Chapter 97

Ding Yue's beautiful eyes flickered, and only now did she understand why Zheng Shi Yi had so forcefully pushed the pill into her mouth earlier. It turned out he had already detected the poisonous gas in the air.

But what puzzled her was that her cultivation was higher than Zheng Shi Yi's. Why hadn't she detected it, while he had?

Song Jian had always been proud of the many people he had killed. Hearing Zheng Shi Yi's question, he patted his shoulder and laughed loudly, "How could it not be?"

"Every person who died by my hand thought they died at the hands of Lang Liang. But it wasn't true, because my methods are even more cruel than Lang Liang's."

"You are the only ones who know the truth. Well, I'm tired of talking. Now I'll let you experience the power of the Blood Demon Lust Technique."

"Blood Demon Lust Technique!"

Song Jian stretched his arms backward, and his body emitted a series of "crack" sounds as his bones began to break. His body became increasingly soft, and in the end, all his bones shattered completely. He turned into a complete blood person, with a few drops of particularly dark blood circling around his body.

"Come to me!" Song Jian's blood hands drew Zheng Shi Yi toward him, and Zheng Shi Yi immediately felt a tremendous suction force, as if his limbs were about to separate, and he was rapidly drawn toward the blood hands.

Ding Yue's hand tightly gripped Zheng Shi Yi's neck, truly afraid that if she let go, she would be sucked away by the blood hands alone.

"Ha ha ha, although I have no interest in men, I don't mind playing this time."

As Zheng Shi Yi and Ding Yue got closer, Song Jian became increasingly excited, his eyes turning redder and redder.

In his view, these two people were poisoned and had no ability to resist. Even if they did have some resistance, it was very weak.

As long as their bodies touched his blood hands, their blood would immediately merge into his body, and they would fall into a coma. Then, he could do whatever he wanted to them.

"Ha ha ha!" Imagining the intense scene to come, Song Jian's eyes actually sparkled.

But just as he thought he was about to succeed, Zheng Shi Yi, who was flying toward him, suddenly sneered, "You think you're smarter than Lang Liang, but you're much stupider!"

"How dare you say I'm stupider than him!" Song Jian's eyes flashed with anger, and the suction force drawing Zheng Shi Yi became even stronger.

Zheng Shi Yi's hand rested on the hilt of the Shadowless Blade, and he mocked, "At least he is more cautious than you. He is worth five thousand soul stones, but you are not!"

Even after detonating the explosive poison pill, Lang Liang would never personally go to deal with the enemy, unlike Song Jian, who actively drew the enemy to him.

What else could this be but courting death?

Song Jian was extremely angry. No one had ever called him stupid. When he secretly learned Lang Liang's evil techniques, even Lang Liang didn't notice, showing how smart he was. Yet Zheng Shi Yi called him stupid.

"You, this reckless dog, since you say I'm not as valuable as Lang Liang, I'll make you suffer more than dying at his hands!"

"Blood Demon Slash!"

Song Jian's other arm trembled, and a large knife, formed from blood and sharper than wheat awns, appeared in his hand, over ten meters long.

Streams of light flowed over it.

The appearance of the large knife made the surrounding space unstable, and the invisible poisonous gas in the air suddenly revealed its true color—black—and rapidly entered the knife.

Vines even extended from the swamp below, reaching toward Zheng Shi Yi.

"I'll cut off your head alive!" Song Jian looked at Zheng Shi Yi with a mad and arrogant expression. Unconsciously, he began to swing the large knife toward Zheng Shi Yi's neck.

Zheng Shi Yi was unconcerned and continued to smile lightly, "I said you're not as good as him, and you're not. Even if you learned his evil techniques, you only learned the surface."

"Also, he needed to kill a large number of women to cultivate his evil techniques. He just used you as a scapegoat when others came to kill him. You were used by him and didn't even realize it. Is it too much to call you stupid?"

"You dare to say such things about me, die!" Song Jian was furious and suddenly exerted all his strength, trying to cut Zheng Shi Yi into two pieces.

But at that moment, Zheng Shi Yi, who had been continuously drawn, suddenly broke free from his control.

Zheng Shi Yi performed the "Eight Directions Step" in mid-air, his speed returning to its previous level, leaving a series of afterimages in the air.

As Song Jian marveled at how fast Zheng Shi Yi was and tried to determine which afterimage was the real Zheng Shi Yi, Zheng Shi Yi had already swung the Shadowless Blade and appeared beside him, "Even if you're smart, you still have to die, right?"

Zheng Shi Yi's arm fell, and before Song Jian could react, the Shadowless Blade had already cut into his head.

Song Jian's head instantly rolled off like a watermelon, his face full of disbelief.

He was invincible here, and Zheng Shi Yi was clearly poisoned by a gas even more potent than the explosive poison pill. How could he still burst with such astonishing speed and kill him in one move?

Zheng Shi Yi picked up Song Jian's head, treated it with preservative herbs, and put it into his spatial storage bag.

Zheng Shi Yi walked to Song Jian's body and began to search it.

However, after searching for a while, Zheng Shi Yi found nothing of value.

"Such a poor guy," Zheng Shi Yi muttered and turned to leave.

Ding Yue, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, "My sisters were mostly killed by this guy. Look around where he appeared to see if there are any of my sisters' remains."

A fragrant aroma wafted from Ding Yue's mouth, touching Zheng Shi Yi's ears, making him feel as if his whole body was about to collapse.

Zheng Shi Yi trembled and walked to where Song Jian had previously lain.

The swamp on the ground had been pressed down several inches, and some sharp objects seemed to be buried beneath it, making the surface uneven.

Zheng Shi Yi bent down and used the Shadowless Blade to clear the swamp. Then, various women's accessories appeared before him.

Hairpins, earrings, necklaces... they were buried all over the ground.

Zheng Shi Yi picked up one and showed it to Ding Yue, "Is this it?"

"No!" Ding Yue shook her head.

Zheng Shi Yi picked up another and showed it to Ding Yue, who still shook her head, "No."

Zheng Shi Yi continued to pick up and put down items. When he picked up a golden hairpin, Ding Yue's eyes lit up, and she said angrily, "This hairpin belongs to my sister. I never thought my sister would die at the hands of this guy."

Ding Yue reached out and took the hairpin, looking at it in her hand, her eyes filled with intense killing intent. That guy dared to kill her sister.

If she hadn't been poisoned and unable to move, she would have already killed that guy herself.

Thinking that the murderer had been killed by Zheng Shi Yi, she suppressed her anger and thanked him, "Thank you for finding my sister's remains and helping me kill the murderer."

Zheng Shi Yi's legs felt weak, almost causing him to fall, and he smiled lightly, "Thank me? Let's skip that. As long as you don't chase me around to kill me, I'll be satisfied."

Ding Yue grumbled in her heart, "Why is this guy always so sharp in his words?"

"Hey, you're not really thinking about how to deal with me after you recover, are you?" Ding Yue's silence made Zheng Shi Yi's heart tremble, and he quickly joked, "Honestly, you're quite cute when you're not always shouting to kill. No, even when you shout to kill, you're quite cute..."

Quite cute? Ding Yue had heard many compliments, but no man had ever called her cute... She was momentarily stunned.

"Xiao Ze, let's go." Zheng Shi Yi waved to Xiao Ze.

Xiao Ze was unusually excited, wagging his tail and running to Zheng Shi Yi, rubbing against his pants, and then following him back along the path they had come.

"I killed Lang Liang and the murderer of those cases. The reward for catching these two is six thousand soul stones. I also found one thousand soul stones on Lang Liang, making a total of seven thousand soul stones."

"Adding the twenty-four thousand soul stones I already have, that's thirty-one thousand soul stones."

"As long as I exchange these soul stones, I can cultivate the nameless technique. I should hurry."

Zheng Shi Yi was determined to quickly exchange the soul stones, so he walked very fast.

Xiao Ze sometimes followed behind Zheng Shi Yi and sometimes ran ahead, making funny faces at him.

"This little guy." Zheng Shi Yi shook his head, showing his helplessness.

"Roar roar!"

Xiao Ze ran ahead of Zheng Shi Yi, using his front paws to open his mouth, preparing to make a funny face. He seemed to have heard something and quickly stopped, indicating to Zheng Shi Yi to run to the side.

"Why is he telling me to run?" Zheng Shi Yi stood still, puzzled.

Xiao Ze quickly ran to Zheng Shi Yi, bit his pants, and indicated for him to run to the left.

Zheng Shi Yi was still wondering why the little guy wanted him to run to the left when Ding Yue, who was on his back, suddenly said, "He's strongly indicating you to go because he may have smelled the presence of a dangerous beast."

"Or he may have heard the movements of a dangerous beast. We should listen to him and hide to the side."

Zheng Shi Yi realized this was true and followed Xiao Ze's indication, running to the left.

"Bang bang!"

Shortly after they left, strong collision sounds came from where they had been.

Zheng Shi Yi stopped and looked in the direction of the sounds.

At the place they had been, a five-meter-tall, spiky, wild boar-like beast appeared.

Due to its heavy body or the force of its movements, every step it took caused the surrounding swamp to burst, forming black mud streams.

"It's actually a fifth-stage Beast Shadow Boar. Thank goodness Xiao Ze warned me in time, or I would have been in trouble today."

Seeing the beast's appearance, Zheng Shi Yi sighed in relief. A fifth-stage Beast Shadow Boar was not something he could handle. Fortunately, he had escaped before the Beast Shadow Boar noticed him.

Otherwise, if he had been slow and been discovered by the Beast Shadow Boar, he would have died at its hands.

Zheng Shi Yi looked at Xiao Ze with gratitude, "Little guy, I owe you one today."

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