Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

The battle of Lujiazhuang has ended, but the main culprit has not been brought to justice. The Qingtian Guards tracked down Lu Batian and found that he had escaped from the waterway under the well, but the waterway was too long and no one could swim underwater for that long.

Watching the main culprit escape without being able to pursue him, one can imagine how frustrated the Sky Guards felt, and the scene was silent for a while.

"I go!"

At this moment, Qiao Rui walked out of the crowd calmly, "I have learned the method of holding my breath, maybe I can cross the waterway."

"The breath-holding method can only be used as a temporary solution. It cannot replace breathing. The waterway is narrow and long. If you can't hold your breath to the end, you will be in danger!"

Feng Feiyan frowned and said that she admired Qiao Rui's courage to face challenges head-on, but she was also worried about him.

"No problem!" Shenhou Shenwei glanced at Feng Feiyan, then looked at Qiao Rui and said, "Tie a thin rope down there. If things get impossible, pull the rope three times and we'll quickly drag you out!"

Although there is a solution, it still needs Qiao Rui's approval.

"Okay, let's do this!"

Qiao Rui did not waste time. The longer he delayed, the greater the chances of Lu Batian escaping.

When someone brought a thin rope to tie around his ankles and handed him a fluorite stick, Qiao Rui adjusted his breathing and practiced the breath-holding technique, then dived into the well.

In the coldest time of winter, the well water was surprisingly warm. No wonder Lu Batian, a man without any internal strength, could escape by water, otherwise he would have been frozen to death.

According to what the brother from the Sky Guard had said before, Qiao Rui found the entrance to the waterway on the wall of the well several feet underwater.

The well wall was made of large bluestones, which had been washed and eroded by the well water for many years, making it appear smooth and shiny. Under the pale fluorescent light, the entrance to the waterway looked like the mouth of an animal ready to devour its prey, so gloomy and dark that it was unknown how deep it was.

The waterway is about three or four feet wide, allowing only one person to pass through, and is surrounded by bluestone walls to prevent collapse.

The water flowed downwards, getting deeper and deeper as I swam. The surroundings became darker and darker, and it was eerily quiet. The suppressed boredom raged wildly in my heart, as if I was the only one left in the world, and that faint fluorescent light.

If it were an ordinary person, he would have collapsed and returned home long ago, but Qiao Rui was not an ordinary person. He had a strong and steady mind, superb martial arts and deep internal strength. He kept the true energy in his body and continued to dive.

Everyone outside the well was silently watching the thin rope at the mouth of the well. Now two long ropes had been connected, but it still did not stop sliding down. This showed how long the waterway was. Everyone was shocked. If it weren't for Qiao Rui, it would have been difficult to accomplish the task to the fullest.

After about a cup of tea, the waterway suddenly turned upwards. Qiao Rui had a thought in his mind and guessed that he was almost at the end, so he swam upstream with all his might. After a while, he finally swam out of the water, but he was still in the tunnel.

But Qiao Rui knew that this tunnel would not be too deep from the ground, that is, the distance from the surface of the well to the wellhead, otherwise there would still be water. He just didn't know how long the tunnel was and where it led to. Presumably the exit was secret and should be outside Lianhua Town.

The tunnel was much wider than the waterway, and the air was not turbid. There were torches stuck on the rock wall, which seemed to have been lit not long ago, and the air was not yet filled with a strong smell of smoke. There was a box on the ground, which was empty, and a few wet clothes were thrown on the ground next to it. It seemed that Lu Batian had already prepared clothes and valuables for escape here, so that he would not be left without anything when the time came.

He is truly a shrewd and calculating person.

Qiao Rui untied the thin rope around his ankle, thought for a while, then suddenly took off a torch and tied it to the thin rope, slowly pulled the thin rope three times, and then chased forward. He faintly heard movement in the front.

"Hey, the rope moved, um, three times!" Someone at the well had sharp eyes and immediately noticed the abnormality.

"Hurry, pull him up." Feng Feiyan said anxiously. This was the agreed code. Could something have happened to Qiao Rui?

"Why is it a torch?" Someone pulled the thin rope back, and when it came out of the water, they saw that it was an extinguished torch, and everyone was stunned.

"Don't panic. Where did the torch come from in the water? He probably left the waterway and entered other secret passages. Bringing back a torch will reassure us." The Monkey Guard glanced at everyone calmly, "Leave two people here to watch, and the rest of you can do whatever you need to do!"

Everyone dispersed. Feng Feiyan thought for a moment and said to his junior brother, "Since Qiao Rui is no longer in danger, let's take our junior nephew back to the inn to wait for news, and by the way, wait for our senior sisters to come and join us."

"Okay!" Lin Wenyuan nodded in agreement.

In the underground secret passage, Qiao Rui ran quickly, and he could hear the sound of "huffing and puffing" from the front. Such a high-intensity escape was really tiring for Lu Batian who had no martial arts skills. No one knew how he managed to pass through such a long waterway.

After chasing for another half a mile, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him, fleeing in a panic. Qiao Rui took a few quick steps and caught up with the man in an instant, shouting at the same time: "Lu Batian, where are you going!"

When Lu Batian heard Qiao Rui's shout, his body trembled violently. He turned around abruptly, took out an object in his hand, and pressed the spring.

"Buzz!"

Dozens of tiny steel needles shot towards Qiao Rui like a rain of pear blossoms.

Such a short distance, such a powerful shot, even though Qiao Rui was a great martial arts master, his heart tightened. His pupils shrank slightly, and at the critical moment, he exerted all his strength to move sideways a few steps, and at the same time, he suddenly swung his left sleeve, and the surging internal force surged out.

“Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk!”

The steel needles were blown away by Qiao Rui's energy and all of them pierced into the stone wall of the secret passage, nearly half of them being embedded in the stone.

Qiao Rui felt ashamed and angry. He almost fell into this guy's trap. If these steel needles shot into his body, he would be crippled if not killed. He flipped his right hand and slapped Lu Batian in the air, sending him flying more than a meter away.

"puff!"

Lu Batian was bleeding profusely, and he fell to the ground, breathing more than he took in. His face was pale, and his eyes were dull and lifeless. "Decades of foundation have been destroyed in an instant...Qiao Rui, I really regret not killing you earlier!"

"I have no grudge against you, so why are you targeting me everywhere?" Qiao Rui walked forward slowly and asked coldly. This question had been in his mind for a long time.

He still held back a bit of his strength when he struck out with his palm, otherwise, with Lu Batian's ordinary physique, he would have been turned into a ball of minced meat after being struck by his full force.

"No grudges? Haha... cough cough cough..." Lu Batian sneered twice, coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood foam, and then said angrily, "You blocked my way to wealth... and robbed my son Yanqing of his glory... and blocked his future. Don't you deserve to die?"

Qiao Rui was speechless. Selfish and domineering people always put themselves at the center and all the mistakes are others'.

"Qiao Rui... wait for my son... to seek revenge on you... The Beggars' Sect... the Beggars' Sect will not... let you go!"

Lu Batian's pupils dilated and his voice gradually became thinner until it could no longer be heard.

Qiao Rui stepped forward to feel his breath, and then felt his pulse. He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "Can't you just do business properly? You have to get involved in the underworld!"

After untying the cloth bag that Lu Batian was carrying, there were several gold and silver ingots inside. It seemed like a lot, but considering Lu Batian's wealth and cunningness, how could he leave so little money for himself and run away?

Qiao Rui frowned and reached out to undress Lu Batian to search him. As expected, he found a stack of gold bills in the lining of his underwear. They were all in huge denominations of one hundred taels each. After counting, there were exactly two hundred of them.

Two hundred 100-tael gold notes equal twenty thousand taels of gold, or two hundred thousand taels of silver. Based on the exchange rate of the Treasure Pavilion when traveling through time, one tael of silver equals five hundred yuan, which is equivalent to one hundred million yuan in the previous life.

Lu Batian was indeed very generous as he prepared a backup plan of 100 million for himself, but now it was all benefiting Qiao Rui.

After collecting all the money and packing clothes for Lu Batian, Qiao Rui walked along the secret passage to find an exit first. As for Lu Batian's body, he would inform Qingtian Guards to deal with it later.

The secret passage was quiet and silent, with only a corpse left, all alone and no one cared about it.

A generation of business tycoon has come to an end!