Treasure Hunting

Chapter 27 Break Your Arm

"All of you! Stay back!" Benjamin knew that the other disciples couldn't beat Zachary. It was his turn. Inthe blink of an eye, he appeared before Zachary and left a shadow behind. As a warrior at the eighthgrade of Mortal Level, he utilized his martial energy, which transformed into a tiger shape and dashedtowards Zachary.

Aware that Benjamin's grade was much higher than his, Zachary decided to dodge the attack with hisShadow Pace. However, Benjamin's attack was so powerful that Zachary was hit by a wave of energythough the attack did not hit him directly. The energy wave pushed him a meter away.

"A warrior at the eighth grade of Mortal Level is powerful indeed." Zachary frowned.

Benjamin was not satisfied that Zachary was only grazed by his attack. He strongly believed that adirect hit could've knocked Zachary down or even killed him. He immediately went for a second attack,a third and a fourth attack, unrelenting, with the objective of killing Zachary outright.

It looked as though Benjamin had the upper hand in the battle, but Shadow Pace kept Zachary safefrom Benjamin's attacks by augmenting his speed.

But Benjamin was, after all, much stronger than Zachary in terms of cultivation. He decided to trap himin the impact of his martial arts.novelbin

Boom!

Zachary retreated once more as another attack blasted past him. His face became sober as he focusedhimself on the new injury that he sustained from that last attack.

"What skill are you using? I am much more powerful than you. A piece of garbage like you should notbe able to survive my attacks for this long." Benjamin felt frustrated that Zachary was only mildly injuredafter all of his attacks.

"A piece of garbage?" Zachary repeated in a cocky tone. He shook his head with an impish smile. Heknew that his current power could not match with Benjamin's. He then remembered the Strength Pillthe he received as a reward from Mimi after he completed the random treasure-hunting quest. Heremembered that it could boost his strength to a higher level but it would cause serious side effects.

The Strength Pill seemed to be the only chance that he had if he wanted to defeat Benjamin. Hebraced himself for a sudden change in direction and then turned towards Benjamin. He took out theStrength Pill and threw it into his mouth.

The effect was instantaneous. His body suddenly radiated a thick purple light. Martial energy surgedwithin his meridians. Purple aura began to overflow from his body, forming a thin purple layer over hisskin. He felt that his power increased significantly.

"How is this possible?" Benjamin was in a state of disbelief. The purple aura around Zachary's bodybecame thicker as he approached Benjamin. He now felt that Zachary's martial energy had suddenlysurpassed his.

The purple aura suddenly re-absorbed back to Zachary's body. At the same time, a purple cycloneappeared and engulfed Benjamin.

"This is a piece of cake!" Benjamin stretched out his fingers into a palm shape. He used his martialenergy to activate his most powerful martial skill: the Dark Dragon Palm.

Once Benjamin's palm completed the skill, it was immediately consumed by Zachary's purple martialenergy.

"What kind of power is this? It's even greater than mine. How is that possible?" With Benjamincompletely surprised, Zachary grabbed his outstretched hand. He then said while a wicked smilecrossed his lips, "I wonder if you will learn your lesson after I break your arm."

Benjamin's face was suddenly filled with shock and terror.

The purple aura around Zachary radiated, and a stream of martial energy that was way greater thanthe ninth grade of Mortal Level flushed into Benjamin's arm.

The forest at the back of the mountain was then filled with Benjamin's howl of pain.

When the other disciples saw Benjamin holding his disabled arm, rolling on the ground while howling inagony, they became so terrified that they did not dare move a single step to confront Zachary. None ofthem ever imagined that Zachary had such power.

Zachary walked towards Benjamin with a frightful look.

"Stop... Don't come any closer..." Benjamin demanded, his voice quivering as if he was about to cry.

But Zachary continued walking and was soon about to reach Benjamin. Out of nowhere a figureblocked Zachary's way.

Benjamin looked as if he had seen a light at the end of dark tunnel. "Bruce! You're finally here!"Benjamin exclaimed as his eyes lit up. "This guy almost killed us!"

"Bruce?" Zachary also recognized the person.

"Zachary, fighting against your fellow disciples is against the rules of the Welkin Sect. You not onlybroke the rule, but also injured Benjamin seriously. You seem to want to be kicked out of the WelkinSect." He quickly glanced at the people around him and was shocked. 'Benjamin is at the eighth gradeof Mortal Level. The other disciples are all of Mortal Level as well. Why did they lose to Zachary sobadly?' he wondered.

It was known to everyone that Zachary was a mere garbage barely one year ago. Even though Zacharyshocked everyone with double martial speed during the selection for formal disciples, it wasn't possible

for him to possess power great enough to defeat Benjamin.

"Talk all you want. It's useless. I know that you ordered them to come here," Zachary ridiculed Bruce.

"Since you already know that. Things are much easier now." With an insidious smile, Bruce quicklyperformed a martial skill at the primary stage of Earth Level. In an instant, a white tiger manifested anddashed towards Zachary.

Zachary tried to activate Shadow Pace to dodge the attack, but to his surprise, he was not able to usehis martial energy anymore.

'What is happening? Is this the side-effect?' Zachary's heart skipped a beat.

Bang!

Zachary was directly hit by the attack. Even though Bruce didn't use his full power, Zachary waspushed back a few meters and fell onto the ground. He then coughed out a mouthful of blood.

Zachary quickly stood up and glared at Bruce.

"You cannot beat me. If you beg for mercy, maybe I will consider it. Of course, you have to promise tostay away from Elva," Bruce stated flatly.

"You're dreaming. If you kneel to me, I might consider letting you go." Zachary laughed out loud as hemocked how Bruce talked.

"Bruce, this guy is stubborn. There's no use trying to make him surrender." Benjamin still sufferedintense pain as he prodded Bruce to kill Zachary.

"Monstrous Murder Skill!" Bruce's martial energy expanded and created a huge wolf shape. It dashedtowards Zachary with an unbelievable speed as it cleaved the air with its claws. It moved so fast that it

looked as if it left its own shadow behind.

Zachary felt like his entire body was bit by countless starving wolves. His clothes were torn all the wayto his flesh. He fell to the ground bathed in his own blood. But this was only the physical injury. Hisinternal injuries were more severe—Bruce's martial energy destroyed his meridians.

Bruce evidently intended to ruin Zachary completely by destroying his path of cultivation!