868 Throw a Long Line to Catch a Big Fish (1/2)

Snowflakes swirled around a figure standing in the snow. He was like a mountain, and his clothes flapped behind him. He exuded an unrelenting force.

The criminals stared at the figure with shell-shocked expressions. Panic and fear spread. Their martial arts grandmaster warrior leader had been thrown into the air by the man in front of them.

They never imagined that such a situation would occur from them surrounding and threatening a few youths.

Li Jiangcheng was shaking as well. He was so shocked speechless. Mo Wen was so so powerful. The aura he exuded was so strong and forceful that Li Jiangcheng could not breathe. What was even more ridiculous was that Li Jiangcheng had tried to steal Mo Wen's points. Was he trying to seek death?!

He had thrown a martial arts grandmaster into the air with a single strike, and he was so young. Mo Wen was so talented that even Li Jiangcheng, who had always been called a genius, was shocked.

Mo Wen probably had a chance at the top ten of the Heaven list.

”Let's go!”

The leader, who was in the martial arts grandmaster realm, almost did not hesitate at all. He turned and climbed up from the rubble he had been thrown into and fled.

The criminals who lived in the Red Stone forest all had very strong survival skills. It showed not only in their abilities but also in their awareness. They lived in a dangerous environment all year round, so they could keenly judge when there was danger.

The martial arts grandmaster knew the moment Mo Wen struck that he was no match for Mo Wen. If he did not leave, he might die in the young man's hands.

Mo Wen frowned slightly. He did not expect the criminals to be so decisive. They had only just exchanged a blow before the criminals fled.

The moment the leader fled, the other criminals fled in all directions. It was almost impossible for Mo Wen to keep all of them there.

Mo Wen hummed and followed the leader, leaving behind the others.

Killing the criminals in the Red Stone forest granted a competitor points. Criminals of different cultivation stages brought in a different number of points.

The criminals who are locked up in the Red Stone forests were all at least in the Golden Elixir realm.

The competitors who killed a criminal at the beginning stages of the Golden Elixir realm could gain a point. Killing a criminal in the mid-Golden Elixir realm could earn three points. Killing a late-Golden Elixir realm criminal and a criminal at the peak of the Golden Elixir realm could win the competitors nine and thirty points, respectively.

The higher the cultivation levels, the more points the competitor would receive.

If they killed a warrior in the first realm martial arts grandmasters, they could gain 300 points. It was ten times the number of points awarded for a warrior at the pinnacle of the Golden Elixir realm. Competitors would get 1000 points if they killed criminals in the second martial arts grandmaster realm. If they killed criminals in the highest realm, the third martial arts grandmaster realm, they would be awarded 5000 points.

However, it was usually difficult for competitors to kill warriors in the second and third martial arts grandmaster realm. The people locked up there were all vicious and ruthless. Their combat abilities were way stronger than ordinary warriors of the same realm. Killing a martial arts grandmaster on the Savages List was much more difficult than killing an ordinary martial arts grandmaster.

In the previous Heavens List tournament, first martial arts grandmaster realm warriors were rarely killed, much less those in the second and third realm. Sometimes, there would be consecutive tournaments in which no competitors killed any martial arts grandmasters.

Mo Wen ignored the other criminals and chased after the leader, who was in the martial arts grandmaster realm, because the points he would get for killing a martial arts grandmaster was more than killing all the other criminals put together.

Li Jiangcheng was shaken from his reverie and looked around him. Everyone had gone. The criminals had all escaped and the young man had gone after the martial arts grandmaster. He could not help sighing. Fortunately, he did not crush his jade pendant immediately like the other youth. Otherwise, he would have been out of the tournament early on. He did not stay in the area for long. Instead, he turned around and walked in a direction. The criminals might be afraid of the youth, but they were not afraid of him. If they saw that he was alone, they would definitely try to surround him again.

The leader was rather fast. He was skilled at fleeing and was familiar with his surroundings, so he had run more than 10 kilometers in just a moment.

”Luckily, I'm decisive and smart enough. Otherwise, I would definitely have died in that rascal's hands. He is young, but he is so powerful. It's really incredible.”

The leader of the criminals thought he had managed to shake his opponent off after he ran for about 30 kilometers. He stopped and reached up to wipe his sweat.

They had only fought for a moment but he had been severely injured. The icy cold power was still swirling throughout his body, damaging his organs and tissues. Fortunately, his cultivation level was not low. He could force the terrifying cold down with some difficulty.

”The first prey that I spotted is so powerful. My luck must be terrible. In the past competition for the Heavens List, meeting just one terrifying opponent like this youth would have been difficult. What's wrong with this year's competition? It seems like the people who entered are much stronger than the previous competitions.”

The leader of the criminals looked terrible. Someone as powerful as the youth he met earlier would have no problems ranking in the top three amongst the competitors of the past competitions. He might even rank first. He had encountered such a powerful warrior so easily and did not know if it was because of his terrible luck…

Whoosh.

The leader of the criminals breathed in deeply. He patted his chest and spat out a pool of blood forcefully. The blood had a startling cold Qi within it. The hard red stone on the ground immediately turned into powder upon encountering the cold Qi. It had been frozen into little solid bits immediately.