Xu Feng could see the alley clearly now. It was a scene of utter devastation.
Corpses lay strewn across the ground. Xu Feng went over and gathered up what he could.
Leaving these corpses and evil things piled together would make an epidemic all too likely.
Xu Feng felt around his clothes but found no Incense Stick.
Fortunately, the kidney qi that had swept through the area was gradually receding.
Xu Feng studied what remained and determined that the ominous deathly qi could be sent away with one more rite to dispel calamity and malign forces. After all, the feng shui here was still alive.
Its currents still flowed.
He drew his treasured saber and tried it. Xu Feng discovered that a lack of strength was not the problem. The blade could cut through iron like mud, but the changes wrought upon a corpse by the third stage of Cicada-Shedding and Snake-Sloughing, Horned Transformation, were considerable.
The scales formed from earth qi were like armor. Even with force, his blade could barely cut into them.
Xu Feng said, "If I run into one of these again, it'll be trouble."
So Xu Feng dragged over a corpse in Horned Transformation and began studying it.
He was not the least bit curious about what Mr. Li was doing inside the house.
Since Mr. Li had not invited him to watch, Xu Feng shut the door and stayed out.
The more he looked, the more he felt that Mr. Li's abilities were best admired from afar. The corpses at the first and second stages of Cicada-Shedding and Snake-Sloughing had been no different from ordinary human bodies.
But even cutting through that many human bodies would have rolled the edge of a sword.
Mr. Li's had not. His treasured sword was still sharp.
And