Assassinated Instead

"Cut it out. You're already my defeated opponent, so deal with it yourself! I refuse to believe that, with my strength, I can't endure your three kicks." Lin Yu glanced over again and smiled. He knew his three kicks were no light matter, and trading one kick for three was worth it.

"Sure! Then let you have a proper taste of it." Lin Yu found this man rather sensible. He then whipped a kick straight into the second man's neck, hooked him again, and made him eat a mouthful of dirt.

Lin Yu narrowed his eyes and continued, "You look like quite a tough man. What's your name? Let me hear it." All of a sudden, Lin Yu had become interested in who this person was and even felt like talking things over with him.

"Sishi." Hearing that, Lin Yu froze for a moment before saying, "Oh? 'Death Warrior' is quite a nice name." In the blink of an eye, he seemed to have discovered something amusing and simply stood there laughing.

"Scram! Not 'Death Warrior'—Sishi, Liu Sishi." Lin Yu smiled again. Naturally, he knew it was not Death Warrior; he had merely found it funny and repeated it once more. Lin Yu looked him over before saying, "Still pretty stubborn, huh? Then have another kick!" After taking another look, Lin Yu kicked him in the back. That kick made him cough up blood.

A surge of spiritual power was mobilized within his body, restoring him somewhat. Lin Yu continued, "What, starting to move the spiritual power in your body now? I'm telling you, three kicks—not one less." In that instant, three kicks landed directly on his head, and his skull gave a cracking sound.

It took Sishi quite a while to regain his strength. Trembling slightly, he finally said, "The three kicks are done. By what we agreed just now, you should spare my life, shouldn't you?"

Lin Yu's gaze turned cold. He had still overestimated his own strength a little. If it had been twice as strong, this man should have been dead already.

"Oh, right! I'd forgotten. I did say just now that I would spare your life. But now, I want to kill you again." A sword had already fallen into his hand. Because Sishi's earlier expenditure had been far too great, he had no chance to react or flee before a sword pierced through his throat.

"I did say I would spare your life. Unfortunately, poison is buried in your body. You would die sooner or later, so dying here is more straightforward. Don't worry—there are still two others. They'll soon accompany you on the road to the Yellow Springs." The three men could not sense it, but Lin Yu had discovered it long ago.

"Cut it out. You think you hid yourselves well, but that might not be the case." Lin Yu glanced over, then vanished into the distance in the blink of an eye. He found a trace of someone in a thicket, where a cultivator was also lying in wait.

Lin Yu smiled and bit his finger open. A drop of blood flowed from his body, still scarlet red, but containing far too much poison. Before the cultivator could utter a single word, he was sealed by that one drop of blood.

At that moment, Lin Yu added, "One drop of poisonous blood is enough to take your lives." Lin Yu glanced over and took a long breath before continuing, "Wait here properly. Your brother will soon come here to accompany you." A faint smile showed at the corners of Lin Yu's eyes.

After recovering some of his spiritual power, Lin Yu met the assassin's gaze in the distance and sighed helplessly. "Eh? Since I've been discovered, I'll have to speed things up."

Lin Yu swiftly headed back. In that instant, a flying knife shot out, slicing open the cultivator's leg and sending him crashing to the ground.

Looking at the cultivator before him, Lin Yu said blandly, "I don't know how you learned that something happened over there, but since that's the case, go accompany that person over there!" Lin Yu did not waste another word as he smashed down at him.

After carrying a fat man while running all that way, Lin Yu was still a little out of breath. He directly threw him onto the ground.

"Hey, you two should both be awake by now, right?" Lin Yu said again. The two had slept through an entire afternoon. Lin Yu had watched them for a long time, wanting to know who had sent them. Perhaps he might even let them go.

"Why... why is your strength so terrifying?" The first words out of the awakened man's mouth were a question for Lin Yu, as though they had already forgotten that they were captives.

Lin Yu let out a long breath. They seemed truly frightened, and he did not know what to say. He continued, "Cut it out. My strength isn't that high. It's just more than enough to kill you."

"Oh, right. Do you know about the three people before you?" The two nodded at once. Lin Yu continued, "I just killed those three. Did you know that?"

"I knew. Otherwise, we wouldn't have run." The latter said this, making Lin Yu roll his eyes. It seemed a person's regard for life and death was indeed quite important.

"Oh? Then tell me properly—who sent you here, and what was your purpose?" At Lin Yu's words, cold sweat appeared on both their bodies.

"We... we... we came on our own. No one ordered us to come!" The instant he heard this, Lin Yu knew they were lying. With one swing of his sword, one finger was severed from each of them. Lin Yu spoke again, "Still alright? Shall we continue?" He gave them no time to think.

Lin Yu said another sentence before asking, "Will you talk?"

"No, boss, we really came on our own." Hearing their words, Lin Yu smiled again.

Body-Slaying—since they did not know how to appreciate kindness, they could not blame him. One sword took two lives. Lin Yu said, "I told you to say who sent you. You didn't cherish the opportunity, so you can't blame me." As his sword swung, blood splashed across them.

Lin Yu turned and left. Seven Blood Commands emerged together, madly devouring the two men's blood. In this battle, he had killed five people, leaving himself reeking of blood.

At a small pond, he washed away the bloody stench, changed clothes, and slept. This trip had brought quite a few gains. Those two spiritual medicines alone were enough for him to cultivate for some time.

"Why haven't they returned yet? No, they're dead... Who exactly is this fellow? How did they die?" Shopkeeper Huangpu stared deeply ahead, still unable to see through Lin Yu's identity. Now, his only hope was that Lin Yu would not cause trouble for the shop. The painstaking work of half his life had all been poured into this place.

Afterward, Lin Yu returned directly to the Lin Residence. His cousin Lin Fenfang had been waiting for him there all along. The Lineage meeting had also just ended at this time. Lin Yu even comforted himself in relief: it was fortunate that he had gone out early, or who knew how those old fellows would have tossed him around.