Chapter 19 Mouse Seat

With a slash of the black blade, a wave of air exploded, and the houses on the mountainside shattered with a thunderous crash.

Amidst the flying rubble, a dozen night thieves were pierced through their bodies by the debris, as if caught in machine-gun fire, dying instantly.

More night thieves came down the mountain path, but Fang Yue didn't panic at all. He glanced at his internal energy, and silently swallowed a dozen pills to restore it.

It was nighttime, the night war god, unafraid of any challenge!

Watching even more night thieves rush down, Fang Yue's fighting spirit grew stronger.

While killing those night thieves, Fang Yue had actually seen several familiar faces, but he couldn't quite place them.

He guessed that they weren't among the top hundred experts on the [Thief Rankings], at most just some notorious night thieves ranked outside the top hundred.

Of course, that was in the eyes of others in [Chu Nuan City].

Before Fang Yue, whether they were famous or not, any night thief below the ren-level (Human Realm) was nothing more than a single slash of his blade.

If he could barely feel that someone looked familiar while killing them, it was just because Fang Yue had a good memory.

As for collecting heads to exchange for rewards at the government office, that could wait until the battlefield was cleared.

Even though he was currently being slandered by the government, he was upright and honest. Once his name was cleared, he could go collect the rewards.

Just as Fang Yue was thinking this, a sudden explosive sound erupted from the mountain path further up the mountainside.

Fang Yue looked in the direction of the sound, and his pupils immediately contracted.

He saw a small black dot on the mountain path suddenly launch out like a cannonball, hurtling towards him.

In his vision, the small black dot quickly grew into a human shape. A burly man with a face full of橫肉 (hengrou - fleshy, fierce) and a huge iron ball wrapped around his body was charging toward him like a meat bomb.

Fang Yue raised his hand and slashed…

Clang!!

The expected kill didn't happen.

A monstrous force pressed down, actually knocking Fang Yue back dozens of meters. His feet dragged long marks on the ground before he managed to stabilize himself.

The blade trembled faintly, and Fang Yue's face showed astonishment.

"Internal energy resonance?"

Just now, he had used the illusory blade, but the opponent had used resonating, synchronized internal energy to make real contact with the illusory blade!

Fang Yue's expression darkened.

It seemed that the night thieves of Dongliu Mountain weren't all nobodies!

The place where Mouse Seat was hiding was indeed not simple!

Narrowing his eyes, Fang Yue asked in a cold voice, "Judging by your skill, you must be the mountain lord of Dongliu Mountain. Tell me, where is the Phoenix Organization's Mouse Seat? How much do you know about the Phoenix Organization?"

"You're looking for Mouse Seat?"

Thief Lao Shi grinned hideously.

From that brief exchange, he had already realized that Fang Yue's strength was only barely at the ren-level, and his internal energy was far inferior to his own!

He'd hit the jackpot!

The person Mouse Seat-daren had ordered them to deal with was someone he could actually handle!

The beautiful future after obtaining the quota seemed to appear before his eyes.

A black blade formed from mere internal energy might fool an inexperienced Xiantian (Pre-Heaven) realm martial artist.

But using it against a ren-level expert was underestimating them.

Ren-level experts were very sensitive to the control and subtle changes in internal energy.

Narrowing his eyes, Thief Lao Shi took off the large iron ball from his hand, connected it with an iron chain, and swung it around.

With a whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, it turned into a metal windmill, combining offense and defense as it pressed towards Fang Yue.

His expression slightly somber, Fang Yue was somewhat puzzled.

Because ren-level experts rarely used signature abilities like [Xiantian Qi Barrier] or [Qi Field].

As for why Fang Yue didn't use them… it was because his internal energy was only at the Xiantian realm level, even inferior to a regular Xiantian realm cultivator. In terms of internal energy quantity and quality, Fang Yue's strength was at the mid-to-lower level of first-rate Xiantian realm cultivators.

Using that level of internal energy to fight against a higher-level ren-level expert was meaningless.

Watching the figures gradually descending from the mountain path behind, Fang Yue's figure moved with the shadows, his speed increasing explosively!

"Huh?!"

Thief Lao Shi's expression changed slightly. Fang Yue's speed was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Although it was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, when it was fast, he couldn't even see the trajectory of his movements.

But what use was speed in the face of a wide-range attack!

Lengthening the iron chain, he accelerated the rotation.

The iron chain and iron ball in his hand immediately rotated at high speed. At the same time, with internal energy attached, the speed was so fast that to the naked eye, the rotation of the iron ball seemed frozen in place, and the surface of the iron ball even grew spikes of condensed internal energy.

"Impaling Iron Ball!"

The iron ball, held high above his head, rotated rapidly as it quickly approached Fang Yue.

Thief Lao Shi's intention was to force Fang Yue back to the edge of the cliff, leaving him with nowhere to retreat.

But unexpectedly, Fang Yue didn't retreat but advanced, actively entering the range of the rotating iron ball.

"Seeking death!"

Thief Lao Shi's face showed a look of surprise and joy. He was even worried that his attack might be too strong and kill Fang Yue.

But soon, he was astonished to discover that after Fang Yue entered his attack range,

he was actually competing with the rotation of the iron chain in the high-speed spinning iron ball!

Following the clockwise direction of the iron chain, he maintained a certain balance with the speed of the chain, and quickly charged towards him at the core position.

His expression changed, Thief Lao Shi poured in more internal energy, further increasing the speed of the high-speed rotating iron ball!

This time, it was obviously beyond Fang Yue's expectations. He raised his blade to block.

Clang!!

With a loud explosion, the iron chain wrapped around Fang Yue's blade, and under the guidance of the iron chain, the spiked iron ball smashed directly towards Fang Yue's head.

But before the spiked iron ball could reach him, the black blade in Fang Yue's hand suddenly seemed to lose its internal energy support, and with a bang, it shattered into nothingness.

The iron chain suddenly lost its target and fell to the ground, and the spiked iron ball sank slightly as a result, its speed affected.

In Thief Lao Shi's astonishment, Fang Yue pushed off the ground, lowered his body, and charged forward.

His figure rushed directly in front of Thief Lao Shi, grinned, and kicked Thief Lao Shi directly in the chin.

His lower teeth collided with his upper teeth, breaking off a few fragments. The terrifying brute force actually sent his entire body, along with the ball, flying high into the air.

"What kind of power is that?!"

Thief Lao Shi was dumbfounded. He was at the early stage of the ren-level, and his Force Control stat was already terrifying.

But compared to Fang Yue below, he was far inferior!

With a single strike, he felt like he couldn't withstand it!

Relying solely on his Force Control stat, without any amplification, he had been struck with enough force to make his qi and blood churn, making him unable to defend himself?!

If the black blade had directly hit him, wouldn't he have died on the spot?

Although it was partly due to his carelessness and lack of defense, the high damage still frightened Thief Lao Shi.

He began to constantly circulate his internal energy to distribute it throughout his body, resisting the damage!

When Thief Lao Shi came back to his senses, he saw that Fang Yue had already leapt into the air, and the black blade had reformed at some unknown time, falling without hesitation!

His expression changed drastically, Thief Lao Shi deployed all his internal energy throughout his body to resist the damage.

Bang!!

The blade fell, and the black blade struck as if it had hit a golden bell, making a heavy sound. Thief Lao Shi's body fell to the ground, smashing a large pit into the ground with a loud tremor. When he looked up again, blood was seeping from the corner of his mouth, and he looked at Fang Yue, who was also falling, with a face full of horror.