Swallowed Star: Teng Qingshan's Path to Lordship
Chapter 17

Mysterious map collected, Amazon rainforest?

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"Death God and War God?" Teng Qingshan naturally didn't take these two to heart, but he was suddenly struck by a sense of nostalgia, remembering those two grandmaster-level experts from his first life who also practiced Ancient Yoga, nicknamed Shiva and Vishnu.

"I didn't expect that in this world, there would also be so many experts practicing Internal Martial Arts and Ancient Yoga."

These past few days.

Teng Qingshan had also learned a great deal about the current state of the underground world through Hong.

The majority of the experts among them practiced Internal Martial Arts and Ancient Yoga.

This was the same as in Teng Qingshan's first life; perhaps it wasn't a coincidence.

After all, both Internal Martial Arts and Ancient Yoga possessed advantages in health cultivation and combat that were difficult for other schools to match.

Contemplating this, Teng Qingshan continued walking as if nothing were amiss, completely unconcerned about these so-called top-tier assassins.

With his current strength, let alone these two assassins who were only ranked in the top twenty, even if the number one ranked assassin came, it would just be a matter of a casual Flying Dagger.

Absolute strength granted Teng Qingshan immense self-confidence.

Watching Teng Qingshan, who seemed completely unaware, the two assassins trailing him in the shadows exchanged glances. The younger-looking one, Elihu, whispered in Hindi, "Balmik, the organization said this teenager is the most suspicious, but how does he look like an ordinary student to me? Could the organization's intelligence be wrong?"

"Elihu, the organization's intelligence capabilities are beyond doubt. Since they listed him as the primary suspect, he is the most suspicious. We must trust the organization," said Balmik, who looked more seasoned.

"Alright then, but the organization sent the two of us to deal with a high school student, this..."

"Perhaps this is just his disguise. We'll follow him, find a blind spot in the surveillance where no one is around, and control him first. That map fragment is very likely on him. Even if it isn't, he's definitely involved. As long as we get that map fragment, we can complete this mysterious map. I just don't know what kind of surprise this legendary, highly mysterious map will bring us."

Balmik whispered, his eyes filled with irrepressible desire.

The legend of the mysterious map made them both extremely curious as well.

Legend had it that as long as one opened the ruins, their strength would leap forward.

This caused the two, whose strength had stagnated, to go behind the organization's back and privately make rubbings of the other two map fragments, all so they could enter the ruins themselves.

As long as they could find the remaining fragment this time, they would be able to open this legendary ruin that had been circulating in the underground world for decades.

"Fine, but let's be as clean as possible when we act; this place is not like other places." Elihu's eyes were also filled with anticipation and longing.

After a brief discussion, the two feigned a casual increase in speed, closing the distance to Teng Qingshan.

Seeing that the other party seemed ready to strike soon, Teng Qingshan couldn't be bothered to play games with them and took the initiative to walk toward an area without streetlights.

Once he dealt with these two, he still had to go back to eat the dinner his grandfather had prepared.

Every day after training, Teng Qingshan looked forward to the dinner his grandfather made for him.

After turning into a secluded alley.

Teng Qingshan stopped in his tracks. Before he could even speak, Balmik and Elihu, who were behind him, couldn't wait any longer and lunged at him viciously.

Seeing this, Teng Qingshan shook his head slightly. Two Flying Daggers shot out from his hands like lightning, killing them instantly at a speed they couldn't even react to!

"What...?"

Balmik and his companion only felt a phantom image flash before their eyes, followed by a sharp pain in their heads.

Then, their consciousness vanished, leaving behind only eyes filled with disbelief and extreme terror.

He flashed to their side.

Looking at these top twenty assassins in the world, now lying so vulnerably at his feet.

Teng Qingshan felt no ripples in his heart and crouched down to check the items they were carrying.

Many top-tier assassins liked to keep important items on their person.

Since he had already killed them, Teng Qingshan wouldn't waste the opportunity to loot the bodies.

The two were wearing black windbreakers with excellent concealment. After a thorough search, Teng Qingshan actually found some decent spoils.

"Over a hundred thousand in China currency cash, some strange little ornaments, and... two map fragments?"

Teng Qingshan tucked away the useful cash and threw the other ornaments into the nearby river, then walked under a streetlamp to study the two maps.

A moment later.

Teng Qingshan tucked the two rubbings away with a pleased expression, "I didn't expect the remaining two fragments of the mysterious map to be on these two top-tier assassins... My luck isn't bad."

Boom!

Suddenly.

The Little Cauldron deep in Teng Qingshan's consciousness shook, and an image was transmitted into his mind.

It was a canyon located deep in the Amazon Rainforest, and deep within the canyon was the entrance to the mysterious ruins.

Teng Qingshan wanted to collect more information through the image, but the vision from the Little Cauldron stopped abruptly.

"It seems I'll have to make a trip to the Amazon Rainforest when I get the chance." Teng Qingshan naturally knew about the legends surrounding the mysterious map.

Originally, he had planned to go if he could collect the maps in the future, and if he couldn't, he wouldn't bother.

But now, it seemed that fate was on his side, supporting him to visit the ruins recorded on this map.

Taking a small bottle of Corpse-Dissolving Water that Hong had left behind from the depths of his backpack, he disposed of the two bodies before putting his backpack on and heading back.

After all, the outdoors was not a good place to study the mysterious map.

After returning home and finishing dinner with his grandfather, Teng Qingshan went back to his bedroom to study the maps, while the old man headed downstairs to exercise.

Taking out his phone, Teng Qingshan sent a message to Hong stating that both assassins had been dealt with and suggesting he return to Yangzhou whenever he had the time, before bringing out the three map fragments.

Indeed.

The three traced map fragments easily combined into a single, complete map.

"It really is in the Amazon Rainforest, and it even has the latitude and longitude marked out perfectly; that certainly makes things convenient."

After memorizing the coordinates and the features of the canyon, Teng Qingshan exerted force with both hands, grinding the complete map into dust.

"Based on current intelligence, two of the mysterious map fragments are with the Heavenly Kingdom Organization, and the other is with the Dark Hand. That means I am currently the only one who has obtained the complete map."

A sharp glint flashed in Teng Qingshan's eyes. "No wonder the Heavenly Kingdom Organization was willing to dispatch two top-tier assassins; it turns out they were only missing the final fragment. And those two assassins had a 'better to kill the wrong person than let a target go' attitude, likely harboring the intention of keeping the secrets of the ruins for themselves."

Balmik and Elihu, who had reached the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man in Ancient Yoga, were undoubtedly comparable in strength to an average master of Internal Martial Arts.

Even Hong, as he was now, would be unable to defeat either one of them.

With such formidable strength, they enjoyed a considerable degree of freedom within the Heavenly Kingdom Organization.

Moreover, having reached such a realm in the martial path, their interest in mysterious ruins capable of enhancing their strength was naturally far more intense than anyone else's.

It was just that now, everything had fallen into the lap of Teng Qingshan.

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