This might have been the fastest I had ever run in my life.
If I didn't push past that limit, I might be hacked to death.
Luckily, I had already put several meters between us when I started running. By now, only an electric tricycle had caught up with me.
Naturally, I couldn't outrun an electric tricycle, but I wasn't panicking at all, because Granny He wasn't on it.
"Qian Character, Eight Gates Method, Bewildering Soul Formation!"
Soon, there was a tremendous crash as the tricycle smashed through someone's front gate and drove straight into their courtyard.
I could still hear the Village Chief's agonized screams.
I had stabbed him in the asshole, so he definitely couldn't run. I didn't know whether his son would get away.
I had no attention to spare for anything else now. I only hoped nothing more would happen to any of us before the police arrived.
Soon, I reached the entrance to the mountain trail, only to find Seventh Master and Liang Qianqian still waiting there.
Seventh Master had a red thread wound around one finger and was frantically waving me over.
I understood immediately and hurried over to take the other end of the red thread, winding it around my finger too.
"Seventh Master, if we strike them dead with lightning, we won't go to jail, will we...?"
"Strike the trees!"
With that, Seventh Master formed the hand seal for the Spirit-Invoking Art, and I formed the Dao Finger seal.
"Nine Heavens Responding to the Origin Palace, Supreme Jade Purity King, commander of the Five Thunders, whose will moves through the three realms, father of all beings, teacher of all spirits, I respectfully invoke the Nine Heavens Thunder Ancestor!"
"Qian Character, Lightning Art!"
When we finished chanting, neither wind nor clouds stirred, and