48: Chapter 48: Destruction Before Reconstruction?

The strong wind whistled in his ears. Su Mo endured the excruciating pain, desperately spreading his four wings in an attempt to cushion his fall.

"I'm done for, I'm done for, I'm done for!"

Seeing the ground getting closer, Su Mo immediately activated the skill 【Infinite White Porridge】, condensing a thick sea of porridge on the ground beneath his feet to cushion the impact.

"Thump!"

Su Mo crashed into the white porridge like a falling egg, splashing waves five or six meters high.

When Su Mo struggled to crawl out of the sea of porridge, his blood-stained body was dripping with viscous white porridge.

"Cough, cough!"

He spat out a mouthful of stagnant blood and looked at his abdomen, which had been struck by the Sword Qi.

Su Mo, who shouldn't have been able to withstand this sword strike, was surprised to find that only the thick exoskeleton under his skin around his abdomen had shattered in layers; there was no injury deep enough to reach the bone.

"This is... blocked by this piece of clothing?!"

Su Mo looked at the vest he had been wearing like a pair of underpants; this was exactly the vest he had stripped off Steward Wang earlier.

Unexpectedly, it had withstood a sword strike from a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and was currently completely undamaged.

Su Mo was pleasantly surprised. The vest had hindered the spreading of his wings when worn on his upper body, and it was a pity to throw it away. Su Mo had a flash of inspiration and wore it as underpants, which happened to cover his abdomen.

"I've found a treasure!"

"But the difference between a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and a Qi Refining Cultivator is truly worlds apart!"

Wang Shixian had struck with just a casual sword move, and he hadn't even been able to dodge it. If it weren't for this precious armor, he would likely have been cut in half!

"Choosing to run away was definitely the right decision!"

Su Mo's eyes sharpened. During the fall just now, the steel-hard feathers on the wings behind him had all fallen off. He would need a period of recovery before he could use them again; for now, he could only travel on foot.

He needed to leave quickly, otherwise, if Wang Shixian tracked him down after finding him, he would be doomed.

Su Mo quickly looked around and discovered he had landed in a somewhat primitive mountain forest.

After checking the direction of the sun, Su Mo decided to head west and take a detour to the vicinity of the Taixu Sect.

Not long after, Wang Shixian stood in mid-air above the imperial palace.

"Welcome, Immortal Master!!"

Inside and outside the palace, the civil and military officials knelt in submission; even The Emperor was no exception.

Wang Shixian, however, looked down from above, his gaze sweeping across the crowd with a sinister look, until he saw his third sister, Wang Shilan.

"Third Sister, how did Father and Eldest Brother die?"

Wang Shilan's vision blurred; suddenly, someone appeared before her.

"Second Brother, Father, Eldest Brother, and Little Brother... they are all dead! That assassin wanted to kill me too, but fortunately, I had the jade pendant given to me by The Emperor to protect me, so I didn't fall victim to that villain's schemes."

Wang Shilan cried tearfully in front of him.

"Has that person been found?"

Wang Shixian looked coldly at The Emperor, without any courtesy towards the ruler of a nation.

"I have already issued an imperial decree for the Imperial Guards to search with all their might, but..."

"Trash!"

Wang Shixian waved his hand, and the heavy pressure caused everyone present to vomit blood repeatedly.

"Second Brother! Don't blame them; the assassin was too cunning."

"Let's go see Father one last time first..."

Seeing The Emperor vomiting blood repeatedly, Wang Shilan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Wang Shixian's sleeve.

"Hmph!"

Wang Shixian snorted coldly and took Wang Shilan toward the Wang estate.

Seeing this, the personal eunuch hurriedly helped The Emperor, who was kneeling on the ground, to stand up.

"Your Majesty, are you alright? Quickly, summon the imperial physician..."

Three black coffins were neatly placed in the main hall of the Wang family; in the courtyard, paper money had already paved a thick layer on the ground.

As soon as Wang Shilan saw the coffins, her tears could not stop falling.

Although they had been placed there for so long, thanks to the protection of ice cubes and antiseptic spices, Steward Wang's corpse had not rotted; instead, it smelled fragrant.

Wang Shixian frowned and walked to the central coffin.

He saw that Steward Wang's original head had turned into wood, and paired with the burial clothes on his body, it appeared extremely bizarre.

Suddenly, Wang Shixian's Divine Sense perceived a foreign object in Steward Wang's body. He reached out and brushed over Steward Wang's body, and a black thorn immediately pierced out from the body.

"This thing... it seems I've seen it somewhere before..."

Su Mo's figure suddenly appeared in his mind; the feathers on those wings were exactly these kinds of black thorns.

Wang Shixian's originally sinister face suddenly became somewhat strange.

Had he just casually killed his father's murderer?

Afterward, he smiled slightly at Wang Shilan:

"Third Sister, the murderer of our father was casually executed by me on my way back. It was just a monster bird that hadn't fully matured."

Hearing this, Wang Shilan's crying paused, and a flash of surprise and doubt crossed her eyes.

"Second Brother... really?"

"Yes."

"Finally... Father, Eldest Brother, and Little Brother can finally be buried..."

With the great revenge avenged, Wang Shilan lay on the coffin, sobbing uncontrollably.

Seeing this, Wang Shixian flew into the air and left again.

He had returned to the Qian Kingdom this time not just to settle affairs in the Mortal World, but also to take on a mission to search for Immortal seedlings.

Returning to the imperial palace again, he flew straight to the Taixu Pavilion, the station of the Taixu Sect in the imperial city.

He used his Divine Sense to scan the area but did not detect the aura of any Qi Refinement Stage Disciple stationed here.

"Where are the Taixu Sect Disciples stationed here?"

He casually grabbed a guard protecting the Taixu Pavilion and asked.

"Immortal... Master, the State Preceptor... was... was killed by an assassin..."

The guard immediately knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

"Hmm? To be stationed here, he must have at least the strength of the Late Stage of Qi Refining. Who could kill him?"

"I heard people say it was a huge black bird, and others say it was a Young Master dressed in black..."

Wang Shixian immediately understood, and his brows furrowed again.

To be able to kill a Late Stage Disciple, had that big bird hidden its cultivation?!

No, he might not be dead!

At this moment, Wang Shixian's father's murderer was running wildly in the dense forest.

Su Mo had gone crazy killing in this dense forest.

No, to be precise, he had gone crazy eating.

Sure enough, in a big forest, you can find all kinds of birds.

Those that flew in the sky, ran on the ground, swam in the water, and even those that twisted in the soil—there were things Su Mo had never eaten before.

【Myriad Races Furnace】 activated!

Su Mo's talents began to stack crazily, his physical fitness skyrocketed in all aspects, and his injuries had mostly healed.

Furthermore, under the stacking of various talents, his appearance after transforming changed again.

Sharp black bone blades grew on the edges of his four wings, and the black steel feathers disappeared, replaced by black and red exoskeleton armor that wrapped his entire body tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

The exoskeleton almost integrated all the characteristics of animals and insects; it was hard, resilient, and full of explosive power.

If he had looked like a stuffed toy before, he was now a perfect machine born for slaughter.

Su Mo tried to wave the jagged bone blades on the outside of his forearms.

"Swish!"

It was as smooth and unobstructed as if he were waving in the air. The century-old tree beside him, which required three people to embrace, snapped at the sound, its cut smooth and flat.

He now felt that if the old State Preceptor appeared in front of him, he could shatter his five-layered turtle shell with a single strike and strike directly at the heart.

Even if Wang Shixian chased after him, he could now put up a fight.