Skip this! Just tell me who to kill!

The search went quite smoothly; the other imprisoned martial artists were mostly located around Shi Gandang's cell.

However, these martial artists were not in as good condition as Shi Gandang.

Some martial artists, like Shi Gandang, who were imprisoned for a short time and were not yet thoroughly exposed to the berserk beast medicine, were relatively healthy and were able to recover slowly after being freed from the medicine.

Others, who had been immersed in the berserk beast medicine for seven or eight days, had completely lost the clarity in their eyes, replaced by bloodshot pupils.

And an uncontrollable, violent killing intent.

This murderous intent was not directed at anyone in particular; it was indiscriminately aimed at destroying all living things that appeared before it.

Seeing the fate of these martial artists, Shi Gandang felt lingering fear, but also a surge of anger rose in his heart!

"Those damned beasts from Baiyun Martial Arts School!"

He was originally a member of a martial arts organization, and at this moment, he was instructed by the organization to come and investigate the disappearance of some martial artists in Qinghua County, Hongyan Prefecture.

After investigating, he discovered that Baiyun Martial Arts School was secretly kidnapping martial artists, imprisoning them in dungeons, and soaking them in berserk venom to turn them into bloodthirsty beasts.

Then, they were thrown into the arena along with the monsters, so that high-ranking officials and nobles could seek thrills and make a profit from it!

This action has transcended the realm of humanity!

They're practically no different from those bloodthirsty monsters!

However, when Shi Gandang had gathered enough evidence to expose the sordid deeds of Baiyun Martial Arts School through his martial arts organization, he was arrested by the disciples of Baiyun Martial Arts School and sent to prison.

He almost ended up like those irrational martial artists!

Shi Gandang looked at the martial artist imprisoned in the cage and clenched his fist:

"you……"

"roar!"

Before Shi Gandang could finish speaking, the bloodshot-eyed warrior in the cage spotted him and let out a beast-like roar.

"...He has been completely consumed by his bestial nature and lost all his reason..." Shi Gandang sighed.

Click!

In the next instant, a flash of sword light appeared, and the iron bars of the cage were cleaved open with a single sword strike.

Shi Gandang stared in astonishment at Qin Muyuan beside him, watching him cleave through the iron bars, enter the cage, and then kill the martial artist whose reason had been completely eroded with a single sword stroke.

Shi Gandang asked, stunned, "...Great hero?"

"He was already dead when he lost his mind." Qin Muyuan turned and sheathed his sword. "If he's dead, don't let his body be defiled by wild beasts."

"..." Shi Gandang remained silent for a long time.

Qin Muyuan rescued the martial artists who still retained their sanity, while the rest, who had completely lost their minds, were killed by Qin Muyuan with a single sword strike.

"There shouldn't be any other imprisoned martial artists."

Reaching the end of the underground cell and seeing no other martial artists, Shi Gandang, who had regained some of his strength, said:

"Master Qin, let's leave quickly before those people from the White Cloud Martial Arts School notice us—"

"You can't go anywhere!"

Just then, at the end of the passageway they had come from, a white-haired old man with his hair standing on end in anger and his face as cold as iron suddenly appeared.

The white-haired old man exuded a powerful aura, and his footsteps echoed in the passageway. With each step he took, his aura grew stronger.

"Yin Sanyuan, the master of Baiyun Martial Arts School!"

The moment they recognized the white-haired old man, Shi Gandang and the other released martial artists' expressions changed drastically, and their faces turned pale.

"So, you do know my name..." Yin Sanyuan, his face filled with suppressed anger, walked step by step toward Qin Muyuan and his group:

"Then who... dared to kill my disciple and take my son's life!"

"Yin Sanyuan?"

Qin Muyuan ignored the white-haired old man's words and simply turned to look at Shi Gandang.

Shi Gandang's face darkened, and he said with a sense of impending doom, "He is the head of this branch of the Baiyun Martial Arts Academy. He is extremely powerful, having already reached the peak of the third-rate level, half a step into the second-rate level!"

"Huh?" Qin Muyuan picked at his ear.

Third-rate peak, half-step into second-rate?

It sounds pretty powerful, like an elite monster.

but.

Qin Muyuan asked Shi Gandang, "Then let me ask you, when second-rate martial artists hold a meeting, would they invite this third-rate peak, half-step second-rate Yin Sanyuan to attend?"

"Huh?" A look of confusion flashed across Shi Gandang's originally solemn face.

What's the problem?

To be honest, he hadn't thought about this at all... Logically speaking, a second-rate expert wouldn't invite a half-step second-rate martial artist to a meeting...

"No!" Shi Gandang's face darkened with alarm. "Hero Qin! What time is it? You're still joking around like this!"

"Yin Sanyuan's strength is extraordinary; no one in the entire Qinghua County dares to claim they can defeat him!"

"Now that he's targeting us, we're unlikely to escape unscathed!"

Shi Gandang watched as Yin Sanyuan walked towards them step by step, and then looked at the end of the passage behind them. They had nowhere to retreat at this moment!

"Hero Qin!" Shi Gandang gritted his teeth and said, "I'll do my best to hold off Yin Sanyuan for a while. After that, it's up to you, Hero Qin!"

However, just as Shi Gandang was preparing to fight to the death, a hand suddenly appeared on the back of his neck.

Accompanied by a force he couldn't resist, he was lifted up like a chick and thrown to the back.

"What are you doing? Trying to steal my monster?"

Qin Muyuan took out the pure bone nail and turned to look at Yin Sanyuan, who was furious.

"Who is your son?"

"Yin Pei!"

"Never heard of it."

"The martial arts school's top disciple who died before being imprisoned by that wolf demon!"

"oh!"

Qin Muyuan suddenly realized: "If you're talking about that little monster... yes, I killed that little monster."

"Good! Very good!" Upon hearing this, the killing intent that had been suppressed in Yin Sanyuan's eyes for a long time suddenly burst out!

The people behind Qin Muyuan were so shocked by the intense killing intent that they felt a chill in their hearts and their faces turned pale.

The wolf demon Wangcai was cowering in the corner, nearly urinating in fear.

Only Qin Muyuan remained completely unaffected by this intense killing intent.

Or rather, in front of Qin Muyuan, who possesses the golden talent of "I love killing" and can convert bloodlust and killing intent into increased strength.

Yin Sanyuan's murderous intent was nothing special.

"Die!"

Yin Sanyuan roared and hissed, his strength flowing through his body like blood.

He stomped his feet hard, and with his long sword in hand, he charged towards Qin Muyuan like an arrow released from a bow!

Qin Muyuan's pupils contracted slightly as he caught sight of Yin Sanyuan's figure. He raised the pure bone nail high and then slashed down fiercely.

"Lightning Strike Sword Technique!"

Whoohoo!

The sound of wind and thunder howled in the passageway, and the pure bone nails crashed down like lightning from the sky!

clang!

The pure bone nail clashed head-on with the longsword in Yin Sanyuan's hand, producing a loud clanging sound and sending sparks flying!

"What?!"

Yin Sanyuan retreated rapidly, his arm trembling, and he was thrown back several meters to dissipate the immense force emanating from the longsword in his hand.

He channeled his strength into his arm, controlling its trembling motion, and stared intently at the figure wielding the strange longsword.

Then they saw that the figure held a sword in one hand, his expression calm, and he did not take a single step back.

[Thunder Strike Sword Technique Level 2 (95%) → Thunder Strike Sword Technique Level 3 (7%)]

Qin Muyuan shifted his gaze from the panel and looked at Yin Sanyuan:

"Not bad, it can withstand a hit from my 95% progress level two Thunder Strike Sword Technique."

"Then... let's try the Triple Lightning Strike Sword Technique next."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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