Urban Martial Saint

Chapter 1877 - 1877: Li Changshan's Suicide

Ye Qing looked at Li Changshan, and at this moment, his expression was extremely ferocious, as if he was possessed by a demon. This man, for the sake of fame and status, poisoned and killed his own elder brother; his methods were indeed ruthless. With such a person, what else could he not do?"You killed these children just to incite conflict between the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance and the Purple Robe Lama?" Ye Qing said in a deep voice. "Are you working for the Twelve Green Halls?"

"Hmph, you're not stupid after all!" Li Changshan said coldly. "Of course, where do you think I got the poison I used on Li Changqing? He was a Peak Master. Besides King Yan Ning Qianshu, who else in the world can concoct a poison that could kill a Peak Master?"

Ye Qing sighed heavily. Ultimately, this matter was connected to Ning Qianshu. It seemed Ning Qianshu had done quite a lot twenty years ago. He not only wiped out three families of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance but also colluded with Li Changshan to kill Li Changqing.

"So, the duel between Master and Uncle Shen back then was also instigated by Ning Qianshu," Ye Qing said.

Li Changshan sneered, "The Acupoint Seeking Technique was originally obtained by Ning Qianshu, but this book was of no use to him. However, using this book to provoke a battle between the King of North-South Boxing allowed both of them to have no time to care for the three families of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance, making full use of it!"

Ye Qing slowly shook his head. Actually, he had some doubts in his heart when he heard about the battle between the Southern and Northern Fist Kings because of the Acupoint Seeking Technique. He always felt that they were being used. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true; this matter was orchestrated by King Yan Ning Qianshu. Moreover, he had colluded with Li Changshan to kill Li Changqing. At the same time, he used this matter to restrain the King of North-South Boxing, making his plan against the three families of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance a complete success. Calculating this, Ning Qianshu's methods were indeed very clever twenty years ago. No wonder his status in the Twelve Green Halls was so high!

"There's one thing I still don't understand." Ye Qing looked at Li Changshan and said, "Since you've already gone to kill these children, why did you send a Peak Master to replace you?"

Li Changshan frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Hmph, they think it's unsafe for me to do this, fearing that I would be discovered by the people of the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance, so they sent a Peak Master halfway to replace me. I really didn't expect that I just killed a dozen people and was discovered by you. It seems that I really underestimated modern technology, which can detect even these things. Ye Qing, you are very shrewd, but unfortunately, shrewd people often don't live long. If you pretended not to know about this or arranged for experts to wait for me here, I would have been dead tonight. But you were too careless to wait for me alone here. Do you think you still have your former strength?"

"Is that so?" Ye Qing lightly flicked the plastic bag beside him and said, "Do you know why I waited for you here alone?"

"Why?" Li Changshan asked in surprise.

"Because if I wasn't here alone, I couldn't have asked so many things." Ye Qing picked up the plastic bag and continued softly, "Moreover, the fluff inside is not from your clothes but from a new identical outfit I bought and tore off. As for the genetic testing method, I made it up, not knowing if such a method exists. But these pieces of evidence are all fake."

"What!?" Li Changshan nearly broke down. He looked at Ye Qing furiously and said, "You... you... you tricked me with these fake pieces of evidence?"

"If I didn't use these fake pieces of evidence to fool you, how would you have fallen for it and revealed your identity? If I wasn't here alone, how would you have answered so many questions?" Ye Qing sighed gently and said, "Moreover, let me tell you one more thing, you can't get out of this manor with me!"

"I know there are many experts in this manor, but with you in my hands, it's different." Li Changshan gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Ye Qing, with you as a hostage, what difference does it make if Peak Masters like Helian Tiehua and Shen Tianjun come; I can still leave Shenchuan City smoothly. As long as I reach the Twelve Green Halls, they will protect me, and there's no chance for you to kill me!"

"Your plan is good, but you miscalculated one thing." Ye Qing slowly stood up and said, "Even though I'm not as strong as before, it's entirely impossible for you to kill me."

"What do you mean?" Li Changshan's complexion changed, not knowing what Ye Qing meant. At this moment, the room next door suddenly opened, and the Purple Robe Lama rushed out, glaring angrily at Li Changshan and saying in a deep voice, "Li Changshan, surrender now!"

Seeing the Purple Robe Lama, Li Changshan was scared and shivered, also feeling guilty. However, he was quite tenacious. When he saw the Purple Robe Lama rushing out, he immediately grabbed Ye Qing and pressed his hand on Ye Qing's vital acupoint, saying in a deep voice, "Don't come over, or I'll kill him immediately!"

"Shishu, I told you, you can't kill me!" Ye Qing shook his head and said, "If you don't believe it, you can try."

Li Changshan frowned. He suddenly pressed a hand on Ye Qing's vital acupoint to threaten him. However, unexpectedly, when he pressed, Ye Qing didn't react at all, as if he hadn't pressed at all.

"What's going on?" Li Changshan was greatly surprised and exerted inner strength to press again, but the result was the same; Ye Qing remained unaffected, standing upright.

At this moment, the Purple Robe Lama had already rushed over. The Purple Robe Lama had learned the Qinggong of Patriarch Bodhidharma's Crossing the River with a Reed, and his speed was very fast, like a gust of wind, grabbing Li Changshan by the neck and lifting him up.

"How... how could this be?" Li Changshan said tremblingly, his face filled with incredulous expression.

"You know my martial arts have been completely ruined, but do you know that my meridians are no longer there?" Ye Qing said, "Since even my meridians are gone, naturally there's no talk of meridians and acupoints. What use is it to press my vital acupoint?"

Li Changshan was utterly despairing; he never expected that Ye Qing's body would be in such a condition.

"Li Changshan, you're worse than a beast!" the Purple Robe Lama said sternly. Although he was also a monk, he was clearly different from other monks, speaking without any restraint.

"Purple Robe Baldy, you... don't say that to me..." Li Changshan gritted his teeth and said, "The victor becomes king, the loser is a bandit. Today I've fallen into your hands. Kill or carve as you please. Hmph, since I poisoned Li Changqing years ago, I expected this day would come. The past twenty years, I've lived happily; even if I die, it's worth it!"

"Want to die? That's not going to be easy!" the Purple Robe Lama said in a deep voice, "You must pay for what you've done!"

"Hmph, you have no right to judge or punish me!" Li Changshan suddenly roared angrily, then gritted his teeth forcefully. Within seconds, blood trickled from his mouth, and his head drooped to one side.

"What happened? What happened?" Ye Qing asked in surprise. Li Changshan's condition gave him a bad feeling.

The Purple Robe Lama looked at Li Changshan, also dumbfounded, and said in a low voice, "He... he seems to be dead?"

"Dead?" Ye Qing quickly went over and flicked Li Changshan's pulse; there was no movement, as if really dead.

"This... this..." Ye Qing looked at Li Changshan in astonishment and said, "How did he just suddenly die?"

The Purple Robe Lama opened Li Changshan's mouth to check, frowned, and said in a deep voice, "He had poison hidden in his teeth. Biting down forcefully would release the poison. This poison is potent, causing death in seconds. It seems he was ready to die all along!"

"This..." Ye Qing said again in amazement, "Why would he rather die than be captured by us?"

The Purple Robe Lama released Li Changshan and slowly turned his head, saying in a deep voice, "Judging from his deeds, this person is extremely fierce. Such a person, with too high an ambition, would rather die than be imprisoned and punished!"

Ye Qing was slightly silent. He didn't quite agree with the Purple Robe Lama's explanation. Just now, when he was here alone, Li Changshan answered so many questions, leaving almost no secrets. At this point, he suddenly committed suicide, which was beyond normal thinking, hard to figure out. Ye Qing always felt there might be something else going on with this, something more complex than what they had unearthed. Nevertheless, Ye Qing had no leads now, only a vague feeling, not knowing where to begin investigating.

"Never expected the Twelve Green Halls would do such things. To deal with the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance, they used every possible means. Twenty years ago, they incited the battle between the Southern and Northern Fist Kings, exterminating those three big families; such acts were already disgraceful. And twenty years later, they're even targeting my Brahmin!" the Purple Robe Lama said, looking at Li Changshan's body. "Killing so many people only to incite enmity between me and the Seven Rudders of Hong Alliance. Ye Qing, this time, luckily you uncovered the scheme; otherwise, we might have been used by them!"

Ye Qing sighed, although the matter was uncovered, his heart was very uncomfortable. After all, Li Changshan was Li Changqing's biological brother; Ye Qing hoped this matter had nothing to do with him. That way, he could at least be considered a good person, and Li Changqing's younger brother would at least be preserved, holding the Li family together.

Now, Li Changshan is dead, leaving only the fool Li Bing'en in the Li Family. The Li family was basically at its end!