Chapter 336: Kill Your Whole Family (10/10, for Alliance Leader

After asking in detail about the events at Jiangyun Temple and their backgrounds, and recording everything down,

Ma Shaoku began glancing up at the sky more and more frequently.

Estimating the time, ten minutes had already passed since the Great Cycle began.

It had also been ten minutes since Qiu Dugu "ascended."

If he went up now, there was still time to help and claim some credit.

Think it, do it — Ma Shaoku used his agile body to climb up along the giant Hair Tree.

He climbed with practiced ease, as if this were not his first time doing so.

In no time at all, he had climbed halfway up.

Boom!

Thunder rumbled in the sky once again, lighting up the surroundings.

Looking down, he could see Bai Xiaoya and A Ming below, watching him with "curiosity."

"Go ahead and be envious — this is the gap between ordinary people and members of the 【United Hand Association】. This is a spectacle you'll never see again in your entire lives!"

A thought flashed through Ma Shaoku's mind, then was quickly cast aside — it had been a long time since he compared himself with ordinary people.

He didn't know what was wrong with him today; after seeing Bai Xiaoya's flat, indifferent attitude, he felt an inexplicable urge to put her in her place.

Perhaps this is how little girls these days attract attention?

Ma Shaoku gave a bitter smile inside, feeling he couldn't quite keep up with the times.

What he didn't know, however, was what the people below "curiously" watching him climb were discussing.

"Miss, he's gone up. Your prediction was right — he really came, and he really believed what we said."

"It's not that my prediction was accurate; it's that Qiu Dugu's words leaked information, so I prepared in advance and got in touch with you."

"The young miss is peerlessly clever!"

In the past, whenever Bai Xiaoya's schemes succeeded and A Ming followed up with a compliment, it could always coax a slight upward curve to the corner of her mouth.

But the current Bai Xiaoya did not smile, nor did she show any expression, as if she hadn't heard this familiar, playful exchange between them.

"Ma Shaoku doesn't know we made up lies. He'll test the lightning's power with his own body and is bound to suffer for it.

Either he dies and turns into a Charred Corpse, or he takes a Heavy Injury and falls down, and then we kill him.

Move fast, time it right — there's only one chance. The people of the 【United Hand Association】 are no pushovers; once our intent is discovered, he'll kill us all."

Looking at the expressionless Bai Xiaoya, A Ming would always think of the carefree, innocent, happy young miss from before, but fate was unfair — after what the young miss had gone through, a change in temperament was inevitable. All he could do was sigh deeply in helplessness and make sure to handle every task for her perfectly.

After a brief acknowledgment that the kill mission would be carried out, the two fell silent and continued looking up at Ma Shaoku climbing the tree.

Boom!!

Thunder cracked once again.

Ma Shaoku, climbing the tree, felt a pressure.

The closer he got to the thundercloud, the more obvious that pressure became.

This shouldn't be — since Qiu Dugu had already figured out how the thundercloud worked, the small lightning outside the Great Cycle shouldn't be able to give me this much pressure and threat.

Ma Shaoku's expression grew solemn, but after a moment's hesitation, he kept climbing.

The thundercloud drew closer and closer.

With every flash of lightning and clap of thunder, he felt the illusion of lightning roaring past him.

That terrifying power, something only nature possessed, made Ma Shaoku stop.

He was thinking — he felt he had overlooked something, but for the moment, he couldn't figure out what.

He took out his phone and tried calling Qiu Dugu, only to find there was no signal.

He stopped at a spot very close to the thundercloud — just a few meters away from being able to enter — and halted.

Narrowing his eyes, Ma Shaoku tried to peer through the thundercloud to see something, so he could decide whether to enter it.

If he couldn't see anything, couldn't figure anything out, and that worry and unease in his heart was still there, then he'd go back down and not enter the thundercloud.

That was what Ma Shaoku thought, and that was what he did.

But he hadn't expected that, on the Hair Tree so close to the thundercloud, lightning… would choose its target!

Boom!!

Thunder exploded.

A slanting bolt of lightning came straight down toward Ma Shaoku!

Almost the instant the lightning appeared, Ma Shaoku's pupils contracted, his mind went blank with a buzz, and almost subconsciously — by pure instinct — he activated the power of his uncanny object.

Just as his body was beginning to turn smoky…

Boom!!!

The lightning struck with pinpoint accuracy!

Black smoke rising from his body, every inch searing with pain, Ma Shaoku plummeted like a dead ox struck down.

"He's falling!"

"He got struck by lightning!"

As he fell, he heard two voices ring out almost one after the other.

In that instant, Ma Shaoku suddenly realized what he had overlooked.

It was… how much truth there actually was in the words of those two ordinary people! Whether they carried malice or goodwill!

Thud!!

With a heavy crash, the charred Ma Shaoku slammed into the ground.

But he didn't crater the earth at all, because his body had almost fully turned to smoke — only a human shape remained, and even his features could no longer be made out.

However, he was indeed gravely wounded.

That lightning was outrageously powerful — far beyond what an ordinary person's body could withstand, far exceeding the expected power!

If this is the lightning power of the Small Cycle, then at the Great Cycle, it would probably be enough to destroy the heavens and obliterate the earth.

Ma Shaoku's face darkened as he watched the two figures closing in around him, and said with a veiled threat: "You two bastards, if you dare lay a finger on me, the Alliance will slaughter your entire families!"

"Kill my whole family?"

Bai Xiaoya laughed: "I'd be thrilled if you killed my whole family!"

Saying so, Bai Xiaoya took out the bone spear strapped to her back and was about to thrust it into Ma Shaoku's body.

Seeing this, Ma Shaoku couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

"It's useless. My body has already become smoke-like through the strange artifact. An attack like yours simply won't… ahhh!!"

Before Ma Shaoku could finish speaking, a sudden agonized scream tore out.

His smoke-like thigh had been pierced through by the bone spear in the girl's hands!

"Impossible! Impossible!"

Ma Shaoku clutched his thigh in agony and roared out: "Impossible!! How could you possibly hurt me — what exactly is this bone spear of yours!"

In Ma Shaoku's view, the only possibility was that the bone spear was also a strange artifact.

But the problem was that smoke-ification had excellent performance even against strange artifacts, able to evade most injuries!

But this bone spear, once thrust in, was as if it had stabbed into his true body — the pain was nearly maddening.

Yet when he looked closely, Ma Shaoku discovered that the bone spear, lodged in his smoke-like thigh, had indeed pierced straight through his thigh, but in reality… his thigh showed no blood-hole or anything else, as if uninjured — only the sensation of injury had been perfectly inherited!

The color drained from Ma Shaoku's face in an instant. In a certain sense, this was even more terrifying than a solid body taking a hit!

"You — you two — what exactly are you people, what do you want to do to me!"

PS: 10 extra chapters for the Alliance Leader ends here.

PS2: These 10 extra chapters are for the 2nd. The 3rd hasn't started yet — I'll update after I wake up.

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