Chapter 200 - The Gap Is Too Big (1/2)
In the endless ice mountains, a figure could be seen traveling quickly through mountain after mountain.
While the top of an ice mountain, a three headed Ao was staring at the figure moving at high speed!
"Incredible… at such a young age, you managed to get past the few Qi Practitioners to reach here. With you being here, it can only mean that those Qi Practitioners have died under your hands."
The Pan Ao looked at the moving figure and one of its heads murmured, "What a shame, although we Xiao Mang Celestial Race did not send out any priests or elders, there was still quite a considerable number of Atman Body, Inner Core and Heavenly Dharma level Qi Practitioners. To be honest, we don't even need that many people to kill someone at the puny Awakening level. However, we have little idea as to how you would escape to the Great Wilderness, which is why we sent so many people to guard every exit…."
The Lian Yun Ridge consisted of endless mountains that reached the length of millions and it separated the West Barren and Great Wilderness. Due to the fact that the Lian Yun Ridge was very big, they had no idea where Zhong Yue would try to get past the mountains back to the Great Wilderness. Thus, the mountains were garrisoned with huge numbers of Qi Practitioners, each of them anticipating Zhong Yue's arrival.
At the front were the Awakening level Qi Practitioners while as Zhong Yue progressed further, the level of the Qi Practitioners gradually increased before finally culminating in Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioners guarding the final stretch!
Zhong Yue thought that there wouldn't be any Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioners but out of his expectations, the Xiao Mang Celestial Race sent out more than just one Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner to intercept him!
This time, the Xiao Mang Celestial Race was very determined to kill him as they received news from Xiao Qing, Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yin that Zhong Yue possessed a huge amount of life saving tokens gathered by Shui Zian all these years!
As each life saving token could redeem a promise from their respective owners, who were all strong Qi Practitioners all over the world, the Xiao Mang Celestial Race would then be able to use them to achieve many things that they previously would have had no way to execute!
These tokens were the consummate wealth accumulated by Shui Zian over the course of two hundred years. The individuals to whom such tokens belonged to were oftentimes small and insignificant characters at the time. However, due to Shui Zhan's incredible judgement and timely assistance, such individuals rose to become paragons of their race. The value of these tokens that signified their friendship and favor thus could not be understated.
And these Qi Practitioners that was once assisted by Shui Zian scattered all over the Wilderness and Barrens. Some of them were people who hid themselves from plain sight, while others were leaders and elders of various factions. Many of them were strong individuals at the level of Heavenly Dharma, and some were even figures that became the pillars of their respective race!
However, they would only acknowledge their own tokens instead of the person. Therefore, whoever possessed their tokens would be able to ask them to do one thing as promised when they gave Shui Zhan the token.
Therefore, with those tokens currently under Zhong Yue's possession, killing him was equally as important as killing Shui Zian!
On the other hand, Zhong Yue clearly knew that the tokens were not with him and thus, he thought that the Xiao Mang Celestial Race would send out Inner Core level Qi Practitioners at most. Little did he know that the Xiao Mang Celestial Race thought otherwise and so sent out Heavenly Dharma level Qi Practitioners after him.
And now, Zhong Yue was walking right into their trap.
Suddenly, he felt something and when he looked up, he immediately saw the huge Pan Ao that rested on the mountain top and his eyes twitched.
Atman Body level….
He stopped his advance and the Pan Ao resting at the mountain top stood up and shook away the snow piling up on its fur. Then, it stood up like a man and transformed into a person with three Pan Ao heads and a human body.
That was an Atman Body level Qi Practitioner that had cultivated himself to a high level. He stood high on the mountain and when looked at from afar, five light wheels could be seen spinning behind his back while shining brightly.
Zheng—
A loud ear-piercing voice could be heard as the Atman Body level Qi Practitioner dragged out a spear from the five light wheels behind his back. As the light wheels trembled vigorously, the spear became longer and longer.
I am no match for him… If I had the Fang Blade and cultivated my Yuan Shen to the third form as well as cultivating my five wheels to the peak, then I might be able to put up a fight. But I am far from that as of now.
Zhong Yue's eye pupils contracted and he suddenly dashed forward, trying to get past the Qi Practitioner from between the mountains.
Hu—
At his back, the Golden Crow Wings appeared and he flapped his wings while the Yuan Shen emerged at his back. Then, he summoned the five wheels and with the power of the five great secret realms surging throughout his body, his drastic increase in speed propelled him forward while leaving afterimages behind him!
Boom boom——
As he sped up, he broke through the sound barrier and his speed increased by twofold. He continued flying away at high speed!
His speed was so fast that the snow that fell from the skies felt like sharp swords that slashed him every time he came in contact with them.
Although under such terrible weather, his speed would be restricted and the snow would become a huge obstacle for him, causing him to exhaust more energy, stamina and even limiting visibility. He had to try his best for that slight chance of survival!
At the rate he was traveling, he would not be able to maintain it for a long time. But the Atman Body level Qi Practitioner was too strong such that all he could do was avoid him and not fight him!
"If you slip through my hands and escape from here, I might as well take my own life!"
The Atman Body level Qi Practitioner laughed and bent his knees before he shot towards Zhong Yue as he cracked open the ground under his legs. As he shot out into the sky, he plunged towards Zhong Yue through the mountains at high speed!
His power was so incredibly high such that at the moment he jumped out, Zhong Yue was only in front of him but when he touched the ground, he was already a hundred feet ahead of him!
And a distance of hundred feets was nothing more than a step to Qi Practitioners of his level!
The Atman Body level Qi Practitioner plunged his spear towards Zhong Yue and he suddenly felt something and stopped his action. Then, he heard faint sounds created when objects pierce through the sound barrier at high speed. He then saw within the heavy snow, Sword Qi flew towards him at high speed one after another!