Chapter Twenty-Five Exposure

  "Ptoo! Who would have thought that the great disciple of the venerable Master Mingde of the Great Ming Temple would turn out to be a shameless thief!" The woman seemed to be unable to run anymore, leaning against a boulder, turning around and saying with hatred. Her chest was heaving violently, gasping for breath.

  The woman was only a few dozen feet away from Li Muran, but she didn't seem to have noticed him hiding. Li Muran saw this scene and slightly furrowed his brow. From the woman's behavior, it seemed that her magical powers were sealed and she couldn't mobilize them. Otherwise, with just a slight mobilization of her powers, she would be able to calm her breath.

  "Haha, what's the big deal about being a thief? Being a king or a bandit is still better than dying young like you!"

  "You managed to escape this far after being hit by my Five Poisons Soul Chasing Powder, that's quite impressive! You must have been taking good care of your body, today let me teach you a lesson!" The monk said with a lustful expression.

  "It was the Five Poisons Soul Chasing Powder." Li Muran nodded secretly, this was a kind of poisonous medicine commonly used by thieves mentioned in "The Thief's Classic", which could cause a cultivator's magical powers to be gradually sealed and their body to become weak and paralyzed. Subconsciously, Li Muran immediately thought of seven or eight methods recorded in "The Thief's Classic" that could remove this poison.

  The woman was shocked and angrily scolded, "Humph, you dare! Who am I? You're not unaware of it. Do you dare to lay hands on me without fear of our sect investigating thoroughly and making your days unbearable?"

  "This point doesn't require Young Mistress Yan to worry about, with her family background, after I've done this deed, I'll flee the country. The world is so big, how can your respected father track down my whereabouts!"

  The monk said, step by step approaching the woman, and smiled: "Young master has long heard that Yan Shimei is a national beauty, today young master is fortunate, naturally wants to have both wealth and beauty!"

  "How dare you!" The woman was shocked, her body trembling slightly.

  Her weak and helpless appearance only fueled the monk's evil intentions, who burst out laughing: "You'll know soon enough if I dare or not!"

  The monk's footsteps quickened, and he reached out to grab the woman's clothes.

  At this moment, a strong light suddenly emitted from the woman's body, transformed into sharp beams of light, and shot straight at the monk.

  This sudden change was extremely sudden, but the monk seemed to have been prepared in advance, and his reaction was also extremely fast. Almost at the moment when the woman took action, he took out a turtle shell-shaped magic weapon. This magic weapon was originally only the size of a palm, but under the monk's pouring magic power, it instantly transformed into a size of several meters, blocking all the light arrows in front of him.

  A loud, dense explosion sounded, and the turtle shell-like magic tool was shattered by a beam of light in an instant. The monk was forced to retreat several steps, but he was not injured.

  "Fly across the sky!" The monk sneered and said: "Indeed, it's in your hands! Unfortunately, this trick, you can only use once! Haha, let's see what you do next..."

  The monk was rejoicing over forcing out and dissolving the girl's ultimate move when he suddenly discovered that, dozens of feet away by the spring water, a young man in a Taoist robe had appeared out of nowhere.

  "What kind of person!" The monk was shocked.

  This young man was naturally Li Muran, who was secretly cursing his bad luck. Just now, among the flying arrows that filled the sky, one of them happened to hit the boulder where Li Muran was hiding, causing stone chips to fly everywhere.

  Li Muran had to dodge hastily to avoid being hit by the flying rocks, his night concealment technique was only slightly successful, and small movements would not break the concealment, but dodging the flying rocks was a big movement, immediately breaking the concealment effect of the night concealment technique, exposing his figure in front of the two people.

  "It turned out to be a young junior of Yuanfu Sect." The monk sized up Li Muran for a moment, and suddenly felt relieved.

  Whether in terms of age or cultivation, Li Muran is obviously a novice disciple who has just entered the gate of Qi Mai's early stage, while the monk himself is a cultivator of Qi Mai's later stage, and his cultivation is far superior to that of Li Muran, so he doesn't take Li Muran seriously at all.

  "Spare my life, brother!" Li Muran trembled all over, looking extremely frightened.

  "Tsk, tsk, it's your fault for seeing something you shouldn't have!" The monk stepped closer to Li Muran, his voice dripping with malice as he said, "Only the dead can keep secrets!"

  Li Muran seemed to be so frightened that he couldn't move, neither fleeing nor casting a spell to protect himself, but staring at the opponent with an unblinking gaze, his expression extremely terrified.

  One step, two steps, three steps, the monk gradually approached Li Muran within ten zhangs. However, just at this moment, a golden light flashed on the monk's body surface, and he actually took out the Golden Vajra Canopy technique.

  Li Muran's heart sank, and he secretly cursed his bad luck.

  He deliberately showed weakness, wanting the opponent to be off guard, just like Qing Yuansu was careless at first, so he had enough opportunity to suddenly counterattack and defeat the enemy in one move!

  However, unexpectedly, this monk was a cautious person. Even though his cultivation was much higher than Li Muren's, he still carefully took out the Vajra shield to protect himself, seeking to be absolutely safe.

  The monk raised one palm, standing in front of his chest. Li Mu suddenly felt a stir in his heart, this was a common gesture used by Buddhist monks when casting spells, and he feared that the next moment would bring all sorts of powerful Buddhist magic attacks upon him.

  At this moment, Li Muran suddenly moved violently, like a black shadow flashing by, and the monk was just careless for a moment, Li Muran actually slipped to his side.

  "Want to escape?!" The monk let out a cold snort, turned around and chopped down with his palm, instantly a dazzling golden light flashed across the night sky, cutting out like a giant knife blade.

  This move is called Light Blade Slash, a high-level Metal attribute spell. With one slash of the sword, it can shatter gold and jade. Even a hard rock as big as several meters in size can be split into two halves with just one strike.

  This golden light was cut off at an extremely fast speed, and the range it covered was also very large. Even if Li Muran's body shape was more agile, he would not be able to dodge it.

  In the eyes of the monk, this symbol gate youngster was already a dead man after his own light blade slash!

  However, at the same time, the monk saw that countless flashing flames suddenly flew towards him. He was shocked in his heart and hastily activated all his magical powers to gather on the surface of his Vajra shield.

  Having cultivated to this realm, his magical powers were already extremely proficient and could be said that with just a thought, he could cast a spell.

  However, the countless flames turned into small clusters of scarlet fire that exploded violently on his body, accompanied by a deafening roar. In an instant, a massive explosion of flame formed around the monk.

  The sound shook the sky and the echo reverberated through the valley, completely shattering the quiet of the night.

  After the explosion, the flames died down, and the black smoke that had risen from the ground also dispersed in the wind, revealing a charred body with no signs of life.

  A gust of night wind blew in, and that body turned into flying ash, dispersing with the wind. It had been thoroughly shattered in the explosion.

  Only one storage bag fell to the ground. This storage bag should be a high-quality, expensive treasure, so it didn't get destroyed along with the monk's body.

  That monk couldn't have imagined that such an unremarkable Symbol Gate youth could suddenly take out over thirty Flame Explosion Symbols in one breath, which was equivalent to being hit by over thirty Flame Explosions at once. Even with his Vajra Shield protecting his body, he wouldn't be able to withstand it.

  More than thirty Flame Explosion Talismans were released, which was equivalent to nearly two hundred pieces of Spirit Stones smashing into his face. Except for Li Muran, probably no other Qi Refining stage disciple would have such a method.

  Moreover, these talismans were all made by Li Muran himself, so he could deploy them all at once; otherwise, even if he had drawn them out one by one, they would not have posed a threat to that late-stage Qi Refining monk.

  "Haha, who would have thought that the great and famous Xuan Mu's first disciple would actually die at the hands of a Yuan Fu Sect disciple in the initial stage of Qi Refining!" A woman not far away witnessed this scene, first stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing excitedly, emitting a silvery laughter.

  "What are you laughing at? You're next!" Li Muran's cold voice rang out, and then he climbed up from a pile of rubble.

  "You're actually still alive!" The woman was shocked and pale, her face filled with astonishment.

  Li Muran's body shone with a faint layer of light, which was also the Golden Light Shield, but its power was extremely weak and on the verge of collapse.

  "Not bad luck!" Li Muran removed a talisman from his chest, its energy almost depleted. The faint glow on his body immediately disappeared.

  Just now, under the protection of King Kong Fu, he blocked the monk's slash, but was rolled up by the air wave generated by the explosion and flew out for several meters, falling on the rubble.

  Fortunately, King Kong's defensive power was not bad, and he didn't get hurt.

  Li Muran picked up the monk's storage bag and stuffed it into his bosom without hesitation, saying calmly to the girl, "I just saved your life, but you cursed me to death instead. Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

  The young girl was taken aback and hastily said, "Yes, yes, I was reckless with my words and have offended many! Thank you, Brother, no, thank you, Benefactor, for saving me. If the Benefactor can send me back to Danxin Sect, I will definitely express my gratitude heavily!"

  "This is of no interest to me at all!" Li Muran said coldly.

  The maiden's expression solidified: "Then what do you want to do? Are you also going to kill people and steal treasures?"

  Li Muran shook his head and said, "Heavenly treasures and earthly gems are endless, but to kill people for a few valuable items of limited value is something I am unwilling to do and also look down upon!"

  The girl felt relieved upon hearing this and her expression also eased up a lot. She said, "Sir, you are indeed a chivalrous gentleman, thank you for saving me."

  The girl said, and then struggled to get up.

  "Hold on!" Li Muran coldly snorted: "I haven't said I'd let you off so easily! If you leave like this, you'll probably bite back and say that I killed the high monk of Da Ming Temple. Afraid that my life will be in danger! To protect myself, I can only do what I must!"

  "Hmph, you also want to kill and silence? You're just like those bandits, why bother finding excuses!" The girl coldly snorted, both angry and helpless.

  Li Muran didn't say a word, but his eyes kept sizing up the girl, and a hint of an eerie smile played on the corner of his mouth.

  "What do you want to do?" The girl's face changed, and she subconsciously retreated a little, her body almost curled up into a ball.

  "Then just kill me!" The girl said with a pale face.