Swallowing the Stars: The Wind Sword Master.

Chapter 19 Tomorrow, this sword will surely be stained with blood!

The same city.

After searching for three days without finding anyone, Flying Eagle's patience was wearing thin.

Poison Wolf was even more impatient.

"You bastard! Do you even know where he is? You dare ask me for 500 million?!"

The venomous wolf roared furiously.

Flying Eagle was extremely annoyed, but could only force a smile and comfort him, "Even if I lied to you, I wouldn't turn down money!"

"Where is that person?" Poison Wolf's eyes widened as he fiercely demanded.

Flying Eagle took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, calmly saying, "Don't worry, I'm sure they're here, they just don't know where they're hiding."

Let's change the subject.

"You probably know that the kid you're training is too weak to hunt monsters in a county town like this."

Upon hearing this, Poison Wolf became even more anxious. S-level geniuses have a certain chance of becoming war god-level powerhouses, and Ning Ze's defeat of an S-level genius seemed even more impressive.

They now possess the strength of advanced warriors. Once they mature, they will inevitably settle scores with them, and even hiding in the base city may not be safe.

People can't just wait to die, especially people like them who make money illegally. How else can they make money if they don't come to the wilderness?

But being hasty is useless. If they push Flying Eagle too far and become reckless, they will miss an opportunity to kill them in advance. They are on guard against the Warfire Squad, and the Warfire Squad is also on guard against them.

Most martial artists are indeed very cautious in the wilderness, but his squad is notorious, and very few would inform him. Ning Ze is growing so fast that if he misses this opportunity, he may not have another chance.

Suddenly, a gasp came from beside me.

"Boss! Found it!"

Flying Eagle's face lit up with joy, and he said to the video, "Wait a minute, let me confirm!"

After ending the call, he quickly picked up his binoculars and asked, "Where are you?"

"Boss, 55 o'clock." The man said without turning his head, squatting by the window.

Flying Eagle quickly looked in that direction.

in view.

A square-faced man ran with a look of terror on his face, his movements appearing clumsy and his expression extremely frightened.

Behind Xu Liang were long snakes leaping about, each leap nearly hitting him, but always just missing by a hair's breadth.

"one person?"

Flying Eagle frowned, and after noticing Xu Liang's actions, he suddenly realized, "This is to lure the monsters over. No wonder we haven't found them for three days in a row. They must have found a hidden blind spot."

"Xuanzi, go upstairs and follow them. You know this stuff well. Just don't get caught. As long as you find them, that's fine. We'll follow them downstairs."

"Yes, boss."

As soon as he finished speaking, a slender martial artist jumped out of the window, stomped a few times, and landed on the roof. He raised his machine gun to pinpoint Xu Liang's location and slowly followed him.

……

As evening approached, the sky grew slightly dark.

After a whole day of devastation, the already gray streets were soaked in blood.

There were many monster corpses on the streets: black-spotted cat monsters, black-and-white snake monsters, armored sloths, and bloodthirsty cloud wolves. Without exception, these monster corpses were covered with sword marks, their skin torn and bleeding everywhere.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the street not far away, the battle continued.

One after another, ape-like monsters covered in long, yellowish-brown fur tumbled on the dilapidated staircases on both sides. They roared "Ooh!" and "Ooh!" at times, and bared their teeth toward the center of the street. Their long, sharp teeth were sticky with slime, and their gaping maws looked terrifying.

A long-armed yellow ape climbed onto the window, ripped off the two-meter-long window frame, and threw it behind it without hesitation.

A silvery-white sword light descended from above, and in an instant, the window was split in two, revealing a resolute face stained with blood.

Just as Ning Ze was about to give chase, seven or eight more stones shot towards him at high speed. His feet hit the vertical wall, and he stopped abruptly.

"These long-armed yellow apes are quite clever. Knowing they can't defeat me, they constantly run away and evade ambushes. They not only use tools and utilize the terrain, but they also fight as a team."

Inside the VIP room on the top floor of the clubhouse building.

Xu Liang grinned as he watched Ning Ze being forced back again. "Haha, this time it won't be so easy, will it? I had a hard time luring them here before. I even took a lot of stones the whole way."

Ma Yu smiled slightly, "You've been hit by rocks the whole way, but this kid hasn't been hit even once."

Xu Liang shrugged and said, "He's stronger than me, and his movement technique is at the microscopic level. It's normal that I didn't get hit."

"Why are you admitting now that you're not as good as Xiaoze? You wouldn't have admitted it before, would you?" Zuo Xingyuan said sarcastically.

"That's because..." Xu Liang said, his eyes darting around, "Even if I admit that I'm not as strong as him, it doesn't seem to matter. It's only a matter of time, and I won't lose anything."

"But it's different for you. If you lose, your position as captain will be in jeopardy."

"snort."

Zuo Xingyuan snorted and was about to say that Ning Ze wouldn't stay in the team for long and wouldn't threaten his position as captain.

Before he could even finish speaking, he felt his communication watch vibrate.

I clicked on it and took a look.

Boss Ning: The fish has taken the bait.

Zuo Xingyuan narrowed his eyes, turned his head and shouted down, "Kid, stop playing around, that's enough to take care of them."

Upon hearing this, Ning Ze's eyes narrowed, and his speed suddenly increased. In just a few steps, he caught up with a long-armed yellow ape. With a flick of his longsword, sword shadows spread everywhere, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake for a moment.

Ning Ze thrust his weapon through the air, and before the long-armed yellow ape could react, silver light shot into its brain from its eyes, and its body fell limply downwards.

The other long-armed yellow gibbons roared in fear and anger, but one of them was quickly killed. Seeing that things were not going well, they began to flee.

After killing the three long-armed Kizaru, Ning Ze did not choose to give chase. Instead, he turned around and ran towards the clubhouse building. After stepping on the damaged exterior wall several times, he climbed through the window and arrived at a room on the top floor.

"Captain, is today's battle over?"

Zuo Xingyuan nodded and said, "Let's change our location first; this place has already been exposed."

Ning Ze was puzzled. Had they been exposed? Were they being monitored?

He didn't ask any questions, but silently followed behind, ready to deal with whatever came his way. He figured that if anything happened, Zuo Xingyuan would tell him once they reached their new hiding place.

Open the system panel.

[Host: Ning Ze]

[Level: Advanced Warrior 4115kg]

[Cultivation Skills: Gene Energy Cultivation Method "Five Hearts Facing Heaven"; Guiding Technique "Seven Techniques of Spiritual Wind"]

[Combat Skills: Swift Movement - Mastery 3188/10000; Wind Slash - Expertise 3293/10000]

His improvement over these three days has been remarkable.

His strength increased by 800kg, and his physical fitness was directly upgraded to that of a high-level warrior.

The works that have made even more rapid progress are "Wind Slash" and "Swift Journey".

In the heat of battle, his swordsmanship and movement skills will improve rapidly, and the more intense the battle, the faster they will improve.

Once these monsters are exhausted, Ningze will take care of them.

At home, it would take eight days just to improve my physical fitness! And that would require 20 hours of training a day. Now, with combat time added up to only a day and a half, both my physical fitness and swordsmanship proficiency are improving, and my overall training speed is five times faster than at home!

This is all thanks to that rat infestation.

Even if his microscopic movement technique allows him to hold out under siege, a person's stamina is limited. Monsters will eventually run out of strength, and his stamina will be depleted even faster after he exerts his strength.

Ning Ze drew inspiration from his escape from the rat swarm. Since he could absorb cosmic energy while running and thus become tireless, he should be able to do the same in battle.

He succeeded after just a simple experiment, forcing himself into a state of cultivation during battle, constantly absorbing cosmic energy. This cosmic energy was certainly not enough to strengthen his genes, but it could restore his physical strength, giving him almost unlimited stamina. At most, he would experience mental fatigue.

However, this fatigue did not last long. It was very exhausting at the beginning when facing the siege, but the situation lessened considerably later.

Because his strength increased too quickly.

If your basic strength increases by 1kg, then you will increase it by 2kg when you exert force.

The first time he was surrounded was very dangerous. After a fierce battle, he gained 200kg, bringing his body weight to 3500kg. After exerting his strength, he weighed 7000kg.

This is extremely high even among advanced warriors, and coupled with his microscopic movement skills, ordinary monsters simply cannot pose a threat to him.

They can't exactly bring in a Beast General-level monster for sparring; if there were valuable big guys like Beast General-level monsters around, they would have killed them long ago.

Therefore, he could only use the original "Wind Slash" in a proper manner, reducing his power from 2 times to 1.4 times, which drastically reduced his strength to 4900kg, allowing the monster to put pressure on him.

Correspondingly, because he wasn't at his peak combat strength, his mind wasn't as fatigued. Because he had a trump card, the battle situation became less dangerous, and his rate of improvement began to slow down.

However, this training speed was much faster than at home. For three consecutive days, his combat power soared again, making him fully capable of becoming a junior warrior, and even approaching the level of his two uncles who were warriors.

The war squad found another place to stay.

Zuo Xingyuan strictly ordered everyone to be on high alert and check their surroundings, as if they had already entered a battle.

Everything is in order.

Zuo Xingyuan approached Ning Ze, smiled slightly, and asked, "Aren't you curious?"

"I'm curious," Ning Ze said earnestly. "I'm waiting for you to tell me."

"You brat!" Zuo Xingyuan grinned cruelly, "The time for revenge has come!"

"Revenge?" Ning Ze asked, puzzled. "The Blood Eagle Squad? They're coming to ambush us?"

They went into the wilderness and encountered this small team, who then robbed them of their prey. Naturally, they were the ones with whom they had a grudge.

"The Blood Eagle Squad? It should be them, right? But they're just accomplices." Zuo Xingyuan wasn't very sure, then a cold glint flashed in his eyes. "Whoever it is, the grudge from eight years ago should be avenged, or to be precise, seven years and six months."

"You must have figured something out, right?"

Ning Ze's pupils constricted sharply, and he asked in an icy voice, "You mean my father? That attack by the monsters wasn't an accident, but rather deliberate?"

"snort!"

"Accident?"

Zuo Xingyuan scoffed, "Without a lord-level monster uprising, without high-level beast generals commanding them, without war god-level experts hunting monsters, and without a monster siege, how could several types of monsters possibly riot simultaneously? And how could they be relentlessly pursuing us?"

"The monster is intelligent, even more so than the monsters that are human. The reason it does such random things and completely unleashes its wildness is because of a plant, or rather, a treasure."

Zuo Xingyuan smiled insincerely, his smile was quite chilling, and his eyes were filled with surging hatred.

Ning Ze was also filled with anger. He asked in a low voice, "What plant?"

"Starry Night Grass! A single plant was worth over 100 million Chinese Yuan. That was the price before; now it should be worth 200 million."

Zuo Xingyuan's voice was very cold. "Its function is very simple. When the powder of Starry Night Grass is mixed with the juice of Bloodlight Vine, it will produce a strange fragrance. This drug can promote the evolution of monsters. Similarly, the fragrance has a deadly attraction to monsters. These two plants are the main ingredients in the gene potion."

"And then?" Ning Ze's eyes were icy cold. "And who was the enemy?"

"And then?" Zuo Xingyuan pondered for a moment, a huge shadow seemingly appearing in his eyes. He murmured, "You shouldn't forget the last rat swarm, right? More or less, but the colors were much more vibrant. We escaped..."

It was dazzling?

Ning Ze fell silent for a moment. How could he forget the last rat tide? If the last rat tide had been replaced by a beast tide, then naturally there would have been all sorts of monsters: the jet-black Black Tide Bull, the yellowish-brown long-armed Yellow Ape, the orange-yellow Black-striped Cloud Leopard, the deep purple Purple Lightning Scale Snake... Wouldn't that have been quite a sight?

The helplessness he felt while running meant that if he hadn't forced himself into a meditative state, even ten minutes of rapid running would have left him exhausted. How long did his father persevere, and what kind of desperate struggle did he go through?

What kind of despair is it to be surrounded by an endless horde of monsters...?

"As for the enemy, it was the Poison Wolf Squad we encountered in the wilderness!" Zuo Xingyuan's voice was filled with hatred. "They attacked us in the shadows while we were fighting for prey. We won in the end, and the Poison Wolf Squad was slashed by Boss Ning. After they retreated, the monsters around them started to rampage!"

"Those bastards scattered a mixture of Starry Night Grass and Bloodlight Vine around us. They had prepared cleansing potions beforehand, but we didn't. We barely managed to break through the monster horde, each of us covered in blood, but the monsters still didn't give up. They chased us for a hundred miles, and most of the monsters had already given up, but in the end, there was still a Purple-Eyed Demon Wolf chasing us. That was a mid-level Beast General. Boss Ning had only recently become a War General, and he only managed to kill that monster at the cost of a leg."

"We found evidence afterward, but they denied it at all. We wanted revenge. However, the managers of Extreme Martial Arts School and Thunder Martial Arts School negotiated and ordered a ban on our private fight."

"Of course, rules are rules. We have been closely monitoring each other's movements and looking for an opportunity to strike, but they are very vigilant and have not found an opportunity over the years."

"Now's your chance for revenge!"

Ning Ze's eyes were filled with cold light. "They came for me this time?"

Zuo Xingyuan smiled and said, "Boss Ning originally intended to protect you. He spent 200 million to gather intelligence and keep track of the Poison Wolf Squad's movements, waiting for you to grow stronger."

"This level of preparedness would have been sufficient; it was just one more enemy, and a newcomer at that, so of course they weren't afraid. But I didn't expect you to be so talented, going straight to the Thunder Martial Arts Gym and taking down their genius!"

"Once this news gets out, how could they possibly sit still? They don't dare to make a move in the base city, so they'll have to come to the wilderness."

"When we go back to the base city, we'll have a small get-together. We've made thorough plans then. It's time to settle the scores left by the older generation. If there are enemies, we'll eliminate them! We can't let you younger generation live in fear."

Ning Ze paused for a moment, then asked, "So what should we do?"

"We just need to wait and see!" Zuo Xingyuan grinned. "Now that Boss Ning has confirmed they're ready to make a move, they'll naturally come looking for us. Is there any simpler method than waiting for the enemy to come to us?"

"Do you remember the most powerful strategy I told you about?"

Ning Ze nodded, having understood the plan, and calmly said, "Call someone."

"Yes, Boss Ning made the arrangements long ago. He's already leading a large group of experts this way, and they're definitely faster than us. Besides, we sent them the exact address, so they still have to search for it." Zuo Xingyuan's face was full of smug smiles.

Ning Ze raised his head, and Yang Chao and the others all wore sinister smiles, an invisible killing intent churning in the small room.

Ning Ze gripped the light sword in his hand. His father's revenge was naturally also his revenge, especially since the enemy had come to kill him.

Tomorrow, this sword will be stained with blood!

(End of this chapter)