Not Fazed

Min Jae stood still. There is no movement in his body. His eyes widened.

"So, it struck," Yang Zhai muttered.

"What did you do to him…" Jun Yi stared at this with wide, teary eyes.

His body has given up on him. The reckless use of body path kas took a toll on his body. His body has given up, Yang Zhai contemplated.

However, Yang Zhai didn't stop here and swung his sword, decapitating him. His head fell down, swinging. It swung and stopped in front of Ji Woo's face. She stared at it, tears falling down towards the right side of her face.

Her body lay straight. Her head tilted to the right side, looking at Min Jae's head and Yang Zhai. With this, she closed her eyes and lost her breath.

Jun Yi stares at this, dazed. His emotions were telling him to die. The thought of not being able to ever talk to Ji Woo and Min Jae again was killing him.

This truth was something that always struck anyone who had truly loved someone.

"You bastard… you traitor…" Jun Yi involuntarily muttered, losing his control.

However, Yang Zhai activated Earth Burial Ka and the ground below Jun Yi disappeared.

Jun Yi fell down. Yang Zhai threw the sword at him.

As Jun Yi's mental strength was in an extremely unstable state, he couldn't skillfully use his method, and his leg was pierced by the sword.

"You… bastard, why, why? She loved… you, she truly… loved you. Why? I hope… I hope… you will be all alone yo…you… your entire… life. You will have no one to lean on!!!"

His face was covered in tears and snot. He was trying to stand up, but couldn't. Not because his leg was injured, but because his body was losing strength from extreme emotional pain. He could barely speak and wanted to cry all out.

However, his body was involuntarily trying to make him endure and stand up, knowing who he was facing.

"Yang… Zhai…" Suddenly, a voice entered Jun Yi and Yang Zhai's ears.

Yang Zhai looked in the direction of the voice and saw Mah Qi.

His eyes narrowed. He still hadn't made Mah Qi get used to his killing, unlike Jun Haru, Si Yu, and Li Na.

It wasn't good

"Yang… Zhai? Don't tell me…" Jun Yi's eyes widened.

"He was always beside me… always?" Jun Yi was flabbergasted and dazed.

Yang Zhai activated the Blood Demon Ka and controlled the sword to turn into blood and enter Jun Yi's body. After that, he guided the blood to reach Jun Yi's heart and pierce it.

"Guh…" Jun Yi spat out blood and grabbed his chest, feeling pain.

After that, Yang Zhai looked at Mah Qi.

"You, you killed them…".

"You killed them even though, even though they helped you just because they were stopping you from refining a Ka. You will also kill us in the future if we end up hindering you as well…" Mah Qi said with shock and fear.

"Then don't hinder me," Yang Zhai said. He had to stop her.

"No, you are a monster. You are definitely using us! I will tell everyone what you did here!"

Mah Qi didn't listen to or care about Yang Zhai. After that, she turned around and ran.

"Stop! They will kill you as well!" He said loudly. He had to buy time for the Strength Ka.

If others find out about this, I would have to forcefully stop the Strength Ka's advancement, facing the risk of it dying: he thought.

He wasn't going to let that happen.

He activated the Earth Burial Ka and a small pit appeared below Mah Qi's legs, making her fall.

He then activated The Last One ring and it appeared.

"Guard the Strength Ka,"

After saying that, he left, chasing after Mah Qi.

If he didn't do anything about her, she was definitely going to tell others about him. Yang Zhai had not yet begun to make her get used to his ways of doing things.

Her speed was very fast. It seemed like she was using a rank 4 Ka to increase her speed, whereas Yang Zhai had no rank 4 to increase his speed. Even though Yang Zhai could match her speed by combining his body strength and the boost provided by the Galewing Ka, he couldn't reach her because of the distance.

He stopped, used his running momentum, and threw the Corpse Collector with a lot of his strength, enough to bypass Mah Qi in a few seconds.

It activated and a corpse appeared from it, kicking Mah Qi in the chest and stopping her.

At the exact moment, the corpse grabbed the Corpse Collector so that it wouldn't go too far because of Yang Zhai's throw.

Mah Qi stood up and was about to run, but a bloody sword came out of her chest.

She looked down and saw drops of blood dripping down from the tip of the sword.

Her heart had been pierced by the sword.

"To think, to think that I was also… starting to…"

With this, Mah Qi fell face first on the ground, dust rising because of the impact.

No matter how strong he was, he could not let her tell others. Not to mention that he couldn't face so many rank 4 cultivators. He couldn't let his plans go to waste.

Yang Zhai stored her body in the Corpse Collector and returned back to the Spirit Garden.

The Last One was guarding the Strength Ka closely. Yang Zhai absorbed it and looked at the Strength Ka. Its speed of absorption had increased.

Yang Zhai walked to the side and sat down. His right arm rested on his right knee as he stared at the Strength Ka.

It seemed like he wasn't even fazed slightly by what he did.

Looking at the Strength Ka, it looked like it would advance even more quickly than it did when it advanced to rank 3. Its speed of absorption was quite shocking.

Meanwhile,

"He was right; there is the rank 5 Water Hound; let's attack with our whole might and bring it down," Wang Lei muttered slowly.

They were jumping over the hounds' backs. Sometimes, they would end up missing their backs and land on the ground, but they would quickly jump forward and continue.

As for the ones who would try to attack them, they would just kill those hounds before they could even launch any attack.

They saw the rank 5 Water Hound standing guard.

"It seems like it was expecting us…" Tian Yu said after looking at the Hound.

"Let's start!" Wang Lei shouted and pounced at the rank 5 hound.

He raised his hand and dust started to rise from the ground. It accumulated into a wave and shot at the hound.

However, the rank 5 Water Hound wasn't fazed. Many low-rank water hounds jumped and faced the upcoming dust wave.

The cultivators landed on the ground.

Rank 4 cultivators make a circle around the rank 5 cultivators, protecting them. As for rank 5 cultivators, they were going to go at the rank 5 Water Hound with a combined attack.

Why three rank 5?

One reason was that they wanted to deal with it as quickly as possible, and the other was that during the battle, there would for sure be many distractions and disturbances, so they also had to deal with them while fighting the rank 5 Water Hound.

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