Intercepted and Killed on the Way
In Demon Capital, on the seventh basement floor of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, in a quiet room.
The elderly man in Tang suit, who had been sitting upright on the futon and dreaming of "using someone else to do his dirty work," suddenly shuddered!
"Bang!"
He slammed his hand on the mahogany coffee table beside him, and the hard wood instantly turned into a pile of dust.
Just a moment ago, a specially made communication jade talisman he had placed in his bosom emitted an extremely piercing cracking sound!
The shattering of the jade talisman signifies not only the raid on the trading point in the abandoned factory area in the east of the city, but also... the fall of the Pan Family patriarch, the pillar of the Mid-stage True Power Realm!
"How could this be?! The Pan Family... is finished?!"
The old man in the Tang suit's originally rosy complexion instantly turned deathly pale, his cloudy eyes filled with disbelief and extreme terror.
"Who did this? Resisters? Or Night Watchers?!"
His mind raced, but he quickly realized that at this critical juncture, whoever made the move, Myriad Treasures Pavilion, this underground money bag, was definitely doomed!
"Escape! We must escape immediately!"
As a rogue cultivator at the Meridian Opening Realm Sixth Layer, he served the Pan Family family for resources, not to be buried with them!
Without hesitation, he turned around, not even bothering to take the antique paintings and calligraphy that he usually treasured in the quiet room, and smashed a painting of a tiger descending a mountain on the wall with a single palm strike.
Behind the wall, a small, extremely well-hidden vault was revealed.
"Click, click..."
His hands moved like blurs as he rapidly entered an extremely complex password. With the verification of his true energy passing, the vault door sprang open with a "whoosh."
There were no piles of cash inside, only a few extremely exquisite jade boxes and a top-tier anonymous federal black card.
The old man grabbed the black card and jade box without even glancing at them, and stuffed them directly into his personal storage bag.
As long as the green hills remain, there's no fear of the firewood burning!
He glanced at the map marked with a red cross on the wall, and sneered, "That kid who killed the Gray Wolf in a flash, consider yourself lucky! I don't have time for you today!"
"Boom!"
The old man's Meridian Opening energy surged forth, transforming him into a solid, earth-yellow streak of light that crashed through the alloy ceiling of the quiet room and hurtled toward a well-hidden escape passage above the ground!
It was so fast that it even created a sonic boom in the air!
at the same time.
The top floor of an abandoned skyscraper not far from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
Dongfang Yueming stood with his arms crossed in the howling night wind.
His [Illusion-Breaking Void Pupils] had been pushed to its limit; in his gray-white eyes, the energy flow of the entire underground building of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion was as clearly visible as the lines on the palm of one's hand.
He witnessed the experts from the three major families flood into the Myriad Treasures Pavilion like a tidal wave, saw the usually high-ranking managers and thugs being ruthlessly slaughtered, and witnessed an extremely bloody plunder of wealth.
"These three powerful families are really behaving rudely."
A mocking smile curled at the corner of Dongfang Yueming's lips.
Just as he was about to look away and find something else...
"Um?"
His Divine Sense was extremely sharp, and he detected an extremely powerful, even somewhat panicked, fluctuation of true energy on the seventh underground level. It was fleeing towards the outside of the city at an incredible speed along an extremely hidden pipe!
"Meridian Opening Realm Sixth Layer?"
A glint One Flash in Dongfang Yueming's eyes. "So, this is the elder of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion."
"Trying to run away? Did you ask me first?"
Dongfang Yueming gave a cold laugh.
"Buzz!"
[Taixu Roaming Dragon Heaven-Surpassing Steps]!
His figure vanished like Ghost merging into the Xukong, disappearing instantly from the top of the skyscraper.
In the outskirts of Demon Capital, in a desolate, uninhabited forest.
The old man in the Tang suit moved like a stray dog, frantically darting through the dense forest. He was incredibly fast, and with each step he left a deep crater in the ground.
"Huff... huff..."
He gasped for breath, glancing back at the brightly lit Demon Capital, his eyes filled with relief at surviving the ordeal, and a hint of extremely vicious resentment.
"The three great families! I will settle this score with you sooner or later!"
He touched the storage bag in his arms, feeling a little more at ease.
"With this initial capital and a few core martial arts techniques, I can easily make a comeback in any second-tier city!"
Just as he was about to slow down and take a breather.
"A comeback? I think you're dreaming."
A voice, extremely flat and hoarse, yet seemingly carrying the chill of death, came without warning from a towering ancient tree in front of him!
"Who?!"
The old man in the Tang suit felt his hair stand on end. His true energy, at the Meridian Opening Realm Sixth Layer, erupted like a volcano in an instant, forming a thick layer of earth-yellow true energy shield on his body!
He suddenly looked up.
In the pale moonlight, he saw a figure wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a silver mask, standing casually on an extremely thin branch with his hands in his pockets.
That branch wasn't even slightly bent!
"Who are you?!" The old man's pupils contracted sharply as he demanded. To appear here at this critical juncture, and to block his path so stealthily, meant he was an extremely formidable enemy!
"Who I am?"
Dongfang Yueming watched as the frightened bird slowly drifted down from the branch and landed ten feet in front of the old man.
"Weren't you just in the office, trying to kill me?"
"What, I've come to you in person, and you don't recognize me?"
Upon hearing this statement...
The old man in the Tang suit was struck dumb, frozen in place, his old eyes staring intently at Dongfang Yueming, his face full of disbelief!
"You... you're the one who bought Qi Technique from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and instantly killed Gray Wolf... that out-of-town newbie?!"
The old man's voice became shrill and distorted, "How is this possible! Your cultivation level is clearly only..."
"Peak Blood Transformation Realm? Or Qi Gathering?"
Dongfang Yueming chuckled disdainfully, "You Rat who hide in the gutter and scheme against others, that's all you've got."
"Arrogant!"
After the initial shock, the old man in the Tang suit was replaced by an extremely strong sense of humiliation and murderous intent!
He's a top expert at the Meridian Opening Realm Sixth Layer! He's a well-known figure in Demon Capital!
How dare this brat, whose true energy couldn't even be detected at all, spout such nonsense in front of him!
"I don't care how you concealed your cultivation or how you came here in advance to ambush me!"
The old man's eyes were bloodshot, and his face was contorted with rage. "Since you, this fat sheep, have willingly delivered yourself to my door to die, then today I will devour you whole, skin and bones, to make up for my losses at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion!"
"Boom--!!!"
The old man stopped talking and his extremely powerful earth-attribute true energy erupted from his body!
He rapidly formed hand seals in front of his chest, and the surrounding soil and rocks seemed to come alive, frantically converging towards his arms!
"Earth Grade Qi Technique - Great Wilderness Earth-Splitting Palm!"
"Die!!!"
The old man roared and pushed out with both palms!
Two enormous hands, each the size of a house and composed entirely of extremely dense, earth-yellow true energy and rock, crushed down towards Dongfang Yueming with an incredibly heavy, terrifying pressure that seemed capable of crushing a mountain!
With this attack, he even sucked the air out of Dongfang Yueming, blocking all his escape routes!
Faced with such a terrifying killing move that could drive an ordinary Early-stage Meridian Opening Realm to despair.
Dongfang Yueming didn't even have the interest to hide.
"Earth Grade Qi Technique?"
A chilling smile played on his lips, hidden beneath the mask.
"Too weak."
"Buzz!"
Dongfang Yueming did not use any fancy Qi Technique.
He simply raised his right hand casually, bringing his index and middle fingers together to form a sword-like gesture.
In that instant, he precisely mobilized a wisp of the supreme true energy within his body, [Top-Tier Qi Gathering Perfection: Purple Qi Comes from the East], which converged at his fingertips along an extremely mysterious trajectory.
Heaven Grade Qi Technique Ultimate Skill - [Sumeru Mustard Seed Formless Slaughter]!
"Break."
Dongfang Yueming waved his hand gently.
There was no earth-shattering sound, nor dazzling light.
Not even a ripple was created in the air.
But in the old man's extremely terrified eyes...
His proudest achievement was the Earth Grade "Great Wilderness Earth-Splitting Palm," which he had painstakingly cultivated for thirty years to near Major Accomplishment.
The instant the fingertips touched Dongfang Yueming's, that unseen power...
"Pfft!"
It's like an extremely fragile soap bubble being pierced by a red-hot steel needle!
The two enormous rock-like palms of true energy did not explode. Instead, starting from the point where their fingertips touched, the explosions occurred with extreme strangeness and speed...
Vanished!
It turned into the finest dust and dissipated in the night wind!
"This... this is impossible!!!"
The old man in the Tang suit let out an extremely shrill scream, even with a hint of desperate crying!
His internal energy defense was instantly shattered, and that invisible, terrifying killing power pierced through his chest without any hindrance!
"Bang!"
The old man's body stiffened abruptly, his eyes bulged, and he looked down at his chest in disbelief.
There were no wounds bleeding there.
But he could clearly feel that his heart, meridians, and even soul were completely torn to pieces by an extremely domineering force in that instant!
"You... what kind of monster are you...?"
The old man uttered his last few words with difficulty, then his body fell straight backward, crashing onto the ground with a "thud," and he was silent forever.
A powerful expert at the Meridian Opening Realm Sixth Layer, and a senior elder of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, was instantly killed by a single finger!
Dongfang Yueming lowered his hand, walked to the old man's corpse, and skillfully pulled off the storage bag that the old man had hidden close to his body.
A sweep of Divine Sense.
"Wow, that old fox, he didn't forget to take his belongings with him when he ran away."
A hint of joy flashed in Dongfang Yueming's eyes.
Inside the storage bag, besides the top-tier federal black card with a face value of twenty million,
Most eye-catching were two extremely exquisite jade boxes, and a longsword lying quietly in the corner, exuding an extremely sharp and even frosty sword aura.
"The material of this sword..."
Dongfang Yueming took out his longsword and flicked the blade lightly with his finger.
"Zheng--!"
A crisp, clear sword cry, seemingly capable of Dragon Roar Through the Nine Heavens, resounded throughout the mountains and forests.
"Forged from S-grade alloy, the sword's interior is even engraved with a miniature array capable of perfectly conducting and amplifying true energy. A fine sword!"
Weapons of this caliber correspond to the combat power of the Meridian Opening Realm expert. They are extremely rare and priceless divine weapons in the Demon Capital City!
Dongfang Yueming put away the S-grade longsword with great satisfaction.
He then opened one of the jade boxes.
Inside, lying quietly, was a jade slip emitting a rich, earthy yellow glow.
[Ding! You have learned the Profound Grade Meridian Opening Method - "Vast Earth Bears All Things Meridian Opening Art" (0/1800, not yet Entry)!]
"Another Profound Grade Meridian Opening Method!"
Dongfang Yueming's lips curled up slightly.
With the addition of the "Azure Wood Nether-Penetrating Art" given to him by Hong Gui, he now possesses two Profound Grade Meridian Opening Method. He's taken another significant step closer to his goal of synthesizing Heaven Grade!
"This trip was worthwhile."