Miserable Death

"Beast? Beast my ass! You wanted to kill me, but you weren't capable enough and got wiped out by me instead. And you still wouldn't accept it, even resorting to insults. What kind of person was that?" Ye Qiu said irritably.

"Ding. Host has killed a Three Star Great Dou Shi across ranks and obtained an achievement. Reward: Naruto World item—Shadow Clone Technique inheritance. Reward has been distributed," the system announced.

"At least you did something right." Hearing the system prompt, Ye Qiu nodded. He then walked over to Wan Guanghu, who had been pierced through by several crystal spikes. After taking the storage ring from his hand and searching his body, he confirmed there was nothing valuable and turned to leave.

If it had been someone he did not know, and he had seen them die miserably out here, Ye Qiu might have taken the time to arrange the corpse and bury it. But for someone who had wanted to kill him... hehe...

"You—you came back?! Where's my Senior Brother Wan?" Seeing the youth return unharmed while her senior brother had not appeared, the girl named Ting Er immediately panicked, her face turning pale.

"Him? He went to report to King Yama. Oh, you probably don't know who King Yama is. Fine, I'll put it plainly: I sent him to the afterlife." Ye Qiu showed no kindness whatsoever toward such a venomous woman.

"What? You killed Senior Brother Wan! Impossible, impossible! Senior Brother Wan was a Three Star Great Dou Shi. How could he possibly die? Impossible! You're lying to me! You're lying to me!" The girl roared like a madwoman.

"Impossible? Go see him there, and you'll know whether it's true." Ye Qiu spread out his right palm toward the girl as streams of purple energy gathered in his palm.

"Ah! No, no! Don't kill me! Please, don't kill me!" Seeing the purple energy sphere forming in Ye Qiu's hand, the girl was terrified. She hurriedly crouched down, clutching her head as she begged for mercy.

"Hmph. Get lost!" Ye Qiu snorted disdainfully and told her to scram.

"Yes, yes! Thank you, thank you." Hearing Ye Qiu's words, the girl nodded repeatedly in delight and scrambled out of the Crystal Stone Array.

"Master, why did you let her go?" After the girl had gone far away, Pegasus, who had remained silent all this time, asked.

"This was my first time killing a person." Ye Qiu did not answer him, instead saying something Pegasus could not understand. His first time killing someone? So what? Hadn't he killed so many demon beasts before? Could killing now actually make him nauseous?

"Let's go. I need to return to Green Mountain Town. Bring Qing Ye and the Six Poison Centipede." Ye Qiu shook his head and said to Pegasus.

"Yes."

The next day, Ye Qiu, Pegasus, Qing Ye, and the Six Poison Centipede set off on the road back to Green Mountain Town...

"Junior Sister, why are you alone? Where's Senior Brother Wan?" Seeing the girl running forward in a panic, Zhang Ming and Zhang Yuan suddenly appeared and blocked her path, asking her.

"Zhang Ming, Zhang Yuan, it's you. No, this is bad! Senior Brother Wan was killed!" Startled when someone suddenly stopped her, the girl had thought Ye Qiu had changed his mind and come to silence her, nearly frightening her unconscious. Once she saw that it was the Zhang brothers, she relaxed and hurriedly explained to them. Little did she know that her suffering was about to begin.

"Senior Brother Wan is dead? Is that true?" Zhang Ming hurriedly asked upon hearing her words. Wan Guanghu was a Three Star Great Dou Shi—how could he have been killed? What kind of joke was that?

"It's true! Senior Brother Wan and that person fought all the way to another place, but afterward, that person came back while Senior Brother Wan didn't. That person said he killed Senior Brother Wan," the girl explained hurriedly, as if doing so could ease her fear.

"Who was the person who killed Wan Guanghu? And why did he kill him?" After confirming that Wan Guanghu was dead, Zhang Yuan asked. He did not even call him senior brother anymore, directly referring to him as Wan Guanghu.

"It—it was over the Six Poison Centipede. The Six Poison Centipede is in that guy's hands."

"What? The Six Poison Centipede was taken away? We're finished, we're finished." Upon hearing the girl's words, both men immediately felt that things had gone terribly wrong. The joy brought by Wan Guanghu's death was instantly washed away. Anyone capable of killing Wan Guanghu had to be incredibly strong. With the Six Poison Centipede in such a person's hands, how could they possibly take it back? But if they could not bring back the Six Poison Centipede, then their master... they did not dare imagine it.

"Quick, we need to report this to Master. Have him avenge Senior Brother Wan." With a vicious, hateful expression, the girl grabbed the two men and started pulling them forward. It was unclear whether she truly sought revenge for her dead lover, or because Ye Qiu had mocked her.

"What kind of person killed Wan Guanghu and took the Six Poison Centipede?" Zhang Ming slapped away the girl's delicate hand, stepped forward, and asked.

"He said his name was Ye Qiu. I don't know anything else." Interrupted by the man, the girl answered in a daze. He had never dared treat her like that before.

"Oh? Is that so? Brother, haven't you always said you never had a chance to taste her charms? Isn't this the perfect opportunity?" Having learned all the information he needed, Zhang Ming revealed a lecherous grin and looked at the girl before him like a wolf eyeing a lamb.

"Oh? Oh, right. Now we can finally relax properly. These past few days have exhausted me." Hearing Zhang Ming's words, Zhang Yuan also understood. He looked at the girl with a lascivious smile.

"What? You—you two, what are you going to do?" Hearing their words, the girl inwardly cried out in alarm.

"What are we going to do? Junior Sister Ting Er, what do you think? You've helped so many senior brothers relieve their worries. Today, help us brothers too. Come on." With that, Zhang Ming lunged directly at the woman. Zhang Yuan was not about to fall behind.

"No, no... ah!" A woman's scream rang through the dense forest. A boundless spring scene was scattered across the ground.

After a long while, the two got up and put their discarded clothes back on. "Second Brother, the Six Poison Centipede was taken by someone else. How are we supposed to explain this to Master when we go back?" Zhang Yuan tightened his belt and asked worriedly.

"Go back? Go back my ass. Brother, don't you know what kind of person Master is? Go back? Would we still be alive if we went back?" Hearing his elder brother's words, Zhang Ming spat onto the naked girl lying on the ground and spoke disdainfully.

"Then what do you mean?"

"We're Dou Shi powerhouses, after all. Are we supposed to be unable to survive after leaving the Spirit Blood Sect? We'll stay in the Gama Empire, form a mercenary group, and become its leaders. That's much better than being errand boys in the Spirit Blood Sect. Besides, with so many people in the world, could they really find us? Isn't there a saying: better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix?" Zhang Ming said.

"This... alright. Big Brother will listen to you."

"Good. That's my good big brother. Let's go. We'll never return to the Spirit Blood Sect again." Zhang Ming stepped forward, draped an arm around Zhang Yuan's shoulder, and said.

"Mm, alright. Let's go!"

After getting dressed, the two headed together toward the route through the Demon Beast Mountain Range leading to the Gama Empire. The forest fell utterly silent, leaving only a delicate body lying on the ground in torn clothes, her ** continuously bleeding, her fate unknown.