Chapter Thirty-Six: Assassination

  A young boy and girl walked into Su Tang's line of sight, they were wearing very tattered clothes, could be described as barely covering their bodies, with pale yellow complexions, walking unsteadily.

  "Brother, I'm so hungry..." The girl wailed.

  "Ah Mei, bear with it for a bit, brother will go find something for you to eat soon." The young man comforted her in a low voice.

  "I'm exhausted, bro... I really can't move anymore..."

  "When he... " The young man's eyes lit up when he saw Su Tang, and he pulled the girl along, staggering as they walked. When they got closer, he suddenly fell to his knees with a thud, and the girl also knelt down beside him.

  "Big brother, have mercy on us, we haven't eaten for three days..." the young man cried out.

  "I'm so hungry..." The girl's lament became even more sorrowful.

  Looking at the pitiful appearance of the brother and sister, Su Tang let out a light sigh, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, was it due to sympathy? Su Tang pulled out over ten silver coins from his pocket, but just as the young man reached out to take them, Su Tang suddenly froze, the young man's finger joints were abnormally thick and large, like carrots, and his palms were full of calluses, this should be a result of practicing some special martial arts technique.

  Su Tang immediately raised his vigilance, and at this moment, he faintly heard a sharp wind sound coming from above. He suddenly lifted his head and saw that on the roof of a house, there was someone kneeling with a long bow in hand, the bowstring vibrating violently, and an arrow had already flown halfway.

  Su Tang instinctively retreated backward, trying to avoid the arrow's shadow. The young man suddenly pounced forward, stretching out his thick palm and grasping Su Tang's hands tightly. Although he was short in stature and had an unpleasant complexion, with a malnourished appearance, his hands seemed to possess infinite strength, rendering Su Tang immobile.

  Pfft...... The arrow shadow fell on Su Tang's shoulder and deeply pierced into his body. This arrow was supposed to pierce through Su Tang's neck, fortunately he was alert in time and reacted, avoiding the vital point.

  Under the unbearable agony, Su Tang only felt his vision blurring, and in that instant, the girl had already pulled out a dagger from her sleeve and stabbed it towards Su Tang's body.

  Ugh…… Su Tang was severely injured again, the dagger was stabbed right between his chest and abdomen, this knife was absolutely fatal, and the girl also extremely viciously twisted her wrist, letting the dagger rotate and cut in Su Tang's body.

  Su Tang didn't move, as if time had frozen. The young man and woman's eyes sparkled with delight. Success! The archer on the roof also smiled and put down his longbow. Behind Su Tang, a young warrior carrying a long sword on his shoulder shook his head, saying "What's this? Too weak. Not even worth him taking action... how boring..."

  At the end of the long street, a young man with a fan laughed loudly, laughing exceptionally happily. The old man who was peeking, however, had his eyes rolled back and his lips trembling violently: "This... this..." Before he could say the third "this", his body had already gone limp. This was absolutely not what he wanted to see, and what he saw was not Su Tang covered in wounds, but a bloody storm that swept through the entire Changshan County.

  Tie Canghai's face showed surprise on the tea house, and he muttered: "Zhao Bocang has gone mad..." The scene in front of him also exceeded his expectations, but soon he smiled again: "It's good this way..."

  Tie Canghai smiled and took a sip of tea, even if he died, it would be over, anyway, he had nothing to do with the Tie family. The next moment, Tie Canghai suddenly realized something, stood up abruptly, no longer caring about concealing his tracks, staring down with wide eyes.

  Su Tang's body swayed unsteadily, as if he was about to collapse at any moment. His consciousness gradually became blurred, and the girl's one knife, combined with the vicious strangulation, completely severed his vitality. Su Tang knew that he was going to die soon.

  The attack came too suddenly, he didn't even have time to activate his spiritual soul, and was repeatedly heavily injured. If only he had been a little more vigilant earlier, if only he had taken that feeling of unease seriously, perhaps he would have been able to counterattack...

  Su Tang felt his body slowly sinking into an endless darkness, but just as he was about to completely lose consciousness, he suddenly opened his eyes again, lifted his head, and looked up at the sky with a mechanical, emotionless gaze.

  Tie Canghai's pupils suddenly contracted, and he sensed a kind of aura that had survived countless battles, an extremely cold indifference to everything, and an unutterable arrogance, as if a god or demon was gazing down at the world with a scornful gaze.

  Apart from lacking a substantial amount of internal energy pressure, Su Tang was extremely similar to those few truly powerful individuals he had seen.

  Su Tang finally moved, his hands withdrawing, the young man grasping them tightly and refusing to let go. As a result, his body involuntarily leaned towards Su Tang, who then launched his left knee forward like a heavy cannon, unleashing an aura that was as swift and fierce as thunder, leaving people feeling as if he wasn't swinging his knee but rather hurling a mountain range.

  His knee heavily slammed into the young man's abdomen, the young man's face suddenly twisted into a ball, his body shot up from the ground, flew diagonally into the air about 8 or 9 meters high, just like a kite that had been released, and then he fell to the ground like a dead pig.

  The girl was shocked, gripping the hilt of the dagger tightly, trying to thrust it in with all her might. But Su Tang's hands were now free, his left hand reaching down to grab the girl's slender wrist, while his right fist struck the girl's face.

  Ahh…… The girl's face burst forth with a cloud of blood mist, her nose and lips were smashed by Su Tang's fist until they were pulpy, revealing a bloody and mangled upper jaw, as well as scattered teeth. The intense pain caused her to let out an ear-piercing scream, and her body collapsed to the ground.

  The archer on the roof hastily reloaded his longbow, but when he pulled out an arrow from the quiver behind his waist and placed it on the bowstring, he saw Su Tang with both hands empty, as if holding an invisible bow, aiming at him.

  The next moment, a shrill whistling sound tore through the sky, and the archer's body suddenly split into two halves without warning. The upper half flew high, spewing out clusters of blood flowers, looking like an alien rocket, while the lower half collapsed to the ground.

  Tie Canghai was shocked and bewildered by this scene, where did the blurry and extremely difficult to see longbow in Su Tang's hand come from? Why could it release such a terrifying force?!

  "Bastard!!" The young warrior behind Su Tang saw his companions die one after another, and in a fit of rage, he suddenly drew his sword and slashed it at Su Tang's back.

  No matter how terrifying Su Tang's fighting power was just now, he wasn't worried at all because he practiced the Floating Shake Technique. The Floating Shake Technique excelled at mobile battles and entanglements, and when facing an enemy who would soon fall, he had enough confidence that as long as he could drag things out for a short while, it would be fine.

  Unfortunately, he didn't think about what would happen if he hadn't had the chance to practice martial arts from the beginning.