Chapter 29: Slaying and Harvest!

The group traveled along the mountain village path and soon arrived at the rear mountain.

The surroundings were a dense thicket, with weeds reaching half a person's height, filled everywhere with all manner of poisonous insects.

Even sunlight couldn't reach the ground.

"Whoosh…"

A gust of sinister wind blew past, sending a chill down everyone's bodies, appearing exceedingly eerie.

Lu Zhangsheng looked ahead and saw, just over ten meters in front, a well opening, though it was covered by dead wood.

"Let us go move the dead wood aside and take a look."

Yue Shulan said softly.

Just as everyone was preparing to act, a sudden change occurred.

"Buzz…"

Accompanied by waves of eerie sound waves emanating from the void, a figure entirely blood-red in color charged out from the shadows.

The other party wore a red long dress, with hair black as ink, hanging loose, and even the facial features were remarkably blurred.

Baleful aura rose all around, extremely terrifying.

The blood-red figure floated in the void, then swiftly charged toward Lu Zhangsheng and the others to kill.

"The target has appeared, quickly slay it."

Li Yunhua roared, immediately drawing the Long Blade from his waist and slashing forward.

With his Qi and Blood erupting at full force, he resembled a small sun, carrying waves of heat.

Lu Zhangsheng also drew the Long Blade from his waist and slashed forward violently.

"Sizzle…"

The blade edge rubbed against the void, producing a sound of tearing through air.

To prevent the others from noticing anything abnormal about him, he only displayed strength around the Iron Skin Realm.

Seeing this, Yue Shulan and the others hurriedly followed, and the group worked together to surround the Guai in the center.

"Boom boom boom…"

The Guai extended its sharp claws and collided fiercely with everyone.

The group was sent stumbling back repeatedly, faces full of shock and terror.

"This beast's strength is formidable."

A chill ran through everyone's hearts.

To be able to suppress several people head-on, such strength was already close to that of a Flesh Refining Strong Person.

Not only that, the moment they made contact, the group felt waves of bone-piercing coldness on their arms, and even their own Qi and Blood were somewhat difficult to resist.

"Everyone be careful, this is the Guai's special ability. We must erupt our Qi and Blood at full force to suppress it…"

Yue Shulan spoke rapidly.

Among the group, Li Yunhua, with his Refining Skin Perfection strength, was the strongest.

Next was Yue Shulan, who had also just reached Refining Skin Perfection.

The remaining two Family disciples were at Skin Refining Great Completion.

As for the strength Lu Zhangsheng displayed, it was directly ignored by everyone, all treating him as just making up the numbers.

Hearing this, the group immediately began erupting their Qi and Blood at full force, charging toward the Guai ahead to kill.

"Boom boom boom…"

For a time, both sides fought bloodily without cease in the ruined thicket, and the group gradually gained the upper hand against the Guai.

Lu Zhangsheng was in no rush, using his perfection-level Floating Light and Shadow to slowly maneuver around.

Occasionally he would also slash out once, looking as though he were exerting all his strength, somewhat strained.

Not far away, Li Yunhua, as the main force, kept observing the Battlefield at all times.

Seeing Lu Zhangsheng's performance, he sneered coldly in his heart.

He gradually drew the Battlefield toward Lu Zhangsheng's direction.

"Ah…"

Then, Li Yunhua pretended to be no match, swiftly dodging to the side, and the Guai in midair directly bypassed Li Yunhua and violently charged toward Lu Zhangsheng, its momentum ferocious beyond compare.

"Careful!"

Yue Shulan's face was anxious, but the distance was too great to rescue in time.

The remaining two Family disciples were also indifferent, even appearing somewhat gleeful at his misfortune.

"Not good."

Lu Zhangsheng put on a panicked appearance, hurriedly activating Floating Light and Shadow at full force and charging toward a Family disciple beside him.

At the same time, that Guai also followed.

"What are you doing!"

The stern-faced man was filled with terror.

But before he could react, a pitch-black ghostly hand pierced straight through his chest. The man could no longer speak, his face covered in black mist, and he quickly lost his breath.

"Brother Yao!"

The remaining Family disciple shouted, glaring at Lu Zhangsheng with fury.

Lu Zhangsheng, meanwhile, had dodged to the side, putting on an expression of lingering fear.

In his heart, however, he sneered coldly again and again.

With just a slight move, he had made them fail to steal the chicken and end up losing the rice; trying to scheme against him was truly a dream.

With his perfection-level Step Technique, his speed was astonishing.

Li Yunhua was completely showing off his slight skill before an expert.

All of this happened so fast that none of them could react in time, and they had already lost a companion.

Yue Shulan's face was even more peculiar.

She had seen the scene just now perfectly clearly.

She also felt quite refreshed in her heart.

Being able to make these lofty noble family disciples suffer a setback was quite rare.

Killing intent burst forth in Li Yunhua's eyes, the fury in his heart nearly impossible to suppress.

He hadn't expected that after his own strike, he had lost a helper.

"Everyone stop holding back, kill this beast with full force."

He roared loudly.

Then he charged forward at the head.

Lu Zhangsheng and the others followed closely behind.

"Boom boom boom..."

A new round of combat began once again, growing ever more intense.

Even with one person fewer, they still held the upper hand; at this rate, it wouldn't be long before they could slay this Guai.

At the same time, the remaining noble family disciple also grew wary, keeping a considerable distance from Lu Zhangsheng.

Not only that, Li Yunhua still subtly tried to lure the Guai toward Lu Zhangsheng, but Lu Zhangsheng dodged it all with ease.

Only after several attempts did he finally give up.

Killing intent gradually rose in Lu Zhangsheng's heart; on this return trip, he would sooner or later find a chance to slay the other party.

Presumably the other party had the same thought.

Time slowly passed. The great battle between both sides had yet to cease.

Just as this Guai could no longer hold on, a sudden change occurred at the edge of the well ahead.

"Roar roar roar..."

Following a furious roar, an extremely bizarre figure crawled rapidly out from underground, then suddenly charged at the four people, its entire body radiating an oppressive killing aura.

"Not good, the enemy has reinforcements."

Everyone's expression changed drastically.

Lu Zhangsheng looked closely and saw that the figure was hunched, its eyes blood-red, no longer recognizable as human.

"It's Peng Yuntian, he's been refined into a living corpse."

At this moment, the others also reacted one after another, greatly astonished.

This living corpse's killing aura was extremely dense; its strength was surely not weak either.

All of this happened in an instant.

"Go all out."

Li Yunhua gritted his teeth and directly took out a pill and swallowed it.

Yue Shulan and the other two did the same.

These pills were Blood Burst Pills issued by the Town Yao Division, able to briefly stimulate one's strength, but afterward one would be weakened for two days.

Seeing this, Lu Zhangsheng likewise took out a pitch-black Candy and swallowed it.

In an instant, everyone's aura surged dramatically.

"Boom boom boom..."

At this moment, both sides collided violently.

The sound of the fierce collision echoed through the jungle.

The clash between blade edge and jet-black sharp claws sent sparks flying.

The two Guai were directly sent flying back over ten meters by the group, their auras turning cold.

Strike while it's sick, take its life.

Li Yunhua and the others charged forward once again.

Raising the Long Blade in hand, they slashed down viciously.

Lu Zhangsheng likewise unleashed the most powerful move of the Five Tigers Door-Severing Blade, slashing out with one strike.

A cold gleam flickered in the void.

With the "pill's" support, he consistently maintained strength close to that of a Copper Skin Martial Artist.

"Hum..."

Everyone's blade came down from above, like Mount Tai pressing down, its momentum terrifying.

At the blade's edge, cold gleams surged forth, the Sharpness unstoppable.

"Awoo... the Venerable Lord will avenge me..."

A miserable shriek rang out; the two Guai were directly cut into several segments, a mess of dark green bodily fluid scattered across the ground, extremely disgusting.

After a moment, the group sheathed their blades and stood, expressions gloomy.

Due to the Town Yao Division's intelligence error, there had actually been two Guai here.

Causing the group to suffer considerable losses, and they had to take pills to complete this mission.

Lu Zhangsheng stared at the traces on the ground, somewhat silent.

These two were simply a perfect match.

The man sold his childhood sweetheart to another, the woman refined the man into a living corpse; now they truly could be together forever.

"Does that well still need to be searched?"

Yue Shulan pointed at the dry well ahead and frowned.

That strange smell was truly hard to bear.

Li Yunhua and the others also wore faces full of disgust, with no intention of moving at all.

Everyone knew that a Guai's lair, apart from a few "broken stones," simply couldn't yield anything good.

This had already been verified by countless predecessors.

Those black stones could only emit a faint chill, which would dissipate after a while—utterly useless.

Still, following the Town Demon Bureau's usual practice, they still had to sweep the place after slaying the evil; the group all began to make excuses.

Lu Zhangsheng's heart, however, stirred slightly.

"Then let me go clean it up."

Under the surprised gazes of the others, Lu Zhangsheng strode quickly to the dry well, leapt up, and dropped into it.

Inside there was no well water at all, only a skeleton, and the surrounding smell was extremely foul.

In one corner of the well bottom lay three dark black stones, each only fist-sized, utterly unremarkable.

Lu Zhangsheng crouched down and picked up one of them with his hand.

Faint threads of chill flowed into him.

"Harvested one Yin Soul Stone. Absorb?"

The familiar voice sounded, bringing a surge of joy to his heart.

"Absorb."

He immediately nodded.

"Source Energy Points plus six."

The light screen popped up swiftly, flashing a string of numbers.

"Such a strong effect?"

Lu Zhangsheng's heart leaped with joy—one Yin Soul Stone was equivalent to a hundred-year Ginseng.

There were three of them here; this was an absolute windfall.

What other Martial Artists saw as junk, he could put to use—another future source of Source Energy Points.

It seemed his golden finger could absorb anything containing energy; the effect was extremely powerful.

In the future, with the Pangolin exploring the mountains and forests, plus his own slaying of Guai at the Town Demon Bureau, the two layered together would surely send his Cultivation Realm soaring.

Soon, Lu Zhangsheng absorbed the remaining two stones as well, converting them into Source Energy Points.

Gazing at the total of 42 Source Energy Points on his Panel, with the fusion button behind Iron Cloth Shirt lit up once more, his heart was quite stirred.

These days of exploring the mountains and forests, combined with this haul, had made him well-off again.

He was rather impatient to know what the fused Cultivation Technique would be.

Then, Lu Zhangsheng gathered his thoughts, picked up the corpse in the well, leapt lightly upward, and landed beside the well.

"Down below, apart from this skeleton, there were only a few broken stones."

He smiled slightly and said to the others.

The group all wore expressions of "just as expected."

"To avoid complications overnight, let us return at once."

Li Yuntian's gaze at Lu Zhangsheng flickered slightly, no one knew what he was thinking.

Yue Shulan also nodded.

Afterward, the group galloped off toward the County City.

(End of this chapter)