Chapter 29 – The sword that lifted a storm (1/2)
The starlight was emitted from the night sky and was reflected when it passed an invisible barrier. It shined onto the face of this middle-aged male demon. It made his complexion seemed even paler, as if it was the unmeltable ice from the north.
Luo Luo raised her arm and wiped off the blood around the corner of her lip. She looked at him and asked, “Do you want to kidnap me or kill me?”
The male demon said calmly, “I wouldn’t be able to leave the capital if I kidnapped you. Sorry, I could only kill you on the spot.”
Luo Luo stared at his two demon horns and said, “It seems like you waited here for me for a while.”
The male demon bowed slightly and said, “Since You left your kingdom, or more precisely, when You passed the River of Stinking Blood, I have waited for this day to arrive.”
Luo Luo said, “Then it was quite a long time.”
“I left my homeland several years ago, and You had started your trip for more than a year already. I hid in the capital like a rat for more than half a year. My life is to silently watch you in the darkness. It was both boring and dangerous.”
The male demon revealed his life that he lived these past few years. It was told in a quiet and indifferent tone, but the actual contents were terrible or even solemn – hiding in the core of the human world for such a long time, for sure he sacrificed a lot, especially mentally.
He was silent for a moment and turned around to face the northern direction of the lake. He sighed, “I miss the wind and snow of my homeland. I also miss my wife and family. Thanks to You, I have the chance to accomplish this great task tonight.”
After hearing this, Luo Luo’s heart grew a hint of regret.
She didn’t know that the Demon Race was after her and had followed her from her home all the way to the capital. They were so dedicated to this goal that they waited such a long time for this opportunity. Now the demon race has captured the chance, it would be hard for her to escape.
But the thing she was most regretful of was that she handed this chance to the Demon Race. If she hadn’t use the Button of Thousand Miles to escape the protection of her people to find the person, then this male demon could only continue hiding and waste his time in the human world until his death.
She looked at the night sky and stared at the reflected starlights. She knew that the giant needle had successfully blocked out the outside world. Although her people were just on the other side of the wall, they still wouldn’t be able to hear her scream.
Right now, no one could save her except herself.
Luo Luo assessed her current situation and grew calm. She looked at the male demon and showed a desire to fight. “A Heartseeker at his peak is strong, but not strong enough. I don’t think you are good enough to kill me.”
“It’s hard to live in the capital. There are too many powerful human xiuxingists here. If I am too strong, then it would be easy to attract the attentions of those powerful xiuxingsts. The Zhou Royal Palace would just need to send a few honorable guests and I would be dead, therefore I must not be strong.”
The male demon looked at her. “My technique is specialized in the area ofhiding, and so, I am not too strong nor too weak. I’m just enough to kill You, therefore I am the most suitable person for the job which is why it is me that stands in front of You today and not another demon.”
Luo Luo said “I want to know your name.”
She said this sentence calmly, almost like she was talking down on him.
“My name is Mo He,” the male demon answered.
Luo Luo said, “Mo He is just your last name.”
The male demon smiled a little, but his expression was a bit frightening due to his pale skin. “It is meaningless for You to waste our time.”
Luo Luo laughed. Her laughter was high and could be heard from far away. If that barrier didn’t exist, then the people on the other side of the wall would have heard it very clearly. But the male demon didn’t have any intention of stopping her.
“I thought you didn’t care if I wasted time.” she said seriously.
The male demon said “After killing You, it would be difficult for me to escape the capital alive. Then this short period of time would be the last moment of my one hundred years of life. If I can talk with one of royal bloodline like You, I believe my soul would rest in peace.”
Luo Luo opened her wide eyes and her eyelashes winked. She asked curiously, “You are not afraid of being discovered by humans?”
The male demon pointed at the iron needle in front of him.
“The royal palace isn’t far from here.” She cautioned him nicely.
The male demon said expressionlessly. “I am confident that even if the Divine Queen was looking in this direction, she wouldn’t be able to see what we are doing.”
“Okay. I am sure no one is able to save me now.”
Luo Luo sighed. Although she was worried, she still seemed cute.
“Then are you sure you can kill me?”
After finishing this sentence, her eyes got brighter like two night pearls. She took off a leather whip from her waist. The whip was extremely long and it stacked in piles under her feet. It strange how she was able to keep the entire whip around her waist.
“Is that the legendary Falling Rain Whip?”
The male demon was surprised, but it was unknown if it was due to the legendary weapon or some other reason.
Then he looked at Luo Luo and said sincerely. “No matter how many rare magical weapon you have around you, You must die tonight. Because this is the plan of the Advisor and no accident could occur.”
After hearing this, Luo Luo held the whip more tightly. Her face grew paler. The Demon Advisor. It is one of the most terrifying names in this entire continent. Even her parents treated this man with extreme caution.
When the great war ended, the demon race lost terribly to the alliance formed by the humans and the Yao race. But the demons did not become extinct entirely. The demon race held their ground in the cold northern territory and seemed to prosper in the recent years. Althoughit had a powerful and ruthless Demon Emperor ruling the Xue Lao City, another important reason why it prospered was that an advisor was giving order to the demon race. No matter the strange yet effective schemes or the upfront economic policies, there was always a shadow of a person behind them.
Yes, the shadow belonged to the Advisor.
The Demon Advisor was a human.
No one knew why would a human voluntarily betrayed his race to work for the demons, but the entire continent knew that this human was well respected in the demon race. Just from this point, it was clear how great this person was.
The plans created by the Demon Advisor never failed. His mind seemed to have no weakness. His ability to manipulate the mind and other’s power already surpassed the level of a master. It was an unspeakable ability.
For countless years, the Northern Conquest started by the humans failed due to this man’s schemes and plots. Some conquests even failed before the army was gathered. The loss that this man brought to the human race was greater than the loss to the eight terrifying demon generals combined.
Millions of human xiuxingists and Yao heroes tried to find this Demon Advisor and assassinate him but no one has accomplished this goal. No one has found him besides a powerful swordsman from the Longevity Sect.
Until this day, no one knew the name of this Demon Advisor, what he looked like, where he was from, and what kind of history he had that made him willing to betray his own race and work for the demons. Some rumors said that after the Demon Race lost in the great war, this advisor didn’t return to the Xue Lao City with the Demon Emperor but instead chose to hide his identity and live in the human world. He could be your neighbor, your teacher, or even a priest.
That was the most terrifying aspect of the Demon Advisor.
People only knew he liked to wear a black robe.
When many powerful demons mention of him, they respectfully call him Sir Black Robe.
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Luo Luo was looking at the demon male wearing black robe and her heart slightly sank.
If this was the Demon Advisor’s plan, then she probably had no chance of surviving. Everyone knows that the Demon Advisor’s plans all seemed easy, even casual, but they never have any mistakes. Nothing unexpected happens.
The demon male next to the tree wore a black robe. He was the Advisor’s direct subordinate.
The iron magic weapon directly in front of him kept all the changes outside of the world.
She came to the Tradition Academy by herself.
No other people could see her.
She obviously would die.
This set up was easy, but it made perfect logical sense.
She knew that she could only rely on herself to have a chance of survival.
But she knew that the legendary demon advisor had accurately and precisely calculated the strength of the two sides. Like what the male demon had previously said, he was not too strong but not too weak, just strong enough to kill her.
He could definitely kill her.
She could see the opponent’s strength and stage because of her inborn ability, but it did not mean she could beat him
According to human’s xiuxing system, she should be in the primary meditation stage now. For her age, this stage is already quite impressive but in a fight against adult elites, this stage was not enough for her to stay alive.
“At the last moment of my life, I had the pleasure to talk to such a noble princess, I feel satisfied.”
The demon male slowly walked toward her and slowly lifted his right hand. You could see a white light between his fingers.
It was the light cluster solidified from Qi.
Luo Luo felt the horrifying influence coming from that light cluster. She narrowed her eyes slightly.
The demon male’s feet had on a pair of broken shoes.
His shoes stepped on the grass and did not leave a trace.
At day, the green grasses were cut short and the broken branches revealed a blithe feeling.
The grasses, probably because they were cut short, actually handled the demon male’s shoes.
No, that’s only the image of a moment.
In fact, when the demon male moved his first step, his body had already began to become empty, then it disappeared!
Luo Luo’s eyes became more bright as if they were about to light up the darkness of night.
She knew that this demon male could hide for an exceptionally long time in the human world. Like what he said himself, his xiu xing method focused on hiding, but even so, she didn’t expect that the opponent would be able to disappear so easily in a fight.
The next moment, the demon male appeared behind her.
A terrifying fist hit her directly on the back.
The demon male was much stronger than her. He was using his strongest fighting technique.
He gathered all of his Qi in his fist, attack with his full power. He knew that this would cause his right hand to become useless in the future but he did not care. As long as he could kill this girl, he would give up his life and soul, why would he even care about a hand?
Luo Luo could not block the attack. In fact, she could not even trace the opponent’s attack.
But her whip could.
She held the long whip in her right hand. Her whip jumped up like a snake, the whip tail, like a snake’s tongue darted through the darkness to stab directly into the demon male’s throat behind her.
At the same time, she loosened her hand,third button fell to the ground.
Demon male’s pale face was indifferent. He did not care at all. He continued to punch down his fist.
Chi! A sound camp up.
A bloody hole appeared on his throat.
Simultaneously, his fist also fell onto Luo Luo’s back.
The demons were born in mountains, their power was named out of mountain.
His fist, was a mountain.
This mountain directly crashed into the little girl’s body.
The picture looked very violent.
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The button fell on the ground.
Some fog appeared. Before it was able to spread out,Luo Luo was already turned around and was faced with a horrifying fist.
Under normal situations, she should not have enough time to turn at all in front of that male demon’s strange movement, but she did.
Because she used another Button of Thousand Miles beforehand.
The Button of Thousand Miles could not help her pass through that shapeless barrier, but it could at least help her turn around.
But what could she do even if she turned around.
That horrifying fist came closer and closer. The light of Qi emitting out between the fingers became brighter and brighter.
Was it because of pride that during the last moments of her life she turned to face death directly?
No.
Luo Luo’s childish face held a firm and determined manner.
She shouted and held her little fist tightly. She fearlessly swung her fist toward the fist coming toward her face.