Chapter 1229 The Complex Human Nature
however.
What he received, however, was not an attack from the enemy.
Instead, it was a long knife that pierced his body from behind.
"Uh……"
The elder brother's body trembled violently. He slowly lowered his head, looking at the blood-stained tip of the knife, his eyes filled with incomprehensible pain and despair.
"Why... why..."
His voice was hoarse and weak.
"Brother! I'm so sorry!"
The younger brother, known as Xiaochuan, had tears streaming down his face, but his expression was incredibly ferocious!
"I don't want to die!"
"I want to get to the second round! I want to be someone important!"
"Don't worry, I'll help you survive your share!"
He suddenly drew his long sword, leaving his brother's body lying limply on the ground.
He snatched the token, crying and laughing, acting like a madman!
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the other side.
"The Thirty-Six Heavenly Swords Formation!"
"kill!"
Thirty-six cultivators dressed in identical Daoist robes formed a deadly sword formation.
Sword energy crisscrossed, forming a deathly domain.
Any cultivator who steps into the range of their sword formation will be instantly annihilated into a cloud of blood mist!
They were like a ruthless meat grinder, advancing efficiently on the battlefield, reaping lives and tokens one after another.
"Next area! Move quickly!"
The young man at the head of the group was expressionless and spoke in a cold voice.
In their eyes, these people were nothing more than walking tokens.
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"Waaaaah... Help me... Someone please save me..."
In a corner, a girl with a pure and innocent appearance, dressed in tattered clothes, was curled up on the ground, shivering and crying with tears streaming down her face.
Her appearance is enough to arouse any man's protective instincts.
"Little sister, don't be afraid! I'm here..."
A self-proclaimed righteous monk immediately rushed over, wanting to stage a heroic rescue.
But he hasn't finished speaking yet.
Suddenly, a vicious chill flashed in the girl's pitiful eyes!
"Go to hell, you idiot!"
A black dagger slid out from her sleeve and, at an extremely tricky angle, instantly slit the cultivator's throat!
Blood spurts out!
The monk clutched his neck, his eyes wide open, dying with his eyes still open.
The girl kicked the corpse away in disgust, picked up the token, and stuck out her scarlet tongue to lick the blood off the dagger.
"Heh, man."
On the viewing platform.
"Wow! Wow! Wow!"
Xie Purou looked at it with a serious expression, but couldn't help but exclaim excitedly.
"That's ruthless! That younger brother killed his own brother!"
"And that woman! She looked so pitiful, but she was so ruthless!"
You Ruo's expression was also not very good.
She frowned deeply, looking at the land stained red with blood, her usually cold eyes filled with complex emotions.
"Is this...human nature?"
Although the two girls' strength increased rapidly, they also gained a lot of knowledge by following Ye Chen.
However, they themselves live within a very harmonious sect.
They have loving senior brothers and sisters, and a master who protects them!
Therefore, they themselves could not possibly experience the cruelty of being betrayed by their loved ones.
Ye Chen remained as calm and composed as ever.
He held his teacup, gently blowing on the steam, as if the hellish scene before him was merely an amusing drama.
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In the battlefield.
A young man, his body crackling with purple lightning, was surrounded by more than a dozen people.
"Kid! Hand over the token if you know what's good for you! We might give you a quick death!"
The scarred man at the head of the group threatened menacingly.
That lightning-wielding youth was none other than Lei Zi, a renowned prodigy among the younger generation of the capital!
Lei Zi glanced at them contemptuously, a mocking smile playing on his lips.
"You bunch of worthless scoundrels?"
He slowly raised one hand.
Electricity crackled and popped in his palm.
"Roar, thunder!"
Boom!
A loud bang!
A purple ball of lightning, the size of a human head, suddenly exploded from his palm!
The violent power of lightning instantly formed a huge spherical electric grid, sweeping out in all directions!
The dozen or so people who were attacking him didn't even have time to scream before they were instantly vaporized into ashes in the terrifying lightning!
More than a dozen cyan tokens, having lost their owner's control, clattered and fell to the ground.
With a casual wave of his hand, Lei Zi sent the tokens flying into his hand.
Those cultivators who had originally wanted to get a share of the spoils were terrified when they saw this scene and fled in panic.
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Bloody massacres unfolded in every corner of the continent.
A monk has just ambushed his opponent from behind, killed him, and seized the token.
He hasn't had time to be happy yet.
A poisoned arrow shot from afar, piercing precisely between his eyebrows.
He fell to the ground with a thud.
A hunter with a longbow emerged from the bushes, picked up two tokens from the ground, and cautiously surveyed his surroundings.
But he didn't notice.
In the shadow beneath his feet, a pair of eyes were staring intently at him.
The hunter, holding a longbow, clutched the two tokens he had just acquired, still catching his breath.
He scanned his surroundings warily, every nerve on edge.
Sudden.
The ground beneath his feet softened.
His own shadow twisted and wriggled, stretching upwards as if it were a living thing.
Two jet-black claws suddenly emerged from the shadows and gripped his ankles tightly.
"what!"
He let out a short, muffled groan, and a cold, eerie energy instantly surged through his body, rendering him unable to move.
The shadow quickly coalesced into a gaunt man in black, his face as pale as a corpse.
Thank you for your hard work.
The man in black had a hoarse voice.
He didn't even bother to finish off the hunter.
With a mere reach, he easily snatched the three tokens from the hunter's stiff fingers, then with a swift movement, he vanished back into the shadows of the dense forest, leaving the hunter to wait for his death.
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Not far away, in an open area, a makeshift team of seven had just joined forces to ambush and kill a larger group.
At this moment, they are gathered around a campfire, happily dividing their spoils.
"Haha! With Brother Li leading us, who can stop us!"
"That's right! Once we've collected enough tokens, we'll find a place to hide until the very end!"
The man called Brother Li was a burly man with a full beard, and he smiled warmly.
"Brothers, you've all worked hard and must be exhausted. Quick, drink this restorative soup I prepared, let's rest for the night, and continue tomorrow!"
He took out a large gourd and handed it over.
The others, without suspicion, readily accepted the drink and drank heartily.
"Mmm, this soup is really good! I feel like I've regained my strength!"
"Brother Li is so thoughtful!"
Brother Li watched them drink it one by one, his smile growing brighter and colder.
soon.
One by one, the faces of those people turned an eerie purple.
