Chapter 768 - The Most Dangerous Person (1/2)

The blades sliced across the forest, their lights reflecting the massacre. Weapons clashing, branches snapping, arrows flying, and the sound of human cries filled the bloody scene.

Shao Xuan wiped the blood marks off his face and continued to advance. Suddenly, he halted. The entire team slowed down too.

Shao Xuan noticed Gan Qie standing beside a tree nearby. They already noticed many dead bodies on the ground on their way here, and they knew from the wounds who had attacked them. These corpses were all slaughtered in the same fashion and seemed to have been killed by bare hands. There were even strips of linen cloth on the ground beside the corpses.

Gan Qie was severely injured. If he was a normal human, he would’ve died multiple deaths, but he was still walking like a normal human now, with the same expressionless face. He even waved and greeted Shao Xuan’s group calmly when he saw them.

He must’ve gained a lot of new information from the previous night, Shao Xuan thought.

The Flaming Horns did not stop there. Shao Xuan gestured for the others to follow him and they continued to sweep across the forest in the same fashion, two teams slicing whatever lay in their paths like sharp spinning blades cutting through the forest. They sliced whatever they saw in the forest beside the Lu tribe. Gan Qie did not participate in this, however. He had other matters to tend to, and joining them required teamwork. He could not adapt to their team and he had no plans on joining them. Judging by his looks, Shao Xuan could tell that he had a clear target in mind and he was heading for that target, so Shao Xuan didn’t bother calling him.

After Shao Xuan’s group advanced, Gan Qie lifted his head and glanced up at the sun. It was not shining as brightly as noon now and it was getting closer to sunset.

Gan Qie’s cloak was already ruined and tattered. What remained of his cloak hung loosely on his body and he didn’t care one bit about its condition. He sniffed the air around him as he managed to trace a faint bloody smell. This was the scent of his current target.

Gan Qie didn’t know how he was able to discern different smells in the air. Perhaps his organs had changed and made him more sensitive to smell. However, the scent he was smelling now was different from the usual smells. This smell was not carried here by the wind. It was a smell that belonged to people whose bodies had merged with fire seeds. It was different from the smell of ordinary beasts. Even if those people stood in the wind and their scents were carried to a different direction, Gan Qie could still sense it clearly.

After he had woken up from his long sleep, his senses became keener to smell and taste as his body slowly recovered.

There were no blood stains on the ground. It was clear that the other party did a good job in concealing their deed and even considered which direction the wind was blowing, but even with such effort, they failed to escape Gan Qie’s nose. They might not know that another smell tainted their bodies, a smell that differed from the usual smell in their blood. This smell could not be blown by the wind.

Behind a tree that was as tall as an average adult, a man was holding onto his belly tightly.

He breathed carefully and glanced around with watchful eyes. He was terrified and his body was already exhausted. Luckily he was far away from the Lu tribe. The Flaming Horn team probably wouldn’t come here either.

His group had been active in this area for a long time so they were familiar with the grounds. That was why they escaped so much faster compared to those others behind them.

Did he successfully escape? He was worried and full of regret. He never thought that the five of them would be defeated by that one man. What a miserable fight it was!

As he recalled that person, he shivered uncontrollably. That was definitely not a human. Or else, how could they not kill him even after beating him so many times?

Luckily he escaped in time, or else he would’ve lost his life like his four companions.

As he thought about this, he suddenly heard something rustling through the forest. It sounded like someone was running.

Who is it?

He didn’t want to run. He felt that this hiding spot was already good enough for the moment and all he had to do was keep hiding here. That was why he only turned his head slightly and looked through the gap in the tree to see who it was.

A green figure flashed across his vision, scaring him so badly that he stopped breathing for a moment. His entire body froze in fear.

How did this person manage to catch up?!

Run!

This was his first thought, but his body moved a step too late.

An arm shot out in his direction like a spear and a punch landed on his jaw the very next moment. His entire body was blasted upwards and his face was instantly distorted by the blow.

After he landed on the ground, he wanted to say something. He wanted to answer the question they ignored previously and wished to beg this person to let him go, but his jaw was fractured so it was hard for him to even open his mouth, much less speak a clear sentence.

As he watched his opponent approach, his arms pushed against the ground forcefully as he tried to get up. He wanted to escape but it was already too late.

A hand gripped his head tightly and pressed him down to the ground.

Bam!

His head slammed down hard into the ground. Grass and dirt flew up into the air.

He had already suffered a heavy blow. Now, an attack like this meant nothing but death. As his head smashed into the ground, he lost consciousness.

Crack!

Following the crack in his skull, the person on the ground died.

Gan Qie lifted his hand from the person’s brains. As he rose, his expression was still one of confusion.

Why did these people look down on tribesmen? This was not a matter of power or strength. These people weren’t strong themselves, so Gan Qie couldn’t understand why they felt superior to tribesmen after leaving their tribal lives behind.

Even though they did not answer Gan Qie’s questions directly, he sensed an unmistakable condescendence in their tone and actions. It wasn’t just these five though. The others were all like that.

Gan Qie was unhappy when he heard these people from the other side talk about tribesmen. Once they made him unhappy, he didn’t go lightly on them.

Weren’t they tribesmen once too? Even if they chose to live a different life, there was no need for such condescendence. Was it their fire seed that changed, or them? Gan Qie was immersed in deep contemplation.

No. Their fire seed was still the same. They were the ones who changed. Just like he did.