The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 86 - 73 Deterrence_1

Chapter 86: Chapter 73: Deterrence_1

Chapter 86 -73: Deterrence_1

“Pang Jian, look what you’ve done!”

Realizing the extent of the situation, Han Duping turned his head and glared fiercely at Pang Jian, cursing indignantly, “That forthright and honorable Zhou, what has he turned into because of you?”

After finishing his curse, he quietly tucked the poison powder pouch back into his sleeve and charged forward.

Pang Jian was taken aback.

He thought, wasn’t it you who told Zhou Qingchen to go all out by any means necessary? How could this be blamed on me?

With that thought, Pang Jian wanted to join the battle with his spear but was taken aback for the second time.

“Whoosh!”

The Heart Protection Mirror on Zhou Qingchen’s chest suddenly emitted a blindingly bright light, accurately shining into the opponent’s face.

That person had been holding his breath and had his eyes shut to prevent the poison powder from affecting him.

Bearing the numbness and stinging pain on his skin, he finally broke free from the range of the poison powder. The moment he opened his eyes, he was struck by a harsh light, then saw nothing more.

“Damn your mother!”

With tears in his eyes, he cursed in anger, flailing his hands defensively, but was cut open and killed by a blow to the abdomen from Zhou Qingchen, whose realm was superior to his own.

By the time Han Duping arrived, Zhou Qingchen had already pulled out his knife and pushed the dead body to the ground.

“This…”

Su Meng’s eyes widened as she looked at Zhou Qingchen in a daze.

She thought to herself that the blinding technique with the Heart Protection Mirror was something she had done before in the house, so how come Zhou is copying her?

Jiang Li, who was concerned for Zhou Qingchen’s safety, relaxed her gaze somewhat strangely as she saw him neatly kill a man—this was unlike the Zhou Qingchen she knew.

Luo Hongyan, standing nearby, cast an odd look at Pang Jian and shook her head without speaking.

“Senior Sister Jiang, I don’t usually do this. Uh, these kind of tactics were recently taught to me by Pang Jian.”

As Zhou Qingchen turned around, he saw the strange look in Jiang Li’s eyes, and like a child who had done something wrong, he sheepishly explained with a blushing face, “I was worried about you and Su Meng, so I wanted to end the trouble quickly.”

Jiang Li gave a restrained, shallow smile and nodded gently, indicating that he need not worry.

Zhou Qingchen heaved a sigh of relief, fearing that Jiang Li would look down on him for winning by unworthy means.

“How despicable!”

Li Jie watched Zhou Qingchen with a dumbfounded expression and then said with contempt, “It’s not like you couldn’t beat him, so why resort to such means?”

“Despicable!”

“With the Cultivation of Marrow Cleansing Realm, you actually resorted to poisoning and ambushing an opponent in the Meridians Channeling Realm!”

“Kill these dishonorable curs!”

According to Luo Hongyan, Zhou Qingchen, who had deliberately shown strength, had barely exchanged a word with Jiang Li when he noticed the people at the back door of the City Lord Mansion were filled with righteous indignation.

It seemed that his attempt to intimidate had inadvertently caused public outrage.

“Damn it! My clever plan backfired.”

No longer in the mood to scold Zhou Qingchen, Han Duping’s complexion changed drastically when he saw several more people furiously charging forward.

The leading man was tall and broad, his muscles bulging like rocks.

He was loudly boosting the morale of his companions.

“Kill them first, especially those three young women, they all seem to be in the Meridians Channeling Realm!”

“Everyone, be careful; only that young man with the knife is in the Marrow Cleansing Realm. If they die, we may not need the extra sacrifices!”

Encouraged by this man, the crowd’s anger ignited, and several others with murderous gleams in their eyes came closer.

Zhou Qingchen’s victory was owed to the poison powder, and his exceptional combat prowess was not fully showcased, so they did not fear him.

Soon, over a dozen people broke away from that area of fierce battle, ready to target the easier prey by quickly killing Jiang Li and the others.

“Swoosh!”

A long spear, like a flaming meteor, carrying an explosive high temperature, pierced through the air instantly.

The bulky-chested provocateur, who kept inciting the crowd, suddenly bore a hideous blood cavity.

He looked down in disbelief at the charred and terrifying hole in his chest and then crashed heavily to the ground.

“Pang Jian!”

Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping both exclaimed in surprise.

In a blur, they saw Pang Jian swiftly move past them, pull the bloodstained long spear from the corpse, and then pounced into the crowd like an arrow.

The bloodthirsty long spear danced nimbly, picking and puncturing, producing one after another gorgeously tragic spray of blood.

Several cultivators of the same realm were pierced through the chest or neck by that bloodthirsty long spear and fell one after another.

Those who were most vocal were mostly the weaker ones from outside the City Lord Mansion.

Because only by killing more people weaker than themselves to meet the death toll required by Bagua City could they escape their own doom.

These individuals were also at the Meridians Channeling Realm, not particularly outstanding in combat, and so Pang Jian had no difficulty dispatching them.

Pang Jian, like a fierce god of war, flicked the long spear calmly, each thrust inevitably claiming a life.

His body, cleansed by Phoenix Marrow, had connectivity in his muscles and bones far superior to his Meridians Channeling Realm adversaries, making them unable to even touch him.

In a moment, more than a dozen bodies lay between him and the back door of the City Lord Mansion.

“Drip, drop! Drip, drop!”

Blood, dripping steadily onto the ground.

The blood hit the stone with a barely audible sound and then silently disappeared within.

The stone slab remained as smooth as jade.

Pang Jian stood firm with his spear, cold and hard like a rock for ten thousand years, as he looked ahead amidst a field of bones.

A group that had wanted to attack Su Meng, Jiang Li, and the others, and had already spread out to prepare for an ambush, quieted down after a glance at him, with no one daring to make a rash move any further.

“Young brother, don’t misunderstand, we just despise that sneaky guy who carries a knife and sprinkles poison powder.”

One person, overwhelmed by Pang Jian’s aura, licked his dry lips and forced a weak smile, cupping his hands in greeting: “Someone who kills in an honorable and straightforward manner like you, young brother, we actually admire!”

“Indeed!”

“This is a warrior that commands respect!”

“I respect you as a man. Those three women you’re protecting, I won’t touch them anymore!”

The crowd expressed their positions one after another.

No one dared to propose hunting down these newcomers any longer.

Without a word, Pang Jian wiped the bloodied long spear on the clothes of a corpse, and without waiting for it to be completely clean, he turned and left.

Designated as despicable scoundrels, Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping had intended to intercept those who dared to take a detour in an attempt to ambush Jiang Li.

At that moment, seeing that those people had suddenly retreated to their original spots, they both secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Let’s go.”

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When he came to their side, Pang Jian gave them a strange look and said, “What are you dazing for?”

“No, nothing.”

Han Duping was a bit embarrassed but then solemnly patted Zhou Qingchen on the shoulder. “Let’s go, despicable kid. To be frank, I also despise your behavior!”

Zhou Qingchen was stunned for a moment.

“I wonder if that girl in white has died at the main gate.”

As the three men were now approaching and no one around dared to provoke them anymore, Luo Hongyan frowned and softly uttered this sentence.

At the same time,

Those who just wanted to join the fray, seeing that Pang Jian had slain more than a dozen people, also temporarily stopped, seemingly wanting to see if the City Lord Mansion had opened something unusual.

“Not enough.”

In the City Lord Mansion, a leisurely and indolent male voice suddenly instructed, “Don’t stop, keep killing.”

As soon as these words came out, the fire of slaughter rekindled in the eyes of those who had stopped around the City Lord Mansion.

The slaughter exploded once again!

Luo Hongyan’s eyebrows twitched, and seeing the shock arise in Jiang Li’s eyes, she asked curiously, “The person speaking inside, he’s the one who chopped off one of your hands, right?”

Jiang Li was about to answer when she saw Zhou Qingchen returning and hurriedly shook her head in panic.

Luo Hongyan nodded and hummed, “Alright, I understand now.”

She confirmed that the speaker was the one responsible for the deaths of those at Red Mountain and also the one who caused Jiang Li to lose half her arm.

“Sister Jiang, please don’t misunderstand, I wasn’t like this before. I didn’t know that guy was only in the Meridians Channeling Realm; it was Old Han who told me to go all out, so…”

Zhou Qingchen’s face turned red as he felt every gaze upon him was filled with strangeness, and he embarrassingly explained himself to Jiang Li.

“You don’t need to apologize; I hope you know that as long as you can live, that’s good enough, I don’t care what methods you use,” Jiang Li shook her head and whispered, “At that time, if we could have gained a chance to live through using the poison powder, I would have done the same.”

With these words, Zhou Qingchen felt a little better.

Subsequently, Zhou Qingchen couldn’t help but start to reflect on whether he had truly done something wrong?

The process of cooperating with Pang Jian to kill Jian Yaoyang and others was so easy that he didn’t exert much effort to eliminate all the hidden dangers and crises.

It was precisely because of this that when he encountered a similar event again, he naturally resorted to similar means to confront the enemy.

The result… turned out surprisingly well, but it had brought about much criticism as well.

“Living, is above everything else,”

Pang Jian said softly from the side.

Upon hearing these words, Zhou Qingchen smiled and also said, “Yes, staying alive is what’s important, not the process.”

…

Inside the City Lord Mansion.

In the center of the courtyard, there was a large square pool. At the bottom of the pool, an ancient bronze box, a bright long spear, a resplendent robe, and a White Jade Porcelain Bottle were placed.

The dazzling brilliance condensed into a column of light soaring into the sky, presenting the Strange Treasures from the pool’s bottom within the column of light for all in Bagua City to see.

At this moment, several people had already arrived early around the large square pool.

There were four stone pillar-like platforms next to the square pool, standing at its four corners.

Each platform had someone settled on it.

One of them sat cross-legged; he wore blue clothes and had a handsome appearance; it was he who just said it wasn’t enough.

Opposite him, Dong Tianze sat on another platform, with Leng Yuan from the Yin Spirit Temple standing behind him.

Dong Tianze’s injuries had already healed; his slaughter earlier had proven his strength and earned him a place here.

“Pang Jian.”

He frowned as if he could hear this name that he often muttered to himself amidst the chaotic noise from outside the city.

“It must be my imagination.”

A moment later, he shook his head mockingly, dismissing further thoughts.

The sounds of slaughter outside were deafening, with the noise of metal clashing in all directions; he took it that the name had come from his own voice since he had been muttering it so often.

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