Chapter 200 - Try Running? (2/2)

Three Blades Lin was a little calmer at that thought.

Moreover, he was flying at twice the speed of sound, and he would definitely get to Jiang He before he reached Mount Tian.

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“My Royal Sword Flight is still too slow!”

Jiang He landed beneath Mount Tian, put away his Scarlet Flame Sword with a wave of his hand and shook his head. “The Scarlet Flame Sword is a premium soul weapon and would be buffed in flight speed to a certain extent, but I’m just a Qi-Refinist at the moment and a novice in immortal arts. Even at full power, I’m just moving at two point five times the speed of light.”

In fact, 2.5 times the speed of light was actually too quick.

It was difficult for ordinary divine-tier elites to even reach twice the speed of sound.

Even so, Jiang He was very dissatisfied.

After all, he was about to face the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King, and records show that that the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King’s top speed was three times the speed of sound… Even Jiang He had a hunch that the beast would surpass that when it fleed for its life.

And how could he catch up at 2.5 times the speed of sound?

“Actually, I think it would be more practical if I came for my payback after ascending to Golden Cinnabar.”

Withdrawing his aura, Jiang He strode up the mountain.

After all, the uniqueness of sword training would not really manifest on Qi-Refinist tier.

Nonetheless, his ability would definitely shoot up once he reached Golden Cinnabar. When the time comes, his flight speed would definitely shoot up as well, and he could chase down the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King even if he gave it a head start of several thousand meters.

“However…”

“I’m still far from reaching Golden Cinnabar!”

“Even after I earned a ton of Farm Points, going off to the Tantra Secret Realm and going back to Lingzhou City, and then come back when I’m Golden Cinnabar… it would take over half a month!”

And half a month was too long!

It was the sixth of October today, six whole days since that Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King shot a golden ray at him.

Jiang He felt that it was too much compassion letting the vermin live six more days.

“Compared to Golden Cinnabar, I have a more practical solution!”

“I will pretend to be weak, and take it down with a single strike!”

“After all the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King wouldn’t flee at once when it sees me since I’m just rank-nine novice… When that happens, I could just burst forward, unleash by Scarlet Flame Sword and cut it down without giving it a chance to escape. That way, I certainly wouldn’t have to worry about catching up.”

Jiang He’s eyes lit up when that idea came to mind.

That plan…

Was perfect!

At that thought, Jiang He did not bother to hide his aura at all.

He merely released a fraction of this rank-nine novice aura, and soon caught some Ferals’ attention.

Drawing out his Dragon-Slaying Saber, he slaughtered his way from the foot of the mountain halfway up the peak, where he slew a rank-nine Feral with some ‘difficulty’ in a bloodbath…

Screech!

A sharp cry resounded over the peak—the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King stretched its great wings atop the stark-white peak, circling the sky once before diving down upon Jiang He.

Delight showed on Jiang He’s face.

It’s here!

The vermin was finally alerted…

He wouldn’t be able to keep pretending if it hadn’t come, since acting ‘weak’ was very difficult, and it took a lot for him to engage a rank-nine Feral in a bloody battle when he could cut it down with a single strike.

What if the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King was frightened off when that happened?

“Human!”

The Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King dove down at him and landed on a giant boulder fifty meters away from Jiang He, leveling its dark-golden eyes on Jiang He and laughing when it recognized him. “Human,” it spoke, “You really have a death wish—you had Wang Hou protecting you back at Jiangnan, but now… who could save you?”

Jiang He: “…”

He did a double take.

Why were the Feral Kings all acting all civilized when he met them, speaking with such culture—leaving aside your increased intelligence after you evolved, could you have gained self-taught knowledge as well?

He smiled and strode towards the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King, the silhouette of six suns appearing behind him, with a dragon and an elephant circling between them.

Dragon-Slaying Saber in hand, Jiang He laughed. “Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King, when you attacked me on that day, did you consider that you would be the one dying because you failed to kill me?”

“Hahahaha!”

Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King was most amused.

It was at first shocked that a rank-nine martial artist could unleash such a powerful aura, but that bit of strength would never match him.

There was mockery in the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King’s dark golden eyes as it laughed, “Since you wish to die, this king shall humor your wish.”

Whoosh!

Spreading its ink-dark wings that were as tough as steel and kicking up a hurricane the instant it did. However, even as the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King was about to take to the skies, it saw Jiang He suddenly swinging his blade at itself from less than thirty-meters away!

“Vermin!”

“Eat my blade!”

Boom!

A thirty-meter thunder slash erupted.

At the same time…

Shiiing!

The hum of a sword echoed.

After the thunder slash, a sword radiance blazing with scarlet flames grew larger and larger in the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle King’s vision…

In the end, thirty-meters was too close.

The Golden-Crowned Black Eagle could only shriek deafeningly once, before…

Shunk!

Sword light pierced through its skull.

Boom.

And the Golden-Crowned Black Eagle landed on the ground.

Extending his hand to withdraw the Scarlet Flame Sword, Jiang He came beside the corpse of the Feral King and couldn’t help chuckling.

“As I’ve thought… my idea was just too solid.”

“Running from me when I could instakill you?”