Chapter 39: Exterminate and Annihilate

"You ignorant little brat!"

The camp leader, dressed in a golden robe, had an extremely ugly expression; he had never expected that his men would be unable to take down the child before him.

Especially since he had just boasted that he would resolve this within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. The time had indeed passed, but it was his own guards who had been resolved.

"A bunch of trash!" A cold glint flashed in the camp leader's eyes as he stepped over the threshold and walked abruptly toward Xu Qing.

As he moved forward, the spiritual energy fluctuations outside his body surged violently, and an astonishing amount of blood energy erupted from him; his body swelled beneath his robes, making his figure look like a mountain.

There was even a faint golden light diffusing from his entire body.

The camp leader was also a body cultivator!

But clearly, the technique he cultivated was not a low-level one like the Sea Mountain Art, but a peerless technique from the Vajra Sect: the Vajra Method.

Now, with it fully activated, his momentum exploded, and his pace instantly quickened, turning him into a giant shadow rushing straight at Xu Qing.

His speed was extremely fast, and in an instant, he reached Xu Qing and threw a punch directly. As he swung this punch, his entire body was covered in blinding golden light, filled with pressure.

Xu Qing glanced at the old man in the brocade robe watching from inside the threshold and at Lei Ting in his hand; suppressing his heartache, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

He knew very well that once he gained the upper hand, the opponent would very likely use Lei Ting as a hostage.

This was something Xu Qing did not want to see, and the way to prevent this scene from occurring was through suddenness in his actions!

Sudden enough that the opponent could not react.

Thus, Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and threw a punch of his own, colliding directly with the camp leader.

Amidst a loud boom, Xu Qing’s body stumbled back seven or eight steps, but not in a straight line; he moved a few steps to the side.

At this moment, the sunlight was behind him, casting a shadow on the ground that swayed as he moved.

The camp leader, having felt the power from Xu Qing during their collision, felt his whole body shake and also retreated.

But when he looked up, his eyes revealed contempt; his body flickered, and he rushed toward Xu Qing again, his cultivation base fully activated, creating a roar.

His words were disdainful and his gaze contemptuous, yet when he attacked... he went all out.

Clearly, the exterior he displayed was intentional; after all, to be a camp leader and make a group of scavengers fear him, even if he was a sect disciple, he could not be underestimated.

"Vajra First Method!" the camp leader roared. As he spoke, his body swelled again, his power and speed surged, and in the blink of an eye, he approached and smashed down fiercely.

Xu Qing lowered his head so the camp leader could not see his eyes, raised his hands to block fiercely, and retreated amidst the roar; his footsteps moved, and the swaying of his shadow became more intense.

However, no one noticed.

"Vajra Second Method!" Seeing that Xu Qing had actually withstood two of his strikes, the camp leader, whose cultivation had reached the peak of the eighth level of Qi Condensation, felt the killing intent in his eyes grow stronger.

His entire body swelled again, and he threw another punch at Xu Qing.

This punch erupted with even stronger golden light, but the moment it fell, Xu Qing suddenly looked up.

The killing intent in his eyes erupted violently at this moment; the positions he had moved to repeatedly finally allowed his shadow to point directly at the old man in the brocade robe at the threshold.

And by utilizing his movement, he hid the distortion caused by his control over the shadow.

Because of the angle, the sun in the sky also stretched his shadow very long at this moment, reaching a spot not far in front of the old man in the brocade robe.

As Xu Qing looked up and his killing intent erupted, he ignored the camp leader's fist and leaped up suddenly.

And the moment his height increased, his shadow also suddenly crossed the distance between him and the old man in the brocade robe.

Furthermore, amidst the distortion, the shadow stretched out abruptly and directly covered the right wrist of the old man in the brocade robe, who was holding Lei Ting!

Not a single bit of Xu Qing's shadow fell upon Lei Ting!

This was another important reason for him adjusting his footsteps just now.

In an instant, amidst a low roar from Xu Qing, the strange power of the shadow erupted.

In a flash, the old man in the brocade robe’s expression changed; intense, sharp pain and the eruption of foreign substances caused his right hand to turn blue-black.

This sudden change caused him to be horrified, and he instinctively let go of the hand gripping Lei Ting’s body.

And the moment he let go, Xu Qing’s entire body roared; risking taking the camp leader's punch, he spat out blood as his speed erupted fully.

His entire person turned into a lingering shadow and disappeared from the spot, rushing toward the old man in the brocade robe.

Furthermore, an iron skewer and a dagger turned into two cold glints like lightning, whistling as they approached the old man in the brocade robe, forcing him—who was in the midst of his right hand’s alienation—to retreat and dodge.

And while he dodged, Xu Qing had already rushed in and grabbed Lei Ting directly.

Throwing him hard toward the outside, the figures of Shizi and Luanya leaped up rapidly from the crowd, caught him, and retreated at high speed.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye, incredibly fast!

"Your shadow!!" The old man in the brocade robe’s expression changed, and he looked at Xu Qing fiercely; the changes just now were too sudden and unexpected, and he simply could not react.

The camp leader outside the door also had his eyes shrink at this moment; Xu Qing’s series of actions had truly taken him by surprise as well.

Xu Qing wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looking coldly at the two of them; under the sunset, his figure was like a hunting hawk as he spoke in a low voice.

"Now, it's my turn."

As soon as he spoke, his body went *bang* and rushed straight toward the old man in the brocade robe; compared to body cultivation, Xu Qing felt that the first person he should kill was the one who cultivated techniques.

As he rushed out, he approached in an instant.

The old man in the brocade robe had an ugly expression; he retreated rapidly, formed seals with both hands, and pointed at Xu Qing. Immediately, mist condensed rapidly, turning into the shadow of an evil ghost that came toward Xu Qing ferociously.

The camp leader on the other side also let out a low roar, his entire body’s golden light erupting as he came roaring toward Xu Qing, forming a pincer attack with the old man in the brocade robe.

Seeing the crisis, a cold glint flashed in Xu Qing’s eyes, and his entire body’s blood energy erupted at this moment.

Amidst a roar, his blood energy force swept across the surroundings like a storm, and a huge, ferocious-looking phantom manifested, letting out a silent roar that shook all directions.

Xu Qing raised both hands and clenched his fists, one left and one right, falling simultaneously!

And as they fell, the phantom behind him also split into two, pouncing toward the camp leader and the old man in the brocade robe at the same time.

"Blood energy becoming a shadow!! This... this..."

The camp leader’s expression changed completely; after his fist touched Xu Qing’s left hand, under the phantom’s ferocious pounce, the golden light on his body dimmed instantly, his whole body shook violently, and he retreated seven or eight *zhang* away.

As for the old man in the brocade robe, his expression was also horrified in an instant; the evil ghost formed by his technique actually trembled in front of the phantom, and after being swallowed by the phantom’s ferocious grin, the phantom did not stop and went straight for the old man.

The sound of the roar echoed in all directions, the old man in the brocade robe spat out blood, and his body retreated rapidly.

But a blue light shield appeared outside his body at this moment, causing him to only vomit blood without being too severely injured.

And the source of that light shield was, shockingly, a talisman paper!

This was... a Talisman Treasure!!

Xu Qing’s face was also pale; although he was formidable, facing the pincer attack of the camp leader and this old man in the brocade robe, his internal organs were churning as well.

Blood overflowed, but his ferocity did not diminish in the slightest; taking advantage of the camp leader being stunned, killing intent erupted in Xu Qing’s eyes, and he went straight for the old man in the brocade robe.

A full-force punch.

"You're courting death!" The old man in the brocade robe’s face was pale, his eyes revealing venom.

While retreating and maintaining the Talisman Treasure’s protection, he formed seals with both hands and waved them fiercely; immediately, seven or eight evil ghosts manifested.

Each one looked comparable to the seventh level of Qi Condensation, carrying coldness and roars as they went to devour Xu Qing.

A ruthless glint flashed in Xu Qing’s eyes; he did not dodge, letting those evil ghosts pounce and bite his entire body, his speed not decreasing, his momentum not weakening in the slightest, as he threw a punch down.

Amidst the roar, the Talisman Treasure’s protection began to tremble.

But this item was a Talisman Treasure after all; unless it was completely exhausted, it would be very difficult to collapse it.

However, it was clear that even this old man in the brocade robe would find it hard to possess a second Talisman Treasure, and this one had already been used who knows how many times; the writing on it had already dimmed and blurred quite a bit.

At this moment, under Xu Qing’s bombardment, it was accelerating its blurring.

This caused the old man in the brocade robe’s expression to change drastically again.

He felt Xu Qing’s ruthlessness and knew it was a life-and-death crisis, so there was madness in his eyes too; as he formed seals and spat out blood, it actually turned into a blood shadow, carrying a sharp whistling sound as it approached Xu Qing.

But Xu Qing’s blood energy was surging, and he ignored the opponent’s technique entirely, risking his own injury to throw another punch!

"Lei Ting is already at the end of his life, and you still won't let him go!"

Xu Qing’s eyes were blood-red, and the phantom roared at the sky at this moment, merging with his fist and falling with a boom.

Although the Talisman Treasure could resist, the violent vibration still caused the old man in the brocade robe, whose foundation had once collapsed, to spit out blood; his body retreated violently, and the madness in his eyes turned into panic.

A feeling of death descending caused him to let out a sharp roar.

"Zhang Shiyuan, what are you still standing there for? Why aren't you continuing to attack with me!!"

Zhang Shiyuan was the camp leader’s name; hearing this from afar, he suppressed the shock in his heart and rushed over fiercely.

At this moment, there was a blood hole in Xu Qing’s stomach where the blood shadow had pierced through, but Xu Qing no longer cared about the intense pain; his entire body’s blood energy erupted again, and the anger and madness in his heart reached their limit.

"Lei Ting has already chosen to hide, yet you still want to entangle him!"

"Lei Ting has lived a life of misery, and you still want to kill him all!"

Xu Qing was like a madman, putting everything into every punch; the phantom roared at the sky, coordinating with his fists as they landed continuously on the old man’s protection.

The booming sounds echoed throughout the camp; the writing on the Talisman Treasure became increasingly blurred, yet it still did not shatter, but the old man in the brocade robe could no longer withstand the vibrations from Xu Qing’s power.

An indescribable terror rose in his heart, and the feeling of death approaching became even stronger.

His Talisman Treasure had a miraculous effect against techniques, but against the resonance force formed by the bombardment of a body cultivator, his body, whose foundation had been destroyed, simply could not persist for long.

As blood continued to be spat out in mouthfuls, the old man was anxious and desperate.

He wanted to call for help, but the invasion of the resonance spread throughout his body, making him unable to make a sound; in his horror, his whole body trembled to the extreme, and his techniques were also shaken to the point where they could not be cast; he could only roar miserably in his heart.

"I... I don't want to die, I..."

The next instant, the veins on Xu Qing’s forehead throbbed, his eyes were blood-red, and he clasped his hands together, smashing them with all his might against the Talisman Treasure’s protection.

"Die!"

A violent, astonishing power erupted with a roar; the Talisman Treasure’s protection distorted and still did not collapse, but the old man inside shook violently, his eyes bulging directly.

At this moment, his body could no longer withstand the continuous vibration.

His eyes exploded instantly, his internal organs collapsed, and his flesh, blood, and bones shattered directly, turning into a pile of mush, a blurry mess!

After doing all this, Xu Qing panted heavily and turned his head suddenly, his right hand throwing a punch to collide with the camp leader who was rushing from behind.

His injured body was immediately sent reeling, flying seven or eight *zhang* away; the wounds on his body that had mostly healed in many places split open again, and amidst the spreading blood, Xu Qing became a bloodied man under the sunset.

As for the camp leader, his heart was also violently shaken.

He looked at his collaborator who had been blasted apart, then looked at Xu Qing, who was currently covered in blood but still crouched there, maintaining an offensive stance, his eyes filled with killing intent as he stared fixedly at him, and he felt a chill run down his back.

This scene also shocked the scavengers surrounding them to the limit, and as they each looked at Xu Qing, they all revealed expressions of horror and... reverence.