Martial Warrior Assassination

The group looked at each other, having no idea what had happened over there.

At that moment, Li Rongcheng stepped forward and said to Zhou Baiyun, "I'll go take a look."

"Alright! Be careful." Zhou Baiyun nodded.

Li Rongcheng smiled and ran into the mountain forest ahead, his figure disappearing into the darkness.

"Li Rongcheng is an Advanced Martial Apprentice, right? In a situation like this, only martial artists can be of any use," said one Rich Second Generation enviously.

Wang Teng looked toward the pitch-black night. After hesitating for a moment, he said to Xu Jie and the others, "Stay here and don't run around. I'll go take a look too."

"Big Brother Wang Teng, be careful," Bai Wei said, visibly worried.

Wang Teng nodded.

He stomped off the ground and shot upward. His toes lightly tapped against a tree trunk, and within a few bounds, he landed atop the canopy of a large tree.

The crowd cried out in surprise.

They had never expected the unremarkable-looking Wang Teng to be a Martial Apprentice as well.

And judging by his strength, he was no weaker than Li Rongcheng.

"So he really is an Advanced Martial Apprentice!"

"From the looks of it, he may even be stronger than Li Rongcheng."

A gleam flashed through Zhou Baiyun's eyes as she watched the figure standing atop the tree.

Wang Teng looked into the distance, identified the direction, then exerted force beneath his feet. A fierce burst of power erupted.

Boom!

His toes tapped against the canopy, and the entire treetop exploded. Leaves scattered down from the sky.

Wang Teng's body had already shot into the night like a fired crossbow bolt, rapidly moving through the air by using the dense trees.

The Rich Second Generations and officials' children were utterly dazzled. Was this the strength of an Advanced Martial Apprentice?

If Li Rongcheng had seen this, he definitely would have cursed Wang Teng for showing off again.

And Advanced Martial Apprentice, my ass!

This was completely unmartial, alright?

What Advanced Martial Apprentice had strength this outrageous? If every Advanced Martial Apprentice cheated like he did, the cities would already be full of Martial Apprentices leaping over roofs and scaling walls.

Not long after Wang Teng left, Li Rongcheng returned.

"Did you find anything?" Zhou Baiyun stepped forward and asked.

Li Rongcheng shook his head. "That sound probably came from very far away. I checked the entire area nearby and didn't find anything unusual."

Boom!

Before he had even finished speaking, another thunderous sound came from afar.

The atmosphere immediately turned awkward.

Li Rongcheng could barely keep his face straight.

Xu Jie and the others openly snickered nearby, making him even angrier.

"What are you laughing at? Huh? Where's Wang Teng?" He suddenly noticed that Wang Teng was nowhere to be seen.

"After you left, Wang Teng went to investigate too," Zhou Baiyun said.

Li Rongcheng's expression darkened further.

Damn it!

Why did that guy have to be involved in everything?

"Let's wait a little longer. Maybe Wang Teng will bring back some information," said a Rich Second Generation.

"Alright, then we'll wait." Zhou Baiyun nodded.

Wang Teng weaved through the mountain forest, lightly stepping on the treetops before leaping forward each time.

Ordinary Advanced Martial Apprentices truly did not possess such strength.

Treetops were naturally flimsy. With too much force, one would fall straight through; with too little force, one could not jump at all.

Ordinary Advanced Martial Apprentices not only lacked such power, but also did not have such precise control over their bodies. They really could not pull off Wang Teng's level of showing off.

After a while, Wang Teng stopped, leaped down from a tree, and landed softly on the ground.

"It should be around here!"

His gaze swept through the darkness, and he noticed some clues.

"There was a fight here just now. Such a huge commotion... could it have been Martial Warriors?"

His heart stirred slightly, and he was startled by his own guess.

"If they really are Martial Warriors, I'd better not go any farther."

Wang Teng began to back down, but he could not help hesitating.

"But if Martial Warriors fought, they should have dropped Attribute Bubbles, right? What if there's something I need?"

He stood where he was. In his mind, a voice on the right told him that curiosity killed the cat, while another voice on the left tempted him—fortune favored the bold!

"Maybe I'll just take one look. If anything seems wrong, I'll run immediately."

Wang Teng finally convinced himself and cautiously felt his way forward, his heart exceptionally tense.

After walking another dozen meters or so, he found fallen trees everywhere. Their trunks had been blasted apart, their surfaces scorched black.

There were several depressions in the ground.

At the edge of a Deep Pit, one half was charred black while the other was covered in ice shards.

"This..." Wang Teng opened his mouth, deeply shaken. Was this the power of Martial Warriors?

He took a few more steps forward, and his gaze immediately sharpened.

Hm?

A figure lay sprawled on the ground, without the slightest sign of life.

Several Attribute Bubbles floated beside the figure.

Just as a wave of wild joy rose in Wang Teng's heart, a horrifying sensation suddenly surged over him and completely drowned out that hint of delight.

In an instant, Wang Teng's scalp went numb, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

A stabbing pain came from somewhere on his back.

Without a second thought, he burst forth at maximum speed and activated his Micro-level Movement Technique.

There was no time to dodge to the side. He could only twist his body slightly...

Sshk!

A streak of sword light passed by Wang Teng's side, slicing through his clothes and piercing his skin.

Blood splattered.

Fortunately, it was only a superficial wound.

But he did not dare relax in the slightest. Danger clung to him like a festering sore on the bone.

Almost at the same moment he dodged, he flicked his hand, and a small Rune Gun appeared in his grasp. He fired several shots in the direction the sword light had come from.

Bang bang bang bang bang!

Wang Teng stopped firing only after the bullets in the chamber had all been used up.

He darted behind a tree, gasping heavily. His heart was still pounding wildly, and lingering fear filled his chest.

"Who was that?"

"Who the hell was that?"

"Why did they want to kill me?"

The forest was exceptionally quiet. Other than the rustling of leaves in the wind, there was no sound at all.

Wang Teng waited for a moment.

He cautiously poked his head out and looked toward where the sword light had come from.

A shadow was slumped against a tree, equally motionless.

Several bubbles floated nearby.

The faint glow from the bubbles allowed Wang Teng to vaguely see that the figure seemed to be dead!

"Did I kill him?"

"Was he not a Martial Warrior?"

Filled with doubt, Wang Teng hesitated before walking over. Power gathered in both fists, ready for him to erupt at any moment.

But when he got closer, he discovered that the other person was indeed dead.

One bullet had struck the forehead, while several others were scattered around the vital organs. If that still did not kill him, then he was not human.

Whew!

Wang Teng immediately let out a sigh of relief.

He touched his waist and found his hand covered in blood. "That was close. I nearly died!"

"Is the world of Martial Warriors really this dangerous? People try to kill each other at the drop of a hat."

Wang Teng could not understand it. He looked at the other man's wide-eyed face, which still bore disbelief and the terror of death.

"Maybe he never expected to die by my hand!"

Then Wang Teng's gaze fell upon the several bubbles dropped beside him.

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