Chapter 77 - 68: Blade Slashes Two Demons, Confronting Outer Gang!

Chapter 77: Chapter 68: Blade Slashes Two Demons, Confronting Outer Gang!

Hearing the words, "Senior Brother, save me," the scholar who had attacked earlier immediately sprang up and lunged at Zheng Jun. His fingers were long—so long they could even be described as the sharp claws of a wild beast. Zheng Jun ignored the attacker behind him, his mind completely set on hacking the younger scholar in front of him to death.

This scholar before him was clearly a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl. However, in Zheng Jun’s eyes, there was no distinction between a male or female scholar—there were only two moving corpses! He could feel that the female scholar’s strength was still at the Peak of Blood Refining Realm stage. She was likely cultivating the Five Organ Skill. The horrifying murders in the county a few days ago were probably her doing. The male scholar behind him was stronger, having reached the Qi Storage Realm. Therefore, he would kill one first and deal with the rest later.

Zheng Jun’s saber strike came with ferocious momentum, heavy and powerful. Meanwhile, the male scholar behind him also attacked swiftly, his five fingers curled tight as he clawed toward the back of Zheng Jun’s head. However, just as he was about to grab him, Zheng Jun suddenly turned his head, his eyes glaring with sheer savagery. For a brief moment, the male scholar’s heart trembled. It felt as if a Flood Dragon were staring straight at him. He instinctively froze, and his speed slowed down.

And in that very instant, Zheng Jun’s heavy and powerful saber had already slashed down! With a single slash, the female scholar was chopped in half by Zheng Jun. Blood sprayed wildly! It was as if a rain of blood were falling from the sky. After the female scholar was cleaved in two, her youthful fifteen- or sixteen-year-old appearance instantly aged. In the blink of an eye, she transformed into a forty-year-old woman!

"Junior Sister!"

Upon seeing this scene, the male scholar’s eyes widened in sheer fury, and his heart filled with endless remorse. A surge of rage erupted from his entire body as he lunged at Zheng Jun! At this moment, the scholar’s face, which was already crimson like blood, turned even more demonically red. Fine fur even began to grow on his face, and his claws struck toward Zheng Jun with even greater ferocity.

Having just chopped down with his blade, Zheng Jun swiftly raised the Beirong Saber. The beads of blood on the edge were still fresh. He abruptly stepped forward, intending to slash at the scholar. However, the scholar’s claws were clearly faster. They grabbed directly onto Zheng Jun’s shoulder and dug down with immense force!

"I will use your life as a sacrifice to my Junior Sister’s spirit in heaven!"

The scholar let out a piercing shriek, a foul stench blasting outward. It seemed as though he wanted to tear a chunk of flesh right off Zheng Jun’s body with his claws. But very quickly, the scholar was suddenly stunned. He realized that his claws seemed to have only shredded Zheng Jun’s clothes to pieces, leaving behind five bloody scratch marks on his shoulder. They did not easily tear through flesh and blood as they normally would.

"Is this it? What a joke."

Zheng Jun felt a burst of pain in his left shoulder, but he couldn’t help letting out a cold sneer. Following that, his Saber Technique pivoted, gliding through the pitch-black night like a deadly chain under the cover of darkness.

"Damn it!"

The scholar’s expression twisted into a ferocious grimace. He decisively stepped forward, his gaze chilling, and clawed toward Zheng Jun’s Dantian. Using every ounce of his Demon Qi, he intended to cripple Zheng Jun’s True Qi.

However, Zheng Jun’s saber had already fallen with clean, swift precision, completely unstoppable like an overwhelming force crushing dry weeds! With just this one slash, Zheng Jun sheared through the scholar’s arm and cleaved right through his waist, shaving away half of the scholar’s body! The scholar was left with only his left arm and his upper torso and head.

Even so, he surprisingly did not die. He was still struggling with all his might, using his sole remaining arm to crawl away into the distance. From his severed wound, his intestines continuously spilled out. The next moment, the youthfulness on the scholar’s face rapidly faded. What appeared before Zheng Jun was an old face covered in dense wrinkles.

His eyes were filled with terror. Staring at Zheng Jun, who was approaching step by step with saber in hand, he shrieked, "You can’t kill me! I am the loyal servant of Demon General E Feng of the Northern Demon Court, and my master is the Deer Demon King! If you kill me, the Demon Court will not spare you!"

Zheng Jun wondered, "He didn’t even die instantly from that. Can he actually survive?"

Seeing this, Zheng Jun couldn’t help but feel incredibly astonished. For human Martial Artists, their Life Force would greatly increase after Blood Refining. Even if their internal organs were damaged, they could still recover by relying on their robust Life Force. But this guy had literally been chopped in half at the waist. Even an expert at the Qi Storage Realm would die from this. Perhaps Martial Artists at a higher Realm possessed the ability to avoid death, but this guy in front of him was merely at the Qi Storage Realm.

But regardless of whether the man was dying or not, Zheng Jun prepared to finish him off with another strike.

"Old geezer pretending to be young, I thought you had some great skills. You gave me quite a scare!

"As for some Demon General or Demon King, tell them to come!

"If they have the guts, let them come down Yan Mountain and seek revenge against me.

"I don’t hide who I am. I am Zheng San of Black Mountain County!"

With that said, Zheng Jun planted his booted foot onto the wrinkled scholar’s shoulder. He swung his long saber, directly tearing through the winter chill and slashing into the scholar’s neck. Crimson blood sprayed out, and the round head rolled to the side. Zheng Jun stared at it for a moment. Only after confirming that the man was dead did he remove his foot.

[Demon Cultivator slain. Wave-Treading Saber repayment progress +607. Current repayment progress: 4018/5000.]

The increase wasn’t small. However, he still missed Gao Jingxing, the Head Disciple of the Vast Sea Sect. Two slashes had added 2,500 points. He was a fucking progress-delivery boy.

"Are you dead?"

After taking care of these two Demon Cultivators, Zheng Jun looked at Sun Bu, who had already picked himself up and was sitting cross-legged in the corner to regulate his breathing. He remarked casually, "Could these two pieces of trash really beat you up this badly? It seems the strength of a Dark Guard from the Garrison Command is only average."

"They have a joint Martial Arts technique that possesses immense power." Sun Bu circulated his True Qi for a moment, then continued, "You didn’t let them join forces and instead slashed one of them first. It was the right decision."