Chapter 572: No Intact Corpse Left
Zhao Xijun said: "Chen Yong, don't cry just yet. First tell me, what exactly happened? How did you turn into a pig's head, oops sorry, I didn't mean that. I mean you already look like a pig's head, er my apologies, I misspoke again, what I meant to say is, how did you get beaten up like this?"
Although Zhao Xijun referred to him as a pig's head, Chen Yong dared not explode with anger. He said: "Young Master, I encountered Lin Fan!"
"What?"
Zhao Xijun was once again stunned, then his whole persona turned joyful and he asked, "You said you met Lin Fan? Hurry, what exactly happened?"
Chen Yong, with tears streaming down, recounted the whole incident.
"This damned Lin Fan, this time, I must kill you!"
After hearing Chen Yong's account, a boundless murderous aura emerged from Zhao Xijun.
After pausing for a moment, Zhao Xijun somewhat suppressed the rage in his heart and asked Chen Yong, "By the way, do you know where Lin Fan is? After he hit you, he must be hiding somewhere. It won't be easy to find him."
Chen Yong replied, "Don't worry, Young Master. While he wasn't paying attention, I left a tracking mark on him. With the tracking mark, we can find him very quickly."
"Good!"
Zhao Xijun said excitedly, "There's no time to waste; let's set out to deal with Lin Fan right now. He dares to touch my people? I'll make him, dead!"
...
After a small hill, Lin Fan sat quietly here, intentionally waiting for Zhao Xijun and Chen Yong to arrive.
At this moment, Lin Fan's face carried a faint smile as he coldly said: "Heh heh, leaving a tracking mark on me? How naive."
In fact, the moment Chen Yong left the tracking mark on Lin Fan, he was aware of it. He was just pretending to be clueless, all to lead Zhao Xijun here.
"Huh?"
At a certain moment, Lin Fan's brow furrowed slightly, but in the next instant, a smile quickly appeared on his face: "They're coming a bit sooner than I expected!"
Just in the instant before, Lin Fan had already felt Zhao Xijun and Chen Yong quickly approaching his direction.
Both of them were very fast and soon reached the peak of the hill where Lin Fan was standing.
"You've come, huh?" Lin Fan said with a grin, appearing to be very casual.
On seeing Lin Fan's demeanor, both Zhao Xijun and Chen Yong suddenly had a bad premonition.
In their hearts, they thought: "This guy, he's so calm? Could it be that he has some kind of backup?"
However, Zhao Xijun quickly returned to his senses.
In his opinion, no matter what backup Lin Fan had, it would be of no use against absolute strength. He would simply need to be cautious when making a move. By not giving Lin Fan any chance to breathe and directly slaying him, Lin Fan would have no opportunity to employ whatever backup he might have.
"You didn't run away?"
Zhao Xijun coldly said, not hiding the murderous intent in his voice at all.
Lin Fan's face still wore a smile as he replied: "I've been waiting for you guys right here; why would I need to run away?"
"Haha!"
Zhao Xijun burst into laughter and said, "I've never seen someone so idiotic, actually waiting here to die? Looks like you really want to die. Well then, since you wish for death so much, I'll grant it to you."
Then, Zhao Xijun didn't waste any words.
He took action.
His longsword swirled into motion, instantly producing myriad sword shadows.
All Swords Return to the Root!
This was Zhao Xijun's ultimate move.
Zhao Xijun had decided to take Lin Fan down in the shortest time possible, so he immediately employed his ultimate move, All Swords Return to the Root.
Layers of sword shadows astonishingly formed waves of blades, one wave after another sweeping towards Lin Fan.
"This move is very strong!"
Lin Fan thought to himself.
However, Lin Fan was not at all perturbed.
Calm and collected, the Heaven Punishment Divine Spear was already in his hand.
At the same time, he activated the Breaking Character Technique from the Combat Five-Character Technique.
A casual spear thrust was nothing less than an assassination strike.
At this moment, Lin Fan utilized the Breaking Character Technique, and although the fundamental of his martial arts hadn't changed compared to a few days ago, the power of the Breaking Character Technique had become much more formidable.
With a single thrust of his spear, the successive waves of Zhao Xijun's sword energy simply vanished.
Easily broken by Lin Fan.
"This..."
Zhao Xijun's face turned pale.
His sword strike, which he took great pride in, had been so effortlessly broken by Lin Fan?
Zhao Xijun couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes.
And just as Zhao Xijun was shocked, Lin Fan didn't remain idle; he made his move.
The Fast Character Technique from Combat Five-Character Technique?
Swoosh!
A faint sound of tearing through the air followed, and a spear light, as if slicing through the void, mysteriously appeared in front of Zhao Xijun.
Zhao Xijun didn't have time to resist, nor to dodge.
Because the speed of this spear thrust was too fast, it would not be an exaggeration to say it had surpassed any limits; Zhao Xijun had never seen such a fast move up to this point.
"How is this possible? Can there be such a swift move between heaven and earth?"
Zhao Xijun thought in horror.
"Thump!"
The next moment, without any suspense, the spear light pierced through Zhao Xijun's body; blood spurted from his mouth, and Zhao Xijun was wounded.
Zhao Xijun looked at Lin Fan in terror.
He hadn't expected Lin Fan to be able to injure him?
"Kill!"
And just when Zhao Xijun was overwhelmed with terror, Lin Fan suddenly let out a thunderous roar.
The Kill-Character Technique from Combat Five-Character Technique was activated.
In reality, during combat, under normal circumstances, it's rare to use the Kill-Character Technique, because once it's used, it signifies the necessity of taking a life.
An overwhelming murderous aura swept over Zhao Xijun like the Yangtze River.
Zhao Xijun's face turned ashen, and his heart was filled with even greater terror; at that moment, Zhao Xijun felt as though Death itself had locked onto him.
"Escape!"
Without any hesitation, Zhao Xijun attempted to flee.
Unfortunately, it was futile for him to try to escape.
Once targeted by the Kill-Character Technique, how could he possibly escape?
A spear thrust, as though coming from the heavens, pierced through Zhao Xijun's heart.
Boom...
In the next moment, before Zhao Xijun could even let out a muffled groan, his body burst apart.
Zhao Xijun was dead, and not a single part of his body remained intact.
"You... you..."
Chen Yong witnessed everything and was beyond terrified.
Initially, Chen Yong believed that with Zhao Xijun stepping in, it would be a matter of minutes to take down Lin Fan, because Zhao Xijun was ranked tenth among the experts on the Tiger List, after all.
But...
Never had he imagined that, in the end, Lin Fan would actually take down Zhao Xijun?
And within three moves?
Such strength left Chen Yong feeling hopeless.