Ambush and Retaliation

[Ding! New Task: Eliminate/subdue enemies.]

"How timely." Liu Feng smirked.

His preparations were more or less complete. There wasn't much to prepare anyway, aside from his own mentality.

.....

Jing Hei, who had been waiting for Liu Feng to come out, nodded off as he drifted to sleep while standing.

"Hey! Jing Hei, wake up!"

"H-huh?"

"You called me here a couple days ago, telling me that a survivor of the Great Order Sect was going to appear. Where is he?"

A man with no hair and a large scar on his face asked, his voice domineering and huge. His name was Li Buqu.

Jing Hei sighed, shaking his head. "I keep telling you, he's inside there, through that barrier."

"Then why is he still not coming out?!"

"I don't know! Maybe he reneged on his promise..."

Jing Hei never thought of the possibility that he was discovered. After all, the other party had such a low cultivation level. With the distance he kept while observing Liu Feng, there was simply not a chance he was seen.

However, he was starting to feel a little odd. By now, he should have returned to the village to bring that villager's daughter back. Did that lowly cultivator do something to the child, leaving her in no state to be seen by the public eye?

As he thought about the possible scenarios, Jing Hei felt shivers down his spine.

In the midst of his thoughts, Jing Hei caught a figure in the corner of his eye.

"Right there! That's him!"

As Liu Feng exited the barrier and jumped through the ravine parkour course, Jing Hei and Li Buqu disappeared in an instant, reappearing right beside Liu Feng.

Before Liu Feng could properly react, Jing Hei reached for his neck!

Liu Feng had no choice but to let it happen. There wasn't much he could do to match against speed well above his pay grade.

Jing Hei smirked. "Tell me how many survivors there are inside, and maybe I'll let you live."

As he struggled, Liu Feng looked at Jing Hei with unconcealed fury. He stayed silent.

"What a pointless rebellion." Jing Hei could only roll his eyes.

"Li Buqu, remove his robe carefully, don't tear it!"

"You've already told me a thousand times!"

While Li Buqu removed his robe, Liu Feng was confused.

My... clothes? Are these guys not here to finish the job of destroying the sect? Why are they perverts?

Fortunately, Liu Feng was wearing underwear. Otherwise, his might would have been exposed too early.

As Li Buqu finished disrobing the poor Liu Feng, Jing Hei threw him aside and snatched the robe from Li Buqu. "Let me see what's so special about this robe. Maybe we can replicate it!"

Li Buqu shrugged, not caring about the robe in the first place. He pointed towards the coughing Liu Feng as he asked Jing Hei, "Why didn't you kill him?"

"Too troublesome. You do it instead."

Jing Hei naturally didn't pay much attention to the life and death of a mere first realm cultivator.

Suppressing the urge to push Jing Hei onto the ravine, Li Buqu approached the coughing Liu Feng and shook his head.

He grabbed the axe strapped on his bare back and sliced downwards!

All of a sudden, he felt that his axe was stuck. He couldn't slice it down any further.

"Hmm?"

As he checked to look what blocked his axe, confusion overcame Li Buqu.

There was a tall stack of robes blocking his axe? Moreover, weren't these the same robes as the one they stole?

Liu Feng rolled to the side after he had stacked the sect master uniforms. They could be claimed infinitely, after all.

Before Li Buqu could react, Liu Feng threw another sect master uniform toward his face, blocking his vision!

In the split second that Li Buqu was distracted, Liu Feng rushed up to him and used an item in the system.

———

Life Expiration Fist Lv. 20

Deals near lethal damage to cultivators in the Core Formation Realm, while instantly killing lower realm cultivators. Does no damage to cultivators with higher realms.

Cost: 1000 DP

Available: 5/5 (refreshes daily)

———

The previous day, his only plan was to make them fall into the ravine and bury them with his sect master uniforms, but the plan wasn't really that viable. In a stroke of luck, the daily discounted item in the store was the Level 20 Life Expiration Fist! It costed 1000 DP normally, but the 99% discount made its cost a mere 10 DP.

He instantly bought two of these, feeling like a mother in a supermarket sale.

Of course, even with these, he still didn't dare be complacent. What if his enemies had a cultivation higher than Core Formation Realm? This Life Expiration Fist would then be completely useless and his 20 DP would be for nothing.

As Li Buqu removed the robe from his face, he saw Liu Feng throwing a fist towards him.

"Heh, just a first realm cultivator. Nothing much he can do against me—"

Before he could finish this thought, Li Buqu felt like a drill bored through his stomach, leaving a huge hole. His consciousness faded right after.

He turned into dust without leaving any drop of blood.

Liu Feng widened his eyes. He breathed heavily.

His mind and heart were racing.

I... killed someone.

He suppressed his urge to vomit.

Even though the scene wasn't graphic, with his opponent turning into dust and whatnot, the feeling of taking away someone's life wasn't pleasant.

Just the thought of that man living a whole life, trying his best, only to be killed by him...

No, now's not the time to be sympathetic. It was a kill or be killed situation. I had no other choice.

Comforting himself with those thoughts, Liu Feng steadily regained his footing and took a deep breath.

He glared at Jing Hei, whose eyes were glued towards him.

A few dozen seconds earlier, while Jing Hei examined the robe, he suddenly felt a wave of spiritual energy. To his surprise, the energy was of a higher realm than his!

He immediately dropped the robe and turned to look. Only Liu Feng was left in the scene, with a pile of robes exactly the same as the one he was examining in the back, and a bit of dust being swept by the wind.

"It can't be? There's no way that low realm cultivator released that energy?"

Of course, no matter how much disbelief Jing Hei was in, he had no choice but to believe it.

"This cultivator must've changed his true realm—a hidden dragon!"

With Jing Hei full of caution, Liu Feng clicked his tongue. There was no way he could be tricked as easily as the other guy.

"Anyway, he should be sufficiently scared. I don't need to kill wantonly."

Having prepared for the moment he had to kill someone ever since he transmigrated, Liu Feng quickly regained his composure. However, he did not want to get used to killing, and preferred to shed the least blood necessary.

"Just in case, let's put on more of a show."

He tapped his bare chest, a Sect Master uniform materializing directly on his body.

At the same time, with a wave of his hand, all of the robes disappeared, including the one in Jing Hei's possession.

[Ding! Recalled all duplicate Sect Master uniforms.]

The scene astonished Jing Hei, who tried to rationalize what he just saw.

"There are two possibilities. One is that the black robe he is wearing is a divine artifact, maybe Earth grade or higher, to be able to multiply and vanish like that, seemingly without limit. The second possibility is that the man in front of me... is a Domain Master Realm expert!"

Once one was in the Domain Master Realm, one could control everything within their domain, even manipulating reality itself for a short period of time.

Of course, given that their opponent is of a lower realm.

The thought of fighting a Domain Master Realm expert sent shivers down Jing Hei's spine. He could only think of one thing now—escape, escape, escape!