Chapter 220: Chapter 152: Slaughtering Foundation Establishment Cultivators Like Dogs

SPLRT!

The sound of Sword Qi tearing through flesh rang out.

Gao Changjun suddenly felt his strength drain away. He looked down to see his defensive magic robe sliced in two down the middle.

"You just wait!"

Not far away, Peng Dawei saw that escape was impossible. Gritting his teeth, he activated Blood Escape.

His speed instantly increased by a full fifty percent, and the Flying Sword beneath his feet erupted with a bloody light.

The combination of the two actually allowed him to shake off the Flowing Color Golden Light Pearl, and in the blink of an eye, he was just a small black dot in the distance.

"Wait here. I’ll be right back."

Seeing this, Xiao Chen actually grew a little interested. He gave a quick instruction before immediately giving chase.

Nearby, Chang Shunping was already dumbstruck.

Normally, a battle between Foundation Establishment Cultivators would take at least a Quarter Hour to decide a victor.

Yet, from the moment Xiao Chen arrived, less than ten breaths had passed, and of the three Demon Cultivators who had been besieging him, two were dead and one had fled.

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes today, he would never have believed that someone could kill Foundation Establishment Cultivators as easily as slaughtering dogs.

One slash, one kill!

It wasn’t until he heard Xiao Chen’s reminder that he snapped back to his senses, exclaiming in spite of himself, "Holy cow!"

’Just what is this Xiao’s background? How can he be so ferocious?’

Then, a happy thought struck Chang Shunping. He’d heard that the Lingyuan Sect’s garrison duty lasted for three months.

’Doesn’t that mean I won’t have to worry for the next two months?’

With Xiao Chen watching over Qingyang, he could finally get a good night’s sleep.

Chang Shunping calmed himself down a bit, landed on the ground, and began picking up the shattered fragments of his Spirit Shield.

Some Spiritual Materials could still be extracted from these fragments. He couldn’t let them go to waste.

After he finished, he glanced at the two Demon Cultivators, who had been chopped into four pieces, and couldn’t help but shiver.

Chang Shunping asked himself if he could have taken those two magnificent beams of Sword Light. ’Absolutely not,’ he thought.

The only difference would be that, thanks to his Defensive Spiritual Artifact, he might have died a slightly more dignified death.

"Chang, are you alright?"

In the brief moment he was lost in thought, Xiao Chen had already returned to the scene on his sword.

’So fast?’

Chang Shunping was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head. "I’m fine, I’m fine. Um..."

He spoke halfway and then trailed off, hesitating.

He was desperate to know if the Demon Cultivator leader had actually escaped.

If he had, the man might come back at any time.

Especially in two months when the garrison duty rotated. That would be a huge problem.

Xiao Chen saw right through him. He casually pulled a severed head from his Storage Bag. "Don’t worry. It wasn’t easy to get him to show up. You think I’d let him get away?"

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Chang Shunping looked closely and saw that it was indeed the head of the Demon Cultivator leader from just now.

’So fast!’

He was shocked all over again.

Unlike the other two third-level Foundation Establishment Cultivators, Peng Dawei was a genuine eighth-level Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Yet in the time it took him to pick up some fragments, not even a Quarter Hour, the man was just... gone?

Xiao Chen showed it off for a moment before putting the head away, then collected the two bodies.

He also collected their two Storage Bags, then picked up the Flying Sword and pair of Iron Maces dropped by the two Demon Cultivators.

Both were Upper-Grade Magical Artifacts and hadn’t been damaged.

Although, to him, Upper-Grade Magical Artifacts were no longer of much use.

Still, if he had the chance to sell them at the Black Market, he could get two or three thousand Spirit Stones for them.

Chang Shunping’s eyelids twitched as he watched. He didn’t understand what Xiao Chen was doing.

He opened his mouth to ask, but ultimately didn’t dare.

After cleaning up the scene, Xiao Chen turned and saw the terrified look in Chang Shunping’s eyes. He knew at once that there had been a misunderstanding.

He began to explain, "Chang, don’t misunderstand."

"According to Lingyuan Sect regulations, if there’s an attack by Demon Cultivators during a garrison assignment, you get a certain amount of points just for repelling them."

"And if you manage to kill the Demon Cultivators, there are additional points for the kill."

As soon as he explained the rule, realization dawned on Chang Shunping.

In other words, if they reported that these three Demon Cultivators had attacked the Qingyang Spirit Ore Mine, they could fleece the Lingyuan Sect for extra points.

"So, what happened today was that three Demon Cultivators came to Qingyang County and attempted to attack the Qingyang Spirit Ore Mine."

Xiao Chen continued, "And I must thank you, Chang, for rushing over to provide support and help me corner the Demon Cultivators."

Chang Shunping was quick on the uptake. "Those Demon Cultivators were lying in ambush, preparing to attack the Qingyang Spirit Ore Mine. It’s thanks to Xiao’s timely intervention that a disaster was averted."

’Good, he gets it.’

Since the other man understood, Xiao Chen didn’t say any more.

Since he was already out, he wasn’t in a hurry to return. Instead, he first escorted the still-shaken Chang Shunping back to the Chang Family estate.

Only then did he return to the Qingyang Spirit Ore Mine alone.

He found a disciple at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining and had them relay the information about repelling the Demon Cultivators back to the Lingyuan Sect.

"Let’s see what you guys brought with you."

Opening the three Storage Bags and sweeping his Divine Sense over them, Xiao Chen frowned.

"Why are you all so poor?"

The three Storage Bags combined contained only 2,120 Spirit Stones.

He wasn’t entirely unprepared for this, however. He had noticed something was off when he fought the three Demon Cultivators earlier today.

Compared to the Demon Cultivators he had previously encountered in Li State, the strength of these three was clearly subpar.

For one thing, their Magical Artifacts were obviously the most basic kind of Upper-Grade Magical Artifacts.

Otherwise, there was no way Xiao Chen could have taken them down so easily, one per slash.