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With the Sound Blade's obstruction gone, the puppet's speed instantly soared to its limit, chasing after Quan Xin. However, it was clear that its speed was still significantly slower than Quan Xin's.

“Forget it, come back!” Xu Ming ordered.

Quan Xin's escape methods were very clever; the puppet couldn't catch up, and he wouldn't be able to catch up without activating his speed cheat. If he really wanted to catch up, he would probably have to use all his cheat points to activate speed, which would be too great a cost!

Moreover, Xu Ming discovered that Quan Xin and he had a common enemy—the Lin family!

The Lin family, where Lin Muqing was from, was one of the main culprits behind the destruction of the Sixteen Strings Sect.

Quan Xin wanted to destroy the Lin family at every moment to avenge the Sixteen Strings Sect; however, her strength was still weak, so she could only silently accumulate strength while also preventing the Lin family from realizing that she already knew about this.

“A deadly enemy of the Lin family?” Immediately, Xu Ming's killing intent towards Quan Xin diminished somewhat, “If I kill her, besides venting a temporary anger, there are no other benefits. But if I let her go back, with her determination to endure hardship, even if she can't destroy the Lin family in the future, she will definitely cause no small trouble for the Lin family.”

Killing her has no benefit, but not killing her can cause no small harm to the family of his enemy; Xu Ming would choose, obviously.

Moreover, as he understood Quan Xin more deeply, Xu Ming couldn't help but admire this pitiful and persistent girl—the Sixteen Strings Sect had already been destroyed, with only a few disciples left; yet she vowed to revitalize the Sixteen Strings Sect!

Because of this obsession, Quan Xin often went to the Hidden Thorn Organization, using "Bai Shui" as her code name, to take on assassin missions. And the money she earned from completing each mission was accumulated by her to serve as capital for the revival of the Sixteen Strings Sect!

She took on missions to kill people for no other reason, regardless of whether the target was good or evil; she only did it for one word—money!

Xu Ming looked at the dark puppet standing beside him.

This iron疙瘩 was something Xu Ming bought on a whim from the Artifact Shop, costing him a full 30,000 cheat points!

After buying this thing, Xu Ming's remaining cheat points were less than 30,000.

As for the combat power of this puppet, it had already been slightly demonstrated just now, and it didn't disappoint Xu Ming.

“Half-Xiantian level puppet…”

Half-Xiantian was a level between Inner Refinement Completion and Xiantian.

From Inner Refinement Completion to the early stage of Xiantian, this span was really too large, considered the first major bottleneck on the path of martial arts. Those who could cross this major threshold and become Xiantian were one in a hundred!

However, there were also some martial artists who, although they failed to achieve Xiantian, their strength was much stronger than ordinary Inner Refinement Completion, even exceeding the scope of Inner Refinement Completion; to distinguish them from ordinary Inner Refinement Completion, the level of “Half-Xiantian” emerged.

A Half-Xiantian level puppet meant that its power had reached the Half-Xiantian level.

Compared to humans, puppets, although clumsy in attack, were valuable for their indestructibility. A Half-Xiantian level martial artist, if they didn't have any means of restraint, might even be chased and beaten by a Half-Xiantian level puppet—there was no way to break its defense, so they could only run!

However, the manufacturing process of puppets was extremely complex and had already been lost in the Flying Cloud Kingdom; therefore, ordinary Half-Xiantian martial artists didn't have to worry about being chased and beaten by a puppet.

“Go into the Na Ring first!” Xu Ming waved his hand and put the puppet away.

Although this puppet cost Xu Ming 30,000 cheat points, which was 300,000 taels of gold, a hefty price; Xu Ming was certain that if he was willing to sell it, even if he asked for three million taels or even more, there would be people willing to buy it!

For the upper class of the Flying Cloud Kingdom, this kind of long-lost thing, whether bought for research or for showing off, was very valuable!

However, Xu Ming didn't plan to sell it.

“Since Quan Xin's assassination failed and she knows I'm not easy to deal with, she probably won't come looking for trouble again!” Xu Ming would let her go once, but he wouldn't let her go a second time; presumably, Quan Xin should also have this self-awareness, having narrowly escaped with her life, she shouldn't come again, “I should go to the Hunting Area too… I'm several days later than the other disciples, I have to work harder!”

Gu Hanmo's requirement for Xu Ming was… first!

… …

The Hunting Area was already the deepest part of the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

Although there were no Xiantian-level monster beasts in this area, there were quite a few Half-Xiantian level ones.

The Hunting Competition was bloody, and the Wild Martial Academy wanted the disciples to face these powerful monster beasts directly in the wilderness; during this process, disciples might be injured or even die, but the elders and teachers of the Martial Academy would ignore it.

Only those who emerged from true life-and-death trials were truly elite disciples!

“Awoo—”

In the center of the Hunting Area, Sun Ji was frantically escaping as if he were crazy; behind him, hundreds of Inner Refinement-level Green-Eyed Wolves were relentlessly chasing him.

These Green-Eyed Wolves were extremely fast, but after chasing for a long time, they had been closely following Sun Ji, always unwilling to catch up. It was unknown whether they were playing a “cat and mouse” game with Sun Ji.

“Boss, where are you? Come and save me!” Sun Ji cried bitterly.

He was just casually brushing monsters in the Hunting Area, why was he so unlucky to run into a pack of wolves?

Wolf packs were almost one of the most terrifying monster beasts in the Monster Beast Mountain Range. They were not only inherently ferocious but also lived in groups; encountering a wolf pack in the Monster Beast Mountain Range was simply a tragedy.

And now, Sun Ji had encountered such a tragedy.

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“Hmm?”

Suddenly, Sun Ji saw figures ahead.

“Figures?”

The elders and teachers of the Martial Academy were guarding the edge of the Hunting Area, preventing outsiders from entering; seeing figures in the central area naturally meant other disciples of the Wild Martial Academy.

“Run away—” Sun Ji shouted hoarsely at the figures ahead.

Run?

However, Sun Ji saw that the dozen or so figures ahead were all motionless, only indifferently turning their heads to look at him, and then had no further reaction.

“Run! There's a pack of wolves behind me!!” Sun Ji said anxiously.

If the wolf pack he attracted caused the death of a dozen fellow disciples, he would probably die with unease.

“Eh—” Suddenly, Sun Ji saw two figures of hope among the dozen people—Yue Jian? Tian Dali? Great, they're here too, I can survive!

“Yue Jian, Tian Dali, save me!” Sun Ji shouted, his feet seemingly having more strength due to excitement, and he ran a bit faster.

However, Yue Jian and Tian Dali only returned Sun Ji a sympathetic look: “Another one… Welcome, you've also come to the Wolf King's dinner table!”

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