Universe Infinite Canteen-Chapter 376: Multiplayer Game

Gu Qingyi spoke faster and faster, "Auntie Zheng’s husband is suffering from a serious illness, and this is his perfect disguise, because no one would suspect a sick man.

"Moreover, he went to bed early this evening, lying next to Auntie Zheng, with his body conveniently shielded by Auntie Zheng, so Chen Er, who was keeping watch at night, wouldn’t notice his absence without a careful look.

"Another key point is that the spot where their family of three sleeps has a direct view of the Old Beggar. He saw the Old Beggar leave and followed him to the rooftop, waiting for the opportunity to strike...Hmm, but I don’t quite understand, why he wanted to kill He Qisheng."

"Before you arrived, He Qisheng had verbally harassed Auntie Zheng," Ma Lu said, "Catcher Gu truly has a discerning eye, to have realized from the beginning that this was a vendetta."

"Ah, did I say that?" Gu Qingyi said to himself with secret delight, it seemed his intuition was quite accurate, "But just for a few words, to kill a man?"

The sick man, however, looked very calm; he coughed for a while before he finally spoke.

"In Jianghu, it is naturally the law of the jungle. He Qisheng relied on his martial arts and thought he could insult ordinary people at will, not even taking small forces like Xingtong Escort Agency seriously. If my martial arts are superior to his, then killing him is naturally a matter of course."

"So it really was you, the evil-doer, who killed my senior brother!" The two disciples of the Songxi Sword Sect exclaimed both in shock and anger, "Since you are from the martial arts circles, if you had revealed a bit of your martial skills, we wouldn’t have troubled you and your wife. Why must you make an enemy of our Songxi Sword Sect?"

The sick man fell silent for a moment, then a fierce smile suddenly spread across his face, "Is the Songxi Sword Sect so impressive? Since you’ve been blabbering nonstop, why don’t you join your senior brother down there."

After speaking, he suddenly made a move, throwing out a handful of hidden weapons—pieces of a broken green brick, which he had picked up at some unknown time.

As he threw the brick, he also fiercely increased his palm force, shattering it into pieces.

The fragments shot out in all directions, and aside from Ma Lu who had ducked behind Gu Qingyi in advance, avoiding the disaster, nearly everyone else was grazed by the flying debris.

The next moment, everyone was dragged into the fight.

A massive battle zone emerged within the Ruined Temple.

Not only the two disciples from the Songxi Sword Sect, but also Gu Qingyi, the scholar from Bliss, and the people from Xingtong Escort Agency, all changed their expressions.

None of them had expected the sick man to be so brazen as to take on numerous opponents alone.

However, after the initial shock, the faces of the two disciples from the Songxi Sword Sect lit up with joy.

The martial arts of their senior brother, He Qisheng, was above theirs. If the sick man had been able to kill He Qisheng, it was very likely they were no match for him either. But now this fellow, for some unknown reason, had dragged everyone into the fight all at once.

This immediately boosted their side’s chances of winning.

However, Shen Zhou and the scholar were not as optimistic as they were; both were seasoned veterans in Jianghu, especially Shen Zhou, with an exceptionally keen sense of danger.

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In the Xingtong Escort Agency, he might not be the highest in martial arts or the courier who lost the least number of escorts, but he was the most popular courier amongst the couriers.

Because following him on a job, as long as luck wasn’t extremely bad, one could generally make it back alive.

Shen Zhou was naturally cautious and extremely adept at communicating and mediating, but this time he didn’t even have the chance to open his mouth.

The cards, glowing with a ghostly light, had already flown out from his body, and then the top three cards flew back into his hand.

Shen Zhou held a spear in one hand, raised it over the back of his head, and took a horse stance.

He looked down at the cards in his hand; he was quite fortunate, drawing two Heart Method Cards and one Parry Card in the first round—an excellent start.

As the initiator of the battle, the sickly man went first and had already completed drawing his first hand of cards.

He snorted coldly and threw down two cards—both were the Heart Method: Mixed Yuan Energy.

Each Mixed Yuan Energy card provided him with 7 points of True Qi and 5 points of parry, as well as increasing the power of his next move by 6 points.

The effect of Mixed Yuan Energy wasn’t incredibly strong, but the parry it provided and the boost to the power of the next move were very practical. Most importantly, the sickly man had already cultivated Mixed Yuan Energy to the 6th Level.

Shen Zhou was surprised to see the level in the top left corner—6th Level. He hadn’t expected the man who looked so ill, as if he could perish at any moment, to have almost achieved Great Perfection in cultivating Mixed Yuan Energy, possessing such vigorous internal strength within him.

However, producing 7 points of True Qi from a single Heart Method Card was plenty for an average person, but for a master close to reaching Great Perfection in First-Class Internal Skills, the effect seemed somewhat meager.

Shen Zhou glanced at the sickly man’s red figure on the left side, which displayed a number "64"—just one point more than Gu Qingyi, but 5 points less than Shen Zhou himself, which clearly did not match his internal cultivation.

Considering the sickly man’s sallow complexion and his incessant coughing, it dawned on Shen Zhou, "You’re injured!"

"Don’t worry, even in my current state, I’m more than enough to deal with all of you," said the sickly man as he played another card, a Body Protection Card—the third form of Subduing Demon Vajra Skill: Angry Vajra.

"I choose to spend 5 points of True Qi to activate the two additional effects of this card, gaining 20 points of parry and becoming immune to all attacks with a power of 10 points or less."

As soon as he said this, the onlookers couldn’t help but gasp in shock, finally understanding where the sickly man got his confidence to take on so many adversaries alone.

This meant that the couriers from the Xingtong Escort Agency were virtually incapable of handling him, and the two disciples from the Songxi Sword Sect weren’t very strong either. Throughout their whole deck, combined, there were only three moves powerful enough to exceed 10 points.

Gu Qingyi, who was playing the "turtle strategy," lacked offensive capabilities until his defense was sufficiently built up.

Hence, the only real threats to the sickly man now were Shen Zhou and that scholar from Jile Street.

The sickly man gave the scholar a meaningful look and declared, "My turn is over."

Feeling unnerved by his stare, the scholar started to draw his cards with a slight panic, but he was reassured by the fact that the one who went first in the first round couldn’t attack, which calmed his mind, and so he reached out to draw his cards.

Seeing the two cards he drew, his eyelids twitched.

They were his specialty in Martial Studies—the two techniques of Bone Shifting Skill, both quite powerful.

However, what the scholar desired most at that moment was a Body Protection Card, as he could sense he was the target of the sickly man’s next attack.

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Therefore, his priority was to prepare to parry, but unfortunately, all he held were Attack Cards.

With no other choice, the scholar gritted his teeth, played a Heart Method Card to add 5 points of True Qi to himself, and then unleashed the first and second techniques of the Bone Shifting Skill. With the boost from his True Qi, both moves were over 10 points in power—one at 12, the other at 14.

The sickly man lost 6 points of health due to this sudden onslaught, which gave the others a glimpse of hope.

The two disciples from the Songxi Sword Sect shouted, "Yes, that’s the way to hit him! He’s injured, and with so many of us, we can grind him down even if it takes time."