I Can Devour Spirits

Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Stench

Duan Rong borrowed the force from that kick, leveraging his body to lunge into the air, propelling himself over ten feet away!

His figure landed lightly, and with a tap of his toes, he moved like a ghost towards the large banyan tree not far away...

The attacks of Zhou Shoushan and Duan Rong were as fast as lightning. In fact, only about ten breaths had passed!

Moreover, at the beginning of the struggle between Duan Rong and Zhou Shoushan, Kong Bin was so shocked that he was momentarily stunned...

Kong Bin was already ahead of Zhang Zheng and sprinting towards the banyan tree. He suddenly sprang up like a bullet, stepped on the tree trunk, took advantage of the momentum to propel himself off the courtyard wall, using that force to reverse and climb. He grabbed a thick branch hanging from the banyan tree, ready to swing over the courtyard wall!

But at this moment, a foot suddenly descended as if from the sky, stepping on his face!

The foot pressed hard, and Kong Bin’s face was squashed like a ball, causing his body to lose balance instantly, crashing onto the ground covered in dead branches and leaves with a thud!

Zhang Zheng had just reached the tree and hadn’t seen what happened when Kong Bin fell beside his feet with a thud, causing Zhang Zheng to stumble and fall face-first into the dirt!

Zhang Zheng, with his face covered in leaves and bird droppings, lifted his head and saw Duan Rong moving like a ghost, swaying down from the temple wall, landing lightly on the ground!

A remnant shadow swept past, and he stood before Kong Bin!

Fortunately, it was afternoon and the sunlight was intense. Otherwise, on a moonlit night, this scene alone would have scared the wits out of anyone!

With Duan Rong’s movement, the Cow Tail Saber in his hand had already firmly, piercingly, stabbed into Kong Bin’s chest!

Entering through the chest, from the right side, diagonally into the heart!

One stab through!

Ever since Duan Rong devoured that Silver Needle, he had mastered the body’s meridians and acupuncture points!

He could pierce Kong Bin’s heart from any angle, without the ribcage obstructing his blade!

Kong Bin was shocked, jumped up from the ground, and Duan Rong’s saber almost simultaneously arrived, piercing into his chest!

His face, with the shoe print, had a collapsed nose, a patch of bruising, and nosebleed splattering!

Kong Bin looked at Duan Rong, his eyes momentarily dazed, a disbelief in the sudden arrival of death!

Duan Rong pulled out the saber, the blood on the blade gathering into a line, dripping down from the tip!

”From the same sect, I’ll leave you an intact corpse!” Duan Rong’s cold eyes showed no emotion.

Kong Bin clutched his chest, rolling on the ground. His eyes began to fill with immense fear and spite, muttering, ”I can’t die! I can’t die! I’m so clever, how can I die here! I can’t die!...”

Duan Rong no longer paid attention to Kong Bin, writhing on the ground like a maggot. He turned his head towards Zhang Zheng, who was still lying dumbfounded and hadn’t gotten up yet!

Zhang Zheng was terrified, frantically getting up, kowtowing repeatedly!

”Duan Rong! Spare me. I’m just a follower, I didn’t come up with this idea! Not me!”

”Zhang Zheng!” Duan Rong suddenly called out to him.

Zhang Zheng lifted his head with a start, and in that instant, Duan Rong’s body suddenly lunged, crouched, and the Cow Tail Saber in his hand followed suit, piercing through Zhang Zheng’s body!

Duan Rong intently watched the dying Zhang Zheng, whose face was streaked with tears, lips trembling, his eyes filled with disbelief!

”Better luck in your next life!” Duan Rong said, suddenly standing up.

As he moved, the sharp Cow Tail Saber withdrew from Zhang Zheng’s body.

Sunlight filtered through the lush branches of the banyan tree, scattering speckled light, which shone on the Cow Tail Saber in Duan Rong’s hand!

The Cow Tail Saber, drenched in blood, gleamed with a chilling light!

Zhang Zheng knelt there, hands drooping, blood trickling from his mouth. He mumbled to himself, ”Fool! I told you to befriend him! Fool...”

He knew he was doomed, for his heart had been pierced by Duan Rong’s blade.

He could feel that with each heartbeat, immense pain surged through him, and the blood flowing around his body grew colder...

In the open space before the temple gate, Zhou Shoushan crawled on the ground, dragging a bloody intestine behind him...

He had lost an arm, crawling slowly, but the desire to live was the most primal instinct of an animal!

Zhou Shoushan had lost too much blood, his head sluggish from lack of circulation, but a subconscious obsession remained, to crawl to the gate, open it, and escape!

Yet the very reason Duan Rong kicked him to the center of the courtyard was to prevent his escape — how could he possibly crawl out?

Zhou Shoushan was crawling arduously, leaving a half-yard long trail of blood behind him...

Suddenly, on the ground covered with dead leaves before him, a pair of feet in black cloth shoes appeared! In the next moment, a cold flash, and his throat was slit by a blade!

Zhou Shoushan had already lost too much blood, and now his brain was in a state of oxygen deprivation, his memory blurred.

In his final moment, he was still wondering, whose foot is that?

Zhou Shoushan’s body twitched slightly twice on the ground, then stopped moving...

This Gang Leader of the Whale Tiger Gang was quite the seasoned veteran of Jianghu; he didn’t die at Shen Yanliu’s hands years ago, yet unexpectedly, in this desolate temple in the wild, he met a grisly demise at Duan Rong’s hands!

At this moment, Duan Rong sat heavily on the steps at the temple gate, placing the Cow Tail Saber beside him. He gasped for breath, his gaze somewhat listless!

The entire courtyard was quiet, the afternoon sunlight spilled in, dancing among the withered branches and fallen leaves...

A strong scent of blood lingered in the air...

”Killing is truly exhausting...” Duan Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighing.

Duan Rong simply took a short rest, then stood up, clutching the saber in his right hand. With his Inner Breath circulating, the blade vibrated, and a spot of blood appeared on the moss-covered wall!

Duan Rong sheathed the saber and kicked Zhou Shoushan over with one foot!

Zhou Shoushan’s body was covered with leaves, especially around the gaping wound on his belly where the leaves had piled up several layers, clumped together by dried blood...

Duan Rong dragged Zhou Shoushan’s corpse to the pit at the edge of the courtyard wall!

It was originally the pit Kong Bin and Zhang Zheng had dug for him!

Duan Rong quickly dragged all four corpses over, lining them up at the pit’s edge!

Besides Kong Bin and Zhang Zheng’s bodies which were relatively clean, the other two were drenched in blood!

One decapitated, one sliced open!

After this slaughter, Duan Rong no longer felt the panic and fear from his first time in the alley of Antique Street!

Killing is indeed the way of struggle in this world!

In fact, the previous world was equally full of killing!

Even in places with the rule of law, though killing is suppressed, the struggle is even more fierce!

Those underhanded scheming and filthy tactics, are they not as ruthless and brutal as killing, devouring someone without spitting out the bones?

If he couldn’t quickly adapt to the way of struggle in this world, it would be an inherent weakness!

No world has room for the weak to survive!

Duan Rong lined up the corpses then began to search for loot, rummaging through each of them!

Zhou Shoushan surprisingly had silver notes totaling up to five thousand taels on him, and Wu Hui had three thousand taels as well!

With this haul, he became a ten-thousandnaire!

In the Nine Provinces World, what kind of buying power does silver have!

If he were to stop practicing martial arts, ten thousand taels of silver coins in this world, he would attain financial freedom!

Should he switch to doing business instead?

The Jianghu is not merely about fighting; worldly wisdom is part of Jianghu too!

But the thought was quickly extinguished by Duan Rong!

Because he has no foundation, even with money, he wouldn’t be able to keep it!

In a world that values martial strength, only by converting these silver coins into personal martial power could one compound their wealth!

Because practicing martial arts is the most profitable business in this world!

For those at the bottom, it’s the only way to turn the tables!

There is no other way!

Kong Bin and Zhang Zheng also had a few taels of Broken Silver, which Duan Rong collected; even a mosquito’s leg is meat!

Duan Rong kept the silver notes and Broken Silver and then looked at the small, plum-sized, round Black Porcelain Bottle by his feet!

This Black Porcelain Bottle was found from Zhou Shoushan’s inner pocket, alongside the stack of silver notes!

Duan Rong suspected that the Black Porcelain Bottle contained something unusual, he solemnly picked it up, cautiously opened the stopper... suddenly a nauseating stench wafted in the wind, he immediately capped the stopper and spat several times on the ground!

Even so, Duan Rong still felt slightly dizzy!