Emperor's Oath! Such an Overpowered Talent!

Jiang Chuan shook the blood from his fist and expressionlessly looked at the remaining seven Blood Cat assassins.

The cat-like creatures hunched their backs, their fur standing on end as threatening hisses escaped their mouths, but not a single one dared charge forward again.

Lin Yueming's face turned ashen as his mind raced.

One punch to instantly kill a fourth-rank Blood Cat assassin?

That kind of strength

had to belong to at least a sixth-rank powerhouse!

This wild-looking guy carried no aura of any combat class, yet possessed strength comparable to a sixth-rank powerhouse. Just who was he!?

"Friend."

Lin Yueming put on a smile, his tone changing from vicious to conciliatory. "I don't know who you are, but this has nothing to do with you. Name your price. How much will it take for you to pretend you didn't see anything?"

Jiang Chuan glanced at him, then turned to Xu Yinyin.

Hope blossomed in Xu Yinyin's previously despairing eyes. Choking back tears, she said, "Senior! This man colluded with aliens and slaughtered his fellow humans. He is an utter disgrace to humanity! I beg you, Senior, kill him and rid humanity of this evil!"

Jiang Chuan thought for a moment. "Sounds no different from a traitor."

He turned back to Lin Yueming, his gaze as calm as if he were looking at a dead man.

"Name my price, huh?"

Jiang Chuan grinned. "Fine. You name your own price too. How much do you think your life is worth?"

Lin Yueming's smile froze.

"You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!"

He abruptly took a step back and shouted sharply, "Get him! Kill him!"

The remaining seven Blood Cat assassins moved at once. They no longer foolishly pounced from the front, instead displaying astonishing coordination as they spread out and attacked from every direction.

Speed was their advantage.

But

Jiang Chuan was faster!

With a boom, the ground beneath Jiang Chuan exploded into a crater, and he vanished from where he stood.

When he reappeared, his fist had already made intimate contact with a Blood Cat assassin's head.

One punch.

The Blood Cat assassin's head burst apart like a watermelon!

Jiang Chuan flashed again, grabbing the tail of a Blood Cat assassin that had been scrambling up a tree to attack him from above. He viciously yanked it down and slammed it onto the ground, leaving it utterly dazed.

Before it could recover its senses, Jiang Chuan directly followed up with a kick to its head!

Brutal!

Merciless!

The other five Blood Cats stopped in their tracks at the same time, their pupils narrowing into slits and their tails clamped tightly between their legs.

As fourth-rank assassins, they were considered elites even among the entire Blood Cat race.

But before this bare-chested savage,

they did not even have the right to fight back!

"Meow!"

No one knew which Blood Cat cried out, but the remaining four turned and fled in different directions at the same time!

Jiang Chuan did not pursue them. He made a grasping motion with one hand, and an exquisitely designed golden longbow appeared in his grasp.

"Trying to run? Let's see whether you can run faster, or my arrows can fly faster!"

Whoosh!!

An arrow tore through the air with a sharp whistle that ripped apart the wind, instantly piercing through the chest of a fleeing Blood Cat assassin.

The iron arrow still had momentum to spare, even nailing through a large tree ahead of it.

The third arrow.

The fourth arrow.

The fifth arrow.

As long as they remained within his sight, even if those Blood Cats fled to the ends of the earth, they could not escape the arrows' unerring pursuit!

Five arrows.

The Blood Cat assassins were wiped out on the spot!

The clearing fell silent, leaving only the sound of the river flowing and the groans of the one-armed boy.

Lin Yueming's face had gone white as paper.

He looked at the Blood Cat corpses scattered across the ground.

Then he looked at Jiang Chuan, standing amid the bodies, drenched in blood like an imposing demon lord. His lips moved, producing an incoherent sound.

"Y-you can't kill me..."

His voice trembled. "My father is Lin Canglan, the head of the Lin Family in Skywatch City, a seventh-rank powerhouse!... If you kill me, the Lin Family won't let you go..."

Jiang Chuan walked toward him. His pace was unhurried, yet every step seemed to land directly on Lin Yueming's chest.

"A seventh-rank powerhouse?" Jiang Chuan nodded. "Pretty impressive."

"You know that, then!"

As though he had seized his last lifeline, Lin Yueming's voice suddenly rose. "Leave now, and I can pretend none of this ever happened! But if you dare lay even a finger on me..."

Before he could finish,

Jiang Chuan flicked out a pebble and directly severed his entire right hand.

Lin Yueming let out a shrill scream. Clutching his bleeding stump, he fell to his knees and howled like a pig being slaughtered.

"And then?"

Jiang Chuan asked in an indifferent tone.

Tears and snot smeared Lin Yueming's face. He finally broke down, crying, "What the hell do you want! Let me go! I'll give you anything you want!"

Jiang Chuan did not answer. He looked at Xu Yinyin. "Your turn?"

Xu Yinyin clenched the short sword in her hand and looked again at Lin Yueming, who knelt on the ground wailing. The tears in her eyes finally spilled over.

She took a deep breath and walked toward Lin Yueming one step at a time.

"Xu Yinyin! You can't kill me! We're classmates! We're schoolmates!"

Lin Yueming frantically scooted backward, his butt dragging a long trail through the mud. "If you kill me, the academy teachers will find out! You'll be punished too!"

Xu Yinyin did not stop. She walked up to Lin Yueming and raised the short sword in her hand, both arms shaking violently with rage and grief.

"This sword is for Chen Yufei, and for every classmate you murdered!"

Squelch!

The short sword plunged into Lin Yueming's back. His pupils abruptly widened, incoherent sounds escaping his mouth before his entire body went limp. He collapsed into a pool of blood and never moved again.

The clearing by the riverbank fell completely silent.

Only the wind rustling through the reeds and the rushing of the river remained.

Xu Yinyin dropped the short sword to the ground. Silent tears streamed down her face as she forced herself to say, "Thank you, Senior."

Jiang Chuan waved a hand. "Go check on your friend."

Xu Yinyin snapped out of her daze and hurried over to check Huang Yi's condition.

Jiang Chuan was not idle either.

He took the opportunity to loot every Blood Cat assassin's corpse.

[Extraction successful! Agility +20!]

[Extraction successful! Agility +20!]

...

The eight Blood Cat assassins gave him a total of 160 Agility, another small boost.

Jiang Chuan then walked over to Lin Yueming's corpse.

He could extract from alien corpses.

What about humans?

He glanced at Xu Yinyin. She was desperately trying to stop Huang Yi's bleeding. Jiang Chuan placed his hand on Lin Yueming's corpse. Golden light flashed as his talent activated silently.

[Detected extractable talent: Emperor's Oath! Absorb immediately?]

[Emperor's Oath: A-rank, one-star. Can bind a contract with any target. After the contract is formed, you can obtain all of the other party's attribute bonuses and talent abilities. You may also share your own attribute bonuses with the target. Current number of contract slots: 0/1!]

Holy shit!? There was such an overpowered talent in the Source Realm?!

Jiang Chuan raised an eyebrow.