The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, becoming a disciple of Yue Buqun.

These replies stated that the cult needed a lot of money recently and asked Hu Anyu to raise the funds as soon as possible. However, it seems that Hu Anyu did not raise enough money or for some other reason. One of the last two letters reprimanded Hu Anyu for his poor performance. The last letter stated that the Holy Maiden would come to Xiangyang in person and asked Hu Anyu to welcome her.

Chapter 55: Which family's disciple goes on a rampage down the mountain and hacks down an entire street?

Holding these letters, Jiang Ning's face remained expressionless.

Looking at the silver notes in the box, they totaled 20,000 taels. Adding the property deeds outside, which were worth about 30,000 taels, the total came to more than 50,000 taels.

This is all of Hu Anyu's possessions.

Jiang Ning took the silver notes and envelopes and walked out of the dark room, where the maid was still waiting.

Are there any other dark rooms here?

Upon hearing Jiang Ning's question, the maid quickly shook her head.

"I don't know."

That's normal. She was just a maid, and she only discovered the secret room in the study by accident. Jiang Ning only asked about it casually.

When Jiang Ning and the maid returned to the open space they had been in before, Liang Fa and the other Huashan disciples were still guarding the maids and the Iron Palm Sect members.

"Junior brother, have you discovered anything?"

Upon seeing Jiang Ning return, Gao Genming approached and asked.

Jiang Ning put the silver notes and letters into his pocket.

Jiang Ning nodded.

"We found some letters and 20,000 taels of silver inside."

Gao Genming's eyes widened in surprise.

Twenty thousand taels?

Jiang Ning ignored his reaction and instead looked at the people in the open space not far away, asking the maid, "Are the people who owe you money inside?"

"Uh-huh."

The maid nodded like a chick pecking at rice, and pointed to a burly man in the crowd.

"it's him!"

The burly man who was called was startled, not knowing what had happened. He panicked even more when he saw Jiang Ning walking towards him.

People nearby quickly moved away.

"What...what are you going to do?"

As Jiang Ning walked up to him, the burly man swallowed hard, his voice trembling slightly.

Jiang Ning looked at him and said, "You owe her twenty coins?"

He pointed at the maid.

"what?"

The burly man looked blank for a moment, then came to his senses and hurriedly nodded.

Yes, yes.

Jiang Ning said, "Give her the money back."

The burly man was stunned for a moment, then quickly nodded: "Yes, yes."

He then hurriedly went to the maid, grabbed a handful of copper coins from his pocket, and placed them in the maid's hand without counting them. He then turned back to Jiang Ning with a fawning smile and said, "I have already repaid it."

Jiang Ning didn't even look at him, and asked the maid, "Is the number correct?"

The maid was stunned; she hadn't expected Jiang Ning to actually get her money back.

Upon hearing Jiang Ning's question, the maid finally snapped out of her daze, counted the copper coins in her hand, her eyes lit up, and nodded repeatedly to Jiang Ning.

"Yes, yes, there are five extra coins."

"Consider it interest."

Jiang Ning didn't ask her to return the five coins.

"..."

"..."

Lu Dayou, Gao Genming, and other Huashan disciples, along with the maids, were stunned when they witnessed this scene.

What happened?

After further questioning, Jiang Ning and Lu Dayou and the others discovered that neither the maids nor the Iron Palm Sect members knew about any other secret rooms. They then escorted the maids and members back to the inn.

On the way, Liang Fa couldn't help but ask Jiang Ning why he didn't kill all these disciples. The maids were one thing, after all, they were just servants and unlikely to follow the Iron Palm Sect to do anything immoral. But these disciples were different; killing them all wouldn't be unreasonable.

He was enraged by the fates of the women he had seen in the brothel.

Jiang Ning smiled and said, "Senior brother hates evil as if it were his enemy, junior brother admires you."

"These people may all deserve to die, but is there really not one among them who doesn't deserve to die? Even just one?"

Liang Fa, Lu Dayou, and the others fell into deep thought.

"Hey, why did that person suddenly help you get your money back?"

At this moment, a maid quietly asked the maid who had led Jiang Ning to the study earlier.

The other maids also looked at her curiously.

The maid then recounted her conversation with Jiang Ning.

The others were taken aback.

When Jiang Ning returned to the inn, he found a Huashan disciple standing at the entrance. Upon seeing their large group, the disciple rushed over to Jiang Ning and said, "Junior Brother, Master has been waiting for you for a long time. He said you should go to his room when you return. He has something to tell you."

Jiang Ning was also looking for a talk with Yue Buqun when he heard what this Huashan disciple said. He nodded and said, "I understand. Thank you for informing me, Senior Brother."

After saying that, Jiang Ning walked into the inn and found that the first floor was full of people, most of whom were women who had been rescued from brothels, and some of them were their family members.

Upon seeing Jiang Ning enter, all of them knelt down before him.

"Thank you, benefactor, for saving us."

"If it weren't for our benefactor, we don't know when we would have seen the light of day again."

"Thank you so much for rescuing my daughter. I kowtow to you."

"Waaaaah..."

These people started talking one after another, their emotions running high, and some even started crying.

"There's no need for that."

Jiang Ning was at a loss for what to do when he saw this, so he could only tell them to get up first, as he had something to talk to Yue Buqun about.

After speaking, Jiang Ning went straight to Yue Buqun's room.

"Master."

Arriving at Yue Buqun's door, Jiang Ning gently knocked.

"Come in."

Yue Buqun's voice came from inside.

Jiang Ning pushed open the door and found Yue Buqun standing by the window, his hands behind his back, looking out the window.

Upon hearing Jiang Ning push open the door, Yue Buqun turned around and looked at him.

"You did the right thing this time."

Yue Buqun's first words were to affirm Jiang Ning's actions, and then he said, "But you must be careful when you travel alone in the future. You must not repeat what happened today. There are powerful forces behind these worldly affairs. You are alone and cannot defeat them."

Originally, Yue Buqun thought that Linghu Chong was already troublesome enough, but the stimulation that Jiang Ning brought him after leaving the mountain was even greater than that of Linghu Chong.

Linghu Chong at most got into arguments with people in the martial arts world and beat them up, while Jiang Ning was prone to massacres at the drop of a hat. Although it was right, it was still too terrifying.

Which family's disciples go on a rampage and cut down an entire street as soon as they descend the mountain?

He's only been down the mountain for a short time, yet he's already accomplished one bigger thing after another. Although second-rate masters have basic self-protection abilities when traveling the martial world and won't die unless something unexpected happens, Jiang Ning is really courting death. Yue Buqun is genuinely afraid that one day Jiang Ning will die a violent death out there.

Yue Buqun suddenly felt that his disciples were all more capable of causing trouble than the last.

Jiang Ning smiled and said, "Don't worry, Master, I know what I'm doing."

Of course he knew all this, but since Yue Buqun and the disciples of the Huashan Sect were all in Xiangyang, he did what he was told. If he encountered such a thing again when he was traveling alone in the future, he would definitely help, but he would be extremely cautious.

"Ah."

Yue Buqun nodded, he was reassured about this, Jiang Ning did indeed know how to act appropriately.

"Did you discover anything after you went to the Iron Palm Sect?"

Chapter 56: Follow-up Arrangements

Jiang Ning said, "Besides finding some silver and land deeds, we also discovered letters linking Hu Anyu to the Demonic Sect."

As they spoke, Jiang Ning took out a silver note and a letter from his pocket.

"what?"

Yue Buqun was somewhat surprised: "Hu Anyu is colluding with the Demonic Sect?"

Jiang Ning nodded and said, "Master, do you remember me telling you and Master's wife about that strange maid during the day?"

Yue Buqun nodded, then frowned and asked, "Could she be a member of the Demonic Sect?"

Jiang Ning said, "Based on my deduction and the contents of these letters, she should be the Holy Maiden of the Demonic Sect."

"what?"

Yue Buqun's eyes narrowed, his expression turned serious, and he took the letters from Jiang Ning and began to read them.

After a while.