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A slight smile appeared on Jiang Ning's cold and stern face.
How can someone like you change?
Tian Boguang felt a chill in his heart, followed by a sharp pain in his left shoulder.
Jiang Ning shaved a piece of flesh off his shoulder.
"How can someone like you change?"
Upon hearing this voice, Tian Boguang felt excruciating pain and immense fear. The sense of death grew stronger and stronger. With a fierce determination, Tian Boguang pulled a dagger from his pocket with his remaining hand and charged towards Jiang Ning.
"Go to hell!"
when!
The dagger was knocked away, and Jiang Ning kicked him in the stomach, knocking him to the ground. Tian Boguang coughed up a mouthful of blood, which was mixed with pieces of internal organs.
You won't change.
Jiang Ning raised his sword and stabbed it fiercely into his groin.
"what!!"
Tian Boguang's shrill scream rang out; the pain, so intense it nearly made him faint, distorted his voice.
"You will only die."
Hearing that voice filled with murderous intent, even though Tian Boguang was already seriously injured, he couldn't help but tremble.
A mixture of blood and foul odor wafted from beneath him.
Jiang Ning drew his longsword, kicked Tian Boguang, who was trying to escape again, to the ground, and then pierced his neck with his sword.
Tian Boguang's body convulsed suddenly, and then he stopped breathing.
Linghu Chong came to Jiang Ning's side and couldn't help but shake his head when he saw Tian Boguang's miserable corpse on the ground.
Originally, he came down the mountain to avenge his previous humiliation, but the story is always full of drama. His only contribution on this trip was kicking Tian Boguang and throwing away a handful of lime powder.
"Junior brother, what should we do with his body?"
Linghu Chong asked.
Jiang Ning drew his sword and wiped the blood off the blade onto Tian Boguang's corpse.
"Those officials will come and handle it later."
The group of officials finally arrived after Jiang Ning and Linghu Chong left.
Seeing the bloodstains along the way, especially the severed limbs, they were filled with dread. Following the bloodstains to the scene, they discovered the body at the end.
"This is Tian Boguang?"
"I can't believe it," one of the officers said, his face filled with fear.
The other officers were in much the same state.
They were horrified by the way Tian Boguang died.
For some time now, Hanzhong Prefecture has been in a terrible state because of Tian Boguang. Many people have been unable to do anything about Tian Boguang. They know that Tian Boguang is very powerful, but now he has been killed by that young man from the Huashan Sect, and died such a tragic death.
They realized that the young man from the Huashan Sect was very skilled in martial arts, really very skilled.
"Boss, where...where is that person?"
One of the officers asked cautiously.
He was asking about Jiang Ning.
"They've probably left."
Wang Yin swallowed hard and quickly ordered his subordinates to dispose of the body.
"Alright, alright, stop repeating it so many times. Everyone, take Tian Boguang's body away and clean up this place."
Although Tian Boguang is dead, the bloodstains he left behind and the large pool of blood here need to be cleaned up.
It's almost dawn, so they need to hurry, otherwise the people will be terrified to see the bloodstains and corpses so early in the morning.
……
"Hey."
On the way back to the inn, Linghu Chong kept sighing.
Jiang Ning looked at him with surprise and asked, "What's wrong, Senior Brother?"
Upon hearing this, Linghu Chong sighed again and said, "I came down the mountain this time to fight Tian Boguang again and avenge my previous humiliation, but who knew that Tian Boguang would die like this."
Jiang Ning laughed and said, "Now that our senior brother possesses the Purple Cloud Divine Skill and the Five Mountains Sword Technique, killing Tian Boguang will be a piece of cake for him. There's no need to prove anything; we all know that."
Linghu Chong had no other choice.
The person is already dead; you can't just desecrate their corpse.
On their way back, they encountered Gao Genming and his group, who were heading south of the city.
Chapter 106: Doing Good Without Seeking Reward
"Big brother."
Liang Fa asked, "Have you caught Tian Boguang?"
The others also looked concerned.
Linghu Chong nodded and said, "He's already dead."
"died?"
Liang Fa's expression brightened with joy, while Gao Genming and the other junior brothers exchanged glances, all of them beaming with delight.
Tian Boguang had so provoked the Huashan Sect in Shaanxi and harmed the people. They had long wanted to kill this lecherous villain with their own hands. Now that they heard the news of his death, they were overjoyed.
"What about his body?"
Gao Genming said happily.
"They should still be in the south of the city, but they've probably been dealt with by those officials."
Linghu Chong couldn't help but shake his head at the mention of Tian Boguang's corpse.
It's too awful.
Although Tian Boguang was a lecherous thief with a notorious reputation in the martial arts world, he was still a first-rate master. It's truly lamentable that he died like that.
The thought of the torture Tian Boguang suffered before his death, especially the sword Jiang Ning stabbed him with, still sends chills down Linghu Chong's spine.
Linghu Chong glanced at Jiang Ning, who was standing to the side with a slight smile. At that moment, Jiang Ning's smile was gentle, like that of a sunny boy.
It's completely unimaginable that he was the one who dismembered Tian Boguang and then castrated him.
For some reason, Linghu Chong couldn't help but shiver.
Brutal, too brutal.
His junior brother seemed to be exceptionally ruthless towards these evil and heretical sects.
"Tian Boguang is dead. Our mission is complete. After we return to the inn, let's rest for a while and then go back to Mount Hua. We should report this to our master as soon as possible so that he can rest assured."
Shaking his head to clear his mind, Linghu Chong spoke to his fellow disciples.
"Okay, senior brother."
Liang Fa, Gao Genming, and other Huashan disciples nodded in agreement.
After returning to the inn, Jiang Ning first went to the backyard to clean his sword.
He had just castrated Tian Boguang with a single sword stroke. Although he had already wiped Tian Boguang's corpse, Jiang Ning still felt that it would be more thorough to clean it thoroughly.
After cleaning his sword, Jiang Ning returned to his room.
To be honest, he wasn't actually very sleepy. Apart from chasing Tian Boguang, he didn't do anything particularly strenuous that night, and even killing Tian Boguang didn't take much effort.
With nothing to do, Jiang Ning sat cross-legged on the bed and began practicing the Innate Skill.
Two hours later.
Bang bang bang.
There was a knock on Jiang Ning's door.
"Junior brother, it's time for us to set off."
Gao Genming's voice rang out from outside the door.
"Okay, senior brother."
Jiang Ning opened her eyes, picked up her luggage, and walked out of the room.
When Jiang Ning came downstairs, he found that Linghu Chong and the other Huashan disciples were already waiting for him.
At this moment, Linghu Chong was drinking with his fellow disciples.
Jiang Ning contributed the most to the operation to hunt down Tian Boguang, and it was Jiang Ning who killed Tian Boguang. They wanted Jiang Ning to rest a little longer, so they called him at the very end.
"Junior Brother Jiang Ning is down. Let's go."
Seeing Jiang Ning come downstairs, Linghu Chong grabbed the wine jar and drank the rest of the wine in one gulp. Then he wiped his mouth and stood up.
Originally, he planned not to drink until he captured Tian Boguang, but he didn't expect the task to be completed so quickly on the first day. So Linghu Chong no longer needed to quit drinking. However, he didn't drink much because he still had to travel.
"That's right, junior brother."
Halfway there, Linghu Chong suddenly remembered something, took out a stack of silver notes from his pocket, handed them over, and said.
"This is a reward from Prefect Chen, and it also contains a token of gratitude from him for saving his daughter."
There are thirteen silver notes in this stack, each worth one thousand taels, totaling thirteen thousand taels.
“I wasn’t planning to take it. Killing Tian Boguang was something my Huashan Sect was supposed to do, but the official who delivered the silver insisted on giving it to him.”
Linghu Chong shrugged and said helplessly.
The reason he didn't want it was actually because of Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning hadn't used the large sum of silver he received in Xiangyang City, so he figured Jiang Ning probably wouldn't want it.
To Linghu Chong's surprise, Jiang Ning only showed slight astonishment before accepting the stack of silver notes.
However, Jiang Ning didn't say much, and he didn't care. He then wanted to return to Mount Hua with his junior brothers, but then he noticed that Jiang Ning hadn't moved.
"what happened?"
Linghu Chong looked at Jiang Ning with a puzzled expression.
Jiang Ning looked at the silver notes in his hand, thought for a moment, and then looked up at Linghu Chong and said, "Senior Brother, please wait for me outside the city. I will be there shortly."
Linghu Chong and Liang Fa were taken aback. Linghu Chong asked, "Is there something you need?"
Jiang Ning nodded: "Some things will take a while."
Linghu Chong shrugged and said, "Alright, in that case, we'll wait for you outside the city."
After giving his instructions, Jiang Ning left the inn and headed towards the nearest money exchange.
By this time, it was already broad daylight, and there were more pedestrians on the street.
Unlike before, there are now some women out and about on the streets.
Not long after Tian Boguang's death, Prefect Chen immediately announced to the whole city that the notorious flower thief Tian Boguang had been executed, so that the people no longer had to worry or live in fear. As a result, people on the streets all had smiles on their faces.
Jiang Ning arrived at the money exchange and had one of the silver notes, representing one thousand taels of silver, exchanged for ten taels and five taels of real silver, as well as some loose silver.
Carrying this large bag of loose silver, Jiang Ning arrived at a street in Hanzhong Prefecture.
There is a family living here.
The homeowners were an elderly couple. At that moment, a coffin was placed in their home. A young woman knelt in front of the mourning hall, her face wet with tears, while the elderly couple wept silently.
This family belongs to Zhang, the scholar whose husband was killed by Tian Boguang.
This family is very poor. I visited Jiangning before. The elderly couple can no longer work, and they only have one daughter-in-law. Their future livelihood is likely to be a problem.
Upon arriving at the house, Jiang Ning went inside, informed them that Tian Boguang was dead, and then took more than three hundred taels of silver from the money exchange he had made at the bank, placed it on the table, told them not to flaunt their wealth, and then left.