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Lu Chen's face tightened.

He was in a bad mood at the moment.

He gripped the steel knife tightly, his figure like a ghost, mud flying from his feet, and he sprinted to Chen Xianjun's side.

"act recklessly!"

Chen Xianjun hated Lu Chen intensely, but at the same time, he couldn't help but laugh at Lu Chen's arrogant and ignorant actions.

Instead of running away, they actually dared to rush up and die?

Did your brain get squeezed in a door?

He sneered and swept his whisk fiercely towards Lu Chen's head and face.

Each silver thread, like a taut steel needle, swiftly pierced the air like lightning.

Lu Chen's steel knife was covered with a faint golden light. He suddenly rotated his wrist and met the whisk with the blade at an extremely fast speed.

"Whoosh!"

Before the coldness on Chen Xianjun's face had faded, he saw that his whisk was like a rotten piece of dead wood, with each silver thread cut off, leaving only a short section.

He felt a sudden chill run down his spine. Before he could even be shocked, he instinctively did a somersault, trying to get away from Lu Chen.

However, Lu Chen was in a fit of anger at the moment and attacked with all his might, moving so fast that he was invisible.

In an instant, he lunged forward and slashed down with his sword.

Chen Xianjun's hair stood on end, his blood seemed to freeze, his pupils constricted, and he blurted out, "Young Master, save me!"

Yang Ce had already sensed that things were not going well and retreated behind the group.

Hearing the shout, he ran even faster.

He knew Lu Chen's strength better than anyone else.

Originally, Lu Chen could only exchange a few simple blows with him, but now he can even easily cut Old Chen's weapon in half. Facing so many people, he remains calm and composed, as if he were in an empty field, clearly showing extreme confidence in his own strength.

He started to panic.

I'm really terrified of being beaten.

He had lost both of his protective magical artifacts and had used up half of his protective talisman; he didn't want to perish here.

He still has a long life ahead of him to enjoy.

A wise man doesn't stand under a crumbling wall; it's best to leave this kind of thing to your subordinates!

"Hurry up and shoot him with crossbow bolts!"

Yang Ce shouted loudly from the back of the crowd, but he had already run further and further away.

Chen Xianjun felt a chill in his heart. He mustered all his strength and threw the half-finished whisk at Lu Chen. Surprisingly, the whisk was also covered with a large amount of true energy, in an attempt to force Lu Chen back.

Lu Chen opened his large hand and slapped him across the face.

The true energy on the whisk vanished with a "pop" when it met the golden energy in Lu Chen's palm, and was sent flying by Lu Chen.

Chen Xianjun was utterly devastated.

This person is not at the Marrow Cleansing Realm!

He was born that way!

He had been hiding his true strength all along!

"brute!"

His forehead veins bulged as he roared out those two words, and then a huge head flew off.

Lu Chen kicked out with a kick that was like an iron whip, sending the man flying into the crowd of people carrying crossbows.

Everyone was deathly pale, their Adam's apples bobbing.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

One of them couldn't resist pulling the trigger.

The crossbow bolts flew past, and as if in a chain reaction, the others pulled their triggers one after another.

More than a dozen iron arrows shot toward Lu Chen with incredible speed.

"Clang clang clang clang!" Lu Chen flicked his wrist, and the steel blade blocked all the crossbow bolts at an extremely fast speed. The sound of the steel blade colliding with the iron arrows was extremely crisp.

Everyone was devastated upon seeing this.

"Run!"

They threw down their crossbows, wishing their parents could give them two more legs, and ran as fast as they could.

Lu Chen charged straight up, unleashing his Instant Shadow technique, and more than a dozen afterimages flashed by in the courtyard.

"Pfft pfft pfft!"

A thin line of blood was visible on each person's neck.

[Under the host's influence, the fates of Chen Xianjun and thirteen others have changed.]

[Life Points +2620, Total 14313]

[Luck value +35, total 101]

"That kid ran away, he's a potential threat! And where's Master Qing?"

Lu Chen chased after him with his knife, but after a while, Yang Ce had long since disappeared and could not be seen.

He searched around for a while but still couldn't find any trace of them, so he gave up the search and returned to the manor.

After searching the entire manor, Lu Chen smiled.

Surprisingly, a large quantity of medicinal herbs and money were discovered here.

As for the cultivation techniques, there isn't a single one.

After gathering everything up and packing it into sacks, Lu Chen found a cart and pushed it away from the manor.

After getting the cart to the inn, Lu Chen immediately went to the location Yan Gudao had mentioned.

"Apricot Blossom Alley in the west of the city, Gu Ji Tea House? This is it!"

Lu Chen looked around and, seeing no one, leaped up and jumped into the courtyard.

"In the kitchen, the kitchen should be... over here!"

Lu Chen found the kitchen, carefully checked it, and found no trace of any traps or hidden weapons, so he pushed the door open and went in.

After searching inside the stove, they found a hidden compartment and pulled out an iron box.

Inside lay a thick manual, which looked quite old, with a yellowed cover.

Opening the manual, the handwriting was quite neat.

"Alchemy, is..."

Lu Chen started reading from the first page, flipped through a few pages, and then turned to the last page, which was still blank. The latest page had been written on recently, and the handwriting was still very fresh.

"On the third day of the seventh month, fifty-one spirit pills were refined, thirteen of which failed. The reasons are as follows:..."

He clenched his fist.

Every word inside seemed to be stained with blood.

He took a deep breath, calmed down, and searched the courtyard for a while. After finding nothing else, he headed straight for No. 16 Wanyuan Xiaoju.

Not long after, he returned to the inn carrying two bulging sacks.

On the inn's table was a book, and on top of the book was a sandalwood box containing all the elixirs that Yan Gudao had intercepted.

There are thirteen in total.

Each one is about the size of a pigeon egg, reddish all over, and has a strange fragrance.

Lu Chen frowned as he looked at the pill, feeling very uncomfortable.

After thinking for a moment, he put the box away.

"Thirteen pills, according to the alchemist, are worth 13 million taels of silver. It's a pity to destroy them!"

His rationality prevailed over his emotions.

With so much money, you could buy a lot of precious medicine.

Then he looked at a book on the table.

The White Bone Knife Manual.

"That beast must have used this White Bone Knife Manual to perform the dissection..."

Lu Chen's expression appeared calm, but there was a hidden anger in his heart that wanted to explode, yet he didn't know who to vent his anger on.

Yang Ce can't be found.

That leaves only...

Black Killing Pavilion!

After carefully reviewing the White Bone Blade Manual, with his current skill in swordsmanship and his insightful talent, he actually entered the basics directly.

【White Bone Knife Manual - Beginner Level 1%】

"Ding, it has been detected that the [Dissecting Ox Knife Technique - Ultimate], [White Bone Knife Scripture], [Soul-Severing Knife], and [Blood Slaughter Knife] each have their own strengths and there is a possibility of fusion. Do you wish to fuse them?"

"Hmm? Fusion!"

Lu Chen immediately replied.

The Art of Dissecting an Ox + The Classic of White Bone Knife + The Soul-Severing Knife + [Blood Slaughter Knife] → [Return to the Void: Ultimate Realm]

Luck value -10.

Almost instantly, a wave of emotion surged through Lu Chen's mind, and a figure entirely in black began to practice sword techniques in his head.

Every move and stance carries an aura of destruction, seemingly illustrating the principles of slaughter, and seemingly capable of severing all life.

Under the sword technique, all things come to an end, and everything returns to nothingness and annihilation.

A domineering aura, brimming with destructive power, emanated from his body, before slowly receding into his own.

"Return to the Void?"

A smile appeared on his lips.

This knife technique is far superior to the butcher's knife technique!

It has completely lost any resemblance to a butcher's knife, incorporating the essence and advantages of four different knife techniques, removing the dross, and further optimizing them.

In short, awesome!