He threw the guns away, then lifted his head to look at the skyscraper in front of him.
He grunted coldly, then boldly stepped ahead.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
As he neared the building, he heard rapid movement. A mass of shadows leaped out from the ground. There were sixty or seventy of them in total.
The shadows coalesced into ninja cultivators wearing clothes of different colors.
They stood on top of the vehicles, crossing their arms in front of them and looking down at Tang Hao.
Their gaze was as cold as a venomous snake. Some of them looked condescending, while some of them were eager to claim the reward their employer had promised.
“This kid is interesting!”
“Hah, he’s just a one-trick pony. I don’t think he’s actually powerful. He probably has many Artifacts on him though.”
“That’s right. The tortoise shell and the pocket dimension where he stored his weapons.”
“Don’t forget that his life is worth one billion American dollars!”
They talked among themselves, and their gazes became greedier and more eager.
Money was not that important to a cultivator, but one billion dollars was a lot of money.
Furthermore, the kid possessed many Artifacts that money could not buy.
Another group of about twenty people, led by a hunched old woman, came out of the skyscraper through the front entrance. All of them wore kimonos.
Her face was skeletal and she looked as though she had one foot in the grave, but she carried an intimidating presence.
She narrowed her eyes and carefully inspected Tang Hao. “This kid is mine,” she cackled, “Don’t think of fighting with me for him. I hate Huaxia people the most, and I have this urge to kill them whenever I see them.
“I’ll chop off his arms and legs and make him a human kebab. That’s the best way to treat someone from Huaxia.”
She cackled again. Her expression was terrifying.
Tang Hao rolled his eyes when he heard that.
That old woman was eccentric. However, she was the most powerful among all the grandmasters there. Her cultivation base should be about the same as his.
The Tamamo woman that he met before was also at the same cultivation level.
That made her one of the top cultivators in Dongying.
“Don’t say that we Koga ninjas don’t give face to your Amaterasu Shrine, Senpai Oniyado, but there’s only one of him. We’re all out for ourselves here,” one of the ninja cultivators said indignantly.
“That’s right!” The other ninja cultivators shouted in agreement.
None of the other cultivators were faster than the ninja cultivators.
Tang Hao was becoming impatient as he waited for the cultivators to argue among each other about who would get to claim him. It seemed as though they would be turning among themselves.
The enemy cultivators were speaking in the Dongying language. Tang Hao had crammed Dongying language lessons before his trip. He could roughly understand what they were talking about.
He was speechless after listening to what they said.
‘We haven’t even started fighting yet. What makes them think that they’ll win?’
They might have the advantage in numbers, but Tang Hao had the advantage in Artifacts. He had spent the past month crafting jade talismans to take on Miki Group.
“Um…. Are you guys done talking yet?” Tang Hao raised his arm and shouted.
The argument stopped abruptly.
The Dongying grandmasters turned around to look at him.
“It’s not your turn to speak, you Huaxia pig! Just stand there and wait for us. When we’ve decided on how to split you, that will be the time that you die,” one of the ninja cultivators yelled.
“Oh, OK! Continue with that then! I’ll be leaving!” Tang Hao said. He turned around and started walking away.
The grandmasters were stunned. They looked at each other wordlessly.
“You want to escape? There’s no chance!” The grandmasters yelled. Their gaze turned vicious.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The ninja cultivators dissolved into shadows and pounced on Tang Hao. The cultivators from Amaterasu Shrine also did not lag behind. They also prepared their attacks.
All the Dongying cultivators’ eyes were sparkling with greed.
“Haha! The one billion dollars is mine!”
A ninja cultivator laughed. He was the one who reached Tang Hao’s back first. He clutched two gleaming daggers and slashed them at Tang Hao’s neck.
“Hmph! The kid is mine!” Another ninja cultivator quickly caught up. He unsheathed his long sword and slashed downward.
The people who were lagging behind were worried.
Tang Hao abruptly stopped walking and turned around. A flash of cold light chopped the daggers and the long sword into halves.
The two ninja cultivators were dumbstruck. Their eyes immediately opened wide with fear.
‘Oh no! He’s not a pushover, but an immensely powerful martial arts expert!’
However, they could not run away. The kid slashed with the dagger on his other hand and tore open their throats as though they were chickens.
Splash! Splash!
Blood spurted from the two cultivators’ necks. They shuddered, grunted, and fell on the ground.
That move had shocked everyone who saw it.
The people behind him stood petrified on the spot. Their eyes were opened wide and full of fear.
Tang Hao, wielding a dragon tooth dagger in each of his hands, cracked his neck. “You should have worried about your own lives,” he said coldly.
After he spoke, he dashed forward with an incredible burst of speed.
Cling! Clang! Cling!
Weapon struck against weapon. Occasionally, a weapon snapped and blood splashed.
The pair of dragon tooth daggers were like reaper’s scythes, [reaping one life at a time].
The ninja cultivators fell one by one.
If the ninja cultivators were not immediately killed, Tang Hao would throw a jade talisman at them.
Boom! After the flash of lightning of fire, they would be almost dead.
Then, Tang Hao would end their lives with the daggers.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty cultivators had died.
His black shirt was already drenched with blood.
The Dongying grandmasters began to retreat. They had unpleasant expressions on their faces.
They had originally thought that the kid was an idiot or a lunatic, which was why he dared to take on the entire Miki Group alone. Unfortunately for them, they had realized too late that he was a powerful freak.
Since when did Huaxia produce such a freak though?
They began to hesitate, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.
Chapter 373 - The Fall of Miki Group
The two sides were in a standoff outside the building.
The atmosphere was tense.
The grandmasters from Dongying were not as daring as before. They were terrified by how the kid had killed more than twenty of them in a short time.
All of them wore grim expressions on their faces.
Some of them narrowed their eyes to try to break the concealment spell, but none of them succeeded.
However, they could tell from the silhouette and the voice that the person was not that old. He should be a young man in his twenties.
They were even more surprised by that discovery.
How was he able to reach that level of cultivation when he was still so young? Where did he learn all that?
A while later, someone shouted, “Why are we afraid? No matter how powerful he is, he is still only one person. Don’t tell me that we’re all scared of him? If news got out, Dongying would be the laughing stock in the cultivation world!”
The crowd was silent for a while, then someone said, “That’s right. Huaxia is already on our home turf. Don’t tell me that we�
�re cowards?”
The grandmasters were worked up.
Things were different when national pride was in question. They would give their all to protect their national pride!
“We’ll have to slaughter this kid! If he manages to get away, it’ll be a great humiliation to our nation!” The old woman said.
“That’s right! Slaughter him!”
Everyone was worked up.
“Everyone at once!”
The ninja cultivators clapped their hands together and burrowed into the ground. Meanwhile, the grandmasters from Amaterasu Shrine summoned various animal spirits using folded paper figures.
Those cultivators were experts in summoning sorcery known as shikigami. After all, they were branch descendants of Huaxia from ancient times.
Thousands of years later, they developed a unique system of sorcery of their own.
Tang Hao’s expression changed when he saw everyone attacking him at the same time.
He grunted coldly and flicked his wrist. Thirty-three pieces of jade talismans shot out. Each of those jade talismans was crackling with lightning energy.
He narrowed his eyes. They also crackled with lightning energy.
With a short grunt, the thirty-three jade talisman flew outward. A web of lightning swept outward in all directions.
On the ground, lightning energy rolled out like a carpet and caused multiple explosions.
Figures shot out from the ground. They were utterly terrified.
Meanwhile, the shikigami in the air were battered like tattered leaves in a hurricane and were ground to dust in an instant.
The cultivators behind the old woman trembled and vomited blood from their mouths. Their faces were pale, and they looked at Tang Hao with fear.
Even the old woman was shocked.
‘What… What terrifying power!’
That reminded her of the yellow paper talismans by Mao Mountain Taoist priests, but the jade talismans were hundreds of times more powerful!
Even she was intimidated by Tang Hao’s power.
Lightning energy crackled around Tang Hao’s body. The killing intent in his eyes became more intense.
He flicked his wrists, and another thirty-three jade talismans shot out. Lightning energy once again shot out in all directions.
The old woman’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. She had thought that the formation of jade talismans was something exceedingly rare, but she did not expect the kid to throw another set.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lightning once again spread out in all directions.
The ninja cultivators who were still hovering in mid-air had no place to run. They could only watch helplessly as the lightning engulfed them. The ones with weaker cultivation bases immediately exploded into clouds of blood mist, while the more powerful ones were charred and sent flying. Those who did not die were gravely injured.
Some of the lightning energy tumbled toward the old woman. The cultivators near her joined forces and managed to block the attack.
“He should be out of those talismans by now!’ The old woman mumbled, still stunned.
The power of the talisman formation was stronger than she thought.
“What do you mean, you old witch? I still have more of these!” Tang Hao shouted. He flicked his wrist again, and another thirty-three jade talismans flew out surrounding him.
Lightning crackled around him. At that instant, he had the bearing of the god of lightning.
The old woman sucked in a mouthful of cold air. Her eyeballs popped out again.
‘He… He has more of them? Just who is he?’
She was almost crying.
Right after that, she immediately jumped on her feet and prepared to run away. “Oh no! Run away! We won’t make it to safety!”
“Want to run away? No chance in hell!” Tang Hao roared.
The thirty-three jade talismans around him morphed into a dragon and flew toward the old woman.
The resulting explosion of lightning illuminated the night sky.
Cries of agony were heard amid the peals of thunder. Some people were instantly reduced to ashes.
The old woman had a high cultivation base. She summoned a wolf spirit in time and blocked the attack.
She trembled and vomited a mouthful of blood, suffering the backlash of the shikigami’s death. Then, she was pushed back by the shockwave and fell to the ground.
“Who… Who are you… I… I now know why that Tamamo b*tch doesn’t want to come. She must have known about you.”
“Just shut up already, you old witch!” Tang Hao walked over and threw a jade talisman at her.
The old woman managed to block it. She got on her feet, wiped away the traces of blood on the corner of her lips, and said, “I bet you don’t have that thing anymore, you filthy kid!”
Tang Hao nodded. “Yup, I’m out of those!”
The old woman cackled.
“But I have more of these!” Tang Hao flicked his wrists and several individual jade talismans shot out.
The Heavenly Lightning Talisman Formation was a lot of work. Tang Hao only managed to craft a few sets in a month, and they were all expended to defeat the old woman.
Fortunately, he had many individual attack talismans. The old woman vomited a few more mouthfuls of blood, and her face became paler and paler.
“You filthy old witch, didn’t you say you want to turn me into a human kebab? Aren’t you very powerful?”
Tang Hao smirked and threw out more jade talismans.
Boom!
The old woman had run out of shikigami figures. The explosion sent her flying. She was already a bloody mess.
Another jade talisman blasted her into bits.
“Stupid old witch, not bad at all! You’ve wasted so many of my jade talismans. I’ve spent about half of my talismans on her. That’s almost ten million yuan worth of jade.”
Tang Hao felt the pain when he did the math.
Half of the jade talismans totaled about seven hundred.
He turned around and threw a final wave of jade talismans, killing the cultivators who were running away.
In the end, he exhausted all his talismans and managed to kill all the grandmasters.
Goro Miki was utterly dumbfounded when he received the news. His knees went weak, and he slumped on the floor.
He could not believe what he had just heard.
How could almost a hundred grandmasters lose to one single person?
Was that a joke?
Eventually, fear caught onto him. His entire body trembled.
Only an extremely powerful being could kill almost a hundred grandmasters at once. Now that the grandmasters were all dead, he must be coming for him.
He jumped to his feet and grabbed his telephone like a maniac. He pressed a button and roared into the receiver, “Prepare the helicopter! Now! Immediately!”
Then, he stumbled out of the office and went up to the rooftop.
The helicopter was already there waiting for him.
He ran toward the helicopter with all his might. He was almost reaching it when he suddenly heard an ice-cold voice from behind him.
“Why are you in such a hurry? It’s not like you can escape from me anyway!”
His body stiffened, and his face turned pale.
He turned around with much difficulty. There was a figure standing behind him, wearing black clothes drenched in blood. It was none other than the kid from Huaxia.
“Please… Please spare me! I can give you anything you want! What do you want? Money? Women? Power? I can give you all that, only if you spare my life!”
“Sorry, I’m not interested in all that,” Tang Hao said coldly as he stepped forward.
Goro Miki’s expression froze. “Then tell me why you went after my grandsons and now me!” He roared hysterically.
Tang Hao appeared surprised, then he smirked coldly.
“Why, you ask? How dare you ask that question? You should know better than me about wha
t inhuman deeds your criminal group did. Don’t you know that there were children among the people I saved from the cruise ship?
“Your group kills innocent children, and you wonder why I want to wipe out all of you?
“You should have stayed away from Huaxia!
“Now, it’s your turn to die!”
After that, Tang Hao flicked his wrist. A throwing knife shot out and penetrated Goro Miki’s skull.
He did not even get to scream. He fell on the floor and was dead in an instant.
Chapter 374 - Another Encounter With Tamamo
Tang Hao flicked his wrist again, and a fireball shot out, burning the body into ashes.
He turned around and killed the helicopter pilot with one bullet.
Now that the leader of the group was dead, Miki Group was as good as finished.
Tang Hao was not going to spare the other people. He leaped down the skyscraper, took out his guns, and started killing from the entrance.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunfire resounded in Miki Plaza. There were screams of panic and agony, and also screams that were abruptly cut short.
Every time the gun fired, someone died. Tang Hao lost count of how many people he killed.
He went up floor by floor and eventually reached the top.
The final few members of Miki Group were cowering in the office. Their lives were not spared.
“Phew!” Tang Hao breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around and prepared to leave.
He suddenly thought of something. His eyes sparkled with excitement.
As Miki Group’s headquarters, Miki Plaza was lavishly decorated with many antiques and works of art. Especially Goro Miki’s office, which was filled with rare and expensive items.
“Might as well take them!” Tang Hao mumbled to himself and started looting the place. He took everything that was of value. Secret vaults and safes could not stop him.
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