"Scram?" Hearing Wang Er's words, Fang Yuan instantly let out a cold sneer and swung his palm, slicing forward.
Pch.
With a soft sound, an eerie blue moonblade swiftly shot out.
At the same time, he pushed off with his feet, fiercely charging toward these four hunters.
"A Gu Master?!" Seeing this moonblade, someone among the hunters instantly cried out in shock.
The moonblade had already shot over; they hastily scattered to dodge.
Pfft.
One person failed to dodge in time; his right forearm was struck by the moonblade. Instantly, bone and flesh separated, and his wrist, along with half of his forearm, was sliced off and fell to the ground.
"Ahhh!"
He collapsed onto the ground, roaring in agony and terror. His left hand, like an eagle's claw, subconsciously gripped his right arm tightly.
From the front end of his right arm, crimson blood continuously spouted out, quickly dyeing the ground red.
"Spare my life!"
"We didn't mean to offend!"
Seeing their companion's miserable state, the other two hunters' faces instantly turned deathly pale, devoid of a single trace of blood color. They hastily prostrated themselves, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing non-stop towards Fang Yuan.
"Hmph, a bunch of useless things, what are you afraid of? Isn't he just an academy student?!" Only Wang Er remained standing. Fang Yuan making a lethal move without a second word made him both shocked and furious. He spread his arms back, his waist leaning back and contracting, and with an unknown movement, the bow and arrows carried on his back were grasped in his hands.
"Stop, if you come any closer, I will shoot you through with an arrow!" Wang Er retreated while drawing his bow and nocking an arrow, roaring at the same time.
"Mm?" Fang Yuan narrowed his eyes; this Wang Er was somewhat troublesome. Which ordinary mortal wouldn't feel fear in their heart upon seeing a Gu Master, yet he was able to maintain his calm, showing quite some courage.
Pch.
Another moonblade flew out, shooting towards Wang Er.
"Refusing face when given," Wang Er coldly snorted, murderous intent instantly rising in his heart.
His footsteps shifted slightly, letting the incoming moonblade pass by, while simultaneously shooting an arrow.
The arrow flew swiftly, and with a swish, it arrived right in front of Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan lowered his body, ducked his head slightly, and avoided this arrow, still continuously charging forward, quickly closing in on Wang Er.
Wang Er was extremely resolute; he immediately discarded the bow and arrows in his hands, swung his bowl-sized fists, and fiercely met Fang Yuan head-on.
He was tall and large, with a wolf's back and a bee's waist, his height at least half a meter taller than Fang Yuan. The sunlight shone over from behind him; as Fang Yuan rushed towards him, looking at his face, it was covered in a layer of shadow. Within the shadow, his pair of eyes surged with murderous intent like a wolf!
"No!"
"Quickly stop!"
Seeing that the two were about to fiercely collide together, the two hunters both cried out in terror.
"Die!" Fierce light radiated from Wang Er's eyes; all the flesh on his face twisted, both malevolent and frantic, like a bloodthirsty evil wolf.
His twin fists, one left and one right, punched towards Fang Yuan.
Whoosh.
His fists were fast and heavy, both drawing out the sound of wind!
Watching the fists grow larger and larger in his pupils, Fang Yuan's expression remained completely unmoving. Suddenly, he shifted his feet.
Swish.
Right at this hair's breadth of a moment, he avoided the fists, forcefully twisted his body, and dashed to the left side of Wang Er's left hand.
Wang Er gave a sinister laugh and swung his fist in a horizontal sweep. Striking later but arriving first, the fist was immediately about to catch up to Fang Yuan's back.
But right at this moment, a blinding glare of sunlight shot into his pupils.
He had originally been facing away from the sunlight; at this moment, as he abruptly turned his head back, the dazzling sunlight shone directly on him, instantly causing a stabbing pain in his eyes and turning his vision completely white.
Fang Yuan coldly sneered, his body making a side somersault in the air, letting Wang Er's swinging fist pass by, while flicking his right hand.
Pch!
The third moonblade shot rapidly along the direction of the shining sunlight.
Every hair on Wang Er's body instantly stood on end as he felt an unprecedented crisis. He hurriedly tilted his head in a panic; the next moment, the eerie blue moonblade flew past.
"Second Brother Wang, be careful!"
"Did he dodge it?"
The two hunters kneeling on the ground forgot to beg for mercy at this moment, their eyes staring wide open.
The dazzling sunlight shone on their faces.
At this moment, time seemed to slow down.
The sounds in the surroundings also seemed to vanish; the world fell into a sheet of dead silence.
The scorching afternoon sun laid out a grand incandescent background; against this background, Wang Er's figure was simplified into a dark silhouette. He leaned backward in the air, his vigorous body rising in an arc, like a drawn bow, full of the aesthetic beauty of masculine strength.
His head slowly turned to the side, wanting to evade the moonblade's attack.
The moonblade flew through the air at a snail's pace. The eerie blue light seemed almost non-existent under the illumination of the sunlight.
The white background, the black silhouette, the eerie blue moonblade—these three elements formed a magnificent stage that condensed life and death into an instant.
The moonblade flew past.
The dark silhouette representing Wang Er also slowly fell following its momentum.
He seemed to be safe and sound.
"Phew!" Seeing this, a young hunter exhaled a breath of turbid air.
"He dodged it!" Another hunter was already cheering and jumping for joy in his heart.
But right at this moment!
A small chunk separated from the head of the dark silhouette. Blood-red liquid scattered and splashed along with the separation of the dark silhouette.
The eerie blue moonblade gradually dissipated in the air.
As for that black silhouette, it was like a snapped bow; the contained power dissipated with a crash in an instant, turning into a piece of bleakly beautiful fallen leaf in the blink of an eye, silently drifting down to the ground.
The pupils of the two hunters violently shrank to the size of pinpricks!
Their mouths opened slightly, growing wider and wider, until they opened to their absolute limits.
Patter.
A bright red liquid splashed onto the faces of the two.
The two used their hands to touch it—
It was blood!
They instantly jolted awake!
In their senses, time abruptly returned to normal again, and the noisy sounds transmitted into their ears once more.
There were the sounds of birds chirping, the murmuring of flowing water, and the miserable screams of their companion grabbing his severed arm and roaring loudly.
"Second Brother Wang—?" A hunter cried out, his voice filled with panic and terror. All along, Wang Er had always been their leader.
"Dead!" Another hunter gave a mournful wail, his face turning to the extreme of ash-gray in an instant.
"Second Brother Wang was our strongest hunter; just a moment ago he was still talking and laughing cheerfully with us, who would have thought that in the next moment, he would be dead!"
"We shouldn't have angered the Gu Master lord; how could we mortals be a match for a Gu Master!"
The two hunters felt both shocked and terrified in their hearts; for a moment, they were like two statues, kneeling rigidly on the ground.
Fang Yuan climbed up from the ground.
Just now, in order to dodge Wang Er's swinging fist, he performed a side somersault in the air and thus lost his balance. After shooting out a moonblade, he fell to the ground.
However, taking this side somersault and falling to the ground was worth it. If he took a fist like Wang Er's, it was estimated he would vomit blood on the spot. After all, Fang Yuan did not have a defensive Gu worm, and his body was still that of a fifteen-year-old youth.
Now that he stood up, other than a slight pain in his shoulder from hitting the ground, there was absolutely nothing else wrong with him.
"This Wang Er, very strong, even stronger than that Mo family's robust servant Gao Wan! If an ordinary student encountered him, they would definitely lose without a doubt. Even a Rank one upper stage Gu Master might fall into his hands due to carelessness." Fang Yuan took a deep look at Wang Er's corpse.
During the period a Gu Master was at Rank one, outstanding mortal martial artists remained a threat.
This Wang Er was indeed a capable hand.
He shot arrows fast and steady; relying solely on this point, it could rival the moonblade. Even the moonblade's attack was slightly inferior, not having as large a coverage range as his bow and arrows.
His fists and kicks had also reached the peak of a mortal; his muscles and bones were strong, ruthless, and vicious. With Fang Yuan's current small frame, he fundamentally could not take it head-on.
If it were any other student, they would have undoubtedly lost. But Wang Er's misfortune lay in the fact that he encountered Fang Yuan.
The moment he appeared, Fang Yuan observed the bow on his back and immediately deduced that he could not fight him at long range.
The moonblade's attack distance was only ten meters. The attack distance of a bow and arrows was much farther than the moonblade.
Therefore, Fang Yuan gave up ranged combat, rapidly closed in, and put up a posture of close-quarters melee.
Wang Er had no choice but to discard his bow and arrows, wanting to fight Fang Yuan in hand-to-hand combat.
But Fang Yuan also had no intention of engaging in close-quarters physical combat with Wang Er; he skillfully utilized angles and sunlight, created an opening for Wang Er, and then shot out the third moonblade.
He had now already advanced to middle stage, and using the Liquor worm to refine primeval essence, the moonblade had reached an attack level only upper stage Gu Masters possessed. At such a close distance, coupled with Wang Er's blurred vision, hitting Wang Er was an absolute certainty.
"But this Wang Er was truly formidable. Originally, I wanted to behead him, but at the critical juncture, relying on his intuition and reaction speed, he actually forcefully dodged more than half of it, causing my moonblade to only slice off half of his skull."
"Survival and death are exactly the main melody of nature. All living things are equal, all living things have the right to survive, and all living things have the possibility of being killed. In survival, one might distinguish between the noble and the lowly. But in the face of death, what difference is there between a person's death and a pig's death? It is all just death."
Fang Yuan took one last look at Wang Er's corpse and sighed in his heart.