The Unruly Immortals

Top Scholar Lv, as the band leader, saw all the chaos on the stage but managed to keep the scene under control.

He rushed up to the stage first, stood in front of Lv Elevated Man, and made apologetic bows continuously to the audience with a smile on his face.

After bowing, he gave his younger son a look and quickly pulled the dazed Lv Elevated Man towards the backstage.

Scholar Lv, who was always making blunders, didn't fail this time; he quickly rolled several times and flipped onto the stage.

Picking up the copper gong from the ground, he turned the concave side out, nodding and bowing while picking things off the ground to put inside the gong.

"The Lv Family's situation... is a bit troublesome..." Li Huowang made his way toward the carriage.

Of course, he knew what Luo Juannhua had been through in the bandits' lair, but such matters were beyond his ability to help.

Just as he reached the carriage, he saw Top Scholar Lv hitting his own elder son's head fiercely with a smoking pipe.

"She's your wife! How could you talk about your wife like that on stage! Whose face is being lost! You're losing your own face! You're losing the Lv Family's face!"

Suddenly, Lv Elevated Man extended his hand and snatched the smoking pipe directly from the other's hand.

Top Scholar Lv stumbled, looking at his elder son in front of him with an unfamiliar expression in his eyes.

"Lose face! What face to lose! We are all lowly actors! Isn't that disgraceful enough!! Our family is already the lowest of the low! In the brothel gardens, we have to call a whore 'auntie'! Is there any family more disgraceful than ours?"

"Didn't you see her face in the bandit's lair? Her cheap behavior, laughing and joking with those bandits!"

"She... even did that thing with a bandit right in front of me! Father, I feel wronged, so wronged! It's killing me!!"

The grief-stricken Lv Elevated Man knelt on the ground, pounding the earth with his hands.

"Why should I be the one smiling and apologizing to others? Don't you know why? It's all for the sake of the Lv Family! If I hadn't been appeasing them with smiles, Xiu'er would have been killed by them long ago! You feel wronged, don't I feel wronged too!"

"Do you really think I have no shame? Do you really think Luo Juannhua is a whore for everyone? But what can I do!"

"I also feel terrible inside! But I know, I am not a young lady, I am just a wife to a worthless actor! If I'm wronged, I can only hold it in! I can only pretend it doesn't matter!!"

Luo Juannhua, who was now showing her pregnancy, finished speaking and burst into loud weeping beside him.

Seeing the chaotic scene before him, Li Huowang took a slow breath.

The root of all this chaos came from those bandits. As long as those bandits exist, there would be countless Luo Juannhuas.

Normally, eradicating bandits should be the military's task, yet somehow they had gotten involved in all this mess.

Perhaps Wang Deqiu was right before, soldiers and bandits aren't that different after all. "This damn place is so fucked up."

Li Huowang couldn't do much; he turned and quietly gave a few instructions to his fellow apprentices.

Soon, Sun Baolu and Doggy pulled Lv Elevated Man aside, while Bai Lingmiao and Chun Xiaoman took Luo Juannhua to another side.

"Band Leader Lv, don't just stand there dumbfounded, gather your spirits, the play isn't over yet," Li Huowang walked up to Top Scholar Lv, patting him on the shoulder.

Top Scholar Lv, who seemed to have aged several years in an instant, clutched at the empty air, hunched his back, and walked toward the front of the stage. "The young master has never been like he was today..."

But as soon as he came out from behind the stage, he discovered that the audience had all left.

The rest of the people on the road also looked panic-stricken, gathering towards the edge of the town.

At that moment, he could no longer care about his family's private affairs, and hurriedly shouted, "Taoist Master! Taoist Master, come out quick! Trouble has come!"

Li Huowang, who arrived at the sound, saw the situation outside clearly and immediately told everyone to get ready to retreat. Something was definitely not right.

"Wait here for me! I'll go see what exactly happened."

After saying that, Li Huowang rushed back to the carriage, grabbed his sword and held it inside his costume, and then charged towards the town entrance.

He made his way through the dense crowd and the smelly camels, and soon Li Huowang saw the scene outside.

That was an army, row upon row of ferocious soldiers surrounded the entire town.

These soldiers were not dressed in military uniforms; they wore a hodgepodge of attire, and even the weapons in their hands varied greatly.

The only thing that allowed Li Huowang to identify them was the green "Prisoner" character on top of each person's head.

When Li Huowang saw Hou the Second, carrying a heavy iron spear and mingling among them, he immediately understood their purpose. They were there for him!

Hou the Second, alongside other short soldiers armed with black iron heavy spears, rode his horse and stood unwaveringly by the side of a tall general.

This man was quite tall and his body was a size larger than those around him, his face covered with an iron mask and dressed in black gold battle armor; the heavy halberd in his hand, one zhang and two chi long, glinted with a chilling light.

Yet even just standing there, waves of evil qi surged from him, so palpable that Li Huowang could feel it from afar.

He left a very unpleasant impression on Li Huowang, if one had to compare it to something, it would be a ticking bomb, ready to explode at any moment.

Seeing these people, murmurs buzzed among the crowd; as locals of Huo Shu, they seemed even more uneasy than Li Huowang.

"Good heavens, they are the marauding army, the marauding army indeed!"

"What do we do now? Quick, let's go!"

"Go? They've blocked the way out, too!"

Li Huowang shrank a little into the crowd and his mind began to race.

"They must be here to trouble me; however, they shouldn't know our identity yet

, otherwise, they would have led their troops straight here to kill us."

"It's going to be tough to withstand their search, but it looks like these people have poor military discipline. Perhaps I can try bribing them..."

While Li Huowang was calculating in his mind, a fat man dressed in silk, with a humble expression on his face, ran towards the distant army.

As soon as he reached the general's big red horse, he took off his hat and began to whisper something softly.

By his demeanor, his status was likely that of a local official or a village elder in charge of town affairs.

"This is a transportation hub; there are numerous outsiders passing through other than myself, a mix of good and bad, even if they look for locals it won't help."

But what happened next made Li Huowang, deep in thought, feel a sudden tightness in his heart.

The huge long halberd was raised abruptly and brought down heavily.

The fat man's head, along with his entire body, was cleaved in two.

A sickly sweet gust of wind brushed everyone's faces.

Clip-clop, the iron hooves stepped forward a few paces, and the general, whose hands were covered by armor plates, slowly lifted his visor.

Underneath was a delicate face similar to a woman's, no, it was a woman!

Her face, like that of the other raiding soldiers, was also tattooed.

"Serve the country with utmost loyalty," these four flamboyantly written characters were stamped across her face, rendering her otherwise delicate features terrifyingly ferocious.

"Ladies and Gentlemen! Spies from Siqi have infiltrated our midst, please bear with us!"

The female general's voice was very pleasant to hear, yet the words that followed sent chills down everyone's spine.

"Clang," the battle armor visor covered her face again.

"Come on, lads, a day without sealing our blades, just slaughter them all, to prevent any leakage of Siqi spies,"

"Charge!" The tips of the weapons, glinting coldly, were pointed at everyone in the town.