Translated by Luxican

Edited by Leighann

Upon discovering Yun Sheng, Hei Si was shocked. This shock made him miss the opportunity to resist.

Yun Sheng's hand rose, a strange looking blade flashed, and before Hei Si could react, he felt a sharp pain in his wrists, his hands were actually chopped off.

Hei Si screamed miserably, the arteries in his wrists were cut and blood was gushing out like a fountain.

Who was Yun Sheng? She was a modern divine doctor who controlled life and death, she had saved countless people's lives with her scalpel.

But she could also transform into a bloody god of murder that took lives at any time.

The people on the field, who were all only paying attention to the actions of the other members of Phoenix, suddenly saw this bizarre scene of Hei Si screaming.

Yun Sheng's knife was too fast as being the number one surgeon in medical school, and adding the power of her Yearning Life Technique, made her strike unbelievable fast.

In the eyes of others, it was just a flash of light, and Hei Si began to scream, both his wrists severed, his hands rolling on the ground.

All the arteries were severed, and blood was spurting out. In a period of just fifteen minutes, Hei Si was sure to die!

There was only solemnity left in Yun Sheng's eyes.

Back when they had just walked onto the arena, Yun Sheng had already sentenced their opponents to death in her heart.

With the summoner injured and his summoned beast weakened, Mu Nan Yan took the opportunity and smashed her magic scepter at the Armor-Breaking Beast's skull.

"Old Si!" Hei Da was closest to Hei Si, he jumped to check on Hei Si's injuries.

"Xiao Hei! Go!"

Yun Sheng wouldn't give him a chance to do so, she summoned Xiao Hei who was in the Exquisite Beast Tower.

Battle Skill, Swallowing the Heavens, activated!

With a howl, the entire sub-field descended into darkness.

It was like the bright day turned into the dark night out of nowhere.

The area was pitch black, so no one knew what was happening.

Only some people vaguely guessed that the wolf-like howl just now must have been the trigger for some kind of battle skill.

A battle technique that could instantly change the surroundings, what kind of strong beast was that?

"What's going on here?" Phoenix saw that Hei Si had been seriously injured, and that Mu Nan Yan had managed to escape from her predicament, so Feng Kuo and Wen Renhuo were in high spirits.

But then the surroundings suddenly darkened, and they could only guard against any surprise attacks from Black Guardian.

In fact, Phoenix's worries were unnecessary, because right now, Black Guardian was already at the end of their wits after witnessing Hei Si's strange injury and the sky turning dark without any warning.

Hei Da wanted to step forwards and rescue Hei Si, but he got lost in the darkness.

This burst of darkness came at an odd time, and even as a Martial Master, Hei Da, whose five senses were much sharper than ordinary people's, couldn't see anything clearly.

In the darkness, there was a figure that, like black lightning, settles upon Hei Da's neck.

"I told you I would break your neck like a chicken's," Yun Sheng sat on Hei Da's shoulder.

Her petit body was in stark contrast with Hei Da's overly tall body.

The surrounding area was dark, and the spectators could not see what was going on inside the arena.

Hei Da only felt a sharp pain in his eyes, he reached out his hands to try and grab Yun Sheng, but Yun Sheng's body was as slippery as an eel's. The Four Seasons Glazed Needles in hand, Yun Sheng targeted Hei Da's Celestial Pool* and ruthlessly pierced it.

The skin, bones and veins of a warrior who had reached Martial Master, were all as hard as iron, and it was difficult for normal weapons to even leave a graze.

But when the Four Seasons Glazed Needles were inserted into his head, hot and cold sensations swept through his body, and it felt like he was hit with several different kinds of spells.

He stood motionless; Yun Sheng's hands were firmly wrapped around his neck. After locating the right bones, she made a forceful move with her left and right hand.

Hearing a cracking sound, all Hei Da knew at that last moment was that his neck had been snapped with a twist.

As the darkness gradually dissipated, Hei Da still maintained his original position, even his hands had remained in the motion of grabbing Yun Sheng. But the position of his head made the present seasoned mercenaries, who had ventured into danger countless of times and were unafraid of life and death, suck in a breath of cold air.

Hei Da's head was bizarrely reversed, his eyes pierced and still flowing with blood.

Many parts of his face were blackened, frozen or dusty, as if he had been struck by multiple spells at once.

It looked like he had encountered an unknown misfortune in the dark.

Hei Si was also lying on the ground, devoid of breath and still flowing blood.

"Big Brother! Hei Si!" Hei San and Hei Er cried out in grief.

But none of them dared to come forward.

In this huge arena, there was only silence.

Whether it was Black Guardian or Phoenix, even the hundreds of spectators, as well as Lan Lan, who had long forgotten her duty as referee, everyone stared, their eyes focused on one person.

"One, two, three, four," after redriving the Four Seasons Glazed Needles from Hei Da's head with Jade Marrow Energy, Yun Sheng also didn't forget to wipe the blood on the needles off on Hei Da's body.

She indifferently wiped the needles clean. Then her gaze fell on Hei Er and Hei San's bodies, her lips opened and closed, spitting out words that shocked the entire arena, "Let's get them together, saves worry and effort."

***

The entire restaurant sucked in a breath of cold air as the people around the storyteller whispered.

Even though it had already been two days since that B-rank Mercenary Assessment that made the entire Great Zhou Empire boil with excitement, when the storyteller talked about the summoner of Phoenix who first killed Hei Si and Hei Da, especially the scene of how she pulled the four needles out of the latter's skull, everyone felt a chill on their head.

It was as if, they themselves had those four needles stuck in their head.

The result of that assessment match was without any suspense after that, Phoenix won easily.

With two dead and two scared silly, Lan Lan, who had recovered from her daze, asked the remaining Black Guardian members whether they wanted to continue or not. Black Guardian declared defeat, and Phoenix finally and undeniably qualified as a B-rank Mercenary Squad.

The assessment match was a great success, but the most popular one was still the little summoner who seemed the weakest, but suddenly erupted to bring an end to the fight.

It was said that she was not only a summoner, but also a genius in both magic and martial arts.

Otherwise, how could she have so bizarrely killed two strong mercenaries single-handedly without using magic.

After the tournament ended, countless people gathered outside Inaba Mountain Arena to get a glimpse of Yun Sheng.

However, due to the protection of the rest of Phoenix and the fact that Yun Sheng had covered up her face with the illusion earring early on, the outside world didn't have any information about her other than her general body shape and the fake name she registered at the Mercenary Union.

Despite not knowing Yun Sheng's specific appearance or origin, rumors about her quickly spread in Great Zhou Empire's mercenary world. She was ruthless and young, so after that battle, Yun Sheng earned a resounding title: Bloody Loli.

*I'm not entirely sure what this is. I made some research concerning acupuncture points and meridians, because searching the direct name didn't bring any result and this novel has some medical properties. I found two acupuncture points that came up when I searched the original name: Celestial Pool (Tian Chi) and Sigil Hall (Yin Tang). Celestial Pool was the first to come up, but is located on the chest. And I found Sigil Hall after looking for central acupuncture points on the head. This were my first guesses, but I was still not entirely sure, so I searched for a third option, which was, Sahasrara (the Crown Chakra).

I decided to keep Celestial Pool, because of its meaning, but if you want it to be more accurate (well, as accurate as Dr. Google knowledge can be lol) then I can change it to something else.