Magical Water Margin: They all call me brother

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However, if we catch her the moment she enters the cellar and lasso her with a transforming lasso, preventing her from transforming, she's just an unarmed little girl, much easier to subdue.

The second brothel thug let out a smug sound.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at this little girl, so delicate and tender. She's wearing the deformed lasso like a collar! Let me train her for a few months, crush all her self-esteem and pride. Then, we can get a good price to make up for our losses during this time."

I remember that Master Huo from the west of the city loved these little girls who hadn't grown up yet.

The third brothel thug lewdly eyed Li Cunxiao's loli-like form, which terrified Li Cunxiao, who had fallen into the trap. She wanted to scream, but two or three ropes tightened around her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word!

Chapter 35: The Return of the Broken Army Star and the Purple Star (Bonus Chapter for 800 Monthly Tickets!!!)

Seeing Li Cunxiao fall into the trap, Wu Song and Liu Hong's expressions changed drastically.

"Sister! You are the strongest fighter, so stay behind. I'll go scout ahead and see what other traps there are, then I'll call them out to you."

Liu Hong said in a low voice, then brandished his iron rod and charged out of the tunnel!

"There's still one?!"

"Don't be afraid. This Shatuo man has gathered some underlings, they're all trash, just kill them without a second thought."

The thugs didn't take Liu Hong's appearance seriously.

But the next second, a single iron rod, trailing two dazzling and beautiful star-like tails, hurtled through the air like a double-tailed comet, smashing the head of a henchman! His skull exploded like a ripe watermelon, red blood, yellow brain matter, and blue starlight blooming like tricolor fireworks in the darkness.

When sparring with Yue Fei, Liu Hong did not use the Tiangang Slash, so he was only familiar with the practical combat techniques taught by Zhou Tong.

However, in that battle, Liu Hong gradually mastered the advanced combat techniques of the Heavenly Gang Slash—anyway, with the double burden reduction from the [Energy Storage Collar] and [Seven Kills], using the double Heavenly Gang Slash doesn't consume any spiritual energy. The triple slash consumes 1 point of spiritual energy, and the quadruple slash consumes 2 points.

Why don't I try to make every strike possess the power of a double Heavenly Slash? Make every attack ripple with two dazzling star rivers?!

In the first test, the effect was amazing. Using psionic energy requires concentration and martial arts also requires skill, but releasing the Heavenly Gang Slash is as fast and simple as breathing, and it blends perfectly with Professor Zhou Tong's martial arts.

All you could see was a single iron rod dragging two dazzling, beautiful, dark blue star rivers, whooshing through the darkness like a double-tailed comet!

The Flying Dragon Tail Whip, which combines defense and control, is incredibly powerful when combined with the Heavenly Gang Slash. It can take down two thugs and sweep away three weapons in an instant. However, the problem is that the location of the cellar exit is too bad. More than a dozen people surrounded Liu Hong and heavily surrounded him.

This unfavorable position meant that no matter which way Liu Hong faced, there were at least two or three enemies behind him, launching attacks from his blind spots and catching him off guard.

While Liu Hong was ambushing and killing three henchmen, he was hit by two clubs and three arrows in the back, and his left shoulder was even torn open by a broadsword, causing blood to gush out immediately. This was even with some henchmen holding lassos and unable to join the battle; otherwise, his injuries would have been even more severe.

During this time, Liu Hong also observed the situation inside the room. Besides the people he had defeated, there were eleven thugs in the cellar, all of them level one to three warriors! Their level of elite strength was very high, not on the same level as the servants that Li Cunxiao had subdued. The leader, a burly man, was even a demon, and the rope he held emitted a dazzling magical glow.

【Deformable Lasso】: Targets that touch the rope cannot deform.

"Are all the mothers of you eleven bastards prostitutes too?! Do they also like to surround their patrons and serve them together?"

Liu Hong's insults were extremely offensive, drawing the attention of these people while simultaneously relaying a message to Wu Song below—eleven enemies had surrounded the entrance.

Then, he stomped his feet on the ground, his entire being combining a fierce attack, fearless charge, and destructive assault into one, launching a terrifying, all-out offensive charge towards the leader who held Li Cunxiao captive with a transforming lasso! The Heavenly Gang Slash behind him unleashed two dazzling and dangerous galaxies of destruction.

"clang!!!"

The leader was quite capable; he raised his shield high with his left hand, blocking Liu Hong's determined charge. However, he held a lasso in his right hand to control Li Cunxiao, making it impossible for him to attack or switch weapons for the time being.

Two henchmen fired two more arrows, which pierced Liu Hong's back, causing him excruciating pain.

Liu Hong remained silent, enduring the pain. He then steadied himself, and with a sudden jerk of his hands, the tip of the iron rod hummed like a thousand birds in silence. The gentle force of the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique was infused into the incomparably fierce iron rod. What should have been the spear flowers and vortexes created by the shaking of the spear now transformed into a hundred afterimages as the iron rod trembled. This was the second move of the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique, "Phoenix Falling into the Cloud Vortex".

The leader was dazzled by the afterimages created by the stick, unsure how to react or which stick shadows were real and which were illusory.

The next instant, Liu Hong thrust out the iron rod, and the hundred illusory rod shadows collapsed into a solid iron rod wrapped with two star rivers. It bypassed the shield and struck the opponent's chest hard!

"You kid——"

The burly man's muscles suddenly collapsed into a twisted bronze shell, the sticky sound of the flesh contorting mingling with the hiss of metal being quenched. The instant the iron rod struck his chest, hundreds of sparks of crimson gold exploded like firecrackers on New Year's Eve, each spark reflecting Liu Hong's suddenly contracted pupils—the surface of his bronze skin was engraved with Khorne's demonic runes.

His flesh and blood turned to bronze; this was his demonic power.

Liu Hong did not back down. Two clusters of spiritual energy exploded deep in his pupils, and the double galaxy wrapped around the tip of his staff doubled into four! The four dazzling star trails, like four star dragons, intertwined with each other at the tip of the staff, baring their fangs and claws, and continued to rush forward with Liu Hong's powerful hands!

All that could be seen was the power of the thirty-six Heavenly Stars, flowing from the tip of the staff into the brass body, instantly creating terrifying spiderweb-like cracks on his skin, spreading from the tip of the staff to his entire body!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The sound of spiderweb cracks spreading and extending on the brass shell was like thousands of pieces of glass shattering one after another under the moon. The starlight, like liquid mercury that could penetrate everywhere, spread wildly along each brass crack, spreading to the enemy's entire body, making each crack shimmer with a ghostly blue starlight in the darkness, illuminating the dim cellar as if it were daytime.

"drink!!!"

When Liu Hong roared and spun his staff, his entire bronze body exploded into a rain of bronze! Bronzes and dark blue starlight scattered everywhere, and the leader was beaten back into flesh and blood.

With the high lethality of the combination of [Phoenix Falling Cloud Vortex] and the Fourfold Heavenly Gang Slash, even without a spearhead, the iron rod was powerful enough to smash flesh and blood, pierce ribs, and pierce right through his body! When the tip of the rod emerged from the strong man's back, not a drop of blood was on it; only the acrid smell of star energy burning his heart filled the entire area.

"Pfft."

The bandit leader's legs buckled, and his lifeless body collapsed to the ground. His hand holding the deformed lasso loosened, and his unfocused pupils still reflected the iron rod that had pierced his heart—the end of the rod was still trembling, like the last clear cry of a phoenix before returning to its nest.

When Liu Hong pulled out his stick, a cloud of blood mist was drawn out, but it was evaporated into a thin, scarlet smoke in mid-air by the still-hot starry sky.

This scene not only stunned the henchmen, but even Li Cunxiao was dumbfounded, his heart pounding wildly.

I really don't know what I did wrong. I was born without parents and was inexplicably hunted down and imprisoned by some people. Luckily, I managed to escape every time.

This time, although I fell into the trap again, I was no longer fighting alone. Someone was willing to step into danger, and someone was willing to save me! Even if I was covered in wounds and blood, I would not hesitate.

At that moment, Liu Hong, covered in blood and with five arrows stuck in his back, appeared as majestic as a god in her eyes.

Suddenly, Liu Hong found himself growing taller like a bamboo shoot! His bones crackled and popped as he grew taller, transforming from a towering 1.9 meters tall into a 2.4-meter giant like Wu Song! His fair skin, covered with dark blue veins, now revealed ethereal blue dragon scales that covered his body.

And his own psychic control had also changed; after Pan Jinlian, he had a second deployment.

[Li Cunxiao - Blue Dragon Breaker]: Increases size by one level, Strength +2, Constitution +2. Gains 5 points of Physical Defense (Hatchling Dragon Scales +5), and is immune to lightning.

Liu Hong hadn't fully grasped his dragon blood abilities and wasn't sure how to trigger them. However, since she could become his subordinate, did that mean this fledgling dragon named Li Cunxiao admired him just like Pan Jinlian?

To Liu Hong's surprise, another henchman attacked from his blind spot. He viciously swung his broadsword, aiming for Liu Hong's back, but this time, the blade was blocked by a layer of ethereal cobalt blue scales, and he couldn't cut even a fraction of it.

With this ability, it's like wearing a suit of scales, and physical defense begins to steadily improve.

"Look at you! So careless! There were only so few of them, and you've already slashed your back like this!"

Li Cunxiao was so moved he almost cried, but he remained stubbornly defiant.

"Quickly untie my noose! I'll help you!"

Chapter Thirty-Six: The Extravagant and Debauched Life in Daming Prefecture

Liu Hong wielded his iron cudgel, executing a sweeping attack that sent the bandits behind him flying. He then rushed out through the gap in the encirclement created by killing the bandit leader! With his back against the cellar wall, he finally escaped the encirclement of numerous bandits from all sides.

Of the remaining ten bandits, two went to guard Li Cunxiao, while the other eight abandoned their siege of the cellar's secret door and charged towards Liu Hong, exposing their backs to the secret door.

"Sister! Now!!!"

With a roar, Liu Hong wielded his iron rod with great force, using the Flying Dragon Staff Technique for excellent defense and control, along with his massive 2.4-meter frame and super-long arm span, to keep the eight bandits at bay.

At the same time, a series of teeth-grinding metallic scraping sounds came from the hidden door of the cellar, and red and blue lights shot into the sky, instantly turning half of the cellar into a bizarre and beautiful theater of interwoven silver-blue and orange-red light. Wu Song, wielding a sharp steel knife with the power of ice and fire, crawled out of the ground like a demon god, and before him were the backs of ten bandits.

"back--"

One of the robbers cried out in alarm, but before he could finish speaking, his soft neck was mercilessly sliced ​​open by the steel blade. The delicate blood vessels and the spurting drops of blood were burned into black charcoal by the burst of fire from the blade.

Wu Song remained silent, only hacking and slashing. He twisted his wrist and swung his sword, the ice crystals from the left blade falling like aurora borealis, the sparks from the right blade exploding like molten lava. His slender waist twisted, causing the red silk to flutter.

As the second glint of cold light grazed the bandits' Adam's apples, she had already used her unique jade ring footwork to spin and cut into the crowd. The icy blade drew a cold, lonely crescent arc in the instant she bent down, and two bandits were covered in frost below their knees. Before they could fall, they were slashed by the fiery blade that followed—a red-hot steel blade at over a hundred degrees Celsius swept across their necks, and their two heads turned into blazing crimson meteors, thudding against the cellar wall.

"There's one more person!"

"Just corner the one with the stick! Deal with the one behind him first!"

"Damn, how come they're all little giants like Suo Chao? They're so tall?!"

The bandits were thrown into chaos. Under Liu Hong's cover, Wu Song entered the battlefield at the perfect moment, once again forming a pincer movement with Liu Hong against the bandits.

In the instant she leaped backward, the Drunken Tiger Blood Claw technique, with its overlapping force, exploded into a shockwave at Wu Song's toes. Using the recoil, she instantly created distance between herself and the bandits, causing their two broadswords to miss their mark, while she retreated to the cellar wall.

The next second, she slammed her feet against the wall and launched a three-in-one destructive charge! She charged into the crowd like a tiger descending a mountain, her twin blades unleashing a dazzling and terrifying ice and fire dance in a circular motion, using the Drunken Tiger Blood Claw's [Mongoose Dance] technique to deliver a full-round charge combo!

The ice blade froze flesh and weapons in its wake, while the fire blade clung to the frozen ice, tracing a melting and cutting path. Before the broken weapons and severed fingers even hit the ground, she stepped on the ground with her left foot and delivered a flying kick with her right foot, sending a bandit who had attacked from the side flying!

Amidst the bandits' screams, Wu Song brandished his twin swords and spun through the air. The two steel blades stirred up a storm, dancing like whirlwinds through the crowd. Liu Hong, fighting in a group, relied on the defensive stance of the Flying Dragon Staff Technique, along with the tough dragon scales that Li Cunxiao had just shared with him, to withstand the damage.

Wu Song, relying on the evasion bonus of Drunken Fist, the alluring illusion of the Scaled Armor Monk, and his own superb agility, managed to keep the bandits from even touching the hem of his clothes! His twin blades created a sky full of afterimages, killing heads rolling and blood flowing like a river. In just a few breaths, ten corpses fell to the ground, arranged in a radial pattern of ice and fire totems.

Standing in the center, the blood-stained Wu Song twirled his sword a few times, shaking off the bloodstains. The remaining azure frost and crimson flames on the blade dripped down the tassels of his waistband, blooming into fleeting red lotus frost flowers in the pool of blood.

"Sister, you're really skilled!"

Liu Hong looked at Wu Song with envy. He was quite capable now, but there was still a huge gap between him and Wu Song.

"Thanks to my younger brother for drawing their attention, which created a perfect opportunity for me to perform. If I had been surrounded from the start, I might not have done any better than my brother—'Don't pull it out! The arrow can stop the bleeding on your body, but if you pull it out, the bleeding will not stop!'"

Wu Song rushed behind Liu Hong to stop him from pulling out the arrow from his back.

"It's alright, I have Star Healing to heal. These arrows are really hindering my movement."

Liu Hong gritted his teeth and pulled out an arrow.

"Then let me help you."

Wu Song looked at his younger brother with heartache and helped him pull out the arrows from his back. Liu Hong silently guided the stars, consuming a full five points of spiritual energy, before the wounds on his back were mostly healed.

With the four Heavenly Gang Slashes he had just unleashed, he still had two points of spiritual energy left.

After treating the wounds briefly, Liu Hong and Wu Song untied the tangled ropes binding the young dragon.

"Thank you, but I... I was just careless! I didn't dodge! Hmph! It seems recruiting you was the right thing to do. You're quite capable, worthy of that two-thirds share of the profits."

Li Cunxiao looked at the two people who came to rescue her. Her eyes were red with emotion, and crystal tears were welling up in her eyes. But when she opened her mouth, she said some stubborn words. She touched her wrists and neck and found that they were red and swollen from being tied with hemp rope. It hurt so much that she grimaced when she touched them.

Liu Hong's index finger shimmered with starlight, and beams of soft, warm starlight gently caressed Li Cunxiao's wounds, exhausting his last bit of spiritual energy to heal the little dragon's injuries, making her eyes even redder. Suddenly, she began blinking frantically, her Adam's apple bobbing as she swallowed and sobbed.

"I, I, I've been captured before, I can escape on my own, I can escape... Waaaaah!"

As she spoke, Li Cunxiao felt a sudden surge of grievance and fear. For the first time, she had someone to rely on, for the first time she didn't have to face the dangerous world alone, for the first time someone had saved her... The little dragon, who had never encountered a normal person since birth, threw herself into Liu Hong's arms and burst into tears.

"Alright, alright, be careful next time. You're such a clumsy kid."

Wu Song, unusually soft-hearted, comforted the fledgling dragon with a few words, then pulled Liu Hong and Li Cunxiao into his arms to soothe them. The girl's bright red earlobes peeked out from Liu Hong's arm, her protests, punctuated by sobs, were all muffled by the choked sobs. Her little tail, however, wrapped around Wu Song's waist, greedily savoring the feeling of being embraced.

"Alright, you clingy little thing, I'll let you hug me as much as you want after the mission is done. We don't have much time."

Liu Hong glanced at them and saw that although these people were of high rank, they didn't have anything special except for the transforming lasso.

"I'm not clingy at all! I've lived on my own since I was born, and I'm very independent and self-reliant!"

Li Cunxiao blushed and protested loudly, but looking at himself as he snuggled into their arms, he realized that his words were not very convincing.

It's so strange. Why did I, such an independent young dragon, become so clingy after meeting them?

Liu Hong smiled and put Xiaolong down, picked up the deformed lasso, and the three of them rushed to the ground together. In an instant, they fell from the dark and dirty underground city into a dazzling and prosperous building complex.

Several rows of towering, carved beams and painted rafters support a magnificent glazed dome. Thirty-six gilded and silver-inlaid palace lanterns illuminate the brothel as if it were daytime. Pink silk embroidered with mandarin ducks and other floral patterns winds its way down the beams, transforming in the night breeze into hundreds of intertwined jade pythons. Candlelight filtering through the scales illuminates the lifelike erotic paintings on the walls.

In the center of the hall, a large number of beautiful, naked prostitutes danced gracefully under the palace lanterns. Their arms swayed like white snakes, their bare feet shattered the shimmering glass, and the golden bells on their nipples and the gold-leaf peonies inlaid on their nipples vibrated and jingled in unison with their exquisite dance steps.

Whenever the dancers twirl, the fine gold chains embedded in their nipples brush against the noses of the customers, and the pearl curtains hanging from their waists and hips cover their buttocks just right, yet flutter and dance just right, making the dark forest and pink lips appear and disappear in the glittering jewels.

Several popular courtesans plucked the strings of the pipa and zither, singing erotic songs and occasionally swaying their hips, causing the copper bells hanging from their nipples to jingle and add a touch of enchanting music to their pipa.

The poems, so provocative they were almost sensual, drew praise from numerous high-ranking officials and nobles. One young man even threw a copper coin at her breasts. As the singer craned her neck in pain, the copper coins that had accumulated in the hollow of her collarbone clattered out, awakening the bestiality of the drunkards in the hall with her painful moans.

In an instant, the onlookers pulled out their money bags, and a large number of copper coins rained down on the chests, thighs, and even private parts of the singers and dancers, creating waves of sensual flesh on their fair bodies. The prostitutes who were hit by the coins pouted and their eyes darted around. It was less annoyance and more flirtation, which made the onlookers even more excited and they threw out even more copper coins.

The most outrageous playboy even suggested starting a competition to see who could throw copper coins at the leading songstress. The pair of copper bells hanging from her breasts made a sound that immediately drew cheers!

Some threw copper coins into the heart of a peony, while others tossed silver fragments that embedded themselves in gold rings around their navels, causing the two clusters of ruby-red nipples on their chests to sway like tears of blood. With each copper coin that hit the target, the prostitutes, performing with great effort, would emit a trembling sound like dying swans. The snow-white skin struck by the coins would instantly turn red, and with each subsequent impact, even more vibrant bruises would bloom. Yet, their smiles, amidst the pain, would flush with a sickly redness. In their agony and humiliation, they would play the piano faster and dance more wildly!

Soon, copper coins covered the stage in a thick layer. The barefoot dancers, each toe holding three Chongning Zhengbao coins, sank into the pile of coins. They danced gracefully on the sea of ​​brass, and under the manipulation of their patrons, they performed a dance of pleasure to the point of death amidst the desecration of money.

Chapter Thirty-Seven: On the Four Gods Warming Wine to Slay Demons

In an instant, Liu Hong felt as if his eyes had been forcibly torn in two by the dazzling world on the ground—his left retina retained the dark tunnel of corpses strewn across the Ghost Fanlou, while his right retina was filled with the gilded river of decadent revelry in the Yihonglou. As he staggered and grabbed the carved balustrade, fragments of the bandits' dried blood scabs and rouge powder left by an unknown person fell through his fingers.

Liu Hong patted his ears, and the sweet, lewd songs and the fierce roars and shouts rang out at the same time. The smell of rust and blood and the fragrance of rouge and incense wafted into his nostrils. The Ghost Fanlou he had just left seemed like a different world in this noisy and beautiful scene.

Liu Hong was almost mesmerized by this bustling world. The vibrant flowers of the surface world were vastly different from the darkness and filth of the underground world. Although the Fanlou and the Ghost Fanlou were only a few meters apart, they were like two completely opposite worlds!

Wu Song patted Liu Hong, waking him from his daze. The three of them exchanged a glance, put on their masks, and suddenly charged out, completely ignoring the people on the first floor. They rushed straight up the stairs to the top floor. The patrons on the first floor were focused on the dancers and didn't notice or care about the group's actions.

"Stop! The second floor is for guest rooms. You can only do so with the girl on the way..."

Several brothel thugs hurriedly tried to stop the two, but Liu Hong ignored him and smashed his head with a stick. Wu Song also chopped off the other man's head with a knife. The two looked at each other and charged up the stairs from the left and right like lightning. Only then did the entire brothel fall into chaos with screams!