97: Chapter 97 The Silent Hunt in the Mass Grave

Lin Qi stabbed the zhan ye heavy sword into the ground.

The heavy meteorite iron struck the gravel, emitting a dull thud.

"Ghost Hand, let's discuss something."

Lin Qi looked at The Black-Robed Figure in the distance, his tone casual.

Ghost Hand stood ten meters away, his skull mask appearing somewhat sinister under the moonlight.

"Speak."

"How much is your head worth on the black market?"

Lin Qi patted the hilt of his sword.

"If it's too cheap, I wouldn't even bother making this trip."

Ghost Hand sneered, his voice hoarse and unpleasant.

"The freshman champion of Longya Academy is truly arrogant beyond measure."

"My head isn't worth much, but your life is very expensive."

"The Shadow Guild has a bounty of 500,000 gold coins on you, plus a set of S-Rank inner armor."

Lin Qi's eyes brightened slightly.

"500,000?"

"Then it seems I'll have to kill carefully and not ruin the bounty."

Ghost Hand waved his hand.

"Kill him."

The surrounding air rippled.

Lin Qi didn't move.

He walked straight to a broken tombstone.

The tombstone was carved with blurred characters, and its era was long since indistinguishable.

He thrust his heavy sword into the soil beside it.

The soil was soft and carried a foul, rotting stench.

Lin Qi sat cross-legged on top of the tombstone, his posture very relaxed.

He closed his eyes.

"Brother Qi, have you gone mad?"

Zhang Wei poked his head out from behind a tree in the distance and shouted in a low voice.

"What time is it, and you're still meditating?"

Lin Qi ignored him.

He was adjusting his breathing.

The True Qi seed in his Dantian rotated slowly, emitting a faint heat.

The surrounding grey fog drifted like rotting cotton wool.

Four black shadows darted quickly through the mist.

They were the elites of the Shadow Guild.

Their Rank was Lv.25.

Their class was [Shadow Assassin].

"Captain, the target is in position."

One assassin said in a low voice over the team channel.

"He really closed his eyes. Was he scared silly by Lord Ghost Hand's aura?"

The captain signaled.

"Don't be careless. This kid was able to defeat Li Qingxuan; his perception is very strong."

"Activate True Stealth and surround him from four directions."

"Apply forced bleeding toxin to your weapons; as long as you break his skin, he loses."

The four people quickly dispersed.

Their footsteps were very light.

The fallen leaves made no sound under their feet.

This was the effect of the skill [Silent Footsteps].

In the System's judgment, their current state was "Invisible."

Lin Qi's ears twitched slightly.

What he heard was not sound.

It was the flow of the air current.

The wind in the graveyard was chaotic.

But in four positions, the wind was blocked.

"Rear left, distance twelve meters."

"Front right, distance nine meters."

Lin Qi counted silently in his heart.

He still maintained his sitting posture.

His hands hung naturally on his knees.

He looked completely unguarded.

"Is he really meditating?"

One assassin was somewhat suspicious.

"Whatever, just stab him to death."

Another person had already crept to the base of the tombstone.

The dagger in his hand glinted with a ghostly green light.

That was a highly toxic poison that killed upon drawing blood.

Ghost Hand stood in the distance, staring fixedly at Lin Qi.

He always felt something was wrong.

Lin Qi was too quiet.

So quiet that it made him feel uneasy.

"Do it!"

The captain gave the final order.

The four assassins activated their skills simultaneously.

[Shadow Backstab].

Their bodies turned into nothingness.

Their speed increased to the extreme.

Four killing intents locked onto Lin Qi's vital points.

Back of the neck, heart, kidneys, spine.

This was a fatal trap.

On the System panel, Lin Qi's status was still "Meditating."

A cruel smile appeared on the assassins' faces.

In their eyes, this Genius was about to become a corpse.

The tip of the dagger was only three inches away from Lin Qi's skin.

At this very moment.

Lin Qi opened his eyes.

There was no panic in those eyes.

Only a coldness that saw through everything.

His right hand reached out like lightning.

His five fingers clamped tightly onto the sword hilt beside him.

"The noise is too loud."

Lin Qi whispered.

"Is this your last word?"

He exerted force suddenly.

The zhan ye heavy sword stuck in the soil was lifted by him with one hand.

A dull vibration was transmitted through the ground.

That was the physical pressure generated the moment the heavy sword was lifted.

The assassins saw a giant red exclamation mark appear above Lin Qi's head in their System vision.

That was a warning of extreme danger.

"Not good! Retreat!"

The assassin captain shouted.

But it was too late.

Lin Qi used the power of his waist to complete an astonishing twist on the tombstone.

The zhan ye heavy sword, carrying a weight of 300 catties, swept out horizontally.

"Get out!"

Lin Qi shouted violently.

The black blade carved a giant semicircle in the air.

There were no flashy skill effects.

Only a suffocating wind pressure.

That was pure physical strength.

The first assassin's dagger hadn't even struck Lin Qi when it was caught by this terrifying wind pressure.

His body involuntarily shifted.

The stealth state developed cracks under the violent air disturbance.

Lin Qi turned with the momentum.

The heavy sword, using the centrifugal force of the rotation, backhanded and smashed fiercely into the Void Realm on the right.

"Bang!"

A dull sound of bones shattering rang out.

A spray of blood erupted in the Void Realm.

The stealth state was forcibly dispelled by the physical impact.

An assassin spat blood and flew backward.

His chest collapsed significantly; he clearly wouldn't survive.

The System prompt sounded in the ears of the other three assassins.

"Teammate has been eliminated."

The remaining three assassins froze for a moment.

They couldn't understand.

Why could a Blank Slate without scouting skills precisely find the location of those in stealth?

Lin Qi jumped down from the tombstone.

He dragged the heavy sword with one hand and strode forward.

The sword tip drew a trail of sparks on the gravel ground.

"The first."

Lin Qi shook the flesh off his sword, his eyes cold.

He looked at the remaining two locations where the air was fluctuating.

"Who is next?"

The assassins' psychological defenses began to crumble.

They had never seen an opponent who could break stealth without relying on a data panel.

In their eyes, Lin Qi wasn't blind.

But a devil with full-map vision.

"Captain, let's retreat!"

One assassin's voice carried a crying tone.

"This isn't a battle at all; this is a one-sided slaughter!"

"Shut up!"

The captain gritted his teeth.

"He is only one person, we still have three!"

"Use long-range skills, don't let him get close!"

Lin Qi sneered.

He shouldered his heavy sword and spoke to the empty woods.

"So-called stealth is nothing more than a trick to deceive vision."

"As long as you are still breathing, I can find you."

He took another step forward.

The ground trembled slightly under this step.

Ghost Hand watched this scene from a distance, his face turning extremely ugly under his skull mask.

"This kid... what kind of monster is he?"

He finally realized that the elite squad he had sent out was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered in front of Lin Qi.

The zhan ye heavy sword in Lin Qi's hand was raised again.

"Since you refuse to come out, then die in the dirt."

He slammed the heavy sword into the ground.

"Thunder-Shock Slash!"

A violent shockwave spread wildly in all directions with the sword tip as the center.

The faces of the assassins hiding in the dark changed completely.