No, no--
Huang Jingshan had an extremely strong will to survive; even after being pierced through the forehead by the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, he did not die immediately.
He suddenly turned around, his eyes fixed on the direction where Ye Xuan was.
The moment he saw Ye Xuan, resentment and despair welled up in his eyes.
He had already escaped from the merchant ship, so how could he have perished at Ye Xuan's hands?
He was unwilling to accept it!
Ye Xuan snorted coldly, not bothering to pay him any attention. Under his control, the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword made several more "poof" sounds.
Huang Jingshan collapsed to the ground in despair, and died!
In the sky, a star suddenly fell and exploded!
Ye Xuan quickly put away Huang Jingshan's storage ring and Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, and left without saying a word.
All 108 meridians in his body were open, his powerful Spiritual Qi surged, and he used the Wandering Dragon Steps to its fullest extent.
In just a few flashes, it disappeared into the distance.
Not far away, the two Half-Saint powerhouses stared blankly at this scene, unable to recover for a long time.
It was utterly unbelievable that a cultivator was hiding right under their noses.
After regaining their senses, they couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.
With Ye Xuan's abilities, if he were to launch a sneak attack on them, wouldn't they also be unlikely to escape unscathed?
Not long after, several more figures arrived, soaring through the air.
The leader was a Saint Realm expert from the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
What happened?
After appearing, the Saint Realm expert immediately asked in a deep voice.
The two Half-Saint snapped out of their daze, and one of them respectfully replied, "We discovered traces of the Fairy Yue and the Madman here earlier, so we rushed over."
He recounted everything he knew in detail, and finally pointed to the deceased Huang Jingshan, saying:
"This man was the madman, but he was killed. However, the person who killed him did not show himself; instead, he escaped."
The Half-Saint still seemed somewhat puzzled when it came to the last sentence.
Clearly, they didn't understand why Ye Xuan wanted to escape.
Logically, shouldn't Ye Xuan have gone to the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association Guild to claim his reward after killing the madman?
He felt something was off.
Upon hearing this, even the Saint Realm couldn't help but frown slightly.
His Saint Realm Domain instantly landed on Huang Jingshan's corpse, and after a moment, he suddenly said coldly, "This person is not that madman, but a deacon of my Thousand Leaves Merchant Association."
As a Saint Realm expert, it was impossible for him to know all the lower-level figures in the Thousand Leaves Merchant Association.
However, they naturally recognized Half-Saint level experts like Xue Zhaohai and Huang Jingshan.
However, he never expected that Huang Jingshan, who had already fled in fear, would die here.
Considering that Yue Mei had appeared here earlier, he could easily guess that Ye Xuan must have made the move.
"Ah?"
Upon hearing this, the two Half-Saint were both dumbfounded, clearly still in shock.
The Saint Realm didn't waste any words. He quickly sent out several rainbow-colored signals and then asked, "Which direction did that murderer and Yue Mei go?"
"Over there," the two Half-Saint immediately pointed in a direction.
Upon hearing this, the Saint Realm expert did not hesitate. As his Saint Realm Domain expanded, he flashed and quickly disappeared from the spot.
The Thousand Leaves Merchant Association of Commerce suffered enormous losses in this incident.
No, it should be said that they lost face big time.
They initially thought that killing Ye Xuan would be a piece of cake with the help of the ten Saint Realm experts. However, they never expected that unexpected events would occur one after another.
Not only did so many Venerable Half-Saint powerhouses perish, but even the Saint Realm powerhouse Yong Xiaoyi went missing.
If they can't win over Ye Xuan and Yue Mei, they'll really have no face to go back.
"I'd like to see where you think you can escape to."
He sneered, took a step, and his figure vanished in an instant.
However, he soon couldn't help but stop.
Because a woman appeared in front of him.
A woman dressed in black with black hair, alluring and sexy, yet barefoot, exuding a queen-like aura.
However, this woman appeared extremely strange, half-real and half-illusory, as if she had no physical form.
Even though Nangong Hong was a Saint Realm expert who had seen many storms, he couldn't help but feel a little horrified at the sight.
"Who are you?"
Nangong Hong couldn't help but stop in his tracks, his pupils suddenly contracting as he asked warily.
The woman's appearance was extremely strange, happening without a sound or trace; even his Saint Realm Domain couldn't detect it at all.
The woman in black looked at Nangong Hong, but couldn't help licking her lips. Her burning gaze was as if she were looking at food.
"Who I am is not important. What's important is that you're going to die." The woman in black didn't answer Nangong Hong's question at all, but said mockingly.
Upon hearing this, Nangong Hong immediately realized that this woman had come with ill intentions.
He dared not hesitate for even a moment, and his Saint Realm aura suddenly erupted, his body radiating golden light.
The next second, accompanied by a loud explosion, he took a step forward and blasted towards the woman in black.
The woman in black watched this scene, but remained completely unmoved.
Looking at the black-clad woman with a hint of mockery in her eyes, Nangong Hong felt even more uneasy, but he did not stop.
He shattered the void with a single punch, which landed heavily on the woman in black.
But the next moment, something even more terrifying happened.
Because his attack landed on empty air, actually piercing through the black-clad woman's body.
No physical entity?
Illusory?
How the hell do we fight this?
Nangong Hong's scalp tingled instantly; he was utterly horrified.
The woman in black smiled brightly, and suddenly pointed out with her jade-colored fingers.
This finger strike was ordinary, powerless, and seemed unremarkable.
But to Nangong Hong's horror, he was unable to dodge it.
Moreover, he saw many terrifying scenes from that single finger.
The world was dark, the sun and moon were gone, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and corpses floated everywhere.
That single finger seemed to contain endless, terrifying Daoist energy, and it also seemed to have evolved into a world.
He seemed to see Asura Battlefield.
With a loud bang.
A finger quickly landed on his brow, and he was horrified to discover that his Saint Realm Body was beginning to crack and shatter.
"Who... who are you?" Nangong Hong was terrified, but he couldn't hear an answer at all.
With that single finger strike, he vanished completely.
His Daoist aura was completely devoured, and he quickly turned into a puddle of mud.
After absorbing Nangong Hong essence, the woman in black couldn't help but smack her lips. Without even glancing at Nangong Hong's storage ring, her figure blurred and vanished instantly.
What's going on?
Ye Xuan felt like he was going crazy, because just now, his head suddenly started to throb with pain.
My head is throbbing, and I feel completely disoriented.
Although it was only for a moment, the feeling was incredibly unpleasant for him.
When Ye Xuan regained consciousness, he was surprised to find a corpse and a storage ring in front of him.
"Holy crap! What does this mean? Who killed him? Did a windfall fall from the sky?"
Ye Xuan stared at the storage ring, utterly dumbfounded.
In particular, he was completely dumbfounded when he saw the abundant resources inside the storage ring.
The storage ring of the Saint Realm expert... Saint Realm expert has actually perished?
What exactly happened?