Chapter Twenty-Four: Slaughter

  "Master Qin Shaozong, I have prepared what you asked for earlier. There are 200,000 taels in total. Please inspect them."

  In the Ten Directions Pavilion, Zhang Lang's face was filled with passion as he beckoned Qin Tianyi with a virtual hand.

  After leaving the private room, Qin Tianyi and Xiao Suoyue split up. Xiao Suoyue went to the Tianjian Medicine Pavilion to fetch the daily medicines they had purchased, while Qin Tianyi came to the Shifang Pavilion and bought the materials for refining ten portions of the Return to Truth Pill.

  "Thanks for your trouble, here are ten Congealed Qi Pellets."

  Zhang Lang took over Qin Tianyi's Condensed Qi Pill, with a hint of joy on his face: "Good, Master Qin still has something that needs to be done, just give the order."

  "For now, I won't be needing it. Maybe next time we'll have a chance to cooperate again. I have some things to attend to, so I'll take my leave first."

  Zhang Lang naturally understood Qin Tianyi's current situation, took a look at the completely dark night outside, and pondered for a moment. Considering Qin Tianyi's talent in re-cultivating to a high-level swordsman after his meridians were severed, he said: "Young Master Qin, you are now an honored guest of our Ten Directions Pavilion. You can enjoy our protection services. Although our Daylight City branch of the Ten Directions Pavilion doesn't have any top-notch experts, we do have several high-level swordsmen who can be relied upon. If Young Master Qin is willing to pay a certain amount of Condensed Qi Pills, I can arrange for these high-level swordsmen to escort you back to the Yunlei Sword Sect..."

  "It's all right, a few minor thieves, I believe we can still handle them."

  Qin Tianyi smiled lightly and said.

  In fact, he didn't have enough Condensing Pills on him, otherwise, he wouldn't have only bought ten portions of the Refining Reversion Dan's medicinal materials.

  Without further pleasantries with Zhang Lang, Qin Tianyi bid farewell and directly left the Ten Sides Pavilion.

  Outside the Ten Directions Pavilion, Xiao Su Yue was already waiting there with three fine horses in tow.

  "Brother Qin."

  "Hmm, has the delivery of medicinal materials for Tianjian Medicine Pavilion been completed?"

  Xiao Su Yue patted the luggage on the horse's back: "Everything is in there."

  "Go."

  They mounted their horses and rode straight out of the city.

  "Go after him!"

  Yang Zhenyu, who had been paying attention to the two of them all along, gritted his teeth and ordered the two guards with Swordsman Sixth Level beside him.

  "Sir, Huang is not here yet, what if this kid finds out..."

  "Following, following a little further, I had inquired clearly just now, this little beast, at the Ten Sides Pavilion bought tens of millions of taels of silver treasures, among which also included ancient wood spirit mushrooms. With such a huge sum of money involved, absolutely cannot let this little beast return to Yunlai Sword Sect."

  "Yes."

  Hearing about tens of thousands of taels of treasure, the two guards' eyes lit up slightly and they hastily followed from a distance.

  ……

  "Hmm!"

  Qin Tianyi's spiritual sense was so sharp?

  Not to mention the poor trailing skills of Yang Zhenyu and his two companions, even if they were skilled trackers, as long as their eyes fell on Qin Tianyi, he would feel a sense of awareness and detect hostility. Therefore, it was impossible for them to follow Qin Tianyi without being discovered.

  "We'll settle this outside the city."

  Qin Tianyi secretly said in his heart and subtly quickened his pace.

  Out of the city, the sky was already completely dark, in the desolate wilderness, even if you wanted to do something, it would be unknown to both gods and ghosts.

  Feeling that the distance was about right, Qin Tianyi suddenly said, "Sister Xiao, you go first, I'll catch up in a bit."

  Xiao Su Yue naturally understood what had happened, but if Qin Tian Yi, a high-level swordsman, couldn't solve the problem, she wouldn't be able to help either. So she just nodded and said: "Qin Shixiong, be careful."

  "Hehe... just a few level six swordsmen, nothing but a bunch of bandits."

  Xiao Su Yue listened and felt a lot more at ease. There was indeed a gap between high-level swordsmen and sixth-level swordsmen. She nodded slightly and quickly disappeared into the night.

  Qin Tianyi turned his horse around and charged towards Yang Zhenyu and the other two.

  "Sir, this young fellow has arrived."

  Seeing Qin Tianyi coming towards them in the darkness, the two guards' faces changed.

  Yang Zhenyu's eyebrows were slightly disordered, but he quickly calmed down: "What's the panic? At present, we haven't done anything to him, will he dare to be unfavorable to us? The Golden Gate is not something that Yunlei Sword Sect can provoke now."

  After hearing Yang Zhenyu's words, the two guards exchanged a glance, thinking of the powerful forces near the Golden Gate that were close to second-rate sects, and they slightly relaxed.

  However, Qin Tianyi, who came riding a horse, didn't have any intention of idle chit-chat with them.

  At the moment of approaching Yang Zhenyu, the sword in his hand was instantly unsheathed.

  At this moment, even if Yang Zhenyu pretended to be calm, his face still changed, and he shouted loudly: "Qin Tianyi, what are you doing? I am the son of Yang Tiandu, the third master of the Golden Gate. Do you dare to draw your sword in front of me and bring destruction to your Yunlai Sword Sect?"

  "Be careful!"

  At this time, one of his guards let out a cry of surprise beside him.

  Qin Tianyi, who was close to Yang Zhenyu, didn't take his words seriously at all. With a swift movement, he leaped off his horse and charged straight at Yang Zhenyu, stabbing him directly.

  These people are following him closely, obviously with ulterior motives. If they don't take the initiative to kill them first, will they have to wait for them to make a move before counterattacking?

  "Protect the young master!"

  One of the guards let out a loud roar, his body suddenly rising into the air like a great roc spreading its wings, flying across the sky and pouncing on Qin Tianyi to kill him. While still in mid-air, he swung his right hand, shooting three streams of light to kill him.

  It turned out to be a hidden sleeve arrow in his hand.

  "A minor skill!"

  For the three sleeve arrows, Qin Tianyi's face showed no change, the treasured sword in his hand instantly left its scabbard, and with a slight swing in mid-air, he had already shaken off two of the sleeve arrows. Then, with a slight tilt of his head, the third sleeve arrow shot into empty space.

  How sharp is the sensitivity of a ninth-level spiritual master? Let alone three sleeve arrows, even if there were three more, they wouldn't be able to hurt Qin Tianji in the slightest.

  Even someone as strong as Sun Yang, who can kill an eighth-level swordsman, had his swordsmanship and movements sensed clearly by Qin Tianyi. The reason he couldn't counterattack back then was simply that the gap between a fourth-level and seventh-level swordsman was too great, and his physical body couldn't keep up with the reaction.

  "Kill!"

  One of the guards shot out a sleeve arrow, another guard had already pounced to Qin Tianyi's front, his hand holding a treasured sword shook, transforming into a silver-white colored strip, suddenly tearing down.

  "Dare to hurt anyone in our Jin Gang Men, and you will be killed!"

  "You're going to die!"

  Facing the sixth-level swordsman's sword that contained a killing intent, Qin Tianyi's eyes flashed with divine light, and his spiritual sense was fully activated. The many flaws in this sword appeared in his mind, and then, the fine steel sword in his hand was like a dragon rising from the sea, flashing and stabbing, pointing to one side of the sixth-level swordsman's sword tip. With a swing of his sword, he had already deflected the opponent's sword tip and force.

  "Not good!"

  "Cut!"

  With a swing of his sword, Qin Tianyi let out a thunderous roar, and the blade sliced forward once more. In one swift motion, it cleaved through the air, accompanied by a burst of blood, as the sixth-level swordsman's head was severed in mid-air, leaving half his skull dangling.

  "Brother Liu!"

  Another sixth-grade swordsman roared and charged out again.

  However, before he could rush towards Qin Tianyi, Qin Tianyi had already proactively charged at him.

  The mighty power of a high-level swordsman is fully displayed, striking down from mid-air with lightning speed.

  That sixth-level swordsman had just wanted to resist, but was already predicted by Qin Tianyi in advance the position of resistance. The sword tip turned and shook open his waist sword. In the next moment, the sword tip cut down, cutting this sixth-level swordsman into two halves on the spot.

  Sixth-level swordsman!

  Two sixth-grade swordsmen were actually killed by Qin Tianyi as soon as they met!

  His powerful spirit gave him control over the battlefield, making Qin Tianyi a high-level swordsman with terrifying strength that was not inferior to that of old-brand high-level swordsmen like Sun Yang.

  Seeing Qin Tianyi instantly kill his two guards, Yang Zhenyu's face finally showed a look of terror: "I am the son of the third master of the Golden Gate, and among our Golden Gate, there are four 9th-level swordsmen and more than twenty high-level swordsmen. If you dare to hurt me, the Golden Gate will never let you go!"

  "Golden Gate! What is it?!"

  Qin Tianyi let out a cold snort, completely disregarding Yang Zhenyu's threat. With a sudden burst of force from his feet, he shot forward like a wild goose, his sword flashing with a flowing light, as he charged straight at Yang Zhenyu to kill him.

  "Stop!"

  At this moment, a loud shout like thunder suddenly came from the dark depths.

  Among the cheers, his lungs were full of energy, and it was clear that he was an eighth-level swordsman who had already refined his true energy into his five organs and six viscera.

  Swordsmen Seventh Level, Refining the Void to Reality, Refining True Qi. The True Qi can wander through the meridians, and by the Eighth Level, the True Qi can circulate throughout the body's acupoints, penetrating the five viscera and six bowels, greatly enhancing one's physical quality from the inside out. With a loud shout, the lungs and diaphragm exert force, like a tiger's roar or a dragon's chant.

  "Old Huang! Old Huang save me!"

  Upon hearing this voice, Yang Zhenyu, who was originally filled with fear in his heart, seemed to see a lifesaver and hastily retreated in the direction of the source of the sound.

  "Even if Laozi himself came, he couldn't save you!"

  Qin Tianyi's expression was cold and stern, the sword in his hand unaffected by any external factors. As Yang Zhenyu flew back rapidly, he exerted force under his feet once again.

  "Bang!"

  A cloud of dust burst forth from the official path, and Qin Tianji shot forward like an arrow off the string, instantly arriving in front of Yang Zhenyu. His internal energy surged, and with one slash of his sword, it was as if he wanted to tear apart the night sky.

  No!

  Yang Zhenyu let out a desperate cry and raised his sword in defense.

  Qin Tianji's spiritual sense was extremely keen, and at the moment he raised his sword to block, his sword body had already slightly trembled. The bursting true energy shook open the sword body that blocked him, and then the sword body swept horizontally, with the sword tip flying over Yang Zhenyu's neck, surprisingly beheading Yang Zhenyu in mid-air!

  "Hah!"

  Blood splattered everywhere.

  Yang Zhenyu's head, filled with a terrified expression, flew out 5 or 6 meters before heavily crashing to the ground, rolling out one meter, his body also following inertia, rushing out a distance, and falling down.

  "Bastard!"

  Jingangmen Huang Changlao burst out of the night, his eyes wide with rage, and let out a thunderous roar!

  "I want you dead!"

  In his furious state, the aura on Huang's body was like a raging stormy sea. Even with a distance of nearly a hundred meters between them, Qin Tianyi could still feel the oppressive force rushing towards him.

  "Invincible!"

  Qin Tianyi's face changed color, and his eyes instantly fell on a small grove of trees not far away.

  "Whoosh!"

  He sprang into shape and rushed straight towards the forest.