After fifteen years of cultivation, he finally reached the pinnacle of the first rank!

Chapter 424 Price
The middle-aged man's expression changed drastically. As he retreated in an instant, he slashed his crescent-shaped blade towards the direction from which the bamboo pole had been extended.

Suddenly, a fierce wind arose from all directions, the heavens and earth hummed, and the domineering and sharp blade light seemed to cleave the sky in two.

The middle-aged man blinked and retreated more than ten feet away. He looked down at his bloodied and mangled hand, then suddenly looked up at the Nine Star Yellow Springs Formation set up by a group of celestial experts.

His strike just now had almost cleaved a huge crack in the sky, and all that could be seen now was turbulent currents, but the blind man was still nowhere to be seen.

As one of the nine guardians of the Yellow Springs Department, the middle-aged man was still shaken. If he had reacted any slower, the blind man's bamboo pole might have pierced his heart instead of his palm.

"This person is extremely dangerous! Immediately escort the young master back to the Yellow Springs Department!"

Without further hesitation, the middle-aged man shouted to the group of Celestial Realm experts who were arrayed below.

Upon hearing this, the group of experts from the Yellow Springs Division glanced at the middle-aged man's blood-soaked palm and, without hesitation, immediately maintained the formation while protecting Young Master Jin Chuan in the sedan chair as they retreated rapidly.

The blind man appeared and disappeared like a ghost. Right under the noses of so many experts, he not only killed two people silently, but even severely injured a highly skilled protector. Clearly, his strength was beyond their imagination, and they could not defeat him.

At the same time, the expression on Jin Chuan Gongzi's face inside the sedan chair turned somewhat ugly. Although he was being protected by a group of celestial experts, the killing intent that had been directed at him was still present.

Even with the power of the Nine Star Yellow Springs Formation, it couldn't stop the blind man's murderous intent in the slightest.

"You still haven't answered my question: who ordered you to kill me?"

At this moment, Young Master Jin Chuan suddenly blasted the top of the sedan chair away with a palm strike, leaped into the air, and, protected by the formation, looked around for the blind man's whereabouts.

Just as he finished speaking, the blind man's figure appeared on the roof of a house by the street, less than ten feet away from the Huangquan tribe.

The blind man's pale eyes were fixed on the direction in which the Yellow Springs tribe had retreated, and he held the blood-stained bamboo pole in his hand as he slowly spoke:
“I know what you’re worried about, but you don’t need to worry. The person who hired me to kill you died not long ago.”

After saying that, the blind man suddenly disappeared from the spot again.

At the same time, the middle-aged man who was also protecting Young Master Jinchuan during the retreat changed his expression again. He immediately activated the powerful martial arts true energy in his body and used his crescent-shaped blade to block the attack from above.

The void above trembled slightly. The blind man's figure was nowhere to be seen, but a bamboo pole appeared out of thin air and gently stuck down.

The next instant, a deafening roar, like a thunderclap, erupted. The blind man's seemingly insignificant bamboo pole had destroyed the crescent-shaped scimitar gleaming with the sun's edge in the middle-aged man's hand with a single blow.

The blade shattered into pieces, scattering outwards. Even a single fragment instantly reduced a wooden building dozens of feet away to dust.

At the same time, a powerful killing intent emanated from the bamboo pole, pressing down on the middle-aged man below like a mountain.

The middle-aged man tried his best to stop him, but his crescent-shaped blade was destroyed and his sword intent was broken. He was already seriously injured and could not stop him at all.

He could only stare wide-eyed as the blood-stained bamboo pole pierced his body, and then he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and crashed down onto the street below.

Upon seeing this scene, both the group of celestial experts who had set up the Nine Star Yellow Springs Formation and Young Master Jin Chuan were all greatly shocked.

Unexpectedly, one of the nine guardians of the Yellow Springs Department could not withstand two moves from this blind man and was defeated so quickly.

Meanwhile, the middle-aged man who had been driven directly into the street by the bamboo pole looked up in disbelief at the sky, where the blind man's figure had slowly reappeared.

"How is that possible? You're even stronger than before!" "Or... have you been hiding your true strength all along?"

The middle-aged man spoke with difficulty, the bamboo cane of the blind man stuck in his chest cavity, and the blood flowing from the wound was slowly staining his body red.

Moreover, the bamboo pole contained a terrifying killing intent that was almost tangible, and it was constantly strangling the life force within his body.

Upon hearing this, the blind man standing in mid-air leaned down to face the middle-aged man below. He could naturally sense that the middle-aged man was secretly circulating his internal energy, trying his best to resist the killing intent.

But he didn't seem to care at all, and instead calmly explained:
"When it comes to killing, it's either you die or I live; there's no way I'm going to hold back."

"However, I have a peculiar trait: the more I want to kill, the more powerful I become, and the more people I kill, the more powerful I become."

After saying that, the blind man raised his hand and gestured downwards, causing the bamboo pole inserted into the middle-aged man's chest to twist violently.

"No!"

The middle-aged man roared in terror, but the next moment, his entire body was crushed into mincemeat by the terrifying force of the bamboo pole, leaving him without a complete corpse.

Upon witnessing this scene, the young master Jin Chuan, who was retreating rapidly in the distance, and the group of experts from the Yellow Springs Division all felt a chill in their hearts and a look of fear appeared on their faces.

The fact that a dignified protector of the Yellow Springs Department died at the hands of a blind man clearly had a great shock effect on everyone.

"Go faster! We can't let him catch up!"

Someone hurriedly spoke up, and the group immediately increased their speed to the maximum to protect Young Master Jin Chuan as he fled.

At this moment, the blind man remotely grabbed the bamboo pole into his hand, turned his head to face the direction in which Young Master Jin Chuan and the others had fled, but showed no sign of urgency.

"Don't worry, I'll take your life before you get home."

The blind man's voice drifted lightly into Jin Chuan Gongzi's ears. Upon hearing this, Jin Chuan Gongzi's eyes darkened. The killing intent that the other party had been targeting him from beginning to end was like a guillotine held to his neck.

The other party seemed capable of killing him at any moment, but wouldn't take his life immediately, like a cat playing with a mouse.

"How much did that person pay to hire you to kill me? I'll pay ten times that!"

Young Master Jin Chuan looked at the blind man behind him and suddenly spoke in a deep voice.

The blind man walked on air, following Jin Chuan Gongzi and the others at a leisurely pace. After thinking for a moment, he said:
"If I remember correctly, the other party hired me for only a pot of wine."

"A pot of wine?"

Young Master Jin Chuan was taken aback for a moment, then seemed to laugh in anger, his eyes turning cold as he said:
"What a madman! Is my life only worth a pot of wine?"

Upon hearing this, the blind man shook his head and said:
"That's no ordinary wine. There's only one pot left in the world. After she died, no one else knew how to brew it!"

(End of this chapter)