Chapter 135: Fang Xu: This feeling is truly wonderful!

After killing the white mechanism puppet, the two moved forward, encountering many martial artists battling mechanism puppets along the way, but they did not go over to them.

The assessment has just begun, and these martial artists now have few mechanism puppet cores on them; looting would be pointless.

Pig, it's better to fatten it up before killing.

Leading Lu Qingluo, the two turned several bends and arrived at a three-way fork, where they hesitated—

"Fang Xu, there's movement over here!"

Lu Qingluo's gaze suddenly shifted to the opening of the passage ahead to the left.

Before her words had even finished, before Fang Xu could turn, a huge wolf covered in blood-red fur burst out from the left passage opening!

As the blood-red wolf charged forward, four identical blood-red wolves appeared behind it!

Seeing Fang Xu and the other, the five blood-red wolves' greenish eyes flashed with ferocity as they suddenly accelerated and lunged forward!

Seeing this, Fang Xu frowned and said, "Senior Sister, killing this yields no points; let's withdraw."

"Fang—" Lu Qingluo was about to speak when the fighting sounds ahead grew nearer!

Subsequently, a wounded martial artist with a panicked face stumbled out of the passage ahead, running while glancing behind.

The force of my first strike just now would be hard for an ordinary Martial Master realm cultivator to withstand.

"Let's go."

"These few are strong."

"Whoosh!"

His figure had barely run a short distance when another silhouette pursued from the bend behind him in the passage.

This figure wore a rat-tail money braid on his head, a deep-blue robe, a fierce expression, a curved blade in his right hand, and a long spear in his left.

He walked over slowly, searched the corpse for a moment, and found that it bore not even a single mechanism puppet core.

"I'll give it all to you, just don't kill me..."

Looking at the mechanism puppet core slowly stained with much blood, Fang Xu's brow slightly furrowed.

Instantly killed!

"Huh?"

"Be careful."

He checked the martial artist's wound again.

Hearing this, Fang Xu's steps paused slightly, he turned to face her and asked, "Is it cruel?"

The beady-eyed martial artist saw the stone ball, his eyes instantly lit with joy, he flashed forward to the orange stone ball and reached out his hand.

A mechanism puppet that can wield weapons?

Under his gaze, the mechanism puppet in the hidden door stepped out slowly.

"Ah!"

At this point, only a quarter of the time has passed, so the two need not rush.

Before his words even finished, he raised the curved blade and charged straight at them!

Within the assessment checkpoint, all martial artists are suppressed by the restriction to the peak of the Warrior Disciple realm.

"Perfect, I also want to see what this orange mechanism puppet looks like."

Lu Qingluo blinked slightly, then gave a stiff nod.

Gripping the long staff, Fang Xu flashed forward and lunged!

Lu Qingluo paused briefly, then gripped her long spear and followed the charge!

"Save… save me…"

Fang Xu laughed and shook his head, saying, "Actually, I am a fierce tiger."

Among the martial artists participating in the assessment, though there are no shortage of talents, Fang Xu believes few can still display strength above the Warrior Master level while their cultivation is suppressed to the peak of Warrior Disciple.

"Whoosh!"

Seeing Yun Wan about to suffer heavy injury at any moment, Fang Xu hesitated not, flashed his form, and immediately rushed forward!

A long staff knocked the double halberds aimed at Yun Wan aside, and Fang Xu positioned himself in front of her.

But suddenly he saw the humanoid mechanism puppet's head spin 180 degrees, its arms swing in a large circle, its body unmoving, leaving them again facing each other.

As soon as this violent bear mechanism puppet appeared, before it could act, a long staff came crashing straight toward its head!

Inside the passage, the money-braid martial artist looked at his now-useless right leg; even a slight movement sent pain deep into his bones, and a hint of despair appeared on his face.

The long staff gave a slight twist, and his figure shot out directly!

The money-braid martial artist, also sharp-eyed, hastily wiped the blood from his hands with his clothing, cleaned all the mechanism puppet cores, and said with a smile, "Clean..."

"Boom!"

The long staff slammed hard onto the long spear, directly crushing the humanoid mechanism puppet's body down by a foot!

"What a hard spear!"

Lu Qingluo rushed over, seeing the lecherous glint in the short martial artist's eyes as he shamelessly roamed over her body, she instantly flared with anger and prepared to charge forward with her spear.

Fang Xu frowned, hesitating whether to go over and take a look.

"Boom!"

Not giving it any chance to retaliate, Fang Xu immediately struck again with a staff!

The entire violent bear mechanism puppet instantly shattered into scattered parts, and a green bead fell to the ground.

"Let's go check it out." Someone was looting, and Fang Xu naturally grew interested in the looter.

Recalling Fang Xu's earlier words, he glanced at the curved blade fallen beside him, struggled to pick it up, and slowly placed it against his own neck.

"Swish!"

After this humanoid mechanism puppet stepped out, it violently swung its long spear, flinging that martial artist's corpse to the side, slightly bent its legs, then shot forward like a spring toward Fang Xu.

The long spear was like a venomous snake spitting its tongue, thrusting straight at the face!

Fang Xu slapped the ground with his left hand, using that force to instantly spin and slide behind the humanoid mechanism puppet, preparing to ambush it from behind.

After collecting the green mechanism puppet's core, Fang Xu pondered for a moment and said: "This kind of green mechanism puppet will probably cause considerable trouble for some assessment disciples."

Fortunately, after looting a batch of mechanism puppet cores from the gold-money warriors, the two had already earned enough points to meet the assessment requirements, so they no longer needed to worry about points.

Lu Qingluo nodded; she clearly knew that in this situation she couldn't afford to be soft-hearted.

Looking at the dead-end ahead, the beady-eyed warrior despaired!

With a flick of his wrist, he flung the pierced warrior aside, and Fang Xu directly attacked the remaining four.

Having dealt with the violent bear mechanism puppet, the two continued onward.

From the blood that hadn't yet fully congealed, it could be seen that these raiders hadn't gone far.

Seeing Fang Xu not pressing him, he grew afraid; the hand holding the orange stone ball couldn't help trembling.

Lu Zhiyuan had explained these principles to her before, but she had simply refused to understand them.

"Fang Xu, look!" she exclaimed, pointing at a green stone ball on the stone wall, feeling somewhat excited.

Looking at her, Fang Xu continued: "The path of martial arts is like this— which strong person hasn't grown by stepping on countless corpses?"

Fang Xu immediately gave chase.

Huh?

As he retreated, he suddenly noticed a flash of orange on the left wall.

Was that a stone ball?

"Don't kill me!"

Holding a long sword, his trembling voice warned Fang Xu.

Bang!

The force of this punch directly blasted the money-braid martial artist flying, their body slamming hard into the stone wall beside!

Bang!

A staff struck directly onto the gold-braid warrior's thigh!

The staff, lacking a sharp tip, pierced his thigh and lodged firmly into the hard ground.

"Think of the millions of commoners slaughtered in your Mu Yun Kingdom; mercy will only let others devour you down to nothing."

Pfft!

Pfft!

……

Boom!

The terrifying staff grazed the small warrior's body and smashed into the ground!

Seeing these beasts give chase, Fang Xu snorted coldly, halted abruptly, turned, and rushed at the five blood-colored evil wolves.

Fang Xu gave a cold smile, planted his feet, and shot forward like a cannonball, skimming the ground.

Wielding his staff, he struck three passing warriors, sending them flying hard into the opposite stone walls.

The beady-eyed warrior at the front, now utterly terrified, ran forward without looking back.

"Ahead!"

But Fang Xu, smiling, walked toward him step by step.

Fang Xu nodded in satisfaction, then took all the mechanism puppet cores.

"Fang Xu, are we being too cruel by doing this?" Lu Qingluo, following him, hesitated for a long time before finally speaking up.

Seeing that the stone spear he had struck with such terrifying force showed not a scratch, Fang Xu felt a faint surprise.

"Watch out, don't slash her face!"

Fang Xu pursued relentlessly!

At that moment, Yun Wan watched the six attackers surround her; she was clearly at a disadvantage, and several fine wounds appeared on her body.

A sliver of blade even sliced Fang Xu's brow!

Clang!

The staff's tip jerked, knocking the spear tip aside; simultaneously Fang Xu lowered his body and swept his staff at the humanoid mechanism puppet's legs.

Just like that martial artist who had fled in disarray earlier, he too was a martial disciple at great completion; after facing the gold-braid warrior, he barely endured a few moves before being wounded and then brutally killed.

"Come any closer, and I'll trigger this, releasing the mechanism puppets inside—better to die together!"

Orange?

The two soon ran into a dead-end passage.

If warriors band together to raid, it means that for the next hour or so, the entire assessment site will descend into chaos.

"Kid, do you see it? The orange one!"

"Brother Wang! Brother Wang! Look quickly!"

Bang!

Bang!

The two continued down the passage; just after passing a fork, they heard fierce fighting ahead.

"Kid, if you join the Ascension Immortal Society later, we'll all be fellow disciples—no need to fight to the death now, right?"

Fang Xu stared at that stone ball, dazed for a moment.

Fang Xu turned to look at him, then slowly lowered himself and said: "If I were you, I'd just ask for a quick end."

Gripping the staff with one hand, he turned his palm slightly and met the incoming gold-braid warrior with a straight thrust to the yellow dragon!

Having the advantage of longer reach, he didn't intend to entangle with his opponent.

Yun Wan?!

Seeing the besieged woman, Fang Xu instantly realized that person was Yun Wan!

Clang!

The staff, wielded with tremendous force, swept against its legs, actually bursting out a ringing clash of metal!

Facing this blow, the humanoid mechanism puppet's figure staggered slightly, but it was not toppled.

"Senior sister..."

"Senior sister, have you ever considered, if it were us who lost just now, what would he do?"

Lu Qingluo's expression froze, and she said nothing more.

He shook the staff in his hand, and a tremendous force directly flung the curved blade pressed against the staff aside; clenching his left fist, he swung it at the coin-braid warrior's head.

A tremendous force transmitted through the ground directly shook the small warrior's body, causing him to stagger.

In the next moment!

The staff swept low across the ground!

"As for warriors, the moment they set foot in this circle, every person prepares to either kill or be killed."

"Damn it! Let's all die together!"

Seeing Fang Xu pause his steps, seemingly hesitating, that warrior spoke again: "Frankly, we have seen a purple mechanism puppet before; facing a siege of over ten people, that purple mechanism puppet cut them down like slicing vegetables, killing them one by one."

"Slurp!"

"Having suffered such severe injury, passing the trial is probably out of the question; rather than lingering here in agony, watching myself possibly be torn apart and devoured by ferocious beasts that could appear at any moment, it's better to die once and for all."

"Don't come over!"

"Don't…… don't come over!"

The trial lasts only two hours; he doesn't want to engage in meaningless battles.

They have been sweeping through the passageway, surely accumulating many mechanism puppet cores on their persons; I only need to find and kill them, and instantly gain a large number of points!

Even after being pierced through the body by a spear, that warrior still struggled, reaching out his hand toward Fang Xu and Lu Qingluo.

Seeing Lu Qingluo lower her head without speaking, Fang Xu couldn't help but sigh.

Behind him, the coin-braid warrior walked over slowly, and in front of Fang Xu and Lu Qingluo, he sliced off that warrior's head with a single sword strike, then searched the mechanism core and all items from his bosom clean, before raising his head to look at Fang Xu and Lu Qingluo with a grin: "Not bad luck—fat sheep keep walking right to our door."

Watching the opponent charge, Fang Xu's mouth corners twitched upward slightly.

Three fatal wounds caused by different weapons!

At the same time, among the six, a short warrior whose height was not much less than Li Xun's noticed Lu Qingluo approaching; his uneven eyes suddenly flashed as he said: "Here comes another little temptress!"

Along the passageway, the evil duo proceeded forward, again discovering several martial artists' corpses on the way.

Fang Xu slightly nodded, the horizontal staff standing before the six, and said lightly: "All those warriors you encountered along the way—were they killed by you?"

Holding a pile of colorful mechanism puppet cores with a pleading expression, his desire to survive stripped away his former arrogance.

In the blink of an eye, one of our side was disabled, one killed; the remaining four finally realized Fang Xu's terror, exchanged a glance, and immediately turned to flee!

"Want to run?"

"You..." Looking at Fang Xu, who had already turned and continued forward, Lu Qingluo wanted to say something, but the words stuck in her throat.

Green?!

If I recall correctly, a green mechanism puppet core is worth fifty points, right?

"Can we beat them?" Lu Qingluo said with some worry.

Lu Qingluo nodded, and the two immediately darted into the right-forward passageway.

After turning the corner, they saw seven or eight martial artists engaged in a melee ahead in the passageway.

Intense pain caused the coin-braid warrior to clutch his leg and let out a miserable wail.

Crack!

As his figure just appeared, his left-hand spear lashed out violently at the fleeing, disheveled warrior!

Pfft!

The sharp spear directly pierced through that warrior's torso!

"Tsk tsk, looks no inferior to this one—a red-clad, a white-clad, an icy one, a fiery one..."

After all, half an hour has already passed; these warriors should have accumulated some mechanism puppet cores, worth snatching.

Having said that, he directly approached Lu Qingluo and said: "Senior sister, let's go."

"Fat sheep?"

Saying that, Fang Xu once again stepped forward to approach him.

The stone ball depressed, and a secret door slowly opened.

Seeing this, the humanoid mechanism puppet raised both arms with its spear, preparing to block!

Hearing this, the coin-braid warrior first froze, then burst out laughing.

……

"Are you alright?"

Facing these six, he showed no mercy whatsoever, his staff in hand carrying tremendous force, directly smashing toward the small warrior's head!

Fang Xu, walking ahead, had just turned a bend when he suddenly spotted a martial artist's corpse lying in the passageway not far off.

"Senior sister, we need to be careful from now on." Fang Xu said, standing up with a solemn expression.

The shifty-eyed warrior retreated while scanning his surroundings, trying to find any chance of escape!

However, this place is obviously a dead end, with no other exits.

Looking at Fang Xu before her, Yun Wan let out a slight sigh of relief, then nervously covered her shoulder wound and said:

The coin-braid warrior pleaded.

Seeing that Fang Xu was already only two zhang away, the blood‑stained long staff was also slowly raised, and he collapsed outright.

The six were slightly startled; one of them, a martial artist with thief‑like eyebrows and mousey eyes, couldn't help but sneer, "What, your sense of justice is off the charts?"

Fang Xu quietly watched the scene before him, his brow involuntarily twitching.

In the next instant, a huge mechanical puppet burst forth from the stone gate!

Compared to the previous one, this mechanical puppet appeared more finely crafted; its maker had even covered it with a layer of beast skin, making it look like a raging bear.

Really, they have no idea of life or death……

Fang Xu had just dealt with five blood‑red evil wolves on his side, but when he turned around he saw Lu Qingluo staring blankly at the stone wall ahead.

"Orange is stronger than purple; once I release it, you know the consequences."

As long as it's below Martial Venerable, to me it's just points.

At the sight of the orange mechanical puppet, Fang Xu blinked slightly.

The distance between them was already only two zhang, and the humanoid mechanical puppet's speed was extremely fast; the spear tip arrived before Fang Xu in the blink of an eye.

Fang Xu grabbed her and said calmly, "Leave it to me."

"You… you're crazy!"

His body flickered, and in the blink of an eye the five evil wolves were smashed to death on the spot.

It seems some martial artists have already begun to band together to plunder others.

Smack!

He slapped the orange stone ball on the stone wall straight in!

The next moment, the hidden door beside it slowly rose!

But before the stone gate was fully opened, a dusty stone long spear suddenly thrust out from inside, piercing straight through that martial artist's body!

Though called a melee, it was actually six martial artists surrounding a white‑clad sword‑wielding woman.

But Fang Xu seemed to have already seen through this; yet he still brought the long staff down straight!

Fang Xu slowly bent over, reached out and tugged at his little braid, gave a sneer, then yanked hard, pulling off his braid together with a large chunk of scalp.

A humanoid mechanical puppet?

Before him, wielding a stone long spear and impaling that martial artist's body, the mechanical puppet wore a warrior's outfit, clad in black armor with a helmet on its head, looking like a living soldier.

"Now, hand over all the mechanical puppet cores on your body, and I'll spare your life!"

Several martial artists surrounded Yun Wan while continuously spouting vulgar language, disturbing her state of mind.

According to his estimate, the purple mechanical puppet should have strength comparable to a Martial Master Fifth Stage, while the orange one probably wouldn't reach Martial Venerable.

But they didn't want to fight; the five blood‑red evil wolves clearly weren't willing to stop, roaring as they chased after the two figures.

"Courting death!"

Bang!

Bang!

After passing through two short passages, a faint fighting sound suddenly came from ahead.

"Give… give it to you, I'll give it all to you!"

Afterward, the spear kept lifting his corpse and moving slowly.

"Senior Sister, step aside a bit." Fang Xu said, reaching out directly to press that green stone ball.

Mechanical arts are truly amazing.

It seemed that due to a slight disagreement in opinion, the two said little on the way ahead.

Strictly speaking, their exchange amounted to only a single move!

I actually got crippled by a single strike!?

As a martial artist from Ji Province, naturally strong in body, he thought he would shine in this examination, successfully join the Ascension Immortal Society, but now…

"Aren't you afraid of dying?!"

Boom!

One strike!

The bear‑like mechanical puppet's body was smashed down a bit, but it still managed to hold its ground.

The coin‑braid martial artist charging forward was obviously stronger.

If you don't kill, you'll just be waiting to be killed.

"As long as we hold the line against wanton slaughter of the innocent, that's enough."

"Haha… Senior Brother Wang is right, let's keep her and let the brothers have some fun!"

The short martial artist's legs were instantly broken!

The others, seeing this, all raised their weapons and rushed forward!

Fang Xu's gaze hardened; he swung his long staff around behind him, then thrust straight at the blade‑wielding martial artist rushing to the front!

Pfft!

The staff instantly pierced his body, protruding from his back!

Blood dripped drop by drop from the tip of the staff.

"Brothers, go easy on her—this little beauty is too gorgeous to waste by killing her outright!"

Fang Xu laughed upon hearing that.

Crack!

Facing Fang Xu's faintly smiling face, the coin‑braid martial artist, ignoring his own wounds, hurriedly pulled out all the mechanical puppet cores he had looted from his bosom.

Seeing Fang Xu's such casual move, the gold‑braided martial artist couldn't help but reveal a cruel smile, his body slightly tilted, the incoming saber suddenly turned sideways, pressing against the staff he sliced toward Fang Xu's hand gripping the staff!

But Fang Xu simply didn't care at all.

Being quite disgusted, he threw that little braid to one side, spat lightly, and said: 'Truly disgusting!'

He had killed the green-colored mechanical puppets; stronger than green is purple, and above purple is orange.

Fang Xu was slightly startled, then gripped the long staff in his hand tightly, stomped his foot down suddenly, using the force of that step to channel all his strength into the long staff in his hand!

Ha!

His figure leapt up, and the long staff in his hand smashed directly toward the humanoid mechanical puppet's head!

Lu Qingluo nodded, glanced at the money-braid warrior, and followed Fang Xu as they left.

A spear?

Someone?

Along the way, whether encountering ferocious beasts or mechanical puppets, the two no longer avoided them, but directly used thunderous means to slay each one!

"Then why don't you let it go?"

Staring at this lifelike mechanical puppet, Fang Xu couldn't help but sigh.

Pfft!

The sharp curved blade slit his throat, and his eyes gradually lost their luster.

Although the short-statured warrior was lecherous by nature, his own strength was considerable, and what he cultivated seemed to be the same assassin's path as Li Xun.

Wielding two scarlet daggers in his hands to meet Fang Xu's incoming staff, his figure darted quickly, actually planning to seize the moment when Fang Xu's move grew old, rush forward and engage him in close combat!

But although they were all Martial Apprentice Grand Perfection, the gap between them, while not heaven-and-earth, was still enormous.

Soon, the mechanical puppet cores on the two of them added together exceeded two hundred points.

After all, rather than aimlessly searching for mechanical puppets to kill, looting these bandits is the quick way to get rich.

The money-braid warrior covered his thigh with one hand and his bloody head with the other, looking at Fang Xu with eyes full of fear.

When he again looked at the humanoid mechanical puppet before him, which was a foot shorter, a smile instantly appeared on his face.

The stone spear blocked this strike of his, but the material used to construct the humanoid mechanical puppet's body was obviously inferior to this spear.

(End of chapter)