Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Summary Execution

Cross’s hands were stronger and steadier than others. Since he pulled the bowstring all year round, there were many hard calluses on them.

When they met the black-scaled wolf pack back then, fighting for an entire day and night, his hands didn’t tremble as much as they did now. One could only imagine how fiercely he must have been fighting before Xu Qing returned.

And for his fingers to be like this, he must have met someone he stood no chance against. The severely injured Luan Ya at his side was also weak and exhausted, clearly having used up everything she had.

Along with the strange reaction of everyone he saw when he returned to camp, as well as the many unfamiliar faces, plus all the camp owner’s people outside the residence and trident beard’s cold eyes…

Xu Qing would be a fool if he didn’t know who the enemy was.

But the more he knew, the more uneasy he felt. Under his interrogation, Cross and Luan Ya quickly told him what happened.

In his early years, Captain Thunder was not a scavenger, but a man from an ordinary family in a city far away from here.

Thanks to his aptitude, he was allowed to serve as a city guard. He obtained a cultivation technique during that time, and the city lord appreciated him. He also had a childhood sweetheart who became his fiancee.

His life was mundane but beautiful, but when a certain convoy arrived, everything changed.

Cross and Luan Ya didn’t know what exactly had happened. However, when Captain Thunder got drunk many years later, he had murmured that everything was gone.

His fiancee died, and his cultivation was crippled after he took his revenge. He barely survived and escaped his hometown. After that, he managed to re-cultivate with difficulty and became a scavenger,

Decades passed, and he became a dying old man.

Captain Thunder originally intended to retire. He had let go of everything, until…

One day, when a convoy came to camp, he saw someone.

The person who ruined his life, whom he thought he had already killed, did not die and had lived until now.

But Captain Thunder didn’t choose to continue his revenge. He seemed to be worried about implicating others, so he bitterly made the decision to escape and went to Pinewind City.

However, he didn’t know that his enemies were already aware of his existence. A few days ago, the camp owner arranged for his men to capture Captain Thunder and hand him over to a collaborator, who was the enemy from Captain Thunder’s early years.

“One of the camp owner’s people owes me his life. When Luan Ya and I returned two days ago, he secretly came over and told us. We immediately went over to go save Captain Thunder, but we failed...”

“But at the camp owner’s place, we saw Captain Thunder’s enemy. Just like Captain Thunder, his cultivation was destoryed and he re-cultivated. Although his cultivation base is higher than Captain Thunder’s, it’s not by much.” Cross gritted his teeth.

“We also asked about that convoy, and it turns out they’re backed by a mysterious organization called Night Dove.”

“This organization is very large, and they have countless convoys scattered about. They travel through various scavenger camps and small cities throughout South Phoenix, trading with camp owners and city owners. Their main business is buying people to… raise treasure breeders.” Luan Ya whispered.

“The camp owner, the convoy…” Xu Qing breathed heavily, and his eyes blazed with intense killing intent.

He felt like there was a raging fire burning crazily in his body. His eyes became bloodshot, and there was overflowing fury in them as he turned around and walked towards the door.

Cross and Luan Ya behind him became a little anxious. Luan Ya spoke in an urgent tone.

“Kid, we have to think about this carefully, and we need to unite with other scavengers. This matter involves years of disappearances. We…”

“No need!” The moment Xu Qing spoke, he raised his right hand and grabbed the longsword behind him, swinging it out violently.

Immediately, the longsword turned into a ray of cold light and shot straight to the courtyard gate like a rainbow. It passed through in an instant, and its power exploded out loudly.

The courtyard gate was blown apart, revealing one of the camp owner’s guards sitting behind it and eavesdropping.

The guard held a dagger in his hand, and his eyes were wide open. His chest had been directly pierced by the sword. As he fell to the ground, his eyes revealed horror and blood spurted out from his chest.

But the longsword’s force didn’t abate. It penetrated through the guard’s body and shot over to the distant alley, where it pierced into trident beard’s thigh and nailed him to the ground amid his screams.

This attack caused clamor and shouts to arise outside after a brief silence. The dozen or so of the camp owner’s guards who had been surrounding the courtyard rushed over one after another.

As Cross and Luan Ya’s expressions changed, Xu Qing rushed out like a bolt of lightning.

The moment he passed the gate, he grabbed the dead guard’s dagger in his right hand, and with one step, he appeared in front of a guard.

As he passed by, Xu Qing lifted the dagger and slashed out without even looking. A huge wound appeared on the guard’s neck, and scarlet blood splashed everywhere. However, the red blood wasn’t as red as Xu Qing’s eyes.

His blood-red eyes seemed to see the scene of Captain Thunder finding his enemy alive in the camp, yet forcing himself to suppress his bitterness and grief.

Xu Qing’s killing intent grew even stronger. He turned around and punched out, and his fist landed on the chest of a guard who was trying to sneak attack him.

With a muffled bang, blood flowed form the guard’s seven orifices, his internal organs collapsed, and his body shot backwards like a kite with a broken string before falling to the ground.

At the same time, two other people rushed towards Xu Qing, surging with killing intent.

Among the two, one was at the fifth level and one was at the sixth; however, the moment they approached, Xu Qing waved his right hand and the black skewer flew out.

It directly pierced through one person’s skull, and Xu Qing twisted his body and slashed fiercely towards the sixth level guard’s neck.

There was a clinking sound.

The reaction of this sixth level was rather fast. He immediately summoned a spiritual energy barrier to block Xu Qing’s dagger, but he couldn’t stop the force.

Xu Qing’s eyes reddened as he pushed violently, forcing the sixth-level guard to back up until he was against a wall. With a roar, Xu Qing pushed even harder.

To the sixth-level guard’s horror, Xu Qing’s dagger actually cut through the spiritual energy barrier, slashing through his neck in the next instant. The force was so great that even the wall behind the now dead guard collapsed as well.

Standing above the corpse of the guard, Xu Qing turned his head. The killing intent in his eyes seemed to solidify.

The remaining few guards’ minds shook, and their pupils contracted. Even though they were all in the sixth level of Qi Condensation, they still trembled and retreated one after another.

Even trident beard stopped screaming for a moment. His expression couldn’t help but turn pale and anxious.

But the killing was far from over.

Xu Qing suddenly rushed forward. Those few guards’ minds trembled and they tried to speed up their retreat, but they were still too late.

Xu Qing was just too fast, and the moment he approached them, his left hand directly smashed one guard’s head to pieces with a bang. Immediately after, his body somehow appeared beside a second guard, slicing him with the dagger, and he finally flickered and arrived in front of the third guard.

This person shook and let out a desperate roar. He opened his arms and moved to embrace Xu Qing, as if trying to die together.

But the only thing waiting for him was Xu Qing’s vicious headbutt.

His roar stopped abruptly, and the guard’s forehead sank in. At the same time he breathed his last, Xu Qing backed up into a fourth guard’s body.

He continuously slashed out with his dagger. One slash, two slash, three slashes...

Xu Qing didn’t raise his head until he pushed this person into another wall.

A banging sound rang out, and each of the guards fell to the ground one after another. All of them died without an intact corpse!

After killing so many people in a row, blood splattered all over the ground. They made for a shocking sight when the afternoon sun shone reflected off of them.

When the light reflected on Xu Qing’s body, the bloodstains and bloody aura combined to make him look like a demon god.

Due to the killing, many of the scavengers living nearby walked out and looked over, gasping one after another.

“It’s Kid!!”

“He… how is he so strong?!”

“The corpses here are the camp owner’s men, he’s going to war with the camp owner!”

Cross and Luan Ya supported each other as they walked out. Looking at the corpses and bloodstains all over the ground along with Xu Qing’s figure under the sun, their hearts trembled violently.

As the clamor grew into an uproar, Xu Qing walked towards the trembling trident beard. As he walked, he put the dagger and iron skewer away before finally coming to a stop right in front of trident beard.

Trident beard trembled and burst out in a cold sweat. It seemed that the severe pain wracking his body was nothing compared to the panic in his heart. He wanted to struggle, but the longsword pinning his thigh to the ground prevented him from moving. All he could do was let out a desperate cry.

"Kid, you want to…"

Xu Qing grabbed the longsword stabbed into trident beard’s leg and slashed it upwards.

The sharp blade sliced through trident beard’s thigh, then up past his stomach and chin. Blood spurted out wildly. Having his guts sliced open while he was still alive, trident beard screamed and convulsed violently before… he died!

After finishing him off, Xu Qing’s indifference didn’t change at all. His killing intent only continued to rise, and he walked step by step in the bloody light of the sun reflecting off the ground.

The onlooking scavengers all trembled. When they saw Xu Qing approach, they immediately stepped back to make way.

They had seen ruthless people before, but most of those were adults and outlaws. It was extremely rare to see a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old kid like Xu Qing killing so calmly, and it seemed like he wasn’t done yet.

“This direction… he’s going to the camp owner’s mansion!”

Once they realized where Xu Qing was going, the scavengers’ breathing hastened and their minds roared with astonishment. All of the scavengers quickly followed him.

Looking from a distance, Xu Qing walked alone out front, rushing towards the camp owner’s mansion.

Behind him followed a large group of scavengers, and as news spread, even more scavengers joined in.

In addition, there were guards from the camp owner’s mansion and strangers from the convoy coming over. Among them, there were experts who seemed to have been dispatched to kill Xu Qing!

At that moment, inside the camp owner’s mansion, the camp owner was drinking tea and chatting and laughing with an old man next to him. The old man was wearing a brocade robe and had a cold and arrogant expression.

“Sir Sun, there’s no need to worry. This matter will definitely be taken care of within an incense stick’s worth of time. No matter how strong a scavenger is, they’re no match for a sect cultivator. It’s too bad, though. I was actually planning to nurture that kid. If he turned out useful, I would recommend him to the sect. But since he doesn’t know what’s good for him, I’ll just have to kill him.”

“It’s better to catch him alive.” The brocade-robed old man picked up his teacup and took a sip, then spoke lightly after putting it down.

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