Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 126 - 103: Blood and Fire!

Suddenly, a deep purple mist surged out from the dust!

Like a sudden wave, it rushed towards the soldiers!

"What is this?"

All the soldiers witnessed this scene, and a chill ran through their hearts. They all tightened their grip on their weapons.

The soldiers in the front row holding spears, unaware of what lay ahead, thrust their spears into the purple mist in surprise!

The purple mist roiled, and they felt as though they pierced nothing.

Immediately, the purple mist closed in on their faces, invading their orifices.

In just a moment, these soldiers collapsed to the ground, their bodies blackening as they died.

"This is poison gas, hold your breath, circulate your True Qi to resist the poison!"

A Centurion under Ou Haofeng's command, at the Fifth Blood realm of Martial Arts, shouted immediately at this sight.

But before he could finish, Su Que, shrouded in purple mist, flashed by, striking the Centurion's chest with a punch.

The fist penetrated the chest, directly ending the Centurion's life.

Su Que withdrew his fist, and then, like a mass of purple gas, he weaved in and out of the soldiers' ranks.

Weaker soldiers fell dead as Su Que swept past them, guiding his Myriad Poison True Qi into their orifices.

In just a moment, the soldier would collapse and die.

Stronger soldiers, circulating True Qi to resist the poison, were in severe pain, their movements greatly hindered, yet they could not be killed immediately.

Su Que then darted by, delivering a punch, and with the splash of blood, directly ended their lives.

A soldier pulled out a signal cannon from his clothes and pulled the white string below.

Instantly, the gunpowder inside burned, and a ball of fire shot out from the signal cannon, intending to rise into the air.

But just as the flame emerged from the cannon, Su Que flew over, smashing down with a fist against the flame.

Before the flame could ascend to the sky, it exploded into a firework.

Su Que, with True Qi defense, was unharmed.

But the soldier who fired the signal cannon was blown to a face full of black ash by the firework explosion.

In the next moment, Su Que swept out a kick, and the soldier's head shattered instantly, leaving him faceless.

Su Que, like a descending Demon God, rampaged back and forth among the Thunderbolt Army.

Apart from Ou Haofeng, there were no other Meridian Opening realm experts here.

No soldier could withstand even one move of Su Que's.

Although the soldiers had arranged a combat formation, the Myriad Poison True Qi severely limited most soldiers' mobility.

The battle formation was ineffective.

Blooms of blood sprayed, blossoming in the woodland.

In no time, over eight hundred Thunderbolt Army soldiers lay dead in the forest.

Blood flowed in the woodland like small streams, forming pools of blood.

After all this slaughter, Su Que had become numb; killing was like cutting grass.

At this moment, he saw the field full of corpses and pools of blood.

It was a terribly tragic scene, yet not a hint of emotion rose in his heart.

A thought crossed his mind, and he retracted the Myriad Poison True Qi, retrieving his clothes and hidden weapons, silently strapping them on.

He quickly searched the soldiers' and Ou Haofeng's bodies, gathering everything he could find.

Then he guided the still-burning mountain fire to this side.

He then ascended the mountain, searched the bodies of the three Zaiyang Sect believers, and threw them all into the sea of flames.

Flames burned fiercely, smoke billowed upwards.

The stench of blood mingled with the heat waves, swirling in the air.

Su Que then employed his Lightweight Skill, surveying the area.

Seeing no one nearby, he used Lightweight Skill to leave the blazing sea of fire.

...

Su Que, carrying a bundle of his belongings, did not search for a cave to hide them.

With so many Thunderbolt Army and Zaiyang Sect members dead, these two factions would surely search the mountains outside Jiannan Prefecture City extensively.

Especially since the Thunderbolt Army trained search dogs, their search efficiency was very high.

If he hid again, the dogs might find him.

'Maybe I should dig a hole and bury it,' Su Que thought to himself.

The Thunderbolt Army's search dogs were keenly scented, and unless the hole was deep enough, they might sniff it out.

Thus, Su Que circulated his True Qi, using both hands to spend considerable effort digging a five-meter-deep hole.

Then, he took out his Confucian robe, changed into it, and took out a casual outfit, bundling it in a bag.

Afterward, he tied up the other bundles tightly and threw them into the cave.

Finally, he pushed the soil back into the cave, compacted it, and cleared away any traces on the surface.

'There is too little cloth wrapping these bundles. Buried in the ground, they could easily rot…'

'Tomorrow, I must buy more oilcloth, come back and dig these things up, and wrap them in several layers.'

Su Que thought to himself, then left the place.

He performed his Lightweight Skill, and before long, he returned to Jiannan Prefecture City.

But he saw soldiers still guarding the city gates.

At such a deep night, he was the only passerby nearby.

Entering the city alone would be too conspicuous.

He might be stopped and questioned by the Thunderbolt Army guarding the city.

So, he did not return immediately and instead found a cave outside to practice his skills for the night.

By dawn, seeing the number of people entering the city had increased, he finally walked toward the city gates, reported his name to the soldiers, and entered the city.

...

After Su Que left last night, the forest fire spread to several nearby forests.

The blazing flames naturally attracted the Thunderbolt Army and people from various factions to the scene.

Upon arrival, they saw the Iron Armor and weapons in the sea of fire and recognized that those who died here were from the Thunderbolt Army.

But specifically, who died remained unknown for the moment.

Later, the Thunderbolt Army discovered that Ou Haofeng and Zhong Hengchuan, along with most of their soldiers, were missing.

Upon closer inspection within the inferno, they found Zhong Hengchuan's broken "Hundred Battle Iron Spear" and some unique weapons used by centurions.

That's when they realized it was the bodies of these two elite forces that burned in last night's forest fire.

Members of the Zaiyang Sect also arrived at the scene.

Upon discovering Song Cang's sword, Shi Pan's Wolf Fang Club, and Jing Sha's Short Saber, they deduced that these three had perished here.

'Could it be that Lu Sheng also died here?'

'Or perhaps Lu Sheng has no connection to this at all and is still on the run?'

The members of the Zaiyang Sect pondered in their hearts.

Due to the presence of multiple factions and numerous Martial Artists,

coupled with the fact that the soldiers in the Thunderbolt Army were not all tight-lipped,

the shocking news of the death of Ou Haofeng, Zhong Hengchuan—both experts at the Meridian Opening Realm—and over eight hundred elite Thunderbolt Army members quickly spread throughout the city!

The Thunderbolt Army extinguished the remaining fires and then meticulously investigated the site.

At the same time, three Famous Captors from the Government Office—Yan Shouheng, Gu Yichao, and Luo Guo—were called in to see if they could find any clues.

They looked at the thoroughly charred forest and the scattered Iron Armor and weapons, covered in black ash, secretly horrified.

The three of them had also been searching for Lu Sheng's whereabouts with the Thunderbolt Army the previous day.

Yan Shouheng belonged to Prefect Duan Han, who was also part of the Heaven-Breaking Army.

His task in this search was to obtain whatever Lu Sheng had on him.

After discovering a trace of Lu Sheng, he pretended to have a disagreement with the other three Famous Captors regarding trace identification and led two constables of the Heaven-Breaking Army to search another side.

The purpose was to leave the main force and find Lu Sheng first, ahead of everyone else.

But eventually, while searching, he came across several traces.

Some of these traces belonged to Lu Sheng, while others were left by different Martial Artists.

Based on these traces, Yan Shouheng made successive judgments, and the accumulated deviations led them to search in another area.

Gu Yichao, without any backing, had no interest in wasting time with the Thunderbolt Army in pursuit of that Lu Sheng fellow.

Seeing it getting late, he was determined to go home to have dinner with his wife and kids, so he made up an excuse, claimed there was a possibility Lu Sheng had fled to the other side based on the traces, and took two constables whom he usually found easy going and with similar temperaments, in the opposite direction.

In reality, after leaving the main force, they sneaked back to Jiannan Prefecture City and went home.

Only Luo Guo, who became a Famous Captor through the Thunderbolt Army, continued searching with several small squads of the Thunderbolt Army.

But while they were searching, they encountered a group of Zaiyang Sect believers, which led to a skirmish, resulting in both parties fighting and moving, gradually distancing themselves from the area where Lu Sheng was located.

The three Famous Captors and the soldiers of the Thunderbolt Army walked into the forest left charred by the fire, meticulously examining the remaining traces.

Last night's fire had long since obliterated most traces.

They could only try to determine the identity of last night's perpetrator through the broken weapons.

But the broken weapons told them little.

Sometimes, a weapon breaking doesn't necessarily mean the opponent's Martial Arts are formidable; it could also be because the opponent's weapon is superior.

Based solely on those broken weapons, they could only roughly deduce that the culprit might be a Martial Artist at the Fifth Blood level or above.

Yet they could discern nothing about the culprit's age, gender, or martial arts techniques.