A genius.
An absolute, peerless genius!
A Beginner Martial Artist who possessed the strength of an Advanced Martial Artist—looking across all of Heaven City, there had never been anyone like him!
Just who was this guy?
The heir of some great Lineage?
Or a genius student from a prestigious academy?
Had he come to this place to hunt vicious beasts... specifically to undergo training?
"Looks like I've gotten myself into enormous trouble... but there's no turning back now. He saw my face. If I don't kill this guy, I'll have endless troubles down the road!"
The Advanced Martial Artist knew he had made a grave mistake. His only option was to kill the peerless genius before him!
As long as this kid died.
Even if some great Lineage or super powerhouse was enraged, they would not be able to find him anytime soon.
With that thought, the Advanced Martial Artist became even more ruthless, putting greater force into his attacks—
"Slash!"
Boom!
With one strike, Frenzy Blood had no time to block. His already damaged armor shattered on the spot, and a massive gash was carved into his shoulder.
"What is that?!"
The Advanced Martial Artist's eyes widened. His previously murderous expression turned into one of utter terror.
There was no spraying blood.
No flying flesh.
No bones or organs.
Beneath the torn gap in the armor was only a shadowy substance, gleaming like mercury!
"Y-you're not human!!"
the Advanced Martial Artist shrieked in horror.
The sight was so terrifying that he even took two steps back on his own.
Unable to speak and feeling no pain whatsoever, Frenzy Blood suffered such a severe wound yet merely turned his masked head and coldly glanced at it. Then, he gripped his saber and continued charging at the Advanced Martial Artist!
"What the hell are you?!"
the Advanced Martial Artist roared as he fought back.
But his question was doomed to receive no answer... even if Frenzy Blood wanted to answer, he had no way to speak.
After exchanging several more blows, the Advanced Martial Artist's face gradually twisted into something ferocious.
"Damn it!"
The Advanced Martial Artist spat. "Who cares what kind of freak you are? I'll slaughter you first and worry about the rest later!"
For a ruthless man like him who licked blood from the edge of a blade every day, the greater his fear, the more it stirred up his savage killing intent.
Just as the Advanced Martial Artist was about to strike with even greater viciousness.
Whoosh!
The sound of something slicing through the air rang out. The Advanced Martial Artist turned his head and saw another figure dressed almost exactly like the one before him from head to toe, differing only in the mask he wore. Holding a flaming longsaber, he cleaved directly at him!
"There's more than one monster?!"
"He's also a Beginner Martial Artist... but the power of that strike has already reached the level of an Advanced Martial Artist!"
"Could these monsters all have the ability to fight above their level?!"
The Advanced Martial Artist swung back with his saber. Their powers collided, producing a considerable explosion.
Nine Fire: "He's a little troublesome. Let's attack together!"
Frenzy Blood: "Alright!"
"Who exactly are you people?!"
The Advanced Martial Artist still wanted to uncover the truth.
But Nine Fire and Frenzy Blood could not be bothered with him. They rushed him and started fighting immediately.
Against one person, the Advanced Martial Artist could suppress them with ease.
With two attacking together, however, they were basically evenly matched with him... even though Frenzy Blood's arm was nearly severed, he could still display considerable strength.
Not only that.
"Damn it, why hasn't their blood and qi decreased at all?"
Facing the two of them, the Advanced Martial Artist's blood and qi rapidly depleted. Yet the two across from him had maintained an extremely steady output of blood and qi from beginning to end. This made no sense!
The Advanced Martial Artist swiftly swallowed a pill to restore his blood and qi.
"No, I can't keep tangling with them."
"I need to get out of here!"
The Advanced Martial Artist knew his chances of winning were slim. He immediately knocked the two of them back with a slash.
Then he turned around and fled without looking back!
Frenzy Blood: "Trying to run? No chance!"
Nine Fire: "He can't escape... everyone's here!"
The next second.
The Advanced Martial Artist discovered another figure, identical to the previous two, charging at him from straight ahead!
"Three?!"
The Advanced Martial Artist completely panicked this time.
His former confidence shattered into pieces.
"Run!"
"Run now!"
He did not dare delay any longer.
The two of them were already evenly matched with him in combat strength. If another one joined them, he would be finished beyond doubt!
But as soon as he turned.
He discovered a blur rushing toward him from the other direction.
A fourth person.
The same exact attire, a longsaber in hand.
The only difference was the mask on his face!
"It's over."
The Advanced Martial Artist despaired.
He tried to call for help.
Unfortunately, because he had spent years ambushing and killing human Martial Artists, he almost never carried a phone or any communication device, lest someone use it to track him down for revenge... at this moment, he was completely and utterly alone!
Nine Fire and Frenzy Blood had already caught up.
They raised their hands and struck with their sabers.
The Advanced Martial Artist blocked the attack.
Sanyu joined the battle and slashed again. The Advanced Martial Artist's back was wounded, and his armor was damaged.
Blood Consumption followed with another slash, causing the glow on his armor to dim once more.
One saber strike after another fell.
The Advanced Martial Artist was powerless to fend them off.
"You... what the hell are you things?!"
"Tell me!! Tell me!!!"
Amid his desperate, unwilling roars, the Advanced Martial Artist was completely swallowed up.
A moment later.
The four figures dispersed.
The Advanced Martial Artist lay dead on the spot, dead beyond any possibility of being deader.
Blood Consumption: "Boss, should I take his Heart Blood?"
Su Zhan: "No need. Human Martial Artists don't have something like Heart Blood. Take his Space Ring and give it to me."
Blood Consumption: "Alright!"
Su Zhan took the Space Ring from the Shared Space and swept through it.
There were over a thousand Gold Coins.
Quite a few Grade One Pills, but only a small number of Grade 2 and Grade 3 Pills.
There were also some Heavenly Treasures that were not particularly valuable.
Along with all sorts of miscellaneous odds and ends.
Altogether, they were probably worth less than 3,000 Gold Coins.
"What a poor bastard."
Su Zhan summed it up precisely in two words.
After all, he was only an Advanced Martial Artist. Even if he ambushed people every day, he could at most bully Beginner Martial Artists and Intermediate Martial Artists... how much money could he possibly have?
Suddenly.
Nine Fire: "Boss, I can sense the aura of a technique on him."
Sanyu: "I sensed it too. It's a very fierce and violent one."
Blood Consumption: "Its grade is higher than ours... it's definitely Elite Grade!"
Frenzy Blood: "Elite Grade, weapon-type... but that's all."
Su Zhan: "Where is the technique?"
Nine Fire flicked up the shattered armor with his longsaber, revealing a black shirt worn close against the corpse. In the pocket area lay a technique manual.
Nine Fire took it out.
Thunder Fire Saber
It was unsurprisingly the technique the Advanced Martial Artist had used earlier.
"A weapon technique copy... and it's Elite Grade?!"
"This guy spent all his money on this, didn't he?"
Su Zhan complained.
"Ding! Your Nine Fire Saber wishes to devour one of your technique manuals. Do you permit this?"
Nine Fire: "Boss, I feel an enormous temptation from this technique... I really want to devour it!"
It wanted to devour the copy of a weapon technique manual?
Weapon techniques had devouring tendencies too?
Still, this thing was indeed of no use to Su Zhan... his precious fifth slot was reserved for an Earth Grade Technique. Elite Grade could step aside for now.
"Allowed!"
The next second.
The Thunder Fire Saber technique copy vanished. Then, a surging blaze of fire suddenly burst forth from Nine Fire's body!
"Ding! Your technique Nine Fire Saber has successfully devoured the technique Thunder Fire Saber and is evolving..."
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