Massacre

The sound from the gigantic waterfall resounded across the valley, As the waterfall surged, it looked similar to a silver dragon.

Under the waterfall, a youngster with a bare torso was clenching his jaw while firmly holding onto the large Heavy Xuan Ruler in his hands. Continuously hacking at the torrential current before him, every chop of the Black Ruler sent water flashing forth in the air.

Xiao Yan's legs were like the roots of a plant, tenaciously gluing themselves to the wooden stake. On the surface of Xiao Yan's body, a light yellow Dou Qi was faintly discernible and every time water flowed onto his body, a light mist would soar upwards.

For the heavy ruler to chop into the streaming water, a monumental amount of strength was needed, thus having already endured a period of time on the wooden stake, every swing of the heavy ruler caused the muscles on the arms of Xiao Yan to emit waves of acute pain.

With gritted teeth, Xiao Yan's heel gradually weakened and finally in the middle of a chop, a banging sound was heard as the fierce flow of water finally struck him who had already reached his limit off the wooden stake and into the lake below.

"Pu." Xiao Yan's head emerged from the surface of the lake as he spit out a mouthful of lake water and swim towards the shore. After reaching the lakeside, his body fell weakly onto the ice-cold rocks while his aching muscles caused him to not want to budge even a fraction.

"Here, eat some of this." A savory baked fish was passed over and waved in front of Xiao Yan.

Opening his eyes, Xiao Yan leaned against a giant rock before receiving the baked fish and gorging himself on the food and thought he finally have started to learn Di class technique Flame splitting Tsunami.

As Xiao Yan was in thought ,Yao Lao laughed before turning his gaze to sweep across the ten wooden stakes under the waterfall. Smiling, he remarked, "Really, not bad, in just four days, you've actually managed to endure for such a long time on the third wooden stake."

With a mouth filled with food, Xiao Yan could only mumble out.

"Recently, mercenaries have appeared more and more frequently around this place." Seated next to Xiao Yan, Yao Lao seemed to offhandedly remark.

Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed and swallowing the food in his mouth, he said, "Looks like the Wolf Head Mercenaries had find some clues."

"According to their speed, I'm afraid it will be one month at most before they find this valley. Looks like we need to once again increase the pace." Rubbing his chin, Xiao Yao smugly smiled.

"Can we do that ?" Xiao Yan to blink his eyes.

"It can indeed be faster, but...you will suffer if you use this thing." Yao Lao honestly replied.

"Have I not suffered a lot over this period of time?" Xiao Yan told him with a smile.

"Hehe, that's true..." After smiling Yao Lao took out ten clear jade bottles from within the storage ring. The jade bottles were filled with a type of red liquid that were as viscous as fresh blood.

"What is this?" staring at this unkown thing, Xiao Yan asked.

"Burning Blood!" Yao Lao picked up a jade bottle and lightly shook it. Slightly smiling, he continued, "This was made by me using twenty three different types of fire attribute medicine ingredients and the blood from three types of rank two fire attribute Magic Beasts. If we want to judge its quality, it could be likened to a tier four pill."

"This 'Burning Blood', is only effective for a person who has a fire attribute Dou Qi. To a person with water attribute Dou Qi, it is undoubtedly a poison. When it is spread onto the body, it can increase the consumption of Dou Qi within the body and at the same time, it will also speed up the recovery of Dou Qi.

Through this repeating process, your strength will gradually increase." Yao Lao smiled, a crafty look in his eyes, "Don't be happy just yet, I have mentioned that if you want to use it to increase your training pace, you need to partake in a great suffering."

"What suffering?" Xiao Yan inquired.

"Give me your hand." A smile on his face, Yao Lao pulled Xiao Yan's arm over before slightly tilting the jade bottle to let a drop of red liquid drop onto Xiao Yan's arm.

"Hiss...." As the red liquid touched Xiao Yan's skin, Xiao Yan was first dazed before he fiercely sucked in a breath of cool air. His forehead was densely covered in cold sweat, his teeth were stuck together as his arms continuously trembled.

In Xiao Yan's mind, the drop of red liquid on his arm was like a ball of flame, it continuously released a scorching temperature. This burning sensation felt as if he had thrust his arm into a burning bucket of coal.

As if he had predicted what kind of reaction Xiao Yan would have, Yao Lao smugly smiled. Once again taking something out of the Space Ring, a small jade plate made of white jade was used to slowly spreading the drop of red liquid, causing the area it had covered to gradually expand.

In the wake of the expanding reach of the red liquid, Xiao Yan's arm trembled even more violently. On his arm, even the veins seemed to twist about, creating an extremely terrifying sight.

The red liquid adhered to the surface of Xiao Yan's skin while traces of faint tepid steam continuously emitted forth. Xiao Yan's arm also turned a shade redder.

This state continued for over ten minutes before vanishing little by little.

After the burning sensation completely faded from his arm, Xiao Yan finally let out a heavy sigh of relief. Wiping away the sweat from his forehead, he once again gazed towards the small jade bottle before him and said in his heart "This thing...is too overbearing."

"Steady your mind and sense the flow of Dou Qi in your arm, are there any changes?"Yao Lao asked with a smile.

Shrugging his shoulders, Xiao Yan closed his both eyes. His thoughts quickly moved to the Qi Paths on his arm and after probing around, to his astonishment, the Dou Qi in the Qi Paths of his left arm was not only much thicker than the Dou Qi flowing elsewhere but the energy in this Dou Qi seemed to be somewhat stronger too.

With amazement, Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes and looked towards the side where Yao Lao was still smiling. He with a serious face said: "Come on, let's fight it out!"

Seeing Xiao Yan's resolute appearance, the smile on Yao Lao's face widened even further.

"Lie on your stomach; from now on we will spread it over your entire body once per day. This will help your training speed increase by a total of thirty to forty percent." Yao Lao smiled as he waved his hand.

Xiao Yan cracked open his mouth and bit onto a portion of his clothes before tightly gripping a crack in the rocks with both hands. With a muffled voice, he spat out, "Bring it!"

Yao Lao took out jade bottle and tilted with red liquid immediately flowed out...

"Ah..." A mournful and miserable howl suddenly sounded throughout the valley.

While Xiao Yan squeezed in every bit of time he had for training, the search by the Wolf Head Mercenaries became more and more intense, they payed the price of over ten of their companions lives before finally, they started to draw close to the valley where Xiao Yan was.

After one month later, when Xiao Yan was able to endure on the eighth wooden stake for a long period of time, at last, a member of the Wolf Head Mercenaries managed to stumble upon this quiet valley.

As he stood at the valley entrance, this Wolf Head mercenary blankly gazed at the youngster who was training under the waterfall. It was only a moment later when a cold breeze blew by did he regained his wits and at this time, ecstasy gushed forth in his heart. Without a word, he quickly retrieved the signal beacon from his bosom but just as he desired to release the signal, an intense, wind breaking force abruptly attacked from the front.

The strength of this attack caused the mercenary whose strength was that of a six star Dou Zhe to shiver in his heart; the sole of his foot slammed into the ground as his figure turned to flee.

"Boom!" A black shadow broke through the air and heavily smashed onto the ground. Immediately, dirt was flung about and a monstrously huge black metal ruler was left stuck deep in the ground.

His sight on the strange black giant ruler, the pupils of this Wolf Head Mercenaries member slightly shrunk. This unique weapon had already become a symbol of the youngster they had placed a bounty on.

As the dirt flew into the air, covering one's line of sight, this experienced and seasoned mercenary did not show an disappointing display; his figure continuously backed off in a rush as his keen eyes darted back and forth over the surroundings.

Just as the mercenary was almost exiting the valley, his spider senses tingled as he abruptly dropped his body to the ground.

"Ka cha!" Just as his body dropped to the ground, a violent Qi energy ruthlessly tore through the area atop his head before finally hitting a big tree to one side. Immediately, cracks appeared across the tree trunk and following a breaking sound, the tree split at the middle.

Gazing at the tree which had been forcefully destroyed, the mercenary on the ground sucked in a cold breath. To create this kind of destruction, how much strength was needed?

As the shock flashed and passed from his mind, this mercenary suddenly placed his palms on the ground, his figure became similar to that of a house lizard. Flicking his palms off the ground in a weird manner, his body dashed towards the thicket.

The fleeing mercenary was very satisfied with this move of his; this High Huang Lizard Crawl Dou Techniques had helped him escape from jaws of death many times. From what he knew, among those at the Dou Zhe level, there were very few people that could stop him as he escaped through the jungle.

Just after the mercenary thought of returning to report and being able to receive the large reward before going to tavern to take revenge against the fair and well developed woman who disdained him, on the path before him, a pair of feet abruptly appeared.

The urgently dashing body suddenly stopped as the mercenary lifted his head, terrified, to meet the smile on a handsome face.

"You run very fast..." The youngster slightly smiled at the mercenary. In his pitch-black eyes an ice-cold killing intent caused the mercenary to tremble uncontrollably.

Gazing upon the mercenary who had lost his spirit, the corners of Xiao Yan's mouth curled upwards while the giant black ruler in his hand chopped downwards ferociously.

Immediately, a blood-curdling shriek resounded across the forested mountains.

Indifferently wiping the blood off the mysterious and heavy ruler, Xiao Yan cast a glance towards the corpse at his feet. His tongue lightly licked his lips as a blood-thirsty look appeared on his face. He spoke

"My vengeance starts now..."

The dense forest was quiet and serene. Occasionally, a few smaller beasts would leap across the forest ground, startling the birds resting in the trees.

The serene atmosphere lasted for a short while before it was suddenly disrupted by a terrible looking figure that frightened away all the birds in the trees.

Ignoring the disruption he had just caused, the distressful looking shadow scurried away. Occasionally, his terrified face would sweep a glance towards his back as though there was an ancient ferocious beast that was chasing after him.

After running for some distance, this human figure who was wearing mercenary clothes lifted his head and stared at the light just a short distance away. An uncontrolled happiness surfaced on his face. Once he escaped this irritating dense forest, he would be able to call upon his companions to save him. When that time came, he would no longer need to fear the death god that was after his life.

The mercenary's body suddenly charged forward. He jumped and fiercely stepped onto a tree branch. Instantly, his figure shot towards the light with an explosive force.

With the bright light which was almost by his side, the uncontrolled happiness on the mercenary's face grew increasingly denser.

However, a moment later, the happiness suddenly froze as the mercenary realised that a fierce suction had abruptly appeared.

Not only did the suction forcefully halt his advance, it even pulled his body backwards.

A startled look covered his face. Before the mercenary could shout, a black figure flashed passed him. An enormous, breaking wind accompanied by a the sound of muted thunder smashed heavily onto his chest.

"Bang!" The deep muffled sound caused the mercenary to shut his eyes tightly as his chest sunk inwards.

The enormous force caused the mercenary's body to fall from midair and crash painfully into the ground, scattering the soil. Along the damaged organs, fresh blood violently spurted all over the place.

His enormous pair of eyes stared intently at the human figure standing on a tree branch above him. Gradually, the eyes became white and a moment later, the mercenary's breath was extinguished…

Staring indifferently at the mercenary whose breath was extinguished, the young man who was carrying a large black ruler and standing on the tree branch slightly tightened his hands, whispered, "This goes eleventh one."

The young man on the tree was Xiao Yan. After leaving the training area, Xiao Yan met over ten mercenaries of the Wolf Head Mercenary Company who had come to search for him for the past couple days.

When dealing with these people who intended to use him to exchange for reward money, Xiao Yan did not show any mercy.

During his journey, almost all the members of the Wolf Head Mercenary Company who were weaker than an eight star Dou Zhe were killed by him.

With Xiao Yan's current strength, he could easily take a seven star Dou Zhe within twenty rounds should he remove the Heavy Xuan Ruler.

The strongest within the Wolf Head Mercenary Company was the two star Dou Shi Mu She, who was the leader of the Company. Under him was a nine star and an eight star Dou Zhe who formed the upper echelons of the Wolf Head Mercenary Company. Other than the three of them, the huge Wolf Head Mercenary Company did not possess anyone who had the strength to have a solo fight with Xiao Yan.

After throwing another gaze at the lifeless corpse, Xiao Yan's foot stepped lightly on the tree branch. Using the force, Xiao Yan glided over to the denser parts of the forest.

...

"Bastard! Go and die!"

Within the spacious hall, Mu She angrily shouted upon hearing the news that his subordinates repeatedly brought him. In his fury, he shattered the tea cup in his hand.

Seeing the furious Mu She, all of the upper echelons of the Wolf Head Mercenary Company in the hall were silent. None of them dared to provoked him at this moment in time.

"In just a two days, we have lost fifteen of our important members. If this is prolonged, will there be anyone left in our Wolf Head Mercenary Company?" Mu She hissed after releasing a few ragged breaths.

Everyone was at a loss for words as they stared at each other.

"The one who did this was definitely Xiao Yan…" Mu She braced himself and said after staring at the silent hall and coughed dryly.

"Didn't you say that his strength was about the same as yours? Why did three seven star Dou Zhes that we sent out all die to his hands?" Mu She slammed his palm on the table as he furiously demanded.

Mu Li smiled bitterly as he helplessly replied, "Three months ago, that guy was no stronger than me even after revealing his hidden strength. Otherwise, he would not have been humiliated in the cave by the men that I brought along with me."

"But the strength he is now displaying is definitely not weaker than that of a seven star Dou Zhe. It may even be that of an eight star Dou Zhe!" Mu She's face turned gloomier as he thought of the different possibilities. The corner of his mouth could not help but twitch as a chilliness appeared in his voice, "Don't tell me that the boy has actually grown so much after staying in the Magic Beast Mountain Range for only a few months?"

Hearing this, Mu Li's eyes twitched. That guy actually managed to raise his strength by two stars in only three months? How did this bastard train? This speed… isn't it too scary?"

"It looks like we were right. That guy is no ordinary person." Gradually recovering his senses from his fury, Mu She sat on his chair and tapped his finger on the table. After a brief silence, he calculatingly said, "We will temporarily withdraw our men from the Magic Beast Mountain Range. Two days later, we will divide our forces into five man teams armed with signals that can be used to indicate positions and enter the Magic Beast Mountain Range together."

"I want to create a net that he cannot escape from and see where he will run to!" Mu She clenched his fist as a sinister killing intent appeared on his face.

"Yes sir!"

"Oh yes, where's He Meng? Why don't I see him?" Mu She lowered his head slightly and swept across the hall before abruptly questioning.

"Um…" Hearing Mu She's question, his subordinates forze. A moment later, someone finally laughed dryly, "I heard that the Third Company Leader had brought a few brothers to accompany Madam Lan of the Blue Flowers Hotel into the Magic Beast Mountain Range to hunt for Snow Foxes."

Mu She scolded, "All that this buckethead thinks about is women. Doesn't he know about the predicament the Wolf Head Mercenary Company is currently in? How dare he enter the Magic Beast Mountain Range without permission. This damn idiot will sooner or later die by the hands of a woman."

"Company Leader. The Third Company Leader is an eight star Dou Zhe. If he were to meet Xiao Yan, he might be able to kill him along the way."

"With that guy's mind, I would be satisfied if he could come back alive!" Mu She coldly snorted. He immediately waved his hands fretfully. For some reason, he felt an uncomfortable feeling within him. He Meng was different from the other company members, should he unfortunately die in Xiao Yan's hands, the Wolf Head Mercenary Company would receive a severe blow.

"Get that guy to come and look for me once he returns." Leaving a sentence that was filled with thick anger, Mu She turned around and left the hall where murmurs had erupted.

...

A large tent was set up in the forest under the moonlight along with a couple of pale yellow flames, appearing very prominent in the darkness of the night.

Standing atop a tree and leaning against a branch, Xiao Yan had a clear view of the camp site under him. There were around fifteen mercenaries in the campsite with most of them having the strength of a five star Dou Zhe. Within the tent at the center of the campsite was an eight star Dou Zhe. He was Xiao Yan's target.

With Xiao Yan's current strength, he had a good chance if he fought one on one against an eight star Dou Zhe. However, this was only the case in the absence of any assistants. From the looks of it, he needed to eliminate all the other mercenaries before he could kill that eight star Dou Zhe.

Xiao Yan not make any moves and instead, he silently waited for an opportunity.

...….

A crescent moon hung high in the sky and the land was totally silent.

After waiting for awhile, a faint wind suddenly formed in the air and blew across the forest, causing the trees to rustle as it passed.

A vague smile formed on Xiao Yan's face as he felt the wind blow. He flicked his finger lightly, prompting a bag of medicinal powder to appear in his hand. This medicinal powder was what the Little Fairy Doctor had given him when they had parted. The droziness that this powder could cause was something that Xiao Yan needed.

Xiao Yan smiled as he tossed the bag of powder around in his hand. He was about to take action when he noticed two guards from the tent were slowly heading towards him.

With a moment, Xiao Yan shrunk his body into the shadows as he stared at the two guards who were closing in on him.

Just as the two mercenaries arrived at the tree beneath Xiao Yan, they abruptly stopped. The pair took a quick glance at the surroundings before relieving themselves.

"Dammit, that chick is too flirtatious. The big bottom of hers makes me want to press her on the ground and take her." One of the mercenaries vented with foul words as the pair was relieving themselves.

"Lower your voice. That chick is the the Third Company Leader's. If you dare do anything to her, the Third Company Leader would throw you out to feed the wolves." The other mercenary carefully reminded.

"Pifft, she's soiled goods. I have even seen the Second Company Leader take her last time but it appears she dares not tell the Third Company Leader about this. Ha ha."

"Forget it, just forget it. It is better not to go around saying nonsense. Otherwise, the one who suffers will be low ranked soldiers like us. Let's go…" After finishing, the mercenary on the left was the first to turn around. A black figure suddenly flashed in front of him. Before he had the time to react, a terrible pain erupted from his throat, following which, his consciousness became hazy.

"Let's go." The other mercenary initiated before turning around. When he saw that the space behind him was empty, he became stunned. He did not have the chance to speak when a coldness was felt on his throat. After which, everything became dark around him.

Xiao Yan quietly carried the two corpses into the dense forest before climbing up to the top of the tree once again. He scanned the campsite below him and scattered the medicinal powder from his hand.

Under the cover of the night, the medicinal powder was carried by the wind and secretly floated into the campsite.

The mercenaries around the campsite slowly collapsed under the effect of the medicinal powder.

In only a moment, the large campsite became totally quiet.

Xiao Yan was silent for a moment as he stared at the quiet campsite. Finally, he jumped off the tree and walked into the campsite while wielding a sword that he had taken from one of the mercenaries.

With the sword, Xiao Yan successfully passed through a few empty tents. A moment later, he came to the center of the campsite and stood outside the largest tent.

Under the light of the fire in the tent, two bodies were tangled together.

The corner of Xiao Yan's lips was coldly raised as he heard the groans of the two being emitted from the tent.