Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 38

Chapter 38: 38. Temporary Retreat to Jianghu

Three months later...

Western Shu, Celestial Cloud City...

In the Ghostly Cyan Robe Tower, the Solitary Bamboo Gang and the Cyan Robe Tower are the two major gangs in the Jianghu across the three cities and twenty-six counties, both headquartered in Celestial Cloud City.

As the saying goes, "Two tigers cannot share one mountain," these two gangs naturally have many conflicts.

It’s impossible for anyone to stop these two gangs from fighting each other.

Not even the government!

Just like when tigers fight, whoever intervenes will only end up dead for nothing.

Yet at this moment, the scheduled battle between the two major gangs has come to an unexpected halt.

Everyone looks in disbelief at that spot.

"Miss... Miss... Are you alright?"

A wild man with disheveled hair and a face full of stubble is holding the leader of Ghostly Cyan Robe Tower for today—Hua Linglong.

Hua Linglong holds a prestigious position in the Ghostly Cyan Robe Tower. Perhaps her personal power isn’t strong, but the group of old subordinates left by her late father all belong to her faction.

Moreover, she is quite famous in the Jianghu as a beautiful lady, known as the "Snow Jade Peony."

The phrase "Celestial Cloud Mountain City, Ghostly Cyan Robe, Snow Jade Peony" is enough to stir the hearts of all men in this area.

Hua Linglong likes to wear white clothes, white skirts, and white socks, her demeanor pure and pitiful, with extremely elegant speech, always evoking a strong protective instinct in others.

No one is willing to kill such a woman.

But in today’s battle, the Solitary Bamboo Gang has set up a trap to kill Hua Linglong.

Because the Solitary Bamboo Gang discovered that Hua Linglong is not only beautiful but also one of the Core Figures of the Ghostly Cyan Robe Tower.

If she were killed, then... the Ghostly Cyan Robe Tower could very likely fall into chaos.

However, just as two top experts of the Solitary Bamboo Gang, along with an inside man they painstakingly bribed, launched a combined attack to kill Hua Linglong, a wild man suddenly emerged from the woods nearby.

This wild man moved in bizarre ways, with strange postures, yet he skillfully defused the deadly strike against Hua Linglong and held her by the waist, retreating backward.

At this moment...

Outside the city, the winter snow has melted, and the early spring rain from last night knocked down a lot of peach blossoms.

With a gust of wind, the petals began to flutter.

The Solitary Bamboo Gang and the inside man refused to stop, quickly closing in, with a saber, a sword, and an axe all continuing toward Hua Linglong.

The wild man placed Hua Linglong aside, bowing his head to search for something.

Having narrowly escaped death, Hua Linglong, still in shock, quickly untied her belt, pushed it forward, and said, "Use mine!"

The wild man did not refuse, directly taking the sword, drawing it.

The blade emerged an inch, glistening coldly, and when fully drawn, shone bright.

In the brightness, the wild man struck someone with one slash, and after three dances of the blade, all three of the top experts in Jianghu lay injured on the ground, their eyes wide with shock as they looked at the wild man.

Hua Linglong’s eyes also shone brightly.

She could see that the wild man’s swordsmanship was terrifyingly powerful, the peak of technique, naturally seamless.

The wild man, disheveled and dirty, yet the more she looked, the happier she became.

Because after those three people fell, the Solitary Bamboo Gang advanced again, but this wild man stood in front of her, and no matter who... could not bypass this wild man to harm her.

Initially, she suspected that this wild man might be a Loose Cultivator, but after a few slashes, she completely dismissed that possibility.

No cultivator could possibly have such formidable martial arts mastery.

Her eyes burned with passion.

That was the fire of ambition...

Heaven had sent this wild man to her, and she would definitely seize this opportunity well.

Amidst the flashing blades and swords, she slowly touched a Jade Bottle hidden in her bosom.

The bottle contained a mysterious poison in the Jianghu—"Blood-Burning Divine Water".

This "Blood-Burning Divine Water" is colorless and tasteless, allowing those who practice martial arts and body forging to achieve more with less, but if not taken with an antidote monthly, the blood burns itself, leading to a painful death.

"Blood-Burning Divine Water" was originally a secret poison from Cold Water Manor...

It’s said that the old master of the manor discovered a recipe by chance in his early years and concocted it.

However, although Cold Water Manor possessed this poison, they rarely used it, living a low-profile life in the mountains and forests.

But at the beginning of last year, the manor was suddenly massacred, men and women, old and young, not even chickens and dogs were spared. And the secret poison disappeared without a trace; some said Cold Water Manor never had the poison, and it was all just a rumor.

But the one who spread the rumor was Hua Linglong.

The one who massacred Cold Water Manor was also Hua Linglong.

The one who killed all those in the know was Hua Linglong.

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