The man's eyes widened, but he was too slow to dodge.
He was sent flying on the spot, his head slamming into a tree, and he passed out.
The girl was released.
She collapsed onto the ground and gulped down fresh air.
Seeing this, the other two men treated it as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
They immediately stood back-to-back and cautiously scanned their surroundings.
"Who's there? Come out!"
"If you've got the guts, come out and fight us one-on-one! What kind of hero ambushes people?"
At that.
Su Luo pushed aside the bushes and stepped out before them.
When the two saw Su Luo's youthful face, they burst out laughing.
"Kid, if you want to play hero and save a beauty, shouldn't you first see whether you've got the strength for it?"
One of them caught sight of the backpack behind Su Luo.
"Hand over the Crystal Cores on your back, and we might consider sparing your life," the man said greedily.
Su Luo gave a few scornful chuckles.
"Heh heh, just you two? You want my Crystal Cores?"
"How laughable."
"Put the backpacks behind you on the ground, then get lost!"
"Do as I say, and I might still leave you a way to live."
Hearing that.
The two exchanged a glance.
So he was in the same line of work.
"Kid! Trying to rob us of our Crystal Cores means you've reached the end of the road in this life!"
As soon as the words left his mouth.
One of them conjured a stream of flames out of thin air.
It looked like he had awakened a fire-control ability, probably C-Class in quality.
The other drew the saber at his waist and charged at Su Luo.
He had likely awakened an ability specializing in blades and swords.
The two attacks came at Su Luo from opposite directions.
Su Luo stood still with his hands in his pockets, a cold gleam flashing through his eyes.
In an instant, immense gravity crashed down like a meteorite.
The flames were snuffed out instantly beneath that gravity.
The two men slammed face-first into the ground with a smack.
Both were crushed to the ground by the gravity, unable to move.
Su Luo walked over to the saber-wielding man.
He lifted his foot, planted it on the man's head, and ground it viciously against the dirt.
"I gave you a way to live, but you refused to take it. Don't blame me, then."
As he spoke, he increased the gravity pressing down on their bodies.
In terror, they heard their bones grinding together, as if they were about to snap at any moment.
The fear in their hearts made them beg for mercy at once.
"Big brother! Please, let us go!"
"Let us go, and we'll give you the Crystal Cores immediately!"
Hearing that, Su Luo shook his head disdainfully.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
"Looks like you still haven't seen reality for what it is."
"If I kill you, the Crystal Cores will still be mine!"
Before the two men's utterly terrified eyes.
They were crushed by the overwhelming gravity into two bloody meat pancakes.
Their deaths were swift, without a shred of pain.
Seeing their miserable state.
The girl's eyes widened as she stared at Su Luo in fear.
She hurriedly held out the Crystal Cores on her body in her palms and knelt to beg for mercy.
"Please don't kill me! I'll give you all my Crystal Cores!"
"I only ask that you spare my life."
Su Luo slung the two men's backpacks over his shoulders.
He looked at the Crystal Cores in the girl's hands and revealed a look of disdain.
"Don't worry. I'm not interested in your few scraps."
"Here's a piece of advice: you're too weak."
"If you don't have friends to form a team with, don't leave the city so easily."
"Otherwise, you'll likely lose your life."
After saying that, he ignored the girl.
He walked toward the man who had already passed out.
Just as he was about to crouch down and check whether the man was still breathing.
The man suddenly opened his eyes.
He raised the knife hidden in his hand and thrust it toward Su Luo's neck.
He wanted to finish Su Luo off before Su Luo could react.
But he had clearly still underestimated Su Luo.
The instant-cast Paw Ability sent the knife flying straight from the man's hand.
In the instant the man froze.
Su Luo raised his hand and slapped him with a palm imbued with the Paw Ability.
With a crack.
The man's neck was broken instantly.
After spinning three hundred and sixty degrees, it twisted into a tangled knot.
The man's eyes bulged wide, blood flowed from all seven orifices, and he died on the spot with an expression of utter disbelief.
Su Luo did not hesitate in the slightest.
He weighed the backpack on the man's back.
The immediate heaviness made him secretly delighted.
"You still wanted to ambush me? What a joke."
"This bag of Crystal Cores will serve as compensation for my mental anguish!"
"Sweet dreams!"
Having witnessed Su Luo's ruthless methods, the girl felt her whole body tremble.
She could not help imagining how terrifying it would be if that move were used on her.
The sky gradually darkened.
Su Luo took out his phone and checked the time.
It was already past six.
It was time to return to the city.
As he passed by the girl, he glanced at her.
Her features looked somewhat familiar, but he could not remember where he had seen her before.
When the girl saw Su Luo looking at her, she hurriedly lowered her head.
Seeing that she did not even dare meet his eyes.
Su Luo continued walking forward without a care.
He was already thinking about how much money he could make by selling these Crystal Cores.
The girl staggered to her feet.
She looked around at the empty surroundings.
Then at the three corpses nearby.
In the end, she gathered her courage and followed after him.
She only hoped that the man would not get angry and kill her for following him.
She merely wanted to return to the city as well.
The two entered the city.
Su Luo turned back and looked at the girl.
"Go home quickly. Until you become a Transcendent, don't leave the city."
The girl nodded timidly, then turned and ran away.
Su Luo watched her figure disappear into the distance.
He then found a merchant at the city gate who specialized in buying Crystal Cores.
He showed the man the four bags of Crystal Cores.
The merchant was immediately stunned.
It was not that he had never seen so many Crystal Cores before.
It was that one person had actually brought back so many Crystal Cores.
That inevitably made him curious about where they had all come from.
But curious as he was, he would not ask.
What if such a major customer got angry and decided not to sell to him?
"Sir, after counting them, there are seventy-five Level 1 Crystal Cores in total."
"At the market price of twenty thousand each, that comes to one million five hundred thousand."
"Would you like to purchase anything else?"
"If not, I'll transfer the payment directly to you."
It was Su Luo's first time seeing so much money.
His mind went blank, and he did not react at first.
But he soon calmed down.
It was only one million five hundred thousand. There was no need to get so excited.
He remembered that he still had a Devil Fruit waiting to be claimed.
Then he recalled that a Level 3 Crystal Core cost around two million.
He still could not afford one.
He needed to keep working hard and saving money.
"No need. I don't need to buy anything. Just transfer the money to me."
One million five hundred thousand arrived in his account.
Back at the hotel.
He used the Paw Ability to expel the fatigue from his body.
As usual, he opened the window and released the balloon.
Whoever touched it would be unlucky.
Meanwhile, the girl who had returned to the city.
Stumbled into a villa.
By coincidence.
This villa was Shen Huaiyue's home.
Hearing the commotion, Shen Huaiyue immediately came out.
The travel-worn girl, filthy from head to toe.
Burst into tears the instant she saw Shen Huaiyue.
"Waaah, Sis..."
Seeing this, Shen Huaiyue already had a bad feeling.
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