Chapter 76: Clean and Decisive Execution

The mountains are old and the forest is dense; sunlight can barely penetrate.

Du En paces through it, looking here and searching there, appearing as if he is hunting for spiritual herbs.

His overall behavior looks quite clumsy, purely relying on luck, which makes Wang Chun, who is tailing him in secret, want to laugh at this moment.

Once they reached this point, he could have made his move, but he felt it was still lacking; such terrain was not good enough, it would be best to be in a more open, conspicuous place.

As if the heavens themselves wanted to grant his wish, Du En did not walk for long before arriving at a clearing in the forest as the light filtered down.

The trees here are sparse, with only weeds growing in clusters, reaching above a person's knees.

Du En walks through them, with Wang Chun following closely behind.

Crack!

The hand gripping the blade is crushed to pieces.

After finishing the cleanup here, Du En went to another practice site not far away.

"Ah!"

The overseers are actually very insecure; encountering an evil cultivator is basically like being served on a platter.

"Ah, ah! You, you... ah!"

"Nice blade."

"Hiss... Good! Good! What a delicate, pretentious, self-important, and arrogant fool! I really hope you can still maintain that expression when I'm butchering you like a pig in a moment!"

Clang~

Du En flicked it lightly.

Two large chunks of mud scattered sporadically, their momentum undiminished, slamming heavily into Wang Chun.

This shouldn't be!

There are chaotic voices in his mind, making Wang Chun grit his teeth and his facial muscles twitch as he viciously demanded: "Do you still not understand the situation? I am Wang Chun, a late-stage Qi Refining overseer who has lived in the city; I am a completely different person from a lucky pig like you, a person!"

Amidst Wang Chun's screams, his magical tool had already been seized; because his mana was scattered, he could not manifest a response for a time to make it resist Du En, and it fell into another's hands just like that.

"Who!"

Du En did not feel surprised, because he had scouted those overseers who privately sold property and knew that after obtaining spirit stones, they usually would not keep many, mostly spending them all on medicinal pills.

Long before Wang Chun approached, he had been concentrating on his cultivation, and in that immersive state where he felt as one with the yellow earth, he had discovered the clues.

A bottle of pills, mostly consumed, appeared to be of the first-grade superior quality, with only three left.

The main issue was that the corpse of a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator is hard to burn, and he hadn't learned any fire-attribute spells; using ordinary fire to burn it would only result in endless blue smoke, which was exceptionally eye-catching.

Impossible, this shouldn't be, something is wrong here!

He was both terrified and unable to believe it, struggling to suppress the pain as he looked up at Du En.

His mana had long been stored, mysterious power naturally germinating and aggregating out of thin air; an Earth Bomb the size of an adult's head appeared in the eyes of Wang Chun, who was about to launch an attack, blocking his view of Du En and leaving him stunned for a moment.

He spoke in a shrill voice, while also rousing his mana and radiating an aura that pressed the surrounding grass to bend slightly.

Du En's words were calm, and with a casual flick of his blade, he severed Wang Chun's legs cleanly at the knees.

Du En was looking down at this moment, his black hair simply tied back and draped over his shoulders; when he looked down, it was like a canopy, blocking the excess sunlight and casting his entire face into shadow, with only those eyes remaining bright and calm.

"Wah!"

Then, his fingers moved slightly.

What kind of thing is this?

An earth, earth bomb?

"It's me, so what?"

How did he dare to admit it?

Wang Chun's mind was violently shaken, and his Dao heart collapsed instantly!

And Du En did not waste any words with him; the raised blade had already swept across, directly splitting him in two from head to toe.

To this, Du En only nodded slightly: "Mm, I know what your name is now."

He was quite experienced with this; at most, at most he would additionally chop off Du En's hand or foot.

Alright, the problem has been solved.

The fact that Wang Chun could still have three middle-grade spirit stones in surplus was likely because he had just looted them.

"So these are the pills and talismans; I've finally come into actual contact with them, though the quantity is very small..."

Stuffing the spirit stones and talismans into his pocket, Du En sat cross-legged on the spot, first removing the mana imprint on the Black Steel Blade, then applying his own to claim it as his own.

Wang Chun laughed strangely, his gloomy face revealing murderous intent and malice, his eyes turbid and twisted, filled with a cruel and sinful nature: "It was you who buried the corpses of that pair of dogs, it must be, it definitely is, no need to lie to me, don't try to lie to me, you can't fool me!"

"This, to be honest, I don't think so."

His body fell to the ground with a thud.

He stopped dodging!

He admitted it?

There weren't many spirit stones, only three middle-grade spirit stones.

Du En admitted it directly and simply, having already confirmed that the person before him was indeed his target.

"Mm, let's call it the Black Steel Blade; it's simple and easy to remember, though as stolen goods, it's not easy to flaunt in public."

Du En first looted the corpse, then threw it into a pile of weeds—a deep pit he had dug earlier while practicing spells—and then pushed dirt and stones to fill it deeply, which counted as finishing the cleanup.

Because he was afraid of encountering accidents.

Wang Chun screamed and vomited blood; at least forty percent of the mana in his body had been consumed in the instinctive defense just now, and the remainder had also been impacted, becoming scattered and turbulent, making it difficult to mobilize for a time.

Before he could recover his senses, a hand reached through the scattered dust and directly grabbed his blade.

Du En said this, his voice still calm, yet sounding quite moved.

No, something this big, what kind of earth bomb is that? It should be an earth cannon, right?

He also recognized the Earth Bullet Technique and was quite familiar with its contents, so for a moment, he only felt bewildered, a thick sense of absurdity rising in his heart.

A bottle of Grade 1 High-tier medicinal pills costs one hundred and fifty low-grade spirit stones at a trading point; they often buy one bottle and consume it, not hoarding spirit stones to buy them all at once.

That black blade sucked in Wang Chun's mana, silently slicing through the air and cutting open everything in its path; even a minor-accomplishment Earth Bullet was split apart quite easily.

Du En sensed something and turned around abruptly to look.

As for whether doing this would cause any ripples?

There might be a little, but it is not a big problem; after all, it can be made into a cold case and blamed on evil cultivators.

The goal was naturally to speed up the rate of cultivation, wanting to break through to the next realm as quickly as possible.

A magical artifact black blade, a fine piece among Grade 1 High-tier items; sharp, silent, and without luster, yet quite eye-catching.

At this moment, Wang Chun had not expected at all that Du En would actually admit it without changing his expression or skipping a beat!

Furthermore, his malicious gaze was incredibly clear; just after he had looked over, Du En had completely locked onto this ill-intentioned visitor, but because the occasion was not suitable at the time, he had merely feigned a posture to lure him over here.

"Hehehe..."

Wang Chun held the magical artifact black blade in his hand high, his mana surging as he prepared to strike first and cripple Du En.

But, it was only split apart.

It was just like a high and mighty god or demon looking down upon a lowly worm that only deserved to crawl and wriggle on the ground!

Three yellow talisman papers, drawn with simple flame patterns.

"You..."

Having thought this, he looked at the rest.

"You really don't understand human speech; I said it, no, that kind of situation will not happen."

"Hahaha! Want to beg for mercy now? Too late! I tell you, I will make you wish you were dead and unable to die!"

Look at the things Wang Chun delivered himself this time.

Of course, this did not hinder him from reacting instinctively and swinging his blade violently when this small-accomplishment Earth Bullet shot over.

Because it can shrink, it is quite convenient to carry.

Then he poured out a medicinal pill, identified and confirmed there were no issues, and only then swallowed it.

(End of this chapter)