Chapter 458 (1/2)

Chapter 458: Sneaking Attack

Translator: Radiant Editor: Radiant

Xue Ying wasn’t surprised by his rank steadily rising. He might have only taken the 65th spot or so at first, but the majority of the experts ranked higher than him were the lucky ones who succeeded in killing a venomous bug after teaming up. It was impossible for the same person to be so lucky as to always be the one to land the final hit on each bug. If someone kept being the one to take each kill, their team would likely just go ahead and kick them out!

There’s no huge gap in combat power between any of the final nineteen hundred participants in this Bloodshed God Palace Battle. Once five, six, or even eight or nine people team up, there aren’t many outside those who grasped hold of a grade one Deity Heart who can survive such an assault. Xue Ying shook his head inwardly. A team of experts would also cover many different specializations, allowing them to cover for the others’ weaknesses. This only further increases their threat. In any case, I can only try my best to survive.

The Bloodshed God Palace Battle wasn’t meant to select the strongest hundred participants.

What it did sift out… were those who could kill the most venomous bugs under a set of rules! This meant that, rather than strength, this battle tested the decision-making of each expert.

Sou.

Xue Ying continued piercing through the many mountain ranges, and, as more time passed, the pace at which the venomous bug emerged gradually increased. Even then, Xue Ying maintained his usual vigilance and focus on survival. He would only go out to kill venomous bugs once he made sure it was safe. Due to this, his ranking began to stagnate, still lingering around 15th.

However, his vigilance combined with his self-set rule of placing survival first made sure that, even though many other Deities died and were eliminated, he kept hold of his place in the mountain range.

There’s truly nothing here that can threaten me. As he walked along the mountain range, the white-robed, white-haired, white-browed Jiu She waved his hand, causing a huge golden palm to condense in mid-air which then squashed a venomous bug which was fleeing frantically. Upon coming into contact with the palm, the venomous bug was summarily splattered. I wasn’t planning on revealing my skills so early in the Calm Sea Prefecture. I could have then seemed to struggle a bit more in this battle, and only reveal my true skill in the most crucial of moments. In that way, I might have sneaked in a kill on someone who grasped hold of a grade one Deity Heart. That would have been a joyous occasion.

If only that Dong Bo hadn’t forced me to reveal my power so early. Now everyone’s running away as soon as they land eyes upon me, Jiu She inwardly complained. The eyes beneath his white brows swept across the surroundings. There’s also some invisible obstacle surrounding the boundary of this mountain range, preventing any domain from passing outside.

With his grade one Deity Heart, he could simply use his domain laws to cover an area of more than a hundred million kilometers with a single though. That was enough to envelop the entire mountain range of the Bloodshed God Palace Battle.

This gave those who grasped hold of grade one Deity Heart free range to slaughter people as they wished! After all, nobody could escape the range of their domain law.

But–

His Majesty, the Bloodshed God Emperor would never allow such a thing to happen. If those who grasped hold of grade one Deity Heart were to just kill as they pleased, there would be no meaning in the Bloodshed God Palace Battle. People like Xue Ying and Drunk Guest had huge talent and were seen as good seedlings with much higher potential than Jiu She and the others by the powerful existences and His Majesty.

Wait, is that… Jiu She cast his gaze far away to witness a scene depicting three young men in starry-blue robes, each wielding a spear, as they surrounded and attacked a venomous bug. This was happening in a place about seven mountains away.

Dong Bo? Jiu She smirked. What a coincidence. I’ve already killed over thirty Deity experts during this battle, but none of their deaths have made me as happy as killing you will.

Jiu She’s figure then disappeared without a trace.

At his level, he could remove all sound and trace of his presence. Only when he crossed the boundary separating any two towering mountains would the invisible obstacle force him to reveal his true body. However, once got through them, he could then meld into nothingness again.

Stealthily…

He closed in with extreme caution. He used the towering mountain to block line of sight while borrowing his Laws and Profound Mysteries to distort his image as he moved closer to Xue Ying’s location.

Having managed to survive all the way until now was a testament to Xue Ying’s extreme vigilance. Even so, the invisible obstacles set down by His Majesty made it so that both his Mirage and Space senses were limited to the area of a towering mountain and not any of the regions next to it. He was forced to use his naked eyes to see any further than that. It was nothing strange for him to not realize that Jiu She was closing in on him.

With a final piercing screech of resentment, the venomous bug before him shattered and died.

Another one down. Xue Ying glanced up at the enormous blood-colored list floating in the sky. He had dropped down to 17th for a moment, but killing this bug gave him back his 15th spot. This was only natural, seeing how there were other experts on a quite similar level to his, and they were also killing bugs.

“Mn?” Xue Ying suddenly turned around.

To his back and to the left, the boundary of the towering mountain seemed to contain complete emptiness, yet Xue Ying had clearly sensed a figure appear there mere moments ago. That figure wore white robes, and their white hair and white brows were flowing about. Whenever Jiu She passed a boundary, he could, at most, distort vision in that area, but anyone with a realm as high as Xue Ying could bypass that distortion of light. He could not conceal his figure under Xue Ying’s sensory ability, as provided by the Laws and Profound Mysteries.

“Jiu She!” Xue Ying was startled. This was his first time meeting someone with a grade one Deity Heart.

The combat power of any expert with a grade one Deity Heart vastly surpassed that of any Deity expert without one. They could casually kill whomever else they wanted to!

“Die!” Jiu She shouted in a tyrannical fashion. He clearly understood from the start that he would be spotted as soon as he crossed the boundary, so he waved his hand without hesitation.