Zhang Yuan used his movement technique to chase after the dark figure.
He was practicing the Moon-Gazing and Spirit-Refining Technique when he noticed a man in black enter the second floor of the courtyard and search for something in a room on the second floor!
The two girls, Zeng Jingxue and Chen Li, lived on the second floor. In the middle of the night, Zhang Yuan dared to break into the dormitory, so he chased away the man in black.
Zhang Yuan chased after them into the alleyways of the student street.
The man in black suddenly vanished.
Zhang Yuan looked around in different directions in the alley but couldn't find the man in black. He guessed that the man in black must also have a way to conceal his presence.
Just as he was pondering whether to go back, a sharp sword light flew swiftly from the dark alley.
Instantly, a strong murderous aura filled the alley.
The sword light arrived in an instant. A faint light flashed in Zhang Yuan's eyes. Because he had opened his eye aperture, his eyesight was excellent. Even in the dark, he could clearly see the true appearance of the sword light.
A small silver dagger was enveloped in a dazzling sword light!
Powerful true energy surged outside the short sword.
Zhang Yuan immediately unleashed the Fiery Tiger Palm, his right palm turning crimson red as he blasted it towards the incoming short sword.
The palm collided with the short sword, producing a harsh, metallic clanging sound.
The flaming tiger paw blocked the short sword.
The short sword missed its first strike, flew away, circled Zhang Yuan's body twice, and then slashed at Zhang Yuan's back again!
Telekinesis!
That's a good technique; only Golden Core cultivators possess such skill.
That man in black is no ordinary person!
Zhang Yuan murmured, but he felt no fear. With his skill in controlling a sword remotely, he should be at the early stage of the Golden Core realm.
Zhang Yuan once again gathered true energy in the acupoints of his hands and unleashed the Fiery Tiger Palm to block the flying sword attack.
After deflecting several attacks from the small flying swords, Zhang Yuan increased his true energy output and, with a boom, broke the short sword in two!
At this moment, the man in black suddenly darted out from behind Zhang Yuan and delivered a powerful palm strike to him.
The powerful palm strike caused Zhang Yuan's clothes to flutter even without wind.
Zhang Yuan used the Azure Cloud Steps technique, and in an instant, he turned around and unleashed a domineering palm strike.
The Blazing Tiger Palm is an exquisite and domineering fourth-tier melee technique, even more powerful and formidable than the palm techniques of ordinary human cultivators!
boom!
A loud noise rang out in the alley, and at the same time, the walls shook slightly.
The man in black was sent flying by Zhang Yuan's palm strike!
The buildings around the alley were awakened by the sound of the slap and turned on their lights.
One of the windows was violently pushed open, and a fat, shrewish middle-aged woman with hair like a bird's nest stood at the window, bleary-eyed, and started cursing at the people below!
"What the hell is that bastard doing downstairs in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?!"
"Can't a person get any sleep?!"
The moment Zhang Yuan stared blankly at the cursing shrew, the man in black vanished back into the night.
The shrew was still cursing incessantly at the window.
Zhang Yuan looked around but could no longer see or sense the presence of the man in black.
In the distance, the lights on the second floor of the Rongxia Courtyard were also turned on.
The middle-aged woman's curses continued unabated and were so harsh that Zhang Yuan couldn't stand them.
Worried that the man in black might return to the Rongxia Courtyard, Zhang Yuan abandoned his investigation and used his movement technique to leap back to his dormitory.
Nothing happened for the next few days.
The man in black did not reappear.
Every afternoon after class, Zhang Yuan goes to the back mountain of the school to practice the second level of the Qingyun Step technique.
After mastering the Azure Cloud Step, one can step in mid-air, taking seven steps in a row, causing the body to briefly hover in the air!
After practicing for about a week, Zhang Yuan was able to take three steps in the air consecutively, creating a hang time of about half a minute.
At the same time, his speed has increased by about 30% compared to before!
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On the outskirts of Tongcheng City, a construction site covering hundreds of acres is bustling with activity. More than a dozen bulldozers and excavators are working, and hundreds of workers wearing yellow safety helmets are busy at the site.
Dump trucks hauled loads of soil out of the construction site and loads of steel bars and cement into it.
Green safety netting surrounded the hundreds of acres of construction site, and construction vehicles rumbled in and out of the site's gates.
The construction site gate is four meters high and ten meters long. The temporary gate, made of steel bars, is painted with five large black characters in regular script, "Yilai Junyue City," which looks impressive and spectacular.
Yilai Junyue City is the largest real estate development site in Tongcheng City this year, and it is also a key project promoted by the Tongcheng government this year, with a very tight construction schedule.
As the sun set, the construction site gradually grew dark.
At the construction site of Phase I of Yilai Junyue City, several excavators stopped working one after another.
The workers were getting ready to leave when the foreman rushed over.
The foreman, a pot-bellied man, was holding a white megaphone and shouting at the workers who were about to leave work: "Everyone, don't leave yet! Because of the tight schedule, after you finish eating, we'll continue working tonight. The manager said that overtime pay will be double tonight! Make sure to finish digging the foundation as soon as possible!"
Hearing this, the crowd of people working overtime murmured in dismay, their faces full of worry. But when they heard that the overtime pay would be doubled, they immediately regained their energy and went to eat at the nearby container barracks with smiles on their faces.
About an hour later, the lights on the Yilai Junyue City Phase I construction site came on, with more than a dozen kilowatt lights illuminating the site as brightly as daytime.
The excavators started up again, some loading the excavated soil and rocks into construction vehicles and hauling them away, while others continued digging.
This place is a deserted slope covered with lush wild grass and large trees, and there is a small lake not far ahead.
During the day, you can see the clear lake water.
A large yellow excavator cleared away the weeds and several tall locust trees around the slope, then used a hook to drag the locust tree trunks onto a dump truck for transport.
Because the terrain here is relatively high, the excavator needs to level the slope and dig down four or five meters deep before the workers can continue construction and carry out the next steps such as measuring and pile driving.
Excavators roared at the construction site at night.
The excavator operator, a middle-aged man with a face covered in dust and disheveled hair and clothes, worked until 10:30 p.m. He was working until late at night.
He was in the driver's seat, yawning wearily as he operated the lever.
A night breeze blew by, and a wave of drowsiness washed over me.
"Just half an hour more and I can go home."
I'm so tired!
Excavator operator Hu Sangou maneuvered the hook arm to dig downwards, leaving only the last piece of yellow earth slope.
Suddenly, the hook hit something stiff and paused. Hu Sangou pushed the gear lever forward with force, and the excavator's chute, carrying a large pile of soil, rolled down the slope with a whoosh.
By the light of the construction site, Hu Sangou saw a strange black object protruding from the pile of earth. Several stones nearby had been broken by the excavator and slid down the slope.
By this time, the workers had begun to leave work one after another. Originally, two excavators and two bulldozers were working together, but because there was only one small mound of earth left, the other three people went home first.
Only Hu Sangou and a few workers remained at the construction site.
Hu Sangou was curious, so he jumped down from the digging post and walked toward the black thing on the slope.
Once he got closer, he stared intently at the slope.
"My God, it's a coffin!"
Hu Sangou was so frightened that he backed away.
A night wind blew by, and the construction site lights flickered a few times. Hu Sangou was so frightened that he ran away and returned to the excavator. He quickly called the foreman.
"Brother Cao, something terrible has happened! We've dug up a coffin!"
"What?"
"Wait a moment, I'll go take a look."
A short while later, two people arrived at the construction site, each carrying a flashlight as they walked out of the darkness.
It was foreman Cao Ming and his younger brother Cao Li.
Although Cao Ming and Cao Li are brothers, they look completely different. Cao Ming is very fat, standing at 1.7 meters tall but weighing over 190 kilograms.
Cao Li was as thin as a bamboo pole, a head taller than Cao Ming, but weighed less than 120 pounds.
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