Skip this! Just tell me who to kill!

Dead body.

In the inner city, corpses littered the streets, shops, and in front of the houses where ordinary people lived.

From these corpses, one can even discern the condition of these people before their deaths.

A civilian was walking down the street when his body suddenly swayed, his head exploded silently, and his body fell heavily to the ground.

Another person was bending over to organize the goods on the stall when, without warning, thick black blood gushed from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. He then silently collapsed among the scattered goods.

The entire inner city's main street was filled with people who had died suddenly like this.

A woman collapsed to her knees in the middle of the street, tightly embracing a five- or six-year-old child, her hoarse cries piercing the deathly silence:

"An'er... An'er, open your eyes... look at your mother..."

Qin Muyuan looked up at the sound and saw the woman wearing a thin, faded white shirt, shivering in the wind.

The child in her arms had a face as dark and wet as mud trampled on by the wealthy, with dark brown bloodstains congealed in his seven orifices.

The child's body, though dead for less than half an hour, was already festering, with dark shadows lurking between the skin and flesh.

Looking closely, one could see clusters of unidentified black insects burrowing in and out of the rotting flesh, voraciously devouring the young bodies!

These black insects seemed to have been parasitizing this body for a long time, and only now, with the child's death, have they awakened!

Seeing this, the wolf demon Wangcai couldn't help but let out a low whimper.

The smile on Qin Muyuan's face, which had been brightened by his increased strength, gradually faded as he silently watched everything unfold.

He lifted his leg, leading Wangcai through the crowd of suddenly dead people, and passed by the woman.

After walking several dozen steps on the long street in the outer city, the man and the wolf suddenly stopped.

An NPC he recognized appeared before him.

There were originally two NPCs, but now there's only one.

Liang Cijiu held Chen Shuang's gradually cooling body in a daze.

The moment he heard the footsteps stop, he slowly raised his head, staring blankly at Qin Muyuan not far away.

"Qin...Master Qin..."

The moment Liang Cijiu recognized Qin Muyuan, a trace of human clarity finally flashed across the almost dazed look in his eyes.

His voice was hoarse, and every word was tinged with despair:

"I'm so sorry... Hero Qin... I couldn't... protect Shuang'er..."

"..." Qin Muyuan remained silent, only turning his gaze to Chen Shuang.

That once bright and beautiful face now held no smile, only a stiff and cold ashen color.

A bitter, bleak smile tugged at the corner of Liang Cijiu's lips.

"It's disaster relief grain... disaster relief grain distributed by the imperial court..."

"That grain...it was tampered with...anyone who ate it developed black worms inside their bodies, which devoured their life force from the inside out..."

"Then... the human's essence and blood were devoured by the swarm of insects, turning into a stream of blood... which flew towards the direction of the palace..."

As Qin Muyuan listened to Liang Cijiu's words, the scene he had just witnessed flashed through his mind.

The scene of a woman, her clothes faded from washing, her body so thin she was just a skeleton, as if she had never eaten her fill, holding her child.

Her child died, but she didn't...

Immediately afterwards, Qin Muyuan recalled the scene when he was fighting in the palace area, and several streams of blood streaked across the sky and flowed into the palace.

"Dragon-Devouring Gu Qi...Dragon-Devouring...Gu..."

The dragon is a symbol of a country.

What is most important to a country?

He was neither a soldier, nor a minister, nor a monarch.

Rather, it is... all the ordinary people at the bottom of society who silently contribute to the country!

The Dragon-Swallowing Gu... devoured... the people of the Fire Cloud Kingdom!

Qin Muyuan looked at the bitterness on Liang Cijiu's face and remained silent for a long time.

"So it was you who killed the Yu family members of Lingzhu Market?"

However, at that moment, a figure suddenly fell from the sky, landing not far behind Liang Cijiu.

It was a woman dressed in white, with an ethereal and distant air about her, seemingly out of place in the rest of Fire Cloud City.

The woman floated down from the sky, her gaze fixed on Wangcai.

She sensed the vibrations emanating from the Echoing Insect Mother emanating from Wangcai.

She quickly turned her gaze away from Wangcai and towards Qin Muyuan.

This wolf demon's strength level is too low; it's impossible for it to kill Yu Shui.

and so.

"Were you the one who killed Yu Shui?"

Yu Zhen's icy gaze fell upon Qin Muyuan:

"Which family in Lingzhufang City keeps you as a strongman? Tell me, and I might leave you a whole corpse."

Upon hearing Yu Zhen's voice, Liang Cijiu, who was in a daze and whose eyes had lost all their light, subconsciously raised his head and looked in the direction of the voice.

The next second, when his gaze fell on Yu Zhen, a piercing pain came from his chest.

"Pfft."

Liang Cijiu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

He looked down and saw a large hole in the center of his chest, which he didn't know had appeared at some point.

From it, you can even see the remaining half of the heart, rapidly ceasing to beat...

Before he collapsed, the last words he heard were from Yu Zhen's cold voice:

"How dare you! Who gave you, a mere mortal, the right to look at me with those filthy eyes?"

pat.

The moment those words were spoken, the last remaining light in Liang Cijiu's eyes vanished, and he collapsed to the floor.

He and Chen Shuang, whom he held in his arms, died forever on the long street of Huoyun City.

After casually killing Liang Cijiu, Yu Zhen turned her gaze back to Qin Muyuan:

"I'll ask one more time—"

boom--!

The next second, an extremely terrifying killing intent suddenly burst forth from Qin Muyuan's body!

The moment Yu Zhen sensed the murderous aura, her expression changed drastically, and a feeling of horror arose in her heart!

But the moment she sensed this horrified emotion, Yu Zhen was suddenly overcome with extreme rage—

Despite being a celestial cultivator, she changed color because of the murderous aura emanating from the martial artist in this remote mountain village!

This was an immense humiliation for Fairy Yuzhen!

"Slap me in the face!"

Yu Zhen's face was as cold as ice as she raised her palm and slapped Qin Muyuan hard.

The spiritual energy emanated and formed an enormous palm in mid-air, which slammed down towards Qin Muyuan.

Zzzzz!

A clear, resounding sword cry echoed across the long street.

The giant palm formed from spiritual energy was instantly sliced ​​into hundreds of pieces amidst the sound of swords clashing!

This scene caused Yu Zhen's expression to change drastically.

To her horror, a blood-red shadow radiating murderous intent suddenly materialized behind the black-haired, black-eyed youth in front of her.

"kill!"

A chilling sound, like the descent of a frigid abyss, resounded throughout the entire sky!

Blood Shadow lunged forward, quickly merging with the youth.

In the young man's hands, a long sword, entirely blood-red and seemingly forged from fresh blood, appeared out of nowhere.

The long sword exuded an extremely terrifying aura of bloodlust.

Bang!

While Yu Zhen was still in shock, the young man in her eyes suddenly moved.

The shockwave exploded with a deafening roar, and the ground cracked in response, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading outwards for nearly five meters in length and width.

The young man's figure was like a ghost, turning into a blood-red afterimage, like a streak of blood rushing straight towards her!

Yu Zhen's expression changed drastically, and she immediately activated her spiritual energy to protect herself.

But in the next instant, a piercing pain shot through his entire body from his right arm!

scoff-

The sword light flashed and disappeared in an instant, and a fair finger flew up into the air.

Immediately afterwards, the sword flashed again, and the severed finger was cut into a pile of mangled flesh and blood in mid-air!

Even if you use magic, you absolutely cannot reconnect this muddy flesh!

"ah--"

Yu Zhen's scream hadn't even been uttered yet.

The next instant, another flash of sword light appeared.

The remaining four fingers on her right hand flew into the air again and turned into a lump of flesh!

A pain as sharp as if her bones were being torn apart swept over Yu-zhen once again!