Lu Ye focused his spiritual power on his legs, increasing the speed of his pursuit significantly.
This was a small trick he had unintentionally discovered during his travels in and out of Azure Cloud Mountain. A cultivator's spiritual power had many wonderful uses. If it was focused on the eyes, they could see things they normally couldn't. If it was focused on the legs, they could run faster. If it was focused on the sword, it could increase the lethality of the weapon.
The terrain of the mountain forest was complex, and there were large trees everywhere. The person in front of him was naturally not as familiar with the terrain as Lu Ye, and the distance between them was constantly closing.
When Lu Ye saw the person's back, all his questions were answered.
He knew who was behind all this. This result surprised him because he didn't think he had any grudges with the other party. In fact, he had only met them once!
"Roar!" A snow-white figure suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking the person's path. It was Big Tiger!
The person was scared out of his wits by Big Tiger. He screamed and threw out the talisman he had been holding in his hand. The talisman turned into a crescent-shaped slash in the air, heading straight for Big Tiger.
Big Tiger hurriedly dodged, but the crescent-shaped slash barely missed its body and cut through the trunk of a large tree behind it. The penetrative power of the talisman was obvious.
Seeing that his attack had failed, the person's expression became even more panicked. He hurriedly pulled something out of his storage pouch.
A small figure had quietly climbed onto her back and let out an ear-piercing shriek.
Lu Ye saw the person's body shrink, as if something heavy was pressing down on him. At the same time, his hand paused.
This reminded Lu Ye of the first time he had encountered Yiyi and Big Tiger in the cave. At that time, he had been ambushed by Yiyi like this …
With this delay, Lu Ye rushed in front of her and slashed down with his sword.
A snow-white sword light flashed, and an arm flew off, blood spraying everywhere.
The pain caused her to scream. Although she was a rogue cultivator, because of her outstanding figure and appearance, it hadn't been long since she had entered the Spirit Stream Battlefield that she had caught the eye of someone from the Heavenly Secret Merchant Alliance. She had been recruited into the Merchant Alliance, and hadn't had a chance to fight anyone since.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that she was a flower raised in a greenhouse.
Most of the people in the Business Alliance were like this. They didn't need to fight with others, and didn't have the hardships and dangers of the battlefield like the disciples of the various sects. They only cared about doing business.
Big Tiger pounced on her and pushed her to the ground, roaring fiercely. A fishy wind blew in her face, and she almost fainted from fright.
What frightened her even more was the sound of footsteps coming from the side. Turning her head, she saw Lu Ye, whose sword was pointing diagonally at the ground, with blood still flowing from the blade, walking towards her step by step.
When she got closer, Lu Ye looked down at her and said indifferently, "Liu Ruyin!"
This woman was the one who had made a deal with him the first time he had visited the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance.
"Don't kill me. I beg you, don't kill me!" Liu Ruyin's makeup was ruined by her tears as she begged continuously.
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. "" No one. I was possessed by a ghost and became greedy … "In her great fear, Liu Ruyin naturally spoke whatever was on her mind. She didn't even wait for Lu Ye to ask her any more questions. She simply blurted out the cause and effect.
"So that's how it is …" Lu Ye raised his sword.
Sensing Lu Ye's killing intent, Liu Ruyin shouted, "Don't kill me! I'll give you anything you want!"
The longsword fell, but Big Tiger dodged in time. The blade, reinforced by spiritual energy, slashed across Liu Ruyin's fair and slender neck.
A yellow light flew out from the back of Liu Ruyin's snow-white hand and swept into Lu Ye's right hand.
The headless corpse twitched, and blood gushed out like a fountain from its neck. It took a while for it to stop.
Yiyi's eyelids twitched. Everything that had happened today had refreshed her understanding of Lu Ye. Only now did she understand that Big Tiger had been lucky not to die at this guy's hands. This guy wasn't easy to talk to.
Lu Ye bent down and took the storage bag from Liu Ruyin's waist. He then reached out and searched her body. Of course, he wasn't doing this to take advantage of her. He just wanted to see if she had a storage bag hidden on her body.
He himself had a storage bag hidden on his body … Judging from the situation, he felt that others might have one as well.
Unfortunately, Liu Ruyin didn't have this habit. After all, she was a member of the merchant union. She didn't need to fight with others and didn't need to take risks outside. Her storage bag was very safe on her body.
Liu Ruyin's storage bag was open. Lu Ye checked it briefly and found some useful items.
"Dispose of the body," Lu Ye ordered.
"Huh?" Yiyi looked at him incredulously, as if to say, "Are you kidding me?"
Lu Ye took out a bottle from Liu Ruyin's storage bag and tossed it in his hand.
"Okay!" Yiyi responded quickly. She gave Big Tiger a look and hurriedly got to work.
Lu Ye ran back to the spot where he'd killed the fair-skinned cultivator and picked up his storage bag as well as the fair-skinned cultivator's weapon.
Less than an hour later, Lu Ye sat cross-legged in the cave where he was resting. His upper body was bare as he applied healing pills to his wounds.
He didn't have many healing pills left in his possession. This time, he used two pills, so he only had four left.
Thinking back to today's battle, Lu Ye didn't feel complacent because he'd killed a cultivator at the third layer of the Spiritual Stream Tier. Instead, he reflected on himself. Battles between low-level cultivators were mostly close combat. It could be said that most low-level cultivators walked the path of Armament Cultivators. Because their cultivation level wasn't high enough and their cultivation time was short, low-level cultivators didn't have the time or energy to study any kind of Art. Only when they were strong enough would they gradually become clear about their future path.
This time, the battle with the fair-skinned cultivator exposed a very serious problem, and that was that he had no skills to speak of in battle. This was something that couldn't be helped. It hadn't even been three months since he'd started cultivating. During this period of time, he'd been raising his cultivation level, so how could he have the spare energy to raise his battle skills?
In the end, he'd been able to kill the fair-skinned cultivator because he'd borrowed Big Tiger's power and caught the other party off guard.
However, he didn't know how to raise his skills. Without a suitable teacher to guide him, it was undoubtedly impossible to rely on his own fumbling around.
Another problem was the weapon …
Previously, he hadn't felt much about it. The longsword in his hand was left behind by Manager Yang after his death. Before that, he'd used this sword to kill Zhou Cheng, but the battle with Zhou Cheng had only lasted for a moment.
Today, after a life and death battle with the fair-skinned cultivator, he'd truly noticed one thing, and that was that he was seriously incompatible with this longsword. No matter how he used this sword in his hand, it just didn't feel right.
Swords were light and agile, and focused on skills. However, when he held the longsword, all he did was hack and slash, and he couldn't bring out the sword's advantages at all.
With that thought in mind, Lu Ye put on his clothes again and picked up the longsword by his feet to examine it carefully. There were many nicks on the blade, all of which were caused by him hacking and slashing. In particular, there was a nick at the third part of the blade, which was almost the size of a grain of rice.
This kind of nick was very serious for a longsword, and he couldn't use it anymore.
He picked up the fair-skinned cultivator's longsword again, stood up and played with it a few times. His brows raised.
When he played with this thing … it was unexpectedly satisfying.
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