txolops Chapter 8 Murder and Robbery
Chapter 8 Murder and Robbery
The sea was pitch black and terrifying at night.
Unlike the brightly lit market town, the outside world was completely dark, requiring special methods to see clearly.
Ji Yun is very slow.
The flying sword beneath his feet was of ordinary quality and couldn't fly very fast to begin with.
Half an hour later.
Finally, there was movement behind them.
Looking back, five figures were following far behind, neither too fast nor too slow, and without any attempt to conceal themselves.
As if in their eyes.
I am certain to die today.
"It's finally here."
Ji Yun was overwhelmed with emotion. For some reason, at such a critical moment, he couldn't help but want to burst into laughter.
Since awakening his innate wisdom in this life, he has always felt a sense of constraint and suffocation.
But now it's all gone.
The bloody battles of his past life, spanning over four hundred years, flashed through his mind, and a long-lost excitement and exhilaration erupted from the depths of his bones, instantly sweeping through his entire body.
boom.
A soft sound.
He crushed a talisman, and his figure suddenly disappeared into the depths of the vast night sea.
……
Where did they go?
"What about your tracking skills?"
"This kid is a talisman master, so it's not surprising that he has an invisibility talisman. Let's search him slowly."
The group spoke in hushed tones.
The invisibility talisman prevents the user from moving around significantly, so the person must be hiding somewhere nearby.
Although there are many pebbles around, as long as you search them one by one, you will surely find the person.
"Golden Light Awakening Talisman"
A cold, desolate voice rang out.
The owner of the voice was actually a female cultivator, at the second level of Qi Refining, with a veil covering her face and her whole body shrouded in a black robe.
Sizzle.
A person beside him activated a talisman.
A burst of golden light burst forth, instantly illuminating the surrounding rubble.
The female cultivator was also reflected in the image.
Her figure, curvaceous and graceful, was faintly visible beneath her black robe. Her long legs were full and rounded, and her feet were placed together on a small jade disc.
"Can't you even handle this simple matter?"
"What are you standing there for? Pair up and split up to search."
"We need to act quickly. I can't stay away from the market for too long, or people will become suspicious."
The female cultivator spoke coldly, her tone full of impatience and disdain.
"I used a tracking spell on his flying sword, so he shouldn't have disappeared. Does this kid have a storage bag?"
"Stop talking, hurry up and find it."
The male cultivators continued talking, still displaying an air of unwavering confidence.
Wow.
A burst of sword energy erupted from the shadows of a pile of rubble, heading straight for the head of a male cultivator.
"It's here!"
"Boy, prepare to die!"
The two male cultivators formed hand seals and cast a spell.
One of them precisely blocked the sword energy, while the other threw out a fireball that headed straight for the area behind the rubble.
Everything seemed to be going smoothly.
The female cultivator frowned slightly, a faint tremor running through her heart. She took out a magical artifact and quietly held it in her hand.
puff.
A muffled thud.
One of the male cultivators felt a tightness in his chest. Looking down, he saw a bloody hole in his chest.
"this……"
He reached out and touched it.
Before his hand could even touch the wound, another disturbance was heard in the arena.
Wow.
A blinding, mysterious light suddenly erupted before them.
"No, something's wrong!"
The female cultivator took a half step back, made a hand seal in mid-air, and released a wisp of spiritual energy, which condensed into frosty patches.
Almost simultaneously.
A strange green light was frozen by frost just a foot away from her.
This green light seemed to possess a spirit; even when trapped, it continued to struggle relentlessly.
"A mid-grade talisman?"
The female cultivator was startled, her face showing horror, and she urged the jade disc to retreat quickly.
This was actually a mid-grade first-tier talisman, and she had never seen one before.
"Trying to leave?"
A voice rang out from afar.
The female cultivator turned around and saw a flying sword full of spiritual energy in the dark night sea, radiating a sharp and powerful aura.
On the sword stood a young man in white robes, with delicate features and a calm expression, holding several talismans in his hand, quietly watching her.
"A mid-grade first-tier flying sword?"
"With a storage bag and such a flying sword, you must be a disciple of the third level of the Night Sea?"
"Whose are you?"
The female cultivator questioned him coldly, while simultaneously pulling out several magical throwing darts from her waist.
This child is only at the first level of Qi Refining.
If we kill him, all his possessions will be ours.
Did you dodge it?
Ji Yun flew backward on his sword, pointing a finger at her full chest from afar.
"What?"
"When is this...?"
The female cultivator looked down and saw a dark, mysterious light swirling around her neck and chest.
The mysterious light contracted.
A feeling of suffocation came over me.
"You're asking for it!"
She gritted her teeth, ignoring the blow to her chest, and threw a black dart at Ji Yun.
The darts are extremely fast.
In an instant, he rushed to Ji Yun's side.
Ji Yun landed on a piece of gravel. When the dart was two meters away from him, he locked onto it with his divine sense, made a hand seal, and used his sword to accurately knock the dart down.
He then flicked his wrist.
The mysterious light from the female cultivator's chest suddenly burst forth, piercing deep into her flesh.
"I am a retainer of the Hu family!"
"If you kill me, the Hu family will not let you get away with it!"
The female cultivator clutched her chest and threatened, knowing full well that her jade disc was no match for the opponent's flying sword in terms of speed, and that she couldn't escape.
"It's no use."
Ji Yun made another hand seal.
The mysterious light emanating from the female cultivator's chest was like an invisible hand, gripping her heart tightly with increasing force.
"Spare my life, and you can go to the Hu family to claim it..."
The female cultivator's voice grew weaker and weaker, and before she could finish speaking, she fell from the jade plate and plummeted into the darkness below.
Ji Yun was worried that the woman was faking her death, so he immediately made a hand gesture.
歘.
The flying sword suddenly pierced out, instantly piercing through the female cultivator's chest.
"It seems I was overthinking it."
"The Night Sea is poor in resources, and the combat strength of the local cultivators is also quite average."
Ji Yun looked around.
Before the female cultivator perished, the four male cultivators had already taken their own lives, dying without a sound.
He prepared a multitude of methods.
In the end, he killed the female cultivator with just two mid-grade first-tier talismans.
……
In the pitch-black depths of the sea.
On a pile of rubble, Ji Yun laid out the five corpses one by one.
He used his sword to lift the veil from the female cultivator's face, revealing a beautiful and charming face with a mole on the corner of her lip, and she looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old.
"A offering from the Hu family?"
Ji Yun frowned slightly.
He was aware of this matter; most families on the third level of the Night Sea would invite a group of people from other families to serve as retainers.
The term "offering" sounds nice, but in reality, it refers to a family's hired thugs who are required to work for the family and handle various matters.
In essence, it's no different from monks hiring mortals on the island to handle chores.
But he had never heard of the Hu family, nor did he know how powerful they were.
"That's an interesting matter."
"Did these male cultivators hire a retainer from the Hu family to ambush and kill the rogue cultivators in Zhao Family Market?"
Ji Yun extended his divine sense to scan it.
None of them had storage bags on them, nor inside their underwear.
The female nun had a cloth bag at her waist.
It contained four talismans, three bottles of spiritual medicine, a Hu family jade tablet, two communication talismans, and a set of throwing darts.
She went out to kill someone, and she didn't even bring any spirit sand with her, only offensive items.
The other four were in even worse shape.
He had a pile of odds and ends on him, but a quick glance revealed nothing of value.
"They're so poor."
"No wonder they're out robbing people."
"Since that's the case, then don't blame me; I'll just have to fill the void with your corpses."
Ji Yun took out a storage bag, tidied it up a bit, made room, and put three corpses into it.
The remaining two male cultivator corpses, along with a Hu family jade token, were all thrown outside the rubble.
The storage bag is full.
He didn't leave any special marks on the two men, and simply threw them to the lower level so that the brothers below could share the soup.