Free Web NovelChapter 28: Chapter 28: Counter-Kill
Gu Yun sensed the black-clothed man’s aura—Spiritual Martial Ninth Layer Late Stage. The man’s Concealing Qi technique was quite good, though. If he hadn’t gotten so close, Gu Yun never would have discovered him.
Gu Yun smiled faintly. "My apologies. I am, in fact, very fast."
The man in black snorted and threatened, "Sir, be careful not to bite off more than you can chew."
Gu Yun nodded and looked at him with a smile. "Are you finished? Then you can die."
Anger flashed in the man’s eyes at Gu Yun’s words. He opened his mouth to say something more, but never got the chance. Gu Yun drew his blade, his figure vanishing in an instant.
The next moment, he reappeared right in front of the man, his blade already swinging down!
The man in black was aghast. He never thought Gu Yun would be so decisive. ’Isn’t he afraid of making a scene? What if the Demon Thunder Beast and the Zhou Family outside notice?’
’What an idiot!’ the man cursed internally.
He scrambled to defend himself. His Spiritual Qi roiled, surging out in a black tide to form a shadowy barrier before him.
But he never imagined it...
The barrier was sliced apart by the incoming blade as if it were tofu, offering no resistance whatsoever.
In the next instant, his head was tumbling through the air. His eyes remained wide with shock and confusion as his body crumpled to the ground.
He had planned to use his superb stealth skills to take advantage of the chaotic battle between the Demon Thunder Beast and the Zhou Family. His goal was to pull off the ultimate heist and escape.
A shame he ran into Gu Yun and was insta-killed with a single strike.
With a placid expression, Gu Yun walked over, removed the man’s Storage Ring, and stepped over the corpse, heading for the cave exit.
Outside, the Demon Thunder Beast was still locked in a desperate battle with the Zhou Family, completely unaware that its lair had been cleaned out by Gu Yun.
The Demon Thunder Beast was covered in massive wounds, clearly having sustained serious injuries. Meanwhile, the Zhou Family’s numbers had dwindled to just five;
the rest lay dead or dying on the ground.
In the distance, Thunder rumbled and the sound of explosions echoed without cease.
Zhou Qiantian, relying on his Spiritual Martial Ninth Layer Peak Cultivation, was taking on at least half of the pressure from the Demon Thunder Beast. With their numerical advantage, they still held a slight upper hand.
But as his men continued to fall and the Demon Thunder Beast showed no signs of dying, a sense of unease began to creep into his heart.
The sky grew even darker. Ominous clouds gathered, casting an oppressive shadow over the land.
Gu Yun thought he could faintly make out bolts of lightning dancing within the clouds.
Back on the battlefield, as the remaining four men kept the Demon Thunder Beast occupied, Zhou Qiantian’s eyes lit up. He immediately leaped into the air.
His snow-white Longsword instantly unleashed a blindingly bright line of Sword Qi. The Sword Qi soared, resembling a Flood Dragon as it slashed down at the Demon Thunder Beast.
The attack struck the Demon Thunder Beast hard, leaving a deep, gruesome gash that dripped with blood.
Zhou Qiantian’s strike had undoubtedly wounded the beast.
"ROAR!"
RUMBLE!
The clap of thunder shook the wilderness as a torrential rain began to fall. Driven mad by the pain, the Demon Thunder Beast went completely berserk!
The Thunder Power enveloping its body erupted outwards, making the very air tremble!
Seeing that things were taking a bad turn, Zhou Qiantian hastily retreated.
BANG!
The Thunder Power exploded, and a cataclysmic wave of blue lightning erupted from the Demon Thunder Beast.
Streaks of Thunder crisscrossed the sky, momentarily illuminating the dark, stormy weather.
The bolts of Thunder rained down upon the surrounding forest, instantly turning towering ancient trees into charred splinters.
The area for hundreds of meters around the Demon Thunder Beast was completely devastated, transforming into a forbidden Thunder Zone!
"ROAR!"
The Demon Thunder Beast’s eyes turned crimson. It tilted its head to the sky amidst the downpour and let out a furious roar.
RUMBLE!
A bolt of lightning tore through the dark clouds. Moving with incredible speed, it slammed into the Demon Thunder Beast in the blink of an eye!
The Thunder Power surrounding the Demon Thunder Beast instantly grew even more terrifying, its aura becoming denser and more horrifying!
The Demon Thunder Beast fed on Thunder Power to begin with; now, it was using the thunderstorm to draw down the lightning from the heavens to empower itself.
Suddenly, the Demon Thunder Beast fired dozens of bolts of Thunder from its body toward the five Zhou Family members. The lightning was so fast it appeared before them in a flash.
It was too fast. They had no way to dodge; their only choice was to take the hits head-on.
BANG!
Three more fell, leaving only Zhou Qiantian and one other person from the Zhou Family.
Now, both were gravely wounded.
’Should we retreat or keep fighting? If they retreated now, their heavy losses would have been for nothing.’
’Zhou Qiantian couldn’t accept it!’ he thought.
But the Demon Thunder Beast didn’t care what they were thinking. All it knew was that these people were the ones responsible for interrupting its attempt to break through to the True Martial Realm.
The enmity for obstructing its path to cultivation was as deep as that for a murdered parent—a grudge that could not be shared under the same sky!
The Demon Thunder Beast’s assault didn’t pause for a moment. In the blink of an eye, it unleashed dozens more bolts of Thunder, which slammed into them once again!
The two were blasted by the Thunder until their bodies were charred black. With faces full of resentment, they slowly collapsed.
Watching from afar, Gu Yun knew it was his time to take the stage.
He had known how this would end from the moment the Demon Thunder Beast went berserk.
If they didn’t flee in time, the battered remnants of their force were sure to be annihilated.
Gu Yun’s figure flashed, and he appeared before the Demon Thunder Beast.
The Demon Thunder Beast stared at the handsome man in the white Profound Robe and sensed a lethal danger.
It immediately flew into a rage. ’Another one?’ It unleashed several bolts of flashing Thunder that shot toward Gu Yun.
Gu Yun didn’t dodge. Instead, with a Spiritual Essence Vibration, he instantly activated his Thunder Gang Body. A Thunder Pattern on his right arm began to glow.
He met the bolts of Thunder head-on.
BANG!
’So this is what it feels like to be hit by Thunder.’ Having cultivated the Thunder Gang Body, Gu Yun found the sensation invigorating.
"My turn," Gu Yun said, looking at the Demon Thunder Beast.
He instantly activated Three Thousand Thunder Flashes. His figure vanished and reappeared behind the Demon Thunder Beast, landing a solid punch on its back—Mountain-Breaking and Mountain-Suppressing!
The Demon Thunder Beast was sent flying, crashing heavily into the ground and carving out a massive crater. A cloud of dust and smoke billowed up!
Gu Yun’s eyes were cold. He swung his blade, and a brilliant streak of light cut across the sky, slicing through the curtain of rain as it sped toward the Demon Thunder Beast.
The blade light, carrying an incredibly sharp intent, tore through the rain and slashed down into the dust cloud where the Demon Thunder Beast lay.
Within the dust cloud, facing Gu Yun’s incoming Sword Qi,
the beast scrambled to its feet and viciously swung its claws.
Its sharp claws, wreathed in blue Thunder, left an afterimage in the air as they collided with Gu Yun’s Sword Qi.
BANG!
As the two attacks met, a shuddering shockwave emanated from the point of impact.
The thick beast claw was severed cleanly by Gu Yun’s Sword Qi.
"ROAR!" The Demon Thunder Beast roared in pain. It opened its maw, and the Thunder Power around it converged, condensing into a ball of lightning the size of a barrel.
The sphere of lightning rotated rapidly, dense arcs of electricity crackling across its surface and emitting an aura of pure destruction.
Then, with a great heave, the Demon Thunder Beast spat out the compressed sphere of lightning, sending it shooting directly at Gu Yun.
WHOOSH!
The sphere of lightning flashed through the torrential rain, appearing before Gu Yun in an instant.
