Hearing the black-faced man call for help, Duan Lang and his woman Hong Luan both turned and looked at him, cold-faced.

Duan Lang walked over to the man. He stared at him and shook his head, “I really wanna save you. But here you are. Even if I save you, you won’t be able to help me. Considering that you’re my friend, I won’t let you suffer.”

“You, Duan Lang… You, you’re an asshole…!” said the black-faced man while grinding his teeth. Before he finished, Duan Lang had launched a palm, which shattered his meridians. Then he fell down and was dead.

The footman behind the counter saw what happened. He was shocked a lot and hid in the counter immediately.

Duan Lang looked at the behind of the counter, with a cruel smile hanging at the corners of his mouth. Could he escape? He must die today, or the fact Duan Lang had killed his friend would be leaked. Then, when he came back to the Semi-Ancient Martial World, he would be notorious.

But now he wasn’t busy killing him. He squatted down and looked for something on the body of the black-faced man. He found quite a lot of good things. Then he walked to the body of the red-faced man and found many good things too.

As Void Stage masters, they must have something good. Now that they were dead, they wouldn’t be able to help Duan Lang. Therefore, he took away all of their good things. In doing so, they some kind of helping him.

Seeing Duan Lang finish searching the two bodies, Hong Luan asked at once, “Duan, what to do with the bitch? Why didn’t you let me kill her?”

Duan Lang stood up looking at Shadow. Shadow and Hong Luan were now standing together, forming a stark contrast.

Shadow’s face was covered by the veil, so he couldn’t compare their appearance. But their figures and legs had a sharp contrast.

Shadow’s waist was slim while Hong Luan’s looked like a bucket.

Shadow’s chest was like a mountain, while Hong Luan’s was as flat as a runway.

Shadow’s legs were slender and well-proportioned while Hong Luan’s were short and thick.

Seeing such a contrast, Duan Lang felt great regret. Handsome as he was, he had to be with such a woman as Hong Luan.

Of course, he had no choice. If it weren’t Hong Luan, who was into him and helped him to join her family, he would have died for long after he came in the Semi-Ancient Martial World, let alone to have such an achievement now.

Thus, he dared not to irritate Hong Luan. But this couldn’t quench his thirst for beautiful women. The longer he stayed with Hong Luan, the more disgust he felt, the more he longed for other women, especially beautiful women.

In this world, it was not rare for people to be bored with their women, no matter how beautiful they were. They always wanted to have other women. Let alone the woman beside him was far from a beautiful woman.

Of course, he couldn’t say the reason he didn’t kill her was he liked her. So, he explained, “Hong, I heard she say Qin Hao was her man when we came in. Let me ask if the Qin Hao is the Qin Hao we’re gonna kill? If it is, it’ll be useful to keep her alive.”

His words removed Hong Luan’s jealousy. It was right. If the relation between the woman and Qin Hao was like what she had said, it would help a lot if they keep her alive to threaten Qin Hao.

“Duan, if you’ve planned so, you have no need to ask. I heard the reason she killed our friends was we’re gonna kill her man, the man called Qin Hao.”

“If so, we must keep her alive.”

“Okay, I listen to you.” Words done, Hong Luan hit Shadow on the shoulder with one of her hands, which stunned Shadow.

Seeing Shadow be stunned, Duan Lang cursed inside: the bitch is too brutal. He was worrying that Hong Luan’s hit would have hurt Shadow. After all, Shadow was just a fragile woman in Perfection Stage.

After she stunned Shadow, Hong Luan looked to Duan Lang. However, Duan Lang, to prevent his thought from being seen through, immediately drew his looks back and glared at the counter. He coldly said, “Come out.”

“I, I didn’t see anything.” said the footman while was still shivering.

“I don’t care if you see or not. You must die today.” Duan Lang raised his hand and launched a palm.

“Shifu, help.” yelled the footman.

While the yell was continuing, a shadow appeared like a ghost. “Bang.” He withstood Duan Lang’s palm. Duan Lang was forced to back off for several meters while the man was standing still.

Duan Lang was shocked a lot. He stood to his feet and looked forward. The one standing in front of him was an old man, with deep-set eyes, gray hair, gray eyebrows and gray long beard.

“Shifu. Finally, you showed up. I’m terrified. Kill, kill them. They wanted to kill me, to kill your favorite and most promising apprentice.” The footman suddenly jumped out and tried his best to persuade the old man into killing Duan Lang. At the same time, he couldn’t stop scanning Shadow who was on the ground.

“What’s more, Shifu, you see. How could they bully such a fragile woman? You’re righteous, and you’ll never let that happen. Shifu, please save her.” said the footman anxiously.

The old man glared at him coldly, “Two Void Stage masters have come to grief when facing her. Is she a fragile woman?”

“Uh…” The footman was struck dumb. But he was unwilling to give up. It was the best time for him to play a hero. How could he let it go? If he saved the woman, she might marry him to repay him when she waked up. Even if she wouldn’t marry him, he could rape her when she was in a coma. Then she would have to marry him.

“Shifu, anyway, she was just a woman. She…”

“Shut up!” shouted the old man, “Take care of the tavern and go fucking off.”

“Oh. Fine, fine, Shifu.” The footman lowered his head and unwillingly walked away.

After he drove the footman away, the old man looked at Duan Lang severely. Hong Luan, being afraid that the old man would attack Duan Lang, ran over immediately. She stood together with Duan Lang, confronting the old man alertly.

“For what have you done here, I’m not interested. I don’t wanna engage in either. My place here was just a tavern for everyone to have a rest. But if you wanna attack my people, you have to think about it. Do you think anyone can have a tavern here?” said the old man severely while looking at them coldly.

“Hum. Just a shabby tavern. It’s nothing. It doesn’t worth a damn comparing with my Hong Family.” said Hong Luan while turning up her nose.

“Hong Family?” The old man raised his eyebrows.

“Yes. I’m from Hong Family. How’s that? Is it enough to destroy your tavern?”

“You can try.” The old man turned serious and launched a palm, which, though seemed to be normal, carried an unstoppable momentum.

“Dare you!” shouted Hong Luan while reacting by fighting back.

With another “bang” and a woman scream, the red figure was thrown out of the shop.

“Hong.” shouted Duan Lang while running to get her up.

Hong Luan stood up and wiped the blood at the corners of her mouth. She was trembling out of anger, “How, how dare you hurt me?”

“If It weren’t for Hong Baozi, the head of Hong Family, I would have killed you today. Now you go away. Don’t ever step into my shop again. Otherwise, I’ll kill you. As to this woman and the two bodies, you take them away. I don’t want them to affect my business.”

“Okay, okay. Senior, we leave now.” answered Duan Lang immediately.

“Duan, what are you afraid of? We…” interrupted Hong Luan discontentedly.

Duan Lang whispered to her at once, “Hong, we don’t have to do this now. The old man is at least in the late period of Void Stage. We won’t rival him. If we’re gonna revenge, we’ll do it after we’ve finished the more urgent stuff.”

Hong Luan thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Then, they took care of the two bodies and went towards the pathway while carrying Shadow.

…

“Master Qin, here it is. Our treasury is here.”

After going all the way along the tunnel under the mayor’s mansion in Shaxian Town, Qin Hao and Yun Zhongcheng, the deputy mayor, were standing in front of an iron gate.

Looking at the thick gate, Qin Hao coldly commanded, “Open it.”

“Okay, Master Qin. Please wait for a moment. I’ll open it.” answered Yun Zhongcheng. He pulled out a key and put it into the lock. “Click”, the key turned in the lock. The gate shook heavily.

“Do it now!” shouted Yun Zhongcheng suddenly. The several men behind suddenly waved their knives at Qin Hao’s back.

“You look for death!” sneered Qin Hao, who stood there still.

“Clang clang…” Those knives hit Qin Hao’s back, shoulders and head. Each hit generated a sound like metal hit metal. It seemed they hadn’t hit a man, but a large lump of iron.

Was Qin Hao’s Skin Refining useless? How could several such low-level men hurt his invulnerable iron skin?

“What?” yelled those people, with their eyes being filled with fear and surprise.

“All go to hell!”

While those people were terrified and stunned, Qin Hao turned around and launched a palm. In such a narrow tunnel, the palm hit all of them. Each of them then hit the wall of the tunnel. The wall started to shake. Sand and dust started to keep falling.

At the moment, Qin Hao heard a “boom” from behind.

He turned around quickly only to find Yun Zhongcheng had disappeared. And the gate was closing.

It surprised Qin Hao a little. When was Yun Zhongcheng so fast?

Without hesitation, he drove much of his Spirit Strength and punched the gate. “Boom”, half of the gate blew up. Sand and dust kept falling.

Qin Hao didn’t care about those sand and dust. He went through it directly and into the gate. It was a broad basement. At the roof was a beam of bright light. It had a hole. Yun Zhongcheng was going out through the hole. In such a hurry, he dropped a shoe. He then jumped out and fled towards deep in the desert.