One Man, One Spear!

The entire venue fell silent!

Everyone stared in disbelief as the Blood Axe Society Leader, who had been riding high only an instant ago, was pierced through the chest by that terrifying great spear. The overwhelming impact sent him flying backward, skewering him together with a Society higher-up behind him like candied hawthorn on a stick.

That figure, like a demon god descending upon the world, had already carved through the Blood Axe Society members with unstoppable force, reached the Blood Axe Society Leader, and yanked out the great spear!

"I... I..."

Trembling as he touched the gaping hole in his chest, despair, unwillingness, and... fear of death surfaced in the Blood Axe Society Leader's eyes.

Just a little...

He had only been a hair's breadth away from boarding the ocean liner, escaping overseas, and enjoying wealth and glory.

Yet...

At the very last moment, just as he was about to win this gamble, he had lost—and was about to die...

He could not accept it!

Feeling his strength rapidly drain away from his chest, the Blood Axe Society Leader's hands shook with terror.

So he, too, was afraid of death...

"Protect the Young Society Master!"

"Assassin! The assassin is over there!"

"Don't be afraid, everyone! He's alone—he can't kill us all before he runs out of strength! A thousand Silver Dollars for anyone who earns merit!"

Spurred on by the huge reward, the Blood Axe Society members, their eyes red with greed, swarmed forward with clubs in hand. Some fiercely loyal elite thugs even drew the axes at their waists, charging out with murderous looks as they tried to buy the Young Society Master a chance to board the ship.

But...

It was useless!

With the doubled strength granted by the Killing Technique—Tiger in the Cage, Ape in the Mind—Huo Yuanhong strode forward in great strides. As his feet drove into the ground, tremendous force erupted, propelling his body forward at terrifying speed...

A charge!

The great spear in his hand became a blur of afterimages, thrusting, thrusting, and thrusting again!

With pinpoint precision, he shattered the throat bones of several thugs blocking his way, sending them flying as he slaughtered his way toward the Young Society Master, whom the Blood Axe Society Leader valued most!

"No! No! Don't come any closer! It was my father... it was the Wu Family head who ordered us to kill you! Every grievance has its debtor, every debt has its owner!"

Watching Huo Yuanhong charge toward him like a demon god, the Young Society Master of the Blood Axe Society was terrified beyond measure. He fled desperately, throwing out money to spur the Society members forward, hoping their bodies could hold Huo Yuanhong back for even a moment!

Then Huo Yuanhong used the great spear in his hand as his blade and cut a bloody path straight through them. In the blink of an eye, he reached the Young Society Master's back and thrust out!

"Pfft!"

Filled with deep unwillingness and regret, the Young Society Master collapsed with a thud, his breath extinguished.

"NO!!!"

The Blood Axe Society Leader lay on the ground, on the brink of death, watching helplessly as the elite thugs he had painstakingly cultivated as the Society's backbone were killed one after another. The trusted expert fighters he had prepared for a future resurgence were slaughtered as well, and even the Young Society Master he valued most had died. His eyes split wide with fury!

His Blood Axe Society, his grand ambitions, his son...

All gone! Everything was gone!

Even he himself was about to die!

"I was wrong! I was wrong!"

"I shouldn't have let greed cloud my judgment and laid hands on Li Shuxing's disciple! The Wu Family ruined me! The intelligence clearly said Huo Yuanhong had only just entered Heart-Mind Unity, but with this kind of strength, how could he possibly have only just entered Heart-Mind Unity?!"

The Blood Axe Society Leader finally regretted it. He regretted allowing greed to cloud his judgment, and regretted being so confident.

Why was it that no one else dared to act, yet he had? And after acting, why had he believed he could escape?

With the terrifying strength Huo Yuanhong had displayed, even if that spear had not pierced through his chest, he might not have survived a head-on battle.

He had actually dared to provoke such a terrifying monster. And after provoking him, he had not taken it seriously, thinking everything would be fine as long as the Martial Arts Hall's Instructor did not intervene.

In the end...

With ultimate despair, regret, pain, and venomous hatred for the Wu Family, this mid-stage Intent-Qi Unity expert—the Blood Axe Society Leader who had made countless people in Jin Gate tremble in fear—had his consciousness sink completely into bottomless darkness.

His breath ceased!

"Sshk!"

Following the list he had memorized, Huo Yuanhong dealt with the Blood Axe Society's higher-ups one by one. Then, without the slightest hesitation, he dragged his spear away!

By now, Heart-Mind Unity and Intent-Qi Unity experts from the other societies had already begun closing in on him. Beyond their fear, their eyes burned with fervor and excitement.

The Martial Arts Hall's Instructor was absent. As long as they killed Huo Yuanhong and immediately boarded a ship to flee, they could enjoy wealth and glory overseas!

"Kill the assassin! Don't let the assassin get away!"

Those Society experts shouted loudly. None dared call out Huo Yuanhong's name; they all treated him as an unknown assassin.

Ahead, Huo Yuanhong dragged his spear as he sprinted wildly, his expression blank.

He knew very well that Old Xu had few chances left to intervene and would not waste them on these Society members. Yet with Old Xu watching from the shadows, those Dark Force and Transformation Strength experts with status and standing would not dare make a move.

Therefore, his opponents were these Heart-Mind Unity and Intent-Qi Unity experts from the societies!

As he ran, he silently calculated the distance between himself and the man behind him, waiting until his pursuer was only three steps away!

His foot stomped down, the force from his waist and hips twisting his body around. The Great Spear he had been dragging behind him sprang up explosively beneath the strength of his arms, stabbing backward!

Returning Horse Spear!

"Pfft!"

The fastest-chasing gang expert was pierced through the chest by the Returning Horse Spear. His eyes filled with disbelief as he fell.

Huo Yuanhong pulled out the Great Spear and continued sprinting!

Even as he ran wildly, he quickly poured medicine into his mouth.

With an absorption efficiency hundreds of times greater, strength that had nearly run dry surged forth within him once more. As he sprinted at full speed, not only was his stamina not exhausted—it was rapidly recovering!

"He's almost done for! He's fought for so long, he must be running out of strength!"

"Catch up! Kill him!"

When one man finally dared to catch up, Huo Yuanhong—who should have been drained of all strength—suddenly erupted again, unleashing another Returning Horse Spear!

"Shhk!"

Another kill!

A corpse collapsed limply where it stood, while Huo Yuanhong's figure was already racing away once more.

After this happened several times in a row, the gang experts behind him, blinded by greed, finally began to feel their scalps prickle.

Especially when they saw corpse after corpse along the road, the fear in their hearts deepened and deepened...

Until, at a certain moment, their fear of death finally outweighed the glory and riches the great clans could offer. As one person was the first to stop, the others halted one after another, no longer daring to give chase.

At that moment, Huo Yuanhong, who had been fleeing for his life, suddenly turned around and charged back toward them!

"Whoosh!"

With a flick of the Great Spear, more than a dozen hazy spear-shadows whirled forth. Before the gang expert at the front could distinguish which one was real, a spear pierced his chest and sent him to his grave!

Having recovered part of his strength, Huo Yuanhong used his Killing Technique once more. His entire body seemed to transform into a ferocious tiger unleashed from its cage, his strength multiplied as he squeezed every last shred of power from his stamina, turning it into one terrifying spear-shadow after another!

The spear was the king of all weapons! Its killing range far surpassed that of blades and swords!

Those gang experts wielding sabers and swords never even had the chance to get close before Huo Yuanhong's domineering, razor-sharp spear pierced straight through them!

After killing two early-stage Intent-Qi Unity experts and five Heart-Mind Unity experts in succession, the fighting spirit of these hastily assembled gang experts finally collapsed!

"Devil! He's a devil!"

"How can the likes of us Heart-Mind Unity and Intent-Qi Unity fighters provoke such a monster?!"

"No matter how much the great clans offer, it's worthless if we aren't alive to take it!"

"Run! Run! Run now! That demon is coming!"

In the end, after leaving a field of corpses behind, these gang experts completely broke down and scattered like a flock of frightened birds!

That night, Huo Yuanhong, alone with a single spear, killed until the gangs of Jin Gate trembled in terror!