Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“The Soul-snaring Silver Hooks”
Luo Feng froze upon landing his gaze at the claws on Su Laohu’s hands.
He finally realized what was bugging him. Su Laohu’s weapon had matched the injuries that were inflicted on Ji Wuyue’s body!
“So it was you who harmed my mentor! I was wondering where I would find you, but I didn’t expect you to deliver yourself! Haha, things come when you least expect them, huh?”
‘This brat…’
Su Laohu stared at Luo Feng in disbelief.
His original thought was that once he revealed his title, Luo Feng would wet his pants in terror. After all, he had met his fair share of students in the past, and whenever he mentioned his title of the Nocturnal Tiger, all of the students would immediately turn pale.
However, Luo Feng’s response was completely out of his expectations.
With his brows raised, Su Laohu clenched his fists and took a jab at Luo Feng, saying, “Those eyes… Don’t tell me you’re thinking of taking revenge for your trash of a mentor?”
“Trash?” Luo Feng frowned.
“Hahaha… She was already at the peak of the Heroic Boundary, and yet, she almost died in my hands. Don’t you think that she’s trash as well?” Su Laohu laughed out loud.
Luo Feng narrowed his eyes and coldly answered, “I can’t believe an underhanded rat like you would dare to call others trash! If you faced my mentor fair and square, I doubt you’ll even survive a single blow from her! No matter, I’ll take the place of my mentor in punishing you, you scoundrel!”
Woosh!
Luo Feng charged towards Su Laohu immediately after he finished his sentence.
Fierce gales stirred up around Luo Feng and the surrounding knee-length grass was instantly torn to shreds.
“You’re eight hundred years too young to kill me, you brat!” Su Laohu coldly snorted as he remained nonchalant in the face of Luo Feng’s charge.
Since his cultivation base was a level higher than Luo Feng’s, the students were usually all bark and no bite based on his previous experience. Their thoughts were usually childish, and since they had never truly faced a battle of life and death, Su Laohu had never thought of the students as a threat!
Moreover, Su Laohu had even once killed an Extensive Net student with a higher cultivation base than himself. As such, he did not think much of Luo Feng.
“Waning Moon Claw!”
Su Laohu lunged at Luo Feng. With a low growl emitted from his throat, Su Laohu brought his claws together and slashed at Luo Feng from both directions. With a flash of his merciless and sharp claws, he carved an arc the shape of a waning moon.
Woosh!
Luo Feng eyed Su Laohu coldly as he mustered every ounce of strength in his body. A moment after, he launched a slash towards Su Laohu!
Kaboom…
The moment Luo Feng unleashed his slash, a wave of pressure surged out from within his body. In that instant, even the shining sun had suddenly darkened, and the surrounding flora had shuddered as well.
“What’s this…”
The initially fierce Su Laohu’s expression had instantly changed at the scene. His expression had then turned into that of fear.
At that moment, the Luo Feng in his eyes had become unbelievably massive, large enough to trample everything on the ground, and tall enough to scrape the clouds. It was as if he was staring at some kind of ancient beast, one that was boiling with killing intent!
“What on earth…”
Beads of cold sweat began to roll down Su Laohu’s forehead as he looked at Luo Feng in terror. The aura that Luo Feng exuded was completely different from that of a martial artist in the early phase of the Heroic Boundary. Instead, it was even more powerful than those who were at the apex of the Heroic Boundary!
“DIE!”
Ignoring Su Laohu’s words, Luo Feng coldly spat the words and brought down his saber!
A chilly light converged on the tip of Luo Feng’s saber, forming a glow that enveloped the visible sky while extending a frigid aura that extended limitlessly.
“Drats!”
Sensing the coldness emanating from Luo Feng’s saber, Su Laohu clenched his teeth and hurriedly brought his claws before his chest. He was prepared to take on Luo Feng’s blow.
Crash!
Luo Feng’s saber made contact, and as if something had been broken off, a cloud of dust had been kicked into the air, followed by a blood-curdling scream. Su Laohu was sent hurtling away as he vomited the blood, and soon after, he was slammed viciously onto the ground, with his clothes ripped into shreds. He looked disheveled in every sense of the word.
From that slash alone, not only was Su Laohu’s Crescent Moon Claw Technique broken, but he suffered serious injuries as well. Moreover, the Soul-snaring Silver Hooks that Su Laohu was so proud of was now in disorder.
Back when Luo Feng had first faced Lu Han, the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique he displayed was already plenty impressive.
Back then, Luo Feng was only in the apex of the Iron Bone Boundary. However, now that the Earth Flame Pill and the Jade Iron Juice had assisted Luo Feng in advancing into the early phase of the Heroic Boundary, it was only natural that his Heaven-crushing Blade Technique would grow considerably.
Moreover, since the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique was a technique that focused on converging one’s aura, it had perfectly complemented Luo Feng’s immense soul power, enabling him to further amplify the technique’s strength!
The strength that Luo Feng had displayed was so immense that not only Su Laohu who was in the middle phase of the Heroic Boundary unable to beat him, even those who were in the later phase would be powerless to stop Luo Feng’s slash!
Thud…Thud…Thud…
After sending Su Laohu flying back with his attack, Luo Feng placed the Tiger Essence Saber on his shoulder and approached him.
For every step that he took, his aura grew by another level, crushing those who experienced it with immense pressure.
Su Laohu stood back up, and as he looked at the fast-approaching Luo Feng, beads of cold sweat began to roll down his forehead. He was scared out of his mind.
“Lil brat, don’t think that our matters are settled just because of this! We’ll meet again soon!”
Unable to face the mountain-like pressure that Luo Feng was exuding any longer, Su Laohu yelled out and began to flee with his Light Body martial arts.
Woosh!
He was extremely adept in his Light Body Technique, as all he required was slight contact with the grass in order to propel himself ahead at blazing speeds!
“I didn’t expect to be this careless! I almost lost my life because of it!”
“However, after spending so many years in this job, how could I not have a trump card? Sure, the rumors might say that my Crescent Moon Claw Technique is impressive, but little do they know that my best martial art isn’t the claw techniques, but the Light Body martial arts instead!”
As Su Laohu propelled himself ahead, he heaved a huge sigh of relief and rubbed his cold sweat off.
The technique he had cultivated was called ‘Flying on Grass’. It was a Yellow Rank Upper Class martial art, and it was something that he had obtained alongside the Crescent Moon Claw Technique from a nameless corpse.
As its name had suggested, when cultivated to the Success State, Flying on Grass made enabled its user to freely soar on various plants. It was truly a marvelous technique.
Although Su Laohu’s Flying on Grass had only been cultivated to the Minor Success State, his speed was already tremendous. No martial artist with a Light Body martial art of the same rank would be able to be faster than him.
“Hmph! To think that I, the Nocturnal Tiger would fall to a youngster’s hand after so many years! This grudge would not go unpunished! I’ll not go down that easily. Once I mend my wounds, I’ll make the little brat pay with his life!”
Su Laohu’s expression darkened at his words. However, when he turned his head around, he did a double-take.
He had a wide field of vision. However, there was not a trace of Luo Feng to be found.
“Nocturnal Tiger, are you looking for me?”
Just as Su Laohu was beginning to doubt his eyes, a voice rang out, giving him a shock.
Rustle…Rustle…Rustle…
Nocturnal Tiger turned his head back around mechanically, and by the time his vision was clear, he turned a ghastly pale at the sight that greeted him. His cold sweat had become the size of beans and they were beginning to flow down his forehead like a waterfall.
Luo Feng was positioned around thirty feet in front of Su Laohu. He was wielding his Tiger Essence Saber on top of his shoulders, and he was munching on a blade of grass. There was a leisure expression on his face as if he was already there before Su Laohu.
“S-Since when…”
Su Laohu looked at Luo Feng as if he had seen a ghost. He began to stammer so hard that he could not even form words.
Luo Feng spat out the blade of grass in his mouth, and as he stared at the shuddering Su Laohu, he chuckled and said, “You seem to be highly confident in your Light Body martial arts. That’s nice, I’m plenty confident in my Light Body martial arts as well. How about we have a race?”
Woosh! Luo Feng vanished from thin air, leaving Su Laohu in a daze. An instant later, Luo Feng appeared 10 feet in front of him.
“Mama!”
Su Laohu yelped in terror, and as he took a few steps back, he almost tripped.
“Trash! I can’t believe that you have the gall to call yourself Laohu 1. Hah, you should change it to Su Xiaomao 1 instead!”
As Luo Feng looked down on the whimpering Su Laohu, he could not help but scold in disdain.
Gulp!
Su Laohu gulped down a huge wad of saliva. As he gazed fearfully at Luo Feng, he began to step back while begging, “Please don’t kill me, Luo Feng! I can tell you who’s pulling the strings! It’s Li…”
Woosh!
With a flash of Luo Feng’s sword light, Su Laohu’s head flung into the sky.
Dong!
The head crashed viciously onto the ground, rolling for a while before finally stopping. The look on Su Laohu’s now lifeless face was that of remorse and shock as he stared at his own body.
“I don’t need you to tell me that. The only one who’s willing to pay money to harm Ji Wuyue would be none other than Li Yuanhao.”
Luo Feng took another look at Su Laohu’s corpse before turning towards the Purple Sun Institution’s direction. He then chuckled coldly. “Li Yuanhao, I can’t believe that you would ask for my mentor’s and my life just because of such a small matter! Fine, I’ll let you live the next few days in peace, but once I return from Panlong City, I’ll end you!”
He retracted his gaze and inspected Su Laohu’s corpse once again.
Su Laohu had been terrorizing Green Edge Town for almost a dozen years. Throughout his time there, he had plundered, killed, and committed all sorts of atrocities. As such, it was logical to believe that he held a huge amount of wealth!
This was the main incentive that motivated the students in hunting down these powerhouses. All they needed was a spark of luck, and with it, they would be able to overturn their enemies and become rich overnight.
Luo Feng began to search through Su Laohu’s body, and for an instant, his eyes went wide as he spotted a cotton sack within his chest pocket.
Seeing as he kept the sack so close to himself, Luo Feng felt that it was extremely important.
“Hot damn! Who knows how much bad stuff this b*stard has done? To think that he would have so much money on him!”
Luo Feng could not help but smack his lips upon opening the sack.
Within it laid wads after wads of gold tickets. From Luo Feng’s rough estimates, there was at least a million’s worth of silver within it!
Even though the Luo Family was among the four major households within Panlong City, their yearly profits were only below twenty to thirty thousand taels of silver. Moreover, if they were to deduct the enormous expenses of their family, they did not have much savings by each year-end. Due to this, the millions of taels lying before Luo Feng was considered a huge amount of money!
“No wonder there’s a saying that goes, gold and fortune favors the evil! A regular person could work all year long and earn only a measly few taels of silver, but these evildoers can earn so much money for committing such grievous acts. Sigh, but I guess what goes around comes around. Sure, you might be able to amass a large fortune, but unless you have the necessary ability to back you up, your earnings would only end up as another’s capital.”
Soon after, Luo Feng had calmed down from his excitement over his newfound wealth.
As long as he was strong enough, forget a million taels of silver, even ten million would no longer be a problem for him.
Moreover, from what he heard, as long as one was capable of entering the Twelve Golden Halls, they would receive the Emperor’s Seal upon graduation. By then, the person would obtain a high ranking government position at the very least!
By the time one reached that position, a few million taels of silver would be but a simple matter. It was also due to this that most martial artists had racked their brains to get into the Golden Halls.
The next step after the Golden Halls was the martial arts shrine. Should an individual make it there, they would basically be heads and clouds above all others!
Luo Feng had once heard that any random disciple of the Billow Dynasty’s Three Great Martial Arts Shrine would receive the rank of Marquise upon entering the government sector!
An immediate position of Marquise!
That was a role that was beneath only one person, but above ten thousand more! It was truly the epitome of glory!
Footnotes:
The Chinese characters in Su Laohu’s name means tiger.
Xiaomao is the pronunciation for the word ‘little cat’