Open up and break into another world

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

Eight figures lunged at Xu Ming simultaneously.

Yang Hao wanted to help, but he was simply not strong enough to participate in a battle of this level.

Yang Hao had only just stood up when the eight burly men in black robes were already closing in on Xu Ming.

However, the eight men did not use the giant axes on their backs; instead, they surrounded Xu Ming from all directions, clearly intending to capture him alive.

“Heh!” Xu Ming sneered.

From the moment he revealed himself—

Super-Perfect Combat Mode: Activated!

Level-5 Cross-Realm Battle Buff: Activated!

Protagonist Halo: Activated!

Even if Xu Ming only used the Scorching Intent, his strength would still be among the stronger ones in the late stage of the Spirit Realm. Eight cultivators in the mid stage of the Spirit Realm posed no pressure at all to Xu Ming.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!

Too strong!

So strong that it completely exceeded his expectations.

“I originally thought that even if Brother Xu Ming really had the strength of the late stage of the Spirit Realm, he would at most be a beginner in that realm…” Yang Hao sighed. “Who would have thought that he would be this strong!”

Moreover, what shocked Yang Hao even more was that he couldn’t be sure if this was all of Xu Ming’s strength.

However, Yang Hao always felt that Xu Ming was still holding back.

“Just how strong is my Brother Xu Ming…” Yang Hao couldn’t imagine. “However, no matter what, it’s my great fortune to have met Brother Xu Ming!”

Yang Hao was already dumbfounded and shocked, so it goes without saying that the other elders of the Bloodthunder Sect were even more so—after all, they had no mental preparation for Xu Ming’s strength at all!

All the elders widened their eyes and opened their mouths in perfect unison, turning into statues.

Reason told them that what their eyes were seeing was impossible; but reality told them that it was really, really real!

Some elders began to doubt their eyes…

Some elders began to suspect that they were dreaming…

Even more elders began to doubt their lives—had they cultivated martial arts diligently for decades, only to waste their efforts on a dog?

Elder Xingwu couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe and admiration for Xu Ming.

If Elder Xingwu had previously been determined to “seduce Xu Ming,” then now, Elder Xingwu felt ashamed of her inferiority.

In front of Xu Ming, she couldn’t muster any pride. Xu Ming’s attack made her realize that she and Xu Ming were not from the same world at all!

She could admire Xu Ming and secretly harbor feelings for him; however, she was destined to be unworthy of Xu Ming!

At this moment, Xingwu’s resolute heart for martial arts, along with her affections, dimmed.

But immediately afterward, a firm resolve reignited in Xingwu’s eyes: “When it comes to feelings, there’s no such thing as being worthy or unworthy! Pure feelings are independent of strength and status!”

While the Bloodthunder Sect was in shock, the so-called Black Mountain Eighteen Axes were completely dumbfounded!

“Just how tough of an iron plate did we kick…” The scarred man with a ferocious face felt bitter—the martial world was too dangerous!

“Boss!” An ignorant lackey secretly transmitted his voice. “Should we fight him?”

“Fight, fight, fight… Fight your sister! Can you withstand a few slaps from him?” the scarred man with a ferocious face rebuked through voice transmission. “Didn’t you see that this expert disdains to lower himself to our level?”

The nine burly men in black robes didn’t dare to act presumptuously and stood in a row obediently, waiting for Xu Ming to deal with them.

“Mm! You’re quite honest!” Xu Ming’s lips curled into a wicked smile. “Congratulations, you made the right choice by not attacking me or trying to escape; otherwise, you would probably be nine corpses by now!”

Most of the nine burly men in black robes showed disbelief on their faces.

Xu Ming was too lazy to explain.

Strength is not something that can be explained; it must be proven through battle!

“Um… what was it, you guys…” Xu Ming paused suddenly, turned to Yang Hao, and asked, “Right, what are they called again?”

“Black Mountain Eighteen Axes,” Yang Hao secretly wiped away his sweat—this was the Black Mountain Eighteen Axes that were famous in dozens of cities near Zhenhai City!

“Oh… Black Mountain Eighteen Axes, is it? But there are only nine of you?”

“This brother, this big brother!” The scarred man with a ferocious face nodded and bowed repeatedly. “Our Black Mountain Eighteen Axes only has nine members…”

“There are only nine of you, so why are you called the Black Mountain Eighteen Axes?” Xu Ming questioned.

“That… each of us has two axes, so there are eighteen axes in total…”

“I’ll go!” Xu Ming cursed. “So, in that case, all of you are here, right?”

“Yes, yes, yes!” The scarred man with a ferocious face nodded repeatedly.

“Do you know why I didn’t kill you!?” Xu Ming snorted coldly.

With his strength, it wouldn’t be difficult to slaughter the Black Mountain Eighteen Axes, who were only in the mid stage of the Spirit Realm.

“We don’t know, please enlighten us, Big Brother.”

“Because you didn’t have any killing intent toward me!” Xu Ming said indifferently. “Since you didn’t want to kill me, I won’t go on a killing spree just because of your slight offense.”

“Thank you for your mercy, Big Brother! Thank you for your mercy, Big Brother!” The scarred man with a ferocious face nodded and bowed.

“But…” Xu Ming suddenly said again, “If I just let your offense go like this, how will I be able to survive in the Quest for Dao Devil Domain in the future? Wouldn’t every cat and dog come to shit and piss on my head?”

The Black Mountain Eighteen Axes were all veterans of the martial world, so they immediately understood Xu Ming’s words: “Big Brother, we are willing to buy our lives with treasures!”

“Buy your lives?” Xu Ming laughed. “Your lives are worth quite a bit of money!”

The Black Mountain Eighteen Axes felt a tightening in their hearts—this was going to be a blatant extortion!

Sure enough, Xu Ming beckoned and said, “Give me ten drops of Dao Devil Essence, and I’ll spare your lives!”

“Ten drops?” The scarred face felt wronged—they, the Black Mountain Eighteen Axes, were famous bandits! Today, they had accidentally kicked an iron plate and were being blackmailed instead.

However, a man must bow his head under the low eaves.

Not only did the scarred man with a ferocious face not dare to flare up, but he also smiled cautiously and said, “Big Brother, even if you kill us, we don’t have that much Dao Devil Essence!”

“You don’t have that much?” Hearing this answer, Xu Ming was secretly pleased. “If you don’t have that much, then how much do you have?”

“We only have three drops in total,” the scarred man with a ferocious face said. “If we had even one more drop, we would be struck by lightning and die a horrible death!”

Xu Ming investigated and found that they really didn’t have any more, so he had to “reluctantly” accept the three drops of Dao Devil Essence.

“Answer me one more question, and if I’m satisfied with the answer, you can leave!” Xu Ming said with a strange smile.

“Big Brother, go ahead!”

“Big Brother, don’t worry, we will answer truthfully!”

Xu Ming smiled noncommittally and asked, “Do you know where there is a secret gap to enter the Dao Devil Temple?”

Completed the three updates, time to sleep.