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Chapter 40 - 40 27 Entrance to Hell!

40: Chapter 27, Entrance to Hell!

40: Chapter 27, Entrance to Hell!

“Ultra Kill!”

Shan He gritted his teeth as he spoke.

The first wave of bamboo arrow bombardment was to lure the enemy in deep, I knew it wouldn’t injure you, but I wanted you to know I was waiting for you just ahead.

Jing Ta, eager to achieve merits, charged at the forefront, and then there was a large net waiting for him up ahead.

The second net aimed to restrict freedom, to confine one or several targets within a very narrow area as much as possible.

While they were unable to move, they were to be shot one by one.

The third arrow was both a killing strike and a driving force.

Caught in the net, there was no avoidance possible, if capable, kill.

Even if someone managed to rescue him, it didn’t matter, for it had already limited Jing Ta’s range of movement to the span of a palm.

Yes, at that time, Jing Ta was being held in my own hand.

I had just saved him from the sky, and I didn’t even have time to put him down on the ground…

The fourth layer of the killing mechanism was the Dog Leg Knife, which struck like a ghost, killing the enemy in the unseen.

When you thought you had dodged the bamboo arrows, there was a large net in front.

Just when you managed to cut the net at the critical moment, before you could even catch your breath, the Dog Leg Knife would strike again.

Unavoidable, undefendable.

This required not only immense strength but also deep psychological manipulation.

Shan He was really curious, what kind of person could set up such a perfect Ultra Kill in a short time?

Was it the young boy in front of him, whose hair hadn’t even fully grown yet?

Shan He was a master of controlling Qi with eyesight beyond ordinary people.

On this pitch-black night, he remained sharp, capable of noticing the color of the surrounding flora or even the sound of an insect’s movement.

He could see Tang Fei’s face, a handsome young man whose features were even exquisite.

Even the good-looking boys on the Star Sky ranking seemed less attractive when compared to him.

What was most memorable were those eyes: clear, bright, filled with a mocking smile and a devil-may-care boldness.

How could such an outstanding boy come from the Old Land?

Did the nuclear radiation fail to fry their brains?

Boom!

Shan He dropped Jing Ta, whom he had been holding, to the ground; the man was already dead, holding him no longer served any purpose.

Just as Joker had said, a dead man could not provide any help to the team.

Shan He turned to Tang Fei and asked, “Did you set up this trap?”

“Yes,” Tang Fei said with a grin, “are you satisfied?”

“Very impressive,” Shan He said.

“That you could set up such an Ultra Kill in such a short time…

honestly, it was something we hadn’t considered before.

I admit, I’ve made a huge mistake.

I underestimated you.”

“I thought I had taken you seriously enough, I didn’t even give my team the opportunity to scatter and be defeated one by one.

But now I realize, I still underestimated you.”

Tang Fei waved his hand nonchalantly and said, “It wasn’t that amazing.

If it wasn’t for your stupidity, our Ultra Kill would have been for naught.”

“Stupid?” Shan He looked skeptically at Tang Fei.

“Yes,” Tang Fei pointed to the severed body of Jing Ta on the ground and said, “If I’m not mistaken, this big guy practiced a defensive cultivation technique like ‘Vajra Cover’ or ‘Iron Cloth Shirt,’ right?”

Shan He’s eyes narrowed as he nodded and said, “Yes.”

Indeed, Jing Ta practiced a defensive cultivation technique named ‘Turtle Explosion Skill,’ focusing on defense, compressing himself to the limit, and then exploding at the crucial moment to strike down the opponent with the force of thunder.

That was why they had Jing Ta take the lead to break the path, in case they needed him to take arrows at the crucial moment.

“This kind of technique is tough to deal with; if it comes to a head-on confrontation, it’s very difficult for an average person to harm them…

without knowing their vital points, even fighting for three days and nights might not determine a winner,” Tang Fei explained.

Then, he squinted his eyes and thanked Shan He, saying, “At the critical moment, I have to thank you, uncle…”

“Oh?

What help did I provide?”

“If you had put him down the moment you rescued him, helping him cut off the external net…

with his strength, defending himself would have been more than sufficient…

I didn’t expect you to keep him suspended in the air, letting the net wrap around him so he couldn’t move…”

“At that moment, isn’t that the best opportunity to strike?

Uncle, don’t you think I should thank you?”

“Hahaha…”

Joker burst out laughing.

He laughed until his voice was hoarse, bent forward and backward, even stomping his feet on the spot.

He pointed at Shan He and said, “Shan He, uncle…

hahaha, I should also thank you…

thank you for helping me get rid of this big guy…”

“It’s just too funny…

to think that the one who killed our man is one of our own…

hahaha, isn’t that hilarious?”

“…”

Shan He’s expression turned dark, his eyes flashing with red once more.

Joker, on the other hand, didn’t care at all, as if he hadn’t noticed Shan He’s unusual expression, pointing at Tang Fei he asked, “Kid, what’s your name?”

“Tang Fei.

Tang Fei’s Tang, Tang Fei’s Fei.”

“Interesting, truly interesting.

Kid, I like you, we’re cut from the same cloth.”

“I walk the path of the living, you walk the path of the dead.

We’re not the same,” Tang Fei said.

Joker just laughed even more joyously, pointing at Tang Fei and saying, “Audacious, quite audacious…

kid, I like you even more…”

“Shameless!”

“…”

Joker couldn’t laugh anymore.

Although he thought that this retort was even funnier, his face was frozen, unable to smile.

Shan He looked at Tang Fei and said, “The Ultra Kill performance has ended, hasn’t it?”

“It’s over,” Tang Fei said.

“Then it’s our turn to perform.”

“Alright,” Tang Fei said cheerfully.

“Now, please start your performance.”

Before he could finish speaking, Tang Fei turned and ran.

Shan He sprang to action, soaring into the sky like a cannonball.

“Trying to escape?” His body flew through the air, chasing after Tang Fei who was dashing through the dense forest like a startled rabbit.

“Leave your head behind.”

Tang Fei had cut off Jing Ta’s head, so he also intended to take Tang Fei’s head.

Only then, upon returning to Star Sky, would he avoid being ridiculed…

He knew if Tang Fei didn’t die by his hand, and if the team he led didn’t get completely annihilated…

The previous scene would become the greatest humiliation of his career.

Helping an opponent cut off a teammate’s head, if such talk spread, would he still have the face to meet people?

His career would be greatly affected, and he might even become unemployed.

Seeing Tang Fei flee, Joker, Snake Woman, and others also used their movement techniques to chase wildly behind him.

Tang Fei ran very fast, his feet seemingly catching the wind.

Dodging and weaving, he shot left and right, occasionally reversing direction.

He loved this feeling, the sensation of becoming one with the vast mountain and the lush forest.

He was all too familiar with this place.

From the time he began to remember, or perhaps even earlier, he ventured into these mountains with the old man and Little Fatty.

At first, the old man took him and Little Fatty up the mountains to hunt, then the old man watched as he and Little Fatty hunted, and later, the old man let him and Little Fatty hunt on their own…

Until he hunted alone in the mountains.

Where the fierce animals were, where double-headed sheep and double-eyed rabbits could be hunted, which patches teemed with wild mushrooms enticing wild boars, where there were stagnant waters, where there were cliffs…

He knew them all.

He knew the mountains like the back of his hand; he was the king of these mountains.

Of course, that was when the Mutated Tiger King and Vajra Leopard didn’t make an appearance.

Or when the wolf packs didn’t show up.

Tang Fei passed through Blossom Ridge, crossed Crocodile Pond, vaulted over White Bone Canyon, and kept moving forward, ever forward…

And then he stopped.

He stood there, gasping for breath.

Bang!

Shan He landed like a cannonball, his hefty boots stomping into the mud, staring at Tang Fei and declaring, “Kid, I thought you could run?

Keep running.”

“No more running.” Tang Fei waved off, panting heavily.

“I can’t run anymore.”

“Then, this will be your place of death,” Shan He announced.

Red light glinted in his eyes, his fists clenched, also with a shimmer of red.

It was an extremely sinister and evil cultivation technique, known as Thousand Corpses Transformation.

This technique was mainly used to absorb the phosphorus fire from corpses, which is the ‘ghost fire’ often spoken by the older generation.

Because human bones contain phosphorus, after a body decomposes and goes through chemical reactions, it can produce phosphine, which ignites easily.

Moving can cause it to trail behind; looking back, it’s quite fearsome, hence those superstitious people call it ‘ghost fire.’

Shan He absorbed this deathly aura with his technique, then melted and devoured it, ultimately killing with the toxic energy of the corpse.

Thanks to this evil technique, he managed to cultivate his own Yin Yang Qi, breaking through realms and ascending in rank, becoming a renowned assassin in Star Sky.

“This place?” Tang Fei looked around, smiling.

“The scenery is not bad, why don’t we name it?”

“Your final resting place, call it whatever you want.”

“I’ll call it Gate of Hell,” Tang Fei suggested.

“Suit yourself.” As Shan He spoke, he prepared to spring up again.

He remembered a line from a movie he’d seen on New Star that made an impression: villains die from talking too much.

He knew he was the villain, so he tried to speak as little as possible.

Especially during a mission, he was nearly silent.

He didn’t want to waste words with Tang Fei; he aimed to eliminate him as quickly as possible.

After all, Tang Fei wasn’t his real target.

It was that bird hiding in the shadows.

Huh, no bounce.

Another try, still no bounce.

Then, with a look of surprise, he turned to Tang Fei and asked, “What is this place?”

“Didn’t I tell you?

This is Gate of Hell…

that’s what we locals call it.”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t you feel your body rapidly sinking?” Tang Fei said with a chuckle.

“The faster you move, the deeper you sink…

Even the Lion King and Tiger King are useless here…

How about it?

This Ultra Kill isn’t bad, right?”

“What about you?

Why aren’t you sinking in?” Shan He glared at Tang Fei’s body, who still maintained a calm standing posture, showing no signs of sinking.

“Because I floated in, and you jumped in,” Tang Fei laughed.

“I must admit, Uncle, that jump of yours was really full of vigor.

Respect.”

“…”

Shan He realized he had been tricked again.

The Ultra Kill!