"I found you."
When he spotted the footprints beneath a large tree, Li Xuan let out a sinister laugh.
He looked up, only to see several enormous rocks tumbling down from above.
"Damn it, you little bastard! You're playing dirty!"
Li Xuan cursed and hurriedly dodged.
But he still nearly got hit by the rocks.
Gu Han hadn't expected to kill Li Xuan so easily. While Li Xuan was dodging, he kept searching for somewhere to hide.
But Gu Han clearly didn't know these woods as well as Li Xuan did.
No matter how hard he tried to hide, Li Xuan still managed to find him.
With nowhere left to run, Gu Han chose to ambush Li Xuan after hiding once more!
Gu Han pushed his speed to the limit. With that burst of speed behind him, the force of his descending blade increased considerably.
Li Xuan had already guessed Gu Han would ambush him, but Gu Han's slash still startled him. His expression changed dramatically.
"Impossible! This guy's just a new logistics soldier. How can he be faster than so many Second-tier Martial Apprentices?"
If Gu Han had truly reached the strength of a Second-tier Martial Apprentice, he would have chosen to become a War Soldier. How could he have ended up as a logistics soldier?
In the chaos, Li Xuan could only turn hurriedly and hold his sword across his body.
Blade clashed against sword, ringing out with a piercing metallic clang.
Li Xuan lost his footing and staggered back several steps.
But his expression instantly shifted from alarm to delight.
"No wonder you're not a War Soldier. Your strength is pathetic."
He'd been caught off guard and had only taken two steps back. If they fought head-on, he could cleave Gu Han's weapon in half with a single sword strike!
Li Xuan glanced at Gu Han, who had been knocked backward, then sneered and strode toward him.
Li Xuan swung his sword with all his might and, just as he'd expected, cut through the long blade in Gu Han's hands.
Then Li Xuan kicked Gu Han in the chest, sending him tumbling to the ground with a muffled groan. Blood even trickled from the corner of his mouth.
"On your first day in camp, you dared to hurt a fellow soldier. Today, I'll teach you the rules of the Military Camp!"
Li Xuan looked around. After confirming the area was deserted and no one would pass by, he prepared to act.
Yet there wasn't a trace of fear in Gu Han's eyes. His right hand quietly crept toward his dagger.
"If I die, you'll have a hard time explaining yourself when you get back to camp, won't you?"
At that, Li Xuan laughed uproariously, as if he'd just heard the funniest joke in the world.
"Naive. You really are too naive."
He bent down and looked at Gu Han with contempt.
"These woods are full of dangers. It's perfectly normal for one less logistics soldier to come back."
"Who in the Military Camp would make trouble for me over a logistics soldier?"
"You'd really kill me over something this trivial?" Gu Han asked.
"Trivial? Greenhorns really don't know the rules."
Li Xuan had been about to let Gu Han die knowing why, but then he remembered the saying in the storybooks: "The villain dies from talking too much."
He didn't think anyone would suddenly appear to save Gu Han, but he still sneered.
"If you want to know why, go ask someone on the road to the underworld."
Li Xuan's gaze turned cold. He raised his sword and thrust it toward Gu Han's throat!
But suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his thigh.
"Damn it, you little bastard! You're playing dirty!"
His face twisted in shock, and his body instantly went weak from the pain. Even his sword fell to the ground.
He looked down and saw a sharp dagger lodged in his thigh.
"Fuck! It's poisoned!"
Li Xuan's expression twisted with rage. He immediately realized that a mere dagger wound couldn't have sapped nearly all his strength.
He hurriedly tried to use his sword to force Gu Han to hand over the antidote.
But Gu Han seized the chance to roll away, putting some distance between them.
"Your logistics soldiers tried to steal my prey and even attacked me. I was only acting in self-defense."
"And you didn't even give me a chance to explain."
Clutching his chest, Gu Han grimaced and looked down at Li Xuan, his gaze indifferent.
"Since you wanted to kill me, you can die first."
Gu Han had come from a society governed by the rule of law. He'd never even killed a chicken in his life.
So even when he'd faced the logistics soldiers who tried to steal the Green Wolf, he hadn't killed those who hadn't tried to take his life.
He'd only injured them.
But Li Xuan had wanted him dead. Now that Gu Han was furious, he wouldn't let him go!
This dagger was one of the weapons Gu Chen had given him to protect himself before he went into the woods to hunt Wild Beasts. It had been coated in a potent poison.
Anyone below the level of a Third-Order Martial Disciple would die if they didn't get the antidote within twenty breaths!
Even a Fourth- or Fifth-Order Martial Disciple would die without the antidote. It would only be a matter of time.
"I... I know I was wrong."
Li Xuan's face gradually turned purple, and pustules even appeared on his body. Terror and dread filled him.
He lay on the ground and begged Gu Han desperately.
"P-please... give me the antidote..."
Gu Han had never killed anyone before. A flicker of pity crossed his mind, but he quickly suppressed it.
Mercy to your enemy was cruelty to yourself!
If he spared Li Xuan, who would spare him?
"You don't know you were wrong. You know you're about to die."
After saying that, Gu Han watched as Li Xuan's breathing grew weaker and weaker, until he died right before his eyes.
As he died, Li Xuan cursed Gu Han, swearing he'd get what was coming to him. But Gu Han didn't care in the slightest.
If retribution worked, all those who did evil would have died long ago.
Then there wouldn't be sayings like "the good die young, while evil lives for a thousand years."
But even though he'd prepared himself, Gu Han still couldn't help panting heavily as he stared at Li Xuan's corpse. His chest heaved, and his heart raced.
Killing someone with his own hands was nothing like he'd imagined.
"Ding! Congratulations, host. You killed an enemy above your rank. Attribute Absorption is doubled. Absorb attributes?"
The sudden system notification made Gu Han pause. It even eased some of the tension he'd been feeling.
"Killing an enemy above my rank lets me absorb extra attributes? Does that mean I can take off like a rocket as long as I keep doing it?"
What others found incredibly difficult to do, Gu Han spoke of as if it were effortless.
As though killing an enemy above his rank were nothing at all.
"Absorb attributes."
"Congratulations, host. You gained 5 Blood Qi, 4 Strength, and 100 Martial Skill Experience!"
"Congratulations, host. Your reward has been doubled. You gained an additional 5 Blood Qi, 4 Strength, and 100 Martial Skill Experience!"
The system notifications rang in his ears, and Gu Han couldn't help grinning from ear to ear!
Killing Li Xuan had given him 10 Blood Qi and 8 Strength!
He clenched his fist and felt a huge surge in strength!
The exhilarating feeling left him somewhat intoxicated.
Gu Han eagerly opened the Attribute Panel.
Host: Gu Han Cultivation: First-tier Martial Apprentice Blood Qi: 49 (First-tier Martial Apprentice Blood Qi range: 10–50) Strength: 24 (First-tier Martial Apprentice Strength range: 10–20) Defense: 13 (First-tier Martial Apprentice Defense range: 10–20) Speed: 27 (First-tier Martial Apprentice Speed range: 10–20) Spirit: 11 (First-tier Martial Apprentice Spirit range: 10–20) Cultivation Art: Qi Guiding Art Martial Skill: Fierce Fist Martial Skill Experience: 200
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