The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 486 Coming
Faced with Huangfu Hui's question, the old man slowly shook his head.

"The time was too short, and the martial arts of the Central Plains are quite different from my Japanese swordsmanship."

"The key is that the 'experiment' over the past year has consumed too much of my energy and physical strength... The cultivation of life and the transformation of impure essence, the affairs between men and women are too mentally taxing, making it difficult for me to concentrate on martial arts."

"Without mastering the 'Mysterious Observation,' it's naturally difficult to replicate the methods of Yingzhou and create a large number of seedlings capable of cultivating to the Celestial Realm."

Huangfu Hui nodded.

The situation in Fukang County is actually quite simple.

The Xuanlan martial arts technique, once it entered the martial arts world, offered the Celestials a glimmer of hope to catch up with Li Miao; however, for sects, families, and forces, the most precious aspect of the Xuanlan martial arts technique from Yingzhou was not the martial arts itself.

Instead, it is through the method of passing down the realm of celestial beings through bloodline.

Once you master this method, you can reliably produce countless celestial beings with blood ties, ensuring the perpetuation of your family's power forever—this is far more practical and reliable than leaving behind wealth or cultivation techniques for future generations.

No one wants to be the next Li Miao, and no force wants to be the next Yingzhou.

However, there are very few celestial beings who possess the aptitude to cultivate spiritual practices.

They will naturally look for other possible solutions.

Colluding with the Japanese was one of them.

Huangfu Hui's family collaborated with the Japanese to occupy Fukang County. They intercepted passing martial arts practitioners, selected women with good aptitude, and had them have intercourse with this old man surnamed Tsukahara, attempting to give birth to infants who could cultivate into celestial beings.

However, this kind of experiment was extremely harmful to the mother's body, and these women from the martial arts world often died after giving birth.

Huangfu Hui abducted women from the city to feed the infants they gave birth to.

As for why he kidnapped these women's children as well... it's because these women often attempted suicide when they were first imprisoned.

They become more settled after having children.

Once Huangfu Hui has exhausted the women's energy and spirit, and they no longer resist or seek death, Huangfu Hui will throw these children into the deep mountains.

He never expected that a savage would interfere and take in all the children. Nor did he expect that this operation, which had been running smoothly for a year, would attract the most vicious demon in the world.

As Huangfu Hui's emotions surged, the old man looked him up and down and said calmly.

“Huangfu Jun, the wounds on your body do not appear to have been caused by others, but rather by your own self-inflicted injuries.”

"Who is it that could make you erase all your physical features and rush here to see me?"

"Should I go and kill this man?"

Huangfu Hui chuckled inwardly, but put on a serious expression and said in a deep voice.

"You can't kill him."

"No one in the world can kill him."

"At least, right now, no one can... not even you are his match."

The old man didn't speak, but the man in the kimono who led Huangfu Hui in immediately raised his eyebrows and spoke angrily.

"Huangfu Jun, do you know who you are talking to!"

He strode forward, walked to Huangfu Hui's side, and reached out to pull her up.

"I think it's because your Central Plains martial arts world has been suppressed for too long and too harshly, and you've lost your knowledge. You've only met a few people with decent cultivation levels and you think everyone is like that!"

"Could it be that Lord Tsukahara's usual politeness towards you has made you feel disrespectful?"

With a strong pull, he lifted Huangfu Hui up.

"Before you stands the undefeated master, the ultimate master of Shinto-ryu, the master of Kenzen, the ultimate master of Ichi no Tachi, the master of the Three Eagles and Three Horses, the Sword Saint, Lord Tsukahara Hokuden!"

"How could you, the celestial beings of the Central Plains, possibly compare to us!"

"Malu Yelang, すぐに谢れ! (Asshole, apologize to me quickly)!"

As he spoke, he reached out to press Huangfu Hui's head down, telling him to bow and apologize.

Bang!
With a muffled thud, the man in the kimono staggered back several steps, shattering several floorboards with each step, before finally collapsing against the wall, clutching his chest, and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"you!"

He stared in astonishment at the palm print on his chest.

Just now, Huangfu Hui took advantage of his unpreparedness and struck him in the chest with her full strength! If he hadn't reacted in time, that palm strike would have killed him!

How dare he!
How dare he!
Huangfu Hui slowly straightened up, glanced at him disdainfully, and dusted off her sleeves.

"You lowly Japanese bastards, how dare you make me bow my head?"

That one sentence completely severed all pretense of civility.

The man in the kimono immediately blushed, reached out to draw his Japanese sword, and stepped forward to kill Huangfu Hui.

He had just taken a step when he saw the old man raise his hand and gesture for him to stop.

The old man looked at Huangfu Hui and said calmly.

"It turns out that Lord Huangfu has never looked down on us Fusang people."

Having already decided to kill, Huangfu Hui no longer held back. Since everyone here was going to die anyway, he wasn't worried about the future impact on his family's cooperation with the Japanese. The disdain and contempt he had previously concealed were now openly displayed on his face. "Heh...so what if it is?"

He straightened his clothes, which had been rumpled by the man in the kimono.

"Just because I said a few nice words to you, you think you're someone important?"

"You're nothing but stray dogs taking advantage of the weakness of the Central Plains martial arts world to come here and grab some benefits. I'll give you some bones and you'll be happy to eat them. But now you won't even respond to my whistle, and instead you want me to apologize to you Japanese slaves. Isn't that going against the natural order?"

"You want me to bow to you? Are you kidding me!"

After straightening her clothes, Huangfu Hui sneered.

"Like a frog in a well, ignorant and arrogant!"

"And all those tasteless nicknames! This place is too small to fit so many people! Even stray dogs don't need so many names; it's inconvenient to call them out!"

This barrage of insults thoroughly humiliated the old man.

The old man was not annoyed, but simply shook his head slowly.

“Huangfu Jun, you really should come and visit my Fusang.”

"Putting aside other things, if it were a thousand years ago or a hundred years ago, the prosperity of martial arts in the Central Plains would indeed far surpass that of my Japan. But right now, it is you people from the Central Plains who are arrogant and ignorant."

"Do you think I would cross the ocean to come to the Central Plains without knowing anything about it? The moment I arrived in the Central Plains, I found a celestial being from the Central Plains and fought him to the death."

"He only took two of my stabs."

"One stroke severed his left arm, another decapitated him."

"This is your Central Plains, this is the current Central Plains Jianghu."

"In your Central Plains parlance, it's a time of scarcity, a period of utter silence, where people treat rotten wood as the ultimate standard and fail to see the changing times."

The old man slowly stroked the katana on his knee.

"The enemy you fear like a tiger is, in Japan, merely a mediocre warrior."

"I can overlook your offense, but you shouldn't belittle Fusang, much less my sword... After I behead the enemy, I will make you commit seppuku in front of my sword, and only then will I continue to cooperate with your Huangfu family."

Huangfu Hui still wore a look of disdain.

"Heh... Once you meet that person, you'll know who the frog in the well really is."

"it is good."

The old man slowly rose and picked up his knife.

"Please wait a moment, Lord Huangfu, I'll be right back."

Having said that, he was about to take a step.

Huangfu Hui slowly shook her head, waiting for the old man to leave before committing suicide, determined not to fall into the hands of "that person".

In the blink of an eye, his gaze swept over the old man, but suddenly stopped on him.

The old man didn't move.

He didn't leave the stone chamber, not even taking a second step. He gripped the hilt of his knife tightly, his gaze fixed on one direction, the withered muscles on his forearm suddenly bulging and forming deep grooves.

Huangfu Hui suddenly realized a problem.

time.

It has been about an incense stick's time since Sato Shunji went to the county government office.

This time is very short.

But for some, the time it takes for an incense stick to burn is enough to kill hundreds of people, enough to plow up the entire Kangfu County, enough to defeat all the top masters in the martial arts world... and enough to find this place by following his blood trail.

A voice came from a corner he had never noticed before.

"Are you done talking?"

Gululu——

A head was thrown to Huangfu Hui's feet, rolled a short distance, and then stopped. Sato Shunji's eyes, filled with astonishment, fear, shock, and confusion, remained in Huangfu Hui's sight.

"We've been waiting for so long, and all we got was a lackey."

"Waiting for you all to come and deliver this is getting me all bored... I might as well just grab you and take you there myself, that would save some time."

"It's almost lunchtime. Eating is the most important thing in the world. Even killing someone can't interfere with eating, right?"

Huangfu Hui trembled violently.

He slowly turned his head and looked at that corner.

After taking in the entire tall figure and gradually matching it with the descriptions of her elders, Huangfu Hui's legs suddenly went weak, and she collapsed to the ground, bowing her head and trembling as she spoke.

"Big, big... sir..."

"It's you...you've come..."

(End of this chapter)