Chapter 2337 - 2335: Pursuit and Assassination (Second Update)

Chapter 2337: Chapter 2335: Pursuit and Assassination (Second Update)

"Boss, many thanks! I’ll remember this favor today, and I’ll definitely repay you someday!" the green-clothed youth said seriously.

"Let me give you a line." Zhang Xiaohao suddenly said.

The green-clothed youth, who was just about to leave, halted his step mid-stride.

"Boss, please speak!" the green-clothed youth said, turning his body back.

"Within three days, you’ll run into a bloody calamity. If you can avoid going out, then do your best not to go out," Zhang Xiaohao said.

With that, he lifted the Monkey Wine and started drinking again.

"Many thanks for the warning, Boss!" The green-clothed youth clasped his fists respectfully.

Then he turned and left.

After he left, Xiong Wang couldn’t help asking.

"Young master, will he really suffer a bloody calamity?"

"Depends on whether he believes my words or not." Zhang Xiaohao smiled playfully.

"Young master, why did you just give him that painting for nothing?" Xiong Wang asked again.

"Didn’t I trade it for the wine?" Zhang Xiaohao lifted the wine jar in his hand and said with a playful tone.

"..." Xiong Wang was speechless inside.

"Wanna have a taste?" Zhang Xiaohao suddenly asked.

"Ah! Y-Young master, I can taste it?" Xiong Wang said excitedly.

"Catch." Zhang Xiaohao gave a slight smile.

He tapped the wine jar with two fingers; at once, a stream of liquor shot out from the jar, spun in midair, and dropped into a bowl.

Right after, Zhang Xiaohao flipped his right hand, took out some skewers from the Shennong Ring, threw a few over. Xiong Wang caught the skewers excitedly and, gulping down Monkey Wine, started devouring them like mad.

Zhang Xiaohao chuckled and ate slowly and leisurely.

On the other side.

Walking on the road back to the inn, the green-clothed youth thought seriously in his heart: could that boss just now have already seen through me? Otherwise, how could he determine that within three days I’d definitely encounter a bloody calamity?

Thinking of this.

The green-clothed youth felt that that boss was really too mysterious. The feeling he gave was like a great mountain—impossible to see through, hard to make sense of, completely not something that could be explained clearly in one or two sentences.

"Isn’t it just three days? We cultivators have plenty of time. Don’t say three days—even a week, or even a month, is no problem! Just so happens I can stay in the inn for these three days and seriously master this Divine Skill with terrifying power!" the green-clothed youth said, having made up his mind.

He didn’t know that it was precisely because of this decision that he dodged a sure-kill calamity.

Time flowed by; in the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

During these three days, apart from painting a piece three days ago, Zhang Xiaohao hadn’t continued painting; all the rest of the time, he was diligently reading.

"Cultivating the body and nurturing the temperament" isn’t as simple as just talking about it. Truly achieving that is very, very difficult.

"Xiao Xiong, we’ve got guests! In a bit, this young master permits you to slaughter to your heart’s content! As long as they dare make trouble here, you can kill however you like! Just remember one thing: don’t let these people disturb this young master’s reading." Zhang Xiaohao suddenly raised his head and said seriously.

"Yes, young master!" Xiong Wang said earnestly.

He put down the book in his hands and shook his head lightly; a surge of vicious Evil Qi burst out from his body.

Under Zhang Xiaohao’s silent influence, starting three days ago, Xiong Wang had also begun reading. The books Zhang Xiaohao had collected were simply far too many; there were all kinds—Confucianism texts, Taoist texts, Buddhist texts, ordinary scriptures, records of strange people and events in the Spirit Realm, secret inheritances of various races, and even books from the True Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm—he had those too.

At first, Xiong Wang only skimmed them absent-mindedly. But when he truly calmed down to read, he discovered that within these ordinary books, there were often some profound principles recorded—it just required personal comprehension.

If you can’t comprehend, then you can’t; if you do, then you do.

Though the time was short, his demeanor was quietly beginning to change.

Xiong Wang walked to the door. His lean body faintly resembled a middle-aged scholar; clad in Bai Yi, he stood at the entrance, and a vast surge of Evil Qi erupted from within him.

Step step step...

A burst of hurried footsteps sounded. The next moment, over a hundred cultivators swiftly surrounded him from all directions, tightly encircling Xiong Wang.

Leading them was an old man at Golden Core Peak. As for the rest, even the weakest among them were at Golden Core Early Stage. Every single person held their Lifebound Magical Treasure, staring coldly at Xiong Wang. Terrifying Evil Qi erupted from their bodies, pressing down toward Xiong Wang, very much with the posture that if a single word displeased them, they’d suppress him completely.

"You little bastard! Tell me, that green-clothed youth who came here three days ago—where did he go?" the Golden Core old man asked coldly.

The Golden Core Peak aura was like a raging mountain, wave after wave, crazily pressing down toward Xiong Wang.

Xiong Wang lazily dug at his ear, looking with disdain at this whole group before him.

"Who the hell do you think you are? You dare come to your Grandpa Xiong’s turf and act wild? Fuck, you must be tired of living!" Xiong Wang said coldly.

"Such guts! You little bastard, you dare talk to me like that! You’re courting death! Once I take you down, I’ll make sure to treat you properly, let you taste the flavor of wanting to live but being unable to, wanting to die but having no way!" the Golden Core old man said coldly.

He flicked his right hand coldly, giving the order.

"Come! Take this little bastard down for me!"

"Yes, sir!" The more than one hundred cultivators responded respectfully, one after another.

At once, the hundred-plus people gripped their Lifebound Magical Treasures and closed in on Xiong Wang coldly.

Terrifying Evil Qi condensed from their bodies and pressed down toward Xiong Wang.

"Kill!!" The next moment, the hundred-plus cultivators all let out a low roar, brandishing their Lifebound Magical Treasures. In midair, they blossomed into streak after streak of powerful spiritual light, carrying terrifying might as they ferociously suppressed toward Xiong Wang.

Before those treasures even arrived, the frightening spiritual pressure had already slammed down onto Xiong Wang.

"I was giving you face, and you actually dare force Grandpa Xiong to make a move! Looking for death!" Xiong Wang said, his eyes turning cold.

"Let Grandpa Xiong devour you!"

Xiong Wang let out a low roar. The next instant, a Heaven-Devouring Giant Mouth erupted from his body, swallowing toward the cultivators before him.

The figures of those cultivators flickered, and the next moment, they were all swallowed into Xiong Wang’s mouth, without even a single splash.

After wiping out this group of cultivators, Xiong Wang’s cold gaze fell on the Golden Core Peak old man at the head.

"Old bastard, it’s your turn," Xiong Wang said.

"Run..." The Golden Core old man screamed in terror, and then bolted madly back the way he’d come.

"Get back here to Grandpa Xiong!" Xiong Wang snorted coldly.