Chapter 96
Now they were all inhaling deeply, exhaling little, their faces filled with terror as if they had seen a ghost.
“Huai Shan San Sha?”
Zuo Qiu Yang’s pupils trembled, his mind momentarily blank, nearly losing consciousness.
Bang—bang—
More figures crashed in.
This time, there were three of them, looking somewhat similar, each with a sunken chest.
Zuo Qiu Yang’s expression turned to stone.
At that moment, Xiao Qin finally smacked his lips and walked to the door:
“Little Master, there’s more in this chapter, please click the next page to continue reading; it gets even more exciting!”
“Li Shidi, is that you?”
“Sorry, Xiao Shixiong, I’m late.”
A young man walked in from the rain, clearly having just come from a downpour, yet he had just defeated the Huai Shan San Sha, who were capable of battling inner breath Xuan Dan realm experts, and he was as clean as if he had just stepped out for a stroll.
It was Li Mo.
He glanced at the mess on the floor, raised an eyebrow, rubbed his stomach, and asked:
“Where’s the waiter? Where did he go?”
“The waiter is right here.”
Xiao Qin pointed somewhat sheepishly at the ground.
He had killed him.
“And the shopkeeper?”
“That fat guy you just knocked in is him.”
“So the one next to him... is the cook?”
“Exactly, you’re really sharp, Li Xiong.”
“...What’s going on here?”
...
A quarter of an hour earlier.
A carriage coming down from Qing Yuan Zong was innocently rolling along the road.
“Everyone from the other sects should have already arrived in the city.”
“How long until we get there?”
This was Li Mo’s first time driving the carriage down the mountain, and he wasn’t quite sure of the route; there were no navigation systems back then.
So he lifted the curtain and looked inside.
Ying Bing took out the map given by Qian Bu Fan from her bosom.
She glanced down, then gently pointed upward with her slender finger.
Li Mo pondered.
It was a bit far.
Speaking of meeting up, why choose a place so far from the city?
Then he saw her finger pause, lift again, and point at another spot.
Li Mo, confused, looked up and found Bing Tuozi pursing her lips, her expression clearly uncertain.
After a moment of silence, she softly asked:
“Isn’t... it?”
“We’re not going down the mountain to visit relatives, right?”
“Mm.”
“Then why are you pointing at my house?”
“...”
With no other choice, Li Mo had to ask someone for directions.
So he found a few people waiting at the intersection, seemingly engaged in conversation.
At first, he thought that although they looked a bit rough, they were actually quite nice.
When they learned he was lost, they even offered to guide him.
But as soon as they reached the inn’s entrance, their true colors were revealed, their faces turning fierce.
They even let out a cackling laugh.
Who laughs like that if they’re a good person?
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Chapter 93: You Call This a Terrifying Killing Machine?
Looking at the Huai Shan San Sha lying on the ground, broken and battered, Zuo Qiu Yang felt a bit dazed.
He had meticulously planned for these three, preparing for a long time.
First, he had deliberately exposed his whereabouts to lure them into a chase.
Just moments ago, he had turned the tables, using their own exhaustion against them, and had slain all the ambushers. The murderous aura of his Wusheng Blade Technique had reached its peak, leaving him with no way to retreat.
Today, he was terrifyingly strong.
He was fully alert, ready to fight to the death, avenging his master and the villagers.
But unexpectedly, these three had nearly been killed right before his eyes.
The young man who struck them down looked much younger than him.
It was quite a shock.
“Who are you?”
“Why did you suddenly attack me, and why do you laugh so unpleasantly?”
Li Mo squatted in front of the Huai Shan San Sha, who was continuously spitting blood.
He represented Qing Yuan Zong, coming down to maintain order in Ziyang City, so he had to ask for the reason behind their brutal treatment.
“I... you.”
The scarred man on the ground glared fiercely.
Suddenly, a change occurred.
The two thugs beside him, one fat and one thin, quickly pressed their hands on the shoulder of the scar-faced man.
They were gathering their last bit of inner breath.
“Ha!”
The scar-faced man shattered the ground beneath him and surged up, three torrents of inner breath twisting together through his meridians like a rope.
It was incredibly violent.
“Kid, you’re still too green!”
He wore a fierce expression, mixed with the smile of a victor.
This move didn’t require much strength.
But the combined inner breath of the three was enough to shatter the opponent’s dantian.
Zuo Qiu Yang finally came to his senses, while Xiao Qin’s face changed dramatically. He wanted to help, but it was already too late; he could only watch as the man’s palm came crashing down.
Heavily, it struck Li Mo’s dantian, inner breath surging in, as if to cripple the young man’s martial arts.
Bang—
It was loud.
But after the sound echoed, the air in the inn fell into silence.
The young man didn’t even budge, merely furrowing his brow.
The Huai Shan San Sha’s grinning expressions froze, fear flickering in their eyes.
What... is he human or a ghost?
The Huai Shan San Sha left this world in an uneasy manner.
As the foreign inner breath entered his body, Li Mo felt nothing unusual.
He only sensed that this inner breath was quite chaotic, roughly twisted together.
So without a second thought, he used his own inner breath to expel it.
Returning it the way it came.
If it had ended there, it would have been fine.
But as they were expelled, their liquid inner breath bizarrely began to “burn.”
Puff—
The three fools... oh no, the three Sha, suddenly swelled grotesquely.
Their eyes bulged, blood streaming from their seven orifices.
They died with their eyes wide open.
His dantian was vast, even he found it terrifying, and his inner breath was cultivated from martial arts above the norm.
To ignite even the inner breath, carrying the destructive intensity of annihilation.
This was the first time he had used it against an enemy.
Li Mo himself thought it was quite impressive.
Let alone the onlookers.
Xiao Qin opened his mouth, unable to speak for a long time, standing there in shock.
Even Qian Xing Wuzun was left speechless.
“Li Shidi, are you okay?”
Once he regained his senses, he hurried over to check.
Although Li Shidi looked fine, that had just been the inner breath of three inner breath liquid realm experts; even without martial arts enhancement, just that surge entering someone’s body was unbearable.
Li Mo shook his head and asked:
“Were they... chosen by the Xiyu Building to participate in the Wujian Trial?”
“Uh, they were all here to hunt someone.”
Xiao Qin said, glancing not far away.
Following his gaze, Li Mo looked at the figure in a raincoat nearby.
At that moment, the system suddenly chimed in:
【Congratulations, host, for successfully helping ‘Zuo Qiu Yang’ kill his enemies.】
【You have a reward waiting to be claimed.】
Zuo Qiu Yang?
A flicker of obscure light danced in Li Mo’s eyes.
【Name: Zuo Qiu Yang】
【Age: 19】
【Root Bone: Nine Forms Combined.】
【Realm: Inner Breath Condensing Qi Realm.】
【Fate: Gray in Purple】
【Evaluation: This person is born with nine types of root bones suitable for martial arts, with excellent aptitude. He was taken in by a Ge Sha killer expelled from Xiyu Building and is the only survivor of Huai Shan County. He will become a terrifying killing machine in the future.】
【Recent Encounter: Accomplices are dead, the true culprit is hard to find, and he is in the Wujian Trial, hoping to find clues.】
“Gray in Purple...”
This fate indicates future achievements, but at a great cost.
A terrifying killing machine?
That sounds quite impressive...
“You... also participating in the Wujian Trial?”
Zuo Qiu Yang, suppressing the surging murderous aura of his short blade, suddenly asked.
“Why do you ask that?”
“If you’re participating too, then I’ll withdraw right now.”
“...”
Li Mo was taken aback by the fierce expression on his face, yet he was spouting such heartfelt words.
What happened to the terrifying killing machine?
“Is the Wujian Trial that easy to withdraw from?”
“Of course not, but I’d rather not compete with you.”
Only the last few survivors could be absorbed into the Xiyu Building.
So whether as active or passive participants, they were all hunters... or prey in the dark forest.
If Li Mo were a participant...
There was no doubt he would be the victor of this round.
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