14: Chapter 14: Just a few small monsters, easily killed.

Hongyan Prefecture, Baiyun Martial Arts Hall.

Underground Colosseum.

"Has that person surnamed Chen been sent over yet?"

In a room lit by several kerosene lamps, First Senior Brother Yin Pei of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall asked impatiently.

"First Senior Brother, not yet, but it should be soon." Second Senior Brother Pan Yu to the side glanced at the time and said.

"Soon what soon! You, hurry and send someone to urge that person surnamed Chen once more. If the rations of the Yao Race are not delivered, the next match is about to start!"

Yin Pei waved his hand and said.

Before the colosseum matches began, the Yao Race needed to eat a living human raw to activate their ferocity and fill their stomachs, so that they could hunt other prey in the matches.

Otherwise, a Yao Race member that had not been fed a living person beforehand would lack stamina, fail to activate its ferocity, and appear sickly.

When hunting prey later, it wouldn't produce exciting show effects.

Not only would it ruin the reputation of their Baiyun Colosseum, but even when harvesting the flesh and blood of this Yao Race member in the future, its live blood activity would also be poor.

Handing over such flesh and blood to the headquarters of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall would make the Senior Brothers at the headquarters extremely dissatisfied!

Hearing Yin Pei's instruction, although Second Senior Brother Pan Yu felt it was troublesome, he could only comply.

He returned to Baiyun Martial Arts Hall from the back door of the underground colosseum, just wanting to grab a random Junior Brother in the martial arts hall to urge Squire Chen, but he discovered abnormal clamor coming from the outer courtyard of the martial arts hall.

"What are you making a fuss about?!"

Pan Yu furrowed his brows. How long had he been away from the martial arts hall, and this group of people was acting up again?

Thinking this, Pan Yu pushed open the inner courtyard gate and walked quickly toward the outer courtyard.

"What are you yelling for? Don't you know that in the martial arts hall, one must maintain the composure a Martial Artist ought to have..."

Pushing open the gate leading to the outer courtyard, Pan Yu's words stopped abruptly before he finished speaking.

All because.

The noise in the outer courtyard was not caused by the few restless Disciples he had thought, but by a youth holding a strange weapon.

The youth had black hair and black eyes, his body stained with crimson blood, and his feet were surrounded by fallen martial arts hall Disciples dressed in white martial robes.

"Second Senior Brother! Quickly save us!"

A martial arts hall Disciple who had been frightened out of his wits saw Second Senior Brother Pan Yu, scrambled and crawled over to Pan Yu's side, his tone filled with intense fear:

"Second Senior Brother, this vicious fiend broke into the martial arts hall, saying he wanted to find some Shi Gandang."

"We didn't know who Shi Gandang was and stepped forward to stop his intrusion, but who would have expected him to draw his sword on the spot, charge straight from the main entrance of the martial arts hall into the outer courtyard, and kill or injure over a dozen of our fellow martial brothers!"

Hearing this, Pan Yu instantly looked toward Qin Muyuan, his eyes filled with rage:

"What! How dare you kill my fellow martial brothers!?"

"Just a few mobs, cut them down and that's it."

Qin Muyuan glanced at the panel, confirming that the person pointed to by the arrow in the Task Guidance was the martial arts hall Disciple before him:

"The arrow points at you, which means I know where the person I'm looking for is... Speak, tell me where Shi Gandang is, and I can spare your life."

"You're courting death!"

However, facing Qin Muyuan's magnanimity, Second Senior Brother Pan Yu felt he had suffered the ultimate insult.

Although Second Senior Brother Pan Yu was a Disciple of the martial arts hall, he was a Disciple transferred from the headquarters of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall to this Qinghua County branch in Hongyan Prefecture!

Judging by strength, placed in Jianghu, that was also the level of a third-rate expert!

Within Qinghua County, apart from the First Senior Brother and the branch master, no one had ever dared to speak to him like this!

Pan Yu wore a furious expression, stamped his foot heavily, and flew out like a wild horse with a broken rein, charging straight toward Qin Muyuan.

"Baiyun Palm!"

He twisted his waist and hips, stimulated the force in his palm, and fiercely slapped toward Qin Muyuan.

"I still wanted to complete the quest in a different way, but since you are unwilling to cooperate, I can only kill you."

Qin Muyuan's expression was calm, the arm holding the pure nail raised quickly, and then crashed down like thunder!

Boom!

The sound of wind and thunder exploded!

Pan Yu sensed the might of this sword strike, and his expression changed drastically.

He had never expected that the youth's sword Moves before him could be so fast!

Clearly it was he who made the Move first, yet the youth before him was able to arrive after first taking action, rapidly counterattacking with a sword strike!

In his urgency, Pan Yu could only circulate his force, using the palm strike meant for Qin Muyuan's chest to block that strange longsword.

As a third-rate expert possessing force, Pan Yu's palms had long been tempered to be as thick and tough as cowhide.

Ordinary swords and sabers simply couldn't slash through his palms to attack him.

However, this time Pan Yu miscalculated!

That unremarkable triangular longsword possessed an exaggerated degree of sharpness. The moment it touched his palm, it was like a butcher's knife slicing through a block of tofu.

It instantly tore apart his palm, which was imbued with force, and then slashed down his arm along with his palm!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, an arm severed in mid-air!

A thick arm was directly severed by that triangular longsword with its exaggerated sharpness in just this brief moment of clash!

"Ahhh!"

Severe pain swept through Pan Yu's entire body, causing him to fall backward out of control.

However, the next instant, a wisp of sword light flashed before his eyes, and Pan Yu only felt a chill at his throat.

As he reached out towards his neck, blood gushed uncontrollably, and his strength continuously faded away along with the gushing blood.

Thud!

A bloody line flashed across Pan Yu's neck, and his whole body collapsed to the ground.

[Falling Thunder Swordsmanship Second Layer (40%) → Falling Thunder Swordsmanship Second Layer (70%)]

"Why bother."

Qin Muyuan stepped over Pan Yu's corpse and walked straight toward the inner courtyard.

Having killed the gate-guarding Baiyun Martial Arts Hall Disciples, his Falling Thunder Swordsmanship had already advanced from the first layer to the second layer, greatly enhancing his speed and precision.

Killing this Second Senior Brother of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall was as easy as picking something up with his hand.

"Even a Disciple of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall dares to block my path; it seems my reputation is still far from enough..."

On the way to the martial arts hall, Qin Muyuan checked his Reputation.

Reputation affected NPCs' perception and understanding of him. The higher the reputation, the more NPCs knew and understood him.

And based on his specific actions, reputation would increase. Good actions would make NPCs like him, give him gifts on ordinary days, and greet him when meeting him on the road.

Evil actions would make NPCs fear him and make enemies terrified of him. Even when triggering a combat, once notoriety came out, it could directly scare NPCs into fleeing in all directions.

Moreover, according to the Reputation entry display, this game adopted a dynamic reputation System.

After the reputation value increased, it needed to spread before it could be known by NPCs.

There would not be a situation where a big event was done here, and people would immediately know about it upon walking out onto the street.

Only by making a big fuss would the spread of reputation become faster and faster.

In addition, the impact of reputation on NPCs would also be more realistic.

On his side, he killed people, and people would be terrified. Later, if someone discovered that the person he killed was an evildoer, people would no longer be terrified afterwards, but would instead support him and think he did a good job.

"I killed a martial arts hall Disciple, yet the Second Senior Brother inside still dared to speak to me like that, which shows that my reputation is still not big enough and hasn't spread fast enough..."

Qin Muyuan reflected.

He still needed to slaughter his way through the entire Baiyun Martial Arts Hall so that the NPCs of this world would know his name!

Just like in Elden Ring 7, after becoming the Elden Lord, the foot soldiers in the Lands Between would no longer dare to make a Move against him.

Only when his reputation was big enough could NPCs' attitudes toward him be a bit more polite!

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