father of my son." Seeing that she had Niu Mancang under her control, Liu Caomei appealed to his emotions once again.

"You, you..." Niu Mancang's heart broke, and tears streamed down his face.

When he was a refugee, he faced life and death several times, but he didn't cry; when he was practicing cultivation, he practiced until he was exhausted and in unbearable pain every day, but he still didn't cry.

Because he harbored hatred and wanted to avenge his parents, children, and wife, he never expected that his wife, Liu Caomei, would speak up for the man surnamed Hu.

"Mancang, Master Hu often eats with Constable Zhou from the county town. Don't be so stubborn. Even if you've learned some kung fu, can you deal with the government?" Liu Caomei said.

Niu Mancang remained silent, tears streaming down his face, still immersed in grief; his heart was broken.

"Niu Mancang, I married you back then, bore you children, served my parents-in-law, and took care of the family. What have I ever done to wrong you? Now that you've learned a little martial arts, you come to me and act all high and mighty. Don't you have any conscience?" Liu Caomei shouted at Niu Mancang.

"I'm doing this for your own good. You should leave now. I'll try to persuade Master Hu not to report this to the authorities. You've killed so many people in the Hu family; that's avenging your parents and children. You should live a good life from now on." Liu Caomei was quite shrewd, using both soft and hard tactics in her words.

Niu Mancang was heartbroken and lost his mind. He stared blankly at Liu Caomei, who seemed both familiar and strange.

He suddenly felt very tired and bored, and turned to leave, but the next moment, he felt very uncomfortable, awkward, and depressed.

"Do whatever you want!"

Liu Yu's words echoed in his mind.

"My master said, 'Do as you please.' Right now, my heart is aching, I'm very upset, and I have a strong urge to kill. So, I'll kill!"

Originally, when Hu the rich man saw Niu Mancang turn around, he breathed a sigh of relief and just as he was about to exhale, he saw Niu Mancang suddenly turn back, his bloodshot eyes staring at him.

"You bastard surnamed Hu, you deserve to die!"

boom!

Niu Mancang stepped on the ground, and the ground trembled instantly. His body was already in front of Hu Caizhu.

A punch to the chest.

puff!

The iron fist pierced through Hu the rich man's chest, and when Niu Mancang pulled his hand out, he was holding a heart in his hand.

"Your heart really is a heart," Niu Mancang said, crushing his heart with a "poof."

"Uh...uh..." Hu the rich man's eyes widened, then he fell to the ground and died.

"Ah..." Liu Caomei screamed from the side.

Wow……

The child also cried loudly.

Niu Mancang looked at her with bloodshot eyes.

"Mancang, don't kill me! I'll stay with you, I'll even be your wife!" Liu Caomei saw the cold killing intent in Niu Mancang's eyes, and she was terrified.

"Get away!" Niu Mancang shook off Liu Caomei's hand. "My Liu Caomei is dead!"

Wow...

The child continued to cry.

"Annoying!"

Niu Mancang gave a cold shout and reached out to grab Hu Caizhu's child from Liu Caomei's arms.

"No!" Liu Caomei shouted.

But Niu Mancang completely ignored him, lifted the child above his head, and... *plop*

He was slammed to the ground.

The crying stopped abruptly!

"Big Dog, Second Dog, your father has avenged you!" Niu Mancang shouted. "Don't go too far, your father will send your mother down to join you."

"No! No! Mancang, don't kill me!" Liu Caomei screamed.

Niu Mancang reached out and grabbed her neck, snapping it clean, leaving Liu Caomei with a whole corpse.

Half an hour later, Niu Mancang left Hu the landlord's house. He had killed all eighty-nine members of Hu's family, including the children.

He ransacked the Hu mansion, found 80,000 taels of silver notes from the Great Chu Kingdom, put them in a bundle, slung it over his shoulder, then set the Hu mansion ablaze and left without looking back.

Niujiazhuang!

Niu Mancang treated the whole village to a feast and gave the village chief one hundred taels of silver, asking the village to help repair his parents' graves and hold a new funeral.

What a grand and spectacular event!

When the banquet was about to begin, Constable Zhou arrived with the county's constables.

"Niu Mancang, you killed the entire Hu family of eighty-nine people. Now come back with us!" Zhou Huang roared, staring at Niu Mancang.

A servant from the Hu family ran out and said that all of the Hu family's money was with Niu Mancang, including tens of thousands of taels of silver notes. Only then did Zhou Huang hurry his men to Niu Family Village.

"Get out!" Niu Mancang knelt in front of his parents' graves without turning his head.

"Niu Mancang, do you want to make an enemy of the Great Chu government?" Zhou Huang shouted coldly.

"Since you don't want to leave, then don't leave." Niu Mancang kowtowed three times to his parents, stood up, and stared at Zhou Huang and the others.

After saying that, he rushed towards Zhou Huang in one stride.

"court death!"

Zhou Huang slashed at Niu Mancang's neck with his sword as he charged forward.

clang!

He hit his target and was overjoyed, but the next second, his eyes widened in shock: "This...this...how is this possible?"

Although the steel knife struck Niu Mancang's neck, it didn't break the skin at all.

"die!"

Niu Mancang's voice was like that of the Grim Reaper. Bang! He punched Zhou Huang's head and smashed it open.

"Zhou is dead, run!" The constables were terrified when they saw that Zhou Huang had been killed by Niu Mancang in one move, and that their knives could not cut Niu Mancang at all. They scattered and fled.

"You bunch of cowardly bullies deserve to die!" Niu Mancang roared.

He then caught up with the group of constables and killed them all with a single punch.

That night, he went directly to the county town and killed the county magistrate and all the people who had cheated him out of his money.

The county town was thrown into chaos.

The next morning, Niu Mancang walked back to Cangmang City. He felt relaxed and at ease, as if the mountain that had been weighing on his soul had disappeared.

He was eager to return home; he missed his master, as well as his senior sisters and junior brothers.

Practicing martial arts is simpler; you just need to listen to your master and work hard.

He enjoys a simple yet fulfilling life.

"Halt!" A woman's voice came from behind, followed by the sound of horses' hooves.

Niu Mancang's expression hardened. His opponent possessed powerful qi and blood, and his aura was overwhelming. He was definitely a master.

The newcomer was a woman in her early twenties, dressed in a black robe with a flying eagle design and a willow-leaf knife at her waist. She was Ouyang Rujing, a black-robed constable from the Zhenxing Division of the Great Chu Empire.

Ouyang Rujing was passing through this area on her way to investigate a case when she happened to witness Niu Mancang killing the county magistrate's entire family last night.

As a black-clad constable of the Zhenxing Division of the Great Chu Empire, she could not turn a blind eye, especially since she had always been intolerant of any wrongdoing and upheld the law impartially.

Niu Mancang sized up Ouyang Rujing, whose aura was similar to that of Tie Xiong.

"A martial artist at the Transformation Realm!" Niu Mancang made his judgment.

Ouyang Rujing frowned slightly. She had also determined Niu Mancang's realm—a Transformation Realm martial artist. Moreover, she could feel the surging power of blood and qi within Niu Mancang's body, which seemed unfathomable.

"Did you kill Magistrate Sun?" Ouyang Rujing asked, forcing herself to speak.

"Yes!" Niu Mancang nodded at the other person.

"According to the laws of the Great Chu, those who kill officials..."

"The Great Chu Lawyer? Haha... Where was the Great Chu Lawyer when Hu the Rich Man stole my wife and killed my parents and children? When I went to the county to file a complaint, they mocked me, cheated me out of my money, and even locked me up in jail. Where was the Great Chu Lawyer then?" Niu Mancang roared.

"I will help you find out the truth about your grievances. Now come back with me," Ouyang Rujing said.

"Hmph, if you've got the guts, then grab me and take me back." Niu Mancang sneered.

chap!

Ouyang Rujing drew her knife.

She was at the late stage of the Transformation Realm and had mastered the first-class Zhenxing Thirteen Forms of the Great Chu Punishment Division. She had also mastered the movement technique, Chasing Cloud Steps, so she was very confident in her strength.

Swish!

Ouyang Rujing used the Cloud Chasing Step to approach Niu Mancang with lightning speed and slashed at him with her sword.

This was the first time Niu Mancang had encountered someone who practiced movement techniques, so he didn't react at all.

With a clang, the knife slashed down on him.

Unfortunately, the seemingly powerful strike didn't even pierce his skin.

"This..." Ouyang Rujing's expression changed: "The other party cultivates hard martial arts? How is that possible? Because according to the information she has, Niu Mancang was an honest and simple farmer a year and a half ago."

To master hard skills to the point of "transformation strength," it's impossible without decades of practice, and even with ample resources, it would still take at least ten years.

"You're done, it's my turn." Niu Mancang's voice rang out, and at the same time, he slapped Ouyang Rujing on the head.

Ouyang Rujing's mastery of the Cloud Chasing Step technique instantly forced her to retreat more than two zhang away.

Uh...

Niu Mancang slapped empty-handed.

Ouyang Rujing then pushed the Cloud Chasing Step to its limit, slashing at Niu Mancang from both near and far, while Niu Mancang used stillness to move, relying on his perfected Tiger Roar Iron Shirt technique to fight back.

The two fought for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, and neither could gain the upper hand.