The outer Cangwu Mountain Range is covered by towering ancient trees that block out the sun.
The air was filled with the smell of damp, decaying leaves.
Chu Yunfei carried the Abyss-Devouring Sword and walked along the narrow forest path.
He made no attempt to conceal his presence, walking with the ease of someone strolling in their own backyard.
This area, which was originally teeming with monsters, was now unusually quiet.
Because of the exorbitant bounty, a large number of martial artists have flocked to the outer perimeter over the past two weeks. The low-level demonic beasts have long been wiped out, and the remaining ones have been frightened into fleeing into the depths of the mountains.
Yan Guining walked diagonally behind Chu Yunfei, her hand tightly gripping her long sword.
She was on high alert, her eyes scanning the surrounding bushes warily, ready to respond to any possible attack.
Looking at the leisurely figure walking ahead, Yan Guining felt another surge of anger.
Does this guy even realize his current predicament?
Is he afraid people won't be able to find him?
The two walked openly and honestly through the woods.
Less than half an hour had passed.
Suddenly, a series of loud, clattering sounds of tree branches snapping came from an open space not far ahead.
Immediately afterwards.
A dozen or so martial artists, dressed in various styles and exuding Sha Qi, emerged from the dense forest and ran into Chu Yunfei and his companion.
This is a search and capture team hastily assembled by Rogue Cultivator.
These Rogue Cultivator, who spend their lives living on the edge, have eyes that reveal greed and cruelty.
The leader was a one-eyed man who had reached the Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm.
The two met on the forest path and stopped at the same time.
The Rogue Cultivator were taken aback when they saw the man and woman before them.
I never imagined that someone would dare to stroll so brazenly in these treacherous mountains.
The one-eyed man's gaze swept over Yan Guining's stunningly beautiful face, a lewd glint flashing in his eyes.
Then, his gaze fell on Chu Yunfei's face.
With just one glance, the one-eyed man's body stiffened abruptly.
He then pulled a crumpled wanted poster from his pocket with trembling hands.
The face in the portrait was exactly the same as the boy in front of me carrying the black sword!
"Chu... Chu Yunfei!"
The one-eyed man let out a distorted scream.
The dozen or so Rogue Cultivator instantly erupted in excitement, their eyes turning fanatical and filled with extreme ecstasy.
"Boss, it's that good-for-nothing with a bounty on his head from the Heavenly Sword Sect!"
"Hahaha, what I've been searching for has come to me without any effort!"
"We've been searching for half a month and haven't even seen a trace of him. We never expected this kid to be strolling around here with a little girl like that! He's practically a gift from heaven!"
"Capture him alive, and the Earth-grade cultivation technique and the quota for the Heavenly Sword Sect are all ours, brothers!"
The one-eyed man was so excited his eyes almost popped out.
That's a high-level cultivation technique.
For these Rogue Cultivator who had never even seen a Xuan-level cultivation technique, this was an immense fortune that could change their destiny.
"Stop standing there, you bastards!"
One-Eyed Dragon raised his thick-backed machete, stained with dried blood, and roared, "Immortality is at our fingertips! Cripple the men and capture them alive, the women are for the brothers to enjoy! Charge!"
A dozen or so Rogue Cultivator, like hungry wolves spotting a flock of sheep, roared and pounced.
Yan Guining's expression changed.
He was about to forcefully circulate his spiritual power to help.
"Stand still."
Chu Yunfei casually uttered five words.
I can't even be bothered to say a single word to these dead people.
Chu Yunfei flicked his wrist, and the jet-black Abyss-Devouring Sword reflected a cold luster in the sunlight.
The Divine Movement Art underfoot erupted instantly.
At this moment, Chu Yunfei, who was already at the Eighth Level of the Spirit Martial Realm, used this movement technique with terrifying speed.
Only a fading afterimage remained in place.
Where are they?
The rogue Rogue Cultivator at the forefront, at the Third Level of the Spirit Martial Realm, lost sight of his target in a flash.
The next second.
A chilling aura of death swept in from the side.
A domineering black sword light, like lightning in the dark night, sliced through his throat without warning.
Pfft!
The Rogue Cultivator's head flew into the air, and before he could even scream, blood gushed out like a fountain from the smooth cut at the neck.
Chu Yunfei moved like a tiger among sheep, his figure weaving wildly through the crowd.
The hand rises, the sword falls.
Each flash of black sword light inevitably takes away a precious life.
There were no fancy martial arts techniques.
Only absolute power and ultimate speed.
"Wow! He's so fast!"
"My hand! My hand is broken!"
Screams echoed through the dense forest.
As the one-eyed man watched his companions fall one by one like wheat being harvested, the ecstasy in his eyes was instantly replaced by terror.
"Damn it! This kid isn't even at the Qi Condensation Realm, he's a monster!"
The one-eyed man was so terrified that he no longer cared about the immense wealth and turned to use his agility to escape.
"Trying to run now?"
Chu Yunfei's ghostly figure suddenly appeared directly in front of the one-eyed dragon.
I'll fight you to the death!
With nowhere to retreat, the one-eyed dragon gritted his teeth, poured all his spiritual power from the Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm into his thick-backed cleaver, and recklessly slashed down at Chu Yunfei's face.
" Mountain-Splitting Slash!"
The wind howled through the air, its momentum was impressive.
Faced with this desperate attack, Chu Yunfei didn't even try to dodge.
The Devouring Abyss-Devouring Sword delivered a casual upward slash.
Click!
That thick-backed cleaver, infused with refined iron, was as fragile as tofu before the sharpness of the Abyss-Devouring Sword, and was instantly sliced in two.
The black sword light continued its relentless advance.
It cut all the way down from the one-eyed man's chin to his skull.
The one-eyed man's expression froze completely, and a line of blood slowly appeared from the center of his forehead.
Then, his entire body split in two.
Boom!
The body fell to the ground.
In less than ten breaths.
The dozen or so aggressive Rogue Cultivator were all reduced to mangled corpses scattered on the ground.
The dense forest fell silent once more, except for the sound of blood dripping onto withered leaves.
Chu Yunfei flicked the blood beads off the Abyss-Devouring Sword expressionlessly.
Then, with practiced ease, he crouched down and began to search the corpse.
Inferior storage bags, hundreds of low-grade spirit stones, and weapons that looked like scrap metal...
Chu Yunfei accepted everything of value and stuffed it all into his storage ring.
Immediately afterwards, he activated the power of the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate.
With a wave of his hand.
The dozen or so corpses of Rogue Cultivator on the ground vanished into thin air, all thrown into the Divine Cauldron for refining.
The entire process of murder, robbery, and disposing of the body.
It flowed smoothly and was completed in one go.
Standing at the rear, Yan Guining, despite having witnessed Chu Yunfei's ruthless decisiveness before, still couldn't help but tremble at the sight of this scene again.
It's hard to imagine that an eighteen-year-old could do something like this.
"What are you standing there for? Let's go."
After collecting his spoils, Chu Yunfei called out without turning his head and continued striding forward.
For the rest of the day...
The outer perimeter of the Cangwu Mountain Range was completely transformed into a bloody slaughterhouse unilaterally controlled by Chu Yunfei.
Their brazen movements made them like a sitting duck, constantly attracting search teams from various factions.
The second wave consisted of remnants of the Frenzied Saber Sect, a total of eight people. Chu Yunfei killed seven of them instantly with a single Triple Wave Slash, and the remaining one was scared to death.
The third wave consisted of a few arrogant members of small, self-important Lineage who set up crude traps in an attempt to launch a sneak attack.
The trap hasn't been triggered yet.
Chu Yunfei simply used brute force to smash the boulder where they were hiding, and in the process, crushed them into mincemeat.
Fourth wave... Fifth wave...
Whether the other side relies on its superior numbers or resorts to underhanded tactics.
Before Chu Yunfei, who had broken through to the Eighth Level of the Spirit Martial Realm and whose spiritual power far surpassed that of others of the same level, they were all reduced to dust and were instantly killed.
No one could withstand two moves from Chu Yunfei.
We walked along the way.
What remains is a pool of blood, drained of all value.
The thick stench of blood gradually permeated the entire mountain forest, even attracting some low-level carrion-eating demonic beasts, who watched longingly from afar, but dared not approach Chu Yunfei even a fraction of a second.
Yan Guining followed behind.
From the initial shock and fear upon witnessing Chu Yunfei commit murder, to later even developing a sense of numbness.
She stared numbly as those arrogant martial artists, who had just been so domineering, became the dead souls beneath Chu Yunfei's sword in the next second.
She watched numbly as Chu Yunfei skillfully looted the spoils of war time and time again, then made the corpses disappear mysteriously.
Yan Guining looked at the tall, straight back of the man in front of her, whose clothes weren't even wrinkled.
A bizarre yet undeniably real illusion arose in her mind.
Was this really a hunt?
Who exactly is the prey with the bounty on their head?
Those who were blinded by the bounty notice had no idea what kind of monster they were about to face.
The outer perimeter of the Cangwu Mountain Range at this time.
Chu Yunfei's insane killing spree led to the mysterious disappearance of a large number of search and arrest personnel.
Finally, this unusual situation alerted and drew the attention of the major powers that were stationed on the periphery.
The sky gradually darkened.
The shadows stretched long in the depths of the dense forest.
Just as Chu Yunfei finished dealing with the corpses of five Rogue Cultivator and was preparing to continue his journey...
Buzz!
From the depths of the dense forest ahead, an extremely hot and violent surge of fire-attribute spiritual energy suddenly erupted.
Even the moisture in the surrounding air evaporated instantly under this intense heat, making a hissing sound.
Immediately afterwards, a voice filled with rage, like a thunderclap, exploded in the ears of Chu Yunfei and Yan Guining.
"What a vicious little beast!"
"No wonder my Blazing Fire Sect disciples have been losing contact one after another!"
"So it was all because of your terrible handiwork, you piece of trash!"