Chapter 5: Poisoned Dagger, Slaying Foes Above One's Rank

Found you.

Seeing the footprints under a big tree, Li Xuan immediately gave a sinister laugh.

He looked up, only to discover several huge stones smashing down from above.

"Damn it, you brat actually played dirty!"

Li Xuan shouted angrily and hastily dodged.

But he still narrowly avoided being hit by the stones.

Gu Han didn't really expect to kill Li Xuan that easily, and while Li Xuan was dodging, he continued to look for a place to hide.

But Gu Han's knowledge of this mountain forest was clearly inferior to Li Xuan's.

Even if he tried every means to hide, Li Xuan could still find him.

With no way to escape, Gu Han could only, after one hiding attempt, choose to ambush Li Xuan!

Gu Han pushed his speed to the extreme, and with the boost of speed, the force of his falling knife strike increased greatly.

Although Li Xuan had long anticipated that Gu Han would ambush him, he was still startled by that knife, his face changing dramatically,

"Impossible, this fellow is just a newly arrived logistics soldier; how could his speed possibly surpass many second-stage martial apprentices?"

Anyone who could reach the strength of a second-stage martial apprentice would surely choose to become a combat soldier; how could they end up as a mere logistics soldier?

In the rush, Li Xuan could only hastily turn and place his sword horizontally before him.

Bang!

The knife and sword clashed, emitting a piercing metallic ring.

Li Xuan staggered, clanking backward several steps.

But his complexion instantly shifted from fear to delight,

"No wonder he's not a combat soldier; this strength is too weak."

He had no defense, so he merely retreated two steps; if they fought head-on, he could sever the opponent's weapon with a single strike!

Li Xuan glanced at Gu Han, who had been shaken back by him, gave a sinister laugh, and quickly stepped forward.

Li Xuan struck with all his strength, and as expected, he cut through the long knife in Gu Han's hand.

Immediately after, Li Xuan kicked Gu Han in the chest, sending him grunting as he fell to the ground, blood even trickling from the corner of his mouth.

"On the very first day you entered the military camp, you dared to injure a comrade; today I'll make you know the camp's rules!"

Li Xuan glanced around, confirmed the place was desolate and that no one would pass by, then prepared to act.

However, Gu Han's eyes showed no trace of fear, and his right hand quietly moved to the dagger,

"If I die, I'm afraid you'll have a hard time explaining yourself back at the military camp, right?"

As soon as he said that, Li Xuan burst out laughing as if he'd heard the funniest joke ever,

"Naive, you really are too naive."

He lowered his body, his gaze contemptuously fixed on Gu Han,

"In these mountains, dangers lurk everywhere; losing a logistics soldier is nothing out of the ordinary."

"In the camp, who would cause trouble for me over a mere logistics soldier?"

"Just because of this trifle, you really want to kill me?" Gu Han retorted.

"Trivial? You little brat really don't know the rules."

Li Xuan, who originally wanted Gu Han to die understandingly, suddenly recalled that in storybooks there is often the saying 'villains die from talking too much.'

Although he didn't think anyone would suddenly appear to rescue Gu Han, he still gave a cold laugh,

"If you want to know the reason, go ask someone on the road to Yellow Springs."

Li Xuan's eyes turned cold, and he raised his sword to thrust at Gu Han's throat!

However, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his thigh.

"Oh no, you brat are playing dirty!"

Under the intense pain, Li Xuan's face changed dramatically, his whole body instantly went weak, and even his sidearm sword fell to the ground.

Lowering his head, he discovered a sharp dagger had suddenly been plunged into his thigh.

"Damn, it's poisonous!"

Li Xuan, his eyes fierce, immediately judged that if it were just a dagger, it certainly wouldn't have made him nearly lose strength.

He hurriedly tried to use his sword to force Gu Han to hand over the antidote.

But Gu Han seized the opportunity, rolled away, and created distance.

"It's your logistics soldier who tried to seize my hunt and even came to blows; I was merely acting in self-defense."

"And you didn't even give me a chance to explain."

Gu Han clutched his chest, baring his teeth as he looked down on Li Xuan from above, his gaze indifferent,

"Since you want to kill me, then you go die first."

Gu Han, after all, came from a law-abiding society, and in his daily life he had never even killed a chicken.

Therefore, even when facing those logistics soldiers who had tried to seize the green wolf earlier, as long as they hadn't tried to kill him,

Gu Han merely injured them, without delivering a killing blow.

But Li Xuan wanted his life, and Gu Han, his anger rising, would certainly not let him off!

This dagger was precisely one of the life-saving weapons Gu Chen gave him before he came to the mountains to hunt beasts, and it was coated with deadly poison.

Anyone with cultivation below third-stage martial trainee, if they don't obtain the antidote within twenty breaths, will surely die!

Even if they are fourth- or fifth-stage martial trainees, lacking the antidote, death is merely a matter of time.

"I... I know I was wrong."

Li Xuan's complexion gradually turned purple, and even pustules appeared on his body, filling him with both shock and dread.

Li Xuan lay on the ground, desperately begging Gu Han,

"Please... please... give me the antidote..."

Gu Han, after all, had never killed anyone; a trace of pity first flashed in his heart, but he soon restrained it.

Mercy toward the enemy is cruelty toward oneself!

If I let Li Xuan go, who will let me off?

"You're not aware you made a mistake; you're aware you're going to die."

After saying that, Gu Han watched Li Xuan's breath gradually weaken, even die before his eyes.

Before dying, Li Xuan kept cursing that Gu Han would surely face retribution, but Gu Han didn't care at all.

If retribution were effective, those who commit countless evils would have already died.

Where would there still be the saying that good people don't live long, while calamities linger for a thousand years?

But even though he had steeled himself mentally, seeing Li Xuan's corpse lying before him, Gu Han couldn't help but gasp heavily, his chest heaving violently, his heart racing.

Killing someone with his own hands was still vastly different from what he had imagined.

"Ding, congratulations host for killing an enemy above your level; you may absorb doubled attributes. Absorb?"

The sudden system notification tone made Gu Han startle, and even eased his somewhat nervous mood considerably.

"Killing an enemy above your level allows extra attribute absorption? Doesn't that mean as long as you kill above your level, you can quickly soar?"

To others, killing above one's level is extremely difficult, yet Gu Han spoke of it lightly.

It seemed that killing above one's level was merely a trivial matter.

"Absorb attributes."

"Congratulations host for gaining 5 Qi Blood, 4 Strength, 100 Martial Technique Experience!"

"Congratulations host, rewards doubled, gaining an extra 5 Qi Blood, 4 Strength, 100 Martial Technique Experience!"

The system notification tone sounding in his ears made Gu Han's mouth corners involuntarily grin up to the heavens!

Slaying Li Xuan gave him 10 Qi Blood and 8 Strength!

He clenched his fists, feeling his strength increase by leaps and bounds!

This exhilarating feeling made him somewhat enamored.

Gu Han immediately couldn't wait to open the Status Panel.

Host: Gu Han

Cultivation: First-stage Martial Apprentice

Qi Blood: 49 (First-stage Martial Apprentice Qi Blood range: 10~50)

Strength: 24 (First-stage Martial Apprentice Strength range: 10~20)

Defense: 13 (First-stage Martial Apprentice Defense range: 10~20)

Speed: 27 (First-stage Martial Apprentice Speed range: 10~20)

Spirit: 11 (First-stage Martial Apprentice Spirit range: 10~20)

Technique: Qi Drawing Technique

Martial Technique: Blazing Fist

Martial Technique Experience: 200