The item in the Blue-Eyed Boss’s hand was very powerful, but martial artists didn’t dare to depend on them instead of martial arts.
No matter how powerful your items were, if your strength was lacking, you might not ever get the chance to use them. If you were killed, any artifact would be useless.
“Little beast, go to hell! Hahahaha!”
The Blue-Eyed Boss showed his ugly face, imagining Ling Xiao being blasted into pieces.
“You deserve this! If you hadn’t chased me like this, you wouldn’t have died. Regret it after going to hell!”
He didn’t attack immediately, waiting for Ling Xiao to approach so that he would be unable to dodge.
His low-grade spirit stones were only enough to use Void Breaking Strike once. If he missed, he would truly become a fish on the chopping board.
He was very nervous but also very excited.
One move would determine his life or death!
Closer!
As long as the distance between them decreased to ten feet, he had full confidence in killing Ling Xiao.
“Huh? Petals?”
Just as he was about to attack, a petal suddenly fell on his face.
“A cherry blossom?”
“Strange, there are no cherry trees this deep in the mountains. What’s going on?”
“Forget it! I can’t afford to think too much about it. That boy is getting closer; he will be within ten feet soon!”
More and more petals appeared, and the Blue-Eyed Boss couldn’t help looking up.
Only then did he discover a vortex of cherry petals above his head.
“Not good!”
He realized something, and without waiting for Ling Xiao to get within ten feet, he prepared to activate his Void Breaking Strike.
However, he was too late.
The cherry blossom petals wrapped around his arms, and the connection between his true essence and Void Breaking Strike was cut.
Without true essence to activate it, Void Breaking Strike couldn’t shoot.
Even more frighteningly, these petals grew denser and denser. They not only wrapped his arms but also his entire body.
“Cherry Tree Martial Soul! It’s actually a complete soul! How is this possible?”
At the moment, the Blue-Eyed Boss finally understood that this boy in front of him was more terrifying than he had ever thought.
Although he had yet to become a Martial Master, he already possessed a complete martial soul and several more incomplete martial souls.
He suddenly thought of an ancient legend——
When the Landscape Martial Soul appears, the Human Race will inevitably rise.
Did this youth actually possess the legendary Landscape Martial Soul?
Unfortunately, he could no longer pass this information back to his race.
When the cherry petals completely wrapped him, tiny needle-like qi shot out from them, tearing his internal organs.
He was just a Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Master, not a Transcendent martial artist. Facing such a terrifying attack, he couldn’t hold on any longer and fell to his ground without any vitality.
Whoosh——!
The cherry petals dispersed, and Ling Xiao withdrew his Cherry Tree Martial Soul.
He truly didn’t like using his complete martial soul; with his current cultivation base, the consumption of using a complete martial soul was too great.
Even if he were not injured, his true essence would be almost completely exhausted. Currently, he only had gang qi in one martial vein.
However, even though he was exhausted, Ling Xiao didn’t forget to clean up the Blue-Eyed Boss’s things.
Those two in the Dream Pill Factory had had low-grade storage rings, and this Blue-Eyed Boss was no exception.
The boss, after all, was a boss, so he had a lot of good things: close to 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold.
Naturally, Ling Xiao didn’t particularly care about these things. What he cared about were the three martial art manuals.
One was an Entry-level Peak Martial Art, another one was a Rare Peak Martial Art, and the last was a Superior Peak Martial Art.
The most valuable things were Void Breaking Strike and 170 low-grade spirit stones.
The moment Ling Xiao touched Void Breaking Strike, his Landscape Martial Soul provided detailed information on it.
“My god! Fortunately, I stopped this fellow from using it; otherwise, I truly couldn’t have borne the full-powered attack of a Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Master.”
“Huh? What are these?”
There were dozens of letters in the storage ring. They detailed secret communications between the Blue-Eyed Boss and a person who claimed to be the governor residence’s steward.”
He scanned these letters and found they didn’t mention White Cloud Governor Wan Ben.
It seemed that this Wan Ben was very cautious.
However, these letters proved that the governor residence’s steward was colluding with the Dream Pill traffickers, so Lin Ze would definitely like these things.
“Who!”
When Ling Xiao was just about to put away this storage ring when a sword light suddenly flew out from the woods.
Ling Xiao was shocked and hastily dodged.
However, this sword light still left a bone-deep wound on his arm.
“I was too careless!”
Ling Xiao held Void Breaking Strike in front of him before retreating to a hiding spot. Analyzing that sword light, the other party’s strength was at least at Initial Rank Seven Martial Vein.
In his current state, it would be difficult to escape, so he could only rely on this Void Breaking Strike.
“Hehe, can you really hide?”
A figure flew out from the dense forest. Although he wore otherwise casual clothes, his face was covered.
Due to his hiding of his appearance, it was very likely that he was an acquaintance.
“Are you afraid of being recognized by me?”
Ling Xiao frowned. There were only three Martial Master disciples in the Hidden Dragon Battalion: Leader Dai Yuling and Deputy Leaders Shi Lei and Hua Nongying.
Dai Yuling?
Or Hua Nongying?
The other party could not be Shi Lei since he would have recognized his aura. After all, they had just fought together.
Ling Xiao didn’t speak since he knew that the other party was only deceiving him because the Landscape Martial Soul’s realm template would thoroughly restrain his aura. As long as he didn’t speak or move, it would be difficult for the other party to find him.
“Do you think that I really can’t find you if you’re silent?”
That person snorted and suddenly swung his sword.
No matter whether it be a tree or rock, they cracked and exploded, exposing Ling Xiao.
At this moment, Ling Xiao was chewing something while holding Void Breaking Strike.
Even though it was very dangerous, he didn’t intend to give up.
He hastily chewed a golden snow lotus from his Landscape World to speed up his recovery.
That person saw Void Breaking Strike and suddenly stopped; he obviously had some misgivings.
“Your Excellency, what advice do you have?”
Ling Xiao carefully asked.
“Hand over those letters. I don’t want the other things. Of course, you will then live.”
The other side didn’t dare to expose his real voice. When speaking, he obviously used a certain means to alter his voice.
“What if I refuse”
Ling Xiao didn’t plan to admit defeat so easily. Moreover, would handing over these letters truly save his life?
Only naïve idiots would believe such nonsense.
“Then, you will die! It’s just a Void Breaking Strike! I’m not afraid!”
The other party indeed had some fear of Void Breaking Strike, but although it was powerful, its consumption was huge. For an ordinary Martial Master, having a few dozen low-grade spirit stones was already pretty good.
Only powerful forces like the Governor or Side General Residences would have over 100 pieces.
A single use of Void Breaking Strike consumed a hundred low grade spirit stones.
Thus, the other party estimated that Ling Xiao could only use one attack at most. As long as he dodged that one attack, he wouldn’t need to fear anymore.
