Witch Wind

Chapter 22: Late Night Ambush (Part )

The skinny man stared at Li Kuisheng with a cold look for a while, then shook his head gently.

"Li Kuisheng, I haven't seen you for ten years. I'm grateful that you still remember me."

The skinny man chuckled, his laughter was extremely hoarse and unpleasant, like a duck hanging up, which showed that his vocal cords must have been damaged.

"That's right, my head has been chopped off."

"Poor Mr. Sun, I have known them for many years, and all of their family members, young and old, accompanied them to the execution ground. As the head coach, I have to share the suffering with them out of both emotion and reason."

"Unfortunately, their heads were chopped off and they were dead."

"Fortunately, I have the blood left by my ancestors, so I am alive again."

Pointing at Li Kuisheng, the skinny man turned to Xing Tianli and said slowly: "Little guy, can you give me a hand? My real name is Xiangliu Baiwei. I used the alias 'Bai Kui' when I was in the New Army Officer School. I am from Daxia, Tianshou Hall."

"Would you like to hold my hand? Although we, the members of the three ancient families, all seem to make a living by our physical strength, our ancestors are different, and the strength displayed by our bloodlines is also very different. Bai Fei has little experience and cannot recognize your origins, but perhaps I can."

Without giving Xing Tianli a chance to refuse, Xiangliu Baiwei let out a sly laugh, opened his right hand, and with the surging blood, his palm suddenly expanded more than twice as much. A dark green ball the size of an egg in the palm of his hand emitted a chilling chill, and he slapped Xing Tianli on the chest.

Xing Tianli whistled, and the Tongtian Magic Bamboo in his hand shook, and the small tripod in his heart vibrated. Now he could activate the highest sword technique "Sword Ten", and the thin bamboo pole swung out ten cold sword beams, which pierced Xiangliu Baiviper's palm one after another. Xiangliu Baiviper's attack was very fast, and Xing Tianli didn't hold back his strength in this attack.

There was a loud 'clang' sound.

Ten sword shadows hit Xiangliu Baivi's palm, sparks flew faintly, but Xiangliu Baivi's body did not move at all.

Xing Tianli's body shook. Even though the Tongtian Miaozhu had its own mysterious powers and eliminated 99% of Xiangliu Baivi's palm power, there was still an extremely feminine and surging force that came at him, like a giant python, entwining around Xing Tianli, forcing him to shake and take a step back unconsciously, and then another step.

In this way, the Tongtian Miaozhu in Xing Tianli's hand and the palm of Xiangliu Baivi collided ten times, and he retreated ten steps uncontrollably.

"Gold is fierce and full of murderous intent." Xiangliu Baivi's pupils were slightly absent-minded, and he shook his head slowly: "There are several metal witchcraft powers..."

His body moved suddenly and he grabbed Xing Tianli's shirt at the chest.

Xing Tianli's body shook, and he took the Yu step, and his body brought up a gust of wind.

Although his strength was not as great as Xiangliu Baivi's, Xing Tianli's steps were exquisite. Even though Xiangliu Baivi moved forward and backward like the wind, he was unable to tear open his clothes for a while, and saw the shadow of his arm holding a square beast-faced shield on his chest.

In this way, the two of them moved forward and backward three times like butterflies flying around flowers. Xiangliu Baivi suddenly withdrew his hand and took two steps back.

"Well, I won't bully you, kid. Since you don't want me to know your background, well, knowing that you are the bloodline of my three ancient families means that you are one of my family." Xiangliu Baivi is quite a bachelor.

"What are the three ancient schools?" Xing Tianli asked him, "Today, I heard someone say there are also the so-called three ancient schools and the three modern schools. What are their origins?"

Xiangliu Baiwei glanced at Xing Tianli, pondered for a moment, and slowly said: "The members of each family who came from a proper hall should have memorized this since childhood. It's no wonder that you don't know it. I really don't know who your biological father is, and he actually let you wander around outside."

"To put it simply, the three ancient dynasties are Yu, Xia, and Shang; the three medieval dynasties are Zhou, Qin, and Han; and the three modern dynasties are Tang, Song, and Ming."

"These nine families have clear origins and verifiable bloodlines. They are recognized by us as the 'Nine Ancient Families'. If you encounter them in the future, they will naturally announce their family names, and it will be easy to identify them."

"However, there were many conflicts between the six ancient and middle-class families. For example, the Zhou dynasty was destroyed by the Qin dynasty, and the Qin dynasty was replaced by the Han dynasty. So when dealing with these six families, be careful. Maybe if you make friends with one family, you will be hated by another family. Who knows?"

"As for the three ancient families of Tang, Song, and Ming, there are other forces between them. They have no hatred against each other and are quite close. Moreover, over the years, they have intermarried with each other, and as a result, if you provoke one of them, perhaps all three families will come out to cause trouble for you."

"But the three ancient schools are pure witch bloodlines; the three medieval schools are a mixture of witches and alchemists; and the three schools of the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties are serious methods of cultivating the Tao and refining qi."

"So, the three ancient families are a faction of their own, and the three middle-aged families help each other. If you don't fight and get hurt a few times yourself, it will be difficult to figure out the relationship between them just by my few words today."

Xiangliu Baiwei took a deep look at Xing Tianli and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Xing Tianli said nothing.

Li Kuisheng, who was standing by, grumbled, "Xiao Yu'er's eyes got blinded when his mother gave birth to him. Well, the first wife was jealous and mixed some poison into the bowl of tonic, which burned his eyes."

"Acquired poisoning? You evil woman, you should be killed!" Xiangliu Baihu was slightly angry, and Xiangliu Baifei also had an extremely ugly expression on his face.

"But it doesn't matter." Xiangliu Baiwei looked at Xing Tianli twice and said in a deep voice: "We witches have the strongest bodies. For someone like me, a severed head can be reattached, let alone a pair of eyes?"

"Take good nourishment to stimulate your blood. When your blood is like a furnace and your blood essence is like mercury, your body will naturally heal itself. There is no injury that cannot be cured!" Xiangliu Baiwei looked at Xing Tianli thoughtfully: "You were able to block my palm, so it seems that you are not far from having blood like a furnace and blood essence pure, right?"

Xing Tianli's heart skipped a beat.

Well, I met an expert. He pondered for a moment, and a gleam of light flashed in his empty, blank eyes. His originally turbid pupils suddenly turned into two cold stars. His black and white eyes spun, and everyone present felt as if a sharp sword was swung at them, and they suddenly felt cold all over.

Li Kuisheng was the closest and saw it most clearly. He shuddered and took several steps back involuntarily.

"Uncle, my eyes have been healed a few days ago." Xing Tianli smiled at Li Kuisheng very apologetically: "But, how do you want me to explain it? Everyone in this town knows that I am blind. This kind of thing is not easy to explain."

"I also said that we would wait until we go to the Pinghai City Concession and have a foreign doctor check my eyes, and then we'll tell you about my eyes being healed."

"But today someone pointed it out!" Xing Tianli bowed to Xiangliu Baiwei.

Xiangliu Baivi frowned and sighed, "Forget it. I said I could do you a favor. The Xiangliu family inherits the Xiangliu bloodline. Among the three ancient families, we are the best at using poison. I also said that I could cure your eyes and force Li Kuisheng to work for me. You have actually healed yourself, but I am missing a trick."

Shaking his head, Xiangliu Baiwei looked at the surprised and delighted Li Kuisheng, and said in a deep voice: "Li Kuisheng, listen to me. The methods used by Bai Fei are too crude. The other people in the White Lotus Sect are a bunch of scum. What are they doing?"

"The means they used a few days ago were too despicable, using all kinds of threats and inducements. They really underestimated you, Li Kuisheng."

"But listen to me."

"There are several groups of people in the White Lotus Sect now."

"Some of them are former military officers. You know Lao Sun, Lao Luo and others. These people have no ambitions and are loyal to whoever feeds them. If you give them gold and silver, weapons, soldiers and horses, and promise them a high position, they will work hard for you."

"These people don't have any great abilities. They can be assigned some small tasks, but they can't do anything a little more difficult. They are a group of vicious dogs. They can be used to bite ordinary people, but they can't hunt tigers or bears."

"Some people are from underworld gangs. They are even worse than the old officers. They are stupid, ignorant, rigid-minded, closed-minded and conservative. They are the best cannon fodder. As long as they are given big bowls of wine, big bowls of meat, big scales to measure gold, and big-breasted women, they will dare to do anything."

"But apart from the most basic fighting and killing, they can't do anything well. In fact, they are even terrible at fighting and killing. To put it bluntly, even if you give them the best guns and cannons, they are just a mob."

"The last group of people are those ambitious landlords. They have some spare money and have read some books, so they think they have a destiny and should do something big. Once they are deceived by the White Lotus Sect, they dare to break their families and join the sect with their entire families."

"But they have no idea what they should do or what they can do. Compared to the two groups in front, they have some brains, and they can always come up with some crooked ideas. Some of them are even scholars, and their crooked ideas are cruel and vicious. But their crooked ideas are met with the two groups of reckless and stupid people in front!"

"That's why they massacred fishermen in Xiaolongqiu Town."

"So, they blew up the Inspection Office for no apparent reason." Xing Tianli nodded secretly. Xiangliu Baiwei's words were extremely accurate. Just look at the White Lotus Sect members they had dealt with before. The first bearded man and the black-faced man were two idiots. The two White Lotus Sect leaders who came later were probably the so-called landlords and wealthy people. They were very skilled in bribing the government, but their methods were just that.

As for those gang members, the militias that came to Xiaolongqiu Town should be gang members in official uniforms. They were really a mob. Michel was killed head-on under their protection. They could not accomplish anything.

Li Kuisheng said in a deep voice: "Head Coach, are you trying to say that you are different from them?"

Xiangliu Baiwei sneered, "You compare them to me? Don't forget, you are all my students. If I am a jerk of their level, then what do you think you students are?"

Li Kuisheng pursed his lips.

"Why did you want to apply to the New Army Officer School established by the New Party?" Xiangliu Baiwei asked Li Kuisheng seriously with his hands behind his back.

"For..." Li Kuisheng opened his mouth, his eyes were blurred, and it was obvious that in an instant, he thought of many past events.

"You come from a landlord family, which is considered a local noble family." Xiangliu Baiwei said softly: "If you behave yourself, you will have a good life. Find a bunch of women, have a bunch of children, and live a comfortable life."

"Live your whole life in a muddle!" Li Kuisheng muttered.

"Yes, you didn't want to live your life in a muddle, so you were admitted to the New Army Officers Academy and became the top student with the best grades. You graduated from the academy, joined the New Army, and even collected a large sum of money from your family and donated it to the New Army as military expenses!" Xiangliu Baivi said in a deep voice: "You almost emptied your family's savings and made your father die of anger!"

Li Kuisheng's face turned red and white.

"It was because of you and the group of students like you who donated money from their families that the new army's navy had the eight battleships of 'Four Dings' and 'Four Weiss'. It was because of the 300,000-man Black Borneo Expeditionary Force that the New Deal was in full swing and the most glorious years."

Xing Tianli's heart was filled with emotion when he heard this.

He looked at Li Kuisheng, his uncle, with a stern look in his eyes. He had never talked about what happened in the past. But just by listening to Xiangliu Baiwei's words, he knew how big a scene Li Kuisheng had made with a group of like-minded people!

"Are you doing this to get promoted or make money?" Xiangliu Baivi asked softly.

"Ah, bah!" Li Kuisheng spat on the ground.

"No!" Xiangliu Baiwei laughed. "Isn't it easy to get promoted in the Great Yu Dynasty? As long as you spend enough money, even the governor of a province can be arranged for you. Why did you risk your life in the primitive jungle of Black Borneo for more than ten years to get a general of a minor rank?"

"To get rich, that's even less so." Xiangliu Baiwei shook his head. "Your family is already very rich. Hey, we have 80,000 acres of fertile land and more than 300 shops. We are a landlord family known as 'Half County Li'. If you use the money you donated to the new army to buy an official position, you can easily get the governorship of a province. As long as you are willing to sacrifice your conscience and work hard to make money, you can get ten times the money back in three to five years."

“It’s not for the money!”

Xiangliu Baiwei said softly, "So, you who have been living in this small town for ten years, do you still remember why you were admitted to the New Army Officer School?"

Xing Tianli looked at Xiangliu Baivi in ​​horror.

This guy is more than ten times more powerful than his brother Xiangliu Baifei.
Not to mention Li Kuisheng, the rough man, even Xing Tianli, who had not experienced what happened back then, felt a little excited just by listening to his words, and he wanted to sacrifice his life for some glorious, great, and just goal!

In comparison, Xiangliu Baifei is simply a low-level bandit and villain!
Nonsence!

They are all descendants of the same ancestor, but the gap is too big.

"You!" Li Kuisheng clenched his fists and stared at Xiangliu Baivi.

"Over the years, you have done some shady business." Xiangliu Baiwei said calmly: "Those things are what you once despised, looked down upon, and disdained the most. For example, smuggling salt and smuggling cigarettes. Hey. These activities that do not "pay taxes" are digging into the foundation of the country, and they are what you once despised the most."

"You make a fortune every day from these businesses."

"But what about the money? Where is most of the money you earned?" Xiangliu Baivi said softly, "I am well-informed. You bastards, all the money you made through these means over the years has been given to the widows and families of the Black Borneo Expeditionary Force."

"Three hundred thousand expeditionary troops, ninety percent of them died in one battle!"

"The Great Jade court doesn't care about the widows and families of the 270,000 warriors who died in the war. Hey, you bastards have been secretly sending them money every year and have been supporting them for ten years!"

Xiangliu Baiwei stretched out his hand and put it firmly on Li Kuisheng's shoulder: "It's not easy to make money, right? Is it tiring? Is it hard?"

Li Kuisheng's eyes were red and he gritted his teeth without saying a word.

Xing Tianli shouted in his heart, it’s over... Xiangliu Baivi’s skills are too high, Li Kuisheng can’t resist him at all.

But even Xing Tianli agreed with Xiangliu Baiwei's words in his heart. If Xing Tianli took over, he couldn't stop him!

"I'm not dead. I'm alive." Xiangliu Baivi said softly, "After being kept in the ancestral land for several years, I can finally move around. So, I came back and joined the White Lotus Sect. After more than a year of hard work, I am now the leader of the White Lotus Sect."

"But Mr. Sun and others who were friends with me, you are familiar with, from top to bottom, the New Party at that time, so many learned, capable, and idealistic bigwigs, are all gone. My head can be attached if it is chopped off; but if their heads are chopped off, they are really chopped off."

"The Great Yu Dynasty does not have the ability to destroy my nine clans. They can't even find where my nine clans are."

"Mr. Sun and his nine clans were wiped out."

"So, I'm thinking that some things need to be changed. Some people's heads need to fall off. For some unreasonable rules, we should try our best to make them more reasonable!"

Xing Tianli suddenly spoke up: "Mr. Xiangliu, you said it very well, very well, with wonderful words and eloquent speech. Are you really concerned about the country and the people?"

Xiangliu Baiwei looked at Xing Tianli and nodded vigorously: "My clan single-handedly opened up this land of Shenzhou. I have more feelings for this land and the people who grew up and multiplied on this land than the royal relatives of the Fen clan. Worrying about the country and the people? Of course!"

Xing Tianli whispered: "The White Lotus Sect colluded with the Yingji people and transported so many young and strong people to Yingji's homeland."

Xiangliu Baiwei looked at Xing Tianli with a grim look: "What else? Can the little money earned by you, me, or Li Kuisheng support over 100 million refugees? The Yingji people are willing to spend a lot of money to relocate them to their homeland. At least it is a way to survive!"

Xing Tianli remained silent.

Hundreds of millions of landless refugees, his scalp went numb when he thought of this number.

He was extremely dissatisfied with the White Lotus Sect's collusion with the Yingji people and the trafficking of these refugees.

This kind of behavior is unbearable.

But he could also accept Xiangliu Baiwei's explanation.

Perhaps, there is a better way, but Xing Tianli's own abilities are limited, and his vision and experience are limited, so he also cannot think of a better way.

In this life, he is not a god, and he cannot protect hundreds of millions of refugees.

"What did the Yingji people promise you?" Xing Tianli was still very curious.

"Food, huge amounts of food." Xiangliu Baiwei said in a deep voice: "While the refugees here are being loaded onto ships, their colonies are already loading food onto ships and are being shipped to Shenzhou. At the same time, they promised to give us enough arms and supplies. They can even give us the most advanced chariots and warships as long as the number of refugees transported over is sufficient!"

(End of this chapter)