"Who was Li Yu?"
Qin Zhen said, "The one who bought the True Essence Blood Refining Pill from you."
"Li Mu?"
"He must've given you a fake name."
Qin Zhen sneered. "We coated the Silver Notes he gave you with a special powder, which is how we tracked you down. I know you won't let me go, so I'll tell you where Li Mu is. Go kill him and make him join me on the road to the underworld."
Lu Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement. "You hate Li Yu that much?"
This man really was something. He'd actually gotten the person who killed him to avenge him.
"He got the information wrong. Shouldn't I hate him?" Qin Zhen ground his teeth, wishing he could cut Li Yu into a thousand pieces with his own hands.
Lu Yuan suddenly understood. He'd fought Li Yu once before, and back then he hadn't possessed the strength to decisively overpower Li Yu and his companion.
One of these two was a Qi and Blood like a Tiger expert who'd undergone Blood Exchange six times, while the other was only slightly weaker. The two of them joining forces against him meant they'd already taken him seriously.
Under normal circumstances, dealing with him would've been a piece of cake.
If Lu Yuan hadn't refined a portion of the Taisui Divine Ability, he'd have been dead for sure today.
"Fine. I'll avenge you."
Lu Yuan said calmly,
"Wait for him on the road to the underworld. I'll send him down to join you soon."
Qin Zhen told him the address.
Thrust!
A flash of blade light pierced Qin Zhen's heart. The blade turned, ending his life.
Looking at the blade in his hand, its edge riddled with notches, Lu Yuan couldn't help shaking his head. Not having a good blade just wouldn't do. After one fight, a common blade like this would be ruined from clashing with an enemy's weapon a few times.
Po Jun was decent quality, but still a long way from being a divine weapon.
At the thought, Lu Yuan's gaze shifted to Qin Zhen's corpse. Qin Zhen's blade had remained sheathed from start to finish.
When Lu Yuan drew it, he found a well-maintained saber, much better than Po Jun.
"I'll use your blade to avenge you. That way, you can take part in your own revenge."
Cold light welled in Lu Yuan's eyes.
"Li Mu! I'm coming for you. Are you ready?"
He'd never been one to meekly accept his fate or sit around waiting to die.
Since Li Mu had wanted to deal with him, and he'd already killed two of Li Mu's experts, the grudge between them had to be settled cleanly and decisively. He had to pull them up by the roots.
He who killed would be killed in turn!
He'd never intended to target Li Mu, but Li Mu had made the first move. In that case, Li Mu couldn't blame him for killing him.
Li Mu, the true instigator of all this, was still alive and well. Lu Yuan wasn't going to give him the chance to escape and come after him again.
He might as well settle things tonight, while he was at it, and finish him off in one clean sweep!
The night had yet to lift.
Leiji Town lay in utter silence.
At the Taiping Sect's outpost in Leiji Town, Li Yu paced back and forth, continually peering outside as he anxiously waited for Qin Zhen and the other man to return.
The others in the hall watched him pace restlessly. Xie Hui, who was rather short, couldn't help saying,
"Senior Brother, there's no need to be so anxious. With Helm Master Qin and the other man dealing with him, that boy won't be able to cause trouble."
"It's been almost half an hour. I'm sure they'll be back soon."
Li Yu shook his head. "You think that's what I'm worried about? I'm worried that boy will refuse to talk, and Helm Master Qin has a bad temper. What if he loses control and hits him too hard, and kills him?"
At that moment, Li Yu and the others suddenly saw a tall figure appear in the courtyard. The person wore black night clothes, had a black cloth covering his face, and held a blade in his hand.
They recognized the blade. It was Helm Master Qin's.
Was Helm Master Qin back?
Why was he alone?
Hadn't two men gone out?
The questions flashed through their minds, but perhaps Bai Yu had gone to take care of the aftermath.
Li Yu and the others smiled and went out to greet him, asking eagerly, "Helm Master Qin, how did it go? The True Essence Blood Refining Pill..."
A gleaming blade swept toward them, carrying a bone-chilling cold that spilled across the courtyard like liquid silver.
Like a guillotine, it was about to take the heads of the two men in front.
The blade's killing intent was so dense it seemed almost tangible, laying bare its wielder's resolve.
One strike!
You're dead!
Xie Hui and the other man were only two steps ahead of Li Yu. When they came within five meters of Lu Yuan, the threat of death swept over them in an instant. Horrified, they tried to dodge at once.
But that thought had barely surfaced, before their bodies could move, when a chill ran across their necks. A wave of pain followed, and their vision sank into darkness.
They hadn't seen Lu Yuan make his move, but Li Yu, two steps behind, had. The person in night clothes had used Qin Zhen's blade to take both their heads.
The two headless bodies toppled backward. Their heads rolled away as blood sprayed wildly, dyeing the ground red.
Damn it!
What was going on?!
Overwhelmed by sheer terror and shock, Li Yu turned to run without a second thought.
But the moment he turned, an explosive crack like thunder rang beside his ear. A tangible force of air battered his face until it hurt.
Lu Yuan had crossed the distance behind him like a specter and slapped him upside the head with a hand as broad as a fan.
Li Yu's body spun three hundred and sixty degrees through the air before crashing to the ground. He lay there, groaning helplessly in pain.
The next moment, a large hand clamped around his neck and dragged him back into the hall like a dead dog.
"Kh... kh..."
Under Lu Yuan's merciless grip, Li Yu's neck creaked as though it might snap at any moment. His face, already swollen like a steamed bun, turned purplish red.
Lu Yuan sat grandly in the grand chair and eased his grip a little.
"Haah... haah... haah..."
Like a fish pulled from the water, Li Yu gulped down breath after breath, greedily sucking in fresh air.
More than ten seconds passed before he finally looked up in terror and stammered, "Y-You... who are you... and why are you holding Helm Master Qin's blade...?"
Facing Li Yu, whose courage had been shattered, Lu Yuan flicked the blade's edge, pulled the black cloth from his face, and bent close with a grin.
"Recognize me now? As for the blade, of course I took it from Helm Master Qin's corpse."
Staring at this unfamiliar face, Li Yu froze for a moment, then said weakly, "I... I don't know you..."
"What about now?"
Lu Yuan lowered his voice.
Li Yu's eyes widened. He stared, thunderstruck and unable to believe it. "You're Zhang Wuji?!"
"I'm Zhang Wuji, Qiao Feng, and Yang Guo too, if you like." Lu Yuan couldn't resist teasing him.
"Impossible! How could you have killed Helm Master Qin?!"
Li Yu had never imagined that Zhang Wuji would be the one who came after him.
Qin Zhen and Bai Yu, two experts, had gone to deal with him. How could he have appeared here without a scratch?
Thoughts crowded into Li Yu's mind until it became a complete mess.
"Why not?"
Lu Yuan sneered. "You probably thought the two of them had me in the bag. But I was the one who had them in the bag. You must've thought I was far weaker than they were. Your misjudgment cost them their lives."
"I... misjudged him?"
Li Yu stared blankly, thinking back to the moment when Xie Hui and 'Zhang Wuji' had faced off. Back then, 'Zhang Wuji' clearly hadn't possessed the strength to overpower the two of them.
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