Chapter 532: Chapter 507: Benefits Delivered to the Door
"What? Carlos escaped?"
When Xu Lingjun received the news, he exclaimed in surprise, "Didn’t I already kill him?"
"Physiologically speaking, you did kill him once. In fact, I also killed him once, a direct hit to the heart, there’s no reason he could still be alive. But the blood that flowed from his body wasn’t that of a living person. It was more like a mixture of oil and blood..."
Han Yun City shook his head, "He must have undergone some sort of modification, so what would be a fatal wound for a normal person isn’t fatal for him. That’s how he escaped with his life."
"My people as well. I sent three Level 8 Demon Beasts to encircle him, causing him several fatal injuries, but in the end, he still managed to escape."
The Ancient Tree said, "In fact, with those kinds of injuries, a normal person would probably have died eight times over."
She added, "That ’eight times’ is a very accurate descriptor, not an exaggeration."
Xu Lingjun thought back to the scene when he silenced the four with one stroke, each falling to the ground...
Admiringly, he said, "So, his acting skills are that good? I didn’t notice at all."
Han Yun City curiously asked, "You don’t seem very disappointed."
"What’s there to be disappointed about? Just a small fry, nothing that can make any real waves."
Xu Lingjun asked, "The important thing is, we weren’t exposed, right?"
"Of course not."
Han Yun City replied, "At the time, everyone followed your orders, concealing their faces, and avoided using their most proficient Martial Skills. They all acted based on the Light Saber and other weapons, making the possibility of them discovering our flaws minimal."
"Well, that’s good."
Xu Lingjun said, "In fact, I was considering a problem before, on how to spread the word that the ones who killed them were from the Secret Realm Yanhuang Race. That way, we could distance the Great Xia Empire from the incident to the greatest extent. I even considered letting one person escape deliberately, but our power was too overwhelming. Non-Grandmaster Level experts couldn’t escape, and Grandmasters are each more clever than the last. If we did it on purpose, we surely couldn’t fool them..."
He continued, "So I thought of annihilating them and then initiating an attack, perhaps encroaching on the Baoxue Empire’s border... But now, it seems Carlos’s escape has saved us a lot of trouble, because even I didn’t expect him to escape from my grasp, so he probably doesn’t realize that his escape is exactly what I wanted."
"Indeed... Now is not the right time for the Great Xia Empire and the Baoxue Empire to engage in full-scale war."
Han Yun City suddenly realized.
He glanced at Xu Lingjun and said, "As long as we can extract enough Spirit Stones and have enough time, the top combat power of the Great Xia Empire will surely rise significantly. By then, the gap with the Baoxue Empire will naturally widen... Why clash with the enemy in a brutal battle before we’ve reached our full strength?"
"What intrigues me more is, Carlos modified himself? How did he do it? A Grandmaster Level expert, modified to the point of being almost immortal, isn’t that amazing?"
Xu Lingjun asked, "Did he leave anything behind?"
"Does blood count?"
"Collect the blood. I need to take it back to the Zhanzheng Academy... Let them study it. If this modification has no side effects, then the strength of the Baoxue Empire might be more terrifying than we imagined."
Han Yun City understood what Xu Lingjun meant.
If this modification has no side effects, dealing with a nearly unkillable, and extremely powerful Grandmaster Level warrior might still be manageable.
But a squad of fearless Grandmaster Level Martial Artists...
"Fortunately, you also have that so-called Cultivation Technique..."
"On this point, Old City, I want to ask you for a favor."
"What kind of favor?"
"Spread the news about my Cultivation Technique."
Xu Lingjun said, "It’s best to let the entire Baoyan Army Legion know."
Han Yun City asked, "Why?!"
"Because I don’t want to leave myself any escape route."
Xu Lingjun thought, considering so many people aren’t enough, it’s probably because a Cultivation Technique thing is completely out of nothing, and its level is too high, so it requires that much more authenticity.
"Alright, I’ll handle this!"
Han Yun City hurried away.
Even he didn’t realize, he had unknowingly become the de facto manager of the entire Baoyan Army Legion.
At that moment...
In the shadowy forest.
Carlos kept fleeing, fleeing...
Even though he had been modified to a nearly indestructible iron body, he knew that if that figure in black armor caught up with him, he would be dead for sure.
Clearly, he had obtained an incredible fortune.
He even thought that after completing this mission, he would surely advance his ranking in the Holy Hall... If he could enter the top three, that would be perfect.
But now, Carlos no longer dared to have such thoughts.
His courage had been completely shattered. Facing that figure in black, he felt he might not even have the courage to fight back and would be slaughtered like a mere chick.
And another feeling arose, a primal fear.
If my power, which isn’t even worthy to stand in his shadow, can rank in the top three of the Baoxue Empire’s Holy Hall List, does that mean the Baoxue Empire can’t even find a rival to match him?
