Chapter 11: Throat-Breaking Kill

Whoosh!

The man in black leaned back to dodge that punch, his back bones and muscles all cooperating, like a spring that had been stretched, now automatically retracting.

His figure flipped backward in an extremely smooth way, his head suddenly touched the ground, and he took advantage of the momentum to kick toward Chu Tianshu's chin.

There were moves that inverted the body and used the head to touch the ground.

But being able to let the head touch the ground at such a fast speed, without the assistance of hands, and without any signs of collision dizziness, was truly amazing.

Chu Tianshu retreated half a step in a hurry, the man in black exerted force from his waist and back, his body twisted, and his legs opened and closed, spinning and kicking out.

His legs were not fully opened and flattened, so the angle of this spin kick did not correspond to Chu Tianshu's waist and hips.

Instead, it corresponded to the lowest rib on Chu Tianshu's right side.

Chu Tianshu's pupils moved slightly, so he jumped backward and retreated a big step.

The way of using the head to touch the ground and relying on the waist and back to twist and exert force could absolutely not last long.

After one or two kicks that took the initiative, maintaining this posture had too many flaws and was tantamount to seeking death.

The man in black tried his best to force Chu Tianshu back and was about to get up immediately.

That kick had just hit the empty space, his body's spinning momentum had not stopped, and his hands were already supporting the ground, flipping up like a carp jumping.

The man in black's body flipping balance and flexibility were faster than a wild civet cat.

At this moment, Chu Tianshu, who had just been forced back, should have barely touched the ground with his soles and had no time to exert force.

This man in black, who acted as ferocious as a wild beast, had human fist techniques and combat experience.

This kind of grasp of timing had probably been tested in hundreds of life-and-death battles.

But just as he flipped up, before his body had completely straightened, he heard an unusual cracking sound.

Chu Tianshu, who had jumped backward, did not wait for his soles to naturally touch the ground, but inhaled in the air, leaned his upper body forward, tightened his waist, and swung his legs.

His left foot was floating and had not yet touched the ground, while his right foot had already stepped heavily diagonally backward.

The length of the human body was not completely fixed and had a certain plasticity.

The force of Chu Tianshu's right foot at this moment was so fierce that his entire right leg actually seemed to be longer than his left leg.

Tong Bei Fist imitates apes, and what apes are most commendable for is their jumping ability.

The Gluttonous Tong Bei Fist derived some brutal ways of exerting force from the original Tong Bei fist manual's footwork.

The moment the cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles stepped heavily on the ground, the rammed ground was obviously sunken. The soles were thick enough, but the silk threads at the connection between the shoe edge and the sole were all broken.

Bang!!!

That was the cracking sound the man in black heard.

This kick offset Chu Tianshu's backward trend and had a lot of force left over, causing him to shoot back on the spot.

The man in black hadn't seen the shadow of the person yet, so he let out a strange cry and hit forward with both hands.

It was as if there was a slight crack in the air.

The moment Chu Tianshu rushed forward, his right arm stabbed straight forward, his palms together like a sword, piercing the airflow.

A flash of blood.

Chu Tianshu's palm was like crashing into a pool of warm, rotten mud, his fingertips still stabbing straight ahead, reaching deeper and touching hard objects.

Swish! Crack!

The man in black's body suddenly straightened, his eyes wide open, his eyeballs seemed a circle larger than before, his limbs were stiff, and his two arms were as straight as wooden sticks.

His hands were hitting Chu Tianshu's ears, a move of mutual destruction.

If the opponent had a little bit of fear, this battle would still have to be fought.

Even if the opponent rushed over, whether hitting the heart or the head, the man in black's dying counterattack could also land on the opponent.

But Chu Tianshu's strike was not only aimed at the throat but also stabbed straight at the cervical spine.

When the human cervical spine breaks, the brain and spinal cord suddenly lose contact, and the muscles of the whole body will have tonic contraction, and the limbs will instantly stiffen.

The man in black's hands, although they had reached the sides of Chu Tianshu's head, were less than half a foot apart.

Tonic contraction, however, made his hands like a stuck mechanism, stopping on the spot, with no chance to hit down.

"Whoosh..."

Chu Tianshu stared at the dead man's eyes, maintaining this posture, his body gradually relaxed, he panted a few times, a battle for no reason, but it was a clear and dangerous life-and-death struggle, making people feel confused and annoyed.

He pushed the man in black forward with his left hand.

When the man in black lay on his back, the wound on his neck lost its blockage, and a stream of blood spurted out, all falling on his own black clothes.

The corpse fell to the ground, stirring up dust, blood still flowing, gradually forming a pool of blood around the neck.

A few seconds later, the effect of the tonic contraction passed, and the man in black's raised arms also fell to the ground.

Chu Tianshu looked at the blood on his right hand, was silent for a while, and then looked at the corpse.

He had beheaded many evil spirits, but this was the first time he had killed a person, and in such a bloody way.

"This state of death... humph, it's not more terrifying than a ghost."

Chu Tianshu's brows relaxed, and he shook the blood off his hands.

Footsteps suddenly came from the street.

Chu Tianshu turned to look.

Shopkeeper Ma was carrying a kerosene lamp, walking toward this side in a hurry, quite fast.

"Little Chu, I heard the chaotic gong beating just now, what happened... hmm?!"

Shopkeeper Ma stopped abruptly, his face a bit solemn, and shone the lamp toward this side.

The range of the warm yellow light illuminated the iron finger cots on the ground, swept across Chu Tianshu's body, and illuminated his bloody hands.

Finally, the light and the moonlight shone on the corpse together.

Although he was in the right, it seemed he had been caught at the scene of a murder.

Chu Tianshu couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and was about to open his mouth to explain.

"Don't panic!"

Shopkeeper Ma lowered his voice and instead comforted Chu Tianshu.

"My old eyes are dim, but I'm not blind. You were clearly a novice who had never taken a human life before. Today is the first time, right?"

He took another step. "Selling medicine to make money, eating meat to practice martial arts, your mind is focused and simple. I know you wouldn't kill anyone for no reason. What is this person's background?"

Chu Tianshu was a bit surprised, stepped back two steps, and let Shopkeeper Ma walk to the side of the corpse.

"This person attacked me for no reason, I don't know his background either, but before this, he should have killed a bamboo weaver."

Shopkeeper Ma walked to the corpse and saw those wide-open eyes.

The green vertical pupils were slowly returning to normal pupils, and then dissipated.

"This is..."

Shopkeeper Ma's face changed, his left hand formed a sword finger and pressed on the kerosene lamp cover.

"East family firewood, West family charcoal, burning the universe bright and clear, fire dragon and fire crow guard the doors and windows, the fire seed makes the plague god busy."

He spoke very fast, the few sentences seemed to be stuck together, and he had already finished speaking between breaths.

The fire in the kerosene lamp flickered.

The lamp cover was clearly not broken, but the old man had already pinched a flame from outside the lamp cover and threw it toward the wound on the man in black's neck.

The fire flashed and went out.

Chu Tianshu saw it clearly, the fire was not extinguished, but seemed to have drilled into the wound: "Shopkeeper Ma, you are indeed not an ordinary person."

"The one lying on the ground is also not an ordinary person."

Shopkeeper Ma glanced at Chu Tianshu. "You were able to behead him, you are even more extraordinary."

Soon, the skin of the man in black's face began to squirm, and strange insects as small as ants and shaped like cockroaches crawled out from his seven orifices.

Chu Tianshu frowned, couldn't help but tear off a piece of his clothes hem, and wiped his right hand: "What is this thing?"

"Poison civet claws, crocodile skin boots, leopard insects entering the body, this is a leopard cat warrior of the Jiaozhi people."

Shopkeeper Ma's face was a bit ugly.

The ancient Jiaozhi royal family would cultivate these death soldiers, raising a large number of children from a young age, practicing various fist techniques imitating tigers, leopards, and civet cats, keeping a leopard cat by their side, eating human flesh, and drinking corpse oil.

When both the person and the leopard cat grew up, the master and pet were coordinated, their steps were consistent, the person was like a cat, and the cat was like a person, then a witch doctor would preside over the killing of the leopard cat, let the insects eat it clean, and then let the person swallow these insects.

The soul of the leopard cat would attach to these insects, raised in the person's body, drinking and eating with the master, and when necessary, could let the fierce soul possess the body, showing extraordinary ability.

This was one of the best killers and spies in ancient Jiaozhi, silent in hands and feet, flipping over walls and ridges, and finger strength could easily tear off a person's face.

Their various performances looked like people who had achieved success in martial arts, but they were actually taking a different path, sorcerers on the path of spirit communication.

Even people who could usually sense wandering souls could not easily detect this kind of fierce soul hidden in the insect abdomen, and the insects hidden in the human body.

"You killed him when he was exerting his full strength, so the leopard cat's fierce soul died immediately, but the insects are not dead yet, and must be solved to prevent these poisonous insects from flying out and biting people."

The insects forced out by Shopkeeper Ma's technique were already listless, and were smashed by his flame, burning all those small insects.

Chu Tianshu heard this, recited silently, and summoned the token screen.

Sure enough, in the evil spirit material column, there was an extra material called "Insect-Abdomen Leopard Cat".

Seeing the insects burned out, Shopkeeper Ma's face was not relaxed, but even heavier.

"You just said he also killed a bamboo weaver, which is where the gong was beaten, right?"

Shopkeeper Ma asked, "Was the corpse made to look like it was bitten by a wild beast?"

Chu Tianshu had a premonition and said, "Yes, does he have any special purpose in doing this, is he trying to perform some kind of evil technique?"

"It shouldn't be an evil technique, leopard cat warriors can't learn other evil techniques."

Shopkeeper Ma's face was uncertain. "But it's even more troublesome than that. He is likely here to scout for mountain bandits and marauders."

"Leopard cat fierce souls are prone to backlash in the spring and need people to help suppress them. Besides Jiaozhi nobles, only bandit leaders would raise such people."

"Foreigners have occupied most of Jiaozhi, and there are wars everywhere. It is not uncommon for marauders to sneak into Yizhou territory. Because of the language barrier, when they scout, they often send the most capable people other than the leader to sneak into the town and kill someone to leave there."

"Then they watch from the side to see how the local folk customs are, how long it takes for the town's militia to arrive, and what equipment the militia uses..."

Shopkeeper Ma frowned here. "No, since he has already killed someone, why would he attack you?"

Chu Tianshu's mind turned, and he understood, it was because of the root cause of external evil.

People who are prone to external evil are also easily sensed by evil, especially in the eyes of that kind of evil spirit full of bestiality, he would be extra delicious.

It was just that when he was back home, his family had arranged many town-house objects, and the evil spirits he encountered were basically human souls, and they were relatively weak, without that kind of bestial fierce spirit.

This kind of leopard cat warrior was the first time.

"I explored the place where the gong was beaten, wanting to see if there were any clues about the murderer."

Chu Tianshu said, "It should be that his fierce soul was originally arrogant, and the strong hostility I radiated stimulated him."

Shopkeeper Ma looked at the corpse and muttered, "That's right, if a leopard cat warrior is lucky enough to live to middle age, and the fierce soul is raised for a long time, it is indeed easier to be stressed."

"Daring to raise such a leopard cat warrior, the ferocity and bravery of this group of marauders is by no means comparable to ordinary bandits..."

Shopkeeper Ma's expression tightened. "I must hurry to notify the people in the town!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 12 =====