"Excuse me, your little tricks were already worn out by me hundreds of years ago."
The same meaning conveyed by Cai Hong was not understood by the leper, but reality made him understand.
The afterimage had only reached halfway when Li Zhonglou's figure slightly crouched, his knees precisely blocking the path.
"Bang!"
With a dull thud, Li Zhonglou's body remained unmoved, while the leper felt as if he had kicked a steel plate, a paralyzing sensation spreading through his foot.
The next second, a fist descended, landing squarely on his chest.
"Pfft!"
The leper staggered back several steps, spewing a mouthful of blood uncontrollably, which dyed the dirt in front of him red.
The leper's eyes became unfocused; that punch had dislodged his internal organs!
Again!
This time, Li Zhonglou no longer acted as the translator. Cai Hong casually flicked the leper up into the air, and while still airborne, a dark shadow attacked.
The next second, the leper's body was sent flying backward like a balloon.
Under the threat of death, the leper frantically channeled his internal energy in mid-air, finally adjusting his body before landing, managing a somewhat safe landing.
But this only allowed him a moment to catch his breath!
"I'll fight you to the death!"
A glint of madness flashed in the leper's eyes. Gritting his teeth, he charged forward instead of retreating, concentrating all his strength in his arm and throwing the most powerful punch of his life.
As his fist moved, the surrounding air was compressed and exploded with a whistling sound. Before the person even arrived, the wind from the punch struck Li Zhonglou's face, causing a stinging pain.
The fist came like a cannonball, but Cai Hong calmly sidestepped, evading the blow.
"Too slow."
Li Zhonglou couldn't help but sigh, not out of mockery, but because he knew Cai Hong's next move.
As expected, when the leper's arm swept past, Cai Hong controlled Li Zhonglou's hands and, with a speed that was both delayed and arrived first, clasped it.
Without the slightest hesitation, he pulled with the force, causing the leper to instantly lose his balance, followed by his arm being twisted more than half a circle clockwise.
Crack, a crisp bone-breaking sound.
"Ah!"
The leper looked at his arm in terror. Besides the piercing pain, it had been broken!
Li Zhonglou found it hard to watch the subsequent conclusion. Under Cai Hong's almost monstrous fighting spirit, the leper was treated like a toy, his limbs brutally broken.
Bang bang bang bang.
With a series of punching sounds, dust swirled around them.
There were no loud screams inside, only the sound of punches and faint, intermittent groans.
After a while, the commotion subsided.
As the dust settled, Li Zhonglou walked out slowly, his expression peculiar.
"Xiao Li, thank you so much this time. I have no regrets even if I die!"
Cai Hong's exclamation echoed in his mind. Li Zhonglou shook his head and quickly left.
Behind him, in a newly formed pit, a bloody and mangled figure had already breathed its last.
Humanity could fail to detect lies, but malevolent intent could not. Coupled with the personalities of the leper and his two companions, Li Zhonglou had no doubt that he had killed the right person.
However, Cai Hong's methods were indeed too brutal. Li Zhonglou had only just managed to forcibly regain control of his body to stop the onslaught.
Cai Hong had no objections to this. Having been by Li Zhonglou's side for so long, not only he but also all the souls in the soul bottle understood Li Zhonglou's character. Cai Hong knew that Li Zhonglou was venting.
Venting the psychological burden of being trapped in the Lost Land for hundreds of years!
Therefore, the thank you that followed was Cai Hong's heartfelt gratitude.
"There seems to be one more."
Li Zhonglou naturally understood Cai Hong. Aside from his peculiar expression, he didn't say much, merely remembering that there was still one person whose fate was unknown.
However, when he rushed back to the vicinity of the temporary stronghold, he found no sign of the other person!
"Is this guy also pretending to be foolish?"
A bad feeling immediately arose in Li Zhonglou's heart. After all, the punch Cai Hong had delivered earlier had not held back. With the opponent only at the second level, he should have been completely incapacitated!
But the reality was that all he saw was a pool of blood, and the person was long gone!
This wouldn't do. They were already mortal enemies. If they let this person go, he might jump out and stab them in the back at any moment.
Li Zhonglou immediately activated his clairvoyant vision and also called upon the tracking expert, Old Lin.
That's right, this guy's specialty in his previous life was jungle warfare and he was very skilled at tracking enemies.
"Xiao Li, to the right, he went to the right."
As expected of a former master-level figure, in less than ten seconds, Old Lin found clues from the slightest trace, and Li Zhonglou then realized that it was actually the direction he had just returned from!
And it was in the opposite direction from where Su Qi was.
This single detail was enough for Li Zhonglou to know that the other party was also a seasoned veteran.
After all, according to normal logic, he would seek help from Su Qi's side. If it weren't for Old Lin, Li Zhonglou estimated he would have searched in the same direction.
"This guy, he's quite cunning."
Li Zhonglou couldn't help but lament as he hurried along. From the beginning, this guy was the most easily overlooked among the trio.
He still didn't know this guy's name. During the conflict, besides his agreement with Fang Si that had caught Li Zhonglou's attention, he hadn't paid much attention to him!
Thinking back now, Li Zhonglou felt that the other party's depth was unfathomable.
However, the more he was like this, the more he couldn't let him go!
Even if this guy wasn't part of the trio, his previous agreement with Fang Si was enough to show that they were birds of a feather!
On the other side, on the eastern side of Wushan Town, on the edge of a mountainside, Grey Dog clutched his chest and limped onward.
"Damn, things went south. He's also one of us!"
Grey Dog spat out a mouthful of black blood, his eyes filled with lingering fear. The aura he exuded now was not at the second level of the realm, but a solid peak of the third level!
"This guy is too sinister. He has no malevolent aura on him at all. How did he break through the curse?"
The more Grey Dog thought about it, the less he understood. To break this damned curse, he had not hesitated to hide his identity and mix with the group, secretly cultivating using resentment, which allowed him to break through most of it and return to his second-level strength.
He had thought that in some time he would be able to return to his peak, or even break through another level, but he never expected that a simple daily task would end up like this!
Li Zhonglou's guess was not wrong. If he had really only been at the second level, that punch earlier would have either killed him or left him half-dead. Let alone escaping, it would have been a question of whether he could even stand up.
Grey Dog had reacted instinctively at that moment, forcefully unleashing his full strength, which had saved his life. But regarding Li Zhonglou, he had no intention of engaging further.
A fourth-level realm, how could he fight that!