Despairing BOSS

"Kill!"

When enemies met on a narrow road, the brave won. Blood Finger Condensing Suan's ferocity was ignited as well. Facing Jiang Dali's incoming blade light, he charged forward instead. With one step, his five fingers hooked like claws, and the iron rings on his fingers seized straight for the saber.

"Attack together!"

Green Ox Looks Up and Drunken Flower Shade charged in at the same time.

"You're courting death!"

Jiang Dali was about to follow through with a slash and sever Blood Finger Condensing Suan's arm when he suddenly discovered that the Nine-Ringed Golden Saber in his hand seemed to be drawn by some bizarre force. It actually veered slightly, as though it were taking the initiative to meet Blood Finger Condensing Suan's palm.

"Hm?! Magnetic rings?"

Jiang Dali's gaze sharpened.

With a clang!

The Nine-Ringed Golden Saber had already landed in Blood Finger Condensing Suan's palm and was fiercely gripped.

"Now! Hurry!"

Blood Finger Condensing Suan roared in wild delight.

"Take my Tiger Subduing Fist!"

Green Ox Looks Up bellowed, leaping into the air. His fists, clad in sharp iron gauntlets, struck out in succession like cannon punches. Every punch contained immense force as they crashed heavily into Jiang Dali's body.

At the same time, a flash of cold light came from the side. Drunken Flower Shade's short sword viciously stabbed into Jiang Dali's body, but it produced only a crisp clang. The short sword bent into a hair-raising arc and failed to pierce through.

"How is that possible!?"

Both players' hearts pounded wildly.

They stared in disbelief at the two pitiful numbers that struggled into view above Jiang Dali's head.

"-48!"

"-39!"

Compared with Jiang Dali's despairingly long health bar, those two numbers seemed like a mockery, shaving away only the tiniest sliver.

"Damn it! His Iron Cloth Skill has already reached the pinnacle realm!"

Blood Finger Condensing Suan roared inwardly. He no longer had any thought of attacking and immediately released the saber, intending to retreat.

"Do you think you can leave!?"

A cold curve lifted at Jiang Dali's lips. He strode forward, and the saber in his hand blossomed with dazzling blade radiance, blanketing the vast space behind Blood Finger Condensing Suan and leaving him no path of retreat.

"Aah! Don't force me!"

Blood Finger Condensing Suan roared furiously. His figure flickered as he executed the Dancing Butterfly Flying Flower Steps, instantly appearing at Jiang Dali's side and striking out with a swish.

Sss! Sss! Sss!—

His five fingers plucked like a lute, his fingernails ringing sharply as they slashed toward vital vascular points—Jiang Dali's throat, wrists, carotid artery, and more.

"Chaotic Melody!"

Jiang Dali snorted coldly. With a turn of his hand, he changed his fist into a palm and struck sideways at Blood Finger Condensing Suan's fierce finger technique, like one paying homage to Buddha.

Blood Finger Condensing Suan's expression turned gleeful and mocking at the sight.

Finger techniques restrained palm techniques.

Yet Jiang Dali actually dared use a palm technique to receive his finger technique. What palm technique could possibly stand against his Blood Fingers?

"Break for me!"

Blood Finger Condensing Suan screamed inwardly.

Crack!—

The instant their hands met in midair, a bone-chilling sound of shattering bones erupted.

Blood Finger Condensing Suan let out a miserable scream. The five fingers wearing magnetic rings felt as though they had been snapped by a fierce, tyrannical force. The pain drilled into his marrow.

Alarm and fury surged through him as he swiftly retreated.

Green Ox Looks Up and Drunken Flower Shade darted forward, arriving just in time to block and rescue him.

With a sharp cry, Drunken Flower Shade attacked with her longsword.

In an instant, she thrust out seven or eight blossoms of sword light.

Meanwhile, Green Ox Looks Up's fists opened and closed in broad, sweeping arcs, striking directly at Jiang Dali to force him back.

"Petty tricks!"

Jiang Dali swung the Nine-Ringed Golden Saber, as though a blazing sun of golden radiance had exploded.

The humming of the saber was like a tiger's roar, making everyone present feel their heads buzz.

With a clang, sparks erupted!

The Nine-Ringed Golden Saber knocked away the short sword and swept past Drunken Flower Shade's neck.

In an instant, a spray of blood accompanied a beautiful head as it soared into the air. The moment it spun down to the ground, Drunken Flower Shade vanished into white light without even letting out a scream, leaving only a pile of clothes behind.

"Drunken Flower!"

Green Ox Looks Up shouted furiously.

"I'll send you to the grave too!"

A terrifying baleful gleam suddenly flashed in Jiang Dali's eyes. With a sweep of one arm, he returned the attack with a palm strike, colliding head-on with Green Ox Looks Up's incoming iron fist.

Boom!—

An overwhelmingly immense force burst from that palm, fierce and indomitable, as though it would destroy everything in its path.

Bang! With a tremendous shock, sand and stones beneath their feet shot violently into the air.

Green Ox Looks Up let out a miserable scream as he flew backward, his arm broken. His health bar nearly emptied in an instant. Had the pill he stuffed into his mouth not taken effect immediately, that blow would have killed him.

"Hm? Not dead?"

Jiang Dali was mildly surprised, but he did not pause in the slightest. He immediately charged toward Blood Finger Condensing Suan, who was retreating in terror.

"Wait! Wait, wait!"

"This is a misunderstanding, Village Lord Jiang! It's absolutely a misunderstanding—we can talk this out!"

Blood Finger Condensing Suan's face was filled with shock and fear as he swiftly used his lightness skill to evade.

"I don't mind misunderstandings with dead men."

Jiang Dali chuckled. With a movement of his body, he was like a great goose spreading its wings into flight. A single turn brought him effortlessly close, leaving Blood Finger Condensing Suan with nowhere to run.

The sight filled Green Ox Looks Up with despair.

What kind of fucking BOSS was this?

His external martial arts were absurdly strong, his palm techniques fierce, his saber techniques sharp, and even his lightness skill was incredibly powerful. His combat strength was monstrously outrageous!

And he was only the BOSS of some bandit stronghold?

Was there no justice left in heaven or law on earth?!

"You've gone too far! I'll fight you to the death!"

Seeing that escape was impossible, Blood Finger Condensing Suan roared in grief and fury. He suddenly swung his left palm, while his right hand curled into a claw and shot like lightning toward Jiang Dali's chest. Palm and fingers struck together, vicious enough to make one's tongue click in astonishment.

Jiang Dali's expression was cold and stern. He neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the palm and claw to land on his body as the Nine-Ringed Golden Saber in his hand came crashing down.

Bang, bang—

Dull blows erupted alongside Blood Finger Condensing Suan's shrill screams.

Two halves of a body, cleaved apart by a single saber stroke, fell to the ground. Hot blood splashed everywhere. Blood Finger Condensing Suan had been cut in two at the waist, his upper body crawling across the ground with miserable screams.

Jiang Dali, meanwhile, landed like an iron tower. He had suffered almost no injury; only his clothes had been torn apart, revealing the Golden Silk Armor beneath. His health had merely dropped by a small amount.

That savage style of fighting—trading a minor injury for an enemy's death—was enough to drive anyone into despair.

The Black Wind Stronghold bandits still fighting in the nearby battlefield became even more excited and fired up at the sight, their morale soaring.

By contrast, the bandit lackeys of Tuoshui Mountain Stronghold and Chongfeng Mountain Stronghold saw their morale plummet again and again.

Though they still held the advantage in numbers, their defeat was already certain.

"Stop!"

Heads surged in the distance as another group of Tuoshui Mountain Stronghold reinforcements charged over under Ghost Blade Ji Ming's lead. They were less than a hundred paces away, and Ghost Blade Ji Ming roared with fury and alarm.

Yet Jiang Dali remained calm. Without even sparing Ghost Blade Ji Ming a glance, he dragged his saber toward Green Ox Looks Up, who had barely a sliver of health left, and looked down at him from above.

"You want me to beg for mercy? Hehehe."

Green Ox Looks Up's gaze was proud as he sneered disdainfully. "You should know I'm an Otherworlder. I won't die. Just wait—sooner or later, I'll come back and kill you. I'll make you beg for life but unable to die."

As he spoke, Green Ox Looks Up looked toward Ghost Blade Ji Ming and mocked, "Though I almost forgot—you might not even last until then.

"If I'm not mistaken, your internal energy is empty now too, right? How much combat strength do you have left? Hahahaha! Hahahaha!!"

Green Ox Looks Up laughed wildly. "Come on, then! Kill me!"

Jiang Dali kicked out directly, the tip of his foot striking squarely at the Ermen acupoint. Using the force-generating technique of the Six Paths Leg, he very gently knocked the other man unconscious without killing him.

"Idiot. Whatever kind of trash you are, I'll sort you accordingly."

Jiang Dali spat, then waved over a bandit underling from the opposing battlefield and ordered him to tie up the unconscious Green Ox Looks Up to prevent him from killing himself.

When it came to dealing with players, he was a professional.

Green Ox Looks Up had actually acted so fearlessly.

Then Jiang Dali would let him experience what it meant to beg for life but be unable to die. He was an expert at sorting trash.

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