Chapter 1534 - 1533: Spoils of War

Chapter 1534: Chapter 1533: Spoils of War

"Not good!"

Jueying Zhenren’s eyes widened, he hadn’t even reacted before the long sword in his hand was knocked out, his entire arm was sliced off by Ling Chen.

Ignoring the shock, Jueying Zhenren quickly mobilized his True Qi. A shield suddenly appeared before him, his life-saving method. Shrinking his body behind the shield, he confidently blocked Ling Chen’s sword, but to his disbelief, that sharp Sword Light pierced through the gap in the shield the moment it formed, still hitting his body.

In the air, there was just a flash of light, and Jueying Zhenren’s head soared into the sky, leaving behind a headless corpse. This sword was not only despairingly fast, but the power contained within it was unbearable for him, his defense shattered in a moment.

"How is this possible... I’m unwilling... ah..."

Jueying Zhenren’s head emitted an unconscious moan, and after losing his head, his body quickly lost vitality.

He never dreamed he would die here!

Jueying Zhenren’s last thought was regretting his wrong decision. After missing the first chance to assassinate Ling Chen, he should have escaped, and when the advantage was lost, he shouldn’t have forcibly attacked Ling Chen.

Unfortunately, there’s no hindsight medicine in this world.

"What, Jueying Zhenren is dead!"

At the moment Jueying Zhenren was slain by Ling Chen, a voice with extreme shock sounded from a nearby direction, and five shadows appeared, exactly the five black-clad assassins who had previously launched an assault on Ling Chen.

They weren’t comrades of Jueying Zhenren in the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao but were strong individuals hired by dark forces just like Jueying Zhenren. They were promised great benefits by him, hence agreed to act with him to assassinate Ling Chen. Seeing Jueying Zhenren killed by Ling Chen, they too were filled with panic and were extremely shocked.

Jueying Zhenren was highly renowned in the entire dark assassin world; his actions never failed; no one saw his face and lived, yet today, not only did he fail, he even lost his life!

Who is this kid, really?!

"Run!"

The five black-clad assassins immediately thought of fleeing, deciding to escape separately, knowing it was their only chance to survive.

"Trying to escape?"

Ling Chen couldn’t let these people go; any one of them escaping would leak today’s event of him killing Jueying Zhenren.

With a mere thought, five Flying Swords automatically formed in the air, then enhanced by Ling Chen’s Sword Intent Enchantment, their power multiplied and shot out at an incredible speed!

Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom!

The five Flying Swords shot out one after another, heading in five different directions, disappearing into the horizon like beams of extreme light.

Screams rang out one after another, and four of the five shadows were instantly killed by the Flying Swords. One, though hit, miraculously survived; joy appeared on his face, and soon, a shadowy gleam flashed in his eyes. He was determined to inform the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao that Ling Chen dared to kill one of their core elders, and Ling Chen was doomed to be killed by them, avenging his four companions!

But just as joy appeared on his face, a moment later, wisps of Mori White Flames emerged on his body like stars and in a blink, engulfed the entire body of the black-clad assassin.

"What kind of Ghostfire is this! Ah... no!"

Within just a few breaths, the black-clad assassin’s body was completely consumed by the Mori White Flames, turning into ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As the black-clad assassin’s body was burned to the end, the Mori White Flames in Hong Ye’s eyes quickly subdued.

Having dealt with the fish that slipped through the net, Ling Chen sheathed his sword, turned around, and with a reach of his hand, pulled the ring from Jueying Zhenren’s headless corpse’s finger with invisible force, and it landed in Ling Chen’s hand.

After killing Jueying Zhenren, Ling Chen naturally had to collect the spoils from him.

Being a core elder of the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao, Jueying Zhenren’s wealth surely wasn’t small.

In Jueying Zhenren’s ring, Ling Chen found many elixirs used for cultivation, as well as some miscellaneous rare treasures, with a total value likely no less than twenty million Spirit Nurturing Pills.

"There are actually ten bottles of Saint Body Ointment."

While counting the spoils, Ling Chen’s eyes lit up; surprisingly Jueying Zhenren had ten bottles of Saint Body Ointment. For Ling Chen, the more Saint Body Ointment, the better; enhancing his Saint Body required a large amount of it, and even though he acquired a lot from the Ise Shrine last time, it still wasn’t enough.

Adding ten more bottles, Ling Chen was confident in enhancing his Saint Body to the Third-Order.

Once successfully enhanced, Ling Chen’s cultivation would increase significantly.

The enhancement of the Saint Body in terms of power boost is not much inferior to cultivation improvement.

Furthermore, Jueying Zhenren had some assassin tools, like various types of Hidden Weapons, Poison, and items for tracking and array formations, but what interested Ling Chen most was that Mechanism Flying Dagger used to attack him earlier.

That Flying Dagger looked ordinary but secretly contained mysteries. If Ling Chen was not mistaken, this Flying Dagger should have reached the Holy Grade level, with highly intricate mechanisms inside. Once activated, its power would be considerable, especially in a surprise, creating miraculous effects.

Without thinking much, Ling Chen collected all these spoils.

Afterward, Ling Chen began pondering how to deal with Jueying Zhenren’s corpse.

Jueying Zhenren was a core elder of the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao. Now that Ling Chen killed him, regardless of the reason, once the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao finds out, Ling Chen’s situation will be very dangerous.

Even if he cleans up Jueying Zhenren’s corpse thoroughly, the Great Mysterious Heavenly Dao might only believe Jueying Zhenren went missing for a while, hiding the truth for a few days, but eventually, Ling Chen’s act of killing Jueying Zhenren will probably be discovered.

Meanwhile, Hong Ye approached Ling Chen from behind, "Young master, don’t rush to deal with this person’s corpse."

"Why?"

Ling Chen paused, then looked at Hong Ye with some surprise, "Could it be, you have a good idea?"