One Against Three

"Swish!"

Sword light shot out, piercing through the air with an ear-piercing sonic boom. Ling Xiao clearly felt the explosive power contained within his Breeze Sword.

"Ao ao!"

The sword light traveled through the sky.

The sword's shadow flickered.

A rank-three demonic beast fell to the ground dead. It cried out twice before dying.

This sword move was so wonderful that it directly cut off the demonic beast's head.

"Well, its power is a bit stronger. With my current strength, I guess that using roughly 30% of my internal energy, I can easily kill a peak rank three demonic beasts!"

He analyzed the current power of his sublimity level Hundred Steps Baleful Sword within 200 meters and came to a terrifying conclusion.

Within 200 meters, Hundred Steps Baleful Sword was equivalent to a full-power attack from a Peak Rank Five Martial Vein martial artist!

What kind of concept was this? Now, he hadn't even quite reached the standard of a Peak Rank Four Martial Vein martial artist, but his attack power equaled a full-power attack from a Peak Rank Five Martial Vein martial artist.

From this aspect, not to mention peak rank four demonic beasts, he could even deal with a rank five demonic beast as long as it was not too strong.

However, he had to be careful.

The flying sword required sudden explosiveness. If it was expected, its power wouldn't be so great.

While considering this, Ling Xiao threw the demonic beast's corpse into his Landscape Painting.

Then, he continued looking for prey.

A rank-three demonic beast was cheap. This time, he sought rank four demonic beasts, preferably at peak rank four, to exchange for more gold.

Naturally, if he ran into a rank-five demonic beast, he would still give it a try.

"Eh, someone's coming over?"

After hunting a dozen or so rank three demonic beasts, Ling Xiao frowned.

The Landscape Painting showed three lifeforms rapidly approaching him.

"Just passing by? Or are they targeting me?"

Ling Xiao didn't want to take a risk, so he hid to scout the situation.

The three lifeforms finally appeared in his sight.

All three were Black Scarf Thieves.

Among them, one was a short and fat old man.

Another was a tall and robust man.

The final one was a vicious-looking woman.

"Where's he?"

"Could it be that he discovered us and hid?"

"Kakaka, he can't escape!"

The short and fat old man cackled. His voice was very coarse. Then, he opened his mouth and spat out a cloud of turbid gas.

"Cough, cough, cough! It's truly stinky!"

Ling Xiao was caught unprepared and coughed in the gas fumes.

"Swish!"

"Pa!"

The moment he coughed, several poison needles shot toward his hiding position. Fortunately, he responded in time and dodged using <Soaring Cloud Steps>.

"Eh? You were actually able to dodge my poison needles? Your movement technique is pretty good!"

That woman exclaimed in surprise.

"No matter how good your movement technique is, you will die today!"

That robust man snorted, "The employer said that this kid's movement technique is powerful, so I prepared something special to entertain him."

"Black Scarf Thieves!"

Seeing the other party didn't continue to attack, Ling Xiao calmed down. Activating the Landscape Martial Soul, he analyzed these three people.

Two were Peak Rank Four Martial Vein, and one was Rank Five Martial Vein!

Honestly speaking, he was surprised.

Who was it? Such a big move! Sending such a lineup to deal with him!

That robust man was the strongest among the three. His murderous intent was also very strong, making Ling Xiao wonder how many people he had killed before.

"Hehe, why don't you run away, kid?"

The woman asked with a smile.

"Why should I run?"

Ling Xiao had already decided to kill these three.

Although one against three would be a bit difficult, this was the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range. With <Soaring Cloud Steps> and his Landscape Martial Soul, he had a great advantage in the forest.

If the environment had been different, he might have fled.

However, his current chances were pretty good.

"Reckless kid! If you hand over your movement technique, we might give you a painless death!"

The short and fat old man said with a smile.

"You want my movement technique? Catch me first!"

Ling Xiao grinned before leaping into the sky and flying into the forest.

In terms of speed, he wouldn't lose to these three people.

"Kakaka!"

However, unexpectedly, these three people didn't chase him but sneered while standing in place.

Ling Xiao had a bad premonition.

However, nothing special was displayed in his Landscape Painting.

In other words, there were only these three people and no other helpers.

Wrong!

Something felt wrong!

"Hummm!"

The huge pressure caused his gang qi to rapidly circulate throughout his body. At that moment, his relationship with the Landscape Martial Soul became even clearer.

"So that's how it is!"

Ling Xiao no longer needed to specifically focus on Landscape Painting to observe opponents. His body and the Landscape Martial Soul had perfectly integrated.

Now, he only needed to glance at his opponents, and their analyzed data would quickly appear in his mind.

The deduction ability also directly formed in his mind.

Although it didn't seem very important, this was very useful.

In the past, to use the analysis and deduction ability of the Landscape Martial Soul, he had had to inwardly observe the Landscape Painting, which wasted time.

Such frivolous actions would be seeking death in a battle.

But now, there was no need for that. Whatever his eyes saw would be analyzed.

The Landscape Martial Soul even caused a peculiar change in his visual field.

Ordinary people's eyesight had blind spots.

However, he could clearly see things in all directions. Moreover, he could also see through objects now if he focused.

This was not his real eyes' abilities but rather the Landscape Martial Soul's ability displayed through his eyes.

Under the tremendous pressure of death, his abilities improved again. Moreover, he received a huge benefit.

The Landscape Painting had not displayed anything before because the other party's killing move was underground.

It was a huge spider that was almost two meters tall.

It had locked into him from underground, preparing to break out when he landed.

Just now, he had wondered how these people would deal with his movement technique. Now, he had his answer. If the spider laid a tight encircling web around here, he would be in trouble since the webs would slow him enough for his opponents to catch him.

"Deal with the spider first!"

Ling Xiao quickly decided. Then, he condensed his gang qi and punched the ground.

The spider was a rank-three demonic beast. This punch, however, contained 50% of his power, and he had used his sublimity level Meteorite Baleful Fist.

The spider would die beyond a doubt.

At that moment, those three Black Scarf Thieves' sinister smiles inverted.

Besides being ignorant of how Ling Xiao had discovered the underground danger, they could feel his punch's terrifying power.

The short, fat old man and the vicious-looking woman moved first.

They attacked Ling Xiao from his left and right.

One shouldn't disregard this old man for being fat; his movement technique was not weak at all. He was even a step faster than that vicious-looking woman.

As for the vicious-looking woman, her most terrifying aspect was her hidden weapons. While sprinting over, she shot several arrows.

Their arrowheads glimmered with a dull blue light, clearly indicating that they had been smeared with poison.