Episode 82: Killer Night Raid

  The night grew darker, the lights in the nearby residential area flickered on and off, one by one, as the residents drifted off to sleep. Lu Yuanyuan had also fallen into a deep slumber, but Li Yan, at this moment, had no intention of sleeping. He sat calmly beside his mother's bed, waiting for Sun Yan's arrival in the darkness.

  Time, like the constantly dripping hourglass, passes away bit by bit. The clock on the wall has already pointed to three o'clock. This early morning is when people are most exhausted. In this vast world, under the dark night sky, all around has been quiet and soundless for a long time.

  Just then, a faint sound of wind, almost imperceptible, came from afar and rushed towards the ward where Li Yan was located, along the hospital corridor.

  The newcomer's movements were extremely fast, even mysterious and strange, their feet barely touching the ground. However, the faint sound of them breaking through the air still didn't escape Li Yan's sharp senses.

  In an instant, a gleam of light flashed across Li Yan's eyes, and he stood up from his chair with a "whoosh". His true yuan circulated through his meridians, and his state had already reached its peak in that moment!

  In the dark of night, two beams of light pierced through the pitch-black darkness. As I looked around, I saw a thin figure had already passed through the door of the ward and was walking towards the bedside where he usually lay.

  Although the night was pitch black, however, the darkness could not obstruct Li Yan's line of sight. He could still see clearly the figure and appearance of the person coming, who was undoubtedly Sun Yan.

  Li Yan raised the corner of his mouth, a cold smile spreading across his face. In an instant, he pointed at Lu Yuanyuan's body and a stream of true yuan enveloped her, protecting her. At the same time, he glanced sideways at Sun Yan as he entered the house. Then, in a flash, he disappeared into the endless void, only to reappear silently behind Sun Yan.

  Sun Yan, being an assassin, has always been able to get away with it until now without making a mistake. Apart from his formidable strength, he has always been extremely vigilant. However, this time he was only dealing with an ordinary person, and the plan went so smoothly. Therefore, compared to assassinating those heavily guarded high-ranking officials and big shots, he must have let his guard down a bit.

  The advanced VIP ward is divided into an inner room and an outer room. The inner room is for the patient, while the outer room serves as a resting area for family members accompanying the patient. Li Yan usually sleeps in the outer room, but today he deliberately stayed in the inner room to take care of his mother, anticipating that if a strong enemy were to attack, they would likely enter through the window of the inner room, thus losing the upper hand. As a result, the bed in the outer room was left empty.

  As soon as Sun Yan entered the intensive care unit, he rushed to the bedside of his companion. At this moment, Li Yan flipped his hand, and with a swift motion, he began to gather powerful true yuan. Then, in silence, but with ruthless precision, he struck at the vital spot on Sun Yan's back.

  Li Yan wanted to quietly get rid of Sun Yan without alarming the people in the hospital, but his plan was good, however, as soon as he made a move, his breath couldn't help but reveal itself.

  Logically speaking, the gap in their cultivation was huge, and Li Yan was also ambushing, so Sun Yan shouldn't have noticed it, but unexpectedly, he actually did notice it. At that moment, he couldn't help but be greatly shocked, because he had never thought that he would be ambushed by someone else, as he usually was the one doing the ambushing.

  In his haste, he didn't even have time to turn around and see the face of the sneak attacker. His toes tapped on the ground, suddenly accelerating, rushing forward, while his wrist made a swift motion, a small green triangular flag had already been thrown out by him, blocking in front of himself.

  This small green flag is his treasured gain from a strange encounter, although it has no means of attack, but can sense danger and has extremely strong defensive power. Although with his cultivation he cannot refine it yet, its innate defense is enough to withstand many attacks, even if it's a powerful existence at the level of a scattered immortal, they are unable to break through. He being able to roam freely for so many years without being captured or killed, has an inseparable relationship with this treasure.

  A small blue flag was thrown into the air, and it seemed to have a spiritual power flowing through it. In an instant, it transformed into a blue light screen that blocked Sun Yan's path.

  "Bang!" A power comparable to the explosion of a scattered immortal burst forth, violently striking that small blue flag. In an instant, a dazzling array of flowing lights flashed, and the blue light screen trembled violently, shaking constantly as if on the verge of collapse.

  The blue flag was only the size of two or three palms, and the blue light screen was thin as paper. However, such a layer of defense was surprisingly solid, and it actually blocked Li Yan's full-strength blow, a three-tribulation scattered immortal.

  "What?! How is this possible?!" Witnessing this, Li Yan couldn't help but be greatly shocked. Indeed, he had only just recently crossed the Heavenly Tribulation for the first time, but in these days since then, relying on absorbing the Three Lives Stone and the Giant Clam's Innate Spiritual Pearl's spiritual energy to cultivate, his powers had already become no weaker than any Third-Tribulation Loose Immortal. This time, he was determined to launch a surprise attack on the opponent, so he went all out.

  A three-tribulation scattered immortal went all out, and the phrase "overturning mountains and seas" might be a bit exaggerated. However, even if there was only a small hill in front of him, it should have been completely flattened. What's more, it was just an unremarkable little blue flag that hadn't been refined, but Li Yan's attack was actually blocked by the opponent. This couldn't help but make Li Yan secretly curse in his heart: "Damn, this is too unscientific!"

  At this moment, he hastily took a breath, and in an instant, the true yuan in his body was rapidly reversed, and another massive force was forcibly moved out by him. Along with a flash of sharp light in his eyes, it once again blasted onto the defensive light screen of the small green flag.

  The defensive power of the small blue flag was indeed high, but unfortunately, Sun Yan's own cultivation was insufficient, and he did not have the ability to refine this small blue flag. Although the defense of this small flag was extremely strong, it blocked Li Yan's heavy blow like a mountain collapse, but there was still a powerful shockwave that passed through the defense of the small blue flag and acted on his body.

  "Ah!" Sun Yan couldn't help but let out a stifled hum, his face slightly reddening before turning deathly pale again. His feet stumbled and he almost fell over.

  Li Yan's cultivation was indeed too high, even if it was just a shockwave that came over, it still almost shattered his protective true energy, giving him a heavy blow. If the small green flag hadn't blocked it for him, at this moment, he feared he would have already been killed by Li Yan in one strike!

  He forced himself to swallow the mouthful of blood that had welled up, and Sun Yan knew that this time he was done for. He hadn't expected that his opponent, who seemed like an ordinary person, was actually a deeply powerful master whose cultivation was unfathomable. Although it was only one move, he already knew that someone who could penetrate the defense of the small green flag and injure him must be a super powerful master at the level of a Scattered Immortal, and definitely not just any ordinary Scattered Immortal.

  In that instant, he had already understood in his heart that the other party's cultivation was too high. Even with the unparalleled defensive power of the green flag, he was absolutely no match for the opponent. At this moment, he made a move in his mind and borrowed this force to charge forward fiercely, breaking through the inner space, shattering the glass window, and rushing out.

  Li Yan had already made his move and wouldn't give him any chance to escape, so he sprang into action, immediately breaking through the air and closely pursuing him from behind.

  Thanks to the mysterious blood in the Holy Grail of Vajra, his physical body has now reached the state of Condensing Dan and Great Completion. With great difficulty, he can barely support his scattered immortal soul for a battle across the void. If not for this, he would likely have had to leave his physical body behind, after all, he was reborn through seizing a new body, and the gap between his immortal soul and physical body was too great, making it impossible for him to move about freely like an ordinary cultivator.

  This Sun Yan is the world's seventh-ranked killer. Although his cultivation has not yet reached the Scattered Immortal realm, he excels in the way of assassination and is really not a lamp that saves oil. Once he manages to escape this time, next time when he comes back with a vengeance, it will be even more difficult to deal with him.

  So Li Yan had already secretly made up his mind that this time no matter what he would have to keep him here, no matter the cost!