"You-"
Li Sanhe's eyes widened, and he spat blood again in fury.
He had actually been naive enough to believe Xu Yang had made peace with the Three Harmonies Gang. After decades of navigating the martial world, he had been fooled by a youngster.
"If you want me dead, you won't live either!"
Summoning his last breath, he lunged ferociously at Xu Yang, blasting out surging true qi without regard for his own life.
Xu Yang did not meet the attack head-on. He stepped aside.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, dirt flew from where he had just stood. The terrifying true qi had blasted a crater more than two feet wide into the ground.
Splat!
In midair, Li Sanhe seemed to expend his final breath. He dropped to the ground with a thud, his powerful aura gradually dissipating.
Xu Yang fired a blast of true qi at him from a distance. Li Sanhe no longer reacted.
Still uneasy and worried Li Sanhe might be feigning death, he found a stone and hurled it at his head from afar. Only after smashing out his brains did Xu Yang confirm he was dead.
After searching him, Xu Yang found another twenty-tael banknote and a few taels of loose silver. There was nothing else.
"At least your death served a purpose!"
Xu Yang finally broke into a delighted smile.
He had gained seventy-three taels of silver in one go. How could he not smile?
He had been a little worried that everyone heading into the mountains to kill exotic beasts would make Dragon Ascension in the Martial Examination troublesome. With this money Li Sanhe had delivered, he no longer had much to worry about.
Leaving Li Sanhe's corpse alone, Xu Yang went straight home.
He had used Wind-Thunder Force this time, so nobody