novelsite Chapter 22
Chapter 22
night.
Light snow was falling from the sky, but the people of Hanchuan were used to it and continued to eat and drink as usual.
"Sister Ma, cheers!"
"Haha, it's a day off anyway, let's drink until we drop!"
"Stop fucking busy eating skewers and drinking!"
Nine people sat outside a barbecue restaurant, drinking and eating skewers with great gusto, their noisy behavior causing many passersby to frown.
The woman at the head of the group, heavily made up and with an ugly, pimple-covered face, ate with greasy mouth, scoffing, "There aren't many troublemakers lately, so I've been reduced to eating at street stalls, damn it!"
"Sigh, if only that good-for-nothing Li Ai were still alive. I love seeing her die rather than submit, and her resentment at having all her money stolen."
"Haha, Brother Qiang is right, it's a real shame to waste such a special brew!"
zizi——
The sharp blade scraped against the ground, sparks flying.
The gunman slowly emerged from the shadows, wearing a black raincoat and a wolf mask, and walked towards Ma Shuang and the others not far away.
As if sensing something, the nine people stopped talking and looked over.
"Ma Shuang, Tang San, Zhang Qiang..."
Li Ai looked at them one by one, and past memories flashed through her mind.
The beatings, the insults, the robbery, the endless torture—every single one of them is still fresh in my memory.
If we weren't on campus and hadn't met the bottom line set by the Lin family, perhaps something even more cruel would have happened.
It's strange that the perpetrator would set a bottom line of "not harming the body" and "not killing".
Li Ai was once in a daze, enduring the pain with a heart ashen, just so as not to implicate Aunt Liu.
I never thought carefully about what the Lin family had done; it was full of doubts and schemes.
But now is not the time to delve into those things—she has endured some grudges for far too long.
"You...you all deserve to die."
Without further ado, Li Ai raised the alloy spear and launched it with great force.
"Be careful!"
Pfft!
The alloy spear pierced straight through the pockmarked boy's chest. The mocking look on his face had not yet faded, and the horror in his mind even overwhelmed the excruciating pain.
What the hell?! Someone's committing murder in the middle of the city? Aren't they afraid of the "Sword of the Dragon Suppression Division"?!
This doubt did not last long, as Li Ai charged forward with his gun, crashing between them and grabbing the gun barrel.
"drink!"
The gun suddenly bent, and Li Ai used the rebound force to jump up a second time by stepping on the gun.
As the blade left his body, the pockmarked man coughed up a mouthful of blood, clutching the hole in his chest and convulsing violently in frustration.
call out!
The alloy spear slammed down from mid-air, knocking the green-haired punk girl to the ground with a loud bang. Blood gushed out, and viscous liquid splattered all over the ground.
The movement was too exaggerated, and a gray scorpion-tail braid peeked out from the hood of the raincoat.
When Zhang Qiang saw that hair color, he was utterly horrified: "Li Ai? You're fucking alive?!"
Li Ai's expression behind the mask was icy. She rose and spun around, instantly flinging away the bloodstains on her spear, and changed to a starting stance that facilitated a thrust.
"Anyone who dares to kill me deserves to die!"
Having been short of money lately, Ma Shuang, who was already irritable, was enraged when he saw his younger brothers and sisters being ripped off. He immediately channeled his spiritual power, which was at the eighth level of Body Tempering, into his palm.
Ma Shuang struck out with his palm, and the spiritual energy palm print flew out of his hand, rapidly attacking Li Ai.
"Heh~" Li Ai sneered disdainfully.
She dares to learn how to release energy from the Meridian Opening Realm when she's only at the eighth level of Body Tempering? With her level of spiritual power condensation, how much power will be left after the energy is transmitted to a distance of five meters?
The blood and qi are like hot oil thrown into Mars, exploding and circulating at high speed, with the temperature rising continuously.
After 0.8 seconds of charging, the tip of Li Ai's spear suddenly glowed with a bloody light, three inches above the tip.
The palm print began to dissipate halfway through its flight, and with little effort, Li Ai shattered it with a flick of her spear tip.
The next second, the blood and qi were no longer scattered streams, but were twisted into a condensed torrent by an invisible force, surging wildly through the limbs and bones, rushing straight to the alloy spear in his hand.
hum!
The 2.4-meter-long gun barrel glowed with a blood-red light, its sharpness blazing brightly.
"From all directions—wind and rain!!"
"Squeak—!!"
A sharp, piercing screech exploded, and the four who had tried to take advantage of the situation covered their ears in pain. The spear swept across 360 degrees, and a blood-red arc of light slashed out, instantly splitting the four men in two. Their upper bodies fell to the ground, still howling and struggling.
"Go to hell!!"
Ma Shuang threw a punch brimming with spiritual power. Li Ai used the momentum of the gun to jump and spin around, while Zhang Qiang's spinning whip kick swept past her face in sync.
With the seventh level of body tempering, the Dawn Rooster Crow Spear, and the full-view red light, hit alerts, and dodge routes of the Eye of Observation, Li Ai was able to unleash combat power far exceeding his cultivation level.
Zhang Qiang threw a flurry of punches: "Damn it, all you good for is dodging, you piece of trash!"
He was only at the sixth level of Body Tempering, so in theory he shouldn't be unable to keep up with Li Ai's movements.
But the other party was surprisingly agile. He had barely made a muscle reaction and hadn't even raised his hand when she had already made a dodge move.
So much so that the scenes of life-or-death battles were like pre-rehearsed martial arts plays, full of drama.
Click!
A 20cm thick white cypress tree snapped in two with a crash. Ma Shuang's punch missed its mark, but the force of the blow did not diminish, and he overturned a family car parked on the side of the road.
Zhang Qiang's downward kick was blocked by Li Ai's horizontal spear, and the brick pavement beneath his feet immediately crumbled, but Li Ai didn't utter a sound at all.
bang bang-
Tang San had no weapons to protect him, yet he carried a pistol with him at all times.
Bullets struck Li Ai one by one, their heads deforming and falling to the ground, but she didn't even flinch.
A martial artist's physical defense is extremely strong. During the circulation of qi and blood, Li Ai's entire body is as solid as a rock. You think you can kill her with just a pistol? You're dreaming!
Guns flashed and figures moved swiftly. The battle between the cultivators left the surrounding area in ruins, and pedestrians screamed and fled, watching from afar.
"Game over." Li Ai suddenly stopped ten meters away from Ma Shuang and the others, the red light on her body becoming more intense, and her blood and qi erupting.
"Li Ai, don't be so smug. If the Lin family finds out you're still alive, you won't escape death!" Ma Shuang was furious, his fat face jiggling.
"Yes." Li Ai nodded in agreement, brandishing her gun in a flourish before switching to an attack stance: "Then we'll just have to send you all on your way, since the dead can't talk."
"The decisive move..."
"There is death—there is no birth!!"
Boom!
A flash of red light appeared, and Li Ai transformed into a fleeting afterimage, the sound of the wind in her ears being torn apart into a sharp whistling sound.
The swirling dust, Ma Shuang's horrified expression, and the snowflakes falling from the sky were all clearly visible in the finest detail.
Only her gun and the target she had locked onto became the sole focus of attention in the world.
A deep blue spiritual energy shield appeared—that was a life-saving technique for spiritual cultivators, possessing non-Newtonian fluid properties, resisting physical impact, and reducing physical damage by at least 50%.
But it was facing the strongest move of the Dawn Rooster Crow Spear, with 80% increased piercing power!
Boom!
The spiritual energy shield lasted for only 0.3 seconds before breaking. The spearhead pierced Ma Shuang's right leg, causing his right thigh to explode on the spot, exposing white bone fragments and causing blood to gush out.
Li Ai's momentum remained undiminished; the light and shadow danced, making a bizarre right-angle turn, and amidst a piercing whistle, the spearhead shot straight towards Zhang Qiang.
"No, don't come any closer!" Zhang Qiang was terrified and turned to run away.
call out--
A flash of red light, and Li Ai appeared in front of him, her left hand gripping the gun that had pierced Zhang Qiang's chest, pulling the entire gun out of his body.
With a thud, Zhang Qiang collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. His body, with his heart shattered, was irreversibly heading towards death.
Bang! Bang bang—
Bullets rained down on her, tearing her raincoat and leaving only a red mark on her skin.
The red eyes behind the wolf mask darted around and landed on Huang Mao Tang San, the killing intent as turbulent as boiling blood, as if thousands of dead souls were howling inside.
Tang San was so frightened that he dropped his pistol to the ground, his whole body trembling.