Chapter 317
The pursuers were like dogs, their noses incredibly sharp.
Xu Ming thought he had shaken them off, but they managed to catch up once again. He couldn’t figure out how they kept tracking him.
However, Xu Ming was different from Shi Xin. Shi Xin might spare their lives, refusing to kill them no matter what. But Xu Ming? He would send them straight to the King of Hell—if they even had the chance to meet him. Xu Ming preferred to ensure their complete obliteration, body and soul.
At first, Shi Xin would still try to plead, saying things like, “Spare their lives, stop taking lives unnecessarily.” But Xu Ming never listened.
Xu Ming wasn’t some saint, and even if he were, no saint could be so infinitely compassionate. His philosophy was simple: repay kindness with kindness, and repay enmity with justice.
Eventually, Shi Xin stopped trying to persuade him, knowing it was futile. Shi Xin would only step in afterward, performing rituals to help the deceased move on. Xu Ming didn’t care about that.
“If someone wants to kill me, and I kill them instead, that’s my business. If Shi Xin wants to help them afterward, that’s her business.”
Besides, Xu Ming thought those rituals were meaningless. He destroyed not only their physical bodies but also their very souls. Without even a shred of a soul left, what use was there in Shi Xin’s rituals?
The assassins sent after Xu Ming weren’t even strong enough to seriously injure him. So, after five days of intermittent fighting, Xu Ming had almost fully recovered.