Chen Household's Pursuit, Lin Ming Enters the Wilderness!

Chen Household's Pursuit, Lin Ming Enters the Wilderness! Chen Dabiao's chest caved in at a visible speed, and the clothes on his back exploded apart!

His eyes bulged violently, bloodshot, his mouth hanging open, yet he could not make a sound.

The light in his eyes rapidly dimmed, and the breath of life drained away like a receding tide.

Lin Ming let go.

Chen Dabiao's corpse crumpled limply to the ground. A horrifying bloody hole ran straight through his chest, blood gushing out like a stream and quickly soaking a large patch of ground.

Dead silence.

An even more complete, more suffocating silence than before enveloped the entire scene.

Everyone seemed frozen in place. They stared blankly at Chen Dabiao's corpse on the ground, then at the young man whose abdomen was still bleeding, who stood ramrod straight as the dark golden blood energy around him slowly withdrew, his gaze icy.

He... killed him?

Chen Dabiao, the Chen Household's eldest young master, was really dead?

Killed with a single punch, right before everyone's eyes?

At that moment, the system's cold notification sounded in Lin Ming's mind on cue:

[Killed a Second Tier Fourth Layer martial artist. Kill Points obtained: 3000.]

Lin Ming was slightly stunned.

Kill Points?

Right. The system description said Kill Points were obtained by "killing enemies." It had never specified that the targets had to be Mutated Beasts. He had simply been on the battlefield all this time, facing only Mutated Beasts, and had instinctively overlooked that point.

Martial artists... were also "enemies."

Killing martial artists of the same tier, or even stronger ones, could also earn Kill Points!

And the returns seemed rather good. A Second Tier Fourth Layer opponent had given him three thousand points. Though it could not compare to killing a Third Tier Mutated Beast across tiers, it was still far more efficient than killing ordinary First Tier Mutated Beasts.

A dark golden gleam flickered in Lin Ming's eyes.

He seemed to have inadvertently discovered another "shortcut" for obtaining Kill Points.

Of course, this path was more dangerous and came with greater consequences. But... it did not seem impossible.

"Lin Ming! You..." Su Yunwan was the first to react. She rushed to Lin Ming's side, looking at Chen Dabiao's corpse on the ground, then at him. Shocked and anxious, her pretty face had gone pale.

"You were too impulsive! How could you kill him?! The Chen Household... the Chen Household dominates South River Base City! Chen Haidong is a Fifth Tier expert, and he is extremely protective of his own! He only had this one son!"

She had wanted Lin Ming to teach Chen Dabiao a lesson, but she had never imagined he would take his life. Now they were in trouble! Enormous trouble!

"Impulsive?" Lin Ming turned to look at Su Yunwan, his expression as calm as ever, as if he had not just killed someone. "He ambushed me and tried to take my life. I fought back and killed him. Is there a problem?"

He paused, his voice icy.

"Among martial artists, victory and defeat are decided, as are life and death. Since he intended to kill me, I sent him on his way. This is my martial path. If I must endure even this, then what am I cultivating for?"

Su Yunwan was left speechless. The reasoning was sound. When martial artists fought, life and death were their own responsibility, especially since Chen Dabiao had launched the sneak attack first. But this was not a world ruled by reason alone! The Chen Household's fists were bigger than reason!

Old Wang, Old Black, and the others hurried over in a panic, their faces looking worse than the last.

"Kid Lin! You... sigh!" Old Wang stamped his foot anxiously. "Go! Leave now! Get out of South River! No, leave this Base City! Go as far away as you can!"

"That's right! Madman Lin, the Chen Household will find out soon! Chen Haidong is a lunatic! He won't reason with you!" Old Black urged anxiously.

"Go! Leave now! Climb over the back wall and enter the Wilderness!" Bitter Melon pressed.

Lin Ming frowned, but Old Wang and the others were right. A Fifth Tier expert was not someone he could contend with yet. If he stayed, there was only one road ahead: death.

His gaze swept toward the edge of the training grounds. Sure enough, several lackeys who had come with Chen Dabiao were running away in terror, clearly going to report the news.

"Go." Lin Ming did not hesitate any longer and turned to leave.

"Wait!" Su Yunwan called after him, gritting her teeth.

"I'll give you the Silver Frost Spear directly... The Wilderness is dangerous. You'll need a good weapon to protect yourself!"

Lin Ming looked at Silver Frost in his hand, then at Su Yunwan. This spear was her personal weapon, A-rank quality and incomparably precious. She was actually giving it to him just like that?

"Come back alive, then return it to me." Su Yunwan looked at him, her eyes complicated, filled with worry, urgency, and a trace of emotion even she did not understand.

"If... if you can't come back, then consider this spear... a gift from me."

Lin Ming fell silent for a moment. He tightened his grip around the Silver Frost Spear and nodded. "All right. I will come back alive, and I will return the spear."

With that, he did not linger. Dragon Roaming Step instantly surged to its limit beneath his feet. His figure moved like a ghost, and after several flickers, he reached the base of the tall wall on the inner side of the barrier.

He took a deep breath. Pain shot from the wound in his abdomen, but under the effects of Boiling War Blood and the Immortal Foundation, the bleeding had temporarily stopped and did not greatly affect his movements.

He tapped the wall several times with the tips of his feet, borrowing force like a nimble ape as he leaped upward and easily vaulted onto the more than twenty-meter-high wall.

Standing atop the wall, he looked back one final time. Su Yunwan, Old Wang, Old Black, Mute, Bitter Melon, and all those gazes filled with shock, fear, or complicated emotions were focused on him.

In the distance, faint angry shouts and hurried footsteps could already be heard rapidly approaching.

Lin Ming no longer hesitated. He jumped from the wall, his figure swiftly disappearing beyond the barrier into the Wilderness, shrouded in dark red light and filled with the unknown and danger.

He had chosen the most dangerous path, but perhaps the only path to survival—the Wilderness.

Return to the city? Facing an enraged Fifth Tier expert and the Chen Household's web of influence would be walking straight into a trap.

Only the Wilderness—the boundless, endless Wilderness, the territory of Mutated Beasts—might offer him a sliver of hope.

Less than an hour after Lin Ming's figure disappeared into the Wilderness.

Woooooo!!!

A shrill air-raid siren suddenly rang out over South River Base City! This alarm was more urgent and piercing than ever before, as though announcing the descent of some catastrophe!

Immediately afterward, an indescribably terrifying pressure descended upon the Seventh Entrance area like a tangible mountain!

Even the sky seemed to darken.

A military attack helicopter with vicious lines and a blood-red tiger emblem painted on its body hovered directly above the training grounds like an enraged beast of prey, its deafening roar shaking the air! Violent currents of air sent sand and stones flying below, leaving everyone staggering.

The cabin door burst open.

A figure dropped from the sky like a meteor, crashing heavily into the center of the training grounds and smashing a shallow pit several meters wide into the ground!

The dust slowly dispersed.

An elderly man in a simple, dark red ancient robe emerged. His hair and beard were completely white, yet his face resembled that of a man in his forties or fifties, without the slightest wrinkle. He was not particularly tall, but as he stood there, he seemed to be the center of heaven and earth.

His eyes were crimson, like two burning blood moons. His terrifying killing intent and fury had nearly taken physical form, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet and the air itself to turn thick and heavy!

A Fifth Tier expert! The Golden Body Realm!

Chen Haidong! Head of the Chen Household! Chen Dabiao's father!

His crimson eyes immediately locked onto the corpse on the ground, its chest torn open by a massive hole, already cold and stiff.

"Dabiao!!!"

A heart-rending roar, like that of a wounded beast, erupted from Chen Haidong's throat. It made the eardrums of those around him ache and sent their blood energy churning; some of the weaker ones directly coughed up blood and collapsed.