Martial Arts Crossover: That night, Huang Rong descended from the sky.

Chapter 11: Rising Fame and Lin Zhennan's Invitation

Hai Sha Gang?

This gang frequently appears in various martial arts novels. Li Ping didn't understand it before and thought they were just an ordinary gang.

I later learned that the so-called "sea sand" referred to sea salt, and the "sea sand gang" was a group of smugglers.

Salt smugglers have always been armed and have connections in both the legitimate and criminal worlds; they are not people to mess with.

But Li Ping said, "So your Hai Sha Gang is cooperating with these Japanese pirates? Helping them plunder Ming people?"

Hearing Li Ping's unfriendly tone, Sha Tianhai immediately shook his head and said, "This has nothing to do with our Hai Sha Gang. We just do sea sand business with them."

"They want the goods, so naturally we'll deliver them..."

Huang Rong chuckled lightly: "If they only wanted some sea salt, would they have sent you, the protector of the Sea Sand Gang, to deliver it all the way here?"

The martial arts world of the Song Dynasty also had the Sea Sand Gang, and Huang Rong immediately sensed something was amiss upon hearing this.

Sha Tianhai's expression darkened. These two guys looked like greenhorns just starting out, but their martial arts skills were quite good, probably due to a family tradition.

These young punks are reckless and don't know their own strength, so they're most likely to cause trouble.

So he explained, "We're not selling to them to eat, but through them, we're selling to Japan..."

Li Ping immediately realized that it was still smuggling salt, only now it was cross-border smuggling!

Li Ping said, "I see, but you still have to die."

Sha Tianhai roared, "What do you mean? Because I'm smuggling salt? Are you a government official?"

Li Ping said calmly, "Your selling of smuggled salt is none of my business, but cooperating with the Japanese pirates is a crime punishable by death."

"You really want to be enemies with our Hai Sha Gang?" Sha Tianhai was genuinely frightened.

With such a commotion here and no sound outside, it seems the Japanese outside are all dead. He couldn't understand how those two managed it, and naturally he was afraid.

Under such pressure, he finally couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Brother, what these Japanese pirates are doing really has nothing to do with me!"

"We're all in the same boat, can't we really be lenient?"

"My brother is 'Bald Eagle' Sha Tianjiang. I'm doing this for him, but he's doing this for Leader Zuo."

what?

As soon as he said that, Li Ping remembered.

"Bald Eagle" Sha Tianjiang, this seems to be an outsider of the Songshan Sect, someone who does dirty work for the Songshan Sect.

Later, when the Songshan Sect was vying for the "Evil-Repelling Sword Manual," this guy made an appearance, but Li Ping couldn't remember what his final fate was.

Good heavens, could it be that Zuo Lengchan actually still controls the Hai Sha Gang?

Upon closer examination, it's not impossible.

Zuo Lengchan is ambitious. He has gathered so many experts and bribed so many traitors within the Five Mountains Sword Sect. All of this costs money.

Smuggling salt is indeed a quick way to make money!

But as I said before, smuggling salt is none of my business, but cooperating with Japanese pirates means certain death.

Li Ping didn't believe that the cooperation between the Hai Sha Gang and the Japanese pirates was that simple.

The Japanese pirates moved swiftly along the coast; who would believe they had no one to help them?

Li Ping said, "Enough with the nonsense..."

His figure flashed like a ghost, and in an instant he was in front of Sha Tianhai, almost face to face with him.

Sha Tianhai was terrified!

I already thought Li Ping's movements were strange when I was watching from the sidelines, but now I realize just how strange and swift they are.

He dared not meet the attack, and instead flung out a handful of white sand...

This stuff is actually poisonous salt.

Yu Daiyan in "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" was once hit by this thing, which led to his tragic end.

As someone who made his fortune by throwing lime, Li Ping would naturally be wary of such tactics from others.

He turned and flashed to Sha Tianhai's right side, his longsword aimed at Sha Tianhai's neck.

"What a fast sword!"

Sha Tianhai broke out in a cold sweat. He had seen many people in the martial arts world who were known for their fast swordsmanship, but compared to Li Ping's swordsmanship, their swordsmanship was as slow as an old lady crossing the street.

After three sword strikes, he was beheaded by Li Ping with a single sword strike!

Huang Rong, who was overseeing the battle from the sidelines, was dumbfounded: "Your swordsmanship is so fast?"

During practice today, Li Ping's sword wasn't nearly as fast!

Unbeknownst to her, Li Ping had just used time acceleration in order to finish the battle quickly.

If he increased the speed of the Evil-Repelling Sword Technique by another half, his sword would already be faster than Tian Boguang's!

Afterwards, Li Ping went outside to finish off the Japanese pirates, cutting off all their heads and chipping several of their swords in the process.

Huang Rong's face paled as she looked at them: "These guys weren't good people. Killing them is one thing, but why did you cut off their heads?"

Li Ping said, "These Japanese believe that the head belongs to the soul. A person can die, but cannot be without a soul. So they may not be afraid of death, but they are afraid of being beheaded."

At this point, Li Ping paused for a moment: "You may not believe me, but if we ignore these Japanese pirates, they will soon become a major threat to the Ming Dynasty..."

"These beasts are inhuman. If we can kill them until they're terrified, that would be best!"

Huang Rong remained silent and ultimately chose to believe Li Ping!

In the days that followed, Li Ping became very busy.

He inquired everywhere about the whereabouts of the Japanese pirates. As long as he could find them, he would go and kill them that very day. After killing them, he would behead them all and build a mound of heads.

His appearance instilled fear in the Japanese pirates, and the pirates around Fuzhou were all terrified and cowered in fear of Li Ping.

Li Ping first killed the flower thief Tian Boguang, and now he has killed so many Japanese pirates. In an instant, his fame has soared, and everyone in Fuzhou knows him!

……

Several wealthy businessmen from Fuzhou gathered with Lin Zhennan, and everyone's faces were filled with gloom and despair.

These wealthy merchants all had their own caravans. Previously, several of their caravans joined forces with the Fuwei Escort Agency to make a trade trip, but they were robbed halfway through the journey!

They investigated for a long time but found no clues.

Finally, Master Wang said, "Chief Escort Lin, I've heard that Li Ping was originally one of your bodyguards. Could we ask him to intervene this time?"

Lin Zhennan's expression became quite subtle upon hearing Li Ping's name.

Li Ping had previously told him that he was terrified after fighting with bandits and therefore didn't want to be a bodyguard anymore. But then he heard that Li Ping had killed Tian Boguang...

Given Tian Boguang's immense reputation in the martial arts world, Lin Zhennan felt that Tian Boguang's martial arts skills were probably on par with his own.

Li Ping doesn't have that ability.

Later, after hearing from Lin Pingzhi that Tian Boguang had already been injured, Lin Zhennan breathed a sigh of relief, finding it quite reasonable.

As a result, these days, he heard that Li Ping had single-handedly taken down seven pirate strongholds at sea and beheaded all of them.

As a镖师 (bodyguard/escort), he naturally hated these bandits, but he was surprised and uncertain about the strength Li Ping had shown.

He knew for sure that he could never take on all those Japanese pirates by himself.

He knew Li Ping's previous martial arts skills well, so how could he have improved so quickly in such a short time?

This made Li Ping seem quite mysterious to him, and he was somewhat reluctant to get to know him better.

But now, he was truly at his wit's end. If he couldn't recover the goods this time, losing money was a minor issue; the reputation of the escort agency would likely be ruined...

Fine!

So he immediately sent Lin Pingzhi to find Li Ping...