Chapter 45

Chapter 45: Seeking Revenge for the Slightest Grievance

When God’s fragmented face arrived, it was like nature reawakened from hibernation, influencing the growth of all things and forcing them to change.

This change transformed the world into a cruel and cold one.

And forbidden areas represented the extreme of this cruel and cold world. However, at that moment… Xu Qing gazed at the departing figure in the white dress. He suddenly recalled something Captain Thunder had said way back when.

“Do you know why I suggested taking you away from the city ruins two times?”

“I saw the silhouette of you cremating the corpses. At that time, the flames illuminated your figure as you stood beside the bonfire. It looked like you had fused with the fire, and it made me feel like I’d seen… a trace of warmth in this cruel world.”

Xu Qing fell silent.

Right now, just like Captain Thunder back then, he also felt a trace of warmth.

It came from the faceless woman in the white dress and the many faces who smiled and thanked him.

It came from… the humanity that even this cruel world couldn’t take away.

After a long time, Xu Qing bowed deeply once again.

After that, he turned and sped toward the distant city wall.

…

Perhaps it was because he had thrown out too many Black Pills previously, causing the heterogeneity near the city lord’s mansion had become extremely dense and seemed to have passed a critical point, turning into a bright torch that attracted the attention of all the beings of the forbidden area.

Or perhaps it was his karma with this city, but in any case, Xu Qing didn’t encounter much danger as he sped over to the city wall.

Once he arrived, Xu Qing turned his head and looked over at the dark city. Hearing roars and mournful shrieks from afar, he stared silently for a long time.

“I don’t know when I’ll come back…” Xu Qing mumbled. Turning away from the dark city, he leaped off the city wall, hurrying into the distance under the dim moonlight.

In order to increase his speed, he brought out the flight talisman he’d taken and stuck it onto his leg. As spiritual energy surged into his body, he exploded with speed and directly soared through the air, moving at an incredible pace.

Wind blew onto his face, making Xu Qing a little uncomfortable. His sudden burst of speed and newfound flight took him a long time to get used to, especially since this was his first time flying so freely in the air.

High in the sky, Xu Qing lowered his head and looked at the ground. This feeling of having the world at his feet made him a little dazed.

He felt as though he had become one of the birds who survived the calamity of God’s eyes opening, spreading his wings freely in the sky.

“So this is how birds feel when they fly through the sky.” Xu Qing muttered, carefully controlling his body.

Someone like him, who had reached the seventh level of the Sea and Mountain Art, was already capable of freely controlling his body. Thus, he quickly got used to soaring through the sky.

From time to time, Xu Qing would land and stomp the ground fiercely to accelerate, even punching backwards in the air to increase his speed.

From afar, he looked like a long ray of light that shot through the sky above the forbidden area.

Anyone else would still have to worry about protecting themselves from heterogeneity. However, Xu Qing didn’t have to care about this at all, so he continued to move faster and faster.

Soon, he saw the forbidden area’s boundary in the distance and quickly rushed out.

The instant he arrived in the outside world, a warm breeze blew on his body, dispelling the chill of the forbidden area.

Xu Qing was silent as he stood in mid-air. He glanced in the direction of Antler City briefly before turning his head to look around elsewhere.

After living in the scavenger camp for over half a year, Xu Qing had learned a lot, especially the local geography. He knew the names and locations of many nearby cities, including the Vajra Sect’s mountain gate.

Although dawn had yet to arrive, the illumination of the moonlight allowed Xu Qing to faintly see a mountain range in the distance.

Standing in the air, Xu Qing glanced back and forth between the locations of Antler City and the Vajra Sect several times.

“I’m not willing.” Xu Qing muttered.

He didn’t know what would happen to the Vajra Sect ancestor who was trapped in the city ruins.

But Xu Qing felt that the other party most likely wouldn’t die.

However, it was still inevitable for the Vajra Sect ancestor to suffer heavy injuries, and he probably wouldn’t be able to escape the city ruins for a while.

If Xu Qing chose to just head to Antler City right now, everything would most likely proceed smoothly. However, he was unwilling to just leave like that.

Thus, after a few breaths of silence, a cold glint appeared in his eyes. His body flickered and he unleashed his full speed. Along with the intense fluctuations emitted by the flight talisman, he headed straight for… the Vajra Sect.

Xu Qing didn’t choose to go to Antler City right away. He was heading to the Vajra Sect.

He was going to take advantage of the fact that the Vajra Sect ancestor was trapped and the two grand elders were dead. Right now, the Vajra Sect was unprecedentedly weak, so he was going to head over and pay them back for chasing him.

This was Xu Qing’s character.

Anyone else might have chosen to leave first. However, everything Xu Qing experienced from early on made him understand that he had to erase any hidden dangers.

Even if this hidden danger was impossible for him to resolve and couldn’t be wiped away for the foreseeable future, he still had to make them feel as much pain as possible.

To a certain extent, this sort of pain could become a form of deterrence.

This was one of the rules of survival in the slums and also a rule for the scavengers. As for whether it was a rule of this chaotic world, Xu Qing didn’t know. But this was his rule.

Xu Qing felt that just killing the two grand elders wasn’t enough as a deterrent.

He continued to rush toward the Vajra Sect until the first rays of sunlight rose into the sky and lit up the ground. Finally, Xu Qing saw his destination in the distance.

The Vajra Sect’s mountain gate!

The Vajra Sect was built on top of a mountain peak and was surrounded by numerous buildings. Under the sunlight, the main hall at the top of the mountain seemed to be glowing radiantly. From a distance, it looked extraordinary.

However, most of the sect’s cultivators had already gone out to search and had yet to return. Thus, there weren’t many disciples left behind to guard the mountain gate. Under the morning light, Xu Qing saw a few scattered figures.

Their expressions were filled with arrogance, as if their very presence here was some sort of extraordinary status symbol. Among them there were three to five disciples chatting and laughing next to the arched bridge at the mountain gate.

Their conversation was mostly related to how the ancestor had gone out to search for that Kid. The disciples seemed to all feel that the ancestor was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Some other disciples were sitting cross-legged and cultivating in their own residences.

As for the Vajra Sect’s sect master, he was sitting in the main hall, holding a book that recorded the offerings sent by the nearby cities and scavenger camps. His expression was indifferent as he thumbed through the pages.

Just like the disciples outside, he didn’t think highly of the ancestor’s choice to head out personally.

“That Kid is just a scavenger. Even if he has some skill, the two grand elders are enough to suppress him. There was no need for the ancestor to personally move out and leave the sect empty.”

The sect master shook his head and thought to himself that there was nothing he could do about it. No one dared to disobey the ancestor’s orders.

Just when the entire sect was wrapped in lethargy, Xu Qing, unnoticed as he floated high in the sky, lowered his head and stared coldly at the Vajra Sect.

After checking the wind direction, he circled around downwind to measure the wind speed and travel distance.

In the end, he chose a location that would make it hard for the Vajra Sect to respond. Taking out a large amount of poison powder, he expressionlessly scattered them into the wind.

Xu Qing had a lot of poison powder on him. Just then, he’d used up 80% of it.

With so much poison powder mixed together, the toxicity was extremely terrifying. At that moment, the mixed poison powders drifted with the wind over to the Vajra Sect.

Xu Qing didn’t act immediately, waiting in silence.

Time passed little by little. Because there was so much poison powder, it seemed to slowly dye the sky as it was carried by the wind. When the wind vaguely seemed to turn black, a cold gleam flashed through Xu Qing’s eyes.

“It’s about time.”

The appearance of this black wind quickly attracted the Vajra Sect’s attention.

The first people to see it were those few chatting disciples at the mountain gate. They lifted their heads in surprise and were stunned when they saw the black wind.

“What’s that?”

But the next moment, a wisp of the black wind passed over a tree in the distance, instantly causing it to wither. The disciples’ expressions changed drastically.

“Poison!!”

The sect disciples who saw this were all shaken and let out shouts of surprise. Figures rapidly walked out of the sect one after another. All of their expressions changed and they prepared to cast a spell to disperse the poisonous wind.

But just then, Xu Qing’s figure suddenly rushed down from the sky. He was so fast that he seemed like a bolt of lightning falling on the Vajra Sect’s mountain gate, directly charging into the sect.

Those Vajra Sect cultivators were shocked and angered, and the alarm bell echoed through the entire sect. Rumbling sounds spread in all directions as Xu Qing touched ground.

He was exactly halfway up the Vajra Sect's mountain.

A loud bang sounded out as he hit the ground, and numerous cracks spread from the point of impact. Xu Qing abruptly lifted his head, and his gaze was filled with intense killing intent as he charged towards the horrified Vajra Sect cultivators!

Boom.

Xu Qing’s attacks were swift and fierce, and his speed was astonishing. Everywhere he passed, miserable cries echoed out and corpses fell to the ground.

However, although most of the Vajra Sect disciples were out right now, there were still some left.

Soon, numerous cultivators gathered from all directions, shouting furiously as they rushed toward Xu Qing.

“Enemy attack!”

“Damn it, someone actually dares to attack our Vajra Sect!”

“Kill him!”

At that moment, the Vajra Sect’s sect master sitting in the main hall also sensed the commotion. He quickly walked out and was filled with shock and anger as he looked at the chaos in the sect and the spreading poisonous wind.

“All disciples, immediately take antidote pills and dispel the poisonous wind!” His expression changed as he quickly gave orders.

At the same time, he locked on to the spot halfway up the mountain where there was an explosion just now. His eyes were filled with coldness and he immediately rushed over.

However, Xu Qing’s attack was too fast. He didn’t continue entangling himself with the Vajra Sect disciples but instead circled around and waved his hands, tossing out one Black Pill after another.

Some of these Black Pills hit the ground and some stayed in the air. However, they all exploded at the same time, turning into a vortex. The heterogeneity in the surroundings seemed to have come alive as it surged over to the vortex.

“Heterogeneity!!” When the surrounding Vajra Sect disciples rushing over saw this, their expressions changed and they instinctively retreated. However, there were still a few people at the center of the vortex. Under the dense heterogeneity, their bodies quickly turned blue-black.

“Bold!!” A furious roar rang out from the direction of the main hall on the mountain peak. Suddenly, the Vajra Sect’s sect master arrived.

His spiritual energy fluctuations were at the peak of the Qi Condensation realm, surpassing the two grand elders Xu Qing had killed earlier. Aside from the ancestor, the sect master was the strongest cultivator in the Vajra Sect.

At that moment, his golden robe billowed and his expression was ice cold, intense killing intent filling his eyes. However, after seeing Xu Qing, a young man in scavenger attire, his entire body trembled.

“It’s you!” The Vajra Sect’s sect master didn’t need to guess. He already had an answer in his heart.

The moment this answer appeared, he felt his heart grow turbulent.

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