Breakthrough, Kill

"Wh-why... why... why did you kill my whole family..." Sun Zhu roared almost maniacally, blood and tears streaming from his eyes. He didn't want to live a life of unease, only seeking stability. He usually worked hard to do good deeds, yet the result was...

"That's because you don't know how precious this thing is. Forget about the lives of your Sun Family's hundred-odd ants. If it were truly necessary, even if those self-righteous great families got it, killing ten thousand or a thousand people to obtain this thing would be worth it. Because only dead people can keep secrets. This thing is too precious. I don't want to be killed before I can hand it over after getting it. If you knew how precious this thing is, you would know that you all had to die. Not even a newborn could be left alive, because someone always has a way to get some information. Only dead people are the safest." Yan Zhenfei said smugly, but in reality, he had taken the two Low-Grade Spirit Pills he had accumulated over the years to quickly catalyze his recovery.

He was only at the True Qi Realm Sixth Layer, and he had killed over a hundred people in one go, and also fought a battle with Sun Zhu. If he hadn't secretly sneaked in at the beginning and killed most of the people, it would have been impossible to do it so cleanly. It was hateful that when he killed that newborn baby who had just turned one month old, he didn't discover that there was a little girl hiding. Otherwise, even if he wasn't a true assassin executing missions for the organization, killing a hundred-person family in such a remote place wouldn't have caused such a big commotion, and he wouldn't have had to fight Sun Zhu until now.

As a result, Yan Zhenfei was almost depleted at this moment, but he had to get this credit. He wouldn't tell anyone, otherwise, if others knew, they might kill him directly.

At this moment, he seemed to be speaking smugly, but he was actually recovering. As long as he recovered two or three tenths of his strength, he could kill Sun Zhu. Looking at him, his intestines were almost spilling out, and his blood should be almost drained. This situation was beneficial to him. Yan Zhenfei's plan was very good. Dragging it out like this was advantageous to him. There was still some time until dawn, and in this remote place, he wasn't afraid of anything happening. After killing this guy and getting that thing, he would from then on...

"You... Bang..." Sun Zhu retreated, backing onto the steps of the Great Courtyard. His feet stumbled, and he tripped directly, falling backward. He supported himself with his short sword, but he couldn't stand up again.

"Haha, so you're already finished too. Then there's no need for more nonsense..." Yan Zhenfei saw this and immediately felt relieved. He was really afraid that this old guy would counterattack before he died, after all, he was currently only about the same as a True Qi Realm First Layer.

"Bang..." At this moment, a person suddenly fell from the sky above Sun Zhu's head. Because the falling speed was too fast, they directly smashed through the roof behind Sun Zhu and fell below.

What's going on? Yan Zhenfei suddenly stopped and looked up at the dark sky. He couldn't see anything. How could something suddenly fall?

"Damn it, motherfucker." At this moment, Ren Jie's extremely annoyed curse came from inside the house. Although he wasn't too disheveled, Ren Jie, who had smashed through the roof and fallen onto the table below, breaking the table and barely standing up, cursed angrily.

Ren Jie had heard the entire conversation between Sun Zhu and Yan Zhenfei just now. The Smiling Old Man had clearly temporarily discovered the situation here with his divine sense and intentionally brought Ren Jie over. He had also specifically told Ren Jie that he wouldn't interfere with this matter. If Ren Jie wanted to handle it himself, he could. If he didn't want to, he could just watch.

At this moment, the Smiling Old Man was in the air looking down. He had seen far more cruel things than this. With his current divine sense, if it were fully spread out, he could always discover all sorts of tragedies and misfortunes. Today, he wanted to let this kid Ren Jie truly see blood, to let him see the true face of this world. However, Ren Jie's reaction was more intense than he had imagined. In his opinion, children of great families generally should be relatively indifferent when they see such scenes. After all, they had been exposed to it since childhood and wouldn't care too much about such killings, struggles, and deceit. But he didn't expect Ren Jie to explode as soon as he arrived.

"You said it just now, right? Only dead people are the safest. Then you prepare to die." Ren Jie walked out of the house. Just now, while in the air, he had used his divine sense, and the entire tragic state of the Sun Family was completely imprinted in his mind without missing a single detail. Among the more than a hundred people in the Sun Family, the vast majority were old, weak, women, and children who were powerless to resist, as well as ordinary servants and maids. There were only over twenty guards. The children of the servants and the children of the Sun Family added up to more than a dozen people, which shows that the Sun Family treated people very well, even allowing the servants' children to live together. But at this moment, the old and the young, all were dead.

Whether in his previous life or this life, Ren Jie never considered himself a hero or a good person. He had never thought about these things. He even felt pretty good being a Hedonistic Young Master in the Ren Family now. It was just that he still had spirit and his own bottom line.

"Haha, a kid in the Body Refining Realm actually dares to say such arrogant words..." Although Yan Zhenfei couldn't clearly see Ren Jie's exact level, he could tell that he was only in the Body Refining Realm, and he immediately found it incredibly amusing.

Ren Jie didn't want to waste any more words with this kind of scum, this inhuman guy. The next moment, he exerted force with his feet, and he had already directly rushed out.

Just by relying on the explosive power of his body, Ren Jie's speed at this moment was close to the limit of the Body Refining Realm. In an instant, he was already close to Yan Zhenfei.

"Seeking death." Although his True Qi was exhausted, he was still a True Qi Realm existence. Seeing a kid in the Body Refining Realm arrogantly charging forward head-on, Yan Zhenfei casually swung his long sword. His True Qi surged within his body, instantly attaching to the long sword and emitting a faint light. His speed and strength were completely incomparable to an ordinary Body Refining Realm. This was the existence of the True Qi Realm. Within the third layer, True Qi could be circulated onto weapons, increasing the weapon's attack power, and the speed and strength were also far beyond the Body Refining Realm.

It was truly a Qi Strength that fundamentally surpassed the Body Refining Realm. One was like iron sand particles, while the other was like refined steel. The strength and power were vastly different.

Ren Jie seemed to be charging fiercely, but when he reached Yan Zhenfei and was about to be struck by his long sword, he suddenly exerted force horizontally with his feet. His footwork changed mysteriously, and his body rolled sideways diagonally, narrowly avoiding the upward swing of the long sword.

However, Ren Jie's hands had already formed the Annihilation, directly grabbing towards Yan Zhenfei's throat. The Battle Eight Directions Annihilation was not a joke. Although Ren Jie said it was still a bit short of a Supreme-Grade Martial Skill, in general, it could already be considered a Supreme-Grade Martial Skill. Its profoundness and great power were immediately evident at this moment.

"Not good!" Yan Zhenfei didn't expect that this kid in the Body Refining Realm would have such a profound martial skill. His strongest sword technique was only a Mid-Grade Martial Skill, and this profoundness surpassed his by a hundred times. At the critical moment, he blocked with his arm, directly blocking his throat.

"Rip... Ah..." Ren Jie directly grabbed Yan Zhenfei's arm and tore it fiercely, directly tearing off a piece of flesh from Yan Zhenfei's arm. Yan Zhenfei screamed in pain, and his long sword spun back to slash at Ren Jie, while his body retreated.

At this moment, Yan Zhenfei could barely exert the strength of a True Qi Realm First or Second Layer, while Ren Jie's Qi Strength intensity and body strength were at the level of the Body Refining Realm Ninth Layer. Although his own cultivation was only at the Body Refining Realm Fourth Layer, at this moment, he was still suppressed by the gravity and pressure formation formed by the two hundred and eighty-eight Qi Strength Rings within his body from the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter. But his body strength was still there, and the intensity of the Qi Strength within his body was not much worse than an ordinary Body Refining Realm Eighth Layer.

Most importantly, the Battle Eight Directions Annihilation that Ren Jie displayed was incredibly exquisite. He didn't need to fight head-on at all and could still make Yan Zhenfei struggle to cope. Battle Eight Directions Annihilation, locking onto all eight directions, annihilating the opponent. Every move targeted a vital point, every move was an Annihilation.

Every angle was so exquisite that it was astonishing and unbelievable. No matter how Yan Zhenfei changed, Ren Jie's changes could threaten him.

This, this is definitely not an ordinary martial skill. High-Grade... No, this is very likely a Supreme-Grade Martial Skill.

Damn it, in this remote place, how could a kid in the Body Refining Realm possibly have a Supreme-Grade Martial Skill? How could someone in the Body Refining Realm learn a Supreme-Grade Martial Skill...

Yan Zhenfei didn't even want to believe it in his heart, because even many people who had reached the True Qi Realm Great Perfection couldn't learn Supreme-Grade Martial Skills. People who had reached the Divine Power Realm also wanted to obtain Supreme-Grade Martial Skills to use in conjunction with their divine abilities and spells.

Now, a kid in the Body Refining Realm actually knew a Supreme-Grade Martial Skill, and it was the kind that he had comprehended and could use freely, not just for show. What the hell was this?

No, this was the greatest opportunity of his life. This was his chance to reach the heavens in a single step, and he absolutely couldn't let this kid ruin it. But his mid-grade martial skill sword technique was full of openings under the opponent's supreme-grade martial skill, and being stuck in close combat meant he couldn't create distance or exert any effect.

"Crack..." Just then, Ren Jie avoided his longsword at close range again and directly grabbed his shoulder.

"Ah!" Yan Zhenfei suddenly released the longsword in his hand and fiercely entangled Ren Jie's hands in the opposite direction with both of his own. As he entangled them, his hands also grabbed Ren Jie's shoulders.

"Not good!" Ren Jie didn't have much real combat experience, but he sensed something was wrong. This Yan Zhenfei was clearly going all out, grabbing him to prevent him from unleashing the power of the Battle Eight Directions Annihilation supreme-grade martial skill, but his body's movements at this moment were off.

Just then, Ren Jie saw that as he grabbed him, Yan Zhenfei's head suddenly lowered, as if in a kowtow.

Ren Jie reacted quickly, tilting his head to the side. A ray of light shot out from Yan Zhenfei's hair, moving incredibly fast, clearly a unique mechanism. Fortunately, Ren Jie dodged in time. The light grazed his temple, leaving a bloody mark on his head, but it didn't hit him directly.

"Haha, kid, you react quite fast. But you're dead. A kid in the Body Refining Realm actually has a supreme-grade martial skill on him. It seems I, Yan Zhenfei, am truly lucky today. You're too far off if you think a Body Refining Realm body can compare to someone with True Qi. Does it hurt...?" Yan Zhenfei entangled Ren Jie's hands with his own, gripping his shoulder blades tightly, as if to pierce through them.

He was clearly intending to enhance his body with True Qi and rely on the strength of the True Qi Realm to tear Ren Jie apart. His hands had already dug into Ren Jie's flesh.

"To be honest, it's too childish. You haven't reached the True Qi Realm Sixth Layer or above, so you don't have True Gang Body Protection, right? Ah!" Ren Jie also exerted force with both hands. Their arms were entangled, both gripping the other's shoulders, each trying to twist the other's arms into segments, trying to tear the other apart. Pain, yes, there was some pain, but this pain was far less compared to the pain brought by the gravity and pressure of cultivating the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter. One was a pain that seemed to come from deep within the soul, while the other was just skin-deep pain.

Damn it, how could this be? Yan Zhenfei hadn't expected this kid to be so fierce. His hands had already dug into the flesh and reached the bone, but he could still exert force.

On the contrary, he was in so much pain he was almost collapsing. How could this kid be so young and yet so ruthless? He had undergone special training, how could he possibly...

"Bang bang bang..." The two of them were grappling above, but their feet were constantly shifting. However, Ren Jie was clearly more skilled than Yan Zhenfei. After several exchanges of attacks, Yan Zhenfei was spitting blood from being hit by Ren Jie's knees.

"Ah, True Qi entering the body, break for me!" Yan Zhenfei hadn't expected this guy to be so fierce and hit so hard. His body was also unusually tough. He felt like he was going to be the first to give out. Suddenly, he forcefully channeled a surge of True Qi into Ren Jie's body. He wanted to shatter the Qi strength within him, shatter his meridians, and see how he could still fight him. The Qi strength of the Body Refining Realm was like grains of sand, while the True Qi Realm was like refined steel. Once it rushed in, he would be finished.

"Boom!" Yan Zhenfei's True Qi rushed into Ren Jie's body. Ren Jie immediately felt as if he was being struck by a torrent of magma. If it were an ordinary person's body, their meridians would have been destroyed instantly. But Ren Jie's meridians had been tempered by the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter and were incredibly tough.

However, it was still like a raging torrent of magma. At this moment, the Jade Emperor Art within Ren Jie's body faced immense pressure and challenge.

"Ah!" But even at this moment, Ren Jie didn't let go of this guy's arm. Earlier, he had entangled him because his martial skills were inferior to his own. But now, if he let go, while his True Qi was raging inside him and making it difficult to exert himself, he would be dead for sure. At this moment, Ren Jie didn't consider the Smiling Old Man's presence in his mind. He also believed that the Smiling Old Man wouldn't act if he said he wouldn't. That feeling was absolutely correct. He had chosen to come down, and he would bear everything himself.

He continued to exert force, forcefully activating the Jade Emperor Art Body Refining Chapter. At this moment, Ren Jie's body was undergoing the torment of internal and external pressure.

"Bang... bang..." Persevere, keep circulating. The Jade Emperor Art was operating at its limit at this moment. With pressure inside and out, and facing a life-or-death crisis, the two hundred and eighty-eight Qi strength rings forming chains within Ren Jie's body instantly shattered.

"Boom!" Breakthrough. The Jade Emperor Art finally broke through the fourth layer of the Body Refining Chapter and entered the fifth layer. And his Qi strength instantly reached a level of intensity only possessed by those at the Body Refining Realm Great Perfection. The powerful burst directly blasted the trace of True Qi that Yan Zhenfei had sent into Ren Jie's body back out.

"Ah... crack... crack..." Yan Zhenfei hadn't expected that just when Ren Jie seemed to be failing, he suddenly changed like a different person. He watched with his own eyes as Ren Jie twisted his arm into several segments. The hand he had used to grab Ren Jie's shoulder also fell limply.

"Bang!" Without the slightest hesitation, the moment Ren Jie's fist was free, he directly punched Yan Zhenfei in the heart, killing him instantly.