Chapter 47: The Black Flame Ignites (2/2)
A black blaze!
A large black fire was blazing, and the trees ahead of where he had landed before were engulfed in this strange combustion. Dozens of them had already burned down to stumps shorter than one meter, but the fire that had caused this was shrinking.
He turned his head to look back and saw the earthworm stayed where it had come from, trembling slightly. Junior Leopard's heart leaped, as he tried to grasp what had happened.
”My God, a sneeze of that thing's flame is like me using up an entire dharma of the Three Realms Division. It seems like it shot out from inside its body and completely exhausted its life-force; so turns out that there was no need for me to have rolled away like that!”
Junior Leopard thought of how he had rolled away and his face contorted into an ugly expression. ”While you're feeling rough, my knife will be enough; I don't believe you're really that tough!”
He jumped over, his right hand reaching down to his waist and with a flash of black light his coal dagger was already in his hand; his right foot stamped fiercely on the ground as he leaped towards the earthworm.
Just as Junior Leopard had supposed, that strange earthworm-like creature had exhausted its physical strength pursuing him, and after it had spat out that flame, its body had no strength left at all. Although this was an odd creature, it was after all very small, and with low spiritual intelligence. Junior Leopard darted forward quickly. The coal dagger in his hand was also the weapon of choice of Xue Wuya, a Level Eight master. Even though this strange earthworm was as hard as a rock, a hit from Junior Leopard was enough to break it into two before it had a chance to react.
”Clang!” The dagger chopped, and Junior Leopard's heart tightened up. It felt like he was using some sharp weapon from the Wu's ironware shop to cut through metal. Although it was a clean cut, it was somehow not quite smooth, and he could feel a faint aftershock.
”Oh, what on earth is this monster?!”
The coal dagger in Junior Leopard's hand was made from a very high grade, well-tempered steel, and much sharper than the so-called ”wizard weapons” in the Jianghu. When Junior Leopard had tried it before, he found that no matter how thick the trees were that he chopped down, it always felt as frictionless as slicing tofu.
But cutting through this creature cost him a greater effort.
”No wonder my Kunai had no effect on it, this creature's body is stronger than steel!”
However, despite this, it had been cut in two by his dagger.
Junior Leopard finally relaxed.
But just as he relaxed, something strange happened.
His heart leaped.
”There must be something wrong… The danger has not yet passed!”
Black colored streamers flew out from the two halves of the earthworm's corpse, floating in the air, and sparkled serenely in the moonlight.
”Is this... a blaze?”
Junior Leopard fixed his gaze upon it, and saw that the black streamers floating in the air formed a black flame. The blaze was small, about the size of a soybean; it congealed together tightly, and although it had the shape of a flame, Junior Leopard could not feel any heat.
But Junior Leopard did not dare to relax in the slightest. He could not feel any heat now, but in the depths of his heart, he could sense that this thing had sent out a powerful deterrent as if this soybean-sized black fire contained some incredibly destructive power.
Junior Leopard took a few steps back and looked reluctantly at the creature's corpse before turning around to leave.
Things happened today were really strange. And so did the creature he encountered. He did know the corpse of that creature he had cut in half may have great value, but that black flame which appeared before him reminded him that leaving was a wiser choice.