Ge Jian said, “I think you should have a person or two to serve you on the mountain. With how big your bed is, it’s a waste if it’s just for one person.” Seeing how he could not complete Zhuo Zhibo’s mission, he came up with another plan. He saw how this kid seemed like a person who placed great emphasis on his ties with people. As long as an additional burden appeared beside him, they could use it to threaten him.
Looking at the young women who were lined up and waiting to be chosen, just like livestock, Li Qingshan suddenly felt sadness. He looked at the fat procuress again and felt even more disgusted by her. He was really tempted to just cut her down right here. However, he also knew that in a day and age like this, brothels were proper businesses. Many people who had daughters and were reluctant to raise them due to favouring males, or were unable to raise them, would send them here. It was basically a path for them to survive.
Li Qingshan asked, “Did you get into all of this willingly?”
The young women looked at one another before finally lowering their heads and saying yes.
Li Qingshan lost his interest in them. He stood up. “That’s it for today. I want to go home and sleep!” He made his way out, but when he walked past one of the young women, she shoved a piece of paper into his hand.
Qing Xiu looked at that tall, wide figure with eagerness. Ever since she had been abducted and brought here, many years had passed already. She had sunken into despair a long time ago, but the slap from Li Qingshan earlier made her recover a ray of hope, enough for her to take such a great risk. He was different from other men. If it were him, perhaps he would report it to the authorities and save her, as well as her siblings. It was said that the district magistrate was a good official, the best of the best. He would definitely help them.
However, she saw Li Qingshan suddenly stop, just unfurling the piece of paper there. Afterwards, he asked her, “Did you give this to me?”
Everyone’s gazes immediately gathered on that one woman. In particular, the procuress managed to catch a glimpse of the words written on the paper. There was some killing intent in her eyes.
Qing Xiu lowered her head deeply as if someone was staring daggers at her. She thought about the fates of the sisters who had tried to escape or betray the Parlour of Clouds and Rain. Despair flooded her face. She was filled with deep regret. Inside, she wholeheartedly resented Li Qingshan. Are you an idiot? Don’t you know how powerful they are in the Parlour of Clouds and Rain? I’m done for because of you!
Li Qingshan stowed the piece of paper away as he patted the young lady’s shoulder with a smile. “I’m asking you. Why aren’t you answering me? You could have just mentioned it earlier.” I’ve bid my time for ten years! I’ve been filled with an urge to enforce and uphold justice a long time ago, just waiting for injustice!
He felt like he had spoken very amiably, but Qing Xiu only grew paler.
The procuress could already tell that Li Qingshan was a troublemaker. She immediately pulled Qing Xiu behind her. “She has lost her mind. Don’t take it seriously.” Qing Xiu had always been a clever and obedient girl. She never opposed anything that she was told to do, so the procuress thought she was just about done with her grooming, which was why she took her out to see Li Qingshan. However, she never thought that in such an important moment, she would actually do something like that. The procuress would definitely beat her to death later on and make an example out of her.
Li Qingshan said, “Didn’t you want me to choose someone? I’ll choose her!”
The procuress said, “Why don’t you take her away?” Then she turned to Li Qingshan and smiled. “There are plenty of girls in our parlour. It really would be wrong of us to let you choose one who has lost her mind!” She bickered in a babbling manner.
Immediately, two powerful guards took Qing Xiu away.
“Stop!” Li Qingshan raised his foot, about to chase them, but the procuress blocked him with her plump body in an agile manner. He wanted to make his way around her, but Ge Jian grabbed his hand. “Qingshan, where are you going? She’s just a whore, that’s all!”
This was what Li Qingshan had just said to Ge Jian, but Li Qingshan immediately turned around and answered. “You’re a whore! Let go of me!” He shook his arm. Ge Jian was no opponent of Li Qingshan’s great strength, so he was immediately forced to let go. His face changed. “What did you say?” He was a mighty Hawkwolf guard, yet he had just been labelled as a whore, so he could not help but lose his temper. He could not be bothered about holding back anymore.
The guards both possessed martial arts. They seemed like they were just walking, but they moved extremely quickly. In the blink of an eye, they had left the room, merging with the crowd.
Li Qingshan paid no attention to Ge Jian, taking a step forward, but what he ran into was a pile of fat. The procuress felt like she had just been struck by a rampaging elephant, smashing through the window and corridor railing behind her as she flew towards the hollow centre of the building. She directly fell down from the seventh floor.
She screamed out along the way down, “Stop him!” With a palm strike, true qi surged out, and her plump body moved horizontally, landing in the corridor of the third floor.
Li Qingshan had already rushed out using the path that had been cleared by the procuress. All he saw was a crowd of heads. He could not see Qing Xiu at all, but he sniffed with his nose and caught a smell.
Out of his senses, the one that exceeded ordinary people the most was his sense of smell. The vision and hearing of ordinary Qi Practitioners would become extremely sharp as long as they practised true qi and opened their meridians. They could see mosquitos and hear ants walking from hundreds of meters away. However, their sense of smell would not grow by much, not even becoming on par with a stray hound on the street. This was due to their innate restrictions.
However, Li Qingshan’s sense of smell had become much stronger than a dog’s a long time ago. He pursued as he followed the trail that the smell left behind.
“Where are you going, little brother?” A few beautifully dressed women of the brothel rushed over from somewhere, filling up the corridor and entangling with him, grabbing his arms and legs.
Li Qingshan said, “Piss off!” He did not have any intention to go soft on women at all. With a spurt of true qi, he sent the women flying.
As he quickly descended down to the sixth floor, a valiant guard in yellow seemed like he had heard the procuress’ cries, so he rushed out from his room. He immediately spotted Li Qingshan and blocked his way rigidly. From his aura, he seemed like a first-rate master.
The guard had just thrown a first-rate master out today, so he was quite full of himself. When he saw Li Qingshan stride over, he could tell that he was a Qi Practitioner, but only at the first layer. As such, he was confident that he could take him on or even defeat him. He had always looked down on these people who directly practised qi due to their better innate talent. With the same voice he used when he scolded customers, he yelled, “Stop!”
“If it’s just frail women, so be it. They’ve just been used by people. However, for a good man like you to help the bad, you deserve death!” Li Qingshan said. He continued without stopping, and he had already drawn out the Wind-entwining blade. The shiny blade flashed.
The guard in yellow was just about to attack him, but his neck felt a chill before flying up into the air. The world spun around him such that he almost saw his own body. A few more guards wanted to rush over, but when they saw their leader’s head knocked into the air by the spurt of blood from his neck, their legs immediately seemed to become rooted to the ground as they became afraid to even take a step forward.
Chapter 123: Splattering the Parlour of Clouds and Rain with Blood (Two) | Legend of the Great Sage
Li Qingshan raised his foot, kicking the headless corpse off the floor.
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