"Where's Lei Fang? What took him so long? *Hiccup*" The two huge upper teeth internal members asked out of the blue.
However, one of the internal members passed out while the average face internal members replied with drunken movement.
"You know him. *Hiccup!* He must be fantasizing about Yang Wei again. You want to help him?" He guffawed.
The two huge upper teeth creased his eyebrows, feeling annoyed by the average face's jokes.
He went quiet as he wondered about Lei Fang, who spent five minutes peeing, appearing to suddenly vanish into thin air.
However, whenever he thought of how lecher Lei Fang was, his worries subsided.
Nevertheless, as seconds passed, he could feel something was wrong.
He could never ignore the uncomfortable feeling slowly consuming him.
His knees moved intensively, giving way of how anxious he felt.
Suddenly, he could not take it anymore and stood up.
He swept his eyes to the fellow internal members and one of them completely passed out, while the average face was closing and opening his eyes, fighting the urge to sleep.
Since he could not ask them for any help, he decided to look for Lei Fang by himself.
Nevertheless, he was instantly worried about leaving them behind, so he walked to the average face forward and grabbed the average face's shoulder and tried to wake him up.
"WHAT?" The average face shouted in exasperation.
He calmly replied, sober enough to prevent being easily angered, "Don't sleep. I have to check Lei Fang first. Take care of yourself."
He received glare, hearing the average face saying, "Who can still kill us? Have you grown stupid just by drinking five cups?"
He was enraged, being called stupid.
However, the huge upper teeth internal members knew how to hold back himself, knowing that it was only an insult, not something he should treat it as a big deal.
He replied, "Alright. Take care. I'll check Lei Fang."
"Go ahead, scaredy-cat." The average face snorted.
He could only cluck his tongue in annoyance as he slowly left them, disappearing soon in the shadows.
Seconds passed and another individual materialized from the shadow.
His appearance was completely shown by the moonlight, highlighting his shabby clothes, leather pouch, an unordinary necklace on his neck, and a scabbard that seemed to be too expensive for his status.
He slowly walked to the remaining two internal members, at the back of the average face, as his oceanic eyes flashed with coldness.
He did not bother hiding his footsteps, making it loud enough for the average face internal member to hear it.
"Have you come back already?" He asked, not bothering to look behind him, as he continued to hear the footsteps nearing him.
A second passed and heard no reply but the noise of the footsteps, causing him to frown.
At the same time, his expression loosened when he recalled insulting his fellow internal members.
He said, "Alright. I'm sorry for calling you stupid, okay? I thought Kong Feng was still awake. I just want us to laugh to ease your worries. There's no way something happens to Lei Fang? Who in this city can still kill us?"
The moment he finished his statement, the footsteps also halted.
He could barely remember the noise of the footsteps as he was talking but he realized it stopped near his back.
His hair stood on ends, hearing no response but a quiet surroundings.
He suddenly stood up and faced what was behind his back if it was not his fellow internal members, and what he saw was a chilling oceanic eyes, raising an azure sword, aiming to split his throat.
"Who-"
"You talked a lot of bullshit."
Slash!
A severed limb flew upward, spurting blood in mid-air.
His expression turned horrified, watching his right arm, aiming to block the sword as he leaped backward, soared in the air, disconnecting from his body.
His mind turned blank, trying to understand what was happening.
If he did not leapt his neck on time, it would have been completely severed.
He only received a lacerated wound on his neck, but even then, it caused the blood to burst out.
He would still die from the blood loss.
He was still in the confused state, when suddenly the searing pain jolted him awake.
It was so painful that it made him shriek in pain.
However, before he could even produce a noise, his mouth was pierced by a sharp sword.
"Serenity Strike." He heard a teen voice, echoing in front of him.
He lowered his eyes and saw a person below his age, probably sixteen, staring at him with a frigid expression, as though killing him was as easy as stepping on an ant.
His chilling ocean eyes made his body tremble in terror.
He could not fathom how it happened, for he was sure no one in the Ebonshade City dared to kill him, who represented the only middle-sized Clan, after killing the Azure Tide Clan.
His confidence was now shattered when he realized that death would always appear no matter how safe he felt.
When he realized he had gotten careless, he recalled his fellow internal members, warning him in danger.
He thought he was stupid, but it appeared it was the other way around.
Now, he was the only person who could save him, but he disappeared and went to check Lei Fang.
That was then, he realized that even Lei Fang must have been the first victim of the person in front of him.
Such realization terrified him, feeling no hope to fight against the person in front of him.
He tried to identify him, but the oceanic-eyed young man pulled the sword from his opened mouth as he attacked.
At this moment, he was completely paralyzed, leaving no room for him to defend or dodge his attack at all.
He helplessly saw him performing a simple movement, slashing horizontally, with a stance that seemed to be as calm as the ocean.
He knew death had arrived.
There was no escape.
Slash!
The last thing he saw was a beautiful oceanic wave appearing in his vision before he lost consciousness and died.
***
[Congratulations! You have successfully killed an Apprentice Rank Cultivator!
You have obtained 1 agility point!]
Hearing from the system that he received an agility point, Lu Zheng was not surprised.
After all, the man in front of him, seemingly taller than him, managed to react to his swift attack on time, completely denying the possibility of severing his head.
He was momentarily surprised, but acknowledging that he was an Apprentice Rank, he felt it made sense.
Furthermore, if it was not because he was completely drunk and took him by surprise, he might have a long duration of duel against him.
Of course, it was a situation that Lu Zheng patiently waited for.
After all, it was satisfying to kill the enemy by surprise, at the situation that they did not expect the least to die.
Whenever Lu Zheng thought about it, he grinned.