Scourge Messenger

Chapter 153 A Powerful Kill of a Third-Rank Expert
Secret Technique: Flowing Transformation. This is a very mysterious secret technique. It can hardly increase damage, but it requires a lot of health to activate and will also cause damage to oneself. Therefore, most military town messengers do not practice this secret technique. Pharmacist Yuan is a very rare exception.

Since the enemy of the military town messenger is a demon, the demon will not hide at all, and the feints are meaningless to the demon.

However, in battles between messengers, circulation possesses tactical value beyond imagination.

A successful tactical deception can be an opportunity to turn the tide of battle.

Zhong Ji's trump card was originally prepared for Prajna. The combination of his Blood Shadow and the Flowing Flow would be enough to keep him dry in the rain. If he could trick Prajna into using the rain at a critical moment, the resulting psychological damage could even crush Prajna's followers.

Unless everyone is killed, Prajna will eventually receive the news that this surprise attack will no longer be of any use. But for the sake of the legendary gauntlets, this sacrifice is perfectly acceptable.

This is my trump card against the Great Protector Prajna. I will use your life to prove my ultimate skill. You can die without regret!

Zhong Ji held nothing back, his blood and qi surging almost to boiling, and his Hundred Refined Demon Claws wreathed in black light, clearly having activated their power! He roared like a hungry wolf, his hands becoming afterimages as he attacked the Bunny Girl!

The bunny girl dodged left and right, managing to narrowly avoid his attacks each time. Ten seconds passed in no time. Seeing this, Zhong Ji showed no concern, but instead revealed a mocking smile.

His third job advancement is the rare Bloodclaw Messenger, possessing two simple yet ferocious characteristics:
The more attacks you make, the faster your attack speed becomes.

The faster the attack speed, the higher the attack resilience.

After he attacks fifty times in a row, his attack speed will reach its limit, and even a third-level demon king cannot interrupt his offensive. With the slowing effect of the Hundred Refined Demon Claw, he even tried to torture a third-level messenger to death. The other party could not even escape. In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, all that was left on the person was his bare bones!

Now, he is close to his attack speed limit. No matter what the opponent does, he cannot interrupt him. Once he hits you, what follows is a real storm. The opponent can only be like a pitiful doll, ravaged by the storm until he is broken!
clang!
With a sharp clang of metal, Zhong Ji's attack came to an abrupt halt. He saw his right hand being parried, and the recoil pain further fueled his killing intent.

Can't stop!
He desperately reached for the little girl's throat with his left hand, but she smiled slightly and deflected it with her sword again.

clang!
“Uncle, I’ve seen through you,” she said with a look of boredom. “If you don’t have any other tricks up your sleeve, you can go die now.”

You see right through me?
I am a third-ranking messenger, a fifth-ranking official in front of the Shu Road Mountain, and the Blood Attendant Zhong Ji!

You, a little kid whose brain isn't even fully developed yet, dare to say you can see through me?!
The blood-red aura emanating from the little girl's body almost filled Zhong Ji's entire field of vision. It was filled with hostility, malice, and murderous intent, and was extremely dazzling and repulsive!
If his roar just now was to unleash his power, then Zhong Ji is now truly howling like a wild beast, with only one thought in his mind: to devour all the enemies in front of him!

clang! clang! clang! clang!
Like someone hammering metal next to his ear, the clanging sound was incessant, making Zhong Ji incredibly irritated. This irritation could only be vented through even more ferocious attacks. He refused to believe she could keep blocking forever; he just needed to grab her, just one touch—

Suddenly, a crisp yet tragic shattering sound rang out from his hands, instantly snapping Zhong Ji out of his bloodlust.

He saw the Hundred-Refined Demon Claw that had followed him for many years shatter into pieces, and his heart seemed to shatter into pieces as well; the black light that was wrapped around it quickly dissipated, revealing the cold steel luster again, and his anger and madness seemed to dissipate as well, and reason returned to its rightful place.

The Hundred-Refined Demon Claw shattered.

His magical artifact was shattered!
A longsword gleaming with blue starlight pierced his throat. Zhong Ji instinctively dodged and retaliated with a claw, but he no longer possessed the Hundred Refined Demon Claw, and his bare-handed claw attack could not penetrate the token's protection.

But the little girl still jumped up to dodge.

Zhong Ji immediately realized he had done something wrong... perhaps he had been wrong from the very beginning... but this one mistake could cost him his life.

Heavy rain is coming!

The moment the little girl dodged and entered the downpour, Zhong Ji also activated Blood Shadow and retreated without hesitation. However, before he could escape even one step, his back slammed into a hard rock. Not only his back, but Zhong Ji also realized that he was surrounded by cliffs and precipices... The only way out was ahead, but a torrential downpour of swords and spears was falling in front of him.

As he lost his mind in a fit of rage, his opponent had already cornered him step by step, leaving him with no way to escape but to face the opponent's long-prepared deadly attack head-on!

Never before had starlight been so clear, nor sword light so dazzling. In an instant, Zhong Ji knew he had been stabbed more than ten times, but he found that his protective token remained completely unaffected. A veteran of many battles, he immediately guessed the truth—it was a token with a delayed activation!
Before the little girl could continue her attack, he didn't hesitate to step on the cliff with his left foot and on the rock with his right foot. In just three steps, he jumped from the flat ground onto the rock!

The bunny girl below stared wide-eyed as Zhong Ji escaped.

She can't jump around like that; the game doesn't offer that kind of movement!
Just then, Bunny Girl felt her collar being lifted from behind. Turning around, she saw it was Pharmacist Yuan. She picked Bunny Girl up like a cat and then threw her with all her might. Bunny Girl flew over the rocks like a cannonball.

Even the pharmacist herself felt something was off, let alone the bunny girl. She'd thrown many things before, but this was the first time she'd ever thrown a little girl at someone.

After throwing it out, Ya Shi Yuan originally wanted to follow immediately, but at this moment she heard scattered footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw that it was the Demon Path Messenger who was approaching with ill intentions.

Did they think that since Bunny Girl wasn't around, they dared to come after me?

The pharmacist was both annoyed and amused. This was the first time she had been treated like a pushover since being promoted to a third-tier messenger.

“Alright.” The Pharmacist spun the Soul-Severing Spear and walked straight toward the demonic messengers, turning his walk into a charge: “I have to take a few heads… otherwise I’ll be too embarrassed to face my sister.”

...

run!
Zhong Ji stumbled and ran toward the mountain stronghold, blood flowing from his seven orifices. His expression was one of terror, and his hands hung limply at his sides, blood flowing continuously from his sleeves like two swaying willow branches.

Fortunately, his defensive token was the Liang Kingdom's Heart-Protecting Mirror, which barely managed to withstand the Bunny Girl's Rain of Stars. But then the monster followed, forcing him to activate Blood Shadow again to escape.

Then Zhong Ji discovered something terrifying: his blood and energy were completely depleted.

Blood Shadow is an extremely energy-consuming killing move that requires the use of secret techniques, the acceleration power of rare boots, and the insight power of rare jade pendants. That's why he can still bypass obstacles and accurately kill enemies at ghostly speed.

He was not unaware of this weakness, but he always managed to kill the enemy or escape before it happened... No one had ever driven him to such a desperate situation.

Not only that, after escaping, Zhong Ji discovered that the muscles in his hands had been torn and his arm bones broken by the recoil. Even the shaking while running made him sweat profusely from the pain, and he couldn't even take out the spirit jade to replenish his spiritual power, so naturally he couldn't replenish the layers of the Heart Protection Mirror.

"My elder brother possesses the Blood Element Bell Technique, you can't kill me!" he roared as he ran. "If you kill me, my elder brother will hunt you down to the ends of the earth, and everyone connected to you will die!"

"Then we must eliminate them completely. If you were alive, you'd be constantly urging your brother to take revenge." The bunny girl said casually while hacking away behind them, "Dealing with one third-tier messenger is always better than dealing with two, don't you think?"

"No, no, I won't take revenge. I know I was wrong, I'll never dare to do it again. If I ever see you again, I, Zhong Ji, will definitely give you the cold shoulder! I will speak well of you to my elder brother, and the Blood Prime Sect will be your friend!" Zhong Ji didn't even try to dodge, focusing all his efforts on escaping towards the mountain stronghold. What he said at this moment was the truth. He was truly terrified of the Rabbit Girl... but revenge was inevitable. A wolf will become cruel again once it has healed its wounds; that's how beasts always are.

"Really? I don't believe it," Bunny Girl laughed, her tone playful like a cat chasing a mouse.

As another layer of the protective mirror shattered, Zhong Ji finally saw the gatekeepers of the mountain stronghold and roared, "I am Zhong Ji! Someone is attacking the stronghold! Quickly call my elder brother Xue Xiang! Hurry! No, come quickly and help me block her!"

The gatekeepers were quick-witted; they hadn't moved when they heard the order from the front, but upon hearing the plea for help from behind, the two men immediately ran into the mountain stronghold. Zhong Ji secretly harbored resentment, thinking that he would skin the two men alive someday.

"My elder brother is coming, aren't you going to run away?" The mountain stronghold was not far away, and Zhong Ji's courage returned. He said hatefully, "You don't think that you can defeat my elder brother by defeating me, do you? The Great Protector Prajna is also a messenger of the storm, but he can only stand on equal footing with my elder brother!"

"Oh." Bunny Girl said in a flat tone, "Then you should have lured me over, why did you chase me away? Are you feeling guilty?"

In the phrase.

Although Zhong Ji believed in his brother's bloodline strength, the little girl chasing after him and trying to kill him had terrified him. Moreover, she hadn't shown any fear throughout, so she must have some trump card up her sleeve. Zhong Ji only wanted to survive; even revenge was something he'd rather wait until later.

In the past, Zhong Ji would reach this mountain path in the blink of an eye, without any effort, but today it felt so long and exhausting. He felt as if he was dragging his body up the mountain. Just as he was about to reach the entrance of the mountain stronghold, another layer of Zhong Ji's protective shield shattered... but he survived.

Because he heard the most familiar voice!
"Third brother!"

A thunderous roar erupted from the mountain stronghold, and a figure draped in a crimson robe swept through the front courtyard like a ghost, shooting a foul-smelling arrow of blood from afar: "Whoever wounded my third brother shall die!"

Seeing this, Zhong Ji felt a chill run down his spine, as if the blood arrow was aimed at him... but he wished it was aimed at him! He tried his best to block the blood arrow, but he was too exhausted. The slightest movement of his hands caused excruciating pain, so he could only watch helplessly as it passed by him.

Following the trail of blood, one could see the little girl's smiling face, a mocking curve at the corner of her lips, like a child laughing at an adult's foolishness.

During the heavy rain, it was activated.

This time, Zhong Ji lost count of how many times she had thrust her sword. He stumbled into the mountain stronghold and heard her call out behind him, "I'll give you ten seconds to say your last words, uncle. You're welcome. This heroine is just that helpful!"

"Third Brother!" Xue Xiang rushed over and hugged him. Seeing his nearly crippled hands, his expression darkened like an angry Buddha: "Don't be afraid, your elder brother is here. I will definitely—"

"Elder brother, elder brother!" Zhong Ji cried out, tears streaming down his face, his voice choked with sobs, "No, don't let Fu'er suffer like us. Let Fu'er go to the military town, to be... to be an ordinary person—"

Snapped!
More than twenty sword wounds erupted simultaneously, rendering the protective mirror utterly useless. In an instant, Zhong Ji was reduced to a tattered blood bag. Blood flowed along the wounds, quickly forming a dark red pool on the ground. In life, he was utterly wicked, selfish, and cruel, yet in death, he became selfless and kind.

Xue Shilang Zhong Ji died.

Xue Xiang held his brother, who was barely recognizable as a human, and after a moment carefully placed him on the ground, as if afraid of disturbing his rest.

The bunny girl remained silent throughout the entire process, simply watching quietly. Only when Xue Xiang looked over did she ask, "Is Fu'er his son?"

"It's my son."

"So you brothers have a pretty good relationship."

“Yes,” Blood Element said.

(End of this chapter)