Chapter 55: Tension (1/2)

Huo Shihong ruthlessly stared at those mongrels that were approaching him. He wouldn't forgive any one of them. If he had to die today, he would at least bring some of them to the grave, decreasing their numbers.

His mana surged with force and he used his flames to create a huge explosion around himself, sending dust particles everywhere. It was a cover for his partial retreat.

”Spread your senses quickly and don't let him escape!” Wu Shuhui commanded.

A lot of people locked their senses on Huo Shihong's body. Just now did he realize that he was alone against more than twenty practitioners. A good quantity of them were Mana realm cultivators.

However, this didn't diminish his will to destroy them. Instead, it caused his brain to quickly formulate a plan that he was already putting in action.

With the sudden explosion, Huo Shihong had a bit of time to charge towards a certain direction.

The people surrounding him took some seconds to discover to where he had shifted his position to, but they all swiftly went into action after realizing what he had in mind.

The cultivators that were near the exquisite gate started to block his path, since they thought his plan was to enter the phoenix chamber.

”Get out!” Huo Shihong raised his hands and a burning tornado formed near the practitioners that were trying to block his path.

Unfortunately for them, they were the weaker cultivators around here. Two old and greedy geezers, elders from his Blazing Phoenix Sect.

They panicked after seeing Sect Master Huo madly dashing on their direction and decided to block his flame tornado using their Qi Transformation peak-stage power. In just two seconds they discovered that it was a foolish decision.

The flaming tornado engulfed them, turning their Qi and bodies into powder, however, their struggle gave time for Wu Shuhui to rush will all his speed and stand before the phoenix chamber gate.

”No, you won't!” Wu Shuhui had a smirk plastered over his face. Inside his head, he had already destroyed Huo Shihong last hope.

However, Huo Shihong had already arrive where he wanted to.

In front of all those practitioners, he ducked to pick a crystal from the ground. Huo Shihong felt the remaining power inside the stone he picked and he felt like he found his way out of here.

The practitioners rushed towards him in order to attack him and take him down, but before they could approach, Huo Shihong shouted for everyone to hear.

”Stop if you don't want to die!”

He raised his right hand and showed a red stone that was on his palm. There were some cracks on its surface but it had survived the impact it suffered before. The red Skystone was pulsing with energy that seemed to be really volatile. There still seemed to be a good quantity of mana inside it.

Whatever formation the ancestors of the Blazing Phoenix Sect had developed in order to explore the power within those stones, it was still lacking and incomplete, since there was a lot of energy still stored inside the stone, that theoretically should be spent.

But for Huo Shihong it was not an imperfection, but something that saved his life.

All those practitioners following behind him stopped after having recognized the red Skystone on his hand. They could still feel the high amount of mana it contained. Still, they couldn't understand what Sect Master Huo could do with only that Skystone.

The next action Huo Shihong took was what finally made them understand the danger of the situation.

Huo Shihong squished all the mana withing his body and poured it inside the stone. It started to shine brighter with a red light that would fade and return right after. This process kept repeating many times and each time it repeated the surrounding mana seemed to get denser, making a pressure descends into everyone.

When they felt pressured by that powerful mana, they finally realized that Huo Shihong was planning to explode everything, killing them all on the process.

”Stop! What are you doing? Are you a madman?” Wu Shuhui for the first time, felt apprehension.

He didn't think Huo Shihong would pull such a stunt at this time. He discovered that he underestimated Huo Shihong, while cornered that he would turn into a madman.

”What if I am? There is nothing else I can do. Even if I die here, I'll bring you guys along!”

Huo Shihong didn't want to give time for his enemies to think about a strategy, so he kept putting more and more mana towards the Skystone, and it already seemed to be reaching a critical point.