“I know that too, cough cough, but it’s too late now. You should run; I admit defeat today.”
The last strike had seriously injured the big man, who was now barely able to stand steadily. His tone was anxious and helpless.
The three Yaos began conversing in their incomprehensible bird-like language. Although the meaning was unclear, their mocking smiles made it evident they were belittling both the big man and Li Tan.
“Hehe, why don’t you sit here for a moment?”
Li Tan loosened his supporting grip on the big man, ignoring his advice to flee. Instead, he took two steps forward, positioning himself in front of the three Yaos.
Then he moved his lips, uttering four monotonous words in the Yaos’ language.
The three Yaos’ expressions immediately turned furious, pointing at Li Tan and shouting something.
Li Tan completely ignored them, standing still at the spot without doing anything.
“Waah!”
The Yao who had previously fought the big man charged forward like a wild bull.
Seeing this, the big man shouted in panic, “When it fought me just now, it probably used less than half its strength! Young fellow, quickly dodge!”
But Li Tan didn’t move an inch.
“It’s over,” the big man thought, his face turning pale as he imagined Li Tan being hit and killed.
However, something shocking happened. Li Tan casually swung the rusty sword that looked like it would break at the slightest touch. Then there was a pfft sound, and the charging male Yao, along with his wolf-tooth club, was cut in half at the waist.
“What?!”
The big man felt his head spinning.
Meanwhile, Li Tan slightly moved aside to avoid the blood flowing from the corpse. Then he cast a cold gaze at the remaining two Yaos.
The two Yaos looked at their companion’s corpse with expressions of fear.
Regardless of whether they understood or not, Li Tan spoke in the human language, asking, “Weren’t you planning to capture me and make me a slave?
Why have you stopped?
Are you afraid?”
As he slowly walked forward, the two Yaos slowly retreated. The two scale horses seemed to share their masters’ fear, growling anxiously.
The two Yaos said something to Li Tan.
This was the Yao language, which Li Tan had studied and understood. They were asking, “What are you doing?”
Li Tan answered their question with action.
He raised his right hand horizontally, his slender fingers surrounded by true energy, which gathered into a nimble dagger before shooting out.
The two Yaos were greatly alarmed, hastily jumping off their scale horses. However, the male Yao’s shoulder still suffered a cut.
“What kind of martial skill is this?!” the female Yao asked her companion.
“I don’t know, but we’re definitely no match for him. That guy’s sword is too strange. Lao Er’s weapon was directly severed. Ours might be the same. We must run immediately!” the male Yao, covering his bleeding arm, showed a painful expression while urgently whispering in a tense tone.
Meanwhile, Li Tan advanced forward expressionlessly like a grim reaper, casually sending out another wave of true energy.
This was an advanced martial skill of the Xuan class called Hurricane Blade, capable of attacking opponents with true energy like hidden weapons. It had extremely high explosive power and was currently the only martial skill Li Tan could use that posed a threat to the Yaos.
“Run!” the male Yao roared and swiftly turned to escape first.
The female Yao hesitated for a moment before quickly following.
Li Tan didn’t pursue, calmly watching them increase the distance between them. Then suddenly, he threw a true energy dagger formed by Hurricane Blade.
Pfft! Another large wound opened on the male Yao’s right arm.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! A series of true energy daggers flew out, each hitting their target with precision.
Soon, the male Yao was covered in red blood and helplessly collapsed to the ground.
“Run?”
Li Tan suddenly recalled the memory of his murdered seniors and juniors, his killing intent surging. With a flick of his right hand, a true energy dagger pierced through the female Yao’s left leg, causing her to fall forward onto the ground.
The big man was completely stunned. At this moment, Li Tan seemed very unfamiliar to him. He couldn’t help but question himself: Is this still the harmless young fellow from yesterday?
The answer was no.
At this moment, Li Tan was the supreme human, the human emperor, Li Tan! As a true energy dagger formed, Li Tan was about to throw it to deliver a fatal blow to the two not far away, but he hesitated and then dissipated it.
“You can still walk, right?
We should go back.”
Li Tan turned his gaze toward the big man.
“Eh, oh, of course no problem!” the big man was taken aback, somewhat unable to recover quickly.
In the blink of an eye, the terrifying killing intent around Li Tan had vanished without a trace. He seemed to have returned to his usual harmless self again.
“Good, then let’s go.”
Li Tan sheathed the rusty sword and turned to leave.
The big man got up and quickly followed.
The two returned to Chi Ze, and it was already noon.
The big man had some business to attend to and parted ways with Li Tan at the main gate, while Li Tan directly headed to the Alliance of Freelancers.
Today, the Freelancer Guild was still very lively, with various tasks in high demand and often in short supply, and one could frequently hear the lamentations of mercenaries who couldn’t get tasks.
Li Tan went straight to the place where he had registered tasks last time and slammed a three-star fire-attribute beast core of a ferocious beast onto the table, loudly announcing, “Mission accomplished!”
“I understand. What task did you accept? Let me check.”
The middle-aged man responsible for registration seemed very busy, still writing furiously while talking to Li Tan. However, his peripheral vision caught sight of the beast core, causing his pen to pause. He quickly raised his head in shock, “You really brought a three-star beast core!”
The man couldn’t believe his eyes as he picked up the beast core and examined it carefully. After a moment, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, “It’s genuine, no problem. Your task is completed.”
“There should be something you need to write down, like some records or something.”
Li Tan asked.
The man nodded, taking out a thick notebook from a drawer and flipping through it for a while before scribbling a few lines, “Alright, go to the finance department later to collect your commission.”
“Okay, I’ll go now.”
“Wait!”
“What else?”
“Ah, may I ask, where did you get this beast core?”
“What do you think, that’s how it is.”
With a casual reply, Li Tan quickly disappeared into the crowd. The man looked at the beast core on the table, feeling somewhat surreal. After collecting five hundred spirit stones as his commission, Li Tan didn’t return to the inn but went to the training room at the Dan Pavilion.
However, cultivation was only one of his purposes. Besides cultivating, he also needed to carefully consider what to do next.
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