The First Murder

  Today, it was destined to be a sleepless night for the Fuwei Escort Agency, as one after another of their escorts died, bringing immense pressure and shadow to the Lin family. However, they did not know that when the Lin family rushed to the old Sa wine house outside the city with their men, a fierce battle broke out in the Lin's residence.

  "Are you alone today? Hehe..." Looking at the disciple of Qingcheng Sect in the shadows, Lin Heng couldn't help but smile. He came here to teach Qingcheng Sect a lesson, perhaps he was averse to killing, but he knew that he couldn't not kill, because this was the Jianghu.

  Dealing with Qingcheng Sect disciples is to test his cultivation, and also to temper himself. Moreover, killing these people would not make Lin Heng feel guilty, because in his eyes, they are just a bunch of scum who deserve to die.

  So he decided to take action today.

  Just now, he saw Lin Zhen Nan's family leave, and also saw a Qingcheng Sect disciple secretly follow up, while another person continued to stay in the escort agency to monitor. This is his opportunity.

  Taking a deep breath, Lin Heng suddenly drew out his long sword, the scabbard flying out like a wild horse breaking free from its reins. The hidden Qingcheng Sect disciple reacted immediately and leapt into the air, dodging Lin Heng's sneak attack. However, in the next instant, Lin Heng's long sword was pointing directly at his throat. He let out a slight gasp of surprise and rolled on the ground, narrowly avoiding the attack with great agility.

  "Haha......" Lin Heng swung his long sword in his hand and burst out laughing.

  "What kind of person are you?" The Qingcheng Sect disciple looked at Lin Heng with a shocked expression, but Lin Heng didn't respond and stabbed out his long sword again, attacking his vitals.

  This Qingcheng disciple was not an ordinary person, and immediately drew his long sword to fight with Lin Heng. The two men's fighting sounds were not small, and soon the courtyard was filled with a commotion. Those who had stayed behind also rushed over, but when they saw the people fighting, they wisely did not come up, instead surrounding them from all sides and sending someone to inform Lin Zhen Nan and others.

  "What on earth are you, and why did you ambush me?" The Qingcheng Sect disciple asked persistently, but Lin Heng still didn't answer. Instead, he gave a strange smile, then his long sword lightly arced, and actually dodged the blocking sword, stabbing towards his shoulder. The Qingcheng Sect disciple was startled, quickly retreating backwards, while Lin Heng took advantage of this time to display his sword technique. A set of unpredictable and mysterious Wuliang Sword Technique slowly unfolded in Lin Heng's hands, that magical long sword making the Qingcheng Sect disciple unable to keep up. In a short while, he had several more wounds on his body.

  The Qingcheng Sect disciple knew that things couldn't go on like this, so he swung the long sword in his hand and launched a counterattack with injuries, forcing Lin Heng to withdraw his sword to block it. Meanwhile, he took advantage of the opportunity to quickly retreat backwards, then turned around and used his lightness skill to leap into the air.

  At this, Lin Heng's eyes gleamed with a hint of excitement. He directly threw the long sword in his hand outwards. The Qingcheng Sect disciple did not expect Lin Heng to be so sudden, and as he saw the sword approaching him, he could only exert all his strength to turn around in mid-air. Unfortunately, this movement had exhausted his energy, and he immediately fell down. At this time, Lin Heng also rushed forward, taking advantage of his lightness skill, using the Arhat Fist to instantly knock away the long sword in his hand, then punching him once in the abdomen, once on the shoulder, and finally kicking him with one foot on the solar plexus, sending him flying outwards.

  "You..." Lin Heng's three punches were very powerful, especially the last one, which was a fatal blow. After all, the temple is a person's weak point, and with one punch, he was also out of breath.

  He gave him a cold look, Lin Heng suppressed the nausea that rose up in his abdomen, then jumped onto the rooftop and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

  Those bodyguards from the Fuwei Escort Agency saw Lin Heng leave and immediately surrounded him one by one. Several experienced old bodyguards took a serious look at the dead person on the ground and exclaimed to the people around them: "This is a person from the Qingcheng Sect, how did he end up in our Fuwei Escort Agency?"

  As soon as he said this, everyone felt that things had become serious. First, the Qingcheng Sect disciples mysteriously appeared here, and then they were killed by someone. This is no small matter.

  "Hurry, hurry, go and invite the leader of the escort back..."

  Some old men have already shouted out, they all forgot that they had just ordered a moment ago.

  In the midst of everyone's anxious waiting, Lin Zhen Nan and his group hastily returned. When they saw the Qingcheng Sect disciples who had been dead for a long time on the ground, their faces turned extremely ugly, with Lin Zhen Nan being the ugliest of all.

  "Gao Biao, tell me about the fight... " Lin Zhen Nan beckoned a guard over and asked him in detail. After hearing it twice, he immediately thought of the young man who had sparred with him earlier. He then turned to the crowd and said: "You... quickly, go bring the bodies of Bai Er and Zheng Biao from inside the room..." As he spoke, he pushed through the crowd and approached a body.

  There was a lot of mud on this corpse, which was exactly the Shibo head corpse they dug up in Laosa Wine House.

  Lin Zhen Nan ignored the gaze of those around him, and immediately pulled out a small knife, opening up Shi Biao Tou's chest cavity. The others gasped in shock at this sight, but soon, one by one, they all sucked in a breath of cold air.

  "Indeed!" Looking at the heart in Shi Biao's chest cavity, Lin Zhen Nan let out a deep sigh, and his whole person seemed to have aged a lot in an instant. "Madam, look..."

  "One heart was shaken into eight or nine pieces, this is the Qingcheng Sect's Heart-Shaking Palm!"

  Lin Zhen Nan nodded silently, his face expressionless. At this time, the escorts also brought over the bodies of Bai Er and Zheng Biao Tou, Lin Zhen Nan similarly opened their chests and saw their shattered hearts. At this moment, he was completely certain that it was a disciple of Qingcheng Sect who had killed these escorts.

  With a wave of his hand, Lin Zhen Nan let the crowd disperse. Compared to Qingcheng Sect, Fuwei Escort Bureau was absolutely no match. Now it's time to think about what to do next.

  Sitting in the room, Lin Zhen said: "This time our opponent is a master of Qingcheng Sect. Wife, what do you think we should do?"

  Lin Ping stood up angrily and said, "This matter originated from my son, so tomorrow I will go to challenge them again and fight a decisive battle with them. If we are not their match, then let them kill us, that's all."

  Lin Zhen Nan shook his head, and on the other side, Wang Fu Ren slapped the table and said: "Hmph, I think Ping Er is not wrong, it's those people from Qing Cheng Sect who are too arrogant. Husband, I think we should set off tomorrow and rush to Luoyang. I don't believe that with the power of our Fu Wei Escort Agency and the Wang family, we can't deal with Qing Cheng Sect."

  "Not bad, my father-in-law has friends all over the world, he must be able to give us a good idea. Alright, let's pack up our belongings and set off immediately..." Lin Zhen Nan made the decision on the spot, and the three of them began packing."

  If they had fled immediately, the disciples of Qingcheng would have found it extremely difficult to track them down again. Even if they were tracked down, their route would have been calculated. However, Lin Zhen Nan and his two companions weren't clever enough, insisting on dispersing the people from the intelligence agency while saying something about letting them attract attention. Didn't they know that this would make it even easier for others to notice?

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, not long after they left, another Qingcheng Sect disciple appeared. This person was none other than Yu Renhao, who had been with Fang Rengzhi. However, he did not expect that as soon as he went out for a trip, Fang Rengzhi would be killed by someone. This made Yu Renhao extremely angry, but at the same time also made him vigilant, because he did not know who had killed Fang Rengzhi, so he did not make a move.

  Now, the Lin family began to escape, he immediately returned to his residence, informed another fellow disciple Jia Ren Da, and together they contacted other Qingcheng disciples, following behind the three members of the Lin family, and left the city with them.

  Mantis catches cicada, yellow sparrow in the back! Behind these people, Lin Heng was that yellow sparrow. After killing Fang Renzhi, he didn't leave Fuwei Escort Agency but hid there instead. Nobody would have thought that the place where he hid wasn't somewhere else, but rather Lin Zhen Nan's room. This also allowed him to overhear their conversation and quietly follow them from behind.

  Lin Heng's hidden kung fu was quite good, and he had specifically learned it before. Before he came out of the mountain, he followed Ping Yizhi to pick herbs several times, and when they encountered wild beasts, Ping Yizhi would deal with them, while Lin Heng hid aside. Although this wasn't a regular practice, it was still much better than what the Qingcheng disciples had learned. As a result, they couldn't discover Lin Heng following behind them.

  Out of the city, Lin's family immediately got off the main road and headed towards a small path. For one night, they all walked with their heads down without rest. When it was almost dawn, they saw an inn in front of them and decided to go over and eat something. However, after waiting for half a day, no one came out, which made Lin Zhen Nan feel uneasy. He immediately drew his long sword and cautiously observed the surroundings.

  Lin Zhen Nan held his sword horizontally in front of him and said loudly, "Friends from the Qingcheng Sect, Lin is about to die here, please show up and meet me." He called out several times, but only heard the echo of the valley: "Show up and meet, show up and meet!" The sound lingered, and there was no other noise.

  The three of them knew that their great enemy was watching from the side, and this place was where they had chosen to make their move. Although they were nervous at heart, they knew that it would be over soon, and instead calmed down.

  Lin Pingzi shouted loudly: "I, Lin Pingzi, am right here! Come and kill me! You stinky thief, you cowardly dog, I knew you wouldn't dare to show up! Sneaking around like a ghost, this is the typical behavior of a despicable scoundrel from the jianghu!"

  Suddenly, a clear and loud laughter came from the bamboo forest. Lin Ping's eyes lit up, and he saw another person in front of him. Without taking a closer look, he drew his long sword and launched a "Direct Thrust to the Yellow Dragon" attack towards the man's chest. The man dodged to the side. Lin Ping swept his sword horizontally, and the man let out a cold laugh, circling around to Lin Ping's left side. Lin Ping slapped his left palm backhandedly and counterattacked with his sword. Lin Zhen Nan and Wang Fu Ren had already rushed forward with their swords drawn, but seeing their son execute several moves in a row with neat and orderly swordplay, they immediately retreated two steps. They saw that the enemy was wearing a green shirt, with a sword hanging from his waist, and had a long face with an expression of disdain, looking to be around 23 or 24 years old.

  Lin Ping was shocked and furious, and immediately wanted to attack again with his sword. But in the next moment, a figure suddenly rushed out from beside him, and a long sword flashed in the cold light, exceeding Lin Ping's shadow and inserting into the chest cavity of that Qingcheng Sect disciple with a "pu" sound.

  This sudden change not only caught the Qingcheng Sect disciples off guard, but also startled Lin Zhen Nan and his two companions. Look at the faces of those Qingcheng Sect disciples, filled with incredulity and unwillingness to accept death.

  "Big Brother..." The sudden change of events made the hidden Qingcheng Sect disciples extremely indignant. They immediately jumped out one by one, holding long swords and surrounding the suddenly appearing man and the three members of the Lin family.

  "Haha……" With a smile, the newcomer flipped his long sword with incredible speed, weaving in and out of the crowd. His swordsmanship was too fast, and these Qingcheng Sect disciples were no match for him. In an instant, two more people died at his hands. The others, seeing this, didn't dare to engage him again and turned to flee.

  The man did not chase after them but instead said to Lin Zhen Nan Dao: "You're good at this!"

  "It's you..." As soon as the man spoke, Lin Zhen Nan recognized his voice. It was indeed Lin Heng, and now except for Lin Heng, no one else would be able to save the three members of the Lin family. Of course, Yue Ling Shan might want to save them, but how could she do so with Laborde by her side?

  Shaking his head, Lin Heng didn't say anything more to the three members of the Lin family. He turned around and entered the nearby forest, disappearing from sight in an instant. Lin Zhen Nan watched this, and could only sigh, saying: "Alright, don't look anymore. We need to hurry on our way. If those Qingcheng Sect disciples come back, it'll be troublesome."

  Having said that, the three of them no longer lingered and continued on their way at full speed.