Chapter 974 - Strange Shadow (1/2)

Chapter 974: Strange Shadow

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

Amidst the pitch-black passageway, Maria ran at high speed, with her feet connecting into a series of afterimages. Her speed had reached a great extreme.

Beside her, there were three young men covered in blood. Their eyes filled with terror as they ran for their lives behind Maria. It was like there was some great ferocious beast chasing them.

“What should we do?!” One of the young men with black hair and eyes cried out, “He’s going to catch up.”

“Damn it. How do we get out of here?” Another green-haired young man said with a crumbling expression.

Just then, the last young man with golden hair suddenly stopped running and started panting furiously.

Maria and the others also stopped and shouted, “Are you crazy?! Why aren’t you running?”

The gold-haired young man laughed as if he had gone crazy. “Why run? There’s no way that we can escape. I’m not running anymore. We’ll all end up dead anyway, so what’s the difference between dying earlier or later?”

As he said that, he lay down onto the ground with a bang , seemingly decided that he would not be running anymore.

Maria and the other two young men exchanged a glance. Without saying anything, they started running again. They could only hear that golden-haired young man’s intense panting getting further and further away from them.

At the next moment, an agonizing cry that was filled with enmity and terror rang out. Then it disappeared abruptly like something had cut off the voice forcibly.

Upon hearing the agonizing cry, the trio was horrified. They exchanged a glance, and it was as if they could see the terror in each other’s eyes.

Without making another sound, the trio accelerated. The sound of air flow rang out next to their ears, and within the wide and dark passageway, there were only the sounds of the swooshing wind and their footsteps.

At the next moment, the trio’s eyes gleamed. A man who was covered entirely in a layer of faint white light appeared before them.

“Who are you?” The green-haired young man frowned. However, before the man replied, the green-haired young man had already punched out toward his face, bringing along streams of lightning.

“Don’t!” Maria shouted, but it was already too late to stop.

The green-haired young man was just about to strike the other party’s face when he remained motionless in midair, seeming to have been frozen by a gush of invisible force. His face turned flushed red, but he was still unable to move a single bit.

A hint of surprise flashed on the face of the other black-haired young man. “Senior, please show some mercy. Locke couldn’t help hold back his punch because he was too nervous.”

This man before them was Fang Xingjian. He threw a glance at the three of them, then he suddenly looked at Maria, who wore an expression that suggested she wanted to say something but was holding back. He asked indifferently, “You know me?”

Maria nodded slightly. Of course, she knew who he was.

Close to one year ago, she and her father had headed over to the Myriad Stars Mountain 1  for her to become the apprentice of a master and learn martial arts. However, they chanced upon Fang Xingjian who had gone to challenge the Astral Ancestor.

He had even asked her if she wanted to become his disciple.

However, it was a pity that Maria had been too inexperienced back then and had rejected the heaven-blessed opportunity.

Thereafter, Fang Xingjian’s reputation grew and even extended out to the southern border. As he then went on to defeat Alexander, the Heavenly Lion King, and many other experts, Maria got an increasingly clear understanding on what she had missed out on.

During the past one year, she had devoted hard work in her cultivation on the Myriad Stars Mountain, improving tremendously. However, she would always feel extremely regretful whenever she thought about how she previously had the chance to have Fang Xingjian as her teacher.