#27 - A dark and windy night for murder
The sky gradually darkened, and as dusk approached, the afterglow of the setting sun adorned Phoenix Sky City with a golden-red hue.
Inside the Eternal Life Shrine, the dagger fragments in Jun Wuxie's hand were melted into liquid, their energy stripped and absorbed, and transformed into the lifeblood essence needed to cultivate his physical body through the Primordial Golden Body Art.
This energy was so pure that the resulting blood essence was naturally incomparable to the small spirit pills he had taken in the past.
He clearly felt his realm improving at an alarming rate.
By nightfall, his realm had broken through from the second stage of the Acquired Realm to the third stage, and his blood vitality and physical strength reached a new level!
At the same time.
On a high-rise building on a street near Jupao Firm, several tall figures stood in the darkness, silently watching a carriage in the parking area of Jupao Firm.
"Steward Yuan Ji, please remember the promise you made."
A figure said to the dark room behind him.
A middle-aged man with cold eyes walked out of it, glanced at the speaker, and said, "Don't worry, I will never break the promise I made to you."
"There is one more thing." The figure hesitated slightly and said, "Although we left the mercenary group to complete the task, if Jupao Firm really blames us…"
"Don't worry, this steward will come forward at that time, and Jupao Firm won't disregard the face of our Hunter Guild." Yuan Ji said.
…
On a neighboring high tower on another street, the experts of the Wen family had also been lying in wait.
"Patriarch, there is a group of people in the dark, who should also be aiming for Jun Wuxie. We can just sit back and watch the tigers fight, and look for the best opportunity to strike."
"It seems we don't have to wait until the Spirit Ark." Wen Yue said coldly, "When that group of people makes a move, lures out Jun Wuxie, and attracts the two guards of Jupao Firm, you and the others seize the opportunity and kill him with lightning speed!"
"Hey! As long as he appears, under the attack of our two Qi Condensation Realm eighth-stage experts, an Acquired Realm martial artist has no chance of survival! It's just that, if Jupao Firm pursues this matter…"
Wen Yue was very confident and said, "My Wen family is one of the four major families in Phoenix Sky City, and we purchase so many things from Jupao Firm every year! Moreover, my Wen family is their bronze VIP, even if Jupao Firm holds us accountable, it won't be too much."
…
Eternal Life Shrine.
"Can you sense anything?"
The mysterious woman in the ancient pagoda said.
"Murderous intent."
Jun Wuxie closed his eyes, refined the blood essence, and continued to cultivate.
"Not bad, two directions, two hundred and sixty meters and two hundred and eighty meters away from you. The murderous intent is aggressive, although it is different from the intent of soldiers, a grandmaster of the martial path can sense it from a great distance."
"Yuan Ji and the Wen family are worried that if I go to the capital and join the Great River Sword Sect, they will have no chance to kill me, so they are willing to offend Jupao Firm to take action here. They are quite determined."
A touch of coldness appeared on Jun Wuxie's face, and the surging blood essence energy flowed along the eight extraordinary meridians, running through his limbs and bones, nourishing and tempering every inch of his flesh.
Each time it circulated, the blood vitality that the physical body could store would increase, the meridians would also be expanded, and their toughness would be strengthened.
The night deepened.
The figures on the high-rise building moved, quietly jumped down, and sneaked under the cover of the night.
"Young Master Jun, no matter what happens, please stay in the carriage and don't come out."
The two guards were keenly aware, their eyes flashed with cold light, and they said in a low voice to the carriage.
"Clang!"
A long sword drew a cold sword light, illuminating the dark night, the target was not the carriage, but one of the guards.
"Dare to run wild in Jupao Firm, you're looking for death!"
A guard drew his saber and met it, extinguishing the sword light, and collided with the black-clothed man who had killed him.
Almost at the same time, a long spear pierced towards the other guard like a spirit snake.
The assassination in the middle of the night kicked off!
The clanging of metal, the collision of true energy, the clang, and the roar were endless.
"Die!"
A dazzling blade light descended from the sky and slashed down on the carriage.
The third man in black took action.
The battle saber in his hand flowed with the light of runes, and the saber energy he slashed out was three meters long, with a compelling murderous aura!
Inside the carriage, Jun Wuxie, who had broken through to the fourth stage of the Acquired Realm and was sitting quietly waiting, suddenly opened his eyes.
The next moment, he disappeared from the carriage, soared into the air, came to the roof of the carriage, and met the sword light with a punch.
With a bang.
The sword light collapsed, but the battle saber still slashed down.
He clasped his hands together, firmly clamping the blade in his hands.
"Indeed, you have some skills!"
The man in black pressed down hard, the runes on the battle saber shone, and his true energy erupted, instantly causing Jun Wuxie's hands to sink down, the blade less than an inch from his forehead!
"However, a mere Acquired Realm, for me, you are still weak and不堪!"
The man in black continued to pour in his true energy, Jun Wuxie's hands sank again, and the battle saber was closer to his head.
"Now is the time, take action!"
Wen Yue, who was lying in wait on the high tower, ordered.
Beside him, two figures flew down, like two ghosts in the night.
When they sneaked to a distance of dozens of meters, they soared into the air like two eagles, and blasted a palm print towards Jun Wuxie in crisis.
The man in black, who was about to slash the target under his knife, was shocked. He did not expect that there were mantises lurking in the dark.
But he found that Jun Wuxie's expression was very abnormal, the corner of his mouth actually contained a sneer, and his eyes became extremely cold at this moment.
With a clang.
The man in black felt the battle saber in his hand tremble violently, and a terrifying force surged through the blade. His body was like being hit by a flood, and he flew out instantly, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
What terrified him the most was that the battle saber in his hand was covered with cracks and shattered into pieces in an instant!
This is a first-star high-grade spirit weapon!
Almost at the same time, his pupils shrank sharply, and he saw a spirit bow appear in Jun Wuxie's hand.
"That's Lao Liu's weapon!"
He recognized the bow, it was the weapon of the sixth regiment leader of their mercenary group.
Buzz!
The spirit bow was pulled into a full circle, the runes on it were dazzling, and an arrow filled with golden blood energy cut through the sky like lightning.
Just as the two experts of the Wen family were about to bombard him.
The arrow flashed like a startled goose.
With a puff, it pierced through the chest of one of the Wen family's experts, and blood splattered.
The powerful force of the arrow carried the body of that Wen family expert hundreds of meters away, embedded in the left pillar in front of Jupao Firm's gate, and the tail of the arrow trembled buzzing.
And at the moment Jun Wuxie shot an arrow, he moved dozens of meters horizontally, pulled the bow again, and shot a second arrow!
The second expert of the Wen family, with a palm strike in the air, had not had time to react, and the startled arrow pierced his neck with a puff.
Blood splattered far away.
In the same direction, the second expert of the Wen family was carried by the arrow for hundreds of meters and nailed to the right pillar in front of Jupao Firm's gate.
All this happened too fast.
From the man in black slashing the carriage, to the Wen family's experts ambushing, to Jun Wuxie shattering the battle saber with his palm and shooting and killing the two, it was only a moment.
The two guards of Jupao Firm watched with twitching corners of their eyes.
Yuan Ji, who was hiding in the high-rise building on the neighboring street, was horrified, while Wen Yue in the high tower twitched his eyes and his face was as deep as water.
How could an Acquired Realm martial artist be so outrageously strong!
Those were several Qi Condensation Realm eighth-stage experts, but they were killed in an instant!
"Go!"
The two men in black who were holding back the guards of Jupao Firm saw Jun Wuxie pull the bow again and aim at themselves, and were almost scared out of their wits. They turned around and wanted to run away.
