Martial Saint with Passives

After resting for a moment, the three of them continued onward.

Not long after the trio’s figures vanished.

The nine iron chains, which had long since fallen still, suddenly quivered ever so slightly.

But there was no one on them at all.

From the river, the tentacle slowly emerged from the water, ”looking” toward the empty chains.

It seemed to sense something, yet it hesitated.

In the end, the tentacle appeared to conclude that it had been a hallucination and submerged itself once more into the viscous Blood River.

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Eventually, Gu Song and the others arrived in a massive, circular stone chamber.

There, on a stone platform in the center of the chamber, sat three enormous Treasure Chests forged from Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron!

The Treasure Chests were jet-black, each carved with a different design on its lid.

One depicted an ancient longsword.

Another, an open scroll.

And the last was carved with an eye that seemed to peer into the very hearts of men.

”Treasure Chests!”

Zhang Qian cried out in excitement. She was about to rush forward but was held back by Du Yuanjiang.

Du Yuanjiang slowly shook his head at her.

After surviving the deadly traps from before, he worried these Treasure Chests were yet another fatal snare.

Gu Song, however, gazed at the three Treasure Chests with an irrepressible ecstasy shining in his eyes!

’They’re real... they’re really here!’

He explained, barely able to contain his excitement:

”According to the information I obtained, of these three Treasure Chests, the one with the sword should contain a Divine Weapon! The one with the scroll holds a long-lost, supreme Martial Arts Secret Manual! As for the one with the eye...”

He swallowed hard, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

”It’s said to be True Master Xuan Yang’s... True Intent inheritance! It can dramatically reshape one’s Comprehension!”

True Intent inheritance! Reshape one’s Comprehension!

Hearing this, the couple’s breathing quickened instantly. The greed in their eyes could no longer be concealed.

At that very moment!

Du Yuanjiang suddenly attacked!

He viciously slammed a palm into Gu Song’s undefended back!

At the same time, Zhang Qian, who was standing to the side, played her Jade Flute. A blade of sound, so condensed it was almost solid, shot through the air, cutting off all of Gu Song’s escape routes!

However, Gu Song seemed to have been prepared!

He sneered, and the gray Daoist Robe he wore suddenly erupted in a brilliant light!

He was wearing a high-grade Defensive Treasure Artifact underneath!

BANG!!!

He withstood Du Yuanjiang’s sure-kill sneak attack head-on!

Simultaneously, he flicked his wrist. An Attack Jade Talisman, which he had already been clenching in his palm, was instantly activated. It transformed into a blinding bolt of lightning and struck Zhang Qian with brutal force!

Zhang Qian didn’t even have time to scream before she was turned to charred dust by the violent lightning!

Du Yuanjiang’s attack had failed, and now he watched his wife die a horrible death right before him. His eyes nearly burst from their sockets with rage and despair!

”AHH!!! I’ll kill you!!!”

He charged at Gu Song like a madman, ready to kill!

But Gu Song merely looked at him coldly, his face filled with disdain.

Gu Song’s aura began to skyrocket. In an instant, he broke through from the Second Layer of the True Master Realm to the Fourth Layer of the True Master Realm!

It turned out Gu Song had cultivated some kind of Cultivation Technique that allowed him to suppress his Cultivation!

The grief and fury on Du Yuanjiang’s face froze, replaced by boundless terror!

All thoughts of revenge vanished; he immediately turned to flee!

Gu Song sneered menacingly. ”Trying to run? Too late!”

From his sleeve, he drew a black dagger, no more than an inch long and as thin as a cicada’s wing. He blew on it lightly in the direction of the desperately fleeing figure.

”Go!”

The dagger instantly transformed into a streak of light, nearly invisible to the naked eye. It overtook him in an instant, silently piercing through the back of Du Yuanjiang’s head and exiting through his forehead!

The dagger then circled in the air before landing steadily back in Gu Song’s hand.

This dagger was a treasure he had stumbled upon in an Ancient Cave Mansion in his youth, and it was one of his strongest trump cards.

Gu Song then walked slowly over to the two corpses, nudged them with his foot, and spat disdainfully.

”Heh, trying to fight me? You’re too green for that!”

He looked at his own hands and muttered to himself, ”How did I, Gu Song, a mere Independent Cultivator, make it this far?”

”It’s because my heart is black enough, and I’m ruthless enough!”

”In this dog-eat-dog world, how can you get anywhere if you’re not ruthless?!”

”Don’t blame me!”

”If you have to blame someone... blame the world!”

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