"Senior! Run!"
The boy's voice, deep and resonant with the coming of age, reached Xie Ming's ears perfectly.
He lay on the ground and slowly opened his eyes a crack, and saw two agile figures quickly fleeing the place along the forest path.
Feeling a hole in his chest big enough to shoot a marble, Xie Ming involuntarily hissed, "It hurts so damn much."
Looking up again, they saw several men chasing them frantically along the path they had taken.
Ignoring the pain, Xie Ming bent his fingers to freeze the person leaping between the branches in the distance, and then slammed him hard to the ground.
When his accomplice saw someone fall, he thought the man had been hit by a hidden weapon. He rushed over to check on him and found that he was unharmed. He assumed the man had simply fallen accidentally, so he threw him a bottle of medicine and left.
Seeing that no one was around, Xie Ming easily pulled the person close to him.
Under the man's terrified gaze, Xie Ming stood up, clutching his chest. Then he picked up a twig and stabbed the man in the chest again, once, twice, three times... The speed was as fast as lightning. The man hadn't died even after dozens of stabbings; he was just staring at Xie Ming in pain.
Xie Ming squatted in front of him and let him look at him to his heart's content. Only after the man stopped convulsing and became still did he throw down the branch and find a secluded place to stop the bleeding.
In the blink of an eye, he had sorted out all the memories of this world.
This time it's a martial arts world, and Xie Ming's identity is no simple matter. He is the only son of Zhang Qishan, the martial arts alliance leader, who has been missing for many years.
It all started with Xie Ming's biological father, Zhang Qishan, in his childhood.
That was more than 30 years ago. At that time, the Zhang family was slaughtered by villains, and only 10-year-old Zhang Qishan was left, who fled to the northern desert.
Despite his best efforts to hide, he was still found by those people and was eventually knocked off a cliff by his enemies.
But his life was not meant to end there, and he accidentally stumbled into the grave of the old man Qingfeng.
Elder Qingfeng is a legendary figure in the martial arts world. He learned the peerless skills of his master and received guidance from the Shaolin master, and created the "Quenching Mist Technique".
It is said that mastering this skill can extend one's lifespan by 200 years. Unfortunately, when Qingfeng Elder practiced this skill, he was already over fifty years old, and he disappeared from the martial arts world at the age of 150.
Zhang Qishan never expected that the old man Qingfeng would choose the northern desert as his burial site. By sheer luck, he paid homage to the old man's remains, called him his master, and began to practice the "Quenching Storm Technique".
There he spent nearly eight years learning unparalleled martial arts.
After returning to the political arena, Zhang Qishan showed no mercy in killing all the enemies who had wiped out his entire family years ago.
He became famous overnight, and everyone in the martial arts world knew that Qingfeng Laoren's "Quanlan Technique" had reappeared in the martial arts world.
At the time, Zhang Qishan was just a young man with a great treasure, so all the forces in the martial arts world had their eyes on him.
The good days he imagined after becoming famous did not come, and Zhang Qishan returned to a life on the run.
Once, he was being chased and fled to the vicinity of Yufeng Manor. Xie Tai saw that he was seriously injured, so he rescued him and arranged for him to recuperate in the manor.
Yufeng Manor has always been known for its "chivalry," so after Zhang Qishan hid inside, no one came to cause him any trouble.
However, those who coveted his martial arts skills would still take advantage of their relationship with the manor to stay for short or long periods of time from time to time.
Knowing the consequences of facing the martial world alone, Zhang Qishan dared not easily leave the manor's territory.
Just when he was worrying about how to avoid those people, a turning point appeared.
Xie Tai's only daughter, Xie Muliu, returned from her training. Under his careful planning, the two naturally met, got to know each other, and fell in love at the villa. Everything fell into place naturally.
Seeing his daughter, who was deeply in love with him, Xie Tai was so worried that his hair almost turned white.
It turns out that although Elder Qingfeng's kung fu was a rare skill, Xie Tai knew that Zhang Qishan had only practiced the first half, and it was very likely that he did not yet have the second half of the skill.
However, the true life-extending second half is in the hands of Xie Tai, the master of Yufeng Manor.
Xie Tai's ancestor once saved the old man Qingfeng who had gone mad from practicing martial arts. For some reason, the old man Qingfeng left the second half of the martial arts manual at Yufeng Manor. But without the first half, no one else can practice the second half!
Knowing the gravity of the matter, Yufeng Manor dared not speak out, and the matter was kept secret, known only to successive manor lords.
Xie Tai didn't know if the old man Qingfeng had told Zhang Qishan that Yufeng Manor also had the "Quenching Mist Technique," and this was compounded by the fact that people in the martial arts world coveted Zhang Qishan.
Xie Tai really didn't approve of this marriage, but his daughter Xie Muliu was already deeply in love with Zhang Qishan and wouldn't listen to a word of his advice.
She even declared, "If Father is worried that someone will come looking for trouble, then she and Brother Qishan will leave the manor."
Xie Tai had raised this child like a precious jewel, so how could he let her go? In the end, he had no choice but to compromise.
He also harbored the fantasy that if his daughter gave birth to a son and learned the first half of the "Quenching Mist Technique," then he could pass on the second half to the child.
Unable to dissuade his daughter, and after much consideration, Xie Tai finally agreed to their marriage.
Afterwards, at a grand banquet held at Yufeng Manor, Zhang Qishan was officially announced as the son-in-law of Yufeng Manor. He even helped rebuild the Zhang family's Wujian Manor, located 30 miles away.
Zhang Qishan was very savvy and actively helped manage affairs at Yufeng Villa.
At the same time, he did not forget to recruit disciples for Wujian Manor, and he also used the "Quenching Mist Technique" to improve the original Wujian Manor's martial arts techniques.
Although people in the martial arts world are ashamed that his martial arts skills and wealth come from others, it does not stop people who come to learn from him.
In the following two years, Zhang Qishan, with the help of Yufeng Manor, raised the banner of "eliminating evil and eradicating wickedness" and did several well-known things in the martial arts world.
In addition to his past connection with Shaolin Temple, Qingfeng Laoren also received the care of the current abbot, Master Liaoyuan.
As the dangers surrounding him gradually diminished, when he made a high-profile appearance, people, relying on their prestigious background, still had to give him a warm welcome.
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