So, Xue Wanren successfully became frustrated as well...

"Let’s return to Donghu State. Let’s kill our way through another route, sweep away all the bandits and all the mountain organizations along the way... Let this path be peaceful." Mo Gan Yun suggested.

"Great idea!"

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

Killing our way directly through this path, there’s truly hardly any innocents.

Without further ado, the four of them left the city that very night.

...

Meanwhile, after a brief rest, Fang Che began to constantly clean up the underworld.

Every major city has a massive underground drainage system, it’s a necessary task, and generally speaking, they are built to withstand torrential rains.

Over the years, these underground systems have basically become the biggest breeding ground for filth in every city.

And a big city like Donghu State has an especially vast underground construction.

Extending in all directions.

Imagine, in a city with hundreds of millions of people, what the underground is like; wanting to completely clear out the underworld, it’s likely that even ten million people wouldn’t be enough.

So Fang Che and the others mainly focused on harassment and slaughter, mainly to rescue the unfortunate ones captured underground.

As for killing them all... it’s simply impossible.

On this night, during the slaughter, they unexpectedly encountered an expert, resulting in a fight where Qiu Yunshang was severely injured.

Fang Che closed up Qiu Yunshang’s belly and quickly fed him the Dan Yun Divine Pill.

Dongyun Yu, looking guilty, stayed by his side to take care of him.

The opponent’s target was him, coming at him with one cut to decapitate.

It was an extremely narrow corner, where the wall pillar on one side had collapsed, leaving only a narrow space. Dongyun Yu flew through, searching for the enemy all the way forward.

But when he tried to destroy the collapsed wall pillar with a palm strike, he broke through to a hidden opening behind the wall pillar.

His Divine Sense was fully open, monitoring everything, yet he didn’t discover anything, but the opponent emerged like air.

At the moment when the knife flashed, it was already at his neck.

Qiu Yunshang desperately rushed in, colliding with Dongyun Yu to push him out of harm’s way, selflessly blocking with a sword, but the space was truly narrow, and the opponent’s knife made a strange turn, cutting directly into Qiu Yunshang’s belly.

Fang Che arrived in time, kicked Dongyun Yu away with one foot, grabbed Qiu Yunshang by the back and dragged him back, all the while slicing his knife against the blade on Qiu Yunshang’s belly.

Blood spurted profusely.

Fang Che distinctly smelled a strange, pungent rotten stench and saw a pair of dead, unflashing eyes.

Just like the eyes of a dead fish.

Yet, the opponent’s sword tip showed no signs of lifelessness, striking straight at the throat.

Fang Che moved his feet, dodging while shoving Feng Xiangdong back: "Don’t come over!"

The sound echoed boomingly in the dull underground, reverberating in all directions.

In the cramped space, there was hardly any room to maneuver. The opponent’s body was half exposed, and Fang Che also had to sidle to wield his knife.

The opponent’s knife had already curved like an eerie light, striking at the heart.

Fang Che blocked, the knife tip jabbing at his chest; the opponent side-stepped, using the knife’s back to block, and the blade already rushed at Fang Che’s throat; Fang Che tilted his head, the knife thrust at his dantian.

The opponent blocked the knife tip with their side blade, then flipped to stab Fang Che’s dantian.

Fang Che similarly moved his blade to side, rotating his wrist to press down the opponent’s blade, counter-stabbing at the opponent’s dantian.

The space was too narrow, even the attack spots were the same.

That shadow let out a surprised sound.

Then turned his body, continuously striking with seventeen consecutive thrusts, and Fang Che did not retreat, knife against knife.

The sound of clashing was intensely continuous.

The opponent’s dead fish-like eyes finally reacted, glittering brightly in the dark, retreating strangely. With a retreat, there was a rumbling sound, and a half-collapsed pillar crashed towards Fang Che head-on, the gray shadow flickered, and then disappeared without a trace.

Leaving two words: "Good blade!"

The rotten stench quickly faded away.

Fang Che stepped back, directly swinging his palm to send the broken pillar flying.

He did not pursue.

Immediately, he placed the Dan Yun Divine Pill and the Heavenly King Pill into Qiu Yunshang’s mouth, grasping Qiu Yunshang’s wrist vein at the same time, beginning to input Spiritual Energy from the Infinite Scripture.

It was only then that he felt the cold sweat all over his body, suddenly pouring out like a waterfall.

Just moments ago, in the extremely narrow space, he had engaged in ninety-seven slashes with the opponent.

Ninety-seven slashes, each one deadly! It was as if both sides had gone back and forth between life and death ninety-seven times.

In such circumstances, neither side had the time to use full strength, wholly relying on instinct to wield their knives.

But Fang Che could sense that the opponent’s cultivation was higher than his own.

Only then did An Ruoxing and the others rush in, to find Qiu Yunshang already lying on the ground. Dongyun Yu immediately fed him elixir pills, and with Fang Che’s two Divine Pills as well, but the wound continued to slowly worsen, the poison exceedingly fierce.

Through Fang Che’s Spiritual Energy from the Infinite Scripture, the toxin was suppressed, finally stabilizing the injury.

An expert!

An absolute expert!

Fang Che’s heart felt heavy.

Things had been too smooth these recent days, though he had considered how such a massive underworld could exist without a few experts, he didn’t expect to encounter one so quickly.

The opponent’s knife strike on Qiu Yunshang was rushed yet viciously ruthless.

The blade was even laced with deadly poison.

With one slice, Qiu Yunshang twisted his waist in time, avoiding the dantian, yet his internal organs were also slashed through.

One Dan Yun Divine Pill, one Heavenly King Pill, taken simultaneously, combined with the Infinite Scripture to suppress and neutralize the poison.

Only now had some recovery begun.

If Fang Che had been any later, Qiu Yunshang’s belly might have already rotted into mush.

Even so, after getting out, they would still need to deal with the injury, it’s not entirely healed yet.

Because Qiu Yunshang was already at Peak stage emperor level, and the efficacy of the Dan Yun Divine Pill and the Heavenly King Pill was—any injury below Monarch Level!