40 A Shadow of Death (1/2)

The group continues to fight, group after group and the shadow would help them out whenever they were in danger. After another 15 minutes they collected about 6 cards.

”Yo I don't know who this guy is but we should be more careful,” Choi the last guy on the team said. He's usually quiet and does his part of the job. ”He helped us but I have a nagging feeling that he's stalking behind us to steal all the cards.”

”But we can't detect him at all. As time goes on I feel like his presence grows smaller and smaller. At the beginning, I didn't know where he is but I could at least feel his eyes on us. But now its like there's nothing,” Ting Ting explained.

”Ting Ting use a protection formation on our body.”

”Alright,” Ting Ting answered. She then whips out 8 talisman looking papers and places them on their chests.

She then began chanting a series of words and inserting her qi into the paper talisman. Then a thin layer of white light covered their body.

”Right now these talisman can only take 45 percent of the damage dealt by a peak Master realm expert. Anymore, you will need to increase your qi output into the talisman. Otherwise, it would be totally useless,” Ting Ting explains.

”That's fine as long as the protection formation can protect us for a couple millisecond we can react to the attack,” assured Gong Fan.

They continue to be very careful as they hid from everyone unless it is unavoidable. The individual in the shadow continued to hide and follow.

Eventually, the last card appeared.

.....

”Dam, Lin is still not back,” sighs San Ti. ”What's taking him so long?”

”Ximei can you check where he is? Time is almost up and we have no cards,” Ziyu said.

”Yes brother Ziyu,” Ximei answered.

”Couldn't we just message him?” Mei asks.

”He's tailing a group of 8 with 7 cards. His presence is really weird. If not for these eyes showing me the inner layers I would have completely miss him. Not only that but it seems like Lin's hiding techniques is getting better and better. Not to the point where I can't see him but his presence has become increasingly similar to his environment,” explained Ximei.

Ziyu rubs his chin as he went into deeper contemplation. I wonder how much he improved from yesterday Ziyu thought to himself.

”Lin is a very talented individual,” Xintong praised. ”When he was helping me with those pills before I would have thought he was a professional from the way he was handling those herbs.”

That's kinda sus… Mei thought to herself.

”Anyway its time for us to act,” Ziyu said. ”We'll let Lin keep tailing that group. While we try to herd the other cards together. Remember these groups are elites and can't be underestimated.”

......…

”Hey don't you find it weird? I don't feel any presence anymore. Not a slight stare,” Ran said to them loudly.

”Me neither,” Gong Fan answered.

”Maybe he got tired and left,” Ting Ting said.

”Ka La do you sense anything?” Gong Fan asks telepathically.

”Yes but the presence is slowly disappearing,” Ka La replied.

”I can't feel anything anymore,” Rimu the dwarf answered.

”The last card is out. Let's hide so we have at least 7 cards. Ready the smoke bombs!” Gong Fan said telepathically to everyone. At that moment everyone reached into their pocket and pulled out 4 mini-bombs which they through to the floor and a cloud of smoke burst into the air. In that next moment, they disappeared.

.........

Xing Jun who was hiding in a tree 20 meters away from them. He didn't know it but he was using the Black Empyrean and White Fiend-god Dragon eyes. The smoke screen was pretty nonexistent to him. His new eyes were able to see the soul and qi together. For some reason not only is he able to see more details, but he is also able to further deduce the origin of those hints. In a way, he became like a Sherlock Holmes.

Jun felt like if he was to get into a fight now he might be able to predict certain moves coming before the user even notice.

Well anyway, they were completely visible to Jun. Not only that but Jun knows that Ka La has the cards so he basically just ended up following her. He also notices that the people today were on a whole level lower than the group from before.

Either I am a lot stronger or their just weaker, Jun thought.

Ding!

[The last Card has been picked up. Count Down Will Start now!]

60

At that moment he activates his Black Empyrean and White Fiend-god Dragon eyes and like a blind man receiving sight, he could see everything around him like he has 360 vision. Lightning surging like tidal waves rushed throughout his body as he swooped down on Ka La like the angel of death.

The demon sword infrits pierced right through her heart before she got a chance to react. All she saw was a masked individual.

”You!” She uttered before disappearing.

Gong Fan's face suddenly turned ashen. As they got into battle formation. Sadly it was all pointless as they don't have any more cards for Jun to take.

”I got 7 cards!” Jun said mentally to everyone on his team.

”We got 16,” Ziyu said back. ”The last card is near you. 21 Feet to your right. He is in the person in a purple jacket protected by 7 others. It will take us 4 minutes to arrived there. Its all up to you to get the last card.”

Jun's eyes shift over to where Ziyu was telling him about and what he saw gave Jun a tiny fright.

He saw 10 formations stacked upon the area.

”When did formations become cheap knock-offs on the street.” Jun thought to himself only to realize this is VR world and the resources were basically unlimited.

Illusion, shield, slaughter, confusion, poison, reinforcement, slow down, qi suppression, and distortion formation. With 10 formations stacked upon each other, it became extremely hard to just brute force it. Even a mid-King Realm cultivator would have trouble taking out that team.

Then something extremely strange began to happen Jun's eyes. Array lines began forming. Each line would try to fit in a piece of the puzzle. In just a mere 1 second his eyes found a path inside.

Did my eyes just decipher the entire formation? Jun thought to himself in surprise. I didn't know I can do that. I'll have to experiment this when I go back to the real world. For now, let's have some fun.

Lightning surges around his body as he steps forward.

”Someones coming,”male A said within the formation.