Chapter 46 Kill!

Jiang Chen looked at these few people.

The man leading them was a middle-aged man with a lean, strong build, a crew cut, and rather pale skin; he was half a head taller than the 1.85-meter-tall Jiang Chen.

There was a deep scar on his face, running from his left jaw all the way to the corner of his right eye.

On his back, he carried an old-fashioned shotgun and a folding Luoyang shovel.

On his feet, he wore a pair of sturdy leather boots.

The other few were dressed similarly, carrying grappling hooks and various other items on their bodies.

One of them even had a Bagua mirror hanging directly on his chest.

Although these people had not undergone professional training, Jiang Chen could clearly feel the power contained beneath their muscles.

There were six people in total, and every single one of them possessed cultivation.

Even though the highest among them, the scarred man leading them, was only at the third level of the Qi Induction Stage.

There were even three people who hadn't even successfully introduced Qi into their bodies.

But for such a group of people to appear here was already highly unusual.

Based on the tools and items on their persons, Jiang Chen could roughly guess their profession.

Tomb raiders!

Sure enough, in the very next sentence, the burly man revealed his profession.

"Little brother, coming to Mount Bulao, are you also here to dig for sweet potatoes?"

Digging for sweet potatoes was tomb-raiding jargon, meaning he was also here to raid an Ancient Tomb.

Aside from the leader, who managed to squeeze out a friendly smile, the other few burly men were staring at Jiang Chen with unkind expressions; some had even quietly reached out to touch the gun stocks on their backs.

Clearly, if Jiang Chen's answer did not satisfy them, they intended to make Jiang Chen die here without a sound.

Jiang Chen was silent for a moment, then extended the picked-clean skeleton of the food on the branch in front of him toward the burly man.

"I'm here to sell barbecue. Would you gentlemen like to buy some barbecue?"

"..."

The burly man and his group were completely dumbfounded. Was this even something a human could say?

And that skeleton of yours is about to be chewed to bits; do I look that desperate for food?

But then again, this kid was quite a skilled hand at barbecue; they had just been attracted here by the fragrance.

"Little brother, you must be joking. If you're also here to dig for sweet potatoes, we brothers can bring you along." The burly man tried his best to keep a straight face.

"With this getup, are you planning to raid that Tang Dynasty Ancient Tomb that is currently being researched and excavated?"

Jiang Chen suddenly asked about their objective, which made them tense up for a moment.

Someone was even so nervous that they took their gun down from their back and pointed it at Jiang Chen.

Their boss also had a tense face, his palms spread open, appearing relaxed, but the tendons and bones on them were slightly protruding. Clearly, he also couldn't fathom Jiang Chen's background.

Originally, he had intended to ask a couple of questions and then just kill Jiang Chen.

But seeing Jiang Chen's calm and composed demeanor even when facing the muzzle of a gun, it made him a bit hesitant to act rashly.

"It seems little brother also has this idea?"

"I advise you not to waste your efforts; there is nothing you want in this Ancient Tomb." Jiang Chen said indifferently.

As soon as Jiang Chen finished speaking, the expressions of these people immediately turned even gloomier, and even the boss's complexion was quite poor.

They were all people who lived by licking blood off the blade; how could they be scared off so easily by a couple of words?

Instead, Jiang Chen's words made them understand that this person was not on the same path as them.

"Since that's the case, we hope little brother won't interfere with us. Otherwise, I can't guarantee what my brothers here might do." The boss threatened.

After speaking, they bypassed Jiang Chen and prepared to leave.

But after two people bypassed Jiang Chen, someone suddenly turned their gun barrel around, aimed it at Jiang Chen, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang!

Jiang Chen sighed slightly; the paths these people chose to court death were truly growing wider and wider.

After that person pulled the trigger, a cruel sneer had already appeared on his face, as if he had already seen Jiang Chen collapsed on the ground, riddled with holes like a sieve.

But in the next second, Jiang Chen's figure in front of him instantly vanished, and the gunpowder sprayed from the muzzle hit the ground completely.

Pfft!

The person who had originally fired the gun had his eyes split in rage, and then he truly split open.

Jiang Chen's palm lightly pressed against the top of his head, and a crack, like a glacier splitting, spread down from the top of the man's head.

"Oh no, we've encountered a cultivator!"

The boss of this group's expression changed, and he directly pulled a tattered, broken, rusty sword from his chest.

This sword appeared unremarkable, but as it was brandished, there was actually an unusual halo flickering within it.

Jiang Chen's gaze swept toward that broken sword. For a fleeting moment just now, he actually felt that the broken sword was somewhat familiar.

But he could be certain that, whether in dreams or reality, he had never seen this sword before.

"Little thief, take my sword strike!"

The burly man swung the sword toward Jiang Chen. The might on the sword was imposing, and for a moment, majestic Sword Qi actually manifested on its own.

This was clearly not a power that the burly man himself could control.

Jiang Chen's eyes flickered slightly. He flipped his palm lightly, and like reeling silk from a cocoon, he easily bypassed the Sword Qi and subsequently grabbed the hilt of the sword.

The next moment, the burly man's hand was easily shaken away, and this broken sword fell into Jiang Chen's hands.

The burly man's eyes widened. He hadn't expected that they, as the vanguard coming to scout the path, would encounter such a tough nut to crack and even incur a feud.

Now, not only was the treasure he had risked his life to obtain lost, but he was also about to lose his life here.

"Kid, do you know who is behind me?" Watching his brothers being killed one by one, the burly man finally panicked and began to threaten Jiang Chen.

"Is it the Three Pure Ones Ancestral Master behind you, or the Four Royals and Five Elders?"

The burly man paused. "Does Lord Guan count?"

Jiang Chen was somewhat surprised. Could it be that this guy really had the protection of Lord Guan the Saint Emperor behind him?

That couldn't be right. Lord Guan was most famous for his chivalry and righteousness; how could he possibly look favorably upon these petty tomb-raiding thieves?

Could it be because a certain prime minister who liked other people's wives was also a Mojin Xiaowei, and Lord Guan loved the house and its crow?

Then Jiang Chen heard the burly man add.

"I worship Lord Guan every day; we're practically sworn brothers."

Jiang Chen's face darkened, and then, without hesitation, he slashed down with the sword.

In just a few breaths, these six people were already lying on the ground, completely devoid of life.

"Heaven creates all things to nourish man; man has nothing to repay Heaven. You lot can consider this your repayment to the Heavens."

Jiang Chen wiped the bloodstains off the sword on the sleeve of one of the corpses.

He surprisingly discovered that it wasn't rust on the sword, but rather that it seemed to be naturally this color.

Looking at the regular script engraved on the sword, it should have been dug out of some Ancient Tomb by this group of tomb raiders.

As for the person behind them that they mentioned earlier, Jiang Chen really didn't pay much attention to it.

The Lower Nine Sects have always been an existence that cannot be brought to the table since ancient times. If they stop hopping around in front of him, so be it.

If they dare to come and provoke him, he'll just wipe them out with a wave of his hand.