Instantly Killing a Third-Tier Opponent!

Night Owl was at the sixth level of the Third Realm, Ghost Bat at the third level, and Wild Bull at the fourth level! The three of them working together against a kid who had "luckily broken through"—wouldn't that be easy?

Listening to them, especially the one-hundred-million bounty, Xia He's delicate body trembled again as she instinctively shrank farther behind Lin Ming.

One hundred million! The Chen Household had gone mad! It also showed just how badly they wanted Lin Ming dead!

Lin Ming listened to the three of them, his calm gaze sweeping over them. Then his brows furrowed slightly, as though he were... disappointed?

"Just the three of you?" Lin Ming asked blandly, with even a faint trace of barely concealed... disdain. "The Chen Household only sent this many people?"

Night Owl and the other two froze, the smiles on their faces stiffening slightly. What did this brat mean? Did he think there were too few of them? Was he looking down on them?

"Brat, you're about to die and you still dare act arrogant?" Wild Bull, the most hot-tempered of them, immediately roared. "I can crush you by myself!"

"Why waste words with him?" Ghost Bat gave a sinister laugh. His body vanished from the spot like a phantom, and in the next instant, he appeared at Lin Ming's left side. A pair of poisoned short spikes flashing with eerie blue light shot silently toward Lin Ming's temple and kidney like venomous snakes striking!

He was incredibly fast, and his angle was vicious, making him impossible to guard against! He specialized in speed and sneak attacks. This strike was meant to kill in one blow!

"Ghost Bat, watch out!" Night Owl suddenly felt his heart jump and shouted sharply. He vaguely sensed that something was wrong with Lin Ming's aura... It was too steady!

However, it was already too late.

Facing Ghost Bat's phantom-fast ambush, Lin Ming did not even blink. He merely tilted his head slightly, as though he had anticipated it beforehand, precisely dodging the strike aimed at his temple.

At the same time, his right hand gripping the Silver Frost Spear moved.

There was no flashy technique, and he did not even use much of his blood energy. He simply swung the spear shaft backward.

Smack—!

A dull, thunderous crack, like a heavy whip striking thick hide!

The shaft of the Silver Frost Spear struck Ghost Bat squarely in the left ribs!

"Urghhh!!!"

Ghost Bat let out an incomparably shrill scream! He felt as if he had been rammed sideways by a charging tyrannosaurus!

The terrifying force instantly shattered all defense around his ribs. Who knew how many ribs had broken? His organs were violently displaced and ruptured!

Like a tattered sack flung away by a whip, he flew backward screaming even faster than he had come. Blood sprayed wildly from his mouth, mixed with fragments of internal organs, drawing a miserable crimson line through the air before he crashed heavily into a huge boulder dozens of meters away with a dull boom, falling silent forever.

Instant kill!

Ghost Bat, a Third Tier, third-level expert skilled in speed and ambushes, had been sent flying and instantly killed by a casual swing of Lin Ming's spear shaft!

Dead silence.

The cold smile on Night Owl's face froze completely, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.

Wild Bull's savage grin also froze. His mouth hung open like a duck being strangled.

Xia He covered her mouth too, her beautiful eyes filled with incredulous shock.

She knew Lin Ming had grown stronger, but... this strong? A casual strike had instantly killed a Third Tier expert who looked extremely formidable?

Lin Ming shook the spear shaft as if he had merely swatted an annoying fly. He raised his eyes to look at Night Owl and Wild Bull, his expression calm and undisturbed.

"Now," Lin Ming said, slowly raising the tip of the Silver Frost Spear and pointing it at the two men, "it's your turn."

"Do you think it's troublesome to come one at a time, or..."

"Will you come together?"

The wind through the hills seemed to carry the smell of blood as it wailed over the corpses and shattered stones littering the ground.

The sunlight had become somewhat dazzling, shining on the rapidly cooling bodies and dark-red pools of blood, reflecting a cold gleam.

Xia He stood blankly behind the rock, staring at the young figure standing amid three corpses as he slowly withdrew the Silver Frost Spear.

Her fingers were still gripping the binoculars tightly, her knuckles white from the force, but her mind was completely blank. All that remained were the lightning-fast scenes from less than a minute ago, scenes that had utterly overturned everything she knew.

He had instantly killed Ghost Bat, crushed Wild Bull head-on, and finally pierced Night Owl through with a single Heaven-Splitting strike.

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Three experts at least at the Third Tier, the group known as the Shadow Squad and fairly famous among bounty hunters, had just... vanished?

"How... how strong is he really?"

Xia He muttered, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

It was not as though she had never seen high-level martial artists fight before, but this was the first time she had seen someone like Lin Ming—someone whose fighting style was so concise, ruthless, and efficient, as though he had been born for slaughter.

And the aura he had erupted with earlier... he was definitely not merely at the first level of the Third Tier. When had he broken through? Was it because of the Water of Life?

But even with the Water of Life, it should have been impossible to make such an enormous leap in strength in so little time, right?

She watched Lin Ming bend down and remove several storage bags and valuable-looking pieces of equipment from Night Owl and Wild Bull. He moved with the practiced ease of an old hand.

Then he walked over to Ghost Bat's mangled corpse, expressionlessly kicked aside the rubble, and picked up the pair of poisoned short spikes along with an unusually designed communicator.

Only after finishing all that did Lin Ming turn around, look toward where Xia He was hiding, and wave.

Xia He took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. With her limbs weak, she climbed down from the rock and made her way to Lin Ming, stumbling over the uneven ground.

Now that she was closer, she could better sense the sharp aura still lingering around Lin Ming, like a vicious weapon freshly drawn from its sheath, as well as the faint but terrifying murderous presence that seemed to oppress even her soul.

"Are... are you okay?" Xia He looked at the nearly nonexistent wounds on Lin Ming's body and asked a rather foolish question.

"I'm fine."

Lin Ming answered succinctly, stuffing all the spoils into a relatively intact storage bag and hanging it at his waist. He glanced at the three corpses on the ground, then looked toward the direction they had come from, frowning slightly.

Current Kill Points: 40268

System, increase my martial skill proficiency. Prioritize the Heaven-Splitting Three Forms, Dragon Roaming Step, and Immovable Mountain Seal.

Lin Ming silently muttered to himself. Although the battle just now had been easy, it also made him realize that as his strength increased, the upper limits and variations of his martial skills needed to keep pace.

Moreover, after gaining the SSS-grade Indestructible Asura Body, he felt that his comprehension and understanding of martial skills had also improved. The system's required expenditure also seemed to have decreased.

[Command confirmed. Detected that the host possesses the SSS-grade martial talent 'Indestructible Asura Body.' Martial comprehension and bodily adaptability have greatly improved. Martial skill proficiency upgrade costs reduced by 50%.]

[Upgrade 'Heaven-Splitting Three Forms' from Subtle Mastery (1%) to Major Accomplishment (1%). Original Kill Point cost: 50000. Cost after talent reduction: 25000. Confirm?]

"Confirm."

[Upgrade 'Dragon Roaming Step' and 'Immovable Mountain Seal' from Subtle Mastery (1%) to Major Accomplishment (1%). Original cost for each: 30000. Cost after talent reduction: 15000 each. Confirm?]

"Confirm."

[Upgrade complete.]

Remaining Kill Points: 268

The changes brought by the massive increase in martial skill proficiency were immediate.

Lin Ming felt that his understanding of the Heaven-Splitting Three Forms had deepened greatly. In particular, the intent of the Heaven-Splitting move, which shattered the void, had gained a clearer outline in his mind.

The Dragon Roaming Step became more nimble and elusive, while the defensive aura of the Immovable Mountain Seal became more solid.

Combined with his second-level Third Realm cultivation, SSS-grade Indestructible Asura Body, and A-grade Silver Frost Spear, he felt that his overall combat power had reached an entirely new height.

Below Tier Four, unless they were freakish geniuses with equally top-tier talents, techniques, and weapons, no one posed much of a threat to him anymore.

"What do we do now?"

Xia He suddenly asked.

Lin Ming withdrew his gaze and looked at Xia He. This female researcher might have been troublesome, but she was at least sensible enough not to hold him back. Besides, his "investment" of that drop of Water of Life had paid off far beyond expectations.

"You," Lin Ming said, pointing at a relatively concealed crevice formed naturally nearby and half-covered by several huge boulders,

"go hide there. No matter what you hear, don't come out or make a sound unless I call you."

Xia He froze. "Hide? What about you?"

"Me?" The corner of Lin Ming's mouth slowly curled into a cold, sharp arc, carrying even a trace of... anticipation?

"I don't like running."

Xia He's beautiful eyes widened instantly as she stared at him in disbelief. "You... you're going to... kill them instead? Wait for them here?"

"Mm." Lin Ming nodded, his tone as calm as if he were discussing what to eat for lunch. "They want my life and the things on you. We can't run forever. The Wilderness is so vast—where could we possibly hide? Rather than being chased like stray dogs, we might as well... let them come."

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