Decisive and Ruthless! I'm Done Pretending—Carrot-Pulling Xiao Yan in Public Scared Him Witless!

Xiao Yan's expression instantly froze, and a cold sweat broke out across his back. "Teacher! Did he discover us?!"

"Don't panic. Stay calm." Medicine Elder steadily controlled the body, lurking in the distant shadows. "He wasn't talking about us. We're the oriole waiting behind the mantis; the mantis he meant is up ahead."

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure slowly emerged from a patch of bushes several dozen meters away from An Yi.

It was a young man. However, he had taken off the conspicuous moon-white Cloud Mist Sect robe he wore during the day and changed into black clothing better suited for nighttime travel.

By the moonlight, Xiao Yan saw the man's face clearly and was immediately startled.

It was the Five-Star Dou Practitioner from the Cloud Mist Sect who had flown into a rage during the day because An Yi had "taken advantage" of Yanran, even drawing his sword against him!

"When did this guy start following him?" Xiao Yan wondered.

Medicine Elder explained, "He had been following An Yi ever since we left the Xiao Household's gates. He was actually never far ahead of us. That is why I deliberately kept such a great distance while tracking them tonight—so as not to alert the snake."

Before the waterfall, An Yi looked at the black-clothed man emerging from the shadows without the slightest surprise. He merely yawned lazily.

"Say, big brother, why aren't you sleeping properly in your guest room in the middle of the night? Why change into night gear and come out to this godforsaken wilderness to follow me? Trying to rob me of my looks?"

The black-clothed man's face turned livid. With a cold sneer, he drew the sword at his waist and pointed it directly at An Yi.

"Stop running your mouth! You shameless little thief, you dared to disgrace and molest Junior Sister Yanran like that in broad daylight! Your lust knows no bounds!"

An Yi gave an enlightened "Oh," raising a brow with a teasing tone.

"I get it. You have a crush on Pinky, and you're her lapdog. Then you saw her obediently lying in my arms on the arena today, got mad with jealousy, and came out in the middle of the night to teach me a lesson and vent your anger?"

"What utter nonsense!"

Having his thoughts exposed, the man's face instantly flushed red. He stomped his feet and cursed furiously, "What a joke! It was clearly you, you shameless good-for-nothing, who used underhanded tricks! Junior Sister Yanran only went easy on you out of respect for Clan Head Xiao Zhan! Not only are you ungrateful, you even took the chance to take advantage of her! You ungrateful little bastard!"

An Yi picked at his ear and sighed. "All right, all right, spare me the nonsense about twisting black into white. So? You went through all this trouble to follow me out here for what? To beat me up?"

The black-clothed man's eyes were vicious, and a cruel sneer curled across his lips.

"Originally, I only planned to break your third leg tonight and teach you a lesson. But you refused the road to heaven and insisted on charging into hell! You actually ran into this desolate mountain forest in the middle of the night!"

"Even if I kill you here tonight and dump your corpse in the wilderness, the Xiao Household will only think that a useless fool like you, always wandering around, accidentally encountered a magical beast and got eaten as a snack! No one will ever suspect the Cloud Mist Sect!"

Hearing that, An Yi was not afraid at all. Instead, he laughed.

"Kill me? Isn't that a bit much, big brother? I only hugged her once, and she didn't resist at the time. Her face even turned red. Are you really going to kill over something so trivial?"

"Little bastard! You still dare spout nonsense when death is at hand!"

Recalling what happened during the day, the black-clothed man's face twisted into a ferocious grimace. The green wind-attribute Dou Qi of a Five-Star Dou Practitioner erupted violently, making his robes snap in the wind.

His right hand clenched the sword hilt tightly, killing intent overflowing.

"Be an honest man in your next life! Don't provoke those you shouldn't—"

Whoosh!

Before the black-clothed man could finish his threat.

Xiao Yan, watching from a distant treetop, saw only a blur before his eyes!

One moment, An Yi had still worn a helpless expression. The instant the other man's killing intent locked onto him... he vanished from where he stood!

Then, before Xiao Yan's suddenly contracted eyes!

An Yi's figure appeared right in front of the black-clothed man's face as though he had teleported!

There were no flashy movements, nor any glow from Dou Techniques.

An Yi struck with both hands, swift as lightning.

His left hand seized the back of the man's head, while his right clamped tightly around the man's neck like an iron vise!

In the black-clothed man's pupils, abruptly dilated by overwhelming terror.

An Yi's expression remained blank as his hands violently twisted in opposite directions!

Splat!

Under the moonlight.

There was no needless struggle, no scream before death.

That dignified Five-Star Dou Practitioner, an elite disciple of the Cloud Mist Sect, was just like that... instantly separated from his head in An Yi's fair, jade-like hands!

Warm, fetid blood shot into the air like a fountain, splashing across his night clothes.

Thud.

An Yi casually tossed the head, its face still frozen in astonishment, far into the roaring pool.

"So much nonsense just to kill someone. Aren't you tired?"

An Yi did not even glance at the headless corpse on the ground, which was still twitching and spurting blood.

He merely took out a silk handkerchief from his Storage Ring in disgust, wiped away the few drops of blood on his hands, then turned around. As though nothing had happened, he vanished straight down the forest path, not even going to the waterfall.

Only long after An Yi's aura had completely disappeared beyond Medicine Elder's range of perception did Xiao Yan suddenly let out a long breath of foul air from within the Mind Sea.

An intense wave of nausea surged up at once.

With Medicine Elder's soul perception deliberately giving him a "high-definition broadcast," he had just witnessed the entire process of An Yi's attack as though he had been there himself!

That was not merely killing someone.

Instantly closing in, controlling him at point-blank range, twisting with both hands... he had fucking torn the man's head clean off!!

"This kid... has definitely killed before."

Medicine Elder's voice carried a hint of gravity as well. "Clean and decisive, without the slightest hesitation or emotional fluctuation. And that practiced Carrot-Pulling technique—one move, one kill... It seems quite a few people or magical beasts must have died at his hands before. Deep down, he is a truly ruthless character."

Controlling Xiao Yan's body, Medicine Elder floated down from the treetop. "Come on. Let's go take a closer look."

Xiao Yan swallowed, feeling as though his legs had gone weak. "T-Teacher... isn't that unnecessary?"

Medicine Elder chuckled. "What is it, Little Yan? Scared?"

The corner of Xiao Yan's eye twitched as he stubbornly argued, "I'm not scared of dead people. It's just that his methods were way too brutal! He tore someone's head off with his bare hands!"

"Seeing is believing. Go over and look, and you'll understand." Medicine Elder ignored his resistance. "Besides, I can sense that there is more behind that waterfall. That should be his true cultivation ground."

Xiao Yan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the turmoil in his stomach. He retook control of his body and slowly stepped out from the shadows, his legs feeling as heavy as lead.

As he approached the pool, the thick stench of blood rushed straight into his nose.

At a glance, he saw the head by the water's edge, its eyes still wide open in death, as well as the headless corpse lying not far away, still slowly seeping blood.