35: One Knife

The night was dark, the wind was rising, and the moonlight was cold.

Under the thick night.

Di Jin, with his dull expression, finished his Cultivation for the day. He opened his eyes, and beneath his dull face, a sharp, hidden edge was deeply concealed.

He reached his hand into his bosom.

He pulled a purple-black skull from his bosom, gripped it tightly, and spoke in a low voice.

"I am prepared to make my move tomorrow at noon; leave the rest to you to arrange."

"Understood."

A somewhat blurry voice came from the mouth of the skull.

Di Jin tapped his fingers lightly on the table, recalling the intelligence he had gathered over these past few days.

"Cen Qingci, Cultivation at the Entering Martial Realm Seventh Level, has impressive combat power and can clash with the Entering Martial Realm Eighth Level. She is suspected of possessing a treasure that can enhance her combat power..."

"It is said that if she uses the treasure, she can kill someone at the Entering Martial Realm Eighth Level!"

"However, this woman has poor vigilance and lacks much sense of precaution. As long as I catch her off guard, I have an eighty percent chance of killing her in one strike! I will absolutely not give her a chance to use her treasure."

Di Jin analyzed in his heart.

The reason he chose noon instead of night was also because he considered that the night is the strongest period for the Night Watch. Naturally, he could not make a move during the opponent's strongest period.

After these days of observation, Di Jin was not worried that he would be unable to kill Cen Qingci.

As a Bounty Hunter... although he was only of the lowest, weakest class of Bounty Hunter, this was not the first time he had killed such a newly emerged Genius.

He understood very well.

Although these newly emerged Geniuses had impressive talent, a high room for growth, and combat power exceeding their own Realm, arrogance was their common flaw.

Even if they knew of the existence of Bounty Hunters, they would not take these Bounty Hunters seriously.

Although Cen Qingci was not that kind of arrogant Genius, she had clearly never suffered any setbacks, and her vigilance was too poor.

Especially in this Jin Yun City, she had no precautions at all, treating it like her own home, feeling that she was definitely safe here.

Such Geniuses... were undoubtedly the easiest to kill.

In Di Jin's eyes, Cen Qingci was basically already a dead person now.

At the same time, he had already told the secret agent in Jin Yun City the time he would make his move; the other party would make arrangements at that time to assist him in escaping Jin Yun City.

Di Jin silently planned tomorrow's action in his mind.

Although he thought this target was easy to kill, he did not have any contemptuous mindset because of it.

After all, this hunt was taking place inside Jin Yun City.

There was still a certain amount of danger.

Just as Di Jin was wholeheartedly planning, suddenly, he felt a fluctuation in his Qi and blood.

"Hmm?"

He could not help but feel puzzled.

The reason why they, the Bounty Hunters of the Senluo Organization, possessed strong camouflage abilities was mainly because of a special Cultivation Technique they cultivated.

This Cultivation Technique could keep their Qi and blood in a static, non-fluctuating state, making them look just like ordinary people, unable to be judged for their true Cultivation through their Qi and blood fluctuations.

Logically speaking, his Qi and blood should be in this static state right now.

Why would it suddenly fluctuate?

Not only that, Di Jin also felt the fluctuations of his entire Qi and blood constantly intensifying. In just a few seconds, it was as if a calm water surface had transformed into raging waves.

This caused his entire Entering Martial Realm Eighth Level Cultivation to erupt completely, no longer able to be hidden.

Because all of this happened too quickly.

Before Di Jin could react, the Qi and blood in his body had already boiled and surged.

Then, with a bang.

His Qi and blood exploded!

His body directly exploded into a mist of blood. This explosion triggered by his Qi and blood instantly blew him to pieces, with his skin torn and flesh gaping, bleeding all over.

Under the moonlight, on the roof of the inn where Di Jin lived, a black figure was silently lurking.

The moment he detonated the mark, boom! His entire figure immediately plummeted.

Breaking through the roof, he leaped down.

Xiao Shi held a long blade in his hand. This was the spoils of war after he killed the Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord; it was an Entering Martial Rank weapon, which just happened to replace the black gold sword.

At this moment, the instant he leaped from the roof, he raised the long blade in his hand, utilizing the force of his descent to slash fiercely at Di Jin below!

The operation of the Night Tiger's circulation within his body caused this slash he unleashed to have a huge boost under the cover of night, unleashing a force far more violent and powerful than during the day, tearing through the air and emitting a sharp, explosive sound.

Killing intent surged in Xiao Shi's eyes, along with ruthlessness.

In his plan this time, he only intended to unleash one blade! His strongest blade at the moment!

As the blade descended, Xiao Shi roared in his heart once more. "Activate!"

He directly activated the mark on the blade.

This was a mark he had condensed using half a piece of black ink stone before making his move!

As the mark was activated, the astonishing weight possessed by the black ink stone was immediately added to the blade, making the entire long blade become incomparably heavy.

This surge in weight caused the descent speed of the blade to reach an astonishing level directly.

Xiao Shi even felt his entire body being dragged down by this astonishing weight.

From Xiao Shi detonating the mark to him breaking through the roof and unleashing his strongest blade, all of this happened in just a few seconds.

It was so fast that Di Jin had absolutely no time to react.

But as a Bounty Hunter, in this moment of crisis, he could still make some instinctive reactions.

He stretched out both hands simultaneously, slapping toward the descending long blade, attempting to clamp the long blade with his palms to block it.

However, the moment he touched the long blade, an indescribably terrifying gravitational force suddenly erupted from the blade.

With a crack, both of his arms snapped simultaneously.

His legs also trembled, and he could not stand steady, directly kneeling to the ground.

"This... what!!"

Di Jin's entire face twisted in horror.

With his arms broken, his palms could no longer clamp the long blade.

The blade light flashed straight down from above his head, swept across his body, and slashed into the floor tiles beneath him, carving out a straight, huge crack that spread from beneath him all the way behind him.

Fear, horror, panic, shock, and other emotions remained permanently on Di Jin's face.

A blood line appeared on his forehead. This blood line instantly spread to his chin, then swept across his chest, all the way down... With a squelch, blood erupted, and his entire body split into two halves right there, centered on this blood line.

Xiao Shi's left hand grabbed at the ground as fast as lightning. With the fastest speed, he picked up the items that had fallen after Di Jin died, along with this incomparably heavy long blade in his hand, and threw them into the Storage Pouch.

Then, he executed the movement technique Arc Flash, directly smashing through the room wall, rushing out of the inn, and sprinting rapidly along the path outside the inn.

While sprinting, he quickly took off the clothes he was wearing, threw them into the Storage Pouch, and changed back into the Night Watch attire.

After finishing all of this, his figure paused suddenly. He turned back and rushed rapidly in the direction he had come from.

It was just like a Night Watch on patrol, having heard movement in the distance, rushing over quickly to check the situation.