Chapter Fifty Assassination

  Master, if it's not physical cultivation but only spiritual cultivation, although the physical body will be much stronger than ordinary people in the early stages of gathering spirits, normal spiritual cultivation doesn't have any agile methods on hands and feet, it's just brute force and strong physique. Even if one can easily knock down a dozen ordinary people, if you let a normal spiritual cultivator who has just started gathering spirits face a secular practitioner with a gun, they might also be easily shot into a hornet's nest, not to mention dodging bullets while counterattacking in a hail of gunfire.

  Because spiritual cultivation emphasizes the expansion of the spiritual sea and the application of spiritual consciousness, it mainly uses spiritual consciousness to control spiritual instruments and treasures, with a thought, taking someone's head from hundreds of miles away.

  That is spiritual cultivation.

  Normal spiritual cultivation will not use the physical body to fight with people, and in the early stages of spiritual cultivation, it is just a tiger without claws or teeth, at most having more strength, speed, and endurance to withstand hunger, cold, and other environmental factors.

  Like Guo Zhengyang, who can accurately hit the vital point of a target more than ten meters away with a single knife in a dark environment, this is indeed completely different from normal spiritual cultivation.

  However, this is also inevitable. Normal spiritual cultivation basically takes place in the spiritual realm, and the initial gathering of spirits is just a transition for them, which doesn't last long. Anyone who gets stuck for one or two years already has rotten qualifications for cultivation, basically representing no future prospects. Normal cultivators who pass through this stage are generally at the level of one to two years.

  While building the foundation of cultivation during the transition period, cultivators basically all stay in seclusion and cultivate without leaving, until after passing the initial stage, having obtained spiritual sea and spiritual awareness, they can then shine with extraordinary splendor, fundamentally no one will go use their physical body to fight with people.

  Because the strength of spiritual cultivation is only that strong, stronger than ordinary people, but not comparable to physical cultivation. An ordinary person can easily kill you with a sharp knife, so no matter how much training you have, even if you're very familiar with it, an intermediate spiritual cultivator using their spiritual sense to control a spiritual artifact can easily kill you from 100 meters away, and you won't even be able to get close. Who would still waste time cultivating physical combat strength?

  But Guo Zhengyang was not a normal spiritual cultivator, because in his previous life, from the moment he stepped into the cultivation world to reaching the peak of the Gathering Spirit stage, it took him four years, and he was stuck at the bottleneck for another year. During this time, he lived an ordinary life, just like everyone else, and only had a strong physical body that could be used, and during those years, he also encountered many things, so he trained his own strength more, practiced, and had many experiences of relying on his physical body to clash with others, and his control over his physical body was far superior to that of ordinary cultivators.

  Even if his grasp and training of his physical body later entered the spiritual realm, it didn't serve any purpose at all, and he almost never used it again. However, after rebirth, these past trainings and control over his physical body helped him greatly.

  Just like when he was at the Yang's house, he threw a flying knife from several meters away, cutting through Yang Mingquan's wrist artery. The cut was just right, not too deep or too shallow, allowing his opponent to quickly lose blood without directly severing his wrist. His control was precise and accurate. Or earlier, when he was following He Yunguang's car, which was moving at high speed, he threw a flying knife that pierced the iron skin of the car and accurately hit He Yunguang's throat. All of this relied on the accuracy he had honed in his previous life through years of training in the mundane world. Of course, it also owed to the fact that when he experimented with that crooked gourd, he created many sharp instruments that could cut through iron like mud. If not for those sharp instruments, even if his aim was good, he wouldn't have been able to pierce the car's skin from the outside and hit his target's throat.

  Relying solely on his flying knife, Guo Zhengyang killed two people in just a few minutes. Not far away, as the second person died, a series of shocked and furious roars erupted from the road.

  There were only four people in the car at first, and now two of them have been killed by the knife. It's easy to imagine how the remaining people will react.

  "Hmph!"

  The sound of gunfire kept rising from not far away, and someone was anxiously dialing the phone to report the news. Guo Zhengyang just calmly hid behind a big tree, letting his figure perfectly cover in the night.

  Until he heard the sudden stop of gunfire outside, followed by the sound of a clip being ejected, Guo Zhengyang flashed again, quickly locking onto his target. With a flick of his right hand, another knife shot out, slicing through the air and stabbing into the car compartment, but this time, it failed once more...

  The figure changing the magazine in the carriage suddenly reacted when the knife pierced the iron skin, and in a flash, it flipped to the back row of the car and pressed on He Yun Guang's body.

  Another person hiding outside the vehicle raised his hand and fired several shots at Guo Zhengyang.

  Guo Zhengyang suddenly leaned forward and rolled to avoid the bullets in the air, and then rushed directly to the back of the car. He stretched out his hand and pulled open the car door. Just as he was about to get in, a man who had just reloaded his gun and was pressing down on He Yun Guang's corpse in the back seat raised his hands in surprise. However, his speed was restricted by the space inside the car, which was far from Guo Zhengyang's.

  *pffft*

  Another flying knife was thrown out, and the man directly shook his body and fell to the ground. Even in the process of falling, the gun in his hand fired, but Guo Zhengyang had already dodged and leaned against the front car door.

  "There is another one."

  Now, of the four people in the car, only one was left on the other side of the vehicle, separated from Guo Zhengyang by just the width of a car body.

  Kwak Jeong-yang could clearly hear the other person's rapid and panicked breathing, as well as the slightly trembling sound of the slide retracting.

  What a great opportunity!

  Suddenly, a bright light flashed before his eyes, and Guo Zhengyang's body sprang out, rushing past the car body to the other side of the car head. Before he left the car head, he flung out a flying knife with his hand. The man who was still changing bullets didn't react slowly either, rolling over lazily to dodge it. Just as his body rolled away, another knife directly pierced through the air and stabbed into his back, making a "poof" sound as it penetrated through his chest from front to back.

  The last man also went limp in the roll and fell to the ground with a thud.

  It wasn't until then that Guo Zhengyang suddenly let out a breath and stood up straight in front of the car.

  Guo Zhengyang, standing upright, was now fully covered in layers of protection, with a black sun hat on his head, the brim pulled very low, and a mask covering his face.

  Even his hands were covered with thin gloves like cicada wings.

  He didn't expect that after making up his mind to take on the responsibility, the first person he would meet would be He Yun Guang.

  He initially wanted to kill all the He family members, so they wouldn't go on persecuting those innocent ordinary families. In fact, he wanted to sneak into the He family and cut them off at the roots. The thing is, he didn't know where the He family's address was, nor did he dare ask casually, lest someone suspect him. Then he just wandered around the streets, constantly choosing a group of thugs to eavesdrop on their conversations, trying to find clues.

  Fortunately, these thugs, whether they were doing business or eating and drinking, talked about things related to the He family eight out of ten times. After all, it was the He family's bounty that had driven them crazy recently, so what else would they talk about when they gathered together?

  However, Guo Zhengyang still listened to dozens of waves of gossip from the gangsters before he luckily heard some useful information from one of them who was eating. The person who was eating and drinking said that if they could find the real culprit and get the reward, they would be able to live a life of luxury. Someone else chimed in saying that no matter how luxurious their lives would be, they would still just be dogs for the He family. Another person added that being able to live such a luxurious life would make it worth being a dog, mentioning that people like He Shao had top-level beauties as mistresses and were envied by many. Finally, someone else mentioned that they had seen He Shao's car go into a certain residential area earlier, guessing that he must have been keeping some women there, but didn't know what kind of women they were.

  When Guo Zhengyang also rushed to the residential area, he soon saw He Yun Guang's car coming out of the residential area. However, it was not just He Yun Guang alone, but two cars with many people. He followed He Yun Guang and turned around for a while, but did not expect that the other party would actually take a young man who had an affair with his wife to a suburban area to settle the matter.

  Because this He Dashi is also in the business of killing people, so the location where he made his move was also very secluded. After the quiet car lights went out, on this road you could only see the moonlight and starlight, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to make his move here.

  "Calculating the time, He Yi Zhong should have received the news by now. Will he come himself or report to the police? He's a mastermind, so it's more likely that he'll come alone. Besides, the old man probably still wants to kill me with his own hands and won't report to the police. In that case, I'll just wait for him here." After scanning the scene, Guo Zhengyang quickly set off to retrieve the flying knives he had shot out earlier, also thinking about something in his mind.

  He originally wanted to sneak into He's house to kill someone, but running into these things turned out to be a good thing instead.

  In this desolate wilderness, an assassination is much safer than sneaking into He's residence. After all, in modern society, any decent villa may have surveillance facilities inside and around it. Without spiritual awareness, one cannot rely on spiritual instruments to take someone's head from afar. If Guo Zhengyang wants to kill someone, there is a high risk of being captured by surveillance cameras. So if He Yizhong comes over later, ambushing him here will be much safer than sneaking into his residence.

  This is also why when Guo Zhengyang was assassinated earlier, he heard someone making a phone call to report the news but just quietly waited for the other party to finish their conversation without any attempt to stop them.