novelraw Chapter 85
Chapter 85
Thud-thud! Thud-thud!
With no one else interfering, Second charged into the forest at full speed, relying on sound to judge the arrows’ trajectories and avoid them.
Chen Ergou was terrified. Facing Second, his legs trembled as though filled with lead. He shut his eyes in despair.
Second did not even spare a glance for Chen Ergou, who was dressed like a follower and carrying arrows on his back. He did not deem him worth a single stroke. His gaze remained locked on the young man behind him who had been firing nonstop, and he swept past Chen Ergou without slowing.
The moment Second drew near Chen Ergou, Su Wangchuan had already thrown the Poplar Wood Bow aside and turned to flee.
Second’s eyes filled with mockery.
“You still think you can get away?”
“Die!”
The Hundredfold Steel Blade hacked down viciously from above Su Wangchuan’s head—
It was as if Su Wangchuan had eyes in the back of his skull. He suddenly accelerated forward.Lightfoot on Grass!
Second’s strike missed. Surprise flashed in his eyes.
Then he saw Su Wangchuan plant a foot on a tree trunk and whirl back at an even greater speed, launching a sudden counterattack.
ROAR!!!
Su Wangchuan’s aura changed.
He became like a fierce tiger descending from the mountains.
Tiger Descends the Mountain!
Second’s old strength had been spent, and his new strength had not yet risen. His guard was wide open as Su Wangchuan slammed into him.
It felt like being crushed by a beast.
An elbow drove in like a battering ram, smashing toward the side of Second’s head in a smooth, relentless flow. His skull rang with a dull buzz, and the Hundredfold Steel Blade nearly slipped from his grip.
Second’s HP plummeted.
And his heart sank with it.
With such heavy, domineering close-range strikes, there was no doubt about it.
This man was a Martial Artist!
And yet he had closed in on a Martial Artist while his shoulder was still pierced by an arrow.
Panic and chaos seized Second. He stumbled back repeatedly, unable to regain balance or counterattack, while Su Wangchuan’s Black Tiger Fist rained down on him in a solid, ruthless sequence.
Left and right, his palms struck like twin hammers.
Left hook, right tear!
A flying knee!
A clinch—
Another knee!!
Su Wangchuan wrapped his arms around him and drove his knee upward again. The sound of cracking bone came in rapid succession.
Second’s weapon slipped from his hand. He had no idea how many ribs in his chest had been shattered. Bloody foam spurted from his mouth and nose in choking bursts.
His consciousness blurred.
Under the rapid assault of Black Tiger Fist, he completely lost the ability to defend.
At last, a swift whipping kick smashed into his head and sent him sideways into the ground.
He did not rise again.
A group of miners chased into the forest and witnessed the scene.
Chen Ergou stood dumbstruck. Only when his Room Master ordered, “Go drag that black-clad corpse over and see what he has on him,” did Chen Ergou finally jolt awake and sprint off.
The miners trembled as they came forward to offer thanks.
“Thank you, great hero!”
“Thank you, boss!”
“Big Brother, you are incredible.”
Su Wangchuan’s gaze fell on the man who had thrown the gray slag to disrupt Second.
If not for that timely interference—giving him the chance to land the arrow on Second—this fight might not have ended so smoothly.
With Black Tiger Fist against a Martial Artist wielding a Hundredfold Steel Blade, Su Wangchuan had been at a disadvantage.
The man stepped forward, face alight with excitement, and cupped his fists respectfully.
“Yulong Gang Outer Disciple, Wang Yuehui.”
“You are a Quasi-Martial Artist?”
Su Wangchuan asked bluntly.
Wang Yuehui hesitated, then nodded in admission.
“Big Brother truly has keen eyes. My three attributes together have just reached thirty points.”
The people around them looked stunned.
They clearly had not expected a companion they saw every day to have quietly become a Quasi-Martial Artist.
Su Wangchuan nodded.
He understood.
After all, he had also started as a miner and become a Quasi-Martial Artist in secret.
“Thank you for helping just now.”
“This is your reward.”
Su Wangchuan picked up the Hundredfold Steel Blade Second had left behind and tossed it at Wang Yuehui’s feet.
“A Hundredfold Steel Blade is hard currency on the market. Selling it for fifteen taels of silver should be no problem.”
Wang Yuehui was overjoyed. He snatched it up at once, his tone even more respectful.
“Thank you, Big Brother!”
At that moment, Chen Ergou dragged Fifth’s corpse over and shouted,
“Room Master! This man had nothing on him except a Hundredfold Steel Blade!”
Then he squatted to inspect the bodies of the two Yulong Gang Inner Disciples. Instead, he found silver on them—more than two taels.
“Go find Sixth’s corpse as well.”
Su Wangchuan inspected twice from head to toe. Aside from the weapon, there was nothing at all, as though he had already been prepared never to return.
“Death soldiers?”
Su Wangchuan rose and headed toward the inner lake.
There were still three black-clad corpses there.
Three Hundredfold Steel Blades were worth a fortune.
He had to retrieve them.
A group of miners followed behind him step by step, treating him as their pillar.
Wang Yuehui and several men around him looked tense and vigilant.
Seeing that, Su Wangchuan understood.
The “highly alert” people the black-clad men had complained about were most likely Wang Yuehui and his group.
No wonder they had not been able to force their way into the tunnel.
Chen Ergou soon caught up, panting as he carried two Hundredfold Steel Blades.
“Room Master, I searched. Aside from the weapons, I found nothing.”
“Mm.”
Su Wangchuan nodded.
They arrived near the inner lake.
Seeing the blood-soaked shore, the miners were shocked.
Su Wangchuan collected all three black-clad men’s weapons. Only then did he find a five-tael silver ingot on the leader’s body.
As for the corpses of the Yulong Gang disciples and the county constables, he did not dare search them.
They carried all the black-clad corpses and the victims’ bodies to the dock area.
Once the work was done, seven or eight small boats arrived from the direction of Huishui County. There were county constables aboard, as well as Martial Artists from the Yulong Gang.
Instructor Yu, Hall Master He, and Elder Lin all came as well, their expressions anxious.
When they saw Su Wangchuan standing unharmed among the crowd on the dock, they all relaxed at once, smiling with relief.
Lin Xun leapt up, sprinted across the cargo ship, and landed on the dock. He went straight to Su Wangchuan.
“This is wonderful!”
“If something had happened to you today, I would have blamed myself to death.”
“I made Brother Lin worry,” Su Wangchuan said with a small smile.
In truth, he had been shaken as well. Only at this moment did he finally relax completely.
Lin Xun swept his gaze across the area and then fixed it on the six black-clad bodies.
All of their masks had been torn off, leaving their pale faces clearly exposed.
Lin Xun recognized them at once and sucked in a cold breath.
“Two Martial Artists and four Quasi-Martial Artists! All of them are remnants of the Nu Tao Gang… For you to survive against them truly is good fortune.”
Hall Master He, Instructor Yu, and the others stepped onto the dock and began counting the corpses, questioning everyone about what had happened.
Another NPC constable handled the written record. His surname was Liang.
Constable Liang’s eyes were sharp, and his questions were meticulous.
Su Wangchuan answered everything.
As they listened, astonishment spread across every face.
Instructor Yu could not help cutting in.
“You mean to say… you killed all six wanted criminals?”
Everyone found it unbelievable.
Instructor Yu knew Su Wangchuan belonged to his gold-farming group.
The Yulong Gang people knew this man was their blacksmith, the Weapon Room’s Room Master.
He had killed two Martial Artists and four Quasi-Martial Artists?
Su Wangchuan did not want to draw such attention, but the arrow wounds on every corpse could not be concealed, and…
There were dozens of witnesses.
“Yes.”
Su Wangchuan nodded.
“I shot them all.”
The entire dock fell into dead silence.
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