The Ultimate of Martial Realms! Heavenly Crippling Foot!

Beneath his mask, Su Que frowned slightly. "'Immortal Mother' isn't merely a god you fabricated? She truly exists?"

Su Que felt that his understanding of this world had been overturned yet again.

Zeng Shiyong shook his head faintly. "'Immortal Mother' was not fabricated by us. She truly exists. As for how many years ago she existed in this world, that can no longer be known."

"I only heard that she cultivated the martial realms to their ultimate extreme, and thus became a 'god.'"

"Before becoming a 'god,' she left behind divine intent, which can be used by us White Lotus Disciples."

God... the ultimate of martial realms...

Su Que's thoughts spun rapidly as he mulled over Zeng Shiyong's words.

After a while, he asked, "What is the ultimate of martial realms?"

That question stumped Zeng Shiyong.

"I... I don't know either... I haven't even reached the Blood and Qi Realm. That realm is far too distant from me..."

Su Que's heart stirred. Zeng Shiyong might not know what lay at the ultimate of martial cultivation, but surely he knew what came after the Blood and Qi Realm.

Thus, he continued, "What realm comes after the Blood and Qi Realm?"

Zeng Shiyong was stunned upon hearing this. This Mysterious Martial Artist possesses such strength, yet he doesn't even know what comes after the Blood and Qi Realm?

Could it be that this Mysterious Martial Artist has not even passed the Blood and Qi Realm?

"Speak!"

Seeing Zeng Shiyong hesitate, Su Que sent true qi flooding into Zeng Shiyong's five viscera once more.

Zeng Shiyong immediately screamed, his body trembling as he hastily answered, "The realm after the Blood and Qi Realm is the Meridian Opening Realm."

"Is there a method of cultivation?" Su Que asked.

"I haven't come into contact with such methods... but Altar Master Bai Wuji may have one..." Zeng Shiyong replied.

But Bai Wuji is already dead, and there was nothing on his body... Then the cultivation method is highly likely to be in his villa.

And Bai Wuji's Minor Self-Harm Skill—if there is a manual for it, it should also be in Bai Wuji's Villa.

Su Que pondered this, then looked again at Zeng Shiyong.

"Then, to your knowledge, how many martial realms are there in total?"

Since he had someone knowledgeable before him, he wanted to gather as much information as he could.

"I only know of these two realms..."

Zeng Shiyong's voice trembled. His eyes remained fixed on Su Que, afraid that if he failed to answer, Su Que would beat him to death.

The next moment, he saw Su Que nod, seemingly with no intention of killing him.

Perhaps someone as powerful as Su Que simply disdained killing a man like him.

What Zeng Shiyong did not know was that Su Que had merely been considering whether there was anything else worth asking.

After thinking for a while, Su Que decided there was nothing more to ask. Then, beneath Zeng Shiyong's astonished gaze, he raised his fist and smashed it down fiercely!

Bang!

Zeng Shiyong's skull shattered at once, red and white spilling all over the ground.

Su Que withdrew his fist and shook off the blood and brain matter clinging to his true qi.

Although, at the instant he crushed the skull, he felt an indescribable thrill.

Still, he knew full well that he was absolutely not a violent person. Nor did he want to smash heads; every time, it made such a bloody mess.

He did it entirely to conceal his true identity.

After all, who could connect a two-meter-tall brute who loved smashing heads with a scholar who had never even killed a chicken?

After Su Que had finished his questioning, the Yamen Constables and White Lotus Disciples nearby were still locked in battle.

Bai Wuji's other messenger, Gu Rou, was wielding Spirit Snake Swordplay, scattering a curtain of sword-light around herself as she fought with all her strength to break free.

Su Que pushed off with his feet. His figure flashed, and he swept toward Gu Rou.

Gu Rou's flexible sword suddenly shot straight forward, stabbing a Constable blocking her path and sending him sprawling to the ground.

No one remained before her. Just as she was about to use her lightness skill and flee like a bird vanishing into the distance—

Suddenly!

Su Que rushed to her side and struck her right shoulder with a punch.

Before she could even understand what had happened, her entire body flew sideways and slammed heavily into a wall.

Su Que darted to her side. Under her astonished gaze, he repeated the same procedure, asking the same questions as before.

The answers he received were more or less the same as what Zeng Shiyong had said.

Seeing that Gu Rou was no longer of use, Su Que still threw a punch, smashing Gu Rou's skull apart.

The White Lotus Disciples had lost two experts, Zeng Shiyong and Gu Rou. The rest were even less able to escape the pursuit of the Yamen constables, and were swiftly brought under control.

After taking over a hundred taels of silver from Zeng Shiyong and Gu Rou's corpses, Su Que headed for Bai Wuji's Villa.

"Please wait, brave warrior!"

Jade Water Magistrate Zhan Qing Tian suddenly called out.

Seeing how formidable Su Que was, he wanted to win him over.

Although nearly all the most formidable figures of the White Lotus sect branch in Jade Water City had been slaughtered clean by Su Que—

the Jade Water Magistrate knew that what had happened today would soon spread.

The White Lotus sect higher up the chain might send people here to seek revenge.

Today, he had ordered the Constable Captain and constables under him to strike against the White Lotus sect.

Should the White Lotus sect send people down, they would very likely seek revenge on him.

If he did not recruit Su Que to protect him, then tonight, he and his family would have to flee Jade Water City together.

Though he had called out to Su Que, Su Que ignored him completely.

His body turned into a shadow and swept off to one side.

Before long, he turned into a street alley and vanished from everyone's sight.

As the people of Jade Water City's Yamen were clearing the battlefield, a fast horse came galloping in from beyond the northern gate of Jade Water City.

Riding it was a young man clad in a Dark Official Uniform.

The young man sat ramrod-straight, his brows and eyes brimming with vigor. At a glance, he was clearly a dragon among men.

He was a Constable Captain from the Prefectural City, named Ou Tian Hao, a descendant of a collateral branch of the Ou Family, a Liang Kingdom martial arts clan.

The Ou Family was renowned throughout the Liang Kingdom martial world for an exceptionally powerful Martial Arts technique—Heavenly Crippling Foot.

Heavenly Crippling Foot was a leg technique that was strange and treacherous, sinister to the extreme, and incomparably murderous.

If one cultivated this technique too quickly and lost control, one could very easily suffer deviation and lose one's reason.

The Ou Family had passed down this technique for over a hundred years, and had long since learned how to control the pace of cultivation so as to avoid suffering deviation.

Though Ou Tian Hao was a collateral descendant, he possessed considerable talent for martial arts.

Despite having fewer cultivation resources than the main family, he had reached the Peak Blood and Qi Realm at only twenty-six years old, and had mastered two forms of Heavenly Crippling Foot.

Two days earlier, he had led his subordinates in destroying an evil sect organization. Once he had time to spare, the Prefect summoned him to Jade Water City to assist Jade Water Magistrate Zhan Qing Tian in dealing with the White Lotus sect.

Originally, seeing that Jade Water City was merely a small county town, Ou Tian Hao had disdained to come.

As a famed constable of the Prefectural City and a collateral descendant of a martial arts clan, he truly had the standing to refuse the Prefect.

However, the Prefect stuffed him two hundred taels' worth of Silver Notes and told him that Bai Wuji, the leader of the White Lotus sect in Jade Water City, could command the wind and summon the rain in a mere county town, so he must possess quite a bit of wealth.

When the time came, if Ou Tian Hao killed Bai Wuji, all that wealth could go straight into his own pocket.

Moreover, after arriving in Jade Water City, he could seek out the Jade Water Magistrate and squeeze another sum out of him.

Hearing the Prefect put it this way, Ou Tian Hao thought of how his martial arts training, food and drink, whoring, gambling, and revelry all required vast amounts of silver.

Though he had his family's support, he would not turn down more money.

Thus, he gladly agreed to the Prefect's request and came here.