The Magus Era (巫神纪) by Xue Hong (血红)

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Chapter 39 - Stalemated

“Ba…B*stard!”

The three-eyed young man cursed with a trembling voice; he was vomiting blood, and soon, his nose and ears also started bleeding.

The Danyuan[1] Ji Hao gained from the years of practice on the ‘Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words’ was changeful, which means that Ji Hao could choose what kind of power to use when he cast an attack. The power he used to hit the three-eyed young man just now was wild and strong; like the heaven was falling and the earth was cracking; like the eruption of a volcano. The power burst suddenly, caused great damage to the three-eyed young man’s internal organs directly.

Toba and Toao finally got out of that slurry pool. They wiped the slurry on their faces clean embarrassedly, then saw their leader was sent flying by Ji Hao’s punch and seemed seriously injured.

“Die!” Toba raised his sword. A fierce cyan wind started around the sword; a cyan phantom of the sword appeared a few feet away from the sword edge and chopped toward Ji Hao.

Toao picked up his bola and darted toward the three-eyed young man as well, left a piece of shadow behind him. He stretched his arms and threw out his chest, seemed that he was going to shield the young man with his own body.

Sharp cawing came from the sky. Mr.Crow, who was sent away by the wind from the young man’s erect eye now was diving down from the air. His wings were shaking and ejecting innumerable ablaze black feathers toward Toba and Toao. Those feathers were falling from the air like raindrops; every single feather was with a tens of feet long tail of black smoke.

Toba and Toao let out roars half angrily and half sorrowfully. Faced Mr.Crow’s attack, they took a deep breath, standing firmly.

Several smooth lines lit up on the surface of their armours; tens of fist-sized spell symbols then emerged from the-the surface of the armours and started to flash with a piercing light. They kept their heads down and let those ablaze feathers hit on their bodies.

Followed by thundering noises, the feathers overwhelmed their bodies. Mr.Crow was cawing sharply; a tens feet long fire stream spurted out from his blood-red eyes. Toba and Toao’s bodies were trembling intensely; the spell symbols on the surface of their armours were rapidly flashing. From time to time, feathers broke through the the spell symbols’ light and hit on the armours, left deep cuts on them.

Every second, Mr.Crow threw over ten thousand of feathers toward Toba and Toao. These feathers had an unknown source, seemed like the incessant river flow, flushing through the armours of Toba and Toao. The armours of Toba and Toao were lashing by the feathers; large fire sparkles often broke out from near their bodies and armour fragments kept falling on the ground.

Suddenly, Toba let out a howl. His shoulder pauldrons were completely damaged by the feathers; three six-feet-long ablaze feathers pierced his shoulders and stuck by his scapulas.

The three feathers were wrapped by gold-red flame, which was burning Toba’s shoulder. A stinky smell of burned meat spread around. Toba’s face was badly twisted in pain.

Toao has now forgotten to cover the three-eyed young man, instead, he opened his arms and tried to catch the feathers which were flying toward Toba.

Ji Hao darted up behind the three-eyed young man, who was coughing up blood and trying to flee; Ji Hao’s fists moved in a lighting speed and brought out tens of phantoms, punching toward the young man. The young man’s body trembled violently, blood was continuously spurting out from his mouth.

“Die!” The young man, who was nearly smashed by Ji Hao’s punches abruptly turned around his head; the erect eye between his eyebrows suddenly lit up; a tens of feet long sharp wind-knife darted out of that eye along with an ear-piercing sound.

However, once the young man turned his head, Ji Hao quickly threw a smack on his face; before the wind-knife darted out, the young man was whirled by Ji Hao’s smack. The sharp wind-knife from his erect eye then sliced the air through an inch away from Ji Hao’face, darted to ten thousand feet away in the blink of an eye.

The wind knife was incomparably sharp; it split all of the rocks and plants in its path. Tens of unlucky Savage warriors who were standing in its path didn’t even made any noticeable sounds before they were sliced into two pieces by the wind-knife.

Along with a cloud of crimson mist, the wind-knife exploded into a cyan whirlwind in ten thousand feet away, roll up hundreds of palm-sized wind-knives and shattered everything in hundreds of feet round, then subsided slowly.

Ji Hao was slightly shocked by the power of the wind-knife. “This wind-knife has such a scary power. If cast a wind-knife like this in a battle, it probably can kill at least hundreds of enemies.” Ji Hao said in his head.

Ji Hao didn’t wait until the three-eyed young man realised what was happening; he grabbed the young man’s cyan long hair and threw a kick to the vital part between his legs masterly. Before that, the young man was shaking his head and trying to fight back; now he stooped down instinctively and covered the vital parts between his legs which were badly harmed with his hands.

“Kneel down! You, kneel down!” Ji Hao growled and kicked the young man with his right leg.

Within the span of one breath, Ji Hao has thrown at least a hundred heavy kicks on the young man’s shanks; along with loud thuds, Ji Hao felt that his toe bones were nearly shattered. Finally, with a cracking sound, the young man’s shank bones broke into a few pieces.

“Damn bastard!” The three-eyed young man screamed out; tears and snot gushed out simultaneously.

Ji Hao jerked out a dagger and poked it into the young man’s mouth while he was screaming and cursing, then started cutting the inside of the his mouth. Ji Hao shook his wrist, felt like he was cutting a piece of leather with a blunt knife; he spent a lot of effort and finally sliced the young man’s tongue. The young man’s body twitched intensely in great pain, then suddenly became soft and lost the power of resistance.

Mr.Crow cawed and landed on the ground, opened its beak and spurted out a stream of gold-red flame toward Toba and Toao.

Toba and Toao howled simultaneously when they saw that the three-eyed young man was captured by Ji Hao. They ignored Mr.crow’s flame and darted out like they were running from the death; they went up to Ji Ying and Ji Lang who were badly injured and lied on the ground, then pulled Ji Ying and Ji Lang up and held them in front of their chests.

Mr.Crow suddenly popped up his eyes when he saw that Ji Ying and Ji Lang was going to burn by his fire. He then largely opened his beak and breathed the fire back.

‘Bang!’ The fire was drew back to Mr.Crow’s lung and soon exploded inside his body. Two wisps of smoke puffed out from his nose. Mr.Crow was choked by the smoke and cawing loudly; tears gushed out from his blood-red eye sockets.

Ji Hao held the dagger against the young man’s temple, and twisted his wrist; the dagger tip cut the young man’s soft skin open; only if Ji Hao pushed harder, the dagger would be poke into the young man’s head.

“Release! Release them!” Ji Hao looked at Ji Ying and Ji Lang, who was grabbed in Toba and Toao’s hands and growled. “If you don’t want this three-eyed kid die, you better release them now!”

“You release our captain first! Now!” Said Toba and Toao. Their eyes turned into red and their bronze skin turned slightly black. “Besides the two of them, we have many more of your people!”

The underlings of the three-eyed young man, who walked out of the jungle earlier as a troop have now showed up; each of them was holding a Fire Crow Clan warrior or a Qing Yi Clan warrior on their hands. All of those warriors were badly injured by Toba and Toao and powerless to resist.

“Kill three first!” Ji Hao was about to say something, Toba interrupted him and shouted out.

Three dark skin muscular men gave growls and chopped the heads of the warriors held in their hands off backhandedly.

“kill!” Ji Hao roared in rage, then poked the dagger into the right eye socket of the young man, dug out one of the his eyeballs wholly without any hesitation.

“You think that I won’t dare to kill a man? Let’s die together!” Ji Hao roared and threw the eyeball on the ground, trod it into a paste.

Toba and Toao stared at Ji Hao stunningly, like they were seeing a ghost. The Coldbrook valley suddenly became as quiet as dead.

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[1] Danyuan: A concentrated form of power. While a Magus practice on a certain type of magical spells, the power he gained will gather together and form a Danyuan inside his body. During the fight, the Magus can trigger the Danyuan and release the power from it.

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Chapter 40 - Release

Cawww ~~~‧

Mr. Crow descended from the air, his feathers were stained with blood. He stretched his wings, hovered above Ji Hao, continuously cawing, while watching the, still twitching bodies of the three Fire Crow Clan warriors. The eyes of Mr. Crow had turned from red into garnet, as if his pupils were soaked in blood.

Ji Hao used his left hand to hold the throat of the three – eyed young man, while using the dagger in his right hand to make random cuts on the young man’s chest and arms.

Blood soaked slashes continuously appeared on the three – eyes his body. He was suffering from the pain, cursing and desperately struggling the whole time. The vertical eye, between his eyebrows, frequently opened and closed, to the point of making a whirring noise. But no matter how much he struggled, he was unable to escape Ji Hao’s control.

“Three – eyes! Move again and I will dig this eyeball out too!” growled Ji Hao and hit the third eye hard with the hilt of the dagger. Three – eyes screamed out in pain, tears gushed out from all his three eye sockets. After that he stayed still, not daring to make even a single movement.

“You are inviting disaster for your clan, kid!” roared Toba, while grabbing Ji Ying’s neck in his hand.

“Di Luo is our captain and the blood brother of Blood Tooth’s leader. The Blood Tooth is……”

Before Toba could finish his speech, Ji Hao moved his dagger with great speed and before one could blink, he chopped three finger’s off from the right hand of Di Luo. The three – eyed man, Di Luo, instantly howled furiously.

“Di Luo huh? Not a bad name! Sounds prestigious!”

The spell symbols of the Nine Secret Words rapidly flashed through Ji Hao’s eyes. An invisible power surged around Ji Hao’s body, his long hair dancing madly in the air, as if they were snakes. Ji Hao’s appearance was transmitting a strange and cold vibe, which made the others shudder unconsciously.

“Whatever your Blood Tooth may be, it is unrelated to me. Whoever this kid is, whose brother or son he is, what does that have to do with me?” Ji Hao swung his arm and left a deep slash mark on Di Luo’s beautiful, sculpture like face. After that he said with a cold voice: “Release my uncles or my next will leave him castrated!”

“B@#stards!” screamed Di Luo again and after hearing what Ji Hao said, he also started to struggle.

Mr. Crow ruthlessly flapped his right wing, a fiercely burning feather appeared in front of Di Luo’s body, burning his gorgeous cloak into ashes. Soon after all of his clothes burned into a wisp of smoke, baring his white, tender, young-girl-like body.

“Cawww!” Mr. Crow cawed sharply.

Ji Hao has known Mr. Crown for years, he perfectly understood his language. He laughed out, while maintaining the cold look on his face.

“Mr. Crow, are you saying that I should cut it in half at first? Excellent idea! Well what do you think, should I cut it sideways? Or vertically?”

Ji Hao made an evil face, held the dagger near his crotch and said:

“Toba…Toao!”

The vertical eye between Di Luo’s eyebrows suddenly closed. Only one eye on his face was left open and the eyeball was anxiously rotating around in his eye socket. He was trembling intensely and sweat poured down on his body as if they were streams of the lake.

“Release them!”

“Di Luo! Listen to us! He and we, we both must release the hostages at the same moment! Or, we will kill more of his side!”

“Kill ten! Either you release Di Luo now or we will kill ten more! Even if you castrate him, we can always find some medicine that can make his body part grow back! Kill ten more! Kill ten more! Release Di Luo or you are going to watch your people getting killed by us, one by one!” Toba yelled.

The Blood Tooth’s warriors, who were standing behind Ji Hao, let growls escape from their mouth. They raised their weapons simultaneously and were ready to behead the warriors in their captivity.

“Growl!”

A great roar came from far away, like a tiger roar which shook the entire jungle and shocked all the animals living in it. On a mountain top, miles away, thousands of towering trees suddenly exploded into bits of wood. After that half of the mountain collapsed. Another mountain standing at the side was blown into the air by an enormous power and burst into pieces.

Toba and Toao were shocked, all eight of their eyes had shrunk to the size of a tiny dot. Yellow and silver spell symbols began to flash rapidly on their bronze skins. A similar occurrence was taking place on their faces.

The collapse of the mountain caused a cloud of dust to be formed, which rapidly was spreading around. Soon, the sound wave reached the valley and flew across it like a tornado. The slaves who weren’t standing firmly, were rolled up high into the air by the fierce wind, caused by the roar; they flew away like leaves blown in the wind.

The sound of arrows piercing through human bodies could be heard. Countless arrows appeared in the air, they were coming so fast, couldn’t even be seen clearly. The Blood Tooth warriors then started to howl and fell on the ground, one after another. The powerful arrows went through their bodies through their throats, the area between their eyebrows, or eye sockets and stuck on the ground; blood splashed everywhere.

An ear-piercing rustling sound came from out of the valley. A sturdy silhouette rose high into the air from the mountaintop, which just collapsed by half, landed heavily on the Coldbrook Valley and left a huge arch of fiery light behind him. The ground shook intensely by the heavy landing. It was Ji Xia, he landed in front of Ji Hao with only a piece of fur wrapped around his waist. With a thundering noise, the ground near Ji Xia’s feet fractured and tens of fist-sized gold and jade pieces popped out from the cracks.

Toba and Toao’s pupils shrunk again, they threw a glance, filled with greed, at those jade and gold pieces and nervously looked towards Ji Xia.

“Let’s exchange hostages” Ji Xia said gently. “Let Ji Ying and Ji Lang go, and we can give this three-eyed kid back to you.”

Consecutive ear-shattering sounds could be heard. It was Ji Bao leading the other tens of Fire Crow Clan warriors; they leaped high in the air from a mountaintop miles away and bounced into the Coldbrook valley like fleas. On a mountainside farther away, Qing Ying was leading a batch of Qing Yi Clan warriors hiding among branches. Hundreds of long arrows were aimed at the vital parts of Toba and Toao’s bodies.

“Will you let us leave safely?” Toba tightly grabbed Ji Ying’s throat and said coldly.

Ji Xia patted his own chest and said in a gentle voice: “I swear on my ancestors’ soul, only if you don’t hurt Ji Ying and Ji Lang, I will let you take this three-eyed kid and leave safely. But, if I ever see you again, I will chop your heads off and offer them to my ancestors’ souls as obligations!”

“I believe your promise, you barbarian!” Toba and Toao loosened their grips simultaneously and pushed Ji Ying and Ji Lang hard toward Ji Xia. After that, while staring at Ji Xia, they said: “We will come back. This kid dug one of Di Luo’s eyeballs out. We, the Blood Tooth, will take revenge for it!”

Ji Hao loosened his hand and gave Di Luo a kick, which sent him flying towards Toba and Toao. With a thud sound Di Luo crashed onto the Toba’s Body.

“We will be expecting your revenge… Hmm, This Di Luo guy here said that you have been waiting outside the Coldbrook valley for over a month? Are you waiting for us?” asked Ji Hao.

Toba held Di Luo in his arms and said with a bitter voice: “Yes, a month ago we came here to attack you. We failed because we underestimated your power. Next time, we will bring more warriors with us.”

Di Luo fainted, his face had a blue tint. Toba and Toao inhaled deep and covered Di Luo. Surrounded by the remaining tens of Blood Tooth warriors who luckily survived the arrows, they ran into the jungle at their highest speed.

Only after the Blood Tooth went into the jungle, did Ji Hao quickly pull out a feather from Mr. Crow’s tail, held it in his hand and flicked his fingers. The feather transformed into a small black peek-crow under Ji Hao’s magical power. The small crow flew into the sky, following Toba and Toao into the dense jungle.

“Woah! This magic trick is not bad!” praised Ji Xia. “It seems that even Granddaddy Ji Kui doesn’t know how to do this!”

Ji Hao was focusing on the peek-crow, smiled and didn’t say a word.



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Chapter 41 - Conspire

“Haha! haha! hahaha!”

In the jungle, Di Luo, who was being carried by Toao, was laughing insanely, while blood was flowing from his mouth, spasmodically.

“Toba! Toao! I can’t believe that a bunch of barbarians hurt me so badly! We, the ‘Blood Tooth’, have caught and sold over a million slaves in this South Wastelands jungle. No one was ever able to hurt me, not even a little bit! But this time I’ve been wounded severely!”

“Captain, we’ll definitely return and we will bring Captain Di Sha and his team with us!”

Toba snapped the thick vines in their path, while comforting Di Luo with a solemn voice.

Di Luo continued to laugh insanely for a while, after which he gnashed his teeth and started to curse Ji Hao viciously.

“Stop!” commanded Di Luo suddenly.

Toba, Toao and the tens of warriors, who were walking behind them, stopped immediately. Toao put Di Luo carefully down.

Di Luo frowned and focussed his gaze on a five-finger-wide, exquisite, cyan bracelet around his left wrist. A faint, cyan light flashed through the bracelet and a beautiful, silk cloak appeared in Di Luo’s hands.

Tens of miles away, Ji Hao’s spying-crow was hiding behind branches and watching them. When the spying-crow saw the bracelet, its pupils instantly shrunk.

In the Cold Stream Valley, Ji Hao was controlling the spying-crow with his magic power. When he received the vision from the spying-crow, he grinded his teeth and his heart started to beat faster.

“Spatial Bracelet? The legendary Spatial Bracelet? In my previous life, the Spatial bracelet was a precious treasure, existing only in legends. Even in this life, which is filled with magic, it’s seems rare, because no one, not even the most knowledgeable elder Magusreist in the Fire Crow Clan, has mentioned it, not even once! Does this Di Luo guy really posses the spatial bracelet from the legends?” exclaimed Ji Hao in his head.

His heart was pounding in his chest, the veins on his forehead formed dark, visible lines and his blood boiled from the excitement. He had a strong desire to mount Mr. Crow and go immediately after Di Luo. He wanted to kill him and snatch his spatial bracelet!

But he immediately abandoned that thought.

The Cold Stream Valley was a big mess at the moment. Qing Fu was busy healing the injured warriors, sweat dripping from her face.

Ji Xia was leading Ji Bao, Qing Ying and the other warriors, in a chase after the Savage Warriors, who were fleeing in every direction. It looked similar to chasing a group of chickens.

Ji Xia had sworn on the souls of his ancestors that he would let Di Luo and his underlings leave unharmed, so there was no way he would break his promise.

But even if Ji Hao would chase after Di Luo, there was simply no way for him to snatch that spatial bracelet. No matter how attractive the bracelet seemed, he lacked enough strength to deal with Di Luo and his underlings. Even if Mr. Crow helped him, it still wouldn’t be enough.

The spying-crow slightly shook its head; its pupils were glowing faintly.

Di Luo was cursing unceasingly in a low voice. He pulled a two feet long, black, metal centipede out from his bracelet, dropped it on the ground and mumbled an incantation. One by one, a series of spell symbols started to glow on the centipede. Under influence of the spell, the centipede’s body started to expand rapidly.

Within the span of a few breaths, an over three hundred feet long, gigantic, metal centipede appeared in front of Di Luo and his people. Di Luo waved his hands silently and hopped on the centipede’s back, followed by Toba, Toao and the other tens of warriors. Under Di Luo’s control, the centipede strode swiftly through the jungle, while carrying Di Luo and his underlings, quickly leaving the Cold Stream Valley.

About seven minutes later, the metal centipede had already covered twenty miles. It crawled, through a cliff, into a river valley, where it quietly lied on the riverside beach.

The spying-crow flew across the river valley and landed gracefully on the branch of a small tree, in front of the river. Its blood-red eyes were fixed on the centipede.

*Sigh*

Back in the Cold Stream Valley, Ji Hao was sitting in front of a cave, wiping the sweat on this forehead and sighed, feeling relieved. Fortunately, Di Luo and his people didn’t go too far.

With his current power, the maximum range he could control the spying-crow, was twenty miles. If Di Luo would have moved a bit farther, then Ji Hao wouldn’t have the ability to observe their activities, through the spying-crow.

After receiving the new view through the spying-crow, his body quivered unconsciously.

“Damn bastards!”

“Ji Mu! Ji Xiao! You ganged up with outsiders and tried to kill your own clansmen!”

In the river valley, tens of sturdy Fire Crow Clan warriors were quietly standing on the beach, looking coldly at Di Luo and his people, who were all injured and disheveled looking.

Standing in front of the Fire Crow Clan warriors was Ji Xiao, the father of Ji Hu, the kid killed by Ji Hao two months ago. He was quite an influential Senior Magus among the Holy Land warriors of the Fire Crow Clan.

Standing beside Ji Xiao was Ji Shu’s brother, Ji Mu, who had thrown the first stone at Ji Xia for the position of the leader, before the Ancestors Worship ceremony. He too was a powerful Senior Magus.

Ji Xiao stared at Di Luo and his people, gnashing his teeth, and said: “Ji Mu, are these the old friends you talked about? Didn’t you say that they’ll revenge my son? Is this a joke? Look at them! They’re like a group of drowned rats!”

Ji Xiao stamped his foot hard and yelled: “I gave them huge amounts of gold and jade, and they came back like this?!”

Ji Mu’s pupils were shining with a deviant light, he patted Ji Xiao on the shoulder and opened his arms, walking toward Di Luo.

“Di Luo, my brother, my old friend, it seems the attack didn’t went well? I thought you had given your word that you were going to invade the Cold Stream Valley!”

Di Luo didn’t reciprocate the hug Ji Mu was giving. Instead, he stepped back with a face filled with disgust, and yelled harshly: “This is all your fault! You gave us the wrong information! Toba and Toao were more than able to beat the three persons, who recently became Senior Magus! The only obstacles would be Ji Xia and Qing Fu, who according to you were badly injured and had lost their powers!”

“Not only is that not true, you never even mentioned that the little bastard already made an agreement with a gigantic Fire Crow!” Di Luo puffed and continued.

Di Luo glared at Ji Mu with his two remaining eyes and said with his teeth gnashing: “I could’ve invaded the Cold Stream Valley, killed your enemies, and make a fortune for myself at the same time! But because of your wrong information, we underestimated their power and ... and I lost three fingers and an eye! You… you have to compensate me accordingly!”

“Ji Mu, I want ten times of the advance payment, or I’ll let you know how horrible our “Blood Tooth” can be!” Di Luo pointed at Ji Mu and yelled.

Ji Mu’s eyes stared at him, his rugged face seemed to have frozen.

“You… You surely made a mistake, didn’t you?”

“Only the Magi who made great contributions to the clan are qualified to make an agreement with the Fire Crows of our clan. Even Ji Xia didn’t acquire the required qualification, how could the kid…?” murmured Ji Mu, with a sullen face.

After murmuring for a while, he turned around, pointed his finger at Ji Xiao, and said: “Xiao, my brother, if you want to revenge your poor son, Hu, I’m afraid that you have to do the thing you’re not willing to do. This time, however, you will have to do it!”

“Mu, I… I’ll never attack our brother Ji Xia, I…” Ji Xiao said, with a trembling voice. His face was twitching intensely, his body was shivering uncontrollably, sweat pouring down from his forehead.

“I just want to revenge Hu, my dear son, but I’ll…I’ll never do anything to brother Xia!”

“But you already did.” Ji Mu looked at Ji Xiao in the eye and slowly said, “Xiao, you standing right here means that you’ve already done something to Ji Xia…”

Ji Mu stared at the distorted face of Ji Xiao and continued with a soothing voice: “Well, you don’t need to deal with Ji Xia, you only need to handle the others. As for Ji Xia…there is someone else willing to finish him.”

“Who?” Ji Xiao blurted out.

“Me, of course.”

A hoarse voice came from the rapidly flowing river.

A water-tank thick horned, black serpent slowly raised from the river.


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Chapter 42 - Counterplan

The spying-crow silently transformed into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated in the air along with the whirling wind.

Back in the Cold Stream Valley, Ji Hao leaped from the ground, darted up to Qing Fu, put his mouth near her ear, preventing others to overhear them, and whispered what he saw through the spying-crow’s eyes in the river valley.

Qin Fu was recovering the energy of the badly injured Fire Crow Clan’s warriors with her cyan coloured ‘Thorns of Life and Death’ needle.

When she heard what had transpired in the river valley, she stopped healing and slowly stood up, while massaging her waist. Her eyes shimmered with a profound cold light.

“Hao, go get your Abba; we have some work to do,” said Qing Fu.

The sun slowly moved across the sky and went under, behind the hills in the west.

The sky was adorned by countless little stars.

Multicoloured starlight, formed a smoke-like glow, visible to human eyes, and descended from the sky. Countless creatures, living in the jungle, raised their heads and absorbed the power contained in the starlight.

Now and then, loud and imposing roars reverberated from the depths of the valley.

Ji Hao was sitting on the branch of a tall, majestic tree. Next to him was a girl, who sat on the back of a red leopard. This was none other than his friend Heng Luo, a nymph, also known as the “goddess” of the forest. She was carefully spreading poisonous liquid onto hundreds of long arrows.

A jade jar, the size of a human head, was placed in her lap. The jar contained a light-cyan, crystal-clear, poisonous liquid, which emitted a dim herbal smell. Under the starlight, some tiny spell symbols emerged from the surface of the liquid, twisting like little snakes. It caused a beautiful glow to flash across the liquid, disappearing quickly.

“Hao, I thought your Amma only knew how to save people! I never knew that she could make such powerful poison!”

While speaking, Hong Luo dipped a leaf into the liquid and dripped a drop down.

The drop of poison fell on on the jade-like shoulder of Stone, who was standing under the tree. The poison burned a hole through his shoulders, while emitting a faint, cyan smoke, instantly.

“Booze…,” growled Stone annoyed.

He pressed his stone-made hand onto a huge rock, which crumbled into dust. Next up, he pressed it back on his damaged shoulder. The hole, created by the poison drop, healed instantly, without leaving as so much as a scratch.

Treeman lifted his enormous head, while a rustling sound could be heard coming from his trunk. It seemed as if he was trying to say something, but no one was able to understand him. Finally one of his branches bended, without breaking, and dipped into the jar. The branch contained a drop of the poison and moved towards a huge hole in the tree, which basically functioned as Treeman’s mouth.

Strands of black smoke, along with a sizzling sound rose from within Treeman’s mouth. He began to tremble in pain and the few leafs hanging on his branches, drooped. He glanced at the jar, his eyes filled with reverence, and muttered: “Qing Fu...Magusreists...woman...scary!”

Suddenly the branches and leaves above Ji Hao began to shake. A nearly thirty foot tall, muscular ape, jumped down heavily. His entire body was covered with black fur and in his hand he held a huge wooden stick.

The ape pointed at Ji Hao, grinned and mumbled: “Hao… You kid… booze… I… stronger… I want double of stone’s booze… Hao… I won’t go crazy drunk this time… You…got to give me more!”

Mr.Crow quietly landed on Ji Hao’s shoulder and cawed gently. Ji Hao waved his hands and said in a resolute tone: “Of Course, as long as you guys help me get rid of my enemies, I‘ll supply the best booze and grilled meat, as much as you want!”

“Mr.Crow, thanks.” He then patted Mr.Crow and said in a low voice.

Mr. Crow had spent the whole day traveling across the forest, bringing the strong non-human friends of Ji Hao to him. Heng Luo, Stone, and Treeman, were all strong creatures, even stronger than ordinary Senior Magi like Ji Ying and Ji Lang. If they didn’t have that much strength, it would have been impossible for them to beat Jiang Yao so hard, a couple months ago.

As for that black ape, he was the most powerful among Ji Hao’s friends. Even if Heng Luo, Treeman ,and Stone combined their powers, they couldn’t rival the black ape.



It was a pitch-black night.

Near the entrance of the Cold Stream Valley, three blood-stained heads of beasts were placed aligned, on a jade altar. In each of the heads a cyan, wooden knife had been stuck.

Qing Fu was standing in front of the altar, with all of her ten fingers bleeding. She was drawing a series of odd spell symbols, using her own blood and whispering a mysterious spell. Her beautiful face was shrouded by a weird, faint, white fog. The fog was rising and falling around her body, blurring her slim silhouette. It made her look like a ghost, which was existing in both this world and another, mysterious yet spooky, world.

Small, grey whirlwinds came from every direction, swirling towards the valley.

Following Qing Fu’s whisper, about seven minutes later, thousands of grey whirlwinds, in different sizes, appeared from the forest. They circled around the altar, causing the air to freeze. Soon, a thin layer of ice appeared on the surface of the Cold Stream, freezing even the plants nearby.

Ji Hao was staring at Qing Fu, while rubbing the red leopard’s fluffy tail, and said: “Hey evil girl, didn’t you just say that you didn’t know my Amma can make such powerful poison? Even I didn’t know my Amma is so good at these mystical ‘spirit magic’.”

Bang!

Along with a bang, a immense green fire spurted out from the ears, eyes, noses and mouths, of all the three beast heads on the altar, simultaneously. The green flame growed bigger and bigger, slowly forming a ferocious face. Soft yet creepy sounds came from the jungle, after which a heavy fog surged out from the jungle and flowed through the plants like water.

Some weird figures emerged from the fog, they opened their mouths widely towards the sky and swallowed the starlight power.

Every hair on Ji Hao’s body stood erect. He gazed dumbfounded at those, unbelievably mysterious, beings and couldn’t say even a word.

The Fire Crow Clan’s Magusreists normally didn’t know much about how to communicate with those mysterious beings of the jungle. They, instead mastered all kinds of different witchcrafts, which could directly cause great harm to enemies.

Though Ji Hao had been learning Magusreists’ witchcraft since he was a little kid, he had never seen anything like this.

“The phantoms of the jungle and the gods and the ghosts of the mountains, rivers, caves ,and marshes, please accept my gift, please respond to my request.”

Qing Fu whispered the spell and started dancing in a strange ritm around the altar.

Ji Hao felt like there were thousands of invisible figures dancing along with his mother. Small gusts of wind blew out from under every leaf and grass.

Ji Xia arrived and walked towards the altar with a sombre face. Behind him, were thousands of Savage Warriors, who were captured by Ji Xia and his subordinates, during the day. Every one of them had taken Qing Fu’s drug, losing consciousness, and followed Ji Xia like walking corpses.

“We offer these lives to you, the gods and the ghosts in this jungle,” Qing Fu said. She then pulled out a cyan, wooden knife and waved it in the air.

Ji Xia pulled out an axe and swung it toward those Savage Warriors. The next moment, tens of human heads were sent flying high into the air, blood sprayed up and covered the night sky.

All of the grey whirlwinds, which were circling around the altar, rushed up and drained the blood. Those Savages’ bodies shrunk rapidly, turning into ashes within the span of few breaths and were blown away by the wind.

Within few breaths, thousands of Savage Warriors were all drained and turned to ash, not leaving even a trace of blood.

Suddenly, Ji Hao let out a sharp whistle and waved his hands towards Qing Fu and Ji Xia.

“Abba! Amma! I saw them!”

A red light flashed through Ji Hao’s pupils. Tens of miles away, seven spying-crows had the same red lights flashing through their pupils.



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Chapter 43 - Ambush

“Grumble…”

Stone murmured something to himself, then lied down on the ground, huddled up, closed his eyes, and turned into, what seemed like a pile of ordinary stones.

Treeman stood on Stone’s body, tens of tendril-like roots plunged deeply into the ground. Similar to Stone, he too closed his eyes and turned himself into an ordinary tree. He leaned against another tree, that looked ancient and majestic.

Hong Luo gently patted the red leopard she was riding on; the leopard then darted out like a ghost with no mass. Lithely and agilely the leopard trod on the tips of the branches and leaped miles with a few jumps. In the blink of an eye, Heng Luo and her leopard disappeared in the jungle, like a drop blending with the sea, without leaving even a single trace.

The black ape patted his own chest, looked around for a while and hid, while carrying his huge wooden stick on his shoulder, into a big tree hole. Similar to the others, the ape too was a powerful creature, nourished by the jungle. He took a deep breath and merged his internal energy with the natural energy of the jungle. As such, even powerful Magusreists wouldn’t be able to detect his presence.

Ji Hao leaped through the branches, while holding a long spear. After a while, he arrived at Jia Xia’s location. He quietly stood beside Jia Xia and stared into the forest.

Qing Fu and the altar were covered by a fog, which quickly turned translucent and gradually disappeared along with Qing Fu and the altar in it. By now, the grey whirlwinds, the fog and all those weird figures, had all merged with the dim light of the night. The jungle became quiet, spreading a tranquil yet extremely weird atmosphere.

A three-hundred-feet-long, metal centipede crawled silently out of the dense jungle.

Di Luo was standing on the centipede’s head, gnashing his teeth and was cursing something. He suddenly raised his head, staring at Ji Hao and Ji Xia, stunned. Toba and Toao, who were standing behind him, were also struck speechless by the presence of Ji Xia and Ji Hao.

“Damn... Don’t...don’t you people sleep?” Di Luo pointed at Ji Hao and growled irritated.

Behind them, tens of Blood Fang warriors were sneaking silently out of the jungle. Obviously, they were on their way to ambush Jia Xia’s troops during the night. Without a doubt, they were all of dumbfounded too when they saw Ji Xia and Ji Hao.

This was obviously not how it was planned!

According to Di Luo’s plan, these well trained Blood Fang warriors would ambush the Fire Crow guards at the entrance of the valley. Afterwards they would break into the valley, create chaos and draw Ji Xia out of the valley and into the jungle, where they would encircle him and launch a sneak attack.

But, why weren’t Ji Xia and Ji Hao not sleeping so late into in the night, and instead standing straight up here?!

“Abba and me... we have been expecting you!”

Ji Hao sneered at Di Luo, who was standing on the metal centipede’s head with a shocked face, then let out a shout towards the jungle behind the metal centipede: “Oi, you, hiding in the darkness, come out!”

The jungle was deadly silent. Ji Mu and Ji Xiao were hidden behind trees. They glanced at each other; they weren’t sure whether Ji Hao truly discovered their presence or if he simply was bluffing.

On a tree beside them, a tank-like-thick serpent coiled its body, lowered its head slowly and stared Ji Shu and Ji Mu in the eyes. Black Water Jiao was standing on the head of the horned snake, while his left hand was tightly wrapped around Jian Xue’s tender neck.

Jiang Xue kneeled on the huge serpent’s head, eyes filled with tears, piteously looking towards Ji Mu and Ji Xiao.

“Oi, what’s wrong with you two? Just do it! We all want Ji Xia to die, don’t we?” Jiao looked at Ji Xiao and laughed mockingly, and continued: “Once Ji Xia dies, no one in the clan could ever be a threat to you.. And by killing Ji Xia, we can also destroy a terrifying enemy of our Black Water Serpent Clan; isn’t that a good thing?”

Hundreds of Black Water Serpent Clan warriors silently walked out; they were all wearing snakeskin armours, holding similar-looking daggers, which were dipped in poisonous liquid, and carrying long swords, which were poisoned too.



Black Water Jiao lifted one of his fingers, stroked the delicate face of Jiang Xue, and said: “Someone gave me the whereabouts of Ji Xia in exchange for this little girl, which is how I found this place. I brought my best warriors along with me...to kill Ji Xia! Once he is killed, you can have this girl back!”

Ji Mu narrowed his eyes, looked at Jiang Xue and showed a trace of excitement. He said: “Of course we’ll bring her back, she is the daughter of Jiang Shu, one of the elder Magusreists of the Bi Fang Clan!”

He then turned to Ji Xiao and said: “Xiao, my brother, since we failed to get Ji Xia into the jungle and let Jiao launch an ambush on him, let’s launch a frontal attack!”

The thick-horned serpent uncoiled itself from the tree and slithered out of the jungle, as fast as black lightning.

Black Water Jiao laughed out loud on the serpent’s head, pointed his finger at Ji Xia and said coldly: “Ji Xia, it has been a long time. Do you remember Black Water Mang? The man you killed? That was my elder brother! I came here to avenge him!”

“Black Water Mang?” Ji Xia sniffed scornfully, shook his head, then said, “I slaughtered too many of your vile snakes; it’s impossible to remember each of them!”

“Do your black Water Serpent Clan have to be so shameless and gang up with these monsters? Do you have any idea, how many of our clansmen they’ve captured and sold? Not only from our Fire Crow Clan, but from your clan too, and your subsidiary clans! They’ve taken our brothers, sisters and friends from us!” Ji Xia shouted to Black Water Jiao, while pointing his finger at Di Luo.

Jiao laughed in rage, then responded: “Of course I know! Indeed, they’re the enemy of the entire South Wasteland. But, as long as I get to kill you, what’s the big deal about working with monsters? Remember, I am the blood brother of Black Water Mang! By the way, Ji Xia, your father was killed by our ambush!”

The horned snake opened its large mouth and spew a strand of black fog out. Everything in the path of the black fog froze instantly. Thick layers of ice covered the ground and huge rocks shattered due to being frozen.

Ji Hao could feel a bone-piercing coldness. Even though he was quite far from the fog, a thin layer of ice still rapidly appeared on his skin.

At the same time the snake spewed the fog, Jiao pulled a long sword out and pointed the sword tip at Ji Xia. “What are you waiting for? Let’s attack together...Finish Ji Xia!” growled Jiao. “I’ll chop his head off and use it as a mug; my ancestors would love that as an offering!”
Inside the jungle, three Senior Magi from the Black Water Serpent Clan grinned hideously; the horned serpents, coiling around their waists, bolted out simultaneously and expanded their bodies to hundreds of feet of length. The three Senior Magi hopped on the serpent’ heads and planned to rush out of the jungle.

At this moment, however, Treeman, who was standing three hundred feet away from those Senior Magi and pretending to be an ordinary tree, suddenly opened its flame-like eyes, emitting a muffled roar. Countless fist-thick vines darted towards those Senior Magi and their serpents, whipped and crashed against their bodies.

The three Senior Magi were sent flying right away; all of them screamed out in pain. Treeman didn’t stop attacking; countless vines lashed out on their bodies like a storm and splintered their snakeskin armours.

Ji Mu reacted very fast; he flew up to Treeman as soon as Treeman moved, pulled out a heavy axe and chopped towards Treeman.

However, the dirt under Treeman’s feet suddenly bursted out; a huge white arm thrust out from the ground and heavily pounded on Ji Mu’s chest; Ji Mu was sent flying backwards swirling, smashed two trees before finally falling into the jungle.

Ji Xiao growled, half in shock and half in fear; he was thrown into confusion and didn’t know what to do.

Before Ji Xiao could make up his mind, hundreds of light spots emerged from the night sky, along with rustling sounds; those where hundreds of poisoned arrows, which were flying towards the jungle. The faint herbal scent, emitted from the arrowheads, was so intoxicating.


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Chapter 44 － Hurt

Those arrows were shot by Heng Luo from hundreds of mile away.

Together with those flying arrows, the jungle started to move. All the plants seemed to have awakened a conscience. They were shaking their branches in order to confuse those warriors hidden in the jungle. The shadows of the branches had completely merged with the shadows of the arrows, and even the powerful Senior Magi couldn’t tell the direction from where the arrows would come.

“Damn!”

Followed by a light whiz, a Black Water Serpent Clan warrior shouted out.

An arrow flashed across his face, leaving a small cut on it. The next moment, however, this hair-thick small cut suddenly enlarged, and expanded into a palm-wide cut.

Black, pus-like blood gushed out from the slash; the skin and flesh on his face were rapidly decaying. This warrior instantly started wailing and screaming. He tried to scratch his own face, but his hands corroded soon as well; he watched as his own fingers turned into drops of black blood and dripped down onto the ground; even his bones were completely corroded.

A great wave of cries and screams burst out from the crowd of Black Water Serpent Clan warriors, who were hiding in the dark jungle and waiting for orders launch the attack. These warriors fell on the ground one after another, and their bodies melted quickly into puddles of black blood. Three huge, horned serpents were darting around agitatedly, continuously hissing, with their black fork-shaped tongue hung out.

Some of these warriors were hit by the arrows in their vital parts, whereas most only got their faces or fingers scratched. However, the poison, made by Qing Fu, was too powerful. In the span of few breaths, the poison took the warriors’ lives through the scratches.


Over a hundred snakeskin armors were left lying on the ground, soaked in the black pus-like blood, corroded by the poison in the blood, and made sizzling noises.

“Shameless! Bastards! How dare you stab us in the b…!” yelled a Senior Magus, who was sent flying in the air by Treeman’s branch. However, once the poor man opened his mouth, a thick vine shoved into his mouth and broke all his teeth, nearly reaching his stomach through his throat.

Another Senior Magus, who also was beaten hard by Treeman earlier, shouted. The horned serpents stopped fleeing immediately, turned around and pounced on Treeman, with their jaws wide opened.

From quite some distance, the three horned serpents shot a large amount of venom towards Treeman.

The two flame-like green eyes of Treeman were gleaming. He opened his treehole-like mouth and blew a thick, cold fog towards the serpents. At the same time, the plants around him started to squirm madly; leaves and small branches were shot out towards those serpents.

Treeman ignored the venom of those serpents. He was an ancient tree, to begin with, which meant that none of the vipers or venomous miasmas in this jungle could ever hurt him.

Two of the horned serpents were beaten back by the bullet-like leaves and branches. The third serpent, however, managed to approach Treeman and bit hard on one of his roots. A piece of tree bark was bitten into pieces, along with cracking noises. The serpent slacked its jaws, coughed a mouthful wood splinters out, embarrassedly. There was no blood or flesh inside Treeman’s body, except wood. The serpent tried to inject its venom into Treeman’s body, but failed.


Following that, an, one hundred feet tall, silhouette rose from under Treeman’s roots. It was none other than Stone, who had just punched Ji Mu’s chest. Now he raised his foot high and stamped hard on the bodies of the three serpents.

Bang!

The three serpents were stamped deeply into the ground.

The surrounding jungle shook intensely for miles; hundreds of big trees jumped up. These trees couldn’t bear such strong vibrations; their roots were broken and their trunks splintered.


When Stone pulled his foot up again, a deep crater was left on the ground. The three serpents raised their heads, shooting venom and cold poisonous gas angrily towards Stone. But, none of their attacks worked. Stone lifted his huge foot again and stamped the three horned serpents deeper into the ground.



“Ho~~~!”

Stone let a roar out displeased; great earthy power gushed out of his mouth.

The three horned serpents were as powerful as ordinary Senior Magi, with strong life-force and nearly indestructible bodies. Although they had been stamped by stone twice now, they were still holding their heads high and casting attacks to Stone unceasingly from the deep crater.

Stone was furious, he decided to choose the most simple, direct, and violent attacking method. He stooped down, used a barrage of punches on the ground, enlarged the crater big enough to contain his own body, then jumped into it, madly waving his, ten-feet-thick, huge stone-made fists and smashing those three horned serpents.

The three poor serpents were desperately spurting venom and cold poison gas towards stone. Normally, a slight wisp of their poisonous gas could kill a strong man easily, but on Stone, it was completely ineffective. The heavy fists of Stone smashed on their bodies continuously, broke their horns and bones, shattered their scales, and crushed all of their internal organs.

The thundering punches didn’t stop. The three horned serpents lost the power to resist, quickly sank hundreds of feet deep into the ground under Stones punches, like wooden piles driven by a piledriver.

“What kind of monster is this?!” shouted those three Senior Magi. They were still suffering from Treeman’s lashes, and hadn’t got a chance to fight back yet, withstanding the attacks only with their extremely strong Senior Magi bodies. At the same time, they watched their serpents being killed brutally by Stone.

Before their voices faded, a sharp roar caught their ears. A huge tree suddenly burst up. A tens of feet tall, muscular ape leaped high into the air and raised his huge wooden stick, swinging towards the three Senior Magi.

That huge wooden stick seemed nothing special, but while Ape was waving it, a few natural formed spell symbols suddenly lit up. All of the nearby plants started emitting a bright cyan light; thousands of light streams quickly converged towards the wooden stick.

After a short while, the originally grey wooden stick turned into a cyan dragon shaped light.

“Booze! A hundred!” Growled Ape, followed by a loud and sonorous dragon-roar. Then the dragon-shaped cyan light heavily hit on the three Senior Magi their bodies.

The Senior Magus who was running in the front let out a muffled cry; one of his arms had twisted and swelled, and finally exploded into a mass of blood mist, which sprayed hundreds feet far. The wooden stick was so powerful, that even the body of a Senior Magus was burst open by a single hit.

While the Senior Magus was screaming in both pain and shock, the wooden stick had arrived again and hit his chest, shattering his armour, after which bone-cracking sound came from his body. He flew back and thudded onto the second Senior Magi, then the third one. All three Senior Magi of the Black Water Serpent Clan were instantly sent flying thousands of feet high in the air, rushing straightly towards the sky, higher and higher, like shooting stars.

The power of Ape’s hit was incredibly tremendous; the three Senior Magi’ bodies clashed the air, bursted large fire sparkles, then finally fell into the jungle miles away.

Ji Xiao was badly frightened by this abrupt attack, he screamed out in shock and fled back into the jungle. But soon after he got into the jungle, a skinny arm thrust out from the air, grabbed Ji Xiao’s neck and pressed him hard on the ground.



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Chapter 45 - Push

The jungle of the South Wastelands was vast and boundless; the abundant life force of this jungle generated and nourished powerful creatures like Heng Luo, Stone and Treeman; inevitability, there must be other more powerful and mysterious beings living in this jungle.

Ji Xiao was pressed hard on the ground by the skinny arm, which nearly broke his neck. He struggled with all of his strength, even made the ground vibrate. However, the skinny arm holded his neck tight and didn’t move even a bit.

A wisp of black smoke rose from the ground into the air, a scary figure slowly emerged from the smoke. It was black and skinny, looked like a human at the first glance, but the six crooked horns on its head clearly showed that it was nothing else than a monster.

The whole body of this creepy monster was shining with a metallic lustre; its black skin was tightly attached to its bones and its stomach was hollowed. A head-size ball of green light was shining and floating in his stomach. Within the light, a looming face was visible.

Black Water Jiao was standing aside, looking stunned at this powerful monster, that had emerged from the black smoke. Although Ji Xiao was a bit weaker than Black Water Jiao, he still was a powerful Senior Magus. The fact that the skinny monster caught Ji Xiao so easily, made it obvious that this monster was a lot more stronger than him, thought Black Water Jiao.

“Creature of the jungle, why are you fighting against me? Don’t you know about the powerful Black Water Serpent Clan?” Said Black Water Jiao loudly. In the meanwhile, he bit his own tongue, spat some blood towards the skinny monster, and mumbled a spell.

“Offerings!” A hoarse voice came from the air. Two green flames were blazing in the eye sockets of the skinny monster, it stared at Black Water Jiao in the eyes, but didn’t make any sound.

While Black Water Jiao was perplexed. Another monster came out of the smoke; this one was huge white skeleton and a lot bigger than the skinny monster.

This skeleton monster was hundreds of feet broad and nearly a hundred feet tall; except white bones, nothing could be seen on its body. Every time it moved, an ear-pearling metal friction sound came from its body. The body shape of this skeleton monster was similar to a tiger or lion, but it had a human-skull-like head, only a lot bigger.

“Human…… We are following our agreement…… Whoever offer us blood and lives, we fight for them!” said the skeleton, while two wisps of smoke were rotating in its eye sockets.

While the skeleton was talking, a colourful mist-like phantom lizard quickly crawled out of the skeleton’s body and stood on its head, hissing to the Horned Serpent which was coiled next to Black Water Jiao’s feet.

The horned serpent raised its head and hissed back at the phantom lizard, with its ten feet long black fork-shaped tongue darted out from time to time.

“Warriors of the Black Water Serpent Clan! Kill Ji Xia! Kill our enemy!” shouted Black Water Jiao. He was focused on Ji Xia all the time, so had no idea about what had happened in the jungle. He suddenly seemed to have realised something when he saw the two monsters and the phantom lizard, instantly shouted out and gave the attack order.

Di Luo, Toba and Toao, who were stunned and stood on the metal centipede’s head, suddenly were hit by Black Water Jiao’s voice and realised that they were still on a mission. Di Luo let out a ear-piercing shout, while pointing his finger at Ji Xia.

Followed by Di Luo’s shout, Toba and Toao raised their weapons in the air, and rushed towards Ji Xia in a lightning speed. They moved so fast that their bodies sliced the air and left a row of after-images behind them. There were only tens of remaining Blood Fang warriors running behind them. However, when facing them, Ji Hao felt like a large troop was coming towards Ji Xia and himself.

Ji Hao clenched his spear, while he looked at Toba and Toao nervously. Ji Xia pressed his hand on Ji Hao’s shoulder and said smilingly: “Hold! Trust your Amma. Hao, your Amma is quite a nice lady, but, once she gets really angry, even I am scared of her!”

A cloud of grey mist gushed out of the jungle, as if to prove what Ji Xia had just said, and enveloped the jungle within the radius of ten miles. Toba and Toao’s movement became muddles as if they were drunk.

They were only hundreds of feet away from Ji Xia and Ji Hao, they could have rushed up to Ji Xia and Ji Hao within the span of a few breaths. But, after the grey mist appeared, they started to feel like they were running on an endless road. Toba and Toao ran at their highest speed for quite a while, but still were hundreds of feet away from Ji Xia and Ji Hao, who didn’t seem to have moved at all.

At this moment, countless vague and twisted figures started to emerge from the mist. Every single one of them was giving an incomparably evil vibe. Their faces were blurred; no one could clearly see what they looked like; but all of those warriors in the mist had a strange feeling. These scary beings with huge widened eyes, stared at them in similar matter as wolves stared at their preys.

A few whirlwinds formed in the mist, pulling all tens of Blood Fang warriors inside. A short while later, the whirlwinds subsided and tens of armours and weapons were left lying on the ground. Those warriors were all gone, without leaving even a single hair.

Di Luo was dumbfounded by what had happened to his warriors. He cast a few gusts of wind-knifes from his erect eye; the wind-knifes circling around his body and firmly shielded him in the core. However, facing the grey mist and those unbelievably mysterious scary beings, he was at a loss what to do.

“Maguspriest’s magic? Is this what those Maguspriest’s do?” murmured Di Luo with his teeth gnashing; his eyes showed fury and confusion.

“Granddaddy, where are you? These monsters and ghosts of the jungle… I can’t deal with them… Where are you? Only you can disperse them, then we can kill Ji Xia!” Black Water Jiao looked up at the sky, murmured unsettlingly.

In another deep valley, which was three hundred miles away from the Cold Stream Valley, a Fire Crow with the wingspan of over five hundred feet was quietly floating in the air.

The Fire Crow was shrouded by a faint fiery light; under its belly, three sharp claws were sparkling brightly. An elderly man wearing leather cloak and a bone helmet was silently standing on the head of the Fire Crow, looking down coldly.

Different from other scrawny Magusreists in the Fire Crow Clan, this elderly man was strong and sturdy, even a bit taller than Ji Xia; his height reached over four meters, and he seemed like a giant. Holding in his hand, was a twenty feet long bone cane; the thinnest part of this bone cane had human-leg-size thickness; it didn’t really look like a cane, instead, it was more like a mace, powerful enough to break a city wall.

A thousand－feet－long horned serpent was coiled and floating in the air, spurting poisonous gas towards the Fire Crow. Another elderly man, who attacked Jiang Xue together with Black Water Jiao months ago, was standing on the horned serpent’s head. He stared at the other elderly man standing on the Fire Crow’s head, while his eyes showed a slight trace of fear.

“Ji Zhuo, never thought you’d come here. What are your Fire Crow Clan doing? Even you showed up in person, protecting Ji Xia. Then why did you let Ji Shu get the position of Holy Land warrior’s leader?”

“That is our clan affair; it has nothing to do with you vile bugs!” Ji Zhuo sniffed and growled.

“Go away, or die here. Though it’s not easy to kill you, I’m always willing to try!” continued Ji Zhuo.

While speaking, Ji Zhuo stamped his foot on the Fire Crow’s head. The Fire Crow opened its beak, spew out a thick, lava-like stream of gold flame from its beak, that set even the sky ablaze.


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Chapter 46 - Frustration

Inside the jungle, the Black Water Serpent Clan’s three Senior Magi and their horned serpents were beaten badly by Ape, Treeman, and Stone. Although they were with only three of them, Ape, Treeman, and Stone, have easily gained the upper hand in this fight.

Ji Xiao was already badly frightened and couldn’t make his mind up, added with being sneak attacked by the skinny monster, he had now completely lost his bearing. He was madly swinging his arms and legs, struggling with all his strength; by doing so, he even dug a deep huge hole on the ground. However, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t stand up and break away from the skinny monster’s control, which stayed as still as a rock, grabbing his neck tight.

Di Luo, Toba and Toao had currently become extremely careful, and wouldn’t dare to rashly launch an attack. This was the first time that they had encountered such a large scale Maguspriest’s magic, which was cast by a real, powerful, South Wasteland Maguspriest.

Hundreds of Black Water Serpent Clan warriors rushed out of the jungle. They were waving their swords and making hissing-like sounds to contact each other.

The jungle was currently filled with a dense fog, which created an incomparably weird atmosphere. Those Black Water Serpent Clan warriors ran into the fog unpreparedly. Their speed was slowed down, as soon they got into the fog. Their pace became disoriented and their feet heavy; every step was so hard, it seemed as if their feet was glued down.

The laughter of Qing Yin came from every corner of the jungle. Along with his voice, arrows swished towards those warriors from every direction. Every single arrow hit right on the face of one of those Black Water Serpent Clan warriors; none of the arrows missing the target. The poison attached on the arrowheads made those elite warriors melt into liquids within the span of few breaths.

The current situation was extremely unfavourable for the enemies of the Black Water Serpent Clan. The way this was going, it wouldn’t take too long for them to be completely annihilated.

“Ji Xia!” A mad shout came from the jungle. Ji Mu, who was sent flying by Stone earlier, now walked out of the jungle in big steps, waving his axe. With his body wrapped by a ablaze gold-red flame, he looked as if he was on fire.

The grey fog around Ji Mu’s body quickly disappeared. The mysterious powers hiding in the fog kept themselves away from Ji Mu in fear. The Fire Crow bloodline, passed through the ancient Golden Fire Crow, was highly harmful to those mysterious beings of the jungle. Therefore, though, they possessed great strength, those mysterious beings wouldn’t dare to attack Ji Mu head on.

“Mu! What is all this?” Ji Xia clenched his spear so tight that the spear even started making a creaking sound. “You ganged up with those monsters; even the archenemy of our Fire Crow Clan! Only for killing me?”

“Have you forgotten? In the South Wasteland, how many clans disappeared in this vast jungle only because they spent too much power to fight against their own people? I don’t need to name a lot, just the Yan Jiao Clan, which was extremely powerful at that time, they…,” Ji Xia’s gentle voice was now filled with confusion and sadness.

Ji waved his axe in the air and sent a great wave of fire, which sent fire sparks everywhere and split the ground, causing a thousand-feet long crack on the ground, and set the soil and rock inside the crack on fire.

Tens of arrows darted toward Ji Mu from every direction, however, all of the arrows were burned into wisps of smoke, once they touched the blazing fire wrapped around Ji Mu’s body.

“Save your talk!” Ji Mu growled. “The Fire Crow Clan will only become stronger under the lead of brother Ji Shu! Yan Jiao Clan? I know about them. They died only because they didn’t have the power great enough to support them!”

“Is Bi Fang Clan the power you’re talking about?” Ji Xia growled harshly. “We are the offsprings of the Gold Fire Crow, the people of the Fire Crow Clan! Why do we have to give the reign to unreliable outsiders and let them decide our fate?”

Ji Mu stayed silent, approaching Ji Xia step by step. His skin slowly turned transparent, under which, there seemed lava to be flowing. The ground he trod through quickly turned into lava, dispersing the dense grey fog for miles round.

Ji Mu walked nearly a mile forward, got close to Ji Xia, then shouted out: “Di Luo, my old friend! Come, let’s finish him together! Brother Ji Shu hurt him badly months ago; he hasn’t fully recovered yet. Let’s kill him together, now!”

Pausing a second, Ji Mu’s face twisted, and said with a hideous grin: “I assume that you haven’t met Ji Xia’s woman yet. Kill him, his woman won’t let you down; she must be worth a fortune!”

Ji Xia roared in rage, large fire fragments spurted out from his body and tens of awakened ‘magus caves’ started emitting an eye-piercing light. “Mu, I have nothing else to say to you! I will kill you! Now! Here!” Ji Xia growled.

While Ji Xia was growling, Ji Hao dashed out, with his spear held in his hands. At every step forward, blooming-lotus-like flames burst out from the air under his feet. Ji Hao’s speed was many times faster than usual.

“Kill!” Ji Hao let out a great shout. Small fiery light spots were ejected from Ji Hao’s spearhead, hitting on the throats of tens of peak level Novice Magi, and sent them flying one after another. Blood splashed everywhere.

“Abba! We have nothing to say to these heartless bastards! Since they’ve already come, they should leave their lives here!” Ji Hao slaughtered tens of enemies, then shouted to Ji Xia.

Intentionally, Ji Hao flew closely past Ji Mu’s body.

Ji Mu’s pupils rapidly shrunk. He raised the axe and hacked towards Ji Hao subconsciously, while yelled: “Ji Hao! You’re pretty hard to kill!”

The flame spurting out from the axe was about to swallow Ji Hao’s body. However, the next moment, a sharp caw came from Ji Hao’s shoulder. Mr.Crow, who was firmly standing on Ji Hao’s shoulder, expanded its body suddenly, and smashed his tens-of-feet long claw hard on the ax.

Bang!

Followed by a huge bang, Ji Mu screamed out and staggered backwards. He couldn’t stand the tremendous power of Mr.Crow.

At the same moment, the skeleton monster, who was quietly waiting at the side for an opportunity, rushed over. He pressed its huge bone paw on Ji Mu’s body. Ji Mu instantly cried out, and soon, blood mixed with pieces of internal organs, gushed out of his mouth. Although it looked as if the skeleton had only pushed him gently, Ji Mu felt like he was being smashed by tens of huge mountains.

“Ji… Xia!” Ji Mu let out a wail, grabbed a piece of dark-red jade from the bag, wrapped around his waist, and crumbed it. A sharp bird call then came from the jade piece, along with which, Ji Mu’s body transformed into a stream of fiery light and rushed high into the air, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“Such a shame!” Ji Hao looked at the sky and said, “As a person of the Fire Crow Clan, he used the treasure of the Bi Fang Clan to save his own life! What can be more shameless than this?”

Mr.Crow fluffed his feathers and glared at the faint fiery light, which was fleeting across the sky. As Ji Hao said, a Fire Crow Clan member used the life-saving tool made by Bi Fang Clan Maguspriest, nothing could be more shameless, and could make him more furious than this.

Black Water Jiao was standing on the horned Serpent’s head and worryingly looked around. “Why hasn’t granddaddy come yet? What had happened to him?”

Di Luo, who stood near Black Water Jiao also looked around in distressed. Suddenly, he let out a scream and threw out a sharp gust of cyan wind from his erect eye, rushing towards Ji Xia, along with Toba and Toao.

“You, the snake-riding barbarian! Let’s kill this guy!” While rushing, Di Luo laughed hideously and yelled, “I want to see what does his woman look like!”

Ji Hao raised his spear, pierced another tens of Black Water Serpent Clan warriors to death, then swung the spear towards Di Luo’s heart with his hand behind his back.


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Chapter 47: Failure

In the other valley, the Three-Legged Fire Crow was soaring in the air, spewing flame, which was as pure as coloured glaze, towards the gigantic horned serpent. The great heat of the flame melted the mountains that laid aside and burned pieces of the jungle into ashes.

The horned serpent was currently coiled on the ground，emitting a blue light from its horn and fending against the Fire Crow’s flame. In the meanwhile, gusts of dark-blue, cold wind blew out from the horned serpent’s mouth, attacking the Fire Crow from every direction.

The Fire Crow quietly floated in the air with a looming red light emerging from its black feathers. On the edges of every single feather, a few spell symbols flashed and splashed fire sparks, then disappeared quickly. Only with the heat emitted from those feathers, was the Fire Crow able to disperse all of those cold winds.

“Haha!”

Ji Zhuo laughed out loud. He was holding an oddly-shaped shield, made of a beast’s skull, in his left hand and a huge bone cane in his right hand. His body was wrapped in blazing flame, which made him look like a fiery god; every single move of his produced a monstrous flame.

“Black Water Gui, haha, you’re one of my old friends. Do you remember your Abba and uncle? It was me who killed them!” Ji Zhuo waved his bone cane and cast streams of flames randomly, while provoking his enemy.

The deathly pale face of Black Water Gui had almost turned blue. In his hands, was a black, short bone cane; and on his skin numerous snake tattoos wriggled as if they were alive. A huge gust of wind blew out from his body, soon after which, a large cloud of dark-blue ice crystals quickly emerged from the air and immediately condensed into several ice walls in front of him.

Usually, Black Water Gui’s ice walls were incomparably firm; even tens of ordinary Senior Magi with their combined power couldn’t harm even a little bit of his ice walls.

However, Ji Zhuo was way too powerful. With only a slight hit, Ji Zhuo shattered several tens-of-feet-thick ice walls. Every moment, Black Water Gui released hundreds of ice walls and shielded himself in every direction, however, Ji Zhuo waved his bone cane for a thousand times within the same moment.

Ice walls were continuously shattering. Ji Zhuo was excited, even starting to roar and curse. Lava-like thick flames started circulating through his body, emitting an eye-piercing light and producing an even greater heat. He was stimulated by the fight and released all of his power, even his sturdy body swelled bigger.

Followed by a muffled bang, the huge bone cane broke through tens of ice walls and directly hit Black Water Gui’s chest.

Instantly, Gui let out a howl. His scrawny body was sent flying and his chest was hollowed. His pale skin quickly turned red, and wisps of lava gushed out from every one of his pores.

“Hah, Black Water, you…” Ji Zhuo raised the bone cane and laughed proudly. But in the next moment, his laughter suddenly stopped and his expression changed; his body intensely shook and he staggered a few steps back.

With a tiny swishing sound, a black, jade knife, which was only as thick as a bean and as long as a finger, rapidly rose high into the air, transforming into a beam of black light, and flew back to Black Water Gui’s hand. Just now, the jade knife had pierced the Ji Zhuo’s left ankle. A black line rose from his left ankle towards his thigh; where it passed, the flame wrapping Ji Zhuo’s body quickly subsided; a thick layer of ice appeared on his left leg, replacing the flame.

“This again!” Ji Zhuo mumbled annoyingly. “You never launched a frontal attack, you bastard! I hate you vile bugs! One day, I’ll destroy you all!”

Black Water Gui grinned wanly, grabbed the jade knife, and let out a sharp roar. Following his voice, the horned serpent, which was fighting against the Fire Crow, turned around and dashed up to Gui, carrying him on its head and fleeing towards the deep jungle at its highest speed.

The Three-Legged Fire Crow cawed sharply, attempting to chase them. Ji Zhuo sat down on the ground, gasping, and said feebly,“Don’t bother… That old bastard was injured quite seriously. He won’t be able to come out and make trouble for quite a while... My old friend, haven’t you realised that I too am badly hurt?”

Ji Zhuo patted his frozen thigh and said with a weird smile on his face, “I’m badly injured and can’t make it back to the Gold Black Mountain. The nearest Fire Crow Clan territory is the Cold Stream Valley; I’m going there to take a rest!”

Ji Zhuo then let out a caw-like shout and hopped onto the Fire Crow’s head. The Fire Crow flapped its enormous wings and rushed high into the air, leaving a beam of fiery light behind it. It then hovered around, diving towards Cold Stream Valley.

In the Cold Stream Valley, Toao threw a punch toward Ji Hao’s spear, which was about to pierce Di Luo’s back. The spear shook intensely, and nearly broke from the great power hidden in Toao’s punch. Ji Hao’s arms quivered, and he quickly retreated in large strides.

With his current power, Ji Hao couldn’t hold off the strength of a Senior Magi yet. A slight punch from Toao nearly ruptured his internal organs. A stream of blood gushed out from his throat, and he couldn’t help but to spit out a wisp of blood.

In his lower belly, the multicoloured flame was quietly blazing. Part of the Senior Magi blood released from Ji Kui’s magic-seal while Ji Hao was in a coma, was now quickly turning into beams of multicoloured light and being absorbed by Ji Hao’s body.

Soon, Ji Hao’s internal wounds were healed by the multicoloured light. He took a deep breath, stretching his neck and cracking his bone joints. His strength had just improved ‘ten thousand stones’ after being nourished by the Senior Magi Blood.

“Break!” Ji Hao didn’t risk fighting against Toba and Toao closely. He hid in the dense fog and locked his hands together; he gathered natural power and sent it towards them.

At this moment, Ji Xia was surrounded by Di Luo, Toba and Toao, in addition to Black Water Jiao and his serpent. The four of them launched their attacks towards Ji Xia simultaneously. Punches, daggers, wind-knifes, poisoned gas, and cold air; all kinds of attacks were thrown at Ji Xia, hitting his body like drops in a rainstorm. Within the span of a few breaths, Ji Xia was beaten black and blue.

However, a sphere of white-cyan light slowly rose from Ji Xia’s head. Within the light, the Mu Sheng Pearl, Qing Fu’s inherited Magus Treasure, appeared and quickly released a large amount of life force energy, which was then absorbed by Ji Xia’s body and started to heal him. With the energy released by the Mu Sheng Pearl and the strong life force of a powerful Senior Magus, Ji Xia’s wounds quickly healed. All of the attacks casted by the four people and horned serpent seemed to have failed to cause any harm to Ji Xia.

Once Ji Xia was healed, Ji Hao rushed over, along with the vast power of the ‘Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words.’ Followed by the rumbling of thunder, tens of fist-thick lightning bolts abruptly fell on the four people’s heads.

Besiegement from the four people was interrupted by the lightning. Di Luo fled backward, frightened; but once he turned around, he noticed a skeleton monster standing right in front of him. The skeleton gave a horrible grin and pressed Di Luo on the ground with its huge bone paw.

Under the skeleton’s paw, all of Di Luo’s bones started creaking. He was then sent flying by the skeleton and hit a large tree nearly a mile away, falling unconscious.

Toba and Toao instantly stopped attacking Ji Xia, turned around, and rushed toward Di Luo.

Black Water Jiao showed hesitation, and took a few steps back subconsciously. By then, he was the only one left to deal with Ji Xia.

A sharp caw came from the jungle farther away. Black Water Jiao’s face suddenly turned deathly pale when he heard the caw. “Did Granddaddy lose? To whom? Whom!? Retreat! Retreat! This is a trap! Damn Ji Mu! How dare you lie to me!” yelled Black Water Jiao.

Black Water Jiao then jumped onto the serpent’s head and tried to flee; however, before he could make it into the jungle, three black ‘thorns of life and death’ flashed across the dense fog,and pierced through the bodies of Black Water Jiao and his horned serpent. Black Water Jiao let out a great howl, and his face turned dark immediately.

“Re..re..retreat!” He screamed out of panic, and then ran into the jungle with the hundreds of remaining Black Water Serpent warriors.

By now, a well-planned ambush had failed completely. Ji Hao shouted, chasing into the jungle under the cover of Mr.Crow.

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Chapter 48: Punishment


Late at night, bonfires were blazing in the Cold Stream Valley.


Qing Fu, holding a flagpole made of white bones, with long, white streamers tied onto it, lithely walked around Cold Stream Valley like a fairy who only appeared during the night. She was waving the flagpole and whispering an ancient, mysterious spell, sending those mysterious beings of the jungle back to where they came from.




The skinny black monster and white skeleton monster, both the strongest amongst the mysterious beings, were mumbling something. They had consumed the blood of two gigantic beasts; they walked with satisfaction into the fog and disappeared slowly.


Gusts of whirlwinds blew in every direction. Murmurs resounded through the air. The mad slaughter that occurred in Cold Stream Valley tonight, stimulated the nearby mysterious beings who had yet to calm down from the commotion.


Upon a blazing bonfire, three, near hundred-foot-long, skinned horned serpents were being grilled. The pure white serpent meat sizzled; large drops of fat fell continuously into the flames, emitting an extremely attractive scent.


Ji Hao happily sat beside the bonfire, gobbling a huge piece of serpent meat in his hands.


Stone was sitting quietly next to Ji Hao. Every time Ji Hao finished a piece of snake meat, he crushed the bone for Ji Hao. Once the bone was crushed, glittering, translucent marrow seeped out, along with a thick scent. Ji Hao then opened his mouth, caught the falling marrow, which contained great life force energy and internal power, and swallowed it.


In Ji Hao’s lower abdomen, the multicoloured flame temporarily stopped transforming the Senior Magi blood; instead, it was working hard to transform the power and energy contained within the serpents’ bodies. All three of the horned serpents were as powerful as an ordinary Senior Magus; their muscles and blood contained large amounts of power, which was highly beneficial to Ji Hao.


After finishing another portion of serpent meat, Ji Hao stood up, stretched his body and slowly performed a martial arts routine, as if no one else was present there.


Multicoloured light beams were circulating through his body simultaneously with a great heat. Ji Hao felt extremely hot, and sweat continuously poured down his body. After absorbing part of the power contained within the serpent’s body, his physical strength was further improved. His joints cracked while he moved and made a subtle metal-clattering-like sound.


“Stone, keep an eye on this serpent meat for me. This is an award from Granddaddy, and I won’t waste even a little bit of it!” said Ji Hao while delightfully looking at the serpents meat. He only needed two days to swallow all of the meat and absorb the power contained within them. By that time, his power will have definitely improved to another degree.


Stone responded with a muffled voice, turning his huge stone head to survey the area. It seemed as though, no matter who came near this meat, he would send that person flying.


Near another bonfire, Ji Zhuo sat on the ground and leaned against a giant stone, one of his legs was covered in a thick layer of ice. He narrowed his eyes, staring at Ji Xiao who kneeled in front of him and looked as if he wouldn’t dare to move even a little bit. Ji Zhuo was fiddling with a piece of gold, which was found in the stream. In Ji Zhuo’s hands, the hard piece of gold quickly changed forms, as though it was piece of clay.


“Xiao, regarding bloodline, the ancestor of your cousin was my fifth brother.” After a period of silence, Ji Zhuo said in a low voice, “Considering this, we are close relatives.”


Ji Xiao knelt on the ground, trembling, and was dripping with perspiration.


“That little brother of mine, Xiao Wu, do you know how he died?” Ji Zhuo looked up to the starry sky and continued, “It was six-hundred years ago, to save a mine that was producing fire copper, my brother fought against five thousand Black Water Serpent Clan warriors together with three hundred of our clansmen. He killed eight hundred and fifty of the enemies, exhausted himself and was killed in the end.”


While speaking, Ji Zhuo suddenly threw the piece of gold towards Ji Xiao’s head. The head of a Senior Magus was very hard. The gold lump was smashed flat onto his head, almost enveloping Ji Xiao’s entire head.


“Those Black Water Serpent Clansmen chopped Xiao Wu’s head off, turned it into a mug and even now, it is still placed on the altar of their ancestral temple!” Ji Zhuo angrily growled in a low voice, flames flashing across his pupils. “Xiao Wu is one of your direct ancestors, his head is still placed on the altar of the Black Water Serpent Clan’s ancestral temple, and you, you colluded with those vile snakes and attacked your own clansmen!”


Ji Hao, having already filled his stomach with serpent meat, slowly walked over and stood beside Ji Zhuo with arms crossed around his chest, and coldly stared down at Ji Xiao.


Ji Xiao glanced at Ji Hao, plucked the flat gold piece from his head, and shouted hoarsely, “but Ji Hao killed Hu! My only son! Hu!”


“Hu wanted to kill me! I swear to the ancestors’ souls; Hu, Feng, and Shui, the three of them colluded with Jiang Xue and tried to kill me. Uncle Xiao, do I look like an idiot who just waits for others to chop my head off when someone tries to kill me?” Ji Hao looked at Ji Xiao, who was reddening, half in shame and half in rage.


Ji Xiao opened his mouth but didn’t say anything.


“You knew Hu was going to kill me, didn’t you?” Ji Hao continued with a calm face.


Ji Xiao stayed silent, however, his distorted face showed that Ji Hao was telling the truth.


“Grandaddy, Uncle Xiao knew about the fact that Hu colluded with outsiders and attempted to kill me, but he didn’t stop his own son. I killed Hu in self defense; he then colluded with the archenemy of our Fire Crow Clan and tried to kill me, Abba, and Amma. What did the Bi Fang Clan give him for this?” Ji Hao continued while staring at the pale, darkened face of Ji Xiao.


Ji Zhuo took a deep breath, grabbed a stone from the ground and hit Ji Xiao’s head, yelling, “what did the Bi Fang clan give you for this?”


The stone shattered into dust on Ji Xiao’s head. Ji Xiao then murmured, “Once we kill brother Xia, the Black Water Serpent Clan will release Jiang Xue. Ji Mu’s son will marry Jiang Xue instead of Ji Wu, and one of Jiang Yao’s sisters will become my wife and bear my children.”


“Ji Shu has already turned himself into a dog of the Bi Fang Clan, and you’re planning to get a Bi Fang Clan woman as your wife! Then from now on, should the Bi Fang clan rule the Holy Land of our Fire Crow Clan, or should it be our own clansmen?” Said Ji Hao while laughing mockingly.


Both Ji Zhuo and Ji Xiao didn’t say anything. Ji Hao looked at Ji Xiao and continued slowly, “You colluded with outsiders and betrayed our own clansman. Uncle Xiao, you shall die for your mistakes.”


Ji Xiao quivered intensely, then madly jumped up from the ground, pointing his finger at Ji Hao and yelled, “What did you say? Little bastard, what qualification do you have to decide whether I should die or not? Are you one of the elder magi? Are you one of the Maguspriests? How did Ji Xia educate you?”


All of Ji Xiao’s awakened magus acupoints were blocked by Qing Fu with the ‘thorns of life and death’ right after he was captured. Qing Fu also reduced his physical strength with a special drug, therefore, Ji Xiao was now not any different from ordinary clansmen.


Ji Hao threw a punch to Ji Xiao’s face, easily knocking him down, grabbed his neck, and walked towards the deep valley.


“Grandaddy, am I right? No matter why Uncle Xiao did all of this, he should die for his sins. So, he has to die. After all, we have to follow our ancestors’ rules!” said Ji Hao with a cold voice as he walked.


Ji Xia stood up quickly beside the bonfire, attempting to stop Ji Hao—he still thought about the friendship between Ji Xiao and himself, and he can not bear to kill Ji Xiao like this. After all, Ji Xiao was a powerful Senior Magus. In the Southern Wasteland, any Senior Magus was an extremely valuable force.


However, Qing Fu appeared in front of Ji Xia, opened her arms and stopped him.


Ji Xia was going to say something, but Ji Zhuo grabbed him, pulling him down to his seat.


“He did the wrong thing, so he has to bear the punishment. Xia, you’re a good brother and a good commander, however, you’ll never make a good clan leader!” said Ji Zhuo.


“This kid, Hao, is much better than you!”

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Chapter 49: Interrogation


At the end of the valley, Ji Hao forced Ji Xiao to face the Gold Black Mountains and kneel.


Ji Xiao tried to struggle and resist a few times, however, his magus acupoint were sealed and his physical strength was reduced by Qing Fu’s drug; he could never break away from Ji Hao’s control. He knelt down facing the Black Gold mountains, ten thousand miles away. His emotions stirred, he howled towards the sky in shame and anger




“Uncle Xiao, save the scream, it won’t help you” said Ji Hao, fiddling with a dagger, made of blood-jade. His fingers flicked rapidly and the dagger rotated quickly between his fingers; a circle of blood-red shadow appeared, which shone under the starlight.

“Since Grandpa Ji Zhuo is here, no one can save you. Both you and I know about his temper. Uncle Jie’s head was chopped off by Grandpa Ji Zhuo himself, when Jie fled from the battle against the Black Water Serpent Clan.” Ji Hao patted Ji Xiao’s shoulder and said in an honest tone, “the mistake you made is way more serious than fleeing from a battle.”


Ji Xiao gasped, and said with a trembling voice, “Hao, all this was because of Hu. Why did you kill him? Indeed, he tried to kill you…but couldn’t you just wound him and…warn him? Why did you have to kill him?”


“Because he didn’t show any mercy when he tried to kill me” said Ji Hao coldly, while staring at Ji Xiao with a mocking smile on the corners of his mouth. “My dear uncle, haven’t you realised? The issue between you and me is not because of Hu. In fact, Hu’s death was only an excuse that you gave to yourself. You’re young and strong, as long as you get yourself a couple more wives, you can have even a hundred sons.”


“The biggest issue between you and me is Ji Shu and Jiang Yao, who is supporting Ji Shu, and the entire Bi Fang Clan, who is supporting Jiang Yao!” Ji Hao looked into Ji Xiao’s faltering eyes and said word by word, “in the name of our ancestors’ souls, you should examine your own conscience and see if I’m telling the truth.”


Both of Ji Xiao’s arms were pushing against the ground and supporting his body, large amounts of sweat dripped down his forehead in streams. He breathed heavily and trembled intensely.


“I…Ji Shu…” Ji Xiao’s eyeballs slowly rotated in his eye sockets, losing focus. His healthy face was now deathly pale and darkened.


“Zhe!”


Ji Hao whispered the [Nine Secret Words] and locked his fingers together, then gently pressed his finger onto the area between Ji Xiao’s eyebrows. Ji Hao’s pupils changed to a golden-red colour; nine spell symbols slowly rotated around both of his pupils. An oddly powerful force capable of soul control was sent from Ji Hao’s pupils deep into Ji Xiao’s eyes.


Most of the Senior Magi in the Southern Wasteland neglected cultivating their souls. On the contrary, Maguspriests who concentrated on the practice of all kinds of magic sorceries, have always worked hard to nourish their souls through special and mystical methods; by doing so, they could slowly increase their spiritual power and use it to cast all kinds of magic sorceries. Maguspriests capable of communicating with gods, ghosts, and other mysterious beings, could only slowly improve their souls with all of their efforts; not to mention Senior Magi like Ji Xiao, who had never even attempted to improve the power of his soul. Although Ji Xiao also has a relatively powerful soul, the power of his soul was only nourished by his own Senior Magus blood, thus he could only rely on his strengthened body. The level of his soul and spiritual power were no better than the soul and spiritual power of three-year-old Ji Hao.

At this time, Ji Xiao was already hopeless; the power of his soul scattered, which allowed Ji Hao to easily take control of his mind.


“Uncle, the mistake you made is unforgivable. You have to die. Why don’t you tell me what you know before that? Why must Ji Shu take the position of commander from my Abba? What is he planning? Just tell me everything you know!”


Ji Xiao slightly quivered, eyes staring without focus. Following the soft voice of Ji Hao, he slowly opened his mouth.


Ji Hao controlled Ji Xiao’s soul carefully, digging out all the secrets buried within Ji Xiao’s heart. Gradually, Ji Hao’s facial expression turned strange. Did Ji Shu try everything to get the position of commander for this? thought Ji Hao.


“No wonder Ji Mu knew those slave dealers before. They really are old friends. Damn Ji Shu, you surely found yourself a good way to earn a fortune!”


Although the Fire Crow Clan had already become an auxiliary clan of the Bi Fang Clan, due to the absence of powerful high-level Magi, such as Magus Kings for thousands of years, the firm foundation of the Fire Crow Clan was still there. With a large number of branch clans and vast territory for hundreds of thousands of miles around, the Fire Crow Clan was still a very powerful and thriving clan in the Southern Wasteland.


Surrounding the Holy Land in the Gold Black Mountains were thousands of branch clans of the Fire Crow Clan. The population of the smallest amongst these branch clans was over a hundred thousand; and within this, there were at least eight to ten Senior Magi within one hundred thousand warriors.


As for branch clans with large populations, for example Ji Shu’s clan, had over a million people and hundreds of Senior Magi.


After Ji Shu became the leader of the Holy Land warriors, with the exception of Elder Magi and Maguspriests, all of the warriors, including Senior Magi, Junior Magi and Novice Magi, had to follow Ji Shu’s lead and do whatever he says.


Long ago, Ji Shu started to secretly work with slave dealers, capturing and selling many people from smaller clans. By now, with Ji Shu’s leadership and the support gained from a few Elder Magi and Maguspriests in the Holy Land, allowed his small-scale slave trade to quickly expand.


Before, when Ji Xia and other former leaders held the highest power within the clan, the Fire Crow Clan had always been lenient towards the small clans of the Southern Wasteland. As long as those clans were willing to pay a certain amount of taxes, they would be under the protection of the Fire Crow Clan.


However, as Ji Shu planned, those taxes were not even worth mentioning. All the Fire Crow Clan’s auxiliary clans would become his slave suppliers and continuously supply slaves to him.


According to Ji Xiao, Ji Shu would even choose to start a war if he couldn’t get the number of slaves he wanted. He would not only fight against the archenemy, Black Water Serpent Clan, but would also attack the small clans which bordered the Fire Crow Clan and had no enmity with the Fire Crow Clan. These small clans would all become Ji Shu’s prey.


“He’s going to set the entire Southern Wasteland into turmoil.” Ji Hao finished his interrogation and asked, “How dare he even plan this? Only with the support of Jiang Bo? Is Jiang Bo even powerful enough to withstand the repercussions?”


Ji Xiao smiled bitterly, shook his head, and kept quiet.


Although Ji Xiao colluded with Ji Shu a long time ago, he was neither from Ji Shu’s clan nor a close relative; how could Ji Shu trust him and let him know all of his most important secrets?


“Goodbye then, my uncle!” Ji Hao raised the dagger and said, “By the way, your Senior Magus blood won’t be wasted, not even a little bit. My Abba and Amma need it to recover.”


After eating a portion of horned serpent meat, Ji Hao’s physical strength had vastly improved.


He injected all of his internal power into the jade dagger.


A faint light quietly flashed through the air. When the light faded, Ji Hao had already thrown nearly a thousand stabs towards Ji Xiao’s chest, finally cutting open his chest and piercing into his heart.


Ji Xiao, whose soul was still under Ji Hao’s control, let out an ashen smile. A golden-red flame was blazing in his heart, drawing all of his power and blood inwards, which then condensed into a sphere of golden-red Senior Magi blood, containing all of Ji Xiao’s power and life force, and slowly seeped out of his heart through the cut.


“Old man! Now I have the Senior Magus blood from Ji Xiao, can I give the [Bu Tian Bu Lou Magic Spell] to my Abba and Amma?” In his own overcast spiritual space, Ji Hao shouted to the air.


A dense fog started circulating, slowly condensing into a vague figure, who was looking down at Ji Hao.

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Chapter 50: Aftermath

“Ha!”

Followed by a great roar, a six-foot-long sword, which was seized from a Black Water Serpent Clan Senior Magi, flashed across the air along with a beam of cold light, separating a gigantic tree trunk from its roots. Ji Hao leapt high in the air and threw a heavy punch onto the tree trunk; the over two-hundred-feet-tall tree slowly fell down.

Tens of slaves rushed over, chopping all the branches off with axes and knives, and stripping off all of the tree bark. Then the four-tusk mammoth, which waited on the side, rolled up the stripped tree trunk with its long snout, carried it to a mine hole under the cliff, and put it down in front of the entrance for later use.

“You have to produce another two multicoloured flames in order to give the [Bu Tian Bu Lou Magic Spell] to your parents.”

Ji Hao let out a sigh, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and waved the long sword towards another gigantic tree.

Ji Hao has been wanting to give the [Bu Tian Bu Lou Magic Spell] to his parents for over half a month. Ever since he gained all of Ji Xiao’s Senior Magus blood a couple of days ago, he wanted to give the magic spell to them even more.

However, his plan fell through after listening to the mysterious man’s words. To practise the [Bu Tian Bu Lou Magic Spell] required a multicoloured flame, identical to the one in Ji Hao’s lower abdomen, as a trigger. The mysterious man only had one spare multicoloured flame, which was already given to Ji Hao. Unless Ji Hao could improve his practice on the [Bu Tian Bu Lou Magic Spell] to the peak level and produce other multicoloured flames with his own flame, he could never impart this powerful and magical spell to any other person.

As for the [Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words], which was created by Ji Hao in his previous life, it was completely different from all other kinds of magic sorceries that the Southern Wasteland Magi practiced in.

Ji Hao had no idea about how to clearly explain the origination of the [Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words] to his parents. When he was a little boy, he tried to discuss the magical power of the [Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words] with Qing Fu. However, Qing Fu couldn’t even understand the [unity of heaven and human], which was the most basic theory of the Mantra Dan.

Therefore, he couldn’t impart the [Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words] to his parents. The Southern Wasteland Magi and Maguspriests had their own knowledge system and practice methods.

“So, I have to practice harder. To live well in this Southern Wasteland, I need to be stronger and more powerful!” murmured Ji Hao in his mind.

He couldn’t improve the powers of Ji Xia and Qing Fu with his magic spells, instead, he could only improve himself as much as possible!

Ji Xiao’s Senior Magus blood was absorbed by Ji Hao’s body. A human-head-sized sphere of Senior Magi blood floated above the multicoloured flame in Ji Hao’s lower abdomen; powerful beams of multicoloured lights were continuously circulating in Ji Hao’s body and improving his physical strength.

Ji Hao suppressed the desire for advancement, keeping his bloodline’s power from bursting out, and only concentrated on improving his physical strength.

He took a deep breath and slowly triggered his internal power. A strand of extremely pure internal power circulated through the muscles and blood vessels in Ji Hao’s arm and infused into the sword in his hand. Along with a sharp swishing sound, an blinding light flashed along the sword edge. Ji Hao held his breath and swung the sword, another huge tree, which took five people to wrap their arms around it, was cut into two. With only a slight kick from Ji Hao, the tree trunk slowly fell down with a creaky noise.

Loud bird calls came from the sky. Tens of Windstorm Rocs[1] were flapping their wings and diving down from the sky.

Standing on the backs of those Windstorm Rocs, were a squad of armed Fire Crow Clan warriors; hanging from their claws, were huge cages woven from vines, filled with young and strong slaves.

Ji Ying, Ji Lang, and Ji Bao stood on the ground, waving and shouting towards those Windstorm Rocs, directing them towards the landing spots. Those gigantic birds gently put the cages down, then slowly landed on the ground.

Another batch of Fire Crow Clan warriors, who were waiting nearby, rushed over, ripped the cages open and drove the slaves out. A few especially strong and unruly slaves started yelling and tried to resist as soon they got out of the cages. Tens of long spears instantly hit their bodies, knocking them down onto the ground, whilst they ceaselessly struggled, trembled, and cried.

“Ho! Ho!”

Outside of the Cold Stream Valley, over a hundred Fire Crow Clan warriors were riding all kinds of contracted beasts and swept past the entrance of the valley.

The troop leader held a long spear, with a one-foot-square flag tied on it, which fluttered in the wind. Painted on that flag was the totem of the Fire Crow Clan’s Three-Legged Golden Fire Crow. On both sides of the valley, over two-hundred-feet-tall walls were built.

In contrast to the old wall, which was built with logs and mud days ago, these two new walls were built with gigantic stones; and lava was poured into the gaps between the stones, combining the stones into one. The defensive function of these two new walls were ten times better than the old walls made of logs and mud.

The walls were thickly dotted with Fire Crow Clan warriors. By now, the number of elite warriors who were guarding the valley on the walls was over three-thousand.

“Ting, ting…”

Metal striking sounds continuously sounded from one of the caves. A great flame spurted out of the cave, burning all of the plants within the circumference of hundreds of miles into ashes.

A workshop was built in one of the caves by hundreds of Fire Crow Clan warriors. Large amounts of metallic materials were transported to the Cold Stream Valley from nearby branch clans. In the workshop, Fire Crow Clan craftsmen were busy forging all kinds of tools. Heavy swords and axes for lumbering; hammers and crooked chisels for opening mineshafts; as well as other tools in need. All of those tools were continuously forged during the past couple of days.

In the past, Cold Stream Valley only had a few thousands old or weak slaves sent from the Springs Mountain; however, within these past couple of days, thirty thousand strong slaves were sent to the valley from every nearby branch clan.

Under the cliff on the north side of the valley, twenty mineshafts were opened in a line. Slaves were mining while loudly singing a work song.

Each of those stripped logs were cut into three pieces, sent into the mineshaft, and used to support the roofs of the shaft. Baskets of soil and rock mixed with a large amount of gold and jade pieces were being sent out of the mineshafts.

The weak and old slaves gathered beside the Cold Stream, carefully picking the gold and jade pieces out.

This mine under the Cold Stream Valley was extremely rich and rare. Within every basket, only forty percent was composed of rocks and soil, the rest were pieces of gold and jade. The smallest piece amongst them was as big as a human fist.

In past few days, two small mountains of gold and jade pieces were piled up in the Cold Stream Valley. The gold mountain was twenty feet tall and over two hundred feet in diameter, while the jade mountain was tens of feet tall and over a hundred feet in diameter.

Under the sun’s rays, the pieces of gold and jade were shining and illuminating each other. Ji Zhuo, who was sitting on a big stone and supervising the mining work, smiled from ear to ear with a mouthful of glistening, white teeth. From time to time, he flaunted his frozen leg to the nearby clansmen.

Due to Ji Zhuo’s presence, the allied force of Blood Fang and Black Water Serpent Clan was destroyed. By now, all the Maguspriests and Elder Magi in the Holy Land had clearly been informed of the amazing resources of the Cold Stream Valley mine, especially the discovery of Fire Essence Crystal.

Such a rich mine, its importance was obvious.

Ji Shu had been strangely cooperative during these past couple of days. He not only transferred a large number of elite warriors to the Cold Stream Valley to join Ji Xia’s troops and guard the valley, he also quickly sent the slaves, craftsmen and all kinds of necessary materials from the nearest branch clan.

Ji Xia calmly accepted Ji Shu’s goodwill, and didn’t let those elders know about the fact that Ji Mu colluded with the Black Water Serpent Clan and tried to kill him.

In Ji Xia’s mind, the clan was always the top priority.

“Abba was right…whatever Ji Mu did could be completely irrelevant to Ji Shu. We can never defeat Ji Shu by letting everyone know about what Ji Mu did. He only needs to heartlessly kill Ji Mu, and easily blame everything on him.”

“Rather than this, why don’t we just keep silent for a while and get ourselves some actual benefits,” thought Ji Hao.

Ji Hao gasped, turning around to look at the Cold Stream Valley.

Presently, Cold Stream Valley was guarded by twenty thousand elite warriors who came from every branch clan, and ten thousand slaves were working hard in the mines. This valley had already become the Fire Crow Clan’s most powerful stronghold.

While smiling, Ji Hao swung the sword backwards, cutting another gigantic tree into two.

Thousands of miles away, inside the deep jungle, Jiang Yao stood on the head of a Bi Fang Bird and slowly descended from the air. Her beautiful face was as twisted as a ghost.

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[1]Roc: Mythical bird of prey, that possesses enormous size and strength.

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Chapter 51 - Collusion

In a deep valley, a smelter around ten feet in radius, was spewing a great flame.

With a metal-clattering-like noise, a three-meter tall, sturdy man, who was tied up by chains and shackles, was being dragged towards the smelter by two Jia Clan warriors.

Every time the man struggled, blinding lightning bolts flashed and darted out from the chains that wrapped around his body.

Followed by an electricity-like sound, the powerful lightning struck the sturdy man’s body, making his hair stand up and body twitch intensely. “Monsters! You monsters! Fight against me like a real man! Do you dare! Do you even dare!” the man roared in rage. He was so angry that he even went hysterical.

“I like this guy!” A nearly four-meter-tall Jia Clan warrior quickly walked over. He was wearing heavy armour, as solid as a fort; however, he didn’t make any noticeable sound while walking. He raised a bull-horn-shaped heavy axe, neatly hit the back of the chained man’s head, and knocked him unconscious.

“Look how powerful he is! Look how tall and sturdy he is! Haha! He’s as energetic as a mad bull! He has got to be worth a fortune!” The Jia Clan warrior waved his axe and boasted proudly to others standing around.

Nearly a thousand Jia Clan warriors were gathered in the huge valley, sitting or hunkering on rocks. Each of them had four eyes, which were shining with cold lights. All of those Jia Clan warriors laughed out loud when they heard their fellow clansman.

Two other Jia Clan warriors dragged the unconscious man to the smelter. A short man—with the height of five feet, whose bulging mouth resembled a large ape, and red-speckled skin exhibited a strange, light-green colour—stood beside the smelter and chuckled creepily. He pulled a searing iron rod out of the smelter and branded the area between the chained man’s eyebrows.

Spell symbols lit up on the surface of the searing iron rod. The unconscious man suddenly woke up in pain and started howling. He struggled with all of his strength, however, the iron rod remained still, as if it was rooted in his skull. After quite a while, the searing iron finally left his skin.

A palm-sized, blood-red brand was burned onto the chained man’s forehead—a tower reaching towards the sky, with an open, blood-red eye floating above it.

Along with a sizzling sound, countless tiny, blood-red lines rapidly spread out from the vertical eye and pierced into the chained man’s bones, muscles, and internal organs. The chained man started quivering violently, streams of cold sweat pouring down his body.

The blood-red lines, which radiated a vile and evil atmosphere, slowly disappeared after drilling into the man’s skull, taking full control of his body and mind. By now, the chained man had lost the power to resist; he was dragged away by two Jia Clan warriors and thrown aside as if he were a bag of garbage.

Another chained man, who was also struggling hard, was dragged up to the smelter by Ji Clan warriors and branded on the forehead by the evil, chuckling man.

The sizzling sound didn’t stop. Hundreds of Southern Wasteland warriors were branded by the seal of disgrace and turned into slaves against their own wills.

A long and beautiful bird song came from the sky. A Bi Fang bird with the wingspan of over two hundred feet, gracefully descended from the sky; it gently grabbed a sharp rock with a single talon. The bird slowly folded its wings, elegantly lowering its body down.

Jiang Yao slowly walked down from the bird’s back. Two tall and muscular Jia Clan women walked up to her, throwing a disdainful glance at her, who was much shorter than themselves, and mumbled in a deep voice, “Follow us. The leader has been expecting you for quite a while.”

Jiang Yao followed them, walking towards the centre of the valley. After a bit of walking, a gorgeous tent built under the cliff appeared within their sights.

Tens of well-dressed men lazily stood outside the tent, relaxedly, chatting, and laughing in low voices. Each of these men had a vertical eye located in between their eyebrows; wind, frost, lightning, and other supernatural visions flashed across their pupils.

These men, noticing Jiang Yao nearing, instantly straightened their bodies and assumed serious faces, but they couldn’t help but to stare up and down at Jiang Yao’s body. A few even started swallowing saliva; their lust and greed were completely obvious.

Jiang Yao threw a scornful, sideways glance towards these men, and slowly walked into the tent, as if she were a resplendent queen.

The tent seemed only thirty feet in diameter from the outside, however, if seen from within, the inner space of this tent could accommodate over a thousand people and host a party for them at the same time. The floor was covered with thick and soft, white carpet; exquisitely crafted knives, swords, and shields were hung as wall decorations; and tens of extremely exquisite and complete, gold and jade-inlaid armours were placed in the corners of the tent.

Di Luo, who had previously lost an eye, and had one arm severed by Ji Hao during the chase a few of nights ago, embarrassingly stood in the tent. Lazily sitting on a huge, golden chair beside him, was a middle-aged man who looked very similar to Di Luo, but with a huge scar on his face.

“Di Sha, you didn’t fulfill your promise!” Jiang Yao walked into the tent, looking at the middle-aged man with a sneer on her face and said, “If I knew you people were so useless, I would have given up on you and cooperated with your competitors.”

Di Sha, the middle-aged man, slightly waved his hand and slowly said, “Dear respectable Maguspriestess, let's cut the crap. In the Southern Wasteland, we, the Blood Fang, are not only the most powerful group, but we also have the best background with the strongest power supporting us.”

“You have no choice. To get what you want, you, and the whoever standing behind you, can only cooperate with us” Di Sha shrugged and said calmly.

The vertical eye on Di Sha’s forehead suddenly opened, radiating an eddy of darkness. The light emitted from hundreds of tallow candles dimmed instantly, and the tent was soon filled with darkness. An evil power enveloped the entire inner tent space, emanating a great pressure which made everyone feel as though a huge mountain was descending from above.

“You can’t blame us for that failure. The information you gave us was completely wrong. Those people are much more powerful than you’ve described. That little guy’s gigantic Fire Crow, that woman named Qing Fu, who knows how to cast large-scale Maguspriest sorceries, and that oddly, powerful old man unexpectedly showed up...Too many coincidences and surprises occurred during our mission. Look at my poor brother; look at what you did to him.”

Di Sha put on a troubled expression, burying half of his face into his hand, barely squeezing out a hint of sadness, and let out a sigh. “Look at my dearest little brother, my Di Luo. He hasn’t even married yet! But, but he lost a beautiful eye! My good god, do you have any idea what that means to us, the noble Yu Clan people? He lost an eye; he can never find a woman willing to bear his offspring, not in this life!”

Jiang Yao breathed deeply, then took out a bottle from her sleeve. The bottle was made of black jade and contained about an ounce of clear medicinal liquid, which emitted an extremely strange scent—a scent that seemed to be the combination of the thick smell of blood, a nice herbal aroma and the horrible stench of numerous types of poisonous insects. This strange scent slowly filled the entire tent.

“This is the Wu Xian medicine, well, not the real legendary magical medicine though. This bottle was made by the most powerful Maguspriest Alchemist in the Southern Wasteland.” Jiang Yao threw the bottle to Di Sha and blandly said, “Take this medicine, it will heal all kinds of wounds, no matter how serious it is.”

“Now, Di Sha, seriously,” said Jiang Yao coldly, while staring at Di Sha, “apart from the things we did to show the others, as you promised me before, when can you get me the pure blood of Ji Xia and his son?”

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Chapter 52: First Encounter

“Ha!”

Hot steam rose from Ji Hao’s head, while his blood vessels swelled and bulged under his skin. Ji Hao leapt down from a gigantic tree, which reached towards the sky, and threw a heavy punch towards the carriage-sized head of a blood-eyed bear, which approached the level of a peak Junior Magus.

The blood-eyed bear roared madly to the sky, swinging its tens of feet long arms towards Ji Hao, which started two gusts of fierce winds.

There were countless wild beasts living in the Southern Wasteland jungle. This blood-eyed bear was as powerful as a peak level Junior Magus; to achieve this level, it must have experienced innumerable fights and bloodshed; one could never tell how many times it survived from grave danger. The bear sensed Ji Hao’s power, which was not very strong; the bear felt that this tiny human here was just as weak as the prey that it had slaughtered and eaten thousands of times.

Ji Hao breathed deeply and let out a great growl; at the same time, he tightened his arms, his power flowed through his tendons and muscles even making a tweedle-like noise. Followed by a loud bang, the paws of the blood-eyed bear were shattered by Ji Hao’s punch.

The bear howled in panic; in the next moment, Ji Hao lightly punched the bear’s head, blowing its huge head open; brain matter splashed everywhere. A pungent, blood odor slowly permeated through the jungle.

“Ho!”

Ji Hao shouted towards the sky. Multicoloured lights flashed continuously through his muscles, blood, bones, and internal organs, like a river of light which flushed inside his body. A great heat emitted from the multicolored flame in his lower abdomen and spread to the other parts of his body. Ji Hao’s physical strength was quickly and continuousely improving.

Normally, the physical strength of wild beasts is far greater than magi of the same level. The blood-eyed bear was an extremely powerful inhabitant in this jungle, however, this beast, which was many times stronger than a peak level Fire Crow Clan Junior Magus, was just now killed by Ji Hao with only his physical strength.

Ji Hao opened his mouth, spit out a wisp of white steam as far as hundreds of feet away, grabbed the bear’s body which was nearly eighty feet long, and threw it to Qing Ying, who stood hundreds of feet away and held his long bow. With a swishing sound, the bear’s heavy body was sent flying towards Qing Ying, like a small mountain.

Between Qing Ying’s chest and abdomen, a sphere of looming light was shining, which meant that he was about to awaken his first magus acupoint; however, Qing Ying let out a scream as he saw the bear’s body, which was hurling towards him, dropping his bow and arrows in a flurry, raising his arms, and catching the bear’s body with all of his strength.

“My dear god! Sister! Your son is a freak! He just can’t stop embarrassing me!” Qing Ying complained loudly. His body was quivering intensely; he barely caught the bear’s body, quickly taking tens of steps back, then finally steadied his feet.

“Hao! I, your uncle, am not one of your Fire Crow Clan crazywarriors! I’m an archer from the Qing Yi Clan, an archer! Do you understand?” yelled Qing Ying, while dropping the bear’s body. His face was slightly flushed.

Senior Magi from different clans have very different specialities.

The Fire Crow Clan warriors were extremely strong, their explosive force was even more powerful. The potential of the Fire Crow Clan warriors’ physical strength was ranked in the top ten amongst all clans of the Southern Wasteland.

On the contrary, Senior Magi from the Qing Yi Clan were experts in all types of archery skills; generally, their physical strength was no better than even thirty percent of the physical strength of their fellow Fire Crow Clan warriors; however, they had the highest speed amongst the warriors of the entire Southern Wasteland.

Ji Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead, sensing the multicoloured flame in his lower abdomen, which was growing brighter and bigger, laughed happily out loudand said, “Uncle! Don’t blame me! You should practice your physical strength more! My Amma said you’re too slim and tender. This way, you’re going to make women feel as though you’re not reliable and it’ll be hard for you to find a good wife!”



Qing Ying’s face darkened, he jumped up and started yelling at Ji Hao.

The angrier Qing Ying got, the happier Ji Hao was. Ji Hao laughed even louder; his loud laughter reverbrated through the jungle along with the morning breeze.

It had been more than half a month since the Black Water Serpent Clan and Blood Fang attacked the Cold Stream Valley. Thereafter, the Fire Crow Clan promptly sent troops and, added with the presence of Ji Zhuo, the Cold Stream Valley was quiet and peaceful. During the last half month, not a single suspicious person was found.

Therefore, Ji Hao focused on training his physical strength and went hunting in the jungle with Qing Ying and a group of clansmen every morning.

The portion of Senior Magi blood from Ji Xia and Qing Fu, which was released from Ji Kui’s magic seal when the seal accidentally broke, was fully absorbed by Ji Hao’s body during the past night. By now, Ji Hao’s physical power had surpassed any ordinary Junior Magus.

At the moment, the human-head-sized, golden-red Senior Magus blood, which floated above the multicoloured flame, was from Ji Xiao’s body.

Ji Hao had done the math; once his body fully absorbed Ji Xiao’s Senior Magus blood and if he consumed a certain amount of beasts during this period, he would never be able to keep his Golden Fire Crow bloodline power from upgradinglike he was doing now. He had to trigger his bloodline’s power and start training as a peak level Novice Magus.

Ji Hao was anticipating the special talent his bloodline’s power would grant him.

The Three-legged Golden Fire Crow was one of the few legendary, powerful creatures alive during the ancient times. Every kind of special talent passed on through the Golden Fire Crow bloodline could create one powerful enough to look down on the whole world. If one could inherit more than one of those special talents, he would become even more powerful.

While Ji Hao gazed at the jungle and thought about all those special talents, a gentle and grace voice came from further within the jungle, “My friend over there, please be careful. An evil creature is coming towards you.”

Before the voice faded, a gust of fierce wind suddenly arrived with a pungent scent. The black wind kicked up a countless amount of small stones and blew towards Ji Hao; wisps of strange, green flames were attached to those stones. The chill of the black wind pierced Ji Hao’s bones; Ji Hao’s body froze after being touched slightly by the wind, he soon lost control of half of his body.

Ji Hao let out a shout, nine spell symbols simultaneously appeared around his pupils; his Yuan Dan[1] started rotating quickly, the pure internal power was quickly sent to his whole body; under the stimulation of this power, Ji Hao felt his blood boiling. His body instantly heated up, a looming fiery light appeared and enveloped his body.

The black wind collided into the looming fiery light, making a loud popping noise; countless stones exploded, the explosive force of every single stone was as powerful as the heavy punch of a wild beast that reached the level of a Junior Magus. Ji Hao could handle the explosive power of one or two stones easily; the explosive power of hundreds, or even thousands of stones was completely endurable for Ji Hao with his current physical strength.

However, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of stones were flying towards him along with the fierce wind. Under great pressure, Ji Hao staggered back; the looming light that enveloped his body was now shaking, seemingly about to be crushed the black wind.

With a swishing sound, a nearly hundred-foot-long, gigantic scorpion, with a pair of transparent wings on its back and a pure black shell decorated with dark green patterns, darted out of the jungle. The poisonous scorpion saw Ji Hao from quite a long distance, then opened its mouth and blew another gust of fierce black wind towards Ji Hao along with countless stones and wisps of green flames.

Qing Ying let out a growl, then the shouts of Qing Yi Clan and Fire Crow Clan warriors came from different directions; tens of arrows darted towards the scorpion from every direction, blocking every possible route. However, the scorpion moved extremely fast, even the arrows of Qing Yi Clan warriors couldn’t stop it before it attacked Ji Hao.

“Evil creature! How dare you hurt people again!” The gentle and graceful voice came again. Along with the voice, an over ten-foot-tall young man, wearing a white long robe made of flax and hair hung loosely, flew out of the jungle with a gust of cool wind under his feet. The young man raised his hand, sending a beam of cyan light towards Ji Hao. The cyan light transformed into a round, light shield in front of Ji Hao, blocking the black wind, green fire, and stones from the scorpion.

Following that, the young man swung his arm again; a huge golded cube rose from the ground into the sky, rotated in the air, and then heavily hit the head of the scorpion.

Followed by a thundering crash, the golden cube smashed the scorpion’s head, and even left a large pit tens of feet in radius on the ground.

Ji Hao stared at the young man in shock and surprise. He was so excited that his hands were even trembling. The young man just controlled the power of nature with his own power, manipulating the great natural power which was hundreds of times stronger than his own power. The magic sorcery this young man just used was based on the same theory as the Mantra Dan!

Similar to Ji Hao, this young man was practicing controlling nature’s power, which was vastly different from the Southern Wasteland sorceries.

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[1] Yuan Dan: Existing in Ji Hao’s spiritual space in the form of a sphere, without a true form. It was condensed by his internal power, can be triggered, and release power under his will.

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Chapter 53: Po

The scorpion’s head was shattered instantly by the golden cube.

The vitality of this powerful, poisonous insect was especially high. The scorpion’s body still twitched, its long legs embedded into the ground, while slashing a few deep ditches in the ground.

“This is a devil-wind scorpion. Generally, this kind of scorpion is around ten feet long, and all of them are wild and hard to kill,” said Ji Hao. He was squatting beside the scorpion, watching the sturdy young man neatly cut open the carapace[1] on its back, and continued, “this is the first time I saw such a huge devil-wind scorpion’.”

“It has become a spirit beast,” said the young man. He opened the carapace on the scorpion’s back, displaying the translucent, light-silver coloured meat inside its body.

“Don’t waste it!”

Saliva gushed out of Ji Hao’s mouth once he saw the meat. Ji Hao was beaten so hard by this scorpion with explosive stones that he couldn’t even fight back, which meant that this scorpion must be as powerful as an ordinary Senior Magus and its meat could largely improve Ji Hao’s power. Its meat was a treasure to Ji Hao.

Seeing that the young man was about to throw the meat away, Ji Hao leapt onto a tree and picked hundreds of foot-long leaves, then put them on the ground. The young man smiled, sliced the meat off and neatly placed them on those leaves.

Qing Ying came over with a few warriors. Those warriors scattered around while staying alert. Only Qing Ying walked close to the huge scorpion curiously, pulling out a dagger out and heavily knocking on the scorpion carapace.

The dagger ignited large amounts of fiery sparks against the scorpion carapace. Although Qing Ying’s dagger was badly abraded, it failed to leave even a trace of a cut on the scorpion carapace.

“Such a hard carapace! It can be the perfect material to make armour! Must be indestructible!” yelled Ji Hao.

The sturdy young man laughed, nodded to Ji Hao, then gently said, “my young friend, I was careless just now and almost let this evil creature hurt you. Since you like this scorpion carapace, then let me make it into an armour for you as a gift, which will protect you in the future.”

While speaking and laughing, the young man cut open those long legs of the scorpion. Thirty-six fist-sized, green, transparent beads rolled out of its legs. Blown by the morning wind, these beads flew into the air and started to rotate.

“Wow!” Qing Ying exclaimed, “can devil-wind scorpions grow these kind of beads inside their bodies? I’ve never seen something like this before! Even the most knowledgeable elder in the clan has never talked about this!”

“These are scorpion-dragon beads. Ordinary devil-wind scorpions, no matter how big they are, are nothing but poisonous insects; they can’t have these kind of beads inside their body for sure.” The young man was picking those beads up and putting them in his sleeves, he smiled and said to Qing Ying, “however, this scorpion was different. It had become a spirit beast by absorbing nature’s power, learned how to practice its own power, and pursued higher achievements; by doing so, it could produce these thirty-six beads.”

“What will do you with those beads?” asked Ji Hao curiously.

The young man picked up the last bead and put it into his sleeve, then smiled and nodded to Ji Hao and said, “My name is Po. I’m an ascetic traveler, traveling around the world. The Southern Wasteland is my last stop of this travel.”

“I’ve traveled through the Middle Land, the Eastern Wasteland, the Northern Wasteland, and the Western Wasteland. Sometimes when I gazed into the sky, I perceived that there are some mysterious principles of the planetary orbits. Afterwards, I conceived an powerful, ancient, heavenly fighting strategy, called the [Primordial Celestial Life Transformation Art ], therefore, I thought I might be able to imitate the principles of the planetary orbits and create a treasure which requires thirty-six thousand scorpion-dragon beads. This is the last thirty-six of them, I finally got them all.”

Ji Hao opened his mouth, but didn’t say anything. He stared at Po stunned.

“In order to fulfill his own inspiration, he decided to create a treasure, gathering a total of thirty-six thousand scorpion-dragon beads, for which he needed to kill a thousand cold-wind scorpions which were as powerful as Senior Magi!”

“How many places he had been to, to gather all those beads?!”

“How fertile could this land be, to hide that many spirit stage devil-wind scorpions?” said Ji Hao in his head.

“A thousand devil-wind scorpions! You’re so patient!” exclaimed Ji Hao.

“Wasted so much time.” Po scratched his own head and smiled honestly, “my teacher also said that I wasted too much time making treasures. If I hadn’t wasted this much of time and focused on my daily practice instead, my power would be far greater than it is now. But if I gave up on treasure-making and only concentrated on practicing daily, how boring would that be?”

Ji Hao raised his thumb towards Po, while thinking his words were very reasonable.

The basic theory for daily practice is to cultivate one’s heart and mind, and to coordinate the human power with nature’s power. Po did what he felt like doing and obsessed in treasure-making; one might say that he wasted his time, however, what if the treasure-making was another training method?

The troop was heading back to the Cold Stream Valley. Warriors walked in the front and carried the scorpion meat on their shoulders, while singing a Southern Wasteland song. Ji Hao was dragging the empty scorpion carapace, ardently chatting with Po.

Po had traveled through countless places, his experiences were incredibly rich. The sceneries he talked about were all strange sights that were even hard to be imagined by the Southern Wasteland’s people, such as the endless sea in the East, the forest in the North, the barren land of the West, as well as the boisterousness of the Midlands.

“Hao, my young friend, the world is vast. You must go out and see it. Don’t waste this strong body of yours, which was nourished by the nature.” Po was a frank and straightforward person with an extremely bright smile on his face; after a short while of chatting, he already viewed Ji Hao as his close friend.

“When I get the chance, I’ll certainly venture out of the Southern Wasteland!” said Ji Hao seriously. “I want to know how this world really looks like...hmmm...Po, you said that the Midlands were flourishing, how is it like now?”

Po frowned, shook his head and said, “the last time I passed the Midlands, it was suffering from a war. Everyday, thousands of people get robbed, countless women raped, and innumerable children become slaves or get killed.”

“My strength is limited. I tried my best to save those people, but I couldn’t save all of them. Amongst this vast world, I, Po, am only an ascetic traveler. I’m too weak to save this world and all of the suffering people,” Po curled his lips downwards, despondently.

“The Midlands! I’ve heard about it; it’s the broadest and greatest area in this world!” Qing Ying said curiously, “Po, according to you, the Midlands are in a mess, just like our Southern Wasteland!”

“The Midlands are in a much bigger mess than the Southern Wasteland!” said Po seriously, while looking at Qing Ying, “The Southern Wasteland is a peaceful, quiet paradise.”

We’ve just been through a great fight against the Blood Fang and the Black Water Serpent Clan; hundreds people died in that fight. Can this chaotic Southern Wasteland be a peaceful, quiet paradise? thought Ji Hao.

Ji Hao was stimulated by Po’s words, he couldn’t wait to go to the Midlands and see what that legendary land looked like with his own eyes.

Soon, the troop arrived at the Cold Stream Valley. From a distance away, Ji Hao yelled towards the valley, “Abba, Amma! We have a guest here! Get the booze and the grilled meat! Let’s host our honoured guest!”

Pausing for a second, Ji Hao continued, “our guest has came from outside the Southern Wasteland!”

Followed by a long clarion sound, a batch of Fire Crow Clan warriors opened the heavy gates of the fence wall, walking out in a line.

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[1] Carapace: The hard upper shell of a tortoise, crustacean, or
arachnid.

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