The old lady was getting on in years and couldn't stay up late, so she was napping in her room.
Dong dong dong...
The Old Grandfather Clock struck nine times.
The old lady's heart pounded, and she woke up with a start from her dream.
It was only nine o'clock, still early for Zi Time.
But why did her heart feel so heavy?
Click! Click! Click!
The pendulum of the Old Grandfather Clock swung back and forth.
On the gleaming pendulum, faint shadows gradually appeared.
Hostage Room!
Knife!
Blood!
Something had happened at home!
The old lady immediately got out of bed and ran towards the Hostage Room.
Upon entering the Hostage Room, she saw that Xiao Yeci and her daughter Lu Chunying were still obediently in the Hostage Room, not having moved, but Li Banfeng was gone.
"De Cai! De Mao! Hurry, come here, all of you!"
The old lady called out to her two sons. Before long, her eldest son, De Cai, arrived.
"Where's De Mao?"
De Cai rubbed his eyes and said, "He seems to have gone to the backyard to sharpen the knife. Our old knife is hard to sharpen, it might not be ready even after an hour. I said we should buy a new one, but you wouldn't let me..."
The old lady turned around and slapped De Cai across the face. "Still talking about the knife! Are you blind? You can't even see that the person is gone!"
De Cai covered his face, only then realizing that Li Banfeng had run off.
He stepped forward, grabbed Xiao Yeci by the hair, and demanded, "Where did he run off to? When did he leave?"
Xiao Yeci shrieked, "I don't know, I really don't know!"
Lu Chunying cried out from the side, "Don't hit my mom, we don't know anything. That person came, we didn't talk to him, we were asleep, and he just left..."
This little girl was braver than her mother; she could explain things clearly.
But was explaining things clearly useful?
No, the little girl didn't understand this, but Xiao Yeci knew it very well.
This family was evil; talking to evil people was useless.
The old lady turned back and instructed her eldest son, De Cai, "Go call De Mao. Let's butcher these two sluts first. That Travel Cultivator definitely couldn't have gotten far."
Hearing this, Xiao Yeci's voice immediately changed pitch: "Big sister, please have mercy! You can do anything to me, just spare my child's life! I beg you, I beg you!"
Xiao Yeci pleaded bitterly, over and over. The old woman didn't even spare her a glance, but the eldest son, De Cai, was truly moved: "Mother, aren't we supposed to wait until Zi Time?"
The old woman snapped angrily, "Something's happened, what are we waiting for!"
"Mother, such a beautiful woman, and such a beautiful girl, you won't even let us brothers have a taste before you... you..."
Slap!
The old woman slapped De Cai again: "What the hell have I been teaching you? A couple of dirty words make you forget the rules? Go call your brother for me!"
De Cai didn't dare to say more and quickly left the Hostage Room.
He had long lusted after the bodies of this mother and daughter, but his mother had always forbidden him from touching them.
Not only was he forbidden this time, but in the past, whenever they tied up a Woman (woman), his old mother never let them touch them.
Their family never left any survivors. Regardless of gender or age, anyone who entered this door as a hostage never left alive.
But they had never slept with a single Woman. Not even an extra touch was allowed, not even an extra word. His old mother always said that doing such things would break the rules of their gang.
But even the women in the gang, the old woman didn't allow her sons to interact with them. Every time a woman came to the door, the old woman would make her sons avoid them. The brothers would be lectured by the old woman whenever they mentioned women.
De Cai patted his cheek, feeling a bit strange himself.
What was wrong today? Normally, even if he thought about it, he would never dare to say it to his old mother, but why did he say it today?
This woman is not ordinary!
De Cai looked at Xiao Yeci and walked away sullenly.
Xiao Yeci kowtowed to the old woman: "Old lady, old sister, we've given you all our money. Please accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and let my daughter go.
You can keep me, I'll be a servant, a beast of burden, you can even chop me up for meat filling, it's all fine. I beg you, old sister, I beg you, old lady!"
This passage echoed repeatedly in the Hostage Room, gradually creating an echo.
Before the echo dissipated, Xiao Yeci repeated it again. Her real voice and the echo overlapped, each word hitting the heart like a hammer.
The old woman grabbed Xiao Yeci's hair and sneered, "You two slutty bitches, you haven't had enough of being slutty in front of my son, and you dare to be slutty in front of me? Do you think I can't see through your little tricks?
You're a Mouth Cultivator. Say a couple of slutty words in front of a man, and his soul is hooked by you. Here with me, quickly put away your slutty words. I'll let you die quickly, otherwise I'll cut off your mother and daughter's cheap flesh, piece by piece!"
Mouth Cultivator?
There's such a Dao Gate?
What are the specialties of this Dao Gate?
Xiao Yeci cried, "Old madam, I wouldn't dare to use my cultivation on you. What I said is from the bottom of my heart. You can cut me into a thousand pieces, it's all fine. Just give my child a way to live."
The old woman sneered, "Just for that sentence, I have to send you little slutty bitch on your way first!"
With that, the old woman grabbed Lu Chunying's hair.
Lu Chunying cried fiercely, but her hands weren't idle, scratching and hitting the old woman.
This little girl really had some guts.
Xiao Yeci continued to plead, "Old Madam, I'm telling the truth! I beg you, spare my child's life!"
The old woman sneered, "Her mother is dead, what's the point of letting the child live? Wouldn't she just suffer alone in this world? Better to go on the road with you."
With that, the old woman kicked Xiao Yeci over, adding more force to her hand as she tightly gripped Lu Chunying's hair. She turned back and shouted, "De Cai, bring the knife!"
The little girl cried out, "Mom, save me!"
Xiao Yeci lunged at the old woman again, only to be kicked over once more.
"De Cai, where's the knife!"
"Mother, save me!"
Huh? Who's talking?
The old woman turned around and saw her son, De Cai, standing at the doorway with tears streaming down his face, a section of a knife tip protruding from his chest.
Li Banfeng stood behind De Cai, smiling, "Old Madam, the knife is here. I brought it for you."
Seeing a knife plunged into her son's chest, the old woman's eyes instantly became bloodshot.
De Cai was a first-level Poison Cultivator, his cultivation similar to Li Banfeng's. But Li Banfeng had the speed of a Travel Cultivator and the often-overlooked traits of a Shut-in Cultivator. De Cai had been ambushed by Li Banfeng.
"Let go of my son!" The old woman grabbed Lu Chunying and roared, "Otherwise, I'll kill her immediately!"
Li Banfeng didn't understand what the old woman meant. "If you want to kill her, just kill her. You don't need to tell me. She's not my child."
The old woman gritted her teeth and said, "Do you think I'm joking with you?"
Li Banfeng was even more confused. "What joke did you tell? What's so funny? Aren't you going to kill someone? Let's kill together, I'll join in the fun."
With that, Li Banfeng gripped the knife and continued to stab it into De Cai's back. The knife tip protruding from his chest grew longer and longer.
The old woman threw Lu Chunying aside and rushed forward to save her son. Li Banfeng raised his foot and kicked directly at the old woman's kneecap.
This kick was vicious and extremely effective against an enemy charging head-on. If it connected, it could cripple the opponent directly.
But Li Banfeng missed. The old woman dodged and raised her hand, punching Li Banfeng.
The punch landed solidly. Li Banfeng staggered, nearly falling to the ground.
Impossible, what cultivation level is this old woman?
Her speed is faster than a Travel Cultivator?
And her strength is astonishingly great!
Before Li Banfeng could think further, the old woman pulled out the hairpin from her head and thrust it towards Li Banfeng's glabella.
Li Banfeng squatted down, narrowly dodging it.
The old woman sneered inwardly, This one doesn't know martial arts.
If he knew martial arts, seeing the hairpin stab towards him, he would either retreat, tilt his head back, or use a weapon to parry.
You're squatting on the ground, aren't you just waiting to be hit?
The old woman raised the hairpin and stabbed towards the top of Li Banfeng's head.
She was wrong.
Li Banfeng had no intention of waiting to be beaten.
From childhood to adulthood, he had never lacked for bullying and was often beaten until he knelt down.
But kneeling down didn't mean he couldn't fight back.
He knelt on the ground and punched the old woman's ankle.
This punch had some skill behind it; under normal circumstances, it could dislocate the opponent's ankle joint.
The old woman took the punch squarely but didn't suffer a dislocation.
She merely stumbled, unharmed.
Thanks to that stumble, the hairpin missed, not stabbing the top of Li Banfeng's head.
What Dao Gate did this old woman belong to? She was fast, ruthless, and could take a hit.
Was she a Food Cultivator?
It didn't seem like it. No matter how much Xiao Pang ate, he would never have her speed.
Not only was his speed inferior, but his strength was also no match for this old woman.
What was more alarming was that every time the old woman attacked, Li Banfeng couldn't sense any danger at all and couldn't make any predictions.
Relying on fists and feet was definitely not going to work. Li Banfeng circled behind De Cai, wanting to pull out the knife.
With the old woman's skill, she could have killed that mother and daughter without using a knife at all.
The fact that she insisted De Cai bring the knife over proved that this knife was definitely unusual.
Li Banfeng wanted to draw the knife, but the old woman didn't give him a chance at all. She lifted a foot and kicked Li Banfeng out the door again.
Li Banfeng flew several meters away. Before he could get up, the old woman suddenly appeared in front of him.
Teleportation?
What cultivation level was this ability from?
Bang!
The old woman kicked again, sending Li Banfeng tumbling head over heels on the spot, landing face down on the ground.
Li Banfeng didn't get up this time.
With such a speed difference, getting up would only result in getting kicked.
He simply used all four limbs, scrambling frantically towards the wall. This time, he didn't hold back at all, pushing his Sudden Wind on Flat Ground ability to the limit. He scrambled to the base of the wall and, without the slightest pause, climbed directly onto the top of the wall.
Just as Li Banfeng was about to jump outside the wall, a large willow tree in the courtyard swung its branches and, with a snap, whipped Li Banfeng back.
Controlling willow branches to hit people?
This old woman could also use magic!
What Dao Gate was this exactly?
Li Banfeng fell heavily to the ground, his consciousness somewhat blurry.
This old woman is so strong, why did she use poison to take me down back then? Wouldn't it have been easier to just attack me directly?
The old woman wiped the sweat from her forehead. This fight had taken a heavy toll on her.
She wasn't young anymore. If there were a more reliable method, she wouldn't want to go head-to-head with Li Banfeng.
The old woman squatted down, raising the hairpin in her hand, preparing to deliver the final blow to Li Banfeng.
The dazed Li Banfeng suddenly raised his leg and kicked the old woman in the stomach.
If he had kicked her head, the movement would have been much more obvious, and the old woman would likely have noticed.
But this kick to the stomach was very concealed. The old woman was completely unprepared and was sent into a spasm, instinctively opening her mouth.
Taking advantage of her open mouth, Li Banfeng pulled out a Rust Pill and shot it down the old woman's throat.
Within five meters.
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