Chapter 24: A Sudden Change
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
'Am I about to die?' thought the warrior monk who stood outside the Mystical Village Tower as he felt the Life Essence within his body drain away.
It was the warrior monk who suddenly regained consciousness and said that he would fight to the death with the Blood-Sucking Devil. He was called Zhen Zhi and he was in the same "Zhen" generation as Su Qin. However, he entered the temple twenty years before Su Qin.
"It's just a shame that I couldn't protect my fellow brothers…" As Zhen Zhi grew weaker, he forced himself to turn his head and look at his fellow warrior monks who laid unconscious on the ground.
He was very clear that once all the Qi Vitality and Life Essence within his body were completely consumed, his fellow warrior monks would have soon met the same fate.
"I don't want to die like this! I need to let the abbot know, the temple court heads..."
Zhen Zhi struggled to remain conscious. He looked into the distance and saw something that he would have never forgotten until his dying breath. It was like a deathbed vision. He saw a tall blurry figure that walked slowly toward the Mystical Village Tower.
Initially, the blurry figure seemed to be more than a thousand miles away. However, with each step that it took, it traversed more than hundreds of miles and arrived in front of the Mystical Village Tower in no time.
'Someone's here?' thought Zhen Zhi right before his consciousness plunged into darkness.
Before he completely lost his consciousness, he heard the furious cry of the Blood-Sucking Devil. "D*mn it. Who on earth are you!?"
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Outside the Mystical Village Tower, Su Qin watched as Zhen Zhi suffered before his eyes. His eyes swiveled to fall upon the Blood-Sucking Devil who had an expression full of apprehension and fear.
"Who are you? When did the Shaolin temple gain a powerful warrior like you?" The Blood-Sucking Devil looked grave.
A moment ago, Su Qin merely waved his hand and managed to shatter the Blood-Sucking Devil's Evil Path aura. That level of power was frightening. Before the Blood-Sucking Devil entered the Mystical Village Tower, he did his research on all the warriors of the Upper Realms in the Shaolin temple. Su Qin was not one of them.
"There's no need for you to know," Su Qin sighed softly, "If it's so difficult for you to escape, why didn't you immediately leave the Shaolin temple instead of wreaking havoc like this?"
Su Qin never considered himself as a true Divine Master Abbot. However, after spending ten years in the Shaolin temple, there was no way that he could have turned a blind eye and allowed the slaughter of the disciples of the Shaolin temple. Moreover, he had a pretty good relationship with Zhen Zhi.
"Who are you to mess with what I'm doing?" asked the Blood-Sucking Devil coldly as he narrowly his eyes.
Even though the appearance of Su Qin was quite a big threat to the Blood-Sucking Devil, he noticed that Su Qin was extremely young.
Even if a young monk like him trained the moment he was in his mother's womb and had all the full resources of the Shaolin temple, he could only have achieved the lowest level of the Upper Realms. How could he have been a match for the Blood-Sucking Devil?
As soon as the Evil Path aura was shattered by Su Qin, it must have been his power that increased exponentially to the extent that he slightly lost control of his Internal Force.
"I'm guessing that you're the secret genius that the Shaolin temple's been nurturing. It's such a shame that my favorite people to kill are geniuses!" The eyes of the Blood-Sucking Devil flashed with killing intent and the aura within his body began to surge violently once more.
Since he was the mortal enemy of the Shaolin temple, killing a temple genius was not such a bad idea.
"A moment ago, my aura wasn't stable which was why you're able to break through it. We'll see if you'll be able to destroy my Evil Path aura this time!"
With each word that he uttered, the suppressive force in the air grew stronger. Once he finished speaking, evil energy filled the air as far as the eyes could see. The Blood-Sucking Devil used the great martial arts of a first-rank demon from the ninth level of the Mystical Village Tower.
The Evil Domain of Heaven technique!
That technique was something that only a demon of the Upper realms had the qualification to use. It connected heaven and earth to transform them into an Evil Path domain.
Within the domain, the power of the Blood-Sucking Devil grew explosively. As for his opponents, they felt suppressed by the domain and struggled to move or strike.
"There's not much time left." Su Qin seemed to sense something and he started to shake his head slightly.
Then, he sensed countless auras rushing toward them at high speeds. It was clear that abbot Hui Wen and a couple of temple court heads noticed that something was not right.
"There's not much time left?" The Blood-Sucking Devil froze momentarily in surprise but he soon revealed a cold smile and said, "It's true, you're running out of time."
The next moment, the Blood-Sucking Devil stretched out his right hand and pointed it in the direction of Su Qin. In an instant, a large amount of Evil energy accumulated above him and began to harshly press down.
"I'm using the full force in this blow. After all, he doesn't seem like a typical first-rank grandmaster…" The Blood-Sucking Devil looked extremely pleased with himself. He was about to continue speaking when…
What happened next caused the Blood-Sucking Devil to gasp for air as if someone strangled him. It looked as though all the evil energy that came within three feet of Su Qin instantly vanished into thin air.
"No way! There's no way in hell!!!"
The Blood-Sucking Devil was extremely surprised. It was like he saw something impossible.
Even though the Buddhist sect martial arts techniques were meant to counter the martial arts techniques of the Evil Path, none of them should have been able to directly cause the Evil energy to disappear like that without any contact.
It was no longer a 'countering move'; it was destruction. A total and utter destruction.
Before he could have reacted, Su Qin took a step and appeared right in front of him.
"This is bad! Run! Quickly!"
The Blood-Sucking Devil was flabbergasted! If he knew the true extent of Su Qin's power was far beyond what he currently possessed, he might have lost it.
"A first-rank. He must at least be a first-rank grandmaster! When did the Shaolin temple produce such a young first-rank grandmaster!?"
A bottomless sense of regret grew in the pit of the Blood-Sucking Devil's stomach. If he knew that the Shaolin temple had a first-rank grandmaster presiding within it, he would have never infiltrated the temple even if he had ten times the nerve he had!
"It's late." When Su Qin saw that the Blood-Sucking Devil planned to escape, he casually raised his right hand and formed a first before lightly letting it fall. That single punch landed on the Blood-Sucking Devil, as slow as the punch of a child play fighting. Yet for some strange reason, he was unable to dodge that blow. It was like he was weighed down by a heavy force. He was completely unable to move.
Whoosh!
As the Blood-Sucking Devil looked on with despairing eyes, Su Qin's punch landed on him. In that instant, that terrifying blow completely shattered all his organs and destroyed his body.
"You!?" spluttered the Blood-Sucking Devil. He spat out a spurt of blood that filled the air as he fell slowly to the ground.
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A moment had passed when abbot Hui Wen appeared before the Mystical Village Tower.
'The movement of Evil energy's coming from the Mystical Village Tower. I fear that a demon has escaped,' thought abbot Hui Wen full of worry as he rushed over as fast as he could.
Over the past thousands of years, the Mystical Village Tower was an impregnable fortress that was completely secure. There should not have been a problem…Abbot Hui Wen looked sick.
If a problem had occurred at the Mystical Village Tower and all the demons within it escaped, it would have been an unprecedented disaster for the Shaolin temple!
All the demons locked up within the Mystical Village Tower were imprisoned for many years. Hence, they must have had an unfathomably deep hatred of the Shaolin temple. If they managed to escape, the first thing they would have wanted was to destroy the Shaolin temple!
Yet, when abbot Hui Wen arrived at the Mystical Village Tower to take a good look at the sight before him, he was dumbstruck.
Even though all 108 warrior monks were unconscious on the ground, their aura was steady and it was clear that they were still alive. As for the Blood-Sucking Devil's corpse that laid close by, there was a look of utmost desperation and fear on it!
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