That Person's Back Looked Like Senior Brother's

Cloud Dream Marsh.

Lakes and marshes spread across the area, miasma lingered year-round, demonic beasts abounded, and people were scarce.

It was a paradise for adventurers, and a hiding place for countless evil cultivators.

Wearing a black cloak and carrying a longsword on his back, Xiao Chen strolled leisurely through Cloud Dream Marsh.

The last time he had come here was a few months ago, to obtain the Five-Colored Lotus for that woman.

Now that he had returned, Xiao Chen's state of mind had undergone an earth-shaking change.

This time, he had not come to revisit an old haunt, but to hunt down an evil cultivator who specialized in abducting respectable women-the Flower Gentleman.

His cultivation was only at the peak of the Dao Foundation Realm, but he had learned an escape technique that let him come and go without a trace.

He was also skilled in the use of knockout drugs and poisons. He had once abducted several beautiful women of the True Fate Realm, making cuckolds of quite a few Heavenly Origin Realm cultivators.

Heavenly Origin Realm experts had hunted him before, but their efforts had all come to nothing.

The Flower Gentleman had another particular predilection: he liked to do the deed in the wilderness, and every time he was finished, he would take the woman's dudou as a trophy.

The intelligence Xiao Chen had received said that the Flower Gentleman was hiding in Cloud Dream Marsh.

As for where exactly, the intelligence did not say.

He had accepted the mission only because it happened to be in Cloud Dream Marsh, where he had planned to gain experience.

Once two months were up, Xiao Chen would return to the Dao-Seeking Academy, whether or not he caught the Flower Gentleman.

Someone's fighting!

Xiao Chen suddenly stopped. During his days cultivating at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, his divine sense had also been growing.

His divine sense had originally been at the Half-Step True Fate Realm level, and after several months of cultivating through sitting in oblivion, it had long since reached the True Fate Realm level.

His divine sense could cover everything within a radius of one li.

He instinctively walked toward the source of the commotion.

To avoid alerting the enemy, Xiao Chen deliberately restrained his divine sense.

A short while later, Xiao Chen reached the outskirts of the battlefield.

From afar, Xiao Chen saw several disciples dressed in the Dao-Seeking Academy's outer court robes.

Among them, he also spotted a few familiar figures.

One of them was Liu Yue'er, the junior sister he had been closest to in the outer court.

At the sight of Liu Yue'er, Xiao Chen's heart filled with mixed emotions.

Unlike those who had mocked him after learning he had become a cripple,

Liu Yue'er had not looked down on Xiao Chen because of it. Instead, she had come to encourage him every day.

She had also driven away quite a few people who came looking for trouble with Xiao Chen.

But Xiao Chen had not wanted anyone to see him in such a sorry state back then, so he had driven Liu Yue'er away.

Even before leaving, Liu Yue'er had still comforted Xiao Chen: "Senior Brother, I'll definitely help you find a sacred medicine to repair your dantian. You mustn't give up on yourself."

At that moment, Liu Yue'er and the others were fighting a short, exceptionally ugly scholar.

The Flower Gentleman!!

Xiao Chen had not expected to run into the Flower Gentleman less than half a month after arriving in Cloud Dream Marsh.

But the situation was extremely unfavorable for the Dao-Seeking Academy's disciples.

Apart from Liu Yue'er and one female disciple, everyone else had lost the ability to fight and collapsed on the ground.

It was obvious they had been struck by the Flower Gentleman's exclusive knockout drug, the Immortal-Softening Powder. Rumor had it that this drug could prevent cultivators below the Life Nirvana Realm from using their cultivation.

Bang!

The Flower Gentleman gave the folding fan in his hand a fierce sweep, instantly knocking Liu Yue'er and the other female disciple to the ground.

Pfft...

Both women spat out blood. They were clearly badly injured.

"Hehe..."

An exceedingly lewd laugh came from the Flower Gentleman's mouth.

"I never expected to run into two little beauties like you out here in the wilderness. Seems my luck with women really is quite something!"

"You... you're actually a True Fate Realm cultivator."

Liu Yue'er wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and stared in shock at the incomparably ugly man before her.

"Hehe, if I hadn't kept a trick up my sleeve, wouldn't I have died at the hands of self-proclaimed righteous sect disciples like you long ago?"

As the Flower Gentleman spoke, he walked toward the two women.

Liu Yue'er still wanted to fight, but at that moment, it was as though the spiritual power in her body had been completely sealed. She could not use it at all.

Do I really have to use the secret technique?

This small movement naturally did not escape the Flower Gentleman's eyes. He said with a smile, "Little beauty, stop struggling.

"You already inhaled the Immortal-Softening Powder while you were fighting me. Even if a great beauty of the Heavenly Origin Realm came, she could only obediently let me do whatever I wanted.

"Let alone two little Dao Foundation Realm girls like you."

Watching the scene before him, Xiao Chen felt not a trace of anger. He merely reached behind him and slowly took down his sword.

Against someone like the Flower Gentleman, who was exceptionally skilled at escaping, he had only one chance to strike, so he could not afford to be distracted.

But one strike was enough to deal with someone like the Flower Gentleman. After all, even before he had comprehended Sword Intent, he had been able to challenge opponents above his level.

Just as the Flower Gentleman was about to reach Liu Yue'er, he suddenly stopped.

He was naturally very sensitive to danger.

That was also why he had managed to escape time and again from experts a whole major realm above him.

The Flower Gentleman instinctively looked toward the source of the danger and shouted, "Who's there?"

Clang!

A sword rang out.

A streak of Sword Qi shot toward the Flower Gentleman with the speed of a thunderbolt, too fast for him to cover his ears.

"Fuck... what despicable, shameless little piece of trash is launching a sneak attack?!"

The instant the Flower Gentleman spoke, his figure flashed, and he immediately used his escape technique.

But soon he felt the world spinning around him, and he instinctively looked up at the sky.

A headless corpse was falling from the sky.

That body looks so familiar. It looks like mine.

Which bastard with no martial virtue did this?!

Filled with endless unwillingness, the Flower Gentleman's head rolled several times across the ground, eyes wide open, before coming to a stop.

Silence... The battlefield was so quiet that not even a bird could be heard.

The Dao-Seeking Academy disciples present all stood rooted to the spot, staring at the round head on the ground, unable to recover their senses for a long time.

None of them could have imagined that the Flower Gentleman, who had plagued others for more than ten years, would be killed by a sneak attack just like that.

Rustle, rustle...

Only when the sound of footsteps came from afar were they brought back to reality.

They looked toward the sound and saw a man wrapped from head to toe in a black cloak, with a black mask over his face, slowly walk up to the Flower Gentleman and collect his corpse.

To keep them from recognizing him, Xiao Chen had deliberately disguised himself and covered his face before coming out to collect his spoils.

He took the Flower Gentleman's corpse, turned, and left without looking back.

He left them with only a profound view of his back, giving them no chance to speak to him.

After a long while, everyone finally recovered.

A Dao-Seeking Academy disciple said ruefully, "Damn it, we didn't even get the chance to thank that senior just now."

The people around him also began to reproach themselves.

"Indeed. That senior could behead the Flower Gentleman with one sword strike. He must be a Heavenly Origin Realm expert."

"I don't know whether he's a Heavenly Origin Realm expert, but that strike seemed to carry a terrifying Sword Intent. I was fortunate enough to see one of our inner court prodigies use it before."

Hiss...

Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air. Sword Intent was something far beyond the reach of outer court disciples like them.

Only Liu Yue'er remained standing there in a daze, unable to stop herself from murmuring, "That person's back looked like Senior Brother's."