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After listening, Jiang Ning asked, "How do we find them?"
Wang Huan was in a dilemma at this moment.
"Well... I don't know either. The Black Wind Society is very mysterious. No one knows where their base is. Perhaps only those mountain strongholds know."
Jiang Ning said directly, "Tell me the locations of all the mountain strongholds within Shandong."
Wang Huan was somewhat alarmed.
Judging from Ning Yanwang's attitude, he's determined to find the Black Wind Society.
Did the Black Wind Society offend him?
With this in mind, Wang Huan dared not delay and told everyone he knew about the mountain strongholds, which numbered more than a dozen.
That's all I know.
After Wang Huan finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Ning, carefully observing Jiang Ning's expression, and said cautiously, "King Ning, you have traveled a long way from Mount Hua to Jinan Prefecture. You must have had a long and tiring journey. How about I specially prepare a banquet for you to welcome you and wash away the dust of your journey?"
After memorizing the locations of all the mountain strongholds, Jiang Ning heard Wang Huan's words, turned to look at him, and laughed, "Is this convenient for you to poison me?"
Wang Huan was startled.
Oh no, we still couldn't escape it.
"I……"
Wang Huan hurriedly prepared to explain, but his hand had already reached behind him. However, before he could make a further move, his vision blurred and he was lifted up.
Click.
With swift and decisive movements, Jiang Ning snapped Wang Huan's neck and then walked out of the study.
……
"That's strange, where did that person go? How could they disappear in the blink of an eye?"
At this moment, in the Golden Money Gang's base, the young man who brought Jiang Ning was still somewhat puzzled, but the next second after turning the corner, his eyes widened and he looked ahead.
"you you you……"
The young man pointed at Jiang Ning with a surprised expression.
When did you come in?
Before he could react, a number of gang members ran out of the Money Gang's stronghold, carrying weapons.
"Kill him, and he'll be the one who killed the gang leader!"
These gang members charged toward Jiangning.
"what?"
The young man stared wide-eyed.
The gang leader is gone?
There was no time for him to think further; the scene began to descend into chaos.
……
After leaving the Golden Money Gang's stronghold, Jiang Ning checked the sky and found it was still early, so he left Jinan Prefecture and headed towards the locations of the mountain strongholds that Wang Huan had given him.
a few days later.
Inside the main hall of a mountain stronghold.
A bandit leader knelt trembling before a young man, kowtowing repeatedly.
Corpses were scattered all around.
Chapter 428: The Massacre of the Stronghold
"Don't...don't kill me..."
The bandit leader, kneeling on the ground, trembled as he stared in terror at the young man in front of him.
This young man, whose identity and how he found their stronghold were unknown, arrived and began a brutal massacre without saying a word. None of the stronghold's men could withstand a single blow, terrifying the bandits who tried to escape. But what was even more frightening was that none of them managed to escape.
The young man in front of them was as skilled as a ghost. Anyone who tried to escape was caught and killed. In just a short time, he was the only one left in the entire mountain stronghold.
Such brutal methods terrified him, leaving him without the courage to fight back or escape. He knelt before the young man, kowtowing repeatedly and begging for his life.
Jiang Ning sat in the main seat, wiping the bloodstains off the sword with a cloth in his hand.
The gentleman's sword that Yue Buqun gave him was indeed very sharp, better than any sword he had used before, and very easy to use.
As he wiped the sword, Jiang Ning glanced at the bandit leader kneeling on the ground and asked, "Where is Black Wind Gang?"
The bandit leader, who was kowtowing and begging for mercy, was momentarily stunned.
The reason for storming their mountain stronghold is to find the Black Wind Society.
He had been wondering if the children they had missed during the massacre of the village had grown up and learned martial arts to seek revenge.
However, this confusion was only momentary, and the bandit leader, once he came to his senses, dared not conceal anything.
"I...I didn't know..."
Seemingly afraid that Jiang Ning wouldn't believe him, the bandit leader quickly began to explain.
All the mountain strongholds in Shandong are controlled by the Black Wind Society, but not all the strongholds know where the Black Wind Society is. There are a total of six large strongholds in Shandong.
These six large strongholds are directly controlled by the Black Wind Society, while the other medium and small strongholds are controlled by the large strongholds. His stronghold is only a medium-sized stronghold and is not qualified to be directly governed by the Black Wind Society. Instead, it is under the jurisdiction of one of the large strongholds.
Jiang Ning frowned slightly.
This was the first time he had ever seen such a large-scale mountain stronghold with a management system, unlike any other bandit stronghold in Shaanxi or other places.
Where are those large-scale mountain strongholds?
The bandit leader shook his head, indicating that he did not know. He only knew one of them, namely the large stronghold that governed their stronghold.
Jiang Ning asked him to tell him the locations of all the mountain strongholds he knew, including how many people were in each stronghold and how skilled they were in martial arts.
After a while.
"Yanxi Village is located on Black Mountain, two hundred li to the east. The village has..."
According to the bandit leader, the leader of Yanxi Village was a man named Chen Hu, nicknamed "Double-Knife Protector." He wielded two swords with unparalleled skill, killing countless people. He was a man who lived on the edge of a knife, and his martial arts skills were also very high, comparable to those of a top-tier master.
Yanxi Village also has two other formidable figures, the second and third leaders, who are also quite skilled in martial arts and possess second-rate strength.
The band of followers numbered in the hundreds, making it the largest mountain stronghold in the surrounding area for hundreds of miles, and one of the six large mountain strongholds in Shandong Province.
In addition, the bandit leader mentioned the names and locations of seven or eight other mountain strongholds, all of which were nearby.
"Grandpa, don't kill me."
Although he didn't know why Jiang Ning wanted to find the Black Wind Society, the bandit leader couldn't care less and could only keep begging Jiang Ning to let him go.
Jiang Ning carefully wiped the sword, then sheathed it, stood up, and walked out of the hall, throwing the blood-stained cloth into the air.
Seeing Jiang Ning sheath his sword, the bandit leader thought he had escaped a calamity and unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Ning walked past him.
The bandit leader was in a relaxed state of mind and wanted to thank Jiang Ning for sparing his life, but the next second his gaze shifted and he unconsciously looked at the blood-stained white cloth still in the air.
puff.
It was the sound of a head hitting the ground.
The bandit leader's vision blurred, and his last gaze fell on the departing figure. At that moment, the blood-stained white cloth fell down, covering his head.
……
"Don't kill me, don't kill me."
a few days later.
Another mountain stronghold.
The same scene played out again, with yet another bandit leader kowtowing to Jiang Ning and begging for mercy.
After obtaining all the information, Jiang Ning snapped his neck and walked out of the mountain stronghold filled with corpses.
Over the past few days, he has traveled to many places and visited many mountain villages. This is the thirteenth mountain village he has visited.
He wiped out all the nearby mountain strongholds.
"Yanxi Village..."
Jiang Ning glanced at the sky and the direction, then mounted his horse and galloped off in a certain direction.
……
Yanxi Village.
"what happened?"
Chen Hu, known as the Double-Sword Protector, frowned as he looked at the other members of the stronghold in the Hall of Righteousness.
"The profits from counterfeit products haven't been good lately. Is it because everyone's been living too comfortably and doesn't want to make any moves?"
Hearing Chen Hu's words, the other members of the stronghold looked at each other. A man who was blind in one eye coughed twice and smiled bitterly, "Boss, it's not that the brothers are being lazy, it's just that there are very few caravans passing through the stronghold lately, and the nearby villages have been almost completely looted. We really can't rob any more."
Chen Hu waved his hand: "I don't care about all that. You have to figure out a way. If we have nothing to rob, will we just die? Will the mountain strongholds stop supporting us? If there are no caravans, go and sweep through the nearby villages and make those strongholds increase their tribute by another 20%."
At this moment, another bandit looked troubled.
"We've already robbed the villagers and the surrounding area; there's really nothing left for them to steal."
Chen Hu said defiantly, "Then we'll slaughter the villages, one village at a time."
The other members' expressions changed.
Generally speaking, counterfeiters wouldn't go this far; doing so would only be short-sighted. But Chen Hu was trying to eradicate the problem completely. They all wanted to dissuade him, but seeing Chen Hu's fierce appearance, none of them dared to object.
"Yes, sir."
Seeing that his underlings had no objections, Chen Hu nodded in satisfaction.
He knew this wasn't good, but he'd heard that something had happened to the Black Wind Society recently, and many positions had become vacant. If he wanted to advance further, he needed money to bribe people in the Black Wind Society. Joining the Black Wind Society would be far better than being a mountain bandit here.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a mountain king here, but joining Black Wind would give Chen Hu a much wider world to explore.
Chen Hu was thinking this when a person ran in from outside the Hall of Righteousness.
"Honey, honey, something terrible has happened!"
The man ran while walking.
Chen Hu's eyes widened.
"Why are you in such a panic? What happened?"
The other members of the bandit group looked over.
The man swallowed hard and said in a flustered manner.
"Someone...someone has infiltrated our mountain stronghold?"
"what?"
Everyone was stunned.
Someone else has infiltrated their mountain stronghold?
Chen Hu frowned and asked, "Who are they? Are they government officials? How many of them are there?"
The man shook his head repeatedly.
"No, there was only one person."
A person?
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion, as if they had misheard.
How dare one person raid their mountain stronghold? Are they courting death?
Before anyone could get angry, the man suddenly let out a gasp, his eyes glazed over, and his body slowly collapsed to the ground.
A figure appeared in front of everyone.