From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

# Chapter 971 Bashan Tiger and Yihai Dragon

The two men, one named Shanhu and the other Hailong, were terrified after being awakened and kept begging for mercy.

"Tell the truth, and I'll spare your lives; if you don't, I'll turn you to dust."

As Lu Jin rebuked them, his Qi surged, distorting the air. Coupled with his long hair dancing without wind, he resembled a demon god descending to earth, causing the two to tremble in fear.

"We'll talk! We'll tell you everything! Please spare us!"

Shanhu, having lost a leg, feared for his life and kept kowtowing.

Hailong had been knocked unconscious by Lu Jin at the beginning, but now that he understood the situation, he bowed his head and dared not disobey in any way.

Lu Jin asked, "Where are you from?"

Shanhu said, "I'm from Henan."

Hailong said, "I'm from Shandong."

"What are a man from Henan and a man from Shandong doing in Hunan, pulling an oxcart and carrying three babies?" Red Girl, who had not yet transformed back into her original form from Qingfeng, demanded. "Speak up, or I'll break your arms and legs!"

The two men were startled, realizing that the little girl was a "mischievous devil," just as ruthless as the handsome Taoist priest, and dared not hide it any longer.

"We hope you all know that we're just human traffickers, helping with deliveries..."

"We really have no idea what they want this 'goods' for!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin frowned, but then Jiang Liu said, "Mountain Tiger and Sea Dragon, these two names remind me of Bashan Tiger and Yihai Dragon. Tiger is the king of beasts in the mountains, and dragon is a deity in the sea, but they are just two minor demons patrolling the mountains. Even if you remove the characters 'Ba' and 'Yi' from your names, you are still just running errands for others."

They really haven't forgotten their original aspirations.

Shanhu and Hailong had no idea what Jiang Liu was talking about. Their expressions changed again as Jiang Liu continued, "Lu Jin, since Shanhu has already lost a leg, he can no longer go down the mountain to eat people. So Hailong must also lose a limb to prevent him from harming the people."

"okay!"

Lu Jin took out one of the nine nails and looked at the terrified Hailong, asking, "You choose which limb you want to be severed."

"If you don't choose, I'll break your fifth limb."

"The fifth limb?"

Hailong's frightened expression froze for a moment, not understanding how a person could have five limbs.

When Lu Jin finally focused her attention on his crotch, her face turned deathly pale, her lips bloodless, and she cried out in a panic, "I choose! I choose! Don't break my fifth limb! I haven't even gotten a wife yet! I still need to carry on the family line!"

Compared to losing the ability to carry on the family line, losing one of his limbs, Hailong found that it wasn't entirely unacceptable.

then.

Lu Jin pierced Hailong's right shoulder with a nine-foot nail, then with a flick of his wrist, he broke Hailong's right arm, which fell to the ground with a "thud".

Even though he was mentally prepared, the intense pain still caused Hailong to let out a heart-wrenching howl, fall to the ground, and struggle incessantly.

Jiang Liu blew a breath, causing the flesh at his wound to writhe and heal quickly, but this consumed his own innate Qi.

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

"Otherwise, we'll turn you into human pigs."

Faced with the threat, Shanhu and Hailong dared not harbor any more ill intentions.

Lu Jin asked again, "What do you need a baby for?"

Shanhu said, "It was Gao Huzi, the head of Dawang Mountain, who ordered us to run around collecting babies..."

Hailong said, "He conspired with Hu Fangyuan to create a Gu-body Saint Child, and they planned to select forty-nine infants for the process."

And the standards for infants...

He didn't tell us the specifics, only that the stronger the talent, the better...

We have no choice. We dare not go to big cities, and for poor families in rural villages to have a child with extraordinary talent, it's purely a matter of luck.

Left with no other choice, we had to take the risk and abduct babies from villages and towns near various families and sects.

Places blessed by powerful and wealthy families generally have good feng shui, so babies born in these places are likely to be of much higher quality than those born in ordinary places.

"brute!"

Zhang Zhiwei's face was gloomy. As he clenched his fist, the air exploded, and the shockwave alone sent Shan Hu and Hai Long tumbling over.

The two were so frightened that they immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy.

“Let me ask you again: the destination is a mountain stronghold leader, Gao Huzi, near Dawang Mountain in Hunan, right?” Jiang Liu asked.

"Yes! It's Dawang Mountain in Hunan!"

Hailong and Shanhu replied immediately, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

"Then there's no problem."

Jiang Liu nodded slightly, took out his human seed bag, pointed it at the two of them, said "Collect", and put them into the bag.

Immediately, Jiang Liu hung the human seed bag on his left arm, put the golden cymbal and wolf-tooth club into his storage ring, took out the white snow paper again, folded it into three cages and three babies, changed their color and hardness to make them indistinguishable from the real thing, and put them behind the oxcart.

Afterwards, he blew a breath into Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Jin, which entered their nine orifices, passed through their hearts and abdomens, and changed their appearances, turning one into a mountain tiger and the other into a sea dragon.

“Gao Hu Zi and that Hu Fang Yuan are going to refine the Gu Body Saint Child. They will be selecting babies from all over the rivers and lakes. There will definitely be more than three babies. And the people who abduct the babies will definitely be more than just Shan Hu and Hai Long. You two will pretend to be them. As for me, Sister Hong, Sister Liu and I are ‘evil people’. We want to see the Gu Body Saint Child, so we will go back with you.”

After saying that, before Lu Jin and Zhang Zhiwei could react, Jiang Liu led the two girls onto the oxcart.

"Alright."

The banditry in the Dawang Mountain area of ​​Hunan was particularly severe. Gao Huzi had men, guns, and cannons. He was also a member of the Quanxing gang. Unlike the former outlaws like Chen Yulou, he didn't raid tombs or plunder cities. He just kept robbing the farmers in the vicinity who relied on the weather for their livelihood and farmed the land.

Having encountered this, Zhang Zhiwei decided to eliminate it.

only--

"And who is Hu Fangyuan?" Zhang Zhiwei asked, puzzled.

My ex-fiancé was also named Hu Fangyuan.

Before Jiang Liu could speak, Miss Liu said, "I heard from my family that after I ran away from my arranged marriage, the eldest son of that landlord went away to cultivate with a Gu master."

Could it be him?

"So, is this love turned to hate?" Lu Jin teased.

then.

Boom!

He received a punch to the head from Miss Liu, who scolded him, "I've never met him before, and I don't even know what he looks like."

After I ran away, my family explained the situation to his parents and returned double the dowry. The locals all said that I ran away with someone else... I'm the one who has to bear the bad reputation, so why does he hate me?

If he goes mad, goes astray—

That can only mean he has a problem with his head, what does it have to do with me?

Hong Guniang glanced at Jiang Liu and added with a chuckle, "But then again, isn't it pretty much the same as running off with someone else now?"

"???"

“I didn’t run away with Jiang Liu. Instead, I took the initiative to join the Ghost Hand Wang Cai Opera Troupe, the Confucian Society, and even opened a Liu’s Hot Pot restaurant on Cultural Street.”

Despite relying on Jiang Liu's help, Miss Liu still spoke in a serious tone.

# Chapter 972 Hunan Dawang Mountain

“It would take quite a while to travel to Hunan by oxcart.”

After getting into the car, Zhang Zhiwei ignored Lu Jin's conversation with Miss Hong and Miss Liu and asked Jiang Liu, "Do you have a way to speed things up?"

"Have."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Liu exhaled a breath and entered the mouth and nose of the black ox pulling the cart, instantly opening its Ren and Du meridians and allowing it to obtain Qi.

"Moo-"

The black water buffalo raised its head and bellowed, its four hooves pounding as it ran like the wind, startling the Red Girl and the Willow Girl, who quickly grabbed the three cages.

Lu Jin gripped the handrail tightly, while Zhang Zhiwei pulled on the reins even tighter, afraid of being thrown off.

Because it is now the early 20th century, outside of big cities, the roads are mostly rugged and there are few flat areas, unlike the smooth roads abroad. Once the oxcart travels fast, it will inevitably be bumpy.

"Slow down! Slow down!"

Zhang Zhiwei held the reins, but because he didn't know how to drive an oxcart, the water buffalo ran even faster, causing everyone on the cart to feel discomfort in their buttocks.

After half a day had passed since they reached Hunan province, the water buffalo stopped, exhaling white breaths from its mouth and nose, its legs feeling weak.

Jiang Liu got off the car, walked up to the water buffalo, stroked its head three times, combed through its meridians, and said with a smile: "When you were young and ignorant, you helped the wicked and sold people, causing countless families to be broken and people to die. Now that you've given us a ride, it's considered that you've repaid your karma."

"Moo!"

Once the water buffalo received the Qi, it truly gained spiritual insight, able to understand the river's words, and let out a low moo. Its two eyes were watery, like a naughty child being scolded by his parents, feeling wronged.

"Don't feel wronged, don't feel wronged. Follow me to cultivate in the future." Jiang Liu laughed heartily. After the water buffalo recovered, he got back into the oxcart and taught Zhang Zhiwei how to drive it.

Having learned the technique, Zhang Zhiwei gently pulled the reins with one hand and held a thin bamboo whip in the other, lightly patting the cow's rump.

Immediately, the water buffalo began to walk forward, its steps gentle, and even though the road was uneven, the bumps and jolting were much less.

"You can drive an oxcart?"

Zhang Zhiwei turned around, curious about just how many life skills Jiang Liu possessed.

"Then you're not doing a good job as an 'official'."

Jiang Liu made a joke before replying, "I've followed Ghost Hand King around since I was a child, so naturally I have to learn a little bit of everything."

That's how it is.

The five chatted as they followed the direction indicated by the river, and after traveling several dozen miles, they arrived at the east bank of a river.

But we see:

The morning breeze rolls up the green silk, and the sunlight carries the small boat.