CHAPTER 35: CHAPTER 35: LIGHTNING HURRICANE, EXPOSING THE MASTERMIND

Su Qi suddenly stopped and turned around, only to see two middle-aged men behind him, their steps exploding with force, shooting toward him like arrows.

One of them wore a ferocious expression, his iron hand like a hook, tearing through the air, aiming straight for Su Qi’s throat.

Almost at the exact moment Su Qi stopped.

Their partner for nearly a month, Yun Jin, instantly understood Su Qi’s intentions and also halted her steps.

With a swift turn of her body, her broadsword, ablaze with flames, slashed fiercely across the air.

The movement was seamless!

Instantly forcing the two attacking middle-aged men to retreat.

"You’re being too petty, aren’t you? Was it really necessary to go for the kill just because I took a glance at the Nine Heavens Lotus?!" Yun Jin shouted, holding her broadsword horizontally in front of her.

Her usually calm demeanor was now tinged with a trace of anger on her pretty face.

One of the middle-aged men, with knuckles protruding high, bore a grim look. He glanced around, then said slowly, "Miss of the Yun Family, you may leave if there’s nothing else, but he must stay!"

"Now it’s time for personal vendetta..."

Upon hearing this, Su Qi paused for a second.

He had always been kind to others and couldn’t imagine provoking such powerful and vicious foes.

"You might have mistaken me for someone else; I don’t recall seeing you two before," Su Qi said.

"No mistake."

"Su Qi, the newly awakened Transcendent at Zone 9 High School, Awakening Level." The other man was leisurely recounting, as if he knew everything about Su Qi.

He licked his upper lip cruelly, his eyes a bit vicious, pressing his form downward.

His body was tensed as if a beast on the hunt.

"You must have gotten this far by relying on the young lady of the Yun Family and her guards, right?"

"Should I say you’re lucky or unlucky? Lucky enough to meet such a person, but unlucky that this person can’t seem to protect you!"

"This distance, it’s enough for me to torture you ten times over!"

"Even with the Yun Family guards, you can’t stop me!"

Su Qi was both startled and outraged.

Startled that, in the wilderness, complete strangers seemed to know everything about him.

Outraged that he was unaware of someone being out to get him!

Su Qi’s expression instantly turned cold: "Your strength is at most Level Seventeen and Eighteen..."

"Nice eye, but so what?"

"I mean..."

"You’re easier to kill than fierce beasts."

As soon as he finished speaking.

Su Qi instantly activated all his buffs.

Both fists wrapped in pure white light, the burning divine energy within him surged like a volcano brewing to the extreme, erupting in an instant!

Super Speed Hurricane Fist LV30!

A deadly move from Divine Format Boxing!

Su Qi’s highest-level ability to date!

Bang!

The air was blown apart!

The pure white punch tore through the airwaves, emitting a sharp whistling sound, causing the two men opposite to be stunned!

Not only did they fail to react, even Yun Jin, who was closest to Su Qi, didn’t have time to make a move.

"Not good!"

The two middle-aged men felt the speed of Su Qi’s punch, their expressions changed.

In haste, they raised their arms to block clumsily.

Crack!

The sound of two slight bone fractures.

Su Qi’s fist simultaneously hit both men in a succession of attacks.

The violent power exploded outward, shredding their arms to a bloody mess on the spot.

"How is this possible!?"

The two middle-aged men, with cold sweat pouring from their foreheads due to the pain, were extremely horrified after the initial shock.

According to the boss’s information, Su Qi was just an Awakening Level Transcendent novice, wasn’t he!?

How could he inflict such heavy damage with one strike!

His strength was almost comparable to the boss himself!

Just as the thought of retreat emerged in their minds, they suddenly saw a vast expanse of fist shadows, coming at them overwhelmingly, filling their sight!

Bam!

Bam!

Bam!

...

Fast!

Beyond the limit fast!

In an instant, their cheeks, shoulders, chest, abdomen... every part of their body was attacked simultaneously!

Their pupils dilated.

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to fight back!

But they simply couldn’t fight back!

The overwhelming onslaught seemed to empty the air around, forming a special force field, holding both men immobile.

Making them like rag dolls hanging up, being pounded beyond recognition amidst the hurricane-like punches!

Chests caved in.

Ribs fractured.

Punch marks all over their bodies, heinous and terrifying to behold.

Arms and thighs.

Twisted to an exaggerated degree under the raging attacks.

In just a few minutes.

The two middle-aged men were subjected to hundreds, thousands of punches, roaring with madness in their hearts—

Had you... never hit anyone in this lifetime!?

Bam!

With one last powerful punch, the two middle-aged men, as if hit by cannonballs, flew horizontally and crashed heavily to the ground.

Blood continued to seep from their mouths and noses.

Bodies twitching uncontrollably!

This scene instantly shocked Yun Jin beside them.

Having teamed up with Su Qi for so long, though knowing he was strong, she’d never seen such a ferocious side!

With his strength.

Even navigating the wilderness alone, he seemed equally at ease.

But why did he insist on teaming up with me, could it be...

Yun Jin thought of a possibility, her cheeks blushing red, with her heart racing.

Su Qi didn’t notice his partner’s awkwardness, having vented his inner anger, he felt his mind cleared and spirits lifted.

Unfortunately, still hadn’t activated ’Mind Drive,’ otherwise his speed and power could climb another notch,

He walked slowly to the two men.

"Come on, let’s talk about what kind of personal grudge we have."

Despite the immense anger earlier, Su Qi still controlled his strength, not killing them outright.

"Please... spare me, don’t kill... kill me..."

One of the men, though his eyes filled with terror, opened his mouth with difficulty, pleading weakly.

Su Qi’s face remained expressionless.

He suddenly stomped onto the man’s crushed knees!

"ARGHH!"

The man let out a blood-curdling scream.

"Get to the point."

Su Qi’s eyes were cold, like a death god.

"I-I’ll say, someone offered a million to buy... your life... this has nothing to do with me." Wracked with severe pain, the man finally sobered up, realizing he faced an unfathomable threat.

"Who?" Su Qi’s pupils contracted.

He couldn’t fathom that there was a mastermind behind the scenes.

"D-Don’t know..."

"You don’t know, yet you came to kill me!"

"Liu Cai, don’t beg him, he won’t spare us!" The other man, seemingly more defiant, his sunken chest heaving violently.

With a deathly shout, as if in a final moment of vigor: "Anyone our boss targets will die worse than us! Even your family..."

BAM!

At the mention of threats to his family, Su Qi couldn’t control himself, punching the man’s head into the dirt, exploding it.

Seeing the remaining man open-mouthed, incapable of sound.

Su Qi suddenly remembered, the two seemed to have been taking photos earlier.

He quickly searched the man’s body for a communicator.

Soon he found one, seemingly smashed by his own doing.

Searched the other man too.

Fortunately, this person had the communicator on his back, relatively intact.

Su Qi picked up the blood-stained communicator and quickly looked through the chat records.

Very quickly.

In a channel named ’Blood Slaughter Organization,’ he found the answer.

In this channel, comprised of more than a dozen people, were pictures of Su Qi and Yun Jin. An account marked ’boss’ sent a message: "Confirm it’s him, take him down immediately. As for the one beside him, she’s a Yun Family lady, don’t touch her."

Su Qi was just about to delve further into the chat logs.

The communicator in his hands buzzed, it was a call from the marked ’boss.’

Without a word, Su Qi pressed to answer.

"Liu Cai, have you wrapped things up over there? Once the Nine Heavens Lotus matures, bring it over. The Dimensional Passage will open soon, I’ll be waiting for you."

"Hey... why is there no sound?"

"No need to wait for them, you better prepare to die." Su Qi crushed the communicator upon learning their location.