Chapter 94 – Kill and destroy the body completely
Only now did Meng Fan finally let out a sigh of relief.
He had to admit, the pressure that demoness put on him was truly immense!
If it weren't for the Hong Qi Sword playing a major role just now, he would have probably been in big trouble today.
"Hong Qi, I owe you my thanks today," Meng Fan said to the Hong Qi Sword.
Even though he didn't need to say it out loud for Hong Qi to hear, he still felt it was more ceremonious to voice his gratitude.
"Master, you're too polite. It was my duty," the sword responded.
Meng Fan glanced in the direction of the demoness's remains, which by now had been reduced to nothing more than fragments, dead beyond any doubt.
"What a pity, such a powerful boss-level entity, nearly a Demon King, and I blew her to pieces. Her Spiritual Essence dissipated too. Otherwise, my Supreme Dominance Body would surely have advanced to the fourth level, or even peaked near the fifth level!"
This was a source of regret for Meng Fan.
But regrets were useless. Given another chance, he would still go all out and obliterate the demoness.
In that situation, could he have held back?
Of course not!
Spiritual Essence was important, but not as important as his own life.
Meng Fan stretched his neck and loosened his muscles before returning to the grand bed in the hall.
Apart from this bed, the grand hall was practically empty.
It was foreseeable that all the treasures collected by the demoness must be on this bed.
Meng Fan lifted the blanket and was immediately assaulted by a pungent fox stench.
He scrunched his eyebrows and covered his nose.
If he had smelled this earlier, he might not have needed Hong Qi's help to break free from the demoness's control.
Under the blanket, Meng Fan indeed found a wooden box.
The box wasn't large. Opening it, he discovered a jade bracelet inside.
Picking up the bracelet, his intuition told him it was a storage bracelet, and a high-level one at that.
Without Divine Sense, it was impossible to probe the bracelet, let alone use it.
It seemed he would have to wait until he developed his Divine Sense to explore the depths of this bracelet.
Meng Fan wasn't in a hurry. He pocketed the bracelet and continued to search the bed for any other secrets.
The bedding, the boards, the underside of the bed...
Meng Fan turned everything upside down, but apart from the jade bracelet, there was nothing else.Fôllôw new stories at novelhall.com
Clearly, the demoness's treasures were all hidden within this bracelet.
Why did his confident, lethal strike end with his own death?
There was no why. The gap between them was just too vast.
Meng Fan sheathed the Hong Qi Sword and finally turned to look.
His guess was correct; it was Nie Bing who had feigned death to launch a sneak attack on him.
"Greed!" Meng Fan looked coldly at Nie Bing's corpse, saying nothing more.
He had no mercy for those who courted death.
Even though he had already guessed that the attacker was Nie Bing, he still chose to strike fatally, killing Nie Bing without hesitation.
Brotherly affection?
The other party had already attempted to kill him.
Why should he care about brotherly affection?
Meng Fan was not one to start trouble or bully others unprovoked.
But if someone brought trouble to him, he wouldn't be kind-hearted or soft-handed!
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
That was his basic principle of conduct.
It wasn't a matter of magnanimity!
"But now, even in death, you're causing me trouble," Meng Fan said coldly, looking at Nie Bing's corpse with some resignation.
Although it was Nie Bing who had tried to kill him and was killed in return, sometimes things were hard to explain, especially since Nie Bing was now dead, the "weaker party."
If someone were to see Nie Bing's corpse later, it would undoubtedly cause trouble for Meng Fan.
Meng Fan disliked trouble and naturally wouldn't leave this problem unresolved.
He repeated the process he had used on the demoness's corpse, and moments later, Nie Bing's body was reduced to dust, leaving no trace behind.
This was the most straightforward way to destroy evidence, obliterating it into nothingness.
This was Meng Fan's first time dealing with such a bloody affair, but it was surprisingly smooth.
Cruel?
Perhaps it was somewhat cruel, but Meng Fan would rather be the killer than the victim!
Stepping out of the grand hall, Meng Fan didn't feel the confusion and panic that came with taking a life for the first time.
Perhaps having killed so many demons and grown accustomed to bloodshed, Meng Fan felt no difference between killing a person and a demon.
Killing Nie Bing felt much the same as when he had slain those seductive fox demons!
After all, when he was cutting down those fox demons, in Meng Fan's eyes, he was also cutting down "human" forms.
Most importantly, Meng Fan felt that Nie Bing was no better than those beasts!