Chapter 48: Thunderbolt Strike!

  Outside the house, Su Ming stopped in his tracks and stood in the shadows, like a hunter, staring at the house for a long time. His eyebrows gradually furrowed as if he had sensed something. He swayed slightly and quickly arrived at the door of the house, pushed it open and stepped inside. The house was empty.

  "It's interesting." Su Ming muttered to himself, lowering his head with sparkling eyes, and looking around, he saw a hole in the ground at the end of the house.

  He hesitated for a moment, squatted down beside the hole and looked at it carefully for a few moments, then reached in and felt around. It was mud, very dry, clearly this hole had existed for a long time.

  He flashed a glance, bent down and jumped into the hole. This was a passageway. Su Ming didn't make any noise, unfolded his speed, and chased after him along the passageway. As he moved forward, he silently calculated the direction of the passageway. It wasn't hard to see that this was a road that directly pierced through the city wall of Mudstone City and extended outward.

  On the ground of the passage, there were also some messy footprints. Su Ming would stop his body from time to time and observe carefully before silently calculating in his heart.

  "There were about seven or eight people." Su Ming pondered for a moment, took out the Bone Awl, and as he moved forward, dug deep holes in the ground with ease. The mud didn't put up any resistance against the Bone Awl, which completed its task effortlessly.

  Even in one place, Su Ming raised his head and looked at the top of the passage, where there were some thick wooden pillars supporting it, as if afraid that the passage would collapse. Su Ming looked for a few moments, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

  Before long, after walking out a distance of several thousand feet, Su Ming's footsteps came to an abrupt halt. In front of him, not far away, he saw a patch of moonlight shining down, and it was clear that this was the exit.

  Faintly, he could vaguely hear outside the exit, as if someone's voice was drifting.

  That voice was like a chant, exuding an eerie aura. In an instant, it seemed as if the distance wasn't too close. Su Ming arrived at the bottom of the exit and quickly looked up towards the exit before immediately taking a step back.

  As he looked over there, with the moonlight shining on him, he saw a figure sitting cross-legged on top of it, as if guarding the cave.

  "It's just one person guarding, looking at the air and blood, there are only four layers." Su Ming's expression was calm, he took a step forward and suddenly jumped up, in the moment his body rushed out of the exit, the young man from the Wind Pavilion tribe who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes, as if startled.

  But just as he was stunned, Su Ming's right hand lifted gently and swung, the young man immediately felt severe pain all over his body, with a fiery red light spreading before his eyes, like countless needles piercing, a mouthful of blood spurted out, just as he was about to let out a mournful cry, an icy cold yet strong hand stretched out from behind his head and grasped his mouth tightly, turning the cry that had not been uttered into muffled struggles.

  He soon convulsed and fainted away.

  Behind him, Su Ming's face was calm as he gently laid the man down and squatted there, looking around. At this late hour, all was quiet around them, with only the faint outline of the earthen castle visible in the darkness, along with the flickering bonfires from the surrounding affiliated tribes.

  In another direction, Su Ming also saw a bonfire, but the color of the flame was not red, but green! That green flame emitted an eerie aura, and under the moonlight on this deep night, it contained a sinister atmosphere.

  The singing voice came from the green bonfire over there.

  Su Ming furrowed his brow and quietly approached the gloomy place, slowly crouching down as he drew near. What he saw made his heart skip a beat.

  That green smoke-emitting bonfire was burning fiercely, with a large number of dry branches on it, and inside it, Su Ming saw some corpses. Those corpses had obviously been dead for a long time, burning in the fire, making soft crackling sounds.

  Around the bonfire, seven people sat cross-legged. Among them, one person sat right in front of the fire. The other six people were divided into two groups of three on either side, and among them was Beiling!

  The person sitting right above was a young man wearing a black robe, he had no hair, and his appearance was quite handsome, but under the reflection of the fire, there was a hint of evil intention.

  Su Ming remained silent, squatting there with his eyes fixed intently on the scene before him. Gradually, he discerned some clues - faintly, within the green flames, six strands of aura seemed to be emanating, being absorbed by the six people around the bald youth through their mouths and noses, causing their faces to grow increasingly pale, their bodies trembling imperceptibly.

  In a short while, one of the six people sitting on both sides stood up and walked to the bald young man's side. He knelt down on one knee, clapped his hands together in front of his chest, and immediately his body shook even more violently. A drop of green blood was slowly squeezed out from between his eyebrows and flew towards the bald young man in front of him. At the same time, a patch of dark green blood about the size of a fingernail appeared on the bald young man's forehead, merging with the blood that had been offered by the other person.

  After merging with this green blood, the bald young man's entire body suddenly appeared with many blood lines, but inside those blood lines, there was a faint hint of green.

  A strong aura burst out from the young man's body, and Su Ming narrowed his eyes, realizing that he had misjudged him. This person was not at the eighth layer of the Congealing Blood Realm, nor was he at the seventh layer... but rather at the sixth layer!

  It's just at the peak of the sixth level, as if it wants to break through into the seventh level.

  "It seems that I overestimated the Wind Pavilion tribe." Su Ming's body didn't move, his eyes fixed on Beiling. At this moment, except for Beiling, everyone else had already stood up one after another, and after forcing out a bloody sweat, they returned to their original positions with exhaustion.

  "Wu Sen... For the past few days, I've given you over a dozen drops of phosphorus blood. Now I'm already very weak. The big test is tomorrow morning. Today, I'll only give you one drop, okay?" Beiling opened his eyes and looked at the bald young man with a complex gaze, speaking in a low voice.

  "Huh?" The bald young man was Ou Sen, his eyes gleaming with a hint of green as he stared at Bei Ling.

  "Do you want to back out? As I said before, if you help me break through to the seventh layer and I get the Ah Gong's Blood, I can give you a strand. It was the same that year, at most you won't participate in the first two rounds, and in the last round I'll give you a strand of blood, you enter the top 50, no problem."

  “Th...” Beiling hesitated for a moment, seeming to struggle, but soon gritted his teeth and stepped forward, kneeling on one knee in front of Wu Sen. His hands shook violently at his chest, and immediately his body trembled, with a drop of green blood flying out from between his eyebrows.

  But just as the blood flew out, Beiling's expression was tired and weak, seemingly wilted. Just as he wanted to get up and retreat to catch his breath, he saw Wu Sen's eyes flash, and his right hand instantly rose, directly pointing at Beiling's unguarded brow.

  "Ah!!" Beiling's body shook violently, just about to resist, but after that finger fell, his brow seemed to have been opened with a gap, and drops of blood flew out quickly!

  "Don't worry, we're friends, I won't kill you. I'll just help you stop hesitating and dedicate everything to tonight...” Wu Sen's sinister smile faded as he withdrew his finger, ready to manipulate the dark green blood that was about to merge with the blood flowing from Ling Bei's brow.

  But just then, his body suddenly shook violently, and he abruptly opened his eyes wide, not even having time to look for the floating dark green blood in front of him. He suddenly retreated several steps backward, and his entire person seemed to merge into the green flames.

  But then a black light suddenly appeared, and with a loud whooshing sound, a black long spear, like a giant black dragon, swooped in, instantly passing over the crowd, passing over North Ling who was stunned in place, and rushing straight towards the bald young man Wu Sen.

  A loud, muffled boom, the fire heap suddenly burst open, a large amount of green flames scattered around, a strong figure suddenly appeared, its speed was so fast that it almost stood in front of Beiling at the moment the flames burst open. His right hand raised and grabbed the air, instantly those blood belonging to Beiling along with the dark green blood belonging to Wusen all fell into this big man's hands.

  This big fellow, with an ordinary appearance, was actually Su Ming after changing his shape!

  "This blood is good, I'll take it." His voice was hoarse, his left hand moved, and the black spear that had pierced the ground instantly transformed into a ball of black gas, grasped in his hand.

  Su Ming slowly opened his mouth, looking at Wu Sen who had rapidly retreated during the collapse of the flames. Wu Sen's expression was rather solemn, with a hint of ferocity.

  "Die!" Wu Sen roared, and his entire body suddenly emitted a large amount of green gas, which surrounded his body and formed a blurry figure about three feet tall. The green figure let out a silent roar towards the sky, raised its arms like a zombie, and rushed towards Su Ming.

  At the same time, the rest of the people also reacted and began to circulate their internal energy, but they had previously sacrificed the green blood in their foreheads more than once, and were now in a state of weakness. Just as they were about to make a move, they saw Su Ming coldly smile, his left hand's long spear stabbing fiercely into the ground.

  Its body suddenly surged into the long spear, causing the spear to burst out a large amount of black air. At the moment it pierced the ground, a loud rumble sounded again, and the ground seemed to shake. A wave of air swept around Su Ming as its center, forcing those weak people to retreat and avoid it one by one.

  Immediately, Su Ming's body shook and he sped off extremely quickly towards Wu Sen. At the same time, his left hand lifted the long spear, black energy surged into the sky, vaguely transforming into a blurry black eagle with spread wings, stirring up strong winds, and charging towards the incoming figure that looked like a zombie.

  At this moment, the moonlight in the sky was like a string of pearls. In the midst of no one's awareness, a wisp of moonlight suddenly appeared and merged into the black eagle, joining forces to counterattack that greenish blurry figure.

  Like a thunderclap, after a loud noise, Su Ming's body rolled back, stumbled a few steps and quickly retreated to the tunnel entrance, suddenly drilling into it.

  In the moment he retreated, a furious roar came, and saw that the green blurry figure collapsed, with Ou Sen's face ferocious, there was a wound on his chest, blood flowing.

  "How dare you hurt me!!" His eyes were intensely green as he suddenly rushed out and chased after.

  Two people, one in front and one behind, disappeared into the cave in the blink of an eye, leaving behind the crowd, including Beilong, with a look of horror on their faces. They looked at each other and didn't dare to follow them.

  But soon, a dull sound came from the ground, as if the passage under the earth had collapsed, and there was a faint roar of anger. After a long time, Wu Sen walked out of the cave with a gloomy face, looking extremely disheveled, and a fierce anger filled the air, but beneath that anger, he hid an anxiety that was not noticeable to outsiders.

  "I've retrieved my stolen Qi source, but I won't refine it tonight. You all find out who this person is and bring him to me! He's not from the Wind Valley Tribe! When you do, I'll personally break his neck!!"

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