Testing (Part 2)

"I can come in person. With my strength, I can protect myself, and I am more suitable in terms of perception, so that I can find the clues of the Rebel Sect to the greatest extent possible."

"We're surrounded by Woodland on all sides. They're likely to be observing us from a distance from time to time. If we can catch one of them, we can find a breakthrough," Hui Jue replied.

"That's true." Kong Ding nodded.

"Let's head back for now. After preparing the supplies, I'll come here to cultivate in seclusion and wait," Hui Jue he stepped out of the wooden hut.

"Good."

The two quickly searched each of the wooden houses, but found no useful clues, so they hurriedly returned to Sea Gazing Temple.

In the following days, Hui Jue would come here late at night every day to examine each place slowly.

To his surprise, the place was indeed quite clean.

The traces left behind are very few; if it were someone else, they might completely lose their way.

But unfortunately, I met him.

Squeak.

With a soft click, Hui Jue pushed open the door to a wooden attic room once again.

He broke the door lock with the force of his palm, and it hung on the door frame.

As soon as the door opened, a delicate fragrance wafted out.

"Hmm?" Hui Jue's eyes lit up as he looked inside carefully.

Moonlight streamed in through the window, falling onto the tabletop and becoming the sole source of light.

Inside the room, there was a wooden bed, a dressing table, a wardrobe, and a washbasin and bucket placed in the corner.

Hui Jue sniffed, walked to the dressing table, and lowered his head to smell each item one by one.

"This isn't the taste."

He opened the wardrobe again, and it was filled with the smell of camphor.

Then there was the desk, which also didn't have much of a lingering smell.

Finally, there's the washbasin.

Hui Jue stretched out his index finger from the edge of the washbasin and wiped it.

Then I put it to my nose and smelled it.

Suddenly, an even stronger fragrance than the one I had just smelled filled my nostrils.

"This fragrance is not the kind you find in Scented Powder Shop."

It's either an extremely rare fragrance, or it's just a person's natural body odor.

He was overjoyed; after investigating for so long, he had finally found a clue.

Next, once we find users of this fragrance, we can greatly narrow down the possibilities.

However, he seemed to have a vague recollection of smelling this fragrance somewhere before.

With his memory, he would never make a mistake.

Since I have a memory of it, I must have actually encountered it somewhere.

"Where? Have I smelled this scent before?" He closed his eyes, pondering carefully, constantly digging into the depths of his memory.

"What exactly is this place?"

His fingers unconsciously began to tap lightly on the table.

Suddenly, an image flashed through his mind like lightning.

Hui Jue's heart skipped a beat. His blood rushed through his body.

When I first met Dao Child Zhang Ying of the Great Dao Sect, wasn't that the faint fragrance emanating from him the same scent?

Although the scent was faint, it was very similar to a woman's fragrance, which contrasted sharply with Dao Child Zhang Ying's figure, so Hui Jue remembered it immediately.

"Could it be that he's behind the Rebel Sect?!"

Hui Jue unconsciously clenched his fists.

Princess Yongxiang died here, along with all her men.

The Secret Teaching, the Demon Eagle Teaching, suffered heavy casualties, with only remnants fleeing in disarray.

Kong Xiang and the others were all silenced, not a single one was spared. This person was involved in every single event from beginning to end, and was connected to everything.

"Could it really be him!?" The more Hui Jue about it, the more certain he became.

If we reason backwards, everything can be explained.

Why have they been in Citong for so long and only managed to capture some of the outer henchmen of the Rebel Sect? They haven't found any core intelligence.

These consecutive major events, if one were coincidence, would be a coincidence if they happened individually, but if there were many coincidences, they would become inevitable.

Behind it all, there must be a unifying thread running through everything. Suddenly, a sigh echoed softly from outside the window.

In the quiet, deserted depths of the mountains, with no one around, a sigh suddenly echoed from outside the window.

Hui Jue was so frightened that his scalp tingled and goosebumps instantly appeared all over his body.

"Who!?" He quickly looked up and gazed out the window.

At the window, a tall figure wearing Black Face Mask was peering into the room.

He didn't know how long he had been there; his dark eyes stared at him silently, cold and devoid of emotion.

"Who are you?"

Hui Jue suppressed his emotions and shouted a second time.

He squinted, straightened his back, and stared intently at the masked man opposite him.

There was no response.

The other person simply stared at him calmly, like a statue.

"So you've come to kill me?" Hui Jue step by step toward the door and window, his expression returning to calm.

"What a pity. Why do you think I dared to go out alone and give you a chance?"

He ripped off his robe, revealing his well-defined upper body muscles.

Compared to the average person, his muscles are not large and are mostly streamlined.

With very little body fat and a height of 1.8 meters, he appears somewhat slim.

"I have seen the traces of your fight with Kong Xiang. Judging from the traces, you fought for more than a hundred breaths, and you both suffered damage."

I also found some remnants of armor fragments. You must have been wearing armor to reduce the damage, right?

Hui Jue stopped when he was about two meters away from the other person.

"So, you think I'm weaker than Kong Xiang, and that's why you think you can take me down by yourself?"

The other party remained silent.

"Unfortunately, you're wrong."

Hui Jue put his hands together in prayer position.

His blood and qi flowed like a gushing stream, and the ultra-fast flow of blood generated a lot of heat, causing his upper body skin to turn red, black, swell, and enlarge.

Hiss. In just an instant, his body rapidly expanded and grew larger, from a slender figure of about 1.8 meters to two meters.

Silver Patterns appeared on his body.

Silver Twisted Face Pattern began to appear above their heads.

This clearly indicates that we have entered Limit State.

"Let me test your strength! Dharma Form - Heavenly Dragon!!"

Hui Jue exhaled a white vapor from his mouth and nose, which flew out and turned into a column of air.

Whoosh! In an instant, he charged forward, arms outstretched, his body leaping into the air like a dragon baring its fangs, pouncing on the figure outside the window.

Aww!!

At the same time, a sound like a dragon's roar exploded from his throat.

This is the True Buddha Temple's Breaking Limit Skill he practiced— Dragon's Roar Illusion Sound.

A sudden, concentrated burst of sound waves can instantly tremble and frighten an opponent, causing their blood and qi to slow down and reducing their reaction speed.

Bang! The wooden window shattered like tofu, Hui Jue rushed out, instantly arriving in front of the person.

He brought his hands together from top to bottom, his fingertips sharp, as if he were about to bite through the other person's neck.

Suddenly, the other person raised their right hand.

The palm suddenly disappeared.

BOOM!!!

Hui Jue's body suddenly stiffened and hovered in mid-air, motionless.

His heart, which had been pounding wildly, suddenly stopped at that moment.

Everything around me is rapidly turning black and white, losing its color.

Silvery moonlight.

Brown tables and chairs.

A broken wooden wall.

A dark green cloak.

Everything turned into black and white.

Only the calm, indifferent black eyes on the other person's mask seemed to be the brightest and sharpest light in everything.

Excruciating pain, confusion, bewilderment, regret. Countless emotions flooded Hui Jue's mind at that moment.

But it was too late.

Boom! His chest and heart collapsed inward like putty, shattered, exploded, and a silver-red blood hole ran straight down to his back.

He was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing through the wooden house wall and slamming into a large semi-metallic ore used for palm practice.

A black ore, taller than a person, with most of it embedded in the ground, forcefully blocked his path.

'Heavy Mountain.'

'Tenfold.'

Zhang Rongfang withdrew his hand.

He drew the Autumn Rain Blade from his back with his other hand.

With a few quick movements, he arrived beside Hui Jue.

He sighed softly as he watched the other person rapidly lose consciousness.

"I really don't want to kill anyone anymore. Unfortunately... you know too much."

Hui Jue opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but blood kept gushing from his mouth, and he couldn't utter a sound at all.

In the end, all that could be seen was a flash of silver light from the blade.

He miscalculated. He originally thought that he was stronger than Kong Xiang and could last longer.

He had already sent messages to people immediately after the attack.

If they delay even a little, Kong Ding will be able to quickly come to their rescue, and then the two of them can work together to capture the mastermind behind it all.

Unfortunately, he greatly underestimated his opponent's strength.

Sheath the sword.

Zhang Rongfang stopped looking at the human figure on the ground that was turning into black ash.

He stepped forward and kicked, erasing a word that Hui Jue had quietly drawn on the mud.

Then he turned around and quickly disappeared into the forest at night.

He left in less than ten breaths.

Whoosh! Kong Ding's figure rushed out of the forest and appeared in front of Hui Jue's corpse.

Hui Jue looked at the ground, which had turned to black ash and was now just a human skin.

Kong Ding felt a surge of malevolent energy suddenly rise in his mind, rushing straight to the top of his head.

If Hui Jue had been able to buy some time, at most thirty breaths, he could have arrived to provide support.

Most importantly, Hui Jue is the strongest among the Hui Generation of True Buddha Temple, and his strength is even slightly stronger than Kong Xiang's.

Yet, even so, he actually Kong Ding down and gently touched the bloody hole in Hui Jue's chest.

Within the Ninth Grade, it's alright, but at the Super Grade, there are many martial arts techniques that can produce such powerful, purely violent wounds, from the outside in.

The Sensing Gate, the Secret Teaching, the Daoist Sect, the Buddhist School, the Black Ten Sect, the Heaven Lock Sect —many martial arts Breaking Limit Skill eventually converge and can all inflict this kind of injury.

How is he supposed to find it?! How is he supposed to investigate it?!

Looking at Hui Jue's corpse.

Like Kong Xiang, he was also killed instantly by a knife wound. Kong Ding could hardly contain his anger and frustration.

How could he face Hui Jue's master now?! For a moment, the Kong Ding frustration in Kongding's heart was about to explode.

Mingming Hui Jue had calculated that the murderer who attacked Kong Xiang was probably not much stronger than Kong Xiang himself.

With Hui Jue's strength, even if he can't win, he can easily stall for time.

However, from receiving the signal to the complete end, the entire process should not exceed thirty breaths.

Up to this point, he didn't even know who the murderer was, where he came from, what age he was, or what martial arts he possessed.

A surge of anger with nowhere to go. "Ah...

Suddenly, Kong Ding raised his head and roared.

A flock of birds was immediately startled and took flight.

"No matter who you are!! I will kill you!!!"