Cultivation Online novel Chapter 2629

Chapter 2629: Dropping the Act

"W-We brought you out here to kill you? That’s a serious accusation, Corporal Yuan!" Captain Chen exclaimed, continuing to insist that it was nothing more than a misunderstanding. "What reason could we possibly have to want you dead?! We only wanted to verify the rumors!"

"You may have no reason to kill me, but your boss, General Gu, definitely does," Yuan said with a smile. "However, if you truly have no intention of killing me, then you’d have no problem with us returning to the city now, right?"

"..."

Captain Chen fell silent for a moment before releasing a deep sigh.

"Unfortunately, we cannot do that," he said with a serious expression, finally deciding to drop the act.

The members of the Scorpion Squad suddenly moved, surrounding Yuan from all sides.

"Are you going to kill me now?" Yuan asked calmly, even though he already knew they wouldn’t dare dirty their own hands. After all, if they could kill him directly without consequence, they would’ve done so long ago.

However, Captain Chen and the others remained silent.

’What should we do now that we’ve been exposed?’ one of the members asked through voice transmission.

’Do we just... kill him now?’

Although killing Yuan themselves seemed to be their only remaining option, none of them wanted to be the one to actually dirty their hands.

"I will do it. I will kill this bastard with my own hands!" Captain Dung suddenly said out loud.

"I have a suggestion."

Captain Dung froze at Yuan’s words.

"A suggestion, you say? Unless you’re offering to kill yourself, I don’t want to hear it," Captain Dung sneered with a look of disdain on his face.

Yuan smiled and said, "That’s exactly what I was going to suggest."

"Excuse me?" Captain Chen raised his eyebrows in puzzlement.

"Although I don’t know why you’re so hesitant to kill me yourselves, it wouldn’t matter even if you tried. After all, none of you are capable of killing me," Yuan said with a confident smile.

"What did you just say?" Captain Dung frowned.

"We’ll give you credit for being able to defeat Elite Void Specters and Void Guardians on your own, but fighting other humans is an entirely different matter," one of the members said.

Yuan chuckled and said, "In that case, let’s put that to the test."

Before any of them could even react to Yuan’s words, he suddenly used Void Manipulation, vanishing from his spot and appearing right behind Captain Chen.

"Catch me if you can," Yuan said.

"G-Get him! Don’t let him escape!" Captain Chen hastily shouted as he lunged toward Yuan.

"Don’t worry. I have no intention of leaving this tunnel," Yuan said as he teleported a few meters away.

The next moment, the members of the Scorpion Squad found themselves playing an absurd game of tag with him, and despite having five people, none of them could so much as touch his shadow.

"Hahaha! Is this really the level of captains?! I was expecting much more!"

"Slow! Too slow!"

"Are you sure you even qualify to enter the Purple Zone? Your Void Control barely qualifies for the Red Zone!"

Yuan continued taunting them relentlessly as they desperately tried—and repeatedly failed—to catch him.

One hour... two hours... five hours passed—

"Enough! We get your point!" Captain Chen finally came to a halt and shouted, his voice trembling with frustration.

The other members of Scorpion Squad also stopped trying to catch Yuan and started taking deep breaths from exhaustion.

Yuan then said, "As I was saying... since none of you are capable of killing me, you might as well return to the city and give up trying to kill me."

"Do you really think that’s an option for us?" Captain Chen responded with a frown.

"Well, what other options do you have? If I wanted to return to the city, there’s nothing any of you here could do about it. And if I wanted to kill you... it’d be easier than dealing with Void Specters."

"Then—"

"With that being said..." Yuan interrupted Captain Chen before he could respond. "I don’t actually want to return to the city. At least not yet."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

A profound smile tugged at Yuan’s lips as he explained, "I’ve been wanting to explore the Purple Zone alone—and even the Black Zone—for quite some time now. Unfortunately, with my low rank and status as a new soldier, that isn’t possible."

His smile deepened.

"But thanks to you lot, I now have the perfect excuse to venture as far as I want, and I have no intention of wasting such a valuable opportunity."

Yuan approached Captain Chen and continued, "Therefore, here is my real suggestion. Go back to the city and tell General Gu that you have succeeded in your mission and that I am dead."

"You... are you crazy...?" Captain Chen muttered with a dumbfounded expression.

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