Lanke Chess Edge-Chapter 353: Dont Get Yourself Dirty

It was currently neither too early nor too late in the evening. Many families were currently having dinner, as was the case at Luoxia Villa.
This year’s martial arts gathering, also known as the Ji Province Martial Arts Tournament, was being held in Duming Prefecture. The second master of Luoxia Villa stayed behind, while Luo Ling and Luo Feng, as prominent figures of Luoxia Villa, had both arrived in Duming Prefecture and were currently having dinner in the villa.
“Master Luo, Master Luo Ling—I’m being hunted down by evil martial artists! I beg you, Master Luo Ling, to help me! Master Luo, save me—!”
Lan Ningke’s loud shout, delivered with all his might, carried far and wide. Luo Ling and Luo Feng to both stopped eating.
“Let’s go out and see who’s calling for help!”
“Okay.”
Before they had even finished their words, their seats were already empty. Both of them were extremely skilled in qinggong, and with a few quick taps of their toes, they had already leaped over the garden wall and landed right in front of Lan Ningke.
Lan Ningke shouted a few more times, then was immediately startled when he suddenly saw a figure flash by in front of him.
“Ah…”
Due to the intense stress and excessive physical exertion, he lost his balance in his haste stumbled, despite being a seasoned martial artist.
Luo Ling swiftly stepped forward and caught Lan Ningke by the chest. He looked at him.
“Was that you calling for help?”
“Master Luo, Master Luo! I’m so glad to see you! You must save me! A villain is chasing and killing fellow martial artists in broad daylight. Jiang Meng is dead, but he will definitely come after me! He will definitely come kill me!”
Lan Ningke frantically recounted the night’s events, then looked around and saw Lu Chengfeng and several Cloud Pavilion disciples running towards him from the other side of the street.
For some reason, Lan Ningke was even more excited to see Lu Chengfeng than Luo Ling and Luo Feng, and his face displayed an expression of morbid excitement.
“Hey, Lu Chengfeng, Lu Chengfeng! I’m here, come over here!”
Luo Feng frowned as he looked at Lan Ningke’s current state. He sensed that this person was a bit abnormal. Luo Ling did not continue to support Lan Ningke, letting go of his grip as son as he had regained his balance.
Luo Feng had successfully broken through to the Innate Realm several years ago and was now an Innate Realm expert. With two Innate Realm experts from Luoxia Villa here, he naturally wouldn’t be afraid of any tricks.
Lu Chengfeng naturally had excellent agility. He used his qinggong to rapidly approach Lan Ningke and the others. At this moment, the servants from Luoxia Villa also came out with lanterns, illuminating the surroundings.
Lu Chengfeng cupped his hands in a respectful bow to Luo Ling and Luo Feng.
“Patriarch Luo, Third Master Luo!”
These two were true martial arts masters, people whose mere presence could shake the martial arts world of Ji Province. They were always to be treated with utmost respect whenever anyone encountered them.
“Hmm, he said your mutual enemy has come knocking?”
Luo Feng squinted at Lu Chengfeng and Lan Ningke. He had just overheard Lan Ningke’s words calling out to Lu Chengfeng, and then he mentioned something about a villain chasing down fellow martial artists. He was still not quite sure what was going on.
“An enemy?”
Lu Chengfeng looked at Lan Ningke, who looked like a stray dog, completely different from his demeanorduring the day.
“What enemy? Warrior Lan, might we have any common enemy?”
Lan Ningke’s facial muscles twitched.
“Yes! Hahaha, you’ve forgotten too, you’ve forgotten too, hahaha, we’re all the same, all the same! He’s coming, he’s coming!”
Luo Ling frowned and was about to speak when suddenly he sensed something, and turned to look at the end of the street.
Under the starlit night, a figure dressed in a pale yellow robe was slowly approaching, his steps light and without any trace of supernatural abilities, resembling an ordinary person.
“He’s here! He’s here! It’s him! He ripped Jiang Meng’s heart out!”
Lan Ningke suddenly grew agitated and shouted.
Lu Shan Jun approached as if strolling leisurely, gazing at the entrance to Luoxia Villa.
“Oh? Two Innate Realm masters. I’ve heard tell that Innate Realm Masters are all exceptionally talented and have great perseverance. I didn’t expect to find two of them. Indeed, your blood and vital energy are vigorous, and your Yang energy is strong. Hmm, Lu Chengfeng is here too, that’s good!”
Luo Ling squinted at the newcomer. Although he couldn’t discern how skilled the newcomer’s movements were, his tone sounded quite arrogant, and some of his words were difficult to understand.
“Who are you? Did you kill River Tiger Jiang Meng? Why are you relentlessly pursuing Lan Ningke? If there is any misunderstanding, please consider the pride of Luoxia Villa, and let’s sit down and talk openly.”
Such polite words are perfectly appropriate for Luo Ling’s status; both his status and his fists carried significant weight.
“No need for such trouble.”
Seeing that Lan Ningke was deliberately dragging Lu Chengfeng into the mess, Lu Shan Jun realized that this person had no bottom line, and no longer felt the need to hold back. After speaking, he approached Lan Ningke like a ghost.
“Stop!”
Luo Ling reacted with lightning speed, reaching out to throw a punch and swinging with his left arm in an attempt to force the intruder back. However, Lu Shan Jun easily deflected the punch and open-palm strike with a single wave of a hand.
“Hmm?”
Luo Ling and Luo Feng were startled. The former had used the force of their momentum in the exchange to twist at the waist and shift position, flashing in front of Lan Ningke. At the same time, the latter had already leapt up, his figure fluttering in the air like a butterfly. As he flipped over, he struck with both hands from the top of the head to the bottom, his strikes covering Lu Shan Jun’s body.
At the same moment, Luo Ling had already launched another flurry of blows and palm strikes. This time it was no longer a test, but a full-force attack.
“Whoosh… whoosh…”
The force of the fists and palm strikes of the two Innate Realm masters actually produced a whistling sound of wind.
“Slap!”
“Slap!”
“Bang!”
“Slap!”…
Lu Shanjun dodged, waved his hand, flicked his sleeve, and parried with an elbow…
In the blink of an eye, Lu Shan Jun exchanged over ten blows with the two masters of the Luo family, each exchange louder than the last, even causing cracks to appear in the floor tiles beneath their feet.
He single-handedly held off two Innate Realm masters, one of whom was Luo Ling!
The scene before them astonished Lu Chengfeng and those around him. Only Lan Ningke showed little surprise. Now that he had caught his breath, he looked tense, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty.
“Well played!”
Lu Shan Jun said coldly, sweeping Luo Ling aside with a flick of his sleeve, and turned around the instant Luo Feng’s palm struck from behind, meeting the blow with a smile.
“Bang…”
“Crack…”
Luo Feng felt a surge of powerful force; his right arm bones cracked and tendons snapped. He tumbled four or five times in the air, landing and skidding backwards. When he finally regained his footing, one of his arms was hanging loosely to his side and trembling slightly.
“Third brother, are you alright?”
Luo Ling asked nervously. Luo Feng forced a reply.
“I’m alright!”
Lu Shan Jun smiled.
“You two are quite good; you deserve to be called skilled.”
As he was about to advance again, Luo Ling suddenly erupted into motion, pushing his True Qi to its limit. His movements and attacks were three times more ferocious than before, frequently flashing around Lu Shan Jun. His punches and kicks were like afterimages, and he seemed to be blocking his opponent all by himself.
However, people at Lu Chengfeng and Lan Ningke’s level could already see that Luo Ling was at a complete disadvantage, unable to even force him to move a few steps back.
“Master Luo, I’m coming to help you!”
Lu Chengfeng shouted. He circulated his True Qi to use qinggong, instantly closing in on Lu Shan Jun with violent momentum.
“Haah!”
The shout contained a large amount of true energy, and the mountain-shaking punch brought out a whistling sound as if the air was being torn apart.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”…
A single punch exploded, unleashing a continuous barrage of afterimages.
Since this person was so arrogant and hardly moved, he had become a target. Lu Chengfeng imagined him as the giant tree stump in Cloud Pavilion, and was preparing to uproot him with a storm of punches.
Luo Ling and Luo Feng hadn’t expected Lu Chengfeng to help much, but they never imagined he possessed such martial arts prowess.
Luo Feng, enduring the pain, returned to the battlefield, using his left hand to unleash an open-palm strike to assist. Lu Chengfeng’s attack was fierce, but since he was not an Innate Realm cultivator, recovering his True Qi was his biggest weakness. His attacks would weaken immediately after this set of punches ended.
However, Luo Ling’s confidence soared. He wrapped his arms with Innate Realm Qi, and poured his True Qi into his attacks recklessly, striving to quickly defeat his enemy.
But Lan Ningke’s heart sank. After Lu Chengfeng joined the attack, he noticed that the monster still had time to glance at him frequently, and the expression on his face was always a half-smile.
‘They can’t stop them! They can’t stop him!’
With his mind in disarray, Lan Ningke suddenly turned and ran, sprinting towards the street once more.
“Bang…”
He had only run a dozen steps when he suddenly bumped into something and fell to the ground with a thud. Looking up, he saw Lu Shan Jun, dressed in a yellow robe with cloud patterns, wearing a fake smile.
“Where are you planning to run off to?”
On the other side, Luo Ling, Luo Feng, and Lu Chengfeng stared in astonishment, a strong sense of defeat rising within them. The enemy they had just been fighting had vanished from their sight in an instant and appeared dozens of steps away, as if he had been toying with them.
“Spare me, spare me… I, I promise I will always uphold justice and always prioritize righteousness. I will definitely keep promise. I will repent and reform. Oh, and the Fan family — I will return the money I owe them, I will help the Fan family restore their former glory… I will… I will apologize with thorns in my back… I will…”
Lan Ningke immediately begged for mercy and made promises, speaking strings of words, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly until his forehead bled.
Lu Shan Jun looked to Luo Ling and the other two.
“Did you hear that?”
Anyone with half a brain could understand a lot from that string of words: at the very least, it was clear that Lan Ningke was not a good person.
Lu Shan Jun smiled and helped Lan Ningke to stand, as he was still trying to kowtow.
“Get up, get up, stop kowtowing.”
Looking at the pale-faced man standing in front of him, covered in sweat and grime, Lu Shan Jun even stretched out his sleeve to wipe the blood, sweat, and dust from his forehead.
“Look at you, don’t get yourself dirty.”
These words had barely left his mouth before Lan Ningke relaxed his guard for just a moment.
“Roar…”
Lu Shan Jun suddenly opened his mouth, and a phantom tiger head appeared.
“Aaaah—“
Amidst Lan Ningke’s panicked screams, Lu Shan Jun swallowed him whole; everything happened so fast it seemed like an illusion.
Everyone else was stunned, but Lu Chengfeng froze instantly, because in that instant, the man who had swallowed Lan Ningke was already in front of him, no more than two arms’ lengths away.
He broke out into a cold sweat instantly, his back soaked. Lu Chengfeng vaguely realized who this person was.
Lu Shan Jun smiled at Lu Chengfeng.
“Are you afraid?”
Lu Chengfeng suppressed the urge to run away and answered in a trembling voice.
“Of course I’m afraid!”
“I heard you’ve hardly left Yuchang County in recent years. What’s your opinion on our agreement?”
Lu Chengfeng knew this was a life-or-death moment. Although the pressure was intense, he had to speak his mind.
“Family comes first, then chivalry. My family in Cloud Pavilion is unstable and surrounded by dangers. In times like these, for me, the way of chivalry is to protect my family!”
Lu Shan Jun’s eyes flickered thoughtfully, but he did not speak. Instead, he looked towards the end of the street.
“What kind of demon is committing this violence here?”
“You wretched creature, you’re courting death!”
Two loud shouts echoed from the end of the street and reached Lu Shan Jun’s ears. It was clear that the monstrous aura that had just revealed had been detected by the Nighttime Patrol Officers.
“Tsk tsk tsk, I’ve gone too far. I don’t want to get into conflict with the underworld.”
Leaving behind these light words, Lu Shan Jun leaped up, his figure disappearing into the distance in a flash.