Zhang Ping used Nether Mist to form a small knife and carved Zeng Xiaofan's identity and the evil deeds he had committed into the ground before leaving the Su Family.
He had been in a relaxed mood when he arrived, but his feelings were complicated when he left.
He had thought Zeng Xiaofan was merely a brazen little pervert who only needed a minor punishment and a warning. Who would have thought he would encounter a vicious dog guilty of countless evils, making him unable to resist butchering the bastard?
Killing someone only took one strike.
But after killing someone, he did not feel good about it.
Even though he knew some people had to die and his convictions remained firm, killing was never a happy thing.
He would not regret it, but he would still reflect on whether that person truly deserved to die.
"He really did deserve it!"
Zhang Ping thought as he walked back, eventually reaching that conclusion.
He tried to relax and stop thinking about unpleasant things, but before he had gone far, Wind Whisperer carried over a hoarse voice. "Old man, tell me... where is Zhang Ping?"
"Zhang Ping? Who is Zhang Ping? Where is Dashan? Where is my Dashan?" Liu Tiefeng said blankly as Heavenly Fox grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, his feet desperately trying to touch the ground.
Heavenly Fox's patience gradually ran out. With a cold sneer, it grabbed Liu Tiefeng's arm and tore hard. Liu Tiefeng immediately trembled all over and cried, "It hurts, it hurts! Dashan, I'm in pain! Where are you?"
"If you still refuse to talk, I'll tear off your other arm. If you still refuse, I'll tear off your legs. In the end, I'll twist off your head," Heavenly Fox said coldly, narrowing its eyes.
Blood kept pouring from Liu Tiefeng's severed arm. His lips trembled, but he continued playing dumb, repeatedly calling Dashan's name.
"Hmph, you're courting death!"
Seeing that Liu Tiefeng was still pretending to be insane, Heavenly Fox extended its claw and gripped Liu Tiefeng's remaining hand.
Just as it was about to tear it off, a stream of water shot in from outside. Startled, it hurriedly used Liu Tiefeng as a shield, but the Water Whip unexpectedly curved around and slashed directly at its arm.
Danger!
Sensing danger, Heavenly Fox simply threw Liu Tiefeng toward the door and quickly retreated.
A stream of water swiftly slipped in through the doorway and caught Liu Tiefeng. Then, its edges transformed into three Water Whips that rapidly slashed at Heavenly Fox. Heavenly Fox kept retreating before finally escaping outside through the window.
In an instant, one of the tails moving in the sky stopped, and countless densely packed eyes all fixed on that Heavenly Fox.
Inside the room, Liu Sishan controlled Pure Water to open the door. She first glanced at the window, then quickly checked Liu Tiefeng's injuries.
Liu Tiefeng's arm had been torn apart alive by Heavenly Fox. His injuries were extremely severe, and he was already old, his body steadily declining. Combined with the intense pain and excessive blood loss, he had already fallen unconscious.
She quickly bandaged Liu Tiefeng's wound, then took out a Healing Potion and poured it into his mouth.
"Cough, cough."
After Liu Tiefeng drank the potion, he could not help coughing the next moment before quickly waking up.
As a former investigator, the moment he saw Liu Sishan, he immediately understood his situation. He said softly, "Miss, has that person left? If not, deal with him first. He came for Zhang Ping."
If that person did not die, Zhang Ping would be in danger.
"Mm."
Liu Sishan nodded. She stood and slowly walked to the window, but she could not find any trace of Heavenly Fox.
Several hundred meters away, Heavenly Fox nervously retreated toward the City Lord's Manor. When Prince Yue's gaze had fallen upon it earlier, all its fur had stood on end. Its tail and ears had drooped involuntarily, and ninety percent of its strength had drained away.
That meant Prince Yue was dissatisfied with it. Otherwise, merely being watched by Prince Yue would not have caused such a reaction.
Although it could still force itself to stay and fight, remaining in its current state would be suicidal.
Thus, it decisively chose to retreat for now and come again next time Zhang Ping was at Iron Soul.
"Why is His Highness dissatisfied with me?"
It pondered why Prince Yue was angry as it made its way back.
Could it be because it had acted without authorization?
"Beast, are you tired of living?"
Suddenly, the scenery around it turned black and white, and a sinister voice exploded through the air.
Heavenly Fox immediately looked toward the source of the voice. A Grim Reaper shrouded in black mist wielded a scythe and swiftly slashed down. It hurriedly raised both arms in front of itself, only for the scythe to sever both arms.
Boom!
The next second, before Zhang Ping could pursue it, Prince Yue's tail crashed down from the sky, nearly striking Zhang Ping.
Prince Yue had been watching that Heavenly Fox all along, but it had suddenly vanished just now. Prince Yue did not know whether it had been teleported away or pulled into some Barrier it could not see, so it decisively attacked the area near Heavenly Fox.
Everything within the Wraith Lantern's illumination was black and white. Prince Yue's descending tail opened countless densely packed eyes and finally saw the attacker: a black-robed Grim Reaper shrouded in black mist.
Zhang Ping held the scythe in one hand and the Wraith Lantern in the other. The instant Prince Yue saw him, he decisively used Appraisal Technique, but three consecutive attempts failed.
He looked at the armless Heavenly Fox and used Appraisal again.
[Appraisal Successful] [Mutated Beast: Heavenly Fox] [Race: Mutated Fox] [Faction: Moonfolk] [Potential: None] [Lifespan: 100] [Rank: Top-Tier Mutated Beast] [Level: 37] [Talents] [Cognitive Distortion: You possess a field that distorts living beings' cognition and can alter a target's perception.] [Conventionality Reversal: When performing an action that defies common sense, you can overturn the target's common sense and forcibly prevent the target from noticing any abnormality.] [Supernatural Strength: Physical strength increased twentyfold.] ...
This Heavenly Fox was very strong.
If Zhang Ping had not launched a sneak attack, it probably would not have been so easily injured.
"Your Highness, he is very likely the human who ambushed our Moonfolk!" Blood flowed from Heavenly Fox's severed arms as it glared at Zhang Ping with scarlet eyes and shrieked hoarsely.
Prince Yue's tail slowly pulled itself from the ground, splitting and splitting again until it became countless tiny tails. At the same time, bony spikes protruded from the fur on those tails.
"Huff!"
Zhang Ping let out a deep breath, his gaze gradually turning resolute.
He was furious, yet exceptionally clear-headed. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Although he had never called Liu Tiefeng "teacher," Liu Tiefeng was an instructor and benefactor in his heart.
This time, Liu Tiefeng had clearly been dragged into trouble because of him, yet Liu Tiefeng had still protected him. Upon waking, Liu Tiefeng's first concern was not his own injuries, but that if they did not eliminate the enemy, Zhang Ping would be in danger.
In that moment, Zhang Ping felt both moved and guilty.
That was why he had spared no expense and flown back at full speed from near the Su Family, all to take revenge. Fortunately, before killing Zeng Xiaofan, Zeng Xiaofan had contributed an enormous amount of fear to him.
Repeatedly swinging between life and death, hope and despair, Zeng Xiaofan's emotions had been like a roller coaster. Finally, in the instant before his death, he erupted with an incomparably immense amount of fear.
That was also why Zhang Ping had been able to fly all the way here. That fear was still continuously being transformed inside him, and an endless stream of Nether Mist surged from his body.
Suddenly, Prince Yue's countless tails shot out at once with incredible speed.
Having learned his lesson from the masked man, Zhang Ping did not dare use Pure Water Body to withstand the attack. Instead, he used Nether Mist to block it. The tails struck the mist, causing its shape to constantly shift and distort.
"It blocked them?"
Seeing this, Heavenly Fox's pupils suddenly contracted as it slowly backed away.
It knew very well how powerful Prince Yue's tail attacks were. Let alone a layer of mist, even Mingzhu City's walls could be pierced through by Prince Yue's tails.
Mingzhu City's walls were extremely thick, and countless Barrier Masters and Enhancers had layered ability after ability upon them. Ordinary Mutated Beasts that could not fly could forget about crossing those walls, let alone damaging them.
Yet Prince Yue had once left a mark on the city wall with a tail and concluded that it could pierce through it.
In truth, it was not just Heavenly Fox that was shocked. Prince Yue, far away at the City Lord's Manor, was equally astonished.
It immediately became serious and controlled its remaining tails to rapidly converge. One tail after another fell, transforming into a dense mass of tails that frantically attacked Zhang Ping.
In Prince Yue's and Heavenly Fox's eyes, Zhang Ping was undoubtedly a powerful existence. Yet Zhang Ping could not voice his suffering. His Nether Mist was being consumed extremely quickly because Prince Yue's attacks came far too frequently.
Every second, he endured at least fifty attacks, and every one of them was immensely powerful, no weaker than artillery shells from his previous life.
In just ten seconds, five percent of the Nether Mist had been consumed. If this continued, the moment the Nether Mist ran out, Prince Yue would instantly kill him. Even Pure Water Body would not save him.
He appraised Prince Yue while locking onto Heavenly Fox. Heavenly Fox clearly wanted to flee and was quietly inching backward.
"Kid Zhang, seize the opportunity. I'll only give you one chance to attack!"
Suddenly, Situ Shibai's voice sounded beside Zhang Ping's ear. Zhang Ping's spirits immediately rose. He decisively put away the Wraith Lantern and gripped the Fear War Scythe tightly with both hands.
Five hundred meters away, a beam of light descended from the sky and struck Prince Yue's tails.
The tails attacking Zhang Ping all lost control from their main body and fell to the ground, no longer moving.
"Not good!"
Seeing this, Heavenly Fox immediately turned to flee.
But Zhang Ping had been charging power for this moment for a long time. In an instant, he appeared behind Heavenly Fox, and the Fear War Scythe slashed down viciously.
One strike.
Heavenly Fox's waist was severed cleanly.
Its vitality was extremely tenacious. Even after its upper body hit the ground, it still wailed madly, its severed arms struggling to crawl forward. But then Zhang Ping's second strike fell, and its head immediately flew away, rolling through the air wrapped in human skin.
Zhang Ping took out the Wraith Lantern and immediately flew away.
He had barely flown any distance when countless tails extended from the direction of the City Lord's Manor, weaving into a great net that descended upon him.
However, his body transformed into Pure Water. He fell into a nearby canal, put away the Wraith Lantern, and swiftly escaped in the form of flowing water.