My Cultivation Techniques Upgrade Automatically

Chapter 184: Chapter 183: The Endless Blood of Heroes

Wu Chen certainly wasn’t going to waste time on some low-level grunts.

He figured that repelling the enemy before the old manor lord’s breakthrough, then quickly taking the bandits’ heads to the Demon Suppression Bureau to claim the bounty, was probably a good choice.

There was really no need to just wait around for days for the old manor lord to break through.

The time he saved could be spent considering where to find a Soul-Storage Pearl and the Martial Arts required for his next realm.

That was the truly important matter at hand.

’If I can get my hands on a Soul-Storage Pearl, surely the master residing in the copper statue would be able to recall some Martial Arts?’

’Even if he can’t remember anything, it’ll let Master live a while longer. There will definitely be other solutions in the future...’

Wu Chen decided he had to make finding a Soul-Storage Pearl a priority.

Besides, after this was all over, he would pretty much have the strength of the Leakless Realm.

Once that happened, he could put on a disguise and go to the Jiang Clan Commerce Association to inquire about the Soul-Storage Pearl.

Even if he drew the attention of interested parties, he was confident he could still escape safely.

With these thoughts settled, Wu Chen turned his focus back to the matter at hand.

’If I move fast, I wonder if I can take care of everything tonight.’

Once Wu Chen made a decision, he didn’t like to dawdle.

His gaze sharpened. As he moved through the dim night, he spotted another formidable presence.

Just like before, he raised his hand to draw his bow, then released, killing an enemy outside the manor.

He gave no one else a chance to steal the kill.

Wu Chen roamed back and forth. In the time it took for an incense stick to burn, six or seven powerful bandits had been shot down and beheaded.

”Something’s not right! There’s an expert on this wall!”

”We can’t force our way through!”

With several of their leaders dying in quick succession, the bandits realized something was amiss.

Their assault immediately slowed.

”Split off a group and attack from the other directions!”

A surviving leader immediately roared the order. Hearing this, many of the bandits changed their direction and headed for other sections of the wall.

But even so, that didn’t mean this section of the wall was safe.

After all, the bandits were the aggressors. The initiative—how to fight, whether to retreat or continue the assault, whether they would feign a retreat only to strike again—was entirely in their hands.

Besides, these were living, breathing people, not Demon Corpses.

They would adapt to the changing tides of battle, not just stand there like wooden posts to be shot at will.

”This...”

As the bandits’ shouts died down, Wu Chen clearly felt the assault on his position slacken considerably.

But this was good news for him.

The enemy’s move would undoubtedly concentrate their forces.

Both the common grunts and the bandit leaders would be more gathered together.

This also made it more convenient for Wu Chen, as he wouldn’t have to hunt them down one by one in the dark.

Wu Chen had no intention of staying put. He ran along the top of the wall, occasionally striking out to save a surrounded Guard.

Moving in fits and starts, his blade constantly flashing, Wu Chen soon arrived at a different section of the wall.

This was the main gate, and the assault here was exceptionally fierce.

Severed limbs and corpses littered the ground.

The top of the wall was slick with a layer of blood, a testament to the brutal slaughter.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Wu Chen drew his bowstring three times in succession. Three black streaks of light flew out, instantly slaying three Organ Refining Realm bandits fifty paces away.

With those three dead, the pressure on this section of wall for a hundred paces all around was instantly relieved.

Wu Chen unceremoniously collected the three heads and continued onward.

But this time, before he could kill to his heart’s content, Wu Chen suddenly whipped his head around to look inside the manor.

From that direction, he could hear the fierce clang of weapons colliding.

’Have they already breached a section of the wall?’

Wu Chen raised an eyebrow, but after a moment’s thought, he decided the situation was to be expected.

Qingfeng Manor, with everyone from young to old fighting, only had about a thousand people. Even including those invited from the auction, there were just over eleven hundred.

Wu Chen even suspected the bandits had intentionally allowed those hundred guests to enter, all so they could wipe them out along with the manor’s inhabitants.

After all, anyone who could attend that auction must have had tens of thousands in savings.

As for any other identities these guests might have, to the bandits who had gathered for this ”Hero Assembly,” they were all just pieces of meat for the slaughter.

Take a bite, and then scatter to the winds.

Even if their targets had heaven-defying backgrounds, what did it matter?

”A bunch of useless trash! Dawdling around, fighting for this long and you still can’t take a single wall!”

”Is it really that hard to take one wall?”

”Looks like it’s up to us, the Southern Ridge Six Overlords of Cangzhou, to make a move!”

”...”

Wu Chen’s attention was still focused inside the manor walls when he suddenly heard several shouts from ahead. He snapped back to his senses and looked over.

Just as the voices faded, six figures leaped onto the wall.

These six people wielded various weapons: some held giant axes, others gripped Copper Hammers with both hands, and one held a short blade that glinted with a cold light.

They were a mix of men and women, young and old.

As the six landed in unison, a brief silence fell over the wall. Although they hadn’t yet made a move, the powerful aura they exuded was enough to make it hard for those nearby to breathe.

’Looks like they’re at the Perfection stage of the Organ Refining Realm!’

’Why the dramatic entrance?’

Without hesitation, Wu Chen fired three consecutive arrows at the group.

Drawn like a full moon, his bow launched arrows that became afterimages, almost too fast for the eye to follow.

The first swiftly pierced one of their bodies, pinning him dead to the wall.

Then the second, and the third, both died in the same manner.

Though he fired three times in quick succession, the brief interval was enough for an Organ Refining Realm Martial Artist to react.

Afraid the others would panic and flee, the instant he loosed the third arrow, Wu Chen’s bow hand swept past his waist, stowing the bow in his storage pouch and smoothly drawing his saber.

His figure arrived almost simultaneously with the third arrow. Before the remaining three could even react, he had their heads in his grasp.

”The Southern Ridge Six Overlords?”

Wu Chen retrieved his arrows from the corpses, cut off their heads as well, and examined one briefly before shaking his own.

”Never heard of them.”

”...”

Watching his casual movements, the onlookers were shocked speechless.

This was especially true for the bandits who had climbed the wall. They had thought that with the Southern Ridge Six Overlords taking action, victory was all but guaranteed.

Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, the Southern Ridge Six Overlords would be no more?

All that remained were a few headless corpses.

Faced with such skill, how could the bandits not be terrified?

Although Wu Chen showed no killing intent towards them, everyone still felt a chill crawl up their spine, their very bones seeming to stiffen and ache as if pricked by needles!

As for the Guards who had been drenched in sweat, so intimidated by the Overlords’ aura that they were on the verge of retreating—seeing Wu Chen effortlessly slaughter the six of them, they once again found their footing.

But Wu Chen didn’t have time to remind both sides to continue fighting. After quickly looting the corpses, he continued on his way.

However, as he continued to cut down bandit leaders along his path, the situation on the wall visibly stabilized.

But despite all his slaughter, as Wu Chen was clearing a third section of the wall, the final defensive position was completely overrun by the bandits.

Countless bandits poured into the manor and began to slaughter the old, the weak, and the infirm.

It was a chain reaction. Once one section of the wall was breached, the other, more stable areas also began to show signs of collapsing.

’Was I a step too slow?’

Wu Chen’s brow furrowed, but he didn’t complain that the garrisoned Guards were useless, or how incompetent they were for being unable to hold a single wall.

He felt that if he had just been a little faster, perhaps things would have been different.

’But what’s done is done...’

Wu Chen casually lopped off the head of a nearby bandit, then vaulted down into the manor grounds.

’Then I’ll just have to kill them all!’