Free Web NovelChapter 314: Chapter 314: Decapitated, Dead without a Whole Body _1
Upon hearing those cries, Lin Mengdie slowly opened her eyes and looked over. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
After the raging fire had dissipated, Ye Ming’s figure remained in place, completely unharmed.
Not only was he untouched by the inferno, even the hem of his clothes was unaffected by the flames.
Around his body, a milky-white barrier emanated, isolating him from the outside world.
"Ye Ming! Thank goodness, you’re not dead!" Lin Mengdie shouted with great joy.
Liu Laoqi, Li Hua, and Wang Qing exchanged bewildered glances, thoroughly dumbfounded.
They didn’t know whether Ye Ming was human or ghost; such massive flames had failed to harm him in the slightest.
Wang Qing took a step back, sweat forming on his forehead. He had cast the charm, and he knew best how formidable its power was; he had already begun to feel a sense of dread towards Ye Ming.
Liu Laoqi and Li Hua were furious, having exerted so much effort and believing their success was imminent, only for Ye Ming to have survived.
The pair locked eyes, and with just a glance, they made up their minds to fight Ye Ming to the death.
"Bastard, today you and I will go down together!" Liu Laoqi was still the first to initiate the attack.
But this time, Ye Ming didn’t hold back.
"Impossible, the fish might die, but the net won’t break!" A murderous intent flashed in Ye Ming’s eyes. His body leaped forward, utterly ignoring Liu Laoqi’s attack, and placed his hand firmly on Liu Laoqi’s head, pressing him to the ground.
Liu Laoqi immediately felt as if he were pinned under a great mountain, utterly unable to move. The fear of death closed in as he experienced it up close. By the time he began to think of begging for mercy, Ye Ming no longer gave him the chance.
With a loud bang, Liu Laoqi’s head burst open, blood and mist filling the air.
Everyone witnessed what it meant to die without a complete corpse; Iron Fist Sect’s Liu Laoqi met his end in such a manner.
Li Hua, sword in hand, moved forward to attack, but upon seeing this, he immediately halted and turned to flee.
Those from the martial world understood the wisdom in retreating when overpowered; there was no shame in running.
Wang Qing harbored the same thought; lacking close-combat abilities and having exhausted too much Spiritual Energy while casting spells, he had lost any capacity to fight and could only run.
What had been a united front against Ye Ming a moment ago turned into a one-sided slaughter.
A light push of his foot, and he caught up with Li Hua.
His right hand traced through the air, and a slash of Sword Qi Formation cleaved down, striking Li Hua’s body precisely.
In shock, Li Hua’s arm was severed.
Before he could even scream, Ye Ming delivered another horizontal slash. Li Hua’s legs were cut off simultaneously, and he crashed to the ground.
"Sword Qi Formation, how is this possible." Li Hua’s eyes widened, his face etched with disbelief.
Until his death, he couldn’t comprehend how a sectless wanderer could execute such an exquisite sword technique. Sword Qi Formation was what countless swordsmen dreamed of achieving.
If not for his avaricious thoughts, perhaps Li Hua might have even considered becoming Ye Ming’s disciple.
But alas, there was no medicine for regret in this world.
In a mix of regret and indignation, he took his last breath.
In the blink of an eye, two of the four-person squad were dead, their ends particularly gruesome, an absolute horror to witness.
Wang Qing was terrified out of his wits, his body breaking out in a cold sweat.
As he fled, he couldn’t help but look back a few times and saw Li Hua had been cut into several pieces; his legs gave out, and he collapsed to the ground.
Seeing Ye Ming about to reach him, Wang Qing didn’t want to sit idly by waiting for death, so he immediately pulled out two charms and threw them toward Ye Ming.
These were his life-saving ace charms, Shrinking Charms, and since he no longer had any stored True Qi, he planned to use his own life-span to activate the charms.
"Shrink the ground to an inch, activate!"
Following the command, a bright light immediately appeared at Wang Qing’s location.
Everything flashed before his eyes, and when he opened them again, he was atop a deserted mountain peak.
Seeing that he had escaped to safety, he sighed in relief, "Fortunately, I was clever to have kept a trick up my sleeve; otherwise, I would have ended up dismembered like those two brutes!"
Just as he was about to get up and leave, he discovered that his body couldn’t move at all.
Looking down, he saw a scene of despair.
Only the upper half of his body remained; his lower half had vanished without a trace.
Reflecting on what had just happened, as he was operating the charm, Ye Ming had already struck with a sword, cutting him in half at the waist.
The Shrinking Charm had taken effect at that moment, but only his upper body had been teleported away, leaving the lower half behind.
"I..." Wang Qing’s eyes widened as he realized the intense pain only then.
More unbearable than the pain was the overwhelming fear, a fear he had never felt before. Ye Ming was more terrifying than a ghost in his heart.
"How could this be, after a lifetime of arduous cultivation, to end up like this! Even my corpse isn’t intact."
"It’s all because of that damnable disciple from the Xuanyang Sect, who enticed me into betraying others. I regret it..."
Now realizing it was too late, Ye Ming hadn’t given him much time. Wang Qing struggled for just a moment before he died on that deserted mountain, his body severed from his head.
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Gulp.
Zhang Changyang swallowed hard, staring blankly at the scene in front of him.
The shocking actions of Ye Ming had completely shut down his brain.
He trembled all over, cold sweat soaking through his clothes, his teeth chattering non-stop.
Seeing Ye Ming walking toward him, Zhang Changyang hurriedly said, "Ye Ming, I... I warn you, don’t come closer, ah, I have your woman in my hands!"
He shakily pulled out a knife and placed it against Lin Mengdie’s neck, saying cowardly, "A person’s life is only one, you’d better think it over carefully! It would be such a pity if such a flower-like and jade-like woman were to die, wouldn’t it?"
The cold sensation caused Lin Mengdie’s body to shiver.
Her face drained of color as she said in haste, "Zhang Changyang, have you gone mad? If you dare to kill me, my father, as well as the Mingxuan Pavilion, will never let you off!"
As she spoke, Lin Mengdie’s eyes were already red with fear, her instinctual terror rising to the surface.
"Shut your mouth!" Zhang Changyang shouted loudly, "Ye Ming, back off, then kneel down and kowtow to me! Hand over everything you have on you."
"Don’t think I’m joking, I’m really capable of killing someone!"
Ye Ming’s expression was cold and unfazed by the threat as he said directly, "You might as well do it now!"
