"Ha ha ha, he's here, my senior brother..."
Before Zhou Sangu had finished speaking, Kong Wu flicked up a pebble with his toe, sending it flying.
"What? What did you say?"
After doing all that, Kong Wu cupped a hand around his ear and shouted.
With a thud, Old Master Qian, who had remained calm and composed moments before, went weak in the knees and collapsed to the ground.
Standing before him was Zhou Sangu, a smile on his face, utterly motionless.
A walnut-sized hole had appeared in his forehead.
"Y-you... you..."
Pointing at Kong Wu, Old Master Qian trembled as he kept crawling backward.
Kong Wu strode over, grabbed him, and hauled him up. His expression calm, he said, "I'll ask one last time. Where is that fellow?"
Old Master Qian was scared witless. Pale-yellow liquid dripped down along his pant legs.
He swallowed and stammered, "Y-yesterday... we sent him to the prefectural city overnight."
Kong Wu shot him a disgusted look and casually flung him away.
Although the old fellow had acted as though he doted on his descendants, when his own life was on the line, he had not hesitated to sell them out.
Since the person he wanted was not here, there was no point in staying.
Kong Wu turned around and was just about to leave when his ears twitched. He abruptly raised his head.
A middle-aged man dressed in black slowly descended from the sky.
"You're quite impressive!"
He held his head high and looked down at Kong Wu, arrogance coloring his tone.
At the very moment Kong Wu saw him, he felt as if countless fine needles in the surrounding air were closing in on him. His keen senses kept sounding the alarm.
Blood Spirit Life: 236 Strength: 30 Skills: Sha Blood Talisman General Outline, Blood Talisman Heart Sutra, Qi Drawing into Talisman Method.
This guy's got something.
Looking at the man, whose Strength attribute was considerably higher than his own, Kong Wu showed no wariness. Instead, an eager, battle-hungry expression appeared on his face.
Seeing that expression, Blood Spirit said with interest, "Interesting. Are you a body cultivator? No! There isn't the slightest fluctuation of True Qi on you. You accomplished all this relying solely on your physical strength?"
He swept his gaze over the small courtyard, which looked as though a hurricane had passed through it, and muttered thoughtfully, "A mortal's physical strength has limits after all. Could it be that you're some demonic beast that transformed into human form?"
"Forget it. I've never been good at thinking."
He shook his head and continued, "Although Junior Brother Zhou is useless, back when I was still in the Qi Refining stage a few years ago, he helped me refine talismans. I owe him a favor."
"And no matter how useless he is, he's still a disciple of our Blood Talisman Sect. You killed him, which means you're provoking the Blood Talisman Sect."
"So, I can only ask you to die."
Before the words had even left his mouth, Kong Wu struck first.
He slammed one foot into the ground, and his body shot forward.
At the same time, he drew the Evil-Slaying Saber from his back and hacked it straight at Blood Spirit's head.
"Tsk, tsk. In such a hurry to die."
Kong Wu reached Blood Spirit almost in the blink of an eye, yet Blood Spirit's unhurried words drifted into his ears.
At the same time, Blood Spirit extended a finger and slowly drew a complex pattern in midair.
Just as the Evil-Slaying Saber was about to touch his body, the talisman drawn in the air scattered into a red shield of light, perfectly protecting Blood Spirit.
Clang~
After a crisp ringing sound, the Evil-Slaying Saber was sent flying, and Kong Wu himself was forced back several steps.
Shaking his numb wrist, Kong Wu looked at Blood Spirit, greed surfacing in his eyes.
Very strong!
This fellow was far stronger than Bai Shen and Zhu Yin Sheng, whom he had encountered before.
Moreover, it was obvious that his methods better matched Kong Wu's impression of an immortal cultivator.
"Your speed is decent, but you don't seriously think one slash like that could kill me, do you?"
Blood Spirit smiled and said casually, "Junior Brother Zhou's cultivation wasn't up to par. He may have given you some mistaken ideas."
"Low-grade talisman cultivators like them can only use finished paper talismans. In battle, they can easily lose the initiative if their opponent gets the first move. But once a talisman master reaches the Foundation Establishment Realm, they can rely on liquid True Qi to draw talismans in midair. Depending on the technique, the speed of drawing them can be fast or slow."
As he spoke, Blood Spirit took a talisman from his robes and continued, "And the techniques of our Blood Talisman Sect are unique throughout Qing Province. Oh, right—this is the Blood Realm Talisman."
He raised the blood-colored talisman in his hand, formed a hand seal, and tossed it into the sky.
The blood-colored talisman flew into midair and abruptly exploded, covering the entire courtyard like an upside-down bowl.
"Its purpose is to seal off this place and prevent anyone inside from escaping. I can't help it. Although I draw talismans quickly, if you tried to run, I really couldn't catch you."
Kong Wu watched Blood Spirit cast the spell with a strange look in his eyes. He had no intention of fleeing and merely said, "You talk a lot."
"Can't be helped." Blood Spirit spread his hands and said, "In the sect, I spend almost all my time cultivating in seclusion alone. I'm afraid I'll develop mental problems, so I talk to myself. After leaving seclusion this time, I came straight here. No one spoke to me on the way, and I was bored to death."
"Although you're about to die, keeping me company for a chat before you die means your trip through this mortal world wasn't entirely wasted."
It seemed that cultivation was rather unfriendly to people who loved to chatter.
Kong Wu was speechless.
This fellow had trapped him and was talking about him dying, as though he truly believed he had him in the bag.
But that's fine...
I was worried you'd run away.
Kong Wu looked at Blood Spirit, who was covered by a pale-red shield of light, and a trace of greed appeared in his eyes.
How many attribute points would this fellow give him?
With that thought, he rotated his wrist.
His web between thumb and forefinger, which had been somewhat sore from the rebound, had already recovered.
As his Strength attribute increased, his body's recovery speed had also improved significantly.
Drawing a deep breath, Kong Wu dragged the Evil-Slaying Saber and charged forward.
Seeing this, Blood Spirit said helplessly, "Didn't I say that if you kept me company for a while, you could live a little longer? Sigh..."
Watching Kong Wu charge toward him, Blood Spirit did not panic in the slightest.
As one of the Blood Talisman Sect's Twelve Blood Talismans, the defensive power of the Blood Shield Talisman was exceptionally strong.
Even if a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, one minor realm above him, came attacking, it could withstand ten blows.
Even though the charging Kong Wu made the ground tremble with every step, resembling a colossal beast, Blood Spirit was not worried in the slightest.
Clang~
Sure enough, just as he had expected, Kong Wu's heavy, powerful slash was sent flying once again.
This time, however, Kong Wu did not retreat.
Instead, borrowing the force of the rebound, he twisted his waist. The Evil-Slaying Saber swept out in a great circle and struck the pale-red shield of light once again.
The Evil-Slaying Saber was sent flying again.
But the shield of light, which had shown no reaction before, now stirred up a small ring of ripples.
Blood Spirit's expression jolted, and the smile faded from his face.
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