"Mercy... spare this worthless dog's life. I know many secrets of this Forest Sea, and I know the locations of quite a few ruins..."
"I also have swordsmanship manuals! I only beg that you spare me..."
When life and death rested in another's hands, whether one was a nobody or a valiant hero, one still had to bow one's head.
Of course, refusing to bow simply meant dying an especially ugly death!
Wang Xuance's gaze was icy. He picked up the slender, narrow-bladed sword, its entire body gleaming with the remote chill of a deep spring, and pressed its tip to the man's brow!
"What brought an old bird like you here, and how were you able to detect my location? Tell me honestly... otherwise!"
"Buzz!"
Sword light flared with frosty brilliance. Wang Xuance flicked his wrist and lightly swept the sword across, severing three of the man's fingers, bones and all!
"Aah!!!!"
A pig-slaughtering howl rang through the Forest Sea.
Elsewhere in the forest, a voluptuous woman fleeing for her life struggled to support her husband, whose body was soaked in blood and too miserable to behold.
Her expression changed drastically. She hurriedly looked back, her heart pounding in terror. Not daring to linger in the slightest, she gathered her strength and fled once more!
"What rotten luck. We only meant to lie in ambush and kill a few people like before. Who would've thought we'd run into such a hard bone today!"
"We've nearly thrown away our lives. From that sound, Qiong Old Ghost is probably doomed..."
Within a broad clearing that had abruptly opened up amid the forest.
Wang Xuance gripped the sword hilt as the teeth-grinding sounds of bones being crushed rang out without cease.
The sword-bearing man, already half-dead, was like an old dog begging