Fang Zhixing’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, and in an instant, he thought of someone.
"Is this retaliation for what happened last night?"
Fang Zhixing seemed thoughtful.
He was very familiar with the behavior of the scions of powerful families.
Shen Zhiyue probably acted tyrannically as usual, and suddenly encountering provocation from Fang Zhixing, the more he thought about his defeat, the angrier he became. So he staged this whole scene.
"Hahaha, what did I say?"
Seeing this, Xigou suddenly burst into laughter and jeered, "With your character, even drinking water gets stuck in your teeth, and farting splits your ass, serves you right!"
Fang Zhixing said with a curl of his lip, "When you’re not around, everything goes smoothly for me. Why do I always have bad luck when you are around?"
Xigou bared his teeth and retorted, "Nonsense, how is it not always you who drags me down?"
Fang Zhixing gave him a glare and said coldly, "Have you forgotten how I got here?"
Xigou was instantly speechless. That was the one thing he couldn’t refute.
"Young master, what should we do about this..."
Green Peony looked anxious and at a loss.
She clearly did not want to get involved.
After all, she and Fang Zhixing were neither relatives nor friends, merely connected by a transactional employment relationship.
Fang Zhixing remained calm and said indifferently, "You go rest to the side. I’ll handle this myself."
Green Peony did not hesitate and slowly backed away, leaving the circle.
The ones surrounding him indeed kept their promise and did not trouble her.
Green Peony breathed a sigh of relief, then hurriedly ran to stand dozens of meters away, stopped, and looked back.
Fang Zhixing remained composed and swept a cool gaze over the middle-aged men and others, then asked, "What were the orders you received, to beat me up or to kill me?"
The middle-aged man, his face cold, sneered in response, "Brother, sorry, but you provoked someone you shouldn’t have."
Fang Zhixing understood and sighed, "Then I’m sorry too."
As soon as his words fell, whoosh!
Before everyone’s eyes, a whistling sound was heard, dust stirred, and all robes were flung up.
The middle-aged man felt a sudden jolt in his heart. Looking down, he saw a broad palm, like a Bowstring Arrow, striking forcefully right on his chest.
His brain momentarily froze, and he went dumb, first feeling a searing heat surge, then his whole body lifted off the ground, swiftly moving away from that palm.
A second later, boom~
He hadn’t hit the ground yet when suddenly everything went pitch black before his eyes.
The crowd, unprepared, stood in their places as a burst of blood mist scattered onto them, turning them blood-red, mixed with flesh and shattered bones.
Blood plasma exploded!
Green Peony couldn’t help but widen her eyes, displaying a ghost-seeing expression.
She hadn’t seen clearly what Fang Zhixing had done, but the middle-aged man had suddenly exploded.
A great amount of blood gathered together like a bubbling fountain spreading rapidly, filling the entire view with a crimson color.
But it wasn’t over yet!
Almost immediately, another young man exploded as well, his body bursting open, with flesh and bones messily spraying out, a sight too dreadful to endure.
And then a third, a fourth...
The space quickly filled with spreading blood mist, blurring all figures.
Someone shouted, his voice filled with indescribable fear.
The previously fierce men, now terrified, scattered in all directions, running frantically.
Two of them ran right towards Green Peony.
Seeing this, Green Peony, scared, twisted her waist to flee.
Suddenly, two arrows shot out from the blood mist, piercing through the chests of the two men.
They fell flat on the ground, quickly motionless.
Green Peony stood frozen, staring dumbly as two living men turned into bodies in the blink of an eye.
Even though she was accustomed to life and death, she couldn’t help feeling a chill.
She looked up as the blood mist slowly dispersed.
Only one person was still standing at the scene, and if not Fang Zhixing, who else could it be?
About a dozen thugs were all dead, most of them blown apart, the rest met grisly ends, either shot dead by cold arrows or mauled to death by that gruesome Maned Wolf.
It was utterly overwhelming, too dominant!
Fang Zhixing flicked his sleeve, the only part of his body that had a drop of blood on it.
He quickly retrieved his arrows and beckoned, "Green Peony, let’s go."
Green Peony, jolted from her shock, hurried back to Fang Zhixing’s side.
The man, the dog, and the lady wasted no more time and continued deeper into the canyon.
The thunder overhead hardly stopped at all.
Occasionally, it seemed a few lightning bolts fell from the sky, majestic as if piercing through heaven and earth, striking deep into the forest, causing hearts to tremble with fear.
Xigou stuck close the entire way, his fur bristling.
"Look at you acting all cowardly, you’re really damn pathetic!"
Fang Zhixing looked disdainful, having never seen Xigou this fearful before.
Every time thunder sounded, Xigou looked as if he’d love to find a crack in the ground to hide in.
"You don’t know shit!"
Xigou, feeling aggrieved and angry, retorted, "Mutant Beasts naturally fear the majesty of thunder, just like some people are naturally afraid of the dark."
Fang Zhixing disdainfully replied, "Cowardly is cowardly, don’t make excuses for yourself."
The man and the dog communicated mentally, when suddenly a scream came from somewhere ahead.
Green Peony immediately crouched down, carefully observing what was ahead.
Soon, a beast with antlers like tree branches and a green body suddenly burst out of the forest, entering her field of vision.
"Emerald Plum Deer!" Green Peony exclaimed softly.
The next second, a Striped Tiger with huge fangs protruding from its mouth and an intimidating aura, followed right behind the Green Beast.