C17 Inevitable Death

"That's.... That's everything I know about the place. Could you please let me go now?"

After telling Su Lang everything he knew about the stronghold, Cai Feng looked at Su Lang and begged to be spared.

Although he may looked eager to let him go on the surface, there still a trace of hatred lingering in his heart, urging him to take revenge.

Having seen Su Lang on the verge of death a few days prior, Cai Feng assumed that Su Lang must just have broken through to the Initial Body Tempering Realm. Thus, he would never have expected Su Lang to already be at the Advance Body Tempering Realm.

Furthermore, Su Lang would even be able to break through to the Peak Body Tempering Realm in a matter of a few hours!

With the strength of a martial cultivator in that realm, Su Lang would be able to run amok in the stronghold with fear, especially since the stronghold was not being thoroughly guarding right now.

"Alright... I will fulfill my promise and spare your life."

Su Lang pulled the Tang Blade back from Cai Feng's neck and smiled in satisfaction, revealing his sparkling white teeth.

"In that case, I will be taking my leave. I will forever be grateful to you for sparing my life!"

Taken aback by Su Lang's sudden magnanimity, Cai Feng hurriedly clasped his hands and thanked Su Lang before turning in the other direction.

"Wait!"

Su Lang's lips curled up into a cunning smile as he shouted at Cai Feng, "Did I ever say that I would let you go?"

"Huh? Yo-You said that you would spare my life!"

Noticing that something was amiss about the current situation, Cai Feng trembled once again.

"I do intend to spare your life. While your death penalty may have been exempted, you will still have to face your punishment for you previous deeds."

Su Lang pulled out a dagger as he revealed the smile of the devil and said, "You may take your leave, but your hands shall remain behind."

Cai Feng was one of the main culprits who killed the original host of this body.

Therefore, how could Su Lang let him go so easily?

"You want me to leave my hands behind?! You.... You went back on your words!"

Cai Feng turned bleach pale with fright upon hearing those ridiculous words. He immediately said with extreme anger, "Both of us are cultivators of the Initial Body Tempering Realm! The only reason why I let you take advantage of me was that your blade was pressed against my neck!"

"Besides, I have experienced many battles by hunting down countless Vicious Beasts. On the other hand, you're just a piece of trash that just took its first step outside the city. Do you really think that I'm afraid of you?!"

"Hahahaha! You're not afraid of me?"

Su Lang asked in the midst of his laughter, "Then why did you kneel on the ground before me just now?"

"You bastard! Go to hell!"

Overwhelmed by his emotions of embarrassment and anger, Cai Feng gritted his teeth and pulled out a short sword from his waist before stabbing it towards Su Lang.

"You were the one who attacked first. Don't blame me for killing you!"

Upon revealing a smile of disdain, Su Lang unsheathed his blade and — with the flick of his wrist — sent his opponent's blade flying into the distance.

In the blink of an eye, the shining blade flashed across Cai Feng's sight like a bolt of lightning as his burning rage subsided entirely.

"This... is impossible..."

As Cai Feng's eyes rolled backward, a bucket full of blood splashed out from his neck. His once lively body had turned limp and collapsed onto the ground like a ragdoll.

Even after his death, Cai Feng still failed to comprehend how Su Lang managed to attain such overwhelming strength.

"Couldn't you just have left your hands behind obediently?"

Su Lang shrugged his shoulders and squatted down to plunder Cai Feng's remains before rushing to the stronghold of the Broken Axe Hunting Group.

With the stronghold of the Broken Axe Hunting Group currently empty, Su Lang took advantage of the opportunity to search around the place and steal some valuables.

In this world, strongholds of this size and reputation would often trade with strongholds from other areas. With how frequently they purchased precious materials from external sources, the amount of money they have accumulated was definitely not a small amount.

Even the vaults of the strongholds in the territories of F-class Vicious Beasts would leave people speechless.

According to the information provided by Cai Feng, Su Lang would have to sneak past more than ten watchtowers before arriving at the center of the stronghold.

The stronghold of the Broken Axe Hunting Group did not have many solid walls construct around its core.

This main reason was that the beast tides of the Vicious Beasts would attack every ten years or so. When that time comes, the strongholds would not be able to withstand even a single blow from the waves of those Vicious Beasts. Thus, constructing sturdy walls around the stronghold would essentially be a waste of time, effort, and money.

As a cheap way of going about that issue, most F-class strongholds ended up resorting to wooden walls as they temporary defenses, Although those walls may be simply and crude, they nevertheless held their ground against the normal Vicious Beasts.

Around walking around the city wall for a while, Su Lang finally found the underground secret passage that Cai Feng mentioned previously.

"Cai Feng's words cannot be fully trusted. Therefore, I should trudge along this path with utmost caution."

Su Lang opened the entrance to the underground tunnel and carefully walked in.

Although the tunnel was dark and damp, Su Lang had long since gotten used to such an atmosphere in his previous life as an assassin. As such, he quickly got used to his traverse through the tunnel.

He carefully walked through the secret tunnel and did not encounter any danger during this period of time.

But when he was about to reach the exit, Su Lang suddenly heard a commotion at the end of the tunnel.

"There are people guarding this secret passage!"

Despite the current situation being within his expectations, Su Lang was nevertheless slightly taken aback by Cai Feng's cunning plans.

In the blink of an eye, Su Lang arrived at the exit with nimble steps. The guard was now standing right ahead of him.

"Intermediate Body Tempering Realm."

Su Lang analyzed the guard before rushing out.

"Who is it?"

While the guard may have been quite vigilant in his job, before he could even see his opponent clearly, the glint of a blade was already bolting in his direction.

At that instant, the guard was so terrified that every single hair around his body shot straight up.

Despite attempting to dodge the attack, he realized that it was far too late.

Before his brain had even registered the feeling of the chilling blade slicing past his throat, the world around him had already turned upside-down as his consciousness slowly faded from his body — truly a quick, painless death.