Killing Jia Lie Nu (Please Recommend, Please Bookmark)

Xiao Meng tugged the black cloth covering his face down slightly, exposing his mouth. Yet that alone was enough for Jia Lie Nu to recognize him.

Jia Lie Nu froze. The guards who had been about to charge forward were dumbfounded as well.

This guy was actually from the Xiao Clan? And he was Xiao Meng, once known as the ultimate piece of trash?

Xiao Meng shrugged. "You bunch of idiots, isn't it your Grandpa Meng?"

To the Gale Clan, Xiao Meng had always been the most insignificant person. If he had not recently killed the six-star Dou Zhe Liu Xi with a single move, they might have forgotten who Xiao Meng even was. After all, Xiao Meng had lived in seclusion for years. Not only did the Gale Clan rarely see him, even members of the Xiao Clan seldom saw him.

Yet who could have imagined that this ultimate trash of the Xiao Clan had hidden himself so deeply? Calling him a once-in-a-millennium genius would not have been an exaggeration. But now, they realized he was more than that. Damn it, even once in a hundred thousand years, they would never encounter such a monstrously fierce freak!

Watching the youth puff out clouds of smoke, Jia Lie Nu's pupils contracted as killing intent surged in his heart.

If Xiao Meng did not die, the Gale Clan would surely perish.

"Ah, this thing can only keep me alert and restore some soul power. If it could recover stamina too, it'd be perfect." Xiao Meng took a deep drag, his face full of enjoyment.

"Kill him! Slice this little bastard into a thousand pieces and chop him into meat paste!"

Jia Lie Nu's expression twisted savagely, and the killing intent in his eyes grew even denser. At this moment, he spared no cost in raising his combat strength, unleashing a terrifying attack unlike any before.

"Ptooey!"

Xiao Meng did not care in the slightest as he watched more than twenty men charge at him. He spat out a thick wad of phlegm.

With one hand on his hip and a cigar clenched between his lips, smoke swirling around him, he raised his right hand. An AK-47 appeared. His pose was outrageously arrogant; with a black trench coat, he would have looked exactly like some underworld boss.

"Die!"

Jia Lie Nu burst forward, his spear drawing closer and closer.

Suddenly, an unexplainable chill ran through his entire body. His hair stood on end, as though Death itself had locked onto him.

His gaze instantly focused on the AK-47 aimed at him.

The black iron barrel enlarged in his pupils. It was like a tunnel leading to the gates of hell, as though the Grim Reaper would descend into the mortal world from within it.

His instincts told him that it was an incomparably terrifying object. He had to retreat immediately, or even immortals would not be able to save him.

Clang!

The trigger was pulled, producing a sound like metal striking an instrument.

"Not good..."

When he saw a blaze erupt from the iron barrel, Jia Lie Nu was frightened out of his wits. He forcibly halted his advance, then frantically shot backward.

The fireball was unimaginably fast.

It swiftly grew to the size of a human head and shot toward Jia Lie Nu.

The fireball tore through the air, bursting with a dazzling flash. Then Jia Lie Nu, who had been frantically retreating, was sent flying like a cannonball.

Bang!

Several hundred meters away, Jia Lie Nu, a four-star Da Dou Shi, collapsed to the ground. On closer inspection, his entire upper body was gone.

The moment Jia Lie Nu retreated, the Gale Clan guards instinctively stopped and no longer charged forward. Before they could figure out what had happened, their Second Elder Jia Lie Nu had already been blasted away.

Seeing Jia Lie Nu's horrific state, the group went rigid with terror. They looked up at Xiao Meng as though they had seen a demon from hell.

Xiao Meng exhaled a cloud of smoke, shifted his right hand, and aimed the AK-47's barrel at the guards. Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger, bullets firing one after another.

Eight nine-star Dou Zhe exploded without any suspense. After all, these were bullets capable of killing a nine-star Da Dou Shi. Mere Dou Zhe were not worth mentioning.

Then Xiao Meng shot forward like a ghost and swiftly killed the remaining men.

After dealing with everyone, he rested for a while before beginning to collect the spoils.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Finally, he kicked all the corpses and the carriage off the cliff, quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and vanished into the darkness.

Gale Clan.

"It's already getting dark. Why haven't the Second Elder and the others returned?" Jia Lie Bi paced anxiously back and forth through the hall, a faint sense of dread rising in his heart.

"By all reason, the Second Elder is cautious by nature. He would definitely deliver the herbs back as quickly as possible to avoid unforeseen complications."

An elder said gravely, "But he still hasn't returned. Could they have run into trouble on the road?"

"Running into trouble would be one thing. Let's just hope nothing happened." Liu Xi's master remained calm as ever and spoke casually.

Crack!

The moment he said that, a piece of precious jade that Jia Lie Bi had somehow been clutching in his hand instantly crumbled into powder. The atmosphere in the hall abruptly turned oppressive.

"Send out every remaining scout. Find out what happened to the Second Elder and the others..."

The following noon.

"What did you say? The Second Elder and the others are all dead?" Upon hearing the terrible news, rage surged straight to Jia Lie Bi's head, and he nearly fainted on the spot.

Everyone's expressions changed drastically, and they sprang to their feet. Their heads spun, and even Liu Xi's master was no longer composed, his heart turning solemn.

Seven or eight black-clad scouts knelt on the ground, their bodies trembling faintly in fear and unease.

One scout said in a trembling voice, "We followed the route the Second Elder and his group took. Only today did we find several clan members' bodies beside a cliff. Later, we went to the bottom of the cliff and discovered that everyone escorting the herbs, including the Second Elder, had perished."

Jia Lie Bi looked as though he had been struck by lightning. His face went deathly pale as he staggered back several steps. Then his legs suddenly gave out, and he dropped heavily into the chair behind him, staring blankly ahead with his mind in utter chaos.

Jia Lie Nu had been one of the Gale Clan's only three Da Dou Shi, and he was the strongest after Jia Lie Bi himself. Thus, Jia Lie Nu's death had directly shaken the very foundation of the Gale Clan.

Seeing the crowd's panicked reaction, the scouts kneeling on the ground turned pale as well. They could not help recalling the miserable state of Second Elder Jia Lie Nu. A four-star Da Dou Shi had been reduced to half a corpse. If not for a distinctive birthmark on the Second Elder's foot, they would never have identified the body as Jia Lie Nu's.

"Do you know who killed the Second Elder?" After a long while, Jia Lie Bi finally slowly came back to his senses. His voice was hoarse, carrying even a trace of fear.

Jia Lie Nu's death had dealt him too great a blow.

"I don't know."

The guard shook his head, then thought for a moment before saying, "However, there should have been two people who killed the Second Elder."

"Two people?" Jia Lie Bi was slightly startled. Then he asked, "Why?"

"The Second Elder and the others had not been dead for long, likely since the night before last. We found traces of residual energy on their bodies: one was fire, and the other was lightning," a scout replied.

"Fire? Lightning?" Jia Lie Bi's expression darkened. He immediately thought of the black-robed man who had saved the Xiao Clan that day.

"Fire? This was definitely the Xiao Clan's doing!" An elder roared furiously, his eyes bloodshot and his rage soaring to the heavens.

"But who in the Xiao Clan cultivates lightning power? Besides, none of the Xiao Clan's experts have left during these past few days." One elder had not completely lost his reason and raised a question.

"Seventh Elder, don't forget that the black-robed man is an alchemist. Wouldn't it be easy for him to find a few helpers?"

Another elder rebutted, "If it wasn't the Xiao Clan, who else would so viciously target our Gale Clan? If it wasn't the Xiao Clan, then within several hundred miles of Wutan City, who else had the strength to kill the Second Elder, who had already broken through to four-star Da Dou Shi, without even giving him a chance to escape?"

The moment those words were spoken, it was practically confirmed that the Xiao Clan had killed Jia Lie Nu.

"Damn it, Xiao Zhan! I'll make sure your Xiao Clan leaves behind neither chickens nor dogs!" Jia Lie Bi roared in fury. He was nearly driven mad. They had not even done anything to the Xiao Clan yet, but the Xiao Clan had killed one of their Second Elders instead.

"It seems that black-robed man may be an old acquaintance of mine," Liu Xi's master suddenly said after a long silence.

Jia Lie Bi's expression stiffened. "Why do you think so, Master?"

"The Xiao Clan secretly intercepted and killed Jia Lie Nu, clearly for that batch of herbs."

Chang Shan said, "If they did not know what pill I intended to refine, why would they go to such lengths to intercept and kill Jia Lie Nu just to seize the herbs? Therefore, this person knows something about me and should know what pill I wish to refine."

"Then that means this person is extremely wary of the pill Master intends to refine. Otherwise, they would not have resorted to stealing the herbs." An elder's pupils suddenly contracted as he spoke in a grave voice.

"The pill I intend to refine can allow a Da Dou Shi to raise their cultivation by nearly two minor levels in a short period. How could it not make people wary?" Chang Shan said indifferently.

Jia Lie Bi's expression hardened. He abruptly rose to his feet and looked at a mustached old man. "Fifth Elder, immediately take out every last resource in the treasury. At any cost, purchase another fifteen portions of the herbs listed in the prescription Master provided. Also, just in case, this time the herbs will be escorted in three separate groups."

Xiao Clan, I will definitely destroy you.