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After Wang Sheng led Madam Li and Madam Li Qin back to the old residence, Madam Li Qin, who had long understood their situation, immediately knelt and begged Wang Sheng to forgive them.
On the way, the mother and daughter had learned that Wang Sheng was the very Protector who had once held a grudge against Li Wu.
The mother and daughter had originally sought Ox Cyclone's protection because they wanted him to help them find a good family that was not Li Wu's enemy.
But unexpectedly, Ox Cyclone did not know about the enmity between Wang Sheng and Li Wu, so he brought the mother and daughter here.
"Mother, don't kneel. Father said we must never bow our heads to our enemies."
Li Wu's daughter, Madam Li—Li Xuan—said coldly.
After Madam Li Qin became a widow and now depended on Wang Sheng, she could be called Wang Qinshi instead.
"Please forgive us, Protector. My daughter was deeply influenced by her father and does not know the immensity of heaven and earth. Please spare her this once for the sake of her youth."
Wang Qinshi knelt on the ground, her hips raised high, pleading in a soft, delicate voice.
"I already told you not to kneel before him. He is merely Father's defeated opponent!"
Seeing her mother's alluring posture, Li Xuan was instantly filled with fury and tried to pull her up.
Wang Sheng watched coldly. He had not originally intended to do anything to them.
After all, he needed to train in martial arts, kill people, and make money. He had no time to be tangled up with two women all day.
But Li Xuan's rebellious arrogance stirred a trace of anger in Wang Sheng.
Creak!
Wang Sheng pulled over a chair and sat down. His expression was indifferent as he looked at Wang Qinshi's pitiful face, more mature and more beautiful than Li Xuan's. "I don't want to move. You know what to do, right?"
Wang Qinshi's face flushed red, as though it had been covered in rouge.
She cast Wang Sheng a bashful glance, then looked at Li Xuan. "Xuan'er, leave first. Go to another room."
Li Xuan flew into a rage and was just about to refuse.
"No. She cannot leave. Qinshi, do it in front of her!"
Wang Sheng said coldly.
"You lecherous villain, I'll kill you!"
Once Li Xuan realized what Wang Sheng wanted her mother to do, her lungs nearly exploded with rage. But before her three-legged-cat kung fu could even be used, Wang Sheng pushed her away with one palm, sending her tumbling to the floor.
"I'll do it, I'll do it. Please spare Xuan'er, Protector!"
Wang Qinshi had been incomparably ashamed, but when she saw Li Xuan injured, worry filled her heart, and she hurriedly agreed.
"I'll only give you one incense stick's worth of time. If you cannot adapt, I'll kill you. If your daughter cannot adapt, I'll kill her. Besides, I think you can still bear children. She is only a daughter. If she dies, then she dies."
Wang Sheng's icy words left Wang Qinshi flustered and terrified, yet she did not dare stop what she was doing.
For the first time, Li Xuan felt the threat of death. She trembled all over, her limbs ice-cold, yet she was utterly powerless and could only stare blankly as her mother crawled over.
Only after a moment passed did Wang Qinshi beckon to her.
Anger and shame tangled in Li Xuan's heart. After hesitating for a long while, she heard Wang Sheng's cold snort and her heart shuddered. Terrified, she hurriedly knelt and crawled over as well.
Only after one incense stick's worth of time had passed.
Did Wang Sheng walk out of the room, refreshed and satisfied.
Being served by others truly was different from serving others.
When he was with Fourth Madam, Wang Sheng could never match her tricks. It always felt as though he was the one being played.
But now, looking down from above at a mother and daughter who were his enemies, it truly was something else.
"Can't let my guard down."
"These things are not the right priority yet. In the future, I must train harder, complete my goals properly, and leave Ershui City as soon as possible!"
Wang Sheng muttered to himself. He then changed into black clothes, stepped across the rooftops, and sped directly toward Fang Mingguang's residence.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Several black shadows swiftly passed over the rooftops on the other side.
Wang Sheng merely glanced at them before withdrawing his gaze.
Whenever night fell, black-clad people who lived only in the darkness would appear with increasing frequency.
Everyone had different goals, so these black-clad people generally pretended not to see one another and went about their own business.
But if someone exposed an injury or weakness, they would inevitably be preyed upon by the black-clad people taking advantage of the fire.
The journey went smoothly.
Wang Sheng silently made his way onto the roof above Fang Mingguang's home.
"Damn it, I lost another gamble. Did those bastards set me up? I'm a Martial Artist at the Bright Force stage. Would a few ordinary people really dare set me up?"
Fang Mingguang was sulking inside the room.
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Fang Mingguang then picked up a letter from the table and opened it. A banknote for five taels of silver fell out.
After reading the letter, Fang Mingguang began cursing again. "Fuck, why are those old fools in the countryside so stupid? I already told them I'm about to break through to Dark Force. Send me money, send me money. Yet they only sent me five taels of silver. They're treating their own son like a monkey!"
"They refuse to sell the land, huh? Tomorrow, I'll go back and sell it all. With me, a Bright Force Martial Artist, around, will I still need to fear having no money to spend in the future?"
Fang Mingguang kept muttering curses.
Suddenly,
A crashing sound abruptly came from overhead.
Countless fragments of brick and tile, stone chips, and dust fell like shattered rain.
A figure descended amid the dust filling the sky, suddenly launching a killing punch.
Great Tablet Shattering Hand!!!
Fang Mingguang panicked. When he saw the attacker's opening stance, he was even more shocked.
A fellow disciple was trying to kill him? Who?
Could it be Luo Zhengwen, Wei Yu, or perhaps some fellow disciple he had offended without realizing it?
But there was no time to think carefully.
Fang Mingguang could only hurriedly raise his hand to meet the punch.
Crack!
Fang Mingguang's arm snapped at once. He screamed in agony as his body flew backward, slamming heavily into the wall and nearly leaving a dent in it.
Fang Mingguang slumped on the ground and spat out a huge mouthful of blood, his face utterly pale.
That single strike had nearly robbed Fang Mingguang of more than half his combat strength.
Wang Sheng was at the great completion of Bright Force, with the Forging Gold Technique and the Blood Stacking Technique, and he had launched a sneak attack. How could Fang Mingguang, merely at the middle stage of Bright Force, possibly block it?
If Fang Mingguang had not met the attack head-on and had instead retreated violently, he might have lived a little longer.
But he had wrongly judged the attacker to be one of his fellow disciples, all of whom were at the Bright Force stage.
Thus, with equal cultivation, Fang Mingguang did not want to retreat. Instead, he wanted to seize the moment while his opponent had not yet found firm footing, disrupt his initiative, and avoid retreating and losing the advantage.
"W-which senior brother is so determined to kill me? This junior brother is foolish and does not know where I offended Senior Brother. I truly deserve ten thousand deaths; please forgive me, Senior Brother. My family has a hundred mu of fertile fields and fine cattle. I am willing to give them all to Senior Brother. Please spare my life!"
As Fang Mingguang watched the blurry figure in the dust gradually approach and slowly become clear, he cried out with endless pleading and pitiful desperation.
He did not want to die!
However,
The instant Wang Sheng truly approached Fang Mingguang and revealed his real face,
Fang Mingguang froze. His expression went blank, his eyes widened, and his face filled with disbelief.
He had guessed many people just now. He had even counted honest Li Hu among them.
But Wang Sheng was the one person he had never considered!
Such formidable combat strength, enough to rival a Dark Force martial master, was actually Wang Sheng! Wang Sheng, who seemed not even to have generated inner force!
Pfft!
When a broken piece of wood suddenly appeared from Wang Sheng's hand behind his back, he raised his hand and shot it out.
The broken wood stabbed directly into Fang Mingguang's chest. His entire body shuddered, and his breath rapidly weakened.
"It's you, it really is you! What deep scheming! What ruthless cunning! I should have, should have, killed you long ago. Someone will avenge me!"
Fang Mingguang spoke in broken fragments, his mouth full of bloody foam, his eyes filled with venomous hatred and unwillingness.
He could not accept that he had been killed in reverse by a junior brother whom he had never regarded seriously, whom he had treated as a plaything.
"Fang Mingguang, I could have killed you long ago. But since I had only recently killed Lin Shu, I wanted to let you live a while longer. Unfortunately, you did not know when death was at hand and insisted on hopping around in front of me."
"As for you dying, your parents will probably be the happiest. Who would avenge someone like you?"
Wang Sheng smiled faintly, one hand behind his back. His tall body leaned slightly forward as he looked down contemptuously at Fang Mingguang slumped on the ground.
Fang Mingguang was so enraged that his eyes bulged and his teeth clenched. In the end, he spat out another mouthful of blood he could no longer hold back.
"Lin Shu was killed by him too! I truly regret provoking someone with the schemes of a venomous snake!"
Clang!
The iron object Fang Mingguang had kept hidden in his sleeve fell to the ground. It was a poisoned dart. All the strength in his body rapidly drained away, and his eyes gradually lost their light.
He had wanted to wait until Wang Sheng came closer before making his move, but he had not expected to be angered to death instead.
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