Chapter 174 – Ambush (2/2)

The woods were silence expect the noise of dried leaves dancing, the duo went past a few beast nests in the windy night. They eventually arrived at a flat site filled with tents, looking intimidated as they were lit by the wiggling fire.

The fact that they set up campfires meant they were either amateurs or not afraid of the beasts and other cultivators knowing their location. All of them who stayed up guarding the camps had incredible Qi persense, both Ye Wei and Lu Feng could feel the guards were at least condensed prime Warriors.

Ye Wei was standing on a bushy tree branch, surveilled the men dressed in white robes from afar. He could tell they were his target from the golden family crest on embroidered in front of their chests.

He could tell from the Qi disturbance that all three of them were condensed prime Warriors, and that their leaders were in the camps, resting.

The infiltration was done slowly and cautiously, Ye Wei had to wait for the perfect moment to strike, to make sure these condensed prime guards take their last breath before they could send their superiors a distress signal.

The gusts of winds grew stronger as the night got darker, the clouds dispersed and the moonlight showered onto the woods. The wild beasts were becoming more active but they avoided tents as they could smell and feel danger where the campfires were.

Next to the swishing trees, the three guards were jealously looking at a shaking tent.

“These Du women are surely energetic, Lu Li is going to be drained after this!” One of them licked his lips and said vulgarly.

“You can’t blame him, he is still young, he can’t really say no to this kind of temptation, good for him that he gets a night off, haha!”

“Good for him maybe, how is any of us going to sleep if they are going to be this noisy the whole evening?”

“It’s nice to be young!” All three of them took a sip of wine, laughing while they excitedly talked about women.

While they were all keeping quiet, distracted by what was happening inside the tent, Ye Wei rushed out of the side bush, three Qi Swords flew out as he approached the trio.

“Plop! Plop! Plop!”

The Peerless Swords slit all three condensed Warriors’ throats, their white robes were dyed red.

Their consciousness faded before they knew what took their lives and their eyes became dull and dim. Ye Wei quickly channeled his QI to hold them before they hit the ground, their bodies softened. He gently placed their bodies down, made it look as if they were falling asleep.

The campfire flickered in the night breeze.

Having been through numerous life-threatening battles, Ye Wei was less and less emotional than he once was, the compassion in him had turned to a compromised heartlessness.

‘These guys were guarding him while he does this!? He has got to be someone important in the Lu family…’ Thought Ye Wei.

‘He must have trained nonstop at the Drakehead,’ Lu Feng was shocked to see Ye Wei’s decisive and lethal moves, ‘and what stance was that? It took him less than a second to put them to sleep…’

‘This monster, I can’t believe he got this much stronger just in a few days!’ Lu Feng was trying to compare Ye Wei with other young cultivators but he couldn’t think or anyone comparable.

‘Even within the, Lu Fan, the strongest youngster of this generation of Lu would be no match for Ye Wei…’ Lu Feng had always looked up to his young cousin and used it as a reference point, to know what he could improve on in terms of cultivation. “I had been blind, I should have realized I only saw a small fraction of Ye Wei’s talent when I was in Ning City.”

Ye Wei sneaked close to the tent in complete silence after he gently laid the dead bodies next to the campfire.

‘How can he not notice I am here?’ Ye Wei chuckled as he heard the man’s pant and the woman’s moan. ‘This man is a ten-star condensed prime Warrior but a sloppy cultivator, I guess that’s what it’s like to be born into a big family, you get all the pills you need and your senses become blunt.’

Ten minutes past, the man in the tent groaned breathed deep and slow.

‘This is it, he is not alert at all!’ Ye Wei reached for a scroll from his sleeve, tore it to deploy a runic array. The sound of the man and the woman in the tent suddenly became inaudible.

At the same time as Ye Wei tore the scroll, his Qi sword struck towards Lu Li’s neck.

Lu Li was startled, his pleasure evaporated, replaced by a sharp sense of pain.