At this moment, it was 8 p.m. The Bewitching Demons guarding the manor were either playing with women or drinking, and hadn't yet rested.

Some had already been attracted by the commotion of the battle, grabbing their weapons and rushing out of the house. Others didn't realize it was an enemy attack until the Edo Swordsman cried for help, belatedly rushing out of the courtyard to check the situation.

"Are the official people here to kill us? Damn it, let's fight them. Those few people from the Changchun branch think they can wipe us out?"

"Damn, what is that thing, a werewolf?"

"Such, such a terrifying aura..."

The Bewitching Demons who had just rushed out of the house with aggressive momentum, entering the courtyard, all stopped in their tracks.

Although werewolves lack powerful skills, their aura is a genuine Level 5. Killing Level 2 and Level 3 Bewitching Demons is as easy as crushing bugs.

Under the moonlight, the werewolf's limbs flew like the wind, its strong back undulating as it ran. The ground its claws stepped on quickly frosted over.

Blood Drink Saber had already been held back. There was another one outside... The heavily injured Edo Swordsman couldn't help but feel despair. He stopped abruptly. Before the rampaging beast arrived, frost climbed up his trouser legs, bringing a bone-chilling cold.

Frost? Restraining my close combat ability! The Edo Swordsman's heart sank again. His eyes reflected the werewolf's muscle undulation, its movements, and he discerned its attack. The Edo Swordsman didn't retreat but advanced, rushing towards the werewolf, his knees suddenly buckling, his body leaning back, sliding with inertia.

And at that moment, the werewolf pounced. It desperately stretched out its claws, trying to intercept the human sliding past, but the Edo Swordsman predicted its attack again, dodging with a tilt of his head.

The man and the werewolf passed each other in parallel.

The werewolf missed its target, landing heavily on the ground, blood spurting from its abdomen, intestines hanging precariously from the wound.

When they passed each other just now, the Edo Swordsman activated his sword qi, cutting open its abdomen. If the werewolf's fur hadn't been tough and its defense amazing, it would have been split in two.

On the other side, the Edo Swordsman got up, leaning on half of his katana, panting heavily. His cheeks, chest, and arms were covered in frost. The freezing had eliminated his pain, freezing the penetrating wound in his chest, but this was not a good thing.

The coldness invaded his body, paralyzing his limbs, further reducing his combat power.

The werewolf, no longer feeling pain, pounced again. The wound in its abdomen froze, blood turning into red ice crystals, and the hanging intestines were also wrapped in blood-colored ice crystals.

The Edo Swordsman panted heavily, doing his best to inhale oxygen. His hand holding the sword bulged with veins, facing the werewolf.

This round, he must kill this werewolf, otherwise, when Yuanshi Tianzun and the female swordmaster came out, he would surely die.

Just then, as the Edo Swordsman was rushing forward with his sword, he felt a sudden pain in his chest, as if he had a heart attack. His limbs instantly lost strength, staggering a few steps, leaning on his sword, kneeling on the ground. The werewolf opened its saliva-dripping jaws, biting at the Edo Swordsman's head.

At that moment, a window in the distance shattered with a 'crash', and a streak of blood-colored afterimage shot out, bringing a piercing sound, piercing the werewolf's waist from the side, pinning it to the ground.

It was a long sword, the blade piercing the werewolf's body, with only half of the hilt showing.

Seizing the opportunity, the Edo Swordsman unleashed the potential in his body, gripped the half of the katana with both hands, raised it above his head, and slashed down suddenly.

With this slash, he condensed all the sword qi in his body.

A arc of sword qi slashed out, causing the bluestone slabs along the way to crack, the grass to be plowed open, revealing black soil. The sharpness of the sword qi made the hairs of the Bewitching Demons in the distance stand on end.

"Poof!"

The werewolf's neck split open, its head separated from its body. It immediately stopped struggling, becoming a corpse.

On the other side, Blood Drink Saber burst out of the broken window. One of his eyes was blind, and his steel-cast body was covered in claw marks and bruises.

As soon as he jumped out of the window, a one-armed girl immediately chased after him, her body like a carrot chopped up by random knife blows, missing a piece here and lacking a piece there.

Strangely, she was still alive, her wounds not bleeding, but emitting wisps of Taiyin power.

"You hide in my mist to recuperate, I'll kill these bastards." Blood Drink Saber roared. As he spoke, he opened his mouth and spat out a wisp of thick white mist, which quickly spread, engulfing the courtyard, the flower beds, and the buildings.

Thick fog is the Fog Master's most terrifying skill. In the fog, the Fog Master is invincible.

Once he uses the Wooden Demon's props to stabilize his injuries, and then cooperates with Blood Drink Saber to kill these bastards... Damn it, if only I had a Saint-level healing item...

The Edo Swordsman's eyes lit up. He saw hope in despair and immediately ran towards his teammate with his short sword.

Suddenly, a dreamlike starlight rose, appearing in the thick fog.

"Yuanshi Tianzun..." The Edo Swordsman didn't panic, because the thick fog shrouded this area. He shouted, "Kuáng Dāo, Yuanshi Tianzun is here, the one who attacked me is Yuanshi Tianzun, kill him, you will get unimaginable rewards..."

"Wuwu~"

A shrill wind howled through the manor, and a hurricane rose from the ground, sweeping grass clippings, dirt, branches, leaves, and heavy white mist into the sky.

The manor, which had just been shrouded in thick fog, instantly cleared.

The Edo Swordsman's expression froze instantly, then turned to despair, the word 'reward' stuck in his throat, unable to be uttered.

Blood Drink Saber cursed loudly. The thing he feared most had happened.

"Damn it!"

The gust of wind earlier made him guess that the enemy might be Heavenly Punishment, but in the subsequent battle, the wind didn't rise again, and the wind mage's skills didn't appear again. This gave Blood Drink Saber a glimmer of hope.

"Yuanshi Tianzun, now that you're here, don't even think about leaving! King of Fear will be here soon." Two pairs of arms stretched out from Blood Drink Saber's ribs, turning into afterimages as he pounced on Zhang Yuanqing.

He never expected that the attacker would be Yuanshi Tianzun.

Besides being shocked, he couldn't help but feel excited. Yuanshi Tianzun was an official genius who entered the Earth Ranking with a Level 4 body. The evil organization had offered a reward that could be described as astronomical.

Killing him would feed his subordinates and himself for three years.

Zhang Yuanqing ignored the enemy attacking from behind, staring at the Edo Swordsman, smiling and saying, "I just used Star Divination to look at your face. You're dead, even if the King of Heaven comes, he can't save you. If you don't believe me, look behind you."

He wasn't in a hurry at all. Tonight's assassination operation was very smooth. He had already severely injured the Edo Swordsman in the room, and the mission was completed.

The Chizuru Group lacked powerful props. It was impossible for the Edo Swordsman to have Saint-level recovery props, let alone Life Essence.

And a swordsman is a high-output, low-health class. Once severely injured, they are bound to die.

"You should look behind you!" The Edo Swordsman shouted sharply.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of 'yuyu' rose sharply, like the sound of some kind of insect flapping its wings, but the sound waves were amplified countless times.

The next second, a gust of wind hit, and the Edo Swordsman saw Blood Drink Saber, who was running in a straight line, flying out to the side, crashing heavily into the wall of the villa.

"!"

The entire villa was shaking.

The one who pounced on Blood Drink Saber was a Bee Woman wearing light armor, tall and sexy.

Her face was black and yellow, her pupils pure black, her features beautiful and妖異, and her forehead had two curved antennae.

The Bee Woman's feet were hooked tightly on Blood Drink Saber, her full abdomen bulging, and she spat out a black-shining needle from her tail, dotting Blood Drink Saber's chest like a dragonfly touching water.

As soon as she succeeded, she immediately flapped her wings and flew up, leaving Blood Drink Saber before the two pairs of illusory arms closed in.

The bee form's fighting style is like this, relying on terrifying speed supplemented by poison needle attacks, coming and going without a trace. But they can't engage in close combat, close combat is certain death.

Ah!

Blood Drink Saber let out a heart-rending scream. He was like a person doused in a bucket of boiling oil, leaping up, waving his hands wildly, screaming and running towards his subordinates in the distance.

He was poisoned with a fatal poison. The only thing that could save him now was the Bewitching Demon's passive skill - Bloodthirsty Rage.

Plundering life force through killing.

Screams rose all around. Three Bewitching Demons were killed by him on the spot. Silver Fir Princess and Little Round were chasing after Blood Drink Saber.

Another, another Saint? The Edo Swordsman felt a chill in his heart, filled with despair.

At this moment, he heard heavy, low breathing, and a chill ran down his back.

The werewolf is still alive?! This unbelievable thought flashed through his mind. Relying on the instinct of a swordsman, he spun around and swung his broken sword.

A dim sword qi swept out, and with two 'clangs', it struck the sharp werewolf claws, sparks flying.

The huge force sent the broken sword flying. The Edo Swordsman didn't have time to look at the resurrected werewolf. Using the force, he rolled to the side, sprang up, and ran towards the outside of the manor.

His body was already on the verge of its limit. The only bargaining chip he had left to save himself was to escape from the manor, break into a densely populated area, and threaten with the lives of ordinary people. No The Way of the Extraordinary was willing to fight in a bustling city.

"Edo Swordsman, your death is here!" A figure descended from the sky, blocking his path. Before the person arrived, a crisp shout came first: "Frost Descent!"

An overwhelming cold current roared, as if opening the gates of the Arctic. The soft ground quickly turned into frozen earth, the lawn was covered in frost, becoming hard and brittle. The moisture in the air condensed into ice crystals, floating in small, fine pieces.

"Asano Ryo!" The Edo Swordsman, running wildly, let out an unwilling roar. Then, he stood frozen in place, his grimace also frozen on his face.

His body was covered in frost, revealing the paleness after the passing of life.

This severely injured swordsman, exhausted of energy, no longer had the strength to struggle, and returned to The Way of the Extraordinary.

Asano Ryo strode forward, her Ice Soul Blade sweeping across, and the Edo Swordsman's body was torn apart, without any blood flowing out.

Zhang Yuanqing walked to the corpse, his eye sockets surging with blackness. "Huh, the spirit has vanished?"

"Master Yuanshi, did you get the thing?" Asano Ryo asked expectantly and nervously.

Zhang Yuanqing gave an "hmm" and pointed to his bulging stomach: "It's in here."

The reason why he didn't immediately chase after him was to drive Little Doubi to find the Takamagahara Key in the room.

The Takamagahara Key is an object passed down from ancient times, not a Way of the Extraordinary item, so it cannot be stored in the item bar, and the Edo Swordsman escaped naked.

Therefore, the Takamagahara Key must be hidden in the villa.

Finally, he and Guan Ya followed Little Doubi and found the jade plate in the safe in the closet.

Unfortunately, the spirit was annihilated, and he couldn't ask about the location of Takamagahara...

Zhang Yuanqing looked at the Edo Swordsman's right hand, where there was a black ring, suspected to be a prop.

Did this prop destroy the spirit?

He immediately asked Asano Ryo to put away the ring, turned around, and shouted to Silver Fir Princess and Little Round, who were fighting fiercely with Blood Drink Saber: "Retreat!"

Although everyone could work together to kill Blood Drink Saber, it wasn't necessary.

On the one hand, the Fog Master's combat prowess and endurance were stronger than the swordsman's, and on the other hand, who knew when the King of Fear would arrive?

The arrival of the King of Fear would mean a total annihilation.

The item had already been obtained, the mission was completed, and there was no need to put everyone at risk.

Although Star Divination showed that everyone had no bloody disasters, it was still unknown whether Star Divination was useful against Demigod-level experts, or whether it would be interfered with.

Little Round quickly rose into the sky, disappearing into the night in the buzzing of wings.

Silver Fir Princess turned into starlight and dissipated.

Zhang Yuanqing grabbed Guan Ya, riding the wind, and the latter threw the Night Walker's Cloak to Asano Ryo.

A group of people quickly evacuated.

Above the sea of clouds, in the Gulfstream cabin.

Everyone gathered around the table, examining the bowl-sized jade plate. The jade plate was dark cyan, its surface dark and smooth, with carved cloud patterns and flames, and a black bird resembling a swallow carved in the center.

"There's no item information, can this thing really open the legendary Takamagahara?" Xie Lingxi looked at her Japanese peer.

Asano Ryo shook his head honestly: "I don't know."

Because of the eavesdropping not long ago, everyone knew about the existence of Takamagahara. After Zhang Yuanqing obtained Asano Ryo's consent, he told his teammates the truth.

Li Chunfeng was excited after listening, but he was not excited about the treasures in Takamagahara, but thought that this matter was worth in-depth study and writing a paper that would shock his peers.

"Okay, I'll keep this thing for now. When we get to Takamagahara, I'll take it out." Zhang Yuanqing domineeringly put away the jade plate.

The Queen, however, was worried: "Now I just hope we can safely return to Songhai and not be intercepted in the air by the King of Fear."

"呸呸呸 crow's mouth!" Xie Lingxi turned her head and spat at her.

After everyone retreated, they didn't return to the hotel. They immediately went to the airport and boarded Fu Qingyang's private plane to escape back to Songhai.

Little Round said indifferently: "The King of Fear is a Demigod-level expert. What if we escape back to Songhai? Can Fu Qingyang and the five elders stop him?"

Zhang Yuanqing nodded: "That's indeed a problem. When we get back to Songhai, we'll discuss it with Fu Qingyang. Ryo-chan, what do you think?"

"But, but...you promised us not to tell the Five Elements Alliance." Asano Ryo said weakly.

"Don't worry, I'll only say that I provoked the King of Fear, and I won't reveal any information about Takamagahara." Zhang Yuanqing said righteously: "Don't you believe me? I'm a samurai with noble morals."

"Okay, okay..." Asano Ryo could only agree, and then became happy: "The mission is completed, I'm going to report the good news to the team leader."

She grabbed her phone and walked towards the lounge at the back of the cabin.

Zhang Yuanqing took the opportunity to get up and said, "I'll go see Silver Fir Princess."

Silver Fir Princess was seriously injured and was currently recuperating in the lounge. Her Yin Corpse body, which was invulnerable to swords and spears, couldn't withstand the Bewitching Demon's armor-piercing ability. She had single-handedly delayed Blood Drink Saber for a long time, and her body was full of holes.

The most difficult thing was that the princess was a rootless weed. Her spiritual power only went out and didn't come in. She used a little and lost a little.

Zhang Yuanqing's plan was to take this opportunity to refine Silver Fir Princess into his Yin Corpse, nourish her body, and send her to Takamagahara.

A win-win.

Away from the countryside of Chun City.

In a bungalow, Blood Drink Saber, who had fled here, sat under the dim light, eating the dishes and wine offered by the owner of the house.

The owner of this house had become his servant.

The long journey had exhausted his energy, and the toxins in his body had not been cleared yet. He was extremely weak now.

"Ding ding ding..."

The phone rang. Blood Drink Saber took out his phone. The caller ID clearly showed: King of Fear.