Chapter 44: Kill! Escape! (Seeking votes and recommendations!)

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  Second update! The collection and recommendation are a bit weak, aren't they? Brothers! Come on! Thousand worries for tomorrow's third update! At 6 am, 1 pm, and 8 pm, there will be one chapter each! If the clicks and recommendations are strong, I'll continue tomorrow! You know, I usually only do two updates a day! For someone with a typing speed of less than 2000 characters per minute, extra updates are really painful!! Please help me out, everyone!!!!

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  Shi Bei was shattered, Zong Yin spat out a mouthful of blood, and retreated in disarray. Bai Zheng didn't bother to pursue him, and the blue fist shadow on his left hand also punched towards Zong Yin.

  "Day! Shattered Heart Strike! Blue Star Soul Technique once again!"

  Zong Yin rolled on the ground, barely avoiding the tyrant's fist attack, staring intently at the blue stripes spreading across Bai Zheng's entire right arm, his heart filled with resentment.

  "Shattered Heart Strike", a soul technique that can ignore defense and strike the opponent from within, a purely close-range martial soul technique.

  Whether it's "Overbearing Fist" or "Shattered Heart Strike", if Zong Yin encountered either one alone, it wouldn't be so bad, but the fact that these two soul techniques are concentrated in one person makes him unable to gain an advantage whether attacking from a distance or fighting at close range.

  What made Zong Yin even more unacceptable was that Bai Zheng's soul technique was actually a blue star soul technique! When did the blue star soul technique become so common, and it's still two types at once? So far, Zong Yin only has one type of soul technique, which is a gray star soul technique. Although it's a growing soul technique, he hasn't even grown to white star yet!

  Let a seventh-level soul master with only one gray star assist the soul technique fight against a second-level soul master who has two blue star martial soul techniques? And there are also five first-level soul masters lurking around, eyeing them covetously! Isn't this obviously courting death?! Murder! Murder!

  Zong was shouting loudly in his heart, but unfortunately no one understood his complaints. This is not a society ruled by law, here the fist is the truth!

  "It's over! You've won! Call out all the people hiding! Six Soul Masters to take on me? How dignified, even if I die, let me see the luxurious lineup that came to send me off!"

  Zong's face turned ugly as he glared at Bai Zheng, who was smiling. With a sense of resignation, Zong let out an angry roar and looked around, seemingly trying to locate the positions of the others.

  "What are you talking about? Nonsense! I don't understand at all! It's going to be dark soon, hurry up and finish me off so I can go back and report!"

  Baek Jeong, who was still smiling, had his smile frozen on his face, a hint of panic flashed in his eyes, and in an instant he regained his composure, transforming into a fierce glare. With a loud shout, his powerful fist swung fiercely towards Jong Hyeon's chest, and his right fist followed closely behind the blue fist shadow, attacking Jong Hyeon's head.

  At the same time, the five people who were completely covered in shadows and couldn't be seen at all trembled slightly. To know that they are now wrapped in a green star's soul-assisting technique, whether it is their figure, smell, soul power fluctuations or other factors should all be perfectly hidden. How could this little kid, who hasn't even reached the level of a Soul Master, possibly discover their tracks?

  The three people behind Bai Zheng's body were full of doubts, subconsciously glanced around, and didn't know why Zong Yin said that. However, when they turned their heads, they threw this doubt far away, thinking that it was probably Zong Yin's nonsense before his death.

  Bai Zheng and the others' expressions were beyond Zong Yin's expectations, their eyebrows slightly furrowed. Weren't they supposed to be in cahoots? Was there someone else besides Shen Peng who wanted to deal with him?

  But these thoughts had just arisen when Zong Yin no longer had the extra time to think, Bai Zheng's tyrannical fist and shattered heart strike had already arrived in front of him.

  Zong Yin's eyes widened, his newly restored rocky arm fiercely punched out a crushing fist, followed by an uppercut that shattered the air. Without exception, his stone arm exploded once again, this time with even more severe damage than before. Zong Yin could feel his own bones shattering in the impact, and the intense pain made him break out in cold sweat.

  However, Zong Yin's face was twisted into a ferocious grin. His intact left hand grasped White's right wrist just as the two were about to exchange blows again. With a powerful punch at close range, he struck White's chest, causing several cracking sounds to echo within his ribcage. This single blow had already fractured at least three of White's ribs. Large mouthfuls of blood gushed out of his mouth, unstoppable.

  Zong Yin, however, was completely unguarded, with a crazy smile on his face, and at the moment when Bai Zheng's two fists were exhausted and new strength had not yet been born, he suddenly raised his knee and heavily struck Zong Yin's lower body.

  Even a master of the soul who had been strengthening his body for years would have withered in an instant from such a blow. Bai Zheng was no exception, his face turned iron green, and he instinctively bent down, revealing the back of his neck. A fierce glint flashed across Zong Yin's eyes, and the intention to kill arose. Through the observation of the Qi Bo Stone, the weakest part of Bai Zheng's entire body was right here, where the strength of the flesh was almost the same as his own.

  Two soul power blades flew out from his shoulders, one on the left and one on the right, inserting themselves into his neck from both sides, piercing through his cervical vertebrae!

  It seemed that he was still not reassured about the effect of this move, and his already broken right arm swung around in a full circle, using all his strength to smash into Bai Zheng's neck, which had already developed two blood holes.

  "Crack!" A chilling, crisp sound, Bai Zheng's neck twisted back at an unbelievable angle, his eyes still holding a painful expression, but now devoid of life.

  Enduring the pain that was transmitted from his already twisted right arm, Soul Power Blade slashed down and severed the right hand of Bai Zheng which still held onto it. The ancestral pattern on his feet shone brightly as he dashed out like a swift leopard, leaving behind several people who were stunned in place.

  "Chase!"

  Those three Soul Disciples who were guarding the original retreat route of Zonghui were scared silly and had no reaction at all. The five Soul Masters hiding in the dark, however, were filled with shock and anger, jumping out from their hiding place. Zonghui's move was too fast, too ruthless, completely not giving them a chance to rescue Bai Zheng. In the blink of an eye, Bai Zheng was already dead.

  They originally thought they didn't need to take action this time, as long as they prevented Zonghui from escaping, but unexpectedly, Zonghui actually fought and killed Bai Zheng single-handedly!

  Bai Zheng's death was secondary, if they had six people out and lost one person, but still let a soul slave escape, then what awaited them would be inhumane torture. Their master was not a benevolent person, and it wasn't the first time he had brutally killed his subordinates.

  Five Soul Masters burst out of the darkness, one of whom swung his hands rapidly, sending five blue threads flying into the bodies of the other four. Instantly, a blue soul technique pattern emerged on their feet, greatly increasing their speed.

  Another person's hands kept fluttering in front of him, the red texture merging into the void. Suddenly, a striking blood-red color burst forth from the top of Zong Yin's head, even in the dimly lit evening it was still eye-catching, and could be seen from far away.

  Another person blew a loud whistle, and a dense rustling sound came from the bushes and trees on both sides of the path. Countless snakes, insects, mice, birds, poisonous bees and wasps rushed towards Zong Yin's location from all corners.

  "My day! Group acceleration! Red Star Soul Assist Technique! Lower life form control! Indeed, all are soul assist techniques! But! They're all deadly soul assist techniques! Dammit! My stomach is already going crazy! The defect of this Qi Stone is really too severe! I'm starving!"

  Zong Yin turned his head and glanced at the five people who had appeared behind him, and was immediately stunned. The other party's techniques were indeed the same as what Hun Yu had said, all of which were soul-assisting techniques. However, the quality of these soul-assisting techniques was really unacceptable to him! Each one was extremely rare or extremely difficult to cultivate!

  The roof leaks just in time for the continuous rain! The aftereffect of moving the Qigong stone suddenly appeared at this moment, a hard-to-describe hunger pounced on Zong Yin's heart, and with the appearance of the hunger, even his footsteps slowed down.

  Zong Yin casually stuffed Bai Zheng's arm into the storage ring, not even considering whether it would get stuck with the food inside. He then pulled out a leg of lamb and began to devour it desperately, once again mobilizing the energy of the Qi stone to fully recover from the injuries on his right arm and chest.

  According to the speed of the two, it won't take long for Zong Yin to be caught up by the five people behind him. At that time, it will probably be another fierce battle. With his current physical condition, he definitely has no room to fight back. Helplessly, he can only choose to selectively forget the aftereffects of the Qi Gu Shi and mobilize the Qi to treat the injuries in his body.

  The surrounding group of numerous, scalp-numbing snakes, insects, rats, ants and birds, after a circuitous pincer movement, had already collided with Zong Hui from the front, attempting to block his speed.

  Why, with the two layers of soul power shields and barriers protecting him tightly within, it was impossible for these small creatures that weren't even as strong as a Soul Beast to cause him harm. The two soul power knives were swung in one motion, able to slaughter a large group of living beings. Unconsciously, Zong Yin silently thanked that damned Color Ape in the depths of his heart. If it wasn't for him forcing everyone to practice how to escape from the Killer Bees' mouths, Zong Yin would have lost his life by now.

  "Time is running out! The patrol team is about to come out! Number Five, come over!"

  One of the two Soul Masters who had not made a move previously looked up at the sky, furrowed his brow tightly, hesitated for a moment, and then shouted coldly at another Soul Master who was closest to him.

  The person next to him turned pale, but still quickly approached his side, swiftly slashing his wrist and spraying out a stream of fresh blood.

  It was strange that the blood didn't fall to the ground, but instead was absorbed by the palm of the soul master who had appeared earlier, transforming into a crimson-colored soul technique pattern that crawled all over his body.

  The soul master who had been bleeding, pressed his other hand on the wound on his wrist, a green floral pattern flashed, and his wound instantly returned to normal, but the massive blood loss made him dizzy and pale, leaving him unable to continue chasing after Zonghui.

  And that person covered in bloody patterns, suddenly grew a pair of blood-formed wings on his back, flapped them and was like a swooping hawk, swiftly surpassing Zong Xian, stopping dozens of meters ahead of him.

  "My day! Another Red Star Soul Technique! And I don't even recognize it! Just die already! Let's find a scapegoat first!"

  Looking at the crimson soul technique pattern, Zong Yin was speechless. Just now, he still thought that the Blue Star Soul Technique had become a common product. But this time, two red star soul techniques suddenly appeared, although they were only auxiliary soul techniques, but they were red star ones! The "Soul Technique Encyclopedia" didn't even record such a red star soul technique!