167: Chapter 167 Who dares to kill me? There really is someone!

Outside the Hehuan Sect, on the official road at the edge of the Black Wind Mountain Range, a thick fog permeated the air.

The heavy fog, like tangible cotton wool, obscured the surrounding towering ancient trees, making them look shadowy and indistinct. The air was permeated with the damp chill characteristic of a late autumn morning.

Qin Feng's black robe snapped in the wind. He appeared to be strolling leisurely, even humming an unknown tune, but his deep, abyssal black eyes flickered with a cold, vigilant glint within the mist.

His vast Divine Sense had already spread out in all directions like ripples in water.

"Swish... Swish..."

From the dense bushes on both sides, faint sounds of clothing rubbing against leaves could be vaguely heard.

If it weren't for his extraordinary Divine Sense, an ordinary Cultivator at the Qi Refinement Stage would never have been able to detect such a sound, which resembled nothing more than a breeze brushing against leaves.

"Since you've been following me the whole way, why hide and cower like tortoises?"

Qin Feng's footsteps suddenly stopped, and the corners of his mouth curled into an undisguised arc of mockery. His voice was not loud, but carried by his Qi, it clearly pierced through the layers of fog.

"Come out and let me see what kind of trash I've attracted!"

As soon as his voice fell, the deathly silent fog around him suddenly churned.

"Hahahaha, kid, to be this arrogant when death is imminent—I really don't know if you're brave or just brain-damaged!"

Accompanied by arrogant, wild laughter, two figures, as sturdy as iron towers, leaped down from the towering trees ahead with a "boom," landing heavily on the official road and shaking the ground.

The newcomers were two burly men wearing short animal-skin outfits.

The man on the left had a face full of flabby flesh, with a hideous scar stretching from the corner of his left eye to his chin. He held a giant Xuanhua axe, the size of a door panel, upside down. This man was Vice Captain Zhang Hu.

The man on the right was shirtless, his body covered in knotted muscles, and he wore a pair of steel gauntlets on his hands that glinted with a cold, dark light. His name was Wang Bao.

The two men released their aura without reservation; they were clearly both experts at the Peak of Qi Refining Level 9.

"Qi Refining Level 9?!"

Qin Feng glanced at the two, his expression remaining as calm as water. "Where did you get the guts to block my path?"

"Hahaha, Big Brother, did you hear that? A fledgling at Qi Refining Level 7 is actually asking us where we got the guts?!"

Wang Bao seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world and burst into loud laughter. He struck his fists together, creating a deafening metallic clang.

"Kid, I admit that you killing Senior Brother Gou Dongxi at the Life-and-Death Arena was indeed a bit strange. But that was just because Senior Brother Gou Dongxi underestimated you. Do you really think that with a bit of brute strength, you can run wild in the Outer Sect?!"

Vice Captain Zhang Hu also sneered, slamming his giant Xuanhua axe onto the ground, creating a deep pit, and shouted:

"Stop the nonsense! Kid, blame only yourself for offending someone you shouldn't have. Someone offered 500,000 Spirit Stones for your life, and we brothers are determined to take it. If you're sensible, slit your own throat, and I might just leave you with an intact corpse!"

Behind the two, and in the mist on both sides, there were a dozen or so figures with not-so-weak auras lurking in the shadows.

They were clearly assassins attracted by the bounty, all lurking in the dark, ready to strike at any moment to claim the head.

Faced with such a lethal situation, Qin Feng only shook his head slightly, a flash of extreme disdain and contempt appearing deep in his eyes.

He still had his hands casually clasped behind his back, his tone noncommittal:

"500,000 Spirit Stones? My life is truly worth a lot."

"Damn it, still acting tough when death is at your doorstep. Big Brother, let's go together and chop him into meat paste!"

Wang Bao was completely enraged by Qin Feng's condescending gaze.

"Kill!!!"

The two roared in unison, their violent Qi at the Peak of Qi Refining Level 9 erupting from their bodies like a volcanic explosion.

"Fierce Tiger Cleaves the Mountain!"

Vice Captain Zhang Hu leaped up, gripped the giant axe with both hands, and slashed out a yellow, earthy axe glow several zhang long in mid-air, bringing it down with the force of Mount Tai.

"Venomous Leopard Drills the Heart!"

Wang Bao moved like lightning, sliding close to the ground. The steel gauntlets on his fists erupted with a ghostly green Qi glow, aiming directly at Qin Feng's vital points in his lower body.

Attacking from above and below, they sealed off all escape routes!

Having spent years licking blood from the blade, the two cooperated seamlessly. The power of this strike was such that even an ordinary Cultivator at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage would definitely not dare to face it head-on.

"It's over; this kid is too arrogant."

"That kid definitely can't block the combined technique of Vice Captain Zhang Hu and Wang Bao."

The assassins hiding in the dark held their breath, their eyes flashing with greed and excitement.

However, faced with the thunderous, lethal strike.

Qin Feng's expression remained without the slightest ripple.

"Noisy."

He only coldly spat out two words.

The next instant, he swept his hands across his waist.

"Hum—!"

Accompanied by a piercing, shrill whistle cutting through the air,

two cold, silvery lights, like lightning cutting through the endless night, shot out from Qin Feng's hands at an incredible speed.

Deploying Inch Radiance, the flying daggers were so fast that they exceeded the limits of what the naked eye could capture...

It gave no one any time to react.

"Puchi! Puchi!"

Two dull sounds of flesh being pierced rang out abruptly on the official road.

Vice Captain Zhang Hu's giant axe, slashing in mid-air, suddenly halted; Wang Bao's venomous fist, thrusting forward, also froze less than three feet from Qin Feng.

The ferocity and arrogance on their faces instantly froze, and their pupils contracted violently, turning into the extreme terror of someone who had seen a ghost.

"Urgh... Urgh..."

Vice Captain Zhang Hu's throat made a wheezing sound like a leaking bellows. He struggled to lower his head, only to see that a bloody hole, piercing through from front to back, had appeared in his throat at some unknown time, with bright red blood gushing out like a fountain.

Wang Bao's throat had also been pierced accurately by a flying dagger.

"Clang—"

Losing the support of his Qi, the giant Xuanhua axe fell heavily to the ground.

Vice Captain Zhang Hu and Wang Bao's burly bodies, as if drained of all their strength, felt their knees go weak.

With two "thuds," they both knelt down in front of Qin Feng, and then collapsed powerlessly into the pool of blood, dying with their eyes wide open.

One strike, just a single simple flying dagger!

Two infamous assassins at the Peak of Qi Refining Level 9 in the Outer Sect were killed instantly on the spot without even touching the corner of Qin Feng's clothes!

Deathly silence; on the entire official road, apart from the sound of blood flowing, no other noise could be heard.

The assassins in the surrounding mist who had originally planned to wait for an opportunity were all petrified with fear, their bodies feeling as if they had fallen into an ice cave, and their teeth chattering uncontrollably.

"Mon... Monster... He is a monster!!!"

Someone let out a hysterical scream.

Qin Feng walked expressionlessly to the two corpses, looking down at them from above, his eyes filled with an indifference that went down to his bones.

"I could kill an Early Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator like a dog; how did you dare to besiege me when you are merely at the Qi Refining Stage?"

His voice was not loud, but it was like a heavy hammer, slamming hard against the heart of every lurker in the dark.

"Run, run quickly!!!"

The dozen or so assassins at the Qi Refinement Stage hiding in the dark completely broke down. They no longer cared about the 500,000 Spirit Stone bounty; they wished their parents had given them two more legs, scrambling and crawling as they fled frantically in all directions, terrified that if they were a step too late, they would become the next Soul with a pierced throat.

Qin Feng couldn't be bothered to chase after the trash.

He bent down, skillfully removed the Storage Rings from Vice Captain Zhang Hu and Wang Bao's hands, wiped away their Divine Sense imprints, and glanced at them roughly, the corners of his mouth curling slightly.

"Poor devils, the two of them combined only have a few hundred Spirit Stones; it's not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

Just as he casually tucked the Storage Rings into his clothes, preparing to deal with the remaining blind trash.

"Hum—!!!"

A cold, terrifying killing intent that seemed capable of freezing the Soul swept over him from the thick fog behind him without any warning!

"Hmm?!"

Every hair on Qin Feng's body stood up instantly at this moment. The extremely keen combat intuition of the Heavenly Tyrant Body made him feel a fatal threat.

Without any hesitation, he directly activated his Ghost Wind-Stepping to the limit.

"Swish—"

His figure, like a black phantom, suddenly shifted several zhang to the right at an incredible angle.

"Rip—"

The moment Qin Feng left his original spot, a terrifying Sword Qi, several zhang long and emitting a ghostly blue, freezing cold light, tore through the thick fog and slashed heavily onto the ground, grazing his arm.