-Clang!
Yun Jin's longsword fell to the ground, and he staggered back two steps.
If there had been a staring contest at that moment, his eyes would undoubtedly have been the widest, earning him first prize.
"My little brother! That's impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Qin Yelan's beautiful eyes widened too, disbelief written all over her face.
"He really killed a King Realm powerhouse, and the most notorious of the four bandit chiefs at that."
Chai Shuyu kicked Qin Lang in the chest, her sole remaining eye glaring at him with furious rage.
"If you hadn't stepped in to stop me, our chief wouldn't have had to die."
"Now I suspect you did it on purpose, just to give him the chance to land a killing blow."
Qin Lang's mouth hung slightly open. Unable to defend himself, he could only stare at Yun Che nearby with utter venom.
-Shhk!
Shocked as everyone was, the battle still had to continue.
As one sneaky bastard quietly stabbed through a bandit's kidney, the slaughter resumed, and the melee raged on.
"Instructor Yun is mighty!"
Yang Guo shouted in wild excitement. Every student in Class Nine was flushed with exhilaration, cheering at the top of their lungs.
Yun Che's little fangirl Ruan Caocao, in particular, broke through to the early Acquired Realm on the spot. When she stabbed people, she was fast, precise, and ruthless.
She seemed to have awakened a strange, absurdly powerful talent. Other people lost their judgment when their emotions ran too high, impairing their fighting ability.
Ruan Caocao was different. The more excited she became and the more her emotions spiraled out of control, the stronger she grew, and the more precise and ruthless her stabbing became.
Her companions were dumbfounded, watching the adorkable girl weave through the crowd, swinging her sword.
"Is she still the Ruan Caocao who only ever read books?"
"Why do I feel like she's barely any weaker than me now?"
Wei Hong kept stabbing people in bewilderment, having long forgotten what swordsmanship was supposed to look like. All he knew now was thrusting, stabbing, jabbing, and skewering.
With his strength greatly increased, Yun Che began another round of snatching and killing.
Red Skull's men, their eyes bloodshot, abandoned their current opponents and charged at Yun Che in fury.
They hated Yun Che with a burning passion. Without their King Realm powerhouse chief to hold the fort, their good days were over.
They would no longer be able to throw their weight around as before, and Red Skull Island would change hands. Most likely, the other three bandit groups would occupy it and divide it among themselves.
Of course, that depended on those three chiefs, who were now at the end of their ropes themselves, making it out of Falling Moon City alive.
"Come on, then!"
Yun Che drew a light breath. Since Thunder Shadow Divine Movement had already been exposed, he no longer held back. Purple lightning reappeared beneath his feet, and he darted among the bandits like a bolt of lightning.
Acquired or Innate, it made no difference. Before Yun Che, they all fell to a single sword strike.
-Aah!
"Fall back! We're no match for him! Don't lose your heads!"
"Second-in-command! Help!"
Red Skull's men began retreating, and the members of the other three bandit groups started fleeing too. Yun Che's sword had simply terrified them.
Who fought a battle like this? They had all been getting along just fine, trading sword strikes and saber slashes, wounds for wounds, lives for lives.
But now, with him doing this, the whole order of things had collapsed. Forget fighting-even their sword hands were trembling.
Chai Shuyu ignored her subordinates' pleas for help. Instead, she quietly moved away from Yun Che, retreating rapidly toward the outskirts of Falling Moon City.
She was no fool. With his lightning-fast movement technique, even ten of her wouldn't be enough for him to cut down.
Thunder Shadow Divine Movement!
It was Ye Qingshuang's signature technique!
An exceedingly rare, hard-to-find top-grade movement technique!
It could be said that Ye Qingshuang's presence was precisely why Falling Moon City had survived the harassment of their four bandit groups to this day.
"Second-in-command?"
Yun Che followed the Red Skull underling's gaze and saw a one-eyed woman quietly backing away, clearly hoping to escape amid the chaos.
"Leaving? It won't be that easy."
In the story, Chai Shuyu was someone who took particular delight in torturing women to death.
People said women shouldn't make life difficult for other women, but those words meant nothing to Chai Shuyu.
Not only did she torment women, but the more hardship a woman already endured, the more she wanted to crush her.
Many women in small towns had gone mad not because they couldn't withstand the pressures of life, but because Chai Shuyu had driven them insane.
Feng Chu's torture, her battered body, her mental breakdown, and the loss of an eye and an arm were largely this second-in-command's doing as well.
"Though my appearance kept you from laying a hand on little Feng Chu, since we've crossed paths, I might as well finish you off. Consider it a little justice for the women you drove mad or drove to their deaths."
Seeing Yun Che rush toward her, a flicker of panic crossed Chai Shuyu's face. His words also suggested that he knew her well, leaving her deeply puzzled.
As she ran, Chai Shuyu shouted to Xu Asi in the air, "Chief Xu, save me! I'm willing to bring all of Red Skull into Throat-Cutter!"
Unfortunately, Xu Asi could barely save himself. He was already giving everything he had just to escape Qin Xiao.
Fatty Zou and Big-Bearded Lu were in the same predicament. They exchanged a glance, then suddenly thrust their palms toward Xu Asi.
As for themselves, they turned and flew at full speed toward the Wuxia Mountains, hoping to use the opportunity to put some distance between themselves and Qin Xiao.
"Asi, sorry! If we get the chance, we'll definitely kill that old dog Qin and avenge you!"
"Bastards!"
Xu Asi gritted his teeth in fury. He had never expected his two allies to betray him at the critical moment.
Left with no choice, and unwilling to die beneath Qin Xiao's sword, he could only resist with all his strength.
Qin Xiao snorted coldly and unleashed Drifting Willow-Step. Moving with tremendous speed, he drove his sword hard into Xu Asi's heart, then pursued Fatty Zou and Big-Bearded Lu.
With such a perfect opportunity, he wouldn't sleep soundly afterward if he failed to eliminate both of them in one fell swoop.
"Here he comes!"
Seeing Xu Asi plummet from the sky, Yun Che hesitated briefly, then abandoned his pursuit of Chai Shuyu.
He changed direction and rushed toward Xu Asi, unleashing Divine Hand while swiftly sending a streak of sword light slashing toward him.
Though Xu Asi's wound was fatal, his strength as a King Realm powerhouse meant he wouldn't breathe his last so quickly. Yun Che was gambling on landing that final blow.
As long as his slash connected, the death of this second King Realm powerhouse would most likely count as his kill too. That was the importance of the last hit in a game.
Chai Shuyu breathed a sigh of relief. She couldn't quite understand why this man, who had clearly concealed his strength, was so obsessed with killing King Realm powerhouses.
"What an irritating little ant!"
"Even if I die, I'll take you down with me."
In his fury, Xu Asi coughed up several more mouthfuls of blood.
He absolutely could not die at the hands of such a nobody, as Hong Futian had.
For a King Realm powerhouse like him, that would be an outright, unspeakable humiliation.
The instant Xu Asi crashed to the ground, he slashed at Yun Che with all his might. A dazzling streak of sword light a hundred meters long hurtled toward Yun Che.
Forget Grandmaster Realm powerhouses—even a King Realm powerhouse would have trouble dodging such a powerful strike.
However, he didn't know that after breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm, Yun Che's movement speed had increased considerably. Now, using the top-grade Thunder Shadow Divine Movement, he moved so fast it made one's scalp tingle.
In a brief instant, Yun Che dodged the sword light and appeared before Xu Asi, their faces barely a fist's breadth apart.
Yun Che smiled. "That last strike wasn't bad. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on me."
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