Time flies, and it is already March 15th.
The arena, which was originally used for second- and third-rate gangs to resolve conflicts, was reinforced and expanded in the past few days.
However, this place is obviously no longer an arena, but the venue for today's martial arts conference. It is where the major gangs will decide on the new martial arts leader and the ceremony for the new martial arts leader to take over will be held.
A large screen was erected on the high platform, on which was carved a scene of a dragon and a tiger fighting with clouds and winds rising. Swords and spears were vaguely outlined in the rolling clouds around, but in the middle was a warm yellow sun, which completely eliminated the idea of ​​fighting in the whole picture.
This is exactly in line with the meaning that after the new leader is elected today, he will still be able to mediate between the eight parties and appease the disputes among the righteous parties.
In front of the screen is an armchair, in front of which is an incense table, on which is placed a token symbolizing the identity of the leader of the martial arts world.
Originally, this throne was prepared for Qiao Shangzhou, and the token should have been handed over by Qiao Shangzhou personally to the new leader of the martial arts world, but he had already "died", so the token was directly placed on the incense table, and the throne was left empty.
In the sheds on both sides sat the leaders of a dozen or so first-rate gangs and some famous figures in the underworld.
At the time of the sunrise at Yin hour, thousands of people had already gathered on this street, under the high platform.
Doctor Wuqi was also sitting in the shed on the left, his palms gently stroking the Qilin carved on the armrests of the chair, and said calmly, "I think it's about time."
As soon as he said this, the head of Huashan Sect beside him suddenly snorted and laughed, saying, "It's almost done."
Yi Wuqi knew that the Huashan Sect Leader was dissatisfied, but since his life was still in his hands, he didn't care and just said, "Let's get started."
At this point, a man walked out of the shed. He was a fat middle-aged man with gorgeous clothes, but his martial arts skills were superb. There were ten steps from each of the sheds on both sides to the platform. He just lightly stepped on the platform and not only crossed the ten steps, but also landed directly in front of the platform, with his body facing the many martial artists below the platform.
This man is Shuishangfei, who controls the Yangtze River Water Fort. At least 30% of the profits from the water transportation on the Yangtze River are involved in his hands. He makes a fortune every day. He is also the person chosen by everyone to host the meeting today.
Shui Shangfei is used to doing business. He explained the key points in just a few words and got straight to the point.
"Where there are people, there is a martial arts world. However, there are many wars in the martial arts world, and people with ambitions and ulterior motives emerge in an endless stream. Even if we, the righteous, rise up to fight, we will always be unable to cope with it. Moreover, when people with hot blood and blood get into disputes, we cannot simply judge them as good or evil, and waste the blood of righteous men."
"In the past few years, the various gangs have realized that fighting each other is not a good idea, so they jointly elected a martial arts leader to mediate disputes, unify all parties, and suppress evil ways. That is the old leader Qiao."
Shui Shangfei bowed to the empty chair on the platform, and the people below the platform also stood in awe. He added: "Old Alliance Leader Qiao has worked hard for the cause of the martial arts world for many years and has made many contributions. This spring, he felt that he was too old and unable to do his job, so he decided to select a more powerful and experienced warrior to take over. That's why we have this meeting today."
"Although not long ago, a villain secretly murdered several of the leaders present at the meeting, we must not neglect the important matter. I think if they can see the martial arts conference held as scheduled today and bring the villain to justice, they will be able to smile in their graves."
Shui Shangfei paused for a moment, waiting for the audience to discuss for a while before continuing. His slightly fat face had a gentle smile, but he glanced at Doctor Wuqi with a very covert sneer.
Doctor Wuqi didn't notice it. He just thought that the next thing to talk about was the new leader of the martial arts world. Looking at the people in the martial arts world who were talking and looking at this place frequently, he caught some words in his ears that it must be the miracle doctor who took over.
A feeling of pride and superiority arose in his heart.
"Yes, at this moment, who else can take the position of leader but me ?"
Thinking of the high status and reputation of the leader of the martial arts world in the future, Yi Wuqi, who had been patient for more than 30 years, couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. He clasped the armrest a little harder to hide his smile.
Just as the people in the audience were about to surge up in support of Medical Wuqi, there was suddenly a commotion at the back of the crowd.
The crowd was like a wheat field in autumn, separated by an invisible ship, making way for a path.
Dozens of men in mourning, protecting a coffin in the middle, walked through the crowd and headed towards the platform.
The two people walking in front of the group were Cui Bailong and Qiao Xiaoshan.
Generally speaking, people are buried seven days after their death.
It has been more than seven days since Qiao Shangzhou died, but his son and apprentice did not bury him. Instead, they carried the coffin here.
Everyone was talking about all sorts of things at once, completely forgetting the discussion about the new leader of the martial arts world.
Gui You, who was also present, felt something was wrong. Yi Wuqi also frowned and gave Shui Shangfei on the stage several looks, but Shui Shangfei remained unmoved. He simply left the shed and came to the stage, saying loudly, "Nephew Qiao, although today is a martial arts conference, the old hero Qiao has passed away. How can you disturb his spirit and carry the coffin here?"
Qiao Xiaoshan looked cold and didn't answer.
Cui Bailong stepped onto the platform, clasped his fists and saluted to the people around the platform, and said: "Everyone, we are here today to carry the coffin, not for any other reason, but just to ask, with today's meeting, have all the traitors who plotted and harmed the heads of the various families been arrested, to comfort the souls of the victims in heaven?"
"So it's about this matter." Doctor Wuqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The envoy of Peony who poisoned him has been killed by me. Although the traitor Lu Xiaofeng who harmed the old hero Qiao has not been brought to justice, after the new leader of the martial arts world is elected today, the power of the righteous martial arts world will be used to make him have no way to go to heaven or hell, and he will be in constant fear and have no place to bury his body after death!"
Doctor Wuqi took two steps forward and came to the edge of the high platform. Facing the martial arts heroes, he said with emotion: "I, Doctor Wuqi, can swear here that even if it takes my entire life, I must capture and kill Lu Xiaofeng..."
"Who said it was Lu Xiaofeng?" Cui Bailong interrupted Yi Wuqi, staring at him with burning eyes and pointing angrily, "I'm talking about you!"
Doctor Wuqi's pupils suddenly shrank, and the crowd was in an uproar.
The leaders of each faction sneered.
Gui You's eyes were filled with shock, and he quietly placed his hand on the sword box next to Doctor Wuqi's seat.
"Poisoning the leaders of various sects, intending to murder my master and frame Hero Lu for the crime."
Cui Bailong shouted in a voice that shook the whole world, "Aren't all these things done by you, a despicable and shameless doctor who is seeking fame and reputation?!"
Doctor Wuqi's face darkened and he said, "Nephew Cui, the leader of the martial world is not a master-disciple inheritance. After the death of the hero Qiao, no one chose you to be the leader. You can't accuse me like this. What evidence do you have that you dare to talk nonsense here?"
He was indeed a shrewd man, and with just a few words he managed to stir the minds of everyone in the audience. Some people even thought that Cui Bailong was jealous and framed him.
Cui Bailong laughed: "Do you think I don't have evidence? The leaders of all factions can testify."
Doctor Wuqi looked back with a sinister look. He didn't believe that these people really dared to risk their lives.
But at this time, the leaders of various factions stood up one after another.
"Yes, we can all testify that you were the one who secretly poisoned us and used a time-limited antidote to mitigate the poison in order to threaten us."
In fact, they haven't figured out who poisoned the patient yet, but it doesn't matter. They can just put the blame on Yi Wuqi first.
Shui Shangfei even shouted on the stage: "Everyone, this man actually tried to play with the heroes of the world in his hands. If it weren't for the hero Fang and the leader Qiao running around to expose his true face, I'm afraid we would still be kept in the dark by him. If this man doesn't die today, won't it be hated by both humans and gods?"
"Alliance Leader Qiao?!!!"
Shui Shangfei's words caused another uproar in the audience, and even Doctor Wuqi was a little stunned.
I saw a figure in the air passing over the screen on the high platform and landing on the armchair. He was wearing a Sichuan brocade robe, with a purple face and a long face. He looked intimidating without even being angry.
If it’s not Qiao Shangzhou, who else could it be?
Today's conference had a series of twists and turns right from the start. When Qiao Shangzhou showed up, the crowd was in an uproar and chaos immediately broke out.
On a tall building fifty steps away from the platform, Fang Yunhan leaned against the railing, looking down at the crowd below. He saw a man among them, moving like a fish in the chaotic crowd without being bumped at all. His eyes suddenly fixed.
"Qiao Shangzhou, you are not dead?" Doctor Wuqi looked at the angry faces of the leaders, knowing that the situation was irreversible, and sneered, "Just because he is not dead, you dare to betray me. Do you know how miserable your death will be if there is no antidote in three months?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Qiao Shangzhou laughed loudly, "Doctor Wuqi, did you know that Hero Fang has mastered a rare and miraculous skill and has already used silent sound to force out the poison in the bones of the leaders? Thank you for your antidote. If it weren't for your medicine that temporarily suppressed the toxicity, the process of forcing out the poison with silent sound would not be so easy."
"What?!" When Yi Wuqi heard that his poison had been broken, it seemed to be more painful than all the previous twists and turns. His face suddenly twisted, "I don't believe it! Who can cure my poison? Come out."
He suddenly turned around and looked at the coffin below the stage, "Qiao Shangzhou is not dead, who is in the coffin?"
"Of course it's me."
A lazy voice came from inside the coffin.
A figure broke out of the coffin and landed on the high platform, floating like smoke. For a moment, it seemed as if there were four eyebrows on his face, and he was beaming with joy.
"Lu Xiaofeng?" When Doctor Wuqi saw Lu Xiaofeng, the distortion on his face gradually calmed down, and he even smiled a little, "It was you who was lying in the coffin from the beginning?"
"Yes, what are you laughing at..."
Before Lu Xiaofeng finished speaking, he already knew why the other party laughed, because when he said this, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart.
Cui Bailong, who was standing next to Lu Xiaofeng, exclaimed in surprise. He found that the hero Lu's face suddenly turned green.
That’s right, it literally turns green, as green as a caterpillar.
Lu Xiaofeng was also surprised and asked in a trembling voice: "You actually poisoned a dead person?"
Cui Bailong's expression also changed, and he quickly put a palm on Lu Xiaofeng's back to help him suppress the poison.
"I was afraid that he didn't die cleanly, but in order to prevent the corpse from changing too obviously, I used a slow-acting poison. If you hadn't used your internal energy when you broke the coffin just now, the poison wouldn't have taken effect so quickly."
Doctor Wuqi looked around and sighed, "If you had recognized me as the leader of the martial arts world, you would have been in trouble in the future... Humph, now that things have come to this, you are courting death."
The head of Huashan drew his sword and shouted, "Why are you still talking to him? Go ahead!"
The last two words spoken by the head of Huashan were actually reduplicated.
Just because at that moment, Doctor Wuqi also shouted loudly.
"Get started!"
Among the martial arts heroes in the audience, suddenly hundreds of them rushed towards the sheds on both sides with swords and knives.
Among the followers of the major sects in the sheds on both sides, some suddenly drew their swords and stabbed the commanders beside them.
Many were caught off guard and killed on the spot.
When the blood splashed out, the crowd below the stage became more than ten times more chaotic than before.
Although there were a large number of people in the audience, when trouble really broke out, the only ones who could react in time and stand firm were the direct descendants of the leaders of these major gangs, a total of more than a hundred people.
The number of people on both sides was almost the same, and the major gangs were attacked suddenly. For a while, no one could rush to the stage.
Around the platform, more than 300 people began to fight, and the rest of the people dispersed and retreated to a farther place.
In just the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen corpses on the field. The sounds of hundreds of people's swords clashing, breathing and shouting seemed to have pulled the entire block into the battlefield.
choke!!!
Gui You took out the Liang Yi Divine Sword, and the sword split into two halves along the sword spine in his hand, like two long and narrow knives.
As he spun and flew, the two knives emitted rays of light in all directions.
Not to mention ordinary gang disciples, even the precious swords in the hands of the leaders that were infused with 100% of their power were completely defenseless in front of these two knives, and were swept away like melons and vegetables.
Broken limbs, swords and knives flew everywhere. The one-eyed elder of Huashan Sect couldn't dodge in time and his right arm was chopped off at the first sight.
A bloody path was immediately cut through the shed.
A few gang leaders who rushed out wanted to go up to the platform to kill Yi Wuqi first, but were suddenly blocked by a series of flying needles. They looked around but couldn't find where the flying needles came from, so they could only dodge in embarrassment.
On the high platform, Qiao Shangzhou and Shui Shangfei attacked fiercely.
Doctor Wuqi stretched out his hands as if picking up flowers, and when he was about to fight with the other two, his clenched fingers suddenly dispersed, unable to separate or join together, like a big tree with branches and leaves swaying in the wind.
Palm shadows flew, and within four or five moves, two figures flew backwards one after another and hit the large screen that was more than three meters high.
Qiao Shangzhou was still seriously injured, but Shui Shangfei was in perfect condition and could definitely be ranked among the best in the martial arts world. However, he couldn't even last more than ten moves at the hands of Yi Wuqi.
Yi Wuqi was about to chase after him, but Lu Xiaofeng, who was trying hard to suppress the poison, suddenly spoke.
"You have mixed various martial arts, but your foundation is Shaolin's Thousand-Leaf Hand of Great Compassion. I think even Master Tiejian, one of the four great Shaolin monks, cannot match your attainments in this unique martial art."
Doctor Wuqi stopped and turned to look at Lu Xiaofeng, only to see that his face was full of sincere admiration, "With your martial arts skills, you are actually just a lay disciple of Shaolin. You are hiding too deeply."
Doctor Wuqi didn't comment, his face twitched for a moment, and he asked in surprise: "Are you really not afraid of death? You dare to speak at this time?"
"Of course I'm afraid of death." Lu Xiaofeng's face was full of bitterness, "I'm more afraid of death than anyone else, because I always feel that I love life more than most people. So, I had to use my trump card."
"Do you have any other trump card?" Doctor Wuqi's face also became serious.
Anyone in the martial arts world who dares to look down on Lu Xiaofeng will probably have grass ten feet high on his grave.
Even though he is poisoned now, this killer move will definitely be an amazing secret trick, and Yi Wuqi cannot help but be cautious.
Lu Xiaofeng pursed his lips, as if taking a deep breath. An unprecedented trick was about to be used, and the critical situation would be broken.
He moved!
He moved his mouth first.
Yi Wuqi dodged immediately. He suspected that the opponent was using his mouth to perform a special move. Examples like this were not uncommon in the martial arts world.
But he missed his chance, because what came out of Lu Xiaofeng's mouth were just sounds.
A loud scream.
"Brother Fang, please help me!"