Su Xian shook his head slightly. Since someone was looking for death,
he happened to want to test just how powerful the martial skill he had fused and transformed was!
He came to an open area and stopped, saying softly:
"Brothers behind me, aren't you coming out?"
Before his voice had even faded, two bone-chilling blades of light burst from the shadows like venomous snakes flicking out their tongues!
Cold moonlight spilled across the blades, reflecting a bitter killing intent capable of freezing blood as it shot straight toward Su Xian's vitals!
The corners of Su Xian's lips curled up slightly. His right hand flashed toward the blade at his waist!
"Clang—!"
A blade cry like a dragon's roar rang out!
"Lightning Flowing Fire Slash: Wind Thunder Slash!"
The instant the long blade left its sheath, the vast Qi and Blood Power within Su Xian erupted with a thunderous boom, pouring entirely into the blade!
In an instant, wind and thunder collided across the edge!
Scarlet lightning snakes, red as blood, coiled around the freezing blade, crackling sharply as they tore through the surrounding air!
The bloody radiance illuminated Su Xian's face beneath its black veil, adding an even colder, more murderous air to his features!
The wind bolstered the thunder's might, while the thunder borrowed the wind's power. The two violent forces merged perfectly,
pushing the speed of this slash to an extreme the naked eye could barely discern!
Almost at the exact moment the blade light flared!
The long blade wrapped in sinister blood lightning had already slashed through like a scarlet thunderbolt tearing across the night sky!
"Clack! Clack!" Two crisp sounds rang out!
The two steel blades that had hacked toward him head-on snapped apart, their broken edges charred black!
The bloody blade light did not slow in the slightest!
Carrying the destructive might of wind and thunder, it viciously slashed toward the twisted face on the left, warped by terror!
The dazzling blood lightning illuminated the boundless fear in the man's eyes!
The numbing electric force made half his body twitch uncontrollably, the corner of his mouth twisted askew!
"Pfft!"
The muffled sound of a sharp blade cutting through flesh and bone rang out.
The scarlet lightning flashed like a startled swan and swept effortlessly across that fragile neck!
A fine head, its face frozen in terror, shot into the sky!
Blood gushed from the severed neck, then sizzled as the remaining lightning seared it. The smell of charred flesh spread through the air.
With one slash, Su Xian took his head. His body did not pause in the slightest; he turned his wrist, and the blade's momentum rose again!
"Lightning Flowing Fire Slash: Fire Sun Slash!"
In an instant, all the blood lightning coiling around the long blade withdrew inward, as though swallowed by the blade itself!
Immediately afterward, blazing flames erupted with a thunderous roar!
The blade instantly became a gigantic torch burning fiercely,
its red-gold flames surging and roaring as they drove away the darkness within a radius of more than ten zhang, illuminating the area like broad daylight!
The long blade rose high, flames soaring. Su Xian seemed like a god who commanded the inferno!
The man on the right had watched his companion die miserably and was already scared out of his wits. His knees went weak, and he was about to kneel and wail for mercy.
However!
"Die!"
The icy word left Su Xian's mouth.
The long blade, wrapped in flames that could incinerate everything, crashed down like heavenly punishment!
Wherever the flames passed, even the air was scorched into warped, distorted shapes!
The plea for mercy stopped abruptly!
A wave of fire swept over and instantly swallowed that pitiful figure!
After easily dispatching the two followers who had not known the meaning of death, Su Xian lightly shook his wrist,
and the filthy blood coating the long blade was blasted away by his surging inner force, turning into specks of sparks that dispersed.
He returned the blade to its sheath in one smooth, flowing motion.
He bent down and quickly searched the corpses, which still retained a trace of warmth, scavenging three hundred taels of loose silver and two secret manuals.
After finishing everything, his figure blurred and merged like a ghost into the deeper darkness of night,
leaving behind only two charred, headless corpses in the clearing,
along with the lingering smell of scorched blood and the fading afterglow of thunder in the air!
Not long after Su Xian's figure disappeared into the night,
several furtive figures silently swept into this quiet woodland.
When their eyes fell upon the two lifeless bodies on the ground,
one of them let out a hoarse sneer:
"Heh! Someone else kicked an iron plate and paid for it with his life!"
"Let me see which blind, unlucky fool this was."
The other man wore a mocking smile and leisurely strolled over to the corpses, casually squatting down to examine them.
However, the instant his gaze swept across the faces of the dead, an abrupt change occurred!
The contempt on his face froze instantly. His pupils shrank to pinpoints, as though he had seen the most terrifying sight in the world!
As if scalded by a branding iron, he sprang backward, his entire body leaping away in panic and disarray!
"What happened? Did you see a ghost? Who was it?!"
His companion was startled by the violent reaction, and his heart tightened,
while curiosity surged. Just what kind of person's corpse could make him lose his composure like this?
"It... it's the Ghost Shadow Twin Blades! It's them! The two of them!"
The man who had leaped away was deathly pale, his voice trembling uncontrollably,
each word squeezed out as though it had taken all his strength.
"What?! The Ghost Shadow Twin Blades?!"
Those words struck like thunder on level ground!
The companion, who had still been wearing a trace of mockery, turned as pale as paper in an instant, not a hint of color remaining in his face.
He hurried to the corpses, bent down, and carefully identified the two ashen faces.
"It... it really is them?! How... how is this possible?!"
His brows drew tightly together, and his eyes filled with incredulous horror as he muttered,
"Could they... could they have encountered a top Bone Tempering Realm expert? Or even... someone stronger?"
"No... something's wrong!"
He forcibly suppressed the storm raging in his heart and swept his surroundings with a gaze as sharp as lightning,
"With those brothers' usual cunning, sly as foxes, how could they have acted so recklessly?"
"Look around. There are barely any traces of a fight..."
"These two were clearly killed in a single strike, in the blink of an eye, with thunderous force! They didn't even manage to put up a decent resistance!"
"Hiss—!"
Only then did the other man barely recover from the immense shock. He raised a hand to wipe away the cold sweat pouring from his forehead, his voice filled with profound fear,
"No matter what, this proves that... a terrifying over-the-river dragon has probably come to our Lingyun County!"
The Ghost Shadow Twin Blades! A top-tier duo with a fearsome reputation in Lingyun County's underworld!
Both brothers possessed cultivation at the peak of the Tendon Refining Realm!
Even more frightening was the fact that their minds were perfectly in sync. When their twin blades joined as one,
they had once fought a Bone Tempering Realm Early Stage expert to a standstill, creating the astonishing feat of not being defeated!
In Lingyun County, they were existences capable of striking terror into people's hearts!
Who could have imagined that tonight they would fall here as silently as ants?
"Go! Hurry!"
One man forcibly steadied his mind and suppressed his surging blood and qi, his voice low and urgent,
"Don't come back to this Black Market for a while! Be exceedingly careful in everything you do! Under no circumstances can we provoke that unknown Baleful Intent!"
"Understood!"
The other man nodded heavily, lingering terror thick in his eyes.
The two did not dare to linger any longer. Their figures blurred,
and like startled birds fleeing from a bowstring, they vanished into the deep night at their fastest speed.
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