Volume 1: Cloud Sky Chapter 85: Robbery and Murder (Part 2)

  The raindrops didn't know when they had stopped, the sky that had been overcast for three days finally broke free from the clouds' control, and the warm sunlight slowly emerged, shining so brightly it was almost dazzling.

  The rustling sounds around disappeared, making this suburban forest even more quiet.

  The two purple-robed youths with the surname Lü by Lei Jie's side had already been staring aghast, their eyes wide with shock and incredulity as they looked at Chu Hao. Their mouths were agape, but they couldn't utter a single word!

  Their junior brother Li Mao was actually knocked unconscious like this.

  Knocked unconscious by an ordinary person who has only refined his bones for two layers!

  How ridiculous a thing it is, yet they can't laugh at it ---- not even the corners of their mouths can be raised into an arc of laughter.

  It's just too cruel!

  A cultivator of Bone Refining who can knock someone unconscious with a single slap, what an ironic reality!

  Is he still a Bone Forging Warrior?!

  At this moment, this guy who is simply abnormal, is slowly scanning himself with his aggressive and murderous gaze!

  The same chilling gaze!

  As a martial artist who has refined his skin to the eighth layer, he should be able to knock out Li Mao, who has only refined his skin to the seventh layer. They thought they also had this ability, it's just that they would need to put in a bit more effort.

  But they absolutely can't do it like Chu Hao, one punch at a time, as if teasing a dog, yes, teasing a dog. At that time, Li Mu was like that eager-to-die dog, willingly enduring the punches, until he fainted!

  This bizarre scene, how could it not leave them both shocked and terrified?

  Among the three, only Lijie, a postnatally great martial artist, has been paying attention to Chu Hao and discovered the cat's claw. He found that every time Chu Hao launched an attack, his cultivation would surge violently for an instant, and then recover to its original level of only having refined his bones to the second layer when he withdrew his fist.

  This shows that his cultivation and internal strength are absolutely not just at the second layer of Bone Tempering!

  Refining his bones to the second layer, how could he so easily knock out Li Mao, who had refined his skin to the seventh layer? He didn't believe it, and not just him, anyone would be skeptical!

  Because a second-layer Bone Forging martial artist simply doesn't have such powerful destructive force, they can't break through the defenses of a high-ranking martial artist!

  However, even though Lai Jie had been observing Chu Hao's movements and his abnormal speed and strength, due to the short interval and the swiftness of it all, he hadn't reached the Innate Stage and couldn't grasp it at all. He also wasn't clear about what level Chu Hao's cultivation had reached in that instant when he burst out.

  It's just his estimate, absolutely impossible to surpass himself!

  Because of the great perfection of the skin refining method, a warrior can defeat an enemy as strong as himself with just three punches, or even less than three punches!

  This is the difference between acquired and congenital, and having received the great perfection of heaven and earth!

  However, before everything was settled, he was still extremely cautious and had not a shred of sympathy for Lü Mao being knocked unconscious. As long as Lü Mao didn't die, using his injury as the price, exposing this mortal's reliance, it was all worth it!

  "You shouldn't be a nobody." Lijie narrowed his eyes, staring at Chu Hao's calm face and the murderous aura in his eyes. His heart trembled slightly, then he controlled his emotions and said lightly: "Just now I misjudged you, you're at least an eighth-layer cultivator, and the move you used to snatch my spirit symbol should be a kind of profound hidden weapon technique. Tell me your name."

  After hearing Lie Jie's words, the two purple-robed youths finally came back to their senses, but were shocked once again in their hearts. This ordinary person was actually just like themselves, also a martial artist at the eighth layer of the Refining Skin stage! At this moment, they didn't doubt Lie Jie's words in the slightest.

  However, from the exchange of more than a dozen punches just now, I can see that this ordinary person's cultivation is quite good, and he was able to control his emotions and suppress his anger so quickly. Third Brother is indeed Third Brother, very impressive!

  Although they still had some doubts about how Chu Hao hid his inner strength, now was not the time to consider it. Everything would be fine as long as they left it to Third Master.

  Chu Hao didn't deny Lai Jie's guess, nor did he continue to ramble on with him. Instead, he withdrew his gaze and calmly walked towards Lai Mao on the ground. At this moment, he actually smiled, pointing at Lai Jie in mid-air and said lightly: "Remember, my surname is Chu, the charming Chu, not a person who charms people, but Chu Hao!"

  Lijie's whole body shook, and his inner heart, which had been controlled, was once again stirred up into a huge wave. His eyes widened, and he opened his mouth: "You're Chu Hao? The son of Yun Tianwei, the Far King?"

  To Lai Jie's surprise, Chu Hao also found it strange. I'm no longer in the martial arts world, yet I didn't expect that the martial arts world already had a legend about me.

  He smiled coldly: "Have you heard my name?" After a pause, Chu Hao suddenly stepped on Lai Mao's body. A series of cracking sounds echoed in the air as Lai Mao was brutally awakened, his face contorted in agony, his eyes seemingly about to bleed, and he let out a blood-curdling scream.

  The tragic scene of Lai Mao immediately made the three people shudder and feel a chill. They did not expect that Chu Hao would still be ruthless at this time, treating the three of them as nothing, and brutally trampling on Lai Mao's body!

  "Not bad, I am indeed Prince Weiyuan!" Chu Hao's smiling expression seemed to be filled with an inexplicable sense of eeriness in the eyes of the three people.

  Lai Jie took a few more deep breaths, his heart still reeling from shock!

  Before going down the mountain, his master specially warned them that if they encountered the son of Yun Tianwei Wang, they must not conflict with him, and endure whatever could be endured, and try to avoid him as much as possible!

  But Lai Jie didn't understand this, and he didn't care about it either. After all, as the abandoned genius of the Weiyuan royal family, even if he met an ordinary person, he wouldn't be inferior to them, so what conflict could there be?

  But now, after Chu Hao's words had just fallen, he suddenly deeply understood the true meaning of his master's words!

  At this moment, Chu Hao's foot was on Lian Mao, and his body suddenly burst out with a strong momentum. Moreover, this momentum gradually rose under the incredulous eyes of the three people!

  Refining Bones, Second Layer...

  Refine the bones in three layers...

  Refining Bones Four Layers...

  …………

  Refine the skin six layers...

  Refine the skin seven layers...

  Refine the skin eight layers...

  Finally, at the eighth layer of refining his skin, he stopped! Lijie felt a suffocating chill, this scene made him extremely tense, until Chu Hao's internal strength cultivation stopped rising at this stage, his tightly strung nerves finally relaxed.

  This Chu Hao was exactly as he had expected. He really was a ruthless and cunning martial artist...

  Unfortunately, before he could finish his thought, Chu Hao's face suddenly flashed a scornful smile. Before they could grasp the profound meaning behind this smile, an even more powerful aura came sweeping towards them like a tidal wave!

  Ninefold refinement of the skin... Great perfection of the skin refinement...

  First... Innate!!!!!!

  At the same time, after feeling a pure and majestic aura pressing down on him, Lai Jie could no longer remain calm, and like those two purple-robed youths, his face finally revealed an expression of shock and bewilderment!

  This aura is actually the innate aura!

  This mortal who is even younger than himself is actually a congenital practitioner!?!

  Although they were unwilling to believe the scene in front of them, this was indeed a fact! This vast and mighty aura could not be faked at all, it was undoubtedly innate!

  How is it possible!

  How could he be a congenital if he was a congenital practitioner in the Qi Refining stage, why didn't he kill himself and others just now, but instead allowed himself to be insulted by this junior?!

  Isn't Chu Hao rumored to have had a huge setback in his cultivation and become a useless person?!

  Liejie wanted to let out a loud roar, to vent the fear and horror that was spreading in his heart, but his throat was dry and he couldn't make a sound! Although he had achieved the Great Perfection of Refining Skin, the pinnacle of acquired cultivation, it was precisely because of this that he, who had only half-stepped into the Innate realm, understood more than others how terrifying the Innate was!

  That's not even an existence on the same level!

  Postnatal can never rival prenatal!

  Just like cotton and iron, is it the iron that hurts people or the cotton? No matter how heavy the cotton is, it can never hurt anyone!

  Now, he is that cotton ball, and the young master in front of him, with a smile on his face, mixed with a faint killing intent, is that iron lump, which can undoubtedly smash people to death!

  "Any last words, say them now, otherwise you won't have the chance." Chu Hao's anger, which had been burning in his heart all along, finally began to subside at this moment.

  He knew that in a little while these four people would all die at his own hands.

  And this was his first time killing someone, whether in his past life or in this life.

  But when he faced this thing, he became calm and composed. There was no extreme emotion caused by excitement or tension, only a deep-seated tranquility.

  From that night when Lu Ruhua's two slaps started, he knew he was about to embark on a different cultivation path. To think that he could still flirt with emotions, cultivate and refine his skills as before, and then refine his instruments, it was almost impossible!

  This is a world where the weak cannot survive. To live on, one must devour others rather than be devoured by them! However, cultivating the truth has always been a path of human nature.

  The road of cannibalism, the person who finally stands up must still trample on countless corpses under his feet.

  It was from that moment on that Chu Hao had made up his mind to kill, he wouldn't deliberately think about it, but when the time came, he would do it without hesitation!

  This is not to say he disregards human life, but because he values his own.

  His primary goal is to survive, only by surviving can he avenge himself and continue to grow stronger, intimidating all living things! And those who threaten his survival will not be spared, nor can they be spared!

  These few people, he is absolutely going to kill them!

  Chu Hao's words made all three of them jump in shock. Of course, if Lai Mao were still sober now, he would also be shocked along with them.

  "Chu Hao, we are disciples of the Purple Cloud Sect!" With a few threads of fear and regret already rising in his heart, Lie Jie forced himself to calm down, looking at Chu Hao and saying: "If you want to kill us, you should be clear about the consequences. The Purple Cloud Sect is not something that a single young master like you can handle, even if you are now a Xiantian cultivator, but in the Purple Cloud Sect, even those in the Foundation Establishment stage are countless!"

  "Zi Yun Men..." Chu Hao nodded, he had already guessed that these people might be disciples of Zi Yun Men, after all, in the Cloud Sky Empire, only Zi Yun was supreme.

  Seeing Chu Hao fall silent, Lie Jie's heart rose with a thread of hope, and he said: "The previous Imperial Void Symbol, I'll give it to you now. When we first met, my junior brother and I spoke out of turn without recognizing you, hoping that the Spirit Symbol can make amends."

  Although Lijie's heart was filled with hatred, wanting to chop Chu Hao into a thousand pieces, he could only endure it for now. As the second son of the Lijie family and a disciple of the Purple Cloud Sect, he had just learned about Chu Hao's identity, and as long as he didn't die today, he would surely bring bloodshed to the Chu family!

  Endure for a moment, exchange for a life, endure for a moment, revenge for past humiliation!

  He has pride and arrogance, but he doesn't have a life worth anything! He can be arrogant, he can be angry, but that was before he thought Chu Hao was just an ordinary person. Now, he must hold it in, even if his anger burns like blood, surging in his throat, he cannot let it out!

  He's quite flexible, after witnessing Chu Hao's aura and killing intent, he wisely chose to back down. And this time, his words were sincere, with a humble tone, even mentioning the backing of Ziyunmen didn't sound like a threat but rather a reminder.

  If it were someone else, perhaps he would have gotten what he wanted and let go, but the person he was facing was Chu Hao.

  "Give it to me?" Chu Hao suddenly smiled, then moved his foot away from Lie Mao's body and said slowly: "I remember, this spirit symbol was snatched by myself, it doesn't belong to you anymore. It's my thing, why do you say it's given to me?"

  Chu Hao's rogue words made Lie Jie's lips twitch, and he forced a smile, saying: "I still have a piece of low-grade spirit stone here. If the young master doesn't mind, you can take it too."

  Low-grade spirit stone?

  Chu Hao nodded silently and replied irrelevantly: "Do you know Lu Ruhua?"

  Lü Jie was taken aback and said: "Lu Shizi? She is a true disciple of the Purple Cloud Sect. Of course, I know her."

  "Well, then there's no problem, she's my wife!" Chu Hao said: "What you just said about the demon beast, what does it mean? Tell me."

  Chu Hao's thinking jumped too fast, Lijie hadn't recovered from the sentence "Lu Shijie is this person's wife" and was stunned again when he heard Chu Hao's question.

  The other party didn't say that he would let him off with the Ling Stone, nor did he say no, so he could only tell the truth: "This is my Purple Cloud Sect's assessment task for outer disciples to advance to true transmission disciples. I was lucky enough to get the qualification this time. This trip to Luo Sheng City is to exterminate a three-stage demon beast that has appeared there. As long as I can bring back the demon beast's inner elixir, I can advance to become a true transmission disciple."

  To save his life, Lijie put these things on a tray and served them up, which was actually true.

  Chu Hao's heart stirred, the inner elixir of the three-stage demon beast, wasn't that exactly what he needed! One of the materials to repair the Hunyuan Cauldron!

  "A third-level demonic beast is something that only a pre-heavenly cultivator can kill, do you think the four of you can complete the trial?" Chu Hao said with some skepticism in his heart.

  "The prince doesn't know, my fellow disciples and I have a set of linked sword techniques. With me as the main body, we can combine our strength to raise our cultivation to the Pre-Heavenly stage. Those three-stage demon beasts are just low-grade demons, as long as we're careful, killing them isn't a problem." Lijie said with his mouth, but in his heart, he was secretly regretful. If it wasn't for him underestimating this person's strength earlier and not letting Limao go forward to probe, the situation would be different now. Even if Chuhao is at the Pre-Heavenly stage, Lijie doesn't believe he can reach the 4th or 5th layer of the Pre-Heavenly stage. As long as it's below the third layer, their combined sword technique can kill him.

  But now, Lijiao has long been unconscious, and it's too late to say anything.

  Chu Hao nodded and said, "So that's how it is." As he spoke, he took a step forward.

  This scene caused Lai Jie and the other two to retreat a step, their faces tense. Lai Jie forced a smile and said: "Young Master, you've asked your questions, can you let my junior brother off now? We didn't do anything to you or your people just now, so let's just consider this matter settled and give it to our friends. The spirit symbol and the low-grade spirit stone are all yours."

  "Did you think I was a pre-heaven cultivator?" Chu Hao said suddenly.

  The three of them were stunned at the same time, somewhat bewildered. Before they could think about it, Chu Hao shook his head and said slowly: "I'm very sorry, I'm not actually a congenital cultivator."

  Is this Chu Hao, doesn't he have something wrong with his brain?

  Lijie was extremely unaccustomed to Chu Hao's way of speaking, and he carefully asked: "What does this mean?"

  "That's right ----" Chu Hao puffed out his chest, revealing a menacing smile, his tone full of arrogance and overbearingness: "Even if I'm not a congenital stage cultivator, I can still kill you all!"

  Hehehehe...

  At this moment, the distance between Chu Hao and Lijie was less than five meters. Just at this moment, he quickly recited a incantation in his mouth and suddenly made a move!

  A blue light flashed out from Chu Hao's arms, and immediately afterwards, a vast spiritual energy rose from the ground, an object with intricate carvings all over its body, in the shape of a wine jug, appeared in mid-air!

  This wine jug spun faster and faster in the air, and its volume began to increase gradually. It was only about three inches tall just now, but suddenly it swelled to over one zhang!

  At the same time, the five elements of Qi from all directions rushed towards Chu Hao's body frantically. Chu Hao's face was solemn as he controlled the Hunyuan Cauldron with his empty fist clenched and pulled downwards, causing the Hunyuan Cauldron to strike downwards fiercely!

  Lijie and others were shocked and pale, they had already made the worst plan, but seeing this scene, they still couldn't help falling into a moment of stunned silence!

  This resplendent and dazzling wine vessel, filled with a sense of the sacred, is absolutely no ordinary object!

  As for what it was, they didn't have time to think about it anymore!

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  A loud crash echoed through the entire forest, and before Lei Jie and the other two could even retreat, the Hunyuan Cauldron came crashing down on their heads! The Hunyuan Cauldron, filled with spiritual energy and oppressive aura, was surrounded by auspicious clouds and blue light. In an instant, the three of them were smashed to the ground!

  Liejie let out a mighty roar, he was the pinnacle of martial arts after all. He lay on the ground, gathering all his strength, gritting his teeth as he thought to use every last bit of energy for one final strike against the Hunyuan Cauldron!

  However, his actions ultimately ended in vain. The Hunyuan Ding did not even budge under the attack of the Five Elements, and then there was another loud collision, this time it was the upper body of Lijie's three people!

  Three people's minds simultaneously filled with despair, a dark curtain fell, and in the last moment that Hunyuan Ding landed, three miserable cries rang out one after another, blood splattered everywhere, and Hunyuan Ding ended their lives in an instant!

  Hehehe----

  After doing all that, Chu Hao's body suddenly shook violently, his hands propped against his knees, and he panted heavily. His face was pale, as if he had just suffered a serious illness.

  He was indeed exhausted. The heavy blow from Hunyuan Ding had almost depleted the internal energy in his body! However, he didn't have the slightest intention of resting at this moment, and with a strong effort, he shrank Hunyuan Ding back into his body. Then, looking at Lijie's trio, who were now disfigured and crippled, he picked up one of their long swords and walked towards Lijie Mao.

  "Leave it all to me." For some reason, Chen Honghong suddenly spoke up.

  Chu Hao nodded, took a deep breath, and then, without hesitation, his hand rose and his sword fell, stabbing through Lai Mao's throat! Blood flowed everywhere, and with one sword strike, Lai Mao followed his three senior brothers into the cycle of reincarnation.

  Still Chapter 2 Section 1.

  PS: Little King said: I've been thinking about a question, can we create an artifact that summons red tickets?

  Chen Honghong said: You little devil, stop dreaming. That's the Hongmeng Lingbao, a thing from the immortal realm, only in the hands of various great immortals. If you sincerely ask, maybe the great immortal will give it to you.

  Xiao Wang's overbearing demeanor was suddenly revealed, his eyebrows furrowed and eyes cold, saying: "Ah, I'm most devoted to the various great immortals. Pausing for a moment, he continued: "Uncles, brothers, and sisters of the Three Purities, quickly give Xiao Wang some red tickets! Xiao Wang wants to go hunt monsters and level up, without red tickets, I won't be able to buy equipment or pets!"