Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

The dark, thin and ugly hunchbacked man saw that Qiao Rui had revealed his identity. Without waiting for Qiao Rui to make the next move, he touched the ground with his toes, jumped up high, and used the strength of the porch column to leap onto the roof and quickly fled.

This series of actions was so quick and smooth that it was obvious that the red apricot was quite alert and decisive. It didn't even make any excuses and just ran away.

Qiao Rui didn't have time to sigh, he immediately climbed onto the roof and chased after him, shouting, "You lecherous thief, don't get away!"

Yizhihongxing ignored Qiao Rui and jumped to another adjacent building and ran away. Suddenly, several chains and flying claws shot out from all directions to block her way. Soon after, several cold-faced men in black tights appeared on the roof of the building next to her. There was a Xiezhi beast embroidered on the front of their clothes, and they were equipped with short crossbows and embroidered spring swords. They held one end of a chain in their hands and were about to trap Yizhihongxing.

The red apricot's path was blocked. If it stopped, it would be trapped and killed. If it forced its way through, it would surely be torn to pieces by the flying claws. In the flash of lightning, the red apricot's body twisted strangely, bending into an incredible shape, and barely avoided several flying claws.

After forcing his way through, he kept moving his feet, and with a crackling sound of bones rubbing against each other, his body straightened up again. He was tall and thin, and it turned out that he had disguised his hunchback by using the skill of shrinking bones.

The changes were as fast as lightning, from the time Qiao Rui climbed onto the roof to the appearance of the flying claw, and then to the red apricot rushing over, it only took a moment. No one had time to hesitate or delay. When those cold-faced men missed their first attack, they retracted their flying claws and raised their crossbows to shoot.

"Shhhhhh!"

Several crossbow arrows shot out with a sharp sound of breaking through the air. A red apricot in the distance staggered, paused for a moment, and then ran away at high speed.

Qiao Rui followed closely behind, as fast as lightning and as fast as a meteor chasing the moon.

When those cold-faced men saw a red apricot breaking out of the encirclement, they also chased after it with crossbows, shooting a few arrows from time to time to disrupt it.

Gradually, the three echelons were pulling further and further apart. It was a matter of life and death. The one in the front, Yizhihongxing, put all his strength into riding and left the others far behind. Qiao Rui, who was following closely behind, also used his lightness skills to the extreme and managed not to pull too far behind. However, the cold-faced men at the end were not as good in lightness skills and fell further and further behind.

Half an hour later, those cold-faced men had been thrown away to who knows where. Although Qiao Rui's face was slightly red at this time, his breath was steady and his steps were not disordered. Obviously, he still had strength to spare. Not far ahead, the red apricot was running slower and slower. Its clothes were soaked with blood and sweat, and fell to the ground, bloodstained.

There was an abandoned mountain temple on the left front of the road, with broken walls and overgrown weeds. Yizhihongxing stopped running and dragged his broken body towards the mountain temple. He walked to the door with difficulty. He had no more strength, so he held the door frame and sat down slowly, leaning against the door wall with his limp body.

Qiao Rui walked to the opposite side of a red apricot branch and sat down on an abandoned stone pier, looking at the half-lying red apricot branch. He was hit by a crossbow arrow on the right back, which should not have been fatal, but he was chased by himself and had no time to deal with it. The arrow pierced into his body and pierced his lungs with holes. Even a god could not save him.

"Your Qinggong is pretty good!" Yizhihongxing said weakly.

Qiao Rui smiled bitterly: "You are also the best person in Qinggong that I have ever met!" He glanced at the red apricot covered in blood and sighed: "If you hadn't been hit by an arrow, I wouldn't be able to catch up with you!"

Shaking his head with difficulty, Yizhihongxing whispered, "Even if I'm not injured, I can't outrun you... My Qinggong, climbing high and leaping, dodging and moving are all excellent, but long-distance running is a little worse... cough... If you chase me closely, I will not be able to escape... cough cough..."

Perhaps because he had talked too much, he began to cough, with blood foam constantly pouring out of his mouth. After a pause, he asked again, "How can you be sure... that I am... a red apricot?"

“Not sure!” Qiao Rui shook his head. Seeing Yizhihongxing looking at him blankly, Qiao Rui did not keep him in suspense and said directly: “Letting you see the bloody footprints, including your subconscious ability to see other footprints at a glance, can only prove that you are the black-clad man who appears and disappears at night. It does not mean that you are Yizhihongxing. You ran away because you felt guilty…”

"Cough, cough, cough..." A red apricot coughed violently for a while before stopping. She spat out a mouthful of blood and bubbles, and said with a self-deprecating smile, "Am I being too clever for my own good?"

Seeing that Qiao Rui didn't say anything and just looked at him silently, he didn't care. He reached out his hand and fumbled in his arms, took out a yellowed ancient book, and threw it over with difficulty. Due to lack of strength, it fell halfway. He smiled bitterly and said, "It's yours... Listen to my story!"

Qiao Rui didn't pick up the secret book, but just nodded to him and said, "You say!"

"Thirty years ago, there was a happy family in a small fishing village on the southeast coast." Yizhihongxing didn't know where he got the strength from, and spoke more fluently, "The father was practical and capable, the mother was beautiful and gentle, and they had a beautiful and well-behaved son..."

As Yizhihongxing spoke, he rubbed the auricles of his face with his hands, then lifted up a human skin mask, revealing a very handsome face.

"One day, my father went out to sea and rescued a middle-aged man covered in wounds. He handed the man over to my mother to take care of him, while he continued to go out to sea to fish..."

"Later, my mother left with that man to enjoy her wealth! Then my father changed. He stopped going out to sea and drank every day. When he was drunk, he beat his son. Finally, the child took advantage of his father's drunkenness and killed him. He burned down the body and the broken house. It was no longer a home..."

A red apricot's eyes were hazy, filled with tears, and her expression changed from gentleness to hatred to terror...

"The child became a beggar and wandered around the world, experiencing the ups and downs of life. By chance, he found a book of martial arts secrets in a cave in the wild... He wanted revenge, he wanted to avenge his hatred, he wanted to take revenge on this cruel world..." Yizhihongxing's heart was beating wildly, and his chest was heaving violently.

"So you only look for wives and concubines of rich men? But your mother ran away with someone else voluntarily, but you used force!" Qiao Rui said.

"She is not worthy of being my mother... I didn't force anyone. I have a secret medicine that can amplify women's emotional senses. They have desires in their hearts and are greedy for my handsomeness, so they voluntarily make peace with me!" Yizhihongxing argued.

"Secret medicine? It's an aphrodisiac, right? If you continue like this, most women in the world will have affairs!" Qiao Rui shook his head and sneered.

Yizhihongxing knew that she couldn't argue with him, so she didn't dwell on the issue and continued, "Later, by chance, I found out about that man, that bastard who turned his back on the evil family. He was a seven-bag deacon of the Beggars' Sect, and now he's an eight-bag elder..."

"I can't defeat him, but I can cause trouble for the Beggars' Gang. I want to make their small leaders terrified and make them guard their wives and concubines and not dare to go out... hehe... cough cough..." Yizhihongxing became a little crazy.

"The reason you visited Lu's residence in Lianhua Town at night is because his youngest son is a disciple of the elder of the Beggars' Sect?" Qiao Rui asked.

“Yes and no.” Yizhihongxing looked at the sky with lifeless eyes. “When I was scouting in Daye Prefecture, I accidentally heard that the Beggars’ Gang was stealing, robbing, and trafficking children. I wanted to collect evidence and make it public, so that the Beggars’ Gang would lose face and their reputation would be completely ruined... After tracing all the way, I found that the key point where the Beggars’ Gang hid and transported children might be in Longxing Prefecture, and the most likely place in Longxing Prefecture is the Lu family and the Longxing Prefecture branch, but the Longxing Prefecture branch is heavily guarded and I can’t get in, so I had to investigate the Lu family first... I didn’t expect to fall into your hands today..."

"I don't hate you. I know that sooner or later I will die at someone's hands. If it's not you, it will be someone else. I only hate that Jia Renyi is still alive and I haven't avenged my great vengeance..."

"I hate it so much!!!" A red apricot roared, letting out all the injustice in his chest. His body slowly slid down, his eyes were empty, and he murmured something, but it was no longer audible...