Chapter 363: First Kill of Xiao Gu

"Trial Project (Five-Star Level): Exterminate all Five Birds."

"Trial Project (Four-Star Level): Kill two or three of the Five Birds."

"Trial Project (Three-Star Level): Kill any one of the Five Birds."

The Ten Trials ended, and the spectators left one after another.

Zhou You stopped in the crowd, looking at the prompt refreshing on the panel; the mission had arrived.

The Five Birds are strong when united and weak when divided; although they are good at sticking together, it is impossible for them to eat and live in the same place, and the interior of the palace is divided into five areas, which reveals the possibility of defeating them one by one.

Killing one alone is not difficult, but if one wants to exterminate all the Five Birds, the difficulty rises sharply.

Thinking of this, Zhou You decisively chose the five-star mission: Exterminate all Five Birds.

His original purpose for this trip was to eliminate future trouble, kill the Five Birds without leaving a single one, and incidentally take away the fragments on them to obtain the secret of how Baiqin Laoren broke through to become a strong martial artist back then.

Back then, the Seven Birds gathered for justice; Golden Crane Mountain was already dead, Peacock Mao Laoliu's whereabouts were unknown, and the remaining Five Birds were all here—a rare chance to have them all together! Zhou You would not let such a good opportunity go no matter what, and immediately decided: Do it! The Ku Lin of the Five Birds Palace.

This was originally the residential area for the women of the noble family, but after being renovated, it was occupied by the fifth, Xiao Gu, as her own territory.

Although Xiao Gu is a woman, her cruelty and evil are no less than a man's; Ku Lin transports out a large number of fresh corpses every day, and they are fragmented and incomplete, which is a miserable sight.

She also raises a large number of carnivorous birds of prey and openly feeds them living people, which is even bloodier and more cruel than a life-and-death duel.

Zhou You's infiltration into Ku Lin was very smooth; as long as he didn't encounter Xiao Gu herself, the other guards were non-existent to him.

The Stealth of the Seven Step Poison Sand Palm allowed him to shuttle freely through gaps and shadows.

Today, the servants in Ku Lin all knew that Xiao Gu had gotten a new toy and was in a great mood, so she wouldn't kill anyone to vent her anger, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that the old toys inevitably had to be dealt with!

"Plop!"

A corpse riddled with holes hit the ground; no one who saw it could recognize that the corpse was originally one of the famous handsome men in the city.

Xiao Gu wiped the blood from her fingertips and turned to look at Mao Lang in the cage.

Mao Lang had already woken up, his eyes filled with dead ash, completely indifferent to everything happening around him.

"Awake, it's good that you're awake; from now on, you belong to me."

"Where is my master?"

Mao Lang asked calmly.

"Naturally, he is dead; you should know how to deal with a dead person!"

Mao Lang asked again, "What about my master's family?"

Xiao Gu chuckled, "We Five Birds keep our word; he passed the Ten Trials, so we set his family free. Now that he has failed, we must naturally keep our promise; we have already sent his whole family to reunite underground."

Mao Lang was not angry and let out a breath, "In the end, it's still gone."

"Kid, you've recovered; as long as you can recover and don't want to die, then live well from now on and be my wolf cub. I'll let you bite someone, and you bite them. How about it?"

Mao Lang revealed a mocking smile, "Even those who raise dogs get bitten to death; you dare to raise a wolf, aren't you afraid of being eaten by me until not even bones are left?"

"Not afraid. If you dare to bare your teeth at me, I'll knock out your teeth; if you dare to glare at me, I'll gouge out your eyeballs."

Xiao Gu said indifferently, "If you can't be tamed, I'll kill you. I change toys very quickly; I don't worry about having no playthings."

"Sure enough, the Five Birds are even less human than me. If I want to kill you for revenge, I have to be more like a beast than you."

"Live first!"

Xiao Gu stretched out a hand to touch Mao Lang through the cage, "Now I want to touch you, do you dare to bite me?"

The hair on Mao Lang's head and neck stood on end, but Xiao Gu slapped him on the crown of his head, making him see stars, and his limbs went limp and powerless on the spot.

Although he also had the strength of the middle stage of Qi and Blood, the opponent was a Martial Master, a presence comparable to Mao Laoliu.

She subdued Mao Lang in a single encounter. Mao Lang was almost in despair when his nose suddenly twitched, and he smelled a trace of unusual signs.

It was not a smell, but a sign of danger, as if he had encountered a terrifying existence in the wild that he could not defeat, quietly approaching.

He glanced at Xiao Gu, found that she had not noticed, and opened his mouth to laugh, "Hahaha!"

He relied on his beast-like intuition to sense that an outsider had infiltrated, but Xiao Gu did not know that danger had arrived.

This is Ku Lin, the territory of the fifth, Xiao Gu; who else could the target of the uninvited guest be?

Under the cover of Stealth, Zhou You snaked forward along the ground and was startled to hear Mao Lang's loud laughter. His heart stirred; he had been discovered, and this wild kid was deliberately making noise to cover for him.

You're actually quite a good person! He immediately did not hesitate, lunged forward, and dived into Xiao Gu's shadow.

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Xiao Gu suddenly had all the hair on her body stand up; the enemy had already infiltrated behind her before being discovered.

She herself was a master of lurking and assassination; once the No-Light Owl Body Art was unleashed, the night would be lightless and her tracks hard to find.

There was actually an enemy who also used the art of concealment to deal with her, and the level was not at all inferior to hers.

Such an enemy had never been heard of; it was too dangerous and too terrifying.

Xiao Gu reacted extremely quickly, her arms quickly drawing a semicircle, and countless black dots flew out, "Owl Feather Flying Knife."

Feather-shaped flying knives made of steel, thin and sharp, tore through the air in groups, instantly covering a radius of ten meters around her.

Clang, clang, clang—the flying knives hit the ground, piercing through floor tiles, sinking several meters deep into the ground, and easily shredding gold and silver utensils as they swept past.

A cold sneer appeared on the corner of Xiao Gu's mouth; her flying knives were all refined with Qi and Blood, each one a Qi and Blood Divine Weapon, specifically designed to break the bodies of Martial Masters.

Suddenly, a clanging sound of collision rang out!

Facing the rain of flying knives, Zhou You did not advance but retreated, his pupils contracted, and in the blink of an eye, he unleashed the Thousand Snake Ten Thousand Scale Armor.

The scales were stacked in layers, and his body's defensive power was raised to the maximum, 1.5 times that of steel.

The flying knives hit the scales, sparks flew everywhere, and the sharp knife tips were all snapped off.

Amidst the crisp sounds, Zhou You approached rapidly and struck Xiao Gu's back with a palm; the distance was so short and the speed so fast that she had no way to avoid it.

Xiao Gu was experienced; before the palm force touched her back, she had already reacted quickly.

"No-Light Concealment!"

She suddenly sank toward the ground, her shadow becoming extremely faint, looking as if she were about to escape.

This was the Five Birds Palace, and Ku Lin was her territory; she also had four sworn brothers nearby, so as long as she could escape, the ambusher would surely die without a burial ground.

Xiao Gu's Shadowless Owl Divine Art was inherently a movement-type fist technique, with endless methods for ambushing and saving her own life.

Even if she could not win, she could still flee.

However, Xiao Gu had overlooked Mao Lang in the cage.

Seeing her attempt to flee, a flash of ferocity crossed Mao Lang's eyes, and he opened his mouth to bite down on the palm she was trying to pull away.

In her desperate rush to escape, the force of her arm dragged Mao Lang's jaw, loosening it and breaking seven or eight teeth.

But because of this, her speed was severely hampered, and she failed to escape successfully.

Thud! A Seven Step Poison Sand palm strike landed squarely on Xiao Gu's back, the poisonous malevolence flooding her internal organs and causing her stomach to swell up like a balloon.

Bang! In the blink of an eye, Xiao Gu was blown to pieces, leaving nothing behind but filthy, poisonous blood scattered everywhere.

Zhou You smashed the cage apart with two palms and reached out to Mao Lang, "Let's go!"

(End of chapter)