175: You dare to say such pretentious things?

Magic surged in Xu Le's hands, his spirit locked onto the remaining assassins, and a bolt of black lightning flew out.

Crackle~ The electric current wove through the assassins, and the thirty-plus assassins who hadn't managed to scatter were instantly electrocuted into dead fish, falling to the ground motionless.

It wasn't that they were too weak.

It was that Xu Le was too strong!

With his spirit already approaching 20,000 points, plus 600 points of divinity, those squishy assassins were no match for him at all.

This was only because Xu Le was afraid of accidentally hurting the villagers; otherwise, with that single Move just now, he could have electrocuted almost all the assassins present to death.

"Leave a few alive!"

Seeing this, Liu Yang hurriedly shouted, afraid that if Xu Le threw out another couple of Skills, all the assassins on the field would be gone.

He needed to find the mastermind; those who destroyed their home must bleed!

Fearing that Xu Le hadn't heard him, he pulled out his spear and singled out an assassin.

That was the second-in-command assassin, second only to the leader; he should know quite a bit.

"Po Jun" had a look of shock in his eyes. Seeing "Divine Punishment" tightly entangled by seven Puppets, unable to unleash any of his strength and at risk of dying if he were even slightly careless...

He wanted to turn and flee, but he was afraid that after losing the "protection" of these villagers, he would be crushed to death by Xu Le's violent Skills instead.

Seeing a spear thrusting towards him, he had a flash of inspiration and raised his dagger to block it.

The immense force sent him flying. He barely managed to steady his figure when the spear, like a Dragon, came at him again.

He relaxed and began to counterattack, but he held back his strength with every Move. Seeing that his opponent was struggling, he deliberately exposed another opening.

Liu Yang's gaze was like lightning. With a "Lightning Spear" Move, he pierced Po Jun's right shoulder. Although it wasn't deep, he had finally achieved a result.

Kill!

The spear in his hand had been with him for many years, obeying his every command, forcing Po Jun to retreat repeatedly.

"Hit!"

With a loud shout, Liu Yang suddenly accelerated his spear. Like a Dragon emerging from the water, it was more than 50% faster than his usual Moves, striking the opponent's right leg.

As if guided by divine help, the opponent's dagger suddenly blocked the right leg, barely forcing him back five steps.

"Come again!"

Liu Yang took three steps forward, chased after him, and unleashed a "Forcefully Cleaving Mount Hua" Move. The opponent foolishly raised both daggers to block and was sent flying again.

Just as he was about to continue the pursuit, he suddenly realized something was wrong. The opponent was a fierce assassin; having fought him for so long, he had barely used any lethal Moves. Otherwise, he would be dead or at least severely injured.

"So he was acting to deceive me."

He hurriedly turned around and discovered that only three assassins on the field were still breathing.

One was entangled by a giant python, one was trapped in a wooden cage, and the last one was the assassin leader, tightly entangled by the seven Yellow Turban Strongmen, unable to escape, and assassination was even more difficult than ascending to heaven.

"So their goal wasn't the villagers, but to escape."

Liu Yang realized this and was about to intercept.

However, Po Jun realized he had been exposed. Taking advantage of his distraction, he tore up a directional teleportation talisman, and his entire person vanished from the spot.

Liu Yang felt his face burning with pain; his old face was filled with shame.

The moment Xu Le attacked, he even had the thought that the other party might be silencing witnesses, otherwise, the assassins who managed to sneak in couldn't possibly be that weak.

Only now did he realize that it wasn't that those assassins were weak, but that Xu Le was terrifyingly strong.

If the other party had malicious intent, one Skill thrown over would leave no telling how many people in the entire village alive.

Strength was the best evidence!

He believed that Xu Le was definitely not the existence who brought the assassins to destroy their home.

Xu Le roughly guessed the other party's thoughts, but he didn't care.

Having been betrayed by both the royal family and the Aristocratic Families, he didn't trust all of humanity. If they suddenly treated him with absolute sincerity, he would instead be suspicious of whether what they said earlier was true or false.

Taking out the magic-suppressing handcuffs, he cuffed the assassin that the Little Black Snake had entangled, and Xu Le handed the person over to Liu Yang.

"Many thanks!"

Liu Yang felt a bit ashamed. If it weren't for Xu Le being here, he couldn't imagine how many people in the entire village would have survived.

Xu Le waved his hand, not caring, and walked to the assassin trapped by the Little Peach Tree in the wooden cage; the opponent obediently stretched out both hands.

"Quite obedient!"

Xu Le picked up the handcuffs and first cuffed the opponent's right hand, only then letting the Little Peach Tree release the wooden cage, but that assassin suddenly attacked.

Although he only had his left hand, he was confident that even if he only used his feet, he could kill a weak mage and then slip away.

"Careful!"

Liu Yang's brain buzzed, his eyes turning red. He cursed himself for being old and useless, actually letting a mage handcuff an assassin, making one mistake after another.

He brandished his spear and charged over, wanting to avenge Xu Le.

But he saw the small knife hidden between the assassin's fingers, as it approached Xu Le's neck, being grabbed by him, and then in a flash of lightning, the knife was snatched away.

As an assassin, his tool of the trade had actually been snatched away by the other party.

The assassin felt like he was dreaming and slapped himself hard.

"Self-harm is useless. Wrong is wrong, and I will not forgive you."

Xu Le also cuffed the assassin's left hand, the magic-suppressing handcuffs took effect, and the opponent's magic was completely locked, turning him into an ordinary person.

The whole scene went silent.

Although they knew Xu Le was very strong, he was just a magic-type class! To be able to disarm an assassin with his bare hands—if word got out, that assassin would probably be nailed to the pillar of shame for ten thousand years.

"You are strong. I, Divine Punishment of the Shadow Hall, have remembered you."

The eyes of the crowd revealed a glimmer of hatred. When the Tenth District was destroyed, it was because a Shadow Hall assassin had assassinated the City Lord.

However, the other party's strength was unquestionable.

Divine Punishment was one of the five great assassins of "Heaven, Earth, Human, God, Ghost"; one could imagine what scale of retaliation would be brought about after he escaped.

For a moment, the crowd couldn't help but feel fear.

Xu Le sneered: "No way! At this point, do you think you can still get away?"

A strange smile appeared on Divine Punishment's face. He no longer resisted the siege of the Yellow Turban Strongmen, and his entire body was rapidly fading.

The spears passed through his body, but it was like stabbing into thin air; there was nothing real about it.

The opponent's true body appeared to still be in place, but Xu Le knew this was a Skill similar to "Void Evasion"; the opponent's true body was already hidden within the Void Realm.

In a sense, this was an invincible Skill.

To force the opponent out, there were only two choices.

One was to have a mage proficient in spatial Skills pull him out; the other was to wait for the opponent's magic to run out and be squeezed out by the Void Realm.

Of course, one could also use the "Void Banishment" Skill to throw the opponent directly into the Void Realm, but the cost would be the inability to capture the opponent alive.

Just as Xu Le was pondering, the Thousand-Year Fish jumped in front of Divine Punishment and swatted him out with a tail swipe.

"Bah! What kind of thing are you, to deserve to say such pretentious things?"

Divine Punishment: ( ๑ ʘ ̅ д ʘ ̅ ๑ ) ! ! !

He pulled himself together and said calmly: "Po Jun has already left. When he returns, it will be the time for the Shadow Hall to return."

"Are you talking about him?"

Xu Le pointed down the mountain. They saw four dogs dragging a dark shadow running over, and behind them, a smug-looking puppy followed.

It was the Little Dog that had used the "Fierce Dog Assault" Skill to chase after him.

Just as the crowd was rejoicing, they heard the wailing cries of the villagers.

Only then did Liu Yang remember that the concealment curtain had been shattered, and they were unwilling to return to human society; there was no longer a place for them in the world.