Chapter 328: Terrifying? No, it's because you're too weak!

"Puff—!", "Puff—!", "Puff—…"

A spray of blood after another burst forth; whether it was Qi Liang or Wen Ping and the others, when Qi Liang transmitted the spell to strike together, they prepared to give Wang Ping'an a ruthless, the strongest spell in their hands, just formed in their palm ready to unleash.

Suddenly.

A series of knife‑twisting pains struck the heart area, followed immediately by a wave of weakness.

It spread throughout the body!

Qi Liang, Wen Ping and the others instinctively looked down, only to see at their own heart a harmful blood hole, blood trickling out; they looked up, their faces full of terror as they stared at Wang Ping'an.

"How could this be? How could you be so terrifying?"

Before the words finished, Qi Liang, Wen Ping and the others fell to the ground in succession, dead yet eyes wide open, glaring at Wang Ping'an with resentment.

It was their first meeting with Wang Ping'an; they had never met before, but from Fan Hongwei's death at Wang Ping'an's hand they could roughly tell that Wang Ping'an's cultivation was not simple, yet they never imagined…

Wang Ping'an's cultivation turned out to be so terrifying!

When they had just used telepathy to agree to strike together, besides preparing to unleash their strongest and most practiced offensive spell, they were also on extreme alert; they certainly did not want to…

…to lose their lives through carelessness!

Never expected.

Even though they were on high alert, they still fell victim to Wang Ping'an's attack, and what shocked them more was that before Wang Ping'an's assault…

No.

Precisely, before Wang Ping'an pierced their hearts with a Sword Apparatus, they had no clue at all; they were so alert that they even watched every blade of grass around them.

They feared they'd capsize in their own ditch!

"Y‑you…you just now feigned weakness, you clearly had the power to slay me yet didn't act, knowing there was an ambush nearby, letting me, letting them be careless, so you could seize the chance to kill us all together?"

Qi Liang looked at Wang Ping'an with resentment; before his words finished, his neck twisted, and he died of a sudden breath loss.

Even in death, besides resenting Wang Ping'an, he also resented himself; he and Fan Hongwei were rivals, Fan Hongwei died, he should have been glad, secretly grateful, yet the murderer of Fan Hongwei—how could he think to avenge Fan Hongwei?

If they could kill Fan Hongwei, how could they possibly lack the ability to kill him?

He was hateful then, blinded by profit, acting so irrationally.

It cost him his life!

"Look at what you say, what does feigning weakness mean? You just didn't think you had this treasure on you, nor did you think that besides you there were others; this time it's bound to be a bumper harvest!"

Wang Ping'an was so delighted that the Paper Person almost laughed out loud; his gaze fell on the garment on Qi Liang—precisely, it was a Sword Apparatus, out of pure curiosity.

Just now.

He attacked Qi Liang with a Sword Apparatus, not as Qi Liang imagined; feigning weakness, even if he didn't use his full power, he at least used seventy‑eighty percent, yet he never expected Qi Liang's set of Sword Apparatus to block it.

Know that this Sword Apparatus had been nurtured in the Greater Attainment Realm 'Technique', its blade bearing sun‑and‑moon imprints.

Frankly, compared with his previous Sword Apparatus, the one he now controls is worlds apart.

Of course.

The Sword Apparatus commanded by the Paper Person is not the one inside his body; it is a newly nurtured Sword Apparatus. Since his artificial dantian formed by the Ten Thousand Sword Formula gathered within, his body has accumulated strand after strand of Sword Qi.

Through prolonged cultivation of the Ten Thousand Sword Formula and using the Technique to nurture, his artificial dantian now contains sword after sword.

He injected sword after sword into Hei Mao Bu Tou and Peregrine Falcon Little Gray, and likewise tried to inject a Sword Apparatus into a Paper Person at first.

Most ended in failure!

The Paper Persons he captured, due to failed attempts to hide Sword Apparatus inside them, suffered devastating blows and turned to dust, until he fashioned one Paper Person after another from intermediate spirit paper.

After repeated lessons from failures, he finally succeeded in concealing sword after sword within Paper Persons.

In his second strike, besides unleashing his full power, he also employed the Sword Controlling Technique and simultaneously the Ten Thousand Sword Formula, allowing him to break through Qi Liang's unprepared defense.

He took his life!

"Ding! You slayed a repeatedly evil cultivator, congratulations, reward: Merit+1305!"

"Ding! You slayed a repeatedly evil cultivator, congratulations, reward: Merit+1210!"

"Ding! You slayed a repeatedly evil cultivator, congratulations, reward: Merit+1580!"

…

In his mind, one cold mechanical voice after another rang, and Wang Ping'an was startled; slaying Qi Liang's party would yield massive Merit, which he expected, but in his estimation it should be about a thousand Merit points.

After all, Qi Liang's group were not just novices; they hadn't committed many evils, at most contributing a hundred Merit points.

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According to his estimate, even if Qi Liang's party were not Foundation Establishment cultivators, they should be at the seventh or eighth layer of Qi Refinement, and they surely had committed many evils.

They should be able to contribute a thousand Merit, just like Fan Hongwei.

Never imagined…

Qi Liang's party actually contributed over a thousand Merit!

"It seems either Qi Liang's group has higher cultivation than Fan Hongwei, or they have committed more evils; otherwise they couldn't contribute more Merit than Fan Hongwei!"

Wang Ping'an hummed to himself and stopped probing why Qi Liang's party gave him over a thousand Merit; in total they contributed exactly 12,434 Merit.

He could now upgrade a Cultivation skill to the Greater Attainment Realm!

What he should consider now is which skill to upgrade to the Greater Attainment Realm.

Fortunately.

He could even upgrade two skills to the Greater Attainment Realm, after all the previous ten thousand Merit points remain unused.

No need to agonize over the choice!

Wang Ping'an hurriedly stripped the treasures from Qi Liang's corpses and immediately used the skill: Soul Salvation; before long, Diyu zhi Men—Guimen Guan gradually materialized.

Qi Liang's group's souls gradually drifted away from their bodies.

But instead of diving into the opening Guimen Guan, they all stared at him with resentment, and the next moment lunged at him with claws outstretched.

Obviously.

It is something that cannot be forgotten even in death, the hatred between them.

"Hmph, a bunch of ungrateful beasts. I benevolently performed Soul Salvation on you, lessening your sins, and you still don't know how to be grateful?"

Wang Ping'an let out a cold hum to himself, opened his blood‑filled gaping mouth, used the skill: Soul Devouring, and devoured the soul of Qi Liang that had flown in first.

The other souls, upon seeing this, were startled, their faces full of terror; just as they were about to turn and flee into Guimen Guan, they were swallowed by Wang Ping'an's blood‑filled gaping mouth.

(End of chapter)