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The best outcome seemed to be Su Changkong chopping Qi Chenghong in half with a single stroke, while his own throat would also be pierced by Qi Chenghong, leading to a mutual demise!

“Boom!”

Just as both sides seemed fated for mutual destruction, the sound of stormy winds and thunderous lightning exploded, and a cold light shot forth from over a hundred meters away. It was an arrow, an arrow that broke the sound barrier, moving several times faster than the sound itself!

This arrow, carrying the force of wind, rain, and thunderbolts, shot towards Qi Chenghong’s claw that was aimed at Su Changkong’s throat.

“Crack!”

Amidst the bursting sound, Qi Chenghong’s palm exploded into a shower of flesh and blood!

“This…”

Qi Chenghong was somewhat dazed; even the pain hadn’t fully spread throughout his body, and he hadn’t realized what had happened.

Meanwhile, Su Changkong’s Iron-Cutting Sword, with the force of thunderous might, viciously chopped down from above.

“Puchi!”

The crisp sound of flesh tearing and bones shattering—the unuttered scream of Qi Chenghong as he, like a wooden stake, was cleaved in two by the descending chop of the sword!

The two halves of Qi Chenghong’s body fell to the sides, his eyes filled with confusion and unwillingness, as blood and viscera flowed out, staining the ground with a chaotic mess.

“Huff, huff, huff!”

Su Changkong gasped for breath, with cold sweat streaming down his forehead. He had survived!

This Qi Chenghong, a skilled enemy enlisted by Meng Sang, was a former Hall Master of the Giant Whale Gang, having completed the Qi Blood Four Transformation, attained the Qi-Blood Wolf Smoke realm, and was considered an elite within the Qi-Blood realm Martial Artists.

How he had found Su Changkong to launch an assault and after a bloody battle, ultimately met his demise under Su Changkong’s sword—it was unknown.

“Just now… who assisted me?”

At the same time, Su Changkong looked into the distance. The original outcome was supposed to be Su Changkong chopping Qi Chenghong in half, and himself being pierced through the throat by Qi Chenghong’s claw, leading to their mutual death.

But there came an arrow, cleaving through the sky, that shattered Qi Chenghong’s palm to pieces, thus sparing Su Changkong from the mutual destruction!

However, when Su Changkong looked towards the direction from which the arrow had come, he saw no one.

“I should leave this place first…” Su Changkong withdrew his gaze, feeling waves of dizziness. The brief encounter had sapped nearly all his strength, the Blade Qi he had accumulated exhausted in those three strikes, especially the wound in his chest from Qi Chenghong’s claw, which sent sensations of numbness, pain, and itchiness. With crowds all around, he needed to leave quickly!

Su Changkong, supporting himself, reached Qi Chenghong’s corpse and searched it, but found nothing. Qi Chenghong had not carried any treasures when he left to pursue Su Changkong.

“Consider it a compensation for the damage caused!”

Su Changkong took out two hundred taels worth of silver notes from his bosom, threw them beside Qi Chenghong’s corpse, and then quickly vanished.

The passersby involuntarily made way, casting reverent and fearful glances at Su Changkong.

The duel between Su Changkong and the grey-clad man, Qi Chenghong, in the streets of Ink Forest Prefecture City was brief but deadly. Qi Chenghong was split in two by a single stroke and died on the spot—the passersby naturally didn’t dare to provoke Su Changkong, this harbinger of death!

“I’m poisoned! First, I must heal at the manor I rented!”

Su Changkong felt waves of dizziness and darkness before his eyes. Looking down, he saw that the wound from Qi Chenghong’s claw had turned black, and the veins around it were also blackening, spreading throughout his body.

Su Changkong, enduring frailty and vertigo, made his way to the manor he had previously rented in the western district of Ink Forest Prefecture City.

Upon entering the manor, Su Changkong shut the door and staggered to a well inside. He sat down cross-legged beside it; he needed to detoxify first!

The Ghost Bat Claw technique practiced by Qi Chenghong was poisonous; the longer he delayed, the greater the damage to his body!

“Huff, huff, huff!”

Su Changkong began to breathe deeply. The battle with Qi Chenghong had depleted his True Qi by almost ninety percent. He activated the breathing method for healing within the Giant Whale Technique, taking in deep breaths.

“Whirl!”

A massive suction force emerged, like a Long Whale Inhales Water, in the well, the water, as if drawn by an invisible, immeasurable force, erupted and entered Su Changkong’s mouth, swallowed into his stomach.

The water in his stomach churned, cleansing Su Changkong’s blood vessels and wounds.

“Spit!”

After a few minutes, Su Changkong spat out the well water, which, once clear, was now tinged with black.

Phew!

Su Changkong repeated the cycle, drawing clear water from the well, swallowing it into his stomach, and so on.

This was a healing and detoxifying method within the Whale Technique, purifying the body with clear water and then expelling it.

With seven or eight cycles completed, Su Changkong felt the numbness in his body lessen and slowly regained sensation; even the blackness at the wound on his chest began to fade.

“Finally… it’s better,” Su Changkong sighed with relief. Qi Chenghong’s Ghost Bat Claw was very poisonous, but fortunately, since the poison wasn’t in his system for long, it was easy to expel it from his body with the Giant Whale Technique.

Wiping the corner of his mouth, Su Changkong spoke in a heavy voice, “Would you come out now?”

Su Changkong could feel someone had been following him all the way to the manor; he guessed it was probably the person who had shot that arrow and exploded Qi Chenghong’s palm.

The person who had stealthily helped him allowed Su Changkong to kill Qi Chenghong with minimal cost, preventing mutual destruction.

Since the person showed no ill will towards him, and he had been seriously injured, Su Changkong had no time for anything else, immediately focusing on healing as soon as he returned to the manor.

“I didn’t expect you to be so deeply hidden that even Qi Chenghong died by your hand.”