Chapter 67: A Show of Force

Rainy night.

Mountain forest.

Pitch black as ink, the heavy rain poured down without stopping, showing no signs of letting up.

Zhao Wei leaped and slashed, parting the falling raindrops, striking the black bear demonic beast's head, which was as large as a stone lock.

"Evil beast, die!"

He roared violently.

After a great battle, the four of them were all scattered by the demonic beasts.

Killing intent raged in Zhao Wei's eyes, then he drew his blade and tapped his toes, retreating several steps, instantly opening up distance from the black bear demonic beast.

The next instant.

He turned around without looking back and drilled into the mountain forest.

The mission was the Huaqing Sect's, but his life was his own.

Zhao Wei could not risk his life for the Huaqing Sect.

The black bear demonic beast had thick skin and flesh, and incomparable strength; ordinary martial artists were simply no match.

Although he could maintain an undefeated state, wanting to kill the black bear demonic beast before him would also require paying a great price.

This mission.

What he needed to do was to show enough diligence; now that he had been separated from the three people of the Huaqing Sect and they couldn't see his performance, continuing to fight for his life was meaningless.

"As long as the green hills remain, one need not worry about firewood."

Zhao Wei's running speed became faster and faster.

Within a few breaths, the huge black bear demonic beast behind him was nowhere to be seen.

Slap!

His right foot stepped into a pond, water splashing high, then merging with the falling rain.

But just as Zhao Wei's left foot was about to land—

Whoosh!

A hidden arrow lurked in the dark rainy night, shooting toward his right foot.

"Who is it?!"

Zhao Wei's eyes were red, scanning the surroundings like an enraged lion; blood seeped from the trouser leg torn by the arrow just now.

"How vicious."

The person lurking in the dark, shooting cold arrows was one thing.

But they also specifically avoided his vital parts.

Martial artists, after years of training, have better sensitivity to protecting their vital parts; if it had been shot at his heart, he might have been able to dodge it.

But that person did the opposite, only injuring his ankle.

Strength starts from the feet.

The injury to his ankle made it impossible for him to exert his full strength.

"Small tricks!"

Zhao Wei snorted coldly.

His strength had greatly increased now, and his blood and Qi were terrifyingly abundant; this little damage could almost be ignored.

"It's here!"

Zhao Wei's eyelids twitched, and he flew forward in three steps.

Only to see a black shadow leap out from the forest in the pouring rain, holding a huge long blade in his hand.

Slashing fiercely toward him.

Clang!

Blood and Qi surged, terrifying power surged from the soles of his feet to his right arm, and the wild wind raised by the heavy, powerful slash even blew away the surrounding rain.

The first strike was full force.

The fierce Qi of the White Ape Cloak-Blade was displayed to the fullest, carrying the force of a thousand jun, his arm swelling as he smashed toward Zhao Wei.

Yes.

It was a smash, not a slash.

Like an old ape spreading its arms, the conversion of strength was done in one go, with a faint sound of breaking the air.

This was the most stunning blade strike Li Rui had ever practiced since he started.

"Who?!"

This strike came too fast; Zhao Wei could only raise his blade to block, the muscles on his arms bulging, directly bursting his clothes.

Boom!

The violent power smashed Zhao Wei down several inches, his feet directly inserted into the mud.

"What great strength!"

Zhao Wei looked at the long blade in his hand.

The strike just now shook his palms numb, almost making him unable to hold the blade; besides the man's great strength, it was also because the blade was heavy enough.

"Li Rui!"

This name appeared in Zhao Wei's mind.

If he remembered correctly, a few days ago, Li Rui had just bought a blade weighing seventy jin from the Civil and Martial Hall.

As the Deputy Helmsman in charge of the Civil and Martial Hall, he naturally knew.

Li Rui's identity was exposed, but he didn't show the slightest panic.

After tonight, there would be no more Zhao Wei in the world.

Another strike!

He never believed that Zhao Wei's show of weakness that day meant that the two sides could live in peace in the future.

A Deputy Helmsman admitting his mistake to a seventy-year-old man.

Able to bend and stretch.

Even more reason to kill.

So today, after hearing the news from Wu Tu, he had been preparing.

"Just by relying on you, an old man, you can kill me?!"

Zhao Wei let out a long roar to the sky; although he guessed that Li Rui had been deliberately hiding his combat power, facing a seventy-year-old man, he was naturally not afraid.

But just as he wanted to swing his blade, bursts of severe pain came from his body.

"Despicable and vicious, you actually used poison??"

Zhao Wei's mouth overflowed with blood, staring fixedly at Li Rui.

He didn't expect that Li Rui's hidden arrow just now actually contained poison.

"Ah!!"

At this moment, Zhao Wei only felt that his internal organs were about to split.

The toxicity was too fierce, so much so that he was dazed for a moment just now, and his hasty strike naturally fell into a disadvantage.

Zhao Wei had extremely rich combat experience.

He leaped like a fish to the left, rolled several times in the mud, and instantly opened up distance from Li Rui.

Just while rolling.

He took out an antidote pill from his bosom and swallowed it; everything was done smoothly.

As someone who roamed the rivers and lakes, he had long developed the habit of carrying antidote pills with him; a small poison couldn't kill him.

"You want to kill me with just these means?"

Zhao Wei stood up, looking coldly at Li Rui.

Li Rui didn't speak, just slowly raised the long blade in his hand and slashed fiercely at Zhao Wei from the air.

The invisible blade Qi cut through the air, severing the raindrops falling in mid-air.

"Ugh!"

Zhao Wei groaned, looking at Li Rui with disbelieving eyes, using all his strength to spit out two words with a leaking voice:

"Blade Qi?!"

How could he have imagined that Li Rui could actually use Blade Qi?

Killing enemies from a distance, making it impossible for people to defend against.

"He could have originally used Blade Qi to kill me, yet he used so many means?"

A trace of desolation appeared at the corner of Zhao Wei's mouth.

"Not an unjust death."

With a thud, his body smashed face-first into the ground, splashing a pool of water.

In the night rain.

Li Rui's chest heaved violently; the strike just now had almost exhausted all his strength.

The smell of blood filled his nose and mouth.

Half came from Zhao Wei, and the other half came from himself.

Exerting full-force Blade Qi was still too much of a drain for him now, especially his head, which hurt more than being hit by a heavy hammer.

But all this was not worth mentioning compared to killing Zhao Wei.

To ensure Zhao Wei's death, he had been lurking in the mountain forest, specifically using poisoned hidden arrows to sneak attack.

Finally, he even used his trump card, Blade Qi.

Li Rui glanced at Zhao Wei's corpse on the ground.

"You should be able to die without regrets now."

Just at this moment—

Lines of small characters appeared before his eyes.

【Congratulations to the host for completing the achievement: Famous in the Jianghu, beginner plot—Violence with Violence.】

【Greenwood highwaymen, calling themselves heroes, are actually a den of thieves, everyone in the Jianghu should kill them; you walked the Jianghu at seven, met mountain bandits and evil thugs on the road, saw injustice, and drew your blade to help.】

【Task completed: Violence with Violence, reward settling...】

【Task rating: C.】

【Obtained 30 achievement points!】

【Achievement points reached 100, reward obtaining...】

【Walking the Jianghu, whether it is a disaster or a blessing, all depends on your eye; with a pair of good eyes, the Jianghu road will definitely be smooth.】

【Obtained Spirit Eye!】

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 68 =====