Begin your practice with the crane-shaped stance.

The cracking sound of bones breaking was particularly jarring amidst the cacophony of insect chirping.

Xia Dong's thunderous strike snapped the neck of the assassin, who was most skilled in stealth and assassination.

This scene was like an invisible hammer blow, striking the hearts of the remaining two assassins who were struggling against the insect horde, instantly terrifying them.

This guy actually killed a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator in an instant? Could he already be a Transcendent Realm martial artist?

"Forget about the bugs, kill him first!"

The assassin on the left looked horrified, then suddenly let out a fierce roar.

At the critical moment of life and death, he did not hesitate to bite his tongue hard, and sprayed a mouthful of blood containing his life essence directly onto the magic weapon in his hand.

boom!

Driven by his reckless urgency, the previously crumbling spiritual energy shield was instantly stained a dazzling crimson. A violent aura of bloodlust erupted, forcefully pushing back the frenzied, devouring Yinming insects several feet away.

The assassin on the right, seeing this, also seemed to wake up from his daze and hurriedly followed suit, forming hand seals in an attempt to unleash the same demonic power to survive.

But he was a step too slow.

Just as he had completed half of his hand seal, Xia Dong moved.

He didn't give the surrounding lice a chance to surround him.

The blood and qi at the peak of the Inner Strength Realm ignited within his body like oil being poured into a raging fire. Xia Dong even disregarded the tearing sensation caused by the overloaded operation of his meridians and pushed his physical explosive power to the extreme.

Crane Shadow Step!

Like a shadow!

The hard stone slab beneath Xia Dong's feet cracked instantly, leaving a blurry afterimage of his figure in place.

This step was taken at a speed that defied common sense, even giving people a chilling illusion of "shrinking the earth to an inch".

Amidst the howling wind, Xia Dong had already pressed down on the assassin on the right who was a fraction of a second slower.

Using the terrifying momentum of the charge, Xia Dong's right hand transformed into an iron claw. The Dragon-Capturing Hand, accompanied by a piercing shriek that tore through the air, fiercely grabbed at the opponent's chest.

The assassin's spiritual energy shield was only half-formed, its crimson light flickering erratically. Xia Dong's pure and terrifying physical strength, like a hot blade cutting through butter, pierced through the shield without any resistance.

However, the assassin on the left, who had already activated his Blood Shield, revealed an extremely vicious grin.

"Go to hell!"

He astutely seized upon Xia Dong's fatal flaw—his side door wide open as he attacked with all his might. The poisoned magic weapon in his hand transformed into a streak of blood-red light, carrying a sharp killing intent, and pierced straight for Xia Dong's right rib.

At the same time, the assassin, who was locked on by Xia Dong and had no time to dodge, also had a flash of crazy determination in his eyes.

"Die!"

He simply abandoned all defense, frantically gathering all the remaining magic power in his body into his left hand, transforming it into a vicious and ruthless spike, which he used to exchange his life for Xia Dong's.

One side was a deadly sneak attack, and the other side was a deadly blow that would kill them both! In their eyes, this mortal martial artist was doomed to die.

boom!boom!

Two extremely muffled explosions rang out almost simultaneously.

However, the bloody scene the assassin imagined did not materialize.

At this critical moment, Xia Dong's close-fitting Xuan Snake Inner Armor instantly activated!

A layer of faint, clear light, accompanied by the illusory image of indestructible, dark scales, suddenly spread across Xia Dong's body.

The Xuan Snake Inner Armor withstood both deadly attacks.

The poisoned artifact was instantly deflected, and the sinister poison cone was shattered by the light.

"This is impossible!" The assassin in front of him exclaimed, his eyes wide with rage.

Xia Dong's movements did not stop for the first time.

The dragon-capturing hand gesture, which pierced through the shield, continued forward with unstoppable momentum, its five fingers suddenly closing.

"Snap!"

The assassin's sternum collapsed instantly, and his internal organs were instantly shredded by a brutal force.

He fell backward, mouthfuls of entrails and blood gushing from his mouth. His eyes were fixed on the gradually fading protective aura on Xia Dong's chest, his dying gaze filled with undisguised disbelief and despair.

He couldn't understand why his desperate attack, which burned his life essence and risked his life for another, could not have been broken even by a martial arts master at the "Transcendent Realm" or by the protective aura of a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

But this guy actually managed to withstand it.

Filled with deep terror and resentment, the assassin extinguished all hope of survival.

The sight of gushing blood was like a heavy hammer blow, completely shattering the last assassin's psychological defenses.

He stared in utter horror at his companion's lifeless, unseeing death, losing all will to fight. Knowing he had met his match and the situation was hopeless, he gritted his teeth and activated the "Blood Lotus Escape Technique," a technique used by the disciples of the Wusheng Sect to escape!

With a muffled "bang," he once again recklessly squeezed out his life essence, and his entire body instantly burst forth with a dense and dazzling blood-red light.

Using this violent force, he rose from the ground like a blooming, blood-red lotus, shooting straight into the air to escape.

With himself suspended in mid-air, the assassin's tense nerves finally began to relax slightly.

In his view, no matter how terrifying the killing god martial artist below was, he was ultimately just an ordinary martial artist without any magical power and had no means of flying.

Once you take off, you'll be invincible!

However, the thought had barely crossed his mind before he hadn't even touched the edge of the light barrier of the illusion array above his head.

call.

An extremely untimely breeze suddenly swept up from behind him.

The assassin's senses didn't even have time to react.

In their line of sight, the "martial artist" who should have been out of reach on the ground was now flying through the air like a ghost!

"Wind manipulation? That's impossible!"

The assassin screamed in shock, his face contorted in horror.

To his despair, the seemingly common Wind Control Technique used by his opponent was actually faster than the Blood Lotus Escape Technique that he activated by burning his life essence.

Seeing his opponent closing in relentlessly, the assassin knew he couldn't escape. In mid-air, he formed an extremely vicious hand seal, and several foul-smelling bone nails condensed at his fingertips, as he prepared to fight back desperately.

However, Xia Dong's figure was even more agile and graceful in mid-air than on the ground!

Faced with the incoming blood bone nails, Xia Dong, without any foothold in mid-air, miraculously twisted his body like a fish playing in water, perfectly avoiding all the attacks by the slightest margin.

To ride the wind with unbridled freedom, nothing could be more wonderful than this.

In the blink of an eye, Xia Dong had already pressed close to the assassin's chest.

Without any unnecessary words, Xia Dong transformed his hands into claws and unleashed the martial arts killing move evolved from the Dragon Capturing Hand – "Double Dragons Probing for the Pearl"!

Two iron fingers, infused with terrifying blood energy, were like two sharp daggers. With a "thud," they precisely and deeply dug into the assassin's temples on both sides.

The brutal strangulation force erupted instantly, causing brains to splatter and the red and white matter to explode into a tragic blood flower in mid-air.

The assassin from the Wusheng Sect didn't even have time to scream before he became a corpse and fell straight to the ground.

boom! boom! boom!

In the blink of an eye, all three assassins at the mid-stage of Qi Refining were killed, their bodies crashing heavily to the ground.

As the physical body died, three wisps of green smoke, glowing with a faint green light, rose from the corpse—the lingering spirit of the cultivator.

The swarm of yin moths, which had been frantically searching for targets, suddenly became excited, as if they had smelled the most delicious temptation in the world.

For these strange insects that live in the Yin Sha land year-round, the Yin soul of a cultivator is simply an unparalleled delicacy with the best tonic effect.

The dark swarm of insects immediately changed direction, like hungry wolves pouncing on their prey, scrambling to surround and devour the three wisps of ghostly spirits.

Right now.

Xia Dong reacted almost without thinking. He moved like lightning, taking advantage of the brief two-breath gap when the swarm of insects was completely attracted by the Yin spirits, and swept past the three corpses like a ghost.

Reach out, grope, and tear it off.

With fluid movements, he snatched the three storage bags and pocketed them in the blink of an eye.

Then, Xia Dong lightly touched the ground with his toes, shifted his body to the side, and instantly appeared next to Qin Wan at the edge of the mine.

At this moment, Qin Wan's face was as pale as paper.

The swift and bloody scene of the killings had deeply shocked her.

Before she could recover from the sudden and dramatic change, a strong hand had already grabbed her wrist.

Xia Dong's extremely vigorous and warm blood flowed through her wrist, dispelling the chill around Qin Wan.

"Walk!"

Xia Dong gave a low shout, pulled up the still-shaken Qin Wan, and without hesitation sped away in the direction away from the abandoned mine, leaving the hellish scene filled with insect swarms and bloodshed completely behind.

Qin Wan, being pulled along through the night wind, stared blankly at the broad and steady back of the man in front of her.

At this moment, in her vision, this was a hidden dragon that usually kept a low profile.

When it moves, the weather changes dramatically and the thunder roars.

No matter how many dangerous waters and treacherous shoals lie ahead, as long as he is there, he can immediately overcome any danger and calm the seas and subdue the waves.