Total Annihilation, Killing the Wolf-Head Young Commander Mu Li (Seeking Follow-up Reads!!!)

Time returned to the morning.

As Xiao Ze stepped out of Green Mountain Town and headed toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he was spotted by members of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group who had been secretly tailing him. They immediately rushed to report the news to the young leader of the mercenary group.

Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

Inside the young leader's room.

"Bang!"

"What did you say?"

"That damned pretty boy left Green Mountain Town?"

"Are you sure?"

Mu Li, the young leader who had been itching to cause trouble for Xiao Ze, flushed with excitement upon hearing that Xiao Ze had left the town.

It had been a month.

He had been waiting for a full month to find an opportunity to make trouble for Xiao Ze.

However, a suitable chance had never presented itself.

Whether Xiao Ze was staying in his courtyard or spending time with the Little Fairy Doctor, Mu Li simply never had an opening to strike.

But hard work pays off, and he had finally waited for his chance today.

"It is absolutely true!" a mercenary member said in a low voice. "We saw him leave the city with our own eyes, though unfortunately, we lost his trail after he exited."

"We only know that he headed toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range..."

"No matter!" Mu Li waved his hand excitedly. "He has to return sooner or later. We only need to set an ambush on the road leading back to the city and wait quietly for him to walk right into our trap!"

Thinking about being able to finish the man off with his own hands, Mu Li felt incredibly thrilled.

With a wave of his hand, he led over thirty mercenaries out the door.

"Today, this young master will surely tear that damned pretty boy into a thousand pieces!"

The scene returned to the present.

Xiao Ze looked at the people surrounding him and noticed that they all wore an exquisite wolf head emblem on their chests. The uniform style suggested they belonged to the same mercenary group.

"Who are you? Why are you blocking my path?" Xiao Ze said indifferently.

"Hmph!" Mu Li glared viciously at Xiao Ze and said coldly, "Are you that pretty boy the Little Fairy Doctor brought back?"

Xiao Ze raised an eyebrow. "If there is no one else, then I suppose that would be me."

"You actually dare to admit it?" Mu Li was somewhat surprised. "I suppose you have some guts."

"But it's a pity, she is not someone you can touch!"

"Men!"

"Seize this man for me! This young master wants to skin him alive myself!"

With a wave of his hand, the thirty-some mercenaries surrounding them began to close in. Each of them possessed the cultivation of a Dou Zhe, and a few among them even had thick, powerful auras, having already reached the realm of a Dou Shi!

"Kid, although you and I have no personal grudge, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for touching the young leader's woman... My apologies!"

A mercenary captain raised his hand to grab Xiao Ze.

Squelch—

An invisible attack sliced his hand clean off.

"Ah! My hand, my hand!"

A shrill, miserable scream drew everyone's attention.

When the crowd looked over, they saw that his right palm had vanished, leaving only a smooth, clean cut. A massive amount of blood gushed out uncontrollably, a truly gruesome sight.

"What happened?" Mu Li's expression shifted.

He looked at the mercenary captain who had lost his hand, suddenly realized something, and turned his head to glare at Xiao Ze. "Did you do this?"

"It was me." Xiao Ze stood with his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent.

"What? Before you decided to make a move on me, didn't you bother to investigate whether I had any cultivation at all?"

Hearing Xiao Ze's words, Mu Li fell silent.

He had investigated, of course he had.

But Xiao Ze's background was mysterious, and he hadn't been able to dig up anything at all.

If it weren't for the Little Fairy Doctor, he wouldn't have paid the man any attention whatsoever.

After a month of tailing him, he had concluded that Xiao Ze appeared to be nothing more than an ordinary person without any Dou Qi.

"Hmph, so what if you have cultivation?"

"You are still going to die here today!"

"Everyone, attack together!"

Although Xiao Ze did not appear as ordinary as he looked on the surface, Mu Li did not believe he could be a powerhouse above a Great Dou Master; given his age, he was at most a Dou Shi.

A mere Dou Shi, and he dared to oppose the Young Leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group?

"Sigh..." Xiao Ze let out a soft sigh. "I truly didn't want to kill anyone."

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he slowly raised his right arm and made a hollow grasping motion toward them.

"Bang!" Just as everyone was filled with confusion, the mercenary captain whose hand had been severed by Xiao Ze earlier suddenly exploded.

His body swelled like an inflated balloon before bursting with a loud boom, scattering a mass of internal organs and flesh in every direction, while boiling blood fell from the sky like raindrops.

"What?" Everyone's faces were etched with horror.

Before they could even react, a series of explosions rang out one after another.

The mercenaries who had been full of life moments ago were now popping like firecrackers, one by one. Blood mist drifted through the forest, as if the Grim Reaper were harvesting lives.

In just a dozen breaths, the group of over thirty mercenaries had been reduced to only the Young Leader, Mu Li.

"How could this be? How?" This terrifying scene inflicted massive psychological trauma on Mu Li; he sat slumped in a pool of blood, looking completely dazed.

"It's your turn..." Xiao Ze arrived at his side and extended a single finger, pressing it against his forehead.

The next second, Mu Li sensed a bone-chilling sharpness gathering at the center of his brow.

It felt as though the slightest movement from the other would leave a bloody hole in his skull.

"No!" His expression shifted wildly. "Don't kill me, I was wrong! I'll never go against you again!"

"I beg you, please spare me!"

He knelt on the ground, pleading incessantly, snot and tears streaming down his cheeks, while yellowish urine leaked from his crotch. He looked utterly pathetic.

"No," Xiao Ze said with an indifferent expression. "It's not that you know you were wrong."

"It's that you know you are about to die!"

As he spoke, a wisp of Dou Qi gathered at his fingertip.

The sharp edge pierced the skin of Mu Li's forehead, and a drop of bright red blood trickled down his cheek.

He only needed to exert the slightest force to kill him with ease.

"Wait, wait!" Mu Li screamed in terror. "I know of a cave dwelling in the Magical Beast Mountain Range left behind by an expert!"

"As long as you spare me, I can give you the location of this cave!"

Mu Li's eyes were filled with fear; to make Xiao Ze believe him, he immediately blurted out the location of the dwelling.

At this moment, he could only think of any possible way to survive.

"Sorry, I... don't need it!"

Xiao Ze's gaze remained cold as he applied a slight pressure with his finger.

The sword energy drilled into the man's head, pulverizing his brain along with his entire body into fragments.

With that—

Everyone who had come to intercept him was dead.

As for the cave dwelling Mu Li had mentioned at the end, if he wasn't mistaken, it should be the same one where Xiao Yan obtained the flight Dou Technique.

Although the novel didn't describe the cultivation level of the cave's owner, one could infer from the treasures that their strength was at most that of a Dou Huang, and more likely just a Dou Wang.

A cave dwelling of a Dou Wang was not enough to make him spare a life.

"Why couldn't you just live well?"

"You had to come here and waste my time!"

Having finished, Xiao Ze clapped his hands.

He looked at the sky and realized it was already quite late.

Usually, by this time, Little Fairy Doctor would have already prepared dinner.

"No, I need to hurry back."

"If I'm late, there won't be any food left to eat."

A sense of urgency rose in his heart. Without lingering, he took long strides and quickly made his way back toward Green Mountain Town.