On the other side, Lou Xingyao had already left the spiritual plant store and didn’t know what the two of them were talking about.
All he knew was that someone had followed him since he left the spiritual plant store.
Originally, Lou Xingyao thought it was Shopkeeper Qian who wanted to find out his details again. Just as he was about to get rid of the person as usual, he quickly discovered the difference.
Most of the people sent by the shopkeeper to follow him were for the purpose of exploration, so their aura was restrained. Even if there was a bit of killing intent, it wasn’t obvious, and it wasn’t specifically aimed at him.
But today, the one behind him was really murderous. It came straight at him and even reached the point of not concealing it.
Lou Xingyao found an opportunity to take a look. It was a person with a sturdy body and a broadsword in one hand.
His body shape and aura were very familiar.
With a bit of recollection, Lou Xingyao found the other person’s figure in his memory.
It was one of the customers in the store when he entered the spiritual plants store.
It seemed that he had wronged Shopkeeper Qian this time.
Lou Xingyao became clear about this in his heart, but there was another layer of doubt that hadn’t been eliminated. He had never intersected with this person before and only met when he entered the store.
How could he arouse such great killing intent from the other person?
Yet thinking about it, there were many unreasonable people in Xilin County. If he had to find a reason for everything, he would inevitably live with doubts.
However, the other person already had murderous intentions, so he naturally couldn’t keep this person.
After a bit of assessment of the other person’s strength, Lou Xingyao turned around and headed unhurriedly toward a remote alley.
The big man obviously knew the terrain well. Once he saw this, he couldn’t help feeling a bit happier and he hurriedly followed.
In particular, the smile on his face became more obvious when he saw Lou Xingyao gradually walking into a dead end.
The big man walked about the last corner and was about to make a move when a fierce wind hit him.
It was menacing and caught people off guard.
The big man hurriedly dodged with his instincts from fighting for many years, but he was a bit late. A deep wound was suddenly left on his face.
The big man was immediately furious. He looked at the person who sneaked attacked him, only to see that it was the person he had been following.
What did the big man not understand?
Obviously, his behavior had been exposed. This didn’t delay him from turning the table, so he said angrily, “I was just passing by. Why did you suddenly do something to me?”
Lou Xingyao originally wanted to ask if there was a misunderstanding between the two of them.
Hearing this, he swallowed back his words and didn’t say anything else. He just swung his sword again.
The sword edge was like a meteor falling towards the moon, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
The big man didn’t expect that Lou Xingyao would act so decisively when his aura was so peaceful.
He hurriedly raised his sword to block it.
The moment the swords collided, the big man realized that the other person’s seemingly ordinary sword actually contained a lot of strength. It shook his sword-holding arm to the point of pain, and he almost let go of the sword.
What did he not understand now?
He had run into a tough opponent!
The big man suddenly became cowardly. He immediately retreated while fighting, wanting to rely on his understanding of this area to find an opportunity to escape.
However, Lou Xingyao was able to escape from the tracking of Shopkeeper Qian several times. He already knew the terrain of this place well. How could he give the big man this opportunity?
He closed in swiftly, his hands never stopping. The mesmerizing sword light wove into an impenetrable net a few feet around the big man, trapping him with no way forward or back.
As the swords collided again, the big man’s grip on the hilt finally slackened due to the momentary numbness. The broadsword in his hand abruptly fell to the ground.
“It is over!”
The moment the sword fell, the big man’s heart skipped a beat. He knew he was finished this time.
In the end, he couldn’t hold back and instinctively blurted out, “Wait!”
As his voice came out, the sword flashed with a cold light.
The big man’s words of begging for mercy fell to the dusty ground along with his head.
The sound of the big man’s body falling to the ground made Lou Xingyao’s face, which already had an ugly expression, turn pale.
Yes, don’t look at how decisive Lou Xingyao was when getting rid of this person, and how quick and neat he did it without leaving any room for his opponent.
He was actually a person who had lived in peacetime for over 30 years. The concept that everyone was equal and life was precious had been deeply rooted in Lou Xingyao’s bones.
Combine this with Lou Xingyao’s former occupation, he was even more in awe of life than ordinary people.
Now that he killed the same kind with his own hands, it was inevitable that Lou Xingyao would feel a bit of separation.
However, Lou Xingyao also understood that he had to do this.
For example, he had encountered this type of person before.
After all, the attitude of the employees in the spiritual plants store almost engraved the words ‘fat sheep’ above his head.
Occasionally, he would meet someone who had such ideas. They would wait outside the door to rob him after the transaction was completed.
For these people, Lou Xingyao originally thought they were like the people sent by Shopkeeper Qian to follow him. He used the terrain to get rid of them and no longer cared about them.
Who knew that such an attitude would bring him a lot of trouble?
Around half a year ago, someone followed Lou Xingyao but ended up losing him. He missed a chance, but didn’t choose to give up. Instead, he felt that Lou Xingyao was more profitable.
For this reason, that person even gathered a dozen fellow cultivators in the late stage of qi condensation to wait outside the store.
Finally, he met Lou Xingyao clearing goods again and followed.
Lou Xingyao might have a strong ability, but it was difficult for him to get rid of the encirclement of a dozen people.
Later, he was blocked in a dead end, unable to advance or retreat.
At that time, Lou Xingyao had just learned a few basics of swordsmanship from Lou Xingyao. He hadn’t truly started yet.
In the face of these twelve people who cultivated to a similar realm and were accustomed to robbery, he was quickly beaten to the point where he was helpless.
Lou Xingyao originally wanted to give up his wealth to save his life. But after the other person took away the storage bag, he was especially dissatisfied and had to take Lou Xingyao’s life.
If it wasn’t for Wen Hanshan’s uneasy making him hand over a fourth-grade killing formation to Lou Xingyao to defend himself, allowing him to fight back, he might’ve had to expose his personal space to escape safely.
This was also the first time that Lou Xingyao. He might not have done it himself like today, but the formation was indeed controlled by him.
Psychologically, it was inevitably a bit difficult to accept.
Therefore, Lou Xingyao’s expression meant he was discovered by Wen Hanshan, no matter how hard Lou Xingyao tried to cover up the injuries on his body and that he never mentioned what he encountered.
Lou Xingyao already had some respect for Wen Hanshan due to his teachings.
How could he withstand the other person’s repeated interrogations? It didn’t take long for him to reveal it.
During this period, there were naturally a few criticisms, especially when Wen Hanshan knew that Lou Xingyao felt a bit guilty after killing those people. He almost laughed angrily.
At the same time, this made Wen Hanshan realize that he had indeed missed something in the process of teaching Lou Xingyao.
Later, he spent two months collecting a vicious person from Xilin County every day. He handed it over to Lou Xingyao and let Lou Xingyao kill them personally.
In the process, he understood Lou Xingyao’s unbearable nature, and didn’t forget to explain the evil things that the people he caught had done to Lou Xingyao one by one.
Among them, there were those who slaughtered a village, those who assaulted young girls, those who mutilated innocents, and those who killed their benefactors…
During that time, Lou Xingyao realized that the evil people in modern times were small compared to the people of Tianming Continent.
On Earth, serial killers with antisocial personalities were limited by their own conditions, and most could only kill one person at a time.
On Tianming Continent, a person with cultivation just needed to raise their hand to take hundreds of mortal lives.
Lou Xingyao couldn’t bear it in the beginning. Later, he was able to take a life without hesitation after Wen Hanshan explained their crimes one by one.
At one time, the behavior of the two people caused a rumor to spread in Xilin County.
In particular, those who used to do all types of evil had to keep their heads down and behave themselves.
They were afraid that they would accidentally bump into these two people and lose their lives.
For a while, the atmosphere in the city improved a lot.
As for Lou Xingyao?
He went through Wen Hanshan’s special training, and his body was slowly contaminated with a bit of the breath of the local cultivators of Tianming Continent.
He still couldn’t reach the point where he treated human life as nothing, but he could easily make the decision to lure and kill someone like this big man who had murderous intent toward him.
In Wen Hanshan’s words, ‘those who kill will inevitably be killed in return.’
After closing his eyes slightly and suppressing the waves in his heart caused by killing, Lou Xingyao started to clean up the area.
He cast a spell to erase the traces of his existence around him one by one. At the same time, he stepped forward to remove the storage bag on the big man’s waist.
He searched again. Sure enough, he found four or five storage bags of different styles.
“It looks like he is a repeat offender.”
Lou Xingyao thought about it and the discomfort in his heart suddenly dissipated a lot.
Then he casually dropped a knuckle-sized flint. He used it to ignite the body of the big man. Then he turned around, wanting to leave.
Who knew that there would be a sudden change at this moment?
The sound of the air being torn apart came from not far away. At the same time, Lou Xingyao felt a great sense of crisis coming from above his head. The organs inside his body seemed to be shouting ‘danger!’
Acting on instinct, he quickly stepped back. In the blink of an eye, he saw that a thrown knife had been inserted at some point where he had been standing.
The cold light of its blade flickered as part of it sank into the ground.
It wasn’t difficult to see that if Lou Xingyao was hit this time, even if he didn’t die, half his life would’ve been lost.
Before Lou Xingyao could find the source of the thrown knife, a man dressed in white flew down from the eaves on the side.
The man drew his sword and attacked Lou Xingyao. At the same time, he shouted, “In broad daylight, under a clear sky, a villain like you still can’t be stopped! Today, this young master will act on behalf of heaven to punish evil and rid the world of harm!”
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now who’s this clown?
Just from how the person acted self righteous and playing the hero card, I think that’s the protagonist. Or maybe a passerby who act like their the protagonist
I thought tribulations exists? Idk if it’s the right word but it’s the thunder you need to face before you enter the next level. I thought that the more severe your actions are the more dangerous the thunder is? So the cultivators should’ve restrain their actions right? Or they just don’t care?