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Chapter 41 - Escape in the chaos

North Dragon South Eagle, this was referring to the two famous heroes in the martial arts world. The Southern Hawk was Ceng Guoquan's personal bodyguard, Old Hawk. He had studied under Nan Shaolin, and his Eagle Claw Skill and Qing Gong were the best in the martial arts world. But at the time when Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was making the most ruckus, he went down the mountain to the Heavenly Kingdom Army, hoping to rely on his skills in exchange for wealth and glory.

It was a pity that the times had changed, although martial arts still had a market in the late Qing, it was still the apocalypse. After the white smoke from Qing Jun raising his gun and shooting, the eagle was buried under the pile of corpses. After the eagle recovered from its injuries, it thought for a while and suddenly realized that in this era, martial arts could only shine in certain environments.

For example, high ranking guards, assassins, spies … These jobs required a variety of complex environments in order to be the final destination of the wulin people. After that, the eagle pledged its allegiance to the Zigzag Camp, and after two or three investigations, it received the favor of Jiu Shuai. In the end, it was even promoted to the position of his personal bodyguard.

Furthermore, Xiang Shaolong's experience was even more legendary. This young man, who was not even thirty years old yet, had displayed the talent in martial arts at such a young age. The clan gave its all to have Xiang Shaolong pay respect to a master teacher, and even learned art at Wu Dang Mountain for three years.

When he went down the mountain at the age of 25, in just three years, he had earned the fame of Dragon Lord in the north. Xiang Shaolong was originally a member of the Yanqing Xiang Jia Village, and was said to be a descendant of the Chu Country's aristocrat, Xiang Yu. Of course, Chinese people had always had the desire to become famous, and after what happened a few thousand years ago, no one knew if it was true or false.

But when the name of the North Dragon spread and the Xiang Jia Village started to get rich, this seemingly laughable rumor started to become true. Until ten days ago, when a stranger came to find him based on his reputation as the Dragon Lord. Furthermore, he said with certainty that as long as he completed one task, the Xiang Jia Village would be guaranteed to join Xiang Yu's clan.

Dragon Lord was already shocked at that moment, he did not dare believe his own ears, but when the person mentioned a person's name by his ear, Xiang Shaolong dispelled all of his suspicions and immediately left the mountain.

For the ancients, it didn't matter if he was a merchant, or a bandit, or a wealthy man at the peak of the Green Forest. As long as he met an opportunity to bring glory to his family and even enter the ranks of scholars, they would all go crazy.

Fan Ru was like this, Xiang Shaolong was the same, everything was of low quality, only that the thought of reading high school had already been brainwashed for a thousand years and was engraved into the bone marrow of the Chinese people. For the sake of his family's reputation, Xiang Shaolong directly rushed down the mountain towards Xiao Letian without paying a single cent. He even went so far as to run across the mountain to Taibai Top to check his background.

”Alright then, you two scum who colluded with the long-haired guy, writing an evil scripture for foreigners to bewitch the clean people, this crime is enough for me to die. I will kill Xiao Letian, this is avenging the heavens …”

Xiang Shaolong did not have any burdens in his heart when he killed Xiao Letian. In the hearts of people who were taught by the Confucian traditions, with their identity as scumbags, writing the Evil Scripture of the foreigners, and even colluding with the rebels, there was no justice in not killing them.

However, what he found inconceivable was that after he successfully kidnapped the man and woman, he seemed to have punctured a hornet's nest. Inconceivable things happened one after another.

Xiang Shaolong never thought that right after he brought his disciples out of the Beijing, not even ten miles away, he would already be marked by people. Originally, Xiang Shaolong wanted to use his status as Dragon Lord to deal with these small fries, but he did not expect these people to not give him any face and make a move on him.

Along the way, Xiang Shaolong had broken through four of the traps set up by the martial artists. In the end, he even found the checkpoints set up by the Shuntian Palace s. This time, Xiang Shaolong was a little hesitant. He finally understood, this mission was not that easy to complete, Xiao Letian was just a hot potato to burn.

Actually, the fight that Xiao Letian saw when he woke up was already coming to an end after Xiang Shaolong broke through the six lines of defense.

Initially, Dragon Lord thought that entering the mountain would be safe, but he never thought that the Old Eagle, who looked like the Bone Corrosion Poison, would chase after him and take care of his last two disciples. Right now, there was only a disciple in the thatched cottage who was guarding the hostage, and he had already been entangled by the Old Eagle.

To be honest, Dragon Lord and the Old Eagle's skills were about the same, Old Eagle's Qing Gong was a little stronger, and Xiang Shaolong was well-versed in Wu Dang inner force skills, which in itself was about the same. Once the two of them started fighting, it wouldn't take more than two hours before victory would be decided.

Right now, in the thatched cottage, there was only the little disciple with a wooden stick who was holding onto the water. He looked at the hostages, then at the battle outside, at a loss of what to do. To be honest, the battle between two experts was too exciting. They even brought out afterimages, and the sounds of wind and thunder could be heard from between their fists and feet.

The youngest disciple was only 17 or 18 years old, and his curiosity was high. How could the battle between the Southern Hawks not attract him? The time he paid attention to both sides was the same, but gradually, the youngsters were attracted by the amazing battle outside the door.

Just as he was in a daze, a figure suddenly pounced towards him like a tiger, followed by a painful scream from his wrist. The wooden stick fell to the ground.

”Damn, Hu Niu!” Xiao Letian never thought that Hu Niu would be so wild, he actually took the opportunity to sneak an attack on his enemies when they were unprepared. And he had used his ultimate move the moment he opened his mouth. Xiao Letian did not dare to be negligent, he rushed forward and grabbed his hard wooden stick, and then swung it at the back of his disciple's head.

A muffled sound rang out. The little disciple rolled his eyes and fainted at that moment. ”Amazing! So the wooden stick is actually so easy to use …” At this time, Hu Niu could not care about anything else, he pushed open the back door and said, ”Let's go, let's go quickly …” With that, he grabbed Xiao Letian's hand and dove into the darkness.

”No …” ”Don't go through the back door, that's a ravine …” Xiang Shaolong subconsciously yelled out, but what returned were the miserable cries of Xiao Letian and Hu Niu.