The Fierce Woman

The old woman was advanced in years and could not stay up late. She was dozing in her room.

Clang, clang, clang...

The Old Grandfather Clock chimed nine times.

A wave of palpitations struck the old woman, jolting her awake from her sleep.

It was only nine o'clock. Zi Time was still far away.

But why did her heart feel so troubled?

Click! Click! Click!

The Old Grandfather Clock's pendulum swung back and forth.

Faint shadows gradually appeared upon the gleaming pendulum.

Hostage Room!

A knife!

Blood!

Something had happened at home!

The old woman immediately got out of bed and ran toward the Hostage Room.

When she entered the Hostage Room, Xiao Yeci and her daughter Lu Chunying were both staying obediently inside, not having moved from where they were, but Li Banfeng had vanished.

"De Cai! De Mao! Hurry over here, both of you!"

The old woman called for her two sons. Before long, her eldest son, De Cai, arrived.

"Where's De Mao?"

De Cai rubbed his eyes. "Seems like he went to sharpen a knife in the back courtyard. That old knife of ours is hard to sharpen; it might take an hour to get it done. I said we should buy a new knife, but you wouldn't let me..."

The old woman turned around and slapped De Cai across the face. "Still fucking talking about knives? Are you fucking blind? The man ran off, and you didn't even see it!"

De Cai covered his face, only then realizing that Li Banfeng had already escaped.

He stepped forward, grabbed Xiao Yeci by the hair, and demanded, "Where did he run off to? When did he get out?"

Xiao Yeci screamed hoarsely, "I don't know! I really don't know!"

Lu Chunying cried out beside her, "Don't hit my mother! We don't know anything! That man came in, we never spoke to him, we fell asleep, and then he left..."

This little girl had more courage than her mother. She could explain what had happened clearly.

But was explaining it clearly of any use?

No. The little girl did not understand that, but Xiao Yeci understood it very well.

This family was made up of villains. Nothing one said to villains was of any use.

The old woman turned and instructed her eldest son De Cai, "Go call De Mao over. Kill these two sluts first. That Travel Cultivator definitely can't get out."

The moment she heard this, Xiao Yeci's voice changed pitch. "Elder sister, please show mercy! You can do anything you want to me, just spare my child's life! I'm begging you, I'm begging you!"

Xiao Yeci begged over and over again, bitterly pleading, but the old woman did not even spare her a glance. Yet De Cai was genuinely moved. "Mother, weren't we supposed to wait until Zi Time?"

The old woman raged, "Everything's already gone to shit, so what the fuck are we waiting for?"

"Mother, such tender, juicy women—and such a tender, juicy girl too—and you won't even let us brothers have a taste before you just..."

Slap!

The old woman slapped De Cai again. "What the fuck have I taught you all this time? A couple of slutty words made you forget the rules? Go call your brother right now!"

De Cai did not dare say more and hurried out of the Hostage Room.

He had long coveted the bodies of this mother and daughter, but his mother had always forbidden him from touching them.

Not only had she forbidden it this time, whenever they had kidnapped female hostages in the past, their mother had never allowed them to touch them either.

Their family never left survivors. Regardless of gender, age, or youth, once a hostage entered this door, not a single one left alive.

Yet they had never slept with a single female hostage. They were not even allowed to touch them an extra time or say an extra word. Their mother always said doing such things violated the gang's rules.

But even the women from their gang were forbidden to the brothers. Whenever a woman came to the house, the old woman made the brothers avoid her. If the two brothers mentioned women in ordinary times, the old woman would lecture them.

De Cai patted his cheeks, feeling that something was strange with him too.

What was going on today? Even when he thought about it before, he had never dared mention it to the old woman. So why had he said it today?

This woman was no ordinary woman!

De Cai glanced at Xiao Yeci and left resentfully.

Xiao Yeci kowtowed to the old lady. "Elder, elder sister, we gave you all the money we had! Please accumulate virtue and do good deeds—let my daughter go.

Keep me here. I can be a servant, an ox, a horse, you can chop me into mince meat, anything is fine! I'm begging you, elder sister, I'm begging you, elder!"

Her words kept lingering through the Hostage Room, gradually producing an echo.

Before the echo faded, Xiao Yeci repeated herself again. Her real voice and the echo overlapped, every word hammering into the heart.

The old woman grabbed Xiao Yeci by the hair and gave a ferocious grin. "You mother and daughter, a pair of slutty bitches—you weren't done acting slutty in front of my sons, and now you dare do it in front of me? Do you think I can't see through those little schemes of yours?

"You're a Mouth Cultivator. Say a couple of slutty words in front of a man, and you hook away his soul. But here with me, put away those slutty words of yours. I'll let you die quickly, otherwise I'll slice the cheap flesh off you mother and daughter piece by piece!"

A Mouth Cultivator?

There was even such a path?

What was this path good at?

Xiao Yeci wept, "Madam, I don't dare use my little cultivation on you! Everything I said came from my heart! You can cut me into a thousand pieces, but please leave my child a path to life."

The old woman sneered. "Just for saying that, I'll send your little slutty bitch on her way first!"

With that, the old woman grabbed Lu Chunying by the hair.

Lu Chunying cried fiercely, but her hands did not remain idle. She scratched and struck at the old woman again and again.

This little girl truly had some courage.

Xiao Yeci was still crying and pleading. "Madam, I'm telling the truth! I beg you, spare my child's life!"

The old woman sneered. "If the mother is dead, what's the point of letting the child live? Wouldn't leaving her alone in this world only make her suffer? Better to send her on the road with you."

After saying that, the old woman kicked Xiao Yeci to the ground. Her grip tightened around Lu Chunying's hair as she turned and shouted, "De Cai, bring the knife!"

The little girl cried, "Mom, save me!"

Xiao Yeci threw herself at the old woman again, only to be kicked over once more.

"De Cai, where's the knife?"

"Mother, save me!"

Huh? Who was speaking?

The old woman turned around and saw her son De Cai standing in the doorway, his face covered in tears, a length of knife tip protruding from his chest.

Li Banfeng stood behind De Cai, smiling. "Old Woman, the knife is right here. I brought it to you."

Seeing a knife lodged in her son's chest, the old woman's eyes instantly filled with blood.

De Cai was a first-layer Poison Cultivator, his cultivation equivalent to Li Banfeng's. But Li Banfeng had a Travel Cultivator's speed, as well as the House Cultivator trait of being overlooked. De Cai had been ambushed by Li Banfeng.

"Let go of my son!" The old woman clutched Lu Chunying and roared, "Otherwise, I'll kill her immediately!"

Li Banfeng did not understand what she meant. "If you want to kill her, then kill her. You don't need to tell me. She's not my child."

The old woman gritted her teeth. "Do you think I'm telling you a joke?"

Li Banfeng understood even less. "What joke did you tell? What's funny about it? Didn't you want to kill someone? Let's kill together. I'll join in the fun too."

With that, Li Banfeng gripped the knife and thrust it deeper into De Cai's back. The knife tip protruding from De Cai's chest grew longer and longer.

The old woman flung Lu Chunying aside and rushed forward to save her son. Li Banfeng raised a foot and kicked directly at the old woman's kneecap.

It was an insidious kick, extremely effective against an enemy charging head-on. If it landed, it could cripple the opponent outright.

But Li Banfeng missed. The old woman dodged it and punched Li Banfeng.

The punch landed solidly. Li Banfeng staggered, nearly falling to the ground.

Impossible. What cultivation did this old woman possess?

She was faster than a Travel Cultivator?

And her strength was shockingly great!

Before Li Banfeng could think further, the old woman pulled the hairpin from her head and stabbed it toward the center of his brow.

Li Banfeng crouched down and barely dodged it.

The old woman sneered inwardly. This was someone who did not know martial arts.

If he knew martial arts, then when he saw the hairpin coming, he would either retreat, tilt his face back, or use a weapon to block it.

Crouching on the ground like that—wasn't he just waiting to be hit?

The old woman raised the hairpin and stabbed it toward the top of Li Banfeng's head.

She was wrong.

Li Banfeng had no intention of waiting to be hit.

Ever since he was little, he had never lacked for bullying. He had often been beaten into a crouch.

But crouching did not mean he could not fight back.

Crouching on the ground, he punched the old woman's ankle.

That punch had skill in it. Under normal circumstances, it could dislocate the other person's ankle joint.

The old woman took the punch squarely, yet her ankle did not dislocate.

She merely staggered and was not injured.

Fortunately, because of that stagger, the hairpin missed and did not stab Li Banfeng in the top of the head.

Just what path did this old woman cultivate? She struck quickly, attacked viciously, and could take hits as well.

Was she a Food Cultivator?

That did not seem right. No matter how much Little Fatty ate, he definitely did not have her kind of speed.

Not only was his speed inferior, his strength was also less than the old woman's.

More fatal still, every time the old woman attacked, Li Banfeng could not sense the danger at all, nor could he predict it.

Fighting with fists and feet definitely would not work. Li Banfeng circled behind De Cai, intending to pull out the knife.

With the old woman's skills, she could kill that mother and daughter without a knife.

Yet she had specifically told De Cai to bring the knife, proving that this knife was certainly extraordinary.

Li Banfeng wanted to pull out the knife, but the old woman gave him no chance at all. She raised 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 level of cultivation was that ability from?

Bang!

The old woman kicked again, sending Li Banfeng into a somersault on the spot before he landed facedown on the ground.

This time, Li Banfeng did not get up.

With such a gap in speed, getting up would only earn him another kick.

He simply used all four limbs and crawled madly toward the wall. This time, he did not hold back at all, pushing Sudden Wind on Flat Ground to its limit. Once he reached the wall, he did not pause for a moment and climbed straight onto its top.

Li Banfeng was about to jump outside when a great willow tree in the courtyard whipped its branches. With a crack, it lashed Li Banfeng back.

She could control willow branches to strike people?

This old woman could use spells too!

Just what path was this?

Li Banfeng crashed heavily to the ground, his consciousness becoming somewhat blurred.

This old woman was so strong. Why had she used poison to knock me down back then? Couldn't she have simply attacked me directly?

The old woman wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead. This fierce battle had drained her greatly.

She was no longer young. If she had a safer method, she did not want to confront Li Banfeng head-on either.

The old woman crouched down, raised the hairpin in her hand, and prepared to give Li Banfeng one final blow.

Li Banfeng, his expression dazed, suddenly raised his foot 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 very likely have noticed.

But this kick at her stomach was extremely concealed. The old woman was completely unprepared. She convulsed from the blow and instinctively opened her mouth.

The moment she opened her mouth, Li Banfeng pulled out a Rust Pill and fired it into her throat.

Within five meters.

Never missed.

(End of Chapter)