Chapter 269: Chapter 268: Another Ruthless Character

In the distance, shouts and miserable screams could be heard.

Ye Qinghua’s expression changed. ’Could it be Senior Sister Xuelian?’

The three exchanged a look, and their figures shot away like lightning.

Three breaths later, they came upon a tragic scene on a small, elevated hill. The thick, nauseating stench of blood wafted toward them.

Dozens of bodies lay scattered across the ground.

Blood had pooled on the hill, forming a stream that trickled down.

The crimson blood radiated a thick, coppery stench.

The terrifying sight made their skin crawl.

Qin Feng remained expressionless. Ye Qinghua fared slightly better, though her face had grown pale.

Jiang Bing’Er was already throwing up.

As Qin Feng walked over, he saw that the dozens of bodies on the hill belonged to experts from both All Stars Academy and the Demon God Temple’s Twelve Strong Clans.

The surrounding sea of flowers had been dyed crimson with blood.

Among the dozens of bodies, Qin Feng saw a familiar face.

Zhao Sikong!

Zhao Sikong’s eyes were wide open. One of his arms had been violently torn off, and blood was gushing from a large hole in his chest.

This Divine Son from an Innate Family, who had entered All Stars Academy in the same year as Qin Feng and had once been the lead Elder of Xuanwu Academy, was dead!

He had died an exceptionally brutal death!

This Divine Son came from an unknown Hidden World Family. He possessed the Illusionary Divine Bloodline and had mastered many Martial Arts Divine Abilities, making him one of the top students at All Stars Academy.

Zhao Sikong had clashed with Qin Feng before; they had even been rivals.

A chill ran through Qin Feng’s heart. Zhao Sikong’s death felt like a waste. The Divine Son’s talent was extraordinary; given time, he could have made a great name for himself.

But instead, he had died here.

His chest had been pierced by a single blow, extinguishing all his vitality!

Ye Qinghua and Jiang Bing’er also found many people they knew among the corpses on the ground.

These geniuses were all well-known figures at All Stars Academy.

Each one was a prodigy in their own right.

Having survived the purge by the Top Ten Teams, they were truly the elite of the elite.

This was so tragic!

Many of the geniuses had died with their eyes wide open, unable to rest in peace.

The two women were overcome with sorrow.

It was too brutal.

To think that these geniuses from various kingdoms had all perished here.

They mourned for their fallen peers.

Qin Feng’s gaze swept across the scene. The vast majority of the dead were experts from All Stars Academy, with only a few from the Demon God Temple.

’Looks like they ran into a large contingent of experts from the Demon God Temple and were ambushed and slaughtered.’

Qin Feng’s face was impassive as his eyes scanned the area. He moved silently to the top of the hill.

CLANG! CLANG!

The sound of clashing weapons echoed from the other side of the slope, punctuated by agonizing screams.

Moving lightly, Qin Feng peered down from his high vantage point. Below, a dozen or so experts from the Demon God Temple were surrounding and slaughtering a group of five or six young men and women.

"It’s Senior Sister Long and her group!"

A surprised voice called out from behind him.

Qin Feng glanced at Ye Qinghua, his expression questioning.

Ye Qinghua’s delicate brows furrowed as she watched the six youths in their precarious situation. "That’s Senior Sister Long Ling’er, the princess of the Beiming Kingdom," she said. "She’s also one of the top experts in our Heaven’s Edge Sea Pavilion. After our Eldest Sister Lin Fei and Second Sister Xuelian, she’s ranked third. Her North Nether Heavy Water Divine Power is incredibly formidable!"

Qin Feng’s attention fell on the young woman Ye Qinghua had mentioned.

Long Ling’er’s stepping technique was nimble, and her every movement held an air that bordered on the Unity of Heaven and Man. She was clearly a powerful fighter. She had mastered a strange Divine Ability; with a wave of her hand, a torrent like a great river would surge forth, manifesting a Northern Netherworld Kunpeng that kept her enemies at bay.

She was single-handedly holding off five Celestial Serpent Clan experts of the same realm.

Another who stood out was a boy in white, perhaps thirteen or fourteen years old. His expression was placid, but his innate aptitude for cultivation was extraordinary, as if all the spiritual grace between heaven and earth had converged upon him.

The boy exuded a faint, unfathomable aura, like that of the eternal stars.

It was an air of detachment.

He seemed beyond the seven passions and six desires, devoid of fear, dread, and other emotions. In his eyes, all living beings were but ants, and each of his sword strikes carried an intent capable of slaughtering all of creation.

Three experts from the White Tiger Clan were ganging up on him.

But they were clearly outmatched, and the three White Tiger Clan experts were steadily being forced to retreat.

’Who is he?’

Qin Feng’s gaze was fixed on the boy. Though the boy’s realm was the lowest of the group—appearing to be only at the First Secret Realm of the Condensing Vein Realm—he gave Qin Feng a strangely familiar feeling.

He felt he had seen him somewhere before.

It wasn’t just the boy’s face that was familiar; Qin Feng was also intimately familiar with his swordsmanship.

It strongly resembled a style of swordsmanship that was deeply ingrained in Qin Feng’s memory.

The more Qin Feng watched, the more certain he became. Although there were minor differences, the Sword Intent was unmistakably familiar.

’The Lifeless Sword Way... this is definitely the Lifeless Sword Way! Isn’t that the Direct Inheritance Sword Technique of the Wusheng Sword Sect, one of the Ten Demonic Dao Lineages from a million years in the future? Don’t tell me this guy has the same origins as I do?’

Qin Feng roared internally, his eyes wide with disbelief.

Ye Qinghua shot Qin Feng a strange look. The black-robed young man had always maintained an imperturbable composure; why was he having such a strong emotional reaction now?

Ye Qinghua said, "His name is Zhang Xuan. He’s an odd one. They say he has no family and no friends. All of the Top Ten Teams tried to recruit him, but he turned every one of us down!"

"You’d best stay away from him too, Junior Brother Qin Feng. Someone once tried to befriend him, and he paid the price by having all his limbs severed!"

’So it’s him... Zhang Xuan, the Master of No-Life Sword!’

Hearing the name from Ye Qinghua’s lips, Qin Feng’s pupils contracted slightly.

He was exceptionally familiar with that name.

Zhang Xuan, the Master of No-Life Sword—the founder of the Wusheng Sword Sect, one of the Ten Demonic Dao Lineages a million years in the future.

No wonder he seemed so familiar. In his quest to secretly learn new swordsmanship, Qin Feng had once snuck into the Wusheng Sword Sect and seen a portrait of this very man in the Ancestral Hall.

It was just that the figure in the Ancestral Hall’s portrait was far more imposing and solemn, a far cry from the callow youth of thirteen or fourteen before him now.

Qin Feng swallowed. ’Another legendary figure, right here in front of me.’

This man was a notoriously ruthless character.

He was the King of Assassination among the Demon Sects.

According to legend, a top-tier continental sect had once offended him, and in retaliation, he had assassinated their members for several hundred years straight.

He assassinated everyone, from ordinary disciples to Supreme Elders. He even managed to strike at their ancestral spirits in the netherworld.

He single-handedly slaughtered this top-tier continental power until only a handful of members remained.

It was even rumored that before achieving his own enlightenment, he had successfully assassinated a true Demon God.

Qin Feng called himself the Second Demon Ancestor, but in truth, this man before him was the one who truly deserved the title.

The Wusheng Sword Sect was known as the Second Demon Sect!

Legend had it that this master eventually achieved the status of a Demon God himself before vanishing from the Spirit Sea Continent.

He never imagined that this legendary figure was a fellow student at All Stars Academy.

Taking a slow, deep breath, Qin Feng’s gaze swept across the battlefield one more time. Just then, he unexpectedly spotted another familiar face...