It's better not to say

  The gleam of the knife is diffused, the sound of the zither is in waves.

  The wind and rain come, a somber and murderous atmosphere, in the dense forest, the fallen leaves rustle, killing intent arises from all sides.

  "Pffft!" "Pffft!"...

  On the ground, on ancient trees, on rocks, corpses lay, a sky filled with bloody mist, seven corpses slowly turning cold.

  "The cold state of Xu's family is one day closer to your downfall!"

  Li Ke rummaged through Xu Liang's body and soon retrieved 5,000 taels of silver notes and a bottle of Lianbing Dan from his pocket.

  Since the money is delivered right to your doorstep, you might as well take it!

  Lianbing Dan is a common elixir used by high-level cultivators in the Lianbing realm, which can accelerate cultivation. It is also one of the benefits that the Double Blade Sect provides to its disciples. One bottle contains ten pills, enough for a high-level cultivator to use for a week. Each pill is worth three thousand taels of silver.

  "The old man's closed-door disciple is really impressive!"

  Li Ke smiled coldly and continued to search Xu Zheng's body.

  In the Cold Spring Mountains, killing and robbing is a common occurrence. Many skilled martial artists lie in wait to ambush and kill travelers, stealing their valuables. It's worth noting that killing and robbing can be more profitable than slaying metal beasts.

  Three thousand taels of silver tickets, one bottle of Lianbing Dan.

  "It's really not bad, with these silver coins, buying a few physical weapons will give me a bit more hope!" Li Ke was overjoyed. Physical weapons were expensive, and if he relied solely on killing low-level iron metal beasts himself, it would probably take three months to buy just one.

  With a smile in his heart, Li Ke quickly took out the money and elixirs from the other five people.

  A moment later, Li Ke looked at the two thousand taels of silver bills and four bottles of Lianbing Dan in his hand, revealing a surprised smile. Two thousand taels of white silver were equivalent to the value of two high-grade iron-level metal beasts, while four bottles of Lianbing Dan could last him for a month.

  "With these four bottles of Lianbing Dan, plus the accelerating effect of the red mark, breaking through to the fourth stage of Lianbing within a month is no problem!"

  The tempered soldier's soul slows down as it goes further, even Li Ke's flying knife soldier's soul with the red streak acceleration effect has slowed down a lot, but now paired with the tempered soldier's pill, his speed becomes faster again.

  Li Ke's speed was incredibly fast, and he finished all of this in just a few minutes. Then, he took a glance at Zhong Qing, the identity of this young girl was very mysterious, and she possessed a real entity soul at such a young age, which showed her high status.

  "Get out of here first!"

  Zhong Qing opened his mouth, cast a disgusted glance at Xu Liang who was killed by Li Ke with one knife, and then his body moved, transforming into a fluttering purple light shadow, directly rushing into the deeper part of Hanshui Mountain.

  "What quick movements!"

  Seeing Zhong Qing's movement, Li Ke was shocked on his face. After further improvement of his skills, he found that his perception seemed to have also strengthened a lot. Looking at Zhong Qing's rapidly disappearing figure, he knew that relying solely on such speed was enough to prove Zhong Qing's extraordinariness.

  "Brush!"

  However, Li Ke didn't say much either, and his body followed closely behind, instantly displaying the Nine Dragon Fish Transformation technique, transforming into a white shadow that tightly followed Zhong Qing, rushing deep into the Hanshui Mountains.

  ……

  After a moment, in the central region of the Cold Spring Mountains, this was no longer a place where ordinary soldiers dared to come. The central region of the Cold Spring Mountains was fraught with danger, and it was said that a Steel-grade Metal Beast, the Bloodsteel Lion, had once appeared here.

  Blood Steel Furious Lion, a steel-grade metal beast, with muscles and bones as hard as blood steel, resistant to knives and guns, incomparably harder than iron-grade metal beasts.

  "Brush!"

  A flash of purple light, and a beautiful figure with a romantic air stopped in front of an ancient tree.

  "Ah!"

  Almost at the same time, Li Ke's body suddenly stopped and stayed not far from Zhong Qing.

  Zhong Qing looked at Li Ke and smiled faintly: "You are an inner disciple of the Double Blade Sect? An inner disciple with a seventh-grade soldier soul?"

  Li Ke smiled and nodded: "What? Doesn't it look like it?"

  "It's not like that, it doesn't seem like that at all? A Seventh-rank Soldier Soul, an inner disciple of the Refining Soldier Realm's third layer, can actually instant-kill a Fourth-rank Soldier Soul in the Refining Soldier Realm, and the opponent is even a Sixth-rank Soldier Soul! This isn't normal."

  Zhong Qing narrowed her eyes, like a cunning little fox, staring at Li Ke.

  "Haha! What's abnormal about it? Can't we kill people, only be killed by others?" Li Ke asked back with a smile.

  Infatuated without reason, she rolled her eyes, gazing at the sky. Half a moment later, she suddenly said: "The flying knife of the soldier's soul, the mysterious body method, the shocking knife technique, and still with the surname Li - could it be that you are a descendant of the Li family, the ruler of the ancient state of Bashu, the divine soldier of the Bashu kingdom?"

  Li Ke was taken aback by this sudden question, if it were someone else, they would have been deceived long ago. But Li Ke's intuition had become extremely keen, and before Zhong Qing even opened his mouth, he knew that Zhong Qing must say something extraordinary, and he was already mentally prepared.

  "Is the soul of the soldier a zither, possessing a physical martial instrument, with profound and mysterious movements, an enchanting melody, surnamed Zhong, could it be that you are a disciple of the ancient Zhong family's divine soldier, Xuanqin Zhongli?"

  Li Ke reacted as quickly as possible, almost at the same time as the affectionate words fell, and suddenly opened his mouth to ask directly.

  "Hehe, unfortunately I'm not surnamed Zhong Li!"

  Zhong Qing seemed to know that Li Ke was going to say this, and when Li Ke finished speaking, he directly smiled and replied with a sly glint in his bright eyes.

  "What a pity I'm not either!"

  Li Ke was also very direct. The Li family, the dominant clan of the ancient Godly Army, had been his home for fifteen years. But now, he no longer had any connection with the Dominant Li Family.

  "Ba Dao Li Jia - I will be back!"

  In Li Ke's heart, the drips and drops of two years ago, he had never forgotten, he deeply remembered that stormy night with thunder and lightning, his vow to the heavens.

  "In three years, I, Li Ke, will definitely be back!"

  "Come back and take back everything that belongs to me!"

  "It's not that it's not, but you can't fool me, you're definitely not just a simple inner disciple of the fifth-grade sect!" Zhong Qing furrowed her delicate and straight nose, tilted her head, and hummed softly.

  Li Ke shook his head and smiled wryly, the little woman in front of him was clever, decisive, and intelligent, if Li Ke's abilities hadn't improved and his perception hadn't become much stronger, he might have already been deceived by her.

  "Many things are better left unsaid!" The identities of Blade Li and Xuanqin Zhongli were too astonishing to reveal, and if they weren't careful, they would become the target of countless soldiers' pursuit, which was extremely perilous.

  "It's great that you didn't say anything!" Zhong Qing laughed heartily and took out two stalks of Lingcao Ziyue from his backpack, tossing one to Li Ke and saying: "Here, it's yours!"

  Looking at the two stalks of Lingcao Purple Moon in his hand, Li Ke's heart was filled with excitement. The age of the two Purple Moon Lingcao had reached a thousand years, belonging to the first-class upper grade, each worth 50,000 taels of white silver. Two stalks together would be 100,000 taels, enough for him to buy two lower-grade mortal weapons.

  In addition to the 20,000 taels of silver tickets that Li Ke obtained by killing Xu Liang and his seven men, he now has a total of 120,000 taels of white silver.

  120,000 taels of white silver, this is a sixth-grade family's two-year net income, but he used it up in just two short days.

  "Is this making money too fast?" Li Ke felt it was all a bit unreal.

  "Hehe!" Zhong Qing smiled lightly and said, "Very soon? If the two of us join forces and kill the Iron-ranked High-tier Metal Beast, it'll probably be even faster, right?"

  When Li Ke heard Zhong Qing's words, his eyes suddenly lit up. Seeing that Zhong Qing's expression was not like he was joking, he nodded heavily.