The youth was tall and slender.
His brows were like distant mountains, his eyes like cold stars.
Moonlight spilled down, plating his body in a layer of silver radiance.
The night wind whipped up his robes with a fierce rustle, yet it could not disperse the biting killing intent around him.
He looked like an exiled immortal descending into the mortal world.
Who else could it be but Chen Changqing, who had fought his way up from the foot of the mountain?
The moment Dai Hai saw Chen Changqing, his pupils shook violently.
"Father! It's him!"
"He was the one who hit me at the tavern today."
Dai Hai clutched his swollen face, his eyes brimming with venom.
He had never imagined it.
Chen Changqing had actually dared to come alone and fight his way into Black Wind Stronghold.
"Hm?"
After hearing Dai Hai's words, Dai Xiongfeng narrowed his eyes slightly and gave Chen Changqing another look.
At that moment, Dai Hai let out a sinister laugh and said coldly,
"Boy!"
"I haven't even come looking for you yet."
"And you've delivered yourself right to my doorstep."
Earlier, Dai Hai had been feeling sullen, worried that Chen Changqing might slip away.
If he could not catch Chen Changqing,
then today's beating would have been for nothing.
At the same time, Dai Xiongfeng had also discerned that Chen Changqing's cultivation was merely at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
"A mere Foundation Establishment cultivator dares to run wild in my Black Wind Stronghold?"
"You even dared to beat my son."
"I think you're courting death!"
Dai Xiongfeng's gaze was as cold as a blade as it swept directly over Chen Changqing.
Earlier, Dai Hai had returned from outside with every single one of his teeth knocked out.
Only after questioning him did Dai Xiongfeng learn
that someone had laid hands on his son.
Although Dai Hai had said that the other party was only at the Foundation Establishment Realm, Dai Xiongfeng had still felt uncertain.
He had not immediately led men out to avenge Dai Hai.
Instead, he had secretly sent people out to investigate the other party's background.
Originally, he had thought that anyone who dared strike his son must be some formidable expert.
But now that he looked, he was only a junior at the Foundation Establishment Realm!
Hearing the Dai father and son's arrogant words, Chen Changqing said indifferently,
"Tonight, the ones who will die are you!"
As he spoke, Chen Changqing's gaze swept across the Black Wind Stronghold bandits in the great hall.
"Hahaha!"
The instant his words fell, the hall erupted in uproarious laughter, followed by mocking jeers.
"Ridiculous."
"Where did this Foundation Establishment brat come from, daring to boast so shamelessly?"
"Kid, is there something wrong with your head?"
"Have you even weighed yourself to see how many pounds you're worth?"
"You're only at the Foundation Establishment Realm. Who gave you the courage to charge into Black Wind Stronghold?"
"You're the one courting death, aren't you?"
"..."
The crowd mocked him without end.
None of them took Chen Changqing seriously.
After all, their chief was at the Core Formation Realm. Killing a Foundation Establishment cultivator would be easier than crushing an ant, would it not?
Although the Fourth Chief had died at Chen Changqing's hands,
his cultivation had only just reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Chen Changqing paid no heed to Black Wind Stronghold's mockery.
At that moment, Dai Xiongfeng gave a disdainful smile and snorted coldly.
"Hmph!"
"You really don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"
"Since that is the case."
"Second, Third, send him to meet King Yama!"
As Dai Xiongfeng's words fell, two men immediately stepped out from behind him.
One was fat, and the other was thin.
The instant they appeared, powerful auras radiated from their bodies. Both were Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators.
In Dai Xiongfeng's view, with these two making a move, Chen Changqing could be killed with ease.
"Boy, you dared act wildly in my Black Wind Stronghold. Leave your dog life behind today!"
Before the words had even faded, the fatter cultivator directly attacked.
Boom!
His body flashed, and he charged swiftly toward Chen Changqing. As he rushed forward, he flung out a palm strike.
The thinner cultivator was no slower. He attacked Chen Changqing from the other side with a palm strike as well.
Boom!
In less than an instant, the two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators attacked Chen Changqing from the left and right.
Under the force of their savage palm strikes, the air itself crackled and exploded.
Facing the two incoming Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators, Chen Changqing's expression remained indifferent.
Thunder Fist!
Just as the two were about to reach him, he gathered spiritual power in both hands and threw a punch to either side.
Boom! Boom!
As his fists flew out, lightning exploded around their edges.
Bang! Bang...
The violent power of lightning instantly collided with the palm force of the two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators.
A deafening sonic boom rang out.
When they looked again, the two men's palm force had instantly crumbled under Chen Changqing's Thunder Fist.
The remaining force of his punches did not diminish, punching straight through their chests and sending flesh and blood flying.
Strands of lightning coiled wildly around their bodies, hissing without end.
The two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators did not even have time to scream before becoming two charred corpses that crashed heavily to the ground!
This scene had come far too suddenly.
No one in the hall had reacted. Every one of them stood dumbstruck, like wooden chickens.
"What?"
"This?"
"How is that possible?"
"The Second Chief and Third Chief are just gone like that?"
"..."
Only after their stunned silence did the people of Black Wind Stronghold come back to their senses. Their pupils shook violently, and their faces were filled with horror!
No one had expected
Chen Changqing to be so powerful.
With one punch from each hand, he had instantly killed two Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators on the spot.
"Ah?"
Dai Hai was utterly dumbfounded at the sight.
Just moments ago, he had been arrogant and overbearing.
He had believed that Chen Changqing's attack on Black Wind Stronghold was no different from walking into a trap.
Who could have imagined that with only a slight display of strength, Chen Changqing had already killed Black Wind Stronghold's Second Chief and Third Chief?
"Hm?"
Seeing this, Dai Xiongfeng's face suddenly darkened, becoming incomparably ugly.
"What kind of existence did Hai'er provoke outside?"
"He appears to be only at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, yet with one move, he killed two cultivators of the same realm?"
The more Dai Xiongfeng thought about it, the more uneasy he became.
Then, he put away his contempt for Chen Changqing and asked with a grave expression,
"Boy."
"Just who are you?"
In Dai Xiongfeng's eyes, for Chen Changqing to so easily kill two opponents of the same realm while at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, he was definitely no ordinary cultivator!
Chen Changqing slowly raised his eyes and stared coldly at Dai Xiongfeng before saying calmly,
"The dead have no need to know so much!"
The moment his words fell, Chen Changqing vanished from where he stood.
Bang!
When they looked again, a member of Black Wind Stronghold in the distance had already had his body blasted apart by a single punch.
Then, Chen Changqing's figure flashed once more.
Wherever he passed, sword light flickered. Heads flew high into the air before crashing heavily to the ground.
The cultivators of Black Wind Stronghold panicked at the sight.
Even Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators could be instantly killed by Chen Changqing, let alone Body Refining and Qi Refining cultivators like them?
Bang! Bang...
Pfft! Pfft, pfft!
Before those cultivators could escape, they had all perished at Chen Changqing's hands.
At the same time, system notifications continuously sounded in Chen Changqing's mind:
[ Ding! ] [Killed a Black Wind Stronghold bandit. AFK Points +20.] [Killed a Black Wind Stronghold bandit. AFK Points +20.] [Killed a Black Wind Stronghold bandit. AFK Points +9.] [...]
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