Chapter 11 - Don't Want to Avenge the Nightmare
"Then I'll tell you about it."
The middle-aged man said, "The F-class Wind Wolf Zone was originally a great hunting location, perfect for us Hardened Ones!
But later on, a more precious medicinal herb appeared in this place, so it was taken over by the Broken Axe Hunting Group.
The Broken Axe Hunting Group was notoriously ruthless and malicious, and no one was allowed to go in to hunt for herbs except their members.
Anyone who ventured in to hunt for herbs was killed by them!
Later on this caused many people to be upset and some people filed a complaint against the Martial Alliance, but somehow it was suppressed.
I've heard that the Broken Axe Hunting Group has a backstage and a strong backstage, but I just don't know exactly which side it is!"
"So, how about that stronghold of the Broken Axe Hunters?"
Su Long asked thoughtfully, "Are there martial artists guarding it?"
"That's not true."
The middle-aged man lowered his voice, "It's only an F-ranked area after all, and the town guards are at the paramilitary realm.
But because the Broken Axe Hunting Group has a powerful backstage, even formal martial artists wouldn't dare to provoke them.
Moreover, if a formal martial artist did go to their region, they wouldn't cross paths and would instead treat them nicely."
"Hey boss, how do you sell this knife?"
A voice interjected from the side, and the middle-aged man was busy taking care of his guests.
"A prospective martial artist?"
Su Long muttered as he left the stall, "System, how long do I need to be promoted to full martial artist?"
To cross the 3 minor realms of Advanced Hardened Body, Peak Hardened Body, and Quasi-Martial Artist from Intermediate Hardened Body to Full Martial Artist, 4 breakthroughs were required.
For most people, even if it took a lifetime, they wouldn't necessarily be able to complete these 4 breakthroughs and become a full martial artist.
"Host, you will only need 51 hours to break through to a martial artist."
"That's too slow!"
Su Lang pursed his lips and showed his dissatisfaction.
Having enjoyed the pleasure of upgrading by the minute, but now needing to wait for dozens of hours, Su Long was certainly dissatisfied.
I wonder how many liters of old blood they would spit out if others knew about this.
"To what about the parahuman?
How long does it take?"
Su Long asked, "To eradicate the Broken Axe Hunting Group's stronghold, you need to crush it with the Martial Realm, but to come and go and kill two people, Quasi-Martial Artist is enough.
"Host, you'll only need 25 hours to break through to a quasi-warrior."
"It's still a bit long."
Su Lang frowned, he didn't want to take revenge overnight.
However, how to quickly increase his strength?
"Right!"
Su Long looked moved, "I can take pills!"
He had been able to enter the Primary Hardening Body in minutes before because of the medicinal power pushing him!
Once the pills were taken, they could increase the speed of cultivation significantly.
After the revival of the aura, a large amount of natural treasures were bred on the Blue Star, and medicinal herbs were one of them.
Through magical alchemy and concoction methods, medicinal herbs could be turned into medicines and pills with various effects.
Healing medicines were one of them.
However, medicines were very precious, easily costing more than ten silver coins.
Pills were even more expensive, with the lowest level of pills costing 1 gold coin.
That could be equivalent to a month's salary of an ordinary body hardener.
"Let's go to the city hall first."
Su Lang brought the map and entered the hall.
The items sold in the City Hall were slightly higher priced than those sold privately, but the prices were clearly marked and the quality was genuine.
"Hello, I want to purchase pills."
Su Lang came to a pills selling window and said straightforwardly.
"This is the price list, you choose yourself."
The staff handed Su Lang a small booklet.
"The ones that can increase the speed of body hardening, body strengthening pills, bone forging pills....
The best one is the Body Hardening Pill."
"Taking a Body Hardening Pill can increase the efficiency of body hardening, and the effect lasts about 2 hours."
"Body-hardening pills vary in quality, and the effect of improving efficiency varies depending on the body condition of the person taking it."
Seeing this, Su Lang secretly shook his head, "Each effect of taking one only lasts for 2 hours?
The time it takes for ordinary people to quench their bodies is counted in years, and 2 hours is too low in value for money, so even if I bought it, it would be a complete waste of money.
Fortunately, the time I would have needed to break through wasn't long enough..."
Sighing aside, pills still had to be bought, and Su Lang began to look through the prices of the pills.
Chapter 12: Can't I eat jelly beans?
"Body Hardening Pill, Second Order Lower Grade, 5 gold coins..."
"Body Hardening Pill.
Second Intermediate, 7 gold coins..."
"Hardened Body Pill, 2nd rank upper grade, 12 gold coins..."
The pills were divided into six levels from 1 to 9, and according to the strength of the medicine, they were divided into six levels of useless, inferior, intermediate, superior, and perfect.
Among them, the top quality was already very rare, the best quality would occasionally appear in awe, and perfect quality pills would appear almost once every few years.
"The best one is the top grade, 12 gold coins, it's equivalent to half a suite."
Su Lang tsked at it, "But, it's just money, a thousand gold coins is worth a thousand gold coins!"
"Give me 5 top quality body-hardening pills!"
Su Lang said as he handed the pamphlet back to the staff.
However, his words fell on the ears of those around him, setting off a chorus of comments.
"What?
Did I hear that right?
This guy wants 5 top quality body quenching pills?"
"This young man, he actually asked for 5 top quality body quenching pills, joking?"
"That's a pill worth 60 gold coins, and this guy can take it out?"
"Does he not know what a gold coin is?"
"........" The crowd looked at Su Lang like they were looking at a silly roe again.
"Are you sure you want 5 top-grade body-hardening pills?"
The staff was also asking in some disbelief.
If a Lord Martial Artist did this, he wouldn't have been surprised.
But this guy in front of him had no aura fluctuations, definitely wasn't an official martial artist, and was wearing cheap items, not a single piece of protective gear.
Such a look at the goods of a Primary Intermediate Hardened Body, could he get 60 gold coins?
"Sixty gold coins is very much?
Bunch of poor bastards."
Su Long scowled at the crowd, took out 60 gold coins from the system, and handed them to the staff.
"Lie noisy, he really took out 60 gold coins!"
"Sojourner, I can't believe he can take out so much money at the Body Hardening Stage."
"Out of sight out of mind, this guy is definitely a gentleman!"
"Tsk tsk, a whole 60 gold coins, and you didn't even blink an eye!"
"........" The passersby who were despised by Su Long were so shocked that their jaws dropped.
"This...
This is the pill you asked for, sorry ha."
The staff handed the pills to Su Long and smiled with an apologetic face.
"Well, this attitude is much better than that old hag."
Su Lang smiled in satisfaction, then stuffed a pill into his mouth and turned around to walk outside.
And this move of his once again drew horrified comments from the crowd.
"This guy!
He just ate it up casually?
Shouldn't such an expensive pill be bathed and burned to adjust your state before taking it?"
"Yeah, and he's gone straight away!
Not transporting the power to refine it!?"
"If you don't refine the pills, then won't you just let the power of the medicine run out?"
"Oh my God, is this guy a monster?"
"Why do I feel like he's crazy?"
"........" Almost everyone was stunned to see Su Long's back.
Just then Su Long turned back and smiled, "I'll eat it as a candy pea, can't I?"
"Poof!"
A skinny junior body quencher in the corner trembled and directly spurted out a mouthful of blood.
The rest of them were also jaw-droppingly stunned, unable to speak for a long time.
In fact, how could Su Long eat hard-won pills as candy beans?
It was just that no matter what posture he was in, whether he was walking, sleeping, eating, or looking at a beautiful woman, the one-click cultivation function was helping him to automatically transport his power.
Then, the medicinal power would be naturally refined!
"This cultivation speed, it's really fierce!"
Walking on the road, the aura around Su Lang whirled towards his body.
The white villain in the mysterious space was flooded with gold at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"System, how long will it take for me to break through to a parahuman?"
Su Lang asked.
"Host, you only need 10 hours to break through to a parahuman!"
"More than doubled?
And the five pills just happen to last for 10 hours."
Su Lang nodded in satisfaction, "Looks like the 60 gold coins weren't spent in vain!"
The Hardening Pill was very effective, however, Su Lang didn't consider taking the pill all the time to maintain the doubled state.
Because that would be too expensive, it would cost 144 gold coins a day!
Seven days of spending were enough to level up the system function, but that was a permanent doubling of the cultivation speed, so it was clear which one was cost-effective to choose.
"Cultivation is still waiting for a breakthrough....
Now it's time to look at the map!"
Su Lang took out the map and unfolded it, and suddenly saw a large number of dog-eared areas and various markings.
Chapter 13 - A Man with a Heart of Gold
The map as a whole is divided into six colors: white, green, orange, red, dark purple, and black.
They represent the urban area, F class ferocious beast area, E class ferocious beast area, D class ferocious beast area and C class ferocious beast area respectively.
The strength of the ferocious beast corresponds one by one with the martial realm.
F-ranked ferocious beasts equivalent to the Body Hardening Realm were simply unstoppable.
There were countless E class ferocious beasts equivalent to the Martial Realm as well.
On top of that, there were also D-grade ferocious beasts equivalent to the Martial Master level and C-grade ferocious beasts equivalent to the Martial General level.
It was said that there had even been B-ranked ferocious beasts in the past in the Red Maple City stronghold that had almost destroyed the entire stronghold base.
As for A-grade ferocious beasts, they had never appeared in the Red Maple City stronghold, and once such a powerful ferocious beast appeared, it would represent a disaster that would destroy the city!
It was said that there were S-ranked ferocious beasts above A-rank, and those existences were capable of destroying the heavens and the earth, but no one had ever seen them.
In addition, the ferocious beasts usually moved around in the corresponding level areas, but it was not unlikely that a high-grade ferocious beast would enter a low-level area.
Many people had perished because they had encountered high-grade ferocious beasts in low-level areas.
Within the map, the entire Red Maple City stronghold was marked as a white area.
Outside the city, a large circle surrounding the barrier was green, which was divided into various irregular areas.
These green areas were the relatively safe F-class areas, and the Wind Wolf District was within them.
"Found you!"
Su Lang's eyes narrowed, revealing a hint of murderous aura.
"Pah!"
Suddenly, he was tapped on the shoulder.
"Who!?"
Su Long turned around with a frown, his eyes staring at the visitor like a knife
--A man with a beard of a mid-level body-hardening realm.
"You take it easy!
Aha, my name is Tan Zicheng..."
Tan Zicheng was all smiles, "I see you're studying the map, are you going hunting outside the city?"
"What's it to you?"
Su Long asked with an indifferent face.
"You really want to go hunting?
It's not that I'm saying that outside the city is not only dangerous, but also troublesome."
Tan Zicheng chuckled, "I, ah, specialize in being a guide, a handyman, a weight-bearer, and an errand runner, to beg for a living, do you need it?"
"How much?"
Su Long swept a glance at Tan Zicheng and laughed without comment.
"Only 50 silver coins!"
Tan Zicheng immediately answered, "You don't have to worry about anything except fighting, and if you need me to join the fight, you'll have to pay extra."
"I just need a guide."
Su Lang nodded, "You come with me, we'll leave the city after dinner."
Immediately, Su Long headed to a restaurant, and Tan Zicheng nodded and followed him.
The restaurant's dishes were very rich, containing all kinds of dishes made from fierce beast meat, and even vegetables that contained spiritual energy.
Su Lang ordered a large table and spent 10 silver coins.
"This is so sumptuous!"
Tan Zicheng looked excited, "I've never had such a sumptuous meal before, thank you very much."
"Eat."
Su Long smiled faintly.
After a stormy meal, Su Long and Tan Zicheng returned to the city hall.
A moment later, they arrived outside the barrier through a narrow passageway.
"This is the world outside the city!"
What appeared in front of Su Long's eyes was a vast expanse of hills, and where heaven and earth met was a terrifying primeval jungle!
Further away, there were the giant peaks that loomed straight up into the sky, they were like giants topping the sky, majestic.
"Let's go, to the F-class Wind Wolf Area."
Su Long handed his backpack to Tan Zicheng, holding only the black long knife himself.
"F-class Wind Wolf Region?
That's the territory of the Broken Axe Hunting Group."
Tan Zicheng's color changed, if he observed Su Long's earlobe.
Su Long smiled faintly, "I heard that they are very domineering, just go and take a look, you won't find trouble."
"That's good, that's good!
I'll show you the way!"
Tan Zicheng's face loosened and smiled, "You've found the right person, I happen to know a shortcut to the Wind Wolf District, it's only a four hour walk."
Saying that, Tan Zicheng walked in front to lead the way.
The road outside the city was very difficult to walk on, there were potholes and hills everywhere, and from time to time, you could still see the skeletons of various white, vicious beasts.
Halfway through the journey, Tan Zicheng suddenly stopped in the middle of a gloomy forest.
Chapter 14: That's your severed head.
"Why don't you leave?"
Su Long hugged Tang Dagger and asked.
"This place is beautiful, but it's a nice place to bury your bones!"
Tan turned around slowly, his face full of smirk and cruelty.
"I feel the same."
Su Lang laughed, "I actually met you back when I was buying pills in the City Hall."
"You already knew there was something wrong with me?"
Tan Zicheng sneered, "Then you still dare to take me out of the city?
Do you think you're a match for us?
Brothers, out to kill the sheep!"
"Hahahahaha!"
"I wonder how fat the sheep are?"
"The guy the boss scouted out must be a bit rich!"
"Stay alive, this kid is fine and tender, I'll kill him alive later!"
Four Body Hardening Realm men rushed out from the middle of the woods, and together with Tan Zicheng, surrounded Su Long.
"I'm not sure if you have a problem."
Su Long didn't change his face and said indifferently, "But, it's best if there's no problem, and I'm not afraid if there is."
"Not afraid?
Is this the first time you're not afraid of a tiger?
I'm not afraid that the wind will flash my tongue."
"Kid, open your eyes and see, we have two intermediate hardened bodies and three primary hardened bodies, isn't it a handful to take care of you?"
"What a big talker, if you know what's good for you, hand over the knife in your hand and I'll give you a good thrashing."
The group of robbers looked suspicious, and then sneered incessantly.
"Brother Gongshi, you really won't shed a tear until you see the coffin."
Tan Zicheng slowly pulled out a snowy dagger, "Before I kill you, I'll thank you for the Body Hardening Pill and that sumptuous lunch!"
"Do you know why I invited you to such a sumptuous meal?"
Su Long was full of smiles, "If you don't have a problem, it's a treat for you, if you have a problem, it's your severed head!"
"A severed head?"
Tan Zicheng looked murderous, "What a mouthful!
Go ahead and leave me alive!"
The remaining four body-hardening robbers immediately charged towards Su Long with a sardonic smile.
"Haha, do you really think you've eaten me?"
Su Long swished out his long knife and shouted, "Give me a break!"
In an instant, his body spread out a fluctuation that was unique to the breakthrough of the body-hardening stage.
Originally, Su Lang's breakthrough to Advanced Hardened Body would only take 4 hours, and after taking the pills, it was reduced by a large half to less than 2 hours.
And all the way from eating and leaving the city, 2 hours had already passed.
Su Long's sea of cultivation was also already overflowing, whether or not he broke through was just a thought!
Of course, an impromptu breakthrough was as simple as eating and drinking water for Su Lang, but it was completely incredible for Tan Zicheng and the others.
"It's a breakthrough fluctuation!?"
"Damn it, he's breaking through the Advanced Hardened Body!"
"How could it be, how could you break through at this point?"
"I didn't see him dribbling and practicing the whole time, he was walking the whole time, how could he break through?"
Tan Zicheng and the others were so shocked and horrified that everyone's scalp was about to burst open.
Using an Intermediate Hardened Body against an Advanced Hardened Body, not to mention hitting a stone with an egg, was self-defeating!
But now the arrow had to be fired, the five had made their move and there was no turning back.
The two sides were short for a split second!
"Give me death!"
Su Long cut across the blade without any fancy moves.
"No!"
The two Primary Hardened Body Stage saw the snowy Tang Blade getting closer and closer, and their pupils suddenly narrowed like needles.
But Su Long's speed was so fast that they didn't have any time to dodge.
"Poof!!"
The knife flashed, and the two men's heads were spurting blood wildly.
And Su Long's blade still had the remaining momentum, cutting down on Tan Zicheng's dagger.
"Ding!!!"
A metallic chatter resounded through the jungle, and Tan's dagger turned into a thin line that flew into the sky.
"Go to hell!!!"
Another intermediate hardened body robber took this opportunity to slash at Su Long's neck.
"Do you think I can only use knives?"
Su Long sneered, and with a twist of his body, a back whip kick sent the robber flying straight out!
The remaining Primary Hardened Body came up with its eyes closed and bored, and Su Long's body dodged it easily with a slight sidestep.
"Move!"
Tan Zicheng turned and fled at the sight of the situation.
"Can you run away?"
Su Long moved his body and chased after him.
The Advanced Hardened Body gave him the speed and explosive power of a cheetah.
Tan Zicheng was only an intermediate hardened body, how could he outrun Su Long?
But in seconds Su Long caught up with him and cut off his legs!
"Ah!!"
Tan Zicheng let out an incomparably miserable scream, blood spurting out from his broken legs like a water gun.
Su Long kept his footsteps moving, like a swallow spinning in the air, he folded back and frantically chased after the remaining two robbers.
Those two robbers were even weaker than Tan Zicheng, and they were taken care of in two strokes.
"Hehe, it's time to take care of you!"
Su Long smiled and slowly walked over to Tan Zicheng who had both his legs broken.
Chapter 15: Look Who I Am!
"No!
Don't kill me, please spare my life!"
"Just wind me up and let me do whatever I want, please!"
"Please be merciful.
I'm old and young and I'm counting on you...
I'm counting on me..."
Tan Zicheng looked at Su Long, who was condescending and carrying a bloodstained Tang Knife, and instantly trembled with fear.
"All counting on you to intercept and kill innocent people to feed, right."
Su Long's smile remained unchanged, his wrist flipped, and the long, bright red knife cut down like a swift thunderbolt.
"No-!"
Tan Zicheng's voice cried out in tears and howled before he died, yet between the flashes of the blade, he was in a different place.
"Swish!"
Sheath the Tang Dagger!
Su Long hooked his lips and began to scavenge the loot.
What Su Lang didn't expect was that these few mere Body Hardening Stage guys had scraped a total of 85 gold coins and a number of silver and copper coins, and the four of them's weapons were worth a total of five or six gold coins.
"How many Body Hardening Stage martial artists did they have to fucking rob?
What a death sentence!"
Su Long spat on Tan Zicheng's corpse, then picked up his backpack and continued to make his way to the Broken Axe Hunting Group's stronghold.
The path that Tan Zicheng had chosen was indeed a shortcut, and it was very safe and secluded.
Two hours later, a patch of black and red thorns appeared not far away.
"The bloodthirsty thorns unique to the F-class Wind Wolf Region, here we are!"
Su Long gradually slowed down his footsteps, trying to hide in the shadows as much as possible to move forward.
Although the Broken Axe Hunting Group would definitely arrange sentries on the outskirts of the stronghold, the ones who would be driven out and put on sentry duty were definitely low level guys, Su Long wasn't afraid at all.
Carefully avoiding the thorns, Su Long slowly dived towards the center of the F-class Wind Wolf area.
But soon, Su Long found something wrong and stopped.
"Huh?
How come there's not a soul in sight?"
"And I haven't even seen one of the most common wind wolves!"
"Right, earlier Chu Kong said that Dogong and Cai Feng returned to the stronghold in the morning for some reason and left with a wave of people."
"Combined with the situation here, this stronghold of the Broken Axe Hunting Group is likely something that happened!"
After an analysis, Su Lang's eyebrows slowly spread out.
"Let's observe first."
Su Long stepped forward and lightly jumped between the shadows.
Finally, after moving forward for five minutes, a tall arrow tower appeared in front of him.
On the arrow tower, on the other hand, stood a snoozing junior body-hardening martial artist.
"It's him!"
A cold light flashed in Su Lang's eyes.
He recognized the identity of the man on the arrow tower, who was one of the two bullies who had beaten his predecessor to death alive - Cai Feng!
"The killing of a man!"
Su Long's eyes narrowed, killing aura overflowing, immediately pulled out his Tang Dagger and touched over towards the arrow tower.
Thanks to his experience as an assassin in his previous life, Su Long managed to dive under the arrow tower and climbed the stairs.
All the while, Cai Feng was still holding onto the railing, unaware that the danger of death was creeping in!
"Ah-!"
After hitting a long hache, Cai Feng took out his mechanical watch and looked at the time, suddenly coming to his senses.
"There's still ten minutes left for the shift, so I'll definitely have a good time then!"
Cai Feng felt hot when he thought of the commoner women in the stronghold who were at his mercy.
But at that moment, he suddenly noticed a snowy blade slowly sticking out from under his chin!
At the same time a bone-chilling chill ran down the side of my neck!
To die!!!
For a moment, all the hairs on Cai Feng's body almost stood on end, and the heat in his abdomen was even more instantly annihilated!
"Kneel down and keep quiet if you want to live."
Su Lang's cold as ice voice sounded from behind Cai Feng.
Cai Feng couldn't help but tremble, then kneeled on the ground with trepidation.
"Very well!
Raise your head and see who I am!"
Su Long hooked his lips and turned to Cai Feng with a sneer.
Cai Feng lifted his stiff jaw to look at Su Long, and in the next moment, his eyes popped out, filled with terror and horror!
This man!
Wasn't it just yesterday that you were badly beaten to death?
How did you end up here?
And how did he get to the Arrowhead?
Wasn't he a regular guy?
"Well?
Are you surprised?
Surprised?"
Su Lang grinned with a wickedly cruel smile.
Chapter 16 - Say it or die now
"You...
Are you a man or a ghost!?"
Cai Feng was terrified, shaking like a sieve, his upper and lower teeth banging against each other.
"None of this is important."
Su Long's smile remained unchanged, "What matters is that you're going to die!"
Saying that, Su Long moved his wrist and the sharp blade suddenly cut a line of blood on Cai Feng's neck.
"No!
Don't kill me!
I had to do it!"
Cai Feng felt like his neck was about to be sliced open, and immediately became so frightened that he kept begging for mercy.
If it wasn't for Su Lang's Tang Knife on his neck, he would have been kowtowing.
"Forced to do so?"
Su Long raised an eyebrow, "Did someone order you to do this?"
"Yes, it's a task assigned by our deputy gang master!"
Cai Feng saw the hope of survival and replied, "Otherwise we wouldn't have dared to do it in the city, and with such a heavy hand!"
"Why would he let you do this to a mere man like me?"
Su Lang frowned, his predecessor's parents didn't have any enemies at all in life, and they didn't leave anything worthy of being coveted after death.
"I don't know about that either."
Cai Feng wept, "We were completely under orders, please spare me!"
"Hmph."
Su Long snorted without comment, "One more question for you, did something happen to your stronghold?"
"You, how do you know?"
Cai Feng was shocked at the news, what had happened in their stronghold hadn't leaked out at all, after all, it could be about a precious pill!
"Surely...
Tell me, what is it."
Su Long's lips curled up into a smile, "If you satisfy me, I'll spare your dog's life."
"I...
I'll die even if I leak secrets!"
Cai Feng swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, a trace of hesitation appearing on his face.
"If you don't say it now, die!"
When Su Lang Tang Knife picked, the blood line on Cai Feng's neck cracked open and a bunch of blood flowed out.
"Don't!
I say!"
Cai Feng shivered in fear and trembled, "Our stronghold found a 5 main medicine, but there is a pair of quasi-E grade wind wolves guarding it, the town guards and experts in the stronghold have gone there."
After speaking, Cai Feng looked grizzled, he knew that once the leak was known by the gang, the torture that awaited him would be endless.
"5th Order Master Medicine?"
Su Lang's eyes lit up, "That's a precious herb that can refine 5th stage pills!"
The higher the level of the pills, the value increased 7, 8, or even 10 times, even the lowest level 5 pills were worth 700 to 800 gold coins!
And the value of the Treasure Pill, the main ingredient of the pill, would take up at least half of the pill's value, or about 400 gold coins!
This simply possessed an incomparable allure to Su Lang who was in desperate need of money to upgrade his system's functions.
"Tell me, where is the location of that Level 5 Master Pill?"
Su Long smiled and asked a gentle question to Cai Feng.
"It's in the gourd valley directly west of the stronghold, it takes more than half an hour to go over there."
Cai Feng said with trepidation, "That's all I know, please let me go."
"One last question."
Su Long asked seriously, "When did the experts in the stronghold leave?"
"Here, they just left recently."
Cai Feng nodded and whirled around to stare at them with an incredulous look, "You're not going to take advantage of the weakness, are you?
You, an ordinary person, were able to subdue me purely by luck, and if you dare to go to the stronghold, you will surely die!"
"Ordinary people?
Half a day ago yes."
Su Long smiled faintly.
"Half...
Half a day ago?"
Cai Feng stared at eyes filled with fear and shock, "You've broken through to the Quenched Body?
But you're only a junior..."
"Don't bother worrying about it."
Su Long moved his knife, "Tell me the structure of the stronghold once, and I'll let you go."
"Yes, yes..."
Cai Feng's eyes flickered for a moment.
Then he busily began to describe the structure of the stronghold building.
He spoke in great detail and even told of a secret passage leading to the inside of the stronghold.
Although most of the experts in the stronghold had gone to deal with the quasi-E grade wind wolves, in Cai Feng's opinion, those mid-grade quenchers remaining in the stronghold were not something that Su Long, a junior quencher, could deal with!
If Su Long really did enter the stronghold, there was absolutely no going back, not even an escape!
Chapter Seventeen - The Death Penalty is Punishable by Death!
"Just...
That's it, you see, is it okay to let me go."
Cai Feng said all the information about the stronghold and then looked at Su Lang with eyes wide open.
However, on the surface, although he was eyeballed, secretly his heart was overflowing with a sneer and the excitement of impending revenge.
It was just that as much as he wanted to break his head, he would never have imagined that Su Long was already an Advanced Hardened Body at this point!
And, in an hour or so, you'll be able to break through to the peak quenching body!
With such strength, in the absence of the stronghold town guards, they could completely rampage.
"Well...
I'll fulfill my promise and spare your life."
Su Lang withdrew the Tang Dagger from Cai Feng's neck and smiled in satisfaction, revealing his shiny white teeth.
"Then I'll take my leave, the gift of sparing your life is greatly appreciated!"
Cai Feng was pleasantly surprised and was busy arching his hands in thanks, then he was about to turn around and flee.
"Slow down!"
Su Long's mouth hooked, stopping Cai Feng, "Did I let you go?"
"Huh?
This, this, you said spare me!"
Cai Feng's heart screamed at the top of his lungs, and his body trembled once again.
"I was planning to spare your life, but it's hard to escape from a capital crime."
Su Lang pulled up a blade flower, and a faint sneer curved the corner of his mouth, "To leave, leave a pair of hands behind!"
This Cai Feng was one of the culprits who directly killed Su Long's predecessor.
How could Su Long spare him so easily?
"Leave your hands!
You...
You...
You broke your promise!"
Cai Feng was shocked at the words, and whirled around in anger, "We are all equally Primary Quenchers, and I was only at your mercy before!
At any rate, I'm someone who has hunted and killed ferocious beasts, and you, a piece of trash just out of town, really think I'm afraid of you!?"
"Hahahahaha, you're not afraid of me?"
Su Long laughed, "Then why were you kneeling on the ground just now?"
"You piece of shit!
Die for me!"
Cai Feng was so ashamed and angry that he gritted his teeth and pulled out a short sword from his waist, fiercely stabbing at Su Long.
"It's you who started it, don't blame me if you die."
Su Long's eyes smiled coldly, and with a flip of his wrist, the blade crossed the air.
Whirling, only snowy blade light flashed like thunder, and Cai Feng's anger instantly solidified.
"This...
Impossible..."
Cai Feng's eyes filled with fear opened his mouth, and then a large amount of blood spurted out from his neck, and his body collapsed.
Until death, he didn't understand why Su Lang had become so powerful!
"Wouldn't it be nice to hand over your hands?"
Su Lang shrugged his shoulders and squatted down to scavenge the finances on Cai Feng's body before speeding off to the Broken Axe Hunting Group's stronghold.
Now that the Broken Axe Hunting Regiment's stronghold nest was empty, it was a good opportunity to raid the house!
One had to know that strongholds and strongholds often traded with each other and often acquired valuable materials in the hands of the dispersers, and their reserves of money were definitely not small.
Even the lowest F-ranked strongholds were absolutely astonishing enough!
According to the information provided by Cai Feng, Su Long bypassed more than ten arrow tower outposts and arrived at the center of the Broken Axe Hunting Regiment's stronghold.
This stronghold of the Broken Axe Hunting Regiment did not build any hard walls.
Because almost every ten years or so, there would be a tide of ferocious beasts attacking the city, and by then, these strongholds were simply too vulnerable to be destroyed.
So most of the F-class strongholds were made of huge, smooth woods tied side by side and erected to form a crude city wall.
Following the wall, Su Lang quickly found the underground secret passage that Cai Feng had spoken of.
"Cai Feng's words can't be taken at face value, you have to be careful."
Su Lang opened the entrance to the underground secret passage and cautiously felt his way in.
The secret tunnel was dark and damp, but it was good that Su Long was an experienced killer and had experienced this kind of environment quite a bit, so he was able to cope with it.
Carefully walking through the secret passage, he didn't encounter any danger.
But when he was about to reach the exit, Su Long heard a movement.
"This secret passage is guarded!"
Su Long looked shocked, "That Cai Feng really is deceitful."
Whirlingly, Su Long relaxed his footsteps and slowly arrived at the exit, the caretaker was right overhead.
"Intermediate Hardened Body."
Su Long swept a glance at the caretaker, then stormed out.
"Who?"
The caretaker showed his vigilance, but before he could see the figure of his visitor, he felt a flash of blade light before his eyes.
For a split second, the watchman was so frightened that his scalp exploded.
He tried his best to dodge to the side, but it was still to no avail.
The cold blade cut into his throat, and endless pain swept through his body, robbing him of all consciousness.
Chapter 18: I killed them all, of course.
"Next..."
After slowly lowering the corpse of the caretaker, Su Long headed towards the next place that might be guarded based on the information provided by Cai Feng.
As for searching the corpses that could wait until the battle was over, after all, now was the best time to assassinate them, it couldn't be missed.
Soon Su Lang found the second, third, and fourth...
Watchers and killed all of these rabble-rousers, everything was easy.
Gradually, Su Long couldn't even find the members of the Broken Axe Hunting Group.
"I'm done killing them all?
No way!"
Su Long tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a trace of consternation, but at that moment, a strange sound came over.
"A woman's voice?
There's more than one..."
Su Long picked his eyebrows and touched towards the direction of the voice.
After killing a patrolling member of the Broken Axe Hunting Group halfway, Su Long arrived in front of a house.
Those women's voices were coming from inside this house.
Even through the doors and windows, Su Long could feel the lustful smell inside.
Combined with Cai Feng's previous self-talk, Su Long knew without thinking that there must be many women locked inside that were dedicated to the members of the Broken Axe Hunting Group to ventilate.
"These guys are really bad head sores and foot pustules, and they won't kill a wrong one after all."
Su Long picked his eyebrows and whirled around, kicking the door straight open.
"Ah!!"
"Mara a coin, who's bothering Labor?"
"Mud which idiot?
It scared Law almost ED!"
"........" An unbearable scene appeared inside the gate.
Three naked big men looked towards the door in anger, and seven or eight women were screaming in fear, their numb and painful eyes filled with fear.
The flower-armed man leading these three was an advanced body hardener, while the other two were intermediate body hardeners.
And one of the intermediate quenchers was the same Dou Zhong who had beaten Su Long's predecessor to death!
"Aigoo, sorry for disturbing the three masters."
Su Long swept a glance at the white villain that was about to turn completely golden, squinting his eyes as he walked into the door, a playful smile on his lips.
"Who are you?"
"He doesn't have tattoos on his earlobes, he's not one of us!"
"Come on, who the hell are you?
How did you get in?
Where are our people?"
"........" The three big men were distraught and pushed the frightened woman's door aside, incomparably wary of Su Long.
"Your men?
Of course, I killed them all!
As for who I am?"
A smirk spread across Su Long's face, "Dou Zhong, you don't recognize me so soon?"
"You're... you're...
You're...
Su Long!?"
Dogzhong was stunned as if he had seen a ghost, "No, weren't you beaten half to death by us yesterday?
You're just an ordinary person, why are you here!?"
"Always asking me these questions, I'm bored eh."
Su Long rolled his eyes and whirled around to look at the flower-armed man at the head, "Tell me, where are the fortunes of the stronghold?
If I'm satisfied, I can spare your life."
"Spare my life?"
The flower-armed man sneered, "Are you sick in the head?"
"Don't bother talking to you."
Su Long shook his head, Tang Dagger sheathed, and charged out with a little bit of fierceness beneath his feet.
"This kind of speed...
Advanced Hardened Body!"
Dog Zhong's eyes were going to burst, to death he couldn't believe that someone could be promoted from an ordinary person to an advanced quencher in one day.
"What's there to be afraid of in three dozen, go!"
The flower-armed big man gave a disdainful low drink and picked up the large knife placed at the side and charged at Su Long.
When the women saw the three ferocious big men surrounding and killing Su Long, they were frightened and pitied.
They knew that Su Long would be fine if he died directly, but once he fell into the hands of Dou Zhong, he would definitely be worse than dead.
"How disgusting!"
Seeing the three naked men flinging their birds to attack him, Su Long frowned, revealing deep disgust.
Right at this moment, the mighty swords of the flower-armed men had slashed down viciously.
"Hahaha, go die!"
The two of them in Dozhong also held a machete full of cruelty and slashed at Su Long's shoulder.
"System, breakthrough!"
Seeing the blade zooming in front of his eyes, Su Long gave a low cry, and the Dwelling Blade cut down vertically.
A violent breakthrough fluctuation raged out, Su Long only felt his body hot, a terrifying huge force violently transmitted to the Tang Blade.
Chapter 19 Are you too scared to speak?
"What?"
The three of them only had time to flash a thought before the Tang Knife came after them and cut down on the head man's large blade.
"Boom!!"
The invisible giant force pressed down like Tarzan, and the big blade instantly collapsed into a huge gap.
The flower-armed man's tiger's mouth crumbled and blood flowed as he staggered back more than ten meters in utter shock, sitting on his buttocks!
Su Long didn't even look at the flower-armed man, his body pounced forward and dwarfed, and with a twist of his waist, the blade lightning from the Tang Knife cut through the Dou Zhong duo's waist like lightning.
The ferocity of the Dou Zhong duo's color solidified, and then their faces gradually crawled with pain and began to distort and deform.
"Ah!!"
"My X, it's gone!!!"
"It hurts...
It hurts!
That's a lot of blood!"
"No!"
The two of them in Dogzhong were in agony like shrimps crumpling to the ground and constantly rolling and wailing.
The women on the side watched this with stunned disbelief on their faces.
The expected scene did not occur at all, and on the contrary, it was three vicious men who were defeated by Su Long's knife!
Those three vicious, devilishly large men were defeated!
Fear, shock, confusion, joy, and other emotions caused the group of women to actually not know what expression to make.
They just stared, dumbfounded, at Su Long, their bodies trembling, tensing, and spasming from the intense emotions!
"It's raucous!"
Su Long's brows furrowed, killing the two of them in Dou Zhong with one slash like a chicken.
"How dare you kill a member of my Broken Axe Hunting Group!
You're dead!"
The anger in the heart of the flower-armed man sitting on the ground was simply overwhelming.
The Broken Axe Hunting Group had been entrenched in this stronghold for three whole years, and no one had ever dared to charge into the stronghold to kill its members!
But the man in front of him had killed two without blinking, truly daring and unscrupulous!
"Only your Broken Axe Hunting Group is allowed to kill people, but no one else is allowed to kill people from your Broken Axe Hunting Group?"
Su Long smiled coldly as he shook off the blood on his blade and stepped towards the flower-armed man, "How awesome!"
"Stop!
You stop!"
The flower-armed man finally panicked, he knew that he was definitely no match for Su Long.
And after fighting for so long, no one had come to support him, which meant that the people outside must have all died out.
At this point, he was the only member of the Broken Axe Hunting Group left in the entire stronghold!
"Why should I stand still?
Give me a reason."
Su Long hooked his lips, his footsteps sounding like a sheep's hammers one after another, hitting the flower-armed man's heart hard.
"I...."
Faced with the great terror in life and death, a deep fear rose in the heart of the Flower-Armed Big Man.
"So scared that you can't speak?
What a loser!"
Su Lang said as he lifted his Tang Knife, the cold light on the blade flowing like a snake that chose to devour people.
"Wait...
Wait!"
The flower-armed man was terrified and whirled, "There is much wealth in the stronghold, I know where it is!"
Accustomed to getting away with doing whatever he wanted every day, how could the flower-armed man be willing to die?
"Fine, I only want gold and silver coins, say hurry up and don't try to delay!"
Su Lang's words broke the slight fluke in the flower-armed man's heart.
"Well, I say, all the gold coins in the stronghold are in Lord Townkeeper's..."
The flower-armed man swallowed a mouthful of spittle, then sped up to say everything.
It turned out that the financial power of this stronghold was in the hands of that parahuman town guard.
The gold and silver coins were also locked in the giant safe in his room.
A smile appeared on Su Long's face, "I'm not sure if what you're saying is true, so..."
"So what?"
The flower-armed man produced a hint of a bad premonition and shuddered.
Su Lang didn't reply, just smiled faintly and wielded his sword.
"Ah-!"
The flower-armed man only felt a coldness in his legs, and a sharp pain instantly swept through his body, causing him to almost pass out from the pain.
"If you lie..."
Su Long looked condescendingly at the Flower-Armed Big Man, "I'll personally come back and kill you, if you're not lying..."
At this point, Su Long smiled at the group of stunned women, "Tie him up, if I don't come back in 5 minutes, he'll be at your disposal, and if you're lucky today, you'll be able to leave this magic cave alive."
Chapter 20.
Don't let him die easy.
"No, I swear I'm not lying!"
The flower-armed man awoke from his semi-conscious state and let out a miserable cry, "You promised to spare my life!"
"I didn't say they would spare you."
Su Long laughed without comment, and said to the group of frightened women, "The opportunity for revenge is right in front of you, so what are you waiting for?
If you don't even have the courage to take revenge, then I might as well help you out."
The humiliated women trembled in fear, then they remembered the various bullying they had suffered, and their hatred grew raging in their hearts.
"I...
I'll do it!!!"
Finally, a woman trembled to her feet, her teeth chattering, but the hatred and killing intent in her eyes was almost monstrous!
"Me too!"
The second woman stood up, followed by the third, fourth and last eight women all stood up.
They picked up from the ground the ropes, chains, and mouth balls that had been used to tie them up to tie the big man with the flower arms securely in place.
"You guys can have a little fun first, but don't let him die easily oh."
Su Long nodded in satisfaction, whirled around leaving an encouraging smile and turned to leave.
After closing the door of this House of Sin, the pig-killing screams of the flower-armed man were faintly heard from inside.
"Retribution~"
Su Long smiled shallowly and headed to the town guard's residence.
This stronghold wasn't that big, and Su Long arrived at his destination a few minutes later.
The gate of the guards' residence was closed, but it was impossible to stop Su Long, knowing that picking locks was a necessary skill for a qualified assassin.
Not long after, Su Long opened the door smoothly and got in.
"Who is it?"
A woman's voice came from within the room.
Then a blue-clothed woman appeared in Su Lang's vision.
This woman was a junior body quencher, good looking, with some bruises on her face and eyes filled with fear and recoil.
When she saw the person who came wasn't expected and didn't have tattoos on her earlobes, a glimmer of hope flashed in her eyes.
"Are you the woman who was taken captive?"
Su Long indifferently looked at the blue clothed woman in front of him.
The blue-clothed woman was excited: "Well, who are you, how did you get in here, can you take me away?"
"I'll get out of here, and so can you, but not right now."
Su Long smiled, "Do you know a safe, the one where the town guards store their gold and silver coins."
"Know!
I also know his code, he said it unconsciously when he was drunk!"
The woman in blue was incredibly happy to see there was hope of leaving, and nodded frequently.
"You still know the password?
That's great, take me there!"
Su Lang was also pleasantly surprised, he hadn't touched the safe in this era, he hadn't opened it with any certainty at all, having the password at this time would be too economical.
"The safe is over here, the password is ****."
The woman in blue said as she turned around to lead the way, her speed was fast.
Ten seconds later, a mechanical password safe the size of a wardrobe appeared in front of Su Long, and it was very heavy and solid at a glance.
Su Long entered the password and opened the safe with a clang, and was suddenly dazzled by a golden and silver light.
The woman in blue standing at the side was also looking straight, so many gold coins, it was beyond her imagination.
"Great, great!"
Su Lang looked at the pile of gold and silver coins in front of him and was ecstatic, "I don't know if it's enough for the system to level up!"
Next, Su Lang grabbed a handful of gold coins and directly deposited them into the system.
In the mysterious black space, the number behind the gold coin icon suddenly became 26!
The woman in blue on the side was directly shocked to the point of jaw dropping as she watched the gold coins disappear into Su Lang's hands.
Being able to collect items out of thin air would mean having a spatial ring, but a spatial ring was something only a martial general level big shot could have!
How terrifying must the background be for someone who could possess a spatial ring at the Body Hardening Stage?
Thinking of this, the blue-clothed woman's gaze towards Su Long became incomparably awe-inspiring.
Su Long didn't know what the blue-clothed woman was thinking, he smiled hehehe, and handful after handful, he deposited all the coins into the system and converted them all into gold coins.
The numbers behind the gold coin icon changed from tens to hundreds, and finally became 1568!
"It's over a thousand already, hahahahaha!"
Su Long excitedly squeezed his fist, his heart wildly shouting, "System, quickly upgrade my one-click cultivation function!"
