Chapter 628: Chapter 386: Ning Yunying_2

“My bounty was set by him, and it was not easy to have this opportunity. It would be such a pity if we let him escape.”

Su Jie felt quite regretful, he had actually allowed Zhuang Liangru to escape. It would be difficult to find such a good opportunity again.

“He won’t escape, his location is in this direction, about five hundred miles in a straight line. If you move quickly, you should be able to catch up to him. Because he’s been poisoned with a gu toxin, exercising his power will only deepen the poison, so he probably hasn’t gotten far.”

Ning Yunying pointed calmly in the northwest direction, giving Su Jie the guidance.

Su Jie was surprised and couldn’t help but take a few more looks at Ning Yunying.

The fact that she knew Zhuang Liangru’s location so clearly meant she must have used some tracking method on him, and it was obvious that her intention was mostly to eliminate Zhuang Liangru as well.

In the face of Su Jie’s inquisitive gaze, Ning Yunying indifferently said, “To nip it in the bud, since he has shown up at Liuyun Manor and even came forward to protect it, it shows that he has a close connection with Liuyun Manor. To prevent him from pulling any tricks down the line, using decisive measures to completely eradicate him, to stifle the danger in its infancy, is what we cultivators should do.”

Ning Yunying’s bright eyes were cold, her thin lips pressed tightly. She maintained an aloof posture, standing as elegantly and sternly as a sculpture, making extermination sound very casual.

This is a ruthless person!

Hearing this statement, Su Jie looked at her flawless, beautiful face, as if he had re-evaluated her anew.

She had the temperament of a fairy, yet her methods were thunderous. Seen in the eyes of the righteous sects, she would surely be labeled as a witch or sorceress.

“You seem to be thinking about something bad?”

Ning Yunying’s pair of bright eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the abyss of the human heart.

“Cough! You’re overthinking.”

Su Jie coughed twice. The person in front of him was at the Taoist Platform Realm, and given her display of Heavenly Might just now, he had to give her the respect she was due.

“Since you have a grudge against that man, I’ll leave him for you to deal with.”

Ning Yunying didn’t delve deeper, she turned around slowly, stepping through the air with an unhurried gait, displaying a noble demeanor, and quickly disappeared from Su Jie’s sight.

She left as soon as she said she would, very neat and decisive, just like the way she handled matters, with utmost efficiency.

“The sisters really do have quite different personalities.”

Su Jie sighed, Ning Xinyue certainly didn’t have as strong a killing intent as her sister did.

“Let’s go, we should get to the main task at hand.”

Su Jie took one last look in the direction where Ning Yunying disappeared, then soared into the sky, traveling through the air, speeding in the northwest direction.

Han Ruyan followed close behind, sitting in a big red flower sedan chair, while the thousand-hand centipede floated in the air, flanking Su Jie on both sides.

…….

Five hundred miles was just a moment’s effort for Su Jie, now at the Fourth Level of Secret Realm Cultivation. He appeared amid a range of mountains.

Looking at the vast range of mountains beneath his feet, Su Jie knew that if Ning Yunying was right, Zhuang Liangru was likely hiding somewhere in the mountains below.

Given his injuries from the annual ring worm gu insect, running away while using his spiritual power was certain to add to the poison.

Su Jie deduced that the man must be hiding below and perhaps had even called for reinforcements from Guan Chao Pavilion. If Su Jie wanted to find him, he had to act quickly and decisively, otherwise, delays could lead to complications.

For an ordinary cultivator at the Secret Realm level, faced with a mountain range surrounded by peaks and valleys, trying to find a deliberately hiding Taoist Platform Realm in a short span of time would be like finding a needle in a haystack, with an extremely slim possibility.

However, fortunately for Su Jie, he was quite confident when it came to tracking people.

“Xiao Qian, it’s up to you now.”

Su Jie patted the big brain shell of the thousand-hand centipede. The centipede chirped a few times, its body trembled, and countless pale corpse hands fell from the sky.

Upon landing, these pale corpse hands immediately came to life, like creatures, starting to crawl frantically in the branches, caves, and grass, searching.

In the process, the pale corpse hands continued to split, one into two, two into four, four into eight.

After advancing to become a Top Grade Seven Refinement Gu Insect, the thousand-hand centipede’s various abilities were greatly strengthened. For example, its first ability, the pale corpse hand, could easily split and proliferate over the mountains and fields.

During this process, in just a few short minutes, the thousand-hand centipede wrapped around Su Jie’s arm made a discovery.

Sizzling! Sizzling!

The thousand-hand centipede clamored while locking its gaze on a spot halfway up the mountain.

“Oh, over there?”

Alerted by the thousand-hand centipede, Su Jie’s gaze followed its line of sight, and with a fierce slap, his right hand pounded downward.

Five Elements Demon Suppressing Handprint!

With one strike, spiritual energy surged wildly, transforming into a vast handprint hundreds of square meters in size, flickering with the spirit light of the Five Elements, instantly crashing into the mountainside.

Boom!

A roaring sound tore through the silent forest, and amid the deafening explosion, a giant handprint appeared on the mountainside. The intricate details of the palm were fully impressed in the shattered rocks as the shockwave toppled ancient trees nearby.

“You’ve gone too far, you witch! After all this, you still insist on exterminating me? Aren’t you afraid of our Guan Chao Pavilion’s retaliation?”

Following Su Jie’s strike, a suppressed and angry roar came from below.

Immediately after, a figure soared into the sky.

It was a middle-aged man with disheveled hair. His face was ashen, and his eyes burned with fury as he looked over.

However, upon seeing Su Jie, the man was taken aback, because this was not the formidable young woman he had anticipated, the one who had put immense pressure on him.

“It’s been a while, Elder Zhuang. Haven’t seen you in good health, eh!”

A cruel smile crept over Su Jie’s lips as he stared intently at Zhuang Liangru.

Zhuang Liangru, clad in a robe soaked with poisonous sweat, gave off a faint smell of medicinal herbs and blood. His breathing was ragged and powerful, each inhalation seemed to swallow the air of the entire forest.

Upon closer inspection, one could see that the right side of his body resembled that of a decaying old man–covered in liver spots, his skin filled with wrinkles–while the left side was engorged with bulging veins which appeared black and purple, twisting like little snakes.

Clearly, he had been afflicted with the time-poison of the annual ring worm, and his injuries were serious. The overall aura that he gave off to Su Jie was of an old man whose life was hanging by a thread, with half a body already stepping into the coffin, no longer the dominating figure Su Jie had encountered during the sect battle.

“It’s you, you little devil. How did you appear here?”

Upon recognizing Su Jie’s face, Zhuang Liangru shook with shock, his expression one of disbelief.

There was indeed no shortage of grievances between Su Jie and him; Su Jie had killed his disciples, slaughtered his sect’s Immortal Seed, and he could credit the failure of the sect’s great battle to Su Jie. It wouldn’t be exaggerating to say they had a blood feud.

Yet Zhuang Liangru found Su Jie’s appearance especially surprising. He had thought that the one pursuing him was the Daoist Platform Realm girl who had appeared at Liuyun Manor and inflicted upon him an unbearable strike with a single palm.

“Heh, I’m here for one thing only, Elder Zhuang,” said Su Jie, his smile unbridled, his eyes ferocious and malicious like those of an Evil Wolf. Staring at Zhuang Liangru’s neck, he spoke coldly, “I plan to borrow the head on Elder Zhuang’s shoulders for a bit. After all, since you’ve offered a bounty of five million Spirit Stones for my head for so long, it’s time I reciprocated the gesture.”

If Zhuang Liangru were in his normal state, Su Jie would stay as far away as possible.

But facing a Daoist Platform Realm cultivator who was more dead than alive due to poison, Su Jie didn’t even consider him a threat and saw him merely as his prey.

“You’re seeking death, a mere Secret Realm cultivator–even with poison in my system, you are not someone you can afford to provoke.”

Zhuang Liangru was suddenly enraged, his face full of angry shame, feeling humiliated as if he were a tiger fallen to flatlands and bullied by dogs.

When had he, the Supreme Elder of the Guan Chao Pavilion, a powerful cultivator of the Daoist Platform Realm, been targeted by someone from the Secret Realm or had someone desire his head?

“Whether or not I can is not for you to say. I’ve never killed a cultivator of the Daoist Platform Realm, so today, I shall indulge using Elder Zhuang’s head. I hope you won’t disappoint me.”

Su Jie’s smile grew more deranged, his eyes determined to claim that head; not even Jesus could stop him.