149: Isn't my name cruel enough?
Scavenge the bodies!
He harvested some gold and silver notes.
To Chu Qing's surprise:
One of the rebels had over a hundred taels of black gold notes in his embrace.
This made him overjoyed.
“Thanks for nature's bounty!”
Over a hundred taels of black gold, plus the hundred-plus taels given by Imperial Brocade.
Now, it was almost three hundred taels.
He was one step closer to ten thousand black gold.
“Oh, right, there are also those two guys with mansions.”
“And that unlucky guy who's still unconscious.”
“They haven't been harvested yet!”
Chu Qing returned to Niu Jieshi's mansion, but what he saw enraged him.
Because:
Some servants were weeping around Niu Jieshi's corpse.
Some servants were scavenging for valuables.
When he saw some servants kill the rebel he had captured alive and start scavenging the body, his anger reached its Peak.
“Is my reputation not vicious enough?”
“You didn't run away while I was gone, but instead wept and stole my property?”
“Are you ignoring me?”
Fury.
The next second, he tapped his toes on the ground and rushed into The Crowd.
His arms swung:
Whoosh!
The Dragon Snake Chain Spear whistled out.
Either piercing or lashing.
Whether they were weeping or scavenging for valuables, he killed them all.
Then, he ran to another mansion a thousand meters away.
The servants in this mansion were also scavenging for valuables.
Even the surrounding residents had joined in.
Chu Qing was so angry he laughed.
Use this group of people to grind his bone-setting progress?
No grinding.
Kill them!
He let out a low growl and immediately launched into a killing spree.
A Martial Artist who hadn't even achieved Golden Tendons was no match for him.
Let alone this weaker group of servants?
In just one minute:
He killed dozens of people in the entire mansion, staining the ground with blood.
The surviving people fled in terror, begging for mercy.
However:
Chu Qing did not let them go.
“Stealing my things, and still daring to beg for mercy?”
“You—are too naive!”
He cleared out everyone.
Only then did he unhurriedly harvest nature's bounty.
After more than ten minutes, his face was beaming with the joy of his harvest.
Then, he returned to Niu Jieshi's estate.
It was quiet here.
Bodies lay on the ground.
No one came to snatch his things.
This pleased him greatly.
Half an hour later;
He wrapped nature's bounty in a bedsheet, set it on fire, and turned to leave.
Flames soared into the sky, reddening half of it.
But no one in Liufeng County dared to come and put out the fire.
They hid behind doors and windows, secretly peeking.
Even after Chu Qing, covered in crimson, had long left, they still didn't dare to come out.
They only emerged at dawn.
The yamen's constables inspected the scene.
Then, they all fell silent.
They all knew that these two courtyards belonged to rebel experts.
They had been tyrannical in the county on weekdays.
Now, they had suddenly died.
“Who killed them?”
“The Mud Leg say it was a man named Chu Qing.”
“Chu Qing?”
A Sheriff frowned in thought, then suddenly blurted out:
“Is it Chu Qing from Shiji County, the one who calls himself the Butcher?”
Another Sheriff said tremblingly: “He doesn't call himself the Butcher, but he's killed so many people that he's been called—the Butcher!”
Many Sheriffs were horrified.
They dared not deal with the bodies, so they reported it to the County Magistrate and the Chief Constable.
The two discussed it and said to the Sheriffs:
“The Butcher Chu Qing is most vengeful.”
“Wait ten or eight days, if he doesn't come, then you can go and collect the bodies.”
The constables breathed a sigh of relief and quickly agreed.
Ultimately:
The bodies of Niu Jieshi and his group lay exposed for several days before the body collectors secretly threw them into a mass grave, to be gnawed by wild dogs... Thump! Thump! Thump!
Chu Qing traveled under the cover of night!
On the way, he encountered a group of Thugs hurrying along with their heads down.
Chu Qing knew that they might be reinforcements for those aristocratic rebels.
But he was too lazy to kill them anymore.
Because he had more important things to do.
In less than half an hour, he returned to Shiji County.
He casually threw the blood-stained valuables into the Martial Arts Academy, not fearing that someone would take them.
Then, he identified the direction and headed straight for Xiaozhu County.
“I've been attacked.”
“Cui Moyang and the others must have been attacked too.”
Although he knew they might be in danger, he wasn't in a great hurry.
Because:
He believed that this slaying of rebel experts was actually a test.
A test of the progress of Cui Moyang, Wang Yinyang, and the others.
If they couldn't handle those rebels, then they might as well die.
More than half an hour later:
Chu Qing arrived at Xiaozhu County.
As soon as he ascended the city wall, he saw a large fire burning within the city.
Aided by the firelight, he vaguely saw several figures on the surrounding rooftops.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Chu Qing soared into the air, like a large dragonfly, flying over.
When he got closer, he saw that these people were Cui Moyang, Nangong, and Mingyue, and immediately smiled.
The four women were covered in blood.
Some from enemies, some from themselves.
When they saw Chu Qing, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Mingyue said weakly: “Qing Ge... the information given by that woman from Imperial Brocade was incomplete.”
“There aren't just one expert here, but three!”
Chu Qing smiled and said: “Did you kill them all?”
Mingyue nodded and said, feeling wronged: “Although we killed them all, I also got injured.”
Chu Qing said: “Where are you hurt? Come, let me see!”
Mingyue stepped back, covering her slender waist and saying: “No!”
Chu Qing... Nangong and Cui Moyang also came over and said:
“How are you there?”
Chu Qing shook his blood-red brocade robe and said: “All six Blood Refinement Martial Artist have been slaughtered!”
Mingyue's eyes lit up and she said: “Are you injured?”
“Do you want this young lady to take a look for you?”
Chu Qing... “They were just ordinary Blood Refinement Realm Martial Artist, normally, you shouldn't have been injured.”
He said seriously: “With just 365 Golden Tendons, you should have crushed them.”
Nangong rolled her eyes and said: “Do you think everyone is like you, fearless of death?”
“We haven't practiced defensive Cultivation Technique like Golden Bell Shield or Iron Cloth.”
“And we don't have much experience fighting experts, so we're naturally clumsy and get injured.”
Cui Moyang said: “They also prepared iron nets and arrows to ambush us.”
“It's a good thing we had the Perfection Golden Tendons enhancement.”
“Otherwise, we would have really died here.”
Chu Qing nodded.
Since they were fine, then Wang Yinyang and the others would be even more fine.
That Wang Yinyang, although he hadn't cultivated Golden Bone.
But his combat experience was clearly more extensive than Cui Moyang's.
So:
It wasn't a big problem.
As expected, when they returned to the Martial Arts Academy, they indeed saw Wang Yinyang and the others.
These people were also covered in blood, with injuries on their bodies, looking quite disheveled.
But:
They all carried severed heads.
Four heads.
Wang Yinyang said coldly:
“One is an aristocratic expert, three are rebel experts.”
“Qing Ge, this is evidence, we can go to those few aristocratic families and ask them to explain.”
Nangong frowned and said: “They won't admit it if it's just severed heads.”
“Unless we capture them alive.”
The Crowd frowned.
Chu Qing sneered: “Alive? Evidence?”
“Do we need evidence to do things?”
“If we do, then our every word and action is evidence.”
The Crowd was stunned.
Chu Qing said: “You all deal with my valuables first, then rest and heal your injuries.”
“Once your injuries are healed, we'll go and deal with those few aristocratic families!”
Cui Moyang and the others nodded.
Mingyue, who was nearby, suddenly slapped her head and wailed: “Oh no, I was so busy setting fires and killing people that I forgot to scavenge for valuables.”
“Those were all my things!”
“They all burned up in the fire!”
The Crowd... burst into laughter.