Su Tu's voice sounded unhurriedly by the ear of the short martial artist.
The man's expression instantly became extremely terrified, and he raised his head incredulously to look at Su Tu.
Until he saw those indifferent eyes clearly...
"Mon...Monster!"
The man's eyes were instantly swallowed by an indescribable fear, he could hardly believe what he saw.
The young man in front of him was clearly pierced through the chest by himself. Out of caution, he even used True Qi to destroy the opponent's heart.
Yet at this moment, the boy who should have died reopened his eyes!!!
His voice was indifferent and teasing, as if he hadn't been injured at all.
But at this moment, blood continued to seep from the youth's chest, and he could even see the shredded remnants of his heart through that wound.
"Are you a beast or some other monster!!"
"You!! You!!"
The man was scared out of his wits, continuously retreating, his Qi quickly flowing into the bead hanging from his neck.
However....
Crack~
Only a crisp cracking sound was heard; the necklace around the neck instantly broke, and the bead somehow ended up in the youth's hand.
The short martial artist suddenly froze in place, cold sweat quickly seeping from his forehead.
In the blink of an eye, being able to snatch that bead meant the opponent could break his neck in an instant!
Su Tu held the bead in his hand, playing with it casually, slowly infusing True Qi into it as streams of mist circulated.
He felt waves of magical power emerge from the bead.
"Are you relying on this thing to follow me all along?"
Su Tu raised an eyebrow and looked at the short martial artist.
Since this morning, he had a strange feeling, always sensing something following him.
This was an instinct, a very accurate intuition brought by Spiritual Wisdom, never wrong, so Su Tu began to pay attention to everything around him.
Even while roasting a whole lamb at that time, he intentionally left various flaws, trying to lure the opponent and find the source of that prying feeling.
In the meantime, he used the power of Heart and Spirit to scan his surroundings more than once but always felt nothing.
And in his subsequent actions, he kept surveying his surroundings with the power of Heart and Spirit, yet the result was always the same; there were no gains at all.
But Su Tu believed his intuition was true and not false, that something was definitely following him, although his methods couldn't find the opponent.
Always paying attention to everything around, finally, when he discovered Chen Daowen's aura disappearance and a moment of distraction appeared, he keenly captured a faint and barely visible killing intent!!
Although it was only an instant, Su Tu, who cultivated Xingtian and mastered killing intent, was extremely sensitive to it, and even though it was extremely weak, he still captured it.
Under normal circumstances, as long as there is a flaw, you can follow the vine to find the opponent through that killing intent.
But this time, Su Tu failed; his power of Heart and Spirit couldn't detect any trace of the opponent at all, as if that killing intent was just an illusion, or as if the opponent didn't exist in this space.
But Su Tu could be sure that his feeling was definitely not wrong.
In this place, there was definitely someone concealing themselves in void using special means, waiting for him to show a flaw.
If you want a flaw, then I'll sell you one!
Thus, Su Tu relaxed his guard, opening a loophole, leading to the situation where the short martial artist pierced through his heart with a sword.
To ordinary martial artists, a shattered heart is absolutely lethal.
But to Su Tu, a mere fatal injury, how could it compare to a body supported by Eternal Life!!
At this moment, looking at Su Tu's body, the martial artist couldn't control himself from opening his mouth wide.
He saw the initially shattered heart healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, tendrils intertwining and weaving, heart reborn, new flesh regenerating!
In only an instant, Su Tu's body was already intact, without a trace of scars left.
"Who on earth are you..."
He couldn't help but murmur.
And what he received was Su Tu's casually cast gaze: "The one who kills you!"
"Big brother, don't kill me, I have hidden rules about the Immortal Ruins...."
The short man's eyes immediately flashed a hint of panic, he quickly opened his mouth trying to plead, wanting to throw out his value...
Meanwhile, a corner of paper appeared in his left hand, a fragment of the Star Map, which could be crushed to escape the ruins, but if he chose to leave, it would be considered abandoning the Training Camp, unable to take anything obtained from within the ruins out.
At the moment of life and death, he couldn't care much.
But he forgot that it takes time to crush the proof.
"Killing other martial artists can gain Evil Qi from them, right..."
Su Tu said indifferently while instantly snatching the star map from the martial artist's hand.
"How do you kno..." The short martial artist was a bit bewildered, his words unfinished, not even realizing the proof in his hand was already gone.
A fist wrapped in dark red eerie aura was already smashing into his face.
That dark red power twisted and roared, finally seeming to transform into a grimly laughing ghost reflected in the short man's pupils.
Crash!!
The sound of something shattering echoed through the forest.
Tearing the proof to escape, there might still be a chance to rip it while facing exotic beasts or other predicaments, but during a martial duel, there's no chance to spend time tearing the proof for an escape.
This is why, when Qi Hua was surrounded by others, he would rather sacrifice his Heart and Spirit than rip the proof to leave.
If he had chosen to rip the proof then, he would likely have been found vulnerable at the slightest action, killed with one blow.
[You ended a slaughter, Fighting Proficiency +20, Strengthen Body +10]
[Fighting (High Tier): 2230/5000]
[Strengthen Body (High Tier): 2170/5000]
Without unlocking the Body Opening Lock, martial artists who are not prodigies now contribute very little to Su Tu's proficiency increase; if not for the event bonus, it would probably increase even less.
"The True Qi spent on repairing the heart is still too much."
"A martial artist who hasn't even opened their body lock cannot fill such a deficit..."
As the dark red aura disappeared onto Su Tu's hand, a portion of qi arose out of nowhere in his body, but currently, all the qi in his body was less than one-fifth of its peak.
Although Eternal Life could repair its own flesh and blood, the more important the part, the more qi it costs to repair it.
Just like repairing the heart just now, he nearly exhausted all of his qi.
Honestly, if there were enough time, Su Tu wouldn't need to use this method to fish, but he had so much to do now, and there could be no tails behind him.
Moreover, he was quite interested in the opponent's special means of concealment.
As for the secret the opponent just tried to reveal...
It was too easy to guess. Without a profit motive, who would kill people they don't even know for no reason?
Ah, except for the lunatics of the Three Deceits Cult...
Su Tu looked at the bead in his hand and examined it carefully. This thing must be a treasure that allowed a martial artist who hadn't even opened their body lock to evade his heart and spirit.
Judging from its appearance, the bead was the size of a pigeon egg, entirely light yellow, but as Su Tu injected some of his qi into it, the bead's color began to lighten.
In the end, the entire bead turned into a transparent crystal.
As the bead lost all its color, gentle light immediately enveloped Su Tu's surroundings.
In an instant, Su Tu disappeared into the forest. He was still standing in place but seemed to have been separated from this space.
The gentle light seemed to have created a 'space' centered on him.
"No wonder my heart and spirit couldn't sense him."
Using this treasure bead, the whole person essentially entered another space, and with Su Tu's current heart and spirit, he naturally couldn't see through that space.
"It is indeed a treasure!"
Su Tu raised his hand, and the light moved with it. As he took a few steps forward, the light followed him.
More mysteriously, during the time wrapped in the treasure light, he left no trace while walking on sand and mud, nor did any disturbance occur when he struck objects.
It was as if everything was completely isolated outside the treasure light.
This was simply a top-notch hiding treasure, with unimaginable strategic uses.
However, this thing had one flaw: when used, one's heart and spirit were entirely closed, ears could not hear, mouth could not speak, nose could not smell, only a pair of eyes could peek.
Moreover, Su Tu also noticed a crack on the bead that, along with his qi roving through it, was slowly deepening at an extremely slow speed.
It seemed to be a consumable treasure.
But what was strange was, Su Tu could feel from the crack a familiar force...
Like...
"The aura fluctuations coming out of this bead's crack, why does it feel so similar to the qi flow when I use Void Jump?"
"Could there be some connection between the two?"
Su Tu couldn't help but think this way.
At this moment, he somewhat regretted killing too quickly; he should have left him with a few breaths to ask where this treasure bead came from.
But honestly, When the killing intent strikes, never hesitate to do it— it's Su Tu's habit developed from before he became a martial artist.
While watching those movies, where the protagonists hesitated to kill their enemies, leading to a whole mess, he felt a bit mindless.
The opponent already has murderous intent, even made a move, and the protagonist still wants to reason with them?
Back then, he thought if he encountered such a situation, regardless of the situation's specifics, he would kill first!!
This ultimately led to the habit Su Tu developed of treating those with murderous intent as enemies and vanquishing them without hesitation.
Su Tu dispelled the treasure light.
"Always feel there's still something hidden in this treasure bead, look into it later."
Su Tu didn't overthink it.
With his current strength, it seemed that within the Immortal Ruins, there might not be a martial artist who could endure his three punches, so there was effectively no need for this treasure bead.
"First, find Chen Daowen."
"To provide benefits for the talented and send out the Fragmented Army Tiger Talisman, I've let you live long enough."
Su Tu muttered softly.
Chen Daowen's aura disappeared and was replaced by the Three Deceits Cult's aura, but this was actually good news for Su Tu.
Because now, he no longer needed to search for Chen Daowen, just waited for the Three Deceits Cult to come to him.
"Xue Yue, it's your time now." Su Tu thought to himself.
The Xue Yue suspended in the original universe emitted bloody light, and that light simulated three figures, appearing above Su Tu's heart and spirit.
Common people couldn't see any anomaly.
But if they were Three Deceits Cult followers, they could sense the magnificent glow of the three gods emanating from Su Tu's body, an unconcealable grandeur.
As long as they were in this space, the followers felt all this, rushing recklessly toward it.
Of course, this was not some shadow of the three gods but a bait set by Xue Yue as a lure for candy.
In a thorny thicket, Hua Yun and Hua Yu were dragging Chen Daowen along.
Suddenly, as if they sensed something, overwhelming ecstasy erupted in their eyes, and two streams of tears flowed down the cheeks of the brothers.
"Did you feel it..."
"Yes, felt it. Such magnificence, such pure faith!!"
"I saw the shadow of the three gods manifest in the sky!!"
"It's the sir! It's definitely the sir!! Only the sir can have such pure faith!!" Hua Yun exclaimed with excitement.
This pure and grand faith was something they hadn't even felt before with the Archbishop or even the Pope.
That feeling was like the three gods themselves wandered among the mortal world.
"Quickly, go find the sir; with him, we can surely awaken the great apostle!"
"Indeed, as long as the Calamity Apostle awakens in this era, the three gods will surely return, and our names will be recorded in the Bible alongside the sir!"
Thinking of this, the two trembled with excitement, dragging Chen Daowen, they quickly sped toward Su Tu's direction.
However, what they didn't notice was that on Chen Daowen's face, somewhat disheveled from being scratched by the thorns, a pair of sinister, profound eyes silently opened.
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