17: Chapter 17 Killing Intent? It's nothing special!

The search process was quite smooth, and the other imprisoned Martial Artists were basically around Shi Gandang's cell.

However, the condition of these Martial Artists was not nearly as good as Shi Gandang's.

Some Martial Artists, who had been locked up for a short time like Shi Gandang and hadn't been soaked in the berserk beast medicine, were alright; their bodies weren't very weak, and after leaving the berserk beast medicine, they could slowly recover.

As for the others, the Martial Artists who had been soaked in the berserk beast medicine for seven or eight days had completely lost the clarity in their eyes, replaced by bloodshot pupils.

Along with a completely uncontrollable, berserk killing intent.

This killing intent was not aimed at anyone in particular; it indiscriminately wanted to destroy every living thing that appeared before their eyes.

Seeing the fate of these Martial Artists, while Shi Gandang felt lingering fear, a wave of anger also rose from the bottom of his heart!

"The damned beasts of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall!"

He was originally a member of a certain Martial Artist organization, and at this moment, prompted by the organization, he had come to investigate the phenomenon of some Martial Artists disappearing in Qinghua County, Hongyan Prefecture.

After the investigation, he discovered that Baiyun Martial Arts Hall actually kidnapped Martial Artists in private, imprisoned them in the dungeon, soaked them in berserk beast medicine, and thereby transformed them into beasts that only knew how to kill.

Then, they threw them into the colosseum along with Yao Beasts to provide thrills for high-ranking officials and nobles, profiting from it!

This act had already transcended the scope of humanity!

It was simply no different from those bloodthirsty Yao Beasts!

However, when Shi Gandang had gathered enough evidence and was preparing to report these filthy deeds of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall through his Martial Artist organization, he was caught a step ahead by a Disciple of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall and sent into the prison.

He had almost ended up with the same fate as these Martial Artists who had already lost their sanity!

Shi Gandang looked at the Martial Artists imprisoned in the cages and clenched his fists:

"You..."

"Roar!"

Before Shi Gandang's voice even faded, the red-eyed Martial Artist inside the cage discovered him and let out a beast-like roar toward him.

"...He has completely been eroded of all sanity by bestiality..." Shi Gandang sighed.

Snap!

The next instant, a flash of sword light flickered, and the iron bars of the cage were cleaved open with a single sword strike.

Shi Gandang stared in astonishment at Qin Muyuan by his side, watching him cleave open the iron bars, enter the cage, and raise his sword to execute this Martial Artist whose sanity had been completely eroded with a single strike.

Shi Gandang asked in a daze: "...Hero?"

"At the moment he lost his sanity, he was already dead." Qin Muyuan turned around and withdrew his sword: "Since he is dead, do not let his corpse be defiled by beasts."

"..." Shi Gandang was silent and didn't speak for a long time.

Following Qin Muyuan, the Martial Artists who still retained some sanity were rescued, while the remaining Martial Artists who had completely lost their sanity were slain by Qin Muyuan with a single sword strike.

"There shouldn't be any other imprisoned Martial Artists."

Walking to the end of the underground prison and seeing no other Martial Artists, Shi Gandang, who had recovered a bit of strength, said:

"Hero Qin, before those people from Baiyun Martial Arts Hall find out, let's leave quickly—"

"None of you are going anywhere!"

Right at this moment, at the end of the passageway they came from, a white-haired old man with hair standing on end in anger and an expression as cold as iron suddenly appeared.

This white-haired old man exuded a powerful aura, and the sound of footsteps echoed in the passageway. With every step he took, his aura grew a fraction stronger.

"The master of Baiyun Martial Arts Hall, Yin Sanyuan!"

The moment they recognized this white-haired old man, the expressions of Shi Gandang and the other released Martial Artists changed drastically, turning pale.

"So, you still know this old man's name..." Yin Sanyuan said with suppressed anger on his face, walking step by step toward Qin Muyuan and the others:

"Then, who... dared to kill my Disciple and take the life of my son!"

"Yin Sanyuan?"

Qin Muyuan turned a deaf ear to the white-haired old man's words and simply turned to look at Shi Gandang.

Shi Gandang looked ugly and said as if facing a formidable enemy: "He is the master of this Baiyun Martial Arts Hall branch, extremely powerful, having already reached the Realm of the Third-Rate Peak, Half-Step Second-Rate!"

"Huh?" Qin Muyuan picked his ear.

Third-Rate Peak, Half-Step Second-Rate?

Sounds pretty strong, looking a bit like an elite mob.

But.

Qin Muyuan asked Shi Gandang: "Then let me ask you, when Second-Rate Martial Artists hold a meeting, would they call this Third-Rate Peak, Half-Step Second-Rate Yin Sanyuan to go?"

"Ah?" A trace of bewilderment flashed across Shi Gandang's originally solemn face.

What kind of question was this?

Come to think of it, he had never really thought about this question... Logically speaking, Second-Rate experts wouldn't call a half-step Second-Rate Martial Artist to attend a meeting either...

"That's not right!" Shi Gandang's face became anxious: "Hero Qin! What time is it, and you're still saying these joking words!"

"Yin Sanyuan's strength reaches the heavens; in the entire Qinghua County, no one dares to pat their chest and say they can deal with Yin Sanyuan!"

"Now that he has set his sights on us, I'm afraid it will be hard for us to get away unscathed!"

Shi Gandang looked at Yin Sanyuan walking toward them step by step, and then looked at the end of the passageway behind them. At this moment, they had nowhere else to retreat!

"Hero Qin!" Shi Gandang hardened his heart and gritted his teeth, saying: "Later, I will do my best to stall Yin Sanyuan. As for what follows, it will be up to you, Hero Qin!"

However, just as Shi Gandang was preparing to fight to the death, a palm suddenly reached out from the back of his neck.

Accompanied by a force that made it impossible for him to resist, his entire body was hoisted up like a chick and tossed backward.

"What are you doing? Stealing my mob, are you?"

Qin Muyuan pulled out the pure nail and turned his gaze toward the furious Yin Sanyuan.

"Who is your son?"

"First Senior Brother Yin Pei!"

"Never heard of him."

"The head Disciple of the martial arts hall who died before that wolf monster's cage!"

"Oh!"

Qin Muyuan suddenly understood: "If you're talking about that small mob... Yes, that small mob was killed by me."

"Good! Very good!" Hearing this, the killing intent that Yin Sanyuan had suppressed for a long time suddenly erupted at this moment!

The few people behind Qin Muyuan felt a chill in their hearts, shocked by this dense killing intent, and their faces turned pale.

As for the wolf monster Wangcai, at this moment, it shrank tightly into a corner, almost scared to the point of peeing itself.

Only Qin Muyuan was completely unaffected before this intense killing intent.

Or rather, before Qin Muyuan, who possessed the [I Love Killing] golden talent and could convert blood Qi and killing intent into strength enhancements.

Yin Sanyuan's killing intent was just like that.

"Go to hell!"

Yin Sanyuan burst out with a shrill roar, and his strength circulated within his body like blood.

He stomped hard with both feet, and his entire person, carrying the long sword in his hand, killed toward Qin Muyuan like an arrow leaving the bowstring!

Qin Muyuan's pupils shrank slightly, catching Yin Sanyuan's figure, holding the pure nail high, and then slashing down fiercely.

"Falling Thunder Swordsmanship!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The sound of wind and thunder roared within the passageway, and the pure nail smashed down like a thunderbolt from the firmament!

Clang!

The pure nail collided head-on with the long sword in Yin Sanyuan's hand, a blacksmithing sound exploded, accompanied by blinding sparks flying everywhere!

"What?!"

Yin Sanyuan's figure retreated violently, his arm trembling, his whole body unloading force backward for several meters before eliminating the immense force coming from the long sword in his hand.

He channeled his strength into his arm to control his uncontrollably trembling arm, staring fixedly at the figure holding the strange long sword.

Then he saw that figure holding the sword with one hand, with a calm expression, not retreating even a single step under his feet.

[Falling Thunder Swordsmanship Second Layer (95%) → Falling Thunder Swordsmanship Third Layer (7%)]

Qin Muyuan moved his gaze away from the panel and looked at Yin Sanyuan:

"Not bad, able to withstand a strike of my 95% progress Second Layer Falling Thunder Swordsmanship."

"Then... next, try the Third Layer Falling Thunder Swordsmanship."

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