Swordsmanship Coach: Kill with One Slash

Chapter 294: Chapter 192: Investigation 2

The handprint was still very clear, which meant the person who left it hadn’t been gone for long.

Based on this, Su Xing’s curiosity about the situation was piqued. He asked Lu Anning, who was standing beside him, to retrieve the object from inside. Wary of any surprises, he had already materialized the Black Sword in his hand.

Lu Anning didn’t refuse.

However, she had a natural aversion to such pitch-black openings. After taking a moment to steel herself, she finally reached her hand inside.

Soon,

Her hand closed around the gold brick.

However,

Lu Anning found she couldn’t pull her arm straight out.

Inside the hole, out of Lu Anning’s sight, a huge black hand was gently holding the other side of the gold brick, as if it didn’t want her to take it.

But Lu Anning was a Tier Four Martial Artist herself. She frowned, then tightened her grip, intending to yank the gold brick out at once.

At that moment, the black hand seemed to sense her intention. It quickly grabbed her arm, refusing to let her pull away.

At first,

it seemed to be working.

The creature even managed to pull the gold brick slightly in its direction.

Suddenly, an unparalleled force came from the other direction!

Seeing something was wrong, Su Xing channeled his own power into Lu Anning.

Then,

The back of the huge statue suddenly collapsed!

A monster covered in black fur stared dumbfoundedly at the scene. The moment it saw Su Xing, it instantly sensed an extremely dangerous aura.

So, the very instant it snapped out of its shock, its first instinct was to run!

But,

It had no time to run.

Before even yanking it out, Su Xing had already restricted its escape routes. He grabbed its neck with one hand and lifted it high into the air.

"I’ll ask, you’ll answer. Otherwise, you die."

Su Xing asked coldly.

The monster had intended to feign ignorance, but seeing Su Xing’s ruthless demeanor, it immediately nodded. This confirmed for Su Xing that it could indeed understand him.

Unfortunately,

It probably couldn’t speak.

While it kept nodding, its mouth only produced beast-like cries—oohs and aahs—with no trace of language.

"Fine."

"Cooperate with me, and I might consider letting you live. From now on, when I ask you something, nod if it’s yes, shake your head if it’s no. Understood?"

The monster immediately nodded.

Lu Anning rubbed her arm. Even though she was a Tier Four Martial Artist, she still felt a twinge of pain from having Su Xing’s power channeled directly through her. Fortunately, they had managed to catch the creature.

"The enemies we encountered before all seemed to be humans related to this place, but this monster doesn’t look like a person."

Lu Anning said in confusion.

"Mm..."

"Maybe it was once an animal, but it was affected by this Secret Realm."

Su Xing speculated.

The monster immediately nodded again.

Seeing how obedient the monster was, Su Xing thought for a moment and asked his first question.

"Other than the Extraordinary Beings, are there any living people here?"

"..."

Su Xing’s first question was so blunt that Lu Anning focused intently on the monster’s response. After a moment of thought, the monster finally nodded.

"Are the people in the Summer Resort all alive?"

Su Xing asked again,

The questions came one after another, giving the monster no time to think.

"..."

The monster didn’t respond immediately. It hesitated for a while, then nodded but also shook its head.

"You mean there are living people, but also monsters pretending to be human?"

Su Xing instantly understood the monster’s meaning.

"What do you mean?"

A chill crept into Lu Anning’s heart at this response. She quickly stepped forward and asked, "Zhao Xue, is she alive?"

"..."

The monster hesitated for a long, long time. In the end, it gave no reaction, merely hanging blankly in mid-air from Su Xing’s grasp.

"What does that mean?"

"So she’s not alive?"

"Why won’t you answer? Are you afraid of her?"

Seeing this, Lu Anning grew confused. Although she had previously connected Zhao Xue’s situation with the strange phenomena in the Secret Realm, as her friend, she desperately didn’t want that to be true.

"Can they come out?"

Su Xing hadn’t spoken. Only after Lu Anning finished her questions did he suddenly speak up.

As if pushed to its limit, the monster began to struggle frantically, thrashing its head from side to side. It was the desperate display of something that didn’t want to answer, a creature begging for death.

"Hmm..."

’Although the monster didn’t give a clear answer, no answer is an answer in itself.’ That, combined with its bizarre reaction, sparked numerous speculations in Su Xing’s mind.

"I see."

"Then you can die."

As Su Xing finished speaking, his hand clenched shut. With a *POP*, the monster in his grasp instantly disintegrated like dust, turning into a cloud of black motes that gradually faded until nothing remained.

"What in the world was that thing?"

Lu Anning asked, a sense of unease in her voice.

The old man from before had also vanished inexplicably after dying, and this monster was the same. It was as if they didn’t truly die, but would simply resurrect in their original spot after a while.

"It must be a mechanism of this Secret Realm."

Su Xing speculated.

He had been to the Spirit Realm before, so he knew a bit about how Secret Realms worked. In the Spirit Realm, all creatures that died would turn into Night Wanderer Ghosts at nightfall and attack the living. This was likely a similar mechanism.

However,

Night Wanderer Ghosts could be killed.

These things could probably be dealt with too; Su Xing just hadn’t found the right method yet.

"Let’s go."

With that, Su Xing led Lu Anning to the next area. He didn’t just visit the four most dangerous locations Su Yu had marked; he also investigated many places that weren’t on the map.

In fact, aside from the most remote areas of the mountain village, Su Xing had scoured the place inside and out.

In the process,

Su Xing sensed many entities similar to the old man and the monster. For some unknown reason, however, they were all terrified of him and actively avoided him. It was difficult to find anything unless he managed to locate their fixed spawn points.

However,

Su Xing did manage to find a few of these spawn points.

Whenever he found one of these stationary monsters, Su Xing would repeat his earlier method: interrogate them, then kill them in various ways.

Similarly,

their deaths were all identical,

and Su Xing was no closer to finding a way to kill them for good.

However,

Su Xing did manage to gather some information.

No matter what other questions he asked, they would answer. But the moment he asked about the Summer Resort, every last one of them would feign death and practically beg him to kill them.

Clearly,

there was a major problem with the Summer Resort.

The Summer Resort might even be the absolute core of this entire Secret Realm.

"That should be enough."

After organizing the information he had gathered from his interrogations, Su Xing let out a breath and said, "It’s getting dark. We should head back."

Secret Realms were dangerous.

Secret Realms at night were even more so.

This was a conclusion Su Xing had reached through his own personal experience.

"Yeah."

"Huh, Coach Su, after all that searching, we never ran into Li Yu, did we?"

Lu Anning asked in confusion.

Logically, with how much ground they had covered, they should have run into anyone. The only way Su Xing and Lu Anning could have missed him was if he had gone somewhere extremely remote.

"..."

"It is a bit strange."

"But maybe he already went back."

Su Xing said.

"Mm..."

"That’s possible."

"Then let’s head back too."

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