Reaching the Vermilion Forest

With the backing of Xue Wei's soundwaves from the zither, Hei Gou was finally able to gain the upper hand against the opponents.

Defeating them was one thing, but killing them was something else entirely. If it was someone significantly below yourself in strength, then killing your opponent would be easy to do, but these two bandits were not that much weaker than Hei Gou. Killing them became much more difficult.

Especially when these two experts were doing all they could in their power to flee. They had long since understood that their lives could be forfeit in this match. So they could not help but feel their intestines turn green from regret, yet regret could not help them now, and they were forced to see it through.

The claws on Hei Gou's hands gleamed in the sunshine that shone down from above. The claws were made from Black Star Metal, a metal that was exceedingly rare in the human world and could only be found in the danger zones of the continent.