The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 82

Jiang Chen nodded, asking, “How is your profit?”    

“At first they were fine, but Yan Yiming caught everything.” Fatty Xuan's face was engulfed in fury as he gritted his teeth.    

“Hunt more if your spirit pearls are stolen. The biggest result is you are fine.”    

Jiang Chen turned his head and spoke to Ouyang Ping, “Ouyang Ping, thank you very much for your message today. I've got two additional green spirit pearls, here, take them as your gift.    

Ouyang Ping scratched his head, “This... how can I accept this?”    

"Take it!" Jiang Chen's forehead was wrinkled.    

“Heh heh, then, I will accept respectfully instead of politely rejecting?” Ouyang Ping carefully walked forward with uneasiness and a curved back. He received two green spirit pearls, and continuously thanked him, “Thank you, Brother Jiang Chen.”    

Fatty Xuan shouted and said, “Brother Chen, my shoulder blades still hurt. Can you come and see if it has sprained?”    

“Dislocation is a small matter, is it worth a problem like this? You are still six meridians true qi. At the very least, can't you handle such a small thing?”    

“Heh heh, it's because Brother Chen is here!” Fatty Xuan had an extremely thick complexion.    

“Very fat.” Even though Jiang Chen was cursing outwardly, he still walked over and reached out toward the Fatty shoulder blades.    

Suddenly, the nine meridians of true qi in Jiang Chen's body roared alive, exploding from his palm and grabbing towards Fatty in the form of a fist. That sudden blow struck Fatty Xuan's chest!    

Fatty Xuan bellowed and hurriedly retreated, but the beat was still too slow.    

The blow that encompassed the mystery of the four cycles of blooming and withering landed solidly.    

Fatty Xuan's fat body smashed into the stone wall violently, as he spat out fresh blood from his mouth.    

Almost at the same time as Jiang Chen made a move, the Hubing Yue by his side also shifted. A short sword appeared in his hand at a moment, and pierced towards Jiang Chen's ribs like a viper.    

There is no impression of luxury in this attack – is like a viper attack, which directly leads to critical points.    

Jiang Chen had clearly prepared, so when his fist punched out toward Fatty Xuan, his other hand clasped the nameless sword sheath, stopping the venomous sword attack.    

Jiang Chen's body retreated quickly, wanting to dodge to the side.    

At this moment, a wave of strength without the slightest warning shot out rapidly in the air in the darkness.    

Bows and arrows!    

“True qi forming crusher, true qi master?” Jiang Chen was very surprised and wanted to dodge, but it was too late.    

The arrow eyes landed on Jiang Chen's back with a loud impact sound like a shooting star.    

There was a thud. His arrow eyes were unusually sharp, and contained the accumulated power of a true qi master. It should have pierced Jiang Chen's chest, but the scene didn't happen.    

The arrow eyes connected with Jiang Chen's bag with a thud, and the power of the powerful true qi made Jiang Chen fly over ten meters, smashing into another stone wall violently.    

A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out.    

Even with the protection of the skysilk armor that prevented the arrow eyes from penetrating his body, the impact of the extremely powerful true qi that permeated Jiang Chen's entire body was enough to send vibrations through his organs until it almost moved.    

After spewing out a mouthful of fresh blood, Jiang Chen's right hand clasped the nameless precious sword as he pushed himself onto the ground. His God's eyes were deployed with his utmost strength as he scanned the surroundings.    

He was actually not too worried about the people in front of him. The bows and arrows from the shadows were the things he feared the most.    

If he was hit by another arrow, he would at least suffer heavy injuries, even if he did not die.    

And a true qi master was in the enemy camp!    

Who the hell are you? Jiang Chen's tone was calm but he did not dare to let his guard down in the slightest. All sorts of strange stones began to appear as his God's Eye swept through the area.    

“It won't work, too many obstacles here. I have to use Ear of the Zephyr.” As the Eye of God was unable to find its target, Jiang Chen once again deployed the Zephyr Ear.    

Zephyr ears can catch any rustling in the grass within a five kilometer radius.    

There is nothing in the east!    

There is nothing in the West!    

Other than the sounds of underground creatures disturbing the marshland in the south, there was nothing either!    

Jiang Chen raised his ears to the north and listened closely, catching even the slightest sound of breathing. The voice was suppressed to the extreme, and he wouldn't have heard it if it weren't for his Zephyr Ear.    

“There are true master qi level archers in the north!” Jiang Chen was slightly reassured after knowing his opponent's position.    

“Jiang Chen, you are quite strong! You can find our flaws when you are in the advanced realms of true qi. You are not simple, not simple at all.”    

The person pretending to be Ouyang Ping threw the two green spirit pearls to the side, and a trace of a sinister smile was seen at the corner of his mouth. “Sadly you will definitely die today.”    

"Dead? My single death to all of you? Even if I die, I will bring some others with me to protect the road.”    

"Huh. Your hit will hurt number four the most. With your level in the realm of true qi advancing, there is no way you can kill him!”    

"Is that so? You overestimated your partner's ability to take a hit.” Jiang Chen smiled faintly.    

A punch that covers the mysteries of “Divine Aeon's Box”... Even if his opponent was a true qi master, he would definitely die if his chest was hit.    

Jiang Chen still had a little confidence.    

Number four, are you okay? The assassin who forged Ouyang Ping exclaimed in a hoarse voice.    

“No need to call him. There would be no hope for him even if immortal beings descended to the mortal realm.”    

False Hubing Yue also ran out from the shadows, “Number three, we will attack her together. Boss, lock him up with your bow, and torture this kid to death!”    

Jiang Chen's figure faltered as he dashed down another stone wall, covered his body, and happened to be beyond the range of the hidden archer's attack.    

“Son, stop hiding, you will not be able to escape, even if we fight three on one.” The fake Ouyang Ping glanced.    

“Three on one? Are you sure you still have that kind of fighting ability?” Jiang Chen laughed with disdain.    

"What do you mean?"    

“Oh no, number three, you just picked up her green spirit pearls! They might be poisoned! According to the information from the employer, this child might be proficient at using poison!”    

The fake Hubing Yue was number two, and immediately spoke up to issue a reminder to the fake Ouyang Ping.    

Jiang Chen made use of their confusion to once again jump and run into the darkness like a ghost. He disappeared without a trace with just a slight rise and fall of his body.    

“No, this kid escaped!”    

Although Jiang Chen had escaped, he had not gone too far. Firstly, these people had provoked him, and Jiang Chen was not the type of person who easily let them off the hook.    

Secondly, as they were pretending to be Fatty Xuan and Hubing Yue, this caused Jiang Chen a little worry. Are Fatty Xuan and Hubing Yue safe and sound at the moment, or have they already been killed by these people?    

“Seeing from their expertise, they must be professionally trained assassins. Except, isn't the entrance to the Boundless Catacombs sealed? How did these people get in?”    

How did Jiang Chen know that the Duke of Soaring Dragon had spent so much money to hire these four assassins? They had long since gone after the four heirs, and had secretly disposed of them on the day when everyone left for the catacombs. They then disguised themselves with the appearance of the four heirs, and walked towards the Boundless Catacombs.    

And all this is the setting of the Duke of Soaring Dragon – Long Zhaofeng's plan!    

They had originally used some special methods to partner with the Long family's brothers and sisters, to draw as many Sword Birds as possible from the first and second levels to the third level.    

This location was the place they had set up to lure Jiang Chen to the third level.    

However, Jiang Chen's hunting skills were excellent, and he had obtained quite a number of green spirit pearls despite their plans.    

Jiang Chen could even complete his mission early, and left without setting foot in the area they had set up.    

Hence, they began to execute another plan, which was to disguise themselves as Fatty Xuan and Hubing Yue. They had planned to commit a ruse to injure themselves in order to gain the trust of Jiang Chen, and attack unexpectedly when Jiang Chen was looking at Fatty Xuan's injuries.    

Except, never in their wildest dreams did they think that Jiang Chen would be able to see through them! This was beyond their expectations.    

We should know, the Hidden Hand assassins are all experts in disguise. Even if they had to disguise themselves as fat characters like Fatty Xuan, they portrayed it with a lively resemblance.    

In fact, Jiang Chen did not even suspect that this was a trap at first.    

When the fake Ouyang Ping took the lead, Jiang Chen just thought it was a bit strange. This Ouyang Ping was only six meridians true qi, how could he compensate for Jiang Chen's speed?    

This small oddity had bothered Jiang Chen, but did not make him suspicious.    

The flaw that Jiang Chen had actually caught was the sentence that the fake Fatty said, when he said that he was from six meridians of true qi.    

We must remember that on a sunny morning before they entered the catacombs, Fatty Xuan came to specifically tell Jiang Chen, happily, that he had broken through seven meridians of true qi.    

Jiang Chen still remembered this clearly.    

Except, the breakthrough happened the night before they entered the catacombs. How could the assassin pretending to be Fatty Xuan know?    

However, even with this sentence, Jiang Chen only suspected that maybe Fatty Xuan had said the wrong thing when he was injured.    

But when he checked it out after that – You still have six meridians of true qi, at the very least, can't you handle something as small as this?    

Jiang Chen once again emphasized the six meridians of actual qi, and tested with his words.    

This fake Fatty Xuan once again gave no rebuttal and did not correct it.    

After two consecutive times, as well as Jiang Chen's God Eyes, he finally discovered that there was still some detail difference between the fake Fatty and the real one.    

Many differences in detail are hidden by endless nights. However, to Jiang Chen's God Eyes, they were as clear as seeing fire.    

If you add any flaws in his speech, it made Jiang Chen realize that this was a trap.    

So Jiang Chen turned the trick into something useful for himself, and secretly applied poison to the two green spirit pearls, and then used reason to examine Fatty Xuan's shoulder to deal a deadly blow to the assassin pretending to be Fatty Xuan.    

The ultimate goal of his follow-up move in planning was to reduce the other party's fighting prowess.    

This way, he used one punch to kill the number four pretending to be Fatty Xuan, and used poison to finish off the number three pretending to be Ouyang Ping.    

With this, there would only be a murderous boss waiting from behind the shadows, and number two, who was pretending to be Hubing Yue, left.    

“Heh heh, I really naively thought that the Duke of Soaring Dragon would not fight me here! Who would have thought that the Long Family would go to extremes to take care of me. They really appreciate me.”    

Killing intent also surged within Jiang Chen's heart. The Duke of Soaring Dragon had exceeded his limits repeatedly.    

“Bos, this kid is weird. He killed number four with one punch, and number three with poison.”    

“Preserve your position. He has been injured by my true qi and will not make it this far. Remember, beware of this child's poison!”    

"Huh. He's plotting against number three. How could I fall in love with the same thing, knowing that he is adept at using poison?” The tone of the fake Hubing Yue voice was filled with a depth of hatred that reached the sky.