Within Arm's Reach, Everyone is My Enemy
Chapter 24

The Murderer

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"Hmm!?"

Baili Qingfeng's pupils constricted.

Gunfire!

Someone actually wanted to shoot him!?

He, a well-rounded, morally and intellectually developed student, a successor to the nation who always advocated pacifism, was actually being shot at, someone trying to kill him!?

Absolutely insane!

"Whoosh!"

Before the assassin could readjust to aim at him again, Baili Qingfeng moved. His powerful body, equivalent to a Level 3 Warrior, erupted with terrifying energy.

His blood surged, and as he exerted force from his feet, the bones throughout his body seemed to be forged into a single line, like a leaping cheetah. Agility and speed were perfectly displayed, causing him to shoot out in an instant, in a direction...

Completely aligned with the direction the bullet came from!

As he turned to charge, Baili Qingfeng's gaze was like a sword, instantly locking onto a figure one hundred and twenty meters away.

One hundred and twenty meters.

And as his gaze locked onto the target, the assassin also unhesitatingly straightened the sniper rifle again, loaded a bullet, and a stinging, dangerous sensation once again enveloped Baili Qingfeng's chest, targeting his heart.

The heart!

The mistake of the previous shot made him take the target in front of him seriously, so he changed the shooting point from the hard-to-hit head to the larger chest and heart!

"Huff!"

Baili Qingfeng took a deep breath. Just as the assassin was about to lock onto him and fire, the Thunder Sovereign Visualization Method activated. Behind him, a majestic and domineering ancient Thunder Beast seemed to manifest, suddenly raising its head and roaring to the sky, causing the wind and clouds to change, and countless thunderstorms to gather and rumble above its head, shaking the assassin's spirit.

Although the power of Spirit Refinement Manifestation's attack methods would be reduced by distance, the true strength of its power still depended on the intensity of the mental energy the attacked target invested in him.

It was like a hypnotist trying to hypnotize a target. The most important thing was the cooperation of the hypnotized person. If the hypnotized person resisted in their heart and invigorated their spirit, even a hypnotist would be helpless.

This assassin in front of him was staring intently at Baili Qingfeng's figure through a high-powered scope in order to assassinate him, and his mental attention could be said to be completely focused on him. At this moment, he used the Thunder Lord Manifestation method to intimidate his spirit, and the effect was naturally extremely significant!

The assassin's face turned pale on the spot, and his whole body was icy and stiff. For a long time, he did not wake up from this shock.

And by the time he forcibly stabilized his spirit and allowed himself to recover, Baili Qingfeng had already crossed tens of meters, and the straight-line distance between them was less than thirty meters...

Thirty meters!

What did that count for to a warrior whose blood was boiling to the extreme?

It should be known that Wang Gang, a Level 3 Warrior, had demonstrated a terrifying speed of thirty meters when he unleashed his full potential. Now, Baili Qingfeng's utilization and burst of energy might be slightly inferior to Wang Gang, but...

Thirty meters was still crossed by him in a few steps!

"Kill!"

Accompanied by the wind rushing towards his face, Baili Qingfeng, who had rushed forward like a cheetah, suddenly let out a low roar, his voice as loud as thunder.

Even though the assassin was mentally prepared, he was still subjected to a strong mental impact!

Hypnotic masters need their targets to cooperate and relax their minds to hypnotize them, but the domineering nature of Spirit Refinement Manifestation...

It can already forcibly influence the target, and even if the other party is wary, they will be affected, it's just a matter of the effect's strength.

"Damn it! Spirit Refinement Manifestation!"

The assassin roared angrily, throwing the sniper rifle in his hand at Baili Qingfeng without hesitation, while he himself retreated violently.

Escape!

Even though he himself is a Level 3 Warrior who cultivates Qi and nourishes the spirit, facing a monster whose physique is no weaker than his, but whose spiritual realm is as high as Spirit Refinement Manifestation, he is no match for him in any way!

"Hmm!?"

Baili Qingfeng narrowed his eyes slightly as he watched the assassin retreating violently.

This assassin...

Is also a Level 3 Warrior?

Then, it's just right to use him to test the quality of my Level 3 Warrior status...

This thought flashed through Baili Qingfeng's mind.

But in the next second, he had already dismissed the idea.

"Damn, he runs so fast!"

This Level 3 Warrior seems to have mastered something similar to footwork and body techniques. Although he is also a Level 3 Warrior, when he sprints, he is obviously a bit faster than Baili Qingfeng.

According to this trend...

He can't catch up.

He could only watch helplessly as the other party escaped from his sight.

"Fight me!"

In the next moment, Baili Qingfeng's body seemed to break through the shackles of the human body, rushing to an unprecedented limit. The original speed of twenty meters per second almost doubled. As his footsteps faltered, his whole person was like a sharp arrow shot out, tearing through the air currents and cutting through the void, instantly killing the assassin behind him!

"What... Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art!? Are you crazy!?"

The assassin looked at Baili Qingfeng, who was behind him with a surge in speed and a fierce attack, and was shocked.

Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art!

That is a forbidden method used to trade lives!

This kind of secret method of overdrafting and erupting by breaking through the limits of instinct, once used, although it can obtain powerful power in a short time, its own...

Is also equivalent to being crippled.

If you are lucky, all the meridians in your body will be broken, and you will become disabled from now on. If the application time lasts too long...

You will surely die!

The target in front of him, he used firearms to snipe, but he couldn't do anything to him, but when he chased him afterwards, he used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art to kill himself?

With this kind of ruthlessness, he really has something to say, but he doesn't know if he should!

"Bang!"

Baili Qingfeng, carrying a violent airwave, was like a fierce tiger full of baleful aura. The fist in his hand, while running wildly, stirred the power of qi and blood within his body, like an unsheathed peerless divine weapon, piercing through the airwave in front of him, emitting a muffled sound.

"Madman!"

The assassin roared, the unbelievable look on his face almost distorting his features.

As Baili Qingfeng's fist stabbed towards him, his figure suddenly twisted, his arm raised to block...

But...

He underestimated the thoroughness of Baili Qingfeng's Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art in liberating the physical body.

"Boom!"

The assassin's arm seemed to be hit by a shell, making a deafening sound. The sleeves of the arm blocking in front of him were shattered, turning into rags. The ulna and radius were bent and broken at irregular angles, and then heavily slammed into his chest.

This was not the end.

The power in Baili Qingfeng's fist carried a penetrating energy, blasting through his arm into his chest and body, shaking his internal organs, almost tearing them all apart.

His figure, which was already retreating at full speed and hurriedly twisting, was blasted by this force and flew upside down, instantly flying six meters away, heavily hitting a tree as thick as an adult's thigh, instantly breaking the tree in half.

"Pfft!"

Scarlet blood spurted out of the assassin's mouth. His whole body fell down along the broken tree stump, falling to the ground, splashing a burst of fallen leaves.

The assassin on the ground supported himself with his right hand, struggling, trying to stand up, but how violent was the punch that Baili Qingfeng delivered at full speed, supplemented by the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art?

Even if the assassin blocked with his arm, the penetrating energy still shattered his internal organs. He struggled for a moment, but could no longer climb up, and fell back again, his eyes...

Full of despair.

That punch had completely cut off the possibility of him leaving alive.

"I never thought... I, Francolin, have rampaged in the underground world for several years, completing dozens or hundreds of missions, but in the end, I was ruined by a madman... Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art... You killed me, you will also die..."

The assassin smiled miserably.

Baili Qingfeng looked at this assassin who called himself Francolin, and restrained the physical liberation state of the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art.

As soon as the technique was withdrawn...

He did feel a stabbing pain all over his body, his muscles and bones seemed to be forcibly pulled apart and broken by a huge force, which was quite uncomfortable.

Fortunately, he didn't use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art for a long time, and the broken parts on his body were all small muscles, small nerves, and minor injuries. Although uncomfortable, it should be relatively quick to recover.

Like now, as his technique was withdrawn, recovery had already begun.

He estimated that he could be alive and kicking in half an hour.

"I don't know you, why did you want to kill me?"

"What? Want to find the employer for revenge? It doesn't matter to tell you, the one who asked me to take action was Jiang Hengshan of the Su Family, but you will probably spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair. Even if you know who the employer is, what can you do? Hahaha..."

Francolin laughed miserably, and after a while...

The voice weakened.

Breath ceased, body died.

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