Chapter 21: Make the First Move

"There are more fat sheep this time, and the boss is also ready to show up in person, he will arrive later, let Scarface, Black Fatty, the two of you get ready.

A burly Ding Lao Er, dressed in yellow, was at that moment sitting cross-legged in the lobby of the inn, asking a question to the big scar-faced man beside him, whose stature was not inferior to his own.

Scarface replied with a smile, "Don't worry, I've seen all those people, there are no strong people above Dou Grandmaster."

"Well, their meals were also all under Soft Tendon's powder, and the cups in their rooms were not spared." The fat black-faced man sitting cross-legged on the table also replied in a proud voice.

"Is there really no Dou Grandmaster or higher? Soft Tendon will not be effective, you forget that last time you also said the same thing, the result..." Ding Lao Er frowned and looked at Scarface.

"Can't we mention that matter? That was just a single mistake, and it was all due to the Qi Method."

Isn't it just a one-time mistake, why keep mentioning it every day...?

"Well well, Scarface, you cost us several brothers last time, this time, make sure you don't repeat the same mistake again."

The thin man next to him laughed cheekily, rubbing salt in Scarface's wounds again.

"Shut your mouth, you forget the lesson I taught you last time? To the thin man, Scarface obviously wouldn't give him face, and it could be seen that the two were not on good terms, "Or do you think your Blood Shadow Claw is tougher than my fist and can challenge me now?"

The thin man sneered and was about to speak "You..."

"Shut up, stop arguing!"

An old man, thin as a log, with messy hair and a black metal cane, approached the door and a low, hoarse voice came out of his mouth.

The thin man who had wanted to have a war of words with Scarface immediately shut up, no longer with the arrogance with which he had caused so much trouble.

The others also made no more noise, and for a while, the scene remained somewhat cold and silent, until the old man walked over to the table and sat down, and Ding Lao Er spoke before the atmosphere warmed up.

"Boss."

"Well, is everything ready?" the old man first nodded his chin to Ding Lao Er, then turned to Scarface and asked.

"It's ready."

"Bring all the people here, and according to the old rules, let's begin." Without saying any nonsense to his own, the old man merely announced that he was ready to perform.

Hearing this, the others nodded their heads and were about to get up when they smelled a burning odor.

Along with it came the sound of cursing and shouting that gradually came from the floor and the courtyard.

Cries of "Fire!" were faintly heard.

Hearing the screams, the faces of those present in the hall changed slightly, their target for the night was awake!

"Damn it, who set the fire!" Scarface immediately stood up and shouted.

"It's probably because our operation has been discovered." Ding Lao Er spoke with a serious face.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the thin man said, "Couldn't it be that you made too much noise in the courtyard just now and attracted the attention of others? I told you to be careful, but now there is a lot of trouble."

Ding Lao Er clenched his fists and directly ignored his words, looking at the withered old man with a calm face.

In his heart, he decided that he would teach this guy a good lesson when he finished this job.

"Well, if they find out, they find out, it's not a big deal, Scarface, Fatty and Lao Er you guys can lead the men to arrest them now". The old man's tone was calm as water, not taking the matter seriously.

"Go and hurry back before they take the antidote pill, well, send some more people to put out the fire." After saying these words, the old man closed his eyes and rested his mind.

In his opinion it was not really a big problem, although these people woke up, in this short time, they could not regain their strength, and they will not be able to resist their own people.

The thin man could only give up resentfully at not being able to implicate Ding Lao Er.

Seeing this, the others said nothing more and led a group of people to their original target, leaving only the figure of the thin old man to remain in the hall.

Shortly after Scarface and his men rushed upstairs, the sound of fighting and the collision of weapons came from the floor above.

In the dark foyer.

Xiao Ming's eyes under his black robe stared deadly at the withered figure in the middle of the lobby.

"This person's aura is inconspicuous, probably… A five-star Dou Grandmaster! No wonder he's so confident right now."

Xiao Ming reflected, this inn could be considered a thriving business, and of all the people he had seen in the lobby yesterday, there were twenty to thirty people.

Daring to stay at this inn, these people were probably transients who came from outside like him and had some confidence in their own strength.

Strength was a status symbol, so many people on the Dou Qi Continent walked around and never hid their aura, but of course, hiding it was really useless because the moment they made a move their aura would be exposed unless they had a Qi Method to hide it.

Some are even afraid that others will not know their realm, so they will mark their rank on their clothes.

This trend was fashionable on the Dou Qi continent and lasted for a long time.

Having observed during the day, Xiao Ming had discovered that among these twenty or thirty people who had registered with him, although there were a good number of Dou Masters, there was also no Dou Grandmaster besides him.

This withered old man had the strength of a five-star Dou Grandmaster, so even if those people didn't have the Soft Tendon powder, it would be hard to resist.

Other than the old man, Ding Lao Er was also a one-star Dou Grandmaster, the vicious scar-faced man was a nine-star Dou Master, and the fat black-faced man and the thin man were seven-star Dou Master.

There were also other Dou Master men.

"This old man's realm is four stars higher than mine, I can only strike first, otherwise there will be enough trouble when his men deal with the people upstairs, I hope the people upstairs are not too stupid and have an antidote pill with them."

Squinting his eyes and looking at the old man with a deadly gaze, Xiao Ming's mind whirled around in his head.

Since he had decided to sneak attack, Xiao Ming decided to deal him a cruel blow, it would be best to make this old human trafficker lose his ability to resist instantly.

When his mind touched the spirit stored in his body in the qi spiral, two flames leapt into his hands, one dark blue and one pink.

Xiao Ming's hands came together and the two flames merged into one between his palms, forming a blue-pink flame.

Spreading the palms apart, Xiao Ming's ten fingers came together very nimbly in various postures, having changed twenty times in a short time, to finally fix themselves in a strange posture with the five fingers of both hands loose and straight, palms up, right ring finger embracing left ring finger, right little finger embracing left little finger, left thumb pressing the nail of the left ring finger.

The blue-pink flame had already formed a final pink-blue seal as their fingers crossed a moment ago, and the Dou Qi in Xiao Ming's body was like a raging flood flying through his meridians, a wave of fullness and a sense of power permeated his body.

The mobilized Dou Qi was injected into the pink and blue seal on his body, and the seal grew larger at a rapid pace.

"Sanyan Void Spirit Seal!"

The moment his voice fell, Xiao Ming's palm violently pushed the huge seal and suppressed the old man in the hall.

"Who!"

Sensing the aura, the old man turned fiercely and shouted, but only saw a terrifying seal attack coming.

Xiao Ming's move right now seemed incredibly complicated, but he completed it in an extremely short period of time, and Sanyan Void Spirit Seal's speed did not have the slowness one would expect from his enormous size.

This caused the withered old man to react and perceive danger when the seal had already reached his body and it was clearly too late to dodge.

Feeling the fiery destructive energy of the incoming seal, the old man ceased to be calm and his heart flooded with a touch of shock of not being able to resist.

This kind of power was too great, and he even had a vague intuition that if he was hit head-on by that blue and purple seal, he would be reduced to ashes.

"Where did this guy come from!"

He cursed in his heart, and in a rush, the withered old man could only place his staff on his body, the Dou Qi in his body began to frantically inject itself into the staff without caring about anything else, the energy in the staff quickly seeped out, forming a green barrier around him.

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A/N:

Everything is ready for the first battle of our MC, in two days we will have a lot of action, which I hope you will enjoy.

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