Chapter 75: She’s actually not afraid of killing intent
Soon, the inn where the tiger-masked man was located became the focus of the entire HongHua Sect, but most people only dared to peek from afar.
“Get out if you don’t want me to slaughter your entire HongHua Sect.”
The tiger-masked man became impatient and threatened in a profound manner.
Just then, General Zhang leaped onto the opposite inn in a few steps and faced the tiger-masked man from afar.
“Xiong Hu, how dare you escape from prison?”
General Zhang pointed his long spear at the tiger-masked man opposite him.
“What Xiong Hu? What prison escape? I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
The tiger-masked man hesitated for a moment, then vehemently denied it.
“Hmph, playing dumb, aren’t you? I was one of the people who arrested you and put you in the Ministry of Justice’s prison, so I’d recognize you even if you turned to ash.”
General Zhang said with great certainty.
“Nonsense! What kind of place is the Ministry of Justice? If I had been imprisoned there, how could I possibly escape? You’ve got the wrong person, get lost if you don’t want to die.”
Xiong Hu continued to vehemently deny it.
“Heh heh, indeed, the Ministry of Justice is full of masters, and even you couldn’t escape. But if someone deliberately let you go, that’s not necessarily true. You’re so tight-lipped about your identity, it seems the person who let you out has an extraordinary status! But whoever she is, I advise you to get lost quickly. Qi Huang is an Imperial Concubine personally appointed by His Majesty. If you dare to harm her, you won’t even have a chance to go to jail next time.”
General Zhang warned.
“Annoying fly, you’re seeking death!”
Xiong Hu was enraged. He stomped on the roof with both feet, and his body leaped up like a fierce bird, pouncing towards General Zhang. The inn beneath his feet collapsed with a roar due to the unbearable weight.
General Zhang dared not be careless. His killing intent immediately enveloped his opponent. Then, he stomped on the roof with both feet, and his long spear followed closely. The spear shot out like a dragon, a point of cold light streaking across the night sky like a meteor.
Xiong Hu was enveloped by the killing intent, but his speed was not affected in the slightest. He neither dodged nor evaded, and with a punch as big as a sand pot, he unleashed a fist force with a strange, passive quality, crashing head-on into the spear tip.
“Clang!”
When the two collided, a metallic wail sounded, and the long spear began to vibrate at high speed, with several cracks appearing faintly on it.
General Zhang felt the spear about to slip from his grasp, so he instinctively wanted to grip it tighter. However, his tiger’s mouth immediately felt a sharp pain that surged again and again, instantly multiplying countless times over. This made him realize that the vibration was no simple matter, so he quickly let go.
Seizing the opportunity, Xiong Hu grabbed the long spear with his thick right hand and then swept it back towards General Zhang.
General Zhang, unable to dodge in mid-air and with no leverage, could only bend his elbows and protect his chest with both hands.
“Bang!”
The long spear, rubbing against the air, let out a terrifying whistle and slammed fiercely onto General Zhang’s forearms.
General Zhang’s face instinctively showed a pained expression, as he knew that even if his arm didn’t break, it would at least be fractured. But a strange thing happened. When the spear body swept past, he found that the force on it was unexpectedly light, like thunder without rain.
“Is the food at the Ministry of Justice that bad? Such a master is starved and weak-kneed!”
General Zhang’s mind instantly produced such a thought.
Of course, the real situation was not like this. All of this was orchestrated by Qi Huang. She had just released a wisp of spiritual sense to block the space in front of General Zhang’s hands to serve as a buffer.
Even so, General Zhang, unable to find leverage, was still sent flying backward, crashing directly into the inn he had just stood in, leaving him dazed and confused.
“It’s over, General Zhang has been defeated! Now there’s no one in the HongHua Sect who can stop this malevolent god,”
Elder Ruan, who was watching from not far away, sighed.
“You all hurry and take Hong Ling and Qi Huang away. I’ll go stall him.”
Qin Quan ordered.
“Sect Leader, let’s go together! This malevolent god is too powerful to resist!”
Elder Ruan advised.
“If I leave, what about the ordinary people in this sect? How can the HongHua Sect establish itself in the Cultivation World in the future?”
Qin Quan asked back, then showed a look of resolute determination with a smile. “Don’t worry, as long as Hong Ling and Qi Huang are still here, the HongHua Sect will have a bright future, provided someone sacrifices themselves.”
After saying this, Qin Quan resolutely rushed towards that direction.
“Using killing intent against me? How laughable, I’ve killed more people than you’ve ever seen!”
On the other side, Xiong Hu sneered repeatedly. With a slight exertion of force in his hand, the spear made of fine iron immediately shattered and fell to the ground.
“However, you dog slave are not bad. You’ve improved quite a bit in a few years. Your hands didn’t break after taking a blow from me.”
Xiong Hu teased, and with his right hand, he grabbed a few fragments of the spear like lightning and flung them towards the inn where General Zhang had fallen.
The speed of the iron fragments was faster than a crossbow, emitting a terrifying whistling sound as they cut through the air.
“It’s over!”
General Zhang was hit and stunned. Although he was still conscious, he couldn’t control his body to dodge for a short time, and could only watch helplessly as those “flying darts” shot towards him.
“Parents! Wife, daughter, I’m sorry! I failed to keep my promise.”
General Zhang apologized inwardly with immense self-reproach.
But then, something strange happened again. As the iron fragments flew near General Zhang, they suddenly seemed to have run out of power and scattered, falling to the ground.
“What’s going on?”
Xiong Hu muttered in disbelief.
“Hahaha…”
General Zhang struggled to climb out of the ruins and then sneered, “As a top-tier convict, can’t even throw a few pieces of iron? It seems you won’t need to be locked up in the Ministry of Justice anymore. Even if you’re locked in a pigsty, you won’t be able to escape.”
“Who is it? Who the hell is messing with me? If you have the guts, come out and spar with me.”
Xiong Hu was so angry that his whole body trembled, and he shouted up at the sky.
“You said it.”
Before his words had even fallen, Qi Huang appeared in the night sky directly in front of Xiong Hu, looking down from above as if she were a deity.
Qin Quan, who had just rushed nearby, quickly hid in the shadows when he realized something was wrong. Who would want to sacrifice themselves?
‘Such speed!’
Xiong Hu’s expression changed slightly, and he probed, “Who are you? Why are you ruining my good deeds!”
“Qi Huang is an Imperial Concubine personally appointed by His Majesty. If you want to kill her, it’s clearly an act of treason. How can you call it a good deed?”
Qi Huang sternly rebuked, hinting at her identity to the other party.
“Are you sent by Lin Tu? I heard that this dog emperor, fearing death, secretly formed a mysterious thousand-man guard for himself, led by a strong person named ‘Thousand Shadows.’ You wouldn’t happen to be that Thousand Shadows, would you?”
Xiong Hu speculated to himself.
Qi Huang was stunned for a moment. She didn’t expect the other party to proactively assign her an identity, so she went along with it. “So what? Since the current His Majesty ascended the throne, the people have lived and worked in peace, and everywhere is filled with joy and laughter. How dare you insult a benevolent ruler as a dog emperor? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?”
“Getting anxious? So what if I call him that? Calling him a dog emperor is giving him too much credit. He’s actually just a male dog. Besides eating and sleeping, all day long he only knows how to hide in the Imperial Palace and mate with those sluts. What else is he but a male dog?”
Xiong Hu cursed loudly, trying to provoke Qi Huang.
‘You’re so right, brother! You’re cursing so accurately, it makes me not want to kill you.’
Qi Huang felt a surge of comfort in her heart.
“Boldness! How dare you insult His Majesty?”
General Zhang next to her couldn’t take it any longer and prepared to step forward to challenge him.
“Commander Zhang, don’t rush. Leave this person to me, your Thousand Shadows. I’m standing so high just to conveniently stomp him to death.”
Qi Huang stopped him.
“Yes, Lord Thousand Shadows.”
General Zhang respectfully retreated, clearly believing Qi Huang’s words. After all, there were only a few masters around the Emperor, at least the ones he knew.
“Arrogant! Now I’ll let you know that in the face of a warrior’s killing intent, cultivators have no right to speak condescendingly.”
Xiong Hu on this side was completely enraged. He stomped on the ground with both feet and shot up into the sky like a cannonball, charging towards Qi Huang and releasing a terrifying killing intent that swept towards Qi Huang like a tsunami.
“Killing intent? What a pity! I am fearless now.”
Qi Huang had long been mentally prepared, so she was completely unaffected by the killing intent. She calmly took a step forward, and her powerful spiritual sense immediately suppressed the opponent.
Xiong Hu, though strong, was only equivalent to the peak of the Huashen Realm among cultivators!
As for Qi Huang, her spiritual sense had already reached the late stage of the Shentong Realm. It could be said that she was a whole major realm higher than her opponent, a gap as insurmountable as divine retribution.
As expected, as soon as Xiong Hu shot up into the sky, he immediately fell unsteadily like a kite whose string had been cut.
‘She… she’s actually not afraid of killing intent!’
Xiong Hu was terrified in his heart, but before he could react, a numb itch spread from his neck, followed by an intensifying sense of pain that eventually consumed his consciousness. Before he even hit the ground, his head had already slid off his shoulders, and blood spurted out like a fountain.
…
On a towering tree outside the HongHua Sect, a black figure who was peeking had his breathing slightly quicken: “Such powerful spiritual sense, but… if you are Thousand Shadows, then who am I?”
“You are dead!”
Just then, a girl’s voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
“Who is it?”
The black figure vanished from its original spot like a ghost and reappeared on another tree several feet away, its speed so fast it was almost like teleportation.
The black figure stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a cat-eared girl in a black dress staring at him, her blood-red vertical pupils like two burning flames.
