"Zhao Cheng, you are indeed as treacherous as the rumors say."

"Me, insidious? Compared to you and your good disciple trying to harm my unborn child, who is more insidious and ruthless? Master Baidong, this is called an eye for an eye."

Zhao Cheng shook his head slightly and continued, "No, should I call you Master Baidong or San? It should be more accurate to call you San. Master Baidong saves people, while San is the one who kills."

Upon hearing the title "San," Master Baidong glanced at Zhao Hu and said, "Yi, you are very lucky to have followed a master who can accomplish great things."

Zhao Hu said seriously, "Yi is already dead. He died when you pushed him off the cliff."

Zhao Hu slowly pulled out his broken knife and said, word by word, "The person who is going to take your life is Zhao Hu."

"Tsk tsk..." Master Baidong clicked his tongue and said, "The surname Zhao is quite something now. It seems you are proud of it."

"Enough with the nonsense, prepare to die!"

Zhao Hu roared, gripped his sword with both hands, and unleashed his strongest attack.

Two broken swords!

Master Baidong's body blurred into a blur as he swiftly dodged, saying, "Boss Miao, I've done my best. I'm sorry!"

After he finished speaking, a series of afterimages appeared one after another, disappearing into the distance. In an instant, the physical body of Master Baidong was already a hundred paces away.

"You can't escape today," Zhao Cheng said confidently.

Suddenly, more than a dozen people leaped up from both sides of the official road. Each of them was extremely agile, and their speed closely followed the afterimages.

Above the afterimages was a large net, and everyone's hand was holding one end of the net.

The person chasing in the lead was Yuan Fei, and these dozen or so people were the Yiwen Flying Team trained by Yuan Fei!

In less than ten breaths, Yuan Fei had already surpassed the afterimage and shouted sharply, "Now! Release!"

The large net fell, and the afterimage vanished abruptly, leaving Master Baidong entangled in it.

Just as Master Baidong was about to use his power to tear open the net, a figure landed in front of him.

A slender red sword was pressed against his chest.

"call……"

Upon seeing the starfruit branch standing before him, Master Baidong immediately lost heart and gave up resisting.

"Arrange for someone to keep an eye on them."

Zhao Cheng made arrangements for Miao Shaohua and the others, then slowly walked up to Master Baidong and smiled, saying, "You really are a polymath, proficient in martial arts, lightness skills, hidden weapons, medicine, and poison. It's just a pity that you suffered the devastation of the Black Mountain Grottoes and couldn't become a grandmaster, otherwise you would really be a headache."

Master Baidong said, "I admit defeat now that I've fallen into your hands. Make your move."

Zhao Cheng said, "I don't even want you to die, why are you in such a hurry?"

Master Baidong laughed and said, "It's all about the victor and the vanquished. You think I'll beg you? Impossible."

"People who come out of the Black Mountain Grottoes do indeed have backbone."

Zhao Cheng sat cross-legged and said slowly, "Just answer whatever I ask you. That way, I'll have my sister cripple your martial arts and dissipate your internal energy, and you'll be able to save your life. Although you'll lose all your martial arts skills and won't be able to use hidden weapons or lightness skills anymore, your medical skills will still remain, and you can still save people and atone for your sins."

"Hahaha!! Hahahaha!!!"

Master Baidong laughed until his whole body trembled, and said, "Zhao Cheng, are you joking? Kill me if you want, I won't say a word!"

"Are you really that reckless with your life?"

"Those who emerge from the Black Mountain Grottoes are all vengeful ghosts. If they are ghosts, what right do they have to live?!"

Zhao Cheng casually picked up a blade of grass, blew on it gently, and said, "Are you a ghost? Are your two relatives from Nan Zhou also ghosts?"

Upon hearing this, Master Baidong's pupils suddenly contracted.

"I don't understand what you're saying!"

Zhao Cheng glanced at the surrounding flight team members and chuckled, "You think I've been so busy having a baby for the past month that I've forgotten about you? You think the Yiwen Flight Team is a pushover?"

"Back then, you pushed Yi off the cliff and became one of the survivors of that group. From then on, you carried out missions for the mountain lord. But you were unwilling to be just the mountain lord's killing tool forever, and you were afraid of the mountain lord's revenge after you defected, so you fled to Nanzhou."

"You studied under many famous masters in Southern Zhou, learning hidden weapons, medicine, and anything else that could enhance your strength. I think... it's because you know you can't become a grandmaster, so you want to learn more skills to protect yourself, right?"

"In order to hone your medical skills, you kept saving people in the Hundred Caves of Nanzhou. It was during this time that you saved a woman from Nanzhou and had a daughter with her, but you did not make this public. In front of outsiders, you and that woman from Nanzhou were like strangers."

Zhao Cheng blew the weeds out of his hand and said, "But this daughter... was a ray of light in your dark childhood. You love her very much, don't you?"

Master Baidong's expression changed drastically, and he roared, "Zhao Cheng, you are not allowed to touch them!!!"

Snap!

Zhao Cheng clapped his hands and said, "See, there's something to be afraid of now. This makes it easier for us to talk."

Master Baidong struggled, but Yang Taozhi pierced his shoulder with a sword.

"Zhao Cheng! You, a dignified general, actually use women and children to threaten me?!"

"I said, an eye for an eye."

Zhao Cheng shrugged and said, "You poisoned A-Yun, wasn't that also to threaten me with women and children?"

Master Baidong lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly.

"Or I could grant your wish and send your family to the underworld for a reunion. I have no interest in your lives, but Zhao Hu would be happy to send you on your way."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Hu stepped forward.

Master Baidong asked in a low voice, "What do you want to know?"

"That's the proper way to talk!"

Zhao Cheng shifted his position closer to Master Baidong and asked, "How much do you know about the master of Black Mountain Grottoes?"

Master Baidong said, "Why don't you just ask Yi?"

"Just answer whatever I ask you."

Zhao Cheng's voice became more serious as he said, "Yi wasn't a survivor back then, so he didn't have as much interaction with the mountain lord as you did."

Master Baidong slowly released his fist, and after a moment of silence, said, "The Mountain Lord... is terrifying."

Hearing the chill in Master Baidong's words, Zhao Cheng could sense his fear.

Many years later, the child who came out of the Black Mountain Grottoes has become a middle-aged man, but that fear seems to be etched into his bones.

But Zhao Cheng understood that the fear was directed at the people in the Black Mountain Grottoes, and did not mean that people outside would be afraid of this mountain lord.

Zhao Cheng asked, "What I want to know is, what is his cultivation level? How does it compare to his son's?"

"You don't understand Luo Ying at all."

Master Baidong looked up at Zhao Cheng and said, "Luo Ying also came from the Black Mountain Grottoes, but the difference is that he was in every batch of children before he came out."

"He never won first place. To be precise, the mountain lord deliberately prevented him from winning first place. He suffered physical torment just like us, and the suffering he endured was even far greater than ours."

Zhao Cheng asked doubtfully, "Then how was he able to become a Grandmaster?"

"because……"

Master Baidong suddenly laughed.