In the dimly lit room, a candle's faint flame barely illuminated the house.

  Qiao Zhongzheng slumped to the ground, his two legs and two arms limp and powerless. His forehead was covered in beads of sweat, his face twisted in a grimace as he stared at Ma Jinxiu. He hadn't expected...the person in front of him to be so ruthless, actually crippling his martial arts skills while also breaking both his legs and arms.

  He's completely destroyed!

  "Are you ruthless?" Ma Jin Xiao asked coldly.

  With his mouth gagged, Joe let out a resentful hum from his nose, his gaze seeming to tear the murderer in front of him apart.

  "Qiao Zhong, do you remember that twenty-one years ago, when you were still a hundred-man commander, you passed by a village called 'Ma Family Village' dozens of miles north of Xianyao Mountain?" Ma Jin Xiao stared at Qiao Zhong, not missing any expression or eye movement.

  At this moment, Qiao Zhong's hatred has made Ma Jin Xiao feel relieved and satisfied from the bottom of his heart!

  "Uh-huh." Qiao Zhong shook his head desperately.

  "Don't you know? It seems like you've done too many evil things, so much that you've even forgotten. " Ma Jin Xiao sneered, "You Qiao Zhong, now have nineteen wives. Among them, the sixth wife's surname is Ma. Isn't that right?"

  Qiao Zhong's eyes widened suddenly.

  "She was called 'Ma Qiaoer', who was abducted by you from Majiazhuang and became one of your concubines. However, Ma Qiaoer hated you very much, and on the third day after becoming your concubine, she was beaten to death by you, wasn't she?" Ma Jin's face grew even colder.

  Qiao Zhong urgently wanted to speak.

  "It goes without saying that I know this Ma Qiao is going to poison you to death." Ma Jin sneered, "So, you killed her!"

  "But! Why did she want to poison you? She's just a weak woman, why would she want to kill the commander of the Imperial Guard?"

  "Because you killed her husband, you killed her parents, you killed her uncles and aunts, thirty-eight lives in total! All because they stood in your way, you took a married woman for yourself! Thirty-eight lives!"

  Qiao Zhong didn't argue anymore at this moment, the person in front of him obviously knew very well.

  But in the eyes of the bandits, massacring a village was nothing. As a centurion of the Divine Guard, he would casually kill some people, and he had never taken it seriously before.

  "Thirty-eight lives! And this Ma Family Village, the other villagers were so scared of you that they didn't dare to stop you." Ma Jin's face was twisted with rage. "Fortunately... I wasn't at home that day. That day, our guards who protected the village went into town to buy New Year's goods! I didn't die! My family, only I am left!"

  Qiao Zhong's eyes widened in shock, his eyes filled with terror.

  "Listen clearly, Ma Qiaor is my sister!"

  "Ma Qingyang is my dad!"

  "Willow Bright Flower is my mother!"

  Ma Jin Xiao glared at Qiao Zhong and growled, "And I am Ma Jin Xiao!"

  Qiao Zhong's body trembled with fear.

  He regrets it, he's ruthless!

  If he knew there was such a young master in Majiazhuang, he would have been so ruthless. He would have cut the grass and eliminated the roots back then!

  Ma Jin Xiao drew out the war knife in his hand: "Don't worry, I won't cut you too many times. Thirty-eight lives, including my sister, thirty-nine lives. I will give you thirty-nine knives...... Every knife, I will be very slow." As he spoke, Ma Jin Xiao stretched out his hand and fiercely poked at Qiao Zhong's neck.

  Pfft!

  Qiao's throat trembled.

  "The first knife will be your tongue." Ma Jin Xiao pulled out the cloth stuffed in Qiao Zhong's mouth, and with that one finger, he had directly struck the vital point on his neck. At this moment, Qiao Zhong was already speechless.

  "Don't be afraid, I'll go very slowly."

  Ma Jin Xiao stroked the war knife in his hand, "This knife of mine was obtained from 'Mi Li Island' in the East Sea's overseas islands. In order to be able to kill you, I became an apprentice in the East Sea Islands and spent 20 years cultivating bitterly. Unexpectedly, my talent wasn't bad, and I was able to reach the Xian Tian Virtual Elixir."

  "I originally thought killing you would be easy. Who would have thought that the carefree palace had so many people, all of whom had descended from Carefree Mountain and were living in the county city. Your mansion has quite a few guardians and elders. The other mansions around you also have numerous experts, including pre-heavenly strong ones."

  "I know, if I'm not careful, I'll be discovered. It's very likely that I'll lose my life."

  "But I couldn't wait any longer. I have no idea when you cowards from the Carefree Palace will return to the palace. So, I'm taking action today."

  "It's been twenty-one years! Father, mother, sister, uncle and aunt are all waiting anxiously."

  Ma Jin Xiao lightly swung out the war knife in his hand.

  It's like killing pigs and cows, taking revenge on Qiao Zhong's body.

  ……

  On the rooftop, Teng Qing Shan faintly heard Qiao's weak gasps of pain and Ma Jing's muttering to himself.

  "For twenty-one years, Ma Jin Xiao was suppressed by hatred for twenty-one years." Teng Qing Shan sighed silently. From a psychological perspective, being suppressed by hatred for twenty-one years, ordinary people would probably collapse, and if they didn't collapse, their psychology would be very distorted, it wouldn't be strange to become a killing maniac.

  But Ma Jinshuo's self-control is obviously good.

  At least he killed only one of the Zhong family and did not exterminate the whole family.

  "This mansion should not have any formidable masters around. Otherwise, just the low voice of Ma Jinxiang or the humming sound of Qiao Zhong before would have been heard." Teng Qing Shan judged that even with his six senses, he would definitely detect any movement in this place, even if it was in a corner of the mansion.

  Suddenly, Teng Qing Shan, who was lying on the rooftop, glanced into the distance.

  "I really have a crow's mouth." Teng Qing shook his head.

  Only a middle-aged man with white eyebrows in the distance was approaching with a puzzled expression, but he didn't say anything and quietly came to the corridor.

  Teng Qing Shan quietly lifted a tile on the roof and looked down.

  "Bang!" The door was kicked open!

  Ma Jin Xiao was shocked while venting his hatred and cutting Qiao Zhong's body with a knife.

  "Sixth Young Master!" The white-browed man at the door was shocked and enraged by the bloody scene before him.

  "Waaah!"

  Qiao Zhong, who had gone blind in one eye, heard the sound and immediately became excited, making an effort to let out a breath of air. He knew... his Second Brother had come! Even if he died, there would be someone to avenge him!

  "You're lucky to have died at twenty-six." Ma Jin's battle knife flashed in the light, stabbing directly into Qiao Zhong's heart.

  Plop! Fresh blood splattered everywhere.

  "You will die." The white-browed man roared in anger, his long sword flashing with a silver edge. His body moved and he transformed into a residual shadow, killing towards Ma Jin Xiao.

  "No need to see me off." Ma Jin let out a snort of laughter and simultaneously dashed towards the window beside him.

  The white-browed man's face was like a layer of frost, and his body turned to chase after him. But Ma Jin Xiao, who had originally wanted to escape, suddenly turned around in a strange way, came back with a sudden turn, and the black knife edge on his hand appeared, turning into continuous knife shadows, slashing towards the white-browed man.

  The sword's shadow is extremely fast!

  "The swordsmanship is not bad..." The white-browed man's voice still echoed in the house.

  "Clang!" "Clang!"

  Two consecutive crashes, Ma Jin Xiao hummed a low cry, and was severely shocked to crash into the wall behind him. With a loud "boom", the wall collapsed with a loud noise, and broken bricks and tiles flew everywhere, and the roof tiles and beams also fell down. Such a big movement caused many people around to gather around.

  "Quick!"

  "Go quickly to the northeast."

  A large number of patrolling Divine Guardsmen rushed over. "What's going on? What happened?" "Young Master, hurry, go past." A group of Protectors and Elders also quickly rushed over in this direction.

  "Hmph, the Innate Void Pellet dares to be arrogant, unaware of life and death." The white-browed man's body was like lightning, and as bricks and stones flew wildly, he charged forward at the same time. The halo on his body shattered the bricks and stones. A silver sword aura shot out from his hand, and in an instant, it arrived in front of the heavily injured Ma Jinsheng.

  Ma Jin Xiao's mouth was shocked open, and he didn't even have time to block.

  "So fast!"

  Ma Jin Xiao only felt a flash in front of his eyes, and the silver sword edge filled his field of vision. His face was ferocious, he let out a loud roar, bursting forth all his abilities, and actually used the war knife in his hand as a flying knife, throwing it over fiercely.

  "Futile struggle!" The white-browed man didn't dare to let the sword pierce his body, and simply turned his long sword to block the war knife. He then stabbed towards Ma Jin Xiao's throat.

  "Father, mother, sister, uncle, elder brother... your revenge, Jin Xiao has avenged! Died without regret...". For twenty-one years, he had been carrying the hatred, and now that it was finally resolved, Ma Jin Xiao faced death with equanimity. Suddenly, in his mind's eye appeared the image of a child who had stood in front of his mother even when facing bandits, "Little He, Master wanted to teach you, unfortunately, from now on you can only rely on yourself."

  "Clang!"

  A crisp sound rang out.

  The white-browed man only felt a phantom shadow on his sword blade, the force was so great that he couldn't even control his long sword, and he was shocked... He saw a masked black-clothed man appear like lightning, kicking the ground with one foot, sending Ma Jin Xiao flying: "Hurry up!"

  Ma Jin Xiao was suspended in mid-air, and only then did he react, one life and one death, causing Ma Jin Xiao's mind to be stirred up.

  "Thanks for saving my life!" Ma Jin Xiao shouted as soon as he landed, and then immediately jumped up and escaped.

  Seeing Ma Jin shout escape, the white eyebrowed man's heart was even more angry, the sharp sword in his hand surged with silver light, as if a sword curtain covered the black-clothed man who wanted to escape, leaving him nowhere to hide. The strong air blade caused by the sword curtain also plowed out deep trenches on the surrounding ground.

  "Hmmph!"

  Seeing the black-clothed man being intercepted by the sword curtain, he let out a furious roar and threw a punch directly at the silver giant sword curtain.

  “Boom!” The fist shattered the sword curtain and slammed into the white-browed man's chest, hitting his Pre-Heaven True Yuan light shield. The white-browed man flew backwards like a shooting star, smashing through one wall after another, shattering four walls before he finally crashed to the ground in a sorry state. With great difficulty, the white-browed man coughed up a mouthful of blood and looked up.

  The black-clad men had already made their move, and the Divine Guard who had just arrived were too late to stop them.

  "Who are you!" The white-browed man roared in discontent.

  "Don't be so arrogant!"

  The cold voice was still echoing, and the masked man in black had already disappeared into the night.

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