Chapter 22: The Knife
Sun Hao's feet suddenly forced, and the frightened Liu Jian's head stepped into the dirt, until he heard a crisp bone cracking sound, and then slowly raised his feet.
With the death of Liu Jian and Sun Qiong, the noisy jungle is also quiet again, Sun Hao stood quietly in the dark jungle, looking at Sun Qiong, who had no breath of life, and his face also leaked a faint loneliness, although the two fought from childhood to adulthood, but they have always been small fights, if they were not involved in the family fight, it is estimated that the two would not fight to the death.
"Hey", Sun Hao sighed lightly, his voice was full of helplessness, and then he shook his head and walked to Sun Qiong's side, and then took out a long knife from the space ring, holding the long knife with both hands, and a pit of about a few meters later appeared, Sun Hao pulled Sun Qiong, who had already died, into the pit and buried it in the ground.
After doing all this, Sun Hao sighed softly, the look on his face also became slightly relaxed, looking at the bulging mound, Sun Hao muttered to himself: "I hope I can be a true brother in the next life", and then stood up and walked into the distance, as for Liu Jian's body, Sun Hao didn't even look at it, I believe that it won't be long before Liu Jian's body will be torn to pieces by the beast.
Sun Hao left without looking back, with Sun Hao's departure, a figure slowly walked out of the quiet jungle, only to see the figure standing here quietly, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was feeling the big battle that happened here, and after a while, the man also muttered to himself: "Maybe the land of inheritance will create miracles" , and then a stream of pure spiritual power suddenly burst out from his palm, the moment the crimson spiritual power appeared, the temperature in the air rose sharply, and the crimson spiritual power condensed into a jumping flame in his palm, and then the palm of his hand waved towards Liu Jian's corpse, and after a while, Liu Jian's corpse also turned into a pair of black charcoal, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was a human or a beast.
"Bang".
Before the man came to Sun Qiong's mound, the huge spiritual power light shield transformed into the palm of his hand suddenly slapped towards the bulging mound, and it was razed to the ground with just one palm, and the palm waved slightly, and the stumps and leaves were also swept in, covering the bare land, after this person's treatment, it was impossible to see that there was no great battle here, let alone find the bodies of the two.
"There should be no problem in this way, if the Liu family and Sun Qinghe find the bodies of the two, this little guy will have to be in trouble," the man shook his head lightly and said.
Just after that voice fell, the figure also disappeared in place, and disappeared in a few jumps, if Sun Hao was there, he would be able to recognize that this person was none other than Shangguan Xi's father, of course, all of this was not clear to Sun Hao.
After the life-and-death battle with the two, Sun Hao also naturally broke through to the Great Completion of the Body Refining Realm, which was only one step away from the Broken Void Realm.
In order not to break through to the void realm, Sun Hao did not have any cultivation on the way back, and with the assistance of the Heavenly Pupil Technique 'Ming Shi', Sun Hao did not encounter any demon beasts along the way, and returned to the clan quietly.
Just when Sun Hao just stepped into his courtyard, a strong sense of crisis suddenly rose, drops of cold sweat fell down his back, the hairs all over his body fell up, and a chill rose from the bottom of his heart.
A huge sword qi slashed at Sun Hao's head, and before the huge sword qi reached Sun Hao's body, the raging sword qi was to cut off all the trees in the courtyard, and the hard ground was also cracked inch by inch, Sun Hao had no doubt that if he was hit, even if he didn't die, he would be seriously injured.
Sun Hao didn't understand who was hiding in his room to sneak attack him, at this critical moment, he didn't have any panic, the combat skills honed in the dark jungle played an important role at this time, in the face of the unknown sneak attack Sun Hao's heavenly pupil technique ran wildly, a pair of eyes almost turned sky blue, like a sapphire, almost in an instant he found the most favorable place for his own defense, the wind spirit body method was directly deployed, and he came to the safest place between the lightning and flint, behind a boulder in the courtyard.
At the moment when Sun Hao was just hiding behind the boulder, the huge sword qi also slashed at the place where his body disappeared, and under the raging sword qi, the earth in the small courtyard was trembling violently, as if it had experienced an earthquake, and the flowers and trees in front of the courtyard had turned into powder at this time.
Just as Sun Hao was about to fight back, a familiar voice sounded in his ears: "It seems that you have gained a lot from this trip to the Dark Jungle, your cultivation has reached the peak of the Body Refining Realm, and breaking through the Void Realm is just around the corner."
"Big brother, why are you?", Sun Hao gathered his fists and asked in astonishment, and then walked out from behind the boulder with a shocked face.
"Big brother is here to test your strength", Sun Xiaofeng put away the long sword in his hand, and immediately walked out of the room in a hurry.
Through the temptation just now, Sun Xiaofeng has a general understanding of Sun Hao's strength, which has been greatly improved from two months ago, so he can also rest assured that Sun Hao will go to the inheritance land.
At this time, Sun Hao's heart was also full of shock, he was shocked not because Sun Xiaofeng sneaked up on him, but because of the strength that the latter showed at the moment, his cultivation has made great progress during this time, the latter has not been lazy during this time, and his cultivation speed is also a thousand miles a day, and the strength shown by the fierce sword qi far exceeds that of Liu Jian.
"Shangguan Xi has been here more than once during your absence, and she asked me to tell you that I have to go to her first when I come back, saying that I have something to discuss with you", Sun Xiaofeng stepped forward and patted Sun Hao's shoulder lightly and said.
"Then I'll go find her now", after saying that, Sun Hao was about to turn around and walk towards the outside of the courtyard.
"Wait, during this time, I see that Sun Qiong sneakily haunts the Liu family often, and he didn't join Liu Jian to find trouble with you?", Sun Xiaofeng said with concern the moment Sun Hao turned around.
"Don't hide it from my eldest brother, Sun Qiong and Liu Jian attacked me when I was training in the dark jungle, but unfortunately they didn't succeed", Sun Hao raised a smug smile on the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice.
"That's good, when we have the next chance, we will serve Liu Jian and the kid from the Zhang family together, and see how arrogant they are", hearing this, Sun Xiaofeng first exhaled heavily, and then his calm face was also covered with frost, and his eyes were also surging with killing intent.
"Hehe, how can these two pieces of garbage bother the eldest brother to make a move, the two of them have ...... at this time", Sun Hao looked up and looked around, and after finding that there was no one, he made a movement to wipe his neck, and his eyes were full of coldness.
"You mean you've slaughtered them", Sun Xiaofeng, who was shocked, leaned into Sun Hao's ear and whispered, with a look of disbelief.
Sun Hao nodded lightly, and immediately walked towards the outside of the courtyard, leaving only Sun Xiaofeng stunned.
A moment later, Sun Hao came to the auction hall where Shangguan Xi was, and after the two guards standing outside the door saw Sun Hao, one of them quickly ran inside to report.
Obviously, Shangguan Xi had already instructed the doorman to report to himself as soon as Sun Hao appeared.
Before Sun Hao reached the door of the inner courtyard, he saw Shangguan Xi appear at the gate from a distance, and looked at Sun Hao's slowly walking figure with a proud face.
"Sure enough, it appeared, and I was worried that he wouldn't dare to go", seeing Sun Hao's figure, Shangguan Xi muttered to himself.
Seeing Sun Hao appear, Shangguan Xi's hanging heart finally let go, she didn't know how many times she went to Sun's house in the past two months, but every time she got the same result, that is, Sun Hao was not in the family, and no one in the family knew where he went, she also thought that Sun Hao deliberately did not see herself, and did not dare to go to the land of inheritance to find opportunities.
After Sun Hao walked to the gate, Shangguan Xi glared at Sun Hao, Sun Hao wiped his nose with his hand embarrassedly, and couldn't help laughing.
"Are you still embarrassed to laugh, I thought you were scared and didn't dare to go to the land of inheritance?", Shangguan Xi said angrily, holding his hands on his chest, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, and that look made his posture even more charming.
Sun Hao collected the smile on his face and said solemnly: "Am I so untrustworthy, besides, I didn't accompany you to the inheritance land for myself, before leaving, I hope you can abide by the agreement at that time."
"Don't worry, no matter whether I can get the final inheritance or not, I will help you deal with the Liu family and the Zhang family without hesitation", Shangguan Xi looked at Sun Hao's eyes and said solemnly, she also knew that this was the biggest reason why Sun Hao helped her, such a talented person, she was also willing to make friends.
Sun Hao nodded lightly, he also asked Sun Feng to inquire about Shangguan Xi's information in many ways, judging from the information Sun Feng inquired, Shangguan Xi is definitely a person who believes in his word, and has absolute authority in the auction house, her words Sun Hao now has no other choice but to choose to believe.
"It seems that your strength has improved by leaps and bounds in the past two months, and you are not an opponent even if you break through the void realm, it seems that my vision is really good, and I have chosen such a reliable teammate", that Shangguan Xi said lightly the moment he turned around, and only the two of them could hear it.
"What, how did he know that none of the people who broke the void realm were my opponents?Could it be that she was also at the scene at the time?", after Sun Hao heard that voice, his face suddenly changed color, the muscles on his face were also beating non-stop, his heart was beating faster, the hairs on his body fell to the tree, and drops of cold sweat fell behind his back.
"I came to you this time to discuss the preparations before departure and introduce a partner to know", Shangguan Xi did not dwell on the sentence just now, as if he had never said it, and then directly said the reason for looking for Sun Hao, and after finishing speaking, he turned around and led Sun Hao to the inner courtyard of the auction house.
Along the way, Sun Hao kept pondering what she meant, what did this little girl mean when she said this, was it just to grasp her own handle, thinking about it, Sun Hao didn't have any conclusions, and immediately stopped thinking, at least now she has a good relationship with her, both sides need each other, and they will definitely be safe, and at the same time, he was shocked by the strength of the auction house, he was sure that there was no fourth person present at that time, but it was still a bad move.
On the way to the inner courtyard, Sun Hao carefully observed Shangguan Xi's expression and the changes in the layout of the courtyard, hoping to find answers from these subtleties, but Sun Hao was disappointed, Sun Hao found that although the layout of the courtyard had changed, it was just some flowers and plants, and the other patterns had not changed much.
Sun Hao, who was moving forward, found that a faint energy fluctuated around the courtyard, if he was not mistaken, this courtyard contained a formation, as for the effect of this formation, Sun Hao was difficult to guess.
"This is Hu Dao, another friend of ours on this trip, I hope we can help each other when the time comes," Shangguan Xi said, pointing to a young man dressed in black with a knife tied to his back.
"Wait", before Shangguan Xi's words were finished, suddenly a figure sounded out of place, Shangguan Xi frowned slightly, looked at the man who opened his mouth and said slowly: "Hu Dao, what's wrong with you?", Shangguan Xi's voice was also full of dissatisfaction, obviously quite dissatisfied with the former for interrupting his speech.
"Sister Xi, this trip to the Land of Inheritance is very important to you, if you join by one person at random, it will be more than worth the loss if it becomes a burden at that time", Hu Dao said with a smile, but the smile was full of disdain and hostility, as if Sun Hao's appearance touched his interests.
"Hehe, you can rest assured of this, with Sun Hao's strength, he will definitely not hold back, on the contrary, Sun Hao is also an important help for our trip to the land of inheritance, you just take care of yourself", Shangguan Xi glared at the latter with a displeased face and said.
"In addition, please don't call me 'Sister Xi' in the future, our relationship is not so close", Shangguan Xi was very dissatisfied when she heard Hu Dao so close to herself, Hu Dao's thoughts she knew better than anyone else, but she didn't have the slightest affection for Hu Dao, if it wasn't for Hu Dao's coincidence of cultivating in the Ninth Realm of Body Refinement, he would definitely not ask him to join.
Hu Dao didn't seem to care about Shangguan Xi's words of blame, but said to Sun Hao: "These things, it's useless to say these things with your mouth, if you want to follow to pick up some cheap, you need to show some real skills, otherwise I'm afraid that the meat won't eat but put yourself in", Hu Dao raised his chin at Sun Hao, and said with a smile: "You said yes, right?"
Since this is the case, the others present also understood that this knife was clearly provoking Sun Hao, at this time, Shangguan Xi's face was a little ugly, and said: "It's not your turn to dictate my business, just take care of yourself, otherwise I don't mind kicking you out directly."
Sun Hao stretched out his hand to stop Shangguan Xi, and said to Hu Dao, "What do you want?"
"It's very simple, you and I have a competition, if you can beat me, you have this qualification", Hu Dao pulled out the long knife behind his back and pointed at Sun Hao and said.
Sun Hao only smiled slightly, because he knew that it was useless to teach this kind of person the advantage of his tongue, and the only thing he could use to deal with this kind of person was his fist, so why bother to talk about things that could be solved with his fist.
Sun Hao turned around and came to the spacious place in the courtyard, and immediately stretched out his middle finger to Hu Dao, and waved it gently, his face was also full of disdain, and the disdainful eyes were like looking at the mentally handicapped, which undoubtedly made Hu Dao furious, where could he stand such anger since he was a child.
"If you defeat me, I will quit voluntarily, and if you are defeated, I will kill you without hesitation", Hu Dao said angrily, gritting his teeth is really ridiculous.