In the early morning, Qingshan Town was still shrouded in a haze when Xiao Qing had already set off and left the inn.
Xiao Qing did not delay at all at this moment, walking towards the Magical Beast Mountain Range outside the town, which looked like the spine of a huge Demonic Beast.
Along the way, Xiao Qing’s powerful Soul Power swept past invisibly, keenly capturing the conversations of those mercenaries on both sides of the street and inside and outside the taverns.
“Hey, have you heard?
The Black Water squad fell at Dark Water Stream the day before yesterday; it seems they encountered a group of First-Order Bloodthirsty Bats…”
“That area near the Broken Heaven Cliff to the south seems a bit unusually quiet recently.
Damn it, last time I was almost gutted by a Second-Order Purple Lightning Rat there!”
“Approaching the inner circle of the Magical Beast Mountain Range?
Who dares to go there!
Last time, ‘Xiong Da’ and several other high-star Dou Practitioners joined forces with a dozen people, wanting to sneak into the Deadly Swamp to find some precious medicinal herbs, but only one escaped, saying that there was a Demonic Beast lying inside that could spit poison gas; it was terrifying!”
These mercenaries who entered the mountain all year round might not have great strength, but their understanding of the outer perimeter, and even some inner areas of this Magical Beast Mountain Range, could be called a living map.
They knew exactly where it was dangerous, where it was relatively safe, and what kind of powerful Demonic Beasts were entrenched in which places; this information was often exchanged for the blood and lives of countless companions!
Xiao Qing silently summarized and analyzed these scattered pieces of information in his mind, and soon had a rough understanding of the situation in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
‘The information collection is almost done.’ Xiao Qing thought to himself, speeding up his pace, and officially stepped into the edge of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
Here, ancient trees towered and shrubs grew thickly, and the air exuded the damp scent of soil and a faint smell of decay, different from the bustle of the town.
Xiao Qing’s goal was clear: “The Dark Forest in the inner circle of the Magical Beast Mountain Range is rumored to have a Fifth-Order Magical Beast equivalent to a human Dou King powerhouse—the Magic Flame Wolf!
Perfect, I’ll use it to test my skills and check my current strength.”
Xiao Qing’s expression was as calm as water, as if what he was about to face was not a notorious Fifth-Order Magical Beast, but just an ordinary wild beast.
With his current Peak Great Dou Master cultivation and his trump cards of various high-level Dou Techniques, plus the guidance of Yao Lao, he had the confidence to contend with or even defeat even a Fifth-Order Magical Beast!
However, not long after Xiao Qing left the town area and before he had gone deep into the mountain range, he keenly sensed several malicious gazes, staring fixedly at his back like venomous snakes.
Greed and cruelty, undisguised!
‘As expected, I was targeted.’ Xiao Qing frowned slightly, a trace of annoyance flashing in his heart.
These hyena-like mercenaries specialized in picking on lone individuals who looked like fat sheep, killing people and looting goods, committing all kinds of evil.
The strongest person on the surface of Qingshan Town, the leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, Mu She, had just entered the Dou Master Realm not long ago.
With Xiao Qing’s cultivation approaching the Dou Ling Realm, he was naturally fearless of everything.
‘I haven’t even left the boundary of Qingshan Town, and they are already impatient?
Really…
courting death.’
Xiao Qing deliberately slowed his pace.
Sure enough, those figures hidden in the dark saw that Xiao Qing was “alone” and could not help themselves, appearing from behind some huge rocks and bushes, quickly surrounding him and blocking his path.
The leader was a fierce-looking middle-aged man, carrying a huge sword like a door panel, his eyes staring greedily at the two storage rings on Xiao Qing’s fingers, grinning: “Kid, be sensible!
Hand over those two storage rings on your hands obediently.
If I’m in a good mood, I might spare your little life!”
Even the lowest-level storage ring was worth tens of thousands of gold coins; two storage rings were enough to drive these desperadoes crazy.
Not far away, a gloomy man with a hideous scar on his face cursed secretly: “Damn, this guy Hu Li is really fast!”
He did not sympathize with Xiao Qing, but was just annoyed that he was slow to act, and the fat meat that was in his mouth had been snatched away first.
Some mercenaries and passersby who were also preparing to enter the mountain or had just come down from the mountain stopped in their tracks, watching from afar, pointing and whispering, but no one stepped forward to stop it.
In this lawless land, the Law of the jungle was the only rule.
“Boss, look at this kid, with his delicate skin and tender flesh…”
A greasy, middle-aged man with lecherous eyes beside Hu Li licked his thick lips and lowered his voice: “How about…
after robbing the wealth, you hand the person over to me?”
Hu Li frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied with his subordinate’s strange hobby.
In the end, he nodded indifferently, as if Xiao Qing was already fish on his chopping block, to be disposed of at will.
Xiao Qing’s eyes instantly turned cold, like ten-thousand-year-old ice.
“A rotten orange is just a rotten orange; putting them together won’t turn them into fine wine.”
Xiao Qing said this sentence calmly, carrying a cold Aura.
As soon as his voice fell, Xiao Qing raised his right hand, and a wisp of bone-white flame jumped out from his fingertips like a living elf—it was the sub-flame of the Bone Chilling Flame!
“Go.”
Xiao Qing waved gently, and the wisp of bone-white flame instantly turned into two thin lines, shooting towards Hu Li and the greasy middle-aged man who had spoken rudely.
The grin on Hu Li’s face instantly froze, replaced by endless fear!
He didn’t even have time to circulate his Dou Qi before the bone-white fire line had touched his body.
“No—!”
In the terrified eyes of the crowd, the bodies of Hu Li and his greasy accomplice instantly melted and vaporized!
Not even a speck of ash was left, as if they had never existed in this world!
Instant kill!
Immediately after, Xiao Qing flicked his fingers repeatedly, and several bone-white fire lines shot towards the mercenaries around who were originally hidden in the dark and harbored malice towards him, including the gloomy man with a scar on his face!
Poof!
Poof!
Poof!
After the soft sounds, those places were also empty, with only a faint burnt smell remaining in the air, proving that life had once existed there.
Silence!
Dead silence!
All the onlookers seemed to have their necks choked, their eyes wide open, their faces full of fear and disbelief!
They looked at the young man whose face remained calm, as if he had just casually slapped a few mosquitoes to death, and a chill went straight from the soles of their feet to their scalps!
I don’t know who screamed first, but the dozens of people who were watching instantly fled desperately towards the town.
Fearing that if they ran a step slower, that eerie bone-white flame would descend upon them.
Xiao Qing didn’t even look at the fleeing figures, as if he had just done a trivial thing.
He gently patted the non-existent dust on his clothes, and his gaze turned back to the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
“Finally quiet…”
Afterwards, Xiao Qing moved his body, turning into a blurred figure, and quickly disappeared from the spot.
Leaving only those black ashes on the spot that symbolized death, silently warning those who came later.