Chapter 46: A Tooth for a Tooth

The arrival of the God's remnant face was like the Awakening of Insects; it affected the phenomenon of all things growing, forcing them to change.

This change made the world cruel and cold.

The formation of the forbidden zones brought this coldness to its peak, but at this moment... Xu Qing gazed at the departing white-clad figure, and he suddenly thought of a sentence that Captain Lei had once said.

"Do you know why I proposed twice to take you away in the ruins of the city?"

"Because I saw you cremating the corpses. At that time, you were beside the flames, illuminated by the firelight, as if you had merged with the fire, making me feel as if I saw... a glimmer of warmth in this cruel world."

Xu Qing was silent.

At this moment, like Captain Lei back then, he also felt a glimmer of warmth.

It came from the faceless woman in the white dress, and from the many faces on her body that smiled at him and said thank you.

It came from... humanity, which even this cruel world could not take away.

After a long time, Xu Qing bowed deeply once more.

Then he turned and sped toward the location of the city wall in the distance.

Perhaps it was because he had thrown too many black elixirs earlier, causing the strange substances in the City Lord's Mansion area to become extremely dense, breaking through a critical point. Like a flame in the dark night, it attracted countless gazes and attention.

Or perhaps it was the cause and effect between him and this city.

Therefore, the Xu Qing who was speeding away at this moment did not encounter much danger and arrived at the city wall very smoothly.

Standing there, Xu Qing looked back at the city in the dark night. From afar, roars and shrill sounds reached his ears. He gazed silently for a long while.

"I wonder when the next time I come will be..." Xu Qing murmured. He stared at the city in the dark night for a moment, then turned and leaped off the city wall, speeding away into the night.

To increase his speed, he took out the flight talisman he had harvested and stuck it to his legs. As spiritual energy surged into his body, his speed erupted with a boom, and his whole person soared directly into the air.

He whistled away in mid-air.

The wind blew against his face, making Xu Qing somewhat uncomfortable, and this suddenly erupted speed and flight also took him a long time to adapt to, especially flying, which was the first time in his life.

The feeling of soaring in the sky, the sensation of looking down at the earth with the world beneath his feet, made Xu Qing's expression somewhat dazed.

He felt as if he had become one of the surviving birds under the God's open eyes, spreading its wings in the sky.

"So this is what it feels like for birds to fly in the sky," Xu Qing murmured, struggling to control his body.

Having reached the seventh level of the Sea Mountain Art, he could control his body perfectly, so Xu Qing soon became familiar with this state of levitation.

Furthermore, coordinating with his own speed and strength, he would occasionally land and stomp hard, then punch backward in mid-air to make his speed even faster.

Seen from afar, he looked like a long rainbow, speeding through the mid-air of this forbidden zone.

If it were anyone else, they would have to worry about the influx of strange substances, but for Xu Qing, this was not a concern, so his speed could continuously increase.

Thus, before long, he saw the boundary of the forbidden zone from afar. With a dash, he charged straight out of the forbidden zone.

The moment he reached the outside world, the warm wind blew on him, dispelling the chill of the forbidden zone.

Standing in mid-air, Xu Qing was silent. He looked up toward the direction of Deer Horn City, then turned his head to scan another direction.

The half-year he spent living in the scavenger camp had taught Xu Qing many things, and he had gained an understanding of the region he lived in. This allowed him to know the names and locations of many nearby cities, including the mountain gate of the Vajra Sect.

Although it was not yet dawn, the earth was not completely pitch black under the moonlight, and the rolling mountains in the distance were faintly visible.

Standing in mid-air, Xu Qing's gaze shifted several times between the direction of Deer Horn City and the Vajra Sect.

"I'm not satisfied," Xu Qing murmured.

He did not know what the outcome would be for the Vajra Sect ancestor trapped in the ruined city.

But Xu Qing felt that it was highly probable the other party would not fall, though being in a sorry state and heavily injured was inevitable, and the possibility of escaping in a short time was low.

And as for himself at this moment, if he headed to Deer Horn City, everything should go smoothly, but he felt very uncomfortable inside leaving just like that.

So, after a few breaths of silence, a cold glint appeared in the youth's eyes. His body flickered, his speed erupted to the fullest, and amidst the intense fluctuations emitted by the flight talisman, he headed straight for... the direction of the Vajra Sect.

Xu Qing did not choose to head to Deer Horn City immediately; he wanted to make a trip to the Vajra Sect.

He prepared to take advantage of the fact that the Vajra Sect ancestor was trapped and two elders were dead, leaving the entire Vajra Sect in an unprecedented state of weakness, to go there and properly repay the other party for their pursuit.

This was Xu Qing's character.

If it were anyone else, their first choice at this moment would likely be to leave, but Xu Qing's experiences from childhood to adulthood made him understand that hidden dangers must be erased.

Even if this hidden danger was beyond his ability to resolve and could not be erased in a short time, he had to make the other party hurt as much as possible.

This kind of pain, once it reached a certain level, could become a form of deterrence.

This was the law of survival in the slums, and also the law of the scavengers. As for whether it was the law of this chaotic world, Xu Qing did not know, but it was his law.

And having killed two elders, Xu Qing felt the deterrence was not enough.

While speeding along, Xu Qing drew closer and closer to the Vajra Sect, until the morning sun rose and sunlight spilled over the earth, and Xu Qing saw his destination from afar.

The Vajra Sect mountain gate!

The Vajra Sect was built on a mountain peak, with buildings surrounding the mountain body. The main hall on the summit seemed to radiate brilliance under the sunlight, looking quite imposing from afar.

It was just that most of the sect's cultivators were currently out searching and had not returned, so there were not many disciples left guarding the mountain gate. In this early morning, figures were only occasionally seen.

They carried arrogance in their expressions, as if being here meant they possessed a supreme status. Among them, by the mountain gate's arched bridge, there were three or five disciples laughing and chatting.

Most of their words were related to the ancestor going out to search for the child this time, and what they expressed in their speech was mostly the feeling that the ancestor was making a mountain out of a molehill.

There were others who were sitting cross-legged in their respective dwellings, practicing their cultivation.

As for the Sect Master of the Vajra Sect, he was currently sitting in the main hall, holding an account book recording the tributes from nearby cities and camps, flipping through it with a calm expression.

Like the disciples outside, he felt indifferent toward the ancestor's departure.

"Just a scavenger. Even if he has some ability, two elders are enough to suppress him. There was really no need for the ancestor to take action personally, leaving the sect almost empty now."

The Vajra Sect Master shook his head, secretly thinking there was no help for it; no one dared to disobey the ancestor's words.

And just as the entire sect was in a state of laziness, Xu Qing, who was high in the sky and unnoticed by anyone, looked down coldly.

He first sensed the direction of the wind, then circled around to the downwind area, gauging the wind speed and its diffusion distance.

Finally, he chose a position and, without giving the Vajra Sect cultivators any chance to react, took out a large amount of poison powder and scattered it handful by handful with an expressionless face.

Xu Qing had a lot of poison powder on him, and at this moment, he used eighty percent of it directly.

With so much poison powder mixed together, the toxicity within was already extremely alarming, and at this moment, it drifted toward the Vajra Sect in the wind.

Xu Qing did not attack immediately, but waited.

Time passed bit by bit. Because there was so much poison powder, as it diffused in the wind, the sky slowly seemed to be dyed with color, and the moment it faintly turned into a black wind, a cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

"That's about enough."

The appearance of this black wind soon attracted the attention of the Vajra Sect cultivators.

The first to see it were the disciples chatting at the mountain gate. They looked up in surprise, gazing at the black wind, and were all stunned.

"What is that?"

But the next instant, when a wisp of black wind drifted past a tree in the distance, causing it to wither instantly, the expressions of these disciples changed abruptly.

"Poison!!"

Following the exclamation, the disciples within the sect who discovered this scene were all shaken. Figures flew out from the sect one after another, their expressions changing, just about to cast spells to disperse the poisonous wind.

But just at this moment, in the sky, Xu Qing's figure suddenly charged out. His speed was so fast it turned into a bolt of lightning, running like thunder all the way, heading straight for the Vajra Sect mountain gate.

Seen from afar, his figure was like a heavenly thunderbolt falling into the human world, charging directly into the Vajra Sect.

Amidst the shock and anger of those Vajra Sect cultivators, and while the warning bells of the entire sect echoed, the roaring sound spread in all directions, and Xu Qing landed suddenly.

The location was exactly halfway up the Vajra Sect mountain.

A loud noise erupted from the ground, and cracks spread out. Xu Qing, who was within them, suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with intense killing intent, and he charged directly toward the many Vajra Sect cultivators in front who were wearing horrified expressions!

A loud explosion erupted.

Xu Qing's attack was swift and fierce, his speed astonishing. Wherever he passed, anyone who came into contact with him would inevitably let out screams, and corpses were scattered about.

But even though there were not many disciples in the Vajra Sect, there was still a certain number of them.

Therefore, very soon, amidst bursts of roars, figures gathered from all directions and headed straight for Xu Qing.

"Enemy attack!"

"Damn it, someone actually dares to attack our Vajra Sect!"

"Kill!!"

At this moment, the Vajra Sect Master in the main hall also noticed immediately. He walked out quickly in shock and anger, seeing the chaos in the sect and, even more, the poisonous wind that was spreading.

"All disciples, take the anti-poison elixir immediately and move to disperse the poisonous wind!" His expression changed abruptly as he quickly issued orders to the sect.

At the same time, he locked onto the place where the roaring sound came from halfway up the mountain, coldness filling his eyes, and he charged over immediately.

However, Xu Qing's attack was incomparably fast. He did not entangle himself with these Vajra Sect disciples, but instead moved about, waving his hands and throwing out black elixirs one by one.

Some of these black elixirs landed on the ground, while others were still in mid-air, but they all exploded at the same time, forming a vortex that attracted strange substances, causing the strange substances that were ubiquitous in the world to seem as if they had come alive, being sucked in instantly.

"Strange substances!!" The Vajra Sect disciples who were trying to charge up from all around, upon noticing this scene, all changed color and retreated instinctively, but there were still a few who were at the center of the vortex, their bodies rapidly turning cyan-black under the dense strange substances.

"Audacious!!" A roar came from the direction of the main hall on the summit, and the figure of the Vajra Sect Master arrived abruptly.

The cultivation fluctuation of the Qi Condensation Great Perfection surpassed that of the elder Xu Qing had killed; this was the second strongest person in the Vajra Sect besides the ancestor.

At this moment, his golden robe was bulging, his face was gloomy, and his eyes were filled with intense killing intent. But after seeing Xu Qing's scavenger attire and age, his whole body shook.

"It's you!" He did not need to guess; the answer was already in his heart.

And the moment this answer emerged, a great wave was stirred up in the Vajra Sect Master's heart.

Two chapters with 8,000 words updated. I don't know if everyone can be satisfied. Also, tomorrow is the beginning of the month, which I hear is also a day for newbies to explode with updates. Everyone, remember to save your monthly tickets and give them to me, give them to me, give them to me~~~