Can a Scholar Be Called a Villain

Chapter 17: Murdering Xue Lin Na

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The peak of the mountain was vast and tall, with a maze-like main road diverging into over a thousand paths, each heading in a different direction. It was obvious that these areas held places like herbal fields, residences and warehouses of the ‘Jade Snow sect’, each location containing its own treasures.

But Murong Lin wasn’t concerned with these places, and he continued to follow the Xue clan as they headed into a path. Watching their movements, the surrounding people chose to walk in different directions, avoiding any conflict with the Xue clan.

There were plenty of treasures and opportunities on the mountain, and there was no real need to fight with the two Manifestation realm experts of the Xue clan.

With his divine senses, Murong Lin ensured that there was no one watching before he quickly pursued the Xue clan as the two ‘Flowering Steel Trees’ followed him. With the two shields that were the ninth layer manifestation realm experts next to him, Murong Lin was able to conceal their presence and hide from the Xue clan.

The members of the Xue clan walked forwards curiously, and one of the Manifestation realm elders turned and asked Xue Lin Na, “Lin Na, are you sure of the great opportunity that lies beyond this path?”

Xue Lin Na nodded, her gaze fervent, “The scent of spiritual medicines is the strongest here, it must be a large herbal field!”

“Since sister Xue has spoken, it should be correct! Sister Xue’s divine senses are the most attuned towards spiritual medicines!”

“That’s right, let’s walk faster! If not, those spiritual beasts might beat us to it.”

The disciples of the Xue clan spoke excitedly.

It seemed that this remnant was at least a thousand years old, and if there were truly herbal fields here, then each of the herbs would be at least a thousand years old each!

The group hastened their pace, and as they arrived at the herbal fields, they exploded in joy.

“Hahahaha! There’s even a protective array here to preserve the medicinal effects of these herbs!”

“Right! Look at the streams of light within that array, those are definitely thousand-year spiritual medicines inside! We’re rich!”

“Quick, let’s kill those demonic beasts before we open the array!”

The members of the Xue clan moved quickly, an elder brought the disciples to kill the demonic beasts lured by the smell of herbs while the other elder led the remaining disciples in breaking the protective array. Murong Lin and his two servants hid in the forest behind them, and watching the sight unfold before him, he was extremely delighted as well. There was a dome-shaped array covering a herbal field that was 10 acres wide, streams of spiritual light shone as spiritual medicines appeared and disappeared from within, causing the demonic beasts that had gathered to pace outside anxiously.

The leading elder killed an entire group of demonic beasts with just one move, using a powerful skill where his sword’s light split into four. After instructing the disciples to clean the corpse, he returned to the array and asked, “How is it? Is it possible to break the array?”

Beads of sweat formed on Xue Lin Na’s forehead as she pressed her palms against the array. As spiritual light circulated, vitality escaped from within the array and a pattern of light appeared. With a face full of joy, she spoke, “It’s done, elders, please put in your spiritual power!”

Hearing her words, the two elder’s faces lit up with awe as they quickly placed their hands against the protective array, transferring their own spiritual power into the array.

And as they continued to transfer their spiritual power, the colour of the array faded before it shattered with a loud sound.

The scent of herbal medicines washed over them.

Marvelling at the herbal fields that appeared before them, their faces were filled with wonder.

Even the greatest genius of the Xue clan, Xue Lin Na, hadn’t seen such a large number of spiritual medicines before.

The two Manifestation elders started laughing crazily, unbefitting of their status.

“Hahaha! Higher Earth level, thousand-year snowy winged snake flower! Consuming it increases one layer for the Manifestation realm! There’s actually ten flowers here!”

“Damn! That, that’s the lower Sky level shining tree! It gains a ring of light every one hundred years, and this trunk has a total of thirteen rings of light! More than a hundred shining fruits!”

Hey, look here, that’s the higher Sky level soaring dragon crystal fruit! There’s even the higher Sky level dark profound sword grass!”

“Hahahaha, we’re rich! Quick, go harvest them quickly!”

And just as they were celebrating, a dark shadow flashed before them, gently touching the forehead of the Manifestation realm elder.

Kacha.

The joyful smile of the Manifestation realm elder remained on his face as his head exploded, his brains splattering onto the area around him.

No one could react as the second shadow flashed by, passing through the Xue clan’s disciples as it punched, causing the bodies of the nine disciples to explode before they could even scream in pain.

“Who!” The other Manifestation realm elder looked towards the shadow that had attacked the other elder. It was a person with a steel tree towering behind him, his fists enormous.

He only had a single moment to think about how familiar this person seemed.

That man punched forwards, gently coming into contact with his temple as his body was sent flying backwards. Even before he could hit the ground, he had already died mid-air as his Manifestation transformation was stopped midway, shattering into bits of light.

Manifestation realm expert, dead.

Xue Lin Na looked at the shadow that had attacked the disciples with a deathly pale face, the drastic change was almost comical when compared to the expression of joy and her rosy complexion earlier.

She only had enough time to take out her weapon from her bag of holding, and in just the blink of her eye, every single one of the Xue clan’s disciples was dead.

All twenty Xue clan disciples were killed.

Not even a single one of them had an intact corpse.

She was the last one left.

But the two shadows stood silently at the side, looking in a different direction.

Xue Lin Na didn’t know if she should escape at that moment, but she couldn’t stop herself from looking in that direction, and she immediately noticed a person she didn’t expect to see.

Murong Lin.

“It was you!” Her face was full of disbelief.

She suddenly recalled the fact that she had seen these two shadows next to him before, it was the two men in the first layer of the Manifestation realm.

Hahaha, the first layer of the Manifestation realm?

She was truly an idiot.

With a pale complexion, Xue Lin Na opened her mouth, “Kill me.” She slowly closed her eyes, her heart filled with hate and unacceptance.

“Hah, did you think I wouldn’t dare to?” Murong Lin laughed coldly as his silhouette flickered, appearing before Xue Lin Na as her expression turned even worse from the shock.

《Bloody River God Finger》.

A blood-red light shot out from Murong Lin’s fingertip, turning into four rays of light that flew towards Xue Lin Na’s kneecaps and elbows.

“You! What have you done?” Xue Lin Na’s eyes widened in shock.

Murong Lin had an indifferent smile, “I want you to suffer through a fate worse than death.”

The ‘Flowering Steel Trees’ had dissolved the bodies of the Xue clan members with something, and after the corpses had disappeared, they started collecting the various spiritual medicines in the area, sorting them by their unique traits and storing them in their bags of holding.

After twenty minutes, Murong Lin walked out slowly from a small house.

He had an indifferent expression as he turned his head to glance at the inside of the small house. Xue Lin Na was sprawled out on the floor, her four limbs shattered and torn as she stared at Murong Lin with resentment in her eyes and curses in her mouth.

“What a pity, and here I thought a protagonist would show up.” Murong Lin returned to the house, and with the circulation of his blood-red spiritual power in his hands, he absorbed the blood from her body.

Before the resentment in her eyes could change into fear, Xue Ling Na was reduced to nothing but a shrivelled corpse.

Her large eyeballs jutted out from her skull, resembling the eyes of a dead fish.

Xue Lin Na, dead.

Lowering his hand, Murong Lin turned to look at the ‘Flowering Steel Trees’ that had come to his side.

The two of them nodded and presented the bag of holding in their hands, “Master, this is all of the spiritual medicine in this herbal field.”

Looking at the herbal field that was now emptied of even the spiritual soil within it, Murong Lin shook his head and took the bags of holding into his hands, “Go, let’s go take a look at the peak.”

The three turned and left, and with a wave of their hands, the ‘Flowering Steel Trees’ destroyed the entire area, not leaving a single trace of what had just happened.

And at this moment, the battle on the mountaintop had reached its peak.