Chapter 1273: Will Smiling San Sheng Wait A Hundred Years For Revenge? (2)

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Go and follow…” said Huang Hongyang icily. But before he could finish his sentence, he felt a stabbing pain in his chest.

Then, boils began to appear all over his body. They expanded and contracted and opened up his skin.

Next, a sword’s intent swept across his body and slashed across his flesh.

“Ahh!”

Huang Hongyang spat out a mouthful of blood and immediately felt the blade’s intent spreading.

A sense of impending death washed over him.

Huang Hongyang collapsed to the ground. His eyes filled with terror.

In that instant, he remembered that Jiang Hao had patted his shoulder twice.

How could this be?

He had pretended perfectly enough, so why did he have to kill him?

It should not be like this!

Just as he was about to call for help, the sword’s intent broke out of his body.

Blood splattered on the ground.

Screams filled the air.

The young man beside him stood frozen in fear.

All he could see was a corpse lying in a pool of blood.

After some time, a few women walked in.

When they saw the corpse on the ground, they frowned.

“Where are the people from the Heavenly Note Sect?” they asked.

“They… they left,” the terrified young man replied.

“Ridiculous! He was so confident he could stop them. He dared to poison us, so we thought he had some tricks up his sleeves. Yet, he was killed in the blink of an eye.” The white-robed woman scoffed and turned around to leave.

No one cared about Huang Hongyang’s death.

Watching everyone leave, the young man was filled with intense fear.

These people…

They killed without hesitation.

At the mine, Jiang Hao and the others stood at the edge and observed the vast area. This mine was much larger than the mine at the Heavenly Note Sect.

The miners here included captives and people from the marketplace.

They mined every day to earn a meager amount of spirit stones.

“Where are the guards of the Heavenly Note Sect?” Duan Tiancheng’s voice rang out.

When they left the mansion, he was sure that the man would not survive.

He intended to take action but found his measures had not worked.

In other words, that person was already dead.

For a moment, he could not tell who did it. Was it the leader or…

He glanced at Bai Ye.

“Senior Brother Duan, don’t look at me like that. My poison can’t kill a middle-stage Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator so quickly,” Bai Ye said with a smile.

Duan Tiancheng lowered his head. That meant their leader had killed him.

Their purpose was clear: win this competition.

Anyone who obstructed them would die.

At other times, they could afford to fail missions, but not this time, especially with a leader who was willing to give his all.

Jiang Hao stood where he was and looked at the mine below. There was a force around the mine, and it was deeply buried underground. It exuded a sort of vitality.

It seemed harmless, but such vitality could attract underground beasts that might guard the area nearby.

Additionally, this vitality could give rise to other powerful entities.

From the looks of it, there was a great danger below. However, the miners below maintained their lifeforce. Their lifespan did not shorten by much.

Mining did a lot of damage to the body.

Ordinary people could not mine for long.

If they could, cultivators would not be needed to mine at the heavenly Note Sect.

At that moment, a few people appeared in front of them. Two men and one woman.

They were surprised to see Jiang Hao and the others.

“Senior Brother Duan?” asked the man in surprise.

“We were ordered to come. You should have received the message,” Duan Tiancheng said.

“Yes.” The man nodded.

“Where is the mine we need to go to?” Duan Tiancheng was straightforward with his words. He did not intend to waste time.

“Wasn’t Senior Huang responsible for this matter?”

“Go ask him if he told you not to interfere.”

“I wouldn’t dare. Please follow me.”

The man bowed and led Jiang Hao and the others to the mine entrance.

Out of the sixteen mines there, twelve emitted a strong aura.

But the energy inside varied greatly.

“The intensity is marked. Leave your aura before entering. This way, you’ll only enter this one, and others won’t be able to,” the man said.

Jiang Hao approached a mine marked for Foundation Establishment Realm. He said to the four Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, “You guys go ahead.”

The four of them did not dare hesitate.

They left their auras and began to enter.

“Don’t rush. Take your time,” Jiang Hao reminded them.

He intended to check the mine later to see if there was a way to expedite their progress.

Winning was their goal.

Next was the entrance with Golden Core Realm auras.

“Senior Sister Lian, you have the highest cultivation in this category. I’ll have to rely on you,” he said to Lian Qin, who stood behind Bai Ye.

“Rest assured, Junior Brother. We will do our best,” Lian Qin bowed her head and said politely.

After that, Jiang Hao instructed Senior Brother Zheng and the others to continue on.

They left their auras behind and entered.

Finally, it was the Primordial Spirit Realm mines.

Out of the sixteen mines, only three were for the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Jiang Hao felt all three were similar, so he decided to enter one at random.

Just as he reached the entrance, he heard a voice behind him.

“Wait!” said a female voice.

Jiang Hao turned and saw that it was the twelve ladies of the Fallen Moon Sect.

“Junior Brother, how unfair of you to sneak here. This is cheating,” said the woman at the lead.

“Why do you say that?” Jiang Hao asked.

“If you had a clear conscience, why did you kill Fellow Disciple Huang?” asked a late-stage Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator behind him in anger. “We were just bathing and changing clothes, while you tortured Senior Brother Huang for information and then killed him to silence him.”

Her words shocked the three people who were following them.

“Senior Brother Huang is dead?”