Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

Qiao Rui pursued Liu Xinyue to the capital of Daye Prefecture, where he ran into Zhao Lingying in a restaurant and heard some heroes talking about the rapist and the red apricot.

At this time, someone in the restaurant said indignantly: "This beggar gang is getting more and more domineering and overbearing. They don't have the ability to catch the rapist themselves, but they just besiege us righteous people. This is really unreasonable."

"Yes, even if the Beggars' Sect is powerful, it cannot be so rude and unreasonable. We came here with a chivalrous heart to hunt down a red apricot. We never thought we would be trapped for so many days, and we don't know when we can leave the city."

"Alas... it's all that red apricot's fault. Why did they pick on the Beggars' Sect when there were so many other sects in the world? Are they so easy to mess with?"

The heroes of the martial arts world complained while drinking, but they could do nothing about it. After cursing for a while, they turned the topic to eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. From time to time, obscene laughter could be heard.

I heard someone deliberately lower his voice and say, "Although that red apricot is hateful, he has a good eye. The girl he chose is really tender!"

"Wang Laosi, stop bragging. I heard that the rapist likes to torture and rape people, and the victims are often in miserable conditions. How can they look fresh and tender?" someone retorted.

"Hehe, you don't know this. I originally lived near that inn, and I rushed over there immediately when the incident happened. You know what, that girl's back was truly horrible to look at, with whip marks, knife wounds, burns, crisscrossed with blood. But when the Beggar Gang disciples carried the body away, they turned her over, and that front...tsk tsk!" The man deliberately stopped talking here, smacking his lips, as if savoring the moment.

"How's the front?" The men around him were left in a state of suspense and asked hastily. Someone at the table refilled his glass of wine while urging him, "Hurry up and tell me. If you don't tell me clearly today, I'll let you go!"

Seeing that all the attention was on him, the man drank a sip of wine with satisfaction, licked the corner of his mouth, and said, "Maybe she didn't have enough time to commit the crime. The girl's face was intact. I saw it clearly. She was so white and tender, just like the tofu pudding from Old Man Li's house in the west of the city. She would tremble if I touched her!"

The eyes of the burly men sparkled at what the man said. Some of them couldn't help swallowing their saliva and asked, "Is she really that tender? Are you trying to trick us?"

"How could that be possible? I saw that the girl was not cold yet, so I took advantage of the chaos while the Beggars' Sect disciples were busy wrapping the body and secretly pinched her. She was so soft and smooth. Wow, she was really incomparable to Sister Yao'er."

"What's so good about just having moist skin? The most important thing is a pretty face. How does it compare to the girls in Hongxiu Tower?" someone asked.

"Yes, yes, yes," someone agreed, "Is she prettier than Xi Shi?"

"What's the point of having a pretty face? They all look the same when you turn off the lights. In my opinion, a woman should have big breasts, a thin waist and a round butt, that's what's interesting!" Someone else retorted, which caused a burst of lewd laughter. It was obvious that there were many like-minded people.

The more these people spoke, the more vulgar their words became. Zhao Lingying shook her head and sneered at Qiao Rui, "People like them also consider themselves chivalrous. They really tarnish the word!"

"The forest is big, so naturally there are all kinds of birds! There is the great hero Guo who serves the country and the people, and there is the greedy and profit-seeking eunuch Gui; there is the upright and heroic Boss Qiao, and there is the hypocritical, treacherous, vicious and cruel Master Yue. The world is so big, with good and bad people mixed together, so naturally there are mediocre and vulgar people like this everywhere!" said Qiao Rui.

While Qiao Rui and Zhao Lingying were chatting, someone over there couldn't stand the shameless words and deeds of the ruffians. Suddenly someone shouted, "Humph! Shameless as hell, worse than dogs and pigs!"

A group of heroes were chatting happily in the restaurant, but they suddenly heard such scolding and the whole place was silent for a moment.

"Who? Who dares to scold me?" A burly man stood up. He had a leopard head and a bushy beard, and he looked around with wide eyes, looking very ferocious.

"People like you dare to call yourselves righteous?" The voice was clear and beautiful, with a hint of disdain.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw two young men sitting at a table by the window. They were wearing thin blue clothes, had jade-like faces and icy skin, had gentleman's belts tied around their waists, and had their hair combed into free-style buns. They were truly handsome, elegant, and remarkably refined.

The one who spoke was one of them, about thirty years old, with a face as beautiful as a jade, a face as beautiful as a peach, a protruding chest, and a round and smooth neck. It turned out to be a young lady dressed in men's clothes.

The scolded man saw that there were only two of them and saw how they were dressed. He thought they were young men and women who were not familiar with the ways of the underworld, so he looked down on them and sneered, "You old women who can't tell the difference between male and female, why don't you stay at home and take care of your children instead of running out here to act wild?"

"Damn it!" The young lady clapped her hands and the dining table collapsed.

The young man next to her stood up immediately to stop her, and said with a wry smile: "Senior sister, calm down! Let me handle this matter, okay?" What a joke! With Senior Sister's violent temper, if she really got involved, there's no telling what would happen.

After saying this, the young man did not wait for his sister to reply. He turned around, holding the jade flute in his hand and pointing at the big man, saying: "Death is the greatest thing. You used foul language and obscene words to the dead. Is this what is right? My sister was indignant and gave you a lesson. You don't know what is good for you. You said something rude. You are really not a good son!"

"Hey, do you need to teach me how to do things? Let me see how capable you are, and how dare you meddle in other people's business?" The big man sneered and chopped at him with a large golden ring knife.

The young man was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with elegant manners and calm demeanor. He slowly made a gesture of a fairy pointing the way, and when the big man got close, he suddenly raised his jade flute and stabbed it into the golden ring on the back of the big man's knife. Then the flute body shook, and the golden ring shattered and flew away.

The big man only felt a great force coming from the blade, and the blade was involuntarily deflected, and the man was also pulled to the side.

"Damn it, you're evil!" The burly man spat and cursed. He held the knife with both hands and swung it violently. The few remaining rings of the knife made a rattling sound. Then he turned around and chopped back, looking very powerful.

The young man had a calm expression on his face. He took the Seven Star Steps and moved a few feet to the side. His jade flute, which seemed slow but was actually fast, rushed into the big man's sword shadow like a spirit snake and slapped the big man's face with a "slap". The big man got up again with a swollen cheek and two broken teeth sticking out of his mouth.

"Beautiful!" Qiao Rui couldn't help but exclaimed, the use of this jade flute was truly mysterious.

The young man was tall and slender, with a handsome face. These moves made him look indescribably elegant and graceful, and really beautiful. He heard Qiao Rui applauding, so he smiled and nodded at Qiao Rui, then returned to his senior sister and chuckled, "Senior sister, how about this, is it okay?"

"Just barely enough!" Senior Sister said with a hint of dissatisfaction in her pride, "Xiao Linzi, you should have changed from hitting to cutting, tapping his wrist. Even if you don't break his tendons, at least make him unable to lift a knife for a month."

As they were making nonchalant comments, the burly man's tablemate and seven or eight people at the next table stood up all at once. One of them supported the burly man, while the others surrounded the brother and sister, cursing.

"If you dare to mess with us, the Eight Heroes of Hejian, your life will come to an end. Tell me your name. I will not kill nameless people!" said one of them.

"Yes, this day next year will be your memorial day!"

"Damn it, come here and die!"

The young man leisurely brushed off his clothes, glanced at them lightly, and said a few words lightly.

"Wudang, Lin Wenyuan!"