Killing intent

Shen Yue would never admit that a favored son of heaven like himself could lose to a piece of trash like Nie Li.

"Nie Li! You forced my hand!"

Shen Yue's soul force began to surge violently.

Du Ze cried, "Shen Yue's gone mad! He's trying to attack Nie Li's soul sea with his soul force!"

He wanted to rush over. He was the strongest among their group, but even he was no match for Shen Yue's Bronze-rank lackeys.

Naturally, Nie Li wasn't about to sit still and await his doom. He began circulating his own soul force.

"Judging by that soul force, the Sacred Family must have fed you plenty of elixirs."

"Hmph! You're at death's door, and you're still running your mouth!"

Shen Yue's soul force shot wildly toward Nie Li's soul sea.

"Trash! Just wait until your soul sea collapses and leaves you a cripple!"

Beneath the sky screen.

Nie Li was perfectly relaxed, so the others were relaxed as well.

Lu Piao asked, "Nie Li, Shen Yue has seventy-eight points of soul force. Can you really fight him?"

He knew Nie Li could win, but he wanted to know how.

"Yes, Shen Yue does have more soul force than I do, but his method of attack is far too crude. He's simply using his soul force to attack my soul sea. It's actually very simple: condense your soul force into a thread and pierce the whole surface at a single point."

Meanwhile, at the Sacred Family.

"Yes! That's it! Nie Li, you lowborn wretch!"

Shen Yue was brimming with confidence. He already felt that he held the advantage. Only a genius who had grown into his strength was truly a genius. Nie Li? He had only cultivated for two days. His soul force couldn't possibly match Shen Yue's!

Shen Ming didn't agree. Nie Li was so confident that he clearly had something to rely on.

Young Master Shen Yue probably won't come out ahead here.

On the sky screen.

Shen Yue was still frantically driving his soul force at Nie Li, sparing no effort.

Nie Li struck straight at Shen Yue's soul sea, piercing the whole surface at a single point. The soul force spread around it couldn't stop his attack at all.

Unbearable pain instantly overwhelmed Shen Yue. He clutched his forehead and roared at Nie Li, "What did you do?"

Even Nie Li's figure began to blur before his eyes.

Yet the harder he tried to see clearly, the more the hand clutching his forehead involuntarily lowered.

In Shen Yue's eyes, Nie Li now looked like a demon. The chill bursting from his gaze and the killing intent radiating from his body terrified this young master, who had lived in pampered luxury since childhood, into an immediate breakdown.

"No! No! Don't come closer! Don't come closer!"

Shen Yue staggered backward, trembling and drenched in sweat. A few drops of yellow urine even splashed onto the ground.

He had wet himself in fear.

"Huh? Boss!"

Shen Yue's lackeys hadn't expected the situation to turn around so quickly either.

"Hmm? You wet yourself? Hmph, and you still have the nerve to chase Zi Yun? You even dared threaten me?"

Nie Li strode forward. Already terrified, Shen Yue saw Nie Li coming straight toward him and collapsed to the ground in fright.

Nie Li hauled Shen Yue up with one hand. "Hmph. Stay away from me and Zi Yun from now on!"

Shen Yue went flying.

"Boss!"

His lackeys no longer had time to worry about Nie Li. They hurried over to help Shen Yue up.

"Quick! Get me out of here!"

Whatever happened later, Shen Yue absolutely did not want to see that devil Nie Li again right now.

The killing intent that had erupted into Shen Yue's soul sea left him wanting only to escape as quickly as possible.

Beneath the sky screen.

Everyone's mind froze for a moment when they saw Nie Li through Shen Yue's eyes.

Strictly speaking, a wisp of the killing intent radiating from Nie Li had seeped through the sky screen.

Yet that single wisp instantly put every expert in Glory City on guard as though facing a formidable enemy. They stared at the young figure on the sky screen as if he were the most implacable mortal foe they had ever faced, one who would never rest until they were dead.

That killing intent was terrifying!

Just how many people would someone have to kill to accumulate such horrifying killing intent?

And this was only a single wisp of it!

At the City Lord's Mansion.

"Mother of mercy!"

Lu Piao and the others dropped straight to the ground, cold sweat streaming down their bodies.

Ye Zong and Ye Xiu instinctively circulated their soul force to resist the killing intent.

They, too, were secretly shaken. Just how many people had Nie Li killed in his previous life?

Even they, who had spent their entire lives fighting beast tides, didn't possess killing intent this dense.

Ordinary people fared even worse. The timid ones nearly curled into balls, and it took them a long while to recover enough to get up.

Looking at Ye Zong and Ye Xiu's tense bodies, then at his companions sprawled on the ground, pale-faced and drenched in cold sweat, Nie Li sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Looks like this might have some unpleasant effects."

He hurriedly reached out and helped everyone up.

They were still shaken. This side of Nie Li was far too frightening.

At the Sacred Family.

Shen Hong had nearly summoned his Demon Spirit Sacred Fire Roc.

Shen Ming and Shen Xiu, meanwhile, struggled to breathe.

Shen Yue had already hidden beneath a table, trembling uncontrollably.

"This boy cannot be allowed to live!"

Shen Hong's Killing Intent toward Nie Li grew incomparably strong.

On the sky screen.

As Shen Yue and his lackeys hurried away, Lu Piao didn't forget to twist the knife. "Don't rush off! It's not every day we get to see Young Master Shen wet his pants. Let everyone have a look!"

Beside him, Zhang Ming praised Nie Li. "Nie Li, you've really outdone yourself! You actually scared Shen Yue into wetting his pants!"

Lu Piao put on an air of expertise. "You don't understand, do you? Nie Li must have broken through Shen Yue's soul sea to make him feel fear from the bottom of his heart. I keep telling you to read more books."

Under everyone's looks that seemed to say, Sure, you understand. You understand everything. Go on, keep understanding, Lu Piao grew uncomfortable. "Hey, what's with those looks? Ask Du Ze if you don't believe me!"

Nie Li said that the matter was settled and the eyesore had left, so it was time for him to set off as well. They could leave the money-making to him.

After Nie Li left, Du Ze prepared to leave too.

He wanted to continue cultivating, hoping that next time, he wouldn't be completely useless as he had been today.

That evening, at the Trial Grounds.

Xiao Ning'er was waiting for Nie Li.

"Will he come tonight?"

Xiao Ning'er's fingers fidgeted against each other, her words filled with anticipation.

Just as she was thinking this, Nie Li darted out.

Beneath the sky screen, quite a few people remembered. Counting the days, another three had passed, and the Guiding Technique massage couldn't possibly be a one-time treatment.

Xiao Ning'er's face was still a little red. After all, she had been staying at the City Lord's Mansion for a week, and Nie Li had already visited her room twice.

There was no need to get the wrong idea. It was all for massages.

Although the eight of them stayed in the same courtyard, they certainly didn't share a single house.

As for the Guiding Technique, Nie Li felt that performing it himself as a man was inconvenient, so he wanted to teach Ye Ziyun and have her do it instead.

Ye Ziyun did try to learn, but in the end, she failed to master it.

On the sky screen.

Xiao Ning'er was delighted to see Nie Li arrive.

Nie Li asked how she had been lately. Just as he had instructed, Xiao Ning'er had been taking her medicine on schedule every day, refraining from cultivating at night, and sleeping well.

After examining her, Nie Li found that the bruises had indeed faded considerably.

Once he began the massage, Nie Li told her that he had something he wanted her help with.