Chapter 864 An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth
Perhaps he didn’t even understand that his anger came more from his fear of Ding Hao. It was difficult for him to accept that he had to be afraid of a junior as a predecessor of a super force, so when his thought was seen through, the rage in his heart exploded like magma.
“You’re courting death...” Luo Tong said in a deep voice. He put one hand on Zhao Xingcheng’s shoulder and said with a hideous look, “Even if you don’t tell me, I can search your sea of consciousness. Once I know everything, I will let you suffer from extreme pain.”
Zhao Xingcheng grinned contemptuously, with drops of blood flowing down from his mouth.
He wasn’t worried that his sea of consciousness would be searched at all because he also knew nothing whether Ding Hao was in the sect or not.
“Come on, old dog, sooner or later, Senior Brother Ding will avenge me,” Zhao Xingcheng said and smiled frankly. Having endured so much cruel torture, he could accept any pain in the world. In the end, there was only death.
Luo Tong put his palms on Zhao Xingcheng’s shoulder, and his Qi was like steel needles, piercing into Zhao Xingcheng’s badly mutilated body...
Zhao Xingcheng trembled slightly, but he still remained unyielding with a determined look.
Luo Tong smirked. Just as he was about to intensify the pain, the entire dungeon suddenly rumbled and then shook violently, as if an earthquake had occurred. It seemed that a terrible force was about to tear this place apart.
“What happened?” Luo Tong shouted with furiousness.
The next moment, the place was permeated by a strange force through the soil layer. Then, the earth shook and a crack appeared on the top of the dungeon. The people in the water dungeon squinted slightly under the dazzling sunlight shining through the crack.
A slender figure descended under the radiant sunlight.
The ground above the entire dungeon was directly torn apart by this person with great strength. He tore apart the dungeon and broke in. Who was this person? How could he be so powerful?
In the dungeon, the masters of the River Palace were all stunned.
However, Luo Tong suddenly seemed to see something extremely terrifying. He screamed at the top of his voice and shouted, “It’s you... Ding Hao. You...” But soon his voice stopped abruptly.
The figure passed in a flash under the dazzling sunlight and grabbed Luo Tong’s neck instantly as if he were holding a chick, lifting him up from the ground. Luo Tong, an outer elder of the River Palace, was a master at the peak of the Martial Grand Emperor Realm, but he had no strength to struggle at all at this moment, and his eyes were full of fear...
The figure wore a jade-color robe with long flowing black hair, holding the Devil Saber in his left hand burning with devil flames.
The sunlight shone down on him through the cracks of the water dungeon. He was like a War God wearing immortal light, which made people dare not look at him directly. It seemed that everything would be burned into ashes in front of him.
If the person who popped up was not Ding Hao, the Saber and Sword Addict who gained an awe-inspiration reputation in the Northern Region, who else could he be?
In an instant, an inevitable Icing Qi rose from the tailbones of every master of the River Palace in the water dungeon.
The strong man who was in charge of torture secretly hid in the crowd, trying to escape...
Swoosh! Suddenly, a small stone on the ground bounced up, like a sharp sword out of its sheath, penetrating through the back of his head, and he died in an instant. Ding Hao did not even look at him throughout the process.
“I need an explanation,” Ding Hao said, glancing at the dead disciples lying on the ground and Zhao Xingcheng who was hung on the torture rack. His voice was as chilly as frost, and his eyes were as sharp as a sword, just staring at Luo Tong.
“This... I... I...” Luo Tong said in terror. Overwhelmed with fear, he was even unable to speak fluently.
With a twist of his wrist, Ding Hao snapped Luo Tong’s neck.
The powerful Sword Intent also invaded Luo Tong’s body at this moment, depriving him of his life.
Clatter! Ding Hao threw away the corpse. There was no scruple for him to kill an outer elder of the River Palace, just as easy as killing a dog.
“Since you can’t explain it clearly, I’ll go to the River Palace in person.”
Ding Hao glanced over other masters in the dungeon, and everyone felt as if their necks had been hooked by Death’s sickle. Their bodies were stiffened by the extreme cold, and they did not even dare to move. Since Ding Hao’s madness and restlessness had long been known and now even Luo Tong was dead, they all knew that Ding Hao would not scruple their identity as disciples of the River Palace.
Ding Hao turned around and saved Zhao Xingcheng who had lost consciousness from the shelf. Then he took the dead disciples of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect and slowly left the dungeon.
The masters of the River Palace all kept quiet out of fear.
At the moment when Ding Hao disappeared, a young disciple of the River Palace finally breathed a sigh of relief. The huge burden on his heart was finally lifted as if he had escaped from Death.
“Phew...” He took a long breath and was about to say something, but suddenly there was a cracking sound around him.
He turned to look and was immediately stunned out of his mind.
It turned out that at some point everyone around him had been frozen into ice sculptures except himself. Obviously, the icy chill spread out from within their bodies and could not be resisted at all. In the end, their entire bodies directly froze and cracked...
“Go back and tell the Sect Leader of the River Palace that I won’t give up avenging the disciples of Swordsmanship-seeking Sect so easily.” Ding Hao’s cold voice, which seemed to come from hell, sounded in the ears of the young disciple.
He suddenly felt that his heart was colder than the ice dregs beside him.
The shore of the Mirror Lake was in shock and uproar again.
The stronghold of the Rive Palace was attacked, which was definitely a shocking event.
Many people witnessed that a master from the direction of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect directly charged into the Shun Xing Villa in a domineering and unreasonable way. At the moment when the battle began, the pavilion collapsed and a powerful surge of energy burst out, making countless people around feel frightened.
In the beginning, some people thought that the Demon Clan began attacking the Human Clan.
The River Palace, after all, always high and mighty, was a super force of the Human Clan in the Northern Region, so it was really a naked provocation that someone dared to attack it.
However, the news quickly spread—The Swordsmanship-seeking Sect attacked the Shun Xing Villa.
The reason was that the River Palace had been secretly involved in the plan to deal with the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect. Dozens of dead disciples of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect with miserable appearance were found in the Shun Xing Villa. Obviously, they had been tortured...
Thus, the public immediately stood on the side of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect.
In the past six months, many people were jealous of the luck of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect and envied the Divine Herb Garden and the mysterious crystal mine. However, with the status and strength of the River Palace, it carried out such a conspiracy on the sly, which indeed brought about many people’s contempt.
At the same time, countless people were worried about the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect.
After all, the River Palace was one of the top sects in the Northern Region with a long history. As Swordsmanship-seeking Sect had directly killed the outer elders and dozens of disciples of the River Palace, wasn’t it afraid of infuriating this super sect? With the power of the River Palace, there were thousands of ways to destroy the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect.
The situation could still be remedied if they resolved it in private and gave each other a way out. But since they chose to be antagonistic in a tit-for-tat manner, the conflict between the two sides was irreconcilable.
“Alas, Swordsmanship-seeking Sect is still too impulsive. Although it has unlimited potential, after all, it is just potential which has not been transformed into a real strength. Keeping a low profile in development is the best way. The rise of a sect requires a long-term peaceful environment while confronting super forces like the River Palace so early will eventually bring disaster...” Someone sighed. This was what many people thought.
As the saying goes, it’s never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. At this time, the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect could completely endure it, and it would not be late to take revenge in the future when it was strong enough to rival the top forces in the Northern Region.
“It seems that ‘the Jade-faced Asura’ Li Lan, the Sect Leader of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, is not far-sighted enough. Women have long hair but short insight!” Someone gave such an evaluation.
Of course, some people also thought that the toughness of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect was worthy of praise. In this world where the strong preyed on the weak, people had to be tough enough to gain respect and recognition. When the disciples of the sect were slaughtered, it should make a strong response.
There were all kinds of comments.
The Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, a small sect in the Northern Region in the past, had whipped up public opinion in the entire Northern Region over and over again now. It was on the verge of becoming the intersection of countless discussions and became one of the most attractive topics in the entire Northern Region.
Soon, another startling piece of news arrived.
The contemporary successor of the Hidden Fragrance Peak, a sage whose strength nearly came up to the level of the Half-step Martial Sage Realm, was killed in the wilderness a thousand miles away from the Mirror Lake, and his body was frozen into an ice sculpture. The ice crystals covering it did not melt or rot under the scorching sun, and even could not be split by the swords...
When the news spread, the public in the entire Northern Region was shocked.
The successors of the Hidden Fragrance Peak were all terrible killers who excelled at assassinating, escaping, and hiding. They were elusive, mastering countless terrifying killing skills. It was rumored that as long as you saw the shadows of such people, it meant that death was coming.
Even many masters whose strength came up to the level of the Sage Realm would still feel a lingering fear when they talked about the disciples of this sect...
The disciples of the Hidden Fragrance Peak were very dreadful. They were the kings in the darkness, moving in and out like ghosts, so others could not find them at all, let alone chase after them. Actually, they were always the ones chasing others. In the past hundreds of years, people had never heard of any news of the successors of the Hidden Fragrance Peak being killed!
But now, a master whose strength nearly came up to the level of the Sage Realm died in the wilderness.
Moreover, the murderer was extremely arrogant, leaving big words on the ice sculpture of the corpse—An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth!
Countless masters rushed to the scene of the incident for observation. In the wilderness, countless thrilling traces of the battle were left. It could be inferred that the sage of the Hidden Fragrance Peak didn’t care much about his traces being discovered at first, but after the fight, he suddenly found that he couldn’t stand up to the opponent, and immediately began to hide. However, he couldn’t even shun his opponent by using the concealment skill which he was proud of and was chased to death...