Chapter 2258 - 1203: The Top Under Half-step Nether Realm

Nothing special, just being careful—he was worried about getting one?shot the moment he walked through the door.

But after secretly watching for half a minute and seeing no so?called ambush, he finally stepped out of the Mirror World.

Because his speed was fast enough, Duan Jiqing didn’t even notice he’d used Space Power as well, and even mocked him for being cowardly and dawdling before coming in.

As soon as he heard that, Yang Xiao was quite disappointed in him. Revealing your own ability before a fight is a huge taboo. Just from those words he could tell the guy’s mastery of Space Power was inferior to his own, and that once the guy was inside this space, he couldn’t observe the outside world at all.

Yang Xiao almost never wastes words in battle; even during the pre?fight trash?talk segment, it’s just some transgender flaming, and he never exposes his own trump cards and abilities.

If someone takes the initiative to expose themselves, that usually means they’re setting a trap, running a con, digging a pit for the other side.

Seeing Yang Xiao come in, Duan Jiqing hurriedly shut the entrance he’d just used, like he was afraid Yang Xiao might run away.

When the entrance closed, Duan Jiqing dropped the act; that lofty expert aura vanished completely, and he grinned hideously as he said:

"Yang Xiao, you really had a road to heaven and wouldn’t take it. Honestly, outside I’ve got too many methods that are hard to use, so dealing with you isn’t that easy. But you walked in here yourself—hahahaha—now you’re dead for sure."

"Rest assured, I definitely won’t let you die quickly. I’ll torment you nice and slow, and in the end..."

A murderous light burst out in Duan Jiqing’s eyes as he snarled, "Then I’ll drag you back to Bone Painting Tower, find the best elder in the building, and make you watch with your own eyes how you’re refined piece by piece into a Puppet, so you can’t live and can’t die!"

"You can refine a Puppet from a living person too?" Yang Xiao asked whenever he had a question; he liked to learn.

"Of course. You’ll find out soon enough." Duan Jiqing’s smile turned sinister, his pair of beady eyes locked firmly on Yang Xiao.

"Hoo—" Yang Xiao let out a sigh and shook his head. "What a pity."

"You scared now?" Duan Jiqing grew even more smug.

Yang Xiao couldn’t be bothered to keep talking nonsense with him. What he found a pity was that this time he really had no way to leave him alive. Otherwise, if he could drag this guy back and have a nice friendly chat, he’d definitely be able to squeeze a lot of Corpse Refining intel about Bone Painting Tower out of him.

Forget it, not convenient this time—next time. Next time he’d find a chance to grab a Bone Painting Tower elder and interrogate him; the effect would be the same.

Yang Xiao hadn’t had any good feelings toward that Bone Painting Tower bunch to begin with. After today he was definitely going to be on their shit list, and since that was the case, there was no need to tiptoe around it anymore.

Though his list of enemies was getting longer and longer, that’s just the price of growing up—the aches at the tail?end of youth.

At the same time, his friends were getting more and more numerous, and stronger and stronger. It was all mutual; Yang Xiao could see that clearly and take it in stride.

That said, he was really grateful to this Master of Ruyi Sect. He needed someone to kill to establish his prestige, and the guy jumped out all on his own.

Knowing his whole set of Evil Magic Tools had no place to shine, the guy even thoughtfully provided him with a stage like this.

How is this an enemy? This guy’s basically a damn benefactor.

"Yang Xiao, open your dog eyes and take a look—see what this is?"

With Duan Jiqing’s unrestrained laughter, two eerie figures suddenly appeared to his left and right.

These two silhouettes didn’t have a single trace of living aura on them. Their whole bodies were bruised?blue and black, with only the chilling whites of their eyes left. Obviously, they were two refined Puppets.

Under Duan Jiqing’s control, the two Puppets slowly extended their hands from his long sleeves in a showing?off manner. Their hands sported sharp, long nails.

The nails were at least five centimeters long, their tips as sharp as Daggers, and their surfaces pitch?black, clearly coated with powerful poison.

Yang Xiao could sense that these were two Puppets with Upper Ghost Level strength.

Duan Jiqing was the adoptive son of Huagubiao Tower Master, and Bone Painting Tower was originally built on Corpse Refining. Rumor had it everyone in the building had corpses on them. That he had Puppets on him didn’t surprise Yang Xiao at all.

And with Peak of Ghost Level strength, being able to control two Upper Ghost Level Puppets was honestly no small feat. At the very least, compared with that Ku Daoist of Taoist Sect, he wasn’t much weaker.

Unfortunately for him, the guy had run into Yang Xiao today.

"Man, I really wanted to keep a low profile, but my strength just won’t let me."

Yang Xiao scratched his head in mock distress, then the next second raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Two figures appeared at his sides as well—naturally the samurai puppet and his dear son, Yang Jing.

With the two of them showing up, Duan Jiqing’s hearty laughter stopped dead, like a duck whose neck had just been squeezed.

He stared blankly at the samurai puppet and Yang Jing for a long moment, unable to react. His strength wasn’t exactly weak, so he could clearly sense that Yang Jing’s cultivation was close to Peak of Ghost Level, and that masked guy was the truly terrifying one—a horrifying Puppet built to a Half-step Nether Realm spec.

The next second, Duan Jiqing fished out that Jade Ruyi from his chest, closed his eyes, muttered under his breath, then opened his eyes and stabbed the Jade Ruyi hard toward the samurai puppet.

At the same time, Yang Xiao distinctly felt a strange energy fluctuation in front of him, but after a few seconds, nothing happened.

Then he saw Duan Jiqing’s hand holding the Jade Ruyi tremble a few times, clearly scared out of his wits.

Yang Xiao more or less understood. This guy didn’t believe he could have something of this caliber; he thought he’d been caught in an Illusion Technique and was trying to cast some illusion-breaking on it.

To further help him recognize reality and understand the gap between people, Yang Xiao snapped his fingers again in style. Receiving the signal, the samurai puppet and Mirror Ghost moved at the same time, charging toward the two Puppets beside Duan Jiqing.