Chen Yan Was Also a Ruthless Man Who Killed Without Blinking!

As Yuantong's voice fell, a startled cry suddenly rose from the crowd:

"Ah! It's Evil Monk Yuantong!"

"It's actually Luanchan Temple! I should have thought of it! With such a manner, only the monks of Luanchan Temple would have that sort of temperament."

"Brother, may I ask who Evil Monk Yuantong is? And what is Luanchan Temple?"

"It's no surprise you don't know. Luanchan Temple is a famed great temple of Xizhou, one of the foremost major sects even in the cultivation world. Evil Monk Yuantong is one of Luanchan Temple's most renowned lay disciples.

He once fought Martial Grandmaster Nine-Winged Flying Eagle with the strength of the True Force Realm. He is both righteous and wicked; no fewer than a hundred people of both the righteous and evil paths have died at Evil Monk's hands. He too is one who kills without blinking!"

No sooner had the man finished speaking than Evil Monk Yuantong suddenly turned around, pressed his palms together, and said:

"Amitabha. In that battle, Grandmaster Nine-Winged Flying Eagle showed mercy. Besides, this humble monk is only at the dual cultivation of Fetal Breathing and True Force. Such a record truly amounts to nothing."

"Also, it was not a hundred people who died by this humble monk's hand, but ninety-eight."

The passerby's face turned pale with fright, and he stammered back:

"M-Master is right..."

After replying, Evil Monk Yuantong paid him no further heed. Instead, he looked once more at the Black Robe Stranger, his tone shifting.

"Still, Benefactor truly deserves to be called a Gu Dao heir. Your strength far surpasses this humble monk's. I admire you, I admire you."

The Black Robe Stranger, suspected to be a successor of Mount Lao Gu Sect, remained silent for a long while before finally replying in a hoarse voice:

"I am not a Gu Dao heir."

"Hahaha, Benefactor must be joking. With Benefactor's mastery of Gu Dao, aside from the Gu Sect, this humble monk truly cannot think of any other school in this world whose Gu Dao could possess such strength."

Evil Monk Yuantong laughed heartily. There was also a measure of gravity in the gaze of his bell-like leopard eyes as they rested on the Black Robe Stranger.

"Believe it or not as you please. In any case, I am not a Gu Dao heir."

That was all the Black Robe Stranger said in the end. Beside his table, the Twin Fiends of Hejian had not yet died, and painful groans escaped them from time to time.

Death itself was not frightening. What was frightening was watching yourself die with your own eyes.

Watching yourself die with your own eyes was not frightening either. The most frightening thing was watching yourself be eaten to death, bit by bit, by countless cockroaches and scorpions...

As the onlookers watched the Black Robe Stranger and Evil Monk Yuantong converse amidst countless cockroaches and scorpions, their scalps went numb. Perhaps only such fierce men could speak so unconcernedly amid such a scene?

No!

There was one more!

Everyone looked over and saw that beside the Black Robe Stranger, right next to the densely packed mass of cockroaches and scorpions surrounding the area, a young man was calmly eating the rice before him, as if nothing existed in his eyes but that rice.

The spectators who saw this secretly shook their heads. This foolish boy was finished. Once those cockroaches and scorpions had finished gnawing on the Sun brothers, their next target would surely be the youth closest to them.

Quite a few people were already mourning for the youth in their hearts.

At that moment, the youth seemed to have finally finished his meal. The Black Cat on the table had also eaten its fill, leaping onto the youth's shoulder and lazily letting out a meow.

He wiped his mouth and gently placed his chopsticks on the tabletop.

"Clack."

The crisp sound seemed especially abrupt in the hall.

So abrupt that even the conversation between the Black Robe Stranger and Evil Monk Yuantong had to stop as they turned to look.

This scene made the people in the distance shake their heads all the more, already stamping the youth with the label of certain death.

With both the Black Robe Stranger and Evil Monk staring at him, could this boy possibly come to a good end?

The youth under everyone's gaze was naturally Chen Yan.

Faced with everyone's attention—especially the scrutinizing, appraising gazes of the Black Robe Stranger and Evil Monk Yuantong—Chen Yan remained utterly composed. His expression did not change in the slightest as he called softly:

"Waiter, the bill."

The waiter hiding at the very edge of the crowd was so frightened that his legs trembled. He wailed inwardly, but seeing the Black Robe Stranger and Evil Monk turn their gazes toward him at the same time, he could only steel himself. He made a wide detour around the Sun brothers, tightly wrapped in cockroaches and scorpions, then came to Chen Yan's side and said in a voice on the verge of tears:

"C-Customer, the total is eighteen taels of silver. You..."

Before the waiter could finish, Chen Yan took out a hundred-tael banknote and handed it over. Seeing the waiter's terrified, deathly pale face and quivering legs, he smiled and patted his shoulder reassuringly.

"Don't be afraid. Go and get the change."

"Y-Yes."

The waiter forced a smile uglier than tears, accepted the hundred-tael banknote, and fled the center of danger as though running for his life.

As for Chen Yan, under the gaze of the entire crowd, he rose to his feet as though no one else were present. He even stretched lazily and contentedly.

Only then did he stroll unhurriedly to the side of the Sun brothers, who were completely enveloped by cockroaches and scorpions. Looking at the disgusting, scalp-numbing sight before him, he frowned slightly.

Then Chen Yan pinched a Yellow Paper talisman between his fingers and began to chant an incantation:

"Heaven's Baleful Intent blazed bright, Earth's Baleful Intent stood true..."

With a flick of his hand, the Evil-Slaying Talisman shot from his grasp with a whoosh and ignited of its own accord in midair without any wind.

Immediately afterward, a flaming net condensed from fire appeared out of thin air. The moment it approached the Sun brothers, the cockroaches and scorpions on Sun Boren and Sun Buyi seemed to have encountered their natural nemesis. They retreated like a receding tide, flooding all at once into the Black Robe Stranger's black robe and vanishing from sight.

Chen Yan merely glanced at them before shifting his gaze to Sun Boren and Sun Buyi, who lay on the floor barely alive, with only their last breath remaining.

Their limbs and torsos were covered in sores left by rotted flesh. The smaller ones were the size of coins, the larger as big as bowls, deep enough to expose bone, putrid and oozing pus.

Their internal organs spilled from the sores in their abdomens. Red bloody water mixed with yellow pus, while the occasional cockroach or scorpion that had not yet escaped completely crawled in and out of the wounds.

Anyone who saw such a horrifying scene would feel their stomach churn.

"S-Save me..."

A weak groan came from Sun Boren's mouth. He raised an arm that had been gnawed down to gleaming white bones and turned his hollow eye sockets in Chen Yan's direction.

Chen Yan stepped forward twice and, beneath the Black Robe Stranger's frowning gaze, crouched down.

With a serious expression, Chen Yan asked, "Was the massacre of Steward Li's entire family in Dangyang County committed by the two of you?"

How could Sun Boren possibly have the life left to answer such a question? He merely let out weak, agonized groans.

"Then it seems it was."

Chen Yan nodded to himself.

Swish!

A frigid blade flashed past his neck, and head and body were severed.

Such a decisive, fierce stroke made the spectators in the distance break out in cold sweat.

Especially those few loudmouthed men from earlier—their faces turned deathly pale with fright.

So this youth, like the Black Robe Stranger and Evil Monk Yuantong, was also a ruthless character who killed without blinking!

PS: My bad, my bad—I forgot to set the scheduled release~