Chapter 384 - Shadow King (1/2)

Translator: StarReader

Editor: Elitecoder

Hu~

Black smoke floated by a waterfall in the mountains. It reformed into the crooked shape of the black captain as he gasped for life.

He was still holding onto the kid who was now unconscious.

Ignoring the hostage, he took a gulp from the stream. With a crack, like that of a gear turning, the waterfall slowly came to a stop.

The pond had a vortex in the middle, draining the icy water to reveal the muddy ground and a stone gate ten meters below.

Black captain jumped in with the kid and pushed on some ostensibly random stone for the gate to rumble open.

The gate closed behind him as he entered, with the sky-high waterfall resuming its flow and the pond filling back up again…

The captain hobbled through the pitch-black twisting path. Even with all the jolting, the kid never woke up.

A faint candle light sprung in the distance and the captain hesitated, but then walked on even faster.

In the glum room, around sixty square meters in size, skipping a torturer’s tools of the trade being laid around, a golden sheet ran through the center, dividing the room in two.

Plop!

The black captain threw the hostage down and knelt before the cloth, “I have failed you and await my sentence.”

“You failed?!”

The aged voice from beyond carried shock, “For even you to fail. Sigh…”

The sighing black captain was lost for words as well.

His eyes dimmed and he collapsed. The voice came again, “And you’re also wounded?”

Whoosh~

A black flash reached the black captain before the aged voice could, giving the captain a pill.

When his breathing evened, the man with a bamboo hat eased a breath and said at the curtain, “Please relax sir, senior has sustained heavy injuries and only needs time to heal.”

“What, heavy injuries?”

The old man was astounded, “Just who is capable of harming you to such an extent? Not even Gu Santong could do this.”

The man behind the veil was quite aware of black captain’s specialty, of phase in and out. He couldn’t deal with Gu Santong, but that little freak’s ridiculous strong arm could do nothing just as well.

[There’s actually another person in Tianyu that can rout him besides Gu Santong?]

The black captain sighed, “It’s Zhuo Fan.”

“He has that kind of skill?”

“Ha-ha-ha, and more to spare. Even I had to step in but played right into his hand!” The captain sounded morose, “That brat is a deadly combination of an extended range of skills and ample experience. I used to think my secret art was lost five centuries ago, that no one in Tianyu knew of it. But he saw through me with a glance, and then toyed with me. I only escaped with my life by taking one of the Yun clan’s members hostage…”

The captain sighed, his eyes consumed by dread.

He’d been running amok across Tianyu for centuries, yet a pipsqueak like Zhuo Fan showed up, robbing him of all repute and turning him into a bottom feeder.

“Zhuo Fan is an even worse headache than Gu Santong!”

The captain sighed, “Gu Santong is all brawn, but does have weaknesses. While Zhuo Fan not only has Gu Santong’s savage power, I couldn’t find any weak spots either. It’s the first time I’ve met with such an opponent!”

The man in the bamboo hat nodded, “Senior is correct. Without having seen him for myself, I would’ve never taken Zhuo Fan to have such unbridled strength. All of the senior’s attempts were foiled. He then used some unknown art to trap senior and almost cost him his life. Knowing my limits, my only hope was to make a distraction. I am glad to know it helped free senior!”