Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Chapter 1415 Stop Right There

"Wow..."

Arthur gasped in surprise and instinctively took a step back.

Nangong Ru raised her head and said in a deep voice, "So there were so many insects around us that we didn't even notice them at first."

“That’s normal,” Cang Feng said. “In areas covered by the purple mist, our divine senses are severely interfered with. Moreover, these insects seem to be very good at camouflage, able to completely disguise their bodies as leaves and branches in the environment. It’s normal that we can’t detect them.”

"Are these the venomous insects of the mysterious mist?" Xia Xiyao felt goosebumps all over her body when she saw so many insects. "Should we report this to Xiaoye now?"

Cang Feng said, "Didn't Ye Ge say that we shouldn't act rashly after finding the poisonous insects? So let's report to him first."

Nangong Ru nodded: "Mm."

"what--!!!"

Just then, a scream suddenly rang out.

Suddenly, a scream rang out from the human warrior ranks behind them.

In the middle of the column, a soldier was clutching his own neck with both hands, his eyes bulging in terror, a hissing sound coming from his throat, his body stiffening as he fell backward with a thud onto the ground covered with decaying leaves. He twitched slightly twice and then fell silent.

"Um???"

Nangong Ru, Cang Feng, Arthur, and the others all turned around: "What's going on??"

Nangong Qiuyue immediately ran over and knelt down beside the fallen soldier.

On the side of the soldier's neck, there was a very thin and neat cut, as thin as a hair, which was almost imperceptible if you did not look closely.

The wound didn't bleed immediately; it wasn't until Nangong Qiuyue accidentally touched it that warm blood slowly seeped out, staining her fingertips red.

"What happened?" Nangong Qiuyue frowned, looked up, and glanced around at the people. "Who killed him?!"

The nearby soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment and involuntarily retreated.

"No, I don't know..." a young soldier said fearfully, "We didn't see it clearly just now, we just saw a dark shadow 'whoosh' past, and then..."

"A dark shadow..." Nangong Qiuyue turned her head to look at Nangong Ru behind her: "Sister, look..."

Nangong Ru had already crouched down, her fingertips hovering above the wound to sense it, her gaze cold: "It was injured by an extremely thin blade infused with pure soul power. The blade is as thin as a cicada's wing, so the cut is extremely fine; the person who made the cut was an expert with a knife, controlling the force and depth to the extreme, just enough to sever the trachea without damaging the major blood vessels nearby. A little more and blood would have splattered on the spot, a little less and it would not have been fatal."

Nangong Qiuyue was a little confused: "Huh?...Why are you doing this?"

Nangong Ru: "I don't know either..."

"Hehehehe... Of course, it's for art." A rather unpleasant, gruff voice rang out.

"what--!"

"Ahhh...!"

Before he could finish speaking, two more screams rang out.

"Plop" "Plop"

Two more human warriors fell to the ground.

Both human warriors had a slit cut across their necks, leaving a very neat, narrow cut that was almost exactly the same size!

"Shh-!"

A blurry black shadow, like a ghost, flashed past everyone's eyes and swiftly darted up the gnarled branches of an ancient tree next to them, instantly blending into the fluorescent insect shadows and dappled tree shadows.

"What a joke!" Nangong Qiuyue's eyes flashed with fierce light. "Stop right there!"

Her soul power exploded beneath her feet, causing decaying leaves to scatter, and her delicate body sprang up like a spring, heading straight for the tree trunk where the dark figure was hiding!

"Ninth-tier martial skill - Instant Leaf and Lingering Wind Slash!"

While still in mid-air, Nangong Qiuyue had already drawn her specially made straight sword, its blade gleaming with a bluish light. Using the momentum, she swung her body, performing an incredibly swift short-distance teleportation through the dense branches. Her sword flashed like a leaf in the wind, slashing fiercely at the dark figure trying to blend into the shadows!

"Oh?"

The dark figure turned around and seemed surprised that Nangong Qiuyue could keep up with him.

"Ding!!"

A spark exploded in the dim forest, producing a sharp, jarring sound of metal clashing.

The alloy straight sword in Nangong Qiuyue's hand clashed with a weapon that her opponent had just parried. At the moment of impact, that weapon reflected a cold, gleaming light—it was an exceptionally small, thin, and precisely designed surgical scalpel!

"A scalpel?!" Nangong Qiuyue wondered. In battles between superhumans of their level, someone would actually use such a thing as a weapon?

Using the force of the collision, the two sides slightly increased the distance between them.

Nangong Qiuyue finally saw clearly that the dark figure in front of her was actually an orc wearing a white coat stained with some dirt, a mask on his face, and pale green skin. He was tall, and his eyes above the mask looked particularly fanatical, even somewhat neurotic.

Although the scalpel in the orc doctor's hand was short and thin, his stubby fingers were exceptionally dexterous. The tiny scalpel seemed to come alive at his fingertips. With a gentle flick or a flick, the movement was minimal, yet it carried a strange and skillful force that could move mountains with minimal effort.

Nangong Qiuyue felt a numbness in her wrist, and a tricky force came from her. The straight knife in her hand was uncontrollably deflected by half a foot, leaving her wide open!

In the blink of an eye that this opening was exposed, Amu flicked his wrist, and the scalpel, stained with tiny bloodstains, moved like a viper's tongue, silently yet swiftly, piercing straight for Nangong Qiuyue's throat!

Nangong Qiuyue's hair stood on end!

"Eighth-tier martial skill - Light-Slaying Slash!"

A cool, low shout seemed to ring out close to her ear.

A sharp, unparalleled blade of light, like lightning tearing through the shadows, suddenly shone from behind Amu's side, slashing straight at the back of his neck! It was Nangong Ru who had arrived just in time!

The orc doctor glanced back out of the corner of his eye, immediately changing his body movement and slightly turning his head to dodge. Nangong Ru's straight blade swept past him, tearing his mask.

The orc doctor, Am, raised his left hand again, holding a tranquilizer gun, and pulled the trigger twice at Nangong Ru.

Two tiny needles shot out from the muzzle of the gun. Nangong Ru reacted extremely quickly, raising her knife to block them with a "clang clang".

At this moment, Xia Xiyao's figure was already suspended in mid-air, and the chaotic aura around her began to surge violently, her long hair moving without wind. She formed a complex hand seal in front of her chest, and her clear eyes were filled with a chilling murderous aura.

"Fierce and malevolent—Chaotic Explosion!"

As her clear shout rang out, the orc doctor suddenly felt the space around him begin to distort.

Centered on him, the space within several meters suddenly began to distort and collapse! It was as if an invisible hand had gripped that space tightly, and then—

“Boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!”

Without warning, a series of dull yet terrifying explosions erupted in that distorted space! Each explosion was not a burst of flames or shockwaves, but rather the creation of a miniature chaotic vortex that appeared and disappeared in an instant, frantically tearing apart and devouring all matter and energy within its range! Grass, fallen leaves, and even light were all pulled into nothingness by that terrifying suction force!