C12 Bloodthirsty knife

Li Yan and the rest stared at their comrade's corpse while fear flashed in their eyes. They never thought that this youth would be so decisive and easily kill an early stage Essence Refinement into Qi cultivator.

This was truly audacious. As soldiers, they were the only ones who killed. Yet, today, a youngster reversed the situation and killed a comrade in front of them. They didn't even have the time to save him.

Li Yan's heart flashed with a deep chill. This youth's speed was simply too fast. Even he, who was in the middle stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi, could not see it clearly.

"Could it be that he's stronger than me?" Li Yan thought this in his heart, but he soon rejected this idea.

Honestly speaking, if he were to meet any of the Heaven's Pride characters from those large clans, even if they were a level lower than him, Li Yan would still definitely be cautious.

However, in this deserted village, even if a small cultivator were to emerge, there was no way he would be a demon.

Moreover, Li Yan could feel that this young man in front of him had most definitely only recently advanced to the early stage of Essence Refinement into Qi. He hadn't even gone into Essence Refinement into Qi for more than a month.

When he thought of this, he grinned and slowly pulled out the steel sword from his waist. Li Yan was different from the others; he wasn't wearing a blade made from Great Chu Empire, but instead was spending a lot of money to buy a steel sword made of a hundred refined patterns.

This sword flashed with a cold light. It wasn't as if it was slicing through metal like mud, but it was definitely a grade higher than the Empire's standard long blade.

"Hong Ling, right? I don't care what kind of demonic technique you used to be able to kill one of our brothers, but today, you actually dare to kill a Chu soldier with the status of a lowly commoner.

"I advise you to put down your long blade obediently and cripple your cultivation before coming back to us to confess. Otherwise, if we were to truly fight and you lose your soul under my blade, then you won't be able to get away with it!"

Li Yan's tone was cold, but his eyes were filled with vigilance. From being a lowly soldier to becoming the current captain, he had to rely on his cleverness and scheming. At this time, even if Hong Ling was a level lower than him, he still did not dare to be careless.

Lion against rabbit, with all his strength. The matter of the ship capsizing in the sewer had happened many times to his comrades. Li Yan didn't want to follow in their footsteps, as long as this youth put down his weapon, they could destroy his cultivation. At that time, wouldn't they be able to do whatever they wanted with him?

"Traitor? What a big hat! " Hong Ling sneered, "Captain Li, do you really think I'm a three year old child?"

Li Yan's face was gloomy. This young man who didn't know good from bad actually dared to refute his reputation again and again. This made him, who had always been carefree, feel somewhat embarrassed.

"Humph! Stubborn! Brothers, capture that brat. When we solve the massacre of the entire Hidden Dragon Village, I will raise my head and ask for your meritorious service!"

As their leader's voice fell, the two officials exchanged a glance and instantly connected their thoughts. Two long sabers stabbed out at the same time, aiming for the young man's chest.

Hong Ling's gaze congealed, and all the soul force in the Divine Hall instantly blended into the surrounding space, gathering all of the surrounding wind and grass into his mind. The young man's hand was holding onto the long blade, and the Authentic Qi s on it became dense, and with a slight twist of his wrist, he swung away the two official long blades with a force of about four to four thousand kilograms, causing his figure to jump back twenty feet.

Currently, he was alone with his blade. Facing nine experts of the Essence Refinement into Qi, one of whom was a level higher than him, he naturally did not dare be careless. Hong Ling was not good at using his blade, but right now, he only had one weapon that he had snatched, so he was even more cautious.

Li Yan and his subordinates were all sly foxes that had been in service for many years, and the fighting experience and survivability that they had accumulated over the years was definitely stronger than a rookie like him. Therefore, Hong Ling could only defend step by step, not daring to take it head-on.

When the two officials saw that he had easily neutralized this fatal joint attack, their hearts trembled in fear. They were definitely not rookies on the battlefield. Their many years of experience on duty had taught them that they had met a tough opponent.

Even if he had the confidence to defeat this youth, he definitely didn't want to see this youth's dying blow. Judging from Hong Ling's blade technique, this youth was definitely not someone to be trifled with.

"The two of you, go and help out. I don't believe that the four Essence Refinement into Qi cultivators won't be able to take down a little kid." Li Yan viciously said, his eyes filled with an unconcealable killing intent and fury.

"Yes, captain!"

Another two figures flew out. Four officials holding long sabers lined up in a straight line. The aura around their bodies was surging. It seemed as if they were about to combine into one.

This was a type of resonance that could only be produced after years of training. Even if it was against experts one level higher than them, they would still be able to fight evenly and not be at a disadvantage. This was enough to show just how terrifying these officials were.

But Hong Ling had no way out, this was a death trap, either he would die, or the officials of Chu would all die.

Obviously, Hong Ling would not just sit there and wait for death, he watched helplessly as the blade and axe landed on his body, and furthermore, he himself did not have any sins, why would he have to endure such an unexpected disaster.

Just as the four officials were standing, the long blade in Hong Ling's hand swept all the way to his eyes. His entire body of dark golden Authentic Qi s had pushed the blade's edge to its limits, adding to the fact that his entire body's power had been strengthened by the ancestor's blood and the Five-clawed Golden Dragon's flesh, he was no longer ordinary.

At this moment, the four officials raised their sabers, wanting to break his sabers. However, something unbelievable happened.

"Clang!" As the five long blades clashed, Hong Ling's body did not move but the four officials were all shocked. They stared at the white-clothed youth with faces full of shock.

"This kid, how could he have so much strength? He's just like a raging bull, no, more like a giant elephant!"

The four of them looked at each other and saw the disbelief in each other's eyes. They were all bewildered and could not understand why this youth who lived in a mountain village would have such tyrannical blood and Qi that was even stronger than the four of them combined.

Inborn divine strength! This kid was definitely born with godly strength. Otherwise, how could he defeat four officials of Chu at the same level with one move? The spectators' hearts were clear. They knew that they had run into an innate godly strength expert.

This phenomenon was very common in large clans. After all, the descendants of the large clans all had special resources when they were born, which would lay a solid foundation for their future path of martial arts.

However, in this small mountain village in the wilderness, there was actually such a genius. This was even more shocking.

Seeing the officials looking at him vigilantly, Hong Ling did not dare to delay any further. After all, he was only one person, if he were to fall into a long and bitter battle, then he would definitely be tired to death by these old cunning men.

"This won't do. We can't wait any longer. We need to kill a few people first before we can minimize the danger!"

Hong Ling secretly held onto the long blade, with a point of his feet, his figure shot out, he was still in the air, the youth's blade suddenly stabbed into the ground, the blade fiercely swung, causing the dust on the ground to rise up instantly.

The youth hurriedly closed his eyes. Soul power crazily surged out from the Divine Court, replacing his pair of eyes to constantly capture everything in his surroundings.

The four officials were originally fully focused on waiting for Hong Ling's sharp attack, but they did not expect that the young man would suddenly change his move midway. After being caught off guard, the fine dust had actually pierced into their eyes, causing their vision to darken.

They did not awaken their soul power like Hong Ling did. Instead, they were confused by the dazzling pain.

A clear image passed through his soul force and into his mind. Hong Ling's figure flashed, and while an official was still rubbing his eyes, he swept the area with his long blade, easily bringing up a large head.

He did not slow down at all. His left hand formed a claw and pierced the eye of a guard officer who was holding a saber. He pulled the claw backwards, and two bloody eyeballs appeared.

The youth flung his left hand towards the ground. With a "pa" sound, the two balls of flesh were thrown into the dust, and instantly shattered into a ball of blood.

"Ah, my eyes! This little bastard actually dug out my eyes!"

A metallic hum rang out and a blade light flashed. The second official was chopped into two halves at the waist, but he did not die immediately. Instead, he struggled to crawl towards where Li Yan's group was, his bloody eyes bleeding.

The man's lips were wide open. He wanted to say something, but blood continued to gush out of his mouth. He could only let out a useless gurgling sound.

Chi. A long blade pierced through the air and quickly stabbed into the body of the official who had his eyes gouged out.

Carrying the other two heads in his hand, Hong Ling slowly walked to the side of the person and pulled out the long blade that was stabbed in the back of his heart. The youth's tone was cold, but his voice was extremely melodious.

"You're wrong, I'm not some little bastard, I have the most noble bloodline!"

White boots stepped on the blood stains on the ground, causing the sticky mud to be stained with blood, sticking to the soles of the shoes. Hong Ling casually tossed the two heads in his hands to Li Yan and the others, his eyes filled with ridicule.

The official who was beheaded was still staring at the sky with a pair of bloody eyes, trying to find a trace of light from the darkness. However, he still slowly lowered his head, twitched, and slowly stopped moving.

In just a split-second, the youth had moved from retreating four people to killing them in one go. Li Yan and the other five people could only watch helplessly as their comrades died. Even though their minds were strong, they still sucked in a breath of cold air at this moment.

Asking himself, even a cultivator with middle stage Essence Refinement into Qi like Li Yan would not be able to kill all of these people within the short span of a dozen or so breaths. Not only did it require extremely sharp observation skills, it also required an extremely strong Authentic Qi cultivation as a backup to support the consumption of such a large amount of Authentic Qi.

Furthermore, such a high-intensity movement of the Authentic Qi would cause great damage to his body. The worst case scenario would even endanger his own martial arts foundation, which would be detrimental to his future path of martial arts.

However, Hong Ling did not need to worry about all these. His body's recovery ability, even if one were to look at the entirety of his Great Chu Empire, would still be at the top of the list.

"Captain, what should we do? This brat seems to be the legendary top evildoer, he's so strong that he looks more like a bloodthirsty Demonic Beast than a human!" An official asked, trembling in fear.

Li Yan frowned. To be fair, Hong Ling's swift and fierce strike just now had given him a shock that was enough to strike fear into his heart.

However, thinking about how, as one of the stately and influential captains of Tianhuang City, he was actually frightened by a young man who had just emerged. If this were to be known, how would he be able to stand in the official arena in the future?

At that time, those people who had been dealt with by him on a daily basis would definitely, because of this matter, pull him down from his current position.

Moreover, if he didn't fight today then he would run away. Once the higher-ups blamed him for this, there would be a death sentence for him. Da Chu had always ruled over the people with light and heavy punishment, and once he committed a death sentence, it would be impossible for him, Li Yan, to escape death.

Kill him, he just killed a few of us brothers, so he must have consumed a lot of Authentic Qi s. Now he is definitely putting on an act and taking this opportunity to kill him, we have already offended him to death.

Li Yan's throat trembled as he spoke.