22: Chapter 22: The Golden Beetle

Inside the jungle, beside a frozen river.

Yao Beast corpses were everywhere, blood flowing like a river, staining the entire snowfield red.

A young man in white stood amidst a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

It was precisely Gu Jing.

After killing Jiang Feng, he had come to this relatively wide frozen river to draw aggro, pulling all the Yao Beasts within a thousand-meter radius here to begin the slaughter.

That was why there was such a bloody scene.

"Nine hundred and fifty-six Yao Beasts! Killing them all together is indeed fast~"

Just as Gu Jing was preparing to leave for the next location to draw aggro, two figures arrived on Flying Swords and blocked his path.

The newcomers were Jiang Tao and Jiang Zhentian.

The two were shocked by the mountain of corpses and sea of blood before them.

These Yao Beasts had actually all been killed with a single strike of Sword Qi. Over half of them were Rank Two Middle Stage Yao Beasts; the person who killed them was definitely a master of the sword!

Both of their expressions became solemn; Jiang Feng's death was definitely related to this Sword Cultivator!

A Sword Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage was someone even a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Great Circle Cultivator would be wary of. It was simply because a Sword Cultivator's attack power was too formidable, overbearing, and mysterious.

The two did not suspect in the slightest that these Yao Beasts were killed by Gu Jing; after all, he was only at the tenth level of Qi Refining.

The two believed Gu Jing was at most here to scavenge; if he really encountered a Rank Two Yao Beast, any single one could leave him without a place to be buried.

"Kid, when did you arrive here? Did you see a Foundation Establishment Cultivator pass by just now?" Jiang Zhentian asked.

Gu Jing rolled his eyes at the two. Asking questions with such a cocky tone?

He ignored them directly and walked forward.

"Kid, stand still if you don't want to die!" Jiang Tao's face was cold. If he didn't need to ask this boy for clues, based on his rude attitude, he would have been a cold corpse under normal circumstances!

After all, in the cultivation world, which Qi Refining junior would dare to be so disrespectful to a Foundation Establishment expert?

Under normal circumstances, meeting in a dangerous wilderness, one would wish they could speak while kneeling!

Gu Jing's expression darkened, then he suddenly thought of something and smiled.

"Are you two from the Spirit Controlling Sect? Are you here to find the murderer of the Spirit Controlling Sect's Young Lord?"

Seeing there were clues, Jiang Tao and Jiang Zhentian's eyes immediately lit up.

Jiang Zhentian asked impatiently, "Junior, speak quickly! Who is the murderer of my grandson, and where did he go? This old man will reward you with one Low-Grade Spirit Stone!"

Hearing this, Gu Jing was amused. So this old fellow was that young man's grandfather. Looking at the middle-aged man beside him, the three of them shared a striking resemblance. Needless to say, he must be the young man's father.

Perfect, the whole family can go on their way together~

However, before killing them, he would toy with them first; he was bored anyway.

"One Low-Grade Spirit Stone? Old man, are you treating me like a beggar?"

Jiang Zhentian was stunned for a moment before instantly becoming enraged. Even a Golden Core Cultivator wouldn't dare speak to him like that; this Qi Refining ant was simply arrogant to the extreme!

He suppressed his killing intent; as long as Gu Jing revealed the clues later, he would immediately grind his bones to ashes!

Jiang Zhentian laughed out of extreme anger, "Good, good, good. Junior, one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones. Can you speak now?"

As soon as Gu Jing spoke, he would kill him immediately!

Beside him, Jiang Tao cautiously sized up Gu Jing. This Qi Refining junior was calm and composed in the face of two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, not panicking at all. Could he be playing a pig to eat a tiger?

But he didn't sense any dangerous aura from him.

Could he be in league with that Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Sword Cultivator?

Thinking of this, Jiang Tao immediately sent a sound transmission, telling his father his thoughts.

After hearing it, Jiang Zhentian also felt Gu Jing was unusual and had already secretly recalled the golden flying insects he had released earlier, which were now rushing back.

"One hundred thousand is not enough. Add the heads on your shoulders too!"

Gu Jing grinned. With a flash of Spiritual Light in his hand, a rusty Kitchen Knife appeared.

The moment the Kitchen Knife appeared, Jiang Tao and Jiang Zhentian's scalps instantly went numb, and their expressions changed drastically!

This rusty, broken Kitchen Knife actually made them feel a strong, lethal sense of crisis!

In their horror, the two decisively summoned their strongest defensive Magic Treasures while Flying Swords appeared beneath their feet, intending to flee.

However, as Gu Jing raised his hand and brought the knife down, a Blade Glow as fast as lightning sliced through the Void Realm, and the two were instantly decapitated.

Holy crap?!

Gu Jing was stunned. An instant kill with one strike???

He had originally thought it would take at least two or three strikes, since both of them had activated high-rank defensive Magic Treasures.

He didn't expect an instant kill with just one strike!

It had to be said, this Kitchen Knife was truly Heaven-Defying; it was so terrifying even when his cultivation was suppressed to the Qi Refining Realm!

Buzz buzz buzz—

Suddenly, the buzzing sound of insects flapping their wings came from ahead.

Gu Jing looked forward and saw a dense swarm of glittering golden flying insects rushing toward him at high speed.

He immediately waved his hand, and thirty-six strands of Sword Qi condensed and shot through the air toward the swarm of golden flying insects.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding—

The Sword Qi struck the flying insects as if hitting iron plates, producing crisp clinking sounds before dissipating into Spiritual Qi.

Gu Jing was dumbfounded!

What kind of flying insects are these? Their defense is actually so astonishing?

One must know that even a casual strand of his Sword Qi was comparable to the full-power strike of a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator!

As the golden flying insects approached, Gu Jing felt an inexplicable sense of dread, and his hair stood on end; he actually felt a crisis of death from this group of tiny flying insects!

Just as he was about to swing the Kitchen Knife to exterminate them—

"Wait, kid, don't move. These seem to be Golden Beetles!"

The Kitchen Knife's tone was somewhat excited as it emitted a Spiritual Light, enveloping the approaching golden flying insects and restricting their movements.