"Your hidden weapons are useless against me."
Su Luo tossed away the two silver needles in his hand and walked towards Xiao Da.
Xiao Da was shocked.
His hidden weapons couldn’t harm Su Luo, and even his punches fueled by his inner strength had failed to injure Su Luo. This made Xiao Da lose the confidence he had earlier.
"I refuse to believe that someone as young as you could actually be stronger than me,"
Xiao Da roared angrily and burst into motion once again.
His whole body leaped into the air, he reached around his waist and drew out a handful of steel needles, unleashing them all at once like a storm of pear blossoms, directing them at Su Luo.
Following close behind, Xiao Da pulled a dagger from behind his waist and rushed to assassinate Su Luo.
However, this time, Su Luo stomped on the ground; his entire body soared into the sky, avoiding the steel needles and, with the explosive power of Tai Chi Strength raining down from above, he landed a mighty kick directly at Xiao Da like a thousand-pound weight.
Upon seeing this, Xiao Da immediately changed his moves.
With his dagger, he aimed straight for Su Luo’s ankle to slice it.
Nevertheless, during his fight with Lin Jiangpu, Su Luo had deliberately drawn out the battle to enhance his combat experience and awareness. Now, he was no longer the green youth who possessed strength but didn’t know how to apply it or face an opponent.
Su Luo altered his leg technique, dodging Xiao Da’s strike, and kicked swiftly at his wrist. The powerful impact caused Xiao Da’s wrist bones to shatter, and he could no longer grip the dagger in his hand, which flew out of his grasp.
Su Luo also remembered how Lin Wu had attacked him during their first assassination attempt, altering his trajectory in mid-air and launching a sequence of kicks.
As he kicked away the dagger from Xiao Da’s hand, Su Luo continued with two more kicks aimed at Xiao Da’s vital spots.
Indeed, Xiao Da was up to his reputation as the seventh-ranking expert among Jiangbei’s Top Ten.
Even with injuries to both of his hands, his response was still quick as he blocked Su Luo’s kicks with his arms.
But...
The third kick, and then the fourth, he could not block anymore.
Su Luo’s foot landed on his chest, and the impact of the True Qi and strength caused most of Xiao Da’s rib bones to break.
"Puh."
Xiao Da spurted a mouthful of fresh blood and was sent flying backward.
After hitting the ground, he left a long blood smear on the surface.
When he finally came to a stop, he was already taking more breaths out than in.
"Cough..." Xiao Da coughed out several more mouthfuls of fresh blood, staring at Su Luo in horror, "No... impossible... How can you be so strong at such a young age..."
He didn’t get an answer before he breathed his last.
"Dead?"
Su Luo frowned and went over to check, only then did he discover that Xiao Da’s heart had been pierced by a broken rib.
Su Luo sighed.
Of course, it wasn’t for the death of Xiao Da; rather, he didn’t expect Xiao Da to die so quickly.
He hadn’t intended to kill Xiao Da outright, but to keep him alive at first so that he might extract some information from him.
But now it seemed impossible.
"Dying in my house is such bad luck," Su Luo muttered under his breath.
He was also relieved that now that he had acquired some spells, he didn’t have to deal with the body like an ordinary person would.
With a simple Fireball Technique, he incinerated Xiao Da’s body and the bloodstains he left behind.
Looking at the cleaned courtyard without a single trace left behind.
Su Luo couldn’t help but remark, "For cultivators, destroying evidence is really convenient."
The Fireball Technique was not a complex spell but one of the basic spells for cultivators, recorded in the book his grandfather had left him.
Su Luo managed to master it in less than half an hour.
But soon, his expression became somber again.
"Zhou Shihao really has something to do with my grandfather’s death," Su Luo gritted his teeth.
"Could it be that something happened to Aunt Shen after he sent someone to kill me?" Suddenly, Su Luo’s expression shifted slightly.
Before this, Zhou Shihao had never sent anyone to kill him, but it was after he had sought out Aunt Shen’s help to investigate his grandfather’s affairs that Zhou Shihao sent an assassin that very night.
Could it be that something happened to Aunt Shen and Zhou Shihao found out through her?
There was also the possibility that Zhou Shihao became aware of Su Luo after the news of Lin Jiangpu’s death reached him.
But Su Luo didn’t dare to gamble on that.
If it were the latter, that would be alright, but if it were the former and Aunt Shen was in danger because she was helping him get information, Su Luo would never forgive himself if anything happened to her.
Nor could he accept anything happening to Aunt Shen.
With that thought, Su Luo couldn’t stay calm anymore. He quickly took out his phone and called Rose.
But, no one answered.
He called again.
The phone was working, but still no answer.
"Damn it, what if something really happened?" Su Luo became anxious. He tried one last time to call Rose, but still got no response.
Su Luo couldn’t sit still anymore.
He resisted the urge to contact Aunt Shen directly. The more critical the situation, the less he could afford to contact her.
Thus, Su Luo immediately left the Su Family Ancestral House and rushed to the Qing Zhi Bar as quickly as possible to try and find Rose and confirm news about Aunt Shen.