Wu Shattered Star River

Early morning in Jiangjia Town.

A middle-aged woman carrying two steamed buns entered the courtyard where Jiang Li was imprisoned. She opened the door and went into the house, looking around until she found Jiang Li huddled in a corner, her hair disheveled.

Jiang Li was curled up in the corner, hugging her knees, head buried, her body trembling slightly. She looked like a quail shivering from the cold in winter, extremely pitiful.

The middle-aged woman showed no pity for Jiang Li. Instead, she walked over with a look of anger, stood in front of Jiang Li, and said condescendingly, "Jiang Li, you didn't eat anything yesterday. Are you trying to starve yourself to death?"

Jiang Li's head moved slightly, but she didn't look up or speak, only curling up tighter.

"Are you deaf?"

The middle-aged woman roared, grabbing Jiang Li's hair. Jiang Li's delicate and pretty face was immediately lifted, and a pair of clear, black and white eyes stared at the middle-aged woman with hatred.

Slap! Slap!

The middle-aged woman raised her hand and slapped her twice. Two bright red palm prints appeared on the girl's delicate face. The woman roared fiercely, "You dare to glare at me? Do you believe I'll beat you to death right now? If you know what's good for you, eat the buns!"

Jiang Li's face stung, but she didn't rub it or eat the buns, still staring at the middle-aged woman.

The woman was furious and raised her hand to hit her again, but remembering that Han Shiqi would take her away in a little over ten days, she couldn't explain it to the Third Elder if she beat her badly, so she had to restrain her anger and withdraw her hand.

The woman stood up, pacing back and forth, becoming more and more agitated. She slammed the bowl on the ground, and the buns rolled to the ground.

After a moment, she suddenly thought of something, pointed at the girl, and sneered, "You won't eat, will you? Fine, I'll report to the Third Elder right now and have your brother beaten to death! Anyway, you siblings are worthless trash…"

After saying that, the woman turned and walked outside. Jiang Li's petite body trembled, and a look of panic appeared on her face. She quickly shouted loudly, "I'll eat, I'll eat, okay?"

Saying that, Jiang Li crawled over, picked up the buns covered in dust, and ate them greedily, looking at the woman with tearful eyes: "Don't beat my brother, I'll listen to you! I'll marry, I'll marry, okay…"

"You should have listened earlier!"

The middle-aged woman snorted coldly: "You won't drink a toast, you'll drink a forfeit! Little bitch, bah!"

Jiang Li...

Jiang Han was completely unaware of the suffering Jiang Li was enduring.

He spent another night in the dilapidated temple, and he was already up in the mountains early in the morning.

Like yesterday, Jiang Han found some roots of a brown plant and then set up traps in places where Shadow Rats often appeared.

The roots of this brown plant are different from the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit. They don't have a strange fragrance and can't spread with the wind, making the trapping process a bit difficult. Jiang Han could only calm down and wait patiently.

Fortunately, there were many Shadow Rats on this mountain peak. After waiting for a morning, Jiang Han hunted three more Shadow Rats, and the color of the Shadow Rat pattern on the Heavenly Beast Cauldron gradually deepened.

He began to look forward to it, wondering what bloodline supernatural power he would get after refining ten drops of Shadow Rat's blood essence.

Time continued to pass. As the sun was about to set, Jiang Han finally hunted enough ten Shadow Rats.

"Refine!"

Holding the last drop of Shadow Rat's blood essence in his hand, Jiang Han's eyes were fiery, and he was completely excited.

Closing his eyes, he immediately visualized the Heavenly Beast Cauldron.

As before, the Heavenly Beast Cauldron released a brilliant golden light, and a lifelike Shadow Rat flew out from the cauldron wall, turning into blue smoke and merging into Jiang Han's soul. At the same time, a strange energy swept through his body from within the cauldron.

After a moment, Jiang Han opened his eyes, his eyes shining brightly, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Shape Shift!"

Buzz!

His body trembled slightly, and then he suddenly appeared three meters away. What was even more shocking was that there was still a Jiang Han standing where he had been originally. However, after a breath of time, the Jiang Han figure standing in place gradually became illusory and slowly dissipated.

"This, this…"

Jiang Han watched the other self slowly disappear, dumbfounded.

He originally thought that this "Shape Shift" supernatural power was just a sudden surge in speed, a momentary shift, but he didn't expect that there would still be a residual image left in place, and that this residual image could last for a breath of time.

"The world is so big, there are indeed all kinds of wonders!"

Jiang Han sighed for a long time, his heart even more excited. This supernatural power might not be useful against strong opponents, because the distance of the shift is limited, and strong opponents can react instantly and kill him, but it would be very effective against warriors with similar strength…

"Go back!"

Jiang Han didn't stay any longer, carrying the Black Iron Beast Cage and quickly running down the mountain.

"Indeed, in this world, supernatural powers are the main means for warriors to deal with enemies. Mystic techniques are too weak…"

Jiang Han pondered secretly as he walked. Different supernatural powers have all kinds of incredible abilities, and his is still a relatively weak supernatural power.

If it were a powerful supernatural power, wouldn't it be earth-shattering between raising a hand? It seems that the legend that a powerful monster can blow the Third Elder-level powerhouse to death in one breath is not a rumor.

There are many warriors on the Kyushu Continent, and the strong are like clouds. The strong who can truly deter all directions not only have extremely high cultivation realms, but also extremely powerful supernatural powers.

Having only realm without supernatural power is just a castle in the air, good-looking but useless.

Soon, Jiang Han went down the mountain.

When he reached the foot of the mountain, he hesitated for a moment and decided to spend the night in the previous dilapidated temple. That dilapidated temple was rarely visited, and it could also provide shelter from the wind and rain, allowing him to sleep relatively peacefully.

He casually ate some dry food on the road, and by the time he arrived at the dilapidated temple, it was completely dark.

There was no wind tonight, and the air was sultry, a sign of a coming heavy rain.

Jiang Han secretly rejoiced that if he had temporarily spent the night elsewhere, he would likely have been drenched.

"That's not right—"

Just as he approached the dilapidated temple, Jiang Han immediately stopped, his eyes suddenly turning cold. He threw the Black Iron Beast Cage aside, drew his battle blade from behind, looked at the dilapidated temple, and shouted, "Who's there? Come out!"

"Hmph!"

A cold snort rang out, and then two people walked out of the dilapidated temple. At the same time, two figures flashed out from behind Jiang Han, surrounding him and blocking all routes of escape.

"Jiang Xiong, Jiang Xie, Jiang She, Jiang Hou!" Jiang Han glanced around and recognized the four people.

The Third Elder Jiang Xiaotian's lineage was prosperous, with six brothers, and as many as seventeen second-generation males. The four people who came today were all cousins of Jiang Long and Jiang Hu. Jiang Xiong had the strongest combat power, at the seventh level of the Violet Palace Realm, and the other three were two at the sixth level of the Violet Palace Realm and one at the fifth level of the Violet Palace Realm.

"Jiang Han, so you were really here!"

Jiang Xiong was tall and burly, with a face full of stubble, and said coldly: "Confess honestly, where did Jiang Hu and Jiang Bao go?"

Jiang Xiong and the others had searched the mountain for two days and also went to the Du family town gambling house, but they didn't see Jiang Hu and Jiang Bao. Originally, they decided to give up the search and planned to go back to report to the Third Elder and mobilize more people to search everywhere tomorrow.

As a result, when they were going down the mountain, Jiang She remembered that there was a dilapidated temple here, so a few people came here to try their luck and found some leftover dry food scraps. They decided to wait here, but they didn't expect to really wait for Jiang Han.

After searching continuously for two days, running through I don't know how many mountains, they were exhausted and got nothing. Now that they have finally found Jiang Han, they are slightly excited.

Jiang Hu and Jiang Bao had not been to the Du family town gambling house, they went to hunt down Jiang Han. Now that the two have mysteriously disappeared, they naturally think it has a lot to do with Jiang Han.

"They didn't find the bodies of Jiang Hu and Jiang Bao?"

Jiang Han was slightly relieved, the battle blade in his hand quietly tightened, and he said expressionlessly: "How do I know where they went? I haven't even seen them!"

"Bullshit!"

Jiang Xiong said angrily: "The two of them went to track you, but now they have suddenly disappeared. You haven't dared to go back to town overnight these two days, obviously you have a guilty conscience. You won't talk, right? Then don't blame us for being impolite."

"Jiang Han, I'll give you one last chance!"

Jiang She was true to his name, exuding a cold and venomous aura. He approached Jiang Han slowly with his long sword, and sneered: "If you don't talk, we can only sever your tendons and take you back to the Elder Hall for my Third Uncle to interrogate!"