Infinite Professions

Chapter 407: Chapter 210: The Dust Settles (Part 3)

"Third Brother!"

"Third Uncle!"

"Master!"

"Elder County Captain!"

Song Ying, Song Jian, and Li Mubai, along with others, formed a circle, looking at Song Wu in the center, many were speechless and choked with emotion.

Song Wu lay on the ground, his white hair stained red with blood, the wound from the sword piercing his body still bleeding profusely, his Gang Qi dispersed, unable to maintain any longer.

"Third Brother, hold on, Father will save you, Father will definitely save you!"

Song Ying held his hand, her eyes red, unable to restrain herself.

Men shed tears lightly, only when deeply hurt.

"Who can escape birth, aging, illness, and death?"

Facing everyone’s gaze, Song Wu smiled: "Fourth, the time has come, I will go ahead, you go back and tell the eldest brother not to grieve for me, dying on the battlefield is my lifelong wish, now fulfilled, no regrets, in the future we brothers will meet again below the nine springs."

After speaking, he smiled freely and dispersed his final Gang Qi.

As the Gang Qi dissipated, the heart-piercing wound erupted immediately, but Song Wu paid no mind, only calmly closed his eyes, smiling as he passed away.

"Third Brother!!!"

Song Ying cried out bitterly, but there was no response.

Song Jian and others immediately knelt on the ground, silently in tears.

At this moment, a sudden flash of golden light appeared in the void, carrying a person before instantly disappearing.

Song Ying seemed to sense something and hurriedly looked up, but saw nothing.

Looking back, in the Red Lotus Temple, the inexplicable red light had vanished, the frightening high temperatures disappeared without a trace, everything returned to calm.

"Elder County Captain, farewell on your journey!"

Though of a different surname, Li Mubai likewise kneeled to the ground, only after the faint golden light disappeared did he stand up and say to Song Jian: "County Captain Song, you lead a squad to collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers and bury them in Qinghe with Elder County Captain, the rest follow me to seize evidence and loot from this Red Lotus Temple, revealing its illegal face to the world."

Song Jian nodded, turned around to clean the battlefield, while Li Mubai led a group of strongmen into the temple to confiscate the evidence and loot of Red Lotus Temple.

"No!"

Witnessing this scene, several elder Red Lotus monks could no longer restrain themselves, immediately shouting: "Our Red Lotus Temple is a pure land of the Buddhist Sect, where is there evidence and loot, you slander us, destroying our Buddhist reputation, slaughtering our Red Lotus monks, do you not fear retribution from the Buddha?"

"Slander?"

Li Mubai’s eyes turned cold, Song Jian was furious, directly lifting the middle-aged monk killed by Song Wu, pressing him before the elder monk: "Do you know who he is?"

"This..."

The elder monk was stunned, confused but still forced himself to speak: "He is indeed the Dharma Protector High Monk of our Red Lotus Temple Arhat Hall!"

"High Monk, my foot!"

Song Jian cursed angrily: "This person is Lei Zhendong, leader of the Roc Gang, once a notorious bandit of Jianghuai, fifteen years ago he sailed from the Weishui River to Qinghe intending to commit a major crime, but was discovered and injured by my uncle, though he escaped using Lightweight Skill, he vanished from Jianghu, presumed dead from injuries, yet unexpectedly hid in your Red Lotus Temple, tell me, is this not evidence?"

"This..."

The elder monk was stunned, bewildered but still argued: "Perhaps when he was gravely injured, near death, he came before our temple, being compassionate, we treated him without knowing his identity, and besides, laying down the butcher’s knife and becoming Buddha, he entered our Buddhist sect and ceased wrongdoing..."

"Get out!!!"

Song Jian kicked him over, then turned to his strongmen: "Search every inch, spare no corner!"

"Yes!"

Everyone complied, rushed into the temple, though they didn’t truly dig three feet, they thoroughly searched inside and out, determined to clean out this ancient temple.