Chapter 614: The Pirate Group’s First Appearance (3k)
“What do you mean?”
Before he could finish his threat, the steward felt his arm grabbed by a subordinate. His eyelid twitched, and his anger immediately flared up. He threw off the subordinate’s arm and questioned him.
Facing the question, the Battle King looked at Su Jiu with a fearful expression, lowered his voice, and leaned close to the steward’s ear, saying, “The disturbance during the day was caused by her…”
Su Jiu found the “little drama” unfolding before her quite interesting. She had been wondering why they would dare to intercept her with only three High-Rank Battle Kings. So, it turned out there were still fools who didn’t know the full situation?
“The disturbance during the day?” The steward was momentarily stunned. His duty was to contact and communicate with the representative of the Kamishiro Family, and he wasn’t very clear about this so-called disturbance.
“Steward Sir…”
The Battle King wanted to say more, but Lin had lost patience. Her gaze fell on the steward, and a cold glint erupted in her lavender eyes, directly interrupting their conversation. She sneered:
“From the Hundred Rivers Association, weren’t you going to hunt me down before? Why are you being so indecisive now, have you all become eunuchs?”
With Su Jiu as her backing, her tone was inevitably a bit arrogant, especially after being chased like a stray dog by the Hundred Rivers Association these past few days.
“Hunt you down… are you an enemy force of our Hundred Rivers Association? No wonder you’re associating with each other. Attack!”
Upon hearing her mention this, the steward seemed to realize something. He no longer hesitated, let out a sharp cry, and a cherry blossom blade appeared in his hand. He was the first to transform into a shadow, flashing towards Su Jiu and the other.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—”
As his voice sounded, under the cover of night, a large expanse of wind-breaking sounds suddenly erupted. Countless cherry blossom blades, emitting a cold light, appeared and swung towards Su Jiu and the other in the center with fierce power, covering the sky.
“These two probably bought something at the auction, and others are coveting it.”
“These people surrounding them don’t seem simple…”
“Nonsense! I just saw these people wearing the clothes of the Hundred Rivers Association. They are from these major business associations.”
The surrounding stall owners and passers-by felt sympathetic towards the two unlucky girls, but while they sympathized, they also honestly moved back. If they were caught in a battle of this level, they would likely be killed or injured.
However, some meticulous observers noticed that Su Jiu didn’t seem flustered at all, and the aura she released made them feel pity for the cloaked figures. They probably felt that the people from the Hundred Rivers Business Association were out of luck.
“Is this all you’ve got?”
Under the relentless barrage of sword attacks, Su Jiu merely smiled faintly. The Loquat Branch in her hand circled her body, like a coiling dragon, shattering all the sword energy.
The powerful air waves generated by the collision continuously surged, blowing around the stalls that hadn’t been picked up yet. The cloaked figures were knocked back dozens of meters, their faces showing expressions of shock.
“This speed, why didn’t they ask you to be the tortoise in the Tortoise and the Hare race back then?”
Then, as if thinking of something, she raised the Loquat Branch horizontally and casually swung it towards the empty space in the upper right corner. In the next second, a figure appeared, and the Loquat Branch collided with a cold glint, sparks flashing.
“You…”
Meeting the steward’s astonished gaze, Su Jiu’s eyes flashed with coldness. Her arm trembled, and before he could say more, she thrust back.
“Clang!”
The steward who attacked Su Jiu was sent flying even further. Finally, his feet scraped against the ground, sparks flying, nearly tearing through the sides of his leather shoes. It was only when two Battle King Level subordinates caught him that he stopped, kneeling down with his cherry blossom blade stuck in the ground.
The girl in the center’s black hair and white dress fluttered slightly, her footsteps not having moved an inch, like a tourist walking through a sunflower garden in summer, serene and leisurely.
“Pfft!”
With a dry cough, the steward spat out a mouthful of blood mist, suddenly looked up ahead, his eyes filling with terror. He said in a deep voice, “You’re not a High-Rank Battle General at all?! And definitely not a low-level unit like an Exorcist.”
He had initially thought that the person’s cultivation level was hidden by some item, as it was not a secret that official personnel in the Dragon Country had ways to conceal their aura. However, Su Jiu’s attack had completely jolted him awake.
The scene stunned all the onlookers. In their eyes, the steward of the seemingly unattainable Hundred Rivers Business Association was actually thrown back by a young girl they had been watching. The world was truly quite fantastical…
“Has she become this strong already?”
The most surprised was Lord Liu Yue, who was watching from afar. His deer-like eyes widened. He had considered that Su Jiu might have some trump card to go out like this, perhaps some formation, or…
He had never expected it would be a direct confrontation.
After speaking, the Mr. Bai Yun, the president of the Bai Yun Association, gave a faint smile and his gaze continued to fall on…
“I didn’t expect you to be able to find this place?”
Su Jiu’s eyes held a hint of surprise, but it was only surprise. She had some psychological expectation that they would investigate her, but she didn’t expect them to uncover her past aliases.
“But it doesn’t matter. You made the first move, and you will pay the price, every single one of you… Take this Full Moon Slash.”
Su Jiu then let out a light laugh, and the Loquat Branch in her hand swung out without mercy. The full moon-like grinding disc, like a flying dagger, cut towards the steward’s head without a trace of pity.
“This aura is definitely above mine, both in attack power and speed, but if I resist with all my might, I can still hold my ground.”
The steward watched the moon disc spin towards him, his pupils contracting sharply. He quickly gripped his weapon and placed it in front of him, the law light behind his head flaring brightly, but he didn’t relax at all. He shouted:
“Hurry and attack! A fight is happening here. If Lord Baichuan senses it, he should arrive soon!”
Hearing this, the cloaked figures in the middle of the road, who had been scattered and blown away earlier, once again charged forward with their blades. Two of the Battle Kings even shot directly at Su Jiu, their attacks carrying the thunderous momentum of killing moves.
“I’ll handle the High-Rank Battle Kings, you deal with those lowlifes.”
Su Jiu lightly instructed, then casually walked forward, a hint of indifference on her face. Facing these kinds of people, she didn’t need to use her true strength.
“Even if you have Demigod Level strength, aren’t you being too arrogant!”
The two Battle Kings heard Su Jiu’s words and immediately showed a hint of anger on their faces. They then raised their cherry blossom blades and slashed towards Su Jiu’s face.
“Crescent Moon.”
Su Jiu saw that their attacks were worse than the steward’s earlier. Her expression remained unchanged, and the Loquat Branch in her hand swept towards the two with phantom-like speed. With a “ding!” sound, two figures were sent flying, with some blood splashing.
“They didn’t even get hit by the sword, but they sustained sword wounds. What kind of skill is this?!”
Having finally stabilized their figures, the two looked down at their chest wounds that had gone down to the bone, their eyes filled with terror.
“Oh.”
Glancing at the situation on Su Jiu’s side, Lin casually responded and leaned back against Su Jiu. She held her ice bow and shot ice arrows at the lower-level Battle Kings, one shot per person, and at an extremely fast rate.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!” Ice crystal arrows shot wildly in the moonlit night, leaving dazzling frost-white trails.
Compared to Su Jiu, who was like a five-sided warrior, Lin was more like a traditional shooter, with high attack and sustained output, but a fragile body and easily defeated in close combat.
“Boom!”
On the other side, the moment the steward came into contact with the moon wheel, a numbing sensation spread through his palm, followed by a powerful force that impacted his body, sending him flying into the distance and causing many passers-by to dodge quickly.
“What kind of investigation did Lord Shan Hua do? This is not Demigod Level, I’ll eat it!”
This time, the impact force was greater than before. Staring at the moon wheel, his pupils were about to burst. His entire outfit was penetrated and torn by the accompanying blade energy, and his body was pushed towards the sea.
“Whoosh whoosh—”
Finally, just as he was about to plunge into the sea, he managed to stop his feet. Looking at the dispersing moon wheel in front of him, he weakly let his weapon go, transforming into a two-tailed fox that leaned in front of him, having narrowly escaped death.
Looking down at his tattered clothing, the steward didn’t dare to hesitate and immediately called his master.
“Ring ring…”
“What’s going on?! Even if she is Demigod Level, in this flash of lightning, she actually killed so many Battle King Level opponents!”
However, the phone was busy. He looked up again, his expression changed. He saw that out of the more than a dozen people on the scene, only a few remained. The rest had basically turned into corpses, with an ice crystal arrow stuck in their chests.
After a few more minutes, two High-Rank Battle Kings, due to their numerous wounds, were pinned to a pillar by two ice arrows. There was no one left on the scene who could resist Su Jiu and the other.
“Well done. Go dig out the Magic Crystals of their Monster Pets. That can also be used to pay off debts.”
Su Jiu glanced at the girl behind her, gently patted her head, and then walked towards the steward with a faint smile on her face.
When her head was patted, Lin felt a strange sensation, but Su Jiu’s latter words directly extinguished that feeling. She pouted and mumbled, “Con artist…”
Although she grumbled, her actions were swift, even faster than E Huo. With a simple flick of her fingernail, she extracted a Magic Crystal.
Each time she extracted one, she would show a small smile, her lavender eyes curving. It seemed that digging out Magic Crystals was also a happy occasion for the former Ice Vulture Monarch.
Under the gaze of the passers-by, Su Jiu slowly walked towards the steward with a romantic smile unique to a young girl, and asked with a light laugh, “Steward, where is the representative of the Kamishiro Family that was with you at the auction house earlier?”
“I don’t know…”
The steward swallowed. He knew that the girl in front of him was no university student, but a merciless executioner. He kept praying for the phone to connect.
“You don’t know? It seems you also want to experience the Great Memory Restoration Technique.”
Su Jiu’s smile grew more intense, and she continued to walk slowly. The representative of the Kamishiro Family had to be caught. She wanted to know some important information, and only from there could she obtain it.
“Don’t do anything rash, I’m with Hundred Rivers Battle God…”
Hearing “Great Memory Restoration Technique,” the steward kept retreating until he was only half a step away from the sea. His phone suddenly connected, and a tired male voice came from it:
“The Kamishiro Family has been targeted by the Redbeard Pirate Group. I was only busy fighting a War God Level old man, and he was being pursued by a quasi-War God. Now, his whereabouts are unknown…”
