Chapter 990 - Limit
Chapter 990: Limit
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Floating out in space, Xia Fei was not injured after he was inexplicably pulled out from within the spatial channel thanks to the protection of his Sin Raksha war armor. However, he could not avoid the waves of pain from the act, as the force created when a spatial channel was shattered could not be underestimated. He was already very fortunate to have been able to get out with his entire body intact.
His eyes were shut at the moment, and even Furball beside him seemed to be in great pain. The human and the ball were both concealing themselves very well.
“Xia Fei, what are you doing?” Radix asked curiously.
Xia Fei replied, “It was obvious just now that someone intentionally shattered my spatial channel, and I want to know who did it!”
Radix was startled and did not say another word.
It turned out that Xia Fei and Furball were employing a tactic; purposely appearing weakened so as to lure the enemy out before they took advantage of their unprepared foe to get the kill!
What made this surprising was not how Xia Fei thought it up, but the coordination between Furball and Xia Fei! It was a wonderful display of how an Exotic Beast would follow their master. There was no need for Xia Fei to make explicit arrangements, the clever and cunning Furball had immediately understood his master’s intent and assisted him in the charade. The tacit understanding Furball shared with Xia Fei had already reached brand new heights.
Sure enough, another spatial channel opened not too far away from Xia Fei, and two men stepped out from it.
The slightly chubbier figure was Smile, his face looking strange. It looked like he was smiling even when angered, and he even had two shallow dimples on his cheeks. It was probably how he had gotten his name of Smile.
The tall, dark and skinny figure was Atrophy. He hardly had any muscles to him, gaunt and skeletal-looking that he was, no different from a withered piece of deadwood. His sunken eye sockets made for a frightening sight. If anyone inadvertently bumped into Atrophy deep in the night, a good majority would have mistaken him as a living skeleton.
Fortunately, Xia Fei was not the average person, but the lone wolf of the Skywing Clan! No matter how strange Smile and Atrophy looked, that did not hinder Xia Fei from devising a plan on just how he could kill the two!
“Heh, looks like this twerp has been severely injured. I can hardly detect any energy fluctuation on him at all. His seventh brain region must have been ruined by the spatial storm,” Smile commented as he drew near Xia Fei, only for a scrawny hand to hold him back.
Atrophy said, “Let’s observe things for a moment. Skywings are all very crafty.”
Smile was unconvinced, “Only Xia Gucheng is crafty among the Skywings. This twerp here is just a normal Skywing clansman, how crafty can he be? Besides, squashing an insignificant character like him is no different than squashing a bug for us. Better we get a hold of the letter as soon as possible and hand it over to Constant.”
“Speaking of which, those Inverse sure are unreliable. It’s a good thing that Constant had the good foresight to do a mental trace on the Solid Soul Orb. It looks like the powerful messenger from the Inverse actually got itself killed, and such important information actually fell into the hands of the Skywings!”
Still pretending to be unconscious, Xia Fei could not believe what he was hearing. It was no wonder how he had been ambushed so quickly in the short time since he had gotten his hands on the Solid Soul Orb. It turned out that the orb had been mentally tracked by Constant!
Hosu had once told Xia Fei about the thirteen founders, and he was not unfamiliar with Constant’s name; it was why Xia Fei had immediately guessed that these two scary men were the founders Smile and Atrophy!
Xia Fei had killed a Law God before, and he had even had a chance when going all out against a Superior Law God, but this time he was facing a Founder! Furthermore, there were two Founders! Xia Fei was completely unsure about what he could do.
His spatial compass had already been destroyed, and even his White Flamingo was emitting a green smoke and heating up. Here in this unknown area of space, Xia Fei had nowhere else to go.
*Whoosh*
While speaking, Smile had already reached Xia Fei, and he gave Xia Fei a once over before bursting out into laughter, “This twerp actually isn’t dead, although he’s probably on the brink of death, seeing as there’s really not even any energy fluctuations in his body at all.”
Smile was talking to Atrophy, who was standing behind him, so naturally his head was turned away from Xia Fei.
Chance!
Just as Smile completed his sentence, the fiendish blade Nirvana sprang into the air! Furball opened his eyes, and a beam of light shot out! Peacock Blue extended out its long leaves and was growing with wild abandon! The seemingly harmless Xia Fei suddenly exploded into activity!
As a Founder, Smile’s reaction time was top notch!
*Kaboom!*
A single dagger created with the Law of Space flew into the air and the glint of flashing swords enveloped Xia Fei and Smile. It was an absolute mess!
The tempo of this exchange was simply too fast! In just a blink of an eye, both parties had already traded several hundred attacks with each other!
*Whoosh*
Smile rapidly backed away from the fight, his ever-present smile etched on his face, though it was a little more twisted than usual, and was even slightly blackened.
“You were injured?!” Atrophy gasped in shock. Smile’s arm bore a bone-deep cut inflicted by Nirvana. No blood was coming out, though it still looked utterly terrifying.
“Yeah, he managed to hurt me in the spur of the moment, but his injuries are a lot worse!” Smile declared coldly.
Both Smile and Atrophy looked over at Xia Fei, and uneasiness momentarily crept on their faces.
At this very moment, Xia Fei was floating right across them, leering at Smile and Atrophy and radiating killing intent. There was hardly even a scratch on him, and he was still fine!
“How is that possible?! I clearly attacked him with Thousand Windbreaker Cuts; how is he still standing there?!” Smile blurted out in disbelief.
Atrophy took a step forward and rumbled in a low voice, “Skywings inherit their unique Law of Speed, so it’s not impossible for him to have successfully evaded your Thousand Windbreaker Cuts.”
This statement angered Smile quite a bit, however; would others not ridicule him endlessly if he was not even able to discern this was an expert at the Founder tier?!
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“Xia Fei, are you alright?” Radix asked from the sidelines.
He had seen Xia Fei duck behind a floating asteroid, swiftly pulling out a bottle of medicine and consuming it to mend the injuries he had suffered.
It turned out that in the wild exchange just now, Xia Fei had quietly retreated from the fight, and what was standing in his place was the life-saving divine tool, the Heavenly Stalwart Spine!
“What a powerful founder! I could not kill Smile even with my speed!” Xia Fei heaved a sigh as he glared fiercely at his enemies.
While the illusion of Xia Fei the Heavenly Stalwart Spine had formed was uninjured, the true Xia Fei had actually suffered quite a few severe blows from Smile’s spatial blades. The war armor Sin Raksha was covered in gashes. There was of course no way that this Law God grade war armor could withstand a full-bore assault from a Founder, and it looked to be on the verge of falling apart. Had it not been for Xia Fei’s Crafty Approach, the war armor might not have been the only thing that was so severely damaged just now!
Radix’s expression was severe, “The Founder tier isn’t just simply a jump in level, but also a qualitative leap! The reason why the Inverse have such taxing restrictions on the number of Founders in the Law Realm is that they’re well aware that once an individual crosses into the Founder tier, they become a threat to the Inverse; the strength they can wield is far greater than any Law God expert!”
Xia Fei gritted his teeth and said nothing. His encounter with these two formidable Founders was an established fact. The only thing Xia Fei could do now was to give it his all, carving himself a bloody path through the slim gaps of a super expert!
Any bit of hesitation or doubt would be an enemy to a warrior! Xia Fei’s mind was working overtime, and the killing intent and Inner Demon inside him emanated in a thick aura.
*Whoosh*
It was at that instant when Atrophy suddenly attacked Xia Fei!
Consecutive attacks from two Founders! They were actually taking turns to fight against Xia Fei!
In the time it took to strike a match, Xia Fei made a momentous decision. He decided not to hide anymore, but to instead go all out against these two Founders while he had enough trump cards in his hands!
The miraculous substitute, the Heavenly Stalwart Spine, dealt a greater backlash the stronger the attack upon it was!
However, there was no way the strength of the Heavenly Stalwart Spine alone could withstand the brutal assault from a Founder, and in no time at all, the tool would be destroyed at the hands of Atrophy!
Xia Fei and his superhuman thinking ability comprehended the circumstances he was in instantly. Like a wild beast that had discovered it was backed into a corner and had nowhere to go, the ferocity and will to live he now exploded with would make people’s hearts shudder!
*Rumble*
Powerful energy poured forth violently from within Xia Fei’s body. From the moment he dashed out from cover, that mysterious energy ball in his seventh brain region had completely shattered! Xia Fei was performing to the strongest of his ability right from the start!
Atrophy was stunned. His palm had just struck the illusion of Xia Fei that the Heavenly Stalwart Spine had created, yet there was now another Xia Fei actually appearing from afar?
“Hmph! That’s some substitution technique you have there! Too bad you’ve underestimated a Founder too much! Whether it is your real body or a substitute, all I need is a single blow and I’ll be able to break your stage!” Atrophy scoffed in disdain.
He did not slow down in the least. The combat technique Atrophy utilized was very simple, and it was to stay the course while anticipating change; no matter what tricks Xia Fei pulled, or how many trump cards he pulled out, all Atrophy needed to do was rely on his powerful cultivation and smash everything thrown at him!
Thinking such, Atrophy did not slow down, but instead exerted his full strength!
Just as he was about to approach the decoy created by the Heavenly Stalwart Spine, Atrophy’s arm suddenly expanded and reached out!
Like a beam of black light, Atrophy’s one strike contained the maximum aura that only a Founder could harness! It was like an explosion triggered right on the body of the Heavenly Stalwart Spine!
*Kaboom*
There was a huge explosion that shook everything around them!
As the Heavenly Stalwart Spine received an attack past its own limits, even the miraculous plant that acted as a substitute detonated with a backlash far greater than its own limit!
The ensuing force when Atrophy’s powerful strength and the Heavenly Stalwart Spine’s backlash clashed was practically indescribable!
“Oh! It’s actually the legendary tool of the highest grade, the Heavenly Stalwart Spine!” Atrophy’s expression was livid as he grunted and retracted his arm.
Xia Fei saw Atrophy’s right hand had sustained an injury from the Heavenly Stalwart Spine, and a visible hole had appeared in his bare palm, fresh blood flowing freely.
He was a Founder expert at the end of the day, and what he received was no more than a superficial wound. Meanwhile, the miraculous Heavenly Stalwart Spine had already withered from the powerful impact!
In just this first round, Xia Fei had used up his life-saving trump card, the Heavenly Stalwart Spine, which was destroyed!
At this point, Xia Fei was already using his four million meters per second speed to arrive in front of Atrophy, with Peacock Blue on the left, Furball to the right, and fiendish blade Nirvana right in the middle! They were all headed right for the Founder!
Repeated concerted attacks were precisely the method of attack that Xia Fei was most fond of!
Despite the injury on his right arm, Atrophy still moved as adroitly as before. Enduring the pain in his arm, he abruptly shrank his body back, his two arms wrapped around himself, becoming a strange ball!
After balling himself up, Atrophy’s agility became many times faster, and he shunted his entire body to Xia Fei’s side so quickly that it was practically a dash! His speed was no less than two million meters per second!
It was a completely irregular motion! The now balled-up Atrophy had now made his own body a weapon, and his speed had increased. With his two arms hugging himself tightly, he was now a strange ball!
Atrophy’s attack was quick, and Xia Fei could not keep up in time. As such, he acted on his first thought and eight leaf blades from Peacock Blue rapidly wove themselves into a net and tried to encircle Atrophy!
*Kaboom*
There was yet another series of scary explosions!
Looking again, Peacock Blue was already trembling, and not only did it fail to ensnare Atrophy, a large part of its leaves had also been ruined by Atrophy’s full force attack! It was now in a sorry state!