Misguided practice of sinister cultivation techniques: Slander! The problem lies with you all, not me!
Chapter 307 - 213: A Bizarre Night, Whose Toad is Wearing a Bellyband? (Seeking Subscriptions)_3

Chapter 307: Chapter 213: A Bizarre Night, Whose Toad is Wearing a Bellyband? (Seeking Subscriptions)_3

As a result, the Ma Family lost sixty-eight of their devoted warriors, and the high-level experts by the side of the Alien Surname King were nearly annihilated as well, with even the King himself having both legs severed.

At that time, the Alien Surname King had slashed down five of the Ma Family’s devoted warriors, yet those five had calmly used their own flesh and bones as weapons, restraining him and using their last strength to sever his legs.

From then on, the Alien Surname King was completely defeated and never spoke of establishing a new Martial World again.

The story the Murong brothers told was of an event from a long time ago. According to them, the Ma Family had also lost the majority of their devoted warriors, but the story of their cessation of fighting was indeed moving.

They occasionally walked in the Martial World and still carried significant influence.

"The person we just saw, could it be one of the Ma Family’s devoted warriors?" Duan Yun wondered aloud.

"No, it might be the Ma Family’s Family Head. The Ma Family is shrouded in mystery, with few in number, and not many in the Martial World have seen the Family Head. However, it’s widely known that the Ma Family people have a strange habit.

They are naturally immune to poisons, feeling no pleasure without them, and they are also adept at handling poisons, especially the pink poison toads. In the Martial World, when it comes to using poisons, the most famous are the Five Immortals Sect and the Tang Sect, but if we talk about controlling poisons, particularly in terms of the quantity one person can handle, no one surpasses the Ma Family members.

Overall, the Ma Family is a very mysterious clan. With their capabilities, they could establish a power that should not be beneath the Five Immortals Sect, yet they choose to live secluded lives, seldom appearing in the Martial World. When they do show up, they often engage in thankless tasks like peacemaking."

Duan Yun mused, "Based on what you’ve said, I have a rather good impression of the Ma Family people and their devoted warriors."

Such warriors colored by idealism always evoke a sense of tragic heroism.

The Murong brothers were also excited, gripping the scrap of cloth in their hands even tighter, and said with exhilaration, "What I hold in my hand, could it possibly be Miss Ma’s bellyband, or maybe even the Family Head’s!

I never expected the Family Head of the Ma Family to be a beautiful young lady!"

Duan Yun couldn’t help but tease, "You haven’t even seen her face, and you’re making assumptions based on a piece of bellyband cloth with an unknown origin? How can you deduce she’s a beauty?"

I still suspect it might be a toad spirit wearing a bellyband.

Murong brothers said with a lovestruck expression, "I don’t care, you’re just jealous! Jealous that the mysterious and beautiful Family Head or Miss of the Ma Family’s bellyband cloth is in my hands!"

Seeing him like this, Duan Yun was momentarily speechless.

At this moment, he frowned slightly and said, "That statue we saw earlier, is it being worshipped by the Ma Family?"

He really didn’t believe that the kind of people who could raise devoted warriors like the Ma Family’s would worship Ghost Gods, especially in such a sinister way.

The Murong brothers were even less convinced.

So they returned once more to the shrine.

They looked at the burning corpse, the more they looked, the stranger it seemed.

Because it had been burning for a long while, yet the corpse seemed just the same as when they had left.

"What’s going on?" Duan Yun asked, puzzled.

The Murong brothers sniffed and asked, "What’s that smell?"

Duan Yun also took a sniff and felt something was amiss.

Because the smell wasn’t like that of a human corpse burning, but had a rotten fishy odor.

With a scrape of his knife, one of the Murong brothers exclaimed, "Good heavens, could this be a Jiaoren (merfolk)?"

Duan Yun followed the direction of the knife’s cut and saw many small spines on the skeleton, resembling fish bones.

"There are legends in the Martial World of Jiaoren living in great rivers and lakes, rarely caught by humans and considered an ill-omen, requiring burning. And their flesh and skin could burn for months or even a year before it is completely incinerated."

Looking at how long this corpse had been burning, coupled with the fine spines on the bones, this seemed to be increasingly credible.

Duan Yun cut open its mouth with his knife and found that the teeth inside were sharp like steel needles, clearly not human.

Both were pretty much certain now, this was one of the fabled Jiaoren.

This was Duan Yun’s first encounter with a Jiaoren. Seeing it being burned after having its limbs cut off, without knowing for how long, he just felt that this world was full of bizarre mysteries.

No matter how many times he ventured out, there were always new things to learn.

If he hadn’t been accompanied by an old riverside expert like Murong this time, he might not have heard the story of the Ma Family people and would have suspected encountering a ghost instead.

Here he was, still holding that piece of fabric, intoxicatedly saying: "No telling how long this Jiaoren has been burning. I told you the beautiful young lady of the Ma Family wouldn’t do such a thing. You just know how to suspect people recklessly!"

Duan Yun: "..."

He really wanted to give this bloke a good shaking!

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