Killing Intent?

"Little Yan Yan, let me put it this way!"

"Nana has never liked you at all, do you know that?"

"It's not that anyone is trying to steal Nana from you. Nana simply doesn't like you."

"Even if I hadn't appeared, between you and Nana, it would still have been nothing more than your own one-sided wishful thinking."

"She still wouldn't have liked you. Everything you did would have been pointless. She would still have found someone else to pursue, fallen for someone else, and that person would never have been you."

"I think I've made myself clear enough. You understand now, right???"

Wang Xiao patiently lectured Yan at length, hoping he would understand the nature of his relationship with Hu Liena.

It was not a healthy relationship, but a case of one-sided affection.

Yan shook his head again. "I still don't understand!"

Wang Xiao vigorously ruffled his fiery red hair again. "It's good that you don't understand! Not understanding means you already understand."

"Alright, it's getting late. I need to head back and rest. You should all go back early too." Wang Xiao turned and started to leave.

Yan still clung to his thigh without letting go.

Unable to endure it any longer, Wang Xiao released a hum as one, two, three, four, five Soul Rings rose from beneath him and circled his body.

"Ah~"

Yan cried out in fright, immediately letting go and falling onto the ground beside him.

This...

The seven companions who had come with Yan were also startled by the sight.

They had not expected the last two of Wang Xiao's five Soul Rings to be ten-thousand-year and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings. That was terrifying.

He was so powerful that their level was nowhere near enough to fight him.

As students of Spirit Hall Academy, they understood that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring was not something an ordinary Soul Master could absorb.

Aside from a fortunate opportunity or a soul beast willingly offering itself as a sacrifice, no one would dare absorb one normally without tremendous strength.

Not even a Titled Douluo would dare attempt it.

Even the two elders of Spirit Hall, Gui Mei and Ghost Douluo, did not dare absorb one.

Only Bibi Dong possessed that capability.

Thus, when they saw Wang Xiao release his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, every one of them trembled all over. How could they still have any desire to fight?

Wang Xiao immediately spread his hands, releasing the Chicken Blood Vine martial soul from one hand and the Hundred Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul from the other. "First Spirit Skill: Grappling Kill!"

"Second Spirit Skill: Strangling Kill!"

"Third Spirit Skill: Thorn Pierce!"

"Fourth Spirit Skill: Inverse Scale Spiral Slash!"

Wang Xiao unleashed all four spirit skills of the Chicken Blood Vine martial soul at once, demonstrating them for Yan and making him give up completely. "Do you understand now, Little Yan Yan?"

"If I used these spirit skills to attack you, the few of you would probably be nothing but a pile of bones by now."

"So, Little Yan Yan, it's not that I'm trying to steal Nana from you. It's that Nana likes men stronger than herself, men like me."

"After all that, do you understand now?"

"I... I understand." Yan finally nodded. "Brother Xiao Xiao, thank you for enlightening me. Thank you so much. From now on, I'll never be so full of myself again."

Wang Xiao said, "That's more like it."

He then looked toward the seven or eight companions. "What are you all standing around for? Hurry over and thank Brother Xiao Xiao for his guidance!"

"Alright, Boss!"

The seven or eight of them immediately gathered around him, hugging him and thanking him for enlightening Yan.

Wang Xiao nodded in satisfaction. "Mm, it's good that you understand, Little Yan Yan."

"Pfft~"

Suddenly, a small sword pierced through Wang Xiao's back, passed straight through his chest, and emerged from the front, giving him a wound straight through the heart.

Wang Xiao turned around. It was the level fifty-three Soul King who had struck. "Y-you ambushed me?"

"Hehe, how else could we kill you?" Bai Xin said.

Then he forcefully pulled out the small sword.

"Ah~"

Wang Xiao opened his mouth and cried out in agony. "Yan, why did you do this?"

"Hahahaha~"

Yan suddenly sprang up from the ground, full of energy, and threw his head back in laughter. "You think you're so impressive, huh?"

"You even tried teaching me how to behave. Did you think I would actually listen?"

"You're so poisonous, so poisonous, so poisonous?" Wang Xiao pointed at Yan, spat out several mouthfuls of saliva, then shuddered a few times before rolling his eyes back.

"Sigh~"

The old man who had been watching coldly from the sidelines finally sighed. Rising to his feet, he said to the older woman beside him, "I can't watch anymore, I can't watch anymore. At my age, I truly can't bear to witness scenes of life and death like this."

"Mm, I don't like it either!" With that, the older woman supported the old man as they turned and left.

"Boss, that move was brilliant."

"Mm, the boss is the boss..."

Several lackeys immediately began flattering Yan.

Yan laughed. "No Poison is Not a Husband. You lot should learn from this."

"Mm-hmm."

"Pah~"

Yan spat at Wang Xiao on the ground. "You dared compete with me, Yan, for Nana. This is your fate."

"Exactly. You didn't even weigh your own worth before daring to steal our boss's woman."

"You deserved it!"

"Let's go, let's go." Yan called out, then turned to leave.

"Pah~"

The lackeys also spat at Wang Xiao before leaving...

But they did not see that Wang Xiao's wound was rapidly healing before their very eyes. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and stared at their retreating backs, his gaze filled with killing intent.

Tap, tap, tap~

After they had walked roughly a hundred zhang away, they heard footsteps approaching from behind.

At the same time, they felt an overwhelming pressure.

That was killing intent.

"Huh?"

They were immediately shocked.

They had thought Wang Xiao, who should have been dead, would never rise again, yet he suddenly appeared behind them.

They glanced back at the ground behind them and saw no one there. They found it strange—and terrifying.

"Y-you're not dead?" Yan was truly frightened now. He asked nervously, thinking Wang Xiao had become a reanimated corpse.

The others huddled together and stayed as far away from Wang Xiao as possible.

Especially Bai Xin, the one who had stabbed him.

Wang Xiao smiled. "How could that be? Even if all of you died, I still wouldn't die. To tell you the truth, I have superpowers."

"Impossible!" Yan refused to believe it.

Wang Xiao said nothing more. He took off his clothes, revealing his muscular body.

The group immediately looked closely. Sure enough, his chest was completely unscathed, without the slightest trace of injury.

Yan was afraid. "You..."

"I only pretended to die earlier. Don't think I didn't know your plan. I noticed that person the moment he came up behind me. The reason I didn't stop his evil deed was simply because I wanted to give you a surprise."

Wang Xiao looked at Bai Xin behind him. "After the surprise, it's time for you to die."

"Fifth Spirit Skill: Covering the Sky and Earth!"

At once, Chicken Blood Vine stems and leaves grew everywhere, covering the sky and earth. Thick vines and Six-winged Leaves larger than palm fans spun at high speed, enveloping all eight of them...

"Whoosh~"

Just then, a figure flashed past and leaped onto the rooftop.

"Ahhh~"

After the Chicken Blood Vine stems and leaves wrapped around them, the group was immediately surrounded and bound. The Six-winged Leaves performed a Strangling Kill with such immense force that they had no chance even to release their Soul Rings before being hacked into eight pieces.

Not even their corpses remained.

"Ah~"

Even Bai Xin, the level fifty-three Soul King, only held on a little longer before he too was cut into eight pieces, leaving no corpse behind.

Clap, clap, clap~

"Wonderful, truly wonderful!"

Applause and a man's praise came from the rooftop to the right.

"A genius really is a genius. Even a Trash Spirit can be used for attacks!" another man said from the rooftop.

Wang Xiao immediately looked toward the rooftop and saw two middle-aged men standing there.

And between them stood a teenage boy. It was Yan.

He wasn't dead?

Only then did Wang Xiao realize that Yan had been saved by the two men without his noticing.

He knew both middle-aged men. They were none other than the two elders, Gui Mei and Elder Ju.

Ju Hua Guan smiled again. "Kid, Yan belongs to the Pope. You can't kill him."

Gui Mei nodded. "Even if you won't show us any respect, you should at least show respect to Your Excellency the Pope, shouldn't you?"

Wang Xiao merely looked at them coldly. "Others wanted to kill me, so I killed them instead. That is perfectly justified, understand?"

"So you intend to become an enemy of Spirit Hall?" Gui Mei demanded sternly.

"I don't want to be anyone's enemy. I only want justice."

Wang Xiao circulated his Soul Power. "Fifth Spirit Skill: Covering the Sky and Earth!"

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