Urban Martial Saint

Seeing Ye Qing gather so many documents, the three children who had just been resting immediately rushed over to help Ye Qing carry all these documents into the living room.

”Uncle, uncle, uncle...” The little girl followed Ye Qing, continuously calling him with a cheerful voice. Children tend to recover emotionally quickly, and she had mostly moved past the previous sadness. Now that she had learned some simple words, she spent most of her time calling Ye Qing ”uncle,” showing great dependency on him.

The older boy acted like a little adult, still taking care of his two younger sisters here. However, it was clear that he, too, relied on Ye Qing a lot, although he didn’t show it outwardly.

Ye Qing gently smiled as he stroked the little girl’s hair, playing with the three children for a while. After they went back to learning how to speak, he started flipping through the documents.

The documents brought by Zhao Chengshuang were indeed the most comprehensive from the police. Hundreds of children had died; with a whole stack of documents for each child, reading through them one by one was an arduous task. Fortunately, Ye Qing read quite quickly, and the case details were largely similar, which sped up his process significantly.

After a whole morning of reading, Ye Qing had gone through about half of the documents. He piled the ones with usable information together; among this half, there were about a dozen documents with particularly useful information, which Ye Qing set aside separately.

After lunch, Ye Qing continued to read the remaining documents. By mid-afternoon, he had finished all of them, picking out another twenty or so useful documents to combine with those from the morning.

Having read through so many documents from start to finish, Ye Qing was quite exhausted. After organizing the useful documents, he did not continue reading but instead went to the courtyard to walk around and stretch his muscles.

While leisurely walking in the courtyard, Ye Qing suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside, followed by a few men’s low exclamations.

”Quick, quick, quick, the Great General is in the hall; get him over there fast!”

”He’s so badly injured; shouldn’t we take him to the hospital first?”

”Nonsense, with such an injury, can he be saved in a hospital? Find Mr. Bai Li first to help preserve his life!”

Hearing this, Ye Qing was surprised. Was someone injured and being carried in?

Ye Qing hurriedly pushed open the courtyard door and saw several men carrying an individual over. These men were members of the Seven Steering Committees of Hong Alliance, and Ye Qing recognized the person they were carrying as a fellow member. Last night, this person had even led a team to block the Slaughter Venerable when Ye Qing was captured.

However, now the person was severely injured, with clothes soaked in blood and thick blood continuously dripping from the corners of his mouth. It seemed not only his external injuries were severe, but his internal injuries were heavy as well. Who could have inflicted such harm on him?

Without stopping to question, Ye Qing hurried ahead when he saw them, rushing to the gate of Bai Li Xi’s courtyard and pushing the door open.

Bai Li Xi was in the courtyard concocting medicine when the door suddenly opened, startling him. Turning to see Ye Qing, he flared up and said, ”What the hell, can’t you make less noise when entering? You want to scare me to death like that?”

”Quickly, there’s an emergency.” Ye Qing rushed over, grabbed Bai Li Xi, and hurried outside, saying, ”Someone is injured; you need to check on him.”

”What kind of injury warrants such urgency? Just bring him in here,” Bai Li Xi muttered. But as he ran out of the courtyard, he saw the men carrying the injured person toward them.

Seeing the person’s injuries, Bai Li Xi frowned and remarked, ”What the hell, who hit him so hard? He’s covered in wounds, and even his internal organs have been dislocated. Who could have done this?”

Bai Li Xi, not without reason called the apprentice of Divine Doctor An Shiping, immediately assessed the man’s injuries. The members of the Seven Steering Committees of Hong Alliance, seeing Bai Li Xi, were overjoyed and hastily brought the man over.

”Mr. Bai Li, please save him,” the leader urgently pleaded.

”Don’t worry, he won’t die in my care!” Bai Li Xi walked over, tapping the man’s body a few times, and the man immediately stopped vomiting blood. Bai Li Xi’s skills were indeed extraordinary.

After stopping the bleeding, Bai Li Xi didn’t pause. He waved his hand and said gravely, ”Move him to the inner room. His injuries are complicated; his body has a lot of metal embedded that must be removed. Otherwise, he’ll surely die!”

”Metal?” The crowd was astonished, unsure what kind of metal it was.

”Forget about these details, get him inside quickly,” Ye Qing urged.

Only then did the crowd react, hastily carrying the man into Bai Li Xi’s courtyard and placing him in one of the rooms.

”Ye Qing, do you still have that Healing Holy Medicine?” Bai Li Xi looked at Ye Qing and said, ”This man’s injuries are severe. If there’s no life-saving medicine, I cannot guarantee he’ll survive.”

The Healing Holy Medicine Bai Li Xi referred to is actually the Devouring Demon Flower. Ye Qing had not just a little, but quite a lot of it. Ye Qing generously took out several pieces and said quickly, ”How much is needed?”

”Come on, just half a piece is enough. This is a life-saving item, so don’t use it so recklessly,” Bai Li Xi replied as he took a piece. ”With this, he won’t die!”

Bai Li Xi took the piece of Devouring Demon Flower and went directly into the inner room. He truly tore the Devouring Demon Flower in half and stuffed one half into the man’s mouth. The remaining half he kept for himself.

After giving the man the Devouring Demon Flower to consume, Bai Li Xi felt more at ease. He took out a box from the cupboard, retrieved something black and rock-like, and slowly placed it on the man’s body. As this item touched the man’s body, his skin started to tremble, as if something inside was trying to burst out.

”What... what is this thing?” the crowd exclaimed in surprise.

”These are the metal fragments I was talking about,” Bai Li Xi frowned slightly and said, ”This must have been a weapon shattered into countless small metal fragments that were then embedded into his body. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have such external injuries. Look, there’s no intact spot on his entire body.”

The crowd saw the condition of the man’s injuries, and indeed, as Bai Li Xi said, there wasn’t a single intact area on the man’s body, making him look very frightening.

”Shattered a weapon into thousands of small metal fragments?” the crowd gasped, and Ye Qing frowned deeply and said in a heavy tone, ”Only a Peak Master could achieve this!”

”So, he must have been injured by a Peak Master!” Bai Li Xi replied.

”A Peak Master actually attacked him?” Ye Qing’s expression turned cold as he spoke in a stern voice, ”This is way beneath their stature!”

”Slaughter Venerable and his kind don’t concern themselves with matters of stature.”

Suddenly, a voice came from behind. Ye Qing turned to see Helian Tiehua standing in the room, having entered without anyone noticing.

The others seeing Helian Tiehua hurriedly bowed and shouted in unison, ”Great General.”

”What happened here?” Helian Tiehua asked with a very icy expression.

”We don’t know, he went out this morning for errands, and in the afternoon, a car arrived, and suddenly threw him out of the vehicle,” a man replied. ”By the time we saw him, he was already like this.”

”Is it the Slaughter Venerable who did this?” Ye Qing looked at the man and said in a heavy tone, ”Are they behind this?”

”Aside from them, I can think of no one else,” Helian Tiehua nodded slowly and said in a deep voice, ”Last night, Slaughter Venerable suffered a setback here, and he’s surely resentful, so he lurked outside targeting my people. Such despicable acts are typical for him.”

Ye Qing’s expression chilled further as he spoke solemnly, ”This Slaughter Venerable is truly outrageous. As a Peak Master, to bully the weak like this is truly beneath contempt!”

”These people enjoy wielding their power over the weak; it’s second nature to them,” Helian Tiehua said seriously. ”Therefore, these three individuals must be dealt with first. Otherwise, many will continue to suffer as they live!”

Ye Qing nodded slowly, sharing Helian Tiehua’s thought. Discovering their actions made him eager to eliminate these individuals. However, despite his desires, given their formidable power, could they truly be eradicated?

”Oh come on, you two, stop wasting words,” Bai Li Xi suddenly shouted. ”Helian Tiehua, quickly come and help me stimulate his blood circulation. These metal fragments entered his body, and without blood flow, they can’t be extracted. I don’t have Inner Strength to stimulate his blood. If you don’t help, he’s doomed!”

Without any hesitation, Helian Tiehua moved over and helped the man, pressing his hand on his back.

”Should I use full strength?” Helian Tiehua asked.

”Do you want to kill him outright?” Bai Li Xi glared and replied, ”Use thirty percent of your power; too fast and he won’t withstand it, too slow, and the extraction will be inefficient.”

”Alright!” Helian Tiehua nodded and, as Bai Li Xi instructed, gently used Inner Strength to stimulate the man’s blood to circulate.

As Helian Tiehua injected Inner Strength, the man’s skin vibrated more intensely. Suddenly, the trembling skin burst open, and a mass of metal fragments flew out, directly sucked into the black stone held by Bai Li Xi, sticking to it.