God of Slaughter (杀神) by Ni Cang Tian (逆苍天)

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Chapter 19 The Martial Spirit of Petrifaction

A huge ancient tree appeared in front of Luo Hao. Dozens metres high, it was so thick that ten people could circle it hand in hand. The leaves almost covered the sky.

Luo Hao stopped walking suddenly and released Mu Yudie, then gazed at the ancient tree. He looked dignified and seemed to be making a crucial decision.

As Zhao Xin, Di Yalan, and Hu Long came near the ancient tree, they turned serious as well, seemingly to know something unusual about this tree.

Shi Yan frowned, and he began to stare at this huge tree too, not saying a word.

Luo Hao took a deep breath and turned to them, speaking in a low voice: “To the right side of this Sky Tree, there are hardly demon beasts, so most warriors and trade caravans choose this way when they cross the Dark Forest. This route is quite safe. Even if we encounter some demon beasts, they would be of low level - Level One or Level Two. And this route is closer to the Merchant Union, taking merely ten days to get there.”

Zhao Xin and the other two nodded. Apparently they all knew it.

After pausing for a while, Luo Hao added in a serious manner, “But to the left of The Sky Tree, the situation is totally different! It’s a longer way to the Merchant Union, and is haunted with demon beasts, and many audacious warriors and soldiers. Those who dare to go this way are mostly tough guys. Being in danger all the time, they obeyed no restrictions of any kind. If we choose this way, we need to look out for not only the demon beasts, but also for those irrational warriors and soldiers, especially when we have two pretty girls here among us...”

“Humph! Anyone who would want to take advantage of me, I would chop his head off!” Di Yalan made an act of cutting in the air, with coldness in her beautiful eyes.

“Uncle Luo, what do you think?” Zhao Xin asked.

“If we advance to the right, for at most by one day, we will be caught up by those from the Dark World, and there will be a nasty fight.” Having no choice and depressed, Luo Hao said, “No one knows if we would be lucky enough in the upcoming days. And if their reinforcements came, it forboded disasters rather than blessings for us...”

“What about going to the left? ” Hu Long asked.

“ If we go to the left, we would come across demon beasts, and more likely, we would be killed by those insane warriors. But it shall be the same for those from the Dark World. They have bad reputation, and hardly anyone would go against them in the Fire Empire. Yet in this situation, they are the targets of the demon beasts and warriors. If they meet high-grade demon beasts accidentally, it’s possible that they all will be killed...”

Luo Hao made his speech slowly, and after explaining them the situation, he remarked, “To go by the right side, we won’t be confronting any demon beasts or warriors, but the Dark World will be a huge threat. To the left, we may be attacked by demon beasts and warriors, but the Dark World shall be more threatened. Therefore, to go by the left, we have more possibility to escape.”

“Go from the left then!”, Mu Yudie said decisively.

“Ok.” Luo Hao nodded, and took a glance at Shi Yan, and said, “Hey kid, it’s still time if you want to leave. Otherwise...you will have no chance.”

“I will go with you guys.” Shi Yan had made up his mind. There was a very irrational side in his personality. That’s why he had drowned in extreme sports, which were like games of death, for the past ten years.

When Luo Hao was depicting the danger of the left side, Shi Yan couldn’t help but get excited.

Luo Hao nodded and waved his arm, “ Well, let’s set off. From now on, all on alert!”
...

One hour later.

Mo Chaoge and the warriors from the Mo Family also stopped at the Sky Tree.

“Second Uncle, which way would they have chosen?” Mo Yanyu asked.

“I will chase by the right side. If I don’t come back in two hours, you guys catch up this way. For, if I don’t find them in two hours, they should have took the left way.” Mo Chaoge thought for a while and ordered them to wait at the intersection. Then he flew away to the right side.

After one and a half hours, Mo Chaoge came back with a pale face, “Not even a slightest sign of these people. How dare they took the left way! Everybody watch out! Too many demon beasts and warriors on the left side. Never be negligent! Remember, don’t make a fuss with those warriors and soldiers. These people are all lunatics. Don’t provoke these people who don’t know what is death.”

“Yes sir!”

“Let’s go!”

...

Three saber-toothed rhinos were strolling along a brook leisurely. They were Level-3 demon beasts. Silver glow shone on the back, their teeth as sharp as sabers, while the fist-like brown eyes glittered with murderous look. The three rhinos were all covered by hard mud, which formed a natural armour, to which any normal weapon would find it hard to cut.

The three saber-toothed rhinos were sipping water now and then, while looking around discreetly, seemingly to be looking for game.

In the bushes not far from them, Luo Hao made a gesture to imply everybody to be quiet.

Till the three saber-toothed rhinos walked away slowly, Luo Hao uttered a sigh of relief. He said, “Saber-toothed rhinos are Level-3 demon beasts, equaling Human-Level warriors. They move fast and have sharp tusks. Low leveled warriors would either be injured or be killed once they met saber-toothed rhinos.”

Shi Yan kept wandering his eyes on those slowly disappearing rhinos, showing much interest in having a fight with them.

“Rather than killing the demon beasts here, our goal is to protect Die. Everybody remember this! Don’t bring up unnecessary ramifications.”Luo Hao seemed to have noticed Shi Yan’s thoughts, and thus reminded them casually.

Shi Yan grinned, and nodded to show he understood.

“Let’s keep going. We need to be watchful here. To keep an eye on the surroundings is more important than moving forward fast. Try to get away from demon beasts and warriors. Don’t get ourselves in trouble.” Luo Hao added. Then he advanced with the troop.
...

It was getting dark.

Beside a lush tree at the brook, Zhao Xin and the other two separated and examined the surroundings with a cautious eye, in case any demon beast showed up.

Shi Yan sat upright on the wet ground with a serious look.

Bloodlust was lingering in Shi Yan’s mind like smoke. He had an urge to release it. It was high time he purify the Profound Qi he absorbed from the two tar emissaries; thus he was becoming a little impatient.

Luo Hao stood beside Mu Yu Die all the time. Frowning, he focused his eyes on Shi Yan, lest this boy took any abnormal action.

Mu Yu Die looked indifferent, and she stared at Shi Yan for a while. When she saw the aggressive look on his face, she sat down gently and crossed her legs. Setting an ancient zither on her leg, she began to play.

Hearing the zither, the concentrating bloodthirst in Shi Yan’s mind seemed to be resolved by a certain power and gradually faded away.

Holding his breath and focusing his mind, Shi Yan operated his Profound Qi peacefully.

One hour later, a warm flow gushed out of his meridans all over his body.

Shi Yan’s body trembled.

Suddenly, She Yan got a severe thirst in his body. The weird power gushing out from his meridans was absorbed by his muscles and bones on halfway, before it could mix with the Profound Qi in his abdomen. The warm stream went into his muscles and bones, and rooted in his blood and flesh.

Just within several breaths, the weird warm stream from his meridans pervaded in his blood, flesh and bones all over the body, which astonished him a lot.

Thus, Shi Yan began to feel the warm stream flowing in his blood, flesh and bones.

“Bang!”

There was a heavy strike in his head. And the next moment, he felt a strange change in his body.

Turning pale with fear, he opened his eye promptly, to find his bare arms turn into grey, bit by bit.

Petrifaction!

Shi Yan was frightened. He began to withdraw his attention from his body, not giving a single thought to the sudden change.

As his thought changed, his hardening body soon went back to normal.

Concentrating, Shi Yan look at others. Luo hao and Mu Yu Die were chatting behind a tree not far from him, without noticing what he just had experienced.

Relieved, happiness took over his face, as he enjoyed a mirthful time secretly.

His body got hard, which meant the Martial Spirit of Petrifaction of the Shi Family had awakened!

The Martial Spirit of Petrifaction was exclusive to the Shi Family. As one’s level increased, it became stronger and stronger, to the extent that one won’t be damaged by weapons and the impact of Profound Qi.

Before, Shi Yan had thought that the owner of his body didn’t possess this Martial Spirit. It surprised him that after he reached Nascent Level, the skill . He went into ecstasy.

The Martial Spirit of Petrifaction was beneficial in battles. After petrification, one’s body would be as hard as rock, but was still very agile, which would increase one’s ability a lot.

Apart from Petrifaction, Shi Yan also found he possessed a Martial Spirit of Immortal, which could achieve self-recovery. With the help of these two Martial arts and more training, he couldn’t imagine how powerful his body would be.

“No!” Shi Yan frowned and thought, “Doesn’t Martial Spirits show up not long after one’s born? But this body is already seventeen, and yet the Martial Spirit can still activate? Too strange! Or, has it to do with the weird energy gushing out from the meridans?”

An idea suddenly flashed in his mind, that the activation of the two Martial Spirits--Petrifaction and Immortal---was somehow related to the blood pool and the changes in his meridans.

Shi Yan guessed that the wierd stream gushing out from his meridans could stimulate Martial Spirit hidden in one’s body. With this thought, he was so excited that he wanted to sing out loud to celebrate!

The Martial Spirit was inherited. Generally, it got stronger as one’s level increased. There were hardly other ways to strengthen the Martial Spirit.

The Martial Spirit was the gift that a warrior was most proud of, and also the vital thing to define a warrior’s ability. Warriors trained arduously to increase the Martial Spirit.

But even if one’s level had upgraded, there were limitations in increasing the level of Martial Spirit .

On the Grace Mainland, even those legendary alchemists of God-Level could barely refine pills effective to general Martial Spirits. Those pills were most rare and precious on the Grace Mainland, and were believed to exist merely in legends.

Nonetheless, the effect those pills had on Martial Spirits was also quite limited. After all, Martial Spirits were an inherited gift, which was very hard to change.

Surprisingly, the weird warm stream gushing out from Shi Yan’s meridans seemed to go against the rules. It could virtually stimulate Martial Spirit and increase its ability.


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Chapter 20 Steel Himself

Stars were illuminating the dark sky, surrounding the bright crescent. The cool moonlight went through the tree leaves, and scattered around, illuminating the quiet and dark forest.

Di Yalan and Hu Long were patrolling around, while Zhao Xin was having a rest, leaning against the tree with stable breaths, eyes closed.

Luo Hao was standing next to one another ancient tree on alert, never relaxing his vigilance.

Among the dense leaves of that tree, Mu Yu Die was sleeping quietly. After a long day’s journey, she was exhausted, for she couldn’t operate her Profound Qi at will.

Luo Hao looked up at Mu Yu Die, who was resting among the leaves, now and then, showing rare tenderness in his eyes.

“Daa! Daa!”

Luo Hao’s thick eyebrows frowned, as he saw Shi Yan approaching nearby. He asked in surprise, “Still awake?”

“Yeah.” Shi Yan nodded and answered in an undertone. He stood still beside Luo Hao, and asked under his breath, “Wouldn’t it be easy for them to spot us here?”

“Of course not.” Luo Hao smiled, “There is no settled route in the forest, and demon beasts and warriors are always showing up now and then; so those from the Dark World will find it hard to distinguish our trace. In this area, those demon beasts and warriors are whom we need to pay more attention to.”

“That is to say, they won’t find us easily.” After pondering a bit, Shi Yan asked again, “Uncle Luo, do you need to consume too much Profound Qi to release your gravitational field?”

“Why do you want to know this?” Luo Hao was puzzled.

“I want to steel myself with the help of your gravitational field. Under the gravitational field, I will have to bear huge pressure, which shall strengthen my body. I want to know my limits.” Shi Yan replied seriously. He didn’t go with the conventional path. Usual training didn’t excite him, so he seeked passion desperately.

“To steel yourself by gravitational field...” Luo hao’s eyes were lit, and he nodded, “Great idea, but are you sure you want to try it? If those emissaries found us when you were exhausted, you couldn’t even fight back.”

“I don’t plan to use my Profound QI.” Shi Yan smiled.

“To steel merely with your body?” Luo Hao was shocked.

“Yes.”

Luo Hao fell in deep thought for a long time, and said, “You have just reached Nascent Level, so it is beneficial to train your body in a proper way, and get used to your body. But you haven’t strengthened your body before; it is crazy that you want to train in gravitational field without operating your Profound Qi. You sure you can endure that?”

“I want to try.” Shi Yan replied calmly.

“Good! Follow me.” Luo Hao nodded, and walked away without making a sound. Shi Yan thus followed him.

After they left in silence, Mu Yu Die, who was sleeping on the leaves, slowly opened her eyes.

Gazing at the two people beside the river afar, Mu Yu Die was taken by surprise and puzzlement. She murmured to herself, “ Just reached Nascent Level and he wants to steel himself under the gravitational field. Is this guy insane?”

Mu Yu Die got more and more confused as she thought more, so much that she couldn’t fall asleep any more. Out of strong curiosity, she slipped down the ancient tree dexterously, and sneaked toward Shi Yan and Luo Hao, in order to see what would happen next.

...

“I will use the gravitational field of five times of normal gravity first. Generally, a Nascent Level warrior’s body can only endure this even after undergoing specialised training. You have to do what you are capable of. Once you feel unbearable, stop the procedure at once.”

Standing still, Luo Hao added, “Since it’s your first training, lap around me first. If you can run ten laps without using your Profound Qi, your body will strengthen. Remember, do within your limits!”

After his speech, a violent wave broke out from Luo Hao’s body, all at once.

In an instant, centring about Luo Hao, the gravity surged by five times! The area around him seemed to have collapsed. And the air had turned so heavy that one could hardly breathe.

An invisible pressure suddenly surrounded him all over!

Shi Yan felt as if sand had filled all his cells, and his body was carrying hundreds of pounds of weight. The tendons of his knees tightened, and his heart was beating at a faster rate. Under the effect of increased gravity, all his muscles were under tremendous pressure.

His body slowly adapted to the invisible pressure from the increased gravity . However, he found it hard to breathe, even when merely standing still.

Holy crap!

Shi Yan was too astonished when he felt that overwhelming pressure. He thought to himself that, anyone who went into Luo Hao’s gravitational field would be severely influenced by it. They wouldn't’ be able to use their ability at their best.

It was only five times of gravity. What would happen if it was increased by ten times?

Realizing the horrifying part of this Martial Spirit, Shi Yan took a deep breath, and drove all the distracting thoughts out of his mind. He yelled, and then began to run around Luo Hao.

His body shook as the pressure increased. His feet seemed to be filled with metal, and were heavier than a thousand pounds. Normal running also i became the most terrible torment.

In the gravitational field, his body couldn’t move easily. He felt as if being pressed by a giant; he could hardly breathe.

One lap. His speed slowed down by half.

Three laps. He slowed down by half again.

Five laps. Shi Yan was not running, instead he was walking...

On the sixth lap, Shi Yan’s face was as red as an apple, while the blue veins on his arms were trembling like small snakes, about to jump out of the skin.

On the seventh lap, Shi Yan looked like a beast, as his eyes were almost on fire for the lack of oxygen.

On the eighth lap, Shi Yan staggered. Every step exhausted him. And after every step, he would quiver.

At that time, Luo Hao couldn’t stand it anymore. He shouted, “It is your first gravitational field training. Don’t try too hard! You have reached your limit here! Enough! Stop! Or you will be dead tired.”

Shi Yan raised his head, while his eyes looked as if they were bleeding. He said in a grave tone, “Hehe, that was interesting, let’s go on!”

Luo Hao stood aghast, and only came up with the idea that “this guy went insane!”

In the bushes not far from them, Mu Yu Die was speechless, with her mouth covered by her hand. She had never met someone like Shi Yan before.

Shi Yan didn’t reply Luo Hao. After another beast-like haul, he continued to step forward.. Showing great stress on his face, he finished another lap.

By the last lap, his body was swaying. He had a quiver at each step, and could fall any time, as if he would die at any moment.

With that body state, he finished another lap, step by step. After that, he got a weird smile on his face.

Waking from astonishment, Luo Hao was relieved when he saw Shi Yan was ok. He was about to withdraw the gravitational field before advising Shi Yan.

Mu Yu Die pressed her mouth with her hand, and had an amazed look in her attractive eyes. She had never thought that Shi Yan would achieved this extreme challenge, even if he was at Nascent Level.

“Another lap.” Shi Yan yelled.

“What?” Luo Hao’s body shook greatly, and his eyes grew as sharp as knives. He shouted, “Enough! Don’t fool around!”

Before Luo Hao withdrew the gravitational field, Shi Yan continued to walk unexpectedly. He was staggering, and finally dropped on the ground..

Luo Hao was just about to shout, when he found Shi Yan was using both his hands and feet, crawling up like a demon beast. He seemed to be seeking for death on purpose.

After about half an hour, Shi Yan finally wriggled to the end, as slow as a snail.

Mu Yu Die stared at him from the bushes, completely stunned.


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Chapter 21 Pervert

Shi Yan lied on the ground on his back with his limbs all spread. His face was red, as though were bleeding, and he was panting heavily, , his body twitching every now and then.

Looking at the sparkling stars above, Shi Yan could feel every cell of his body trembling. As his body twitched, his muscles, veins, and bones were all expanding and contracting regularly.

Not using his Profound Qi, he closed his eyes slowly, and began to feel the fantastic shift in his body, the amazing quivers in the muscles and ribs, the destruction and reconstruction of cells, and the slow increase in strength.

As a wild fanatic for extreme sports, Shi Yan knew well that the limit this time was merely the beginning of next adventure.

The limit of a human body could always be broken, and be surpassed time and time again. The potential of human body was infinite.

Those extreme sports experiences had taught him that only by breaking the limit could he obtain rapid progress.

Eyes closed, he could clearly sense the changes happening in his muscle fibres, even without operating his Profound Qi.

Sensing it carefully, Shi Yan soon found the Martial Spirit of Immortal in his body beginning to work. It was repairing his body in an incredible way, reconstructing and strengthening his torn muscles.

Rigorous training under the increased gravity enhanced one’s explosive force. Only when the muscles tore in the extreme condition could it become bigger in size, more powerful , and more explosive after reconstruction.

As a fanatic for extreme sports, Shi Yan was so aware of the truth, which had been verified by his repeated practices. He knew how to strengthen the muscles fastest.

Feeling the effect of The Martial Spirit of Immortal -- the pain in all his muscle fibers, Shi Yan was happy after struggling to sit up, he took the food out of his bag, and began to wolf it down.

Intensive exercise consumed too much of his energy. He had to eat much food to recover soon and gain stronger power.

The dry meat was bitten and slipped into his guts, then it was digested quickly and became nutrition.

In a very short time, he finished all the food which was actually for five people.

As he felt the changes in his body, his smile got broader. After exercising his limbs for a while, he closed his eyes and began to circulate his Profound Qi into Circulation quietly.

As the Profound Qi moved, Shi Yan felt a slight quiver of his body.

Just as he had expected!

The Profound Qi was flowing in his meridans virtually 30% faster than normal speed.

His body became more sensitive after the extreme stress, and likewise, the meridans became abnormally dynamic. His weak meridans seemed to be absorbing the Profound Qi flowing in them, and with that energy, the meirdans expanded and became firmer.

Shi Yan had presumed long ago that strengthening the body was as important as training the Profound Qi; the two were complementary.

Once the body was strong enough, the Profound Qi would concentrate faster. The stronger the body, the more beneficial it was when operating and concentrating the Profound Qi. Somaybe, the two Martial Spirit hidden in his body would enhance as well.

That try had successfully verified Shi Yan’s guess, so he was grinning from ear to ear.
...

In the thick grass far away.

“Die, why are you here? You should have a good rest. Get plenty of sleep, so your Martial Spirit will recover soon.” Luo Hao had noticed Mu Yu Die when he was training Shi Yan with his gravitational field. As Shi Yan sprawled on the ground exhausted, Luo Hao came to Mu Yu Die secretly and complained.

“I couldn’t sleep so I am just walking around. Happened to see you training.” Mu Yu Die smiled gently inno fear.

She paused, and said with a naughty smile, “Uncle Luo, wasit too much for him? I remember that when you trained Zhao Xin, you had just trippled the gravity . Zhao Xin was then at Second Sky of Nascent Level, and had the experience of body strengthening before. Why did you quintupled the gravity for this guy?”

Wearing a bitter smile, Luo Hao shook his head and sighed, “I used the quintuple gravity at the very beginning to stop him from wasting energy and make him quit. Who would have known that he was insane! I was shocked in the end too! And I tried to stop many times, though he didn’t agree!”

“You mean, you just tried to scare him in the beginning? So he won’t ask you to train himself later on?” Mu Yu Die rolled her eyes and felt quite speechless.

“Yup.” Luo Hao sighed again. “You know, to control the gravitational field consumes a lot of Profound Qi, and during that, I can’t be distracted. I neither wanted to waste my own profound Qi, nor wanted him to be paralyzed tomorrow, which would slow our journey. Who would have known that he is a lunatic.”

“So, Uncle Luo, how many laps did you presume that he could have managed?”

“Four laps!”

Luo Hao lifted four fingers and said in a heavy voice, “Average warriors who have just stepped into Nascent Level without any systematic body training can only manage four laps in the qui
tuple gravitational field, five laps at most. That guy is so small and thin, so I thought he would ask me to stop on the fourth lap.”

“...Hmm, but he finished eleven laps.” Mu Yu Die got a weird expression on her face. She couldn’t help but take a glance at Shi Yan afar, who was sitting there as firm as a hill and training again. “God! He, he is upright again!”

“What? He can still move?” Luo Hao was stunned as he too glanced at Shi Yan. He shook his head and said, “Lunatic! This guy is a lunatic! Too reckless! I guess he couldn’t even make a move tomorrow! With this intensive training, he would find his body hurt everywhere tomorrow. I bet we will have to adjust our plan tomorrow.”

“Well, let it be. What an unruly guy!” Mu Yu Die shook her head and smiled subtly.
...

The next morning. Before the sun rose, there was very heavy fog.

“Die, come down. Time to set off.” Under the ancient tree, Luo Hao called Mu Yu Die softly.

“I want to sleep more.” Mu Yu Die murmured as if in dreams, “Why so early today? Weren’t you sure that he couldn’t move today...”

“He is waiting for you.” Luo hao said in a very low voice, his face still being controlled by surprise.

Ten minutes ago, Shi Yan came to him lively for food for three persons.

Right in front of them, Shi Yan wolfed down the food for three people and he patted his belly, and said with satisfaction: “Let’s go.” Luo Hao was totally astonished; he glared at Shi Yan with frightened eyes for a few minutes before he murmured to himself, “Pervert!”

“That guy is waiting for me too?” Mu Yu Die murmured, rubbing her eyes unwillingly.

“Yes, he is more energetic than anyone.” He smiled bitterly.

“What?” Mu Yu Die suddenly woke up, astonished. She looked for Shi Yan under the tree, to find him sitting straight like an arrow with bright eyes. The same as Luo Hao, she murmured, ”Pervert!”

Shi Yan scrutinized his own wearing and was sure that there was nothing strange. He frowned: “Uncle Luo, and Miss Mu, which part of me looks like a pervert?”

“Your whole body!” Mu Yu Die chuckled and got in a joyful mood.

Her chuckle seemed to bring the spring that the beautiful scenes in the Dark Forest seemed dim suddenly compared to her smile.

Zhao Xin and Hu Long were fascinated with goo-goo eyes; but the soon realised their misdemeanour and lowered their head to cover up, not daring to look into Mu Yu Die’s eyes directly.

Shi Yan narrowed his eyes and wandered his firing eyes on Mu Yu Die’s beautiful face audaciously, “Miss Mu, if I were a pervert, I would put my hands on you first. So be careful tonight, I would be unable to control myself. You should scream loudly then. I love women’s crazy screams so much!”

“How dare you!” Di Yalan sniffed.

“Oh, sorry, I forgot there is another pretty woman. Maybe you are angry because I ignored you. Trust me, I will go for you too, don’t be jealous now.” Shi Yan pretended that he just realized that and patted his head to show regret, as if he had forgotten something important.

“Haha! Hahaha!” Mu Yu Die held her stomach and burst into a laugh on the tree, that she almost fell down. She pointed at Shi Yan and giggled, “You funny guy! Why are you so hilarious, haha...”

Di Yalan was dumbstruck, and then chuckled too, helpless about Shi Yan.

Zhao Xin and Hu Long were taken over by confusion too, and their facial expression couldn’t be stranger.

They just couldn’t understand that even when they always acted politely with the two girls, and didn’t dare to do any offense to the girls, they two girls scarcely smiled to them.

While Shi Yan showed not a slightest politeness to the girls with his giddy words, but the girls smiled to him a lot. What the hell is it?

“Oh!” Luo Hao glanced at Shi Yan strangely and smiled, “Well, stop it now, let’s move.”


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Chapter 22 Shi Family

The Merchant Union. Tianyun city. Shi Family. The Stone Room.

Yang Hai, who was a little stout, was sitting on a stone stool with a serious face. Eyes narrowed, he was checking an account book, page by page, and reporting the recent month’s production status of the quarry to the master of Shi Family---Shi Jian.

Though Shi Jian was in his seventies, he looked in good health. Being the master of Shi Family, he was simply wearing a plain gown, which was for martial training. Sitting on a brown stone stool, he had a calm demeanor... He was listening to Yang Hai earnestly.

After Yang Hai illustrated the case, Shi Jian frowned and commented, "Hai, the production in recent months has literally decreased by 20 percent. What's up?"

"It's all because of the Mo and Ling families." Yang Hai sighed, "Many skilled pitmen were lured away by their high salary. We are now in lack of pitmen. We were in bad situation in the secret fight with the two families. Those pitmen feared that we would be beaten by them, plus they were being offered higher price, so the pitmen turned to them."

"Humph!" Shi Jian sniffed. "They are doing that deliberately. Since Mo Yanyu and Ling Shao Feng got engaged, Mo Family and Ling Family have gotten closer and closer. Ling family has also been interfering in the secret fight between Shi and Mo. They must have come to an agreement, or Mo Family couldn't compete with us."

"Master, when do we strike back?" Yang Hai asked.

"No worries. I have a plan." Shi Jian looked assured, then he paused and frowned, "My little bastard grandson Shi Yan, still is not back home?"

"No. I was just about to mention that." Yang Hai looked disturbed, "That stupid boy said he would go to the Dark Forest before he left. It's been one year since he left home. I received information a couple of days ago that Mo Chaoge and Mo Yanyu were in the Dark Forest as well. I'm afraid he had an accident. He didn't take any capable escorts with him. His mother Qing died early, and we have this single child; I am so worried..."

Shi Jian frowned and kept mum for a long while. Then he sighed, "This boy was born without inheriting the Martial Spirit of Petrifaction of Shi Family, and nor he is fascinated by Martial Art. Instead, he was crazy about those odd things, and would always goof around. Troublesome!"

"Master, it's all because of my humble bloodline. If I had Martial Spirit, Qing would have given birth to a kid with Martial Spirit." Yang Hai was ashamed.

"It's all doomed." Shi Jian shook his head, "Hai, I found you by the Endless Sea. Though you are not my own, I treat you as my own son, or, I wouldn't have betrothed my daughter Qing to you. Yes, you don't own Martial Spirit, nor did you train in Martial art. But you play a key role in the development of Shi Family, and the management of our quarries. We wouldn't have accumulated so much wealth if it hadn't been you. Though you don't know about Martial Art, you contribute a lot to the family."

"But nowadays, a strong warrior is much more valuable than anything." Yang Hai smiled and mocked himself, "If I had Martial Spirit, I would have trained in Martial Art. And if Yan had inherited the Martial Spirit of Petrifaction from his mother, he too would have trained in it. But the Martial Spirit is inborn..."

Shi Jian nodded, and sighed, "Yes. It's true. A strong warrior is more valuable than anything."

"Master, could that little boy be in danger?" Yang Hai couldn't help but worry.

“Shouldn't be." Shi Jian thought for a while, and added, "My grandson isn't into Martial Art, so the Mo Family have never set their eyes upon him. Neither Mo Chaoge nor Mo Yanyu had seen him before. So it's not possible that they would harm him."

"But I still feel something's wrong. He should have been home."

"Well, I would let those soldiers in the Silent Town to keep an eye for . The Silent Town was beside the Dark Forest. Once they spot Shi Yan, they would let us know. So don't worry."

"Thank you, Master."

"Why? Your son is also my grandson!" Shi Jian glared at him and berated, "How many times have I told you? Don't call me Master. I'm your adoptive father, and also your father-in-law. You can call me anything but Master."

“I got it, Father."

"Ok."

……

The Dark Forest. A silent night.

Luo Hao was standing still on the side of the track, with quintuple gravitational field surrounding the neighbourhood; it was getting very hard to breath.

Shi Yan was perspiring all over his body, as he pounded in the air and jumped around Luo Hao. Blue veins showed up on his face and neck, quivering as little snakes.

In the grass, Mu Yudie was gazing at them secretly, biting a straw in her mouth.

"Guess how long could he endure today?" Di Yalan asked as she walked up and sat beside her

"You finished your task today?" Mu Yudie chuckled, without replying her.

"Zhao Xin took over. It was really dangerous then! A single horn silver snake was twining around the tree trunk, and I didn't notice it. I was almost bitten by it! You have been able to see me again hadn't I been that agile."

Di Yalan still looked terrified. She cursed, "More and more demon beasts are appearing these days. We have to be careful. We have met five groups of demon beasts in the past three days. They walk around especially at night. You'd better take me with you, next time you want to peep. Or you will be in danger."

"You just wanted to say the last thing right?" Mu Yudie giggled.

"Ha, you found it out." Di Yalan didn't disguise herself and said, "That guy is really something. He broke his limit every day in the past three days, and got more and more stamina. Though I’m at the Third Sky of Nascent Level, I don’t dare break the rules in the quintuple gravitational field of Uncle Luo. This guy is literally insane. Every time, he wouldn’t stop till he faints. Nuts! Nuts!"

“His endurance is most shocking." Mu Yudie shook her head slowly asher eyes glimmered.

“Yes, and he recovered in such a short time. Unbelievable! He is only at the First Sky of Nascent, but he has incredible recovering ability.” Di Yalan was confused too.

"This guy...has so many secrets..." Mu Yu Die thought for a while and murmured, “I have never seen anyone greedier than him! He almost ate up all our food in the past three days. I’m now worried about food. He is such a rice bucket!”

Yalan laughed, “But he talks in a funny way! Any of his casual talks could amuse us a lot. And he has so many novel ideas that I have never heard of. He says that kings must be voted by citizens, and merchants dominate a country. By the way, he even composes sarcastic poems. I’m really confused, how could this 17-year-old boy be filled with so many odd things.”

“And it is this 17-year-old guy who looks as if he wants eat us, when he casts his eyes upon us. I have never seen such possessive eyes. Bastard! Too bad!” Mu Yu Die grinded her teeth, and made an action of cutting in the air, “I would let him know how capable I am!”

“Till your Martial Spirit is back, ha, what’s the big deal to let him look at us? We don’t lose anything. Zhao Xin and Hu Long also peep my a** cowardly when I am in front of them. I despise them more! Compared to them, that bastard is bolder, I like it!” Di Yalan laughed loudly.

“You are all of butterflies?” Mu Yudie smirked: “He is still a kid! Don’t allure him!”

“Have you seen any kid who gives that kind of look?” Di Yalan lowered her voice, “I am guessing that he is older than he looks. Maybe he had adopted some secret skim to make himself look young! Maybe it’s a special secret Martial Spirit...”

“Could be. Seems we have to be careful.” Mu Yudie pondered, and then nodded slowly.

……

"Bang!"

Shi Yan was sprawled on his back. He was totally exhausted. He asked in a raucous voice, "How many laps?"

"Fifteen." Luo Hao answered with a complex look. “You made actions of jumping and rolling during the fifteen laps, which made the pressure much bigger. Young man, you really...can bear that?”

“Well, we will know it tomorrow.” Shi Yan found it even impossible to speak.

Since past three days, he trained in Rampage every time when he was free.

After the arduous training, the meridans on his chest and waist could easily release negative energy at his will, which made him pine away a lot.

He almost trained every part of his body to the most, but the hardest part---his brain...

At night, he would ask Luo Hao to laythe quintuple gravitational field, then he could steel himself under the massive stress.

Three days. In those short three days, he broke his limit from eleven laps to fifteen laps. While running, he also increased the hardness that he jumped and rolled, to consume more energy.

By the intensive training, he found his body getting much more powerful than before. His hands, feet, ribs, muscles, entrails, all became stronger. Every morning, when he woke up from the training, his body would be full of explosiveness, and he could jump several meters high more in the normal gravity. Even his hands and feet became more agile.

He could feel the progress every day clearly; thus he continued the training, and wrecked himself crazily. He steeled himself in the most cruel way that his ability increased rapidly, while his Profound Qi concentrated faster as well.

“Aaao! Aaao!” There came a weird sound from far away.

Luo Hao turned pale and cried out, “It’s the Fourth-level demon beast, Fire Snake! Fire Snake is very tough. They don’t usually go out at night. Someone must have annoyed them!”

"Uncle Luo!" Zhao Xin and Hu Long hurrying and looking anxious.

"What's up!" Lou Hao yelled.

“A troop of warriors are hunting Fire Snake, and the latter are approaching toward us! The warriors are hell bent, thus the Fire Snakes are totally irritated!” Zhao Xin was panicked.

"Shit!" Luo Hao took off the broadsword on his shoulder, and said, "Take care of Die!" Then he dashed away.

Shi Yan, who was suffering all over, sat up immediately and began to practice his Profound Qi. Eyes lit and cool-minded, he silently in the direction of Luo Hao.

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Chapter 23 The Tush Mercenary Union

Zhao Xin and Zhao Long dashed toward the bush and encircled Mu Yu Die.

Mu Yu Die, who hid in the bushes for a long time, stood up ashamed. She took a quick glance at Shi Yan blushingly, and guessed she had lost face.

But soon she found her assumption incorrect, for Shi Yan didn’t even pay attention in her direction; instead, he was glaring at the direction of Luo Hao, as a wary beast.

After a speedy Big Circulation cycle by Shi Yan, the pain had reduced bit by bit. Looking serious, Shi Yan tried to recover himself while focusing on Luo Hao.

“Go after it! The Fire Snake looks very weak now. Catch it! Don’t let it go! ”

“Fire the arrows! Quick!”

“Shoo！Shooo！”

From the woods not far away, came shouts and wrangles. Arrows flew fast in the air, chasing their targets.

“Hooo!”

All of a sudden, there was a fire in the woods. The fierce fire covered all the area in no time, and heavy smoke rose quickly and twined trees, making people unable to breathe.

“Kakaka! Bang Bang bang! Bang!”

The sound of trees exploding, flying arrows, fighters on the move, all came at the same time from that brook. A hard battle was going on in the woods.

“Someone’s there!” An unfriendly shout came from the woods, “You want to steal our success?”

“Don’t get it wrong. I just don’t want the Fire Snake to hurt my people, so I simply stopped it from running that way.” It was Luo Hao’s voice. He seemed to have a dispute with someone far away.

“Humph! We Tush Mercenary Union have kept an eye on this Fire Snake for half a month, you’d better not get involved.”

“I said, I’m not interested in a Fourth Level demon beast.” Luo Hao explained.

“Uncle Luo is having words with someone, let’s go and see.” Mu Yu Die raised her head from the bushes and frowned. She was a little worried since she didn’t know what was happening there.

“Yes, let’s go!” Hu Long grunted, “I have heard of The Tush Mercenary Union. They have very bad reputation. We can’t let them take advantage of Uncle Luo”.

“Then let’s hurry.” Hearing that, Mu Yu Die was in even more panic.

“Ok.”

Zhao Xin nodded and said to Hu Long and Di Yalan, “You still need to encircle Miss Mu when we reach there. Put her safety in the first place, even during fights.”

“Rubbish! We all know this!”Di Yalan was getting impatient.

While muttering, the four quietly rushed toward Luo Hao.

Shi Yan was not at all worried. He stood up after a few minutes.

Feeling the vibrancy of his Profound Qi in the meridans, he at first moved his hands and feet slowly in order to make sure that they were still flexible after the fatigue. Then he followed the four people at leisure.

“Whoa!” One man yelled in surprise, “Beautiful girls, haha, there are two beautiful girls! I have lingered here for two months and have never seen such beautiful girls!

“Captain, you had promised that you would let us be satisfied. Don’t go back on your word.”

“Shut up! They are unavailable!”

……

Shi Yan walked upslowly, and began to look around with a rigid face.

On the ground, was some 8 metres long huge snake , which had patterns of fire all over its body. Its tail was blazing and its body was covered with arrows; meanwhile, large quantity of blood was flowing out of the wound between its eyes.

Eight mercenaries, in uniforms of warriors, were standing around the Fire Snake. They looked robust and rough, and each of them got a tattoo of tush on their left arm. All of them were at least Nascent Level.

The captain’s short brown hair stood as steel needles, and there was a long scar on his left cheek, which extended to his neck, making him look extremely savage.

When Shi Yan arrived, those mercenaries were staring at Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan with lustful eyes. They looked rather infatuated.

However,the captain was not looking at the girls at all, but exchanging glances with Luo Hao. The captain’s right hand was at the cuff, where silver light was glowing now and then--he was prepared to have a fight.

“Go home and look at your mama!” Under those mercenaries’ salacious eyes, Di Yalan couldn’t help cursing.

“Haha! This woman has a fiery temper! I love it!” An inurbane mercenary with bare anhairy chest burst into laughter. He patted his thigh and shouted, “Captain! I want this woman!”

“Son of a *****!” Di Yalan drew out the sword beside her waist and posed to fight, “Come on! Let me see if you are a real man!”

“Haha, here I am!” That big guy was joyful and was about to rush forward.

“Tumu!” Bernard shouted; then he lowered his voice, “Don’t make a fuss! Everything is negotiable!”

“Ok,Captain.” That man with hairy-chest, whose name was Tumu, smirked and shook his legs to Di Yalan, and laughed cunningly, “*****, you will know how manly I am when we are naked.”

“I will cut your balls.” Di Yalan shot back.

Disgusted, Mu Yu Die frowned but didn’t utter a word. She had gotten used to such remarks.

“Who let you come here?” Luo Hao got a little worried. He knew those mercenaries well. These mercenaries, who stayed here to kill demon beasts, were leading an extremely dangerous life; they could be clasped by demon beasts any time.

Under that stress, they didn’t care much about moral or laws, and did nasty things a lot.

Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan were both pretty, and prettiness was the rarest thing in this area. The soft bodies of pretty girls were the best comfort for those brutal mercenaries, so Luo Hao got a bad feeling at the sight of these men.

Shi Yan came up and stood beside Luo Hao silently, and began to observe the Tush Mercenary Union.

“Tumu!” The scared-face captain of the Tush Mercenary Union, Bernard, yelled out viciously, “Take the things!” At the same time, he was gazing at Luo Hao and Shi Yan with cold eyes, silver light glowing from the cuff.

“Yes, Captain!” Tumu stopped teasing Di Yalan and commanded his people to move. Thus, three mercenaries walked up with daggers. They operated on the Fire Snake with blood all over their bodies. Ripping the skin, gouging the eyes, pulling out the tusks. They were doing it carefully and skillfully.

Bernard and the rest of the mercenaries kept staring at Luo Hao and others. They were all ready to assault them once Luo Hao made any move.

Looking rigid, Luo Hao held his glowing broadsword and said, “We don’t have a slightest interest in the Fire Snake. You are busy, we are going.” Luo Hao knew Bernard was tough, so he don’t want to ask for trouble. To bring Mu Yu Die to a safe place was most important.

Seeing they were leaving, Bernard was a little stunned, as he called “Wait.”

Luo Hao got serious as he turned around. He said, “Hey buddies, I don’t want to have dispute with you guys. You guys don’t go too far either.”

“Yaw weee.” Bernard smirked, the muscles on his face getting relaxed, “Friend, you got us wrong. I just want to make a deal with you. Nothing else.”

“What deal?” Luo Hao was surprised.

“What about one Fire Snake’s eye, three tusks, and two metres snake skin for the two women?” Bernard pointed at Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan, and smiled, “My people haven’t touched women for a long time. They need to be satisfied. All women here have a price, and my offer is quite fair. What do you think?”

“F***!” Hu Long’s eyes were almost on fire.

Zhao Xin grunted. Mu Yu Die bit her teeth as well,while Di Yalan waved her sword and shouted, “Come if you dare!”

Only Shi Yan kept silent as he gazed at the captain.

Luo Hao stretched out his hand to stop Di Yalan and shook his head to her. Then he turned around and said to Bernard, “I’m sorry; they are my friends, not my possessions. They can’t be traded.”

“Well, nevermind.” Bernard nodded, and said casually “See you.”

“See you.” Luo Hao looked into his eyes, then yelled, “Let’s go!”

Luo Hao glared at Di Yalan, suggesting her to keep silent.

Zhao Xin and Hu Long were both furious, but they could do nothing after seeing Luo Hao’s eyes. They had to encircle Mu Yu Die and leave. Shi Yan touched his own nose and left without a word too.

...

“Captain, the same as usual?” After Luo Hao and others disappeared into the woods, Tumu giggled, “We know what type of woman you like, so we won’t touch that little girl. But that hot *****, Captain, you have to give her to us.”

Bernard’s eyes got colder and colder, and he nodded gently, “Collect the things on the snake first, and then do what we usually do!”

“Got it.” Tumu smirked, “That woman wanted to cut my cock! I would f*** her to death later!”

“She is a beautiful flower with thorns, and though lower than you, she is at The Third Sky of Nascent Level. You need to be careful. Don’t fail miserably in an easy task.” Bernard grunted. “Remember to kill those men first, don’t merely indulge yourselves in the woman. Be cautious, don’t let anyone run away!”

“Yes, Captain!”

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Chapter 24 Trouble



“Uncle Luo, Why are we retreating?” As they were marching, Di Yalan cut tree trunks with her sword and got angry, “How dare that bastard tease Miss Mu and me! Shit!”

“Nothing would have happened if you two didn’t show up. Now we’ve got ourselves in trouble. Alas.” Luo Hao sighed and said, “Stop babbling. Let’s leave. Hopefully we can escape it.”

“Uncle Luo, we’ve already left, what’s wrong?” Mu Yu Die got confused.

“It’s more complicated than what you think.”

Luo Hao shook his head, “None of those mercenaries are good men. That captain was so salacious when he looked at you that he wouldn’t let it go easily. The four mercenaries operating on the snake appeared to be indifferent when we left, but they were much more interested in you thus it’s unreasonable that they would give up. They must know their captain’s plan well.”

Mu Yu Die’s pretty face turned pale, “Uncle Luo, are you guessing that they would pursue us?”

“Not a guess. I’m very sure about it.”

Luo Hao sighed again: “They didn’t take action at once for they were considering the materials on the demon snake. Other warriors and mercenaries may have come up to collect their prey when they were fighting with us. So surely they will chase us after they get the material on the snake.”

“The Tush Mercenary Union have a really bad reputation. I heard they do a lot of bad things . Uncle Luo is right.” Hu Long added.

“Uncle Luo, sorry...We were worried about you.” Mu Yu Die was in low mood.

“I understand.” Luo Hao replied. Suddenly, his body, which was moving fast in the wood, stopped, and he put Mu Yu Die down gently.

Thus Shi Yan stopped as well. He asked while frowning: “What happened? They are pursuing us?”

Luo Hao glanced at Shi Yan with praise and nodded, replied with a rigid face: “Must be them.”

“Uncle Luo, what should we do now?” Hu Long was furious and he yelled: “They went too far! Fight against them like hell!”

Luo Hao looked serious. He thought quickly and ordered: “Di Yalan, carry Die and go first, and send signals to us all the way. Young man, you go with them and be careful. Choose untraversed regions and don’t get into high-level demon beast areas.”

“What about you?” Shi Yan asked calmly.

“We three will stay. Without Die, we can take sneak attacks separately. After suspending them, we will catch up. Those guys won’t fight with us if they don’t see the girl. They should stop soon.” Luo Hao replied fast.

“Got it.” Shi Yan nodded and smiled light-heartedly: “Don’t worry uncle, where there are these two pretty girls, there will be me.”

“Okay, go!” Luo Hao replied.

Di Yalan wanted to stay and fight, but she had to compromise under Luo Hao’s firm eyes.

She stamped on the ground with regret and crouched to carry Mu Yu Die, then she ran to the thickest part of the forest.

After some hesitation, Shi Yan took out a paper bag from his bag and put it in Luo Hao’s hand: “I got this poisonous powder by accident. It is called “Seven Snake Saliva” and made of poison fluid of seven types of snakes. It’s very easy to use it. Just wipe it on the weapon and when it cuts even a little it will take effect...”

Before Luo Hao could say anything, Shi Yan smirked and advanced in the direction of Di Yalan.

“Uncle Luo, isn’t it too mean? A warrior has his own self esteem. To use poison is contemptible.” Zhao Xin frowned and looked at the poison powder in Luo Hao’s hand with contempt, then he murmured: “We know nothing about that boy, and he’s got so many vicous things. It’s dangerous to let him stay with Miss Mu.”

“Zhao Xin, there are not many rules here and so stop the crap. We would have been dead bodies if it weren’t for his Bone Chilling Powder, and you wouldn’t be here talking about righteousness.”

Luo Hao reproached angrily and asked: “Everybody keeps some powder, but don’t use it too early in case it irritates those mercenaries. If it gets worse, don’t hesitate to wipe it on weapons. You can reproach that boy again only when you two are still alive, understand?”

“Got it.”
...
In the wood.

Bernard and his seven people were flying fast in the wood with cold face and obscene smiles.

“Shoo shoo shoo!”

Arrowed flew out from the wood one after another hard and quickly, which made the mercenaries stop and react.

Bernard stopped at once and smirked. His right hand in the cuff finally stretched out: it was a shining silver iron hand! A bunch of silver light exploded as the iron hand stretched out and the light then divided into seven crescent knives in the air and flew toward Luo Hao’s shelter with a rush.

“Ka ka ka!”

Tree branches in the wood exploded and fell one after another as the knives flew by. The knives let out frightening silver lights and bombarded heavily in the place where Luo Hao hid himself.

“Bang bang bang!”

An ancient tree collapsed suddenly after being cut by the knives. Luo Hao’s figure showed up for a moment and disappeared into the wood again quickly.

“Tumu, go there with Kinmo. We will take care of this side.” Bernard smiled cunningly with his heavy face, and added: “The Superior Warriorsare all here, while the women and that boy have run away. Remember, I need women alive. If you kill them, you can’t get even one crystal coin!”

“Be at ease, captain. I promise, I will send that woman to you clean and beautiful that you can serve her however as you like.” Tumu laughed loudly, “Kinmo, let’s go first! Haha! That hot chick, haha, I will have her first. You are lucky today, you can taste her after me.”

“Yaww, I can’t wait anymore!” The ugly mercenary with pimples all over his face laughed too as he advanced with Tumu.

“Bad!” Luo Hao got stunned, and was about to send a signal.

He didn’t presume that Bernard was so experienced with this kind of situation. Bernard saw through Luo Hao’s plan at once and sent people to chase Di Yalan pointedly.

“Stay here.” Bernard sneered as he rushed to Luo Hao, “My friend, you want to suspend us, don’t you? Now, I won’t leave, so don’t you leave as well. Let’s trade blows and exercise our muscles.”

As soon as Bernard moved, the other mercenaries separated too to search for Hu Long and Zhao Xin’s traces.

...

Carrying Mu Yu Die on her back, Di Yalan shuttled back and forth in the wood. Everytime she touched the ground, her well-shaped long legs would pedal on the earth and thus her bonny body bounced several metres high, like a female leopard pursuing preys.
While up in the air, her short skirt under her armour flew with the wind, and her plump *** showed an attractive shape, looking extremely elastic.

Shi Yan was staring at her figure joyfully and couldn’t stop praising her hot body. No wonder those mercenaries couldn’t get rid of Di Yalan in their mind.

“Little bastard, stop looking at my ***! Take care of the surroundings! Keep an eye on any demon beasts’ trails here!” Di Yalan seemed to have a pair of eyes on her back, when she shouted while running.

“It’s fine.” Shi Yan broadened his mouth, “There are no trails of demon beasts at the time being, but it seems someone’s chasing us; I seem to hear their light steps.”

“Someone’s after us?” Di Yalan was stunned, “It couldn’t be? The three including Uncle Luo are there; they didn’t stop those crazy dogs?”

Shi Yan then stopped, grovelled on the ground, and leaned his ear against the ground. He said with a serious face: “Uncle Luo did not stop all the crazy dogs, two of which are almost here.”

Di Yalan was astonished and stopped in front, she observed with a pale face: “Kid, carry Miss Mu and leave fast. I will stay and fight with them.”

“No, I will stay.”

Shi Yan shook his head, took a deep breath and answered in a low voice: “I was just thinking about testing my training recently. Keep going and I will catch up. Hmm, by the way I will leave some marks as well, in case uncle Luo Hao loses trace of us after dumping those mercenaries.”

“You...” on Di Yalan’s back, Mu Yu Die turned her head to Shi Yan and gazed at him numbly. Then a glow crossed her eyes, and she said with a complicated look on her pretty face: “You were out of this trouble originally”

“I know.” Shi Yan smiled: “But for you, I’m in. I still owe you a lot. Once I pay it back, I will leave even if you ask me to stay.” Waving his hand, he urged Di Yalan: “Sister, what the hell are you doing?! Move!”

Di Yalan felt it a little heartbreaking to see him again, so she turned her head away and said: “Little bastard, live on happily. If you can catch up again, I, I will allow you to touch my...butt.” In an instant, she stamped on the ground and dashed out mightily.

“Haha, then keep yourself clean and wait for me.” Shi Yan laughed and shouted to her: “I will be back soon.”

Di Yalan had a quiver and almost fell. She gritted her teeth and cursed in her mind with brushed face: “This damn bastard!”

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Chapter 25 The Ghost



With his dagger, Shi Yan first engraved ugly patterns of butterflies on two tree trunks, then he climbed onto one of the trees, cut down a branch which was as thick as an arm, chopped it into five pieces, sharpened one end of each piece, and wiped Seven Snake Saliva onto the sharpened ends casually.

It took him two minutes to do all these things.

After two minutes, Tumu and Kinmo, the two mercenaries from the Tush Mercenary Union, showed up as expected.

Tumu and Kinmo didn’t even take Shi Yan and the two women seriously. They were still discussing how to enjoy Di Yalan with salacious faces while shuttling in the wood.

“Shoo! Shoo!”

Sharpened branches went through dense leaves as sunlight and flew toward Tumu and Kinmo.

Tumu didn’t care about it at all. He waved his axe aimlessly and chopped two tree branches down, then he laughed happily: “Look at this guy, too shallow haha. He treated us with these tree branches to lose our face?”

“Poor guy.” Kinmo shook his head and sneered.

“Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!”

Another three tree branches came over mightily.

Tumu got a little impatient that he drew a semicircle in the air with his axe which was as long as an arm, and three tree branches fell on the ground in the silver light.

Shi Yan showed up from among the bushes slowly and stared at them coldly: “You two will fight together, or come up one by one?”

Narrowing his eye, Tumu raised his head and examined Shi Yan. Then he shook his head disappointedly: “A young kid! Of Nascent Level at most! You talk big but have limited ability. Sorry but I’m not interested.”

After saying that, Tumu turned his eyes away from Shi Yan and walked away with his voice: “Kinmo, take care of it quickly. Catch up to me soon, or I will f*** that ***** twice. Hahaha!”

Kinmo sniffed, then threw his huge wolf tooth stick on the ground mightily, which stuck deep in the earth. “Kid, come down, I won’t use my weapon, and don’t let me climb the tree to catch you. I’m in a hurry. Be quick.”

“Yeah, I’m in a hurry too.” Shi Yan replied with indifference and calmness in his eyes. Then he jumped down the ancient tree at once, threw the dagger out with all might into the earth beside that Wolf Tooth Stick.

“Bang!” Shi Yan stood ten metres away in front of Kinmo and raised up his hands and waved at Kinmo, “I won’t use a weapon either.”

“Hey kid, you’re rather audacious!”Kinmo broaded his mouth as all the pimples gathered on his face. With vicious eyes, he rushed toward Shi Yan at once.

All of a sudden, Kinmo’s hands swelled and blue veins beat on his fists. As he assaulted with his fists, there came sounds of “Hoooohooo” in the air. Along with that, prints of fists occurred in the air, and deepened as Kinmo continued his assault.

After five steps, there appeared dozens of fist prints in front of Kinmo.

“Mortal Level Martial skill, Star Fists!”

Shi Yan narrowed his eyes and began to operate his Profound Qi cleared-mindedly without any other thought. There was only the fist prints in his eyes and only the idea of “kill Kinmo” in his mind!

“Bang!”

With a heavy shake in his mind, he was suddenly guided into a novel world.

His eyes, ears and body suddenly got much more sensitive than before. All of the surroundings grew much clearer. Gazing at Kinmo, he could specifically sense the speed and rate at which Kinmo’s Profound Qi flew in the arm.

The fist prints which had pervaded the air disappeared in an instant and the air got clearer. Only Kinmo’s waving fists were left in his eyes. Furthermore, he could even see the tracks of the fists moving.

After taking a deep breath, Shi Yan shouted and his arms contracted and dried at a speed which could be seen by naked eye; soon his arms were twined with vague, white smoke.

At the same time, from his neck, his skin began to petrify into grey rock, which was as hard as iron.

Vague black light spilt from his skin and covered all of his skinny body.

Kinmo’s iron fists, with the power to shatter rocks, struck toward Shi Yan’s chest.

The Dark Light Shield twisted, and after being struck by Kinmo’s iron fists, it turned into dark light spots and exploded at once. Kinmo’s fists went through the Dark Light Shield, got less powerful, and struck on Shi Yan’s chest heavily.

“Bang!”

“Kaaar!”

The sound of striking and bone breaking came at the same moment.

Kinmo’s face twisted at once.

The nasty pain on his fists made Kinmo realize that it was not Shi Yan’s chest, but his fists that had been splintered.

Waving the painful arms with a hideous face, Kinmo looked at Shi Yan who was as cold as a rock, rather terrified. He seemed to remember something at that moment, thus he shouted: “Martial Spirit of Petrifaction of the Shi Family! You are from the Shi Family of the Merchant Union?”

“Brilliant.” Shi Yan smiled with coldness.

Kinmo realized he was at a disadvantage and thus tried to run, but it was too late since he was too close to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan stretched out his hand like lightning and held Kinmo’s neck. The white fog around his arm containing negative emotions as anger, despair and insanity flew into Kinmo’s body all at once.

Kinmo was so frightened that he felt himself fall into hell and screamed while quivering: “No! No! Nooooo!”

Kinmo kept screaming hard and waved his iron fists aimlessly as if he couldn’t see a thing and tried to defend from ghosts which were approaching him.

Shi Yan had released his hand a long time ago. The white smoke had disappeared and his face turned normal. He was counting the time in his mind.

One, two, three, four, five...

While counting, Shi Yan walked to his dagger in the earth at an ease. He pulled it out and walked to Kinmo in light steps.

When Shi Yan counted to seventeen, Kinmo seemed to adapted to the fear and calmed down gradually. His eyes was becoming clear and he was about to come around.

Seventeen second was far more than enough to kill a person dozens of times.

Nodding his head lightly, Shi Yan got to know more about the situation. He dashed up like lightning and slipped the dagger in Kinmo’s neck precisely.

Blood jetted out of his neck as Kinmo finally got his eyesight back. Then he stared at Shi Yan with hatred and fell down with regret.

Squatting down aside Kinmo, Shi Yan wiped the blood away on the dagger with Kinmo’s coat, and examined Kinmo’s body, to find some food, hundreds of purple crystal coins and two sharp tusks of the Fire Snake.

After putting these things into his bag without any hesitance, Shi Yan took a deep breath. He felt Kinmo’s Profound Qi had all went into his own meridans. Then he stood up and murmured: “The Second Sky of the Nascent level would get lost for seventeen seconds under the negative power of Rampage. This Martial Skill is really too weird. Maybe the more the negative power being concentrated, the stronger its power...”

He talked to himself for a while. Then he pulled himself together, held his breath and rushed in the direction where Tumu ran to.

...

“*****! Too damn hot! Haha! But I love it!” Tumu was laughing happily and having a fight with Di Yalan with his axe.

Mu Yu Die’s eyes were cold. Cuddling her zither, she looked panicked and seemed to make a difficult decision.

The heavy axe looked light as a feather fan which weighed nothing in Tumu’s hand.

As the axe shone now and then, Di Yalan’s short sword was at a disadvantage. Once the short sword touched the axe, Di Yalan’s thin body would shake. Apparently, Tumu had a much stronger Profound Qi than Di yalan.

Tumu’s axe left shadows in the air as he waved it hard, and the shadows entangled Di Yalan like wheels. Between the light reflected from the axe, Di Yalan’s long hair flew up and down, and her short skirt got cracked through which her thigh showed up now and then.

“*****, you know my ability huh? Don’t worry, you will know soon that my best thing is not my Martial Skill. Hahaha!” Tumu laughed with joy and he seemed to plan not to defeat Di Yalan too soon. He tried to tease her deliberately.
Di Yalan was so furious but she couldn’t talk back and could only defend from him with much effort.

“Sister, need any help?” Shi Yan’s casual banter came from the woods all of a sudden.

The next moment, Shi yan showed up with the dagger in his hand. He wandered his eyes onto Di Yalan’s thighs and butt through the cracks on the skirt for a while and praised: “Round and smooth, plump and cute, too good, terrific!”

Di Yanlan was very surprised. Since she had no time to talk back now, she took a step back and answered loudly: “You bastard! How did you survive!”

Tumu’ face got frozen and pale; he didn’t continue to chase after Di Yalan but turned his head to Shi yan and asked in a low voice: “Is Kinmo dead?”

“What do you think?” Holding his dagger, Shi Yan walked near him step by step wearing a mysterious smile.

As he was advancing, his arms dried up again. The negative power split out from his pores, and twined his arms again.

Kinmo’s Profound Qi was not all purified, but as Shi Yan began to operate “Rampage”, Kinmo’s despair and hatred before his death suddenly gushed out from his meridans, forming the hideous shadow image in front of Shi Yan, which looked just the same as Kinmo.

“Kinmo!” Tumu was so astonished that his robust body quivered!

Impossible!

In front of Shi Yan, Kinmo’s ghostly shadow which was as light as a feather was rattling his sabre. The dim eyes which were filled with hatred, showed that he would even want to kill all the people in the world.

Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die were astonished too. With their thin bodies shaking, they couldn’t help screaming: “What the hell is that!”

Even Shi Yan himself was astounded. Looking at the ghostly shadow in front of him, he didn’t know what to do.

“Kinmo! Kinmo! What happened to you?” Under Kinmo’s eyes full of unforgettable hatred, Tumu stepped back and shouted: “I’m are your companions! You enemy is behind you!”

Tumu’s cry reminded Shi Yan. His will changed. Now there was only one thought in his mind---- to kill Tumu. The negative power around his arms shot out like a weird, pale snake to Tumu.

Kinmo’s shadow seemed to be stimulated by the negative power and flew lightly to him and catched him brutally.

“Kill!” Shi Yan yelled and rushed out. Surprised, Di Yalan raised her sword and cut it toward Tumu too.

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Chapter 25 The Ghost



With his dagger, Shi Yan first engraved ugly patterns of butterflies on two tree trunks, then he climbed onto one of the trees, cut down a branch which was as thick as an arm, chopped it into five pieces, sharpened one end of each piece, and wiped Seven Snake Saliva onto the sharpened ends casually.

It took him two minutes to do all these things.

After two minutes, Tumu and Kinmo, the two mercenaries from the Tush Mercenary Union, showed up as expected.

Tumu and Kinmo didn’t even take Shi Yan and the two women seriously. They were still discussing how to enjoy Di Yalan with salacious faces while shuttling in the wood.

“Shoo! Shoo!”

Sharpened branches went through dense leaves as sunlight and flew toward Tumu and Kinmo.

Tumu didn’t care about it at all. He waved his axe aimlessly and chopped two tree branches down, then he laughed happily: “Look at this guy, too shallow haha. He treated us with these tree branches to lose our face?”

“Poor guy.” Kinmo shook his head and sneered.

“Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!”

Another three tree branches came over mightily.

Tumu got a little impatient that he drew a semicircle in the air with his axe which was as long as an arm, and three tree branches fell on the ground in the silver light.

Shi Yan showed up from among the bushes slowly and stared at them coldly: “You two will fight together, or come up one by one?”

Narrowing his eye, Tumu raised his head and examined Shi Yan. Then he shook his head disappointedly: “A young kid! Of Nascent Level at most! You talk big but have limited ability. Sorry but I’m not interested.”

After saying that, Tumu turned his eyes away from Shi Yan and walked away with his voice: “Kinmo, take care of it quickly. Catch up to me soon, or I will f*** that ***** twice. Hahaha!”

Kinmo sniffed, then threw his huge wolf tooth stick on the ground mightily, which stuck deep in the earth. “Kid, come down, I won’t use my weapon, and don’t let me climb the tree to catch you. I’m in a hurry. Be quick.”

“Yeah, I’m in a hurry too.” Shi Yan replied with indifference and calmness in his eyes. Then he jumped down the ancient tree at once, threw the dagger out with all might into the earth beside that Wolf Tooth Stick.

“Bang!” Shi Yan stood ten metres away in front of Kinmo and raised up his hands and waved at Kinmo, “I won’t use a weapon either.”

“Hey kid, you’re rather audacious!”Kinmo broaded his mouth as all the pimples gathered on his face. With vicious eyes, he rushed toward Shi Yan at once.

All of a sudden, Kinmo’s hands swelled and blue veins beat on his fists. As he assaulted with his fists, there came sounds of “Hoooohooo” in the air. Along with that, prints of fists occurred in the air, and deepened as Kinmo continued his assault.

After five steps, there appeared dozens of fist prints in front of Kinmo.

“Mortal Level Martial skill, Star Fists!”

Shi Yan narrowed his eyes and began to operate his Profound Qi cleared-mindedly without any other thought. There was only the fist prints in his eyes and only the idea of “kill Kinmo” in his mind!

“Bang!”

With a heavy shake in his mind, he was suddenly guided into a novel world.

His eyes, ears and body suddenly got much more sensitive than before. All of the surroundings grew much clearer. Gazing at Kinmo, he could specifically sense the speed and rate at which Kinmo’s Profound Qi flew in the arm.

The fist prints which had pervaded the air disappeared in an instant and the air got clearer. Only Kinmo’s waving fists were left in his eyes. Furthermore, he could even see the tracks of the fists moving.

After taking a deep breath, Shi Yan shouted and his arms contracted and dried at a speed which could be seen by naked eye; soon his arms were twined with vague, white smoke.

At the same time, from his neck, his skin began to petrify into grey rock, which was as hard as iron.

Vague black light spilt from his skin and covered all of his skinny body.

Kinmo’s iron fists, with the power to shatter rocks, struck toward Shi Yan’s chest.

The Dark Light Shield twisted, and after being struck by Kinmo’s iron fists, it turned into dark light spots and exploded at once. Kinmo’s fists went through the Dark Light Shield, got less powerful, and struck on Shi Yan’s chest heavily.

“Bang!”

“Kaaar!”

The sound of striking and bone breaking came at the same moment.

Kinmo’s face twisted at once.

The nasty pain on his fists made Kinmo realize that it was not Shi Yan’s chest, but his fists that had been splintered.

Waving the painful arms with a hideous face, Kinmo looked at Shi Yan who was as cold as a rock, rather terrified. He seemed to remember something at that moment, thus he shouted: “Martial Spirit of Petrifaction of the Shi Family! You are from the Shi Family of the Merchant Union?”

“Brilliant.” Shi Yan smiled with coldness.

Kinmo realized he was at a disadvantage and thus tried to run, but it was too late since he was too close to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan stretched out his hand like lightning and held Kinmo’s neck. The white fog around his arm containing negative emotions as anger, despair and insanity flew into Kinmo’s body all at once.

Kinmo was so frightened that he felt himself fall into hell and screamed while quivering: “No! No! Nooooo!”

Kinmo kept screaming hard and waved his iron fists aimlessly as if he couldn’t see a thing and tried to defend from ghosts which were approaching him.

Shi Yan had released his hand a long time ago. The white smoke had disappeared and his face turned normal. He was counting the time in his mind.

One, two, three, four, five...

While counting, Shi Yan walked to his dagger in the earth at an ease. He pulled it out and walked to Kinmo in light steps.

When Shi Yan counted to seventeen, Kinmo seemed to adapted to the fear and calmed down gradually. His eyes was becoming clear and he was about to come around.

Seventeen second was far more than enough to kill a person dozens of times.

Nodding his head lightly, Shi Yan got to know more about the situation. He dashed up like lightning and slipped the dagger in Kinmo’s neck precisely.

Blood jetted out of his neck as Kinmo finally got his eyesight back. Then he stared at Shi Yan with hatred and fell down with regret.

Squatting down aside Kinmo, Shi Yan wiped the blood away on the dagger with Kinmo’s coat, and examined Kinmo’s body, to find some food, hundreds of purple crystal coins and two sharp tusks of the Fire Snake.

After putting these things into his bag without any hesitance, Shi Yan took a deep breath. He felt Kinmo’s Profound Qi had all went into his own meridans. Then he stood up and murmured: “The Second Sky of the Nascent level would get lost for seventeen seconds under the negative power of Rampage. This Martial Skill is really too weird. Maybe the more the negative power being concentrated, the stronger its power...”

He talked to himself for a while. Then he pulled himself together, held his breath and rushed in the direction where Tumu ran to.

...

“*****! Too damn hot! Haha! But I love it!” Tumu was laughing happily and having a fight with Di Yalan with his axe.

Mu Yu Die’s eyes were cold. Cuddling her zither, she looked panicked and seemed to make a difficult decision.

The heavy axe looked light as a feather fan which weighed nothing in Tumu’s hand.

As the axe shone now and then, Di Yalan’s short sword was at a disadvantage. Once the short sword touched the axe, Di Yalan’s thin body would shake. Apparently, Tumu had a much stronger Profound Qi than Di yalan.

Tumu’s axe left shadows in the air as he waved it hard, and the shadows entangled Di Yalan like wheels. Between the light reflected from the axe, Di Yalan’s long hair flew up and down, and her short skirt got cracked through which her thigh showed up now and then.

“*****, you know my ability huh? Don’t worry, you will know soon that my best thing is not my Martial Skill. Hahaha!” Tumu laughed with joy and he seemed to plan not to defeat Di Yalan too soon. He tried to tease her deliberately.
Di Yalan was so furious but she couldn’t talk back and could only defend from him with much effort.

“Sister, need any help?” Shi Yan’s casual banter came from the woods all of a sudden.

The next moment, Shi yan showed up with the dagger in his hand. He wandered his eyes onto Di Yalan’s thighs and butt through the cracks on the skirt for a while and praised: “Round and smooth, plump and cute, too good, terrific!”

Di Yanlan was very surprised. Since she had no time to talk back now, she took a step back and answered loudly: “You bastard! How did you survive!”

Tumu’ face got frozen and pale; he didn’t continue to chase after Di Yalan but turned his head to Shi yan and asked in a low voice: “Is Kinmo dead?”

“What do you think?” Holding his dagger, Shi Yan walked near him step by step wearing a mysterious smile.

As he was advancing, his arms dried up again. The negative power split out from his pores, and twined his arms again.

Kinmo’s Profound Qi was not all purified, but as Shi Yan began to operate “Rampage”, Kinmo’s despair and hatred before his death suddenly gushed out from his meridans, forming the hideous shadow image in front of Shi Yan, which looked just the same as Kinmo.

“Kinmo!” Tumu was so astonished that his robust body quivered!

Impossible!

In front of Shi Yan, Kinmo’s ghostly shadow which was as light as a feather was rattling his sabre. The dim eyes which were filled with hatred, showed that he would even want to kill all the people in the world.

Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die were astonished too. With their thin bodies shaking, they couldn’t help screaming: “What the hell is that!”

Even Shi Yan himself was astounded. Looking at the ghostly shadow in front of him, he didn’t know what to do.

“Kinmo! Kinmo! What happened to you?” Under Kinmo’s eyes full of unforgettable hatred, Tumu stepped back and shouted: “I’m are your companions! You enemy is behind you!”

Tumu’s cry reminded Shi Yan. His will changed. Now there was only one thought in his mind---- to kill Tumu. The negative power around his arms shot out like a weird, pale snake to Tumu.

Kinmo’s shadow seemed to be stimulated by the negative power and flew lightly to him and catched him brutally.

“Kill!” Shi Yan yelled and rushed out. Surprised, Di Yalan raised her sword and cut it toward Tumu too.

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Chapter 26 The Wager


Tumu’s face looked gloomy as he watched Kinmo’s face with astonishment. He was frightened.

That shadow did not have substance but was like a ghost, which made Tumu, a brave and battlewise mercenary, apprehended. He took a step back from this abnormal thing and tried to know the situation better.

Shi Yan immediately knew that Tumu was scared, as he stepped back. He took the right timing and rushed out with his dagger like a leopard. At the same time, he asked Di Yalan to fight together with him.

Though Di Yalan was a little scared too, since she knew that ghostly shadow was released by Shi yan, she plucked up courage to besiege Tumu.

The pale, white light smoke, which contained refined negative power, began to intertwine Tumu. Kinmo’s ghostly shadow was following it and went in front of Tumu at once.

Tumu suddenly concentrated. Without any hesitation, he began to practice his dense Profound Qi of The Third Sky of Nascent Level with his secret formula. The Profound Qi gushed into his left hand and exploded into a red fire.

In an instant, there appeared a red protective shield concentrated by pure Profound Qi in Tumu’s left hand. That red protective shield was glowing red light and letting out hot energy, though it was merely as big as a washbasin.

This shield, concentrated by pure Profound Qi, was apparently Tumu’s vital Martial Skill, which required much energy to operate it.

Just as the protective shield was produced, Tumu was already perspiring hard on his forehead. He must have consumed a lot of energy.

The protective shield was sticking on Tumu’s left hand. Seeing Shi Yan’s negative power pouring toward him, Tumu immediately raised the shield to block the negative power and Kinmo’s ghostly shadow.

“Cheeee cheee cheee!”

That strip of white fog containing negative mood, along with Kinmo’s ghostly shadow sparkled after bumping on the protective shield.

In the pervading sparkles, the white fog faded away and the ghostly shadow seemed to be melting and dispersed into the air bit by bit.

Noticing the shield could melt these two weird things, Tumu became a little relieved. He then sneered cunningly: “Kid, let me see what else you’ve got!”

A cold, evil air dispersed from the sparkles with the continuous sound of “chee chee”. Not being noticed, the air went into Tumu's body through his pores all over his body.

After that sneer, Tumu’s face turned dumb and panic welled up from his eyes.

Bright light crossed Shi Yan's eyes!

According to Tumu’s facial expressions, though Tumu tried to clean the negative power, he couldn't wipe it all away. Some of it had already invaded his mind.

“Take action!”

After a loud yell, Shi Yan sped up to the maximum speed. He appeared in front of Tumu all of a sudden, leaving a light shadow in the open air.

The dagger, with glowing blue light, stabbed toward Tumu’s neck with a rush, which looked as if it was lightning.

The protective shield in Tumu's hand was getting hotter and hotter. The revering temperature almost woke Tumu up from the numbness.

Tumu opened his eyes abruptly!

“Haaaaooo!’

Tumu hauled, thus he suppressed all the negative emotions which had invaded his mind, at the same time, he drew a circle in the air with his axe in the right hand.

"Kangchang!"

Shi Yan's dagger stabbed into the axe while a nasty explosion came out from the axe. To his surprise, it rushed towards Shi Yan's arm through the dagger.

Shi Yan's arm got so numb that he realized Tumu's Profound Qi was very dense, therefore he moved the dagger away from the axe soon.

Tumu didn't react to Shi Yan. Instead, he turned his body like wind and blocked Di Yalan's short sword which came behind him with his axe. He said with a cold face: "I will f*** you as hard as I can!"

Shi Yan grew rigid and the bloodthirstiness surged in his mind.

Waving his dagger, his muscles on the legs began to contract slowly as well. Negative power thus gushed out from his pores on the legs, covering a pale fog on them.

As his hands and feet all went through the changes, Shi Yan couldn't control his bloodthirstiness any more.

He was overwhelmed by the desire for killing, and his eyes were getting more and more red, while his expression became as hideous as a devil from hell. Even Mu Yu Die who was beside him was so frightened that she covered her mouth with her hand.

"Hoooohoooo!"

Shi Yan's breaths got heavier and heavier. He stomped and could feel endless power in his feet. His skinny body advanced ten meters in one second!

Like a flying arrow. Fast and mighty!

Tumu's axe flew swiftly in the air and made cracking sounds endlessly. It forced Di Yalan to retreat as her arms got more and more painful holding the short sword. She turned weaker and weaker under the severe attacks of Tumu's strong Profound Qi.

A forceful, murderous air suddenly came from his back. Tumu had a hideous look in his eyes as he struck his axe again, making Di Yanlan retreat while trembling.
"Bang!"

Tumu kicked his leg impatiently onto Di Yalan's smooth abdomen heavily and she was kicked about seven meters away.

Di Yalan fell on ground on her back and she was bleeding severely from her mouth. Her Profound Qi was disordered and she lost all her strength at once.

Tumu's kick contained a surging explosiveness as his Profound Qi exploded in an instant. He aimed to drain his fighting capacity slowly so that he could deal with Shi Yan devotionally.

Turning around, Tumu brandished his axe with a vicious face: “Kid, I’m gonna slice you into one hundred pieces!”

Shi Yan ran up like an arrow and with the help of the impulsion, he operated all his Profound Qi into his dagger.

As he brandished his dagger, the shadows of the dagger fell like rain drops; along with it, a cold vicious power sent out from the dagger and enveloped Tumu inside it.

“Humph!”

Tumu took a deep breath and began to wave the protective shield with his left hand. Warm wind flew out from the protective shield endlessly and drove the cold, vicious air away. Then he took up his axe and struck Shi Yan's dagger precisely.

“Bang!”

With the hard thump, Shi Yan felt a severe pain in his wrist, when his dagger suddenly flew out and fell down on the earth dozens metres away behind him.

Tumu was having a hard time too. The power gushing out from Shi Yan's dagger was extremely vicious as well. As he defended from it, he retreated with a stagger.

At the same time, an air of coldness, evil and panic, sprawled through his arms into the brain like a small snake and dragged him into a bloody atmosphere again.

Shi Yan stood still as he saw Tumu' eyes become perplexed and retreated staggering into the direction of Di Yalan.

At that moment, his dagger was dozens of meters away behind him. He would miss the best timing if he went to pick up his dagger and rush to Tumu; maybe Tumu would have come to his senses by then.

That will flashed across in his mind like lightning and his eyes turned cold. Then he rushed to Tumu with all his strength and fettered Tumu’s waist with his arms; He pushed up with his legs and push Tumu toward Di Yalan with all might, and yelled: “Raise your sword! Stab!”

On hearing his shout, Di Yalan, who was lying on the ground exhausted, saw a huge dark shadow fall onto her.

Without any hesitance, Di Yalan summoned all her strength and raised her short sword which was as long as her arm.

“Puuuuh!”

As the sword stabbed into Tumu’s heart, he woke up with a severe pain; he hauled crazily and tried hard to keep balanced.

The sword stabbed into the back part of his heart thus his body tilted in the air, and he didn’t fall on Di Yalan immediately.

With the support of the sword, Tumu kept that tilting position magically and didn’t fall immediately, as if his legs had rooted in the ground.

Tumu struggled with all his strength but only to find his hands fettered by Shi Yan tightly.

Shi Yan looked rather cool, and he smirked: "Wild dog, you are done!"

Keeping that position, Tumu shouted: “Batard! Let go of your hand! The sword stabbed me; it can also stab you! Let go of your hand! You want to die with me?”

Tumu was really doughty that he could still raise his leg like lightning under this situation; he kicked his knees on Shi Yan’s belly heavily.

Shi Yan injected his Profound Qi crazily into his arms. Since he couldn’t operated the Dark Light Shield, he tried to use the Martial Spirit of Petrifaction.

Tumu struck his knees on Shi Yan again and again. Under that great striking, the power of Petrifaction seemed to be concentrated in Shi Yan’s abdomen, while other parts of his body turned normal. As well, his abdomen grew grey and was as hard as stone.

Under the attacks of Tumu, who was at the Third Sky of Nascent Level, Shi Yan could still support himself with the Martial Spirit of Petrifaction. Though he felt extreme pain in his abdomen, he didn’t spit out blood and his defensive power became abnormally strong.

Di Yalan who was under them then came to notice that Shi Yan and Tumu were hugging tightly. If she thrusted her short sword toward them, or Tumu fell down heavily, that sword would get through Tumu’s body, and then Shi Yan’s body, and stick them together.

Knowing that Shi Yan would be stabbed through along with Tumu, Di Yalan didn’t dare act rashly, so she screamed: “Bastard! Release!”

“Wild dog, I’m shorter than you! But you will be the dead one, and I, could only lose an arm at worst!”

Shi Yan looked cold with a smile. Then with Tumu’s frightened eyes, he threw Tumu and himself with all his might onto Di Yalan.

“Poooh! Poooh!”

The sound of the weapon breaking the flesh and bone came one by one. Di Yalan was lying on her back, while Tumu was lying on her on his back, and Shi Yan on Tumu.

The sword in her hand stabbed through both of them. It went through Tumu’s heart, and then forced itself into Shi Yan’s right shoulder.

Tumu’s heart was stabbed through. After several quivers, he died right away with an extremely terrified face.
Though his shoulder was broken, Shi Yan looked hideous and still didn’t let go of Tumu.

After Tumu’s Profound Qi spilted out of his body and flew into Shi Yan, the latter convinced Tumu was dead. Then Shi Yan released his hands and laid his exhausted and soft body down.

[xianxiaworld]

Chapter 27 - The Three Parties Meet

In the woods.

The silver light on Bernard’s iron hand flew like silk and intertwined together to form a dense, silver light net, which flew to cover Luo Hao.

In the [Ten Times Gravity] field, Luo Hao walked swiftly. He drew many odd arcs in the air with his broadsword to tear the light net in front of him into pieces.

Bernard looked normal and didn’t show the slightest bit of fear. Yet he still kept a distance from Luo Hao and kept intertwining the silver light to form silver light nets one after another, throwing them towards Luo Hao.

The silver light net was not influenced by the gravitational field. It was still floating in the air, and those which were torn by Luo Hao’s broadsword stuck together again while floating and came around Luo Hao’s body.

Seen from afar, Luo Hao seemed to be in the very centre of a broken spider. In the shuttling of his broadsword, those light nets were torn and reconnected again.

At the same time, Bernard still kept a proper distance from Luo Hao and never stopped producing more light nets to envelop Luo Hao, who was surrounded by more and more light nets.

Bernard didn’t let go of Luo Hao, apparently, he didn’t need to use as much effort, as he smirked to Luo Hao. “My friend, why do you have to fight with me face to face? We just want the two women. My people have already followed them. Sure enough, the two women must have been taken away by my people. And you can’t escape from my [Silver Net]. The results is very clear. Don’t waste your time.”

“If they have an accident, I swear, I will sweep away your Tush Mercenary Union!” With a twisted face, Luo Hao replied while in the light net, “I will spend the rest of my life chasing you Tush Mercenary Union, till the last of you is killed!”

Bernard was surprised; he took a deep breath and nodded, “It seems like I have to kill you now.”

“Captain! Captain!” There came a surprised cry, “Jork’s dead! He was just cut by a sword and was poisoned to death!”

Bernard became furious, as he shouted, “Don’t be lenient! Kill them as soon as possible! Shit! Poison! Cut them into pieces and feed them to the demon beasts! Don’t leave their bodies!”

The mercenaries yelled together and began to chase Zhao Xin and Hu Long at the same time.

Bernard was so angry that he operated the [Silver Net] with all his might to cover the whole area around Luo Hao, making a final bid for victory.

Suddenly, lightning which was as thick as a finger turned into another huge net and fell from the sky, flying towards Luo Hao.

Luo Hao was shocked and he turned pale at once. Though he tried hard to wave his broadsword, he couldn’t cut down the new net.

There were ten finger-like lightnings glowing an odd light as they twined like magic snakes.

Frightened, Luo Hao immediately wielded his broadsword with all his Profound Qi. Then the broadsword generated a white light which grew into circles and entangled Luo Hao.

“Cheee! Cheee!”

Those finger-like lightnings came toward Luo Hao. As they bumped into the white circles, electric flashes exploded at once.

Luo Hao’s loss of Profound Qi sped up several times compared to before!

Under the fierce lightning, his energy was consumed quickly and his face turned extremely pale.

A sharp sword suddenly appeared above his head, filled with the severe smell of slaughter, and struck on the circles surrounding Luo Hao’s body.

“Bang!”

Luo Hao’s body shook greatly and crimson blood gushed out of his mouth. He staggered and stepped back.

Bernard’s [Silver Net] took advantage of this to wrap Luo Hao tightly so that he couldn’t move at all.

“Wang!”

The sharp sword went through Luo Hao’s body, and that Crescent Emissary with a pale mask on his face finally showed up.

Alongside him was Mo Chaoge from the Mo family, who walked out from behind an ancient tree with lightning playing between his fingers.

“Pooh!” “Pooh!” “Pooh!”

The Crescent Emissary got a brutal look in his eyes, as his sharp sword went in and out of Luo Hao’s body thrice.

The gravitational field faded slowly...

“Uncle Luo!”

Zhao Xin’s eyes turned red and he cried in deep grief.

Arrows flew toward Zhao Xin one after another. His body became like a hedgehog and he fell on ground and died with regret.

On Hu Long’s side, arrows were also flying around him. But they seemed to be not as accurate because instead of killing Hu Long, they blocked the people from the Tush Mercenary Union who were chasing Hu Long.

Seizing this opportunity, Hu Long ran away crazily in the wood with red eyes. “Uncle Luo and Zhao Xin are dead. Only Miss Mu can avenge them. I must tell Miss Mu...”

“Chase!” The people from the Tush Mercenary Union yelled and began to chase, but only to find arrows falling down from the sky and blocking their way.

They turned rigid and realized someone didn’t want them to chase Hu Long, so they searched for that shooter with vicious eyes.

Some people with pale masks appeared in the woods, and there were some warriors from the Mo Family among them; they were all having arrows with them and looked serious.

“Why did you help me kill him?” Frowning, Bernard asked Mo Chaoge and the other Star Emissary, “I don’t know you two, do I? What do you want from me for killing him?”

“We were not helping you.” The Star Emissary walked up and glanced him with cold eyes, “Luo Hao was an enemy of the Dark World that we were chasing him all this time. It’s you who helped us.”

Mo Chaoge was standing aside and not in a hurry to come up. He frowned and asked, “Emissary, you said this is the strongest guy among those who were protecting that bastard. Since he is dead, we don’t need to waste time anymore?”

“Hmm.” The Star Emissary nodded, “Don’t worry. I left some Dark Moon Fragrance on Hu Long and ordered my people to let him go deliberately to become a guide for us. Later we can follow the trail left by the Dark Moon Fragrance and we can find the people we want.”

“Good.” Mo Chaoge started to smile, “It’s not far from our Merchant Union. After it’s done, would you like to have a cup of tea with the Mo family and discuss about the details of our cooperation, Emissary?”

“No problem.” The Crescent Emissary nodded.

In the past couple of days, the Crescent Emissary from the Dark World had already hooked up with Mo Chaoge, and they had come to a secret agreement.

“Why did you kill this guy?” Bernard waved his hand and soon his mercenaries crowded around him.

“For a teenage girl, and a skinny boy.” Mo Chaoge smiled, “I’ve known the Tush Mercenary Union for a long time. Now I know you why you really deserve such a reputation. I’m Mo Chaoge from the Mo family of the Merchant Union. I wonder if you are interested in doing business with the Mo family?”

“What kind of business?” Bernard frowned.

“Of course money-earning kind! Haha! If you are interested, we can discuss the details. You will not regret it.” Mo Chaoge laughed.

“Let’s talk about it later.” Bernard paused, and continued, “If there wasn’t an accident, my people must have beaten the people you want. We can’t do it for nothing. You take the teenage girl and the boy, and we, the Tush Mercenary Union, get that hot woman mercenary, okay?”

Bernard knew they were tough people, and both the Dark World or Mo family from the Merchant Union have a huge influence.

The Crescent Emissary and Mo Chaoge, who were in lead, were both at the Disaster Realm, not any lower than him, and those two had come to an agreement. After calculating, Bernard was sure that he could not compete with their joint power and had to step back.

Mo Chaoge didn’t reply, but looked to the Crescent Emissary from the Dark World.

The Crescent Emissary’s eyes flashed and he nodded slowly, “No Problem.”

“Well, let’s go get them.” seeing him nodding, Bernard became relieved. He had seen the brutality of those two people and he didn’t dare ask for trouble.

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Mu Yu Die crouched and bound up the wound for Shi Yan carefully.

With a rigid face, Shi Yan was silent. He sat on the ground and examined the change in the wound on his shoulder, and the purification of Tumu’s Profound Qi in his meridians. He was so focused that he didn’t even take a glimpse at Mu Yu Die.

“Sometimes he is so lustful, and sometimes he is so righteous, too weird...”

Mu Yu Die questioned secretly, as generally in recent days, Shi Yan looked at her so audaciously without any disguise.

But now they were so close and could even smell the scent on each other, Shi Yan didn’t even look at her. She was rather confused.

Mu Yu Die was so perplexed and she was not sure about Shi Yan’s real personality.

Narrowing his eyes, Shi Yan concentrated on the changes occurring inside his body.

The cells of the wound on his shoulder were very alive. Without doing anything, he could sense they were recovering gradually with the aid of the Immortal Martial Spirit.

After Tumu’s Profound Qi was purified in his meridians, the odd negative emotions were generated secretly within them.

After operating [Rampage], he didn’t have the slightest amount of strength in his limbs and they ached a lot, seemingly not recovering in a short time. This familiar side effect made him uncomfortable but he could do nothing.

Di Yalan, who was resting not far from them, regained her spirit and began to search Tumu’s body.

One minute later, Di Yalan walked to Mu Yu Die and Shi Yan with a little bag. “There is some food on this guy, some demon beast materials, and three Star Bombs. We don’t need the demon beast materials, but the Star Bombs are rather brutal.”

“Star Bombs?” flash crossed Shi Yan’s eyes and he stared at the green balls which were as big as fists. He asked with a lot of interest, “What are they for?”

“It will explode once shaken and produce starry blades, which are very sharp and would fly in all directions. The impact is so strong that even a Profound Qi shield from a Human Realm warrior couldn’t prevent it. It’s a type of brutal treasure and is very expensive. These three may cost five thousand of black crystal coins!” Di Yalan explained.

“Too brutal! Give it to me.” Shi Yan stretched out his hand and asked Di Yalan to hand it to him casually.

“Tata! Tatata!” Heavy steps came suddenly.

Di Yalan got pale and held her short sword cautiously.

Shi Yan pushed Mu Yu Die away a little rudely. He stood up with a grunt with the dagger in his hand, and began to stare at the direction where the sound came.

Hu Long, with bloody eyes and blood on his chest, staggered toward them.

At the sight of Di Yalan, Hu Long burst into tears and cried, “Uncle Luo and Zhao Xin died. Miss Mu, they died tragically! You must avenge them!”

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Chapter 28 - The Blast

Mu Yu Die’s slim body shook and she leaned against the tree trunk weakly, tears welling up in her eyes and flowing down her face.

All along the way, Luo Hao and Zhao Xin had protected her wholeheartedly. She had only survived until now because of Luo Hao who was like her spirit.

Hearing that Luo Hao and Zhao Xin were both dead, Mu Yu Die was filled with so much grief that she didn’t even want to think about escaping.

Di Yalan’s eyes were almost on fire as she clenched her teeth and asked in trembling voice, “Who the hell did that?”

Hu Long choked with sobs, and quickly explained the details, then he added, “Apart from the Dark World and the Tush Mercenary Union, there were also people from the Mo family from the Merchant Union. That guy released the power of lightning which was not refined from Profound Qi; it should be the Lightning Martial Spirit of the Mo family.”

“The Tush Mercenary Union! Dark World! Mo family!” Di Yalan clenched her teeth and uttered word by word! Then she yelled, “They all must pay for that!”

Shi Yan frowned as he heard about the Lightning Martial Spirit. He realized quickly that the target of Mo family was him!

An odd scent suddenly went into Shi Yan’s mouth and nose, which made him stand up quickly and walk around Hu Long. He turned pale and said, “Brother Hu Long, you have a strange fragrance on your body… you shouldn’t have escaped alive… ahh...”

“Kid, what do you mean?” Di Yalan stared at him, “You wish Hu Long was killed?”

But Hu Long realized what he meant after a thought, and he answered with a bitter smile, “So it is. They didn’t kill me because they wanted to find you. I thought I got lucky. Haha.”

Then, before Di Yalan could stop him, Hu Long kneeled down in front of Mu Yu Die and kowtowed three times; he said, “Miss Mu, please live on happily and avenge us!”

He then stood up and ran away quickly as his lamenting voice came afar, “Leave soon! Take the other way! I will distract them and earn as much time as possible for you!”

“Hu Long!” Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die wailed loudly.

“We should leave right now! Miss Mu, remember the grief and live on well!” Shi Yan looked serious as he stretched out his hand to Di Yalan, “Give the Star Bombs to me. You leave with Miss Mu. I will catch up to you soon.”

Di Yalan’s mind became blank because of her friends’ deaths. She was dumbstruck for a while, then she handed the three Star Bombs to Shi Yan, and asked in husky voice, “What are you going to do?”

“For now, to ask for some interest for Uncle Luo!”

Shi Yan went up to Tumu’s body quickly with an icy face and cut open Tumu’s belly with his dagger and then put two Star bombs inside it. After that, Shi Yan wiped the Seven Snake Saliva on the belly carefully, and turned over Tumu’s body; now his body was lying face down.

“People get curious. Once the people of Tush Mercenary Union come, they won’t be able to help but turn over Tumu’s body they see him like this. Thus the Star Bombs will explode. Guess what will happen if his body was turned over heavily?” Shi Yan smirked.

“I got it.” Di Yalan looked vicious too, “The more of them being killed, the better!”

“I also put some poisonous powder on his body. After the Star Bombs explode, the powder will stick to the blades and once the blades cut people, they will definitely die!” Shi Yan looked cold, “Let’s go, we should live on! Or else we can’t avenge Uncle Luo!”

“I hope Hu Long is fine.” Mu Yu Die murmured with hazy eyes.

Shi Yan was a little sad, for he knew there was no possibility of Hu Long surviving. Still, he comforted her, “Don’t worry, our trap may damage them badly. Maybe we can still meet up with Hu Long.”

“Really?”

Mu Yu Die asked weakly; though she knew it was not realistic, she still wished someone could give her an answer, even if it was a lie.

“Sure, he will be alright.” Shi Yan nodded with certainty, and made eye contact with Di Yalan.

Di Yalan understood what he meant, as she carried Mu Yu Die and ran into the woods.

Shi Yan took a deep breath, summoned all of his energy and caught up in a hurry.

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A quarter of an hour later.

The three parties; the Dark World, the Mo family and the Tush Mercenary Union, appeared together. They reached here by following the scent on Hu Long.

“Tumu!”

At the sight of the axe beside the body, Bernard realised at once that it was Tumu! He was so shocked that he cried, “It’s impossible! How could they kill Tumu!?”

“Didn’t you say we would just need to collect the people we want when we get here?” the Crescent Emissary grunted with cold eyes, “Luckily I had left the Dark Moon Fragrance on that guy, or else we would’ve needed to search for them everywhere.”

Bernard was rather confused as he ordered, “Zuo Song, turn Tumu over and check him.”

“It was that boy who killed him!” Mo Yanyu reminded Mo Chaoge in a very low voice, “Everyone who was killed by him will be drained. There must be poison on that boy’s weapon!”

“That boy is something.” Mo Chaoge nodded and reminded her, “Be careful later. Don’t become impulsive.”

“Got it.”

As they were talking, Zuo Song, a member of the Tush Mercenary Union, had already run to Tumu’s body on Bernard’s order.

Zuo Song grasped Tumu’s shoulder and turned his body over, and was just about to examine it...

“Thud!”

The back of Tumu’s body kicked on the ground heavily.

“Bang! Bang!”

A severe blast exploded out!

Tumu’s body ruptured into thousands of pieces in an instant!

Thousands of blades mixed within Tumu’s flesh and blood flew out from his body like stars!

As the blast was unexpected, those blades covered with flesh and blood shot toward everybody directly.

As the Tush Mercenary Union stood closest to Tumu, they were hit first!

Due to the flying blades, three mercenaries turned into honeycombs, with bloody holes appearing all over their bodies.

Zuo Song, who had turned Tumu over, was blasted apart and his flesh and blood was mixed with Tumu’s, flying in all directions.

The Dark World Emissaries and people from Mo family didn’t expect such a development, and thus they also didn’t escape from it!

Though they were dozens of metres away, the warriors were injured as well, especially those of the Elementary Realm from the Mo family. They were cut by blades before they could defend themselves.

Miserable screeches continued. The blast from the two Star Bombs made it hell in this area. Flesh and blood filled the air. Limbs and entrails were spread all over on the ground.

Amidst the terrifying howls, everybody was panic-stricken.

Seeing that picture, Mo Yanyu, who was protected by Mo Chaoge, couldn’t stand anymore. She turned pale and vomited.

Some warriors from the Dark World and Mo family were only cut by blades; they thought themselves lucky. But soon they felt pain in their body and began to lose their vision...

“Damn it! Poison on the blades!” Mo Chaoge looked as if been stomped on by someone. He stared at the warriors from Mo family and shouted, “Cut off your wounded flesh! Fast! Fast!”

The huge man Johnson’s arm was cut by a blade, so it was bleeding badly.

Johnson was so terrified that he clenched his teeth and cut half of his left arm off. He howled and kneeled down, “Miss Mo, please bind this up for me!”

“Ou!”

When Mo Yanyu stood up and saw Johnson’s dismembered arm, she got sick and began to vomit again.

Looking at the flesh, entrails, limbs and green bodies on the ground, Bernard boiled with rage, and his eyes were filled with murderous desire. He will eat whoever did all this alive!

Among them, the Dark World lost three people, while the Mo family lost five.

Since Bernard was closest to Tumu, he suffered the biggest loss, for all his people were dead! He was on his own now!

“I’m gonna kill them! I’m gonna kill them! I’m gonna kill them!” Bernard kept howling like a crazy demon beast.

“Humph!” The Crescent Emissary grunted and said to Mo Chaoge, “Let’s keep chasing. Leave him alone.”

He lost people and blamed Bernard for it. If Bernard didn’t order Zuo Song to turn over Tumu’s body, there wouldn’t be such a crazy blast.

“Let’s keep chasing.” Mo Chaoge nodded and left with the people from the Dark World, not bothering to deal with Bernard, who was raving like a lunatic.

“I will kill them!” Bernard panted as he looked in the direction where the Dark World and Mo Family people went. After a long while, he chased after them with a murderous look.

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