Martial Arrogance Dragon Soul-Chapter 35: A Gruesome Death

The air briefly solidified.

Just as Qin Qing was about to turn around and flee,

the hunter named Zhong Hu suddenly shouted loudly, "Ah Bai, shut up!"

"Whimper..."

The White Phoenix Dog, scolded by Zhong Hu, immediately whined a few times and closed its mouth, no longer barking.

"Young Master Qin, don’t make a sound!" Zhong Hu suddenly said in a deep voice.

"You know me?" Qin Qing frowned slightly.

"Young Master Qin, your father once saved me. If you don’t make a sound, I’ll say I haven’t found you!" Zhong Hu whispered.

Qin Qing nodded.

He had not expected to encounter someone his father had saved, here of all places.

His father was acutely aware of justice and placed great emphasis on loyalty; in many people’s eyes, he was a knight-errant.

Zhong Hu then took the White Phoenix Dog and pretended to search around once more.

Then, he returned to Shangguan Xuan with the White Phoenix Dog.

"Young Master Shangguan, I didn’t find him; he should not be here..." Zhong Hu said to Shangguan Xuan.

"Not here?" Shangguan Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he scrutinized Zhong Hu.

"Zhong Hu, have you searched carefully?" the hunter pushed Zhong Hu.

"I have searched carefully. There’s nothing over here..." Zhong Hu nodded.

"Young Master Shangguan, it’s possible that Qin Qing has escaped. If we pursue him now, we should be able to find him nearby!" the hunter said again.

Shangguan Xuan gestured to several mansion soldiers nearby.

Those soldiers immediately stepped forward.

"You, go over there and check!"

Shangguan Xuan pointed towards the location where Qin Qing was hiding.

In the bushes.

Qin Qing’s eyebrows twitched.

This Shangguan Xuan was indeed formidable.

Upon receiving the order, the soldiers headed directly towards Qin Qing’s location.

"No choice now!"

Qin Qing took a deep breath, and his gaze suddenly fell on a large rock in front of him.

There was a crevice in the middle of the rock.

Qin Qing crawled rapidly, staying close to the ground.

Soon, he was standing in the crevice, body pressed against its sides.

This crevice made an angle with the bushes where Qin Qing had initially been hidden—it was a visual blind spot.

Qin Qing could only hope that the soldiers wouldn’t be so thorough in their search.

The group of soldiers, entering the bushes, continuously knocked against the growth with their long halberds, or pierced them directly.

If Qin Qing had still been hiding there, he would have undoubtedly been stabbed by a long halberd.

"No one!"

"He’s not here!"

"Is there anyone on your side?"

"Nothing... It seems he has indeed escaped!"

The soldiers kept communicating.

Their voices were right next to Qin Qing.

Qin Qing leaned against the crevice in the rock, tightly pressed against the stone wall, motionless.

Just then, a fuzzy touch suddenly appeared on Qin Qing’s face.

Qin Qing’s pupils dilated.

It was a spider the size of a fist.

Black and covered with fine fur.

The fur glistened with an oily black sheen.

The spider, having climbed onto Qin Qing’s face, started to spin its web...

Large swaths of sticky silk plastered over Qin Qing’s face, accompanied by the smell of rancidness.

Qin Qing was speechless.

He could only let the spider weave its web across his face.

Clearly, the large spider had mistaken Qin Qing for a big, plump bug.

"Let’s go. It seems he has truly escaped..."

The soldiers talked amongst themselves, preparing to leave.

"No, something’s not right."

Suddenly, one of the soldiers stopped and pointed down at the ground.

"There are traces of dragging on the ground..."

"And they are freshly overturned. The moisture hasn’t even dried yet!"

"Go check over there!"

A mansion soldier pointed towards the huge rock where Qin Qing was hiding.

Several mansion soldiers glanced at each other, then cautiously approached Qin Qing’s location, long halberds in hand.

"Damn it..."

Qin Qing gritted his teeth, listening to the footsteps of the mansion soldiers getting closer and closer.

The soldier at the front arrived in front of Qin Qing.

He turned his head...

The next moment.

He locked eyes with Qin Qing!

Suddenly.

The soldier’s eyes widened!

"He’s..."

The soldier had just begun to shout.

Qin Qing grabbed the fist-sized spider from his face and shoved it into the soldier’s mouth!

"Die!"

Then, Qin Qing punched through the soldier’s chest, leaving a bloody hole.

Without any hesitation.

Qin Qing wiped away the spider webs on his face, leaped up, sprinted a few steps on top of the boulder, climbed up a nearby cliff, and then bolted without looking back.

He hadn’t gotten far when suddenly, a scream came from behind him.

His eyes dilated with fury as he bellowed,

"Shangguan Xuan, you truly deserve to die!"

He saw Shangguan Xuan holding a standard long halberd used by the mansion soldiers.

And this halberd had pierced through Zhong Hu’s forehead from the back of his skull, its tip embedded into the ground.

Zhong Hu’s sturdy body was now kneeling on the ground, his head held high, effectively impaled on the ground!

Qin Qing was shaking with rage.

Because he had helped him, Shangguan Xuan had cruelly killed Zhong Hu!

"Shangguan Xuan, don’t let me escape!"

"If I get away this time, I will kill you with my own hands!"

Qin Qing clenched his teeth, his anger nearly igniting into a blazing inferno within.

At the same time, all the mansion soldiers were hot on his trail.

Three of them were at the forefront.

They were the fastest, and on their bodies intertwined gang patterns.

Divine Might Realm Martial Artists!

After reaching Perfection in the Soul Refinement Realm, the spiritual energy within a martial artist’s body would highly compress and condense, undergoing a transformation to form a new kind of power.

This power was even more destructive and potent.

This was Gang Qi!

The three Divine Might Realm mansion soldiers caught up to Qin Qing within a few moments, closing a distance of merely ten-odd zhang.

"Die!"

All three struck at Qin Qing in unison!

Qin Qing’s gaze flickered as he sensed imminent danger behind the attacking Divine Might Realm mansion soldiers.

Almost instinctively, Qin Qing leaped to the side.

"Whoosh!"

A beam of sword light nearly grazed Qin Qing’s scalp as it passed by.

This sword strike cleaved a tree as big as a washbasin cleanly in half.

There was also a fist packed with power.

It smashed into the side of the cliff.

The cliff was blasted open, leaving a crater roughly ten feet in diameter.

The cliff even trembled unceasingly as large rocks tumbled down.

But the most terrifying was the third attack.

This Divine Might Realm mansion soldier wielded a purple-gold Dragon Pattern long whip.

This whip struck Qin Qing’s back directly.

With a muffled groan, Qin Qing felt a burning pain on his back, as sharp as if drilling into his heart.

At the same time, his chest felt as if struck by thunder, with all his organs quaking violently.

Then, he spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

This blow was like adding injury to injury.

Had it not been for Qin Qing’s physical body being tempered by the Dragon Soul, had he been anyone else, even a physically powerful martial cultivator would have fallen.

"Hehe, Yun Lan, are you watching? This Qin Qing... no matter how talented, isn’t he now just like a dog that has lost its home?"

Shangguan Xuan chuckled, pulling Mu Yunlan along at an unhurried pace, following Qin Qing.