I'm seventy years old this year, and you want me to have many children and much happiness?

In the darkness, behind the Huang family mansion, a strong figure was carrying a sack and moving quickly through the mountains.

However, his legs and feet looked somewhat weak and unsteady, as if he had just come out of a three-day and three-night battle at the casino.

Seeing that they were already quite far from the stable, Huang Xuyang carefully put the sack he was carrying on his shoulder on the ground, a lewd smile spreading across his face.

"Hahaha... This is truly a stroke of luck! When Dad married you, I was so envious! My mother was really something, sending you to that old stable boy to be trampled on. It would have been better if my brother had taken the time to love you properly..."

Looking at Shen Yue's delicate face, Huang Xuyang felt a surge of heat in his abdomen.

And just as he was eagerly preparing to get started.

Suddenly, a whooshing sound came from behind.

"Snapped!"

As soon as Huang Xuyang turned his head, he saw a whip lash across his face like lightning.

A sudden, searing pain shot through me.

Fortunately, Huang Xuyang practices martial arts regularly, so his physical condition is quite good.

"Damn it, who's so blind! I'm the eldest young master of the Huang family!"

Huang Xuyang covered his face and roared angrily.

"It really was you, you beast!"

Lu Xuan snorted coldly and lashed out with his whip again.

This time, Lu Xuan tried to use his strength, and with a crack, the whip sliced ​​off half of Huang Xuyang's face.

"what!"

As the flesh on Huang Xuyang's face was sliced ​​off, he roared in agony.

But the next moment, Lu Xuan stepped forward and grabbed Huang Xuyang's throat with his five fingers like eagle claws, making Huang Xuyang unable to make any sound.

With only half his face remaining, Huang Xuyang finally saw the newcomer's appearance clearly; it turned out to be the lowly stableman from the manor.

He was a lackey who had raised horses for the Huang family for sixty years!

"It's...it's you..."

Huang Xuyang managed to utter the word "unbelievable" with difficulty.

"Hehe, Young Master Huang, I never thought you'd fall into my hands."

"You shouldn't have touched my woman, no matter what."

With a ruthless smile on his face, Lu Xuan tightened his grip with his five fingers, using immense force to easily crush Huang Xuyang's throat as if it were cotton.

Click!

Huang Xuyang's head lolled to the side, and he died.

If you're not ruthless, you can't stand firm.

They've bullied him to this extent, so why should Lu Xuan tolerate it? He didn't have the strength before, but now he has enough power!

Lu Xuan rummaged through Huang Xuyang's pockets.

They actually found a stack of silver notes.

It was a full two hundred taels of silver; I don't know if I won it at the casino or just got it from the First Madam.

"I've raised horses for your Huang family for sixty years, and I've only received fifteen taels!"

Lu Xuan, his face cold, dragged Huang Xuyang's body to a secluded crevice in the mountain and kicked it down. In this desolate wilderness, it would take at least a month for it to be discovered.

Back in the dilapidated house, Shen Yue was still delirious from the sleeping potion. Curled up on the broken bed, tears streamed down her face as she murmured in despair:

"Uncle, please don't sell Yue'er... Yue'er eats very little, but she can work..."

"It's all Yue'er's fault for being so unlucky, a jinx, she's brought trouble upon the master..."

Hearing the girl's self-reproach, Lu Xuan sighed inwardly, tucked her in, turned around and sat on the stone steps by the door, lighting his old pipe.

Plop, plop.

Amidst the flickering fireworks, Lu Xuan frowned, the thrill of killing gradually subsiding as he rapidly began to calculate.

"Not only did they take Yue'er as their concubine, but they also killed the Huang family brat. This time, they've really stirred up a hornet's nest!"

"I've completely cut off any way back. Neither Master Huang nor his wife will let me off the hook. This month is becoming increasingly urgent. I must keep up with both my diet and martial arts training!"

"Food supplements are easy to obtain; as long as you get the money, you can always buy them on the black market. But what about martial arts techniques that can actually kill or save your life?"

"The black market only has common goods. Good martial arts techniques are either tightly held by all the forces in the city or sold at exorbitant prices. If you rely on your brute strength alone, you will definitely die."

Lu Xuan exhaled a puff of smoke, a ruthless glint flashing in his old eyes hidden in the darkness.

Murder and arson bring you a golden belt!

...

The next day.

Huang Xuyang's disappearance did not cause much of a stir in the Huang family.

After all, Huang Xuyang often spent ten days to half a month in casinos or brothels.

No one could have imagined that Huang Xuyang, who was once high and mighty, had now become a mangled corpse.

As night fell, after finishing his work for the day, Lu Xuan gave Shen Yue some instructions, then put on a mask and headed to the black market.

The bone-strengthening and blood-nourishing soup sold in normal pharmacies costs only two taels of silver a bowl, but on the black market, it costs five taels of silver a bowl!

But what does that matter compared to one's life?

Lu Xuan deliberately spent fifty taels of silver in public to buy ten bowls of food.

He spent another hundred taels of silver to buy a book on the most basic palm technique, Iron Stone Palm.

This palm technique can hone your palms, making them as hard as iron. A single strike can unleash tremendous power, shattering your chest cavity. It is considered a relatively basic and common palm technique.

This boxing manual, if sold elsewhere, would only fetch fifty taels at most, double the original price!

After finishing his meal, Lu Xuan got up and left.

At the same time, he keenly sensed that two figures had gotten up with him.

Lu Xuan had a keen eye and could tell at a glance that although the two were trained martial artists, their steps were unsteady and they didn't have much skill.

"They've taken the bait!"

Lu Xuan immediately pretended to be flustered and turned into a deserted alley.

The two people behind quickly caught up.

However, as soon as the two men turned the corner, they were met with a large handful of lime being thrown at them.

"not good!"

The two were anxious to catch up with Lu Xuan, but they didn't expect Lu Xuan to pull such a move. Their eyes were blinded by lime, and a burning pain shot through their eyes.

They thought they had caught a big fish, but they didn't expect the person to act so decisively.

"You old bastard, you're asking for it!"

One of them, whose condition was less severe, immediately stopped pretending, pulled out a sharp knife from his pocket, forced open one eye, and rushed towards Lu Xuan.

"Kill him!"

The other person also let out a low, angry roar.

Facing the two men, Lu Xuan dared not be careless. They were not like Huang Xuyang, a weakling whose body had been hollowed out. They were ruthless characters who dared to rob and kill.

The person rushing towards him stabbed Lu Xuan with a knife.

But then he saw Lu Xuan's steps falter, and he actually circled around to his back.

The man with the knife was immediately startled, not expecting that Lu Xuan, an old man in his fifties, would be so agile.

So what if they get behind me? I've cultivated the Iron Shirt technique.

But the next moment, a sharp pain came from between his legs.

Lu Xuan delivered a mischievous kick.

He's already so old, do you think I'd play games with his manners?

"oh!"

The man with the knife screamed, and the next moment Lu Xuan grabbed the brick in his hand and smashed it hard on the back of the man's head.

Bang!

The so-called Iron Shirt technique was broken by that kick. The back of the man's head was smashed, his brains splattered, and his body collapsed to the ground.

After dealing with this person, the other person also regained consciousness from the effects of the lime. When he opened his eyes and saw that his companion had been killed, he was stunned.

"You old bastard, how dare you kill members of my Eastern Snake Gang!"

The man growled, trying to announce the name of the East Snake Gang to intimidate Lu Xuan, while he quickly flipped himself up and ran away into the distance.

However, Lu Xuan directly drew his long riding whip from his waist, swung it sharply, and locked the escaped man's throat. With a sudden tug, he dragged the escaped man to his side.

Snapped!

Lu Xuan threw the man to his feet and stepped on his throat.

The man who was being suppressed never expected that Lu Xuan, an old man, would have such great strength.

When that foot landed on me, it felt like a wall.

At this moment, he was truly terrified; the old man's methods were simply too vicious.

"No...don't kill me...I give up..."

"My brother is the vice leader of the East Snake Gang... If you kill me..."

Upon hearing the other party's words, Lu Xuan slightly loosened his grip and asked in a low, hoarse voice.

"Your brother is the vice leader of the East Snake Gang?"

Upon hearing this, the man thought to himself that there was hope, and nodded repeatedly, speaking with a hint of pride.

"Not bad! My brother is a rank-one martial artist!"

"Oh...then you're even more likely to die."

After Lu Xuan finished speaking, he concentrated all his strength in his toes and crushed the man's throat with a single stomp.

These two are just a bit more ruthless than ordinary people; they are not true martial artists.

Lu Xuan has at least entered the first stage of the Body Tempering Realm.

Subsequently, Lu Xuan indeed found the East Snake Gang's tattoo mark on the wrists of the two men.

"It really is the East Snake Gang!"

Lu Xuan's heart sank.

The Dongshe Gang is a gang in Wuling County that is said to specialize in trafficking children and killing the elderly and weak.

Before leaving, Lu Xuan didn't forget to grope the two of them.

One of them pulled out thirty copper coins from his pocket.

But from another person's arms, a yellowed book was pulled out directly.

The cover read "The Serpent's Step".

"This is actually a low-grade Yellow Rank movement technique manual!"