When someone righteously shouts “How dare you, marauding cultivator!” and charges at you with a sharp blade, a normal person’s brain will experience a brief shutdown process.
Especially when you are in a sect’s important area, wearing disciple attire that signifies your identity, and merely intending to pick a fight or argue.
Su He’s current feeling was — absurdity.
One moment she was still contemplating how to get justice for Senior Sister You, the next, her vision was filled with a rapidly enlarging sword hilt.
“Marauding cultivator? Me?”
This thought had just flashed through Su He’s mind, not even having time to transmit to her limbs for a defensive reaction, when Gu Chengming’s attack arrived.
This was by no means a fair spar; this was a premeditated “sneak attack.”
Su He was at First Realm, Fifth Level, and Li Miao beside her was at First Realm, Sixth Level.
In terms of raw strength, Gu Chengming was only at First Realm, Fourth Level.
In the cultivation world, realm suppression is often absolute.
Being two minor levels higher means a significant increase in spiritual energy density, reaction speed, and physical strength.
But Gu Chengming knew one thing: dead people have no realms, and unconscious people are the same.
He was betting on that momentary hesitation from the opponent, and the explosive power of his body, which had undergone initial strengthening by Hundred Bones Resonating.
【Hundred Bones Resonating thought, “Excellent! What decisive killing!”】
【Facing powerful enemies all around, no nonsense, no hesitation, strike first to gain the upper hand!】
【This is the quality its cheat should have! What gentleness, kindness, courtesy, frugality, and deference? They’re all rubbish in the face of life-and-death combat!】
At the same instant he roared, his right hand had already reached for his waist, and the wooden sword was unsheathed.
“Clang—”
Gu Chengming shot out like an arrow from a bowstring.
There was no fancy opening move.
But this basic sword art, in Gu Chengming’s hands, displayed completely different power.
Spiritual energy surged along his meridians, not radiating outwards to form a sword glow, but entirely contained within the muscle fibers of his legs and arms.
Close quarters!
Su He only felt a blur before her eyes; the man who was several zhang away just a moment ago was now pressing close.
The gust of wind rushing towards her even messed up her bangs, freezing her original expression into a comical astonishment.
She instinctively wanted to raise her hand to touch the sword on her back.
Too late.
Gu Chengming’s wooden sword heavily struck her quchi acupoint on her sword-wielding right hand.
“Crack!”
A crisp sound.
Su He only felt her right arm go numb, and half her body’s spiritual energy instantly dissipated; the protective spiritual energy she had just raised was directly interrupted.
Immediately after, Gu Chengming flicked his wrist, and the wooden sword swept upwards with the momentum, its spine striking Su He’s side neck with a clever force.
This strike was fast, accurate, and ruthless.
Su He didn’t even let out a whimper, her eyes rolled back, and her entire body, as if her bones had been removed, softly fell backward.
One down.
It took less than a breath.
It wasn’t until the dull thud of Su He falling reached her ears that Li Miao, standing beside her, finally awoke from that absurd feeling.
“Senior Sister Su?!”
“Villain! You’re asking for death!”
Li Miao, after all, was at First Realm, Sixth Level, and her reaction speed was extremely fast.
She didn’t choose to draw her sword, because the distance was too close, and drawing it would expose a weakness.
She quickly formed hand seals, spiritual light flickering at her fingertips, and a faint green wind blade rapidly formed in her palm.
The so-called protagonist certainly needs scenes of cross-realm killing, so Hundred Bones Resonating was incredibly excited at this moment.
【Hundred Bones Resonating thought, “What if she’s First Realm, Sixth Level?!”】
【Gu Chengming! Use your physical body to resist! Let this ignorant woman see what a true body cultivator is!】
Gu Chengming’s eye twitched slightly.
Resist with his physical body? He wasn’t out of his mind.
Facing Li Miao’s attack, Gu Chengming did not retreat; instead, he shifted his feet, his figure like willow catkins in the wind, advancing rather than retreating, using his front foot as an axis, his body performing an extremely strange side spin.
Borrowing this centrifugal force from the spin, Gu Chengming’s wooden sword drew a smooth arc in the air.
This was not some profound sword move; it was just the most basic Disarming Technique from the Huiyuan Sword Manual.
The wooden sword accurately landed on Li Miao’s wrist, which she had just pushed out.
Gu Chengming lightly flicked his wrist, and a clever force transmitted through the wooden sword, instantly deflecting Li Miao’s subsequent spiritual energy output.
Li Miao only felt a surge of great force, and her body involuntarily swayed to one side; the wind blade, not yet fully released, struck empty air.
Wide open!
This was the classic script of a body cultivator bullying a spell cultivator.
Once engaged in close combat, a spell cultivator’s fragile defense was like paper in front of a body cultivator.
Although Gu Chengming was a “pseudo-body cultivator,” he was incredibly skilled in swordsmanship.
He gave Li Miao no chance to adjust her posture.
The sword hilt struck her abdomen.
Inch Force!
“Ugh!”
Li Miao’s body instantly hunched over, the sharp pain making her mind go blank.
Gu Chengming took the opportunity to press forward, holding the wooden sword inverted in his right hand, the hilt like a heavy hammer, cleanly striking the back of her head.
“Thud.”
The sound alone was painful.
Li Miao’s eyes closed, her body went limp, and she directly collapsed onto Su He, who was still twitching slightly.
The two piled on top of each other, neatly unconscious.
The entire process was smooth and fluid, without the slightest hesitation.
From Gu Chengming’s furious shout and charge to the two women collapsing, it took no more than three breaths.
Gu Chengming let out a sigh of relief, but Hundred Bones Resonating had the most intense reaction.
Although Hundred Bones Resonating was not the main force in this battle, by approximation, it was considered a cross-realm kill, and it was quite satisfied at this moment, wishing it could let out a long howl.
【Hundred Bones Resonating thought, “With a First Realm, Fourth Level body, instantly killing two powerful enemies at first realm, mid-stage! Who in this world can stop us?”】
【Among the heroes of the world, only Hundred Bones Resonating and Gu Chengming!】
【Favorability +10】
Gu Chengming listened to the incessant notification sounds in his mind, his mouth twitching almost imperceptibly.
He had clearly won by using the techniques of the Huiyuan Sword Manual, yet it automatically imagined it as his physical body being invincible.
To put it bluntly, what did cross-realm killing have to do with you?
However, the act still needed to be played out completely.
Gu Chengming quickly adjusted his expression, switching back to a state of having narrowly escaped death.
He didn’t bother with the two “corpses” lying on the ground but quickly looked around.
Then, he lowered his voice and muttered to himself in a hurried and serious tone:
“That was close… I didn’t expect these two to be so troublesome. If I hadn’t fought with my life, I might have perished here today.”
“And…”
Gu Chengming squatted down, pretending to examine their clothing, then frowned deeply, his tone becoming even graver:
“To be so brazen at the entrance of the Sect Market, and even wearing Daoning Gate disciple attire… there’s a deep conspiracy behind this.”
“They must have accomplices ambushing nearby.”
After speaking, he suddenly stood up and grabbed Jiang Lu’s wrist, who was still in a daze.
Jiang Lu shivered all over, finally snapping back to reality, looking at the two unconscious, even slightly twitching, senior sisters on the ground, his voice changed pitch:
“Senior, Senior Brother Gu… this, this, this…”
He pointed at the two on the ground, his fingers trembling uncontrollably.
These were Senior Sisters from Daoning Gate!
Just now, right under his nose, they were knocked out by Senior Brother Gu in two moves?
And what did Senior Brother Gu shout just now? Marauding cultivator?
Jiang Lu’s mind was a mess.
Although he was honest, he wasn’t stupid; these two senior sisters didn’t look like marauding cultivators at all!
But Gu Chengming didn’t give him time to think.
“Junior Brother Jiang! Stop looking!”
Gu Chengming had a righteous expression, even with a hint of anxiousness from disappointment:
“This place is not safe to stay long!”
“These two are just bait; the real killing intent is yet to come!”
“Hurry! If we get surrounded by their accomplices, neither of us will escape!”
Jiang Lu was so startled by his sudden, alarming tone that he was utterly disoriented, subconsciously wanting to ask “Really?”, but seeing Gu Chengming’s extremely serious expression, and then looking at the two genuinely unconscious senior sisters on the ground…
For some reason, he believed it a little more.
Could it be that some terrifying organization had really infiltrated the Wenjian Sect?
“Go!”
Gu Chengming, without explanation, pulled Jiang Lu and sprinted towards the outer sect disciples’ living area.
Leaving only two pitiful Daoning Gate female cultivators lying haphazardly in the cold wind at the Sect Market entrance, waiting for the patrolling law enforcement disciples to discover them.
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