Chapter 665 - 620: Reaching the Peak 29 (4,000 words)
It’s impossible for there to be personal items in the spatial bags filled with corpses. Tan Wencheng sifted through seven or eight spatial bags before finding the black little stone the size of a thumb that Shuangshuang mentioned.
In the underground cave, since it was already certain that Grandpa had arrived at the door of this evil cult’s lair with a large group of people, Tan Shuangshuang no longer hesitated. She drew her longsword, ready to take care of this disgusting insect!
The Thousand Layered Sword was the best and most powerful swordsmanship Tan Shuangshuang currently used. For safety’s sake, Tan Shuangshuang planned to use the Thousand Layered Sword Technique against this blood-colored giant insect.
Of course, Tan Shuangshuang dared to make a move for a reason. Although the blood-colored giant insect was huge, the demonic beast level Tan Shuangshuang sensed from it was not high. This blood-colored giant insect was merely a low-level magic beast.
As expected, as soon as Tan Shuangshuang struck, she found that this giant blood-colored worm was simply vulnerable. It was almost effortlessly slaughtered by Tan Shuangshuang, its enormous size futile. Possibly raised by evil cultivators, it was without any combat power, not even surpassing the lowest first-level magic beast.
The real trouble was not killing this blood-colored giant worm but the fact that, almost instantaneously after killing it, a dozen or so evil cultivators were apparently alerted, as if triggering some kind of prohibition.
These evil cultivators came incredibly quickly. Just after Tan Shuangshuang finished killing the worm and opened a small stone door, several evil cultivators blocked her at the doorway. These evil cultivators were of Warrior Level, the same realm as Tan Shuangshuang, and the highest among them was a Ninth Rank Warrior, just a step away from being a martial master, a few small stages higher than Tan Shuangshuang.
Tan Shuangshuang took a deep breath and, without fear, advanced. With a swift motion, she unleashed the Thousand Layered Sword and attacked without further ado!
Tan Shuangshuang’s combat power in this lifetime was extremely formidable. With the Thousand Layered Sword in her right hand and Overlapping Waves Fist in her left, she pierced through an evil cultivator’s Spirit Mansion with one sword and then smashed another’s head with a punch, killing two instantly.
Although the cultivation of these evil cultivators wasn’t particularly high, it was unknown how many innocent lives they had exploited to reach it. Tan Shuangshuang was ruthless, with no hesitation or softness in her strikes. In her past life, she had killed on the battlefield against the Demon Clan, and was naturally accustomed to the act of killing.
With two people dead upon first contact, the evil cultivators were dumbfounded. Even though they sensed Tan Shuangshuang’s level was nowhere beyond Warrior Level, she was seemingly executing those at Warrior Level as if she were a martial master!
However, under Tan Shuangshuang’s ferocious attack, these evil cultivators, though momentarily bewildered, fully focused on meeting Tan Shuangshuang’s assault, with no mental capacity left to consider anything else.
Thanks to her powerful physical body, in the same realm, Tan Shuangshuang easily cut down these people. Even when surrounded and attacked by a circle of evil cultivators, unless they avoided direct combat with her, any engagement resulted in death or injury.
Tan Shuangshuang’s fierce performance caused these evil cultivators, despite their numerical advantage, to gradually fall into a disadvantage, being pressed by Tan Shuangshuang alone.
Even evil cultivators value their lives. In a confrontation with Tan Shuangshuang, it was either death or injury. Initially supported by the malice of their Blood Ancestor being slain, they could exchange a few blows with Tan Shuangshuang. Still, as more were killed or injured, this malice was dissipated by Tan Shuangshuang. Fearing death, they dared not face Tan Shuangshuang directly.
In battle, showing fear makes vulnerabilities more apparent. The more the evil cultivators avoided Tan Shuangshuang, the more they died. It’s unknown which evil cultivator first initiated the retreat, but soon, a group of them were fleeing in all directions from Tan Shuangshuang’s onslaught.
When these evil cultivators started running, it indeed brought some trouble to Tan Shuangshuang. Initially, the face-to-face combat allowed her not only to hone her fighting skills but also to kill enemies effortlessly. Once they fled, she was left with pursuit, and with so many evil cultivators compared to herself alone, it was inevitable some escaped her notice.
With hands full of blood, Tan Shuangshuang was resolute that she wouldn’t let any evil cultivator escape alive. Every escapee left could mean countless future deaths at their hands!
While Tan Shuangshuang was vexed about the difficulty of hunting down the enemies alone, she suddenly noticed the fleeing cultivators pause abruptly, then shouted joyfully, "Master Uncle, it’s Master Uncle who’s back!"
With their cries, a man with a fair complexion, appearing very gentle and scholarly, without a hint of evil aura, emerged in the underground cave. Moreover, the aura of this middle-aged man clearly indicated a Martial Master Level, at least no lower than the fifth or sixth rank of martial master level.