Chapter 337

Xu Yang's gaze swept over, and he discovered a faint, almost imperceptible smile at the corners of An Ping's mouth.

He couldn't be bothered to care, so he sat down and continued to wait for the things he needed.

Unfortunately, until the auction ended, nothing else he needed appeared.

However, he still had a thirty-year-old ginseng and three tiger-bone vines on hand; with the Pure Yang Grass, he could once again fire up the furnace to refine Origin-Gathering Pills.

"No rush for now; I'll wait until I've used up the Origin-Gathering Pills I have."

Pondering this, he followed the flow of people out of the auction house.

He saw that the man who had won the Blue Blade immediately unleashed his movement technique and left the moment he exited the auction house.

"Chase!"

"Leave the half-spiritual weapon behind!"

……

In an instant, shouts erupted everywhere, and at least a dozen figures unleashed their movement techniques to give chase.

It didn't matter if he couldn't afford a half-spiritual weapon himself; it was enough that others could.

"I wonder how many people will die today!" Xu Yang's gaze was icy.

After Marrow Cleansing, his physical body had been constantly transforming, and his five senses had become increasingly inconceivable.

If someone's gaze fell upon him with ill intent, he could sense it immediately; even if they weren't looking at him, as long as they directed killing intent toward him within a dozen zhang, he could capture it.

He no longer hid or dodged as he had in the past to shake off those with ill intent; instead, he walked openly toward the outskirts of the city.

As soon as he left, Su Che immediately followed.

"Should we follow and watch the show?" An Ping was eager, very much wanting to see Xu Yang meet with misfortune.

Guo Huai said, "If you aren't afraid of being silenced along with him, you can follow and see."

Among the Ten Elites of the Profound Heaven Sect, few dared to launch an open assassination.

If Su Che were to make a move against Xu Yang, he would certainly silence everyone who knew about it.

An Ping and Tang Xiao could only sigh at the pity of it, while Shen Liang frowned deeply, not expecting the relationship between these few and Xu Yang to have developed to this point.

He wanted to warn Xu Yang, but he didn't want to offend small-minded people like Guo Huai.

"If you don't want to bring trouble upon yourselves, it's best to keep this matter buried in your stomachs," Guo Huai warned.

Although the Su family was not the top family in Qingyang City, their influence was vast, and there was more than one or two Marrow Cleansing martial artists in the family.

"What if it's Xu Yang who kills Su Che?" Shen Liang asked subconsciously.

He always felt that Xu Yang was too mysterious; he couldn't fathom his depth.

"If Su Che dies, stay out of it even more; no one can afford to provoke either side," Guo Huai said.

If Xu Yang already possessed the strength to suppress and kill a Major Success Gang Qi expert, that would be even more terrifying; meddling would only bring trouble upon oneself.

……

Perhaps because the items bought this time weren't valuable, Xu Yang walked all the way out of the city and found only one faint, lingering gaze fixed upon him.

"Su Che!"

Even though he hadn't seen the owner of this gaze, he knew the person watching him was Su Che.

His five senses had become somewhat inconceivable; he could tell who the owner was just by their gaze.

Looking back, he discovered that Su Che had already put on a bamboo hat and changed his attire.

After all, as one of the Ten Elites of the Profound Heaven Sect, even if Su Che wanted to take revenge, he didn't dare to track and kill him openly.

Once out of the city, Xu Yang quickened his pace, and Su Che followed at a steady, unhurried rate.

Four or five li away from the city, Xu Yang turned into the mountain forest by the road; Su Che, thinking Xu Yang was trying to escape, immediately unleashed his Major Success Gang Qi cultivation and chased into the forest.

A hundred meters deep, he saw Xu Yang standing with his hands behind his back amidst the mountains, watching him with a smile.

Why wasn't he running?

Su Che was filled with doubt; could there be a trap here, and was Xu Yang intentionally luring him in?

He scanned his surroundings but found nothing amiss.

"Setting up a false array to scare me off? Xu Yang, pay with your life."

Su Che roared, crossing the air like a giant bird, his Major Success Gang Qi aura released, shaking the surrounding leaves until they fell in a rustle.

The vigorous Gang Qi surged, forming a giant palm that struck out; before the palm arrived, a sharp, biting wind had already stirred up a flurry of fallen leaves around Xu Yang.

"Narrow-minded; I cannot let you live," Xu Yang said softly.

It was merely fair bidding at an auction, yet Su Che wanted to kill out of anger; keeping such a person around would only be a disaster.

Facing the giant palm striking toward him, he simply pointed a finger into the air.

"Shoo!"

Gang Qi erupted, the extremely condensed finger force piercing the air with a sharp whistle, and in the blink of an eye, it bored through the giant palm.

"Crack!"

The giant palm formed by Gang Qi quickly became covered in spiderweb-like cracks before exploding with a boom.

"What?"

Su Che's pupils contracted violently, his face filled with horror.

He was a martial artist at the peak of Major Success Gang Qi, only one step away from Marrow Cleansing; the palm he had struck out had actually been broken by Xu Yang with a single finger from a distance.

Golden light flashed before his eyes, and he saw a finger force radiating a sharp aura charging straight at his chest.

Su Che had no time to think; he frantically vibrated his Gang Qi in mid-air, shifting his body half a foot to the left.

"Pfft!"

Like a hot knife through butter, even his foot-thick protective Gang Qi was easily pierced; the terrifying finger force grazed his ribs, carving out a wound deep enough to see bone.

"How is this possible?" Su Che was terrified to the point of despair.

If he hadn't reacted quickly and shifted his body in mid-air, that finger would have pierced his heart directly and killed him.

Marrow Cleansing!

Xu Yang had actually already reached Marrow Cleansing; only a Marrow Cleansing martial artist could possess such a terrifying attack.

"Boom!"

A terrifying aura, like a volcanic eruption, exploded in the forest, and wild winds suddenly rose all around.

Seeing that his finger hadn't killed Su Che, Xu Yang immediately clawed with his five fingers, and golden blade Gang quickly appeared.

A sharp, domineering aura radiated from him, and the surrounding grass and trees were cut as if by blades, snapping one after another.

A tyrannical pressure descended; Su Che felt as if he had been struck on the head with a club, his protective Gang Qi rippling as he was pressed down from mid-air by the terrifying pressure.

Blazing Sun Gang Blade!

Under the enhancement of the perfect Jin Gang Qi, the power of this blade technique surged even further.

It was as if a great sun had risen in the forest; rolling heat waves radiated out, and the mountain forest seemed about to be ignited, evaporating a large amount of water mist.

"Don't! My father is Su Qiming; if you kill me, you will die too!" Su Che shrieked, his expression filled with fear.

Marrow Cleansing!

Xu Yang was truly a Marrow Cleansing martial artist; with so many people in the Profound Heaven Sect, they couldn't even figure out what Xu Yang's cultivation base was, and they kept spreading rumors that Xu Yang was unworthy of being one of the Ten Elites.

This wasn't a case of him being unworthy of the Ten Elites; it was more like the others were unworthy of being ranked alongside him.

Li Chuyang was still struggling bitterly, while Xu Yang had long since reached Marrow Cleansing.

Unfortunately, Xu Yang didn't know who Su Qiming was, and at this point, even if Su Che's father were the Sect Master of the Profound Heaven Sect, he wouldn't soften his hand.

The golden blade Gang emitted a scorching high temperature, and Xu Yang slashed out with a blade in the air.

"Boom!"

The golden blade Qi transformed into a crescent moon and shot out, fast as lightning, tearing through the air with a roar.

A soft "pfft" sound was heard, the sound of a sharp blade cutting through flesh, and a line of blood spread from Su Che's forehead to his chest, rising with wisps of blue smoke.

Under the peerlessly sharp Blazing Sun blade Qi, his entire body, along with his protective Gang Qi, was sliced in two.

"Rumble..."

The blade Qi passed through his body and carved a five or six-zhang-long gully into the earth behind him; for a time, soil splattered and dust filled the sky.

"The one who killed you is the Blazing Fire Blade Guest; what does that have to do with me, Xu Yang?"

Su Che's body fell to the ground, split in two; the wounds appeared charred, cooked through.

Xu Yang stepped forward quickly to search him, only finding a little over three hundred taels of silver.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, Xu Yang felt something hard at Su Che's sleeve; he pulled it out and saw it was a book, with the four large, dragon-like, phoenix-dancing characters "Elementary Interpretation of Elixirs" written on it.

"Good stuff!"