"It can't be, right?"
Thinking about Gu Han's recent performance—either cultivating or obtaining all sorts of resources with great luck—Ling Ying felt his own idea was wrong.
If Gu Han knew his thoughts, he would definitely tell him: "How others see you isn't necessarily who you are, but how you see others is very likely a reflection of yourself."
"This distance is perfect."
His gaze swept across the surroundings. Gu Han walked to a corner and crouched down. With a thought, he returned to the Black Tortoise Mystic Realm.
Releasing his spiritual perception, the situation in the inn was clearly reflected in his mind like a monochromatic 3D radar image.
This wasn't the main point; the situation he had seen earlier at the Mittel family's post house was the same.
The main point was that now, by visualizing the Black Tortoise Shell, he could clearly perceive the soul fluctuations of that burly man.
"I'll give it a try. If it succeeds, there will be benefits tonight. If not, then forget it."
Gu Han carefully observed the state of the burly man and the snake-woman, sitting silently like an old Daoist in meditation.
Ling Ying watched from a nearby rooftop, a little puzzled, not knowing what he was waiting for.
This wait lasted for half an hour.
"Now is the time!"
Gu Han sensed a new movement from the snake-woman inside the room.
Throughout the entire dual cultivation process, the man had been lying down, while the snake-woman was fully automated.
At this moment, a unique Dou Qi rose and circulated between the two of them, and the snake-woman suddenly took out the bead that contained two soul fluctuations.
Without hesitation, Gu Han gathered his own spiritual power and sent a transmission into the burly man's mind, simulating the pressure of a Dou King: "Wake up! The snake-woman is here to take your life."
By this time, the burly man had long had his fill and would have normally entered Sage Time.
It was only because his mind and will had been bewitched by the snake-woman that he had been lying there motionless.
Gu Han's voice rang out like a great bell, resounding in the depths of his soul.
"Hmm?"
The man instantly regained his clarity, breaking free from the restraints of the small green energy snakes.
He also remembered everything that had just happened with extreme clarity.
Looking at the woman sitting on top of him, her snake tail swaying, her upper body exquisitely shaped, but her true face as ugly as a yaksha, a habit cultivated over many years made him almost instantly mobilize the less than one-tenth of Dou Qi remaining in his body and execute a Low-Level Profound Rank Dou Skill.
"Fierce Tiger's Roar!"
This was the strongest Dou Skill the man had mastered. It could condense his Dou Qi into the form of a tiger's head to augment his fists or weapons, greatly increasing their power.
And at this moment, in his desperation, the man for the first time augmented his innate staff with this tiger head.
"He's awake!?"
Just as Lisa was about to activate her secret technique to absorb the energy from the Magic Core Crystal, she suddenly felt a fatal sense of danger.
Lowering her head, she discovered that the man had already woken up. She raised her hand to knock him out, but she sensed a sudden surge of energy from within her snake tail.
"Pfft!"
Lisa felt her lower body suffer a heavy blow, and even her internal organs sustained varying degrees of damage.
She was also decisive, condensing her Dou Qi and striking the man with a powerful and heavy palm.
"Crack!"
The man condensed his Dou Qi Gauze and raised his arms to block.
The Dou Qi Gauze was instantly shattered, and the man's arms bent at a grotesque angle. The pain from the fractures made him let out a miserable scream.
Lisa used the momentum to leave the large bed, transforming into a streak of cyan light and fleeing towards the window.
"Ah!"
The tearing sensation from below made the man's pain unbearable. For a moment, he didn't know whether his arms or his lower body hurt more. In the end, he fainted.
"Bang!"
Lisa jumped out of the window and landed on the ground. She felt a chaotic Dou Qi rampaging inside her Dantian—this was the backlash from the failure of her secret technique.
"Pfft!" Lisa instinctively spat out a mouthful of blood, only then feeling the situation inside her body stabilize somewhat.
"Damn it!" Lisa turned her head and gave the window a cold glance.
She had stolen the clan's sacred object and fled, being pursued by a Dou King with several Dou Spirits and some Dou Grand Masters, but even then her injuries had not been this severe.
To think this mere Dou Master would wake up at the most critical moment and attack her from within when she was completely defenseless.
Without high-grade medicinal pills, she probably wouldn't be able to recover for a year or two, and might even be left with permanent after-effects.
She wished she could go back and kill him, but the commotion the man had caused would surely attract people.
She didn't have enough of the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python's energy to transform her snake tail into legs right now, so she would be captured immediately.
"I'll spare your miserable life. You'll surely live in unbearable pain."
Lisa took out a third-grade pill and swallowed it. After a slight recovery, she dashed towards a courtyard wall to the side.
She didn't plan to return to the Miteer Merchant Guild's post house. Instead, she intended to leave Qinghe Town directly and hide in the nearby Magical Beast Mountain Range.
With her cultivation as a peak Dou Grand Master, even though she was severely injured, as long as she was careful not to enter the territory of fourth-rank Magical Beasts, she would be fine.
But just as she leaped into mid-air, preparing to land on the wall to push off, the sound of something tearing through the air suddenly came from behind her.
"Who is it!?"
Lisa spun her head around and saw a handprint one and a half zhang in size coming straight at her. The icy aura emanating from it froze the air and could even affect the circulation of Dou Qi in her body.
Normally, she could resist this bit of cold air just by circulating her Dou Qi. Her Dou Qi Armor could withstand the handprint's attack without even getting the hem of her skirt dirty.
But now, her body had suffered a heavy internal injury and she was suffering from the backlash of her secret technique, with Dou Qi running rampant inside her.
Faced with the sudden seal, the external force aggravated her internal injuries and the backlash. She could only take the palm strike head-on.
"Bang!"
Lisa was slammed directly onto the courtyard wall, shattering the entire wall, and was frozen together with some of the wall fragments.
"Swish!"
The sound of a longsword appearing out of thin air rang out. Gu Han closed in like a nimble snake, the sword's gleam flashing with an overflowing cold aura as it slashed towards Lisa.
"Ah!"
Lisa only had time to raise her arm to block, and her left arm was half-severed by Gu Han.
Gu Han condensed Ice Soul Dou Qi on two of his fingers, and a layer of Purple Qi Double Pupils appeared in the center of his dark eyes.
He saw through the condition of Lisa's body. His two fingers shot out, striking her vital points and acupoints, causing her internal injuries to worsen again. Her meridians were frozen, her Dou Qi became even more chaotic, and the effectiveness of the Dou Crystal in her Dantian was greatly weakened.
"Swish!"
Gu Han swung his sword again, his face frosty and filled with anger.
This Lisa's figure was indeed excellent, with ample breasts, a slender waist, and fair, smooth skin.
But her face was as ugly as a Rakshasa's, irregularly covered with various rainbow colors.
The thought that he had almost been targeted by such a snake-woman made Gu Han feel utterly disgusted.
"Die."
A sword, a finger, a sword, a finger.
After several such cycles, Lisa was stabbed through the heart by Gu Han without even a chance to speak.
"Hah."
Gu Han collected Lisa's body and all her belongings into the Black Tortoise Mystic Realm.
Ling Ying: !!!
What had happened in these few dozen breaths of time?
Gu Han had actually killed a peak Dou Grand Master!?
Just then, a voice came from inside the inn: "This person is Liu Suifeng! Someone has seriously injured Liu Suifeng."
"Is that the flower thief Liu Suifeng, who's wanted by the empire?"
"Hiss, his lower body is mangled. Could it be that he was ambushed while picking flowers?"
"It's said that Liu Suifeng has a high-level Profound Rank movement Dou Skill."
"Everyone, get out of the way. I will be the one to escort this person to Black Flame City."
"You're the one who should get lost! Why should it be you? Because you have a big face?"
Hearing the commotion inside, Gu Han, who had been about to leave, turned around, leaped high, and jumped into the inn through the window.
"Who is it!?" The people in the room all looked at Gu Han in unison.
One three-star Dou Master, two one-star Dou Masters, and the rest were Dou Fighters.
Qinghe Town ranked even lower than Qingshan Town. If not for its special geographical location and the Miteer family's merchant guild post house, it would never have developed at all.
"The one who killed Liu Suifeng."
Gu Han held his blood-dripping longsword and walked quickly towards the unconscious Liu Suifeng.
"All of you, stand down."