Medical and Martial God

"Well now, looks like we have someone who isn’t afraid to die."

Seeing Jiang Linglong charge at them alone with her sword, Long Yifei’s lips curled into a sneer. Due to his bruised and swollen face, the expression was almost adorable.

He commanded, "Kill him!"

"Yes, sir!" Wei Tingxuan, Wei Maoyuan, and Wei Guangyu immediately sprang into action.

Although they were seriously injured, they were still masters above the War God level. After returning, they had taken Healing Medicine and applied External Injury Medicine. Their strength was less than half of what it was at their peak, but the three of them together could still kill any War God. They had simply mistaken the masked, black-clad Jiang Linglong for a War God-level expert.

"Die!"

Seeing the three of them coming for her, Jiang Linglong didn’t slow down in the slightest. Her longsword flashed, striking three times in quick succession as she slipped past them.

The charging Wei Tingxuan and his companions suddenly pitched forward and fell to the ground. The carotid arteries in their necks split open, spraying blood everywhere.

An expert above the War God level?

Seeing this, Long Yifei was scared out of his wits. He never expected the masked figure in black to be a master of such caliber.

"Save me!" Long Yifei screamed and took off running. Despite his severe injuries, the mortal threat ignited his potential, and he moved with surprising speed. For a moment, Jiang Linglong couldn’t even catch up to him.

"You’re courting death!"

Hearing Long Yifei’s cry for help, the members of the Wei and Xing Families who were allied with him immediately rushed to his aid. The others, however, continued their assault on the people from Medicine King Valley, showing no intention of helping Long Yifei.

Even so, the combined forces of the Wei and Xing Families were enough to keep Jiang Linglong occupied. Of all the Wei Family members present, only Wei Tingxuan, Wei Maoyuan, and Wei Guangyu were masters above the War God level. Now that they were dead, the remaining members were all War Gods and posed no threat to Jiang Linglong. The Xing Family, however, had three masters above the War God level. They joined forces to attack Jiang Linglong, while the War Gods from both the Wei and Xing Families surrounded her, launching harassing attacks from the periphery.

In an instant, Jiang Linglong found herself in imminent danger.

Seeing that eleven of the fifteen people she had brought—all of them War Gods—had been gruesomely killed, leaving only herself and four masters above the War God level, Jiang Linglong was overwhelmed with grief and fury. She had no choice but to order a retreat.

"Retreat, retreat!" she shouted, flinging a handful of white powder with her left hand. She truly hadn’t expected the Long Family Manor to house so many War Gods and experts above their level. If the fight continued, she and the other four would all die here.

"Retreat!"

Hearing the command, the four masters from Medicine King Valley above the War God level also threw out handfuls of white powder and fought their way out of the encirclement.

"Don’t let them get away! Chase them!" Long Yifei roared.

Instantly, everyone from the Long Family gave chase, pursuing Jiang Linglong’s group at full speed.

Just as they chased them out of the Long Family Manor, a dozen masked figures in black vaulted over the wall. One of them charged at Long Yifei, pinning him to the ground and giving him a savage, bloody beating. The others quickly gathered the bodies of the slain War Gods from Medicine King Valley and vaulted back over the wall, leaving the manor.

Seeing this, the masked man beating Long Yifei swiftly stripped him naked, tossed him into a pigsty, and then vaulted over the wall to make his escape.

The pigs in the sty, seeing a hairless monster drop from the sky, gathered around Long Yifei curiously, grunting and snorting amongst themselves.

"Hey? What kind of monster is this?"

"It looks like a person."

"What kind of person looks like this?"

"Ask it where it came from."

One pig moved closer, its snout nudging Long Yifei’s face. "OINK, OINK..."

Long Yifei was so furious he could have spat blood. He desperately wanted to punch the pig nudging him, but his injuries were too severe. The slightest movement sent waves of pain through his body. He couldn’t even speak, let alone kill a pig.

"It’s ignoring me," the pig that had nudged Long Yifei reported to its companions.

"It must be an arrogant hybrid breed."

"Daring to act all high and mighty in front of us? Let’s teach it a lesson."

"A newcomer, putting on airs on our turf? Bite him!"

And so, Long Yifei was ganged up on by a drove of pigs...

...

After a tremendous effort, Jiang Linglong and the four others escaped from the Long Family Manor, finally shaking off their pursuers from the Long Family.

The five of them reached a park. "It seems the Long Family anticipated our night raid and were well-prepared," Jiang Linglong said angrily.

"The Long Family used to be nothing more than dogs raised by our Medicine King Valley, but now they’ve started biting their master," one of the masked men spat.

"First, they killed Jiao Fuping and the Fire-Water Judges, then Gao Xuan and Li Chuan. Tonight, they killed eleven of our War Gods. Medicine King Valley has never suffered such a heavy loss since its founding," another lamented.

"If we don’t get revenge for this, how can Medicine King Valley maintain its prestige?"

"If we don’t teach the Long Family a lesson, they’ll only grow to disrespect Medicine King Valley even more."

All four of the masked men were seething with fury.

Jiang Linglong said in a low voice, "We’ll return to Medicine King Valley immediately and report this to the Valley Master and my great-grandfather."

"Exactly my thoughts."

Just as the five of them were about to leave, blindingly bright lights suddenly flared up all around them. When a person in darkness is confronted with a sudden, intense light, their eyes close instinctively. Jiang Linglong and her companions were no exception.

The moment their eyes snapped shut, ten masked figures in black rushed them, taking them down in a surprise attack. They then crippled their martial prowess, pinned them to the ground, and beat them savagely. Finally, they knocked them unconscious.

"We could have easily defeated them in a fair fight. Why did we have to use bright lights and a surprise attack?" one of the masked men asked, puzzled.

Mo Luo, also masked, explained, "If we were just here to kill them, we obviously wouldn’t need to be so roundabout. However, the Young Master’s orders were to cripple them, injure them, and then send them back to Medicine King Valley. That means we can’t reveal our true strength. Otherwise, Medicine King Valley might suspect it wasn’t the Long Family who attacked Jiang Linglong’s group. After all, the Long Family doesn’t possess experts of our caliber."

The masked men nodded in understanding.

"Go," Mo Luo ordered. "Deliver them and the eleven War God corpses to Medicine King Valley."

...

It was nearly two in the morning by the time Ye Xiu and Tang Bo returned to Long Family Manor, carrying Gu Meng, Nangong Yue, Bai Xi, and Wen Rubing, all of whom were dead drunk.

"What are you all doing?" Ye Xiu asked with feigned innocence, seeing more than four hundred people searching for something inside the manor.

"Ye Liangchen, you’re finally back," a young man said as he walked over. Ye Xiu remembered his name was Li Muyang.

"Did something happen?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Sigh, here’s what happened..." Li Muyang recounted the entire incident.

Hearing the story, Tang Bo’s face fell. He hadn’t expected such a major incident to have occurred at the Long Family Manor while they were out having fun.

Ye Xiu also feigned a concerned expression and asked, "What were our losses?"

"Three masters above the War God level were killed, and forty-two War Gods were seriously injured," Li Muyang replied. "However, their losses weren’t light either; they lost eleven War Gods..." At this point, he added with a puzzled look, "But something strange happened. While we were chasing the five escapees, the bodies of their eleven slain War Gods vanished. Long Yifei has also gone missing."

"What? Long Yifei is missing?" Ye Xiu struggled to stifle a laugh as he feigned shock. "Could he have been captured by the enemy?"

Just as Li Muyang was about to share his own theory, a cold voice called out.

"Found him! The Young Master is over here!"