A Frenzied Slaughter, Soaring Attributes

"Does anyone have a problem with this?"

Li Dao turned to look at the others.

If they wanted to retreat, he would not refuse. But if they wanted him to leave, he would at least cut down a few enemies first, no matter what. He could hardly come all this way for nothing.

Xu Hu said nothing, an unnatural, feral aura radiating from him.

Little Madman seemed to understand as well, tearing the cloth strip out of his mouth and baring his teeth at the camp.

"What hasn't an old man like me seen? This is nothing."

Despite his blunder, Old Ghost remained brimming with confidence.

The last one, Shen San, saw that none of the other four had any objections and could only steel himself and say, "Of course I have no problem either."

Li Dao nodded. "Then let's go."

He drew the Black Iron Saber at his waist, turned, and charged straight into the camp.

"Arooo!"

With a roar, Xu Hu immediately followed.

Standing on Xu Hu's shoulder, Little Madman shouted and screamed as well.

Old Ghost shook his head at the three charging ahead. "Young people are always so impulsive."

He took several bottles and jars from his clothes and poured their contents into a gourd, walking toward the camp with an eerie smile.

Watching the four leave, Shen San gritted his teeth and followed.

If these people died, he would meet no better end. He might as well stake everything on this.

"Who are you?"

Li Dao was soon spotted, and the Third Prince of Falling Cloud's guards immediately challenged him.

Their only answer, however, was a sweep of saber light.

In an instant, the Black Iron Saber slit all three guards' throats.

The familiar, comforting chimes rang in Li Dao's ears.

[One enemy killed. Attributes gained: 0.18]

[One enemy killed. Attributes gained: 0.20]

[One enemy killed. Attributes gained: 0.21]

Li Dao smiled in satisfaction at such generous returns.

The guards nearby had witnessed the scene as well.

"The enemy's here! Get him!"

"There's an enemy over here too! But he's huge!"

"Ah! There's a madman over here!"

"What is this? It hurts so much!"

Elsewhere, Xu Hu and the others had broken into the camp from different directions.

The already chaotic camp instantly grew even noisier.

Meanwhile.

Inside the Falling Cloud tribe's main tent.

"Jin Sheng, what's happening outside? Why is it so noisy?"

The Third Prince of Falling Cloud rose from his bed, rubbing his eyes and frowning.

Jin Sheng stepped forward and dropped to one knee. "Your Highness, enemies have come to assassinate you. The guards are fighting them outside."

"Assassinate me?"

The Third Prince of Falling Cloud jolted fully awake in fright and hurriedly asked, "Why would anyone want to assassinate me?"

Jin Sheng's expression darkened. Hadn't he already explained why, only to have his warning thrown back in his face?

But this was the man he was tasked with protecting, so he could only say, "Someone may be trying to sabotage your negotiations with the Tamu Tribe, Your Highness."

"Someone really is trying to harm me!"

Amid his anger, the Third Prince of Falling Cloud suddenly grew nervous and asked Jin Sheng, "The assassins won't actually break in here, will they?"

Jin Sheng rose confidently. "Rest assured, Your Highness. I checked just now, and there are only five assassins. They cannot get past three hundred guards to reach you, not to mention that I'm here as well."

The Third Prince of Falling Cloud relaxed a little, then suddenly grew interested. "Then can I go outside and watch how these assassins die?"

Jin Sheng initially intended to refuse, but then he thought that letting the Third Prince see his guards displaying their might might earn them more of his trust. Almost inexplicably, he agreed.

"With me here, Your Highness can watch without fear."

"Then let's go."

"After you, Your Highness."

Inside the camp, Li Dao wielded the Black Iron Saber with the Gale Saber Technique, cutting through the guards with none able to stop him.

Wherever his blade passed, severed limbs or showers of blood followed.

His keen perception allowed him to block every attack they made, his defense so tight that not a drop could slip through.

Watching the attribute points steadily rise on his panel, he slaughtered them with ever greater exhilaration.

Elsewhere.

The others were also slaughtering freely.

Standing two and a half meters tall, Xu Hu was a humanoid tank among the guards. He used no weapon, relying entirely on his fists as he struck left and right, yet not a single person could get close to him.

Little Madman was now truly unleashing his madness, using his small, agile body to dart among the guards and kill them with surprise attacks.

Every so often, he would climb back onto Xu Hu's shoulder to bare his teeth at everyone around them or let out a few roars.

It seemed less like killing and more like playing.

The strangest scene of all was on Old Ghost's side.

His earlier unreliable antics had made it difficult to gauge just how capable he was.

Now, however, he carried a gourd and released poison everywhere.

Wherever the poison gas drifted, the guards who inhaled it instantly developed bloodshot eyes.

Then, as though infected with madness, they began biting everyone around them, friend and foe alike.

It truly confirmed what Old Ghost's file had said: he had never killed anyone with poison.

Now it appeared that his poison indeed did not kill people. Those poisoned merely slaughtered one another.

As for Shen San, he perfectly embodied his role as the team's ornamental attachment.

He ran and hid here and there by himself, doing who knew what.

Jin Sheng lifted the main tent's flap and enthusiastically beckoned. "Look, Your Highness. Your guards are fighting with their lives to keep you safe."

The next moment, a figure suddenly came flying toward them from afar.

"Your Highness, watch out!"

Reacting swiftly, Jin Sheng kicked the figure away.

Only after the figure landed did he realize that he had kicked one of his own men.

"Kill!"

Suddenly, a roar rang out.

Jin Sheng turned again and saw a towering giant charging headlong toward him, his face ferocious.

It was Xu Hu, his feral nature unleashed.

His upper body was bare, every muscle sharply defined, and he bore dozens of wounds.

His muscles were so formidable that the wounds had only cut his flesh, amounting to nothing more than minor injuries.

His fists were scarlet, coated in bloody froth.

At that moment, Xu Hu seemed less like a man than a maddened tiger.

Little Madman stood on Xu Hu's shoulder, shrieking wildly and occasionally pouncing onto a guard's face to tear and bite with his claws and teeth.

"Ah!"

The Third Prince of Falling Cloud had just stepped out of the tent and happened to witness the scene.

Pampered all his life, he had never seen anything like this. He shuddered uncontrollably and felt warmth spreading through his crotch.

"Jin Sheng, hurry... hurry and stop them!"

The Third Prince of Falling Cloud pointed at Xu Hu and Little Madman as he spoke urgently.

As a martial artist at the Second Grade of the Acquired Realm, Jin Sheng naturally noticed the Third Prince of Falling Cloud's condition. Loyal though he was, a trace of contempt still flickered in his eyes.

Looking at Xu Hu and Little Madman, he frowned. "Your Highness, I suggest we let the guards hold them off first. There are still three other assassins. It would be better for me to stay by your side and protect you."

The Third Prince of Falling Cloud cared nothing for that. The dampness between his legs filled him with overwhelming shame. He had only one thought: killing those two creatures nearby who had humiliated him.

"As the Third Prince, I order you to deal with those two."

"Your Highness, then your safety..."

"Have the other guards protect me for now. Go deal with those two freaks first."

"But..."

"Do you intend to defy your superior?"

That silenced Jin Sheng. He knew he had no choice but to act; he could not bear the charge of insubordination.

Jin Sheng summoned the dozen or so guards nearby. "Protect His Highness."

Leaving them with that instruction, Jin Sheng charged decisively toward Xu Hu and Little Madman.

All he wanted now was to wash away the humiliation he had suffered at the Third Prince's hands with their lives, and vent the resentment in his heart.

"Die!"

Jin Sheng reached Xu Hu first and threw a powerful punch.

Sensing Jin Sheng's strength, Xu Hu dared not be careless. He roared and swung his sandbag-sized fist to meet him.

Bang!

Their fists collided with a thunderous boom, and the resulting shock wave swept up a layer of dirt from the ground.

Feeling the force transmitted through his arm, Jin Sheng's expression changed. Then he gritted his teeth. "Get back!"

He unleashed the true qi within him, driving more force into his stalled fist.

The sudden surge of strength sent Xu Hu staggering backward.

A trace of confusion flashed through Xu Hu's savage eyes, as though he too was surprised by his opponent's strength, but he quickly recovered.

On the other side.

Jin Sheng was deeply shocked. He had discovered that his opponent had not used even a trace of true qi in their clash, relying entirely on brute strength, yet still forcing him to use eighty percent of his power.

What kind of freak was this?

Perhaps because he had found an opponent he could fight to his heart's content, Xu Hu grinned, his smile somewhat ferocious.

"Kill!"

With a sudden roar, he charged straight at Jin Sheng.

Coming back to his senses, Jin Sheng drew the long saber at his waist.

He could see that the opponent before him was less like a man than a beast-a fierce tiger.

If a normal person possessed such brute strength, he might have been more cautious. But if it was a beast, he had nothing to fear.

After all, there was ultimately a gulf between humans and beasts.

Li Dao grew increasingly proficient with the Gale Saber Technique. Countless guards had been killed or wounded by his hand, and corpses littered the ground around him.

In the end, the remaining guards only dared surround him. Not one dared charge recklessly forward, afraid of following their dead comrades into the grave.

Taking advantage of the lull, he spared a moment to glance at his panel.

[Master: Li Dao]

[Physique: 9.38]

[Available attributes: 8.69]

Although he had already suspected as much, the actual number of available attribute points still startled him.

His available attributes were nearly equal to his current Physique. In other words, allocating them could almost double it.

An irrepressible excitement welled up inside him, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

The sight terrified the surrounding guards, who thought this murderous fiend was about to attack them again.

Some had even begun backing away.

They reacted this way because, throughout their prolonged encirclement, forty or fifty of them had already been killed or wounded-a sixth of their total force.

Yet they had never managed to inflict even the slightest injury on him, not so much as a scratch.

More frightening still, all their maneuvering during the battle had left them exhausted, while the man before them had not even taken a single heavy breath. He looked human, yet seemed like a monster that knew no fatigue.

Facing an enemy like this, with no hope in sight, how could they not fall apart?

"Die!"

Suddenly, an exceptionally loud shout rang out in the distance.

Then a tremendous commotion erupted not far away.

"Who is that?"

Li Dao instinctively looked toward the source of the sound.

Anyone capable of creating such a tremendous disturbance had to be an expert.

The voice he had heard was unfamiliar, so the most likely explanation was that an expert stood among these guards.

That meant one of his companions had encountered this hidden expert.

At that thought, Li Dao swept his gaze over the surrounding guards, flicked the blood from the Black Iron Saber, and walked toward the sound.

Seeing this, the guards blocking his path hurriedly scattered, terrified that the monster before them might casually cut them down as he passed.

Although Li Dao regretted leaving all this meat already delivered to his mouth, he was not ruthless enough to abandon his teammates.

They were only a temporary team, and all of them were rather unhinged, but since he was their leader, he had to bring them back just as he had brought them out.

Especially when he should already have the strength to handle the situation.