Chapter 60: Gold-Devouring Ant

Cangbai's eyes flickered, his murderous intent fully revealed.

Killing Yan Xiao here would leave no trace; he was clearly already tempted.

"Second Brother, stop him."

Following Cangbai's order, the Second Elder of Cangyun Mountain took a step out, his earth-yellow True Essence scattering to completely envelop Yan Xiao.

"An earth-attribute cultivator, is this to prevent me from using Earth Escape to run?"

Yan Xiao rubbed his nose and asked in confusion.

"You are dead today," the Second Elder sneered.

"Come on, come on. Are you going to fight one-on-one or all together? Let me experience the high-level techniques of Cangyun Mountain."

Yan Xiao rarely wasted breath on them; he could see that Sect Master Cangbai was old and his brain wasn't working well, so reasoning was definitely out of the question.

"Arrogant fool, without Earth Escape, I could crush you with one hand."

The Great Elder was very displeased with Yan Xiao's arrogant posture and grabbed at Yan Xiao with his palms turned into claws.

"Puchi~"

Yan Xiao thrust his sword out, Piercing the Great Elder's palm; the tyrannical sword Qi, empowered by the Magic Sword, instantly shattered his right hand.

"Ah!"

The Great Elder let out a painful howl, "You despicable and shameless villain, actually using a sword to sneak attack."

Fear Value +800.

"My sword has been in my hand the whole time, it's not like you didn't see it. I can't help it if you insist on grabbing the sword with your hand; I've never seen anyone as stupid as you."

Yan Xiao expressed his helplessness.

"You..." The Great Elder was furious to the extreme, nearly dying of anger.

"Sect Master Yan has good sword skills. I shall experience them myself." Cangbai drew his long sword and walked forward tremblingly, thrusting his sword at Yan Xiao.

As he struck, the sword light transformed into a single point of starlight; it was so fast that even Yan Xiao found it difficult to track the trajectory of the sword light.

Seeing Yan Xiao standing still, Cangbai was secretly delighted; he would surely die from this strike.

The sword light flashed, and just as it was about to pierce Yan Xiao's chest, Yan Xiao's figure suddenly vanished. Cangbai's sword thrust into empty air and embedded itself into the rock, while his body, due to momentum, slammed into the stone wall, leaving him bloody and dizzy.

"Ouch, my head!"

Cangbai pulled out his long sword and let out a strange cry while clutching his head with one hand.

"Where did he go?"

Cangbai asked, his face dark.

Fear Value from Cangbai +200.

"I don't know, could it be some other strange supernatural ability?"

The Second Elder's expression was grave; the ground under his feet had already been sealed by his technique, so logically, Yan Xiao shouldn't be able to use Earth Escape to run.

"He is above."

Cang Shu pointed at the stone wall above and shouted. Before his voice had even faded, Yan Xiao had already slashed down from the stone wall with his sword.

The Red Flame Triple Slash struck the Second Elder directly on the head.

As the flames dissipated, the Second Elder was charred black, his hair and clothes all burnt away. After spitting out a puff of black smoke, his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.

Fear Value from the Second Elder +100.

Fear Value from the Third Elder +66.

"Second Senior Brother!"

The Third Elder was greatly alarmed and hurried to check the Second Elder's injuries. Halfway there, he suddenly felt a suction force from beneath his feet, and his body was pulled into the stone wall by a massive force, leaving only his head exposed on the ground.

Yan Xiao walked over to him and gave him a series of whacks with an old cloth shoe.

"Yan Xiao, you go too far."

The Third Elder was ashamed and furious to the point of wanting to die; he had never suffered such humiliation in his life, and he was so angry that smoke was coming out of his seven orifices.

"You all wanted to kill me, and I'm only humiliating you a little; that's very merciful, isn't it? Don't look so aggrieved and pathetic; I'm the one who should be crying injustice."

Yan Xiao struck his temple with his palm, knocking him unconscious.

"Yan Xiao, what kind of sorcery did you use? Why can you still use Earth Escape?"

Being toyed with by a mere brat, Cangbai was unwilling to accept it.

"This is the ground; it's useless for you to just seal the area under your feet. I can use Earth Escape upwards; the brain is a good thing to have."

Yan Xiao pointed to the stone wall above his head and looked at the old man with sympathy.

Cangbai laughed miserably; to have made such a low-level mistake was truly ridiculous.

"Cang Shu, right? If I'm not mistaken, you must be the one who killed your fellow senior brothers, right?"

Yan Xiao ignored the crazed Cangbai and turned to look at the young disciple on the side.

"Heh, these old fogies are truly stupid. The four of them were toyed with by you so easily; it's truly shameful."

Cang Shu stood up, a powerful killing intent erupting from his body. The youthful look on his face faded, and he looked at Yan Xiao with a calm expression, speaking eloquently.

"A Cave Profound Realm cultivator; so you're just an old guy pretending to be young."

Yan Xiao looked at Cang Shu and mocked him.

He hesitated whether to summon Bajie; killing Cang Shu would earn him 50,000 Fear Value, but he felt it was too wasteful to use the card.

"Since they couldn't kill you, I'll do it myself."

Cang Shu smiled and slapped his right palm toward Yan Xiao. Dense water droplets emerged from his palm, each with immense destructive power, comparable to a Flying Sword.

At the critical moment, Yan Xiao still chose not to use the Eight Precepts Card; after all, he only had one trump card left, and using it on Cang Shu really wasn't worth it.

With one Earth Escape, he dodged Cang Shu's attack, preparing to leave the Spirit Cave first and go back to call for help.

He would let Luosang come help take down Cang Shu.

Just at this moment, a miserable scream from Cang Shu suddenly came from behind; he turned his head to look and saw Bailaotou cut off Cang Shu's legs with a single sword strike.

Hmm... what is the situation?

Yan Xiao was stunned, only to see the Second Elder, whom he had "seriously injured" on the ground, also stand up and kick out, fiercely striking the Great Elder on the head and instantly knocking him unconscious.

Only the Third Elder was the most frustrated; he channeled his energy for a long time but could not break free from Yan Xiao's restraint.

"Cang Shu, did you think we were truly unaware of your collusion with the Great Elder?

Naive! We simply didn't have the certainty to finish you off."

Bailaotou gripped his long sword and sighed in his heart, "It is a pity for my few disciples."

As he spoke, he pointed his long sword, intending to kill Cang Shu to avenge his disciples.

"Let him go, let me do it!"

Yan Xiao was anxious; this was his kill, his Fear Value.

Fifty thousand Fear Value!

After Yan Xiao let out a loud shout, he rushed toward Cang Shu at the fastest speed of his life, his Magic Sword enchanted and boosted by 2000 Fear Value, determined to snatch the kill.

Bailaotou was startled by his shout and his movements slowed for a moment; feeling a massive energy fluctuation coming from behind, he was so scared that the hairs on his body stood on end.

Fear Value from Bailaotou +1200.

He thought Yan Xiao's attack was aimed at him, and at this moment, he truly felt the breath of death.

Yan Xiao could not care about his thoughts, his mind set entirely on his kill.

Boom!

The Magic Sword struck Cang Shu, and the immense power sent Cang Shu flying; the pitiful Cang Shu died instantly before he could even let out a scream.

"Ding, congratulations to Owner for completing the mission, reward 50,000 Fear Value."

Hearing the system prompt, Yan Xiao finally revealed a trace of a smile.

"Yan Xiao, release me quickly."

The Third Elder shouted loudly, his resentment very heavy.

"This..." Yan Xiao hesitated; if he released this guy, he would definitely fight him again, he couldn't release him... he couldn't release him.

"Sect Master Yan, I have offended you much before; this old man apologizes to you, you should release my third junior brother first."

Bailaotou said while bowing.

Seeing the bloodstain on his forehead, this old guy was very dedicated and professional at acting.

"Although you were acting, if I didn't have some ability, wouldn't I have really been killed by Cang Shu and the other, this matter cannot be resolved so easily."

Yan Xiao said with a straight face; having a chance to extort someone and not making a profit would be letting himself down.

"Sect Master Yan may not know, we had long discovered their scheme and put poison in their breakfast; once they circulate their Qi, the poison will take effect, greatly reducing their strength, so they would not have harmed Sect Master Yan."

Bailaotou explained.

"So that's how it is, so it turns out they were poisoned; no wonder the Great Elder was so foolish, actually getting his right hand cut off in one strike."

Yan Xiao muttered to himself; he had thought it was because his own strength had skyrocketed, it seems he had overthought it.

"Regardless, Cangyun Mountain has looked for trouble with me time and again, you must give a reasonable explanation, otherwise... I will lose a lot of face."

Yan Xiao gave a dry cough and said solemnly.