Lú Shuānghuá acknowledged the command with a word, drew her long sword, and smoothly glided into the space between the five men. With a single sweep of her blade through the empty air, she caught them completely off guard; forced back by the fierce glint of her sword, they stumbled back several paces.
These villains looked coarse and brutish, appearing to rely solely on brute strength, but the reality was quite different.
The five of them were top-tier figures in the Sichuan underworld, known as the "Five Ghosts of Longxi". Greedy and lustful, they stopped at nothing in their villainy. Years ago, having taken a fancy to several female disciples of the Flying Sword Sect, they had joined forces to wipe out the entire sect, subsequently fleeing to Sichuan. There, they struck up a very close friendship with Tang Meng, Hall Master of the Tang Clan's Thunder Hall, and relying on this connection, they ran amok, committing crimes everywhere without a shred of fear.
Chapter 21