Only I am Venerable

"Alright, you little bastard! Then I’ll fucking kill you!" Enraged by the little boy’s curses, Wang Huo’s anger erupted. He reached out to grab the boy.

The little boy’s mother clung desperately to her child, her face a mask of despair. Throughout the crowd, every face showed a mixture of anger and hopelessness.

"Wait!" the Great Witch Master, who had been sitting motionless, suddenly spoke.

Wang Huo’s hand froze above the little boy’s head. He stared at the Great Witch Master in surprise. Nearby, Be also looked at the Great Witch Master with some confusion, wondering why he would suddenly interfere in such a matter today.

’Could the Great Witch Master have gone soft? No... that’s impossible!’ Be wondered. Before he could say anything, he saw the Great Witch Master’s eyes turn towards the eastern mountain peaks in the darkness of the night, his brow beginning to furrow.

A thought suddenly struck Be. He understood. ’It must be those two damn humans! The great Great Witch Master has found them!’

At this thought, Be licked his lips. ’Those two human Martial Artists seem quite powerful,’ he mused, ’I wonder if their hearts would be even more delicious?’

The Great Witch Master slowly rose from his chair. His gaze flickered towards the eastern mountain range as he suddenly commanded, "Go to the eastern mountains immediately and find those two damn humans for me! They... are slaughtering our subordinates!"

The group of Transformation Spirit Beasts here stirred with agitation and fury. They couldn’t believe those two humans were so incredibly audacious as to come here and kill their people!

"Great Witch Master, let me take ten of our people. The rest will stay here to protect you!" the gray-clothed Field Mouse said hatefully. If one were to ask which of the Spirit Beasts hated Qin Li the most, it would naturally be this Field Mouse, who was the first to encounter him.

The Great Witch Master waved a hand dismissively. "All of you, go! You must kill those two! Don’t try to capture them alive; you don’t have the ability! I don’t need you to protect my safety!"

The group of Spirit Beasts, numbering seventy or eighty, roared their assent and sped off towards the high mountains to the east, cloaked by the night.

The Great Witch Master looked at Be, who was standing there, then glanced at Wang Huo. "You may continue," he said.

At this, a stir went through the human crowd. In all these years, this was the first time something like this had happened! The humans realized an opportunity seemed to have appeared. The only powerful expert left here was the Great Witch Master alone!

As for Be... in the eyes of many, Be was merely a worthless sycophant borrowing the tiger’s might!

The Great Witch Master stared coldly at the crowd, his two eyes—one large, one small—flashing with a fierce and brutal light. "Any of you who wish to die," he said grimly, "feel free to try me!"

The Great Witch Master’s words made many of them tremble involuntarily. Back then, it was this hideously ugly old fellow who had led a great swarm of Spirit Beasts to annihilate all the human experts in the Mysterious Land. To this day, the strongest among the humans were only at the level of Earth Venerable, with a few other Martial Artists at the Human Venerable Realm.

However, to the Great Witch Master, these Martial Artists posed no threat at all.

Wang Huo gave a grim, cold smile. "Lord Be, this little bastard?"

Be waved a hand. "Kill him!"

Wang Huo gritted his teeth and brought his palm down towards the little boy’s head. A single strike would instantly shatter the boy’s fragile skull into pieces. To Wang Huo, the boy’s head was no harder than a Watermelon.

The Great Witch Master sat there looking calm and unconcerned, but in reality, his Spiritual Power was already locked onto the entire crowd of humans. At the same time, he spread his Divine Sense far and wide. If the intruding human Martial Artist was here, the Great Witch Master would erupt the moment he appeared and cut him down!

The savage sneer on Be’s lips, the little boy’s fearlessness, the fury of the few human Martial Artists tied to the posts, the desolate and sorrowful atmosphere among the human camp—all were frozen in this moment.

The Great Witch Master’s expression suddenly tensed. Just as a look of suspicion crossed his face, Wang Huo let out a sudden roar, spun around, and charged towards Be, who was closest to him. His speed was unparalleled, unleashing the full extent of his power!

Even the Great Witch Master had not anticipated that Wang Huo—whose body he had placed a Restriction on, who had completely submitted to them and become their slave—would suddenly turn on them!

Everyone was stunned by this scene, including Be, who still wore a savage sneer on his face!

BANG!

CRACK... CRACK!

A dull thud was followed by the sound of breaking bones!

The unfortunate Be was sent flying backward by Wang Huo’s strike, nearly all the bones in his chest completely shattered! He fell to the ground, the savage sneer still frozen on his face as his body twitched and trembled, blood spewing continuously from his mouth.

This time, not even the gods could save him!

The Great Witch Master let out a roar of grief and fury. He reached out and grabbed at the empty air in Wang Huo’s direction. The air distorted, and a massive, bloody hand suddenly materialized, snatching viciously towards Wang Huo.

Normally, Wang Huo, who had just broken through to the Venerable Realm, should have been completely unable to dodge the Great Witch Master’s grab. But a bizarre scene occurred once again!

Wang Huo twisted his body, barely dodging the Great Witch Master’s grab. Then he threw a vicious punch, piercing straight through the body of a stunned Transformation Spirit Beast. Carrying the corpse of the Spirit Beast he had just killed with one punch, he kicked another Transformation Spirit Beast’s Dantian beside him, directly causing the Spirit Beast’s entire Dantian to explode. The immense force of the blast sent Wang Huo’s body flying as well.

Everyone in the crowd on that side was aghast, involuntarily sent flying by the immense force.

The four human Martial Artists tied to the posts were also hit by this force, sent flying backward along with the posts.

Only then did the Great Witch Master’s second grab—the massive, bloody hand—finally close around Wang Huo. The Great Witch Master’s real hand clenched desperately, but he heard Wang Huo’s wild laughter, followed by a BANG... He had self-destructed!

The blast instantly blew the Great Witch Master’s dripping, bloody hand to smithereens, while also gravely injuring a dozen or so nearby Transformation Spirit Beasts who couldn’t escape in time, some even dying on the spot!

The Great Witch Master stood there, his eyes wide with fury. He never imagined that in a mere instant, not only would his most trusted right-hand man be killed, but the remaining Spirit Beasts here would also be killed by the berserk human’s self-destruction.

The Great Witch Master let out a roar of absolute fury. He then turned his head, his eyes fixing on the crowd as he gritted his teeth and said, "Who did this? Show yourself! Otherwise, I will kill every last one of these people!"

Because just a moment ago, the Great Witch Master had sensed something was wrong. It was as if a faint trace of Spiritual Power had broken through his Divine Sense, but because this Spiritual Power was so light and weak—comparable to that of a common wild beast, not even as strong as a normal human’s—

the Great Witch Master had only shown a hint of suspicion. He never expected the sudden turn of events to happen at that very moment, with the cowardly, life-clinging Wang Huo suddenly going berserk!

The Great Witch Master refused to believe that Wang Huo had a sudden crisis of conscience, washing away his shame through suicide. A man who could suggest eating human hearts to Be? How could he suddenly engage in such a suicidal act?

Therefore, someone had to be pulling the strings! And it must have been that faint wisp of Spiritual Power from just now that influenced Wang Huo!

The Great Witch Master guessed correctly. Because Qin Li had arrived!

He was nearby. He hadn’t acted himself, but had instead relied on his formidable Spiritual Power to control Wang Huo, making him erupt in a sudden attack that caused the Great Witch Master devastating losses.

’Faced with the Great Witch Master’s threat, I’ll remain unmoved,’ Qin Li thought. ’Even if I reveal myself, I’m no match for the Great Witch Master. These people will die anyway. My goal now is to buy time for Shiyu! Among the ones the Great Witch Master sent, the strongest is that gray-clothed Spirit Beast called Field Mouse. The others are no cause for concern. With Shiyu’s intelligence, she’ll definitely make the best choice: get rid of the minions first, then deal with the big guy!’

Following the Great Witch Master’s roar, the group of humans—except for a few who had been caught in the blast and were too gravely injured to move—all stood there, huddled together. The four human Martial Artists who had been tied up had also broken their bonds by now and returned to the human ranks.

The wife of the whipped Martial Artist was carefully cleaning her husband’s wounds and applying medicine.

No one paid any attention to the Great Witch Master’s threat. The worst that could happen was death!

Over the years, the human population had dwindled from hundreds of thousands to fewer than two thousand now. The ones gathered here today were only a fraction; others were still slaves in the castle complex behind them.

Most of the people gathered here were forced to do various tasks for the Great Witch Master because they had family members who were reasonably strong but not powerful enough to threaten his authority.

For example, they were sent to gather Spiritual Medicine, hunt game, or search for Spirit Stones. Therefore, these three hundred or so people actually had the best treatment within the entire human camp.

Even so, the slightest dissatisfaction from the Spirit Beasts would result in the cruel slaughter of humans. And that Wang Huo, who was more of a beast than the beasts themselves, had proposed the idea of digging out hearts decades ago after completely defecting to the Spirit Beasts.

Back then, humanity had been incredibly prosperous in this Mysterious Land. The vast majority of them had perished during the construction of this castle complex.

Now, only this small number of humans remained, barely surviving. For most of them, there was little difference between living and dying. Although death was terrifying, at least it meant no longer having to endure the humiliation of being enslaved by beasts!

A savage expression appeared on the Great Witch Master’s hideous face. At this moment, Spirit Beasts in the distance who heard the commotion began to rush back.

"Take all these damn, ugly humans and...!" the Great Witch Master began to command in a furious roar.

But just then, a brilliant streak of purple Sword Qi tore through the night sky. It seemed to descend from the heavens, cutting off the Great Witch Master’s words as it slashed viciously towards him! (To be continued. To find out what happens next, please log on to www.qidian.com for more Chapters. Support the author by reading the official version!)

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