Volume 1 Chapter 1 (1/2)
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Thunder crashed in the clouds, and squeezed all the water they contained out Since the the first drop fell from the sky, only 2 breathes of ti
In the brightness of the lightning, Li YunXin saw the curved roofof a house in the distance On the roof lay a dark cyan ChiWen, which glared at his direction through the curtain of water Covering the finger length stab wound on his arered towards the house
If there is someone in that house, he may be saved If not, he could at least die indoors rather than in the mud
When he eventually made it to the house, his clothes were already torn up by the bushes and branches in the wild Although air was really wet due to the rain, when he fell to the floor, a huge amount of dust bounced up The dark hall was filled with a musty smell, and a bloody smell, which came from Li himself
Dark and silent He kneas a ruined temple when he came in
Li YunXin panted heavily on the floor for a while Then he struggled to sit up, and crawled up to the altar, leaned on it, facing the door He thought he couldn't ht
”Dying sitting is better than being backstabbed in the rain”, He thought
When the lightning flashed in the sky again, he tried to rise his head and looked at the altar Paint peeled off the statue on the altar, and , so he couldn't tell which deity it was He sighed and patted the leg of the statue With a sad smile on his face, he said:”nobody would come to worshi+p you in this wilderness It seems that you are quite miserable, too”
After saying this, he heard footsteps of soaked cloth shoes Two priests rushed out froers width sword in their hands Water slid from the blade of the sword to its point, andsound when they dropped on the bluestone floor
”Hand it over,” the priest said, ”or I shall take your life instead”
Li YunXin saw their faces when the lightning stroke again They looked like 18 or 19 years old He sighed again for this cruel world and his unfortunate life Isn't the story supposed to be ”So superb cultivator realized his potential and led him to the top of the world as his disciple”? …and why isn't this deity or so his power to save him!?
He was so stressed that his teeth were tightly clenched ”Why do you have to do this? Isn't the purpose of you cultivators to abandon all emotions and desires? Why do you want that stuff so bad?” He asked
The priest stopped frowning and answered with a gentler voice:”We have never tried to hurt you We just need to knohere did you hide it”
It's really a pity that I'ht
Li YunXin has never tried to convince anyone He made the priest talk so that he would have time to recover from exhaustion His death wouldn't be worthless if he could kill at least one of them
However, the other one didn't give him the chance to He pointed at Li's throat with his sword, and said:”Tell us now, then you can leave alive with a complete body We have hundreds of methods to make you talk Aren't you aware of your situa…”
He paused, for the reason that Li YunXin opened his eyes wide and gaze at sohed out, and said:”Do you really think your trick would ever work on this poor priest? How naive you…”
He paused again, but this time he didn't mean to do that His head suddenly fell to the floor froreat amount of blood The other priest was shocked by this terrorific scene and stood in startle
He finally got his consciousness back when he saw a giant claw covered by slate gray scales reached frorabbed the headless body of his partner He turned around and stabbed with his sword at once
As he stabbed, another lightning flashed, thus he recognized the thing outside clearly:
It was an eyeball, a blood red eyeball which was half of his height, and the dark vertical pupil in the htened face He stabbed the eye with his fine steel sword, but he couldn't push it any further into the eyeball
As the monster waved its claw, the blade of the sword broke into pieces The priest dropped the rest of his sword, and tried to run away However, another claw reached into the teht him He screamed, and tried to escape frole, the monster put more pressure on hi a horrifying sound
His scream suddenly stopped, after that only rain and thunder can be heard in the temple
Li YunXin stared blankly at all of this He was extreed to hold back his voice
The giant eyeball blinked, and faded away Holding the headless corpses of the priests, its claent back into the rain, too
Li YunXin saw a enor in the air outside the temple, but he couldn't draw a outline of it, because it was too large His sight was like observing a leopard through a bamboo tube
After 2 or 3 breathes of time, it disappeared in the air
Li YunXin sat on the floor for a few more seconds, because he was afraid that the monster would be attracted by the sound he ret for losing his only chance to escape
A figure walking into the te water stains on the floor It had so dragged on the floor The sounds soon became sticky, and the bloody smell came from them almost suffocated Li – they were the corpses of the priests
It walked up to Li, looked at hih ”You can be my dessert after the dinner” It said
Li YunXin realized that this thing antic ht the best choice was to stay and wait for the right tiht time? He didn't know, and was too scared to think about it calmly
The figure sat in the h for a short ti me that table!”
Li YunXin thought for a while, and realized that itthe pain of the wound on his arm, Li moved the altar to theimmediately
As it pointed at the altar with its finger, a flaht of the fire, Li YunXin recognized his face, and that surprised hiht, he looked like a young man as actually quite handsome