Chapter Seventy-Five: Locked On!

Flesh like iron, blade like steel.

Strength mixed with skill, finding an opening to enter.

Alerted, the Old Eunuch reached back to parry, but his left hand was gone from the wrist.

The severed hand flew up.

The screaming was incessant.

“Aaaaah!”

The Old Eunuch no longer had his previous composure.

As the scream escaped his lips, his face filled with shock.

The pain that followed twisted that shock.

Making his face hideous.

Pain!

It was too painful!

Since mastering the Virginal Golden Body, the Old Eunuch had never felt such pain!

So much so that he had forgotten he could be injured!

The pain of the severed hand cut to the heart.

His Qi and blood trembled, and his Golden Body became unstable.

The Old Eunuch instinctively wanted to run.

But,

【tiger fiend】’s momentum was relentless.

The long blade continued to slash down!

And it was swifter, faster, and more vicious!

Roar!

The roar of the blade was several times louder than before, like a mountain lord reborn, a tiger treading through the forest.

The Old Eunuch’s mind trembled repeatedly, and multicolored shadows began to appear before his eyes.

Immediately, he gritted his teeth.

He used the Great Yin Yang Hand again.

Unlike the previous hurried circulation of Qi, this time the Old Eunuch held nothing back.

Going all out—

Whoosh!

The wind surged, strength born from inner force.

But it couldn’t be pulled, nor could it be led astray.

The hand gripping the hilt and slashing down didn’t seem human.

It possessed immense power, yet felt as if forged from iron and steel.

The Great Yin Yang Hand was useless!

The blade had reached his forehead!

The Old Eunuch’s eyes were bloodshot as he shouted loudly.

“Die for this eunuch!”

Blood Qi rose as he blocked with his severed arm.

Golden light flickered, the Pure Yang of a virgin.

The Old Eunuch started martial arts at ten, practicing the Virginal Art, reaching Major Achievement at fifty.

A Virginal Art at Major Achievement can nurture a breath of Pure Yang Qi.

Because he practiced the Virginal Art before castration, this breath of Pure Yang Qi had always been there.

Also because of the castration, Yin was generated within his body, allowing him to nurture Yin with Pure Yang, and Yin in turn returned to Pure Yang, entering the Peak extreme realm of the Virginal Art: the Virginal Golden Body.

Even if his hand was severed.

The Virginal Golden Body was broken.

But the Pure Yang Virginal Qi remained.

This was also the Old Eunuch’s greatest trump card.

With a shout, the Old Eunuch charged forward instead of retreating. While his intact right hand went straight for Ding Xie’s heart, a small sword condensed entirely of blood Qi, white within red, shot out from his mouth.

His palm generated Yin and Yang, the force surging wildly.

The red and white small sword was peerlessly sharp.

Then… the palm passed by his side, missing completely.

The sword went into the Void Realm, missing the target.

Ding Xie’s feet didn’t move, yet his body shifted a foot to the side, causing all of the Old Eunuch’s attacks to miss.

The Old Eunuch was stunned.

Heat and cold swapped, and suction was generated out of thin air!

This was his Great Yin Yang Hand!

The ‘Great Yin Yang Hand’ he created based on ‘Green Snake Turns White’!

How did the opponent know it too?

And why hadn’t he thought of using the ‘Great Yin Yang Hand’ to move his body?

If he had thought of it, would his hand not have been cut off?

Doubt, regret.

In the end, it all turned into resentment.

Because his death was imminent.

“Wait!

Let’s talk…”

Before he could finish his sentence, 【tiger fiend】 sliced through his body.

The Virginal Golden Body was broken, and the Pure Yang Virginal Qi had leaked out.

At this moment, the Old Eunuch’s body was just like an ordinary person’s.

Pfft!

One blade, two halves.

The corpse fell to the ground.

The whole area fell into a dead silence.

Zhao The Unhappy, Blind Huang, the Wuchang Brothers, and Madam Meng were stunned.

On the opposite side, A diminutive and the two hundred men personally trained by the Old Eunuch were also stunned.

The former were in disbelief; the Old Eunuch who had been suppressing the five of them was dead just like that?

The latter could believe it even less; the invulnerable, god-like Eunuch had been killed by a Mortal!

But Ding Xie was not stunned.

The enemies were not all dead!

【tiger fiend】 was stabbed into the ground by his feet. Ding Xie flipped open a door panel, revealing 【doctors mercy】, and aimed the muzzle at the Old Eunuch’s ambushers.

He cranked it, and the gun roared.

Da da da.

Blood splattered everywhere.

Corpses littered the field.

After two belts, the two hundred well-trained elites, proficient in martial arts and highly anticipated by the Old Eunuch, were all dead.

It wasn’t that they didn’t resist.

But, facing the dense rain of bullets,

their resistance was completely useless.

Some fled; that young eunuch was the first to run.

Immediately, he was given special attention by Ding Xie.

He died the fastest.

The gunfire stopped.

Even the most outspoken Zhao The Unhappy was a bit speechless at this moment.

He had seen Ding Xie’s flatbed cart.

He was also well aware of the silver dollars, jewelry, and gold on the cart—the friction sounds from within as it moved were all too obvious to a poor devil like him.

However, Zhao The Unhappy never expected that the most noteworthy thing about the cart wasn’t what was on it, but the flatbed cart itself.

It turned out to be such a weapon of mass destruction!

Shock passed through his heart.

Zhao The Unhappy snapped out of it a moment later.

“Top Scholar, you truly are an eye-opener!

Old Zhao is impressed.

Next time we run into wild boar skins, let me try this rapid-fire gun too!

Goddammit, how can it be so fast? It’s much faster than my sword!”

Zhao The Unhappy laughed freely.

The Wuchang Brothers and Madam Meng didn’t know Ding Xie.

But all three had heard the title of Top Scholar from the Man of Benevolence and Righteousness.

Moreover, all three knew Ding Xie was here to help, and he had been a huge help.

The three of them immediately cupped their hands in greeting.

“Greetings, Top Scholar.”

Lin Tianding, who was nearby, ran over excitedly.

Lin Tianding’s thoughts were much simpler.

Great Sage!

The Great Sage had saved him again!

Not just him, but everyone!

When monsters arise, there is no need to fear.

The Great Sage comes to cleanse the world.

“Great Sage! Great Sage!”

Lin Tianding shouted.

Only Blind Huang didn’t speak.

Blind Huang knew Ding Xie had arrived.

Then, he couldn’t help his curiosity and started fiddling with his fingers again.

He performed a calculation with his fingers.

Unlike before where there was a delay, this time the reaction was instantaneous.

The Martial Star is in the center, with the Seven Killings echoing it.

The Army Breaker is arrogant, and the Greedy Wolf sits alone.

The four stars are connected horizontally, their malevolence blotting out the sky.

“Ah!

A cramp!

Unhappy, Unhappy, come quickly and pry my hand open, it’s turned into a chicken claw!

My left hand, and the left hand too!”

Blind Huang’s hands were cramping.

Everyone looked over.

Ding Xie’s gaze swept across the flashing text—

【tiger fiend】 killed Eunuch An, Experience +3500

【doctors mercy】 killed A diminutive, Experience +100

【doctors mercy】 killed Imperial Household Department Elites x200, Experience +10000

【Determined as combat, Talent ‘Martial Star’ in effect, Experience increased by 300%!】

【Determined as rookie instance, Experience increased by 100%】

【Experience +54400】

【Character Rank up: 10→11】

【HP, Stamina, Stress limits +1】

【Skill Point +1】

【Talent ‘Martial Star’ check in progress…】

【Check passed!】

【Combat Skill Point +1】

…Add points!

Still two points into 【Unarmed Combat. Mastery】!

Glancing at the 72,144 experience points needed for the next Rank and the 46,263 experience points he currently possessed, Ding Xie adapted to the deathmatch in his mind while pulling out the 【Thirteen Protectors】 from his back and pulling the trigger toward the sea.

Bang bang bang!

One gunshot after another.

The gunpowder smoke that hadn’t yet dissipated rose again.

Ding Xie was maintaining his combat state.

His gaze was firmly locked on—

The Ironclad Gunboat!