Chapter 88 - Trust (1/2)

”As I said, your opponent is me. No, it isn't correct. Your opponent is the three of us.”

As he said this, Hei smiled even more as he bared his teeth. Beside him, Ye and Xing were also doing the same hissing loudly against Chang Huan.

On hearing his words, Chang Huan smiled even more.

”Good. A beast tamer, eh? It's been a long time since I've faced one. Who will be stronger? My corpses or your spirit beasts?”

Meanwhile, Lian had also arrived near Hei, but he immediately sent her a spirit message.

'Lian, listen to me well. Help the others moving from here and when they are at a minimum distance, go directly into the flower, do you understand?'

'Hei?'

'Do as I told you. Even if you join us, I don't know if we can beat him. We both bring back wounds from our previous fights and consumed a lot of our spirit power.

I also don't completely trust the promise of the other sects and families. As soon as this fight ends, probably some of them will take advantage of it to take their words back and take possession of the treasure. Before that happens, you must enter while everyone is still fighting.

I don't know if we can win, but we can hold it long enough to give you a chance to take the treasure. Don't argue now, go. We will be okay, I promise you.'

Lian nodded her head and grabbed Cao Su and Zan, who were on the ground. Despite his slender figure, carrying them was no problem. In no time, they had left the battlefield.

”They're running away, but it doesn't matter. Now I have found something better to play with. In any case, there is plenty of time to take them back. Do you know, kid? The minimum time to wait to reopen the Secret Dimension passage is one week. Before then, it isn't possible because opening the passage means creating a hole in space, and it needs time to regenerate the fracture. If they were to open it earlier, there is a big risk that everything will collapse. However, do you think that all the sects and other families will be satisfied with only a week? No, in all probability, they will wait until at least two weeks have passed. So, after settling this fight, I have a whole week to take back my bodies that are running away.”

The words Chang Huan said seemed sincere. With all the advantages he possessed, it made no sense to invent such a lie. Moreover, his explanation seemed plausible. The sects and other families would never have settled for just one week of exploration after all the sacrifices they had made.

”I believe you. But there is one thing that is bothering me. That is, you are assuming that you will win without a doubt. In that case, don't blame me if you find yourself dead. ”

”Ahahaha, you are hilarious. Well, then, I'll show you my secret card.”

At that point, Chang Huan waved his hand, and a two-meter humanoid corpse appeared from his space ring. The face belonged to a middle-refined aged man, but the rest of the body had been modified.

The arms and legs had been replaced with limbs of different spirit beasts, while, to the back, other limbs had been sewn on, for a total of six humanoid arms. On the chest, instead, there were multiple scars, and the skin was sewn back.

”I present to you the strongest corpse available to me. It is a spirit soldier killed by the Tremor Sect. Because of the Secret Dimension opening, I was given his body. Unfortunately, I couldn't restore his entire battle potential, but it's still comparable to a seventh stage, near the bottleneck to the second rank. Are you still sure you can win with those spirit beast of you after seeing this?”

Hearing the words spirit soldier, Hei's eyebrows furrowed. An enemy of that level was infeasible for them to face. Fortunately, its original strength hadn't been completely restored, but it was still an insidious enemy to face.

With that corpse present, the enemies in the seventh stage had risen to two: Chang Huan and his corpse. Although Chang Huan was confining himself to maneuvering it at a distance, Hei believed that there was no way he couldn't fight close-up. His mother had explained to him that the Ghost Law wasn't only limited to manipulating bodies, but it allowed its users to have a strong body comparable to those of the Law of Metal to a certain extent.

Without responding to Chang Huan, Hei prepared to fight. His spear swayed suspended in the air, held by his hair. At his side, Ye and Xing were ready.

”Let's begin.”

Hei and his two sisters left their positions with a sprint towards their enemy. The corpse of that spirit soldier appeared immediately before them. Its arms fell on them with a lightning-fast storm of punches.

Peng, peng, peng

His fists made Hei, Xing, and Ye back off at the same time, and they looked astonished that they had all been pushed back together. The physical strength of that corpse was more significant than what they had thought.

'Ye, Xing, if I leave this to you, you think you can block it?'

'Sure big brother. But what are you planning to do?' (Ye)

'If we think exclusively about his corpses, we will never finish this fight. We must also aim at him. In that way, his concentration will be divided, and he won't be able to maneuver this body properly. However, be careful. I do not think he is so unprepared to the point of not having countermeasures for this type of situation.'

'Yes, I agree. Be careful big brother.' (Xing)

After communicating with each other, Hei and his two little sisters tried again with another attack. As before, the corpse in front of them swung its large and powerful arms as it hurled a burst of swift punches.