"How could there be no one?"

Wei Junhao didn't see Su Xuan in the cart, and after circling it, he still couldn't find him. The old man in the traditional-style jacket also searched everywhere but to no avail.

Could Su Xuan know some kind of invisibility technique?

"The wind has stopped…"

Just as they were wondering, a voice suddenly drifted over from a nearby slope.

Wei Junhao looked up hurriedly and blurted out, "Uncle Jiang, it's Su Xuan!"

The old man's gaze had already locked onto Su Xuan, a glint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes. Their purpose in coming here was indeed to kill Su Xuan and to find the map Wei Junhao had hidden under his stall at the vegetable market. They believed Su Xuan had taken it.

The main purpose of their trip down the mountain was to find the mysterious corpse that had fallen from the sky and see if they could gain any fortune from it.

As for how Wei Junhao had escaped from Zhong Huilan, his Uncle Jiang had rescued him using an invisibility talisman. Furthermore, the two had another, less-than-honorable secondary purpose, which involved Qi Li.

"Now that the wind has stopped…" Su Xuan ignored the two men's gazes, muttering to himself.

In the next second, he casually threw a small pot. It traced an arc through the air, plummeting toward Wei Junhao and his Uncle Jiang. Then, Su Xuan vanished from the top of the slope.

Now that the wind has stopped, I don't need to worry about the Ascension Pot's toxic mist spreading and harming the innocent.

What a clumsy trick! Wei Junhao thought Su Xuan had just picked up a broken pot to throw at him. Without a second thought, he drew his sword and slashed at it.

"Stop!"

His Uncle Jiang, however, had sensed a hint of danger and shouted for him to stop, but it was too late. Wei Junhao had moved too quickly.

BOOM!

The moment Wei Junhao's sword touched the pot, it exploded. A powerful blast of air spread outwards as a thick, green mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

Wei Junhao was thrown back by the immense force, crashing hard onto the ground.

"Cough! Cough!"

"Cough! Cough!"

Uncle Jiang reacted faster. He had already started to retreat as he shouted at Wei Junhao, but even so, he was still caught in the blast. His face was covered in lacerations, and he looked extremely disheveled.

But these external injuries were not the most important part. The most terrifying thing was the green toxic mist produced by the explosion. Once the mist touched a wound, it began to seep into the bloodstream, transforming into what felt like countless ants gnawing at his blood vessels, heart, lungs, and all his internal organs.

"Uncle Jiang, save me!" Wei Junhao lay on the ground, lifting a hand toward his uncle.

He never expected Su Xuan's first move to be so devastating! He went all-out from the very beginning! He doesn't play by the rules at all! This is just too much!

But then Wei Junhao's eyes widened, as if he had seen something horrifying. The hand he had raised toward Uncle Jiang was gone, blasted off at the wrist! Blood gushed from the stump in a ghastly sight.

"Swallow this!" Uncle Jiang took out two strange pills. He swallowed one himself and fed the other to Wei Junhao.

Wei Junhao struggled to swallow it.

"Wei Junhao, hold on! I'm going after that brat!" Uncle Jiang glanced at Wei Junhao's face, his mouth twitching, and then dashed off toward the back of the slope.

There was something he wanted to tell Wei Junhao. His face had also been mangled in the blast, with most of the skin peeled away. The once-handsome Wei Junhao was now completely disfigured.

"Uncle Jiang, bring back his head!" Wei Junhao shouted after his uncle's retreating back. "And remember to get the map!"

At the same time, a few tears slid from his eyes. How could he not know how serious his injuries were? He wasn't just crippled—his face was ruined too. He had full confidence that his Uncle Jiang could bring back Su Xuan's head. His Uncle Jiang, Jiang Guinong, possessed astonishing combat power, ranking in the top five of their sect. If his Uncle Jiang were to face Qi Li's senior brother—that burly giant—it would only take a single move.

Jiang Guinong reached the top of the slope, his mouth twitching. How is he running so fast?

He saw that Su Xuan was already far away, running through a field of farmland until he was just a small, retreating figure.

The reason Su Xuan was fleeing was that he knew Jiang Guinong was not someone he could handle. The moment he saw the man, a shiver had run down his spine. Besides, the Ascension Pot's tremendous power hadn't even been enough to take Jiang Guinong down! He was also puzzled. Where was the woman in red? Why hadn't she appeared when he was in such deep trouble?

But he had no way of knowing that the woman in red was still in the secret cave in the canyon north of the city, digesting the corpse that had fallen from the sky.

Jiang Guinong locked his gaze on Su Xuan's retreating figure and took a deep breath. His traditional-style jacket suddenly bulged. Then, he stomped hard on the ground. BANG! A shockwave erupted from beneath his feet, and his body shot forward like a cannonball. He flew from the slope and, when he landed again, he was already over a hundred meters away.

This was a speed no normal human could achieve. It was far more incredible than any wire-fu stunt in a movie.

As soon as he landed, Jiang Guinong leaped again. Within a few bounds, he had closed the distance between them to a mere thirty or forty meters.

Su Xuan didn't look back. With senses far beyond those of an ordinary person, he already knew exactly where Jiang Guinong was and had pushed his own speed to its absolute limit.

"You can't escape!" With another leap, Jiang Guinong landed right behind Su Xuan and swung a palm at his back.

If there were any spectators, they would surely find it unfair. The power Jiang Guinong displayed was on a completely different dimension from Su Xuan's. The two were clearly not on the same level.

Knowing he couldn't escape, Su Xuan stopped abruptly, spun around, and threw a palm strike of his own. The two palms collided instantly. The impact sent a wave of air gusting outwards, sweeping the dust on the ground into the distance.

"Hmm?"

Jiang Guinong was stunned. In his mind, that palm strike should have either killed Su Xuan or, at the very least, sent him flying and crippled him. But Su Xuan's body hadn't moved an inch! Instead, it was his own body that had swayed slightly.

Su Xuan knew the bitter truth. He's truly powerful! He had put all his strength into that strike, yet he hadn't managed to budge his opponent. The only reason he was unharmed was thanks to the protection of the divine garment.

Interesting!

With a lightning-fast move, Jiang Guinong grabbed Su Xuan's wrist and hurled him into the air. Stomping a foot on the ground, he shot upwards after him, driving his knee toward Su Xuan's waist, clearly intending to snap his spine.

However, something he didn't expect happened.

WHOOSH!

A sharp sound cut through the air. A rusty iron rod flew from the direction of the slope, and Su Xuan caught it firmly in his hand. It was the Ruyi Rod.

Twisting his body in mid-air, Su Xuan brutally slammed the Ruyi Rod down toward Jiang Guinong's head. All of this happened in the blink of an eye. Still in the air, Jiang Guinong had no time to dodge. Unarmed, he swung his palm at the Ruyi Rod, confident he could knock it away with a single blow.

But, once again, he had miscalculated...

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