Chapter 78 (1/2)

Chapter 78

Chapter 78 Long Chen’s Gift

Seeing Ying Hou beginning to make his move, Long Chen also didn’t wait around stupidly . He began to slowly sneak deeper into the forest .

Long Chen’s speed wasn’t fast . He needed to be extremely careful . He did his best not to leave any signs of his trail . That would increase the difficulty of Ying Hou’s search .

He also couldn’t make any noise . Otherwise, Ying Hou would definitely notice, and all his efforts would have been wasted .

So Long Chen’s fleeing speed was not that much different from Ying Hou’s searching speed . Furthermore, Long Chen couldn’t flee in just one direction . If Ying Hou decided to just rush straight forward upon seeing such a trail, he would be screwed .

After all, this wasn’t an ordinary game of hide-and-seek . Losing meant death . This was the first time Long Chen had ever felt so nervous . It was as if the Grim Reaper’s sickle was constantly pressed right against his throat . Just the slightest carelessness could lead to his head tumbling to the ground .

“I’ve found you Long Chen! Prepare to die!” Ying Hou suddenly shouted out and rushed forward . Long Chen was extremely startled, but he then coldly smiled .

His position was around two miles away from Ying Hou . That wasn’t because Ying Hou was moving faster than Long Chen .

Instead, it was because Long Chen needed to travel in a zigzag . So in a sense, the distance between them was still over five miles .

Ying Hou was obviously lying . Suddenly jumping like that, an ordinary youth might really be scared and start fleeing as fast as he could . That was the real trap .

But Long Chen just quietly hid under a huge tree, appreciating the play that this peak Phoenix Cry expert was putting on for him .

But Long Chen didn’t dare watching with his eyes . Ever since the Huayun Pavilion’s auction when Ying Hou had sensed him watching even through a wall, Long Chen had learned just how frighteningly perceptive the senses of experts were .

Ying Hou tried his bluff several more times without the slightest bit of success . In the end, he had no choice but to return to his original location and continue searching for traces of Long Chen’s trail .

After all, no matter how careful Long Chen was, he was unable to fly . The ground, the gra.s.s, the rocks, the trees, they would all leave behind some sort of trail .

But due to how smart Long Chen had acted, his tracks were not very obvious in some places and required a long time to search for in order to find his path . That exhausted a great deal of Ying Hou’s time .

Long Chen was actually conserving much more energy than Ying Hou, and Ying Hou was becoming increasingly infuriated .

“Long Chen, just wait for when I catch you . I’ll skin you and pull out each and every one of your muscles while you still live before turning your bones to as.h.!.+” Ying Hou ground his teeth .

He knew Long Chen was somewhere in the area and could hear him . He could even sense that Long Chen was hiding in a corner and laughing secretly at him . This caused him to feel even more anger .

A grand Muscle Rebirth expert like him, one of the three apex experts of Phoenix Cry, was actually unable to kill a small Qi Condensation brat . If that got out, then he would immediately become the entire empire’s laughingstock .

He had a stomach full of anger without anywhere to release it . He had to maintain his calm, otherwise with the slightest negligence, Long Chen might really be able to flee from him . He could only continue to search for and follow his trail, while also keeping an ear on the surrounding silence .

Long Chen sneered . “You want to skin me? Perhaps such a wish isn’t as easy to achieve as you think . ”

Seeing Ying Hou once more begin slowly searching, Long Chen continued going deeper into the forest . That was the best option .

It was true that it might be possible for him to detour around Ying Hou and stealthily return to the valley and then the capital . And such an option was definitely tempting .

But Long Chen had decided to give up on that thought for now . From his understanding of Ying Hou, he knew that he would have set up many traps before coming here . If he rashly went out the forest, that might just be walking right into his trap .

His internal injuries were extremely severe . His right hand’s meridians had been completely destroyed . He had perhaps just a tenth of his normal combat ability . Just a couple random Blood Condensation experts possessed a fatal danger to him .

So he had no choice but to suppress his desire to return to the capital . He continued deeper into the forest, carefully travelling in a ‘Z’ so that he could easily misguide Ying Hou, forcing him to travel even slower .

After another four hours, the sky darkened . The entire forest became much gloomier and frightening . Occasionally the howls of ferocious beasts rang out .

Long Chen’s expression changed; if his luck was bad and he ended up being noticed by one of those beasts, although he wouldn’t be killed by the beast, he would likely end up attracting Ying Hou over . That was the most frightening .

Now that night had already arrived, many beasts had begun to come out of their lairs . Those beasts didn’t know how difficult Long Chen would be to deal with . If they happened to consider him as food to prey on, that would be troublesome .

Long Chen was hiding behind a stone rampart . Suddenly he heard some light sounds coming over, and sweeping his divine sense over, he felt a huge headache .

At this time, it was so dark that he couldn’t even see his own fingers in the dark . However his Spiritual Strength could subst.i.tute for his eyes to ‘see’ everything within dozens of meters of him extremely clearly .

In front of him was a wolf around a meter tall . However it was essentially a cub .

Long Chen cursed his bad luck . Although this was just a wild beast and not a Magical Beast, if that cub ended up attacking him, even if he did manage to kill it in one blow, it would still cause a bit of noise .

In this silent forest, such a noise was something that Ying Hou, with his Muscle Rebirth cultivation base, could not possibly miss . Especially not when he was quietly searching for his trail .