Chapter 34 (Part B) – The sound of Thunder

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The fat teenager had injured himself rather seriously, which meant that the pressure on his two standing comrades was much higher now, and the odds were stacked against their favor.

Bi Fan had managed to find himself a hiding spot and was now watching the fight from a distance, having injured himself in the action.

His heart was yearning to find out who wins the battle that was enraging in front of his eyes.

The python suddenly emitted a gas, which was poisonous in nature. The two youngsters quickly popped a purifier each and retreated to get themselves out of the cloud of this poisonous smoke.

The python’s thick and brutal tail continued to sweep left and right, splitting and smashing everything in its path.

The two youngsters were finding it hard to breathe and were being forced to constantly retreat.

The bright-clothed youngster looked furious, he gnashed his teeth and shouted: “Go to hell!”

Just then, he threw a small, dark spherical object, only as big as thumb in dimension, at the snake and quickly retreated.

“Fall Back!”

The sturdy looking youngster really didn’t need to fall back this time, but it seemed that he was sensing that something terrible was about to happen.

The chubby one was injured and immobile, his facial expression depicted a shade of helplessness.

Bi Fan had no idea what this small, dark object was, but seeing the others retreat, he too quickly moved further away from the fight.

“Boom!” A loud noise erupted from the scene.

An enormous explosion detonated, which reached as high as the trees. The force of the explosion was such that, the two youngsters, who were retreating, were thrown away.

The chubby youngster was much worse off, several shards found their way to him and were buried into his body, injuring him further and reducing his chances of survival.

Bi Fan was at a fair distance from the fight, so he wasn’t thrown away but its force, but his ears were buzzing from the sound of the explosion, and he could barely hear anything apart from the ringing sound from the side effects of the explosion.

“That was…. Was that?! The five sounds of thunder!” Bi Fan looked on, in a state of absolute horror.

The five sounds of thunder was weapon that was synthesized by some of the martial art schools, and even though it didn’t carry the strength of an actual person, it’s effect was devastating, like that of a bomb.

The strength and effect of the five sounds of thunder was almost the same as that of the strike of an ‘enormous strength’ layer martial artist.

Bi Fan had heard about this devastating weapon from Jing Feng, but now, he had seen its effect first hand.

The python was at the center of the explosion and it was very highly improbable that he survived it. The smoke and dust from the explosion hadn’t cleared out yet, so it was difficult to make out the actual situation.

“Auhh…” The bright-clothed and the sturdy teenagers pulled themselves to their feet.

The sturdy teenager looked at the other one and said: “You used the five sounds of thunder… that was our only insurance. It’s a very expensive weapon and costed a lot of money….”

“As long as we can get the rewards from killing that boy that Jiang Sheng wants dead or get a crystal nucleus from this python’s dead body, we should be able to recover our losses and then some.” The bright-clothed teenager replied.

The Sturdy teenager said: “I don’t know what happened to chubby; he had already been injured pretty severely, not sure if he survived that one.”

The two of them were so excited at the moment, that they didn’t seem to care at the very least for their companion. They didn’t seem much bothered with him and it appeared that they were considering him extra baggage at present, irrespective of him being dead or alive.

Soon enough, the dust settled down a bit, and the center of the explosion was faintly visible.

The python was dead; his dead body was surrounded with flesh and blood. At the center of his carcass was a shiny crystal, just lying there in all the blood.

“The python is dead and still there is a crystal nucleus!” The bright-clothed youngster exclaimed.

The two of them were completely unaware that Bi Fan was following them, as they sprang towards the pit to collect their reward from the battle.

Crystal nuclei were very precious. The python had been fighting for some time now, but that didn’t exhaust his nucleus, for it was filled with aura. While they had managed to obtain a nucleus, they had still used up the five sounds of thunder, but still on the whole, they stood to make a small fortune in the end.

The bright-colored teenager was preparing to go into the pit to pick up the crystal personally.

Bi Fan suddenly saw his opportunity, jumped up from behind them and into the pit and took the crystal away, right from under their nose.

“Boy, you dare snatch our crystal! You’re dead!” The sturdy youngster announced his judgement in fury.

Bi Fan grinned slyly: “Well, even if I hadn’t taken your crystal, would you have not tried to kill me for the bounty on my head?”

“Since you already know, go die in hell!” The bright-clothed boy whooshed in Bi Fan’s direction, his sword ready to stab Bi Fan.

His companion acted harmoniously and attacked Bi Fan from the other side, cutting him off and forcing him to retreat.

Bi Fan dodged, and dodged again, and then with his sword in his hand, charged for his bright-clothed opponent.

‘Rainy-fly sword!’

He cast out his most powerful sword attack, and with all his strength.

Before Bi Fan had snatched the crystal, he had already made up his mind about killing the witnesses.

In the preceding fight with the python, the bright-clothed boy had used up more than half of his energy, and on top of that, he had sustained some minor injuries when their bomb detonated.

He tried to draw his sword to block Bi Fan’s incoming attack, but he was half a beat slower in response.

The light-ray sword slipped past his block and went smoothly into his throat. The youngster’s mouth was open; his angry eyes stared at his killer, full of regret.

“Ling Shao!” The sturdy teenager shouted: “You’re alright, just pretend that everything is okay, you will lead us out of here and we will be rich soon!”

“Yes, well, it’s a little too late now.” Bi Fan smiled.

The immortal finger! Prancing tiger!

With two quick and consecutive attacks, Bi Fan stormed violently for his remaining opponent.

The sturdy teenager went into a shock, as he realized that he was too slow to avoid Bi Fan’s strikes. The immortal finger pierced straight through his chest, poking a bloody hole in it, and scarlet colored blood drained out his body.

Then, Bi Fan’s fist followed in to the hole made by the immortal finger, making the hole even bigger and killing the last standing man of the trio.

Bi Fan lightning fast attacking had ended this fight in the blink of an eye.

Amongst these three teenagers, only the bright-clothed boy had a Yin Yang pouch. Bi Fan quickly collected everything that was of use and decided to go elsewhere before looking into his rewards.

Bi Fan tossed the bodies of the three youngsters into the pit and covered their remains with some dirt, in the hope of concealing them from the wild animals, for he didn’t want them feeding on their bodies.

He wasn’t being compassionate, but nonetheless, his morality didn’t allow him to leave their bodies for the wild animals to feed on.

After collecting everything, Bi Fan quickly left the scene.

So much noise was very likely to attract other people and various demons to this location, and Bi Fan needed to recover his strength.

Just because the fighting had ended quickly didn’t mean that he hadn’t consumed any energy.

While leveling the trio to the ground and previously fighting the python, Bi Fan had spent a good amount of energy and had also sustained some minor injuries, so it was very important for him to recover and restore his body state to normal.

There was a constant threat to life inside the devil’s territory, whether from humans or demons, so it was very important to keep yourself fit and ready for a fight at all times, if one wished to survive this place.

Bi Fan quickly disappeared into the jungle, searching for hiding place so he could practice and revive.