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"Li Yuan..."

Seeing this scene through the rearview mirror from the driver's seat, Yan Qin immediately became tense: "Be careful!"

Li Yuan nodded almost imperceptibly, and at the same time suddenly threw the bottle of mineral water in his hand away.

"Bang!"

The bottled water, once released, emitted a sonic boom and shot towards one of the people like a cannonball.

In his haste to parry, the man raised his knife to block, but was knocked back several steps by the blow.

However, the mineral water bottle also burst open, splashing water into a white mist.

"What...?"

The six members of the Divine Shadow Society were taken aback, and their originally murderous faces immediately turned solemn.

"Looks like you're not that strong! You think you can chase me down with that little strength?"

A cruel smile curled at the corner of Li Yuan's lips, and the next moment he shot out like an arrow.

"Let's do it!"

Among the members of the Divine Shadow Society, a man who appeared to be a minor leader shouted.

The others hurriedly braced themselves and went to meet them.

The two met in less than a second.

"Bang!"

Li Yuan thrust his cyan bamboo staff forward like a spear, instantly blasting one of the men's eyes open and nearly piercing his head.

The next moment, he delivered a side kick, causing a man's chest to cave in, and the man screamed as he flew backward and crashed into the road embankment.

One of them roared and swung his knife at the enemy.

With his cyan bamboo staff, Li Yuan struck first, piercing the man's neck in one swift motion, and then snatched the man's cleaver.

At the same time, he retracted his lapis lazuli bamboo staff and swept it horizontally.

"Bang!"

The fourth person's head was smashed open, and his body flew out horizontally.

The remaining two looked horrified, and even the minor leader's pupils contracted and his face turned ugly.

The person closest to Li Yuan suddenly turned and ran, fleeing without a fight.

Li Yuan suddenly swung the machete he had just acquired, piercing the man's back, and then quickly picked up another machete.

Fearing damage to the bamboo sword, he dared not draw it during this direct confrontation.

"Will Shenying let you go?!"

The remaining minor leader roared and charged forward.

Without any fancy moves, Li Yuan slashed forward with his sword and directly clashed with his opponent.

With a loud "clang," sparks flew as the leader's machete was knocked away, sending him staggering backward with his arm going numb.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Yuan suddenly rushed out, his blade flashing.

"puff!"

Heads fell to the ground.

Li Yuan, his expression unchanged, walked directly towards the others and began to deliver the finishing blows.

Inside the private car ahead, Yan Qin witnessed this scene firsthand, her beautiful eyes sparkling with admiration.

However, witnessing Li Chen kill someone for the first time was shocking, and her feelings were also somewhat complicated.

Behind him, Li Yuan finished off the last man, and after confirming that everyone was dead, he threw down his badly damaged machete and walked towards the private car.

However, just as he approached the private car, his expression suddenly changed, and he turned and ran without hesitation.

"boom--"

The car exploded, illuminating a radius of 100 meters.

However, Li Yuan had already rushed more than 20 meters and was not injured.

"Li Yuan..." Yan Qin, who was in the car, was shocked and looked at Li Yuan outside the window with concern.

"These are truly the methods of evil forces; I've really learned something new!"

Li Yuan was somewhat disappointed; he had wanted to find some supplies, such as gasoline.

But it doesn't matter if we don't find it, anyway, Yan Qin's car should have enough gas to last until the next gas station.

Once the flames subsided, he glanced at the bare slope below the road, then strode to the left side of the burning car and kicked it out.

"boom--"

The burning vehicle overturned and rolled down the bare slope outside the road.

Inside the car ahead, Yan Qin's beautiful eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the scene: "How...how can he be so strong?!"

After dealing with the car, Li Yuan walked towards the corpses and threw them one by one off the road.

Seeing that Yan Qin wanted to get out of the car to help, he quickly stopped her: "You can stay in the car. If there is any accident, we can leave quickly."

He was also worried that Yan Qin's bloodstains might cause other trouble.

He was very careful when disposing of the body, making sure not to get any blood on himself.

Upon hearing this, Yan Qin had no choice but to get back into the car.

Because he was worried that there were members of the Divine Shadow Society in the police station, Li Yuan did not call the police again this time.

He threw away all the corpses, cleaned up the bloodstains, and kept only one intact machete.

After confirming that the marks wouldn't be too obvious, he took the machete back to Yan Qin's car, opened the passenger door, and got in.

He closed the car door, put away the lapis lazuli bamboo staff and machete, and then said, "Keep driving, drive carefully."

The bamboo sword isn't strong enough right now, so he's hesitant to use it too much. Therefore, having a high-quality sword as a substitute would be ideal.

"Okay...okay!"

Yan Qin suppressed the surging emotions in her chest and then restarted the car.

The white car set off again, speeding through the night and moving further and further away from Nancy.

Fortunately, no other vehicles caught up this time.

After a long pause, Yan Qin finally spoke, asking with some concern, "Are you hurt?"

"No, those people are just average," Li Yuan replied casually.

Upon hearing this, Yan Qin glanced sideways, but still said, "It's good that you're not injured."

She paused, then said with mixed feelings, "How did the world become like this? Those people are so lawless, openly chasing us with controlled knives!"

"It's actually not too bad now. The people from the Divine Shadow Society don't dare to go too far, otherwise they would have made their move during the day."

Li Yuan said, "At least the currency hasn't collapsed yet, and social order hasn't collapsed either."

Even he couldn't predict what the future would hold.

"The Divine Shadow Society?" Yan Qin was taken aback, suddenly recalling the angry roar of that minor leader just now.

"It's the force to which those people who are hunting you belong."

Li Yuan said with an unchanged expression, "This force should be in control of some special secrets. Almost all of its members are experts. Even the small fry can easily take on ten ordinary people."

Yan Qin's face turned pale instantly, and her hands gripping the steering wheel trembled uncontrollably: "How could the country allow such an evil force to exist?"

She couldn't imagine how she would have survived this ordeal without Li Yuan's help.

"This also shows from another perspective that the country's control has begun to weaken."

Li Yuan didn't reveal that he would still clash with the Divine Shadow Society even without Yan Qin: "Just focus on driving, leave the rest to me."

"Yes, thank you!"

Yan Qin tried to calm herself down and then focused on driving.

Twenty minutes later, the vehicle successfully entered the highway.

Li Yuan was initially very worried that the machete would be discovered, but to his surprise, the highway checkpoint inspection was very lenient and nothing unexpected happened.

This gave him a secret sigh of relief. Even though the killing of the Shadow Gang members had official backing, carrying a controlled knife without authorization would still cause him trouble.

They rarely encountered other vehicles along the way.

There should be a lot of vehicles on this road.

But now, it takes at least ten minutes to encounter one.

Clearly, everyone began to realize the problem and dared not wander around at night.

More than an hour after entering the highway, a sudden chill appeared.

Li Yuan felt a chill run down his spine. Without making a sound, he gripped the jade pendant in his pocket, expending a small amount of his essence and spirit to transform it into a light that warded off evil.

The next moment, the chilling feeling vanished as if it had never existed.

This relieved him somewhat. Fortunately, even without putting it in his equipment slot, the health-preserving and evil-repelling jade pendant was still very useful.

Unfortunately, the aura of protection directly generated by the jade pendant could not leave his body; it could only cover him.

However, it was a strange item with a blue tag, and its intimidating effect was quite strong. For a long time afterward, that chilling aura did not reappear.

This was the first time Li Yuan had directly used the jade pendant to transform the light of warding off evil. He discovered that this method consumed a one-time amount of vital energy.

Because the protective aura covering the body will slowly dissipate and cannot last forever.

To maintain the aura of warding off evil, one must continuously consume essence, energy, and spirit for transformation.

In addition, directly transforming one's essence, energy, and spirit through jade pendants in this way consumes a great deal of these energies, making it somewhat counterproductive.

"It seems the most cost-effective approach is to consume it, permanently solidify it into an attribute, and then enhance the bound item," he pondered to himself.

As time passed and the night grew deeper, Yan Qin couldn't help but feel sleepy.

To avoid a car accident, Li Yuan had to take the initiative to start a conversation with Yan Qin, keeping her quiet and avoiding her suddenly falling asleep.

However, as dawn broke, Yan Qin almost drove the car into the ditch.

"The people from the Divine Shadow Society shouldn't be able to catch up anymore. You can go to the back and sleep. I'll drive from now on," Li Yuan quickly said.

"Can you handle it?" Yan Qin slowly parked the car on the side of the road.

"I can easily stay up for three days and three nights without any problem now," Li Yuan replied.

He just happened to be working on solidifying the "night owl" tagline, so what he was doing now was just incidental.

"Well... thank you for your help."

Yan Qin knew that driving while fatigued was dangerous, so she didn't insist and went straight to the back seat to sleep.

Li Yuan then went around to the driver's seat, restarted the car, and continued driving following the navigation.

He had only been gone for a little over half an hour when he suddenly realized that his strength was rapidly draining away.