Two casual cultivators stood on a small fishing boat and looked at the small courtyard by the river from a distance.

Both of them looked to be in their thirties or forties, and both were at the second level of Qi training. They just watched from a distance for a long time.

"How about it, do you want to go and have a look?" The man in Tsing Yi couldn't help but feel eager to give it a try.

"Would you like to take a look at this?" The man in gray hesitated.

"Why are you still hesitating? You have also seen the Baijiang Gang station. Not a single valuable thing is left. The building has long been deserted.

The Baijiang Gang has all left, will Baijiang Gang Leader stay alone?!" The man in green tried his best to persuade.

"Stop being so impatient. If you delay it any longer, more and more people will come over, and you won't have a chance to pick it up!"

Outsiders are unaware of the drastic changes that have occurred in the Baijiang Gang these days, and their speculations are based on the original information.

The information they know is that there is a first-level middle-grade spiritual land in that small courtyard, which can be used by monks in the middle stage of Qi training for year-round practice. Since the Baijiang Gang occupied this river section, it has become the training place of the Baijiang Gang leader.

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The man in gray clothes was still worried. When the man in green clothes saw this, he stopped trying to persuade him. He picked up the hem of his robe, jumped into the river, and started running on the river.

"If you don't go, then I will go alone!"

Seeing this, the man in gray clothes finally stopped hesitating and immediately jumped into the river and followed closely.

Soon, the two of them jumped onto the river beach and arrived in front of the small courtyard.

The two of them turned a blind eye to the closed courtyard door, looked at each other, and in tacit agreement, they moved a few steps to the left and right to avoid the courtyard door, and jumped up high.

Soon, the two of them had jumped directly above the courtyard wall and began to fall.

Everything in the courtyard was also visible to the two of them, and it was like falling into an ice cave in an instant.

A tall and slim man stood in the courtyard, his eyes piercing the two of them like lightning.

And just when they saw him, he was slapping his palms, and two powerful magic hands came out of his body, quickly grew in size, and struck directly at the two of them.

"roll!"

The two of them were in the air, having just fallen from the highest point. They had nowhere to use their strength. Apart from quickly holding up a mana shield to resist, they couldn't even dodge.

"Bang" "Bang"

With two muffled sounds, the two of them fell onto the river beach more than ten meters away from the small courtyard with two "pop" sounds, like two flies being swatted away.

The two stood up, not daring to stay for a moment longer, and ran wildly into the distance.

…

At this moment, Meng Zhou's appearance changed drastically. Even if Xu Lei was face to face, he wouldn't be able to recognize him.

Not only is he a few centimeters shorter than the original owner, but he is also slimmer. More importantly, his facial features are completely different from those of the original owner. Only a small part of the iconic thick long beard is retained on the lower jaw, and it is also thinner and shorter.

Anyone who sees it will not associate him with the original owner.

Now that the Baijiang Gang has left, Meng Zhou will naturally not live here in the name of the original owner. There are many casual cultivators along the Baijiang River who have been "bullied" by the original owner, and he does not want to take over these past grievances.

It was easy to drive these two people away, but Meng Zhou's mood was not relaxed at all.

If there is one, then there are two. As long as he stays here, such troubles will continue to come to him.

"Hey, I'm still not ruthless enough. Next time I encounter this problem, I can't simply drive it away. I have to establish my authority once and for all. Otherwise, it will be endless in the future."

Meng Zhou reflected in his heart, but kept moving his hands and continued practicing.

It was okay when he practiced martial arts during the day, and he practiced the Water Nourishing Technique in a quiet room at night. In order to avoid being touched at the door of his house without knowing it, he did not dare to be too involved and kept himself in a semi-awake state at all times.

The price of doing so is that the operation of mana becomes less smooth, it takes longer to practice a week, and it consumes more mental energy.

However, facts have proven that it is very necessary for him to maintain such vigilance.

Just after he had practiced for ten weeks, and the time entered the middle of the night, when everything was silent, Meng Zhou, who was practicing, suddenly opened his eyes, took the first-grade high-grade robe from the corner of the stone bed, put it on, and quietly sneaked out of the quiet room.

room.

In the small courtyard, under the dim night, four black humanoid silhouettes were scattered in the small courtyard, quietly approaching towards the quiet room.

Meng Zhou suddenly burst out of the quiet room, obviously startling them.

However, the two people who were slightly forward and closest to Meng Zhou launched attacks on Meng Zhou almost at the same time.

One person held a long sword in his hand and swung the long sword, forming a fan-shaped sword light like a peacock spreading its wings, cutting in turns like saw teeth, and swept directly towards Meng Zhou's waist.

The other person waved his hand and shot out several sharp hidden weapons like crescent moons, spinning at high speed and attacking Meng Zhou from the top, middle and bottom.

The two men's attacks were not only decisive and sharp, but also formed a very tacit cooperation.

The space around Meng Zhou was almost completely locked.

"It's ready!"

Just when the two of them were filled with joy and expecting that the attack would tear the person in front of them into pieces, the next moment, the figure in front of them shattered like a bubble.

Maybe the opponent moved too fast, or maybe they were confused by the opponent from the beginning and attacked a false target.

The two men felt secretly in their hearts, and the man holding the sword shouted a warning: "Be careful!"

Unfortunately, it was too late, the other person's head had exploded with a bang, and his head was like a broken watermelon.

The man holding the sword didn't even have time to be frightened, angry or sad. The strong sense of crisis drove him to dance the long sword in his hand to form a sword light barrier.

"Dang" "Dang" "Dang" "Dang"...

There was a series of crisp sounds like the clash of gold and iron, and the rotating palm blades hit the sword curtain one after another.

The man secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but at the next moment, he felt a chill running down his spine.

When all his attention was attracted by the frontal attack, the two rotating palm knives made a huge arc from the left and right sides and came behind him, like flying swallows throwing themselves into the forest, and struck him on the back of the neck almost simultaneously.

The next moment, a head flew high into the air, and beneath the head was a powerful fountain of blood.

It took a short time to deal with these two people, but when Meng Zhou finished all this and looked at the other two people, their figures fell from the sky and were hidden outside the courtyard wall.

Meng Zhou didn't chase him, but just warned loudly: "It won't last long. If you two come back next time, you really don't want to leave!"

"I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore..."

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Turn back the clock a little.

Late at night, on the river.

Four figures stood on small fishing boats, looking at the dark courtyard in the distance.

Two of them were the man in green and gray who were driven away by Meng Yizhou during the day.

The aura of the other two people is obviously stronger than the two, and they both have the third level of Qi training.

The man with the sword hanging from his waist was talking to the two men in a low voice: "Tell me carefully what happened to you at that time!"

Facing the questions from the two stronger men, the two of them did not dare not answer. They tried their best to recall their feelings at that time and let them know.

After listening to their stories, the man who stood aside quietly and said nothing suddenly slapped two palms at the two of them from a distance. The next moment, two powerful hands seemed to slap them in the head.

The two of them subconsciously used mana shields to block the situation in front of them.

There were two sounds of "bang bang". Although the two of them were not harmed, their mana shields were also damaged in this fight. If the other party followed closely behind the mana master and attacked again, the two of them would definitely be unable to stop it.

"How does his attack compare to mine this time?"

"It's... it's worse."

"Be specific."

"The magic power is weaker and the sense of oppression is slightly less."

So, the man expressed his judgment: "On the second level of Qi training, my crane control skills are at the level of a master. It's worth a try!"

"Well, but you still have to be careful. Later, let's do this first...and then this..."

Before launching the operation, the two made detailed plans and arrangements, which were extremely secure.

However, as soon as the group of people were admitted to the hospital, one of them was shot in the head, and the other was beheaded immediately after.

The man in green and the man in gray were so frightened that their livers and gallbladders split. Fortunately, because they had experienced being swatted away like flies for the first time, whether they were timid or had expected it, they were completely beaten in time.

Before lying down, he successfully escaped from the tiger's mouth.

The two returned to the wooden boat in the river again, and flew away quickly without stopping.

Passing by the former Baijiang Gang headquarters, which was bustling with people, lively and chaotic, neither of them stopped at all.

"I can't accompany you anymore." The man in gray suddenly said.

"Huh?" The man in green was puzzled.

"I entered the spiritual practice by chance. I have been searching for the Tao for more than ten years and narrowly escaped death dozens of times. Now I am getting older. Apart from injuries and illnesses, I can say that I have gained nothing.

I'm tired, I've given up, I don't want to struggle anymore... If you still want to seek the road in the future, you will have to go alone."

"...Please give me an egg!" The man in green was silent for a long time, then suddenly uttered a curse word, and then asked:

"Then...what are your plans next?"
To be continued...