NOVEL ONLINE FREE 33: Sir, Times Have Changed
The boomerang made an impressive arc in the air, successfully reaping a head before returning to hover above her palm.
Chu Sang was very satisfied. The wind-breaking pattern was indeed effective, enhancing its pursuit capability.
Although it was just an ordinary magic tool, its power was comparable to a spirit tool, capable of slicing through heads like mud!
“Who are you? How dare you block our way? Don’t you know we’re disciples of the Ten Thousand Killers Sect?”
Everyone drew their weapons, warily eyeing the hostile newcomers.
“Ten Thousand Killers Sect?” Chu Sang nudged Tantai Ming’s arm. “Never heard of it. Doesn’t the name sound like some evil cult?”
He snorted coldly, “Whether it’s the Ten Thousand Killers Sect or the Ten Thousand Lives Sect, they dare to rob people from our Lingqing Sect. They must be punished, no matter how far!”
“A bunch of arrogant brats, spouting nonsense. You truly don’t know life from death!”
The leader of the kidnappers roared, drawing a nine-ringed broadsword with a clang. He released his full Golden Core stage pressure, kicking off the ground and charging like an arrow released from a bow.
Tantai Ming didn’t waste words either, raising his sword to meet the charge.
The two sides clashed, with Tantai Ming facing ten opponents alone, growing more excited as he fought, his sword moving so fast it left only afterimages.
Previously, he had been stuck at Foundation Establishment for ten years, but since Little Junior Sister arrived, his cultivation had advanced rapidly, and now he was showing signs of another breakthrough.
The small fry under his sword couldn’t last three moves, only the kidnapper leader could put up a fight against him.
One at early Golden Core stage, the other at the peak of early Golden Core, almost equivalent to mid Golden Core stage.
The two fought fiercely, with waves of spiritual energy exploding one after another, preventing others from approaching.
Except for the troublesome leader, the remaining twenty to thirty kidnappers were only at Foundation Establishment stage.
The red strings and golden bells on Wen Renyue’s wrists and ankles jingled without wind. Her movement technique was strange, turning her into a blur that disappeared from sight.
The sound of bells grew louder, coming from all directions, like the roar of ten thousand beasts.
The ground trembled, dust and stones flew about. Someone in the crowd shouted,
“Not good, there are spirit beasts!”
From the deep forest not far away, dozens of spirit beasts came charging towards them as if crazed.
Among them were more than ten second-grade Red Bristle Wild Boars, equivalent to human cultivators at Foundation Establishment stage. Moreover, these beasts had extremely strong attack power and even more terrifying defense, making them quite troublesome!
“Do you think you can escape?” Wen Renyue sat sideways on a spirit beast’s back, chuckling as she swung her slender legs. Her wrist moved slightly, and the four pairs of red string golden bells emitted a rapid, rain-like jingling.
This sound wasn’t merely the jingling of bells, but carried an indescribable, eerie quality.
The spirit beasts became even more frenzied, charging at the bandits to attack.
The crowd fell into chaos, unable to care about anything else. Some fled, some ran, scattering like a pot of porridge.
A few remaining loyal bandits struggled to hold their ground. Seeing the chaotic battle here, they decided to target Chu Sang and the other two instead.
A female cultivator at Foundation Establishment stage wasn’t worth worrying about. The other two, although at Golden Core stage, were a pill refiner and a tool refiner with little combat power. In a real fight, they wouldn’t be much different from Qi Condensation stage.
“I dislike contact with others. Please stay away from me.”
Seeing a large man charging at him with a cleaver, Su Chen’an lightly fanned his folding fan, shooting out dozens of plum blossom needles,
turning the man into a hornet’s nest.
“Run quickly… go… go catch the other one!”
The kidnappers never imagined this person’s body was hiding so many hidden weapons. Cursing him as a freak under their breath, they turned to attack Mu Chihuai nearby.
Pill refiners were widely acknowledged as the weakest in combat. Surely they couldn’t go wrong attacking this one?
“Don’t come any closer…” Mu Chihuai’s face showed terror, but the moment they got close, his lips curled into a mischievous smile.
His ten fingers held eight medicine bottles, which he waved, scattering a large cloud of white powder.
He had just been bored recently and developed several new poisons. Tantai Ming, that fool, had been tricked so many times since childhood that he couldn’t be fooled anymore.
He had been troubled about finding a new guinea pig, but unexpectedly, these people delivered themselves to his doorstep. How amusing.
“Ahh, it’s so itchy, my body is so itchy…”
“It hurts, it feels like I’m being burned… Ahh—it’s so cold!”
“My eyes, why can’t I see with my eyes!”
“Ahhhhhhh—”
People rolled on the ground, howling and wailing, a pitiful sight.
On the other side, Tantai Ming’s sword struck down the kidnapper leader, smashing him into a large stone wall.
Shards of stone pierced his skin, and the big man spat out a mouthful of blood with a “Wa!” He crawled out from the pile of rubble, his body covered in blood, looking extremely pathetic.
“You forced me to do this!” His eyes bulged, and he pulled out a medicine bottle from somewhere, tilting his head back to drink it.
“Ah……”
The next second, a beast-like growl came from his throat. His entire body turned red and rapidly expanded, muscles bulging like hard, protruding rocks.
The pressure around him also surged dramatically, breaking through from the peak of early Golden Core stage to mid Golden Core stage, then from mid Golden Core to late Golden Core, finally stopping at the peak of late Golden Core stage!
Tantai Ming’s eyes widened. The difference between early and late Golden Core was enormous, and he couldn’t react to the opponent’s speed.
The big man swung his blade down!
Chu Sang threw the Wind-Breaking Blade, hitting the big man’s arm. “Seventh Senior Brother, run quickly.”
“Seeking death! You bunch of damned insects, none of you will escape—”
“Smack!”
Before he could finish speaking, a talisman slapped his face. “Be quiet, don’t you know villains die from talking too much?”
“Ahhhh!” The big man was thoroughly enraged.
Chu Sang single-handedly attracted all the firepower, provoking the big man to wildly swing at her alone. When passing by Su Chen’an, he didn’t even spare a glance.
Su Chen’an: “……”
“Little Junior Sister, be careful!”
Tantai Ming wanted to go help, but Mu Chihuai held him back, shaking his head. “Look carefully at what Little Junior Sister is doing.”
Tantai Ming then noticed that although Little Junior Sister seemed to be fleeing in disarray, her movements were actually very tricky. Despite the huge gap in cultivation levels, the big man was using all his strength but couldn’t harm her at all.
And if you looked closely at her escape route… a formation?!
“Imprisonment Formation, activate—”
While fleeing, Chu Sang haphazardly scattered talismans, none of which hit their mark. Just as the big man was about to mock her, the girl stopped in her tracks, and the formation enveloped them both like a large net.
It turned out that the talismans she scattered weren’t for attacking, but for setting up a formation. Ninety-nine imprisonment talismans connected to form an Imprisonment Formation, firmly trapping the big man inside.
He swung his blade heavily at the formation, only to be bounced back, staggering several steps backward.
His face slightly twisted, “You think this broken formation can trap me?”
He sneered contemptuously, “Don’t forget, you’re also trapped in the formation. If I can’t get out, you won’t be able to escape alive either!”
“I don’t plan to escape.” Chu Sang reached for the Qiankun bag at her waist.
The big man tensed his entire body, expecting her to have some powerful trump card given her calmness. But to his surprise, she pulled out a… strangely shaped magic tool.
“Empty threats!”
“Let’s see what’s faster, your blade or my gun?” The black muzzle pointed at him, and Chu Sang pulled the trigger without hesitation.
“Boom—!”
A shot comparable to a Golden Core stage attack. The big man didn’t even have time to get close before he was blasted several meters away.
This… what kind of weapon is this? It’s terrifyingly powerful!
Not only was the big man stunned, but the onlookers were also dumbfounded.
Su Chen’an’s lip twitched. When he was refining the tool, he hadn’t imagined it would be used like this, or that its power would be so strong.
Little Junior Sister… how did she come up with this??
He had thought the sect finally had a somewhat normal junior sister, but it turned out she might be even more abnormal.
“Brother, times have changed.” Chu Sang blew on the gun’s muzzle, not giving the big man a chance to get up before unleashing another barrage of shots. The earth-shattering noise made even Tantai Ming and the others wince.
This formation wasn’t meant to trap the kidnapper, but to protect them, right?
The big man spat out a large mouthful of blood, his entire body’s meridians in excruciating pain, twisting his face. “Blood Fiend Phantom!”
His figure instantly vanished, reappearing behind Chu Sang, throwing a fierce punch towards her back.
Chu Sang had anticipated this, arching her lower back to dodge, rolling on the ground to avoid the attack, then swinging her hand to aim at the big man’s head, firing a direct headshot!
The phantom shattered.
—It was fake.
Eight more phantoms pounced on her simultaneously.
Her eyes turned cold. She stuck a Speed Talisman and a Vajra Talisman on herself, dodging between attacks while firing shot after shot of spiritual energy blasts, achieving one headshot per bullet, with a 100% hit rate.
“Sorry, I’m an invincible battle god.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she fired a shot behind her back. Warm blood sprayed on her body, hitting a vital point.
The big man behind her fell silent, collapsing to the ground. His eyes were wide open, unable to close even in death.
As the dust settled, Chu Sang walked out of the formation nonchalantly, hands behind her back. “I’m very strong, I know.”
“……”
They had never seen anyone who could show off more than Little Junior Sister.
But, it was indeed cool!
The kidnappers lay on the ground, writhing and moaning as if death would be a relief. Sikong Qiu went over and kicked one, “I told you to be polite to this young lady, or you’d suffer the consequences.”
After speaking, she came to the group, both surprised and delighted, “Fifth Senior Brother, Third Senior Sister, Sixth Junior Brother, Seventh Junior Brother, how did you come here? And this young lady is……”
“We received a distress signal from your father, so we came to rescue you. Her name is Chu Sang, she’s our sect’s new little junior sister. She’s very powerful!” Wen Renyue said with a smile.
“So this is the sect’s new little junior sister. She’s really… cute!” The word ‘terrifying’ almost slipped out.
“Fourth Senior Sister, how did you get captured by these thieves?” Chu Sang asked.
“With these trash? They don’t have the ability to capture me!” Sikong Qiu crossed her arms, snorting lightly, “I let them capture me on purpose. I didn’t expect my father to send you a message and make you come all this way.”
……Captured on purpose?
Su Chen’an frowned, “What exactly is going on?”
“This sect is called the Ten Thousand Killers Sect, a small sect that has risen in recent years. They commit all sorts of evil deeds like burning, killing, and looting. Since they came to Cloud City, there have been inexplicable disappearances of young boys and girls.”
“Especially in the past few months, the situation has worsened!”
“In just three short months, over a hundred children have gone missing. This matter has alarmed the mortal realm’s officials, but despite extensive investigations, they’ve found nothing. I suspected this sect was secretly behind it, so I pretended to be captured by them, hoping to use this opportunity to infiltrate the sect and investigate the truth!” Sikong Qiu said angrily, “Although I haven’t obtained concrete evidence, I’m certain that it’s most likely the Ten Thousand Killers Sect’s doing. I want to go rescue those children!”
Mu Chihuai walked to the kidnapper leader’s corpse and frowned. This big man had been of strong build, but after death, he shrank rapidly like a deflated balloon, turning into a desiccated corpse.
Beside the dried corpse lay a bottle.
He picked up the bottle with a silk cloth and sniffed it lightly. “It’s actually Blood Refining Powder……”
“What’s that?” Chu Sang also came over.
“This is a forbidden drug that can burn one’s own essence blood to greatly increase cultivation in a short time,” he said calmly. “It was very popular in evil sects several decades ago, but later it was strictly banned from sale by the Eight Great Sects. I didn’t expect it to appear again after so many years.”
Tantai Ming was indignant, “No wonder that person’s cultivation increased so much at once. It turns out it was due to drug use.”
However, this kind of cultivation was very unstable. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to escape so easily today.
Tantai Ming noticed movement in the pile of corpses. A bandit pretending to be dead was trying to escape. His eyes turned fierce, “There’s still one alive.” He was about to draw his sword to kill.
“Seventh Senior Brother, we’re the good guys. How can we kill someone without a word?”
Chu Sang stopped him and walked over to the trembling man, crouching down and placing her sword directly against his neck. With an innocent face, she said, “Big brother, how about you lead the way? Otherwise, I’ll have to relocate your head.”
“……”
An hour later.
Chu Sang and the others arrived at the dungeon of the Ten Thousand Killers Sect.
On the way, when encountering disciples trying to block them, Chu Sang dispatched them with one shot to the head each, swift and merciless.
The image of a gentle and cute little junior sister in Su Chen’an’s mind completely shattered.
The dungeon was damp and dark, emitting a foul, putrid smell. Mu Chihuai gave each of them a Breath-Holding Pill.
The three walked deeper into the dungeon.
The further they went, the clearer they could hear the cries of children.
Chu Sang ignited a flame of spiritual fire on her fingertip to light the way, quickening her pace. Following the faint sounds of sobbing, they arrived at a large prison cell.
Inside were hundreds of young boys and girls!
They were all emaciated, covered in filth, their bodies marked with scars of various sizes, both old and new, a heart-wrenching sight.
According to Sikong Qiu’s description, nearly two hundred children had gone missing in Cloud City over the past few years. It seemed that the earlier children had already……
But.
What did the Ten Thousand Killers Sect want with these kidnapped children?
“Don’t cry anymore, we’re here to rescue you.”
Tantai Ming shattered the iron locks with his sword, freeing the barely alive children. Mu Chihuai quickly took out medicinal pills to feed them. “Don’t be afraid, we’ll take you out and safely return you to your parents.”
“Big brothers, big sisters… thank you……”
The children held back their sobs, not wanting to cause trouble for their rescuers.
[Villain Tantai Ming, Mu Chihuai, Su Chen’an, Sikong Qiu, Wen Renyue’s Corruption Value -3, host can randomly allocate +15 attribute points!]
[15 points remaining for free allocation, please select attributes to enhance—]
Chu Sang’s eyes flickered. Apart from preventing senior brothers and sisters from turning evil to gain attribute points, doing good deeds could also work.
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Author’s Note:
Revisions—
Fourth Senior Sister has Five Element Root
The small magic tool previously refined by Sang Sang is changed from a dagger to a double-edged boomerang