A bolt of silver-white lightning streaked across the sky!
Heaven and earth suddenly lit up, the brief flash illuminating the figure standing before the residence gates.
He wore a gray short outfit, with a somewhat tall build and a posture as straight as a pillar.
His face was handsome, its features sharply defined!
Beneath his brows, above the bridge of his nose, lay a pair of deep eyes!
He quietly watched the four people before him, his voice calm as he spoke.
Just like his gaze!
"Second Stronghold Master, it's him! Among those Mine Slaves who escaped, he was one of them!"
"He was one of them?"
The burly man called the Second Stronghold Master fixed his huge eyes firmly on Jiang Yi!
He seemed to have sensed something!
A dense Killing Intent spread out, while murderous aura rolled from his body!
"A martial artist?"
"It was you, you lowly slave, who killed my dear younger brother?"
"Your younger brother?"
"Sorry, I killed so wildly back then that I treated them all the same. I've already forgotten which one he was!"
Jiang Yi shook his head as he replied.
"You... very good!"
"When I pull out your tendons and skin you alive, let's see whether you lowly slave can still keep that sharp tongue!"
"Roar!!!"
The burly man immediately flew into a rage and bellowed!
His body swelled, muscles knotting like twisted roots, as though a savage mountain bear were charging headlong at him.
He was ferocious to the extreme!
"Patter! Patter!"
A light rain began to fall in a fine drizzle, and everything seemed to become hazy and indistinct.
Jiang Yi took a deep breath!
His entire body tightened, his blood and qi surged, and a heavy, vast, perfectly rounded aura coiled around him.
"Boom!"
The floor burst apart, and the air exploded!
His fleshly body tore forcefully through the curtain of rain, fierce winds spilling in every direction and sweeping open a vast stretch of space.
The moment the two collided, it was like rotten wood meeting a blade!
The burly man was struck as if by a crushing blow!
His entire upper body caved inward, bones crackling within him as his organs split apart one after another.
Before Jiang Yi's massive force of seven thousand five hundred jin, the burly man's Muscle-refining realm cultivation was utterly unable to withstand a single blow.
It was simply a joke.
They were not even in the same league!
In just one exchange, superiority was decided—and so was life and death!
The burly man's body twisted grotesquely, blood flowed from all seven apertures, and his eyes bulged in rage!
He still had a faint breath left in him!
"Lowly... slave, how could you possibly..."
Trembling, he raised a hand and pointed at the approaching Jiang Yi, wanting to shout something?
What came at him head-on—
Was a descending kick!
"Go on, then. Go find your younger brother in hell!"
That kick directly crushed the little life he had left!
To let him live one more second!
Would have been a waste of fresh air!
[You killed one Muscle-refining realm enemy and plundered 15 years of lifespan.]
"Your turn!"
Jiang Yi spoke lightly, raising his head to stare at the last three remaining men.
"The Second Stronghold Master... is dead?"
"H-How is that possible?"
"Run!"
That short figure seemed rather quick-witted and reacted immediately.
He turned, kicked off the ground, leaped onto the courtyard wall, and bolted away!
Before the other two could even move, Jiang Yi was already before them—Mountain Splitting Palm in his left hand, Tiger Roar Fist in his right!
Splitting steles and shattering rocks, tiger roars shaking the mountain forest!
Under the force of several thousand jin!
The two men, who merely had a rough grasp of fists and kicks and had not even crossed the threshold of martial artists, died at the first touch!
The bones and tendons throughout their bodies burst apart!
They were no longer human in shape!
They crashed into the courtyard wall like lumps of sticky candy pasted onto it.
[You killed two enemies with a rough grasp of fists and kicks and plundered 8 years of lifespan.]
Jiang Yi did not stop!
With a leap, he was like a flying swan treading clouds as he closed in on the fleeing short figure.
"Black Wind Stronghold's Second Stronghold Master was a Muscle-refining realm martial artist!"
"Then what about their Great Stronghold Master?"
"Tendon-refining realm, or Bone-Tempering Realm?"
"I wonder whether, with my current strength, I can slaughter all of them clean?"
Jiang Yi took a step through the air and landed before the short figure!
The short figure shuddered!
His body trembled, terror filling him as he tried to turn and flee again!
At that moment, a large hand tore through the air!
Like an eagle extending its talons, it clamped around his neck and lifted his entire body into the air.
"Speak. Who is the strongest among you? What is his cultivation?"
Jiang Yi loosened his grip slightly, allowing him to gulp down air and giving him a sliver of a chance to speak.
Under the terror of life and death!
The short figure nearly blurted it out!
"It's our Great Stronghold Master. He is at the Tendon-refining realm.
He has recently entered seclusion, preparing to break through to the next minor Boundary.
My lord, spare my life! Above me, I have..."
"Many thanks!"
Jiang Yi exerted a little force and directly snapped his neck.
As a show of thanks!
He gave him a quick death!
Unlike the others, who had all ended up shattered to pieces!
[You killed one enemy with a rough grasp of fists and kicks and plundered 5 years of lifespan.]
"At the peak of the Tendon-refining realm, or perhaps half a step into Bone-Tempering, about to cross the threshold of the Bone-Tempering Realm!"
Hearing the short figure's words, Jiang Yi pondered his current strength.
Killing enemies across realms would not be difficult!
Since that was the case, why wait for another day when tonight would do? He might as well settle everything tonight.
Jiang Yi felt a surge of hot blood gradually boiling within him.
"The time has come. It is time... for revenge!"
He did not even bother searching the corpses!
With the thought of ending this swiftly, Jiang Yi braved the light rain and headed directly beyond the town.
He first went to a small grove nearby and retrieved the Ghost Head Great Saber he had hidden there earlier.
Wiping away the mud clinging to it, he gave it a light swing, and a gleaming silver blade-light suddenly flashed forth!
It lit up the sight before him at once, cleaving through the darkness ahead!
Carrying the great saber over his shoulder, Jiang Yi used the martial art Soaring Cloud Leap, his figure light and ethereal, his feet seeming to tread upon flying clouds.
Using lightness skill to travel, he ascended Black Wind Mountain by night!
Black Wind Mountain!
A famous towering ancient mountain within a hundred li, its great trees reaching for the sky and its forests lush and thick.
From afar!
The entire mountaintop looked as though it had been covered in a layer of pitch-black flowing slurry.
When the wind blew through the woods, it was like black winds sweeping past!
Thus it was named Black Wind Mountain!
Of course, what made it even more famous was the Black Wind Stronghold atop its peak.
A powerful band of mountain bandits occupied the forests here, taking to the hills as outlaws.
They burned, killed, plundered, and robbed, their evil reputation far and wide!
There was a narrow winding path through the mountain, and Jiang Yi prepared to follow it all the way upward.
Back then, they!
Had been escorted up this very path, becoming Mine Slaves in the mines!
Later, they had also escaped by this path and reached Wushui Town.
Halfway up the mountain!
A simple thatched hut had been built there, where two Black Wind Stronghold lackeys were gathered around a fire.
"Tap! Tap! Tap..."
Amid the patter of the light rain, footsteps approached from afar, growing clearer and louder.
"Who goes there?"
The two lackeys had just poked their heads out!
"Your killer!"
A streak of blade-light flashed past, and two fine heads flew high into the air alongside scarlet blood!
Their faces still carried boundless shock!
They clearly had not yet reacted!
[You killed two ordinary enemies and plundered 6 years of lifespan.]
"Continue!"
Jiang Yi gave a light shake, flicking the blood from his blade and revealing its sharp edge once more.
Thunder exploded through the heavens again!
Flashing lightning illuminated the figure beneath gray clothes, standing straight as a pillar—
Carrying a blade through the rainy night, without an umbrella!
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