The youth had a tall, slender figure.
His brows were like distant mountains, his eyes like cold stars.
Moonlight spilled down, coating him in a layer of silvery radiance.
The night wind whipped up his robes with a hunting rustle, yet it could not disperse the biting killing intent around him.
He looked like an exiled immortal descending into the mortal world.
Who else could it be but Chen Changqing, who had slaughtered his way up from the foot of the mountain?
The moment Dai Hai saw Chen Changqing, his pupils contracted violently.
"Father! It was him!"
"He was the one who struck me at the inn today."
Dai Hai covered his swollen face, his eyes brimming with venomous hatred.
He had never imagined it.
Chen Changqing had actually dared to charge into Black Wind Stronghold alone.
"Hm?"
After hearing Dai Hai's words, Dai Xiongfeng narrowed his eyes slightly and gave Chen Changqing a few more appraising looks.
At that moment, Dai Hai let out a sinister chuckle and spoke coldly:
"Boy!"
"I hadn't even gone looking for you."
"Yet you came knocking on my door yourself."
Earlier, Dai Hai had been sullen and uneasy, worried that Chen Changqing might slip away.
If they failed to catch Chen Changqing—
Then the beating he had taken today would have been for nothing.
At the same time, Dai Xiongfeng had also discerned that Chen Changqing's cultivation was only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
"A mere Foundation Establishment cultivator dares to run rampant in my Black Wind Stronghold?"
"And you even dared to beat my son."
"I think you're courting death!"
Dai Xiongfeng's gaze was cold as a blade as it swept directly over Chen Changqing.
Earlier, when Dai Hai had returned from outside, every single one of his teeth had been knocked out.
Only after questioning him did Dai Xiongfeng learn—
Someone had attacked his son.
Although Dai Hai claimed the other party was only at the Foundation Establishment Realm, Dai Xiongfeng had still been somewhat uncertain.
He had not immediately led men out to avenge Dai Hai.
Instead, he had secretly sent people out to investigate the other party's background.
He had originally thought that anyone who dared strike his son had to be some formidable expert.
But now that he looked, Chen Changqing was merely a junior at the Foundation Establishment Realm!
Hearing the Dai Father and Son's arrogant words, Chen Changqing replied impassively:
"Tonight, the ones who will die are you!"
As he spoke, Chen Changqing's gaze swept across the Black Wind Stronghold bandits gathered in the hall.
"Haha!"
The moment those words fell, the hall erupted in laughter, followed by jeers:
"How ridiculous."
"Where did this Foundation Establishment brat come from, daring to boast so shamelessly?"
"Boy, is there something wrong with your head?"
"Why don't you weigh your own worth first?"
"You're only at Foundation Establishment. Who gave you the courage to charge into Black Wind Stronghold?"
"You're the one courting death, aren't you?"
"..."
The crowd mocked him without end.
They simply did not take Chen Changqing seriously.
After all, their Great Chief was at the Core Formation Realm. Killing a Foundation Establishment cultivator would be easier than crushing an ant, would it not?
Although the Fourth Boss had died at Chen Changqing's hands—
His cultivation had only just reached Foundation Establishment.
Chen Changqing paid no heed to Black Wind Stronghold's ridicule.
At that moment, Dai Xiongfeng gave a scornful smile and snorted coldly:
"Hmph!"
"You truly don't know whether you live or die!"
"Since that is the case."
"Second Boss, Third Boss, send him to meet King Yan!"
As Dai Xiongfeng's words fell, two men immediately stepped out from behind him.
One was fat, and the other was thin.
The instant they appeared, a powerful aura radiated from them. Both were Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators.
In Dai Xiongfeng's eyes, with these two taking action, Chen Changqing could easily be slain.
"Boy, you dared act wildly in my Black Wind Stronghold. Leave your dog life behind today!"
The moment his words ended, the fatter cultivator struck first.
Boom!
His figure flashed as he charged swiftly toward Chen Changqing. As he rushed forward, he flung out a palm strike.
Seeing this, the thinner cultivator was no slower. He attacked Chen Changqing from the other side with a palm strike as well.
Boom!
In less than an instant, the two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators attacked Chen Changqing from the left and right.
Under the ferocious palm force, even the air crackled and exploded.
Facing the two incoming Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators, Chen Changqing remained indifferent.
Thunderclap Divine Fist!
As the two were about to strike, spiritual power surged into Chen Changqing's hands, and he threw a punch to each side.
Boom! Boom!
As his fists flew out, lightning burst across their edges.
Bang! Bang...
The violent power of lightning instantly collided with the palm force of the two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators.
A deafening sonic boom rang out.
When they looked again, the two men's palm force had crumbled like earth and shattered tiles beneath Chen Changqing's Thunderclap Divine Fist.
The remaining force of his punches did not diminish, blasting straight through their chests and sending flesh and blood flying.
Strands of lightning coiled wildly around their bodies, crackling without end.
The two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators did not even have time to scream before turning into two charred corpses and crashing heavily to the ground!
This scene had come far too suddenly.
Everyone in the hall failed to react, standing there like wooden chickens.
"What?"
"This?"
"How is that possible?"
"Second Boss and Third Boss are just dead like that?"
"..."
Only then did the people of Black Wind Stronghold come back to their senses. Their pupils shook violently, and their faces were filled with horror!
No one had expected it.
Chen Changqing was actually this powerful.
With one punch from each hand, he had instantly killed two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators on the spot.
"Ah?"
Dai Hai was utterly dumbfounded at the sight.
Just moments ago, he had still been strutting about arrogantly.
He had believed that Chen Changqing's daring to come to Black Wind Stronghold was no different from walking into a trap.
Who could have imagined that with just a slight move, Chen Changqing had already killed Black Wind Stronghold's Second Boss and Third Boss?
"Hm?"
Seeing this, Dai Xiongfeng's expression sank abruptly, turning incomparably ugly.
"What kind of existence had Hai'er provoked outside?"
"He appeared to be only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, yet he killed two cultivators of the same realm the moment he attacked?"
The more Dai Xiongfeng thought about it, the more uneasy he became.
Then, putting away his contempt for Chen Changqing, he asked solemnly:
"Boy."
"Who exactly are you?"
In Dai Xiongfeng's view, for Chen Changqing to so easily kill two opponents of the same realm while only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, he was absolutely no ordinary cultivator!
Chen Changqing slowly raised his eyes. Staring coldly at Dai Xiongfeng, he said calmly:
"The dead do not need to know so much!"
The moment his words fell, Chen Changqing's figure suddenly vanished from where he stood.
Bang!
When they looked again, a Black Wind Stronghold bandit in the distance had already been blasted apart by his punch.
Then Chen Changqing's figure flashed once more.
Wherever he passed, sword light flickered. Heads flew high into the air before crashing heavily to the ground.
The Black Wind Stronghold cultivators panicked at the sight.
Even Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators could be instantly killed by Chen Changqing with ease, let alone people like them at the Body Refining and Qi Refining stages?
Bang! Bang...
Pfft! Pfft, pfft!
Before these cultivators could flee, however, they had all already perished at Chen Changqing's hands.
At the same time, system notifications continuously sounded in Chen Changqing's mind:
[Ding!] [Killed a Black Wind Stronghold bandit. AFK Point +20.] [Killed a Black Wind Stronghold bandit. AFK Point +20.] [Killed a Black Wind Stronghold bandit. AFK Point +9.] [...]
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