Chapter 76: Kill the Fish!

The night wind, like a blood-stained sickle, carried a fishy smell, carried dampness, and was carried by the messenger of death, wandering in every corner of the city.

In the darkness, the figure of this messenger of death moved forward wantonly. In the horn of murderous intent, it seemed to have merged with all the shadows in the city, constantly gathering, constantly scattering again, as if fearless, and enough to make all life wanting to struggle despair.

Until... in this permeation and moving forward, in a dark and distant corner, it bumped into a person.

That was a figure wearing a gray robe. In the dark night, his back seemed unable to be cut by a knife or pierced by a needle, and the cold air emitted seemed to block the starlight in the sky.

It was suffocating.

This instant, it was as if the rushing river water met the sea, as if the greedy jackal pack met the wolf king.

Its footsteps stopped. The invisible body was quiet in all directions, and in the silence, it seemed to be watching, until the gray figure slowly turned its head, and after the calm in its icy eyes revealed the calmness like a black pool.

It smiled.

As if it had found faith, as if it had found a fellow traveler, it carried the sickle of death and cheered around this gray figure, lifting his long hair and blowing his long robe.

"The wind tonight is a bit strong," Xu Qing whispered softly, turned his head, and continued to gaze at the house in the darkness in the distance.

The house in his eyes was like a coffin, carrying heaviness in the night. That was the residence of the Mermaid youth he had found during this period.

The other party was different from the Seventh Peak disciples, seeming not to have the qualification to own a magic boat, so for a place to stay, he could only choose to be on shore and live with his attendants.

Xu Qing watched calmly, not in a hurry, not impatient. In this dark night, his even and slight breathing sound was like icy water winding, long and deep.

He was waiting.

The aura of the mark accurately told Xu Qing that the person he was waiting for was right here.

And judging by the rule of the other party going out alone last time, it should be about time for this fish to go out in these few days, especially today... the other party's mood was very bad.

So, Xu Qing felt that tonight, with high probability, he would be able to wait.

Time passed. An hour later, when the moon in the sky was once again covered by dark clouds, a night wind blew, and the house that had already been buried in darkness emitted a whistling sound of wind resistance.

This sound made this coffin-like house even more desolate, like a hoarse low moan before death, echoing in the quiet night sky.

A figure appeared on the high wall of the house.

The gray Daoist robe couldn't cover the fishy smell emitted from his whole body, and the green eyes like gemstones also couldn't change his sinister nature.

In the wind, the fluttering of his wide robe seemed to be bluffing, turning into a silhouette, but the thin layer looked more like peeled human skin.

He was exactly that Mermaid youth.

Today, his mood was extremely bad. The day's events made him think he had received great humiliation.

"So what if it's the Seventh Peak Grand Princess? Sooner or later, I will cripple you and use your body to feed ghost-domain maggots!" The Mermaid youth gritted his teeth. The unhappiness of his mood made him choose to go out a few days early. He felt he had to go out to vent.

And the way of venting, he had already let his two sisters arrange. It wasn't women, but children.

This was a hobby he couldn't let too many people know about. He liked to abuse and kill children of other races, exchanging this for his own joy.

At this moment, his body swayed and he walked into the dark night.

With the moving forward, his figure slowly blurred, and finally disappeared. Whether it was vision or perception, at this moment, one would lose the lock, as if he didn't exist at this instant.

But the mark of the scent wouldn't disappear.

Xu Qing looked up, watched the other party's figure disappear, his expression calm, and without a sound, he stepped forward, also walking into the dark night.

The wind was stronger, like the confrontation between a blade and the air, echoing incessantly in this quiet night.

Half an hour later, in a corner of an alley, the void twisted at this moment, and the Mermaid youth's figure manifested again. And at the moment the figure was revealed, he felt a crisis, and his body retreated abruptly.

But it was still too late. A thick water curtain instantly appeared behind him, and even more revealed in all directions, directly covering this alley, sealing it completely. At the instant it was sealed, a low roar came from within the water curtain in front of him.

A huge whale formed by techniques bulged in the water curtain, taking shape rapidly.

Revealing coldness, revealing murderous intent, it opened its big mouth toward the Mermaid youth, revealing sharp teeth, and with an incomparably fierce momentum, swallowed abruptly.

The Mermaid youth's gaze was sharp.

"A bit interesting. It just so happens my mood is bad today, so I'll play with you."

As he spoke, he raised both hands and was just about to form a seal, but just at this moment, the shadows that had merged with the darkness, like ropes, instantly scattered into strips, arriving from all directions, directly wrapping around the Mermaid youth's arms, covering his palms, making his action of forming a seal unable to be completed.

And while covering his palms, these shadows also spread rapidly toward his neck.

And whether it was his hands or the skin touched by the shadows at this moment, they all transmitted heart-piercing pain at this instant, as if being corroded rapidly. This scene was too sudden, and the Mermaid youth's expression changed drastically for the first time.

The intense life-and-death crisis and the violent stinging pain made his breathing rapid. While struggling, the whale formed by the water curtain in front of him had already arrived in front of him, swallowing with astonishing momentum.

But at the moment the whale swallowed, the Mermaid youth let out a roar, and a blue light erupted from his body. The light beam was like a sharp thorn, attempting to drive away the shadows on his body, and even more shot toward all directions.

It directly collided with the arriving whale. The whale collapsed with a bang, but didn't scatter. The remaining force was still like a wave slapping, falling with a roar.

The Mermaid youth's whole body shook, blood sprayed out. Taking advantage of the time when the blue light made the weird shadows slow down, his expression revealed ferocity and cruelty, just about to open his storage bag.

But just at this moment, the shadows permeating his body erupted again, wrapping around his hands once more, preventing his actions, and continued to spread rapidly toward his whole body.

This scene made the Mermaid youth's heart completely horrified. And at this moment, a black cold glint whistled from the dark, heading straight for his glabella.

Behind this cold glint, he saw a figure... a gray figure that had shot out from the water curtain in front!

The speed was so fast that it was like a dark lightning bolt.

It was also a youth, black hair fluttering, expressionless, only the light in his eyes was calm but permeated with incomparably icy coldness.

Around him, wind lingered, as if turned into a sickle, as if beside him existed the messenger of death, grinning and lifting a black cloak, rushing rapidly with the figure.

"It's you!

" The Mermaid youth recognized Xu Qing. In the life-and-death crisis, he opened his mouth abruptly. Amidst the words, he spat out a silver glint.

This silver glint grew in the wind, instantly turning into a huge flying wheel, whistling toward the black iron skewer in front. The two collided instantly, emitting a huge sound of weapon collision.

Because the force contained was too great, so whether it was the flying wheel or the black iron skewer, they both deviated in this collision, and when they roared toward the side, they also couldn't block the Mermaid youth and Xu Qing's gazes from colliding again.

At the instant the two gazes collided, Xu Qing approached directly. At the same time, the gills on the Mermaid youth's face bulged abruptly, turning into sharp thorns as if growing on his face, making his expression ferocious. He opened his mouth and spat out a blue bead rapidly.

"Die for me!" The Mermaid youth let out a low roar, and this blue bead instantly erupted with even more astonishing light beams, covering the approaching Xu Qing directly.

He was very confident. Under his innate divine ability, unless it was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, otherwise, even if it were a Great Circle of Qi Condensation, few could escape unscathed. Thus, a grin appeared at the corner of his mouth, just about to continue suppressing the weird shadows on his body.

But the next instant, his expression changed completely with the rumbling within the blue light beam in front, and even revealed horror.

In front of him, amidst the coverage of the blue light beam, a huge figure stood up from within, standing tall and upright against the light.

That figure was pitch black all over, with a single horn on its head, ferocious like a fierce ghost, and its whole body was covered in rows of sharp thorns, as if the leader of ten thousand ghosts.

At this moment, it was roaring silently toward the blue light, its big hand raised, covering the light, and grabbing over.

It was... the Kui Shadow!

Under this huge black Kui Shadow was Xu Qing, who was expressionless and rushing toward the Mermaid youth rapidly.

His whole body had many wounds shot out by the light beam, but they were all recovering rapidly visible to the naked eye, and the murderous intent in his eyes exploded completely at this moment.

Whether it was the Mermaid youth stealing merit before, or the action in the shop, Xu Qing had never gone all out. The shadow had never moved, the Kui Shadow had never manifested, and even the recovery power hadn't been revealed.

His sharpness was only revealed at the moment of killing.

"Blood-Qi manifestation! And your cultivation base! Impossible, your recovery power, this..." The Mermaid youth's expression revealed unprecedented horror, the life-and-death crisis turned into terror in his eyes, and his words were somewhat incoherent.

He wanted to open the storage bag, wanted to transmit a message for help with the jade slip, but at this moment, the shadows seemed to have come alive, able to detect his thoughts, wrapping his hands tightly, making him unable to lift them, unable to take any items. And Xu Qing didn't waste a single bit of time, having already approached, his right hand shining with cold light, a dagger appearing.

Looking at the dagger, the Mermaid youth let out a crazy roar, not caring about the shadows currently wrapped around his neck, and didn't have time to care about the covered parts being corroded intensely. At the critical moment of crisis, his body swayed abruptly.

His legs lifted rapidly, blurring in an instant, and actually transformed into a black fish tail, slamming with full force toward the approaching Xu Qing. Furthermore, at this very moment, his bloodline talent erupted completely; a phantom merman figure formed outside his body, merging with his tail to create a formidable strike.

Xu Qing's expression didn't have the slightest change, his speed didn't decrease, approaching instantly. His left hand raised and punched, the Kui Shadow behind him roared, also merging, and falling at the same time.

Skin torn and flesh ripped, flesh and blood collapsed.

The huge fish tail split into pieces directly, and the Mermaid phantom also collapsed and exploded under the Kui Shadow's punch.

The ground all around shook abruptly, and the miserable scream came from the Mermaid youth's mouth, but the water curtain all around was too thick, and his voice was sealed tightly within the alley.

"Curse!

" Amidst this scream, the Mermaid youth who had lost his lower body had his eyes turn blood-red. Amidst the roar, the flesh and blood of his collapsed fish tail seemed to possess activity, burning, and fiercely gathered toward where Xu Qing was from all directions, the speed extremely fast, covering instantly.

Although the speed of this gathering was fast, it wasn't as fast as Xu Qing. Almost at the instant the flesh and blood covered, his body, due to the extremity of his speed, left behind a residual image covered by the Mermaid flesh and blood curse.

As for his true body, it appeared behind the Mermaid youth at this moment. Without waiting for the fish tail flesh and blood that had missed to chase, amidst the Mermaid youth's horror, an icy dagger had already landed before his neck.

"Xu Qing, I..."

The Mermaid youth's body trembled, his voice sharp and rapid, but he no longer had the opportunity to continue speaking. With the touch of the ice cold on the dagger...

Xu Qing slashed fiercely. He didn't have the habit of listening to last words.

The familiar cutting sound echoed.

Blood sprayed instantly, and the Mermaid youth's body's twitching became intense to the extreme at this instant, like a fish that had half its neck chopped off on a chopping board.

His eyes widened, wanting to turn his head, but he couldn't do it. Until after a few breaths like leaking air, before his body fell and his consciousness was about to dissipate, he finally saw Xu Qing's face above.

"The clothes, you dirtied them." Xu Qing spoke softly. This was the only sentence he said from beginning to end.

"You..."

Blood was still overflowing from the Mermaid youth's neck. He trembled, slowly losing his breath, and in his still-open eyes, lingered attachment to the world, and also lingered disbelief, as if no matter what, he hadn't expected that he, who was like a heaven-favored child, would actually die here.

He died of breathlessness.

Xu Qing's expression was calm. He took off the talisman treasure for speed enhancement on his leg, picked up the storage bag that the Mermaid youth had never had the chance to open, and turned to walk toward the alley entrance. The shadow left on the Mermaid youth's corpse retreated rapidly, returning to Xu Qing's feet.

Until he walked to the alley entrance, Xu Qing's footsteps didn't stop, nor did he turn his head to look, just raised his right hand and squeezed backward forcefully.

Instantly, the water curtain that had covered the alley and sealed this place shook abruptly, beginning to move.

From large to small, from outside to inside, centered on the Mermaid corpse, it compressed instantly, the speed astonishing. Finally, with a bang, the pressure from the water curtain all around gathered on the Mermaid youth's corpse.

In this sound, the fish person's corpse, along with the minced meat in this alley, collapsed completely, without the slightest remnant, body and spirit destroyed.

Xu Qing walked far away.

The water curtain sprinkled slowly, turning into water droplets, falling into this quiet alley, washing away everything.

Making the ground clean, making all the bloodiness disperse, and even more making the early morning sun slowly rising in the distance successfully fall into this place, refracting the water puddles on the ground, emitting dazzling light.

From dark to dawn, for the sky, it was just an instant, and for people, it was the same.

Like life and death. ===== CHAPTER 77 =====