In an instant, Qingran twisted her five fingers, drew her battle sword from her waist, and slashed down diagonally, creating a sword flower as she aimed at Wang Hao's crotch. A cool breeze immediately swept over them.
Startled, Wang Hao tensed up and immediately retreated, narrowly avoiding the fatal sword strike.
Qingran's pretty face was cold, and the killing intent she had felt when she first met Wang Hao flashed in her eyes again. She gathered her sword energy once more and thrust it forward fiercely.
"Bang!"
Yan Qin also drew her sword, deflecting Qing Ran's attack with a backhand flick, and hurriedly said, "Sister Ran, calm down and let us explain..."
However, when Qingran saw Yan Qin make her move, the anger in her heart intensified, and she unleashed her sword strikes with lightning speed, creating a huge vortex of sword energy.
"Yan Qin, we haven't been able to decide a winner yet. Since that's the case, let's take this opportunity to have a competition and see who is better!"
Qingran's long hair flew up, her robes rustled, and her graceful figure, with the swing of her sword, drew Yan Qin into a vortex of sword energy.
"boom!"
The two powerful sword energies collided, shattering a huge hole in the roof of the house, and glazed tiles kept rolling down.
The two of them rushed out of the hole, leaping across the rooftops and scaling the walls, their sword energy like rainbows, making the tiles clatter as they stepped on them.
The sounds of fighting gradually faded away. Wang Hao looked at the mess in the room and felt very helpless. He didn't expect Qingran to have such a bad temper, and he couldn't understand why she was angry at all.
In the moment when he was most relaxed, Wang Hao suddenly sensed an extremely strong killing intent, and the hairs on his body stood on end in that instant.
It instinctively lunged forward and rolled several times on the ground.
"Bang!"
A poisoned bullet pierced through the wall, narrowly missing Wang Hao's neck, slicing his skin and leaving a clear bloodstain.
In an instant, the skin around the bloodstain turned purplish-black and emitted a foul stench.
Wang Hao's expression changed instantly. He immediately thought of the assassin mentioned in the previous letter and quickly mobilized his internal energy to suppress the spreading poison.
Meanwhile, the spiritual energy began to circulate rapidly, and that murderous aura still hadn't disappeared. It was like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, ready to fire a second or third bullet at any moment, and it made very little noise, obviously because it was equipped with a silencer.
Fortunately, he cultivated both immortality and martial arts. Even though his martial arts cultivation suppressed the poison, his spiritual energy could still circulate normally, allowing him to fully unleash his late-stage Qi Refining Realm strength.
"So the Li family's assassins have finally arrived, choosing this particular moment. I wonder if it's a coincidence or intentional."
Wang Hao lay on the ground, not daring to move at all. His powerful spiritual sense spread out in all directions, and after a few breaths, he detected the auras of two assassins not far away.
One assassin was hiding in the attic seven meters away, while the other was further away, hiding in the leaves of a giant iron pine tree forty meters away. One was close, the other far; two assassins.
Wang Hao could sense that both of them were cultivators, both at the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Realm, with extremely abundant spiritual energy. With his current strength at the late stage of the Qi Refining Realm, he could barely contend with them.
But these two were clearly well-trained assassins, and he was too passive to make a move.
"I hid in Xuan No. 1 to use Yan Qin's strength to deal with the Li family's assassins, but Qing Ran suddenly appeared and lured Yan Qin away, with the assassins following closely behind. Could it be that one of these two is acting?"
Various ideas and possibilities appeared in Wang Hao's mind. His biggest advantage now was that he could find the location of the two assassins, but the two assassins could not find his location.
Fortunately, he could use his powerful spiritual sense to conceal himself, preventing the assassin from detecting him; otherwise, he would be in an even more passive position now.
"In that case, let's use our advantages to take care of the nearest assassin as quickly as possible, and then deal with the one who shot the arrow from afar."
Wang Hao made up his mind and immediately transformed his spiritual sense into an invisible longsword, locking onto the assassin.
"Whoosh."
The sword of spiritual consciousness slashed down suddenly in mid-air, piercing the assassin's mind.
"puff!"
The assassin felt a sharp pain in his head, a splitting headache, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"What's going on?!" The assassin was a little confused, but knew he had definitely been exposed, so he tried to retreat.
But how could Wang Hao miss such a good opportunity to strike? He gripped the Purple Cloud Sword and burst through the wall, striking with lightning speed, aiming his sword at the assassin's brow.
The assassin dressed in black heard the sound of wind being cut and retreated continuously, moving even faster than Wang Hao, thus dodging the fatal sword strike.
"Whoosh!"
Wang Hao swung his arm, slashing across the assassin's neck with a tearing sound, ripping off a piece of his black clothing.
The assassin touched his neck, found his head was still on it, and breathed a slight sigh of relief. He said, "As expected of the top freshman, you've got some skills. I suppose the throbbing pain in my head just now was your doing? How did you do that?"
Wang Hao naturally knew that he was stalling for time, waiting for the assassin in the distance to shoot him, so he continued to draw his sword and sneered, "I'll tell you after you're dead."
"Hmph, a freshman who has just entered the late stage of Qi Refining wants to kill a cultivator at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining? How laughable!"
A cold glint appeared in the assassin's eyes as he drew an extremely thin sword from his sleeve—the Fish Intestine Sword hidden in his sleeve!
"Whoosh!"
The sword flashed, and the sword energy, like a white rainbow, pierced towards Wang Hao's heart.
His speed reached 85 meters per second, incredibly fast, and almost instantly, he pierced Wang Hao's heart.
If Wang Hao's cultivation hadn't broken through, he would definitely have been unable to withstand it. However, his speed had now reached 90 meters per second, surpassing many cultivators at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.
"Whoosh!"
The Fish Intestine Sword pierced through Wang Hao's armpit, and the assassin's expression changed drastically. He never expected that a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining would be faster than him.
"Pfft!"
With a flick of his wrist, Wang Hao sent the Purple Cloud Sword piercing into the assassin's ankles, instantly severing the tendons in both legs.
Immediately afterward, with a swift movement, his figure vanished instantly, appearing directly behind the assassin. He joined two fingers together and pointed at the assassin's Tianxin Meridian in his spine.
"Smack!"
With his Heavenly Heart Meridian severed, the man collapsed to the ground as if he had lost his bones. Wang Hao did not dare to be careless and suddenly punched the assassin's dantian with his left fist, completely destroying the opponent's cultivation.
Before Wang Hao could even check the man's appearance, he turned and shot towards the location of another assassin, shattering the paving stones beneath his feet.
The assassin, hiding among the leaves of a giant iron pine tree, changed her expression upon seeing Wang Hao charging towards her with his sword.
How did he find my hiding place?
Without a second thought, the female assassin pulled back the bolt, locked onto Wang Hao who was charging at her, and then repeatedly pulled the trigger.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three bullets whistled out of the barrel; one bullet shot straight out, while the other two drew strange arcs, attacking from both sides.
"Hmph, you didn't expect gun-fu to actually exist, did you?" The female assassin was very confident. She used her spiritual power to change the shooting angle and unleashed her best gun-fu technique.
However, the next second, Wang Hao's figure vanished instantly, and the three bullets collided at the same time, scattering a blinding spark.
"Not good!" The female assassin's expression changed drastically. Just then, a sword aura struck, severing her right hand. Blood gushed out like a spring, staining her black robes red.
A sharp pain shot through her wrist, causing the female assassin to let out a muffled groan.
"Boom!"
Wang Hao swung his sword again, severing the trunk of the giant iron pine tree, which then crashed down.
The female assassin fell from a tree more than 20 meters high and crashed heavily to the ground. She immediately tried to escape when she realized that things were not going well, but at that moment a sword with a cold glint was pointed at her head.
"Still trying to escape?"
Wang Hao used his sword to remove the veil from the female assassin's face, revealing a rather beautiful face.
"Oh? I didn't expect it to be you." Wang Hao was somewhat surprised, because the assassin in front of him was none other than Rao Yingting, the top freshman six years ago.
Rao Yingting gritted her teeth and said with great resentment, "I didn't expect you to be so powerful. You've been pretending to be weak all along. I'm sure you were holding back when we tested your spiritual sense before."
Wang Hao did not answer, but asked coldly, "Tell me, what other assassins does the Li family have, and I can give you a quick death."
"Wang Hao, you underestimate me." Rao Yingting revealed a strange smile.
"Boom!"
Beneath Rao Yingting, a blood array five meters in diameter formed, emitting a blinding crimson light that sent Wang Hao flying.
"Go to hell!"
Rao Yingting drew a thin sword from her sleeve with incredible speed, creating a series of whistling sounds as she aimed straight at Wang Hao's brow.
In that instant, her speed reached 87 meters per second, and at such close range, there was almost no time to react.
"puff!"
A sound like a sword piercing flesh rang out.
Rao Yingting stopped abruptly, staring blankly at Wang Hao in front of her. Then, she trembled and fell straight to the ground, lifeless.
At this moment, Qingran appeared behind Rao Yingting, glanced at the corpse at her feet, sheathed her blood-soaked sword, snorted coldly, and said, "These assassins are getting more and more arrogant, daring to come to the War King's Palace to kill people."
Qingran's sword strike was extremely precise, directly shredding Rao Yingting's heart.
"Why did you kill her? If you had left her alive, you might have been able to get some useful information out of her." Wang Hao frowned, finding her suspicious, especially the occasional hint of murderous intent she displayed.
Qingran was somewhat displeased. Seeing Wang Hao's suspicious gaze, her anger rose again. However, this time she didn't say anything. Instead, she sheathed her sword and turned to leave.
Wang Hao stared at her departing figure, finding her increasingly suspicious.
"What are you thinking? You don't actually think that Sister Ran is also an assassin for the Li family, do you?" Yan Qin stood next to Wang Hao, following his gaze to stare at Qing Ran's beautiful back.
"It just feels too coincidental." Wang Hao shook his head and stopped thinking about it. When they returned to Xuan No. 1 to check on the assassin whose cultivation he had crippled.
But they found that the other person was already dead, his heart shattered by a single blow, and his death was anything but peaceful, with blood flowing from all seven orifices.
Yan Qin said with a very solemn expression, "To be able to kill him at such close range without anyone noticing, the person behind it must be a Foundation Establishment cultivator."
"No, this matter is too serious. We must report it to the Dean. It's very likely that the person who made the move is an elder, an enemy we cannot defeat!"
"No need, the big fish has been caught. Elder Shangren, come out, don't hide, it's filthy there." The head of the West Courtyard walked in from outside with his hands behind his back and a faint smile on his face.
Wang Hao and Yan Qin were startled. Following the gaze of the West Courtyard Master, they saw a man in black wearing a cloak slowly emerge from behind the artificial hill not far away.
He let out a hoarse laugh and said, "The headmaster is truly remarkable. You deliberately used Wang Hao to lure us out? What a clever scheme."
The head of the West Courtyard didn't care and laughed, "It's a pity we didn't lure everyone out, but once we've caught this big fish, the other small fry are nothing to worry about."
Now that he had been recognized, Elder Shangren no longer concealed his identity. He removed the cloak from his head, revealing a thin and aged face. His deep-set eyes shone with a sharp light as he stared intently at the West Courtyard Master.
"Master, it has been ten years since I last saw you make a move. I wonder what level your cultivation has reached now."
Elder Shangren gripped the eight-foot-long crimson spear dripping with blood from his back, his entire aura becoming extremely fierce.
The gun barrel, as red as fresh blood, gushed out like a waterfall of blood as he swung it rapidly.
Flame-like spiritual energy surged from Elder Shangren's palm, completely enveloping the spear. A scorching heat emanated from the spear, causing the temperature in the surrounding air to rise sharply.
Just when everyone thought Elder Shangren was about to fight to the death with the Dean of the West Academy, suddenly, Elder Shangren's eyes sharpened, and he stared at Wang Hao with murderous intent.
Suddenly, his left hand slammed onto the end of the spear, and the eight-foot-long Blood-Dripping Spear shot towards Wang Hao like a flaming arrow, emitting a piercing whistling sound.
A series of crackling sounds filled the air, and due to the excessive speed, a cluster of flames ignited at the tip of the gun.
At the same time, Elder Shangren shifted to the right, took a step, and his body soared up like a bird, instantly flying a hundred meters away, leaping over the wall of the War King's Hall, and fleeing into the distance.
He knew he was no match for the West Courtyard Master, so he resorted to this tactic of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao," hoping to draw the West Courtyard Master's attention away so that he could have a chance to escape.
At this moment, Wang Hao felt as if a million grass mud horses were galloping through his mind. Staring at the attacking spear, he quickly used the Wind-Riding Flying Dragon Shadow technique to retreat rapidly.
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