A Madman (Part 2)

Evening.

Zhang San closed up his shop as usual.

Occasionally, he would still look through the window at Bai Fang's tofu shop next door that had already closed its doors.

He always felt something was amiss.

Wang Xiaoer saw Zhang San lost in thought today as well, so he walked over to Zhang San and said, "Master, you must be wondering why that Lu Gaosheng didn't come to make trouble, which is very strange, right?"

Zhang San nodded slightly, he could not deny that he did have such suspicions.

After all, it was unlikely that Lu Gaosheng would just accept Bai Fang becoming Ming Qing's wife, given the obsessive love, or pathological fondness he had for Bai Fang.

However.

Zhang San felt the strangeness was not just that, he always felt something was wrong.

"Wang Xiaoer, tell me again, how did you know that Ming Qing was going to..."

Before Zhang San could finish speaking, a sentence suddenly came to his mind.

Something Wang Xiaoer had said yesterday:

"Oh, it was around noon today, I was at Xiao Yu's place helping her make tofu, and Ming Qing came again. He called me over when he was talking, then I listened with Xiao Yu and Aunt Bai as he said he hoped to bring Aunt Bai and Xiao Yu to meet his family."

I was at Xiao Yu's place helping her make tofu, and Ming Qing came again. He called me over when he was talking.

Ming Qing came again and called me over when he was talking.

That's not right!

Why would Ming Qing specifically call Wang Xiaoer over to talk about his family matters?

It was neither early nor late that he came when Wang Xiaoer was there, yet he had no one keeping an eye on us, how did he know Wang Xiaoer's movements? How did he know when Wang Xiaoer was at Bai Fang's place?

Wang Xiaoer was at Bai Fang's place, then Wang Xiaoer found out he was going to bring Bai Fang to meet his family, Wang Xiaoer knowing was equivalent to...

But that's not right! For him to get such a guileless person to do this, he might let something slip anytime, wouldn't that be very foolish?

Wait.

It seems the foolish one is me!

I didn't think of these at first, wasn't it because of Ming Qing's honest character and conduct? Plus he was originally going to marry Bai Fang anyway, meeting the family would be natural.

But what if someone took advantage of this 'natural course of events'?

Zhang San finally realized it!

Now he understood why this was happening.

Damn, this Lu Gaosheng is even more sinister than me!

Zhang San blurted out profanity.

At the same time, Zhang San heard a faint sound of fierce wind outside the door...

In an instant, Zhang San circulated his inner energy throughout his body!

With a palm strike, the door was smashed to pieces!

Zhang San pushed Wang Xiaoer away with great force, with such power that he sent Wang Xiaoer straight to the backyard, yelling: "Hide!"

Then Zhang San leapt up to avoid the palm strike, but after all he was caught off guard, and the person who suddenly struck out rushed into the shop after Zhang San dodged.

A wolf-patterned silver saber slashed towards Zhang San's neck,

Clearly intending to take his life in one stroke.

"My life, I'm afraid you can't take it!"

As the incident was sudden and he didn't have his black iron dagger on him, but Zhang San's iron cloth shirt was definitely tougher than black iron. He met the wolf-patterned silver saber head on with one hand!

The door was already broken, moonlight spilled in.

Zhang San saw the attacker dressed as a traveling merchant, with savage and bloodthirsty eyes, a corner of his mouth raised in an arrogant smile, plus that wolf-patterned silver saber, Zhang San recognized at a glance that this was the bloodthirsty Blood Wolf of the Twin Wolves!

In an instant, Zhang San exchanged several moves with Blood Wolf.

While not falling in the slightest disadvantage against Blood Wolf, Zhang San immediately grasped Blood Wolf's martial arts.

According to rumors in the jianghu, of the Twin Wolves, Kill Wolf was at the peak of the Earth stage, while Blood Wolf was at the mid Earth stage.

But from just now's exchange, Zhang San felt Blood Wolf's skills were at least peak Earth stage. However, there was no overwhelming surging force in his moves, so his inner strength probably hadn't reached peak Earth stage yet.

So either the rumors were inaccurate, or in the few years since the Twin Wolves disappeared, this Blood Wolf's skills had further improved.

On Blood Wolf's end, through exchanging several moves, he was already completely excited.

Earlier, killing those three punks who harassed Bai Fang didn't satisfy his bloodthirsty and aggressive nature at all. But after being arranged by Lu Gaosheng at Bai Fang's side for so many years, his long suppressed bloodlust finally erupted completely upon encountering such a top expert like Zhang San.

"Good, you're strong enough!" Blood Wolf laughed loudly, and the wolf-patterned silver saber in his hand stabbed towards Zhang San even faster.

But Zhang San only calmly countered, and didn't take the initiative to attack.

Because he was still waiting.

Outside the window, there was still an intermittent gaze watching him.

But after over a dozen moves, the person outside still didn't make a move!

Zhang San didn't want to wait any longer. As Blood Wolf suddenly leapt up with a chop, Zhang San turned his body, deliberately revealing an opening on his side.

The window shattered, and another ray of moonlight spilled in!

Another wolf-patterned silver saber emerged in the moonlight, rushing at Zhang San.

Blood Wolf, who had leapt up, revealed a cold smile. When the two brothers attacked together, no one had ever escaped alive from them.

But this was exactly what Zhang San was waiting for.

Zhang San tilted his head up with a mocking smile.

"I'm certainly strong enough, but you're not." Zhang San's shout rang in Blood Wolf's ears.

Before Kill Wolf could get close after Blood Wolf attacked, exposing an instant of laxness, Zhang San had already glimpsed an opening in Blood Wolf.

Zhang San displayed his lightness skill. Using one hand to block Blood Wolf's right hand holding the silver saber, his other hand pinned down Blood Wolf's left hand, and finally fiercely kneed Blood Wolf in the chest!

With his inner force on the verge of the Heaven stage, even without any martial arts, this knee strike directly made Blood Wolf spit out a mouthful of blood, and he couldn't even grip his wolf-patterned silver saber anymore.

And right now both of Blood Wolf's hands were pinned by Zhang San, Zhang San's tremendous power and lightness skills caused him and Blood Wolf, who were midair, to fly outside together. At the same time this also dodged Kill Wolf's sneak attack.

The door which previously had a large hole smashed through by Blood Wolf was now completely broken down by Zhang San and Blood Wolf crashing through it.

The two landed in the street.

...

...

In his heart, Zhang San actually felt some regret.

Although he couldn't find the source of this emotion.

But he knew now was not the time to think more.

...

...

Blood Wolf lay on the ground, and on top of him, Zhang San had pinned down both of Blood Wolf's hands, and was using his knee to fiercely press down on Blood Wolf's chest.

Zhang San's eyes revealed ruthlessness, and the knee pressing down on Blood Wolf's chest exerted even more strength.

Moreover, Zhang San's position and direction of force were extremely precise.

Under his knee was the middle of Blood Wolf's chest, the ribcage there. Right under those ribs were the organs.

Crushing his ribs and piercing his organs, in short, kill one first!

Zhang San had taught Wang Xiaoer that when outnumbered, the top priority was to kill as many enemies as possible in a short time. So against two people, naturally he had to kill one as fast as possible, then fight the other one-on-one.

As for one-on-one.

Let alone some bullshit Kill Wolf, even Hei Shanke was not my match!

But just as Blood Wolf was circulating his full inner force to protect his chest, yet was still gradually being pressed down by Zhang San's knee, a long sword emerged from the night.

Lu Gaosheng's personal guard, as well as the subordinate Lu Gaosheng trusted the most — Li Xing.

Seeing the previously invincible Twin Wolves, after exchanging moves for less than the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, were about to suffer a terrible death, Li Xing didn't hesitate and thrusted his sword straight at Zhang San's face.

Yet Zhang San didn't retreat at all, because from how fast Li Xing rushed over and attacked, Zhang San determined this person's threat was limited, definitely not at Hei Shanke's level.

Sure enough!

The next moment, Li Xing was practically dumbfounded, because not only did Zhang San not retreat, he even rammed into Li Xing's sword head on, but his sword couldn't pierce through flesh and blood at all!

You gotta be kidding me! What kind of martial arts is this?!

Li Xing cried out inwardly.

With the decline of the righteous way, the loss of the Golden Bell Shield twenty years ago, and Iron Cloth Shirt was only passed down in a minor sect throughout history. Even Hei Shanke didn't realize it afterwards. Li Xing was formerly from the military and naturally didn't recognize it.

Zhang San faced Li Xing head on. Although it cost him some inner force to resist Li Xing's sword, causing his inner force pressing down to weaken a bit, Blood Wolf still couldn't withstand it.

Just as Blood Wolf was about to be killed, Kill Wolf, who had pounced in vain earlier, was charging at Zhang San again from behind!

Zhang San heard the powerful gusts behind him, and Kill Wolf's orderly breathing as he swiftly approached.

The martial arts of Kill Wolf were rumored to be at the upper stage of the ground level, but looking at it now, his light work was also at the upper stage of the ground level. His inner strength was still unknown for the time being, but it was obvious that the strength of Twin Wolves had improved compared to when they were famous five years ago.

Using his head to withstand the blade of a top master was already a risky move.

And in recent days, his martial arts had improved a lot since the battle with Hei Shanke, and he was confident that he could defeat Zhang San alone if they dueled one-on-one, thinking that he did not need to take too much risk against these three people.

So although it was a pity, Zhang San sighed inwardly, and his knees relaxed, temporarily sparing the life of Blood Wolf, and he reached out to slap away Li Xing's sword, jumped up to avoid Kill Wolf behind him.

Kill Wolf did not pursue either, after driving away Zhang San, he chose to immediately protect Blood Wolf, and threw Blood Wolf’s lost silver knife on him.

Kill Wolf shouted in a low voice: "You were too careless just now, giving him a chance! Judging from the exchange just now, he must be a top expert at the ground level, comparable to Hei Shanhu who was ranked first on the ground list back then. Be extremely cautious!"

Blood Wolf escaped from great danger, but there was no fear on his face, instead, a brutal smile reappeared.

After killing prey painfully and excitingly, that was the thing he liked to do the most. The stronger the opponent, the more it could evoke his madness.

Blood Wolf picked up his silver knife, jumped up, and stood side by side with Kill Wolf.

The two of them in one line was the origin of the name Twin Wolves.

As for Li Xing, although his martial arts was weaker than the two, he was not a mediocrity either. After retreating to the other side of the street, he waited for a chance to make a move at any time.

Zhang San stood in the middle of the street, silently calculating the strength of the three.

There was no need to say much about Blood Wolf, he already had some understanding. Judging from Li Xing's sword just now, Zhang San felt that he should also be at the upper stage of the ground level, but not very strong. He should be able to defeat three to five middle stage masters, but far from Hei Shanke's level.

Although Kill Wolf hadn't fought yet, Zhang San judged that his martial arts, light work, and inner strength should have all been cultivated to the upper stage of the ground level. Among the upper stages, he already had some depth and was the strongest among those present.

And from the corner of his eyes, Zhang San noticed that many government officials were guarding everywhere.

However, these officials did not guard the street entrances, but the doors of those shops and residents on the street.

Lu Gaosheng suddenly attacked me, but didn't want others to find out? Zhang San secretly guessed Lu Gaosheng's intentions.

Fortunately, there were no thousands of troops, strong bows and crossbows, and JinWan Pavilion's men for now.

Relying only on these yamen and three top masters...

Zhang San's eyes gradually became cold, and he thought inwardly: Lu Gaosheng may have misjudged my strength and came with so few people. In that case, I'll kill them all first!