Chapter 329: Using a Meat Cleaver to Kill a Chicken

"Then just follow along..." To think someone would actually beg him to take them out to make trouble. Boss Fang expressed his astonishment.

With a trace of disdain, he added: "Then come along."

He tossed the Runeword Broadsword out the door, unleashing the Myriad Sword Technique, which instantly splintered into dozens of flying swords hovering right before the shop.

Boss Fang waved them over: "If you're coming, hurry up and get on board."

"..." Everyone's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets; we literally just learned the Sword Riding Technique, do you really have to do this?!

Meanwhile, on the other side, Zou Mo stood upon the dharma boat, a strange light flowing within his eyes, but a sharp, severe pain soon forced him to shut them.

"This won't do, little guy," Ning Bi shook her head and sighed softly. "Think about it, if you delay for too long, the person who kidnapped your Sister Ruan might just tear the ticket and kill the hostage the moment they get the money."

Zou Mo shuddered violently at the thought of such a image, letting out a furious roar as his eyes snapped wide open!

Zou Mo felt a searing glare pierce into his vision; even in the gloomy weather of Half City, the light felt as blinding as staring directly into a blazing sun!

Yet once the blinding white light faded, the entire world before him seemed to undergo a distinct transformation, and the various things around him began to look utterly different.

"I wonder how that brat got so lucky..." Ning Bi crossed her arms. "I'm almost tempted to poach him..."

"Big sister! I see it!" Zou Mo cried out in pleasant surprise.

Ning Bi casually formed a hand seal, and the entire dharma boat instantly vanished from the sky, as though it had turned completely invisible.

At the same time, Boss Fang received a message: "Found them."

The Eighteenth District, compared to the orderly Thirty-Sixth District where Fang Qi resided, appeared considerably more chaotic.

At the end of the main street stood a three-story pagoda-like building, where the cultivator whose face was still wrapped in bandages stared intently at the pedestrians on the road.

"They're coming! They're coming!" he shouted in joyful excitement.

"We're going to be rich from now on!"

"I feel like I can already see myself lying on a mountain of spirit crystals!"

"Once we pull off this heist, I'm taking the money out of this hellhole to find a good place to start over."

"Hahahahaha!"

...

On the other side, at a concealed spot behind this three-story pagoda building.

Two figures landed silently without making a sound.

"Can you still hold on?"

"No... no problem," Zou Mo replied hurriedly.

The strange light flowing within Zou Mo's eyes flickered with increasing speed, like a machine running under a heavy workload: "Right underground, guarded by two people."

"Then give me the location as well while you're at it," Ning Bi chuckled softly.

Situated underground were likewise two men clad in black cloaks; unlike the petty thugs with bandages, the cultivation bases of these individuals were clearly not low.

The two appeared extremely vigilant, constantly paying attention to their surroundings, and right above the table between them sat a pitch-black clay jar, sealed with two talismans written in fresh blood, looking exceptionally eerie.

Right at that moment, an invisible wind seemed to stir, fluttering the talismans.

"What's going on?!" The two men's eyes flashed with sharp light as they rushed forward to investigate.

They found nothing out of the ordinary.

"All done," Ning Bi spoke up. "Within a short time, no one will be able to harm that little girl's soul."

"Little boss, mission accomplished!" Fang Qi's communication jade received a message. "Remember my reward."

Fang Qi: "..."

At the same time, Ruan Ning had already carried the spirit crystals to the first-floor entrance, causing the eyes of several cultivators to practically gleam with a green light.

Suddenly, a thunderous explosion erupted!

A bolt of striking thunder crashed down from above, violently smashing through the roof and instantly tearing open a massive hole.

Immediately following was a loud shout: "Listen up inside, you now have ten seconds to drop your weapons, surrender, and hand over the hostage, otherwise face the consequences."

Hearing this voice, the group trembled all over and hurriedly looked out the window, only to see dozens of flying swords suspended in the sky outside, with dozens of cultivators nearly surrounding the entire tower: "Boss, how did they find us?!"

The burly cultivator in the black cloak changed expression, sneering toward the sky: "I advise you not to come any closer, otherwise your companion will lose her life instantly!"

"So that's how it is!" The cultivators who were utterly panicked a moment ago instantly grew bold again, grinning savagely. "Boss is right, we still have a hostage in our hands!"

"Don't move, or do you believe we can kill this young lady in a split second!"

"Boss, making trouble involves just these few small fries?" Tang Yuan said disdainfully.

"Leave it to me, leave it to me!" Zhuge Bai was a middle-aged cultivator in a moon-white long robe, with smooth and fair skin like a frail scholar, but in reality possessed a fiery temper; he snatched the Bone Jade Staff from Tang Yuan's hand and pointed it forward.

A wave of utterly freezing frost instantly materialized, with ice spikes and wild winds howling, reducing an entire floor to fine powder in nearly the blink of an eye.

Mo Tianxing seized the opportune moment, sweeping his large sleeve to bring the person out safely.

"Ah—!" Ruan Ning let out a sharp cry, nearly fainting from fright; her life was held in others' hands, yet they chose this moment to blast their way in, wasn't this asking for her life!

"Hahahahaha!" Zhuge Bai laughed wildly. "This Bone Jade Staff truly lives up to its reputation!"

"You are courting death!" The expression of the cultivator in the black cloak turned grim, and with a single command, countless black-robed cultivators suddenly surged out from the surroundings!

"Let me try!" Before it could even warm up, the staff was snatched away by Xi Chenzhou, while at the same time, over a dozen black-robed cultivators attacked from all directions.

Xi Chenzhou chanted softly under his breath as countless dark energies manifested around him; with a wave of the Bone Jade Staff in his hand, it instantly transformed into a massive dragon spiraling into the sky!

"Roar—!"

With a thunderous roar, all the surrounding black-robed cultivators were swallowed clean away in an instant!

Xi Chenzhou stared dumbfounded at the bone staff in his hand: "A divine tool! A true divine tool, it's simply too good to use! I feel my spell control and power have both vastly improved!"

"Watch my Summon Divine Beast!" Xue Shuilong raised the Dragon Texture Sword in his hand, and a massive dog resembling a fire qilin rapidly expanded in size, spewing flames from its mouth as several cultivators rushing head-on were instantly enveloped in raging fire, howling in agony!

Though the growth potential of the Divine Beast in the later stages had diminished, a grand Taoist's Divine Beast was still nothing to scoff at, let alone the fact that the Dragon Texture Sword itself possessed the effect of enhancing the beast's power, not to mention the system-enhanced version of the Dragon Texture.

With the Holy Armor Spell and the Ghost Shield applied, it resembled a massive beast of war; wherever the flames reached, buildings were utterly destroyed, and Xue Shuilong directly cast a Wind Riding Spell to send the beast into the sky, leaving the cultivators who had just taken flight with absolutely nowhere to escape, crashing to the ground one after another as bursts of fire!

"Excellent! I am incredibly fond of this Dragon Texture Sword!"

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