Chapter 746: Retreat When Everything Else Fails
Chapter 746: Retreat When Everything Else Fails
However, regular cultivators could not see these light ribbons. They would only feel the other party’s aura flourishing like a tall mountain pressing down. This sensation was what most people called Sage Might.
When cultivators advanced to Martial Sage, they could comprehend the natural law and form strong Heavenly Sage Laws.
According to legend, Martial Emperors could even merge with nature, forming their own Heavenly Laws. When they used them, the sky would shatter and the earth crack; mountains and rivers would break.
These slender strands of blood-red light ribbons should be the natural laws of this person. This man was quite impressive to be able to condense several Heavenly Sage Laws as a half-Sage.
When Xiao Chen fought with Bai Wuxue, it looked like he was fighting on equal terms for a hundred moves. However, he would have lasted only another five hundred moves at best before his Quintessence and Vital Qi ran out.
Furthermore, Bai Wuxue had formed some Heavenly Sage Laws. His rate of absorption and quantity of Quintessence were not something Xiao Chen could compare with.
Xiao Chen, this person is not simple. The scarlet light ribbons you see are not his true Heavenly Sage Laws. They are just projections of the Heavenly Sage Laws in his dantian.
Ao Jiao, who was in the Immortal Spirit Ring, felt worried. She said gravely, He must have cultivated some kind of demonic technique and infused his baleful aura into his laws. Otherwise, the originally righteous and vast natural laws would not be scarlet and filled with evil.
If you have an opportunity, it will be best to retreat. Back then, when you were fighting with Bai Wuxue, no matter what, he had to keep an eye out for Shui Lingling. This person is a loose cultivator. He fears neither law nor heaven, showing concern for nothing.
Without needing Ao Jiao to remind him, Xiao Chen was already on high alert. This person before him was likely his strongest opponent yet since he arrived in the Kunlun Realm.
Clouds slowly gathered overhead, and dull rumbles of thunder resounded. Occasionally, purple lightning streaked through the sky. Xiao Chen had already unleashed his immortal state of thunder.
He placed his right hand on the saber hilt, quietly preparing the Azure Emperor’s Drawing the Saber. A scarlet light flickered in his eyes—that was his peak state of massacre that he had not used in a long time. Now, he did not hold back any of it at all.
The wind formed by the state of massacre started blowing gently in the courtyard, bringing with it a sense of desolation.
Soon, a strong wind squalled, containing the boundless killing intent in Xiao Chen’s eyes. As the wind gusted, the heavy state of massacre made all the vigorous grass in the yard wither.
Winds howled as thunder roared in the night sky. Amid the startling aura, Xiao Chen’s white robes and black hair fluttered. However, Xiao Chen, who held on to his saber hilt, withdrew his own aura, vanishing from notice.
In this vast and unrestrained aura, Xiao Chen looked very small and insignificant. The distance between him and Wu Yuankai seemed to increase to five thousand kilometers.
However, all it would take was one action, and this hidden insignificant figure would step across five thousand kilometers, carrying an overwhelming aura, and arrive within range.
Wu Yuankai’s pupils constricted, and he gently snorted as a strange look flashed in his eyes, evincing some astonishment. However, he was not surprised at Xiao Chen’s state of massacre and immortal state of thunder.
As a loose cultivator, Wu Yuankai had seen all sorts of experts as he wandered the world. Although the immortal state of thunder and the state of massacre were rare, there were still people with them.
The thing that astonished Wu Yuankai was Xiao Chen’s Drawing the Saber.
The two states formed an overwhelming aura, looking very shocking. Martial Monarchs of the same generation—or even cultivators with higher cultivations—would feel suppressed.
However, that was it in Wu Yuankai’s eyes. He already formed his own Heavenly Sage Laws. His aura contained a trace of Sage Might, so he did not fear Xiao Chen’s aura at all.
“Interesting, what an odd Drawing the Saber. Furthermore, he infused his states and aura into his Saber Technique. However, he apparently has not perfected it.”
Wu Yuankai’s lips curled up. Although he felt astonished, he did not feel much pressure. He had a relaxed attitude. His cultivation surpassed the other party. He never entertained the thought that he might lose to this person.
“Good, watch how I take you down and destroy this Drawing the Saber. Haha!”
“Xiu! Xiu!”
Wu Yuankai took a step forward amid the strong wind and lightning, advancing courageously.
However, he had taken only half a step when he suddenly discovered thirty-four images leaping out from the far distant white figure.
Every image represented a trajectory of Drawing the Saber. Thirty-four different positions of Drawing the Saber sealed off all of Wu Yuankai’s paths of escape.
Wu Yuankai shrank back, and he quickly retreated. His relaxed attitude now gained a trace of gravity.
He looked forward. The desolate strong wind howled endlessly, the dark clouds above churned, and purple lightning occasionally streaked across the sky. However, that insignificant body had not moved yet.
Xiao Chen still kept his body hidden, as though he was five thousand kilometers away, looking coldly at Wu Yuankai.
“Odd, unexpectedly, there’s more to this Drawing the Saber than meets the eye.”
Wu Yuankai did not dare to be careless. The several strands of scarlet ribbon behind him suddenly turned bright. The light was dazzling and bright like blood. His aura flourished and climbed continuously.
Xiao Chen thought to himself, How unfortunate! If this person had charged forward without a care and I used the Azure Emperor’s Drawing the Saber, I could have taken advantage of his carelessness and struck him instantly. I could have seized the upper hand and control over advancing or retreating.
Whether Xiao Chen liked it or not, this person was thoroughly cautious. The moment he took a half step forward, he had reacted immediately, not giving Xiao Chen this chance.
As the two auras clashed in the courtyard, the atmosphere became extremely oppressive. Strong winds, lightning, scarlet light, and miserable shrieks all mashed together. Dull clashes rang out in the air.
“Ka ca! Ka ca!” The ground cracked, forming a pattern like a spiderweb spreading outwards slowly.
“Sou! Sou! Sou!”
There was no lack of experts around the restaurant. Several people immediately sensed the oppressive atmosphere and looked around. Soon after, they rushed over.
Such a chaotic scene was prevalent in this city. However, few clashed like this. Even before the fight started, people already felt its extraordinariness.
“This is surely not a tussle of some nameless people. It must be a showdown between experts!”
The cultivators who came to Hunluo City were unlikely to be nice people. In a showdown between experts, aside from being able to watch a good fight, they might be able to get something unexpected for cheap.
Before long, hundreds of cultivators had gathered around Xiao Chen’s courtyard, watching the two with avid gazes.
When they saw Wu Yuankai’s countenance clearly, several people’s faces filled with horror. They could not help taking a few steps back.
“It’s Wu Yuankai! One of Hunluo City’s Ten Evils. The one ranked twentieth in the Tianwu Domain’s Evil Cultivator Ranking.”
“How can it be him? This old fellow has not shown himself for a very long time already.”
The two people in the courtyard did not care about the chatter of the others. The instant his aura reached its peak, Wu Yuankai did not hesitate to attack decisively.
The blood-red light became so dense that it startled the onlookers. Countless sinister evil spirits hovered up and down. They opened their mouths and roared.
All sorts of negative emotions surged towards Xiao Chen. Massacre, frenzy, chaos, grief, dread, and horror all drilled into his sea of consciousness.
The vast Mental Energy in Xiao Chen’s sea of consciousness turned into a golden sea. Towering waves soared and battered all these negative emotions into nothing.
The horrifying baleful aura had no impact on Xiao Chen. He simply continued to look calmly at the approaching Wu Yuankai.
Xiao Chen’s right hand, which rested on the saber hilt, moved after two breaths. A resplendent saber light seemed to cross five thousand kilometers in the strong wind and lightning, arriving instantly.
“Boom!”
A loud sound rang out in the dark night. In an instant, two strong forces crushed the courtyard into dust.
The cracked ground could no longer endure. Amid the rumbles, the ground shattered, sending thousands of enormous rocks flying into the air and reducing the courtyard to chaos.
“Pu ci!”
Blood leaked out from a corner of Xiao Chen’s mouth as he went tumbling back through the air, crashing endlessly into large rocks and smashing them.
Wu Yuankai in the air did not move at all. However, a horrifying wound appeared on his chest. Remnant electricity sizzled relentlessly in the wound.
The electrical light poured into Wu Yuankai’s body, assaulting him incessantly. Pain kept flaring, and his lips twitched nonstop, prompting him to frown tightly with his two thick eyebrows.
Wu Yuankai looked down and found his inner vest cut open. Then he saw the twenty-centimeter wound. An expression of disbelief flashed in his eyes.
Earlier, in the time it took for a spark to fly, Wu Yuankai flashed thirty-odd times, according to Xiao Chen’s movements, for the sake of dodging all those attacks.
At the start, Wu Yuankai thought that he had seen through all of Xiao Chen’s saber trajectories. However, in the end, his counter met air, and Xiao Chen’s attack struck him.
However, Wu Yuankai had reacted quickly too. With his combat experience, he had not panicked at all. The moment the saber light touched his chest, he landed a palm strike on Xiao Chen’s right shoulder.
The sudden surging force knocked Xiao Chen back, preventing him from deepening the wound.
The strong force penetrated Xiao Chen’s protective Quintessence. After passing through the light barrier around his bones, it weakened by fifty to sixty percent. However, it still injured him.
If Xiao Chen’s body had not become a Rank 1 Sage Body, this palm strike would have ruptured his organs.
Although this person was not as strong as Bai Wuxue, he was definitely not far from him.
“Bang!”
Xiao Chen stabilized himself and stepped on a boulder. Then he leaned forward and held his saber with one hand, staring coldly at Wu Yuankai with a sharp gaze.
“Wu Yuankai is injured!”
Peering through all the flying stones, the many cultivators watching on the roof of the restaurant saw the wound on Wu Yuankai’s chest. Astonishment flashed in the depths of all their eyes.
“Strange, who is this fellow? At such a young age, he can fight evenly with Wu Yuankai and even injure him.”
“Wu Yuankai already advanced to Second Rank half-Sage. His reputation as one of the Ten Evils is not just for show. Since when could a nameless fellow injure him?”
“Ha ha! This is interesting. Wu Yuankai killed so many people in the past few decades. He must have snatched a great deal of wealth. If anything happens to him, we might have an opportunity.”
Some people were astonished. However, even more people harbored errant thoughts. A murderous intent burned in their eyes as they stared at Wu Yuankai.
This was Hunluo City. All the cultivators here were not timid. No matter how notorious one was, once one revealed a severe injury, no one would mind beating a lame dog.