On the day when the preliminary list was released, Hu Xiaotian went to Honglu Temple to have a look. Unsurprisingly, his name was listed among them. The square in front of Honglu Temple was also crowded with people. Some people laughed happily because they were shortlisted, and even more people
Because he lost the election, he scolded Tianxiang Kingdom for being ignorant.═┝┟╞.﹝.
When Hu Xiaotian separated from the crowd and left, he saw a familiar figure walking towards him. The person who came was Xie Tianqiong, whom he had rescued on the way.
Xie Tianqiong smiled at Hu Xiaotian and said, "Hello, my benefactor!"
Hu Xiaotian knew that Xie Tianqiong's true identity was that of a killer. He nodded and said, "Brother Xie also came to see the results?"
Xie Tianqiong shook his head and said: "I just came here to watch the fun. I happened to meet my benefactor, so I came to say hello." He looked at the place where the list was posted in the distance and said, "Has my benefactor been selected?"
Hu Xiaotian nodded.
Xie Tianqiong smiled and said: "I am too talkative. In fact, there is no suspense about becoming the consort of Tianxiang Kingdom as my benefactor."
Hu Xiaotian smiled and said: "Then I'll lend you some good words!"
A group of people passed by in the distance. Xie Tianqiong looked a little nervous obviously. He lowered his head quietly. When the group walked away, he smiled at Hu Xiaotian and said, "My lord, I'll leave first. I'll be here in the next two days."
We have to leave Piaoxiang City, if we are destined to meet again someday."
Hu Xiaotian sent him off with a smile. Xie Tianqiong walked a few steps but turned around again and said to Hu Xiaotian: "I have learned some physiognomic techniques. There are dark clouds shrouding the Engong Yintang. There may be a financial disaster recently. I would like to advise you."
My benefactor, it is better to stay away from beggars."
Hu Xiaotian was slightly startled. When he looked again, he saw that Xie Tianqiong had gone away. He winked at Xia Changming.
He has a very strong tracking ability, so he followed Xie Tianqiong to see where he was going.
Xie Tianqiong was extremely vigilant. He walked out for a distance and quietly looked behind him. He was convinced that no one was following him and then he felt relieved. He picked up the horse in a secluded place and climbed on it.╡╡┞.〔《.?o{m All the way to
Going to the west of the city, he came to a remote earth temple in the west of the city. Xie Tianqiong got off his horse, came to the door, stretched out his hand and knocked on the temple door. Not long after, the temple door opened from the inside, and the person who opened the door was a ragged man.
beggar.
Xie Tianqiong led the horse into the Earth Temple and handed the reins to the beggar.
The beggar whispered: "Elder Tong is waiting for you in the main hall."
Xie Tianqiong came to the inner courtyard. The earth temple had been in dilapidated condition because it had been neglected for a long time. In the main hall, a middle-aged beggar in ragged clothes was standing facing the Buddha statue with his hands behind his back. When he heard the footsteps, he slowly turned around.
He turned around and looked at Xie Tianqiong with a pair of small eyes and said, "Tianqiong, are you back?" This person was none other than Tong Tiejin, one of the six new elders of the Beggar Clan.
Xie Tianqiong cupped his fists and saluted: "Hello, Master!"
Tong Tiejin sighed and said: "I have told you that although I have taught you kung fu, we are not masters and disciples. Have you done well what I asked you to do?"
Xie Tianqiong said: "Hu Xiaotian did not agree to my invitation."
The smile on Tong Tiejin's face suddenly faded, he looked at Xie Tianqiong coldly and said, "Can't you even do a small thing well?"
Xie Tianqiong bit his lip and summoned up the courage to say: "To be honest with Elder Tong, Hu Xiaotian was once kind to me, but I cannot repay kindness with enmity!"
Tong Tiejin Jiejie smiled strangely and said: "I am kind to you? I didn't expect that you are a person who can clearly distinguish between grudges and grudges. Tianqiong, Tianqiong, I really did not misjudge you."
Xie Tianqiong knelt down in front of him with a plop: "Elder, Tianqiong can't help you, except for this matter. If the elder sends me to do anything, even if it means going up the mountain of swords and into the sea of fire, Tianqiong will never hesitate at all."
Tong Tiejin sighed, took a step forward, his right hand slowly fell on Xie Tianqiong's shoulder, and whispered: "This matter is indeed embarrassing for you. Forget it! I'll find someone else."
Xie Tianqiong said: "Elder, where did Hu Xiaotian offend you and you must put him to death?"
Tong Tiejin said: "Get up, I will tell you slowly. ╪┠┢┠.<." He stretched out his hand to hold Xie Tianqiong's arm. When Xie Tianqiong stood up, Tong Tiejin struck him like the wind, hitting him several times in an instant.
At the key point, Xie Tianqiong's body softened and he collapsed on the ground. He said in shock: "Elder, why are you doing this?"
Tong Tiejin smiled secretly and said: "You still dare to ask me? What did you say to Hu Xiaotian today? Did you tell him all our plans?"
Xie Tianqiong said: "Elder Tong, I will never betray you..." Before he could finish his words, Tong Tiejin kicked him hard on his lower abdomen. The pain made Xie Tianqiong's body curl up like a shrimp. Tong Tiejin gritted his teeth and said, "I'll save you."
I gave you my life, taught you martial arts, and planned to introduce you to join the Beggar Clan. I didn’t expect you to be an unfamiliar wolf cub and how dare you betray me!"
Xie Tianqiong endured the pain and said: "Elder Tong...I...I have not betrayed you..."
Tong Tiejin sneered: "You treat him as a friend, but you don't know if he treats you as an adult. Since you don't want to help me lure him here, then I have to do it myself." He slowly pulled out a handle from his waist.
A sharp knife about a foot long: "I will cut off your ears now and give them to him as a gift."
The two doors of the main hall were suddenly knocked open, but the beggar who was guarding the door was thrown in. He knocked open the door and fell heavily to the ground.
Tong Tiejin raised his eyes and saw a young man in blue standing there quietly, looking at him with a smile and saying, "Are you looking for me?"
The person who came was none other than Hu Xiaotian, and Xie Tianqiong was also startled. He didn't know why Hu Xiaotian appeared here. Then he thought, he must have been followed by Hu Xiaotian when he returned.
Tong Tiejin's gloomy gaze was cast on Hu Xiaotian's face. He took a step forward, and the joints all over his body crackled. Suddenly, the sharp knife in his hand flew towards Hu Xiaotian like a lightning bolt.
Hu Xiaotian had already activated the weapon the moment he took action. He raised his right hand and clamped the sharp knife with just his index and middle fingers. Without any pause in his steps, he took a step forward and punched Tong Tiejin.
Tong Tiejin also punched out, and the fists collided. Tong Tiejin's strength was obviously much weaker than Hu Xiaotian's, and he was sent flying backwards by Hu Xiaotian's punch. A big hole was made in the wall, and his body disappeared into the hole.
outside.
Although Tong Tiejin is one of the six martial arts elders of the Beggar Clan, he was recently elected after the older generation of martial arts elders were massacred. In the past, he was just a eight-bag disciple in the Beggar Clan. His martial arts skills were not enough to qualify him.
But Tong Tiejin's real strength lies in running for his life.
On the surface, it seemed that he had a head-on punch with Hu Xiaotian. In fact, he did not use all his strength and was ready to escape from the beginning. As soon as his fist came into contact with Hu Xiaotian, he took advantage of the situation and rebounded, smashed through the hole in the wall, and tried to escape from the hole.
Escape.
Tong Tiejin's wishful thinking was brilliant. He escaped from the smoke-filled hole in the wall like a groundhog, trying to leave the Earth Temple before Hu Xiaotian chased him out. But before he could discern the direction, there was a swooping sound above his head.
A dark cloud loomed over him amid the noise, but hundreds of crows blocked his way.
Tong Tiejin never expected that there would be a crow ambushing him outside. He was thrown into a panic for a moment. When he tried to escape by swatting the crow with both hands, Hu Xiaotian had already followed him and punched him in the back of the heart, beating Tong Tiejin.
He vomited blood and fell to the ground.
The group of crows flew away under Xia Changming's order, leaving only a dozen feathers still floating in the air.
Hu Xiaotian stepped on Tong Tiejin's back and sneered: "Old man, what grudge do I have against you? You actually found someone to harm me?"
Tong Tiejin's mouth was full of blood, he gritted his teeth and just sneered.
Hu Xiaotian pulled out the dagger from his boot and threatened: "If you don't want to tell me, I will cut off your ear right now." The cold blade was already pressed against Tong Tiejin's left ear.
Tong Tiejin felt a pain in his left ear, and blood was already flowing out against his cheek. It had obviously been cut by Hu Xiaotian. He growled: "You dare to touch a hair on my head, and Xu Lingkong will never survive!"
Hu Xiaotian was shocked in his heart. Xu Lingkong was his grandfather. Hu Xiaotian only knew that he had a very close relationship with the Beggar Gang, but outsiders probably didn’t know Xu Lingkong’s true identity. In the past, his grandfather had always pretended to be an old beggar named Xu.
, this boy’s iron words were clear and conclusive, clearly implying that something had happened to his grandfather.
Hu Xiaotian patted Tong Tiejin's cheek with a blood-stained dagger: "What happened to my grandpa?"
Tong Tiejin thought he had hit Hu Xiaotian's weakness, and felt a little proud, so he just sneered.
Hu Xiaotian roared angrily: "What's wrong with him?" He raised the knife and cut off Tong Tiejin's left ear. Tong Tiejin screamed in pain, and blood instantly stained half of his cheeks. He screamed: "How dare you hurt me?"
, you don’t want his life..." Before he finished speaking, his right ear was also cut off by Hu Xiaotian.
Hu Xiaotian said coldly: "We have never met before. It seems that you don't understand me. I, Hu Xiaotian, never negotiate conditions with others, and I am not threatened. Let me ask you again, what happened to my grandpa?"
Tong Tiejin's face was covered with blood, and he began to feel chilled in his heart: "He deceived his master and destroyed his ancestors..."
Hu Xiaotian raised his dagger and stabbed it hard into his left arm. Tong Tiejin groaned in pain.
Hu Xiaotian asked: "Where is he?" As he spoke, he twisted the dagger into Tong Tiejin's wound.
Tong Tiejin was so painful that he was sweating profusely. Only then did he realize that the young man in front of him had struck decisively and with a cruelty far beyond his imagination. Tong Tiejin said: "I don't know..."
"Who asked you to harm me?"
Tong Tiejin bit his lip and endured the heartbreaking pain: "The gang leader... is the gang leader..."
"Where is your gang leader?"
"The leader of the gang...is acting...whether the dragon has seen its end...I...don't know..."
Hu Xiaotian said coldly: "I don't know this, I don't know that, what's the use of keeping a waste like you?" He raised his dagger and prepared to take Tong Tiejin's life, but he heard Xie Tianqiong shouting in the distance: "My benefactor, spare my life!
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Hu Xiaotian's dagger stopped in mid-air, and he nodded: "That's fine, I'll let you die for the time being." Although Tong Tiejin's life was spared because of Xie Tianqiong's cry for help, Hu Xiaotian couldn't let him go so easily.
He asked Xia Changming to cut off Tong Tiejin's hand tendons and hamstrings. The new elder of the Beggar Clan could only become a useless person in the future. (To be continued.)
