122: Chapter 122 You bastard, you're surrounded, haha.

"You shameless piece of trash, wait until I finish killing this beast, then I'll settle the score with you."

Mu Siyao roared frantically, her face turning green with rage.

The Yao Beast on the other side didn't give her any chance to catch her breath. She had no choice but to grit her teeth, forcibly overdraw the True Qi in her body, and unleash her trump card Martial Skill.

"Water Cold Ice Sword — Die for me!!!"

Accompanied by a sharp cry, the longsword in Mu Siyao's hand erupted with bone-chilling cold energy, transforming into a fierce Sword Qi over a zhang long. It pierced accurately and unerringly into the Iron-Armored Black Wind Leopard's brain through its gaping, bloodthirsty maw!

"Awoooo—" The Iron-Armored Black Wind Leopard let out a shrill, mournful howl. Its massive body twitched violently a few times before finally crashing to the ground, its breath completely gone.

"Huff... huff... huff..." Mu Siyao was drenched in sweat, her chest heaving violently.

She knelt on one knee, leaning on her longsword. The True Qi in her body had been almost completely drained. Her messy hair was plastered to her pale cheeks, making her look utterly disheveled.

However, before she could even catch her breath, "Swish!" A black afterimage swept past her like lightning.

Qin Feng was quick-witted and agile, rushing to the side of the Iron-Armored Black Wind Leopard's corpse like a starving tiger pouncing on prey.

With a flash of light from the Storage Pouch in his hand, the massive Yao Beast corpse, weighing several thousand catties, was instantly collected by Qin Feng, not even a single leopard hair left behind. The proficiency and speed of his actions were simply breathtaking.

"What are you doing?!" Seeing this, Mu Siyao's rage surged to her head. She immediately forced her exhausted body to stand up, pointed her blood-stained sword at Qin Feng, and shouted sternly: "Hand over the Yao Beast corpse. I risked half my life to kill this beast. I need its Beast Core for medicine, and I want that intact fur as well!"

"Senior Sister, isn't that unreasonable of you?" Qin Feng securely tied the Storage Pouch to his waist, a playful smile hanging on the corner of his mouth as he retorted: "I was the one who accepted the mission. If all the good stuff goes to you, what am I supposed to take back to complete the mission?"

"Complete the mission? That's your problem!" Mu Siyao snorted coldly, her eyes revealing undisguised contempt and greed as she said: "Just take its rotting meat back; as long as you can prove you completed the mission, that's enough. As for the Beast Core and the fur, consider it compensation for you standing idly by just now."

Speaking of which, she seemed to remember something. She suddenly extended her left hand and commanded imperiously: "Right, the five hundred Spirit Stones you promised earlier, take them out and give them to me now as well!"

"Heh..." Helping someone complete a mission, only to have to pay a reward and have all the good items taken away?! Qin Feng laughed in extreme anger, his laughter filled with speechlessness and mockery. He shook his head slightly, looked into Mu Siyao's eyes, and said word by word: "You want the most valuable parts of the Yao Beast—the Beast Core and the fur—and you also want me to pay an extra five hundred Spirit Stones? Senior Sister, with your talent for accounting, why don't you just go rob someone?!"

"Fine! Since you've laid it all out, then I'll just rob you!" Mu Siyao completely tore off her mask of pretense. Her originally charming face instantly turned cold. Although her physical strength was severely depleted, the residual might belonging to Qi Refining Level 5 still remained. She stepped forward, pointing her sword tip directly at Qin Feng's heart, and declared: "You foolish idiot who refuses a toast only to drink a forfeit! Hand over the Storage Pouch, Spirit Stones, and all the valuable items on you right now!"

"Senior Sister, calm down. This is murdering a fellow Sect member. If the Sect finds out, you'll be in big trouble!" Qin Feng wore a look of "terror," waving his hands in front of him, and his feet involuntarily retreated again and again.

"In these wild mountains and forests, who would know that I killed you? They will only think that you, a foolhardy newcomer, were chewed up by a Yao Beast until not even bone fragments were left." Mu Siyao said with a mix of smugness and perverted cruelty, pressing forward step by step. Seeing Qin Feng's "panicked" appearance, her vanity and the thrill of sadistic killing were somewhat satisfied.

Qin Feng retreated step by step until his back hit a towering tree, thick enough for two people to embrace, with a "bang." There was nowhere left to retreat.

"Run? Why aren't you running anymore?" Mu Siyao pressed the blade against Qin Feng's chest, her eyes cold to the extreme, as if looking at a corpse. She reminded him one last time: "I'll ask you one last time, are you giving me the items or not?! If not, die right now..."

At this critical moment, filled with murderous intent, the panic on Qin Feng's previously "fearful" face suddenly receded like a tide, disappearing without a trace. Replacing it was a calm, composed, and even somewhat pitiful, brilliant smile.

"Wait." Qin Feng crossed his arms in front of his chest, looked at the blade inches away, and chuckled: "Senior Sister, don't be so hot-headed; you have already been surrounded."

"Surrounded?" Mu Siyao was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world. "Nonsense, do you think you can distract me with this clumsy lie in this desolate place? Go to hell!"

Her eyes sharpened, and her wrist exerted force, preparing to pierce Qin Feng's heart with one strike. However, Qin Feng did not dodge; he just pointed behind her very seriously and said in an extremely sincere tone: "Don't believe me? Take a look behind you."

That composure, as if Mount Tai were collapsing before him without a change in expression, made Mu Siyao, an old hand who had spent years in the Outer Sect, feel a sudden jolt in her heart. Could there really be other high-level Yao Beasts lurking behind her?!

Out of a cultivator's instinctive vigilance against danger, Mu Siyao's hand holding the sword paused slightly. She subconsciously turned her head and glanced behind her; it was empty, with nothing there... At the very moment she turned back—

"Whoosh—!" A sound of breaking air suddenly rang in her ears! Without giving her any chance to react, Qin Feng's hand had reached out from his sleeve at some point. A handful of grayish-white powder, like scattered flower petals, was slapped directly onto Mu Siyao's face!

"Ah—!!!" A shrill scream instantly pierced the silence of the mountain forest. "Despicable villain, I will tear you into ten thousand pieces!"

The poison entered her mouth. Although it hadn't taken effect yet, Mu Siyao, plunged into extreme panic and rage, instantly became like a madwoman. She gripped the sword hilt with both hands, poured all her remaining strength into it, and slashed down fiercely!

"Swish—" The Sword Qi was like a rainbow, fierce and peerless. Unfortunately, Qin Feng had been prepared. He just lightly slid half a step to the left, his figure moving like the wind, perfectly dodging the violent strike.

"Crack!!!" Mu Siyao's sure-kill strike missed completely. Carried by immense momentum, the blade embedded itself deeply into the towering tree behind Qin Feng, sinking all the way to the hilt!

Because she used too much force and the True Qi in her Meridians suddenly dissipated, Mu Siyao was unable to pull the longsword from the tree trunk for a moment. Just as she was preparing to yank the longsword back, "Whoosh—" Qin Feng's figure retreated rapidly, putting some distance between them.

He casually patted the remaining powder off his hands, looked at the panicked Mu Siyao, and with a slightly upturned corner of his mouth, smiled: "I didn't lie to you; now, you really are surrounded."

As soon as he finished speaking, "Rustle, rustle, rustle—" A heavy sound of footsteps came from the dense bushes around them. Ma Gan and Liu Biao walked out one after the other, pushing aside the branches blocking their way, their faces twisted in sinister grins.

Looking at Mu Siyao, who was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, their narrow eyes exploded with undisguised lust and the pleasure of revenge: "Hehehe, Senior Sister Mu, we brothers have missed you to death."

"It really takes my Brother Qin Feng to have methods and so many tricks. By the way, Brother Qin Feng, what kind of poison did you use on this bitch?"